So, Lao Xu said goodbye to Mr. Zou, directly contacted the person from the technical department, and according to Mr. Zou's opinion, he began to prepare relevant explanation documents.

The technical department found a new mobile phone and installed a new smart assistant to use it as a sample for display.

Treat the mobile phone that installs the smart assistant as a whole and apply for a patent instead of the software itself.

Then, the legal department asked the person who filled in the trademark and patent application related documents, and also called the local trademark and patent administration bureau in person and made an appointment.

The trademark and patent management of this world are the same place, and the name is the Trademark and Patent Administration Bureau.

By the afternoon, all the materials were prepared. Lao Xu brought his technical and legal counsel, as well as the prepared relevant documents, and drove directly to the Magic City Trademark and Patent Administration Bureau.

After arriving at the place, Lao Xu and the other two found the staff who made the appointment.

Because Apple's Donghua branch is also a behemoth, Lao Xu, as the assistant to the president, is the top three people in Apple's Greater China region.

Therefore, the local patent office attached great importance to it, and the person in charge came out to receive it in person.

Director Wang, the person in charge here, is a middle-aged woman in her 40s. She was wearing neat uniforms, with black eyes, and shook hands with Lao Xu with a smile:

"Mr. Xu, please be happy and be happy. Just follow the process to apply for a patent. Why are you here in person?"

Lao Xu said a little embarrassedly: "This is because this patent is of great importance, so I went there myself."

Director Wang asked with great interest: "So, can you ask which patent is specifically?"

Lao Xu hesitated for a moment and knew that at this time, he had to speak very skillfully, and when it came to patent-related things, he was not very clear about the specific legal provisions.

So Lao Xu did not speak, but turned around and said to the legal counsel sitting next to him: "Come on, let's explain it briefly to Director Wang!"

"Okay!" The legal counsel stood up and said, "What we are going to apply for this time involves Xingchen, Xingchen Intelligent Assistant, Smart Assistant, Xingchen Assistant, Personal Intelligent Assistant, etc., and the invention patent for a comprehensive auxiliary terminal device called "Smart Assistant".

Director Wang was stunned for a moment, and then said in surprise: "It won't be... the super popular Xingchen Intelligent Assistant on the Internet recently!"

Lao Xu felt a little embarrassed, but nodded seriously on his face: "Yes."

Director Wang seemed to be interested and stood up and said, "I didn't expect that the smart assistant was actually an Apple product. This surprised me! But then again, it's worthy of being Apple, and it can actually make such an epoch-making product."

Speaking of this, Director Wang said a little confused: "But why, Apple's product is called Xingchen Intelligent Assistant, not i? Why didn't the press conference be held in Asia Meriga, but was first made public on B station?"

Lao Xu was asked so much that he couldn't speak because this was not something from his company at all.

Lao Xu felt that he shouldn't have come over, just let the people below be embarrassed.

But it is too late to say this now, Lao Xu could only bite the bullet and said, "This is all decided by the company, and I can't explain too much."

"Oh, sorry Mr. Xu." Director Wang smiled and concealed his doubts. "I asked too much, but this is my job requirement, so I want to remind Mr. Xu that your company's legal counsel should also know that software does not require patent application, and technology that has been published to the public does not meet the novel requirements of patent applications."

Lao Xu didn't know how to answer, so he looked at the company's legal counsel again.

The legal counsel cleared his throat: "That's right, our company is not applying for a software patent, but a comprehensive auxiliary terminal device called 'Smart Assistant'."

Director Wang frowned slightly: "What does this comprehensive auxiliary terminal device that you call 'smart assistant' specifically refer to? Isn't the smart assistant a software?"

The legal counsel continued: "Comprehensive auxiliary terminal equipment, 'smart assistant', this is a new conceptual product proposed by our company. It is an epoch-making new conceptual product, a terminal equipment that can assist users in daily work and study.

"He may include the functions of calling, mobile network, games, etc. that were previously owned by mobile phones, but it is essentially different from mobile phones. He is a mobile phone with his own consciousness.

"For example, all operations of a mobile phone need to be completed by the user himself. Our 'smart assistant' does not need it. The owner only needs to make his own request, and the 'smart assistant' can complete the relevant work by himself.

"What we sent as a sample is indeed the appearance of the mobile phone, but our concept does not only include the mobile phone.

"As long as it has its own will and can work directly according to the owner's orders, it belongs to the category of "smart assistants".

"We believe that in the future, the concept of smart assistants will be known to the public by surpassing the concept of mobile phones and computers. So, let's apply for ownership of this patent.

"What we are going to apply for is an invention patent under such a concept. This concept has been fully documented in the document and we have also brought the sample, so you can ask relevant technical personnel to review it."

After hearing the legal counsel, Lao Xu couldn't help but nodded slightly, saying that he was a legal counsel.

It turned out that I still thought that if the Administration wanted to explain the software development concept and other things, what should I do?

Now it seems that before coming, after hearing Mr. Zou’s request, he had already prepared his words.

The concept of "having your own will and working directly according to the master's order" is really great!

Just like the patent "on the LCD screen, displaying text and images through dot matrix", this is a patent with almost full coverage.

This company uses this patent to claim patent fees from almost all monitors, mobile phones and computer manufacturers every year.

If you don’t pay the patent fee, he will sue you. As long as you sue, you will win, and the court will force you to pay.

Similar to this, if the patent for a comprehensive auxiliary terminal device called "Smart Assistant" that is forcibly created today can be passed, as long as the product with its own will be a patent of Apple in the future.

Because this time I applied for it was not a smart assistant that was already popular on the Internet, but a product with its own will, which included smart assistants. Smart assistants are just a type of our concept.

No matter how Chen Jiansheng or other companies continue to develop and utilize smart assistants, no matter how they install smart assistants on anything.

Whether it is mobile phones, computers, robots, cars, aircrafts, construction machinery, even refrigerators, color TVs, all kinds of household appliances.

This is all an infringement on Apple.

In the foreseeable future, similar products will definitely take advantage of the east wind of smart assistants to emerge and develop explosively.

And the producers of these products must pay Apple a patent fee.
Chapter completed!