Chapter 464: Patent Trolls (Subscription Requested!)
Keqi and wood oil.
and --- Zengming, the last qualified Chinese man in the auction, and the secretaries of the three followed, all followed the staff to the assembly factory. Along the way, listening to the roar of the factories along the way, looking at the tall factories, and the vehicles transporting raw materials or finished products, the three people who came here for the first time were full of surprise.
If you don't see it with your own eyes, who can believe that in just a few months, the initial industrialization has been completed here, the people have come out of the war and insecurity, and the reunification has been completed, and there is a system, an economy, an industry, a currency, a sense of security, and more. Future.
It's a miracle.
Come to the assembly plant under semi-military management.
At this time.
The assembly plant has not yet started, because the equipment can be debugged in two days, after the equipment and process improvement, the integration of many parts has been summarized, reducing a lot of operational errors, affecting the accuracy, quality, and assembly speed of electronic products, so that the output of the entire assembly plant has been greatly improved.
If you work three shifts, the daily output can reach 15,000 mobile phones or MP4s, but the territory does not plan to do this, because the pre-orders will definitely not be so much, so at most two shifts.
And there are a lot of complicated things involved, such as --- patents. There are some patents that cannot be bypassed, so there is no way, waiting for the future to either go to court or use the same technology to license and interchange.
As for paying royalties?
Then it depends on whether you have the ability, the domestic patent is good to say, the patent fee is given, as for the foreign one, it depends on the mood.
If it is possible to bypass the patent, Tang Qing has already asked the group of scientists to hurry up and develop, and set up a company to register patents in various countries, after all, the territory will sooner or later move towards legalization, specialization, and regularization.
There will definitely be a conflict of interests with the major giants, and all he can think about is to play hooligan with the major patent hooligans in the early stage, when the R&D conditions are 'backward', the time is short, and the patents have not been applied.
This is actually a helpless move, not that Tang Qing really wants to play this hooligan, but because the contradictions cannot be reconciled at all, he can produce the most advanced things of others himself, and if he doesn't buy them from others, it's strange that others are not angry and go crazy.
Since they are all enemies.
Then there's nothing to say, and you can't pay back the money.
But eventually, it has to grow into a technically towering tree.
Only he can say goodbye, and no one can tell him to the point.
This is the technology development plan within the territory.
As for now, I can only do it, I can't care so much, who I love, there is a kind of slap to see who hurts, and after a while, my technical barrier will be established, and I will specify the standard, which is the time to turn over.
When the time comes.
What are their patents, keep them for yourself and play with them, see if you are dumbfounded.
"Excuse me, when will the construction start here? Looking at the assembly factory where there were still two or three kittens, Ke Qi asked the staff who brought him, this is the company that is absolutely controlled by the Bank of Myanmar, but there is no boss to receive them, only two staff members and two soldiers to accompany them.
"Mr. Keqi, the construction will start in three days at the latest, and the equipment will be adjusted during this time. The staff replied.
"So, is the MP4 also assembled here?" asked Ke Qi again.
The staff nodded and said, "Yes, all the electronic equipment will be assembled here, and the accessories are in another factory, due to some reason, the dealer of the mobile phone just shown in Thailand is Mr. Keqi, so please don't sell this kind of product in Thailand, and the products you design yourself are not subject to any restrictions, you can sell them wherever you want."
At the same time, our production allocation is based on orders, each person has a one-third of the total output of the order share, to ensure your supply, if the share is not submitted enough, will be in order to produce other people's products. ”
After listening to the introduction.
Several people nodded their heads in understanding.
Although what the staff said was a bit winding.
But when you think about it, it's easy to understand.
For example, mobile phones, if you follow the daily output of 10,000 units, it is 300,000 units a month, so each person has a share of 100,000 units per month, which is the upper limit, which can be guaranteed in any case, but if you don't use up this share that month, it will be used by others for free, which is quite 'fair', and it is a bit of a reminder that you hurry up and place an order.
"What is the process of proxy production? Mu You then asked, the meaning of the staff's words just now was very clear, that is, to encourage themselves to design, you can sell it casually.
"If you want to act as an agent for production, first of all, you have to submit your project plan, including product appearance, functional parameter requirements, etc., to our company's design department for review, if there are technical problems, we will communicate with you, the time will not exceed three days.
If the technical problem is all right, we will negotiate the supply price with you, and at the same time, you will need to provide between 50 and 1 million dollars for each new product due to the modification of the production line. The staff said.
