Reboot 2003

Chapter 59 059: Patent Rights
In a sense, intellectual property rights are virtual property rights similar to qq numbers and domain names, but intellectual property rights are fundamentally different from these things.

If the QQ account is only a social plaything, squatting on the QQ account will be regarded as a non-mainstream social interaction.

Although domain names have trademark value, hype domain names are just speculators who buy low and sell high...

Intellectual property is different.

The intellectual property closest to ordinary people is copyright. Even ordinary people have heard of the copyright wars in the 10s. It is said that the three-body copyright, which was only 10 at the beginning, was later sold to 07 million.

But copyrights aren't the most valuable intellectual property—the most valuable intellectual property on the planet are patents.

Patent rights are real means of production, and they are social virtual wealth created to protect innovation and creation... Don’t laugh, it’s true—if there is no patent right, then innovation and invention will be removed from the market economy system, so from a theoretical point of view, opposing patent rights is equivalent to opposing invention and innovation, and there is probably no problem with this.

However, just as the market economy cannot solve all problems, the patent right is a small patch, it cannot solve all problems, and it even has quite a few problems of its own—

On the one hand, it prevents market operation and capital circulation to a certain extent, which seems to be an eyesore.

On the other hand, as an artificially added rule that violates the freedom of the market, patent rights do not take into account the actual situation of different industries...

For example, the most valuable patents are concentrated in the people's livelihood technology industry, which will create monopoly.

Especially in the pharmaceutical industry, a patented drug can last a pharmaceutical company for decades, and it is the most lucrative intellectual property right now; behind this, pharmaceutical companies use their monopoly income to engage in crazy research and development. Only one of the hundreds of thousands of research results can make money. It is considered to have formed a closed loop, which seems ideal.

But medicines are not luxury goods, and those who cannot afford high-priced medicines under the patent period can only die obediently. This is a cold fact in the context of patent rights. From this perspective, patent rights are undoubtedly ruthless.

Of course, Chen Qin doesn't know how to make medicines. What he knows better is another big track where patent rights are active, that is, the current situation in the technology industry. Because of the existence of patent rights, here is another situation——

High-tech products often have dozens or hundreds of patents, and companies like Qualcomm have thousands of patents in order to build real monopoly barriers.

However, in most industries, everyone’s patent pool is one of you and one of you. If it is taken to court, the cost of proof is a mess that other industries can’t even imagine. Not only small companies use patents to backstab large companies, they also have to sweat, and large companies use patents to attack other companies.

The Internet industry is an extension of the technology industry, and of course it must follow this set of rules.

At present... patents in this industry are not very popular; before Chen Qin hinted to Gu Wenjie that he had patent rights, but in the end it ended up winking at a blind man; although some of the reasons for this are due to lack of legal awareness, if you just mess around, this thing may really be useless.

Just like Chen Qin's current situation, if he patents his dsp platform with the thinking of ordinary people, it is probably "a software that uses statistical data to achieve advertising effects". If you are more serious, you can carefully describe how to count data, how to launch advertisements, how to calculate prices, and then paste the source code...

Finally, it is not too difficult to apply for a utility model patent.

And then... there's no point in that.

After all, a software patent is not an 'idea' or a 'product' most of the time, but a 'solution'.

This solution will use some useful technologies to achieve a function. Of course, it is more accurate to list too complicated steps, but the more complicated the patent is, the easier it is to be bypassed. If a patent achieves a certain effect through the five steps of 12345, it is not an infringement if others use 12346 to achieve the same effect.

Therefore, useful patents should be as streamlined as possible, and the scope of protection should be improved as much as possible, but they should not be too streamlined. In order to monopolize a certain technology, some people register the original 12345 patent as 123. Of course, this can greatly increase the protection area of ​​the patent, but it is easy to fail the application or be judged invalid in actual cases.

Therefore, in actual work, it is likely to register each of 1234, 2345, and 1357, and block all possible roads in advance. This is called a "patent matrix", and use huge patents to block the entry direction of all testers, so as to form real industry barriers.

And once the barriers are formed, they will be the real "patent trolls". At that time, they can send lawyers' letters to collect money every day, and they can monopolize the industry directly. Compared with registering QQ numbers and domain names, this is an important resource that can really affect the world's business structure and even human history.

And that requires experienced patent attorneys, a lengthy approval process, a sufficiently dominant patent itself...to put it bluntly, it requires money.

Because of the high cost, in the technology industry, patents have become a fantasy that ordinary people cannot touch. It is like the power of wizards in Harry Potter—it is like a spell that children can understand, it is beautiful when sung, and it has a real core that only geniuses can touch.

Because of this, Chen Qin didn't think about registering a patent before, but now he can probably give it a try.

Money... Anyway, let's see if the media will come out.Not only was there Gu Wenjie's verbal agreement on reimbursement, but it was also agreed upon when he started the company.

As for ideas... This is the most important thing, but Chen Qin's role as a reborn is certainly not for nothing.

Not only does he know what future products will look like, but he even knows which patents will be the most profitable in the future——

Apple’s slide-to-unlock, Facebook’s News-Feed, augmented reality, taxi fares… even if they may not be useful, keeping them at home is more face-saving than trump domain names and five-digit qq.

With a lot of plans in hand, Chen Qin is now doing this while waiting for the company to develop itself.

Qiao Yongping came to him at this time, but it was just in time.

So it's the same as before, since you're here, let's do the work first.

Early the next morning, Lao Xu had already left; Chen Qin came to Xu Lingling's house in the morning, and Xu Lingling looked the same as before, so he didn't ask much.

Open MSN, Qiao Yongping has come to report to him.

So Chen Qin said to him: "Jojo, since you are here, let's work hard. We will talk about the content of the work tomorrow. We don't have any hard tasks now, and you don't have to work too hard in the future. Slow down."

Qiao Yongping seemed to feel sore in his heart, and immediately said with emotion: "Brother Chen, in fact, we all know that the main contribution of the platform is yours. Gu Wenjie, who seized power in the company and robbed other people's labor achievements, will be punished sooner or later!"

Chen Qin scratched his head and replied: "I mean, you don't have to be busy with maintenance every day now, so you should learn more about other things, and don't think about these things all day long."

Qiao Yongping was a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I was just talking casually."

Chen Qin replied: "Give me the address of your residence."

Qiao Yongping was shocked and said, "What's the matter? I'm living in an apartment outside the industrial park now. Brother Chen, what plan do you want to come to me? I'll keep it secret!"

Chen Qin was speechless: "I bought two JS tutorials online for you."

"Oh fine."

(End of this chapter)