The so-called patent trap can generally be interpreted in a variety of ways. For example, deliberately applying for some technical patents with immature technical conditions, defective technologies, or even unrealistic technologies in patent applications, so as to mislead enterprises that follow R&D is a patent trap.

Or for a certain technology in the future, register all its improved technologies and peripheral technologies around its core patents, and then wait for future generations to crash into this net.

The prey in the net either pays high patent fees, or makes huge R&D funds go down the drain, and completes a perfect lore, which is also a patent trap.

Or it is a patent trap to detonate a patent mine after a competitor's technological development has been patented, and then detonate a patent mine to invalidate the patent in law.

The patent trap is not a specific concept and is not clearly defined in academic terms, but it is real in reality and is widely used.

Due to the catch-up strategy adopted by Chinese companies in international trade, they often fall headlong into this trap without a long eye.

Hu Wenhai can be regarded as a doctor who has been ill for a long time, and it is not possible to engage in technology in China without being clear in this regard.

And Robert, the patent vulture, is just such a world-class lawyer who is famous for patent trap lawsuits.

Hu Wenhai spent a huge amount of money to invite people from thousands of miles to China, not only to weave a patent barrier for lithium water, but to lay a trap for a future goal.

With a trap, the prey inside is naturally only at the mercy of others.

"Patent trap?"

Robert's eyes lit up, and he knew that this business would not be so simple.

In the face of huge pay, there must be an unprecedentedly difficult job waiting for him.

But instead of making him feel intimidated, he felt a thrill of adrenaline.

"What, is there anything wrong with Mr. Robert?"

"You're the boss, of course you're up to you!"

Robert bared his snow-white teeth and smiled, "I don't have any problems, but I can't wait." ”

"Alright, I'll move on. ”

Hu Wenhai organized the language for a while, and then said: "We are going to make a more complex patent trap. Once the paper is published in a scientific journal, someone will try to repeat the experiment. I want you to design a set of patent trap network specifically for this immature water lithium battery scheme, but only the basic patent of water lithium battery itself is omitted. In addition to this, a series of unverified patents have to be registered, which creates a misleading approach to this technical route and leads some people to think that this technical route is very promising......"

"Ugh. However, this will incur a fee that is twice as high as the current patent fee!"

Robert had to be reminded.

Normally, a world-class multinational company.

Applying for thousands of patents a year is already remarkable.

And any enterprise weaving patent trap cannot be completed at one time.

Instead, it is to improve the technology over a long period of time while investing in patent registration fees.

In this way, the financial pressure is not obvious.

But Hu Wenhai did this, and the cost of the entire patent case would cost fifteen million US dollars, and he could buy more than half of the F-14 fighters!

Let's not forget that this was in 1985, on the eve of the Plaza Accord, when the dollar bubble was at its peak.

"Money is not an issue, I think you should know that. We have Grumman as a guarantee of ability to pay. ”

Robert swallowed and nodded, "That's right." ”

Without Grumman's matchmaking, how could the little Loyer company hire the world's top patent lawyers?

"Okay, if there is no problem, I hope to be able to get a proposal today. ”

After speaking, Hu Wenhai put his hands behind his back.

Shi Shiran left the office.

Behind him, Robert was holding a pen in his hand, meditating on the paper he had taken out.

Walking out of the small building of the technical department, Hu Wenhai exhaled and got directly into a yellow Tianjin Dafa van.

The small van was now crowded with people.

Take a closer look.

There are some of the remaining technicians in the technical department of the original 501 factory, for example, Shen Qianzhe is sitting in the fourth row, holding a book/br> and in the second row, there is a person who Hu Wenhai has to smile and flatter.

"Uncle Lu, I'm really sorry, this Chinese New Year asked you to come over so early to help. ”

Lu Yinglong waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't say that, I heard that your production line has American experts come to help assemble it." I'm also learning. ”

"Hey, that's what American technology is all about. ”

Hu Wenhai pouted, in terms of the level of automation, the technology of the Americans in the 80s may not be higher than that mastered by BYD.

The yellow Daihatsu van started up and drove the people towards the gate of the new technology factory.

The light had already brightened, and it was time to work.

At the gate of the Xinke factory, large trucks carrying boxes of equipment are constantly driving into the factory.

More than a dozen soldiers in military coats and red armbands were waving colorful flags in their hands, guiding the cars one by one to where they should go.

