Chapter 965: Pros and Cons of Patents

Of course, graphene batteries also have grades, and it is impossible to achieve the desired effect as soon as they are put into commercial use. As advertised, an electric car can travel a thousand kilometers in 10 minutes of charging.

This is certainly the most desirable and desirable outcome. But in reality, it is not easy to achieve, it is like artificial intelligence, everyone wants artificial intelligence to be advanced enough, smart enough, just like our human brain. However, although the current development of artificial intelligence is rapid, it is far from achieving the desired effect.

Restricted because of materials, manufacturing technology, cost, etc. Even if the graphene battery is available, it may be much stronger than the ordinary lithium battery on the market, but it can also be so exaggerated in the publicity.

In fact, the relevant laboratories and R&D teams of Haoyu Technology have also been researching graphene technology, and have had some success.

However, these technologies will not be applied immediately, but will be stored in the company's database as a technical reserve for future needs.

Not only graphene technology, but also the company's data database stores a lot of research and scientific research success, covering a very wide range.

Some of these technologies are already available and used in newly released products, while others continue to be stored in waiting to be needed.

Along with these technologies, of course, there are a large number of technical patents. With the increasingly stringent laws and regulations of domestic technology copyright, major companies attach great importance to the application and registration of technology patents.

Even, it has become a business, or a weapon in the hands of major companies. Therefore, there are often some cases of preemptive registration of patents, regardless of the technology, or design, and the patent application is registered first.

In this way, even if you don't use it yourself, you can license it to be used by others. And it can also become a powerful weapon against competitors at a critical time.

Wu Hao: Of course, they also attach great importance to the application and registration of technology patents, and have also set up a special department to be responsible for these things.

At present, the company's annual number of patent applications and registrations has been in the forefront of China, and even often peaks.

And in terms of the quality of technology patents, their company is also the best. This is not their Wang Po selling melons and boasting, but it is statistically announced by a professional authority.

In fact, these technology patents do not represent all of Wu Hao's technologies, but only a part of all their technology patents.

For example, they have a lot of technology, which has not been released to the public for the time being, and there are many technologies that need to be kept secret.

For example, the formula and manufacturing process of super solid-state batteries are currently self-confidential.

There are also some products that are not suitable for patenting. Just like the intelligent attack drone they developed, the Wild Bee Swarm Array Attack System, the Battlefield Sweeper Individual Strike System, the Jianmu-1 Jianmu-2 launch vehicle, and so on. This kind of cutting-edge weapons and equipment is generally kept strictly secret, and how can it be registered for patents and made public to the world.

For Wu Hao, or for most companies, applying for a patent is just to better protect their technology, design, and creativity.

Disclosure in exchange for protection is the basic concept of patents.

This approach is not necessarily entirely beneficial, and it has its pros and cons. On the plus side, through the protection of relevant patent laws and regulations in various countries and regions, your technology, design, and creativity have been jointly protected by everyone, and your legitimate rights and interests have also been protected.

However, this also means that you have to disclose the technology, the design, the idea, and the patent law also stipulates it. This kind of protection also has a certain period of time, and generally after the expiration of the patent protection period of more than ten years, it must be published free of charge.

At that time, this technology will theoretically not be yours, it will become the common property of the whole world, and anyone has the right to use it without compensation.

It may sound great, but in fact, it's all about profit.

In addition, the degree of importance attached to patent protection varies from country to country, and countries that attach importance to intellectual property rights have relatively complete laws and regulations on patent protection, and the implementation is relatively good.

But how to encounter which do not pay much attention to intellectual property rights, lack of laws and regulations on patent protection, or are not perfect enough, the implementation is to follow the example of the cat and the tiger, and go through the motions.

Even more excessively, there are no laws and regulations in this regard, or even opposition to laws and regulations in this regard, and there is no awareness of this aspect at all.

Therefore, after these patents are published, they are used by these countries or regions. Like what......

In this case, then you can only consider yourself unlucky.

Even some countries and regions that claim to be models of democracy will use some kind of excuse to encroach on some patented technology.

For example, in terms of medicine, the three poisons use the excuse to seize some patented technologies of other pharmaceutical companies to produce generic drugs.

These generic drugs are naturally a boon to the general public and patients. But for pharmaceutical companies, it's not fair.

Pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of manpower and material resources to develop drugs, but they are stolen and imitated, which is a harm to their rights and interests.

Perhaps everyone applauds this kind of behavior, but if the pharmaceutical company goes bankrupt or stops the research and development of new drugs, then the general public will be hurt in the end.

So for these pharmaceutical companies, they love and hate patents. Love, naturally, because patent-related laws and regulations protect their legitimate rights and interests.

Hate, naturally, because these protections do not prevent some people from infringing on their legitimate rights and interests. Moreover, these patents are maintained for more than ten years, and once they expire, it means that they lose ownership.

This is still very stressful for pharmaceutical companies that spend huge sums of money to develop drugs.

After all, the financial resources consumed for the research and development of new drugs are too high, and the time cycle is too long.

And this is not necessarily a successful development, and the general success rate is only 50%. That is, it is either success or failure, the uncertainty is too high, the risk is too high.

Even if the research and development is finally successful, it is difficult to recover the cost in such a limited protection period.

This is also the reason why the prices of many new drugs remain high, of course, it cannot be ruled out that many pharmaceutical companies blindly pursue profits and set sky-high prices.

Therefore, many pharmaceutical companies have chosen to keep their secrets private. For example, some of our Chinese medicines have adopted a self-secret method, and the formula is in top secret.

In fact, for the vast majority of enterprises, if their technology, creativity, and design can be kept secret, then they will never apply for a registered patent.