Chapter 3221 Patent Barriers Protected by Divine Power
In addition, Iolum dedicates [Mythra] to Lady Mystery to obtain patent-like protection, which also requires divine grace. If a patent is not required, divine grace can be obtained.
In other words, in addition to repairing the magic network, spreading magic and creating new spells can also obtain divine favor.
In other words, with what Xia Duo has done in the territory now, he has already obtained divine favor, but he still needs divine favor. In addition to the upper limit of the number of spells used to store magic nets, what he cares most about is the innovative patent protected by the goddess.
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Because in the foreseeable future, he will inevitably come up with a lot of innovations in the field of magic. If there is no protection, he may gradually become conservative.
In Netheril, the Covenant of Sevington protects innovative patents, but what about outside Netheril, or even outside the Northland Alliance?
Therefore, from the perspective of future profits, Sha Duo actually hopes that the Elf Lord can expand the clerical field to the magic field, because in this way, the elves will also have similar magical innovation guarantees.
In this way, it is equivalent to mutual recognition of patents between the Mysterious Lady System and the Elf Lord God System, although such mutual recognition of patents can also be carried out within the framework of the Northland Alliance.
However, mortals are selfish, and all kinds of tricks are endless. Gods have a higher credibility, and they don't care too much about the gains and losses of mortals, but focus more on the survival of their own field.
Especially when Ms. Mystery is involved, this kind of patent protection based on the reputation of the clergy must be much higher than the patent system built by mortals.
Of course, the shortcomings of the mortal system are mainly that the cost of breach of contract is too low and it is too difficult to prove breach of contract. In the future, when the Northland Alliance has closer exchanges and various laws and regulations are more perfect, the mortal system will definitely become popular again.
After all, using God's system requires divine grace, and divine grace is not easy to obtain. It can even be said that it becomes increasingly difficult to obtain as time goes by.
And due to the existence of patent protection and the rapid development of magic, there will be more and more innovations.
In this case, God's patent protection may only be used to protect the most important innovations, and in more cases it still has to rely on the system built by mortals.
But at the moment, the role of divine grace is still irreplaceable, so after being reminded by Iolum, Shado was moved. In the past, he had not dared to vigorously promote communication mystery locks. A big reason was that he was worried about elves imitating it.
Adaptive puzzle framework + distributed node design, as long as the elves are willing to crack and imitate, they can almost certainly imitate it, similar to the replicas of various APPs on the earth.
In this case, the approach on Earth is generally that the first mover uses the huge number of users and user stickiness as protective barriers, and the APP itself cannot prohibit others from using it.
Even if others don't copy it completely, but only imitate roughly similar functions, it is troublesome enough.
On Xia Duo's side, the current number of users and user stickiness of the Communication Mystery Lock are far from being able to ignore competitors. In other words, once a competitor appears, the Tower of Time's Communication Mystery Lock is likely to become a wedding dress for others.
On Earth, there are many cases where first movers opened up the market but were overtaken by latecomers. Xia Duo was not willing to become a stepping stone for the elves.
As long as he completes the user accumulation of Communication Mystic Lock, he will no longer have to worry so much in the future. The huge number of users and user stickiness will allow him to continuously conquer cities and territories in different fields and catch up from behind in various fields.
This is also a traditional way of playing in the Internet industry in his hometown, and it can kill elves equally well in the magical world.
Of course, the premise is to let him complete the user accumulation of a platform, and it is not necessarily Communication Mystic Lock. Void Warehouse actually has the potential to become this main platform, but Void Warehouse requires too much investment. It is not as good as Communication Mystic Lock, which is more
Most of them are research and development costs, and you can make extra money by selling supporting communication instruments!
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Therefore, Xia Duo chose to use Communication Mystery Lock as the main platform, not only based on the experience in his hometown, but also on the practical considerations of the magical world.
If he could protect the communication secret lock patent, he could confidently and boldly explore the elf market. With the Northland Alliance's trade agreement, the elf countries could not refuse it. This was originally a weapon used by the elves to harvest small countries or countries with backward businesses.
, but for Xia Duo, it is also a magic weapon that can be used.
When the time comes, he shouts "free trade", and no matter how aggrieved the elf is, he has to open the door obediently. Even if there are various restrictions, the worst he can do is sell communication tools that can be used as mystery lock nodes in Evereska.
This is also the difference between the Tower of Time Communication Mystery Lock and the traditional Elf Mystery Lock. It does not need to expand the coverage of the Mystery Lock, but will naturally change as nodes increase and move, making it difficult to guard against.
Not to mention, once he starts promoting, he will most likely learn from his colleagues in his hometown and use low-price or even free strategies. The main goal is to retain users first. As long as he has a user base, he doesn't have to worry about paying for it now.
Instead, you should worry about whether you can maintain your original intention in the future and don't harvest too harshly.
The Tower of Time's Communication Mystery Lock is actually already in use in Netheril, and now it's just one step away from patent protection before it can be extended to the Elf World!
Mythra can be patented, and theoretically the communication mystery lock is also possible, but the core function of Mythra is only one, which is actually the arcanist's arcane fire. The technology and function are unified, but the communication mystery lock is different.
Technically, there is an adaptive myth lock framework, and the initial inspiration can be traced back to Austrian Fire, but for users, this is not a myth lock function that they can use. The same is true for distributed node design. It is a technology but not a function.
Technology can indeed protect, but function, will Ms. Arcana protect?
Shado hopes that the function of the Tower of Time Communication Mystery Lock will be protected, but at the same time, he also knows that such protection is not conducive to innovation, and innovation is encouraged by Ms. Mystery.
Therefore, if you want to apply for a patent for the communication mystery lock, you must consider setting up more barriers to prevent the imitation of elves. This also means that the patents he needs to apply for will not only be related to adaptive mystery locks and distributed nodes, but also require
Consider the direction of elf imitation——
That is, how to replicate the functions of the Tower of Time Communication Mystery Lock with traditional locks, and then he will apply for this solution as a product patent with unified technical functions, and may need to apply for several more to block the possibility of elves imitating it as much as possible.
But it is impossible to completely block it. Not only is it difficult to exhaust so many new design ideas in practice, but even if it is possible, this approach of completely blocking other people's innovation paths will most likely not be able to get Ms. Mystery.
recognition.
At that time, it may no longer be patent protected, but may be directly open source.
But God's considerations are not exactly the same as those of mortals. As long as Ms. Mystery ensures that there are other innovative paths, she does not need to consider the costs of other paths. This is also the basis for Xia Duo's containment strategy to be implemented.
Of course, if the elf comes up with a low-cost solution that doesn't infringe on patents, he can't say anything else. It's natural that the technology is inferior to others, and he can just find a way to catch up or build a moat from other fields.
No one can always be in the lead, and a strong person will not expect others to lag behind forever. Just do what you should do, and that is enough. ()