Li Yao did not take the failure of the negotiation with the Zephyr Guild to heart.
Business negotiations were like this. It was normal that the price could not be reached.
However, Gao Guanyu's words reminded him.
The validity period of a utility patent was only three years.
After three years, the structure of the Demon Beast Detector would no longer be protected by the patent law, and anyone could refine similar magical equipment.
If he wanted to commercialize it, the sooner the better.
However, it was one thing to spend a few days to carefully craft and hand-polish a Demon Beast Detector. It was another thing to mass-produce it on the assembly line.
Not to mention that he did not have the necessary equipment such as the Mystic Ray Microengraving Machine. After the refinement, the advertising and marketing, the distribution of goods, the after-sales service, the operation of funds...
These problems were not something he could solve.
After pondering for a while, Li Yao could only ask Yuan Manqiu for advice.
Yuan Manqiu had been in the refiners' circle for decades. She was a veritable big sister. She had applied for hundreds of patents. She had long been familiar with how to commercialize a patent. Her first sentence was already astonishing.
"First of all, you can set up your own sect."
"Don't look at me like that. What's so great about establishing a sect? Nowadays, in order to stimulate the creativity of young people, the country encourages young cultivators to start their own businesses. "
"It is also a trend for college students to establish their own sects."
"Many senior students in our school have established their own sects in groups of three or five. The school is very supportive."
"Moreover, not only do you have the identity of a college student, you are also a Class 1 Disabled Serviceman of the Federation. If you establish your own sect, you will receive tax, bank loans, and so on. You will get a lot of discounts. "
"After establishing your sect, you will be able to mass-produce the Demon Beast Detector. Of course, you will need a lot of investment in the early stage. You can get a bank loan or go to some youth entrepreneurship parks and find someone to invest."
"Nowadays, there are many big sects. They like to explore small sects with potential in the youth entrepreneurship parks and invest in them. "
"I think the Demon Beast Detector project has a lot of potential. With this as the core, you can create a small sect with a unique feature. It will be very popular in the youth entrepreneurship parks."
"If you are lucky enough, there will even be a big sect that will spend an astronomical amount of money to buy your small sect."
"In that case. Not only will you be able to obtain a high monetary reward, you can even directly become an Elder or Hall Master of this large sect. It can be said that you have reached the heavens in a single bound! "
Yuan Manqiu's suggestion made Li Yao feel a rush of excitement.
Establishing his own sect?
It sounded pretty impressive.
However, after careful consideration, he gave up on this plan.
It was not easy to start a sect. Whether it was applying for a loan from the bank or looking for investors in the youth entrepreneurship park, there was a lot of work to be done.
This was the field that admin-type cultivators were good at.
Li Yao was not an admin-type cultivator. There were only two things he liked. The first was to roam freely in the mysterious and complicated world of magical equipment. The second was to kill in a blood-boiling battlefield.
These two things. It had already consumed all of his time and enthusiasm.
In the next stage, he would place most of his energy on the Refiners Registration Examination.
Even if he passed the exam, he would still focus on Project Mystic Skeleton.
He really did not have the extra energy to run a sect.
Seeing him reject the first proposal, Yuan Manqiu was not surprised and continued:
"If you don't want to establish your own sect to produce Demon Beast Detectors. Then you can only cooperate with other sects. "
"However, the cooperation depends on what sect the other party is from."
"For a large sect like the Zephyr Sect, although they have rich refining experience and a perfect marketing network, their scale is too large. It is very difficult to treat you as an equal partner. They are often only willing to do a one-time deal and directly buy your patent. "
"If you want to keep the patent, then you can only choose a second or third-rate sect to cooperate with. These sects do not have strong technology and do not have follow-up research ability. They do not need your patent. They only need you to authorize them to produce the Demon Beast Detectors."
"Of course, in this way, the price will definitely be lower. Moreover, the marketing network of the small sects may not be as perfect as that of the Zephyr Sect. The quality control of the mass produced magical equipment on the assembly line is also a problem."
"Therefore, it is very important to choose a small sect that you know well to cooperate with."
"Li Yao, what do you think of the Mountain Sea Sect?"
Yuan Manqiu obviously had not only thought about it once. Since Li Yao asked, she threw out the best plan she could think of.
"Mountain Sea Sect?"
Li Yao thought quickly.
He had a good impression of the Mountain Sea Sect.
Not only was Jiang Wenbo, the logistics supervisor of the Mountain Sea Sect, a visiting professor of the Refining Department, one of his teachers.
Also, Guan Xiong, a Building Foundation Stage Cultivator of the Mountain Sea Sect, was not only his savior, but also the witness of him becoming a cultivator.
Over the past year, he had met Jiang Wenbo and Guan Xiong several times. They had a good relationship. The Mountain Sea Sect was also the sponsor of the Refining Department of the Grand Desolate War Institution. Now that the students of the Refining Department had made some progress, it was only natural that they would cooperate with the Mountain Sea Sect.
