Chapter 311 Patent Agent

"Hello, Ms. Cao."

In the hot pot restaurant, Wu Bin, who successfully met Cao Yu, stepped forward and shook her hand warmly.

"Hello, Mr. Wu." Cao Yu also smiled and nodded to Wu Bin.

"Just call me Wu Bin. It feels weird to call me sir. Come on, please sit down."

After sitting down, Cao Yu couldn't help but look at Wu Bin several times. As an experienced patent agent, she had seen a lot of big scenes, but since she became famous, she rarely talked about things in such a small hot pot restaurant.

However, this did not make her have any contempt for Wu Bin, because the boss Li who entrusted her to come here was a rich man, and it was obvious that this young man was not simple enough to allow a person of this level to entrust him with help.

After some simple greetings, Cao Yu took out a stack of information and asked Wu Bin, "Have you ever applied for a patent before?"

After hearing this, Wu Bin shook his head and said, "No, this is the first time. Oh, but the school has helped me apply once before. Does this have any impact?"

Cao Yu was shocked after hearing this. The young man in front of him looked like he was in his early 20s. Counting this time, he had already applied for patents twice. When he thought about it, he didn't look like Boss Li. He is someone who came forward for some pediatric patents, which means that this young man is probably a huge potential stock.

After a brief mental activity, Cao Yu shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter. Since this is your first time applying for a patent, I still need to explain some basic and main matters to you first."

“First of all, as your agent, I will handle all matters related to patent application for you, mainly writing patent application documents for you and handling all matters in the patent application process, as well as possible litigation regarding patent rights. "

"Okay." Wu Bin nodded.

"The other thing is that I will be responsible for extracting the technical features that can be applied for patent protection from the patent technical documents you applied for. After that, the patent right will only protect these extracted technical features, not the entire technical document. Of course, please If you believe in my professional skills, I will definitely extract all the technical features that can be protected."

"Oh, I've already learned about this aspect, so I've also briefly compiled some content in the document that can probably apply for patent protection. You can use it as a reference. If you decide in the end, of course I'll listen to you. After all, you Those are the professionals.”

After hearing what Wu Bin said, Cao Yu actually felt a little uncomfortable, because the most taboo thing in their industry is for outsiders to criticize. It is obviously some patents that have been repeated or cannot be applied for, but they still insist on you to apply for them. In the end, they broke up unhappy.

‘I hope there won’t be such intense friction with him. ’

However, Cao Yu said with a smile on his face: "Okay, I will definitely consider your opinion fully."

"But there is one thing you still need to understand. Although patents are a type of intellectual property, the acquisition of patent rights relies on human judgment, rather than naturally occurring with works like copyrights. The technology that wants to be patented must It must meet certain conditions, namely novelty, creativity and practicality.”

"As a scientific researcher, you must be very familiar with the technical content, but you may not be so clear about the relevant laws in the patent authorization process, and I will provide you with help in this regard and help you solve the problems in the patent authorization process. There are review principles and procedural issues, so some aspects may conflict with your original wishes, and please understand this.”

"Oh, of course."

After listening to Cao Yu's words, Wu Bin was really dumbfounded. It seemed that his seemingly helpful behavior really frightened the person in front of him. He was probably afraid that he would make some unreasonable demands, so he gave this special instruction.

"Okay, thank you very much for your understanding." After speaking, Cao Yu picked up a briefcase, opened it and said, "First of all, please allow me to introduce myself. I am a master of power engineering and engineering thermophysics at Zhejiang University. I joined in 2007. He joined Liu Chen Law Firm and obtained patent agent qualifications, and has engaged in a large number of patent-related intellectual property agency services.”

“These services include in detail application writing and submission, providing writing opinions and defense opinions on the notice of examination, responding to invalidation and reexamination, patent relevance and validity analysis, patent search, customer consultation, etc.”

As Cao Yu spoke, he placed various certificates and professional qualification certificates in front of Wu Bin.

“This is a certificate from my 14 years of training and study on European intellectual property rights at CEIPI, University of Strasbourg, France.”

"This is my resume that I once worked on materials research and development at Beijing Nonferrous Metals Research Institute."

"This is my certificate for winning the title of Best Agent of the Year selected by my client BOE."

"This is……"

Watching Cao Yu take out one certificate after another from his briefcase like Doraemon, Wu Bin couldn't help but be more and more surprised at the difficulty of this industry, and even more admired that Li Yan found such an ace agent to help him. he.

The reason why Wu Bin asked Li Yan for help this time was because he understood that his preparation technology this time was likely to bring a huge breakthrough to the industry. He also understood better how much trouble such a breakthrough might bring to him. After all, the chain of interests It's just too huge.

So after carefully reading the certificates that Cao Yu took out, Wu Bin felt a lot more relieved.

"Your resume is really excellent." Wu Bin said to Cao Yu with a smile after putting down the last certificate.

"Thank you for the compliment." Cao Yu nodded slightly.

"I really admire Ms. Cao's spirit of learning cutting-edge technology in the industry while taking care of her work."

After hearing this, Cao Yu immediately said humbly: "It's just for work needs. If I don't have certain technical abilities, I will be eliminated soon. However, my superficial knowledge is compared to scientific researchers like you who can really produce results." Say, it’s still far from enough.”

"You're welcome, you're welcome, we just have different areas of expertise."

Just as the two were exchanging business blows, the hot hot pot was finally served. Wu Bin put the dishes in and said, "I'll put the dishes in. You can continue talking."

"Then I'm sorry to trouble you." Cao Yu continued after collecting a series of certificates: "Due to the special nature of the patent right, it does not arise naturally, but is artificially judged by the examiner of the State Intellectual Property Office based on the examination guidelines. In addition, the examination principles for utility model patents and design patents are not strict, and the possibility of authorization is relatively high, so it is inevitable that some omissions will be made.”

“This leads to lawsuits about patent rights often appearing. For example, the patent owner sues the other party for patent infringement, and other people request to declare the patent invalid. In such cases, I need to participate, acting as an agent in court litigation or in national intellectual property rights. The reexamination committee of the Intellectual Property Office participates in the defense of the patent right.”

After speaking, Cao Yu took out a certificate from his briefcase.

"This is my lawyer's certificate. Please take a look at it."

"..."

‘Awesome…’ Wu Bin couldn’t help but sigh in his heart.

PS: It’s hard work, Mo Li, to catch bugs in every chapter~ Thank you for reading so carefully.