After dinner, Joanna drove Michelle and Nancy back, and John and Mike, of course, took the subway by themselves.

After coming back, Joanna grabbed Su Jingzhen and said a little embarrassed: "Su, the keyboard you designed before, I was a little too arbitrary, in fact, it is also a good thing that you used it to apply for a patent." ”

"Huh?"

At the beginning, Su Jingzhen saw Joanna's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, and thought that Joanna had something important to say, but she didn't expect her to bring up the old things again.

"Mainly because I am not familiar with the experience of patent cases before, I don't know that there are actually a lot of twists and turns in the patent, because I know that you have a keyboard design in your hand, I usually start to pay more attention to this aspect of things, these days, I found that there is a kind of company, that is, to buy some small companies or individual patents.

Then I felt like I had opened the door to a new world.

I searched a lot of information, and the final result was that there had always been such a company, and the industry called this kind of company a patent troll. ”

Su Jingzhen was confused, he had heard of patent trolls, chasing and intercepting large companies, and using patents to claim compensation from large companies, but what does this have to do with him?

"What do you mean? I patented the keyboard and sold it?"

"No, no, you probably have a lot more money to apply for a patent than you do to sell a patent. Joanna retorted with a shake of her head.

"That?"

"Swap patents, after you apply for a patent for your keyboard, if you want to create your own keyboard brand in the future, then you can swap patents with those keyboard vendors, so that you can leave a lot of patent fees. Joanna was a little embarrassed, if it was a more experienced lawyer, she might have thought of this problem at the time.

But Joanna is just a novice, and he is also a miscellaneous worker, simply put, he is an assistant, following the famous lawyers of the law firm, where she is needed, she will go there, and whatever case needs her, she will have to go.

"Then those blueprints of mine are still useful?" Su Jingzhen was a little surprised, he had completely put down the keyboard, what Joanna said last time was actually very reasonable, computer manufacturers will not pay for the risk, but now there is suddenly a new way of operation, which is really surprising.

"But, what does this have to do with the patent trolls you said?" Su Jingzhen understood half of it, but he didn't understand the other half of what Joanna said.

"You are stupid, this thing can be done by others, you can also do it, not to mention, in our firm, there are also many companies that entrust patents. But the price is a little incomprehensible, and it is very expensive, and there are some that no one wants. Joanna saw that Su Jingzhen gradually understood what she said, so she stood up and ran to grind coffee again.

This time, it was Su Jingzhen's turn to chase after Joanna, came to the edge of the open kitchen, sat down in front of the long dining cabinet, and Su Jingzhen asked: "Let's not talk about whether those patents are useful, even if they are useful, are you sure that we can win those big companies if we go to fight patent lawsuits?"

Su Jingzhen said in fact, he also remembered that a consumer electronics company sued a competitor for patent infringement, and then the competitor responded to the lawsuit, first submitted millions of pages of product information to the court, and then the court was confused.

"Who told you to buy patents to sue those big companies? We don't be patent trolls, can we buy patents to protect our products? You used to be so smart, why did you turn around without a head this time?" Joanna disdained the big boy in front of her while grinding coffee beans.

Su Jingzhen listened, patted his head, this is really a misunderstanding, he was completely distorted by Joanna's words at the beginning, why didn't he think of it, exchanging patents, and then protecting their own products, isn't this the patent defense strategy that major companies have been using?

So, isn't this just that you can buy some patents for edge products first, and then build a patent trench, and then slowly develop to the core?

For example, many of today's computer cases are horizontal, so can you design a vertical one? Then make the design of the interface upward, and then design several more of the same category, including the back line of the case and the design of water cooling, and then lay a patent trap......

Su Jingzhen's thinking is becoming more and more divergent, and the brain hole that can be opened is getting bigger and bigger.

From small to large, from simple to complex, from low-tech to high-tech, the industrial chain that has not been sorted out has gradually begun to take shape, and the more Su Jingzhen thinks about it, the happier he becomes, and he can't help but raise his head to express his gratitude to Joanna.

Hey, what about people?

But when he raised his head, Joanna was gone, and there was a cup of hand-ground Filipino white coffee in front of him, but it was cold.

"Joanna, Joe...... Why did you get into the room? Why didn't I find out?" Joanna heard Su Jingzhen shouting and responded to him, but how could it be in the room?

"You were just sitting there alone and giggling, I almost thought you were sick and looking for some medicine for you. ”

"Go, you're sick. Su Jingzhen waved his hand angrily, it seems that some relatively fresh jokes can't be told to Joanna often, and they have taught her badly.

"I saw that you were thinking about things and didn't want to interrupt your train of thought, so I didn't bother you, what's the matter? Now that I figured it out?" Joanna was also joking, and when she saw Su Jingzhen's current appearance, she knew that something good must be there, because Su Jingzhen smiled brightly.

"I figured it out, I knew what I should do next, at least I had a goal, I didn't know how to do one round of keyboards, SanDisk did another round, and now it's all connected, and I've straightened out the context. Su Jingzhen drank the slightly cold coffee and was in a happy mood.

"Then, is my lawyer's fee settled?" Joanna was also very happy, she didn't believe in self-made business before, but Su Jingzhen's appearance opened her eyes, and a living millionaire was born right under her nose, and she also took a sip of soup.

If the current Joanna is doing her best to repay Su Jingzhen's affairs, then Joanna herself thinks that it is not, she herself does not understand what she is thinking in her heart, maybe she thinks that Su Jingzhen can continue to move forward and bring more benefits to herself?

"It's up to you what kind of patents you can bring out of the firm, but anyway, I really want to thank you tonight. Su Jingzhen is very grateful to Joanna for her words tonight, which expanded the latitude of his own thoughts, and it is not an exaggeration to say that his brain is open.

Joanna smiled, walked to the table, and started distilling coffee again, it seems that we need to exchange each other's thoughts tonight to see what kind of patents Su Jingzhen wants.

Author: Please stop flirting!

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