Chapter 290 Patents Make Money

"Thank you, senior brother, please worry about me during this time."

Chang Haonan simply thanked him and put the two floppy disks into his bag.

"Where is it?"

Fang Zhen quickly waved his hand. He had basically no airs as a senior brother before, let alone in front of this monster:

"If it weren't for you, junior brother, I probably wouldn't have finished my graduation thesis yet. How could I be as relaxed as I am now..."

After talking about it, there was a lot of gratitude.

This is completely sincere.

When he and Yao Mengna were responsible for performing wing flutter analysis on the MA-60, Fang Zhen led the research team into a dead end. If it weren't for Chang Haonan's miraculous rescue, he would have been able to conclude the problem hastily along the original route. .

Based on their research situation at the time, it could only be regarded as application-level research based on existing mature technologies and theories, with almost zero innovation. It would not be a big problem to graduate a few masters, but it obviously did not meet the training requirements for doctoral degrees.

Now, although the core technology of the generalized aeroelastic equation under nonlinear flutter conditions was developed by Chang Haonan and has been named by Du Yishan and asked not to be published publicly for the time being, this is equivalent to opening up a scientific research path. A new direction, just pick up some scraps nearby, and change the application field to engage in interdisciplinary research, it is enough to write a doctoral thesis.

In fact, if we really talk about the workload and difficulty of the work, it may not be greater than before.

This is the dividend that pioneers in the field can reap.

Some young tutors who have made such breakthroughs in theoretical aspects can even rely on one of their own achievements to provide their Ph.D.'s with a guarantee within a few years, so that they can graduate on time.

Anyone with a PhD knows how attractive this is.

Therefore, it is easy to form a siphon effect, attracting several batches of the best students to lead a research group.

Of course, Chang Haonan hasn't found a mentor yet, and Du Yishan has been flying for most of his life and is already considering landing.

Therefore, the first person the former took to fly became his senior brother.

While several people were chatting, another sleepy-eyed man yawned and pushed the door in from outside.

It's summer.

It was the master's student who worked on the project with Fang Zhen and Yao Mengna.

Then she saw three people sitting in the office.

"Master...brother?"

Although she and Chang Haonan haven't seen each other for a few months, they have been hearing that the latter has made many achievements in the 603 Institute. In addition, even Fang Zhen often talks about whether his doctoral thesis was entrusted to others. The other party's blessing was such that Xia Tian even hesitated when calling out this title.

I feel that calling me junior brother is no longer respectful enough.

But there doesn't seem to be any other name.

At this time Du Yishan also stood up again:

"I have a meeting to hold in the morning. You guys should be busy first. Xiao Chang, come with me to get the key. Then you can go and see your new office at the High Performance Computing Center."

"New office? Mine?"

After hearing Du Yishan talk about this, Chang Haonan noticed that his workstation in this room was still the same, and there was no computer of the same style like others.

"We can't let the people in charge of the computing center squeeze in with us. If word gets out, it will make people think that Beijing Airlines lacks a room, and many things will be inconvenient."

Fang Zhen next to him smacked his lips, with some envy in his tone.

"Xiao Fang is right. Even if you don't go there often, the place must be reserved. In fact, even the computer room equipment and other equipment have been shipped, but the manufacturer's engineers are still doing final debugging, so there is no way to officially open it."

Du Yishan also explained.

Chang Haonan only learned that he was appointed as the person in charge of the computing center on the way. He never expected that even the office affairs had been settled. He was stunned for a moment before nodding, and then followed Du Yishan out again.

"well……"

Watching the old man and the young man leaving, Fang Zhen sighed in confusion:

"Think about it, when my junior brother first joined the team last year, I personally helped him arrange his position. As a result, in less than a year, he has already moved to a separate office, and I haven't even graduated with a Ph.D...."

"Looking at the bright side, he hasn't even enrolled in the Ph.D. program yet."

Xia Tian patted Fang Zhen on the shoulder and looked in the direction of the door and replied.

"..."

Fang Zhen became even more depressed after hearing this:

"I'll just assume you were comforting me just now..."

…

About half an hour later, Chang Haonan appeared in the student office of Du Yishan's research group again.

"Junior brother? Why are you back again?"

Xia Tian poked her head out from behind the huge CRT monitor and asked curiously - because she was relatively short, her whole body would be blocked by the computer when she was sitting.

Obviously she thought Chang Haonan would definitely use the new personal office.

After all, who doesn’t want a separate workspace?

Chang Haonan waved his hands and sat back in his seat:

"Don't mention it. That office had just been renovated. The smell was so strong that it was going to kill me. There was also construction going on around the place. All the noise gave me a headache, so I went to identify the door and ran away."

At this moment, Fang Zhen also suddenly remembered something. He stood up and found a document bag from the bookcase next to him, and then came to Chang Haonan's side:

"By the way, Junior Brother, you're back just in time. I have a project here that requires a patent you registered before."

"My patent... the one for designing the blade sweeping method?"

That was registered by Chang Haonan last year when he was doing private work for a company in his spare time.

According to international practice, if a patent is issued during the research process, the name of the person who completes it is the researcher, and the name of the owner is the person who funded the project.

If it is a vertical project, then the name of the institution is written, and the horizontal project is generally the company.

Of course, if the researcher does the project at his own expense, then it is all his.

And Chang Haonan's situation was quite special that time. It is estimated that the other party was a small company that did not pay much attention to patents, and secondly, there was not enough money to sponsor a complete project.

The 5,000 yuan was just Chang Haonan's hard work fee and Wu Yifan's agency fee, which could definitely not be calculated according to the research funds.

In short, a series of reasons led to the patent ownership finally falling into Chang Haonan's personal hands.

"Yes, this project requires a high-altitude swept-blade propeller, and the design is very similar to the one in your patent. Party A considers that there may be legal risks in the future, so let me talk to you about the patent royalties."

Under the premise that it is not an essential standard patent, the patent royalties are a matter completely decided by the two parties through negotiation. No one can control whether it is a free license or a sky-high price.

"That's no problem. What do they want to do with this propeller? How much are they prepared to pay?"

Chang Haonan is a layman, and he is still interested in money.

He put the computer he had taken out back on and took the file bag from Fang Zhen next to him.

There are many ways to collect patent royalties, and Chang Haonan naturally has to choose one that is more beneficial to him.

For example, for products with large shipments, such as ordinary motors and centrifuges, they can charge a relatively low entry fee first, and then charge a commission for each product according to a certain percentage of the selling price, just like Qualcomm in the future.

If the output is small, it is better to negotiate it all at once to save the trouble of annual verification later.