Chapter 134: Asking the Horse to Run, and Giving the Horse Grazing
Long Wu, who has a junior high school education, made such nonsense and nonsense, which really made Dean Tong and his party, who had a polite and scholarly persona, tremble in their hearts.
It's a pity that a group of people in black suits are surrounding you and inviting you to drink. This posture doesn't look like it's convenient for you to refuse.
There's something wrong with the script. The big boss who promised to pay so generously, how come there are such vulgar people among his subordinates?
But in general, Gu Kun is at least much better than those parties who don't give money but still demand a lot of money. At least he wants the horse to run and gives the horse open space to graze.
Given enough money, there are many people in the world who are willing to be 996, including 007.
Dean Tong only weighed the matter for a few seconds before he went in to drink with Long Wu in a sensible manner.
Long Wu ushered the people in, and the food and wine served in the room were also very vulgar. They were all barbecues. The Louis
Yes, the wine is not good either.
Fortunately, Long Wu was cheerful. He blew a bottle of Remy Martin himself and then smashed the bottle on the ground:
"Everyone, I have little education, can't speak, and have no research on law. I just heard this beautiful lawyer tell me before that the laws of various countries in the world, including patent laws, do not protect creative ideas, but only protect practical ideas.
application technologies and products.
So, if you really come up with a new design, even if you register a patent, as long as you don't do a good job of keeping it secret, if other tycoons in the world want to grab the tallest building in the world, they can still pay for it and learn from you.
It’s a design plan, right? Is that the truth?”
Only then did Dean Tong fully understand what Long Wu was worried about, but he was also very embarrassed: "Mr. Long, don't get excited. The rules of the construction industry are like this. Even if some technologies can be patented, if you are
It's easy to blackmail someone for a sum of money, but if you want to prevent the other party from covering up or using it, and you're in a foreign country, that's a fantasy...
Of course, we will never leak secrets. I already know how much Boss Gu attaches great importance to it. I swear to God that any plan we plan will never be leaked during the design stage! As for the construction stage, we can hide it as long as we can.
, but after the construction is completed, it will definitely not be concealed. In fact, when the main body is almost completed, it will definitely not be concealed. It also depends on the on-site construction personnel's confidentiality management, otherwise it has nothing to do with us if the construction party leaks the secret."
Judging from this posture, Gu Kun is not only counting on the laws in the field of commercial law and intellectual property rights to protect his fruits of victory that should not be protected.
To protect what the law does not protect, the only way is to use means other than the law.
Therefore, people who want to steal spectacles must be capable in every way and be mentally prepared to kill several commercial spies in extreme circumstances.
Long Wu had an expression of indifference. He just turned around and asked a beautiful white lawyer next to him. It turned out to be a French girl: "Miss Sophia, is this the case legally?"
It turned out that there was a Dutch-French female lawyer sitting next to Long Wu. It was Sophia whom Gu Kun met through Van Bilson when he was salvaging ships and selling them off a few years ago, and they had happily cooperated with her for several years.
Sophia's professional niche is not intellectual property, but it cannot stand up to a black-and-white character like Gu Kun. Employers value friendship and reliability the most. Back then, Sophia was the one who said, "As long as you add money, you can sell it in your home country, the Netherlands."
Gu Kun was deeply impressed by his business ethics.
Therefore, after the last salvage shipment in the first half of the year, Gu Kun officially invited Sophia to be his personal legal advisor.
For Sophia, it doesn't matter whether the field of expertise has changed. What matters is that Gu Kun has given her enough money, so there is no need to hesitate. Being a lawyer is not done by anyone.
Other specific legal matters, including legal operations in various countries, must be entrusted by corresponding lawyers. Sophia only summarizes and checks.
At this moment, facing Long Wu's request for confirmation, she said decisively in Chinese, which she had just learned for a few years: "That's true. The original intention of the patent system is not to prevent others from entering the market, but to allow patent holders to receive authorization."
Fee is a tool for exchanging benefits. You Orientals use it to eat alone, and there is really nothing you can do about it.
Moreover, patents are registered by country. If you want to be protected in many countries, you have to apply for them in many countries. Considering that there is still a lot of motivation in the world to compete for the reputation of the world's tallest building, most of them are from the third world.
A backward country is one that has just become rich and is eager to prove its national strength.
Therefore, if you don’t apply for a patent in those countries, you won’t be able to accuse them if they want to build it. If you apply in those countries, maybe the patent offices of those countries themselves will collude with their royal families/government construction departments.
, in the substantive review stage or even the confidentiality repentance period, it will only be counterproductive to disclose the principles to the stakeholders.
Therefore, I reminded Mr. Gu from the beginning that even if you want to register a patent, do not go to those imaginary enemy countries to apply for it. It is useless. Maybe it will remind the enemy. If you want to apply, go to Oceania, Brittany, or our France and Germany.
Japan and other major countries are applying.
Because those third world upstart poor countries are unlikely to have their own architectural design institutes/firms with the technical strength to personally design the world's tallest building. They will definitely have to invite top foreign design institutes to intervene. We will refer to the home countries of those design institutes.
By applying, we can not only seal off the possibility of the upstarts pretending to be enemies of poor countries to leak secrets, but also ensure the scope of protection and intervene in claims from the design stage.”
