industrial overlord

Chapter 139 Patent Attorneys

After two years, Lin Zhenhua came to Guangzhou again.After leaving Guangzhou Railway Station, the girl standing outside holding a sign to pick him up was still the girl named Schumann two years ago.She was wearing a beige windbreaker, standing among a group of station pickers dressed in either blue or black, she looked particularly eye-catching.

"Manager Lin, the car is in the parking lot outside, let me help you with your luggage." Schumann said enthusiastically.

Lin Zhenhua didn't let her take the luggage, but said politely: "Miss Shu, thank you for your help with this matter."

Shuman said: "It's nothing, I am very honored to be able to help Manager Lin with something."

Lin Zhenhua saw that no one was paying attention to them, so he reached out and took out an envelope from his bag, handed it to Schuman and said, "Miss Shu, this is your labor fee. It's 100 yuan in total. You can count it."

Schumann didn't refuse. She took the envelope, covered it with the skirt of the windbreaker, took out half of the money, counted it quickly, then smiled sweetly at Lin Zhenhua, and said, "Exactly, thank you, Manager Lin. In fact, I just I helped to pull the thread, I really dare not charge so much labor fees."

Lin Zhenhua said: "Miss Shu's role is irreplaceable by others, so this small amount of money makes Miss Shu laugh."

Schumann collected the money and said to Lin Zhenhua: "Let's go, let's get in the car. Lawyer Qian Yuanping may still be going through the customs formalities in Shenzhen, and he probably won't arrive until the afternoon. Let's find a place to eat first." .”

Lin Zhenhua said: "No problem, Ms. Shu can arrange it. I will ask Ms. Shu to arrange everything for me in Guangzhou."

Lin Zhenhua called Schuman one after another, but Schuman didn't show any disgust at all.In mainland China at that time, the title Miss was still very rare. If an ordinary girl heard this title, she might feel offended.However, Schumann is engaged in foreign affairs. In the past two years, he has received many overseas guests. He has also been to Hong Kong twice on business. He is very used to the title Miss.

Lin Zhenhua asked Schumann to help him hire a lawyer, which was also the result of a brainstorm.

Lin Zhenhua thought very early on that if his products want to enter the international market, the patent application process must not be bypassed, otherwise the five-blade fan that Liu Xianghai carefully designed for him may become someone else's product.

But in mainland China at that time, it was not easy to apply for overseas patents.Lin Zhenhua intends to go to Hong Kong in person to handle matters related to patent applications, but after careful inquiry, if he is an ordinary cadre who wants to go to Hong Kong, he has to stamp hundreds of red stamps. As long as there is any department in charge of stamps If you think he is not qualified, then all the previous seals will be invalid.

After much deliberation, Lin Zhenhua finally had to settle for the next best thing, and the client invited a lawyer from Hong Kong to Guangzhou to accept the commission.The only middleman that Lin Zhenhua can think of is Schumann in Guangzhou.The year before last, when Lin Zhenhua came to Guangzhou to pick up the MK800 machine tool, he had dealt with Schumann for a few days. He knew that this girl was more open-minded, had more contacts with overseas people, and was able to keep her mouth shut. She was really the best middleman. Good candidate.

In this way, Lin Zhenhua wrote a letter to Schumann, asking if she knew a lawyer in Hong Kong handling patent applications, and if she could help him invite a lawyer to come to Guangzhou.Schumann wrote back, saying that he had resources in this area and was willing to help.Lin Zhenhua immediately stated that after the matter is completed, he can pay Schumann a labor fee of 100 yuan. If there are other things in the future, he can continue to pay according to this standard.In this way, Schumann's enthusiasm has been greatly improved.

Schumann is a fashionable woman, and as a foreign worker, she pursues a foreign lifestyle more than anyone else.She likes beautiful clothes, imported cosmetics, and imported home appliances.But all of these are not what her salary can afford.When she was doing foreign affairs reception, she sometimes got some tips from customers. Although these tips were required to be handed in according to the regulations, she, like other colleagues, was able to hide some every time as her own extra money.

Ford gave her a lot of money when he helped Spischer Company receive Hanhua Factory, which made her happy for a long time.This time, Lin Zhenhua asked her for help. She didn't expect that Lin Zhenhua would pay her labor fees, but Lin Zhenhua paid 100 yuan for a single mouth. This made Schumann believe that Lin Zhenhua was her lucky star. In doing things, all kinds of extra money will continue to flow.

The two came to an ordinary restaurant in a car hired by Schuman.Schumann simply ordered two dishes, and sat down to eat with Lin Zhenhua.Lin Zhenhua had already agreed with her in advance that all the expenses of hiring a car and meals would be borne by Lin Zhenhua.

"Manager Lin, this lawyer Qian Yuanping was originally a mainlander who escaped from Hong Kong. He is now a patent attorney in Hong Kong and is quite well-known. I have asked several different Hong Kong businessmen, and they all According to reports, this Qian Yuanping has a good reputation and the charges are reasonable." Schumann introduced to Lin Zhenhua while eating.

