Zhu Jingyuan thought about his future goals, and then instinctively thought of the potential enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time he had to find a way to contain the enemy.

After Zhu Jingyuan waited for the atmosphere to drop down slightly, he went to ask Li Rui, the director of the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of Industry:

"Before the war began, did we have a patent agreement with the Taixi countries? Is it possible to have mutual recognition of patents or to grant priority to applications? ”

Li Rui shook his head as a matter of course:

"No, we mentioned it a few times at the beginning, but Xiyi has always been looking for reasons to shirk it, and there has never been substantive negotiations.

"Because they know very well that once they have mutual recognition of our Daming patents, they will not be able to copy our technology for free.

"When the war began, His Majesty also wrote this matter into the edict declaring war......"

Zhu Jingyuan now knows in his heart:

"Then we Ming people, can we go to the Taixi countries to register a company, can we directly apply for patents in their countries?"

This question made Li Rui obviously stunned, but he still subconsciously explained:

"There are many countries at the same level in Xiyi, so there are relatively mature norms and systems in the docking of affairs between countries.

"They didn't specifically exclude our Daming, so we Daming people can also register companies on their side and apply for patents in their countries.

"But here's the thing...... Is Your Highness going to Xiyi to apply for a patent...... Applying for a patent for a flying machine? ”

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and nodded:

"yes, I'm just going to go over there and apply for a patent."

At this moment, the surrounding craftsmen were stunned, and Wang Zhenyi was very incomprehensible and asked:

"Your Highness, you went to Taixi to apply for a patent, didn't you directly disclose our design ideas to those Xiyi?"

The original purpose of patents was to secure short-term exclusive benefits in exchange for long-term technology disclosure.

Therefore, the term of patent protection is up to 20 years, and theoretically cannot be extended.

When applying for a patent at the same time, you should clearly explain your design ideas in the explanatory documents submitted.

It is equivalent to disclosing to the public through the patent office, explaining how you designed this thing, so that others can learn to make it for reference.

Although there are policies and countermeasures, patent protection has been slowly integrated into patent barriers, but the original concept is like this.

That's why Wang Zhenyi asked this question.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't care at all, but explained with a smile:

"In today's aircraft, there are no particularly big technical difficulties, and only a few ideas are needed to succeed.

"Our biggest advantage over Xiyi in the aircraft is that the engine power density is slightly higher.

"According to the news I see every day, there are also people working on flying machines in Xiyi, and there are several groups of people.

"Now that the war is over, as long as our planes are being sold by the people, they will be able to secretly buy replicas.

"Rather than let this outcome, go to them and apply for a patent and be a patent troll over there."

Li Rui, Wang Zhenyi, and the craftsmen reacted immediately.

Rather than waiting for them to copy it themselves, it is better to go there and apply for a patent for relicensing.

The craftsmen understood this, but during the world war, which lasted for more than a decade, both sides completely ignored the enemy's patents in their own countries.

After more than ten years of habitual formation, I didn't change my thinking immediately after the truce, and it was useless to think about going to Taixi to apply for a patent.

As soon as Zhu Jingyuan mentioned it, everyone understood it, but the patent authorization is authorized, so what is the patent troll?

So Li Rui asked as a representative:

"Your Highness...... What is a patent troll? ”

Zhu Jingyuan was inexplicably happy when he thought of this thing:

"It's the excessive use of patents, and the application for all kinds of aircraft patents in various countries in Taixi, and then the licensing fees of the Taixi people.

"Stuck on the upper limit of their law, or the upper limit that the market can accept, and there is no way to reduce it.

"In this case, most of their manufacturers should not pay royalties, and there will definitely be many manufacturers who secretly produce.

"We're just going to let it go and just collect evidence in secret.

"After their products are launched, they will hire a group of smart lawyers from Tessie to fight infringement lawsuits against these manufacturers.

"We don't want to make much money in Tessie, the purpose is to bring the aviation industry manufacturers to the brink of bankruptcy and make the aircraft a niche machine in Tessie.

"Clamp down on the development of their aviation industry, and at the same time take away most of the profits of this industry.

"Without a civilian industry foundation, even if the military of Taixi countries develops, designs and produces on their own, the final cost of aircraft use will be much higher than ours.

"If the Tessie governments come forward and don't recognize or ignore our aircraft patents, that's why we're imposing sanctions and embargoes on them.

Of course, it can also be treated differently and divided into Western countries, which can also be used as a casus belli for the next war.

Or is it stuck at the critical point of good death, barely holding a breath of Taixi Airlines.

"Until we really prepare for war, we will kill the rest of the manufacturers again."

The scene suddenly fell silent, only the surrounding wind and the whining of airplanes in the sky still lingered in the ears of the confused people.

