In downtown Songjiang, a newsboy waved the newspaper in his hand and shouted: "Extra, extra, the automobile has been successfully launched, and our Datang Dynasty will enter a new era!"
In a teahouse on the street, a middle-aged man in business attire was flipping through the Songjiang Daily in his hand. The second page headline published the news that the Zhongyuan Automobile Company's car was officially launched and successfully tested in Jinling.
However, even the headlines on the front page are related to automobiles. The front page of Songjiang Daily reported some official news. The cabinet issued several documents to support the development of internal combustion engines. It also reported that the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture had convened a meeting to announce that Songjiang
The government has always been at the forefront of the country in supporting high-tech industries, and this time is no exception.
Songjiang Prefecture will provide various subsidies to enterprises related to internal combustion engines, including not limited to tax incentives and even cash subsidies, to guide enterprises to enter the internal combustion engine industry.
It also claimed that the gasoline engine factory planned by Zhaoqing Machinery Company will be located in the Fourth Industrial Base of Songjiang Prefecture.
In addition, Songjiang Machinery Company, which specializes in internal combustion engine machinery and equipment, will also expand investment and announced that they are researching an excavator powered by a gasoline engine, which is expected to be launched on the market next year.
The situation in Songjiang Prefecture is just one of them.
Hangzhou Prefecture, which has been suppressed by Songjiang Prefecture for many years, also plans to seize the opportunity in this breakthrough in internal combustion engine technology. The prefectural government directly announced a series of support policies, the most eye-catching of which is for the gasoline engine industry.
Core industries will be exempted from all local taxes within five years.
Part of the tax revenue needs to be turned over to the national treasury or the finance of Jiangnan Province. Hangzhou Prefecture itself does not have the authority to exempt them from taxes. Exempting them from Hangzhou Prefecture's own local taxes is already the greatest support.
Who can get the most direct benefits from this preferential policy?
There is no doubt that it is the only internal combustion engine company in Hangzhou, ‘Hangzhou Power Machinery Company’.
The company specializes in the research, production and sales of internal combustion engines and related equipment. Its current main products are various types of gas engines.
The gasoline engine that has been successfully developed today appears to have been successfully developed by the Royal Institute of Technology, but in fact the deputy leader of the gasoline engine project team in the Internal Combustion Engine Laboratory is Qian Mu, the chief engineer and one of the major shareholders of Hangzhou Power Machinery Company.
Other companies still need to pay money to obtain patent authorization for gasoline engines, but Hangzhou Power Machinery Company owns part of the patent rights for gasoline engines and can obtain the right to use other patents for free.
Because the patent for the four-stroke structure in the gasoline engine belongs exclusively to their Hangzhou Machinery Company. In order to develop the gasoline engine, the Royal Institute of Technology and the Hangzhou Machinery Company reached an agreement. The two parties jointly developed the technology and jointly researched it. After the research was successful, the two patents were
Each takes a part.
Logically speaking, after successfully researching gasoline engines, Hangzhou Machinery Company is not willing to license the patent of gasoline engines. It would be great for the family to enjoy it, just like the current gas engines.
In such a huge empire, only Hangzhou Machinery Company can produce gas machines. Even if other manufacturers can produce it, they cannot, because the entire gas machine patent is unique to their family.
If other manufacturers want to play with gas generators, sorry, they will wait until the 20-year patent protection period for gas generators expires. If they dare to produce gas generators now, Hangzhou Power Machinery Company can sue them until they go bankrupt!
If gasoline engines can also monopolize one company, you can imagine how huge the market they will gain.
However, the Royal Institute of Technology did not agree, and because of the agreement between the two parties, the Royal Institute of Technology had the right to license all the patents of the gasoline engine to external parties. Of course, a portion of the patent fees received must be allocated to Hangzhou Machinery Company in accordance with the agreement.
Granting patents is the model on which the Royal Institute of Technology relies for its survival.
Therefore, they need to license the gasoline engine patent to recover R&D funds. Hangzhou Machinery Company cannot stop their determination to license the gasoline engine to external parties.
Unless Hangzhou Machinery Company has enough funds to acquire some of the Royal Institute of Technology's patents.
However, they couldn't afford it and couldn't buy it.
Anyone can predict the market prospects of gasoline engines. This is no less than the top technology of steam engines back then. If you want to completely buy out the patents held by the Royal Institute of Technology, the price will be sky-high!
No matter how much the final price is, Hangzhou Machinery Company will definitely not be able to afford it. Even if it can afford it, the Royal Institute of Technology will not sell it.
Royal Institute of Technology's patent management philosophy rarely sells patents directly, except for a few technologies related to national defense strategy, which are directly purchased by the military.
In addition, they generally adopt the method of patent authorization, and it is not a one-time authorization. They are now playing a patent sharing model.
That is to say, in addition to the initial licensing fee, a certain percentage of patent fees must be charged directly based on the selling price of the product every year.
The Royal Institute of Technology owns numerous patents and earns millions of dollars from patent fees every year.
Only with high enough patent licensing profits can we sustain the Royal Institute of Technology’s huge scientific research expenditures.
Just the internal research projects of the Royal Institute of Technology cost millions of dollars every year. There are even more research projects in cooperation with external companies, but these cooperation projects generally have companies sharing the research funds.
However, even so, the Royal Institute of Technology still spends millions of research funds every year. Where does this money come from?
It doesn’t have to rely on patent authorization.
If we want to say that the most proficient in patent business, it must be the Royal Institute of Technology, which has mastered all kinds of patent business.
Don't expect to directly acquire their patents. Unless you offer a sky-high price, the most commonly used model is patent licensing.
Therefore, Hangzhou Machinery Company cannot expect to acquire another part of the patents from the Royal Institute of Technology. However, if the gasoline engine patents are licensed to external parties, Hangzhou Machinery Company can still get a part.
In other words, whether it is Zhaoqing Machinery Company, Zhongyuan Automobile Company, or Songjiang Machinery Company, part of the large patent licensing fees they paid directly fell into the hands of Hangzhou Machinery Company.
And if they use the gasoline engine themselves, they don't have to pay Royal Institute of Technology patent royalties, which means their costs can be lower.
With its own low cost and the support of the prefect's yamen, the people of Hangzhou Power Machinery Company are ready to do something big.