Chapter 2 Finding a Unique Way
After writing down what Feliro had explained, Gu Mojie didn't do it immediately. He is not a person who is in a hurry, and he has to follow the steps and make plans first.
In his opinion, the first task is to finish the subject three and the subsequent driving test first, and get the book first. Completely put this matter to an end, and then put your energy into the next thing.
Of course, considering that he has good driving skills, he doesn't need to practice for too long. In the past ten days, you can first do the research materials and theoretical writing work required for writing patents; After you get the driving book, you can think about opening a mold or proofing and make the real thing.
Rice, take one bite at a time.
Half a year ago, when he mentioned the clothed knife, he had a completely flash of inspiration, and he had not done any argumentation, or even thought about it - has anyone in China thought of this kind of idea? Was he really the first original?
Now that we have to do things seriously, we must first search with the rigorous ideas of systems engineering to ensure our own innovation.
The day after returning from learning to drive, Gu Mojie spent a whole day looking up information on the Internet, and finally came to a happy conclusion: no one in China has ever thought of this thing.
Gu Mojie compared and demonstrated the hundreds of invention patents and thousands of utility models in the field of kitchen knives that he had found, and his eyes were sour, and finally he suddenly summed up a rule:
It seems that most of the innovation directions in the domestic kitchen knives are limited to those fields that overlap with foreigners. At first, he was puzzled, but after pondering it all night, he suddenly realized a possibility in his sleep.
In 2003, many domestic arbitrage behaviors in the field of intellectual property, or arbitrage in the field of patents, were still in the stage of blindly following foreign trends.
You know, patents don't just apply in one country and then they can be protected all over the world. If you apply in the country, you will only be protected in the country, and if you apply in the United States, you will only be protected in the United States. If you forget to go to Japan to file an application, then sorry, the Japanese can legally plagiarize and produce your product in their country and sell it - as long as it is not exported to the market of another country where you have applied for patent protection, he is not breaking the law.
In 03, China joined the WTO for more than two years, and before that, China was a very backward country in the protection of intellectual property rights, and the problem of copycats was more severe than that of later generations, and the problem of local protection was far from what people could imagine in ten years. Many foreign companies do not necessarily expect to be protected, even if they apply for their patented technology domestically. After applying for a patent, there is an annual "maintenance fee" - equivalent to a protection fee.
Naturally, a large number of foreign companies are too lazy to apply, and they don't do business in the Chinese market, just begging your copycat not to sell to the countries they have registered and protected, and to impact the markets of those high-quality countries.
Foreigners do not apply, so naturally there are many blanks. Therefore, at that time, many people in China who knew how to brush patents would specifically search for the difference between the number of patents in the United States and the number of domestic patents, and then preemptively registered those patents that had been registered in the United States, had not been registered in China, and were unlikely to have a complaint from the owner in the future.
The efficiency of this kind of "translation patent" is of course more simple than Gu Mojie's previous use of "permutation and combination of functional innovation points", but Gu Mojie's last life was 08 years after the financial crisis before he embarked on social work, when he worked, this more primitive era of staking has passed, and the frenzy of massive "translation patents" has ended, so he has not learned the trick of academic fraud.
It was not until this moment, after spending a few days of inquiry, and repeatedly thinking about comparisons by himself, that he came to this conclusion.
At the same time, this conclusion also gave him a surprise.
This unexpected joy is not that he has found another shortcut to "brushing" - he has developed to this point and no longer bothers to do brushing things - but let him find a real blue ocean blank for real innovation.
That is, to find the unique needs of Chinese, to find areas that only Chinese need and foreigners do not need, to explore hidden pain points, solve practical problems, and find out the direction of entrepreneurship.
For example, the coat knife that he thought of in a flash of inspiration, why didn't other people in China think of it in 03? Because everyone was blinded by the pleasure of following the foreigner's buttocks, even the academic news on TV was a lot of water at that time, "Professor XXX of the XXX Research Institute has filled the gap in China again". This kind of fast money, fast honor is too convenient, and the truly independent thinking has atrophied, since it is lying down to achieve results, who is willing to run to chase the results?
The academic environment at that time was not the same as that after the "domestic gap" was almost filled a few years later.
But for people like Gu Mojie who don't plan to fake and are ready to rely on real skills, this status quo is where the opportunity lies.
Because foreigners don't know how to cook Chinese food, they don't need to cut cucumbers, so they can't think of inventing the knife; In the same way, because foreigners can't stir the pot when stir-frying, they won't think of inventing a stir-fry pot that can automatically stir-fry;
By extension, although Google is much stronger than Baidu, technology research and development is also very comprehensive, and the ability of "Google Translate" in later generations far exceeds Baidu Translation, but in the subcategory of "Chinese translation into English", Google will take into account the translation of French, German, Russian and Japanese Chinese languages and English at the same time, and Baidu is not as specialized as Baidu.
By extension, because the keyboard of the computer has always been the English alphabet, people in English-speaking countries do not need to have the string of "input method" in their minds, and this field is where the development advantages of Chinese lie - Gu Mojie's universal input method, isn't it to solve this problem?
Who let this be a problem that some foreigners don't have to face at all? In these tiny fields, foreigners are naturally not as professional as Chinese. The hoarding school valve in the system that follows the foreigners' buttocks and "translates the domestic blank" naturally competes with the non-governmental forces that calmly face the bloody storm of free competition.
This is where Gu Mojie does not rely on the system, does not rely on officialdom, and rises on the road of pure business.
After thoroughly understanding this truth, Gu Mojie's whole person relaxed. In the next few days, he searched like flying, wrote quickly, touched bypasses, and thought like a spring.
Not only did he write the technical demonstration document of the invention of the cloth knife without leakage, but he was even inspired to summarize several kinds of small practical technical arguments that he summarized according to the differentiated needs of Chinese and Western food, which were impossible for foreigners to think of, and he just thought of them, and then arranged and combined them to weave a technical network, faintly forming a small barrier.
As time drags on, this barrier will become more and more elaborate and rigorous.
Although the sample has not yet been made, he is already full of confidence in the upcoming negotiations with Supor.
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