The craftsmen, whose thinking is relatively simple and pure, came into contact with His Royal Highness Jingyuan's unique way of thinking for the first time, and they were a little ...... I was shocked.

This series of operations, this is really rogue enough.

The term patent troll is really too apt.

And then everyone was very happy.

His Royal Highness Jingyuan holds the basic patent of the aircraft, and if he wants to do this in Daming, he can also toss the relevant manufacturers half-dead.

But His Royal Highness not only did not do this, but instead reduced the licensing fee as much as possible, and tried to find a way to promote the development of the industry.

Who is his own person and who is an outsider, His Highness is clearly distinguished.

Really...... It's interesting.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the silence around him, and suddenly asked with some doubts:

"What's wrong? Is my plan bad? Or do you think it's too bad? ”

The craftsmen suddenly came to their senses, and the scene immediately became lively.

"Yes, of course yes, great."

"Your Highness is really far-sighted, and the minister is ashamed!"

"Fundamentally restricting the opponent, this is a yang conspiracy!"

"Those Xiyi have been copying our things, so we should find a way to rectify them!"

"In the future, there will be similar technologies that can't be kept secret, and they will be dealt with like this."

"I set up a company in Taixi, and recruited local elite lawyers who admired my Daming to fight lawsuits with local manufacturers."

The craftsmen were all smiling, admiring and coming up with ideas at the same time, and the test site was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Zhu Jingyuan was also very happy.

In terms of the equipment of aircraft, the most ideal goal is, of course, that the Ming unilaterally has aircraft, while the enemy does not have them at all.

But this is obviously impossible.

The technical level of the Taixi countries, although it is a few to more than ten years behind the Ming Dynasty as a whole.

But this is not the post-scientific and technological revolution, or even the post-Cold War world, when the high technology of the superpowers made it impossible for small countries to understand.

It is still the era of the industrial revolution, and the barriers to entry and technical barriers to the industry are still very low.

Historically, the Wright brothers were just two bicycle mechanics before they invented the airplane......

Even the most "high-tech" technology is easy to imitate and catch up, which is why the Taixi countries can chase the Ming so tightly.

Historically, the United States and Germany, during the Second Industrial Revolution, directly surpassed Britain in many places.

After the Ming Dynasty lost the direct guidance of the traverser, if it wasn't for the large enough local base, it might even be impossible to maintain its absolute technical superiority like the British.

Now that the Tessie countries have a sufficient level of industrial technology, it is only a matter of time before they build the aircraft themselves.

Taking a step back, even if the other party really can't find the right route, it makes no sense for Zhu Jingyuan to keep the aircraft technology completely secret.

Because the difficulty of keeping a thing secret is roughly inversely proportional to the number of people in contact, the more people who know it, the more difficult it is to keep it secret.

If Zhu Jingyuan wants to cultivate the aviation atmosphere of the Ming people, it is impossible to limit the use of aircraft to a small number of people.

If you want to rely on aircraft to win, you can't rely on a few secretly trained pilots, and the results of that can be compared to Japan in World War II.

Before the maturity of guided weapons, all weapons must win by quantity, and they must rely on sufficient numbers to pile up the hit base.

The same is true of airplanes, until the end of World War II, air combat was a dense battle of large groups, a bit like the queue of shots in the era of smoothbore guns.

Historically, when the Americans surrounded and annihilated the Yamato fleet, the enemy had one battleship, the Yamato, as well as a cruiser and eight destroyers to escort it.

The Americans' own TF58 task force, in total, had eleven aircraft carriers, six battleships, 11 cruisers, more than 30 destroyers.

A total of 386 aircraft were sorted, and a total of 131 torpedoes, 150 250-pound bombs, 180 500-pound bombs, and 75 1000-pound bombs were dropped.

The final result sank 1 battleship Yamato, 1 light cruiser, 4 destroyers, and seriously damaged 1 destroyer.

Such an advantage against the sky finally allowed the enemy to run away with three destroyers.

This is still the result of the fact that the Yamato fleet has no aircraft carrier escort and no air force cover, which is basically the result of the unilateral encirclement of the United States.

So in the current era, it is necessary to have a sufficient air power base to ensure victory in a long-term and sustained air battle.

Secrecy is not possible with such a broad quantitative base.

Unless the power is so great that you suddenly come up with weapons that can change the situation of war, that is, those real "weapons of mass destruction", secrecy tactics do not make much sense.

The normal operation is to promote as much as possible in your own country, and at the same time limit the development of the industry in the potentially hostile country as much as possible.

The most typical solution is to go abroad as a patent troll, and then cooperate with economic sanctions and the threat of force......