Vienna, Austrian New Energy Electric Power Company has increased its business a lot recently, especially the business department is even more busy.

Since Vienna became a city that never sleeps, the company's headquarters has been frequently invited by major cities, so if you have a business, you will have to negotiate.

There is no commercial value now, which does not mean there is no commercial value in the future. Electricity is the hottest point in this era, and the era of blowing wells is coming.

Power companies may lose money, but monopoly power companies will never lose money. Even if the government limits prices in the future, it is impossible not to leave reasonable profits.

Mastering the power supply of a city is to master the local voice, especially industrial cities, which are more prominent.

If you want to attack your competitors, just give them a wave every now and then during peak electricity consumption, it will be enough, and it will make people speechless.

The future world cannot be separated from electricity. Whoever masters electricity will master this era. By the end of the 19th century, almost every consortium had its own power company.

Austrian New Energy Power Company appears to be a system, but in fact it is a subsidiary of a royal consortium. However, due to actual needs, the company will become a new consortium.

No matter how the changes change, the ultimate controller is the royal family. Of course, on the surface, the two have no direct relationship, and it seems that the royal family invested less than 10%.

This share will continue to be diluted once it is listed, and most of the shares of the company are held by various institutions. If you want to check carefully, there are institutions behind the institutions, and cross-holdings between institutions are enough to be dazzling.

This is not something that can be hidden from the mind, as long as ordinary people cannot see it. All those who can see it are smart people, and things without evidence will not be talked randomly.

This is a legal business, and even if you say it, the impact will be limited. However, the price of talking nonsense is that you can never speak.

No one cares about equity issues, at least until Austrian New Energy Electric Power Company goes public, these issues will not attract attention.

Elkeson is the manager of the Commerce Department of Austrian New Energy Power Company. His main job recently is to return telegrams and then send representatives to negotiate with the government.

The negotiation target is not limited to Austria, but many European cities are their customers. Some cities need cooperation, while others need simple patent authorization.

Although patent management is not very strict in this era, European countries basically have patent bills, and it doesn’t matter if small companies individually violate it. As a government, it is obvious that they cannot take the lead in violating it.

If the government takes the lead in violating the Patent Act, if it spreads, it will be more than just face. If you sue, you will have to pay a lot of money.

Most European countries claim to be judicial notarization, so many judicial systems are independent. When faced with such cases, the courts are happy to establish typical cases of judicial notarization.

Of course, this is only aimed at the government. When facing individuals or private enterprises, the deterrence is not that great.

It is common to not pay patent fees or pay less patent fees. How much you can charge depends entirely on the ability of the patent owner.

The government wants face and is afraid of getting involved in such a lawsuit that will lose, which does not mean that the company will be afraid. Usually, people will open a vest. If they lose the lawsuit, they will declare bankruptcy directly, and change to a new vest to continue to fight.

In this regard, Austrian New Energy Power Company is lucky. This power system belongs to public infrastructure, and the customers are mainly local governments, and they all need to pay attention to their appearance.

Customers should pay attention to eating, and even the power companies engaged in this business must pay attention to eating, and it is impossible to win the bid without obtaining a patent authorization.

Of course, this is also because Austrian New Energy Power Company does not charge much patent fees, otherwise others will start a new business and build another system to avoid patent barriers.

If you don’t have much money, you naturally don’t need to redevelop it. There are so many patented technologies involved, and the cost required to bypass the patent system is much higher.

After more than two months of busy work, Elkeson came out with the first result and knocked on the door to President Mark Oliver's office.

"Please come in!"

Mark Oliver's voice rang.

Elkeson walked into the office and reported: "President, we have completed the preliminary judgment with the Paris Electric Power representative. The two sides have basically reached an agreement on the issue of patent licensing. The only trouble is that they need exclusive licensing."

Without any surprises, the first person to reach the initial intention was the French. After all, they were arrogant enough, they just needed patent authorization and did not invite Austrian New Energy Electric Power Company to invest.

If you don’t need investment, it’s naturally easy to talk about it. No one will be unable to get along with money. Austrian New Energy and Electric Power Company now also needs money to expand its scale.

On the contrary, when the investment is invited, the Ministry of Commerce has to adopt a delayed decision. The contract can be signed in advance, and it needs to be considered when construction begins.

After all, the cost has not yet dropped, and construction will start soon, which is a loss-making transaction. Unless local governments are willing to pay, Austrian new energy power companies will not be able to afford it.

It is enough to have Vienna advertising. With the advertising of the "City Never Sleeping", the patent licensing fee that can be collected is enough to recover the previous investment.

Mark Oliver tapped the table with his right index finger, which was his habit when thinking about problems. After a while, he slowly spoke: "Tell the French that if they are willing to pay an additional patent licensing fee of 1 million in the SHIELD, give them exclusive authorization."

