Collective mark (COLLECTIVE MARK) refers to a mark registered in the name of a group, association or other organization and exclusively used by members of the organization in commercial activities to indicate the user's membership in the organization. . In some countries, it may also be registered by a federation of enterprises as a representative, and sometimes by the government agency leading these enterprises. The function of a collective trademark is to indicate to users that the companies using the trademark have the same characteristics. An enterprise using a collective trademark has the right to use other exclusive trademarks at the same time. The trademark laws of my country, the United States, most Western countries with civil law systems, some Eastern European countries and some developing countries all have provisions for registration protection of collective trademarks.

Conditions

The conditions that should be met are:

A. It must be an enterprise or institution that has been registered in accordance with the law and has legal person status. The enterprise or public institution should be an organization, which can be an industrial or commercial group, an association, a trade or other collective organization, rather than a single enterprise or individual operator;

B , must have the applicant's subject qualification certificate issued by the local industrial and commercial administration department, that is, the legal document that the applicant is registered in accordance with the law and has legal person qualifications, which can be the business license of the enterprise, or the approval document for the legal registration of a public institution or mass organization;

C. The management rules for the use of the applied collective trademark must be formulated.

Methods

(1) Entrust a nationally recognized trademark agency to handle the matter.

(2) Applicants should go directly to the trademark registration hall of the Trademark Office to apply.