Chapter 209 Internationalization of Patents

The correct posture for training artificial intelligence is to accumulate negative emotions?

Lu Zhou was surprised by this unexpected discovery.

However, through continuous experiments, he finally discovered that it turned out to be nothing but joy.

The growth of the progress bar has nothing to do with negative emotions. As long as he talks to Xiao Ai, the progress bar can increase by a small margin.

Of course, relying on the accumulation of this progress bar, if you want to advance, you may have to wait until the year of the monkey.

The bulk of the accumulation progress bar still has to rely on Xiao Ai to actively collect data and analyze the logic and emotional elements in it. For example, add a few groups to observe secretly, such as crawling some data from the forum and slowly digesting it.

Although Lu Zhou didn't know the direct relationship between this rigorous analysis work and emojis, but since Xiao Ai is so keen on emojis, it should be of some help?

Anyway, it is not so easy to toss light with a solid state of several hundred terabytes, so Lu Zhou just let it go.

After moving to the rented house, Lu Zhou either fiddled with the server every day, or went to Arxiv to see if there were any new articles, or studied the latest developments in the number theory world about Goldbach's conjecture, and occasionally bullied Xiao Ai. Life is still quite comfortable.

Just three days before he was going to the United States, another piece of good news came.

The agent in charge of handling the patent for him called him and told him that the patent document had been issued, and asked him to take time to go to the office and get the certificate.

...

"...Both books are here, please check if there is any problem."

Skillfully dug out the two patent certificates from the desk, and the patent attorney Han Tianyu who was in charge of his case handed the certificates to Lu Zhou.

Looking at the two notebooks in his hand, Lu Zhou was a little surprised and asked, "Is it so fast?"

To be honest, when he received that call, he was very surprised.

According to his understanding of the patent law, the examination and approval process for an invention patent application includes five stages: acceptance, preliminary examination, publication, substantive examination, and authorization.

It can be said that it is quite fast to get the patent certificate so quickly.

Hearing Lu Zhou's question, Han Tianyu smiled and said, "Recently, the State Intellectual Property Bureau has been very relaxed about patent approval, and it may be that the quota for invention patents there has not been completed. It is better to make the year-end data more attractive. , just in time for a surprise review at the end of the year, basically all the ones with no major problems have been passed.”

Lu Zhou: ...

Well, it seems that the end of the year is coming, and everyone is having a hard time.

Two patent documents, one is about improving PDMS materials, and the other is about improving the application of PDMS materials in negative electrode materials.

The core difficulty of the whole technology lies in these two parts. In fact, Lu Zhou can dismantle these two patents in more detail, but considering the limited budget, these operations should be considered after the establishment of a dedicated patent management team.

Holding the two patent certificates, Lu Zhou carefully flipped through them to confirm that the official seals were complete, and the patent number, the name and title of the patentee, and the scope of protection of the rights were clearly written.

In addition, because it is an invention patent, the validity period of the patent is twenty years.

As for 20 years later, even if the market has not eliminated this technology, Lu Zhou should have eliminated this technology himself.

After closing the notebook, Lu Zhou looked at Han Tianyu and asked, "Is this patent document valid abroad?"

As a practicing patent attorney, Han Tianyu answered skillfully: "It is only useful in China, and the internationalization of patents needs to be applied separately. At present, the main way is to submit the application for the patent to enter the contracting state through the Paris Convention or the PCT treaty. .”

"Depending on the application country, there are different charges. I have a price list here, you can take a look."

After receiving the price list, Lu Zhou glanced at it roughly. Although he was not frightened, he was secretly dumbfounded.

This thing is really not cheap.

The United States charges 20,000 yuan, the EU 50,000 yuan... even South Korea, which is a little bigger than the palm, needs 19,000 yuan to do it.

Applying for all these ten or so major countries, the cost is about 400,000 yuan.

Two patents cost almost 800,000 yuan!

Fortunately, the unit of the price is RMB. If it is converted into US dollars, he really can't afford it.

Seeing that Lu Zhou didn't speak for a long time, Han Tianyu asked, "Which one are you going to apply for?"

Lu Zhou put the price list on the table, endured the pain in his heart and said.

"Everyone on this list should apply."

Although there is a more common operation is to wait for a part of the funds to be withdrawn from the patent authorization, and then use the "priority" regulations in the PCT contracting states to apply for a supplementary ticket in the target country. But in order not to leave hidden dangers, it is better to do it all at once.

After all, Lu Zhou's expectations for this technology are still very high.

Han Tianyu was stunned for a moment: "...all applications?"

Lu Zhou nodded: "Is there any problem?"

"No, no, no problem!"

Confirming that he heard correctly, the smile on Han Tianyu's face was as bright as a blooming sunflower, even the way he looked at Lu Zhou was different.

A big case worth 800,000 yuan!

The commission of this case alone can catch up with his salary for a year!

Local tyrants are worthy of being local tyrants, but their way of thinking is different from that of ordinary people!

Let alone individuals, some companies came to them to apply for international patents. The reaction to seeing the price was basically "how expensive is a broken patent?", and smaller companies simply did not apply. Just treat it as a "commercial secret". It was only after being trapped by the patent problem that he would die or live, that he regretted it and thought of applying for it.

Otherwise, the local government and the central government won't spend so much money every year to engage in patent subsidies and coax those "innovative enterprises" to register patents.

Such a generous client is really rare.

After taking Lu Zhou to the finance department to pay the money, and returning with the invoice, the agent's attitude became more and more enthusiastic.

Before leaving, he handed a business card to Lu Zhou and said with a smile, "We will keep in touch in the future. If you still have patents to apply for, please contact me!"

As a patent attorney, his intuition told him that there are still many opportunities for cooperation in the future.

"I'll talk about it later, you can help me finish this case first," Lu Zhou smiled, and asked casually, "By the way, how long will it take to apply for all of this?"

Han Tianyu said in a positive tone: "Next year at the latest in June! I will definitely give you a satisfactory result!"

He will probably be in Princeton next June.

When the patent documents come down, he won't have to worry about money.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou, who had previously felt heartache because of the sharp shrinkage of his assets, suddenly felt no pain, and instead smiled happily.

"Then I'll wait for your good news."

"Okay! Go slowly!"

Han Tianyu smiled more enthusiastically than him, and sent him out of the door politely.

He didn't leave until he got in the car.