In the laboratory, Xiao Yuan met Smith and explained to him what he meant.

"What are you doing with so many patents at once?" Smith was puzzled by Xiao Yuan's move to apply for a large number of patents at once.

Xiao Yuan had to briefly talk about his competition with Long Taijie, but Smith raised objections after hearing it.

"I feel very strange about your thinking, if there is no high-quality product, no matter how many patents there are, I am afraid it will not play a big role, you know, although some companies maintain a large number of patents, but most of them are either to assist the core technology, or to defend against malicious competition from peers, and there are few real core patents." Smith said.

"I understand what you mean, you're worried that I'll come out with a bunch of waste products, it's better to concentrate on a high-quality product, everything is not expensive, is that so?" Xiao Yuan said.

"Haha, yes, that's what it means, no matter what the industry, the original core technology is often the most valuable for investment, if you can really come up with a high-quality patent, can be recognized by investors, I believe they will give your patent a good valuation, which is much better than you get a bunch of patents out." Smith said.

"Actually, I also want to make sure that nothing goes wrong, because I can't be sure how far the person I compete with will be able to run his company in three months." Xiao Yuan explained.

"You are not confident in yourself, but it is understandable, after all, you are not a businessman, and a so-called business genius competition, itself is at a disadvantage, want to win, it is not easy, but I still suggest that you choose a technology as the core technology, and then if possible, come up with a few auxiliary technologies that match the core technology, so that these technologies form a complete technical system, which will greatly increase the added value of your core technology, The results are by no means comparable to simply adding up the value of these technologies. Smith said.

"And there's an added benefit to doing that, which is that these technologies, if relevant, can shorten the approval time." Smith said again.

"How else can there be such benefits?" Xiao Yuan could understand what Smith said earlier, but the shortened time that Smith said later surprised him, and now he is most concerned about the review time.

"Every time the patent office holds a technical review meeting, it is to put all the relevant technologies together for approval, of course, it can save time, in fact, most of the time spent on technology patent applications is spent waiting for the review meeting, if the review meeting is held in time, the patent approval and authorization speed will be very fast." Smith said.

"I didn't know anything about this, but now I do, thank you, Professor Smith." Xiao Yuan nodded and said.

"It's good that you understand this, these are just some of my suggestions, what will you do in the end, you have to choose for yourself, I can't help you with anything else, I can help you in the patent review, but you also need your technology to pass, I have always been very strict in this regard, don't expect me to give you special care." Smith said.

"You can rest assured at this point, I came up with these techniques to compete with others, if I can't even pass the review, how can I compete with others." Xiao Yuan said that he naturally has full confidence in his own technology, but he thinks that the advice given to him by Old Man Smith is very useful, and it has also made some changes in his thinking, and he feels that he needs to think carefully about what patents to come up with.

"The most critical question is, do you really have that kind of technology that has extraordinary value?" Smith finally asked.

"I have mastered several techniques in my hands, but I don't know if the charm does not meet your extraordinary value standards, I want to wait for me to sort out the materials, and then hand them over to you to help me check them, how about it?" Xiao Yuan said.

"Well, I'd love to know what kind of technology you want to use to compete with a business genius, and if the technology is good, I'll personally help you file a patent application at that time." Smith readily agreed.

"Thank you, Mr. Smith." Xiao Yuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked Smith.

At this point, Xiao Yuan finished talking about things with Smith, and he and Smith chatted casually for a few more words, and then left.

After returning to the innovation lab, after Jessica met Xiao Yuan, she immediately asked him about worshipping the old man as a teacher and competing with Long Taijie for the elders of the outer gate, knowing that at this time, Xiao Yuan knew that he was already very famous in the entire Chinese circle in the United States, which made him further appreciate the huge influence of Hongmen in the Chinese circle in the United States, but this kind of fame was not liked by him, but the matter had been done, and he could only accept this reality with a wry smile.

"Being famous is actually not a bad thing, with the Great Elder of Hongmen as your backstage, if you can win Long Taijie in the future and become the Outer Elder of Hongmen, you can go sideways." Jessica laughed.

"You're making fun of me, aren't you?" Xiao Yuan smiled bitterly, "With your understanding of me, do you think that I really went to fight with that Long Taijie for the sake of these powers, and the so-called outer sect elders?" ”

"No matter what the reason, in short, you are famous now, many people who have not heard of you are asking where Xiao Yuan is sacred, you have to be careful in the future, people's curiosity is very scary, I think it won't be long before your ancestors will be dug up by people, and the advantages will be magnified, and if there is any stain, it will also be magnified, and even used by some people......" Jessica said half-jokingly.

Jessica was joking, but Xiao Yuan was in a cold sweat when he listened, he remembered a later life's doxing and Internet hype, this is not a very fun thing, especially some people with no moral bottom line, for their own selfish interests, they can often say that black is white, although they have been bright and upright along the way, but they have also made a lot of enemies, and the possibility of these people taking advantage of their time to become the focus of public attention is not small.

Fortunately, as one of the most important engines of network information dissemination - search engine, and is currently the only Chinese search engine in China controlled by him, so he quickly made a decision: "It seems that it is necessary to call Xinyu and Gu Wolf and let them pay attention to this matter, once there is any negative news, it should be blocked, and it must not be merciful." ”

"Scaring you?" Jessica asked when she saw that Xiao Yuan didn't speak, and cold sweat broke out on her head.

"People are terrible, everyone is golden, and I have offended a lot of people in the past few years." Xiao Yuan smiled bitterly.

"You are too careful, there is a big tree that covers the sky in the United States, and it is even more amazing in China, there is the Xia family in politics, and the Liang family in the business world, so the traditional media will definitely not dare to mess around, the Internet search engine is in your hands, and you don't have to be afraid of the online media, but the most important thing is that no matter what you have done before, in the future, at least before people's attention to you subsides, you have to be cautious in doing things, and you can think twice about everything." Jessica said with a smile.

"You're right, I'm a little too sensitive." Xiao Yuan said, "I worked quickly, and yesterday I was delayed for another night, and I am afraid that any further delay will affect the progress of the project." ”

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That night, Xiao Yuan and Xia Jiuying came out of school, went to the hospital first, chatted with Lin Ran in the hospital for a while, and only returned home after she rested.

When I got home, it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening, the villa was pitch black, the old man and Qin Xiaotong were not in the living room, I thought they were already resting.

Xiao Yuan and Xia Jiuying went back to the bedroom, and after washing, they went to bed and lay down to sleep, when Xiao Yuan was about to fall asleep, the door opened from the outside, and a small head poked in from the outside, looked left and right, and then slowly squeezed in, and tiptoed to the bed.

"What is this little girl going to do?" Xiao Yuan didn't alarm the little girl who came in, but pretended to be asleep, muttering secretly in his heart.