Article 7
Other officials and staff personnel of the Office shall include：one（1）Chief of Staff and seven（7）Directors, with ranking of Grade 11 of Selected Appointment Official; three（3）Researchers, with ranking from Grade 10 through Grade 11 of Selected Appointment Official; seven（7）Deputy Directors, with ranking of Grade10 of Selected Appointment Official; three（3）Heads of Division, forty-one to fifty-three（41-53） Senior Patent Examiners, thirteen to fifteen（13-15）Senior Trademark Examiners and six（6）Senior Specialists, with ranking from Grade 9 of Recommended Appointment Official through Grade 10 of Selected Appointment Official; forty to forty-two（40-42）Section Chiefs, with ranking of Grade 9 of Recommended Appointment Official, among which thirteen（13）Section Chiefs shall be acted concurrently by Senior Patent Examiners or Patent Examiners, and five（5）Section Chiefs shall be acted concurrently by Senior Trademark Examiners or Trademark Examiners; six to eight（6-8）Secretaries, six（6）Senior Technical Specialists, one hundred and twenty-one to one hundred and thirty-three（121-133）Patent Examiners, thirty-nine to forty-three（39-43）Trademark Examiners, ten（10）Supervisors, and two（2）Analysts, with ranking from Grade 8 through Grade 9 of Recommended Appointment Official, among which two（2）Secretaries, two（2）Senior Technical Specialistsand three（3）Supervisors may be with ranking of Grade 10 of Selected Appointment Official; eight to ten（8-10）Editors, with ranking from Grade 7 through Grade 9 of Recommended Appointment Official; twenty-eight to thirty（28-30）Specialists, with ranking from Grade 7 through Grade 8 of Recommended Appointment Official; two hundred and thirty-two to two hundred and thirty-four（232-234） Assistant Patent Examiners, twenty-seven （27）Assistant Trademark Examiners, two to four（2-4）Administrators and two to four（2-4）Programmers, with ranking from Grade 6 through Grade 8 of Recommended Appointment Official; one hundred and seven to one hundred and eleven（107-111）Desk Officers and twenty（20）AssociateTechnical Specialists, with ranking of Grade 5 of Designated Appointment Official or with ranking from Grade 6 through Grade 7 of Recommended Appointment Official; three（3）Assistant Programmers, three（3）Assistant Administrators and six（6）Assistant Technical Specialists, with ranking from Grade 4 through Grade 5 of Designated Appointment Official, among which one（1）Assistant Programmers, one（1）Assistant Administrators and three（3）Assistant Technical Specialists may be with ranking of Grade 6 of Recommended Appointment Official; nineteen to twenty-one（19-21） Deputy Desk Officers, with ranking from Grade 3 through Grade 5 of Designated Appointment Official; four to six（4-6） Junior Desk Officers, with ranking from Grade 1 through Grade 3 of Designated Appointment Official.
Senior Patent Examiners, Senior Trademark Examiners, Patent Examiners, Trademark Examiners, Assistant Patent Examiners and Assistant Trademark Examiners as mentioned in the preceding Paragraph shall be selected and appointed to individuals that fulfill the respective qualification requirements as set out in the Patent Examination Officer Qualification Statute and Trademark Examination Officer Qualification Statute.

Article 16
The Office may, in order to meetits operational requirements, initiate employment ofprofessional personnel in accordance with the provisions of the Statute for the Employees.

Article 17
The Office may, in order to meet its requirements for patent examination, initiate employment of scholars and experts in related fields to be part-time patent examiners.