Coquettish Rebirth

"Didn't you find out that a few key designs were missing and no patents were applied for?" Jia Hongjian asked incredulously, he couldn't believe what was happening before him, your sister, this is Andy Rubin, history The person who developed Android for Google on the Internet!Such a person does not know that such a thing as gesture operation needs to apply for a patent?Don't you know what to apply for a patent in the process of developing software?Why does your sister want a big boss like him to come and remind him?In the end, who knew that Andy Rubin and the others looked at Jia Hongjian in confusion, as if they really didn't know which key designs were missing and did not apply for a patent!At this time, Jia Hongjian really thought it was all funny, okay?He was all laughed out of anger!

Is this your sister or Andy Rubin?Isn't this your sister's second idiot?What a non-professional like Jia Hongjian can see, but a group of professionals can't see it?Are you guys playing dumb or are you really stupid?If you're pretending to be stupid, it's not April Fool's day. If you're really stupid, how the hell did you develop the new Android system?At that time, Jia Hongjian really couldn't stand it anymore, okay? "Didn't you guys find out that there are no patents for gesture operations and other things? Do you guys want to wait for our competitors to apply for a patent for such a thing to restrict our company? I especially I'm convinced you guys, didn't you f*ck take money from your competitors to play with me? Do you f*ck want to do it?" At that time, Jia Hongjian was so angry that he uttered obscenities!

But after Jia Hongjian sweared like that, he saw that Andy Rubin and his gang panicked, and then asked him with shock, surprise and ignorance: "Boss? Gesture operation can also apply for a patent? Aren’t these things very intuitive? This is something a human can do, right?” Damn it!At that time, if Jia Hongjian hadn't looked at a group of people like them so realistically, he would have been a film king, he would have almost smashed them on the head with an ashtray from the meeting room!But because they really looked like they didn't understand, Jia Hongjian suppressed his anger all of a sudden, and thought about whether there was any cultural barrier here.Could it be that Americans just don't understand these things?No way, a company like Microsoft has even applied for a patent for such a thing as the abbreviation of the company commander's file name. Is this something your sister can do?As a result, Microsoft has relied on such a thing for more than ten years!They just use such a thing to get a share from the sphone mobile phones that Huaxia Hi-Tech will sell in the future!People are so powerful!

How can Microsoft do it, but Andy Rubin and the others can't do it?Suddenly Jia Hongjian remembered that Andy Rubin had worked in both Apple and Microsoft!So such an Andy Rubin should know the way of doing things in Apple and Microsoft, right?So he suppressed the previous matter first, and first asked how Apple and Microsoft do it! "Andy, well, tell me how Microsoft and Apple apply for patents? When you were in Apple and Microsoft, how did they apply for every patentable thing in the software and hardware you developed? Patented?" After Jia Hongjian asked, Andy Rubin quickly thought about it.

Then he replied, "In Apple and Microsoft, especially in Microsoft, there are special people who do these things. Generally, my position is a software engineer or a hardware engineer, so the research I do Just work with our own team and it’s over. We don’t care about whether we apply for a patent or not. But in our team, they will specially assign one or two engineers who are familiar with this field and have experience in this field. These engineers will develop our The things that come out are specially used to chat with lawyers to see which things can be taken out to apply for patents... So we ordinary developers don't care about these things at all. In our Huaxia Hi-Tech, we are the developers themselves who estimate what can be patented. I applied for a patent, and then reported it to the company...I also made a report before saying that I needed a few experienced engineers and then talked to a lawyer, but I don't know why they didn't agree..."

... After hearing this, Jia Hongjian was stunned for a moment.What?Microsoft and Apple are equipped with special personnel?In every small team, there are one or two people who do such a thing?At that time, Jia Hongjian knew why Holmes Company did not agree to such a thing!Because a small team only finds one or two "cookies" people, the whole company will have at least one or two hundred more people to eat, okay?These wages are not money, are they?Even if one person has an annual salary of 200 U.S. dollars, such a hundred people would still be worth 10 million U.S. dollars!Isn't this money money?After thinking about this, Jia Hongjian couldn't help but asked Andy Rubin, "Then you developers don't think that gesture operation can be patented?"

Then Andy Rubin shrugged his shoulders innocently, "Boss, we really don't know... In the eyes of our team, the name of gesture operation is loud, but it really means double-tap to zoom in." ? Isn’t it very intuitive and there are corresponding operations? If these can apply for patents, then can the operation of the mouse on the desktop be patented? But there is no patent for the mouse…” Eh!Damn, at such a time, Jia Hongjian really felt like he had discovered a big problem!In many cases, these developers may really be a bit of a "technical geek". They may only be very good in their field of expertise, but they may be completely different from "normal people" in other aspects.Or to put it more friendly, it may be that what a businessman like Jia Hongjian thinks can be patented, but in the eyes of these engineers, it is obvious that everyone can do it, and it should not be patentable!

