With the end of the New Year holidays, the city is bustling again.

Unlike other companies that give employees a period of time to adapt, Wu Hao and his employees took the leave, and all departments of the company were running at full speed.

The time for the new product launch has been set, and it is in mid-March, so there is not much time left for them to prepare.

The main reason for this rush is that they have received the news that several companies may launch their own intelligent voice assistants at their regular spring launch events in April.

Obviously, it's all for them. The influence and popularity of their previous troubles made countless people very interested in this area.

As a tech giant, it is natural to have its own professional department to perceive market dynamics. So for such a great marketing opportunity, they definitely won't let it go.

Of course, Wu Hao is still confident in his own technology. But if they can't release the product before them, then their product influence will naturally be greatly reduced.

In the market, it doesn't mean that people with good technology will necessarily buy your bill. There are too many cases and stories of how a good product was besieged by a bunch of imitations and defective products, discarded armor, and finally disappeared.

They have the technology to be true, but they also have a lot of shortcomings that cannot be overcome. For example, brand influence, such as various supporting resources, and then market consumption channels and so on.

Therefore, before the release of new products, these are all things that need to be done one by one.

So the day after the holiday, Zhang Jun started his business trip with his luggage. Wu Hao also had to free up his hands from his laboratory work to deal with some company matters.

"Mr. Wu, this is the relevant information of the foundry that Mr. Zhang (Zhang Jun) has been running in the past few days, you can take a look." Dong Yiming handed over a copy of the information.

"Are they still the ones we identified before?" Wu Hao took the document and looked at it.

Dong Yiming shook his head and said: "I changed a few more, and the prices of the previous foundries were relatively high, so Mr. Zhang went to find a few slightly smaller ones."

Mr. Zhang of these foundries has been specially inspected, although the scale is relatively small in comparison, but the quality control of the products is still very good.

And the other party is also very sincere and willing to give us preferential conditions in many aspects. ”

"What about the confidentiality measures, I don't want it to be long before our relevant means of production information standards will be leaked, or the template will be directly copied by others." Wu Hao asked while looking at the documents. Compared with the price, he is actually more concerned about the quality control of the product and the professional ethics and confidentiality measures of the foundry.

"It's not bad, the other party promised to strictly keep the relevant production technology information security, and signed a relevant confidentiality agreement with us. In the event of a similar incident, they will take responsibility and compensate accordingly. Dong Yiming introduced to him.

Wu Hao glanced at the detailed report in the information, then looked up at Dong Yiming and said, "For the sake of insurance, let's keep it separate, we must pay attention to this aspect." In terms of price, there can be more, but the quality of the product and the security of technical information must be guaranteed.

By the way, how are we doing with our patent applications? ”

"Chu Hongwei has applied for the registration of more than 200 domestic and international patents related to our new product, and more than 100 are being applied, which is expected to be registered before we start selling at the earliest." Dong Yiming replied.

Chu Hongwei is a patent operation and management talent specially recruited by Zhang Jun from other places, in order to establish a professional patent application and registration operation management team in the company.

In the past, in the peripheral technology patent application of cluster array control technology, due to lack of experience, several related patents were preemptively registered by others.

It's their negligence and inexperience. Therefore, Wu Hao and Zhang Jun attached great importance to this, and only then did they make efforts to establish such a professional patent application and registration operation management team.

In addition to the relevant technical analysis, statistics, operation management, and related legal professionals, this team is responsible for the matters related to patent application and registration.

So in less than half a year, they have newly applied for and registered nearly 400 related patents for the company.

There is no way, in this era when even the shape and color have to be patented, in terms of technical protection, it is necessary to cover all plants and trees comprehensively.

A technology cannot only apply for this one patent, but also applies for a related patent that is similar to it, has the same function, or even has the opposite functional structure.

This is also to prevent technology theft and cybersquatting imitation of patented technology, and there are too many examples of this in this regard.

If your technology patent is worth a lot of money, then there will be countless people staring at the technology patent. Your technology patent not only means wealth, but will also become an obstacle for many companies to engage in this area.

Either they have to do everything they can to get the technology, or they try their best to circumvent the technology or look for loopholes in the patent protection of the technology.

Although this practice is somewhat shameless, it is a legitimate and reasonable business practice. Compared to money and profit, shamelessness and cheekiness are nothing.

Therefore, many technology companies will have such a professional team, which is responsible for the relevant professional application for registration, operation and management.

"Engineering samples of the company have come out and are now undergoing internal testing. I want Zhang Jun to speed up and complete the production process as soon as possible.

You also have to pay attention to the fact that after our new product launch, we will carry out relevant pre-sale work immediately. You must not only connect with the major e-commerce platforms, but also keep our own online operation window in case of possible accidents. Wu Hao thought for a while, and then instructed.

Dong Yiming nodded and smiled: "We have asked the relevant network design company to build our own online mall, which is currently being tested and modified, and will be officially launched after the press conference and other e-commerce platforms for synchronous pre-sale work." ”

"How about docking with the APP, I don't want anything to go wrong after the press conference, and the cost of making up for it will be big when the time comes." Wu Hao nodded and continued to ask.

Dong Yiming shook his head when he heard this: "The progress is relatively slow, and some mainstream APPs still have some doubts about us. But rest assured, we have already sent more people to deal with this matter, and it will not affect our new product launch. ”

"We must negotiate in front of this, otherwise as soon as we show at the press conference, these APP operators will start to extort money from us." Wu Hao frowned when he heard this.

Without the docking support of these service apps, the application scope of their product will be greatly reduced. To put it bluntly, it is still ecology, they do not have their own ecology, which is also a problem encountered by many products in the market.