Rebirth of the internet boss

Chapter 212 Patent Layout
Sydney, Australia.

"Mr. Li Feng, happy cooperation. From now on, these patents will be officially licensed to you!" Under the bright sunshine of Australia, Sullivan solemnly signed his name on the licensing agreement.

Although it is winter in Australia in June, the sun is still very good and the temperature is just right. Li Feng is also in a good mood.

Li Feng also signed the agreement very happily, "Dr. Sullivan, we have a happy cooperation, and in the future, Fengrui will continue to support your research work. I hope we can continue to maintain good cooperation in the future."

At this time, after Li Feng signed a license agreement with ARM, his second stop was the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry (CSIRO), Australia's largest national scientific research institution.

Sullivan is one of the Mesozoic leaders of CSIRO in the field of information and communication engineering, and has made many scientific research achievements, the most famous of which is a wireless fidelity technology, referred to as WiFi.

This is also the reason why Li Feng came here. He spent a total of 100 million US dollars to obtain the relevant patent authorization. In fact, Li Feng would rather buy the patent, even if it is 1 million US dollars, but CSIRO does not agree.

"Mr. Li Feng, now that the agreement has been signed, can I ask a question?" Sullivan put down his pen, "These patents you purchased are all related to information and communication. Does your company want to enter the field of communication?"

After a few days of contact, Sullivan also knew that Fengrui is a Chinese Internet company, so he had a question.

Li Feng smiled "simply and honestly": "Dr. Sullivan, there is a wireless fidelity technology in your patent, which is really very important for Fengrui in the future. It is better to obtain the relevant authorization in advance.”

"Okay then, Mr. Li Feng, I hope your company will succeed." Sullivan nodded understandingly. Obtaining patent authorization in advance is a relatively common situation in the high-tech field. After all, no one knows the future of this technology. How valuable is technology.

After bidding farewell to Sullivan, Li Feng also heaved a sigh of relief, and his painstaking efforts were not in vain.

The current WiFi technology is also relatively backward, and it can only be used on very high-end notebooks, and the speed is very slow, the fastest is only a dozen M, and the use value is not high.

When the mobile era comes, with the advancement of WiFi technology, WiFi has almost captured the entire world. Now as long as you surf the Internet, you may be inseparable from WiFi.

If it is said that before the popularity of smartphones, only some families would buy WiFi routers, then after that, WiFi has become a must-have product for every family.

Of course, after the birth of WiFi technology, an organization called "IEEE" shamelessly asked the Australian government to regard technology as the common property of all mankind, which in human terms means "abandoning patents".

The Australian government was very moved, and then rejected them, but the Australian government's patent fees for WiFi are too harsh, I don't know if it is out of poverty.

In a mobile phone worth 400 US dollars, the total patent fee for WiFi reaches 50 US dollars, while the cost of a joint chip integrating multiple communication functions such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and NFC is only 3-4 US dollars. Qualcomm is still ruthless!

Therefore, this is also the reason why Li Feng has to obtain the patent authorization of WiFi in advance, and in the era of the Internet of Things, the demand for WiFi will only increase.

After winning two patent authorizations in a row, Li Feng was also a little excited, and deliberately went through it again.

ARM's chip architecture-level authorization is an initial authorization fee of 1200 million U.S. dollars, a one-time payment. If Li Feng wants to produce chips later, the patent fee for each chip is 1 U.S. dollar; and the authorization of the WiFi patent this time is only a one-time payment. Li Feng 100 million US dollars,

Although Li Feng has spent so much money at once, these strategic patents cannot be bought with money, and in the future it may be hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in return.

So, happy Li Feng took his "patent team" to the last stop, Silicon Valley, USA.

During this period of time, Li Feng ran around, not only got the chip architecture license, but also got the WiFi patent license, but seriously, these are hardware patents, not software patents.

In fact, Li Feng also had plans for his own software, especially the operating system, that is to directly acquire Android.

