Chapter 208: Internationalization of patents

The correct posture of training artificial intelligence is to accumulate negative emotions?
Lu Zhou was surprised at this unexpected discovery.
However, through continuous experiments, he finally found out that it was just an empty joy.
There is no relationship between the growth of the progress bar and the negative emotions. As long as he speaks with Xiao Ai, the progress bar can grow by a small margin.
Of course, relying on the accumulation of this progress bar, I am afraid that I have to wait for the monkey year to go.
The big head of the accumulation progress bar still has to rely on Xiao Ai to actively collect data and analyze the logical and emotional elements. For example, add a few groups to observe in secret, such as crawling some data from the forum and slowly digesting it.
Although Lu Zhou doesn't know what this rigorous analysis work has to do with emoticons, but considering Xiao Ai's enthusiasm for emoticons, should it still help a little?
Anyway, it is not so easy to toss light with hundreds of terabytes of solid state, and Lu Zhou will go by it.
After moving to the rented house, Lu Zhou either tinkered with the server every day or went to arxiv to see if there were any new articles, or to research the latest developments in the mathematical theory on Goldbach's conjecture, occasionally bullying Xiao Ai, Life is quite comfortable.
Just three days before he was going to the United States, another good news came.
The agent in charge of assisting him in the patent process called and told him that the patent documents had come down, allowing him time to go to the office and get the certificate.
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"... both books are here. Check if you have any problems."
Han Tianyu, the patent agent in charge of his case, handed the certificates to Lu Zhou.
Looking at the two books in his hand, Lu Zhou asked in amazement: "Is it so fast?"
To be honest, when he received that call, he was very surprised.
According to his knowledge of patent law, the examination and approval process for invention patent applications includes five stages: acceptance, preliminary examination, publication, substantive examination, and authorization, ranging from half a year to more than one year if it is slow.
Getting the patent certificate so quickly can be said to be quite fast.
Hearing Lu Zhou ’s doubts, Han Tianyu smiled and said, "Recently, the National Intellectual Property Office has loosened the patent approval process, and it may be that the indicators of invention patents there have not been completed. It is good for year-end data A batch of raids were reviewed at the end of the year, and basically there were no major problems. "
Lu Zhou: ...
Well, it looks like the end of this year, everyone is not easy.
Two patent documents, one is about the improvement of pdms material, and the other is about the application of improved pdms material in the anode material.
The core difficulties of the entire technology are in these two parts. In fact, Lu Zhou can decompose the two patents in more detail, but considering the limited budget, these operations should be considered after a dedicated patent management team is established in the future.
Holding two patent certificates, Lu Zhou carefully turned over and confirmed that the official seal was complete. Information such as the patent number, the name 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 himself should have eliminated this technology.
After closing the book, Lu Zhou looked at Han Tianyu and asked, "Is this patent document valid abroad?"
As a practising patent agent, Han Tianyu responded very skillfully: "Only useful in China, the internationalization of patents requires a separate application. The main way at present is to submit applications for patents to enter contracting states through the Paris Convention or the PCT Treaty. . "
"Depending on the country of application, there are different standards for fees. I have a price list here. You can see it."
After receiving the price list, Lu Zhou glanced roughly. Although he was not scared, he secretly murmured.
This stuff is really not cheap.
The United States charges 20,000, the European Union 50,000 ... even South Korea, which has a big slap, needs to be priced at 19,000.
Applying for all the ten major countries, it looks like 400,000.
Two patents, almost 800,000!
Fortunately, the unit of this price is Renminbi. If it is exchanged for US dollars, he really cannot afford to apply.
Seeing Lu Zhou not talking for a long time, Han Tianyu asked, "Which one do you plan to apply for?"
Lu Zhou put the price list on the table and said with pain in his heart.
"I've applied for everything on this list."
Although a more common operation is to wait for the patent authorization to withdraw some funds, and then use the "priority" regulations in the PCT Contracting States to apply for a replacement 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 froze, "... have applied all?"
Lu Zhou nodded: "Is there anything wrong?"
"No, no problem!"
Make sure that you didn't hear it wrong. The smile on Han Tianyu's face is as brilliant as a blooming sunflower, and his eyes are different when he looks at Lu Zhou.
A big case of 800,000!
The commission of this case alone ~ EbookFREE.me ~ can catch up to his one-year salary!
The tyrant is indeed a tyrant, and his thinking mode is different from that of ordinary people!
Not to mention individuals. Some companies came to them to apply for internationalization of patents. The response to this price was basically "Nima's patent is so expensive?" Smaller companies simply did not apply. Play directly as "trade secrets". When the patent problem was to die or to live, I regretted it and remembered to apply.
Otherwise, the local and central government will not take out so much money every year, and engage in patent subsidies to coax those "innovative enterprises" to register patents.
Generous clients like this are rare.
After taking the landing boat 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 often contact you in the future. If you still have a patent to apply for, please contact me!"
Intuition as a patent agent told him that there are still many opportunities for future cooperation.
"Let's talk about the future, please help me handle this case first," Lu Zhou smiled, and asked casually, "Yes, apply for this all, how long do you wait?"
Han Tianyu said affirmatively: "Last June next year! I will give you a satisfactory result!"
Next June, he will probably be in Princeton.
After the patent documents come down, he won't have to worry about money.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhou, who had previously felt pain due to the substantial shrinkage of assets, did not hurt immediately, but smiled happily.
"Then I'll wait for your good news."
"Okay, you go slowly!"
Han Tianyu laughed more warmly than he and politely sent him out of the door.
He didn't leave until he got in the car.