"I heard that the Mountain Sea Sect has not been doing well in the past two years?" Li Yao was somewhat worried and asked.
"Yes."
Yuan Manqiu did not hide it and said generously, "For more than a hundred years, the Mountain Sea Sect has always been a second or third rate sect with not a single Core Formation Stage Cultivator. In the past few years, their luck has been even worse. First, the former sect leader failed to form his core and was seriously injured, which led to a plunge in the stock price and a heavy blow to the sect. Then, another expert, Guan Xiong, was eroded by demonic energy during the beast tide and fell from the high level of the Building Foundation Stage back to the middle level.
"After losing these two high-end experts, some of the high-profit businesses such as killing high-level demon beasts, prospecting in the Wildlands, and becoming a military contractor for the Federation cannot be carried out. Therefore, there are difficulties in business.
"However, after all, the Mountain Sea Sect has been developing in the Wasteland for more than a hundred years. Its foundation is deep, and its marketing network is spread all over the Wasteland. It also has a certain reputation and reputation.
"The main market of the Demon Beast Detector is in the Wasteland. Even if the inland cultivators want to go deep into the Wasteland to hunt demon beasts, they will first rest and reorganize in the Wasteland. With the advertising and marketing ability of the Mountain Sea Sect, these important nodes are completely covered.
"The other key issue is the production capacity.
"The Mountain Sea Sect was originally not a sect that focused on refining. However, in order to change its direction, they spent a lot of money to introduce a Mystic Ray Microengraving Machine and a production line for miniature components.
"This set of equipment is very advanced and can be used to refine spirit watches. Although the structure of the Demon Beast Detector is ingenious, in terms of precision, there is still a certain gap between it and a spirit watch.
"In other words, the Mountain Sea Sect is completely capable of mass-producing the Demon Beast Detector.
"On the other hand, the Mountain Sea Sect's technical strength is not strong. The newly established R&D Center is still a bunch of old people. The director of the R&D Center is Old Jiang. He is a grassroots refiner and is not good at refining precision magical equipment. In terms of technology, he still needs your support.
"In this way, you will provide the technology, and the Mountain Sea Sect will provide the manpower, money, production equipment, and marketing network. The two sides will complement each other very well. The foundation of cooperation is also very solid."
Li Yao listened to his teacher's analysis and repeatedly nodded his head.
In the current situation, the Mountain Sea Sect was indeed the best partner.
After hesitating for a moment, Li Yao asked again.
"However, is the Mountain Sea Sect willing to cooperate with me? How about I talk to Teacher Jiang first? "
Yuan Manqiu slightly smiled.
"What is there to talk about? If you take the initiative to talk to him, then you will be in a passive position. Of course, you should wait for him to come to you first!
"I have already sent the video of your battle in the Thunderbolt Cup, as well as some of the scenes of your battle in the Wasteland, to Old Jiang. I also 'conveniently' told him that you have obtained a patent.
"With his insight, he should be able to see the value of this patent.
"Moreover, in the current situation of the Mountain Sea Sect, this is simply a piece of magical equipment that is tailor-made for them.
"You should think carefully about what kind of conditions you should offer the Mountain Sea Sect!"
Yuan Manqiu was not lying.
The next day, after watching Li Yao's battle video and the detailed introduction of the Demon Beast Detector in the evening, the extremely excited Jiang Wenbo sent a spiritual crane message.
The magical equipment Demon Beast Detector was really to the Mountain Sea Sect's liking!
At present, the Mountain Sea Sect was in a very awkward situation.
With the bank loan, they had spent a large amount of money to import the assembly line. The refined spirit watches had become slow-moving goods and were overstocked in the warehouse. Every time they were refined, they would suffer a loss.
But if they did not refine them, the assembly line would be idle. Just the monthly interest from the bank loan alone would be an astronomical figure.
The Mountain Sea Sect intended to transfer the entire equipment. First, it was not easy to find a buyer. Second, the transfer price was too low. The losses on the Mountain Sea Sect's account were simply shocking.
Not to mention, after transferring the equipment, what would the Mountain Sea Sect do in the future?
The appearance of the Demon Beast Detector caused the eyes of the Mountain Sea Sect to brighten.
The combat-type cultivators, led by Guan Xiong, often hunted demon beasts in the Wasteland. They were very confident in the market prospects of the Demon Beast Detector.
More importantly, the assembly line that was originally introduced to refine spirit watches could be used to mass produce the Demon Beast Detector after a slight modification. There was no technical difficulty.
Rather than being crushed by the traditional giants such as the Zephyr Guild in the competitive and mature market of spirit watches, they might as well try to open up a new market!
Even if the sales volume was not high, as long as they could repay the bank loan interest every month, it would be better than having the assembly line idle!
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