Three days later, Hu Biwei personally interviewed 18 law firms that were interested in cooperation in the large conference room of D&A Intellectual Property Services Co., Ltd.

D&A was very professional in arranging the interviews, and the interview schedule was sent to the participating law firms one day in advance, and in line with the purpose of not wasting their own time or the time of others, the interview time of each law firm was 20 minutes.

The interview time of the elite law firm is from 3:30 to 3:50 in the afternoon, and the director of the firm, Lao Tian, arrived at the interview location at three o'clock with several turtles in the firm, and happened to meet several lawyers from the same Yuefeng Law Firm after the interview.

"The vice president in charge of the interview was very professional, and his language talent was particularly amazing, fluent in English and French, very authentic, and even more terrifying, the professional vocabulary was more accurate than that of us professional lawyers. ”

"However, it is estimated that your firm is very competitive, these people you brought are all from overseas, and they all have overseas lawyer qualification certificates, and these lawyers in our firm have also done a lot of foreign-related intellectual property business, but foreign language speaking has always been our shortcoming. ”

After Lao Jiang said goodbye, Lao Tian took Wu Qi, Feng Yi, Liu Minxue, and Zhao Qiongsi to wait in the reception room for more than ten minutes, and a young administrator came in and invited them to sit in the large conference room.

Several people entered the large conference room, and the administrative staff had already guided them to their seats and poured them all tea, and they waited for a few more minutes, and at half-past three, a woman who looked to be in her forties pushed the door through the other side of the large conference room.

I saw that she was wearing a white shirt, a V-neck black sweater, a navy blue Amani wool suit, a pair of 20cm or so Mapei earrings, shoulder-length short hair neatly combed behind her ears, and a pair of black pointed high-heeled leather boots.

This woman gave Wu Qi the feeling that she was more like a lawyer than several of them.

She nodded to a few of them, and then introduced herself in standard London English, her English name is Ysera, she is the vice president of the company, responsible for today's interview, she has read the introduction of the law firm, and now there are a few questions to ask:

The first question: How many of the lawyers here have U.S. bar credentials?

Wu Qi and Feng Yi both passed the bar exam in the United States, but Feng Yi passed the bar exam in Arkansas, and Wu Qi took the bar exam in New York, California, and Delaware respectively, and obtained the bar certificate in these three states.

The United States is different from China's regulations, the United States does not have a unified national legal qualification examination, the United States bar examination is held separately in each state, but many states, each other recognizes each other's bar examination qualifications, and there are exceptions, such as California and Delaware, which do not recognize the qualifications of lawyers from other states, and lawyers from other states must re-examine if they want to come to practice.

New York State has the best bar examination qualifications, which are recognized by more than 40 states in the United States, that is to say, Wu Qi's bar qualifications can be used in almost all states in the United States, while Feng Yi can only practice in Arkansas and those states that recognize Arkansas's bar examination qualifications.

The second question: how does IP protection differ between France and continental Europe and the common law system?

Wu Qi noticed that Ysera's vice president spoke French even more authentically than English.

Zhao Qiongsi is a French student, so this question is naturally the most appropriate for her to answer, but she doesn't know that it is because she is nervous, but she usually does not think enough about this question, so she answers it verbosely, and she does not get to the point for a long time.

Wu Qi's spoken French is generally understandable, but he is not fluent enough, seeing that Zhao Qiongsi can't reach the meaning, he had to add in English, there are two obvious differences between the two:

First, the definition of intellectual property rights in the common law system is similar to the attributes of goods, and once the purchase and sale transfers all the relevant rights of the original author, while the provisions on intellectual property rights in France and many countries in continental Europe not only give the attributes of intellectual property goods, but also give the personality attributes of intellectual property rights, and the personality attributes of the work belong only to the author himself, and belong to the original creator forever, even after death.

Second, the common law system is relatively simple in the management of the registration of relevant copyrights, and the author can automatically enjoy copyright protection without registration, while the protection of intellectual property rights in France and continental Europe provides for a series of strict registration procedures.

Ysera nodded to Wu Qi, very satisfied with her answer, and then asked one last serious question, if the two parties cooperate for a long time, what is the approximate amount of the lawyer's fee you request?

This issue is the core of the cooperation between the two sides, and the director of the firm, Lao Tian, of course, has been prepared, and he proposed a range of expenses: "My firm is ready to assign two professional lawyers to follow up your company's business, and the annual lawyer's fee is between 10,000 yuan." ”

Ysera smiled and said to Lao Tian: "I like your lawyer Wu Qi very much, although she is young, but her professional ability is strong, my company's foreign-related intellectual property disputes over the years, the most business is in the United States and the European Union, and the lawyer's fee I give her is between 10,000 yuan per year." ”

"The company pays us according to the number of days she works for us, she works for us up to 180 days a year, we pay 3.5 million in fees, and more than 270 days, we pay 5 million in legal fees, and your firm can negotiate the conditions we offer. ”

This fee is already very considerable, but Lao Tian still wants to fight for Liu Minxue, so he said to Ysera: "You can also consider our lawyer Liu Minxue, who is a patent lawyer in the UK, and may be very helpful to your company's business." ”

Ysera thought for a few seconds, and finally said, "Not for the time being, but I will keep your proposal in mind, and if my company has a patent dispute business in the Commonwealth, we will contact Mr. Liu as soon as possible." ”

In the end, Ysera said to Lao Tian, we are waiting for your reply, if we think our conditions are okay, we want to sign the cooperation agreement within three days.

Although he was already a hundred satisfied in his heart, Lao Tian still wanted to put on a shelf, and decided to reply to Xianke tomorrow, everyone came out of Xianke Intellectual Property Service Company, and unanimously asked Wu Qi to invite him to dinner, she is only 28 years old, and her income will soon be comparable to that of the barrister in the firm.

Wu Qi is also very happy, she feels that Ysera is the template of the workplace beauty in her mind, whether it is dress or temperament, it gives people a sense of ability and nobility, and this feeling is also the realm she has been striving for in her career.

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