But when Li Feng first arrived in the United States, he was not in a hurry to meet Lu Lu, nor did he immediately purchase Andy Rubin's Android company, nor did he purchase FingerWorks (multi-touch screen), and he came to the US Patent and Trademark Office in Silicon Valley. .

Li Feng also knew that even if he bought Android, if he wanted to make his own mobile operating system and smartphone, he would definitely not be able to overcome so many patent barriers.
Especially the lowest-level graphics processing patents like Microsoft and Apple, and the most basic communication patents like Nokia and Motorola, there is simply no way around it.

then what should we do?

Then let them hand over the patent obediently!

So, under the shocked expression of an old American woman at the USPTO, Li Feng asked the "patent team" to open five suitcases and took out 5 patents in one go.

According to internationally accepted patent laws, patents are usually divided into three types: invention patents, utility models and designs.

In terms of value, of course, invention patents are the most valuable.

Regardless of the fact that there are so many patent applications in our country, all of them are full of water, and they are all useless utility models and designs. To a large extent, this is the result of the leadership of the local intellectual property department.

Among Li Feng's 555 patents, almost all of them are utility models and designs, and 444 of them are design patents.
However, if future generations see these patents applied by Li Feng, they will definitely scold Li Feng for being shameless. This is simply blatant plagiarism!
Take a look at these patents applied by Li Feng. This is clearly the appearance design of Apple's iPhone, and Li Feng not only made the entire iPhone series,

I applied for the appearance design from iPhone 4 to iPhone X, and also applied for Samsung's galaxy series. Even Li Feng didn't bother to take out the mobile phones before Apple 4 to apply. You are not tired of drawing!

Isn't this the biggest advantage of the Reborn!
Although Li Feng's programming skills are not good, even if he knows that this technology is awesome, he won't know it, but the appearance design is always good, and it seems to be custom-made for Li Feng.
Li Feng has not only seen it, but actually played it, and even dismantled one or two smartphones.

So when he was free on weekdays, Li Feng took a piece of paper and drew all the shape patents of some popular smartphones and tablet computers that he could think of.

There are not only various side views, front views, anatomical diagrams, etc., but also simple text descriptions, which can be said to be everything.

If it weren't for this reliance, Li Feng really wouldn't have dared to step into the field of smart hardware, and he wouldn't be sure to be played to death by foreign technology giants.

In the previous life, Apple only relied on several appearance design patents such as the front, back, rectangular rounded corner shape, and display main screen. !
But Li Feng is even more shameless, not only applying for a patent for Apple's round Home button, but also for Android's flat oval Home button, and even Li Feng applied for a patent for the function of the Home button itself.

There is also the shape of APP with square rounded corners. Li Feng has also applied for a patent. As for why APP has square rounded corners, it is not because people are afraid of accidentally clicking the wrong one.

Even if you don't know how to draw, you can still find someone to draw. For this reason, Cheng Lan's husband Lu Qi, the designer of the little yellow man, almost vomited from drawing, and complained to Li Feng often!
What? !Apple and the others don’t use these designs, and they have to find a new design, isn’t it the same? !
Then Li Feng has a more ruthless patent, just wait for it later!
You don't need the strange design, but you must have the most basic human-computer interaction function of the smartphone!

Basic gesture operations such as double-click zoom function, gesture slide to unlock, etc., and multi-interface tasks, basic task bars such as up, left, right, and down, basic operations such as long press and drag, and the vertical The gravity sensor of the screen to horizontal screen...

Anyway, Li Feng's principle is, don't care if it's useful or not, just apply first, isn't it just a matter of dollars!

As long as you are a smart phone, you must use these most basic patents!
Apple, do you want to use it?

OK!no problem!However, your graphics processing patent is good, and it just so happens that I can use it too!

And Li Feng's ultimate goal is to remove all obstacles to stepping into the field of smart hardware, and even establish his own patent barriers.

(End of this chapter)