Chapter 841 The Holy Drive Returns to Nanhai Prefecture
Forget it, the subsequent patents for new inventions by individuals or institutions from various countries will only be recognized by the Daheng Empire on the surface, but not in fact.
There is an issue of jurisdiction here. The patent issues of the Daheng Empire are all under the jurisdiction of the Patent Office of the Daheng Empire. If you, a foreigner, invented something new and applied for a patent in your own country, it has nothing to do with us Daheng people...
So you have to come to Daheng and get your application approved.
But...
There is a special nonsense in Daheng's patent law, that is, the patent law clearly clarifies how Daheng citizens or Daheng institutions can apply for a patent.
As for foreigners, it was not mentioned at all. It did not say that they were allowed or that foreigners or foreign institutions were not allowed to apply for patents. It just did not say how to apply for patents...
So whenever a foreign institution comes to apply for a patent within the Daheng Empire, the patent officers of Daheng people always look embarrassed. This is not easy to handle. There are no relevant laws and regulations on how to register foreign people and institutions.
Patent.
What, you said our Daheng Empire discriminates against you foreigners?
Just kidding, we are discriminating... No, how can we discriminate against you? We welcome you to apply for a patent, but the procedure is a bit troublesome...
How to solve it, you ask?
Nonsense, if I knew how to solve this problem, wouldn't I be just a clerk? I would have been a cabinet minister long ago.
After such a torment, it won't take long for everyone in Blue Star to know that Hengmanzi is acting rogue again!
Well, since you don’t let our citizens and institutions register patents in the Daheng Empire, then we won’t let you Daheng people register either.
Daheng people said that if you don’t register, you won’t register. Who is afraid of who?
Anyway, their Daheng Empire is a latecomer in the development of industry and commerce. For more than ten years, they have been chasing up copied inventions day by day. How can they have free time to innovate and come up with new inventions?
This has led to the fact that there is basically no cooperation on patents between the Daheng Empire and other countries.
Applications are not open to each other.
This made many people and companies in the Kingdom of Krul quite unhappy. They invented a new thing today. As a result, within a few days, some inventor appeared in the Daheng Empire and invented the same thing and placed it in Daheng.
Patent registered.
But there is nothing you can do if you are unhappy. If a small country, even a second-rate country, dares to behave like this, the Kingdom of Krul will dare to let them know why the flowers are so red.
But in the face of the Daheng Empire's gangsters, the Krul Kingdom could only secretly curse the Heng barbarians.
I didn’t even dare to shout a few threats of war...
Because if you shout, those Hengbarbarians will take it seriously, and one of them might actually start a fight.
So, when it comes to patent issues, the Daheng Empire and other countries basically have nothing to do with each other.
Of course, this is only temporary. When the Daheng Empire has more patent innovations and needs to go to foreign countries to register patents, patent restrictions will naturally be relaxed.
As for what to do if other countries are unwilling to do so?
Facing big countries is nothing more than an exchange of interests. In the past, patent cooperation brought little benefit to Daheng but caused a lot of harm. But in the future, when the benefits of patent cooperation outweigh the disadvantages, cooperation will naturally occur.
As for the small and medium-sized countries, they are not willing to play hooligans with the Daheng people when the time comes.
Haha, you treat the Daheng Empire’s army and navy as nothing more than a waste of money!
The consequences of a big country going after hooligans and a small country going after hooligans are completely different.
Due to the Daheng Empire's rogue approach to patent issues, many patents are public free patents and can be produced by any company. The same is true for gasoline engines. Several core patents are public free patents.
However, some detailed patents, especially some technical patents independently developed or copied by Daheng domestic enterprises, such as Royal Internal Combustion Engine Company and Eastern Machinery Company, cannot be used for free.
You have to cooperate with Royal Internal Combustion Engine Company and obtain patent authorization and technical support.
As for the Royal Internal Combustion Engine Company, their business is relatively simple and pure. This company was established by Lin Ziran himself and is directly owned by the Royal Assets Division.
The sole purpose of establishing this company is to develop and promote the research and production of internal combustion engines, so they are happy to cooperate with companies interested in entering the internal combustion engine industry.
Today, at least dozens of companies in the Daheng Empire have obtained technical authorization and support from the Royal Internal Combustion Engine Company to establish their own gasoline engine R&D and production.
It's just that it's not as good as Eastern Machinery Company in terms of scale and technology.
However, Lin Ziran is quite pleased with this flourishing development of internal combustion engines.
Relying on agriculture to develop agricultural gasoline engine machinery, and then further extending to the fields of production and transportation, passenger transportation, and national defense.
This is a very unique development path of internal combustion engines, and it is also unique to the Daheng Empire. Other countries cannot learn from it because they simply do not have the huge market and investment needed to support the early development of internal combustion engines.
Internal combustion engine tractors can easily cost more than one thousand or even several thousand yuan. Except for the farmers in the Daheng Empire who will buy them in large quantities, there are basically no groups who will buy them in large quantities.
In other countries, at most they just purchase part of it for transportation.
Lin Ziran's patent continued westward. After inspecting northwest states, he went south to Zhongluozhou and visited the local Western United Shipyard.
This enterprise is part of the typical defense industry, a national investment, and an important component of the West Coast defense system.
Its purpose is to build a comprehensive large-scale shipyard on the western coast of the empire to build large warships, so as to avoid the west coast being unable to obtain supplementary warships after the Endless Strait is blocked during the war.
Even considering that a lot of equipment used to build warships, especially naval guns, armor plates, steam units and the like, can easily weigh hundreds of tons, and transporting it by train is too troublesome, so a heavy machinery company and a steel company were built nearby.
Waiting for many supporting companies.
When these companies have nothing to do, they are engaged in the production of civilian products and also undertake military orders. During wartime, they will become supporting manufacturers of the Western United Shipyard to support the local production of various large warships.
However, although this enterprise is important, it is nothing interesting. Speaking of shipyards, several large shipyards on the east coast are larger in scale and more technologically advanced.
Therefore, Lin Ziran did not stay in Zhongluo Prefecture for too long, and soon took the patent eastward, entering Quyang Prefecture, then southward to Ningyu Prefecture, and finally came to Nanhai Prefecture.
After visiting the large oil fields in Nanhai Prefecture near Ningyu Prefecture, they went to Luohai City, the most populous and prosperous city in the Daheng Empire.