Chapter 453: Patent License Sold in Tears

  Chapter 443: Patent License in a Tearful Sale

Vienna, Austrian New Energy Power Company’s business had increased a lot recently, especially the commercial department was busy.

Since Vienna has become the city that never sleeps, the company’s headquarters has been invited by major cities from time to time, and it is natural that there is business to talk about.

Just because there is no business value now does not mean there will be no business value in the future. Electricity is the windfall of this era, and the era of the well is coming.

It is possible for power companies to lose money, but monopolized power companies can never lose money. Even if the government will limit prices in the future, it is impossible not to leave a reasonable profit.

Mastering a city’s electricity supply is in mastering the local voice, especially more prominent in industrial cities.

Want to hit the competitors, just give them a wave every now and then during the peak electricity consumption period is enough, and also let people can not say anything.

The world of the future cannot be separated from electricity, and whoever masters electricity, masters the age. By the end of the 19th century, almost every consortium had its own power company.

Austria’s new energy power company seems to be self-contained on the surface, but in fact it is a sub-company under the royal consortium, only because of the reality of the need, this company will become a new consortium.

No matter how it changes, the ultimate controller is the royal family. Of course on the surface, there is no direct relationship between the two, it seems that the royal family invested less than ten percent of the shares.

This share, once listed will continue to be diluted, most of the shares of the enterprise are held by various organizations. If you want to check carefully, there are organizations behind the institutions, cross-shareholding between the institutions, the equity is enough to dazzle.

This can’t be hidden from people who are interested, as long as they can’t be seen by ordinary people. Those who can see it are all smart people, and without evidence of what happened, they simply won’t talk nonsense.

This is all legitimate business, even if it is said, the impact caused is very limited. But the price of talking nonsense is likely to be never being able to say anything.

No one cares about the issue of equity, at least until the Austrian New Energy Power Company goes public, these issues won’t be in the spotlight.

Elkerson was the manager of the commercial department of the Austrian New Energy Power Company, and recently his main job was to return telegrams and then send representatives to negotiate with the government.

Negotiations are not limited to Austria, many cities in Europe are his customers. Some cities need to cooperate, some cities need to simply authorize patents.

Although the patent management in this era is not very strict, but all European countries basically have a patent law, small companies, individuals do not matter, as the government is obviously not able to take the lead in violation.

If the government takes the lead in violating the patent law, if the word gets out, it will not only lose face, but also lose a lot of money in the lawsuit.

Most European countries boast a fair and impartial judiciary, so many judicial systems are independent. When it comes to such cases, the courts are happy to set up a model of judicial impartiality.

Of course, this is only true for the government, and is not as strong a deterrent when dealing with individuals or private companies.

It is not uncommon for people not to pay royalties, or to pay less than they should. How much can be collected depends on the ability of the patent owner.

Just because the government wants to save face and is afraid of getting into this kind of lawsuit that it is bound to lose, doesn’t mean that companies will be afraid too. Usually people will open a vest, in case they lose the lawsuit directly declare bankruptcy, change a new vest and continue to fight.

In this respect, Austria’s new energy power company is lucky. This set of power system belongs to the public infrastructure, the customer is mainly local government, are need to pay attention to eat the Lord.

Customers have to pay attention to the appearance of eating, along with the power company engaged in this business must also pay attention to the appearance of eating, get the patent authorization is impossible to win the bid.

Of course, this is also Austria’s new energy power company patent fees are not much of the reason, or others directly to another stove, and then get a set of systems, to avoid patent barriers.

Money is not much, naturally do not need to re-development. Involved in so many patented technologies, want to bypass the patent system, the cost required can be much higher.

After working for more than two months, Elkerson came up with the first results and knocked on the door of the president Mark Oliver’s office.

“Come in!”

Mark Oliver’s voice rang out.

Elkerson walked into the office and reported, “President, we have completed the preliminary judgment with the representative of Paris Electricity Company, and both parties have basically reached an agreement on the patent licensing issue, the only trouble is that they need an exclusive license.”

Without any surprise, the first to reach a preliminary intention was the French. After all, they were arrogant enough to just need a patent license and did not invite the Austrian New Energy Power Company to invest.

Without the need for investment, it was naturally easy to talk. No one will be bad with money, Austria new energy power company now also need money to expand the scale.

On the contrary, the invitation to invest, the Ministry of Commerce had to use the word procrastination. The contract can be signed in advance, when to start construction will need to be considered.

After all, now the cost has not come down, immediately start construction, that is doing a losing business. Unless the local government is willing to pay the bill, the Austrian new energy power company can not afford to play.

Vienna advertising is enough, with the “City of Night” advertising, can collect the patent license fee, has been enough to recover the previous investment.

Mark Oliver right hand index finger tapping on the table, this is his habit when thinking about the problem. After a moment of silence, he slowly opened his mouth and said, “Tell the French that if they are willing to pay an additional 1 million Shendian in patent license fees, they will be given an exclusive license.”

