"If you are an independent inventor, the patent belongs to the individual. If the inventor works for the company, and the company provides the funds, equipment, and space, the patent should belong to the company. The core design idea of our TV was proposed by you, and Dr. Li, you are the president of the company and the director of the laboratory, so it makes sense that the company has a TV patent. ”

Theodore accepted the facts, albeit with some reluctance, but he accepted it.

Employees without ambition are mediocre.

Ambitious employees have the potential to create more value for the company, and it becomes more difficult for company management to control these ambitious employees.

As far as the specific project of the TV installation is concerned, the technical soul is Li Kangping, and the company provides all the funds and hardware equipment. Theodore, you said it yourself, the TV patent should belong to the company, there is nothing to argue.

On the morning of the next day, Li Kangping convened a meeting of Mr. Zhou, Liu Shaowen, Li Chong and other shareholders in the president's office of the King Building.

"I would like to make a change in the organizational structure of the company, and Manhattan Zeus Corporation is the parent company with several subsidiaries. The mahjong factory under the head office was renamed 'Hera Mahjong Company', and the whole company should gather the strength of the whole company to build the Hera Mahjong brand, and Li Chong was temporarily appointed as the general manager of Hera Mahjong Company. Zeus Lab is also a subsidiary, and I am the director of the laboratory for the time being. What do you think? Li Kangping asked.

"Okay."

"Do as Kangping wills."

"My focus has gradually shifted to Zeus Laboratory, headquarters affairs and Hera Mahjong brand building, and I have to worry a lot about you."

Li Kangping announced the adjournment of the meeting and immediately summoned Tim.

"Tim, what I want to tell you is that after the company's board of directors has studied and judged, it is now decided to change the company's organizational structure......" Li Kangping conveyed the spirit of the board meeting to Tim.

"Okay, I see, I'll get this done as soon as possible with Commercial Commissioner Larry."

"The nature of Zeus Laboratory is scientific research and product development, and the management adopts a corporate management system. Tim, while registering Hera Mahjong, Zeus Labs, I would like you to immediately draft a new employment agreement--- exclusive to Zeus Labs. ”

"Huh?"

"The right to use the technology patents produced by Zeus Laboratories belongs to Zeus Laboratories free of charge. If an employee of Zeus Labs completes the development of a patent on his own, the patent ownership belongs to the employee, and Zeus Labs has the right of first refusal to buy out the ownership of the patent. This is the core outline of the Zeus Lab employment agreement, and the specific details of the agreement are drawn up by Tim you. ”

"Mr. Li, are you too merciful? As far as I know, large companies such as RCA, AT, and Xidian have adopted a 'one-dollar' system, and if their company's technicians invent new patents, they sell them all to the company for one dollar. The right to use a patent, the right to own, or whatever, is all included in this dollar. ”

"Really? So can we emulate the 'one-dollar' system of those big corporations? ”

"It's okay to imitate, but we have to give these tech people additional benefits, such as good salaries, exciting bonuses, at least two months of paid vacation per year, and so on."

"Okay, that's it. And then, Tim, you drafted a separate agreement, written specifically for Mr. Theodore Wallace. The main content of the agreement is that Mr. Theodore Wallace will receive a one-time reward of $3,600 for the Zeus Labs television patent, and Mr. Theodore Wallace will receive his own Henry Ford--- which is the official car he is using. Mr. Theodore Wallace was responsible for working at Zeus' laboratory for at least three years and keeping the laboratory a strict secret. ”

"Okay, I see."

"The new engineer you hired and the engineers behind you are all contracted under the 'one-dollar' system. And you, Tim, you're about to become the head of the General Management Department at headquarters, and you're going to get a bigger salary, an even more exciting bonus, and at least two and a half months of paid vacation a year. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Li!"

Minister Tim Flynn was full of enthusiasm for the implementation of the work, and Li Kangping returned to the Morning Street apartment to draft a patent application for a television device.

A third of the drawings to the patent application were drawn that Li Kangping received a letter from St. Louis from Arthur Compton.

"My dear Lee: My conscience is so bad, I have planned to come to New York to meet you a hundred times, but I have never been able to act."

"I read with great interest the "Experiments on the Electron Diffraction of Nickel Crystals" published by you and Professor Woodgate in Physical Review, and you have obtained solid experimental evidence, and I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart!"

So, the theory of matter waves was established. I congratulate you again! ”

"The question now is, what new will be produced based on the theory of matter waves?"

"I can't discuss this issue in my letter, which involves more scholarly space than the University of Chicago Library."

"Why do I say the University of Chicago, because I'm about to move to the physics department of the University of Chicago."

"To go back to the first sentence, the reason I didn't come to New York to meet you is because my job at Washington University in St. Louis is so heavy that I can't leave."

"Luckily, the work at Washington University in St. Louis came to a successful conclusion, and I got an exciting experimental result."

"I want to say that my experiments are related to you. Remember our first meeting at Columbia? Oh, damn it, a big man like me was knocked to the ground by you, a young boy who had just entered school! You knocked over my body and knocked out my academic inspiration. ”

"I have a period of free time between my departure and my appointment, and my plan for the 101st meeting with K.P. Lee will definitely come to fruition."

"Before I come to New York, I'll call you and hope you'll see a grand show on Broadway with Arthur Compton with a bad conscience."

"Best regards. Your Arthur Compton. St. Louis, September 24, 1922. ”

After reading the letter with a smile, Li Kangping found that Arthur Compton was a very sassy man.

However, Arthur Compton's commotion was only at the level of personal interactions, and Arthur Compton never published similar angry articles in public magazines and newspapers.

After we become famous, or after we ascend to heaven, we or our relatives, friends, and biographers selectively publish our private letters.

When we were alive and our names were not yet heard, we usually did not show private letters to the public.

Li Kangping counted the previous letters, and he had the most private messages with Arthur Compton.

Li Kangping wrote back to Arthur Compton, saying that he would meet Arthur Compton in New York and then proceed to draw the drawings of his patent application for a television device.