Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

Chapter 207: Patent money

Frankie is already a Chinese expert, not so familiar, but as far as the low threshold of Chinese people is concerned, he can say "Hello" and "Happy New Year". Frankie, who can use chopsticks, can be called a magical foreigner. Up.

And when he ate the 40th dumpling, the cheers could break the roof.

Even Comrade Yang Feng smiled and said to Yang Rui, "This foreigner is not bad."

"Just because he can eat dumplings?" Yang Rui couldn't think of the reason for Frankie's appearance, and his mood was always not calm enough.

Yang Feng laughed twice, watching his son, who had been quite calm recently, gaffes, and said with interest: "What are you worried about?"

"I don't know what he is here for." Yang Rui sighed. After months of hard work, in exchange for a share and 800,000 US dollars, Yang Rui didn't want to have more trivialities.

Father Yang said: "I think it's a good thing."

"why?"

"Eating dumplings with chopsticks, I think he is also very hard. If something bad happens, he doesn't need to behave like this." Yang Feng's answer hit the nail on the head.

Yang Rui suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "You deserve to be the secretary of the commune."

Compared with the position of secretary of the township party committee, when Comrade Yang Feng missed the secretary of the commune more, he immediately burst into laughter.

Frankie stopped his chopsticks in laughter, patted his stomach and said, "I can't eat it anymore."

"I haven't eaten the stuffed chrysanthemum." Rui Ma was polite.

"I'm full."

"One more one, try it."

"Okay." The fat man can always increase the capacity of his full stomach by another 30%. Frankie embarrassedly picked up another big dumpling, took a bite, and chewed happily.

"Mother Yang's dumplings are really good, and they put a lot of meat." The wife of the neighbor Director Wang praised her sincerely.

Rui's mother laughed from ear to ear, and being able to buy meat was a compliment. Every day like the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Spring Festival, it was the time when the relatives of Roulian Factory showed their faces.

"It's delicious, but it's too full." Frankie's dumplings are like small buns, that is, his big stomach can hold more than 40.

Rui Ma asked concerned: "Will it taste too strange?"

"No, I like dumplings, Italian dumplings, Japanese dumplings, and Chinese dumplings. They are all delicious." When Frankie spoke, he had to put down his chopsticks when he was holding the dumpling translator.

Visitors are surprised: "Is there dumplings in Italy and Japan?"

"Yes, the taste is different, and the method is different. The tortellini put meat, onion, cheese, etc. in the dough, and cut it with a knife after it is pressed. Japanese dumplings are very similar to Chinese dumplings..." Speaking of food, Frankie It is also endless, and the harder part is translation.

After one question ended, the visitors asked more questions.

Yang Rui watched coldly and finally confirmed that Frankie shouldn't be here to find the ballast.

Otherwise, there is no need to be so pleased.

But to think about it from another angle, maybe it was to break the contract or something, so I have to please in advance?

Yang Rui couldn't restrain his curiosity. When Frankie finally ate the sauerkraut dumplings and his resistance was zero, he saved him.

Frankie looked bitter: "Eating in a foreign country, you will always encounter this situation."

"Foreigners I know usually eat in a fixed place, not as bold as you." Yang Rui handed him a glass of water and asked him to slow down.

Even the Chinese, there are many people who can't adapt to pickled cabbage dumplings. Rui's mom made a few specially to let Frankie try them.

At least, Yang Rui himself can't get used to it.

Frankie drank some water, rinsed off the taste of his mouth, and shook his head: "I plan to be a gourmet after retirement, you know? I've been to 48 countries, and I've been to two more, that's 50 countries. ."

"Your passport is really useful." Yang Rui said sincerely.

Frankie laughed: "It is naturally useful in the Commonwealth countries. Other places, whether it is a passport or building a factory, need more background and help."

"There are also former colonies." Yang Rui added to him in English.

The exhausted translation finally stopped.

