"Xiao Gu, good news!" In the office downstairs, Director Bao was full of smiles as soon as he saw Gu Biao.

"I didn't expect that Lin Guodong was quite capable, so he was entrusted for more than two months, and the procedure for accepting and reviewing has been completed, and the invention of the membrane helium machine has reached the confidentiality period, which has also attracted the attention of some foreign guests. We can always make it public in advance if we need to. ”

"Sure enough, it's good news, but what about sales? I heard that there is equipment sold at the Canton Fair?" Gu Biao took over the conversation with relief, and the joy in his heart was no less than that of others.

He knows that the so-called confidentiality period after the invention patent enters the preliminary examination means that the application number and title of an invention can be retrieved by others (mainly peers), but the specific technical details are not disclosed, so I don't know what you will do. The maximum period of remorse is 18 months.

Therefore, peers will know a message: the Chinese have mastered the technology of manufacturing helium equipment and have applied for inventions. But we don't know exactly how they were made and what technical principles they are based on.

For those who want to buy equipment, this is already possible to seek cooperation in placing orders.

In contrast, the first-level patent application of "utility model" does not have the preferential treatment of confidentiality period, that is, once the application passes the preliminary examination, the technical details are directly disclosed and cannot be regretted.

This is an important advantage of "inventions" over "utility models", and it is also the reason why only "inventions" can play with patented submarines.

"The British bought a set of airships from Edland, Britain's largest airship company — a British airship company that had just developed after the '73 oil crisis to deal with fuel-efficient new safe aircraft programs.

In the 40s, the Germans were so dangerous that they thought of helium airships. I wanted to ask Air Liquide to buy a helium-making machine, but I was surprised to find that the unit energy consumption we promised was much lower than that of the previous shipment, so I switched to ours. ”

Director Bao first talked about the first and most representative orders at the Canton Fair.

From the 40s to the 70s, for 30 years, airship technology was not developed, and even in the West it was abandoned. The main thing is that the aircraft are developing too fast, and the airship is rubbish no matter how you look at it.

Before the Fourth Middle East War in '73, oil prices were too cheap, and the energy consumption of aircraft was ignored. At the beginning of 75 years, the Western world, which had been tormented by the lack of oil for two years, finally began to consider various fuel-saving equipment, so the idea of helium airship has just been picked up.

However, in the 70s, helium was still relatively expensive, and the membrane method did not appear, so the cost was very high, and basically there were only experimental boats, which were regarded as "spare tires that had to be taken out in case of an oil crisis in the Middle East". It was not until the 80s, when the membrane method became popular, that helium airships began to be mass-produced.

It can be seen that it should have been the helium airship, a large helium eater, that first manufactured the market demand and forced the helium-making technology to develop towards low energy consumption. However, the appearance of Gu Biao turned the result into the cause, allowing the technology to be half a step ahead of the market and in place in advance, and directly fed to the mouth of the British airship company.

Even Air Liquide, the leading boss who originally pretended to be cheap and high-quality in the industry, was caught off guard.

After sharing this order, Director Bao immediately threw out another bigger benefit:

"In addition to the Adelan airship company, the U.S. Department of Energy also bought two sets - it is said that high-pressure pure helium is used as a reactor cleaning agent.

It was also a coincidence that the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident had just occurred in Pennsylvania before the Canton Fair began. The U.S. Department of Energy urgently requires the shutdown of all nuclear power plants in the United States in batches. This involves the harmless treatment after the shutdown, which requires the use of a large amount of pure helium cleaning agent and release agent. ”

Three Mile Island!

When he heard this word, Gu Biao's first reaction was that he was lucky and rushed away.

Three Mile Island was the third largest nuclear accident in human history, after the Chernobyl explosion in the Soviet Union in '86 and Fukushima in 11.

Moreover, it is only 1979, and there has been no accident between the Soviet Union and the Ben. So Americans' Three Mile Island is the biggest nuclear accident in history.

Even Gu Biao, who did not pay attention to these historical details in his previous life, saw the news in domestic newspapers last month.

It's just that Gu Biao doesn't know about nuclear technology, so he doesn't know that reactor cleaning agents require a large amount of pure helium.

The Three Mile Island melt pile occurred at 4 a.m. ET on March 28. And the opening of the Canton Fair around April 15 is really only two weeks away. It can be said that it is a godsend, and for the Ministry and the Foreign Affairs Bureau, this is a political achievement that fell from the sky.

The U.S. Department of Energy has just completed the planning of the response plan after the investigation and formulated a roadmap to stop nuclear power, and it has seen the new helium mass production technology here.

However, Gu Biao still has a question: "But the situation of the Americans is completely different from that of the British, the British do not have the technology to produce their own helium, so they can only import equipment." The American Praxair company can make helium on its own, so how can it import equipment from abroad?"

Director Bao showed off beautifully: "It may be that President Carter just wanted to show us goodwill, seeing that we can produce without restrictions." In addition, the equipment in your factory, the yield and energy consumption are indeed better than the Praxair of the pure low-temperature separation method.

Praxair's goods are only the whole life cycle maintenance to ensure low cost of use (good quality, long life, and less repair in the future), but this batch of orders from the Department of Energy is to pursue the short-term explosion of production capacity, and after all nuclear power plants in the United States are shut down for cleaning and harmless treatment, the production capacity will overflow. It doesn't matter if our goods have a shorter lifespan. ”

After listening to this, Gu Biao felt that he must have absorbed European qi.

