Hearing Ogier's price offer, the conference room suddenly became agitated. Perhaps they were worried that there were foreign guests present, and the price of 100,000 US dollars was also proposed by foreign guests. Everyone did not want to be too obvious, and they just whispered to each other in twos and threes.
The whole atmosphere seems quite subtle.
Shan Jinwen was an outsider, but he felt that everyone's reactions were a bit strange, but he didn't know what was going on. He turned to Zhao Zhaoxin beside him and asked in a low voice: "Old Zhao, what are you guys doing..."
Zhao Zhaoxin smiled bitterly and said: "Old Dan, the sincerity of the other party is a bit lacking."
"Insufficient sincerity?" Shan Jinwen was stunned, "Why, do you have any objections to this price?"
"Too low, this is simply..., ugh!" Zhao Zhaoxin swallowed back the curse word and replaced it with a sigh.
Shan Jinwen took a slight breath and said in a slightly teasing tone: "You are a state-owned unit, and you are eating the royal food. Your vision is really different. If a foreign guest wants to spend 100,000 US dollars to buy some technology from our system, I will
Dole is crazy, how can you be like you and dislike others for offering too low a price?"
Speaking of which, with Shan Jinwen's position, it is not that he has never seen US$100,000. Although China is very poor nowadays, its total import and export volume per year is more than US$40 billion. The hospitals under the Beijing Health Bureau import medicines.
Purchasing advanced medical equipment also starts at a million dollars.
But when it comes to technology transactions, especially when foreign companies buy Chinese technology, the asking price of US$100,000 is very impressive. In Shan Jinwen's view, isn't technology just something that a few people can create through experiments, and it can be done continuously?
How much is technology that can be developed by Chinese people worth?
Shan Jinwen had also heard of the two-step fermentation method, because the Institute of Microbiology first studied the two-step fermentation method in cooperation with Beijing Pharmaceutical Factory.
Shan Jinwen also knew that after the invention of this technology, the Institute of Microbiology held several on-site meetings to introduce this technology to several domestic pharmaceutical factories and also donated strains to help these pharmaceutical factories master the second step.
The fermentation production process produces qualified vitamin C products.
During this process, the Institute of Microbiology collected nothing, which shows that this technology is not worth much.
For such a technology that is promoted for free in China, foreigners come over and are willing to spend 100,000 US dollars to buy it. What reason does Microbiology have for not accepting it? Looking at the expressions on the faces of everyone in the conference room, they are exactly the same as Zhao Zhaoxin's. They are clearly dissatisfied.
And disdain, is it because microorganisms are worthless?
In 1983, the salary of a professor was only more than 200 yuan, and the annual funding of a research institute was only one million yuan, most of which was capitation fee. If you can earn 100,000 US dollars out of thin air, which is equivalent to 200,000 yuan according to the exchange rate, is it possible?
Isn’t that a nice side income?
Zhao Zhaoxin said: "Old Dan, you are just swearing. Our state-owned units are really not as well treated as those units below you. Who doesn't know that the country's finances are very poor now, so where can it compare to your place.
"To be honest, if someone came up and offered 100,000 US dollars to buy our patents six months ago, I would have been crazy about it. Let alone 100,000 US dollars, even 100,000 RMB would be enough for us to do a lot of things
Already."
"What do you mean six months ago? Has anything changed in the past six months?" Shan Jinwen asked.
Zhao Zhaoxin said: "Isn't it? Let me tell you, six months ago, a science and trade company in Maolin Province signed a contract with us, promising to pay us 100,000 yuan every year and let us authorize them to use the two-step
Fermentation process to produce vitamin C.”
"What does every year mean?" Shan Jinwen was a little confused.
Zhao Zhaoxin said: "As long as they produce, they will pay us 100,000 yuan every year, which is equivalent to patent royalties. If they continue to produce, they will continue to pay this money."
"Si..." Shan Jinwen took a breath of cold air again, his teeth hurting a little.
He finally understood why everyone at the Institute of Microbiology looked down upon Lowe's promise of 100,000 U.S. dollars. A domestic company, and a company in a small Akarin-style place in Maolin Province, was willing to pay 100,000 U.S. dollars per year.
The patent was authorized at the price of RMB. An international giant like Lowe's only spent a mere US$100,000 and wanted to take away the patent right at once. This is indeed a bit sincere.
"But..." Shan Jinwen thought of something again, "Don't you never charge money for your two-step fermentation process?"
Zhao Zhaoxin said: "This is a strange thing. The person who came to talk to us about this matter at that time was a young man, too young to be true. If they hadn't really transferred money to our account afterwards, I would have paid for it."
I suspect he is a liar.
"He claimed to be the manager of the science and trade company in Maolin, and he was also a student at Peking University. We went to Peking University to ask about the latter, and it was true.
"He told us at that time that technology is the primary productive force and scientific research results should be paid for. He signed a contract with us and promised to pay us 100,000 yuan in patent royalties every year."
"What about the conditions?" Shan Jinwen asked.
"The only condition is that we cannot cancel their authorization under any circumstances," Zhao Zhaoxin said.
"This... is not a condition, right?" Shan Jinwen was a little confused, "Aren't there several domestic factories using your technology now? What reason do you have to cancel the authorization for them?"
Zhao Zhaoxin raised his head and glanced at Ogier opposite, with a sneer on his face: "Several of our leaders have discussed this matter, but they are also puzzled. However, after hearing what Ogier said just now, I suddenly
I somewhat understand that the young man named Gao Fan may be worried about this situation."
Shan Jinwen followed Zhao Zhaoxin's gaze and looked at Ogier. He had some thoughts in his heart, and then heard Zhao Zhaoxin ask the other party: "Mr. Ogier, I want to confirm with you. You said you are willing to pay 100,000 US dollars."
The price to purchase our patents, what specific licenses are included?”
"Of course it is full authorization." Ogle said, "We are a company, and all our decisions must take into account corporate profits. We hope to obtain the exclusive authorization for the two-step fermentation method patent, that is to say, in the patent
During the validity period, other companies except Lowe's Pharmaceuticals will not be allowed to use this patent for production."
"Does it also include Chinese companies?"
"certainly."
"If this is the case, then we can only express our apologies." Zhao Zhaoxin spread his hands, "As a national scientific research institution, our research results are for domestic enterprises, and we cannot restrict domestic enterprises from using our technology.
.In fact, we do not have such power, because these technologies do not belong to us, but to the entire country."