"Well, very good." Lin Zhenhua nodded, "I found that you are very talented as an office manager."

"Really?" Schumann blinked his pretty eyes and said to Lin Zhenhua with a provocative expression: "Can I think that Manager Lin wants to hire me as the manager of the Guangzhou office?"

Lin Zhenhua smiled and said, "If Ms. Shu is willing to give up her current job, I am very interested in hiring Ms. Shu."

Schumann smiled coquettishly, and said: "It's not enough now. If I resign now, my family will definitely scold me to death. However, my work is not too busy. If Manager Lin needs someone to do something here , just as you are told.”

Lin Zhenhua said: "Okay, I will definitely trouble Ms. Shu often in the future. By the way, I ask you to help me find out the details of the patent application. Have you gained anything?"

Shuman said: "I asked some Hong Kong businessmen, and they told me a lot, and I sorted it out. Now I will introduce you one by one."

Next, Schumann began to tell Lin Zhenhua about patent applications, some of which Lin Zhenhua vaguely knew, and some of which he was completely unfamiliar with.He could hear that Schumann was very attentive in this matter, and he learned about the problems comprehensively and meticulously.He was still a little apprehensive about applying for a patent, but after hearing this, he felt that he already knew it.

After dinner, Schumann took Lin Zhenhua to the hotel to check in, and then took him to the department store to buy a new outfit.According to Schumann, a boss who talks about international patent applications should not be dressed sloppily like Lin Zhenhua.

Of course, Lin Zhenhua would not admit that he was sloppy. When he was in Jiangnan Province, he felt that he was still dressed in fashion.However, when Schumann took him around the department store and forced him to buy a set of casual clothes to dress himself up, Lin Zhenhua had to admit that the Guangzhou girl's vision was indeed more foreign than the Fenghua girl's. much.The clothes Yang Xin chose for him were indeed not as fashionable as those chosen by Schumann.

"Why don't you help me choose some more girls' clothes." Lin Zhenhua begged Schumann.

"Okay, is it for your wife?" Schuman asked.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Isn't it my wife, my fiancée. By the way, I have to choose a few sets for my sister."

"Manager Lin is such a good man." Schumann said sourly.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the two came to the teahouse in the lobby of Liuhua Hotel, which was the place where Schumann and lawyer Qian Yuanping agreed to meet.Just as the two of them ordered the tea, they saw a thin man in a suit trotting in from the outside with a handbag in his hand.He stood in the lobby looking around for a while, and then walked straight to Lin Zhenhua's table.

"Miss Shu, I'm sorry, I took too much time to pass the customs." The man said to Schumann while wiping the sweat from his head with a handkerchief.Before Schumann could answer, he turned to Lin Zhenhua again, and said, "This should be Manager Lin, my humble Qian Yuanping, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Schumann hurriedly stood up and asked Qian Yuanping to sit down. Lin Zhenhua reached out and shook Qian Yuanping's hand, and introduced himself: "I am Lin Zhenhua, the manager of Jiangnan Hanhua Industrial Company. It is an honor indeed.”

"It should be, it should be." Qian Yuanping said, he looked at Lin Zhenhua, and then said with emotion: "Mr. .”

"It's just a coincidence." Lin Zhenhua said perfunctorily.He did not ask Schumann to disclose the actual situation of Hanhua Company to Qian Yuanping. In Qian Yuanping's imagination, it must be a large-scale company that can entrust Hong Kong lawyers to apply for foreign patents. Some very hard backgrounds.

"Manager Lin wants to entrust me with the product. Can you tell me about it?" After a few pleasantries, Qian Yuan got straight to the point.The lawyer's appearance fee is also calculated by the hour, and he doesn't have much time to do chores.

Lin Zhenhua said: "The product we applied for is a new type of electric fan. The main technical innovation is that it is a five-bladed fan, and the shape of the blades is designed by our country's top experts. It has energy-saving, Features such as low noise and soft feeling. As far as we know, there is no similar product in the foreign market at present.”

Qian Yuanping shook his head and said: "Whether there are similar products or not, it is not enough to just look at the market, it needs to be searched for patents. Sometimes, someone else may have applied for a patent for a product, but it has not yet been put on the market. In this case, your patent application is also invalid."

Lin Zhenhua smiled and said, "Don't worry, Lawyer Qian, we do have this common sense. However, it is not convenient for us to conduct patent searches in mainland China, so we need to trouble you to handle these matters together."

Qian Yuanping said: "No problem, this is what our agents do. You just need to entrust this matter to us, and you don't need to worry about the rest. By the way, Manager Lin, I want to explain, what to do with us Yes, it’s actually not a lawyer, but a patent attorney, which is different from what a lawyer does. As for lawyer Qian, it’s just a name that everyone is used to.”

(End of this chapter)