Yang Rui signed several copies and arranged for James to help him register a buffer patent. According to his contract with his lawyer, the latter will help him register a series of patents in major countries in the world.

At the same time, Yang Rui slightly sorted out several reagents he had used recently, found out that there were no records, and asked a lawyer to register and apply for a patent.

It is not that reagents without records will definitely be patented.

The patent submarine tactics are popular in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, that is, when new technologies or new drugs are invented, they only apply for patents, but do not prompt the patent to be passed. After the opponent or other company develops the same patent and spends huge amounts of money, they take advantage of the earlier registration time to pass the patent first.

Doing this is somewhat harmful to others and not beneficial to oneself, but in the fierce competition in the biological and pharmaceutical world, patented submarines are already a conventional tactic, just like landmines. Large companies have to spend money to avoid stuttering, and they have to bury them to wait for others to step on. Small biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies are in trouble, often spending millions of dollars in funding, two or three years, and end up in a long life patent lawsuit, and may not necessarily win.

This is also one of the reasons why Yang Rui never entered the medical field. Coenzyme Q10 is ultimately a production process. There are not many mines to step on. If it is replaced by a new drug, a small body like Yang Rui may fall into the minefield and will never come up with it in his whole life.

Applying for and registering a patent will also cost Yang Rui tens of thousands of dollars. Just counting this fee, ordinary Chinese people cannot afford to play foreign patent games. As of now, Yang Rui's expenditure on retrieving buffers seems to be far away.

After all, he has no sales and production channels in his name.

However, most biotech companies do this, slowly accumulating patents. As they accumulate more, they look for venture capital to invest money. When the venture capital money is almost spent, they start to seek listing. If the listing fails, they will go bankrupt and then go bankrupt. The entire procedure is no different from that of Internet companies.

Sometimes, large pharmaceutical companies will acquire separate patents, or simply complete biotech companies. For companies with good living conditions, this is a good opportunity to recover costs and even make a big profit. For companies on the verge of bankruptcy, this is the time to be killed.

But no matter what, accumulating patents and accumulating papers are essential tasks in biological systems. They may not be the most important, but they are also indispensable.

Yang Rui cleared the laboratory, which attracted everyone's interest.

The next day, Tang Ji rushed over and asked about Yang Rui's patent, saying: "You should be more cautious when applying for patents for things made in school. If someone sues you, you might be in trouble."

"Do you want to leave it to the school?" Yang Rui asked expectantly. When he was in graduate school, everything he made belonged to his supervisor or the school. Of course, he did not make anything in the end, and felt that he had saved a lot of money.

Tang Ji was stunned for a moment, shook his head quickly, and said, "I don't mean that. I mean, you'd better not use the funds given by the school to apply for your own patent, nor can you apply for it... Alas, this is a confusing account, but you will definitely not be able to hire a lawyer. If the school pays you a lawyer's fee, there is no such precedent."

Yang Rui was surprised: "It means that if I do something in the laboratory, I can apply for a patent for myself? As long as I don't spend it on attorney fees?"

"This is hard to say, so it's a confusing account, but you think of Zhongguancun's computer workers, isn't it like this?" Tang looked at Yang Rui, blinked, and said, "You are still young. If it's my suggestion, it's better not to focus on this. National policies cannot be said. If there is any change, don't let yourself suffer."

"Oh... the lawyer I hired paid by myself. Is there any problem with the patent application in my own name?"

It was probably the first time Tang Jiji saw the researcher who spent his lawyer's fees. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Will the lawyer's fees be very expensive?"

"It's not cheap anyway." Although Yang Rui was a rich man, he was not as good as spending tens of thousands of dollars. If it was useless, it would be better to use this money for experiments.

Tang Ji heard him say it was not cheap, so he knew it was definitely not cheap. So he thought about it: "It must be okay to apply in his own name, otherwise who would apply to... But, if you want to? If you want to reimburse the school, Professor Cai probably won't be able to approve yours, and you will be issued another ticket."

"I'm not ready to reimburse." Yang Rui smiled bitterly.

"You can't be reimbursed, and you don't think about collecting patent fees from the school." Tang Ji was still familiar with this information and whispered: "The stingy people in the school are definitely not willing to spend money on things they can't see. They would rather allocate you funds than give you this money, and they wouldn't be able to report the money."

"I'm not going to charge a patent fee from the school, either." Yang Rui really doesn't like how much patent fee a school can pay.

Tang Ji didn't care whether he really thought so. He nodded when he heard this and said, "Just be clear in your heart. You just published CELL, and many people are staring at it. By the way, has anyone chosen the associate professor in your laboratory?"

"No. A few people came yesterday, but it turned out that there was only fun and no one signed up."

"If you want me to say, you'd better talk to them yourself. There is no associate professor in my laboratory. If you want someone to come to work in your laboratory, you should be more calm, don't you?"

Yang Rui felt a little embarrassed. Needless to say, it must be the news that he shouted "I am the one who is in charge of my laboratory" yesterday. For people today, this can be called arrogant.

However, since he had taken one step, Yang Rui was not ready to retreat. He did not need an associate professor to be his deputy. This was more important than Professor Cai was worried that he would lead a laboratory independently.

Compared to the help of an associate professor, Yang Rui cared more about his authority in the laboratory.

As a scientific researcher, he can be timid with his leaders, laugh at home, and mutter to himself in front of students, but he must establish the authority of the laboratory.

Scientific research can be discussed, but experiments must be authoritative. The two researchers have differences. They will always understand the right or wrong after completing their own experiments in the laboratory. But during the process of any experiment, swinging left and right is a taboo.

When the experiment cannot follow the established steps, success or failure is meaningless, because you don’t know why you succeed or why you fail. This is meaningless. Biotechnology is not traditional Chinese medicine.

Yang Rui was not going to "invite" the associate professor, but waited for the associate professor to come to him, so he said, "I don't rush to ask for my own laboratory. Can you stay with you for a while?"

Tang Ji's eyes lit up and he immediately said, "I can also allocate my funds to you as long as you want."

"Then I'm not polite. I'll do a few results first, and then see how everyone's attitude is." Yang Rui is very confident. Others need to make a JMC-level paper in one or two years. Now he's working on this paper, maybe he won't even need a month.

At this speed, as long as the journal published is not too bad, it will eventually attract people.

The so-called planting of a sycamore tree will lead to the phoenix. The only way to continue the life of scientific research, the only way to inherit the legacy of scientific research, and the only way to burn the life of scientific research is papers.

No one cares about what Hawking looks like, no one cares about how greedy Edison is, and no one cares about how taciturn Chen Jingrun is. Papers are the greatest persuasion.

At the beginning, an associate professor would naturally lose his composure, but most of the time, face is not as valuable as imagined. In the same school, if you have great achievements, you will always hold your head high. If you lack results, you should bow your head to borrow instruments, apply for funds, and bow your head to evaluate professional titles...

When facing an unfamous scientific research ape, the 20-year-old young man in the office dares to make fun of him. What is this humiliation compared to joining Yang Rui's independent laboratory?

Tang Ji is even more willing to stay in his laboratory. He does not expect to be named after his name, but as long as the name of Tang Ji's laboratory can be listed, this is a huge benefit.

Nowadays, Tang is full of thoughts on applying for national-level laboratories.

Yang Rui was also willing to help. His own laboratory has not been built yet, and the unit column is empty.

With the support of Tang Jiji, Yang Rui accelerated the experiment and sent the preliminary completed data to the school's computer department in a few days.

Here, there are a lot of data to be processed, and there is another slow and long team.

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Chapter completed!