Chapter 1611 I Am the Master of the Artifact

There are different opinions about the origin of the selfie stick in previous lives. Although there is no exact information, in 1926, a young couple in England was considered to be the first to use the selfie stick.

The prototype of the selfie stick came out in 1983. It was made of two footbaths as a support extension for the camera. However, after the patent expired in 2003, in 2005, a Canadian inventor applied for a patent for the camera photography auxiliary equipment Quick Bean Pod. And it is almost close to the later selfie stick, but the patent only involves camera equipment.

Therefore, even if Andy does not buy out the patent of this quick pod, it does not prevent Andy from "inventing" the selfie stick, applying for a patent, producing and selling it, and the other party has no power or way to protect this product concept. After all, the Canadians didn't invent the selfie stick either, only a camera gadget called the Quick Pod.

Selfie sticks are a reasonable extension of smartphones. The reason why they are popular all over the world is that, apart from the fact that the world has entered the era of smartphones, the most important thing is that taking selfies has always been human nature.

In the era when beauty is justice, selfies are a kind of "culture". Put yourself center stage and reveal your life and thoughts to others.

Selfies not only carry people's unique aesthetics and values, but also a new way of expression and communication, and will also give birth to the beauty economy!

Can Selfie Sticks Really Make Money?

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During the two years when the selfie stick was regarded as a selfie artifact, a total of 100 billion sticks were sold around the world. Even when major scenic spots in the world were blocking selfie sticks, in China, where there are many brands, good and bad, and three no products, every year Sales also reached more than $100 million!

You know, in the previous life, because of the confusion of patents, anyone and any company can produce, manufacture and sell, and the entire selfie stick industry has long been completely reduced to a conventional product industry. The so-called patents have long since become a global shared resource.

The total sales of 100 billion selfie sticks, even if the profit of each selfie stick is one dollar, this is a big market of 100 billion US dollars.

Of course, it is impossible to have such a big cake in reality. After all, there is a Tianchao World Factory. The materials, craftsmanship, and production of selfie sticks are very simple. There is no threshold for products. Those small workshops of electronic products can easily copy them out. Then quickly occupy the market.

Even if Andy owns the patent of the selfie stick, he can only choke in silence when faced with the 15 yuan selfie stick from Tianchao.

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It's everywhere, how can I sue? So what if you win? Sky-high compensation, in the Celestial Dynasty? Ha ha.

While Andy drew the structural diagrams of all the selfie sticks he had ever seen, he sneered. He would never go against the general environment of the Celestial Dynasty.

He has already thought about the countermeasures. Once the patent is registered, he will register it in all countries in the world. He will set up a factory in the United States to produce high-level selfie sticks. In countries with strict patent protection, he can open authorization.

As for Tianchao, Andy has decided to copy off his own products, infringe his own patents, build a factory, and just produce. All prices are exhausted, and the network and entities are fully rolled out.

When China began to attach importance to intellectual property rights, Andy began to use patented weapons to name and claim compensation one by one for those companies and factories that broke out from the barbaric era!

Earn this circle, let the industry standardize, and then earn money from patent licensing, tsk tsk, 18 billion can’t be earned, and billions of profits can still be guaranteed.

However, thinking of the prohibition of the use of selfie sticks in tourist attractions in various countries, Disney and other amusement parks in the previous life, Andy couldn't help but frown a little. You must know that if selfie sticks face more supervision in the future, then its popularity index will also inevitably increase. With a huge impact, the tide may fall back as a result.

The reason why selfie sticks are banned is mainly for two reasons. On the one hand, I am worried about the electromagnetic interference of selfie sticks for wireless communication, and on the other hand, because selfie sticks are prone to accidents when used in crowds,

Whether it is stainless steel or carbon rod, it can be used as a weapon.

Fortunately, Andy used a selfie stick to consider these issues. The length was controlled within 49, known as the golden selfie distance, which can achieve a perfect balance between the viewfinder range and portrait selfies, and it is a safe length.

As for electromagnetic interference, Andy is going to skip the wireless stage directly, and choose the button control for wired connection, and the upgraded version is Bluetooth control, directly making the selfie stick a more reasonable existence.

In this way, it will not cause controversy among all parties, and the fashion trend that may have just formed will be drowned out by all kinds of troubles.

As for directly coming up with a more mature design solution, Andy didn't feel that it might make him less money. On the contrary, it might make the selfie stick market more stable and long-term because of solving these doubts and troubles in advance.

In that way, his own patents will be more profitable, and the annual patent authorization will become part of his fixed income.

After Andy finished drawing the design of a selfie stick with LED lighting effect on both sides of the mobile phone holder, he began to draw the design mechanism diagram of the selfie stick with a small fan to help blow his hair.

"Jingle Bell--"

Andy reached out to pick up the phone receiver, and while drawing the structural diagram with a pencil, he said, "I'm Andy Smith..."

"Chairman, I'm from the mobile phone department... The things you asked us to prepare are ready."

"Okay, thank you. In this way, have someone send it to my office. By the way, bring a toolbox and hot melt glue..." Andy stopped writing, said with a smile, and after explaining what he needed, he went Hang up the phone.

After pondering for a while, he reached out and pressed the answering machine, and said to the little assistant outside: "Let the director of the patent department and the director of the legal department come over."

"Okay, boss."

Release the button, and Andy continued to complete the design of the selfie stick with a small fan. He has drawn all the styles of selfie sticks he can think of, and ten kinds of selfie sticks with different details. He knows that this is a small part Style, but, there is no way, he knows so much, as for other styles, he needs to set up a company and let the designers open their minds. What he needs to do now is to register this patent and put this Patents are firmly in hand.

Ten minutes later, there was a knock on the door of the office, and a young assistant in a white OL business suit led two staff members carrying boxes into the room.

"Director."

"Well, please, please put it on the conference table."

Andy put down the pen in his hand, organized the drawn design drawings, put them in the drawer, then stood up and walked to the conference table, and two staff members introduced what he wanted and the toolbox one by one.

"Well, okay, thank you." Andy looked at the materials and tools that were placed on the conference table one by one, and smiled with satisfaction. After shaking hands with them again, the little assistant sent them out of the office.

After sitting down, Andy picked up the telescoping rod and the black plastic holder, twisted and rotated it a few times in his hands, tsk tsk, the holder for the car navigator, the money to buy this is enough to buy a selfie stick.

But the design innovation, of course, can't be stingy with the cost. Putting the telescopic rod and the fixed frame aside, Andy looked back at the little assistant who came back and said, "Give me a socket, I want to use a heat gun..."

The little assistant blinked his big eyes, and watched curiously as the big devil began to fiddle with the materials, watched him cut off a pair of earphones with volume adjustment with scissors, threw the two earplugs into the cardboard box, and plugged the earphone cable into the telescoping rod. . .

Seeing that the big devil is the little assistant who wants to make something, he quickly found a long-line socket, connected it to it, put it on the conference table, helped Andy plug in the electric drill and the hot melt gun, and looked curiously at the big devil who did it himself. Start tinkering.