Chapter 443 Patent Authorization for Tearful Sale
Vienna, Austria New Energy Power Company's business has increased a lot recently, especially the business sector is busy.
Since Vienna has become a city that never sleeps, the company headquarters has been frequently invited by major cities, and business negotiations are naturally necessary.
There is no commercial value now, and it does not mean that there is no commercial value in the future. Electricity is the outlet of this era, and the blowout era is coming.
Power companies may lose money, but monopoly power companies can never lose money. Even if the government will limit the price in the future, it is impossible not to leave a reasonable profit.
Mastering the power supply of a city means mastering the local voice, especially in industrial cities.
If you want to hit your competitors, you only need to give them a wave every three or five times during the peak electricity consumption period, and people will be speechless.
The future world is inseparable from electricity. Whoever masters electricity will master this era. By the end of the 19th century, almost every consortium had its own power company.
On the surface, Austrian New Energy Power Company appears to be self-contained, but in fact it is a subsidiary of the royal consortium, but because of practical needs, this company will become a new consortium.
No matter how it changes, the ultimate controller is the royal family. Of course, on the surface, there is no direct relationship between the two, and it seems that the shares invested by the royal family are less than 10%.
This share, once listed, will continue to be diluted, and most of the company's shares are held by various institutions. If you want to check carefully, there are institutions behind the institutions, and the institutions have cross-shareholdings, and the equity is dazzling enough.
This can't be hidden from the conscientious, as long as ordinary people can't see it. All that can be seen are smart people, and they will not talk nonsense at all if there is no evidence.
This is all legitimate business, and even if it is spoken out, the impact will be limited. But the price of talking nonsense is likely to never be able to speak.
No one cares about the issue of equity, at least until the IPO of the Austrian New Energy Power Company.
Elkeson is the manager of the commercial department of the Austrian New Energy Power Company. His main job recently is to return telegrams and then send representatives to negotiate with the government.
The object of negotiation is not limited to Austria, many cities in Europe are his clients. Some cities need cooperation, and some cities need pure patent licensing.
Although patent management in this era is not very strict, there are basically patent laws in European countries. It doesn't matter if small companies or individuals violate them. Obviously, the government cannot take the lead in violating them.
If the government takes the lead in violating the Patent Act, and if it spreads out, it will not only lose face, but also lose a lot of money in a lawsuit.
Most European countries advertise judicial notarization, so many judicial systems are independent. In such cases, courts are happy to set up a model of judicial notarization.
Of course, this is only for the government. When facing individuals or private enterprises, the deterrent effect is not so great.
It is a common thing to not pay the patent fee, or to pay the patent fee less. How much can be collected depends entirely on the ability of the patent owner.
The government wants to save face and is afraid of getting into such a losing lawsuit, but it does not mean that enterprises are also afraid. Usually, everyone will open a vest. In case of losing the lawsuit, they will declare bankruptcy and change to a new vest to continue playing.
In this respect, Austrian New Energy Power is lucky. This power system belongs to public infrastructure, and the customers are mainly local governments, who need to pay attention to eating.
Customers should pay attention to food, and even the power company engaged in this business must also pay attention to food, and it is impossible to win the bid without patent authorization.
Of course, this is also the reason why the Austrian New Energy Electric Power Company does not charge a lot of patent fees. Otherwise, others will simply start a new system and create a new system to avoid patent barriers.
There is not much money, so naturally there is no need for re-development. With so many patented technologies involved, the cost of bypassing the patent system may be much higher.
After more than two months of work, Elkeson came up with the first results and knocked on the door of President Mark Oliver's office.
"Please come in!"
Mark Oliver's voice sounded.
Elkeson walked into the office and reported: "President, we have completed the preliminary judgment with the representatives of Paris Electricity Company, and 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 French were the first to reach the initial intention. After all, they are arrogant enough, they just need patent authorization and did not invite Austrian New Energy Power Company to invest.
No investment is required, and it is naturally easy to negotiate. No one has a hard time with money, and Austrian New Energy Power now needs money to expand.
On the contrary, it was inviting investment, and the Ministry of Commerce had to resort to procrastination. The contract can be signed in advance, and when the construction starts needs to be considered.
After all, if the cost has not come down yet, and the construction will start immediately, that is to make a loss-making business. Unless the local government is willing to pay the bill, the Austrian New Energy Power Company is not a lot of fun.
Advertising in Vienna is enough. With the advertisement of "City That Never Sleeps", 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 of thinking. After being silent for a while, he slowly said, "Tell the French, if they are willing to pay more than 1 million Aegis for the patent licensing fee, they will give them an exclusive license."
The patent licensing fee of Austrian New Energy Power Company is not high, and it varies according to different countries.