If there are people who don't know the scene, they may think that this is which army is training, or that the logistics unit is organizing transportation through large-scale procurement.

But in reality -- it's pretty much the same.

This truck team was a car company transferred from the military region, and the military police who stood there directing the traffic, the guards of the 40 th Army Headquarters who were busy unloading the goods, and the engineers who were gathering in the square in front of the factory office building.

The entire Xinke factory is now as if it has become a military barracks.

More than a dozen foreigners wearing suits and yellow hard hats were scattered throughout the loading and unloading site at this time, each holding a form in their hands, and after checking the unloaded equipment, they made a mark on the form.

With a bang, Hu Wenhai opened the door of the van and jumped out of the car.

The shadows of a few foreigners hurriedly ran over.

"Dear Hu, I didn't expect your workers to be so efficient!"

A 60-year-old foreigner with a big nose who took the lead gave a thumbs up and exclaimed: "This is the most disciplined loading and unloading team I have ever seen, and we will soon be able to complete the inventory of the equipment, and then strive to complete the installation and commissioning of all the equipment within a month." ”

"Then please Mr. Paul. ”

Hu Wenhai took off his gloves and shook hands with the old man warmly.

The big-nosed American man is a former chief engineer who retired from Energizer and is now working for a systems integration company called Belbeck.

The equipment was the result of Hu Wenhai's list, which was then tendered by Loyer and tendered by several system integration companies.

After a series of scoring and research, it was finally the solution provided by Belbeck that best met Hu Wenhai's requirements.

Paul is the general manager of the Belbeck company who was temporarily hired with a high salary in order to fulfill the contract.

"Let me introduce this to Professor Lu Yinglong, the chief engineer of the production line of ST Corporation. ”

Hu Wenhai casually put a high hat on his future father-in-law, and then pushed him to the front: "According to the requirements of the agreement, Belbeck must train our workers, and at the same time, it must pass the acceptance of our chief engineer before it can be regarded as fulfilling all the contract requirements." In other words, whether the service provided by your company satisfies me, this Professor Lu has the most right to speak. ”

"Xiaohu, I'm ......"

Lu Yinglong was in a daze, it's not that he can't understand English, he is a bit of a pursuit of automation, at least he still has to understand English.

You may not be able to speak, but you have no problem listening and writing.

Lu Yinglong's head was a little confused, didn't he come to help, why did he become the main person in charge of the project in a blink of an eye?

But under Paul's outstretched hand and Hu Wenhai's urging eyes, Lu Yinglong had no choice but to shake hands with the other party in a daze.

"Rest assured, we will provide you with a satisfactory service. ”

Paul solemnly expressed his attitude to Lu Yinglong.

“Thinkyou，youareee！”

Lu Yinglong, who had never greeted a living American, searched his mind and only found these two words that fit the situation...... "Xiaohu, what's going on, how did I become a chief engineer?"

After coaxing Paul and his party down, Lu Yinglong dragged Hu Wenhai a little anxiously and asked at a loss.

"I can't help it, Uncle Lu, you can help!"

Hu Wenhai pretended to be aggrieved and said: "In the technical department of your new technology company, it is good to have a junior college student, how can there be a person who can take the lead? I am looking for it, and only Uncle Lu can take on the position of chief engineer, so that the Americans will not be deceived and the country will waste foreign exchange in vain in the end, right?"

Hehe, it seems that Mr. Hu opened his mouth and couldn't pick out old experts with a high level of automation in the military industrial system.

However, Lu Yinglong didn't know the Hu family so deeply, and he thought that the new technology company was really just an "ordinary"

of private enterprises, although these years are pure-blooded private enterprises, this in itself is not ordinary enough.

Thinking that it might be due to the lack of technical strength, and the equipment exchanged for the country's precious foreign exchange would be idle, Lu Yinglong had no choice but to reluctantly nodded: "Okay, then I'll try." However, the equipment of the Americans is different from that of the domestic ones, and I am not very sure about it. ”

"It's okay, Uncle Lu just let it go, I have confidence in you. ”

Don't be afraid of anything wrong, Hu Wenhai smiled in his heart.

It is not difficult for him to level these devices at all, but even if there is no problem, the production line will have some minor problems from time to time in the future.

Otherwise, after Lu Yinglong returned to HKUST, how could Hu Wenhai take care of his little daughter-in-law from time to time?

(To be continued.)

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