The White House's desire for the patent for Jiuxuan Zaizao Pill was both unexpected and reasonable in Smith's view.
Once the health department reported this news to the White House, they would naturally not be able to miss this good opportunity.
However, it is not up to them to decide whether they can get the patent.
This kind of medicine is like a super money printing machine. No one with a little foresight can sell the patent.
But Smith did not pour cold water on the other party, but readily agreed, saying: "After I meet the person in charge of the other party, I will try my best to promote this matter."
As he spoke, Smith added: "However, I'm afraid I can't handle such a big matter by myself. Should the White House send some negotiators over?"
The Minister of Health immediately denied: "It is difficult for the White House to directly come forward on this kind of matter. If word spread, it will make people mistakenly think that the White House intends to control the medical field. Once governments around the world start to get involved, it will be difficult to promote this matter."
After saying that, the other party asked again: "You go over this time and explore the other party's tone in private first. If the other party is interested in taking action but wants more money, I will call the person in charge of Johnson & Johnson and ask them to
Come forward and buy this patent."
Smith was secretly speechless, thinking: "The White House is indeed very clever in handling this kind of thing. They learned the news first, and then wanted to pick the fruit and give it to a top big company like Johnson & Johnson. Once Johnson & Johnson gets this top-notch
Aren’t drug patents about to become popular?”
At this time, the other party continued to remind him: "Smith, you must try your best to promote this matter. Once the patent is successfully obtained in the United States, Johnson & Johnson will use at least a few percentage points of sales a year to manage the relationship, including you.
Me, this is a huge cake!”
Smith couldn't help but feel shocked.
Once this drug has the opportunity to be fully marketed, it can easily generate sales of 100 billion US dollars a year. If you take a few percentage points, it will be at least several billion US dollars.
If billions of dollars are used to deal with the relationship, even if I only divide it into small pieces, I'm afraid it will have to be calculated in units of hundreds of millions.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but get excited and said quickly: "I will definitely try my best to facilitate this matter!"
The other party responded with satisfaction, and then said: "Smith, there are instructions from the White House. If the patent for this drug cannot be obtained, the formula must be cracked. But the seven pills you got before were all taken by your son.
I ate it and didn’t leave any samples, so this time you have to get some more Jiu Xuan Zai Zao Pills."
Smith asked in surprise: "If we can't get the patent authorization, we will directly crack the other party's formula. This will definitely have a devastating impact on the credibility of our entire pharmaceutical patent system. Is it too risky to do this?"
"What are you afraid of?" the other party said nonchalantly: "We will definitely not do this kind of thing ourselves. After we have conquered the formula, we will hand over the formula to the Indian pharmaceutical company we hold for production. India does not recognize pharmaceutical patents anyway.
."
Smith instantly understood the other party's intention.
If you can't buy it openly, you'll steal it secretly.
After stealing it, put it in India for production, so as to avoid legal risks.
India's generic drugs have always been world-famous. The reason why they can blatantly copy various drugs is because the country's laws do not recognize pharmaceutical patents, so this kind of thing is not illegal in India.
Smith was somewhat resistant to this strategy.
After all, he comes from an academic background and respects medical patents very much, just like an author respects copyright the most.
Allowing him to participate in piracy of drug patents is equivalent to asking an author who has been in the industry for many years and has deep feelings for creation to engage in plagiarism.
He really didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing.
So, he could only deal with it: "I know, I will try my best to find ways to promote the patent, and I will tell you as soon as there is news."
The other party didn't say much and said, "If you have any news, please contact me as soon as possible."
"good."
…
At noon the next day, Yanjing time, Smith's flight landed in Zhonghai, the largest city in southeastern China.
Immediately afterwards, without any time to rest, he directly transferred to the high-speed train from Zhonghai and arrived at Jinling.
As soon as he arrived in Jinling, he immediately took a taxi to Jiuxuan Pharmaceutical's headquarters in Jinling, but during this process, he did not get in touch with Wei Liang.
Because he was afraid that Wei Liang would not want to see him, he planned to visit Wei Liang directly at Jiuxuan Pharmaceutical.
After nearly twenty hours of running around, Smith finally arrived at Jiuxuan Pharmaceutical at six o'clock in the afternoon.
As soon as he arrived at the entrance of Jiuxuan Pharmaceutical, he was stopped by the security guard at the gate because he did not have a pass card.
So he could only say to the security guard in fluent Chinese: "Hello, my name is James Smith. I came from the United States to visit your General Manager Wei Liangwei. Please inform me."
The security guard picked up the walkie-talkie and reported the situation to the security director of the office building.
Subsequently, the news was passed on layer by layer, and Wei Liang's secretary finally conveyed it to Wei Liang.
As soon as he heard that Smith had arrived at the factory gate, Wei Liang couldn't help laughing.
Judging from this time point, after Smith learned that he had returned to China, he took a plane and chased him all the way back within a few hours.
He remembered Ye Chen's previous instructions and said to his secretary with a smile: "Ask the security guard to tell that Smith that my status is relatively sensitive now and I cannot casually meet anyone with interests in the medical field. If he really wants to see me
If so, you need to make an appointment through Master Hong Wu of Tianxiang Mansion."
The secretary gave the order without hesitation.
Soon, Smith got the news from the security guard.
He had already arrived at the door of Jiuxuan Pharmaceutical, but Wei Liang insisted on letting him make an appointment through a third party. This made Smith immediately realize that Wei Liang was taking revenge on him.
One is to retaliate against his previous arrogance, and the other is to retaliate against his previous practice of letting him make an appointment to meet through a public relations company.
He wanted to ask Wei Liang for a favor and try to meet Wei Liang first, so he could only pick up his cell phone and call Wei Liang again.
However, the firewall on Wei Liang's mobile phone had already been turned on, and except for acquaintances he added to the whitelist, no other calls could be made.
At this time, Wei Liang called Hong Wu and said with a smile: "Master Hong Wu, this is Wei Liang. Master Ye asked me to introduce you to a good deal!"
Hong Wu asked curiously: "Master Ye asked you to introduce me to a business? What kind of business?"
Wei Liang smiled and said: "Someone wants to ask me to meet, but Master Ye asked me to show off and let the other person go to you first to ask me to have a meal. Then you will charge him an agency fee, and you won't need to pay for the rest.
Worry."
Hong Wu smiled and said: "I'll go, there's such a good thing?! Then how much agency fee should I charge him?"
Wei Liang said: "Master Ye told you to take him five million."
"What did you say?!" After hearing this, Hong Wu's jaw dropped to the ground in shock, and he blurted out: "I want to pay you five million for a dinner date?!"
Wei Liang smiled and said: "Yes, five million, and it's still US dollars."
"Five million dollars?!" Hong Wu was dumbfounded and blurted out: "Good guy... Wei Liang, you are doing well now... The price of a meal with you is more expensive than Buffett!"
Wei Liang said modestly: "Fifth Master, please don't make fun of me. The reason for quoting such a high price is entirely Master Ye's ability. You also know that I am just doing things for Master Ye, and I am just pretending to be powerful..."
Hong Wu nodded and said hurriedly: "I understand. Wait for me to call Master Ye and ask him what his specific instructions are."
"good!"
This chapter has been completed!