Daming 1805

Chapter 83 What is a patent troll?

Zhu Jingyuan thought about his future goals, and then instinctively thought of Daming's potential enemies. He had to find a way to contain the enemy while he was developing.

After the atmosphere at the scene dropped a little, Zhu Jingyuan went to ask Li Rui, the head of the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of Industry:

"Before the war began, did we have a patent agreement with the Western countries? Can patents be mutually recognized or given priority to applications?"

Li Rui naturally shook his head:

"No, we mentioned it a few times at the beginning, but Xiyi has always been looking for reasons to shirk, and there has never been any substantive negotiation.

"Because they know very well that once they mutually recognize our Daming patents, they won't be able to copy our technology for free.

"At the beginning of the war, His Majesty also wrote this matter into the edict of declaring war..."

Zhu Jingyuan now knew something in his heart:
"Then we Daming people, can we go to the Western countries to register companies, and can we directly apply for their country's patents?"

Li Rui was obviously taken aback by this question, but he explained it subconsciously:

"There are many countries of the same level on the Xiyi side, so there are relatively mature norms and systems for the connection of affairs between countries.

"They didn't exclude us Daming specifically, so we Daming people can also register companies with them and apply for patents in their country.

"But the question is... Does Your Highness want to go to Xiyi to apply for a patent... apply for a patent for a flying machine?"

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and nodded and said:
"Yes, I'm just going to apply for a patent there."

All the craftsmen around were stunned, Wang Zhenyi was very incomprehensible and asked:
"His Royal Highness, you went to Taixi to apply for a patent. Isn't this directly revealing our design ideas to those Westerners?"

The original purpose of patents is to secure short-term exclusive benefits in exchange for long-term technical disclosure.

Therefore, the term of patent protection is at most 20 years, and theoretically it cannot be extended.

At the same time, when applying for a patent, in the description documents submitted, you must clearly explain your design ideas.

It is equivalent to publicizing it to the society through the Patent Office, explaining how I designed this thing, so that others can refer to it and learn to make it.

Although there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, patent protection has been gradually turned into a patent barrier, but the initial concept is this.

That's why Wang Zhenyi has this question.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't care at all, instead he explained with a smile:

"In fact, there are no major technical difficulties on the current aircraft, and it only takes a few ideas to succeed.

"Our biggest advantage over Xiyi on the plane is that the engine power density is slightly higher.

"According to the news I see every day, there are also people in Xiyi who are studying flying machines, and there are several groups of people.

"Now that the war is over, as long as our planes are being sold privately, they will be able to secretly buy imitations immediately.

"Instead of letting this result, it's better to go to their side to apply for a patent and then be a patent troll there."

Li Rui, Wang Zhenyi and the craftsmen reacted immediately.

Instead of waiting to be copied by them, it is better to go there and apply for a patent reauthorization.

The craftsmen knew this, but during the world war that lasted for more than ten years, both sides completely ignored the enemy's patents in their own countries.

After more than ten years of habit formation, it is useless to think about going to Taixi to apply for a patent without immediately changing the mind after the truce.

When Zhu Jingyuan mentioned it, everyone understood it, but a patent is authorized, so what is a patent troll?
So Li Rui asked as a representative:

"His Royal Highness... what is a patent troll?"

Zhu Jingyuan was inexplicably happy when he thought of this:
"It's the excessive use of patents, and various aircraft patents have been applied for in various countries in Thailand and Western countries, and then the licensing fees from the Thai and Western people are charged.

"They are stuck at the upper limit stipulated by their laws, or the upper limit that the market can accept, and there is no way to reduce or exempt them.

"In this case, most of their manufacturers should not pay royalties, and there will definitely be many manufacturers secretly producing.

"We also leave it alone for the time being and just collect evidence secretly.

"After their products are on the market, they will hire a group of Taixi shrewd lawyers to find these manufacturers to file infringement lawsuits.

"We don't want to make a lot of money in Taixi, the purpose is to bring the aviation industry manufacturers to the brink of bankruptcy, and make the aircraft into a niche machine in Taixi.

"Clamping down their aviation industry while taking most of the industry's profits.

"Without the private industry foundation, even if the military in Thailand and Western countries develops, designs and produces their own aircraft, the final cost of using the aircraft will be much higher than ours.

"If Thai and Western governments come forward and don't recognize or ignore our aircraft patents, that's why we impose sanctions and embargoes on them.

"Of course, it can also be treated differently, dividing the Western barbarian countries, and it can also be used as a reason for the declaration of war for the next war.

"Or stuck at the critical point of not dying, barely holding the breath of Taixi Airlines.

"Until we're really ready for war, let the rest of the manufacturers go to hell again."

