SIPO duties elaborated by State Council

In a document concerning the basic operational structure of the State intellectual Property Office (SIPO), the State Council provides for main missions, organizational and staff structure of the top Chinese IPR authority. 

SIPO are vested with the authorities in organizing, coordinating IPR administration throughout the nation, promoting build-up of the IPR protection system, establishing IPR enforcement coordination system with other authorities, performing IPR public education programs, implementing national IPR strategy in cooperation with other authorities, regulating patent administration, devising IPR foreign policies, formulating national patent development plans, devising patent work plans, approving plans of specific subjects, shaping national patent information public service system, promoting distribution and use of patent information with other authorities, undertaking patent statistical tasks, drafting criteria for patentability and relevant rules for layout design of integrated circuit, designating authorities of determining rights, organizing public education programs in patent laws, regulations and policies; devising IPR education and training plans and assuming other tasks demanded by the State Council.(by Guo Zhi)

国务院明确国家知识产权局主要职责

　本报讯  日前，国务院办公厅印发《国家知识产权局主要职责内设机构和人员编制规定》（以下简称《规定》）。《规定》明确了国家知识产权局的主要职责、内设机构和人员编制。

按照《规定》，国家知识产权局的主要职责包括：负责组织协调全国保护知识产权工作，推动知识产权保护工作体系建设，会同有关部门建立知识产权执法协作机制，开展相关的行政执法工作，开展知识产权保护的宣传工作，会同有关部门组织实施国家知识产权战略纲要；承担规范专利管理基本秩序的责任；拟定知识产权涉外工作的政策；拟定全国专利工作发展规划，制定专利工作计划，审批专项工作规划，负责全国专利信息公共服务体系的建设，会同有关部门推动专利信息的传播利用，承担专利统计工作；制定专利和集成电路布图设计专有权确权判断标准，指定管理确权的机构；组织开展专利的法律法规、政策的宣传普及工作，按规定组织制定有关知识产权的教育与培训工作规划；承办国务院交办的其他事项。（郭 知）