Vienna – Austrian Energies has recently increased its business, especially in the commercial sector.

Since Vienna became a city that never sleeps, the company's headquarters has often been invited by major cities, and it is natural to discuss business when there is business.

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

It is possible for a power company to lose money, but a monopoly power company can never lose money. Even if the government restricts prices in the future, it is impossible not to leave a reasonable profit.

Mastering the power supply of a city means mastering the local discourse, especially in industrial cities.

If you want to hit your competitors, it is enough to give them a wave every three or five times during the peak period of electricity consumption, and it will make people speechless.

The world of the future is inseparable from electricity, and whoever masters electricity will master this era. By the end of the 19th century, almost every consortium had its own power company.

On the surface, Austria's new energy power company is a subsidiary of the royal consortium, but because of practical needs, this company will become a new consortium.

No matter how it changes, the ultimate ruler is the royal family. Of course, on the surface, there is no direct relationship between the two, and it seems that the royal family invests less than 10% of the shares.

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

This can't be hidden from people with intentions, as long as ordinary people can't see it. Those who can see are smart people, and if there is no evidence, they will not talk nonsense at all.

It's all legitimate business, and even if you say it, the impact will be limited. But the price of talking nonsense is likely to be that you will never be able to speak.

No one cares about the issue of equity, at least not until the Austrian new energy power company goes public.

Elkeson, the commercial manager of the Austrian renewable energy power company, has been working hard lately to send back telegrams and send representatives to negotiate with the government.

The negotiators were not limited to Austria, but also many European cities were his clients. Some cities need to cooperate, and some cities need pure patent licensing.

Although patent management is not very strict in this era, European countries basically have patent laws, and it does not matter if small companies and individuals violate them, and it is obvious that the government cannot take the lead in violating them.

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

Most European countries advertise judicial notarization, so many judicial systems are independent. In such cases, the court is happy to erect a model of judicial notarization.

Of course, this is only for the government, and when it comes to individuals or private companies, the deterrent effect is not so great.

It is not uncommon not to pay royalties, or to pay less royalties. How much you can collect depends on the ability of the patent owner.

The government wants to save face, and it is afraid of getting into such a lawsuit, which does not mean that enterprises will also be afraid. Usually everyone will open a vest, in case they lose the lawsuit, they will directly declare bankruptcy, and change to a new vest to continue to fight.

In this respect, the Austrian renewable energy power company is lucky. This power system belongs to public infrastructure, and the customers are mainly local governments, and they are all the main ones who need to pay attention to the appearance.

Customers should pay attention to the appearance, and even the power companies engaged in this business must also pay attention to the appearance, and it is impossible to win the bid if they do not get the patent authorization.

Of course, this is also the reason why the Austrian new energy power company does not collect much patent fees, otherwise others will directly start from scratch and build a system to avoid patent barriers.

There is not much money, so naturally there is no need for re-development. With so many patented technologies involved, the cost of circumventing the patent system can be much higher.

It took more than two months of busy work for Elkeson to come up with his first results and knock on the door of President Mark Oliver's office.

"Please come in!"

Mark Oliver's voice rang out.

Elkeson walked into the office and reported: "President, we have completed the preliminary judgment with the representatives of EDITX and the two sides have basically agreed on the issue of patent licensing, the only trouble is that they need exclusive licensing. ”

There are no surprises that it was the French who were the first to reach the initial intention. After all, they are arrogant enough, they just need patent authorization, and they did not invite Austrian new energy power companies to invest.

There is no need to invest, so it is naturally easy to talk about. No one is going to have trouble with money, and Austrian New Energy Power now needs money to scale up.

On the contrary, it invited investment, and the Ministry of Commerce had to use procrastination. The contract can be signed in advance, and when the construction will start needs to be considered.

After all, if the cost has not been reduced yet, and the construction will start immediately, it is a loss-making transaction. Unless local governments are willing to pay for it, Austrian New Energy Power cannot afford it.

It is enough to advertise in Vienna, and with the advertising of the "city that never sleeps", the patent licensing fee that can be charged is enough to recoup the previous investment.

