North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 43 Patent Pre-application

Jimmy didn't have to wait long, and two days later he received a call from the law school telling him to go.

Jimmy was still on patrol, and time was tight, so he had to call Superintendent Kag, temporarily asked for two hours off, and drove directly to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in a police car.

Jimmy met Dean Linton again in the law school dean's office, but this time there was a middle-aged woman in the office.

"Mr. Yang, this is Professor Carrian Morgan from our law school. Professor Morgan will follow up on your project."

Jimmy and Professor Morgan shook hands to say hello, and then sat down.This time it was Karin Morgan who came to ask about the situation.

"Mr. Yang, Dean Linton has already told me about your situation and your project. I need to make it clear again that besides purchasing raw materials for your project, the rest of the work is done by you alone, right? ?”

"The entire project was purchased, installed and tested by me alone, but there was a little work I paid for others to develop, a single-chip microcomputer control program with very simple functions. I don't know how to do single-chip microcomputer programs."

"So, have you signed a commissioned development agreement with the other party?"

"No, but I can ask him to make up an entrustment agreement. In addition, I have registered a technology company before, and I can handle it in the name of the company."

"OK, I understand the general situation. I will select two students to handle your project in the next two days, one for a patent and one for a trademark. Please prepare the product prototype and trademark as soon as possible."

Professor Karin Morgan took a look at the situation, and then Jimmy took his leave and left, taking a leave of absence with Karger, and then continued his patrol career.

After a period of time, Jimmy frequently went back and forth between the law school and the police station, and under the advice of law school professors and students, he repackaged and improved the product, finally sorted out the documents required for the patent, and submitted it to the USPTO. After applying for a pre-application, I received the official notice of acceptance of the patent application from the USPTO.

Then it will enter the USPTO substantive review stage, which takes 12 to 18 months, and the subsequent law school will continue to follow up.

For Jimmy, all he can do has been completed, and he will wait for the follow-up USPTO expert team to review the results. If it passes, a letter of authorization will be sent to Jimmy, and then he will go through patent procedures and payment. If not, Jimmy will be notified. Conduct patent defense to meet the needs of expert review.

I learned from Professor Morgan that based on the results of their inquiries in the USPTO, there is currently no patent related to reconstructing police and civilian warning lights based on LED light sources. At present, the problem is not big. The only thing we need is to wait. If As the efficiency of USPTO improves, patents may also come down earlier.

Jimmy bid farewell to the bosses of the law school, went back to the police station to patrol with peace of mind, bought more materials during the break, and re-polished the police lights.

Jimmy plans to make a modification of his police car as a case.Of course, the premise is that Director James can be dealt with.Temporarily afraid to move his own police car directly, Jimmy made a small prototype ceiling-absorbing police light for his private car as a backup while perfecting the long strip of police lights. He is still a patrol officer and is not qualified to drive a private car on patrol.

Jimmy is on the night shift again. It is now April and the weather is getting warmer. For Arkansas, April is already a very suitable temperature. The highest temperature during the day is over 4 degrees, and the lowest temperature at night is over 4 degrees. Wearing a thin jacket in this kind of weather can solve the problem of keeping warm at night, but it is still a little unfriendly to the police, because they also need to wear soft body armor.

Jimmy will find a secluded place when he is patrolling and resting at night, and he will untie his body armor to make himself more comfortable. The body armor is very close-fitting and airtight. It was a headache. When I took off the body armor at the end of the patrol, I was sweating from the vest I was wearing inside.

Jimmy was cooling down and smoking when he heard a muffled gunshot.It has been more than half a year in the United States, and now Jimmy can no longer recognize the sound of gunfire as firecrackers. He pulled on his body armor, got into the car, picked up the radio to report the situation, reported his location, and then drew his pistol. Go in the direction of the gunshots.

Judging by the gunshots, the distance must not be very far, because there are woods in this area, if it is far away, it will definitely not be able to hear distant sounds because of the noise reduction effect of the woods.It is still uncertain what the gunshot was just now, because it was too muffled, and it felt like it was in a house or a somewhat closed space.

Jimmy turned on the flashlight, holding the flashlight in his left hand and the gun in his right hand, pointing forward and searching left and right.

The place where Jimmy was resting was a small road beside the woods. The gunshot just now came from the direction of the woods. According to the distance of normal gunfire, the place where the gunshot was fired would not be more than 100 meters away from him, which is quite close. .

The woods were not very dense. Jimmy walked into the woods. After advancing for more than 20 meters, a small wooden house appeared in the field of vision.

The cabin looks old, and there are moss growing in some corners illuminated by the flashlight. Jimmy walked around the cabin and looked around, but found no signs of people. It was too dark, except for the area illuminated by the flashlight. The place is completely out of sight, and Jimmy leans his back against the cabin wall, closes his eyes and begins to construct images of his surroundings.

Jimmy turned his head and sensed the surroundings. There was no one. He looked directly through the wall of the wooden house to check the indoor situation. There was a human-shaped black shadow on the ground, and there were no other people. There were some straight lines around, which should be furniture. thing.

Jimmy walked to the door of the wooden house, put on his gloves, and pulled the door. The door was not locked, and he pulled it open.

There was a corpse on the ground, female, middle-aged, the cause of death was shot in the head, the shot was in the back of the head, the hands and feet of the body were not tied, it should not be an execution-style shooting, it may be shot in the back by an acquaintance.

Jimmy got out of the cabin, closed the door, returned to the police car and reported the situation, and then there was a long wait.

When a murder case occurs, it cannot be handled by one or two people.Superintendent Kag, Constable Noah, part-time coroner Dr. Kevin Smith of the county coroner's office, and the coroner brought two assistants.

Jimmy led them into the woods, found the cabin, and waited outside. It was too dark, and there was still a small forest outside. There was no way to check the footprints on the ground at night, so they had to wait until daytime.The coroner and Kager checked inside. After about half an hour, two assistants carried the body out on a stretcher and carried it to the ambulance parked outside.

Dr. Kevin took off his gloves and said to Karg, "It's too late today, go to the coroner's office tomorrow to get the report." Then he followed the ambulance and left.

(End of this chapter)