"It's so expensive. Wood Oil exclaimed.
And Ke Qi, who has long known this price, said with a smile: "Wood oil, what is expensive, others want to modify the production line, but also help you solve technical problems, you provide some parameter requirements and appearance, and you have nothing to do with the rest, this is really not expensive." ”
"Uh... I'll just talk about it. Ke Qi's potential meaning: You turtle, this is already the price of cabbage Okay, how can wood oil not hear it, and resolutely can't admit that it is expensive.
"Hello, I want to ask a question, the patented technology of your things... Zeng Ming asked another question.
"The design you provide, you register your own patents, and the technical solutions we provide, we apply for patents ourselves. The staff explained with a smile.
"In other words, can we only apply for patents such as appearance?" Zeng Ming grasped the point.
"Strictly speaking, that's it. ”
Zeng Ming didn't ask again, and he no longer wanted to get the technical patent, it had nothing to do with them, too, you didn't provide anything, just one appearance and performance parameters, don't you just register an appearance patent.
Hearing the staff's explanation, Keqi and Muyou were also a little disappointed.
Appearance patents.
It's worth a few pennies.
"Can I place an order now?" Zeng Ming no longer dwelled on the details.
"Yes, here, please. ”
Come to the factory's living room.
As soon as Zeng Ming sat down, he preemptively said: "I don't want this mobile phone first, I'll go back to find someone to design a new one, this kind of MP4 I want to order 20,000 units first, mainly for export to China, is it okay?"
Zeng Ming didn't hang it like this, he could only sell MP4 first, and then go back and operate it well, or find a few partners to operate it together, and it was impossible for him to give up the mobile phone market.
Or MP4 supervision is a little looser, and when the time comes, you can make a profit first, anyway, the qualification is three years, and he is very confident that he will return to his capital in the first year.
The staff is quite excited about this first order, this is all performance, although he has no commission, but this means that the factory has money to make, his work can be stable, and said happily:
"Yes, Mr. Zeng Ming, this is a contract, you need to pay ten percent of the advance payment first, and we are only responsible for sending out our land, and you need to do the rest of the transportation yourself, after you pay the qualification fee and pay the advance payment, this contract will take effect immediately, and we will arrange production immediately. ”
Zeng Ming took the contract and roughly scanned it, it was all Chinese characters, just three pages, and it looked very fast.
"Good. ”
After checking that it was correct, Zeng Ming hurriedly signed the contract in duplicate.
'When will I be able to get the goods?' Zeng Ming looked up and asked.
"After 10 days, you can get the goods you want, please ask if there are other needs, such as company logo, packaging, etc. The staff asked again.
"I'll go back and have someone design it right away, and I'll give it to you in two days at the latest. Zeng Ming said. This thing is easy to do, and other solutions can be used to change it, which is why the design has the attribute of 'inheritance', which always feels very familiar, which is called imitation, not plagiarism.
"Okay. ”
After a business was negotiated, Ke Qi and Mu You couldn't help it, and began to place orders and negotiate details to agree on the supply time.
Soon.
The contract is signed.
The three of them are not stingy villains, several people hurriedly went to pay the corresponding fees, of course, they all paid in Thai baht, such a large amount of course used transfers, half an hour later, a huge amount of money was remitted to the account of a Thai bank, which is one of the foreign currency settlement accounts of the territory, but the money has not been hot for a long time, and a considerable part of it has been paid for the purchase of raw materials.
Many people who have obtained the qualification of raw material suppliers have completed the payment of the qualification purchase fee, and many have received more advance payments than the qualification fee, which can be regarded as reassuring them and telling each other, full of joy.
Procurement in the territory is fair, which is one of the reasons why raw material suppliers are so sought-after, and when they are qualified, they will immediately receive an advance payment of 10% of the total purchase price for a month.
After the goods arrive and the quality is checked, at the end of the month, you will directly receive the full payment for the goods before the 27th of the month.
This method is already very generous, if it is elsewhere, not to mention the long account period, there is no advance payment at all. So, the businessmen who got the money hurried back to contact the goods and transportation, others are so open, you are slow, are you embarrassed.
That's it.
The second investment conference was completed in the territory.
Although a set of supply and marketing systems has been initially established, although it is still very immature and has many deficiencies and can even be said to be 'loopholes', it is also a big step forward.
PS: Chapter 2, Chapter 3 around eleven o'clock.
Don't worry about the details.