So in such a situation, if such a patent application is really handed over to Andy Rubin and his team to do it themselves, they are not from the law, and they are not in the patent industry. How do you know what is patentable and what is not?How do they know what is useless after they apply for a patent, but can prevent competitors from disgusting themselves after applying for such a patent?That's right!Sometimes it may really be "only because of being in this mountain"!Sometimes it may be because the authorities are obsessed with bystanders!A non-developer businessman like Jia Hongjian may easily think of the use of patenting something!In particular, he is still a reborn, knowing what is useful to competitors, so it can be quite disgusting to apply for it himself.But Andy Rubin and the others are not reborn, they don't know what is important and what is not!Perhaps in their view, the most important thing about such a new Android system is the overall underlying architecture, not the layer of skin that is shown to consumers on the surface!

Knowing such a situation, what should Jia Hongjian do?Should he continue training Andy Rubin and the others?it's useless!After training Andy Rubin and others, they still don’t know what should be patented and what should not be. These people are like robots. Don’t put tasks beyond their capabilities on them!So what should really be done is to recruit a few patent legal specialists or lawyers in the company, and then recruit a group of "cooked rice" technicians.These technicians may not work all day, just thinking about what can be patented!After thinking about this, Jia Hongjian temporarily suspended such a meeting, and he directly called the law firm that outsourced Sherlock Holmes' legal business in North America, and asked the other party to send a lawyer who is particularly good at patent law. come over.

...Half an hour later, such a lawyer hurriedly appeared in front of Jia Hongjian and Andy Rubin. "Hello, Mr. Jia. My name is Mick Barton. I heard that you have something to call for me? What can I do for you?" After shaking hands with such a Mr. Barton, Jia Hongjian immediately sat down and asked, "I I found out that our company’s engineering team forgot to apply for several important patents. I would like to ask how to solve such a problem. Do I have to recruit some hard-working guys like Microsoft to help me find out what is worth applying for? Is it worth applying for?" After he asked this question, Patton suddenly smiled, "Sir, you are asking the right person, and I am dissatisfied with you saying that I used to represent Apple in dealing with their patents in other firms. affairs. Well, let’s not talk about it, let’s talk directly about our company’s affairs. To be honest, applying for a software patent is not an easy task, and it is far beyond the scope of efforts, work and capabilities of engineers. Seriously, they They don’t study law and don’t specialize in patent law, how can they do it perfectly? If they do it perfectly, wouldn’t people like me have nothing to eat?”

Well, this Barton had a bit of a cheeky smile when he spoke, and the content of his words was a bit off-putting, but I have to say that what he said still made sense.Then, after a pause, Button continued to talk eloquently: "Seriously, engineers, programmers, they are all robots—sorry, no offense. What I said is that their heads are Do you understand the straight line, they are not as quick-thinking as businessmen and our lawyers. In their thinking, 1 is 1, even if a little decoration is added to 1 and slightly modified, then the essence of such a new thing is still 1. But In the eyes of lawyers and businessmen, especially successful lawyers like me and successful businessmen like you, Mr. Jia, we all know that this is a different thing, this is not 1!

Even if its essence is 1, but the packaging is different, it is a different thing, right?So in the same way, a program in this... oh, Mr. Andy Rubin, he can use several different methods to implement it at any time, and in his eyes, these different methods are the same thing , are all choices made to achieve such a goal.It’s like he wants to go from Los Angeles to New York, no matter whether he drives, takes a train or takes a plane, it’s all to get to New York. In his opinion, there is no difference, but in the eyes of us professionals, the way to achieve it is different, then Probably a different patent!Although there may be disputes in court, it is indeed possible to become different patents! "

"So, to put it bluntly about software, if it is based on the standards of a businessman like you and a lawyer like me... Oh, yes, Mr. Andy Rubin and their team can produce a hundred or even There is no problem with one thousand and 1 patents! It’s just that these patents are some very boring things. It may be possible to pass the patent review and become a new patent with a slight change in the way of expression... This is in They don't seem to understand it at all. From our point of view, this is understandable. And because of such a difference in cognition, many things that they take for granted are very important things in our eyes! So Explain that you should understand, right?

Having said that, if you want to let them know about applying for a patent, you don’t have to use the wasteful method of sending a special person. We also have another way to let them know what is good for the company to apply for a patent, that is, by Our professional patent lawyers come to train them, let them know that even a long file name abbreviated by Microsoft can become a patent and help Microsoft kill the Quartet and charge an unknown amount of patent licensing fees, let them understand a A gizmo they thought was insignificant could be very important to the company they work for! "

"By the way," Barton said suddenly at this time, "But according to my personal suggestion, it's better for your company to retain some redundant engineers, because when the time comes to file a lawsuit, it is absolutely necessary to have engineers to cooperate with lawyers." To file a lawsuit, and to apply for a patent also requires specialized engineers to cooperate. Generally, for technology companies that are in a high-growth period, they do not have the resources to fight legal battles, and they may also pay a high opportunity cost. Because It will cost huge sums of money to hire lawyers, but also allocate extremely valuable engineer resources to assist lawyers in writing software patents that can be applied for in a reasonable and standardized manner. However, since your company has become bigger now, I think that some redundancy can be tolerated. Is there any other staff?" r1152