There is a Patent Office under the State Intellectual Property Office, and the director of the State Intellectual Property Office and the director of the Patent Office are the same person. The purpose of establishing the Intellectual Property Office at that time was to merge the Patent Office, Trademark Office and Copyright Office into one office. However, due to various reasons, the merger was not successful. Now there is only the Patent Office under the State Intellectual Property Office, and the Trademark Office and Copyright Office are under separate bureaus. Other department management.

Legal basis:

Article 3 of the "Constitution of the People's Republic of China" stipulates that the state institutions of the People's Republic of China implement the principle of democratic centralism.

The National People's Congress and local people's congresses at all levels are democratically elected, accountable to the people, and subject to people's supervision.

State administrative agencies, supervisory agencies, judicial agencies, and procuratorial agencies are all generated by the People's Congress, are responsible to it, and are supervised by it.

The division of powers between central and local state agencies follows the principle of giving full play to local initiative and enthusiasm under the unified leadership of the central government.