The great magician Ferguson was suddenly suffocated and looked slightly embarrassed.
The middle-aged magician was right. The so-called "magic patent" and even the entire concept of patents were proposed a few years ago by Xu Yi, the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, through the magician of the Lampali Kingdom. The union applied to the Magicians Guild Headquarters and was finally approved by the Magicians Guild Headquarters.
Since this concept was entirely proposed by Xu Yi, Xu Yi certainly has the most say in this matter.
Now the union headquarters claims that neither Xu Yi nor the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has relevant power. No wonder they are dissatisfied.
After a moment of silence, the great magician Ferguson coughed lightly and said seriously: "This concept was indeed first proposed by President Xu. But since this concept involves magic and magicians, it already falls under the jurisdiction of our magicians union. Category. And when President Xu originally proposed this concept, his original purpose was to use the power of the Magician Union to protect the patented concept he proposed, am I right? "
Xu Yi nodded lightly: "That's right. The reason why I hoped that the Magician's Guild would recognize the concept of patents was that I hoped to rely on the Magician's Guild's ability to protect patents, so that the research on magical machinery could have better results. room for development.”
"That's right." Seeing Xu Yi admitting this frankly, the great magician Ferguson breathed a sigh of relief. "Since President Xu himself recognized that our Magician's Union has this power, and took the initiative to hand over the qualification to exercise this power to our union headquarters, now he has to form a Magic Machinery Patent Protection Federation on his own, and Why?"
"Your Majesty the Great Magician Ferguson, you seem to have made a mistake." Xu Yi said with a smile.
"Oh? What's wrong?"
"I proposed the concept of patents to the Magicians Guild Headquarters. I really hope to protect the magic patent rights of us magicians through the power of the Magicians Guild. But you ignored one problem. While obtaining the protection of the patent from the Magicians Guild Headquarters, , We all paid the price. I don’t know about anything else. Our New Flying Chamber of Commerce alone paid more than an astonishing 140,000 gold coins in patent protection fees to the Magicians’ Union last year. A small amount of money…”
The great magician Ferguson snorted: "What? Let the union protect your patents, isn't it natural to spend some money?"
"Of course, of course it should be. I have never denied this." Xu Yi narrowed his eyes slightly and asked unceremoniously: "But, Great Magician Ferguson. You must understand one thing. We ask the magician The Magicians Guild pays patent protection fees because we believe in the Magicians Guild’s ability to protect our patent rights, so this is our proactive choice, not a necessity.”
"What do you mean by this?" Ferguson's expression changed. "Do you, the New Aviation Chamber of Commerce, want to break away from the patent protection of our Magicians' Union?"
"What I mean by this is that since we can choose to pay patent protection fees to the Magicians Guild in exchange for patent protection from the Magicians Guild. Then of course we can also choose not to pay this money..."
"Then you will lose the protection of your patent by the Magician's Union!" Great Magician Ferguson interrupted Xu Yi unceremoniously.
"Yes, that is indeed true. But this means that we have the ability to actively choose, instead of having to pay patent protection fees to the Magician's Union. Great Magician Ferguson, do you understand what I mean?" Xu Yidao.
"So you plan to prepare a magic machine patent protection association yourself, collect the patent protection fees yourself, and protect these patents yourself?" The great magician Ferguson sneered. "President Xu, do you think... your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is capable of doing this? I can tell you clearly that apart from our Magician Union, no other organization on the continent of Sainz can do this. a little!"
"I admit that what you said is correct at least for now. But..." Xu Yi stared at the great magician Ferguson, his eyes showing extremely sharp eyes. "Since the Magician's Guild Headquarters can no longer protect our patents, of course we can only rely on ourselves to find a solution. No matter how many difficulties we face, this is something that must be done."
Being stared at by Xu Yi, the great magician Ferguson involuntarily tilted his head slightly to avoid Xu Yi's gaze.
"President Xu, I don't understand what you mean. Why do you say that our Magician's Guild cannot protect your patents?"
"You really don't understand?" Xu Yi chuckled and nodded to the researchers sitting next to him.
The researchers stood up and walked out of the conference room together.
Just when the great magician Ferguson was wondering, not long after, they walked in again with two elves and three dwarves, and also brought in several household magic machines.
"President Xu, what are you doing?" Great Magician Ferguson couldn't help but ask.
Xu Yi did not answer, but just gestured to those people.
The middle-aged male researcher who had asked the Great Magician Ferguson a question before moved a magic fan in his hand to the table, pointed at it and said: "Your Excellency, the Great Magician, do you recognize this magic fan?"
