Traveling through 1980 to become a top student

Chapter 34

The patent application sent by Lin Jinglan to the Patent Office caused an uproar in the Patent Office.

It has only been half a year since the establishment of the Patent Office, and their current work has been to propose amendments to the Patent Law and the Implementing Rules of the Patent Law.

To this day, there are still very few universities and research institutes applying for patents, and private applicants like Lin Jinglan are really the first case.

Because there is no precedent to follow, the staff of the Patent Office have no idea how to accept Lin Jinglan's patent application.

Ordinary staff submitted it to the leader, but the leader looked at it and didn't know what to do. After thinking for a long time, he made a decision, "Contact the relevant experts to have a look. After all, we laymen can't understand whether this patent is valuable."

But here comes the question again, which expert should I contact?

The leader of the National Patent Office finally decided, "Just contact the professors at Tsinghua University." It is more convenient to be in Beijing, and the professors at Tsinghua University are also authoritative enough.

"We have to establish contact with professors in various fields as soon as possible. After all, more and more patent applications will be sent in in the future, and we must establish a review mechanism as soon as possible." The leader of the National Patent Office put this work on the agenda .

Professor Zhang from Tsinghua University and the people from the Patent Office held hands tightly.Professor Zhang said, "Sure, sure, if there are patents in the energy field that need to be reviewed in the future, you can send them directly to our institute."

"Thank you very much." The patent office said.

Professor Zhang said with a smile, "You are welcome, we will also gain inspiration and gain from reviewing and reading these patents."

After the people from the Patent Office left, Professor Zhang opened the sent patent application materials for a closer look.

Professor Zhang only glanced at it, and said in surprise, "Lin Jinglan?"

Professor Zhang muttered to himself, "Lin Jinglan...is this the same name? Or the same person?" He quickly turned to the contact information of the patent applicant and saw that it said Qingshan Middle School.

Professor Zhang smiled, "He's really alone."

Professor Zhang became even more curious about the patent application in his hand, and carefully read it line by line, getting more and more excited as he read it.

At the end, Professor Zhang stood up excitedly, "Energy-saving stove! Regardless of the specific design of this energy-saving stove, this development direction is definitely promising!"

"If energy-saving stoves can be promoted, how much coal can be saved with so many stoves in the country?"

Professor Zhang picked up Lin Jinglan's patent application and read it carefully, "This design is very reasonable...recycling the heat of waste hot water and the waste heat of flue gas..."

Professor Zhang carefully considered Lin Jinglan's patent for several days, and really didn't know what opinion to approve.

It's not that the patents Lin Jinglan applied for are worthless, it's just that the patents she applied for are so valuable!

If such a patent is authorized, if it really wants to promote it nationwide, will Lin Jinglan's approval be required for every use of Lin Jinglan's patent?Have to pay her patent royalties?

Professor Zhang had a headache thinking about it, and finally decided whether the patent should be passed or not, and he could not put it forward by himself.He explained the specific situation to the State Patent Office and let them make a decision.

After listening to Professor Zhang's words, the leaders of the National Patent Office fell silent for a while.

"I'm really grateful to Professor Zhang." The leader of the patent office said, "In this situation, we really need to have another meeting to discuss it."

Professor Zhang seems to have relieved a heavy burden from his shoulders, and he feels relaxed. He concentrates on scientific research, and really doesn't know how to solve these problems related to other aspects.

After the problem was solved, Professor Zhang was free to think about it. Last time he reviewed Lin Jinglan's thesis, this time he reviewed Lin Jinglan's patent. The Patent Office also said that this was the first private patent application they had received.

Professor Zhang is now very curious about Lin Jinglan. Through the papers and patents, it can be seen that Lin Jinglan has real talents and practical learning.

But Professor Zhang couldn't figure it out, where did a middle school teacher get this knowledge?

What surprised him even more was how did Lin Jinglan have such advanced patent awareness?The Patent Office had only been established for half a year, and Lin Jinglan applied for a patent even before he, a university professor, understood what a patent was.

"Little Gu, please report the progress of my research to me before, and try to write a patent." Professor Zhang said to his research institute.

Xiao Gu was taken aback, and looked at Professor Zhang blankly, "Patent?"

Professor Zhang understands, it seems that Xiao Gu still doesn't know what a patent is.But it's not his fault. Professor Zhang thought that he only came up with this concept after reviewing Lin Jinglan's patent, and then hurriedly did some homework on the patent.

Professor Zhang asked, "Go and find out how to apply for a patent, and then apply for one for your laboratory bench."

Xiao Gu nodded quickly.

Professor Zhang said, "Your previous research was good. I think it will be beneficial to apply for a patent to protect our research results."

Xiao Gu was very excited when he heard Professor Zhang's affirmation of his achievements, and replied repeatedly, "Okay, okay."

After making up a lot of homework, Xiao Gu wrote a patent application and presented it to Professor Zhang.

After reading Xiao Gu's patent application materials, Professor Zhang was dissatisfied in various ways.Professor Zhang naturally compared Xiao Gu's patent application with Lin Jinglan's, and found that in the one written by Xiao Gu, many problems were not clearly explained, and the format was also confusing.

After Professor Zhang pointed out one by one for Xiao Gu, Xiao Gu blushed and hurried back to revise.