The patent license fee of the Austrian New Energy Power Company is not high, and there are different standards according to different countries, for example: the patent license fee in France is 300,000 Shenduan, residential electricity use pays royalties according to the standard of 0.2 Shenduan per user per year, factory enterprises according to 100 Shenduan per year each, and in addition, each city lighting system according to 1,000,000 people at 50,000 Shenduan per year… …

This is not a high rate, and this also includes related technology transfer fees. For example: technology for the production of large generators, technology related to power transmission, and so on.

The research and development costs of all these technologies will not be less than 300,000 God’s Guilders. The latter standard of charging royalties looks like a lot, but in reality, it is not much money. After all, the patented technology is time-limited, and simply can’t be collected in the era of full popularization.

For example: residential electricity, according to ten percent of the population of France, that is, more than four and a half million people, taking into account the age of the dinky mouth is more than half a million or six hundred thousand households.

In fact, when the settlement, it is difficult to carry out statistics, basically is an estimate, the specific data or the French say.

As long as the gap is not too large, Austria’s new energy power company is Austria is unlikely to send people to investigate, the cost of this investigation is too high.

Industrial electricity is more difficult to statistics, several factories as a factory statistics, can be taken out to fool people, to check is very difficult.

This is why the equipment production royalties did not appear, mainly because it is simply impossible to count how much production, the other side to play tricks simply can not collect much money.

The only guarantee is the authorization fee for each city, a short period of time is also Paris, other cities have to wait. Perhaps until the end of the patent period, there may not even be ten cities to adopt.

Not every local government is so rich, poor cities are still the mainstream of this era, it is normal to have no money to pay for the power supply system.

This patent protection time decision, according to the French law, the city power supply network system only eight years, other related patented technology, the longest is only thirty years.

Each patented technology protection time is up, the corresponding cost will be deducted. How much the final revenue can be is still an unknown.

Not to carry out exclusive authorization is to want to collect a few more times the authorization fee. After all, the money that you get in your hands is your own, and the potential benefits may not be available.

If the price is high enough, a one-time buyout is not impossible. Now no one knows how fast the future development of power technology will be, otherwise the French have a great possibility to buy out the technology directly.

Theoretically this set of patents is still worth a lot of money, and you can collect a few million Shendian royalties every year, but in practice no one knows.

Estimates of one million eight hundred thousand per year is always there, at least a set of electric power system, despite picking up a little bit, in this era is also high-tech.

This aspect of the British talent is the hegemony, as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, they have the most patented technology.

Only because of the time relationship, most of the patented technology has expired, otherwise now every year they have to collect at least tens of millions of pounds.

Obviously, this patent fee the British just in the local collection. Waiting for the outbreak of the industrial revolution in other European countries, most of their technology has long been over the patent protection period.

Austrian new energy power company patent technology can be said to be in a tearful sale. There is no way, who let their technology is not mature?

The current authorization is actually a pitfall. When they have been bought, they will find that these technologies have a bright future and will not make any money at all in the short term.

It is naturally impossible to sell unprofitable technologies at a high price. Except for Paris and London, which have to follow suit in order to save face, other cities are not so bold.

As long as the time is slowed down, even if it’s only for two or three years, this cost is likely to drop by twenty to thirty percent.

Paris and London are now buzzing with excitement, there is no less Austrian new energy power company’s handiwork, buying newspapers to advocate “electric power era”, “lighting revolution”, “Paris is behind”, “London is behind”. London is lagging behind” ……

If not for the people of Paris is strong enough, now Austria’s new energy power company’s patented technology is still not sold out.

There is no way, if you want to keep the technology secret, you can’t register the patent; if you don’t grab the patent, if someone else grabs it first, then the investment in front of you will go down the drain.

The Austrian Patent Office will keep the technology secret for them, but the patent offices of Britain, France and other countries will not have such an international spirit. The transnational patent technology, from the moment of registration, has become an open secret technology.

Since it is impossible to keep it secret, why don’t you sell it, and expect your competitors to behave themselves and not steal the technology?

Everyone’s research level is basically at the same level. Get these technologies, at most half a year time Britain and France can be copied, may also be able to improve a little.

Unlike the technology of later generations, technology has developed to a certain degree, high-tech technology, even if the data is made public, it is not so easy to decipher out.

When applying for a patent, and then set up a little barrier, basically it can be kept secret. Nowadays, with technology, everyone is just thinking out of the box.

Certain technologies, see the product shell can give the reverse launch.

This is why in this era, people have not set up technical barriers, as long as the money can be bought. It’s not that people don’t know the importance of technological secrecy, but they simply can’t keep secrets.

Austrian new energy power company is the same, in the case of technical secrecy can not be carried out, naturally want to maximize the interests.

If you don’t market the patented technology now, it will be difficult to roll it out in the future. Simply setting industry standards is a temptation that is hard to resist.

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