Start from 1980

Chapter 407 Patent Tax

He is going to go to England.

Because now something called lithium cobalt oxide battery has been born in the inorganic chemistry laboratory of Oxford University. In fact, it was born in 1980, five years ago.

The inventor was named John B. Goodenough.

Although, in the next few years, lithium cobalt oxide batteries will appear in almost all mobile products in the world, but neither Oxford nor Goodenough has made a penny from it.

The reason is that Oxford University is not at all interested in this invention that is destined to change the world in the future.

When Goodenough applied for a patent to Oxford University, the latter thought it was just a simple scientific research achievement with little market application prospect, and even refused to apply for a patent for it!

And Goodenough himself has never been interested in business, but he feels that this achievement should be useful to business, and it is a pity to throw it in the laboratory.

So the copyright of this technology was resold at a very low price to the British Atomic Energy Research Centre, a government laboratory belonging to the British Atomic Energy Authority.

I originally planned to ask Tang Wanru to look at this thing last time, but I didn't remember it for a while.

As for the rapid industrialization of lithium cobalt oxide batteries in the 80s, this is because there is still an urgent problem to be solved: the negative electrode of the battery.

Long story short, it could explode, which is tricky anyway.

In addition, Sony, a giant in the electronics and electrical industry, also maintains a great interest in battery technology. Since the 80s, it has started research and development and layout, and has paid close attention to global trends.

There is no information showing when and from whom Sony obtained the lithium cobalt oxide technology, but it is certain that this technology that was shelved by the British is like a treasure in the foot pot chicken.

By 1991, Sony released the first commercial lithium-ion battery in human history.

After Sony launched lithium-ion batteries, Bell Labs, known as the strongest laboratory on the surface, also successfully won the patent for polymer lithium batteries.

For this patent, Bell Labs adopts the strategy of spreading the net regardless of who comes, and sells the patent on a global scale: first pay a licensing fee, and then take a percentage of the sales for each battery sold.

But Bell Labs did not say that there is a huge problem with this soft-packed polymer battery, that is, it will bulge when it is charged.

In the end, even Bell Labs said that this is the nature of the material, and there is no solution.

Later, it was able to make a huge splash in the field of new energy, which involved a key figure—Zeng Yuqun.

Only this boss solved the problem by improving the electrolyte formula, and happened to meet the popularity of mobile phones, MP3 players, and laptops, and became the world's largest supplier of polymer lithium batteries accounting for half of the market share.

As for the patent disputes in the lithium battery market, let’s put it this way, in 1993, when Goodenough and his team were concentrating on wandering in the fantasy ocean of material chemistry, a professor named Shige Okada came to his laboratory. human visiting scholars.

Then when the third cathode material for lithium-ion batteries was born, this guy named Shigeto Okada had been sending information back to Japan Benzene.

Later, the inventor, Mr. Goodenough, was deeply troubled by various patents.

Therefore, Su Chen intends to ask for leave to go to England, trying to get Mr. Goodenough under his command and bring him to Hong Kong.

So as not to be contained by the Yankees in the future.

In addition to Goodenough, another person also attracted his attention.

That is Lin Benjian.

who?
A genius engineer who rewrites the global chip manufacturing pattern!

The later immersion-type DUV lithography machine not only achieved ASML, but also TSMC, because the immersion-type patent belongs to TSMC, and ASML has to pay TSMC a patent fee for each unit sold.

At the same time, in order to prevent ASM, a Nordic comrade, from being transformed into an "excellent American talent" by the Americans in the future, he will start backing up the system.

We must find a way to grasp all the patents in our hands.

Another is that a "semiconductor agreement" will be introduced soon. According to the original time and space trajectory, the Yankees will start to make moves.

The first move is to block them, to form an EVU LLC alliance, and not to supply technology to Canon and Nikon.

Second, support the development of EUV lithography machines to defeat Nikon.

The third is to support a "obedient" enterprise, ASML in the Netherlands.