Austrian New Energy Electric Power Company’s patent licensing fee is not high, and there are different standards according to different countries. For example, France’s patent licensing fee is 300,000 SHIELD. Residents pay the patent fee for electricity per user at a standard of 0.2 SHIELD per year, factories and enterprises pay 100 SHIELD per year, and each city’s lighting system is 50,000 SHIELD per year according to 1 million people.

This standard is not high, and it also includes related technology transfer fees. For example, large generator production technology, power transmission related technologies, etc.

The R&D costs of these technologies will not be less than 300,000 SHIELD. The subsequent patent fee charging standards seem to be a lot, but in fact they are not much. After all, patent technology has time limits and cannot be fully popularized at all.

For example, the electricity consumption of residents is only more than 4.5 million based on the 10% of France's population. Considering that the number of residents in this era is only 500,000 or 600,000 households.

In fact, it is difficult to count when settlement. Basically, it is just to estimate the specific data. The French have the final say.

As long as the gap is not too big, Austrian New Energy Electric Power Company cannot send people to investigate, because the cost of this investigation is too high.

Industrial electricity consumption is even more difficult to count. It is very difficult to count several factories as one factory to count them out and fool people.

This is also the reason why the equipment production patent fees have not appeared. The main reason is that it is impossible to count how much it has been produced, and the other party can't get much money if they want to play tricks.

The only thing that is guaranteed is the authorization fee for each city. In a short period of time, it is Paris, and other cities have to wait. Maybe when the patent period ends, there may not be ten cities that adopt it.

Not every local government is so wealthy, and poor cities are still the mainstream of this era. It is normal to have no money to pay for the power supply system.

The time for this patent protection is determined by the French law, the urban power supply network system is only eight years, and the longest of other related patent technologies is only thirty years.

When the time for each patent technology is up, the corresponding expenses will be deducted. The final income will still be unknown.

If you don’t have exclusive authorization, you just want to charge a few more authorization fees. After all, getting the money is your own, and potential benefits may not be able to be obtained.

If the price is high enough, it is not impossible to buy out one-time. Now no one knows how fast the development of power technology will be in the future, otherwise the French are likely to buy out the technology directly.

In theory, this set of patents is still very valuable, and can charge millions of patent fees for SHIELD every year, but in fact no one knows it.

It is estimated that there is always one or two million a year, and it is still a power system. Even though I have found a little bit of a waste, it is also high-tech in this era.

In this regard, the British are overlords. As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, they have the most patented technologies.

It’s just that due to time constraints, most patented technologies have expired, otherwise they will now charge at least tens of millions of pounds every year.

Obviously, the British only collected the patent fee on the ground. When the industrial revolution broke out in other European countries, most of their technologies had already passed the patent protection period.

Austrian New Energy Power Company’s patented technology can be said to be a big sale. There is no way, who made their technology immature?

The current authorization is actually a scam. After buying it, you will find that these technologies have a bright future and you will not make any money in the short term.

It is naturally impossible to sell technology that is not profitable. Except for Paris and London, who have to bite the bullet and keep up for the sake of face, other cities are not so generous.

As long as the time slows down, even if you only wait for two or three years, the cost may drop by 20% or 30%.

Nowadays, Paris and London are bustling with people, and there are no shortage of Austrian new energy power companies. They buy newspapers to advocate the "electricity era", "lighting revolution", "Paris is behind", and "London is behind"

If the Parisian people were not strong enough, Austrian New Energy Electric Power Company's patented technology could not be sold.

There is no way, if you want to keep the technology confidential, you cannot register a patent; if you do not register a patent, you will be taken first by others, and the previous investment will be wasted.

Austrian Patent Office will keep it confidential for them, but patent offices in Britain, France and other countries will not be so international. Transnational patent technology has become an open secret technology since the moment of registration.

Since it cannot be kept confidential, if you don’t sell it, do you still expect your competitors to abide by the rules and not steal technology?

Everyone's scientific research level is basically at the same level. After obtaining these technologies, they can be copied in Britain and France within half a year, and maybe they can be improved.

Unlike later technologies, technology has developed to a certain level. Even if high-tech technology makes data public, it is not so easy to decipher.

When applying for a patent, set up a little more obstacles and basically keep it confidential. With current technology, everyone is just a gap in their thinking.

Some technologies can be reversed when seeing the product shell.

This is also the reason why people did not set up technical barriers in this era and could buy them as long as they had money. It is not that everyone does not know the importance of technology confidentiality, but that they cannot keep secrets at all.

The same is true for Austrian New Energy Power Company. If technology is not kept confidential, it will naturally maximize its interests.

Now that patented technology is not promoted, it will be difficult to launch it in the future. Just setting industry standards is an irresistible temptation.
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