For example, the patent licensing fee in France is 300,000 Aegis, residential electricity is paid at the rate of 0.2 Aegis per user per year, factories and enterprises are paid 100 A.I. According to 50,000 Aegis per year for 1 million people...
This standard is not high, which also includes related technology transfer fees. For example: large generator production technology, power transmission related technology, etc.
The research and development cost of these technologies will not be less than 300,000 Aegis. The charging standard for the patent fee in the back seems to be a lot, but in fact it is not much money. After all, the patented technology is time-limited, and it will not receive the era of full popularization at all.
For example, the electricity consumption of residents is more than 4.5 million according to 10% of the population of France. Considering that there are more households in this era, there are only 500,000 to 600,000 households.
In fact, when it comes to settlement, it is difficult to make statistics. Basically, it is an estimate. The specific data is still up to the French.
As long as the gap is not too large, it is impossible for Austrian New Energy Power Company to send someone to investigate, and the cost of this investigation is too high.
Industrial electricity consumption is even more difficult to count. It is very difficult to check if several factories are counted as one factory.
This is also the reason why the patent fee for equipment production does not appear. The main reason is that it is impossible to count how much is produced, and the other party can't get much money if they want to play tricks.
The only guarantee is the authorization fee for each city, which is Paris in a short time, and other cities have to wait. It may not be adopted by ten cities until the end of the patent period.
Not every local government is so wealthy. Poor ghost cities are still the mainstream of this era. It is normal to have no money to pay for the power supply system.
The duration of this patent protection is determined. According to French law, the urban power supply network system is only eight years old, and the longest of other related patented technologies is only thirty years.
When the protection time of each patented technology is up, the corresponding fee will be deducted. How much the final profit can be is still an unknown.
Without exclusive licensing, you just want to charge a few more licensing fees. After all, the money you get is your own, and the potential benefits may not be available.
If the price is high enough, a one-time buyout is not impossible. Now no one knows how fast the power technology will develop in the future, otherwise the French are very likely to buy out the technology directly.
In theory, this set of patents is still very valuable. It can charge millions of Aegis patent fees every year. In fact, no one knows about it.
It is estimated that there are always 1.8 million every year, and it is also a power system. Although it is a little bit missed, it is also high-tech in this era.
In this regard, British talents are the hegemons. As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, they have the most patented technologies.
It's just that because of time, most of the patented technologies have expired, otherwise they will charge at least tens of millions of pounds every year.
Obviously, this patent fee was only collected locally by the British. By the time the industrial revolution broke out in the rest of Europe, most of their technology had long since passed the term of patent protection.
The patented technology of Austrian New Energy Power Company can be said to be a tearful sale. No way, who made their technology immature?
The current authorization is actually deceiving people. After you buy them, you will find that these technologies have bright prospects and will not make any money in the short term.
It is naturally impossible to sell a technology that does not make money at a high price. Except for Paris and London, who have to bite the bullet and keep up for the sake of face, other cities are not so arrogant.
As long as time slows down, even if it only takes two or three years, this cost may drop by 20 to 30 percent.
In Paris and London, which are bustling now, there is no shortage of Austrian New Energy Power Company, which buys newspapers to advocate "Era of Electricity", "Lighting Revolution", "Paris is backward", "London is backward"...
If the people of Paris were not strong enough, the patented technology of the Austrian New Energy Power Company would not be sold.
There is no way, if you want to keep the technology secret, you can't register the patent; if you don't rush to register the patent, you will be preempted by others, and the previous investment will be wasted.
The Austrian Patent Office will keep secrets for them, but the patent offices of Britain and France will not be so international. Transnational patented technology, from the moment of registration, has become an open secret technology.
Since it can't be kept secret, if you don't sell it, do you still expect competitors to abide by the rules and not steal technology?
Everyone's scientific research level is basically in the same grade. Once you get these technologies, you can copy them in Britain and France at most in half a year, and maybe you can improve them a bit.
Different from the technologies of later generations, technology has developed to a certain extent. Even if high-tech technology makes data public, it is not so easy to decipher it.
When you apply for a patent, you can basically keep it secret by setting up a little bit of hurdle. With the current technology, everyone is just a gap in thinking.
For some technologies, the product shell can be reversely pushed out.
This is also the reason why everyone does not set up technical barriers in this era, as long as you have money you can buy them. It's not that everyone doesn't know the importance of technical secrecy, but it's simply impossible to keep secrets.
The same is true for Austrian New Energy Power Company. Under the circumstance that technical secrecy cannot be maintained, it is natural to maximize its benefits.
If you don't sell the patented technology now, it will be difficult to launch it in the future. Merely setting industry standards is an irresistible temptation.