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New start-up electronics company.

Lin Qi acted as an examiner to review the scientific calculator works completed by the three teams.

Although, the drawings of these scientific calculators, are all the same. But the products made by different people are very different.

Among them, the ugliest is Gao Tian's work completed independently.

Gao Tian said embarrassedly: "Ugly, it's just that my personal hands-on ability is a little worse." But the technical content has been improved from your original design. For example, if you want to use 8K for your original code, I've reduced the code to 6K without affecting performance!"

"......" Lin Qi looked speechless, he didn't know much about technology, but Gao Tian must be a master of technology.

The samples handed in by Liu Zhendong's trio were decent, and they were completely designed in accordance with the drawings.

The samples submitted by Zhao Tian and Li Ruoxi are a little different - the appearance is more beautiful, with a white plastic shell, black buttons, and the numbers and symbols on the buttons are also white. The appearance is further beautified, full of scientific and technological beauty.

In terms of appearance, the last piece far surpasses the previous two. If Lin Qi brings himself into the perspective of consumers to buy products, under the premise of the same price, he will definitely buy the most beautiful!

Lin Qi announced: "Then, I declare that all three groups have completed their tasks. There are three people who can serve as R&D team leaders, and the monthly salary will be increased to 5000 grades. Whoever becomes the group leader, nominated within the team!"

As expected, Gao Tian, Liu Zhendong and Li Ruoxi were nominated.

Li Ruoxi won the position of team leader, because Li Ruoxi can't help but understand technology, and the art design level is also first-class! The third product, the reason why it is so beautiful, is mainly because of Li Ruoxi's factors!

Lin Qi then announced: "Miss Li Ruoxi's appearance design is eye-catching, so I intend to spend 10,000 yuan to buy this appearance design, I don't know what Miss Li Ruoxi wants?"

Li Ruoxi looked surprised and a little at a loss: "This ...... It's too expensive! just to make it look good. ”

"No, it's important. In addition to looking at the function, price, brand, reputation, etc., beautiful design is also a very important factor for consumers to buy products!" Lin Qi praised, "I think a beautiful product, if the performance is similar to other products on the market." Well, it's sure to be a success!"

"Hey, is there any mistake? A form design, which I almost improved the technical design, is not at the same level at all. Do you think that her little tricks are more valuable than my improvements?" Gao Tian said angrily.

"Yes!" Lin Qi said, "According to the original design, if it is not improved, it can already be produced." And after the improvement, only reduce the program size, reduce the 8K program to 6K, how much money can be saved? Moreover, according to Moore's law, the hardware will be upgraded once every 18 months, the previous hardware will be greatly reduced, and the memory chip will become cheaper and cheaper, and in the future, the price difference between 8K or 6K memory will not be very large. You know, now Japan has launched 64K and 128K memory chips!"

"But...... The core competitiveness of a company should be technology!" Gao Tian was a little unwilling.

"Art design is also technology!" Lin Qi commented indifferently, "The appearance design that shines in front of you is not necessarily worse than the real technology!"

After this round of tests, Gao Tian began to fight with Lin Qi!

Originally, he was going to pretend to be forced, and after preparing to be a sub-leader, he patted his ass and left, so as to despise Lin Qi's recruitment of a rabble!

But with Lin Qi's beating, Gao Tian felt unconvinced!

Yes!

He was such a skilled person, but Lin Qi was disdainful.

So, he is ready to join the company first, become the company's technical core, and when the company can't do without him, he will leave disdainfully!

That's right!

Gao Tian is such a tsundere......

All in all, Lin Qi is quite satisfied with the technicians recruited at this time, and they have met Lin Qi's minimum requirements.

At the very least, they can read technical drawings and have a strong hands-on ability...... In the future, patents and R&D can be pushed to the company's R&D team...... With them covering up, the company's technology source problem can be fooled.

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December 1979. Next door to the New Venture Press, Lin Qi officially established the New Venture Electronics Company.

And the product that the new venture electronics company is preparing to launch is a function calculator - a self-developed function calculator!

At present, the new venture electronics company has applied for 13 international patents, many of which are related to electronic calculators. Of course, there are also some patents that others find inexplicable - the patent of the "Chinese Cube" game.

"Chinese Cubes" is both the famous "Tetris", a simple and classic game. In the history of the game, it is a legend. Of course, it has been a huge success on arcades, home consoles, computers, and other platforms.

But what really makes Tetris a god is the handheld, in the era of the handheld, Tetris can be king, and there is no game more suitable for the handheld than it.

Now Lin Qi still has the strength to enter the handheld game market, but it is still necessary to preemptively register the "Tetris" patent in advance. This game alone is enough to support the sales of more than 10 million handheld consoles!

Of course, the technical content of the handheld is far more than the calculator, so Lin Qi is ready to use the scientific calculator first to practice the company!

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Function calculators, or scientific calculators, are products that do not form monopoly patents on their own.

This is the same as the fact that China Langke Company later registered a U disk patent in an attempt to monopolize the U disk market. However, the USB flash drive patent was declared invalid in many countries. Therefore, Langke can only have a small part of the unique patented technology and collect patent fees from competitors, but there is no way to prevent a large number of companies at home and abroad from legally producing U disk products to compete with it.

This is not a patent law bullying Chinese companies, in fact, there is a patent troll in history who registered a car patent and tried to blackmail the entire automotive industry by relying on this patent at the beginning. At first, the American auto giants were frightened and forced to pay money, but the end result was that the patent was invalidated. With this case, there are countless patents that can be registered for different parts and specific designs of the car, and these patents will be protected. However, the concept of the automobile will not receive patent protection. It is unrealistic to try to monopolize an industry based on an invention.

At present, there are many functional calculators in the market, and a bunch of manufacturers in Japan, the United States, and Europe are producing them. No company can rely on patents to stop its competitors from producing similar products. As long as the opponent's product is from a new design, and the circuit diagram and source code are different, the patent can be bypassed.

This is the case with Lin Qi's function calculator, whether it is the design of the circuit, the appearance design, or even the code program inside, it is 100% "original". In addition, the specific design has been patented. In this way, not only will he not infringe on the patents of any company or individual, but if others copy his design, they can confidently sue.