The scene suddenly fell into silence, only the surrounding wind and the whine of the plane in the sky were still lingering in the ears of the stunned crowd.

The craftsmen with relatively simple and pure thinking came into contact with His Highness Jingyuan's unique way of thinking for the first time, and all of a sudden, they were a little... shocked.

This series of operations is really rogue.

The term patent troll is really too apt.

Then everyone felt very happy again.

His Royal Highness Jing Yuan holds the basic patent of the aircraft. If he wants to do this in Daming mainland, he can also toss the relevant manufacturers to the brink of death.

But His Royal Highness not only did not do this, but instead tried to reduce the authorization fee as much as possible, and tried to find a way to promote the development of the industry.

Who is one's own and who is outsider, His Highness clearly distinguishes.

It's really... very interesting.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the silence around him, and suddenly asked with some doubts:

"What's wrong? Is my plan bad? Or do you think it's too bad?"

The craftsmen suddenly woke up, and the scene immediately became lively.

"Okay, of course, great."

"His Royal Highness is really far-sighted, I am ashamed of myself!"

"Fundamentally restricting the opponent, this is a conspiracy!"

"The gang of Westerners have been copying our stuff, so we should find a way to rectify them!"

"In the future, there will be similar technologies that cannot be kept secret, and they will be dealt with in the same way."

"Let's set up a company in Taixi, recruit local elite lawyers who admire me, Daming, to fight lawsuits with local manufacturers."

The craftsmen were all smiling, admiring and coming up with ideas together. The test field was full of joyful atmosphere.

Zhu Jingyuan was also very happy.

In the equipment of aircraft, the most ideal goal is of course that Daming has an aircraft unilaterally, and the enemy does not have it at all.

But this is obviously impossible.

Although the technical level of the Western countries is a few years to ten years behind the Ming Dynasty as a whole.

But this is not the post-scientific and technological revolution, or even the post-Cold War world. At that time, the high-tech of the superpowers made small countries incomprehensible.

It is still the era of the industrial revolution, and the barriers to entry and technical barriers to the industry are still very low.

Before the invention of the airplane, the Wright brothers in history were just two bicycle repairmen...

Even the most "high-tech" technology is easy to imitate and catch up, which is why the Western countries can chase Daming so closely.

In history, the United States and Germany, during the second industrial revolution, directly surpassed the United Kingdom in many places.

After Daming lost the direct guidance of the traversers, if the local basic disk was not large enough, it might even be impossible to maintain the absolute technical advantage like the British.

Now that the Thai and Western countries have sufficient industrial technology level, it is only a matter of time before they can build their own aircraft.

Taking a step back, even if the other party really can't find the correct route, it would be meaningless for Zhu Jingyuan to keep the aircraft technology completely secret.

Because the difficulty of keeping a thing secret is roughly inversely proportional to the number of people in contact, the more people who know it, the harder it is to keep it secret.

If Zhu Jingyuan wanted to cultivate a civil aviation atmosphere in the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to limit the use of aircraft to a few people.

If you want to rely on aircraft to win, you cannot rely on a few secretly trained pilots. The results of that can refer to Japan in World War II.

Before the guided weapons are mature, all weapons must be won by quantity, and they must rely on a sufficient number to pile up the hit base.

The same is true for aircraft. Until the end of the World War II era, air combat was a dense group of large aircraft, a bit like the queuing up in the era of muskets.

Historically, when the Americans surrounded and wiped out the Yamato fleet, the enemy had a battleship Yamato, as well as a cruiser and 1 destroyers to escort them.

美国人自己的TF58特遣舰队，总共有11艘航空母舰、6艘战列舰、11艘巡洋舰、30多艘驱逐舰。

出动了总计386架飞机，空投了总共131条鱼雷、150枚250磅航弹、180枚500磅航弹、75枚1000榜航弹。

In the end, 1 battleship Yamato, 1 light cruiser, 4 destroyers, and 1 destroyer were seriously injured.

Such an advantage against the sky eventually allowed the enemy to run three destroyers.

This is still the Yamato fleet without aircraft carrier escort, no air power cover, basically the result of unilaterally besieged by the United States.

Therefore, in the current era, it is necessary to have a sufficient air power base to ensure victory in long-term sustained air battles.

Secrecy is impossible with this broad quantitative base.

Unless the power is extremely huge, and the weapons that can change the war situation are suddenly brought out, that is, those real "big killers", the secrecy tactics are of little significance.

The normal operation is to promote as much as possible in one's own country, and at the same time limit the development of the industry in potentially hostile countries as much as possible.

The most typical solution is to go abroad to become a patent troll, and then cooperate with economic sanctions and threats of force...

　The timing was wrong. . .Just discovered. .cry to death

　　
　
(End of this chapter)