After taking Lu Zhou to the finance department to pay the money, and coming back with the invoice, the agent's attitude became more and more enthusiastic.
After applying to all these ten major countries, it would cost almost 400,000 yuan.
After confirming that he had heard correctly, the smile on Han Tianyu's face was as bright as a blooming sunflower, and even the way he looked at Lu Zhou was different.
As a patent attorney, his intuition told him that there would be many opportunities for cooperation in the future.
He didn't leave until he got in the car.
It's rare to see such generous customers.
Seeing that Lu Zhou didn't speak for a long time, Han Tianyu asked, "Which one are you going to apply for?"
Just three days before he was going to the United States, another piece of good news came.
"Apply for everything on this list."
Of course, relying on the accumulation of this progress bar, if you want to advance, you may have to wait for a long time.
Although a more common operation is to wait for patent authorization to collect part of the funds, and then use the "priority" regulations in the PCT contracting countries to apply for a supplementary vote in the target country. But in order not to leave hidden dangers, it is better to do it all at once.
Hearing Lu Zhou's question, Han Tianyu smiled and said: "Recently, the State Intellectual Property Office has been very relaxed about patent approval, and it may be that the quota for invention patents there has not been met, in order to make the year-end data look better. , we conducted a surprise review at the end of the year, and basically all those with no major problems were passed."
The core difficulty of the entire technology lies in these two parts. In fact, Lu Zhou can dismantle these two patents in more detail, but considering the limited budget, it is better to wait until a dedicated patent management team is established to consider these tricks in the future.
"We'll talk about the rest later. Please help me handle this case first." Lu Zhou smiled and asked casually, "By the way, how long will it take to apply for all this?"
The rich are indeed rich, but their way of thinking is different from ordinary people!
The agent responsible for helping him handle the patent called and told him that the patent document had been received and asked him to take the time to go to the office and get the certificate.
"No, no, no problem!"
Well, it seems that the end of the year is not easy for everyone.
The commission from this case alone is as much as his salary for a year!
According to his understanding of the patent law, the approval process for invention patent applications includes five stages: acceptance, preliminary examination, publication, substantive examination and authorization, which can take at least half a year, or more than a year if it is slow.
As for 20 years later, even if the market does not eliminate this technology, Lu Zhou himself should eliminate this technology.
Two patent documents, one is about improving PDMS materials, and the other is about improving the application of PDMS materials in negative electrode materials.
The United States charges 20,000, the European Union 50,000... Even South Korea, which has a bigger hand, requires 19,000 to handle it.
Han Tianyu was stunned for a moment: "...Have you all applied?"
…
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 studied the latest developments in the number theory community about Goldbach's conjecture, and occasionally bullied Xiao Ai. Life was quite comfortable.
Lu Zhou put the price list on the table and said while enduring the pain in his heart.
The correct way to teach artificial intelligence is to accumulate negative emotions
He will probably be at Princeton next June.
After taking the price list, Lu Zhou glanced at it roughly. Although he was not frightened, he was secretly stunned.
It can be said that it is quite fast to get the patent certificate so quickly.
The growth of the progress bar has nothing to do with negative emotions. As long as he talks to Xiao Ai, the progress bar will grow slightly.
Skillfully, he pulled out the two patent certificates from his desk. Han Tianyu, the patent attorney in charge of his case, handed the certificates to Lu Zhou's hands.
After closing the notebook, Lu Zhou looked at Han Tianyu and asked, "Is this patent document valid abroad?"
Fortunately, the price was in RMB. If it were converted into US dollars, he really couldn't afford it.
Although Lu Zhou didn't know how this rigorous analysis work was directly related to emoticons, seeing as Xiao Ai was so keen on emoticons, he thought it might still be a little helpful
Before leaving, he handed a business card to Lu Zhou and said with a smile: "We will keep in touch in the future. If you still have patents to apply for, please be sure to contact me!"
Lu Zhou:…
This thing is really not cheap.
"... Both books are here, please check if there are any problems."
Anyway, it is not that easy to use hundreds of terabytes of solid-state light, so Lu Zhou just let it go.
In addition, because it is an invention patent, the patent is valid for twenty years.
Lu Zhou was immediately surprised by this unexpected discovery.
As a practicing patent attorney, Han Tianyu answered skillfully: "It is only useful domestically. The internationalization of the patent requires a separate application. The current main way is to submit an application for patent entry into a contracting country through the Paris Convention or the PCT Treaty. .”
Otherwise, the local and central governments would not spend so much money every year to provide patent subsidies and coax those "innovative enterprises" to register patents.
To be honest, when he received the call, he was very surprised.
After all, Lu Zhou's expectations for this technology are still very high.
When he thought of this, Lu Zhou, who had previously felt pain due to the sharp decline in his assets, suddenly no longer felt pain and instead smiled happily.
However, through constant experiments, he finally discovered that it was just an empty joy.
"Okay, okay! Walk slowly!"
Han Tianyu smiled more enthusiastically than him and politely sent him out the door.
Han Tianyu said in a positive tone: "No later than June next year! I will definitely give you a satisfactory result!"
When the patent documents come out, he won't have to worry about money.
A big case worth 800,000 yuan!
To accumulate the bulk of the progress bar, Xiao Ai still has to actively collect data and analyze the logical and emotional elements. For example, join a few groups to observe secretly, or crawl some data from the forum and digest it slowly.
Holding the two patent certificates, Lu Zhou flipped through them carefully to make sure that the official seals were complete and that information such as the patent number, the name of the patentee, and the scope of rights protection were all written clearly.
"Then I'll wait for your good news."
Looking at the two notebooks in his hand, Lu Zhou asked in surprise, "Is it so fast?"
"Depending on the country of application, there are different charging standards. I have a price list here, you can take a look."
Lu Zhou nodded: "Any questions?"
Two patents cost almost 800,000!
Not to mention individuals, some companies come to them to apply for international patents. When they see the price, their reaction is basically "How expensive is a broken patent?". Smaller companies simply don't apply. Just treat it as a "trade secret". Only when I was seriously deceived by the patent issue did I regret my mistake and thought of applying.