According to the "Notice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on the Institutional Reform Plan of the People's Government of Liaoning Province" (Central Committee [2000] No. 35) and the decisions of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, the Liaoning Provincial Patent Administration Bureau was renamed For the Liaoning Provincial Intellectual Property Office. Liaoning Provincial Intellectual Property Office is an institution directly under the provincial government entrusted by the provincial government to take charge of the province's patent work and coordinate foreign-related intellectual property matters.