Coquettish Rebirth

Chapter [-] Patent Monster

In 1793, Thomas Jefferson defined a patent as "any new and useful technology, machinery, manufacturing process, or composition of objects, and any new and useful improvement of these things." This translated foreign language is actually Quite a mouthful. To put it bluntly, it means that patents have three important points-innovative, non-obvious, and useful.

The innovative and useful ones are easy to understand, so how to understand the non-obvious ones?For example, if you want to build a website, you must upload the webpage designed by the website to the server, then the uploading process is obvious, and you cannot apply for a patent.

The patent law in the United States is very cute. In the 1790s, a 20-year patent protection period was determined. This 20-year period may have seemed to be progressive to the times at the time. It could force monopoly groups to disclose patents limitedly, and at the same time, the government would be limited. guarantee their interest for 20 years, but after 20 years the public can use it for free.Therefore, in order to prevent the secret recipe from being used by others, Coca-Cola's recipe has not been patented so far.

At the same time, under the good intentions of the patent law, in addition to some people inventing patents and making money by licensing patents, a "group" nicknamed patent monsters has gradually emerged in these years.These groups either invent some patents themselves, or buy the patents of some small companies that are on the verge of bankruptcy. When other people's industries develop relatively large, these patent monsters suddenly attack, and cooperate with the American law with punitive compensation clauses Blow up a lot of money.

Why did Jia Hongjian want to go to the United States to register some patent scammers?Because the patent law in the United States is very strange, just like what Jia Hongjian said before, the patent law in the United States is not the same depending on the specific path to achieve the goal, but it is very likely that as long as the same goal can be achieved, it will be sentenced. Infringed the patent!

Let’s use the simplest example—the online shopping super site in the United States, Taobao in the United States——Amazon. After registration, the bound credit card number and other information are directly stored inside the website, so that as soon as the consumer logs in to the eBay webpage and sees a product, he only needs to click "Buy" to place an order and pay directly!

When the boss of Amazon got the patent, the American courts would not care about how others used different methods to achieve the effect of "one-click purchase". Included under Amazon's patents!Historically, Amazon has actually used this patent to sue competitors, but how did the court respond to the defendant’s explanation of “the same purpose but different methods”?The trial judge didn't even examine Amazon's specific method because she felt any other application would violate the patent.Therefore, even if a competitor independently develops its own "one-click purchase" solution, even if it is invented at the same time as Amazon, or even if it knows nothing about Amazon's method, the competitor will still be convicted of patent infringement.

There is also a case that can surprise the Chinese people - a company called e in the United States has registered a patent in the United States Patent Office with the content that "by allowing users to publish goods on the network platform, and at the same time set a limited-time auction or a fixed price sales model" patent.Then another company in the United States that is more like Taobao——ebay, was cheated by this patent. When they founded eBay, they didn’t find any similar websites on the Internet. Maybe they didn’t go to the patent office to search for patents.As a result, in 01, the viper of e's company came out. He not only sued eBay for infringement in the US court, demanding a large amount of compensation, but also asked the court to issue a permanent injunction—ebay is not allowed to use their patents for a lifetime!

As a result, although the judge was very sympathetic in the end, how much did e company spend in registering this patent?$[-] or so...

For such a fun and deceptive US patent market, how could a villain like Jia Hongjian miss it?Think about it, if he applied for a patent on the touch screen of a mobile phone, or even various patents for playing 3D games and office work on the mobile phone, he would sue Google, Motorola, Samsung, Nokia, and Apple all over the world, asking the court to ban the products of those companies from It was sold in the US market, and at the same time, those companies were required not to use Jia Hongjian's patents for the rest of their lives, and at the same time had to pay him a fine of hundreds of millions of dollars. How fun!

Jia Hongjian, who is sitting on the train now, has read the book on the US patent law and started to write down the patents he wants to register one by one in a small notebook! "Well, the capacitive touch screen should be fine. I don't know if anyone has applied for the resistive touch screen..." Jia Hongjian said to himself. The touch screen can be operated, and the resistive screen is the earliest touch screen that needs a plastic pen to operate.

