industrial overlord

Chapter 178 Technology Loss

Upon hearing Lin Zhenhua's timid request, He Haifeng smiled and said, "You can just ask Minister Gao for your unfeeling request. Our Economic Reform Commission is a Qingshui Yamen, but we don't have any money."

Gao Zuxing nodded and said: "Well, I have long heard that there is a manager Xiao Lin in Jiangnan Province who has never been willing to suffer. This time you have suffered such a big loss. If you don't mention it What an unfeeling request, I feel uneasy."

Everyone laughed together, half because of Gao Zuxing's humor, and half because of Gao Zuxing's position, the leader told a joke, no matter how cold the joke is, you have to laugh along with it.

Lin Zhenhua also laughed. He rubbed his head and said, "I didn't expect my image to be so bad in the eyes of the department leaders. I really should review it."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, and tell me your request." Hua Keqin encouraged from the side.

Lin Zhenhua said: "My unfeeling request is actually a matter of one sentence from Minister Gao. I want to ask the Ministry of Foreign Trade to give us a special policy for Hanhua Company. The patent fee of 4 dollars will not be settled in foreign exchange. Instead, it is left to us directly in the form of foreign exchange.”

As soon as this sentence came out, the people below were in a commotion.It is too big to require foreign exchange to be retained.Everyone is engaged in foreign trade, and they all know how precious foreign exchange is. These days, it is too arrogant to have foreign exchange at your disposal.

Among other things, when cadres went abroad, they only had pocket money of more than ten dollars a day. Everyone had to save money so that they could stay and buy a big-ticket appliance.If your company has foreign exchange in hand, when a leader in the province, region, or county is on a business trip, you exchange some foreign exchange for him, which is neither considered bribery nor a big favor to others. At that time, whoever sees you will not Polite?
Everyone has asked for such things as foreign exchange retention countless times, but very few have been approved.Even those that can be approved, the amount of retention is very limited, a few hundred dollars is not bad.However, the manager Xiao Lin, who has no hair on his mouth, wants to keep all 4 dollars when he opens his mouth.

$4 may not sound like much, but everyone can figure it out. At this year's Canton Fair, the turnover of five-blade fans is estimated to be more than 200 million units.The patent fee of US$4 per unit is a total of 800 million.Manager Kobayashi, you have 800 million US dollars in foreign exchange, what do you want to do?

Sure enough, Gao Zuxing was also taken aback: "Xiaolin, your appetite is too big, right? You just want to keep millions of foreign exchange. As far as I know, there is no domestic company that can keep it. So much foreign exchange, right?"

Lin Zhenhua said: "Because there is no such thing, it makes sense."

He Haifeng smoothed things over and said, "Xiaolin, tell me your reasons. As a domestic company, your raw materials are all purchased in China. What do you need foreign exchange for? As far as I know, you imported a lot of foreign equipment last year. In terms of using foreign exchange, the Foreign Trade Department of Jiangnan Province also took good care of you and did not cause you any trouble."

Lin Zhenhua said: "I want to explain this matter. We want to keep this foreign exchange, not for our own use, but to serve the society."

"How about serving the society? Tell me about it. If what you say makes sense, the Ministry can consider your request." Gao Zuxing said.

Lin Zhenhua said: "We left the money and wanted to use it to set up a patent foundation. The leaders don't know, we applied for the patent of the five-blade fan, and it cost us seven to eight thousand dollars. In the future, we will continue to pay for patent maintenance every year. This is only the fee for one patent. If more patents are involved, the fee will be even more considerable. These early fees were sponsored by Hong Kong patent attorney Qian Yuanping, and I still owe It's because of his favor."

Lin Zhenhua pretended to be false, and first avoided the source of foreign exchange for his patent application, otherwise everyone would wake up later and find out what money he used to apply for the patent, and he would have a troublesome matter.Regarding the source of foreign exchange, he had already talked to Qian Yuanping the day before, and Qian Yuanping expressed his willingness to take the blame for him.This pot is on Lin Zhenhua's back, and it is a scapegoat, but it is red when it is buckled on Qian Yuanping's head, so it can be regarded as a patriotic Hong Kong businessman.