The great magician Ferguson glanced at the magic fan inexplicably and shook his head.
"This magic fan is not the new Fei brand magic fan produced by our Chamber of Commerce, but was discovered from the Candela Empire." The middle-aged male researcher continued. "To put it simply, it is a magic fan designed and produced by another chamber of commerce whose name we do not know yet."
"What? Is this so strange? As far as I know, besides your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, there are dozens of chambers of commerce that can produce magic fans, right?" said the great magician Ferguson.
"That's right. But except for our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, other chambers of commerce who want to produce magic fans must obtain relevant patent authorization from our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, otherwise they will violate the patent protection regulations of the Magicians Union. This You should be clear about this, right?" the middle-aged male researcher asked.
"Yeah. That's it..." The great magician Ferguson glanced at the magic fan again, feeling an unknown feeling in his heart.
The middle-aged male researcher pointed to the base part of the magic fan and continued: "All business taxes authorized by our patents. Our chamber of commerce has notes. But this magic fan does not have any of these patents authorized by any chamber of commerce. Brand logo, so I can be sure that this magic fan must have stolen the relevant patent of our chamber of commerce on the magic fan!”
The great magician Ferguson frowned: "How can you be sure of this?"
The middle-aged male researcher glanced at him, with a hint of contempt in his expression.
"Your Excellency, Great Magician Ferguson, you should surpass me in magic ability, but in terms of understanding of magic machinery, I am undoubtedly much better than you."
The great magician Ferguson was furious. This sentence clearly means that he, a layman, is not qualified to raise questions!
"Then what do you mean after you've been talking for a long time?" the great magician Ferguson said angrily.
"Don't you understand yet?" The middle-aged male researcher looked surprised. "Our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's patents have been so obviously infringed, and your Magician's Union has not only failed to study how to punish this. In order to protect our Chamber of Commerce's patents, even our Chamber of Commerce is now trying to use its own power to When it comes to protecting your own patents, you still have to forcefully stop it! Mr. Ferguson, can you tell me where did you use the patent protection fees that our Chamber of Commerce gave to the headquarters?”
The other party kept saying "you", which made the great magician Ferguson feel very unhappy.
This guy is obviously a ninth-level magician, but he has no sense of belonging to the Magician Guild. However, when he calls the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, he refers to "we". In the eyes of the great magician Ferguson, it really makes him a magician. The great magician, one of the members of the Elder Council of the Masters Guild, was very dissatisfied.
But the question asked by the other party was real, and he had to answer it.
After pondering for a moment. The Great Magician Ferguson said sternly: "As long as you report this matter to the union headquarters. Of course, the headquarters will conduct a thorough investigation and do its best to protect your patents. But this kind of matter cannot be solved in a day or two, it will take some time. . In addition, this has nothing to do with your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce’s private formation of the Magic Machinery Patent Protection Association. You cannot deny the union’s efforts in patent protection just because your patent has been infringed.”
"Work hard?" The middle-aged male researcher sneered. "Your Excellency Ferguson, when our chamber of commerce first discovered a similar situation and filed an application for patent protection with the union headquarters, it was already more than half a year ago. And during this six months, we found that the patents were infringed. It’s far more than just this case.”
The other researchers, the two elves, and the three dwarves all put their household magic machines on the table and began to introduce them.
Just like the situation described by the middle-aged male researcher just now, these household magic machines are not produced by other unknown chambers of commerce that have not obtained the patent authorization of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Naturally, they have infringed on the patent rights of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
"We pay a large amount of patent protection fees to the Magician Union every year, but we can't get corresponding protection from the union, so why should we trust the union? Why can't we find a way on our own?"
Facing the middle-aged male researcher's question, the great magician Ferguson remained silent for a moment, then turned to look at Xu Yi.
"President Xu, is this what you mean?"
Xu Yi shrugged: "From a business perspective, it's very simple. If you give me money but you don't work, then why should I pay you again?"
The great magician Ferguson looked at Xu Yi with a gloomy face: "So, you are not going to accept the resolution of the union headquarters? Have you thought clearly about the consequences of doing so?"
Xu Yi looked at him squarely: "The purpose of the Magician's Guild is to bring help to the magicians on the continent of Sainz and protect their interests. If it cannot do this and deprive the magicians of their rights, There is no need for the Magicians Guild to exist at all.”
The great magician Ferguson was startled, and then he laughed angrily.
"Okay! Okay! President Xu, if you do this, don't regret it!"
After that, he walked away. (To be continued...)