Frankie smiled bitterly again and said: "Yes, there are former colonies, but I want to say that our relations with countries around the world are constantly improving."

"maybe."

"We want to build Coenzyme Q10 factories in more places." Frankie finally said the purpose of this trip.

Yang Rui frowned: "We have talked about this issue."

"I know, you refused, but I solemnly propose again, I hope you can consider it carefully."

"Why?" Yang Rui asked.

Frankie said in a panic: "There is no reason. We think that one factory can't meet the demand for Coenzyme Q10. Strategically speaking, we need more factories."

"You are engaged in a price war, and I am at a loss. The increase in production capacity is meaningless to me." Yang Rui shook his head in disbelief.

With regard to the current production capacity of Coenzyme Q10 in the world, adding another factory will not be enough for the distance to be saturated. Whether it is Ruijie's factory or the self-built factory of Zelekang, it belongs to the first generation of semi-chemical synthesis method. The cost is greatly lower than that of the tissue extraction method, but the production capacity is not necessarily. Even if the investment is nearly 10 million US dollars, the output is not It will be more than three times that of the WestJet plant, that is, one ton a year is a high data, and the global demand for coenzyme Q10 is far more than the scale of ten tons.

However, no matter how large the market demand is, there is always a limit.

It's okay to build two factories in one go, three or four, five or six, there will always be times when it breaks.

Once the situation of short supply is changed, the worst is naturally the Japanese factories that currently occupy the market position, but the WestJet factory and the Ruijie factory that has not been put into production will also suffer losses.

Yang Rui had previously rejected Zelican for this, and Frankie made this request again, which made Yang Rui extremely curious.

This is the rhythm of climbing up the table, knowing that he is going to be slaughtered.

What makes them so confident?

Frankie was familiar with Yang Rui and didn't play sloppy eyes anymore. He just paced into the yard, and then said to Yang Rui who came after him: "We can compensate you in other ways."

"Oh?"

"Patent money." Frankie gritted his teeth and said the word.

The larger the factory, the less willing to pay royalties, because the royalties are charged according to the output, which is equivalent to increasing the cost of the product out of thin air, and it is a constant cost.

The most famous patent money is the Coca-Cola bottle, a glass bottle designed by someone, because it signed a patent money contract with Coca-Cola, so that Coca-Cola pays 1 cent for every bottle of this bottled Coke produced. And because the glass bottles produced in a small amount of the plan became the main product, the designer was paid more than 100 million U.S. dollars, which far exceeded the design fee itself.

Naturally, the patent gold of Coenzyme Q10 cannot be 1 cent, and once Zelican builds a large-scale factory, the output will not be small.

Yang Rui looked at Frankie with a foolish look, and asked, "How can you make this request?"

"Can't you mention it?" Frankie was confused. Could this be a Chinese holiday custom?

Yang Rui smiled: "This request is only normal if I make it."

Frankie breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said: "The patent fee is 500 US dollars per kilogram. Our plan for this year is more than 5 tons."

The patent fee of US$500 per kilogram is equivalent to 5% of sales and 15% of profits. For now, it is more refreshing than giving 15% of shares.

The production capacity of 5 tons is also quite a lot. Zelican will build at least three new factories equivalent to Ruijie's factory, and the total amount of patents will reach an astonishing 2.5 million US dollars, and if they build more The factory must pay more royalties.

Yang Rui didn't understand at all, and asked, "What happened?"

Frank was silent for a while, and smiled bitterly: "It is reported that the Japanese are preparing to update the factory."

"What's the update?"

"It is very likely to be a semi-chemical synthesis route."

"Impossible." Yang Rui was taken aback by his own voice, and then whispered in a low voice: "My technology is very comprehensive. Even if they have technical reserves, they will not be able to break through technical barriers in a short time."

"They didn't break through your technical barriers." Frankie admired this. It's really not easy for one person to set up a minefield that the other companies can't get through.