"How can your company let people advance money for sponsorship?" Gao Zuxing said.

Lin Zhenhua said: "I want to give him money, but how can I have foreign exchange? Last year we signed a contract worth more than 4000 million U.S. dollars, and I didn't keep a penny of U.S. dollars. How can I get the money?"

Gao Zuxing said: "If you say this, I understand a little bit. What you mean is that you need to use foreign exchange to apply for a patent, er, and maintain a patent, so you hope to be able to leave some foreign exchange to do this. thing, isn't it?"

"exactly."

"But, it won't cost so much money, right?" Gao Zuxing said, "You asked to keep all 4 dollars, which would cost several million dollars. How many patents do you plan to apply for?"

Lin Zhenhua said: "We are currently developing some new products. Once these new products are developed, we will immediately apply for international patents. At that time, dozens or even hundreds of patent applications and maintenance may be involved. It is estimated that it will take Hundreds of thousands of dollars. In addition, I have another idea, let me say it here, and ask the leaders to correct me.”

"what idea?"

"As I said earlier, a patent foundation will be established. This foundation will be open to enterprises and individuals across the country to provide funding for their patent applications."

"You mean, you plan to use this money to fund other companies to apply for international patents?" He Haifeng asked keenly.

He didn't quite understand Lin Zhenhua's thoughts, and he didn't know what was the reason for Lin Zhenhua's statement.In many contacts with Lin Zhenhua, He Haifeng already knew that Lin Zhenhua was a person with the overall situation in mind and had a strong sense of responsibility for the country and the nation.From this point of view, it is understandable that Lin Zhenhua used his own money to apply for patents for other domestic companies.

However, He Haifeng also knows that Lin Zhenhua is not a person who gives love indiscriminately, otherwise, he would not use patented weapons to fight against infringing manufacturers.Patent application is something that every company should do, and every company does not have the money to do it. It is not Lin Zhenhua's style to ask Lin Zhenhua to spend his own money to do things for other capable companies.

Hearing He Haifeng's question, Lin Zhenhua laughed and said, "You can say it this way, or you can change it."

"Then tell me about it." He Haifeng said.

Lin Zhenhua said: "First of all, I want to explain the reason why I established this foundation. I have observed that many domestic companies do not cherish their own unique technology, while some illegal foreign manufacturers have already set their sights on our domestic technology. , are using various despicable means to steal our patented technology, and preemptively register it in their own name. Once they succeed, our own technology will have to be paid to others instead, and this problem is no small matter.”

"Is there such a thing?" Gao Zuxing asked in surprise.

Hua Keqin interjected: "I just heard about this matter from Hong Kong lawyer Qian two days ago, and I was also shocked at the time."

Lin Zhenhua said: "Lawyer Qian is not sensational. Let me give you an example. Our Anhui rice paper is a traditional craft in our country and is world-renowned. However, we have not applied for a patent on the production technology of rice paper. Think about it, everyone. If other countries, such as Japan, understand the process of rice paper production and apply for patents first, what should we do?"

"Is this impossible?" said a representative of Anhui Province. "It's obvious. Who doesn't know that rice paper is our country's technology, and the Japanese can apply for it if they want?"

He Haifeng nodded solemnly, and said: "Xiaolin is right. International patent applications, no matter whether you make it obvious or not, people just follow the procedures. Although it is not very rigid to determine patents according to the order However, if we do not have stronger evidence, others can indeed take away this patent. Japanese culture is greatly influenced by Chinese culture. If they find some historical evidence to prove that they have long owned the production technology of rice paper, Moreover, it filed a patent application ahead of us, and it is really hard to say who the patent belongs to in the end.”

The Anhui representative said disapprovingly: "Director He, don't worry about this. The production of rice paper has always been kept very secret. The Japanese..."

Speaking of this, he suddenly became dumb, and a look of fear flashed in his eyes.

"What's the matter?" Gao Zuxing asked.

