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The main people who pay attention to patent law are those businesses and readers who are learning new knowledge.

Those businessmen are very shrewd. When there is no patent law, they are actually doing some research secretly, trying to come up with a secret recipe or an advanced technology to make money.

Those textbooks of new knowledge have opened a new door for businessmen.

Now, as soon as the patent law comes out, they can do it in an open and aboveboard manner.

When you come up with those secret recipes, you don't have to worry about being copied by others, you just need to register a patent.

After the income is guaranteed, their enthusiasm for invention and creation is even greater.

In fact, only the group of businessmen has the financial resources to do inventions and creations.

Moreover, they all have to be big businessmen, and small businessmen are all focused on the current small interests. Only those big businessmen will consider long-term strategies.

As for those students studying in colleges, when they do inventions and creations, they all need government funding support, otherwise they won't be able to do it.

Just like Chu Dayu, who made pendulum clocks, and Zu Dalu, who made microscopes, if they didn't have the support of the government, they would have the money to get those raw materials, and they would ask so many to start.

Without funding for experiments, they couldn't make a pendulum clock, and they couldn't make a microscope.

As soon as the patent law came out, there was another upsurge of invention in the university hall.

As long as you get one thing out, you can lie down and collect money later.

Moreover, if the invented thing is very useful, it can also be awarded an official title, and it will be superior to others.

Nowadays, people with discerning eyes can see that if you want to be knighted, the easiest way is to join the army, and the second is to engage in scientific research.

An official who has been popular for thousands of years has suddenly become unpopular.

"Brother Xu, how's your gossamer study?"

In the university hall, two students are walking together, one of them is thinking, the other is asking questions.

"It's not very good. The hairsprings made by those craftsmen do not meet the requirements, and the processing difficulty is too high. Considering the difficulty of the project, the R\u0026D team has allocated the funds that originally belonged to me to another project."

Xu Ke said with some frustration.

The hairspring he said is an elastic element that controls the reciprocating motion of the balance wheel.

To put it bluntly, it is a precision part in the watch, and it is the most important part in the watch.

When the pendulum clock was invented, many large families began to use pendulum clocks to time, which was very accurate.

However, some people have found a disadvantage of pendulum clocks, that is, they are too large and cumbersome, and can only be placed at home.

Many businessmen hope to have a small and exquisite timing instrument that can be carried around and can be as accurate as a pendulum clock.

For businessmen, it is very important to be able to grasp the time anytime, anywhere.

It is precisely because of this demand that some students in the university want to study it.

Among these people, Xu Ke has gone the farthest.

He has already done all the other parts in the watch, and he only needs to get out the part of the hairspring to assemble a small timing instrument.

Unfortunately, this last level is also the most difficult one. He studied it for more than two months, but there was still not much progress.

And this is not his reason, mainly because the current processing technology is not so precise.

As long as the experiment continues, the processing technology can always be improved.

In terms of theory, he has already completed it, and what Xu Ke lacks is only funding.

Unfortunately, because there are too many students engaged in scientific research in the university hall, there are too many projects.

The university has limited funds and can only give priority to other more successful projects. This one of Xu Ke was cut off and shelved indefinitely.

This made Xu Ke very frustrated. He was a poor student, and his family was only a petty bourgeoisie, and he couldn't afford his kind of research at all.

If the government does not give support, he has no funds and is struggling.

"Brother Xu, there is absolutely no problem with your project. It's a pity to be cut off. I have a way. I don't know if you are interested."

Zhang Anguo said.

"What way?"

Xu Ke was very urgent like a drowning person who saw the straw.

"To be honest, Brother Xu, my uncle wanted to enter the watch industry. Unfortunately, the pendulum clock has already been pre-empted, and the competition is fierce when entering the market at this time.

So, he turned his attention to the small watch. If Brother Xu is willing, he can accept the funding of my uncle to continue his research. "

Zhang Anguo said.

"Oh, what are the conditions?"

Xu Ke is not a fool, and it is impossible for a fool to develop a research project in the top university, Xuetang.

Therefore, when Zhang Anguo came together, he knew that Zhang Anguo must have a plan.

"This, the conditions are not harsh. My uncle only needs 20 years of exclusive authorization of your patent."

The 20-year exclusive license means that Xu Ke can no longer license the patent to other businessmen in these 20 years. Without competition, it is not realistic to get high licensing fees.

This condition is actually quite harsh.

But Xu Ke had no choice. If he didn't accept it, he wouldn't be able to come up with this thing.

If you drag it on, you might be taken first by others.

After all, the principle of this thing is actually not complicated, it is similar to the pendulum clock. It's hard, it's just that

the manufacturing process of some parts.

Moreover, after receiving government funding, the results of the research are not entirely their own.

There is not much difference between accepting government funding and receiving funding from businessmen, and the government also encourages support for this kind of behavior.

"Twenty years is too long, and the specific licensing fee needs to be discussed."

Xu Ke counter-offered.

"As long as Brother Xu wants to do this, my uncle will invite you to dinner at Zuixianlou later. You and him will discuss it in person at that time."

Zhang Anguo smiled and put his arms around Xu Ke's shoulders, pulling a talented person. This is not easy.

Things like this don't just happen to Xu Ke.

There are many people in the university who have talents and lack of funds, and there are many businessmen who have all the capital but can't find good projects.

The two are like dry wood and a raging fire, it really ignites when they touch.

When the patent law came out, businessmen took a lot of action all of a sudden.

In a short period of time, many people have reached cooperation intentions.

However, among these people, there are definitely a few who can succeed.

Making inventions is not as easy as one might imagine. Failure is the norm, success requires luck.

However, once it is successful, its benefits can be a hundred times, a thousand times.

A new and exclusive commodity, the profit of which can easily run into millions of taels, tens of millions of taels.

Just like perfume and cement, the market demand is too great.

Engaging in these unique businesses is as easy as picking up money.

A commodity can change the fate of a family and make it prosperous.