Established seven pilot areas, set up a new pattern. Recently, the State Council formally approved the establishment of seven free trade pilot areas, i.e. Liaoning, Zhejiang, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, Shaanxi, the overall schemes were issued separately, and made clear deployment as to the comprehensive IPR management reform in the free trade pilot area. It is understood that the newly established free trade pilot areas are mainly concentrated in the central and western regions, and the northeast region, the purpose is to better serve the Western regions development, the rise of the Northeast regions, the rise of the central regions, the prioritized development of the Eastern regions and the joint development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, the development of Yangtze River economic belt, the construction of belt and road along with other major strategies.
The overall program proposed that the free trade pilot area should be a good reform and opening up the vanguard, innovation and development pioneer, to take the institutional innovation as the core, to promote the replicable and scalable pattern as basic requirements; construction of an open economy system, new mode of inland open economy and the construction of the legalized, globalized and facilitated business environment, to tap the potential of reform, to crack the conundrum of reform. It should focus on deepening the reform of the administrative system, improving the efficiency of administration, upgrading the capability and the level of prior event supervision and ex post facto supervision, and further promoting the decentralization and delegating authorities, coordination of decentralization and delegation, and optimization the reform of service.

The overall program clarifies that the comprehensive management of intellectual property reform pilot is implemented in the seven newly established free trade pilot areas. Closely related to needs of innovation and development, accelerate the leading role of patent, trademark, copyright and other intellectual property right, straighten the whole service chain of creating, using, protecting and managing intellectual property rights, establish an efficient and comprehensive management system for intellectual property rights, and guide to develop a convenient and facilitated IPR public service system, to explore, develop and support the operational mechanism of intellectual property innovation, to promote the formation of an institutional mechanism with clear power boundary, rational division of work, the responsibility and power matched, efficiently operated, judicially safeguarded. Explore the establishment of a cooperation mechanism for cross-sectoral intellectual property enforcement in the free trade pilot area; improve the mechanisms for dispute mediation, legal aid, arbitration. Explore the establishment of patent navigation system of key industries and key industries’ rapid coordination protection mechanism in the free trade pilot area.

Experts said that with the development of global economic integration, posed new challenges and requirements for national intellectual property protection. As the "window" of China's opening -up policy for the new era, it is necessary that the free trade pilot area will be inspected by the international community on the level of creation, implementation, protection, administration and service of intellectual property rights. The pilot reform of the comprehensive administration of intellectual property rights，the purpose is to straighten the whole service chain for intellectual property works, solve the deficiencies of system is imperfect institutional mechanism , inadequate protection, low service capacity which are presented in the intellectual property administration mechanisms , lack of strong support for innovation driven development strategy and other outstanding issues. This forward-looking deployment in the overall program, which is conducive to enhancing the level of opening to the outside world of the free trade pilot area and providing replicable and scalable reform experience.