[1] In terms of administrative sequence: the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) is an agency directly under the State Council and is a deputy ministerial-level unit; the Beijing Intellectual Property Office is a department-level unit. Different from the vertical management of the Industry and Commerce Bureau (under the jurisdiction of the Trademark Office/Division), the local intellectual property offices are set up by local governments, and the administrative levels are not completely unified. Some places implement high-level management at the department level, such as: Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, etc.; some places The standard configuration is implemented at the deputy department level, such as Anhui, Henan, Shanxi, etc.

〔2〕From the perspective of business guidance: In business practice, the national bureau has a business guidance relationship with the local bureaus.

〔3〕From the perspective of the relationship between the cases: the invalidity case comes first and the infringement case comes later; after the State Intellectual Property Office (Patent Reexamination Board) maintained the validity of the patent involved in the case, the Beijing Intellectual Property Office determined that Apple Infringement of the patent rights involved; procedurally, there is no conflict between the two; substantively, possible differences are another matter