Patent protection can be governed as long as it involves any link of R&D, production, sales and use. Therefore, specifically in the field of construction engineering, common sense is that the card design institute is the most cost-effective and convenient link.
It will be very troublesome to get the construction company stuck, especially once the construction project falls under the jurisdiction of the locality, the construction company is often a local snake. If the local power is strong, it is possible to win any lawsuit. If you really can't win, you can still delay it - don't think that the law
It's objective, and home field advantage doesn't matter. Only those who have been through a lot of lawsuits know the hardships here.
But even if Ka Design Institute wins, it will only be a claim for compensation and cannot "forbid the other party from constructing".
After hearing this, Dean Tong felt more and more that he had fallen into a fortune from which he could not turn back.
Gu Kun even hired such a vicious and professional foreign lawyer, what he had in mind was huge.
What he wants is not to claim hundreds of millions of dollars from the Breton Design Institute, but what he wants is that others cannot imitate it at all.
It’s simply a fantasy.
Dean Tong begged for mercy with a sincere expression: "Mr. Long, if you ask like this, there is actually very little we can do. Even if we are all on guard, it is not decisive."
Long Wuyi raised his hand to signal Dean Tong to shut up, and then signaled Sophia to start the class: "You just obey Miss Sophia's instructions. As long as you do what she said, if something goes wrong in other aspects,
I won’t look for you.”
Sophia then said politely: "Mr. Dean, our requirements for you include the following points. Please listen carefully: First of all, everything in the design stage is kept confidential. Is this no problem?
Secondly, all those involved in the design must be isolated from the moment they enter the substantive design stage, their phones are confiscated, and all external contacts must be reviewed by our security personnel——
Yes, we have hurt your freedom, but this is of your own free will. We will give each imprisoned designer an additional monthly confidentiality payment of 5,000 to 10,000 yuan, depending on his contribution and importance.
Fee, you should be satisfied with this price, right?"
Dean Tong, Accountant Li, Qin Ya and others, after hearing this number, they all felt dissatisfied and voluntarily gave up their freedom to let off steam.
With the salary level in 1998, even if you are a senior intellectual in the first-tier city of Hujiang, if you are given an extra 10,000 yuan a month and you don't see anyone or make phone calls, what else can you be dissatisfied about?
Besides, it’s not like you’re not allowed to go out at all. When you come to Lanfang in the future, you can still go to the resort run by Boss Gu to rest in your free time. I heard that Gu Kun specially set aside an area from the resort he runs to isolate it.
Kailai is specially designed for future designers and constructors to relax.
This is like paying you to be quarantined in a water house hotel in the Maldives. How long will it take for you to feel that this is illegal detention?
"Of course this is no problem, what else?" Dean Tong felt quite comfortable thinking about it and quickly asked the next point.
Sophia continued: "Secondly, I need you to make a 'smoke bomb plan' while designing. To announce it to the outside world, just say that the building height is 601 meters, or other numbers that you think are more similar.
All in all, it is to break through 600 meters, and it seems to be in line with objective logic, as if it can be built using traditional building technologies other than the 'closed load-bearing tube' structure. As for this plan, I will arrange for Mr. Gu to build it at a suitable location.
Channels, spread out at the right time, and interfere with decision-making by other imaginary enemies in the world who may want to follow suit."
Although the only imaginary enemy in Gu Kun's mind was Dubai, when he left this matter to Sophia to think about, Sophia thought more carefully than he did, including the people from the Bay who were plotting now.
imaginary enemy.
But in fact, I have to admit that Sophia's idea is the right one.
The reason why Gu Kun felt that the Wanwan people were not of concern was because historically, the 101 Building of the Wanwan people was only about 500 meters.
But in Sophia's view, the height of the project currently being prepared by the Wanwan people is a variable figure. The reason why it was more than 500 meters in the previous life is because this height is already high enough to exceed the Twin Towers of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In this life
After hearing about Gu Kun's plan, maybe the people in Wanwan will spend more money to raise the height, so why not give them a smoke bomb?
Building a building to such a height would definitely be a huge loss in terms of use value, there is no doubt about it.
So the only hope of getting back the money is to become number one in the world.
It is very smart to spend huge losses to gain the first place in the world.
The really stupid people are those who spent one-third of the world's money but only built a world's second-largest one. Or they spent 20% of the world's most money and only built a world's third-largest one.
"However, if the smoke bomb plan needs to be realistic, the design workload is also very large, and the expenditure required is equivalent to redesigning a project." Dean Tong must consider the cost.
Sophia said without any doubt: "Then redesign a project and tell the designers that their plan will indeed be used. Even the designers themselves will be deceived - Boss Gu will plan for this smoke bomb."
Those who foot the bill for design fees, what do you think about giving an extra $20 million and keeping it secret?"
The smoke bomb plan is not necessarily a waste. It can still be used to build a house in the future, but it may not be built on the blue side, or it may not be built immediately, so it is not a complete waste.
The completely wasted part may only be a few million dollars, which is mainly the survey part.
"No problem, that can definitely be done! I will immediately recruit another team from the hospital to serve your smoke bomb plan!" Dean Tong agreed immediately.
He even managed to steal 20 million U.S. dollars by throwing smoke bombs. It would be a shark-arm if such a big benefactor didn't serve him well.
"Okay, let me continue with the third request." Sophia had to remind Dean Tong not to get complacent too early.