Chapter 113: Patent Turmoil
"That's right, Haozi. How is the organ manufacturing project progressing? Zhou Yunsheng asked.
"How do you care about this project, Professor Du Xianyu told me, there are already phased results. One of the most important core technologies is also about to make a breakthrough.
I haven't been to the biology lab yet, so let's visit it together when we have time. Li Hao replied.
"It's good there, and we've purchased a lot of advanced equipment." Zhou Yunsheng sighed, "It's my brother's daughter, my little niece Zhou Yuanyuan has had eye disease since she was a child, and she is now blind.
I was talking to my sister-in-law on the phone just now, and listening to her tone, with the current medical technology, Yuanyuan is not curable. I talked to her about our company's organ manufacturing program. Ask about the progress of this project now. Can Yuanyuan's disease be treated? ”
"So that's the case, you wait, I'll ask Professor Du. I don't know much about this specific question. ”
After Li Hao finished speaking, he notified Professor Du Xianyu through the cloud intelligence platform. Wait for him to have time to reply.
Professor Du is not busy now, and he directly answered Li Hao's question.
Li Hao pointed to the computer screen and Zhou Yunsheng and said, "Professor Du has replied, it is best to take your niece to the biological laboratory for testing to see if her physical condition can accept an organ transplant."
Professor Du expects that the scientific research will go smoothly and that the laboratory will produce human organs, and the results will be available within a year or two. ”
"That's the best, I'll call my sister-in-law later. Let her have time to bring Yuanyuan to our company. Zhou Yunsheng got the good news, she said happily.
"That's right, Yunsheng. The elevator was stuck on the fifth floor and I was just going up the stairs. You know what's wrong with this building. We need to know the potential safety hazards in advance and don't let the company's personnel have accidents. Li Hao thought of what he encountered when he returned to the company in the morning.
"I know this, no problem. On the fifth floor is a cultural media company, and they have already said hello yesterday. To transport a valuable object, it takes a few minutes. You drank too much yesterday and didn't know about it. Zhou Yunsheng simply explained the reason.
As they were talking, they heard a loud banging on the office door.
Zhou Yunsheng immediately got up and opened the door, she knew that this was not the arrival of the company's employees. Even if the employee is in a hurry to find her, he will not use this brutal method.
The door opened, and it was Han Xuan who walked in. She was looking around as she entered.
"It's normal in the house, what are you doing with the door closed?" She asked, a little confused.
Li Hao looked up at her and asked, "Han Xuan, look at you coming in such a hurry." Is there something wrong with the lawsuit between us and NetBenefit? ”
Han Xuan threw the document in his hand on the desk.
"I'm angry with my mother, it's about the patent of the iron-graphene battery. You don't have to worry about the matter, they have already confessed, and the court is adjusting. ”
Zhou Yunsheng took a glass of juice, handed it to Han Xuan, and comforted her: "Sister Xuanxuan, you dissipate your anger." What difficulties did you encounter in applying for a patent for iron-graphene battery technology? ”
Han Xuan took the juice and took a sip, she said: "There is no problem with the patent applied for in China, it is under review, with the cooperation of Tsinghua University, the patent certificate will come down soon."
In order to prevent people from preemptively registering patents, we register patents around the world at the same time as the publication of papers by Professor Pan Guofeng's team.
Other countries are going well and have been examined by the patent office. It's just that in the United States, it was said that our patent had been registered in advance and was not approved. ”
Zhou Yunsheng hurriedly asked: "What's going on, did someone leak the secret or did other scientific research teams develop this technology in advance." ”
Li Hao interjected next to him: "It is impossible to leak secrets, while Professor Pan Guofeng is experimenting, there are personnel sent by our company to help them, and at the same time they are carrying out confidentiality work. Absolutely no leaks. ”
The reason he was so sure was that Gouda had told him that the people he sent had found that some people in Professor Pan Guofeng's experimental team were secretly observing but not experimenting.
Li Hao also called Principal Tian Yuan to inquire, and finally learned that this kind of person is a field staff member of some departments, who see very valuable scientific and technological achievements and carry out some routine confidential work, which will not affect their scientific research cooperation.
Zhou Yunsheng asked tentatively: "That is, someone has mastered this technology in advance, and it is also our bad luck." Falling behind in the competition for scientific research. ”
Han Xuan put the cup heavily on the table, and she said angrily: "There is no leak and no one else has mastered this technology in advance, it is the patent law of the United States that is too disgusting." Feed a bunch of patent traffickers.
U.S. patent law does not require the filing of physical objects, only ideas are needed to register patents. This has led to some professional patent dealers engaging in patent squatting.
After graphene was developed, all the technologies and applications of graphene were preemptively registered by patent dealers.
Not to mention irongraphene, they registered every element according to the periodic table.
There are some patent fees to be paid to do so, but as long as a technology is developed, they can make a big profit. ”
Li Hao frowned and said, "This practice is really disgusting, can't you avoid the obstacles they have set up?" ”
Han Xuan shook her head and said: "This has formed an industrial chain, and the business of these patent dealers is very skilled. Learn every detail of U.S. patent law, which constitutes a patent barrier that has blocked all means of breakthrough. ”
Zhou Yunsheng asked worriedly: "Sister Xuanxuan, what will be the result of this." ”
"The consequences depend on your target market, and the patents for iron-graphene batteries in the United States are not in your own hands.
As long as iron-graphene batteries appear in the American market, they can always sue the court to ban them. It is also possible to file a huge claim for compensation in court. ”
Han Xuan paused and added: "You also know the judicial environment in the United States, if you don't pay a huge amount of legal fees, you will definitely lose if you ask a top international law firm to fight a lawsuit." ”
Zhou Yunsheng asked: "It's okay to be listed in my country, we don't want the American market." ”
Han Xuan nodded and said, "It's okay not to go to the American market." Patents in our country have been registered, and if they sue in our country, they will not be supported by the law. ”
Li Hao thought about it, and he immediately said: "This matter is not so simple, it's not just this kind of patent dealers who are involved. ”
He asked Han Xuan: "When you registered a patent, did any patent dealers contact you and ask for a high patent transfer fee?" ”
Han Xuan thought about it for a moment and said, "No, I still took the initiative to check it before I found out about this situation." ”
Li Hao pondered for a moment and said, "This is a problem, patent dealers are here to get high profits. Generally, they take the initiative to contact the applicant company. The patent dealers I met this time were not conventional, they were not simple patent dealers. ”