/>iOn June 23, 2025, China’s National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) in conjunction with 5 other government departments, released the “Notice of the General Office (Office) of Six Departments including the China National Intellectual Property Administration on the Pilot Work of Optimizing Business Environment in the Field of Intellectual Property” (国家知识产权局等6部门办公厅（室）关于开展优化知识产权领域营商环境试点工作的通知). The pilot will be launched in six cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The Notice includes a list of pilot tasks including:
- Promote research on intellectual property protection rules in cutting-edge technology fields, and ensure intellectual property protection in emerging fields;
- Further expand the pre-examination areas of local intellectual property protection centers based on regional development and local key industry needs; and
- Deepen the agency quality monitoring and trigger-based supervision mechanism with the core of rectifying abnormal patent applications, so as to achieve precise crackdowns and targeted policy implementation.
A translation of the Notice and List of pilot tasks follows:
Notice of the General Office (Office) of Six Departments including the China National Intellectual Property Administration on the Pilot Work of Optimizing Business Environment in the Field of Intellectual Property
All provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps intellectual property bureaus, the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee, science and technology and market supervision departments, the supervision bureaus of the General Administration of Financial Supervision, and all units affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences:
In order to implement the Opinions of the China National Intellectual Property Administration and other departments on Further Optimizing the Business Environment in the Field of Intellectual Property, the China National Intellectual Property Administration, together with five departments, decided to carry out pilot work on optimizing the business environment in the field of intellectual property in six cities, namely Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, and studied and proposed a list of key pilot tasks (see Annex 1) to support the pilot cities to “one city, one policy” and try first. The relevant matters regarding the pilot work are hereby notified as follows:
First, the provincial intellectual property bureaus in the provinces where the pilot cities are located are requested to strengthen overall planning, guide the intellectual property management departments in the pilot cities to establish work coordination with the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee, science and technology, market supervision departments, financial supervision bureaus, and various units affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, improve the working mechanism, and jointly promote the pilot work.
Second, the intellectual property management departments of the pilot cities are invited to take the lead in forming the pilot implementation plan of “one city, one policy” (see Annex 2 for the template), refine the implementation measures, clarify the time arrangement, report to the provincial intellectual property office for review and confirmation, and submit it to the Public Service Department of the China National Intellectual Property Administration before July 15, in accordance with the needs of regional development, in combination with the actual work, and around the promotion of key pilot tasks.
The third is to encourage and support provincial-level intellectual property bureaus, guide other cities with conditions, actively explore and innovate around the promotion of key pilot tasks, carry out pilot projects, form more typical experience and practices, and promote the continuous optimization of the business environment in the field of intellectual property.
Attachment:
1. List of Key Pilot Tasks
2. Pilot Implementation Plan (Template)
-China National Intellectual Property Administration
-Office of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
-Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology
-Office of the State Administration for Market Regulation
-Office of the State Administration for Financial Regulation
-General Office of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
List of Key Pilot Tasks
1、 Improve the market-oriented mechanism of intellectual property rights and help build a high standard market system
（1） Expand the autonomy of universities and research institutes in disposing of intellectual property rights through transfer, licensing, or valuation investment.
（2） Strengthen the standardized management of job-related inventions, deepen the reform of empowering job-related scientific and technological achievements, and select some eligible medical institutions to carry out pilot work on empowering job-related scientific and technological achievements and separately managing assets.
（3） Support universities and research institutions to establish intellectual property management funds and operational funds.
（4） Carry out internal evaluation pilot projects for bank intellectual property pledge financing, and guide financial institutions to improve their independent evaluation capabilities.
（5） Encourage innovation in financial products such as intellectual property insurance and credit guarantees, and fully leverage the role of finance in supporting the transformation of intellectual property.
2、 Strengthening the legal protection of intellectual property rights and better supporting comprehensive innovation
（6） Promote research on intellectual property protection rules in cutting-edge technology fields, and do a good job in intellectual property protection in emerging fields.
（7） Further expand the pre examination field of local intellectual property protection centers based on regional development and the needs of local key industries.
（8） Deepen the agency quality monitoring and trigger based supervision mechanism centered on rectifying abnormal patent applications, and achieve precise crackdown and targeted policy implementation.
3、 Enhance the internationalization level of intellectual property services and effectively promote opening up to the outside world
（9） Support technology and innovation support centers (TISCs) with conditions to carry out international exchanges on intellectual property information public services.
（10） Encourage localities to establish guidance stations for intellectual property work in countries and regions with intensive trade exchanges.
（11） Relying on the Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Response Guidance Center, we provide professional and efficient overseas dispute response guidance services for enterprises.
（12） Organize and form a list of key export enterprises by industry, and increase efforts to protect rights and provide assistance.
（13） Support insurance institutions to develop and launch more overseas intellectual property insurance products; Promote the establishment of an overseas intellectual property rights protection assistance fund to help enterprises reduce the cost of rights protection.
4、 Promote the facilitation of intellectual property government services and enhance the efficiency of benefiting enterprises and the people
（14） Relying on the resource aggregation advantages of regional government service centers and government service platforms, we will promote the “one form application, one set of materials, and one window acceptance” of enterprise registration item changes and trademark changes, explore the integration of intellectual property business with other departments’ businesses that are closely related to the entire life cycle of enterprises, and provide more “one-stop” services for enterprises and the public.
（15） Explore the application of natural language models and other technologies to enhance the intent recognition and accurate response capabilities of online intelligent customer service, optimize intelligent Q&A, intelligent search, intelligent guidance and other services, and better guide enterprises and the public to handle affairs efficiently and conveniently.
（16） Deepen the data sharing and business collaboration between intellectual property and fields such as economy, technology, administrative law enforcement, judicial protection, and market supervision.
（17） Support intellectual property public service institutions to establish service stations in key industrial parks and science and technology parks, achieving full coverage of intellectual property public service in key parks.
（18） Strengthen public services for trademark brands and carry out trademark information analysis and utilization.
The original text is available here (Chinese only).