Xiao Gu spent two days revising it day and night, and finally satisfied himself, and confidently presented it to Professor Zhang again.

Professor Zhang still frowned at Xiao Gu's patent application.He felt that Xiao Gu's writing was still not good enough, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

After pondering for a while, Professor Zhang nodded, "Yes, you can try it first."

Xiao Gu happily sent the patent application over.

It was already late at night, but the door of the dormitory kept opening and closing.

Lin Jinglan was woken up, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Gu Panpan covered his stomach and whispered, "Tummy trouble, I went to the toilet several times, woke you up?"

Lin Jinglan's eyes were sleepy, "What did you eat?"

Gu Panpan said, "I don't know, and it's not just me, there are three people in our dormitory, and they all went to the toilet several times."

Lin Jinglan suddenly became sober. Is this collective food poisoning?But she is also eating in the cafeteria, but she doesn't have any problems?
"Is it serious? Do you want to go to the hospital?" Lin Jinglan asked.

Gu Panpan said, "It's not serious, you can go to sleep."

Lin Jinglan fell asleep again in a daze, feeling the sound of doors opening and closing in her ears all the time in the middle of the night.

The next morning during self-study, Lin Jinglan was surprised to find that more than half of the students in the class had a stomachache last night.

One morning self-study, everyone was sharing what they ate yesterday, trying to find out the reason for their stomach upset.After discussing for a long time, a classmate suddenly asked, "Students who have stomach problems, did they all drink cold water from the well?"

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then said in a hurry, "Drink it!" "Could it be a problem with the water?" "Did you drink cold water if you didn't have a stomachache?"

In the end, everyone found that those who really had a stomachache drank the well water directly, and those who didn't drink the well water were fine.

When it was lunch time, Lin Jinglan found that the whole school was discussing the matter of drinking well water and having stomach problems. More than half of the students in the school were having stomach troubles.

The college entrance examination was approaching, and the teachers were also tense. Suddenly something like this happened, and everyone was extremely anxious. While buying medicine for the students to take, they strictly prohibited it—they must not drink unboiled water.

The limited water in the boiler room has been robbed even more. Now that they want to get water, they have to queue up before dawn, standing in a line and waiting for the boiling water to boil.

Lin Jinglan sighed, these days are really tormenting, drinking saliva has become a problem.Lin Jinglan thought about buying mineral water, but she found to her dismay that the country has only just started to produce mineral water, and has exported all the produced mineral water. There is no mineral water for sale on the market.

Lin Jinglan was suddenly called to the office by the principal, and she was surprised what was wrong with the principal. After all, since she insisted on applying for Tsinghua University, the principal has been quite indifferent to her.

"Jing Lan, what kind of energy-saving stove you designed can really save coal? Can the coal in our school be enough for cooking and boiling water?" the principal asked.

Lin Jinglan's eyes lit up, and she nodded quickly, "Yes! It's really possible."

Lin Jinglan knew in her heart that the principal had changed her mind probably because the students in the whole school had collective diarrhea because they drank the well water directly.

Seeing that Lin Jinglan's attitude was so positive, the principal also made up his mind and said, "Then reform it according to your method, and I'll contact you."

Lin Jinglan was overjoyed, and quickly smiled and said, "Thank you, principal."

The principal smiled wryly, "I can't help it, let's try."

The construction team for renovating the stove in the cafeteria came the next day. Lin Jinglan handed over the drawings to the leader Wang Gong, and explained her design plan in detail with Wang Gong.

When Wang Gong saw Lin Jinglan, he thought she was just helping to hand over the blueprints, but he was shocked when he found out that the blueprints were drawn by Lin Jinglan herself.

Wang Gong looked at Lin Jinglan. She was petite, but only as high as his shoulders, with a watery face that looked about sixteen or seventeen.

Wang Gong asked dumbfounded, "Here, did you draw this blueprint?"

Seeing Lin Jinglan nodding, Wang Gong still asked in disbelief, "Are you a student in this middle school? What grade are you in? Freshman year?"

Lin Jinglan was secretly delighted, and said with a smile, "I'm a senior in high school, and I'm already a repeat student."

When Wang Gong finally came to his senses, Lin Jinglan exchanged the design plan with Wang Gong in detail.

Lin Jinglan found that Wang Gong had a lot of experience, and many engineering problems were solved at one point. After the two communicated, both Lin Jinglan and Wang Gong heaved a sigh of relief.

Lin Jinglan was worried that the engineers who came here were not experienced enough or had poor comprehension ability. After all, the current engineers have no construction experience in building energy-saving stoves. This renovation project may be a bit challenging.

After Wang Gong learned that the drawings were drawn by Lin Jinglan, he kept beating drums in his heart. How could he draw any drawings at such a young age without even graduating from high school?
After seeing the blueprint, Wang Gong was relieved. He was surprised to find that the blueprint was both detailed and standard. Among all the blueprints he had seen, it was definitely one of the easiest to understand.

Although Wang Gong couldn't figure it out, why Lin Jinglan, a middle school student, could draw such a blueprint, and this energy-saving stove was something he had never heard of before.

But after Wang Gong understood the blueprint, he was very confident that he could transform such a thing.

Wang Gong was very excited. Being able to process such ingeniously designed things felt much more fulfilling than processing those ordinary stoves.

(End of this chapter)