Yang Rui breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Since there is no breakthrough in technical barriers, what are you afraid of?"

"I'm afraid that they ignore the technology patents and directly produce."

Yang Rui was slightly startled.

Frankie thought that Yang Rui didn’t understand, and bothered to explain: “Market monopoly is the strategic goal of Japanese factories. Business groups that lose their monopoly position are likely to be abolished by the consortium that controls their destiny. Therefore, Japanese companies would rather violate the patent law , Will also use new technology to produce Coenzyme Q10..."

"Are they going to fight me?"

"If you sue them, yes, they are going to drag the lawsuit and continue production until there is a verdict."

"But the ruling is slow?"

Frank nodded.

Yang Rui sighed secretly, and finally reached this point. This is also a situation that all small and medium-sized biological companies may encounter. Large consortia or large pharmaceutical companies ignore the patents of small companies and infringe on patents for profit.

Patent lawsuits are protracted, and some can last for seven or eight years, or even seventeen or eighteen years, which is long enough to make a patent worthless.

If the lawsuit is lost, it is true that they will lose money, but most of the time, the money lost is much less than what they made.

It can be said that consortia and large pharmaceutical companies have included the cost of the lawsuit and the final compensation cost into the total cost.

In other words, they know that the lawsuit will lose and the patent will be infringed, as long as it is profitable.

Zelecom did not infringe on Yang Rui's patent. On the one hand, Yang Rui's asking price was not outrageous. On the other hand, it was also because they had not mastered the relevant technology.

Japanese companies are different. They can no longer obtain patent authorization from Yang Rui. On the other hand, the technology they reserve allows them to quickly copy Yang Rui's technology.

In fact, Yang Rui’s technical barriers cannot be perfect. Companies that have been doing pre-research for a long time may have also registered related patents, but they don’t have the complete agreement of Yang Rui.

"It seems that the lawsuit can only be brought down." Money is a hero. Yang Rui has 800,000 US dollars in his pocket. Although it is not enough to finish the lawsuit, he can always pay the initial expenses.

As long as he can survive the lawsuit and win, although he can't grab all the profits, there will always be a lot of compensation, which is more cost-effective than shrinking his head.

Frankie was shocked by his answer and asked: "Are you going to go to Japan to file a lawsuit?"

"Hong Kong or Japan, anyway, I won't let it go." Yang Rui looked awe-inspiring, with blood dripping in his heart. It is quite expensive to hire a lawyer~www.NovelMTL.com~Franch relaxed a little and said:" In this way, it is better to hand over the lawsuit to the Zelecom Group. We have our own lawyer team, as well as relevant experience and reputation..."

Yang Rui finally understood: "Do you want to get authorization and then file a lawsuit with a Japanese company?"

"Yes, it's good for you, too."

"The benefits to you are even greater. As far as I know, Chinese people don't like litigation." If Zelecom is the plaintiff, Japanese companies will not be so easy to get out. Whether it is fighting for financial resources or fighting for lawyers and contacts, Zeneca will For the Gao Fushuai among the pharmaceutical companies, in the face of such a large pharmaceutical company, the Japanese company may settle in advance and lose a sum of money.

And doing so means that Zelikon is likely to occupy the market.

"A license fee of US$800 per kilogram." Yang Rui can't ask for too high a license fee. This license fee can also make up for the loss of a price war if it happens. On the contrary, the large-scale upgrading of Japanese factories, coupled with the penalties of settlement or the victory of the lawsuit, the global coenzyme Q10 supply system is likely to undergo huge changes.

Furthermore, even in this case, if Zelican increases production capacity, it will not cause prices to plunge.

Frank counter-offer: "700 dollars."

Yang Rui took the median value: "US$650."

Frankie eagerly said "deal" and signed the contract on the spot.

Yang Rui read it again, wrote down his name, and was about to wait for the snow flakes of dollars to fly into his laboratory.

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