Chapter 168 Patent Examination Commenced
From Geneva on the border with Sweden and France to the capital Bern in the center, the whole journey is about 150 kilometers, that is, the distance between the capital of China and the city of Tianjin.
But the speed of the train here is very fast, not like a few decades later, when the Chinese high-speed rail dominated the world, at this time the European railway is in a daze, in the world in the leading era, only took a little more than three hours, everyone arrived at the Bern railway station.
Due to the temporary change of schedule last night, the delegation also proposed that today's patent registration should be carried out a little later.
Otherwise, at the end of such a busy and tense day yesterday, some leaders have not reversed the time difference, and you don't let people rest and go to catch the train before dawn, I'm afraid that you won't tire the leaders to death.
Arrived in Bern at 10 a.m., registered in the hotel, and after a short lunch break, around 1 p.m., everyone came to the General Office of the Swiss Patent Office.
It was still the old friends of the Chinese people yesterday -- Deputy Director Alden and Director Britsett -- who came forward to receive them.
Perhaps because of the loss suffered so much yesterday, and the fact that he was in the real home of Bern instead of Geneva today, Alden also looked much more formal.
"According to your request, we have advanced the process of signing and registering a patent to today. Please ask Mr. Zhong Bai to submit the relevant paper certification materials for the patent of reducing low-key water, and we will immediately send someone to review it on site. After sitting down in the conference room, Deputy Director Alden didn't say much and went straight to the point.
This was originally the most fundamental purpose of why everyone came all the way to Switzerland, Lu Xudong naturally turned his head to Zhong Bai and asked, "Are the materials ready?" ”
"Ready." Zhong Bai took out the paper booklet that had been prepared long ago from his briefcase and pushed it to the other party.
Of course, Zhong Bai's paper materials were written in Chinese and not in German, which was also notified in advance by the Swiss Consulate in Tiandu before departure, and the on-site patent office should ask them to translate their written translation.
After seeing the paper materials, Bridt, the director of the Industrial Patent Division, immediately got up and brought in the three of them from outside the door.
Two of them are fertilizer production experts over 50 years old, and the other is a translator in his early thirties.
"Hello everyone, these two are external fertilizer production experts hired by our Swiss Patent Office in accordance with the law, Engineer Grom from West Germany and Engineer Johansen from Sweden." Bridget introduced: "Today, by two experts on behalf of our Swiss Patent Office on Mr. Zhong Bai's patent to reduce the low water temperature patent review, in the patent review process we can at any time in accordance with the provisions of the patent applicant questions, please be sure to answer truthfully, otherwise it will affect the results of the review, and finally to our collective discussion of the results as the final conclusion, must be agreed by both people to pass, as long as one person vetoes, the patent in the Swiss Patent Office application is regarded as a failure, The results of the patent evaluation do not necessarily have to be made on the spot, but they are guaranteed to be made within 48 hours of receiving the information. If you have any questions other than the content of the patent itself, please raise them now, if not, then we will start the on-site review process. ”
Except for Zhong Bai, all the people present in the delegation were in contact with the on-site patent examination of the Swiss Patent Office for the first time, and they were still a little apprehensive after listening to Bridget talk about the precautions for such a long time.
Although there are only two experts on-site audit, it is not as crowded as the rhythm of the mother-in-law everywhere in China, but from the appearance of these two experts, it can be seen that it is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and it is estimated that there will be a lot of questions to ask Zhong Bai when reviewing the information later.
"Xiao Zhong, there's nothing wrong with your information, right?" Lu Xudong hurriedly asked in a low voice: "Is this patent review so complicated?" Or two experts veto system? ”
"Nope. Director Lu, please rest assured, this is only their academic and theoretical review of the content of the technology itself, and does not involve the judgment of specific commercial value, that is, purely technical, mainly worried about fraud, we are all new technologies that have been tested in practice, no matter how he thinks or asks, I am not false. Zhong Bai replied confidently.
"Well, that's good." Lu Xudong thought for a while and asked, "What about how many of us?" How can I help you in this process? ”
Zhong Baixin said that others review the information and ask me questions, how can you help?
Originally, this kind of individual patent only required the patent inventor himself to come with the information, and it was not the hall to study and study, so many people came to follow......
Of course, Zhong Bai is here, it's good for Zhong Bai to spit out in his heart, and he still gave Lu Xudong science popularization by the way: "Several leaders don't have to do anything specifically, if they ask certain questions, I think when the leaders need to confirm it, I will take the initiative to bring it up, and I don't have to speak at other times, because the less you speak, the fewer loopholes." ”
"yes, I see." Lu Xudong still didn't know the truth of "if you say too much, you will lose", he immediately understood, and whispered to several directors next to him, and then gave Zhong Bai a thumbs up, meaning that everyone is ready, and the other party can start.
Zhong Bai looked at Bridget with a serious face, nodded and said, "Let's start the on-site audit process." ”
Alden nodded slightly, stood up with Bridget and said to Lu Xudong: "Then we will not participate in the specific on-site audit process, and then the work will be handed over to the two engineers, Grom and Johansen." ”
After saying that, the two left the conference room, and the audit began!
As soon as the words fell, the two engineers, Grom and Johansen, who had just been sitting in a precarious position, made a move as fast as lightning, and immediately dragged the information in front of him and opened it, while looking at it and asking the translator next to him.
Although the patent application material for lowering the low water temperature is written in Chinese, in addition to the initial theoretical discussion, most of them are common elements in industrial patent application materials such as drawings, formulas, and tables with data, which do not need to be understood by translation experts, but the only thing that needs to be translated is naturally the previous theoretical discussion.
And this part is also what the two experts are most concerned about after receiving the notice from the Swiss Patent Office asking them to come for review, that is......
Could it be that a new technology patent that has just been launched and can easily increase the production efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer by 20% is really the work of Chinese people in the East?
Isn't it RB people? Obviously, RB people are more suitable for inventing this! They are so smart, the economy has developed rapidly since World War II, and they have become the world's second largest economy, and even MD is shouting in terms of science and technology, how could it be invented by the Chinese?
So these two experts are wearing magnifying glasses to look at almost every text on the data, trying to see if there are traces of RB text from it.
But to their disappointment, these dozens of pages of information are all in Chinese characters, and there is not even a single RB character of katakana and Hiragana?