Chapter 135 Patent Law Consultant
The "Ancient Prescription Movement" has made things much easier for Chinese medicine, but Professor Mei and others did not take it lightly. If Chinese medicine is to truly develop, it will require too many talents.
Liu Hongmin couldn't help with this matter, so he could only let Professor Mei and the others handle it themselves.
The state decided to implement a management system, but before it could be implemented, there must be a set of relevant laws. As the initiator of the proposal, Liu Hongmin was also invited to become a patent law consultant.
The first thing he did when he took office was to go to Hong Kong and get the patent laws of Western countries.
To this end, Liu Hongmin has been working at patent intermediary companies, paying them to collect patent policies and patent catalogs from various countries.
He was so busy every day that he didn't even have time for Lan Jieying to look for him.
This made Lan Jieying very angry, and she broke up with Liu Hongmin out of spite. She originally thought that Liu Hongmin would go and coax her.
But in Liu Hongmin's eyes, contributing to the country is the most important thing. If Lan Jieying can't understand, then there is no need for the two to continue.
After a month of hard work and spending several million Hong Kong dollars, I finally got a set of information.
After finishing his work, he called Lan Jieying, but her mother answered the phone and hung up immediately after hearing Liu Hongmin's voice. When he returned to the company, he learned that Lan Jieying had terminated her contract with the company out of anger.
Liu Hongmin was very disappointed, but he did not force it. He discussed the release of "Chinatown Detective" with Xu Xiaoming, and then returned to Beijing with the information.
When Liu Hongmin placed several boxes of information on the conference table, everyone was dumbfounded.
Mr. Zhu, the chairman of the Patent Law Preparatory Committee, stood up and said to everyone: "Let us applaud Comrade Liu Hongmin for his selfless dedication!"
"Whoosh whoosh-"
The committee members immediately came to their senses and stood up to applaud. For a moment, the applause was thunderous and resounded throughout the conference room.
Liu Hongmin waved his hands quickly, "Everyone is too polite, I didn't do much. These were all done by hired people, I just helped to sort them out."
Mr. Zhu laughed and said, "Listen everyone, he is showing off his wealth!"
Everyone laughed, they were not disgusted by Liu Hongmin's "showing off wealth". If they were as rich as Liu Hongmin, they might not be as generous as him.
After the joke, Mr. Zhu said seriously: "The country will not let individuals suffer losses. No matter how much money you spend, the country will compensate you."
Liu Hongmin: "We'll talk about this later. Let's talk about these materials first. Through an agency, I sorted out the patent policies of about 30 countries, and many of them are similar."
Liu Hongmin opened a box, took out a pile of photocopied books, and asked the staff to distribute them.
"There are many good points in these similarities, which are the focus of our research. I think we can start from here. Then there are the differences, which are at the back of the data. These regulations are not very good, so we need to focus on them. Finally, the patent technology catalogs of these countries will be the focus of our discussion, whether to set up a prohibition on patent protection technology."
Everyone looked at the boxes in front of Liu Hongmin and couldn't help but swallow their saliva. There are so many patent catalogs. It seems that the foundation of developed countries should not be underestimated!
Mr. Zhu agreed with Liu Hongmin's words. "Comrade Hongmin is right. Let's take a look at the information we have first."
He flipped through it and said, "Read it for half an hour, then we'll discuss the first part." So everyone started reading. These were all legal regulations, and they looked very boring. Many of the committee members were not professional legal professionals, and if they didn't have strong concentration, it would be difficult to read for half an hour.
Half an hour later, Mr. Zhu asked legal experts to interpret it first, and then everyone discussed it one by one.
For several days, the committee discussed the unified provisions of various countries and the different provisions of various countries, selected the most suitable regulations for the country, and finally formulated the general framework of the patent law.
After so many days, everyone has already had a general understanding of patents, and it is time to discuss banning patent-protected technology.
Liu Hongmin was well prepared and he directly took out his medical-related patents.
"Heart-saving pills, liver-protecting tablets..."
Liu Hongmin read hundreds of Japanese Chinese medicine patents in one breath, and then said: "These patents are obviously our prescriptions. Regardless of the effectiveness of these prescriptions, let's just look at the quantity. The Japanese have more than 10,000 Chinese medicine patents, and we don't know that these prescriptions are what we are using now. Once our patent library is connected with the international standards, the Japanese use these patents to ask us to pay compensation. What should we do?"
Everyone was silent. From the names Liu Hongmin just read, they knew that these prescriptions should be commonly used. Some of them were even popular Chinese patent medicines on the market. We have used these medicines for hundreds or even thousands of years, but now we have to pay patent fees to others?
Mr. Zhu said, "Now let's vote. Please raise your hands if you are in favor of establishing a ban on patent protection technology."
At the first moment, almost all the members raised their hands high.
Liu Hongmin breathed a sigh of relief, the first step was completed.
Mr. Zhu took a look at the voting results and said, "The proposal is passed. Now let's discuss which technologies should be included in the list of prohibited patent protection technologies."
Everyone looked at Liu Hongmin, and Liu Hongmin said, "Then let me throw out some ideas. I think in addition to traditional Chinese medicine, there is also our agricultural technology. my country's agricultural technology has been developed for thousands of years, and various situations have been mentioned. In the ancient books I collected alone, the farming techniques used in rural Northeast China are basically all recorded."
Everyone nodded. Although they had not read the ancient books collected by Liu Hongmin, they had heard of some famous ancient agricultural books, such as "Qimin Yaoshu"! That was an ancient agricultural book more than a thousand years old.
"Secondly, it is about patented technology for people's livelihood. Seed patents are prevalent abroad now. That means you buy my seeds, but you cannot keep them for yourself. If you want to plant the next crop, you can only continue to buy my seeds."
When everyone heard this, they immediately started talking.
"How can this be possible? Isn't this cutting off the roots of farmers?"
"This is simply an unfair treaty. We cannot allow this clause to enter the country."
Mr. Zhu raised his hand and signaled everyone to be quiet.
"Comrade Hongmin, what do you think?"
Liu Hongmin said: "In fact, foreign breeding technology will show a reduction in yield starting from the second generation. After three or five generations, the yield will drop to less than half of the first generation. Generally speaking, no one will save the seeds for further planting. Therefore, even without this clause, the interests of seed merchants will not be harmed. It's just that the greed of capital makes them not want to make any less money."
"I think we should set up a clause specifically for seeds. It requires seed merchants to mark the reduction in yield of each generation according to the actual situation, so that farmers can make their own choices."
I can continue to buy your seeds, but the choice must be mine, and that is true freedom.
(End of this chapter)
