(1)General Affairs Office

Responsible for the secretarial and confidentiality work, file management work, information and portal website management work, cadre and personnel administration work, firefighting service, state assets management, administrative and financial management of the bureau, drafting important reports, documents, annual plans, summaries and formulating internal regulations, organizing and coordinating important meetings, activities and domestic receptions, organizing and coordinating the complaints made to the bureau, handling the People’s Congress’s opinions and the Political Consultative Conference’s proposals, assisting the bureau leaders in their comprehensive coordination and supervision of relevant important work.

(2)Division of Policies and Regulations

Responsible for the research and formulation of the city’s macro development policy for patents; drafting regional patent laws and regulations; organizing the formulation of the regulations of the city’s patent work; implementing the Patent Law and monitoring its implementation; reconciling and handling patent disputes; conducting investigation and penalty on acts of falsifying of patent; guiding the districts’ and counties’ administrative and execution work of the patent laws; appraising the administrative and execution staff of the patent laws and regulations and inspecting their work; coordinating the intellectual property work with courts and customs, investigating and coordinating typical patent cases; readjusting and standardizing the order of the market economy and protecting the city’s patents in significant exhibitions.

(3)Division of Planning and Development

Responsible for the research and formulation of the patent development strategy; making the city’s medium and long-term development plans and organizing the implementation and supervision work; organizing and improving the publicity of the city’s patent and intellectual property laws and regulations; planning and coordinating the city’s patent and  intellectual property education and personnel work; working out the development program and plan for the city’s patent information, constructing the city’s patent information network, undertaking the editing work of the Shanghai Reporter Station of the China Intellectual Property News and the interior publications of Shanghai Intellectual Property Bureau, planning and coordinating the city’s patent service platform and information engineering, participating in the city’s coordination of WTO matters and the “invigorating the city through Science and Education” Program.

(4)Division of Patent Affairs Administration

Responsible for guiding the industry patent work of departments, districts and counties; managing the city’s patent technology market and accrediting and registering patent technology contracts; responsible for the patent work involved in patent technology license trading and technology import and export; responsible for providing certificatory for patent advertisement; responsible for the management, supervision and examination work of the city’s patent service agencies; responsible for the examination and accreditation work of the city’s patent agents; responsible for the  initial examination of the patent application and application documents; responsible for the statistical analysis of the patent information; responsible for the city’s patent awarding work; responsible for organizing the implementation work of the city’s patent strategies; guiding the enterprises or public service units’ construction of patent technology information database and the development and utilization of patent documentation; participating in the city’s social credit building work; participating in the city’s technology awarding and achievement management work.

(5) Division of Coordination and Administration

Responsible for integrating all the forces such as intellectual property administrative departments and executive departments, planning and coordination of intellectual property, researching and formulating key policies, measures and planning for the city’s intellectual property and organizing the implementation work; organizing the city’s unified enforcement activities of intellectual property regulations; enhancing the striking force of illegal behavior of intellectual property; maintaining the order of the market economy; strengthening the intellectual property education and developing the whole society’s awareness of intellectual property; guiding enterprises and public service units in the using of intellectual property strategy and communication and commending excellent units; planning and coordinating the city’s implementation of intellectual property strategy and  construction of public service platform.

(6)Division of International Communication and Cooperation

Responsible for the research and formulation of the city’s foreign-related intellectual property policies; promoting the international cooperation and exchange; planning and coordinating the city’s foreign-related intellectual property matters and the international forum of intellectual property; responsible for the liaison work with international intellectual property organizations, the reception work and the oversea visiting matters of the bureau; participating in the coordination of foreign-related patent cases.