Reboot 2003

Chapter 50 050: Patents

The two talked for half an hour, and gradually fell into a stalemate.

This problem is actually not difficult to solve. If Chen Qin is in a good mood, he can of course make a contract or even make a verbal agreement to transfer the ownership of the software to Kuaikan Media.

But now Chen Qin himself is not rich. He spent more than half of the little money to hire a lawyer. In addition to shopping and postage, there are so many things. In short, the [-] yuan is almost used up.

And in order to set an example with Gu Wenjie, both of them have no salary at the start-up stage, and they can't count on the company's dividends...they can only rely on this to make quick money.

Chen Qin's requirements are not too high, 10,000+ is not too little, and hundreds of thousands is not too much. In short, the company gives him a sum of money, and he directly gives the company the intellectual property rights and it's over.

Of course, it's not just about copyright.

At the capital level, copyright itself is not a particularly valuable thing. It is a resource, but not a key tool... This is the case in 2023, let alone the Chinese Dynasty in 2003.

After all, although copyright itself is intellectual property, it is something that is biased towards culture. We Chinese people have never paid much attention to these insignificant gadgets. In fact, in other parts of the world, copyright is not so valued.

But patents are different.

Both are intellectual property rights, and patents are a means of production that is biased towards industry, and it is the same in today's China—the child prodigy who invented the universal charger was admitted to Jinghua this year, and China has joined the World Intellectual Property Organization since the 80s.

As for the patents of the DSP platform in his hand, Chen Qin has already applied for all of them.

There are many twists and turns, and the details of the principle are not listed for the time being. The intellectual property risks created by Chen Qin before are mainly in the patent area; Chen Qin also hinted at this matter to Gu Wenjie several times before, and now it seems that Gu Wenjie has noticed it.

In this regard, Chen Qin has no psychological burden. Since Gu Wenjie came to him, let's talk.

As one of the founders, of course he couldn't sue his company to court, and even if Gu Wenjie didn't pay him, he wouldn't do anything to the company either.

But if Gu Wenjie wanted to control the risk, he had to solve this problem first, and then he had to give Chen Qin money.This money has to be given sooner or later. It will be cheaper if it is given now, and it will be more expensive if it is given in the future.

Chen Qin is full of confidence in this. Anyway, we will do business together in the future, and there is no need to make the relationship too tense.

only……

After talking like this all night, Gu Wenjie never mentioned buying this serious solution with money.

In the end, time was wasted, but the negotiation made little progress. By 08:30, it was time for Chen Qin to go home.

Of course, we can continue to talk about it, but it seems that we can only wait for Gu Wenjie to return to the company tomorrow.

Chen Qin went out, scratching his head as he went out, he was a little puzzled.

Now everything is planned, and the worst outcome is nothing more than no loss. Considering that intellectual property rights may be more valuable, Chen Qin will not lose money anyway.

It's just that Gu Wenjie looked so serious today, Chen Qin thought he would compromise.

In the end, this person really just chatted all night, and didn't talk about money from the beginning to the end...

Okay.

It is normal for the business negotiation cycle to be longer, and Chen Qin is not in a hurry.

Thinking of this, Chen Qin walked down the colored steel stairs, and the cool evening breeze blew in his face, and pedestrians in the suburbs of Longshan City filled with the smell of sewers.

Looking at the bus stop on the side of the road, a yellow leather bus is coming, and the crowd on the platform is crowded up, and they hand over the money to the conductor at the door...

At this moment, he really felt that this is indeed something that will only appear in this era.

Patents have always been useful—its terms haven’t changed much, but in emerging industries, entrepreneurs often don’t know how useful it is, and it itself is a right that can only be obtained by the owner himself.

Just like Microsoft and Apple started their business by plagiarism, and only started to engage in patenting numbers after they were firmly established as the bosses. China’s Internet and software industries also had no patent atmosphere at all in this era. It was not until 2010 that the importance of patents was gradually taken seriously.

In addition, Chen Qin's patent has not yet come down... Although it has entered the process, the certificate has not yet been obtained.

Maybe Gu Wenjie didn't realize this... So he came to me just because of the software copyright?

To be honest, it’s a bit of a fuss. After all, the software copyright dispute is just the copyright of some codes. Considering that the two parties have a cooperative relationship, even if they split up immediately, it will not be easy for Chen Qin to stop Gu Wenjie from continuing to use the Kuaikan platform.

It is also because of this that if it is just a software copyright, it is indeed less than a few dollars. It is actually a bit uneconomical to use this trick. It seems that I have to continue to give him pointers tomorrow.

But thinking of this, Chen Qin seemed to feel that he understood something.

wrong……

I always feel that something is not reasonable.

In this era, talking about software copyright itself is quite advanced.

However, for Internet companies, the degree of protection, code and even creativity is not far away.

After all, for Internet companies, programs are the foundation of business, and code is a tool for development.

Of course, the law can forcibly adjudicate an intangible thing to the party that needs it in accordance with public order and good customs and general rules, but the law does not need to be responsible for many things—for example, the ownership of a procedure.

Thinking of this, Chen Qin vaguely felt that he had caught the clue of that idea.

He immediately took out his mobile phone and opened the address book——

Before, there was only Lao Xu in his mobile phone address book, but now there are dozens of people, including Mr. Ma of Ali, the person in charge of the industrial park, and the technicians of China Telecom.

Chen Qin first made a phone call to the company HR.

"Hello, Xiao Liu? I'm Chen Aotian." Chen Qin called the opposite party with a deliberately lowered second-grade voice... His mobile phone can't use his subwoofer microphone, and Chen Qin doesn't use it very much on weekdays, but today it's an emergency, so he can't take care of it that much. "Is anyone working overtime tonight?" Chen Qin asked him.

HR immediately replied: "Yes, all the people in the marketing department are working overtime, and I am also in the company."

"Is there anyone in the platform department?"

"It doesn't seem to be... oh wait a minute." The opposite person started to turn over the paper, and said after a while, "JoJo is working overtime tonight."

"Qiao Yongping? Jo...? Forget it." Chen Qin asked, "Has he gone back?"

"Didn't you ask him to work overtime?" HR replied, and turned another page before correcting himself, "Oh no, it seems that Mr. Gu arranged for him to come."

(End of this chapter)