About 8,000 years ago, the Guangyan Federation, which ruled the Guangyan Continent, began a protracted civil war over the depleting food resources. Member states are attacking each other, grabbing food and farmland, while also consuming a certain amount of population.

However, it backfired. Everyone became more and more angry, and finally it turned into an uncontrollable situation. The indiscriminate bombardment of the tenth-order magic forbidden spell turned most of the land on the continent into scorched earth, and it was no longer possible to cultivate, and many plants became extinct, including all kinds of grains and fruits.

Most of the member states of the Guangyan Federation died in the war, and some of them crossed the ocean and began their exile. In the end, there were only five principalities left on the Guangyan Continent that were originally powerful, but now they were also in a crippled state.

The five principalities knew that if they continued to fight, they would definitely end up together, so they began to negotiate an armistice. In the end, the Principality of Guangyao, whose strength was relatively intact, peacefully unified the continent and became the Guangyao Empire.

The remaining members of the royal family of the four countries gave up their meaningless territory, kept the last means of production, and continued to develop in the form of families. They are: the Sujili family in the north, the Yanhua family in the southeast, the Chongbang family in the far east coast, and the Merigian family in the west.

The capital of the Guangyao Empire is located in the center of the continent, and it originally wanted to change the name of the continent to Guangyao Continent. But later, some people advised the royal family that they should always remind themselves of the mission of guarding the mainland, fighting famine, and solving the people's livelihood, so they named the mainland as the salty famine, and it could not be renamed again until there was no more famine on the mainland.

As a result, the name of the salty continent has been used for 8,000 years.

After the salty continent was peacefully unified by the Guangyao Empire, there was still an undercurrent surging on the continent. In order to maintain the rule and prevent the civil war from happening, the imperial family began to plot the relative control of magic spells, and then control the power of magicians on the continent.

The four major magician families were even more happy to see this, and directly put forward the idea of magic spells as exclusive inventions, and jointly established an exclusive invention maintenance association to manage it full-time. At that time, there were not many magicians on the salty continent, so that the resolution was passed with little resistance.

At first, there were magicians who privately accepted apprentices to teach magic spells, but the exclusive invention and maintenance association, with the cooperation of the imperial family, was to deal with one if it was caught.

At the same time, the Cyberclos Wizard Academy came into being, and began to integrate the power of magicians on the continent. Coupled with the fact that the four major magician families strictly control the outflow of magic spells, until today, thousands of years later, the magicians of the people of the salty continent have reached the point where they have no high-level magic available if they don't go to Cyprus to study.

Originally, the Exclusive Invention Maintenance Association was only responsible for regulating the exclusive invention of magic spells. Later, however, the association began to provide patent registration and protection for some new inventions. With the backing of the imperial family and the four major magician families, this association has finally formed a relatively complete intellectual property protection system on the mainland after thousands of years of development.

After listening to Lena and Pei Pei tell this history word by word, Gangu Yu also has a further understanding of the salty continent. He looked at the door of the Exclusive Invention Maintenance Association in front of him, nodded, and led the second daughter in.

The Exclusive Invention Maintenance Association is located in the Imperial Capital, Shining City, and has chapters in several important towns in the Empire, including Cypros City.

When the three of them walked into the hall of the association, they saw that there were many people handling business here, which was slightly different from the situation that Gangu Yu imagined. How could this new invention come about so easily? According to his idea, this association should have been in a state of inactivity for three years for a long time.

"Do you need help?" asked a young woman in the uniform of the association, who was looking around after the three of them entered the door.

"Hello, we are here to register an exclusive invention. Gangu Yu said to her when he saw that this woman should be a staff member here.

"Register an exclusive invention?" the woman was slightly stunned, then pointed to the notice on the wall of the hall and said, "Please go over there first to learn about the relevant regulations, and then go directly to the No. 1 counter to go through the relevant procedures." ”

After hearing this, Gangu Yu thanked her, led the second daughter to the wall and read it carefully, and after a while, she showed a clear expression.

It turns out that not all proprietary inventions are protected. For example, new varieties of crops and their planting techniques cannot be exclusively enjoyed by one person or organization, and improved varieties such as grapes and regenerated rice grown by Ganguyu are naturally included in this list.

However, these can still be registered, and the name of the inventor or discoverer will go down in history. For these regulations, Gangu Yu is deeply convinced.

However, the large-scale breeding technology of a certain Warcraft can be registered as an exclusive invention, such as the Flame Dog of the Yanhua family, and the various water-based Warcraft breeding technologies of the Chongbang family. After all, if you want to domesticate these magical beasts, you also need to spend a lot of time, energy and even money to conduct preliminary research.

The stocking fabrics that Ganguyu wants to register belong to the exclusive invention of general synthetic materials, and the exclusive invention of general design and processing, such as pantyhose, can be registered.

However, none of these inventions were as over-regulated as magic spells. After registering an exclusive invention, as long as others have this ability, they can still make stockings and breed such and such magical beasts. It's just that you can't use these things for commercial gain.

That is, you make your own stockings or two to wear, and no one cares about you - as long as you make them. But if you want to mass-produce stockings for sale, you have to ask the owner of the exclusive invention if they agree.

If you want to raise a flaming dog to watch the door, or raise some low-level fish monsters for future snacks, no problem. If you hunt wild monsters for money, that's even fine. But if you want to breed these things on a large scale and sell them, in addition to seeing if you have the ability, you also have to confirm whether the breeding technology of this kind of magical beast has been registered as an exclusive invention.

If an improvement is made to an exclusive invention, the Proprietary Invention Maintenance Association has its own set of appraisal criteria to determine the ownership of the improved invention. In principle, small improvements will only leave the name of the improver, and the ownership of the exclusive invention will not change. Of course, this rarely happens.

If the improvement is a significant breakthrough, the improvement will be registered as a new invention. This is mostly the case when associations encounter the need for identification.

For these terms, it is not difficult to understand Ganguyu. However, when he saw the last few regulations, he finally knew what so many people in this hall were doing, and how this exclusive invention maintenance association was maintained.