And ASML is very shrewd. It invites American companies to invest in shares, and promises to purchase more than 50% of its parts from the United States, thus completely defeating Canon and Nikon.

Then the Nordic comrades immediately fell and fell into the arms of the United States.

The United States has used the most advanced industrial system in the West to prop up the prosperity and development of ASML, and a generation of Nikon has been hidden in the dust of history since then.

Since then, AMSL has become "the hope of the whole village", and has been running wildly on the road to compete for the lithography machine, the night pearl of the semiconductor industry...

Su Chen must prevent this kind of thing from happening in advance.

Anyway, the patents of ASM are all in his hands now, so he has to find a way to move the industry to Hong Kong.

Then get the ghost engineer to Hong Kong.

Other places will either be pulled into the European Union in the future, or they will be pulled away by Yingjiang.

There are still too few people!
Su Chen rubbed his temples. After a while, isn't Tang Wanru still going to France?
Let her also start to work on the industrial relocation.

The poor girl hasn't had a good rest since she joined the company.

Su Chen planned to come one by one, otherwise he wouldn't be able to travel so many places by himself.

In addition to these two, he turned his attention to Qualcomm, a company that has not yet been born.

When it comes to Qualcomm, it will definitely talk about CDMA technology.

The digital wireless communication products and services developed, designed, manufactured and sold by Qualcomm are based on CDMA technology.

Qualcomm originally originated from an idea, an agreement, and an agreement. Dr. Irving Jacobs, the founder of Qualcomm, created Qualcomm with innovative ideas.

In July of this year, Qualcomm will be established.

Because Jacobs believes the technology could increase network capacity by a factor of forty, making wireless affordable for everyone.

But the current industry, which has invested millions of dollars in the research and development of TDMA technology, is unwilling to change the direction of research.

To briefly explain, the communication technology used by China Telecom is called CDMA, that of China Unicom is called WCDMA, and that of China Mobile is called TD-SCDMA.

The CDMA technology was developed by Qualcomm.

Then Qualcomm has a very powerful thing called "Qualcomm tax". The so-called Qualcomm tax means that no matter whether mobile phone manufacturers use Qualcomm chips or not, as long as your mobile phone still needs to connect to 2G, 3G and 4G networks.

Qualcomm has the right to charge you a patent licensing fee, and this fee is charged at about 4% of the retail price of the mobile phone, so that some mobile phone manufacturers complain: Even if you want to spend more workmanship and cost on the mobile phone case, it is equivalent to Therefore, it is necessary to pay more patent fees to Qualcomm.

For a 5000 yuan mobile phone, if calculated at 4%, the patent fee authorized by Qualcomm will be as high as 200 yuan. Correspondingly, the net profit margin of most mobile phone companies in China is below 3%.

As powerful as Apple, it has to lower its head in front of Qualcomm.

Back home, Su Chen said, "Girls, I'm going to Los Angeles, who wants to go with me?"

Why are you going to Los Angeles?

That is naturally to snipe Ivan Jacobs, don't wait for them to get Qualcomm out, and now go directly to induce them to engage in Qualcomm, and then buy out their technology, and then give them equity.

No matter what, Su Chen wants to control the board of directors and get the patent. If you leave in the future, you must keep the patent, or I will sue you!

"I'll go with you, Avril, do you want to go together?" Miranda asked.

Avril Lavigne frowned: "I won't go, I still have to finish my thesis."

"Then I won't go, I'll accompany you to write the paper." Miranda thought for a while, and said, "Otherwise, I'm afraid you won't be able to write it alone."

Avril shook her head: "It's okay, you and Su can go together, I can do it alone."

"Don't be stupid, I'll stay at home with you." Miranda said, "That's it!"

……

On the sixth day of the lunar new year, Su Chen boarded the plane to Los Angeles.

The distance is so far that it takes at least 6 hours to fly directly from Boston to Los Angeles.

It can be described as exhausting.

Although there are many beautiful stewardesses on the plane, Su Chen has no interest.

After a brief rest in Los Angeles, Su Chen is going to visit Alvin Jacobs...

(End of this chapter)