The Emperor of Europe can't stop it.

If the Americans were given a little more time to think about this kind of order, maybe Praxair would have to cut it off. However, it was too sudden, and the focus of order demand was not clear, which led to the final flow abroad.

After all, after the accident at the nuclear power plant, many emergency purchases are made to buy things back as soon as possible, and political considerations come first at this time.

Otherwise, a report in the Peanutton Post revealed that a senator questioned the Department of Energy's plan to shut down a nationwide nuclear power plant as an emergency, which led to the delay of the plan, and the angry and panicked civilians who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and other areas adjacent to the nuclear power plant, did not tear down the senator's entire family.

After waking up from the joy of Emperor Ou, Gu Biao thought further deeply, and immediately asked Director Bao several constructive questions:

"Then the order on the U.S. side was signed by the Ministry of Energy in person, or was it signed by some emergency treatment company or even a gas company established under the Ministry of Energy?

Have we been given a full contract at the moment, are there any framework agreements for follow-up cooperation intentions, and to what extent can we use this contract as a way to promote our qualifications in other projects in the future?"

Director Bao was stunned for a moment, and only answered the first two questions, but he was a little confused by the next questions: "There are officials from the Ministry of Energy who are on the list, but the contract is not signed with the Ministry of Energy, and they have set up a bunch of project companies specifically for the matter of stopping the reactor and harmless treatment, which should be signed with one of the project companies."

Xiao Gu, as you know, the way capital pays attention to the country's way of doing things, which is very different from us. I don't know what they're afraid of, they often do one thing to set up a company, and it's gone when it's done. I've dealt with them and know this temperament. Besides, why do you care about this?"

Gu Biao had to sigh, Director Bao is really different, but Tucson is broken.

People's hearts are too simple, and there is no capital to pay attention to the world's consciousness that "market confidence is king".

It won't be long before that, as long as it is put on hold for another seven or eight years, those officials who attract investment or foreign trade bosses will know how important the "historical performance" is a weapon of commercial propaganda.

Looking at the various bidding projects in later generations, commercial bids and even technical bids, which is not "the company or product, which customer performance has been achieved", as a very important bid evaluation index.

It is also the case that people in the context of the planned economy dare to ignore these.

Although Director Bao has been a foreign affairs official for many years, he is still too tender for business negotiations with capital attention.

Gu Biao said regretfully: "Director, let me give you a suggestion - these are all very important bargaining points in the future." Of course, I am not in my position, and if you want to, you can make this incident a political achievement. I have no interests with you, that's why I told you so bluntly.

If we're going to Iraq next month, meet with the officials over there. If only we could produce a copy of the contract and tell them that 'the U.S. Department of Energy has bought our goods and has the intention of long-term strategic cooperation.'"

Then I can guarantee that those under President Saddam Hussein's trust in our strength will definitely increase several times. Even in the next few years, no matter what country you go to, you can help this unit sell its business, and you will be able to get twice the result with half the effort. ”

Director Bao is still puzzled: "I will go to Iraq next month, I will sell the large oxygen production equipment used in the missile silo base, this is helium-making, and it is not related at all, right?"

Gu Biao hated that iron was not made of steel, but he could only be patient: "Director, foreigners pay attention to goodwill and brand, unlike us, the national plan orders you to believe in the quality of whom, then believe in the quality." Even if it is a different product, as long as it is the goodwill of the same company, it can be used as an important proof of strength, and it can be used as a stepping stone for many years. ”

He painstakingly explained to Director Bao for more than ten minutes, and finally turned Director Bao's slightly old-fashioned brain.

He confirmed the letter suspiciously: "So, do you think that 'it is better to make $100,000,000 less foreign exchange for a single set of equipment sold to the US Department of Energy,' and to get a long-term framework agreement?

Gu Wei's answer was very firm: "Yes! Of course, if the Department of Energy on the US side can come forward, we must also have the endorsement of the ministry and bureau, and we can't just rely on state-owned enterprises to sign contracts alone." ”

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(It's already 3,000 words.) For the first part of this chapter, I would like to explain a few words to readers who do not understand patent law. If you are too lazy to read it, it will not affect your reading experience.

The reason why the law sets a confidential emormoratory period for "inventions" is mainly to encourage people to apply for more inventions of technologies that were originally protected as trade secrets. So give the absolute technology leader a chance to regret it.

For example, if a person knows that he is 30 years ahead of mankind and the term of protection for an invention is only 20 years, then he should not apply for a patent. Instead, he first used it secretly for 29 years, and it is estimated that the second place among the human race is about to surpass him, and then he will apply for an invention, so that he can monopolize the benefits for a total of 49 years.

The "regret period" can encourage those who don't know how far away the second place of the human race is from you, out of the sake of insurance, first apply to occupy the pit, and then wait for the 18-month secrecy period to expire, and see that the chasing peers are still silent, then regret and withdraw.

In addition, after the application is withdrawn, the application fee collected by the patent office is non-refundable, and this part of the money accounts for a large part of the income of the patent office of each country, so it is natural that the development of the remorse period system will be further promoted. ）