"By the way, it seems that the prototype of the Internet search engine has just appeared these days, and Google has not yet been born... Or should I also register the patent of the search engine?" Jia Hongjian suddenly thought of a good idea at this time!Jia Hongjian has some ideas about search engines. It seems that the most commonly used search engines in later generations use a small program called a spider robot to continuously crawl around the Internet and automatically grab information from other websites. This forms a clue for search engines.If you find a few IT migrant workers, research this method, and then run around the world to register... Muhahahaha, what Google sister, what Baidu Bing, let me play with you!what else youtube?Streaming video embedded in a web page?Brother also snatched it for you!Looking back on youtube Youku and so on, I followed the Google girls and pissed and played with mud!

Well, that's right, Jia Hongjian is ready to become a more powerful patent villain than Qualcomm in the IT industry!Qualcomm has too many patents in the mobile phone chip industry, and many patents cannot be bypassed at all. For most mobile phone manufacturers, Qualcomm is just like their ancestors, how much they will pay Qualcomm to produce a mobile phone!And Jia Hongjian is going to do this. He is going to become Qualcomm in the Internet industry. Isn't it that first-class companies set the rules?He, Jia Hongjian, has registered and seized all the rules that are sure to succeed in the future. His Huaxia Hi-Tech is a first-class company?

But why didn't Jia Hongjian make money from this method of registering patents at the beginning?That's because registering a patent also costs money!Jia Hongjian is in China, and if he wants to register a patent in the United States, it does not mean that he can get it done by sending a letter. He must find a professional intermediary to help with this case, and the cost is basically between US$1 and US$2. between.And this is not the end. To register a patent, you can't register when you only have a concept. You must be able to make it yourself, or at least invent a complete process before you can register for a patent.

Jia Hongjian is not an IT coder, he really doesn't know how to program these things!So at the beginning, he was ready to do these things after he had the start-up funds.And while on the train, Jia Hongjian was very happy and remembered that a person he knew really knew how to program... Hey, even free IT migrant workers were delivered to the door!

In addition to those American companies, Jia Hongjian thought about it and planned to trick some Japanese manufacturers by the way—for example, he registered the game mode of "Three Kingdoms Warriors", and registered the game mode of the more awesome Japanese games that will be sold in the future. It's fucking patented, and I saw how these devils make games in the 21st century!They must be made to kneel and sing Conquer with Jia Hongjian!

After probably writing down all the things he wanted to register in the notebook, Jia Hongjian closed his eyes and began to rest.When he returned to Shanghai, he revealed that he found Ding Sanshi in the company.Ding Sanshi was looking at Jia Hongjian's previous sales promotion cases and wondered what he was thinking, "Sanshi, are you busy?" Jia Hongjian asked Ding Sanshi the most difficult question to answer.

"Not busy...busy...do you have something to do?" Ding Sanshi changed his words twice and felt that no answer was right, so he could only ask in the end.He felt that if he was not busy according to the real situation, then the leader would think that he was doing foreign work. What if the leader gave him extra workload in the future?But if you say you are busy, shit, you still say you are busy when the leader comes to you?Don't want to talk about leadership?Is this boring?

"I remember you know how to program?" Jia Hongjian asked very straightforwardly. He vaguely remembered that when he was interviewing Ding Sanshi, this guy said that he liked programming the most when he was in college, and he was a software engineer in a software company. ?

"Yes, it will be a little while, what's the matter?" Ding Sanshi asked a little confused. Although Huaxia Hi-Tech has high-tech in its name, it actually doesn't have any high-tech content. It is basically doing marketing and selling health care. Goods.Why does Manager Jia Hongjian smell like he knows how to program?

"Just do it, come with me, and ask you to help me with some private work." Jia Hongjian laughed and pulled Ding Sanshi up.As soon as Ding Sanshi heard that he wanted to help the leader with his private work, he immediately became enthusiastic!This is assigned by the leader to do private work, so it proves to be the leader's personal work!This relationship is different!

"Help me program a web search software, probably to design a small automatic robot that will continuously crawl webpages on the Internet..." Jia Hongjian roughly described the principles of search engines such as Baidu and Google.But Ding Sanshi was a little strange at this time: "Manager, our country has not yet connected (reading the novel to the top)? There are no webpages in the country now, so it is useless to do this..."

"You can just do what you are asked to do. There are so many words!" Jia Hongjian put on an appearance of a leader and taught Ding Sanshi a lesson, "If you do all these private tasks well, I will double your experience points this year. At that time, you will be able to upgrade and get more money!" He slapped Ding Sanshi while stuffing a sweet date.

There will be one more chapter at 8 o'clock in the evening, ask for a monthly ticket~

[email protected]#