"I...I..." Anhui representative stammered, "I just remembered that just two months ago, a cultural delegation came from Japan and asked to visit our rice paper production process."

"Did you let them watch it?" Gao Zuxing asked anxiously.

"We didn't think so much!" Anhui representative said aggrievedly, "They were brought by comrades from the Ministry of Culture. This is a matter of cultural exchanges between China and Japan. Of course we can't refuse. We sent someone to show them The whole production process, they are very interested, and they have a video recorder..."

"Oh!" Gao Zuxing sighed, "What do you think you are doing!"

He Haifeng said with a sullen face: "It's not their fault. When we were investigating at the National Patent Office, the comrades at the Patent Office also reminded us of this, but what they said was not as direct as what Comrade Xiaolin said. I think rice paper This matter may really need to be brought to our attention, Minister Gao, after you go back, should you ask the Ministry for instructions to start the patent application for the rice paper production process immediately, and you must be ahead of the Japanese."

Gao Zuxing nodded again and again: "Director He is right, this matter is very urgent. No matter whether the Japanese really want to grab our patent or not, we should put the villain first and then the gentleman, and we will take the matter seriously. Incorrect."

"Not only rice paper, but also many other traditional crafts, such as cloisonne, Tang Sancai, Hui ink..." Lin Zhenhua counted one by one with his fingers.Every time he counted one, the faces of representatives of one or several provinces below turned ashen. When he counted almost, no one at the table made a sound. Everyone thought of how many important products in their province were facing difficulties. Issues of leaks and loss of patents.

"In this regard, our Xiangping Province is still doing very well." A director of the Foreign Trade Department of Xiangping Province said, "We have a traditional blue porcelain, which is a secret craft that has been passed down for hundreds of years. The Japanese say We have refused many times to visit our production process. This point was decided by Director He when he was in our Provincial Department of Light Industry."

As he said that, he nodded to He Haifeng, and complimented him: "Now it seems that Director He was very foreseeable back then."

He Haifeng asked: "Director Li, what's the matter, have the Japanese visited our celadon factory again recently?"

Director Li replied: "That's right, they came a few more times and wanted to see our stoves, but they were all rejected by the comrades in the porcelain factory. In the end, the Japanese had no choice but to ask them to bring some stoves into the chimney." The ashes went back and they said they were going to put them on the table as a souvenir. Everyone said, it’s ridiculous.”

Lin Zhenhua looked at Director Li and asked, "Director Li, do they want ashes?"

Director Li replied: "Of course we will not refuse this request. They are quite serious, and they made a pretty bottle and put it in a small bottle. I think they really like our porcelain. Aiwujiwu, I even like the dark ashes."

Lin Zhenhua sighed softly, and then said leisurely: "Director Li, you don't need to give me a bottle of ashes, just give me a dust no larger than 50 microns. I will put this dust in the Under the electron microscope, use a probe to peel it off layer by layer, just like looking at the annual rings on a tree trunk, and analyze the combustion of each layer, so as to fully restore the sintering process in your kiln. And , By performing a spectral analysis on this dust, I can basically analyze which trace elements are contained in your china clay, and even estimate the ratio of various trace elements."

"What you said is true?" Director Li's complexion also began to turn gray, feeling a little changed.

He Haifeng interjected: "I don't study ceramics, but in principle, I think what Kobayashi said is not outrageous. It is feasible in principle to restore the entire sintering process from a single dust. As for the Japanese It’s hard to say whether the advanced level of technology can do it.”

"Then...then..." Director Li also stammered, "Manager Lin, what do you mean to say that our celadon craftsmanship may have been stolen by the Japanese?"

"It's entirely possible." Lin Zhenhua said, "Microscopic technology is not a difficult technology. I think the Japanese should have mastered it. They want the ash from your kiln, not out of any hobby, it's just a kind of Acts of industrial espionage."

"No, I have to notify the province immediately." Director Li said excitedly, "I want them to apply for patent protection immediately. This is an important export product of our province. If the Japanese master this technology, let alone Did it steal the patent and just replace our exports to Japan, we will be miserable."

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