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"I will discuss this with several other heads of the Ministry of Industry and try to find you a group of professionals."

Northern Machinery Company is wealthy and powerful. It is not only the country's top foreign exchange earning enterprise, but also has established good cooperative relations with many foreign companies.

Since Lin Kaifeng was willing to spend money on research in this area, Wang Changsheng had no reason to interfere.

Any achievement in scientific research will be helpful to domestic development.

The Ministry of First Machinery Industry does not need to spend a penny, it just helps Lin Kaifeng solve the technical personnel problems.

The requirements are not too demanding and can be easily accomplished.

Then, Wang Changsheng asked something.

What does Lin Kaifeng think of patent law?

"Patent law!"

Lin Kaifeng's heart moved.

Calculating the time, there are still more than two years until the first patent law is promulgated.

After more than 30 years since its founding, Long Country still does not have a complete patent law.

Some are just some patent drafts and reward schemes.

Patented technology belongs neither to individuals nor to enterprises.

All belong to the country.

The use of patented technology adopts a sharing model.

When a new technology is born in a state-owned enterprise, other state-owned enterprises of the same type can obtain this technology without paying any cost and apply it to their own production.

"Comrade Lin Kaifeng, you often contact foreign companies and have been to ports and deserts. You should know something about their patents. Tell me, once the domestic patent law is formulated, should it refer to the patent laws of the West or the Eastern camp?"

The relevant departments have been slow to make up their minds on the choice between Eastern and Western patent laws.

Thinking of Lin Kaifeng's vision and ability, Wang Changsheng felt it necessary to listen to his opinions.

Lin Kaifeng said seriously: "Minister, our key issue at this stage is to promote the implementation of the Patent Law as soon as possible."

"Whether it is learning from the Eastern Bloc or the Soviet Union's patent law, I don't think it is the main problem."

“The key is to enact the patent law as soon as possible.”

“Patent law is used to protect the interests of technology owners and stimulate the research motivation of scientific researchers.”

As far as Lin Kaifeng knows, the reason why patent law is difficult to implement does not lie in which one to learn from.

But no department is willing to compromise.

In response to this issue, the relevant departments held hundreds of meetings of varying sizes.

Spanning more than ten years.

Scientific research departments, industrial departments, economic and trade departments.

Each department has its own ideas, and the opinions of all parties cannot be reached, which leads to the difficulty in the birth of patent law.

In the past, no matter what kind of science and technology, it had to be based on protecting the rights and interests of inventors.

Just getting a small reward, no encouragement, and no motivation.

If the technology developed does not belong to you, how many people would be willing to invest their time and effort in it?

"Minister, let me say something taboo. We need to fully integrate with the world and strive to take our domestic economic construction to a new level in the shortest possible time so that the people can live better and better. Instead of discussing whether to learn from the West or the Eastern bloc, it is better to first introduce the more mature patent laws and regulations from the West."

“Delete some content that does not conform to our actual situation, promulgate the patent law, and then slowly discuss the details and add or reduce relevant content.”

Unlike others, Lin Kaifeng believes that whether or not it exists is the big question.

With patent law, many problems can be easily solved.

For many years, China has not had a complete and standard patent law.

Lin Kaifeng had to exchange interests with Best Buy Group.

Through Best Buy Group, global patents were registered for Lin Kaifeng's various technologies.

Every year, Lin Kaifeng signed a huge bet agreement to provide Best Buy with a new type of home appliance.

If the patent law can be implemented ahead of time, Lin Kaifeng will be able to free himself and produce more technological products.

First, we should take the mature patent law from the West, take its essence and discard its dross.

To make up for the shortcoming of Longguo’s lack of patents.

With the patent law in place, relevant departments are conducting additional research.

Rely on relevant laws and regulations to protect scientific and technological inventions.

Encourage all enterprises and scientific researchers to exert their greatest motivation in research.

Lin Kaifeng gave examples on the spot.

In order to get the opportunity to meet Chief Mustafa, Lin Kaifeng personally led the company's technical staff to study a special product day and night.

Red and white home video game console.

Using the home game console as a stepping stone attracted the interest of Chief Mustafa.

Finally, he received an audience.

The Famicom, which has influenced generations of people, is a goose that lays golden eggs.

Such a good product should have been selling like hot cakes in the commercial market.

But the problem at this stage is whether Lin Kaifeng can solve the mass production problem of the red and white game consoles.

But it cannot be promoted to foreign markets.

why?

Because of patent law restrictions.

"The red and white game console produced by Northern Machinery Company uses the mos6502 processor, which comes from a Western company."

"When the mos6502 processor was first introduced, the manufacturer registered a comprehensive patent for it."

"There is no problem selling the Red and White Game Console in China. But once it is sold abroad, MOS, the patent owner, will definitely take our company to court."

Wang Changsheng hesitated and said, "In other words, if we don't solve the patent problem of this processor, we won't be able to export the product abroad?"

"That's right, except for MOS6502, all products that use foreign technology or foreign production materials cannot be exported without patent authorization."

Lin Kaifeng sighed.

“Many of the country’s export products are facing the problem of lack of patent protection.”

"In order to protect our own interests, I reached an agreement with Best Buy Group, which allowed Best Buy Group to register global patents for air fryers and induction cookers. Not long ago, many companies imitated our export products."

"If we hadn't completed the patent registration in advance, the export products we worked so hard to develop would immediately become someone else's."

Times are different now than in the past. We cannot just talk about contribution without considering any return.

With the country's doors opened, all kinds of foreign goods flowed into the country like a tornado.

All types of foreign products are protected by patents.

Once domestic companies imitate and manufacture these products, they will immediately be sued by the patent owner.

in contrast.

All domestic products are in an unfavorable situation where they cannot be protected.

Foreign countries can imitate if they want to, and plagiarize if they want to.

Domestic companies have no way to deal with this.

It’s like working hard to build a car that is ahead of the global average.

With foreign technological strength, it is not difficult to create.

Without patent law, it is like a child walking on the street with a lot of money.

Anyone can grab it.

Wang Changsheng lit another cigarette.

Lin Kaifeng's words were somewhat outrageous.

But from another perspective, it also explains the current embarrassing situation.