Mark Oliver tapped his right index finger on the table, as he used to think. After being silent for a while, he slowly spoke: "Tell the French that if they are willing to pay an extra 1 million Aegis patent licensing fees, they will be given exclusive licensing." ”

For example, the patent licensing fee in France is 300,000 Aegis, the patent fee for residential electricity is 0.2 Aegis per user per year, the factory enterprise is 100 Aegis per year, and the lighting system of each city is 50,000 Aegis per year for 1 million people......

This is not a high standard, and it also includes the relevant technology transfer fees. For example: large-scale generator production technology, power transmission related technology, etc.

The R&D cost of these technologies will not be less than 300,000 Aegis. The latter standard of patent fee collection seems to be a lot, but in fact it is not very much. After all, there is a time limit for patented technology, and it will not be fully popularized at all.

For example, according to 10 percent of the population of France, there are more than 4.5 million people, and considering that there are more than 500,000 households in this era.

In fact, when it comes to settlement, it's hard to make statistics, it's basically an estimate, and the specific data is still up to the French.

As long as the gap is not too large, it is impossible for Austria to send people to investigate, and the cost of this investigation is too high.

Industrial electricity consumption is more difficult to count, and it is very difficult to check the statistics of several factories as a factory.

This is also the reason why the patent fee for equipment production has not appeared, mainly because it is impossible to count how much is produced, and the other party can't get much money if they want to play tricks.

The only guarantee is the licensing fee for each city, which is Paris in a short time, and other cities have to wait. Maybe by the end of the patent period, it may not be adopted by ten cities.

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

According to French law, the urban power supply network system is only eight years, and the longest of other related patented technologies is only 30 years.

When the time for the protection of each patented technology is up, the corresponding fees will be deducted. It is still unknown how much the final gain will be.

If you don't do an exclusive license, you just want to charge a few more licenses. After all, the money in hand is one's own, and the potential benefits may not be able to be obtained.

If the price is high enough, a one-time buyout is not impossible. Now no one knows how fast the development of power technology will be in the future, otherwise it is very likely that the French will buy out the technology outright.

Theoretically, this set of patents is still very valuable, and millions of Aegis patent fees can be charged every year, but in fact, no one knows.

It is estimated that there is always 1.8 million per year, and it is also a power system, although it is a little missing, it is also high-tech in this era.

In this regard, the British are the hegemon, as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, they have the most patented technology.

It's just that because of time, most of the patented technology has expired, otherwise they would now charge at least tens of millions of pounds a year.

Obviously, the British only collected this patent fee at home. By the time the Industrial Revolution broke out in other European countries, most of their technologies had long since passed their patent period.

Austria's patented technology can be said to be a tearful sale. No way, who made their technology immature?

The current authorization is actually cheating people. When you buy them, you will find that these technologies have a bright future, and you will not make any money at all in the short term.

If you don't make money, it's naturally impossible to sell it at a high price. Except for Paris and London, which have to keep up for the sake of face, other cities are not so arrogant.

As long as the time slows down, even if it is only two or three years, this cost may drop by 20 or 30 percent.

Now the bustling Paris and London are not without the pen of Austrian new energy power companies, bribing newspapers to advocate the "electricity age", "lighting revolution", "Paris is lagging behind", "London is lagging behind", ......

If it weren't for the efforts of the people of Paris, the patented technology of the Austrian New Energy Power Company would not have been sold.

There is no way, if you want to keep the technology secret, you can't register a patent; If you don't preemptively register a patent, someone else will preempt it, and the previous investment will be wasted.

The Austrian Patent Office will keep it secret for them, but the patent offices of countries such as Britain and France will not be so international. Transnational patented technology, from the moment of registration, has become an open secret technology.

Since there is no way to keep it secret, then if you don't sell it, do you still expect competitors to follow the rules and not steal technology?

Everyone's scientific research level is basically at the same level. With these technologies, it will take at most half a year for Britain and France to replicate them, and maybe they can be improved.

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

When applying for a patent, if you put up a little more barrier, you can basically keep it secret. In today's technology, everyone is just a gap in thinking.

Some technologies, see the product shell can be reversed push-out.

This is also the reason why in this era, there are no technical barriers, as long as you have money, you can buy it. It's not that people don't know the importance of technical secrecy, it's that they can't keep it secret at all.

The same is true for Austrian new energy power companies, which naturally want to maximize their profits when technical secrecy is not possible.

If you don't sell the patented technology now, it will be difficult to launch it in the future. Just setting an industry standard is a temptation that is hard to resist.