Moreover, there are administrative fines, which means more national treasury revenue, higher local fiscal revenue, more funds within the patent office, and higher bonuses for case investigators.
Getting promoted and making a fortune was never a polite thing to say in the Tang Dynasty, but it was real. Many patent patrol officers with strong case-handling skills received bonuses every year because of their softness.
Therefore, if you sell too many counterfeits after infringement, the impact will be great. Even if you have a net worth of 10 billion, you will be fined until bankruptcy. This does not mean that the loss and compensation to the patent holder will be so much.
Instead, the Patent Office will issue an excessive administrative fine, which is much more than any compensation.
Sometimes the fines for some large companies are several times or even hundreds of times.
Because this kind of fine is a punitive fine, and the more it targets large enterprises, the more serious the fine will be. At the same time, it also affects the revenue of the national treasury. If the patent offices in various places can raise the fine, they will never lower the fine.
And if the impact is too bad, you will go to jail.
The Patent Law of the Tang Dynasty stipulates: Those who maliciously infringe patents, make huge profits, and have a bad influence will be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than ten years!
Of course, this is not the case in general infringement cases. It is not easy to meet the three conditions at the same time!
In any case, the risk of infringement is very high in Datang. Patent offices in various places expect to catch a few infringing companies with huge influence and fine them every year. Otherwise, how can they support so many administrative staff, so the patent office is definitely better than being
Infringing companies themselves are more active in investigating various infringement cases.
Sometimes the company that has been infringed on a patent doesn't even know it, but the Patent Office will catch the person and notify you that you can collect compensation for the infringement!
It was precisely because he knew how complete and harsh Datang's patent system was that Li Yubo was unwilling to sell these patents.
The military naturally has no objection to Li Yubo's opinion. The patent belongs to others and they can do whatever they like.
Therefore, the military came up with another solution, which was to find other manufacturers to do pure OEM work.
Naturally, there is no problem with this simple OEM. In this way, you only need to pay the processing fee. Not to mention retaining the patent, you will also retain the design capabilities and develop subsequent models of engines until one day you have enough funds to set up your own engine.
production line.
As for the basic patent licensing of gasoline engines, the military has given a simpler plan. The military can directly sign an order contract with Qixiang Machinery Company, and then you can take the order contract to a bank for a loan. After getting the loan, you can go to the Royal
Polytechnic is authorized.
The Royal Institute of Technology is very easy to deal with. As long as the patent is on the external authorization list and you pay the right price, it won't be a problem.
The Army still has a conscience for companies like Wuchang Qixiang that play with new technologies. Although the price is lowered, a two-wheeled gasoline vehicle is still priced at 2,000 Tangyuan.
This price is not cheap.
Because Li Yubo's two-wheeled bicycle actually had a gasoline engine that was more valuable. However, even before, because the engine was relatively simple and small, the cost was not too expensive.
As for the body, it’s basically not worth much money, and some parts are still made of wood.
Not to mention, the four-wheeled vehicles produced by Zhongyuan Automobile Company and Hangzhou Power Machinery Company these days, in addition to the load-bearing structure and core components, are actually made of wood in many places, especially the cabin.
This is not to reduce costs, but to reduce the weight of the car body.
After all, the engine power is too small, and the requirements for the weight of the car are relatively strict. It is impossible to make the entire car directly from steel. In that case, it would easily weigh one or two tons or even more, and the current engine cannot carry it at all.
It is said that many of the parts and unique designs in this bicycle rack are the exclusive patents of Li's Bicycle Company. For these patents, he once had a little conflict with his family.
At the beginning, his father directly agreed to collect patent fees at market prices and licensed some of the exclusive patents involved to his second son's factory.
However, some people in the family have strong opinions on this, saying that since we are a family, it is not impossible to use the patent, but since we have already used the patent, can we also do the two-wheeled gasoline vehicle business together?
After all, we are a family, and Li's Bicycle Company has been engaged in two-wheeled bicycles for so many years, so its technology and experience are the latest in the industry.
Well, there is only one bicycle company in the entire empire...
Regarding these words, Li Yubo remained silent!
If we really talk about it, Li Yubo really took advantage of him. It is normal for some people to be dissatisfied.
Many parts on the frame of the two-wheel gasoline vehicle are the exclusive patented parts of Li's Bicycle Company. If it were someone else, Li's Bicycle Company could rely on these exclusive patents to obtain more benefits, such as directly requesting a shareholding.
If the other party refuses, then refuse the authorization and wait until our exclusive patent expires in more than ten years if we want to develop a two-wheeled gasoline vehicle.
Or if you have the ability, you can bypass the more than 200 various patents of Lee Bicycle Company surrounding pedal bicycles.
If you can really do it, the entire empire will say you are awesome!
The Tang Empire was such a huge empire, and there was only one Li Bicycle Company for a reason. It was because they had built a series of patents around pedal bicycles.
Not only the entire vehicle, but more importantly, the various core components and designs are all their exclusive patents!
It is difficult to circumvent their patents and requires a lot of money to do it. Whether it can be done or not, even if it can be done, the gain outweighs the gain.
Apart from being used by the military, the sales of bicycles these days among civilians are not very large.
On the one hand, they are expensive. The cheapest model of Li's bicycle today costs more than 200 yuan, which is equivalent to the entire year's income of many middle-income families.
Currently in Datang, a standard family of five people with an annual income of 300 yuan is basically considered a middle-income class.
If you are single, you can basically live a decent life with an annual income of one hundred yuan.
A bicycle costs more than 200 yuan, not all families can afford it.
However, the price issue is not actually the main issue. Private carriages are also expensive, but the number of private carriages throughout the empire is huge.
The most important thing is that people in the Tang Dynasty actually don't like bicycles very much.
People in the Tang Dynasty felt that this thing had to be pedaled by oneself. It would make you sweat when riding on a hot day, and freeze like a dog when riding on a cold day.
Not decent at all.
People in the Tang Dynasty had a somewhat morbid attitude towards the word decent.
When farmer uncles go to the city to do errands or buy things, they will put on high-quality cashmere business attire or silk robes and take a public carriage into the city.
You ride a bicycle until you are half exhausted and covered in stinky sweat. When you get to the department stores in the city, they won't let you in...