He didn’t rush to open the door. Lin You cautiously peered out through the peephole.
A man with a square face, dressed in a suit, stood outside.
“Hello, who are you?” Lin You asked, opening the door in confusion.
“Hello, Mr. Lin You, I’m from the Great Xia Top Secret Patent Technology Bureau. This is my ID.”
“Top Secret Patent Technology Bureau? I haven’t applied for any patents either?” He’d been so busy lately, he hadn’t had the time to deal with patents, nor the money to hire someone.
So his original plan was to wait until production, have Xiaomeng deeply encrypt it, and then embed bottom-layer trap instructions.
When someone finally managed to spend a huge amount of money to replicate the neural modem and begin mass production, Xiaomeng could send a single instruction to render them all useless.
That way he wouldn’t have to bother running around, and Lin You always avoided tedious programming tasks whenever possible.
“It’s like this.” The square-faced man explained to Lin You, “We shouldn’t have come, after all, your technological achievements have already been publicly demonstrated. But your technological achievements are simply too important to be treated as ordinary patents, so let the Top Secret Patent Technology Bureau handle it and help you solve some problems.”
Lin You was a little puzzled. What problems did he need to solve? But he still invited the three into the house, politely pouring them water and sitting down.
“How should I address you all?”
“Lu Wei, Great Xia Top Secret Patent Technology Bureau.”
“He Peng, Great Xia Military Industry Research Institute.”
“Yue Pengju, Security.”
This security guard, sitting with impeccable posture, immediately caught Lin You’s attention: “Yue Pengju? Yue Fei!?”
“Not the Peng of ‘dapeng’.” He seemed familiar with this sort of thing, smoothly correcting, “It’s the Peng of Pengzu, Pengshan, the Peng surname.”
“Nice to meet you.”
“We won’t waste Mr. Lin’s time, let’s get to the point.” Lu Wei got straight to the matter.
“Okay.” Lin You nodded; he’d been about to go to sleep and was feeling a little tired.
“First, on behalf of the Great Xia Academy of Sciences Research Institute, I invite you to join us.”
The moment Lin You’s video was released, relevant departments immediately sprang into action, clarifying the cause and effect of the matter.
And because of Princess Zhu Cixia’s presence, they contacted the princess immediately to confirm the authenticity of the technology.
So now, after arriving, they didn’t even ask to see the equipment, showing Lin You complete trust.
“Ah, this, I’ll pass.” Lin You was self-aware; his technology was scavenged, and he’d likely be exposed if he joined. Besides, making him spend his days in a lab doing scientific research would kill him.
I haven’t even graduated from university yet! “Alright, we respect your opinion.” Lu Wei nodded, not forcing the issue.
“Next, we want to know if you want to apply for a patent? If you’re interested, we suggest that, although the results have been made public, it’s best to go the top-secret patent route; an extra layer of protection is always good.”
“I don’t have the money and I’m too lazy to run around, so I haven’t planned to apply.”
This was the truth. Although applying for an invention patent, including printing fees, cost less than a thousand yuan, it wasn’t exactly expensive.
But in the past few days, after buying the Lingxi annual membership, he only had less than two hundred yuan left.
“But since you’re here, does that mean there’s a free channel?” If he could stay home and someone came to handle it for free, he’d be happy to apply.
Lu Wei quickly nodded in agreement: “Yes, an expedited green channel, completely free, and it won’t enter the public patent database. If you agree, as long as the documents are prepared, it can be completed within 8 hours.”
“Is that so…” Lin You picked up his phone and tapped out a few lines.
Then he added, “It’s fine if you don’t want to apply, we’re just here to offer you a choice, it’s not a mandatory requirement, rest assured, we wouldn’t be so overbearing to our own people.”
He glanced at He Peng, shook his head slightly, and continued to speak to Lin You, “We can use a different form of cooperation, directly purchasing your products, but we need your assistance in completing the software design, and the design fee will certainly satisfy you.”
“You can also rest assured that none of these products will enter the market in any form, it won’t affect your business plan.”
Lin You immediately understood where these products would likely be used, and the software’s application scenario would most likely be war simulations.
But he still shook his head, holding up his phone and handing it over.
Seeing him shake his head again, Lu Wei finally showed an anxious expression. He opened his mouth to say something, but could only take Lin You’s phone and look down at it.
Page after page of technical documents met his eyes.
This was what Lin You had just contacted Xiaomeng through his phone, had Xiaomeng check these people’s identities, confirmed they were legitimate, and then directly compiled and sent to him.
This technology was too important, and he was alone, so finding a powerful backer would make him feel more secure.
In Great Xia, what backer could be more powerful than the Great Xia government itself? Lu Wei flipped through a few pages, suddenly raising his head to look at Lin You, “This is?!”
“Technical documents for virtual reality equipment.” Lin You nodded in confirmation, “But I haven’t written a patent application before, I don’t know the format, these are purely technical documents.”
“It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter!” The ups and downs of his emotions made Lu Wei a little excited, “This is enough, the format is unimportant, don’t worry, we’ll get it all done tonight!”
“Since you agree to apply for a patent, then we won’t take up your production equipment. Mr. He Peng wants to obtain your patent authorization, paying ten million yuan upfront, and for each unit produced thereafter, you will receive 5% of the market price as a licensing fee. These devices will not appear on the market.”
These conditions were already extremely favorable. The ten million was purely a bonus; the 5% patent licensing fee was the main thing.
That was a percentage of the market price.
As far as Lin You remembered, Qualcomm’s world-famous 5% exorbitant patent fee in his previous life was also charged based on the wholesale price of the phone, not the selling price.
Another point that couldn’t be ignored was that the equipment they produced would not appear on the market, meaning the market price was entirely up to Lin You! This meant he could set the price.
And all the equipment, to achieve optimal realism, without Xiaomeng’s participation, relying solely on manual adjustment, a single scene might take one or two years to achieve complete and thorough simulation! With Xiaomeng’s participation, however many units there were, that’s how many units there would be, and this would be completely impossible to hide.
Considering the virtual reality battlefield and the almost identical combat training effect of reality, the number of these devices could easily reach millions.
Hmm… I plan to set the price at 10,000 yuan, 5% of one unit is 500, one million units is…
500,000,000!
How many zeros is that? 500 million!
Lin You had never seen so much money in two lifetimes! Of course, he wouldn’t get it all at once; it would probably be paid monthly over the next few years as the equipment was produced.
But he couldn’t help but marvel: This is too generous!
If a large company like NetDragon came, he would definitely slaughter them, without a single hesitation.
But thinking about the users of this equipment, the soldiers defending their homeland, he felt a little guilty and had some subtle hesitation: “Isn’t that a bit high?”
(End of Chapter)