After Zhou Xin arrived at Berkeley, it was equivalent to transferring from his undergraduate degree at Yan University to Berkeley to continue his undergraduate studies.
It’s just that I was a sophomore before and now I’m a senior.
What he needs to do is not attend classes, but take exams.
What you have taken at Yanda before can be directly converted into credits. You need to make up for the basic courses you have not taken.
In addition to the exam, he needs to modify the email he previously sent to Hu Zhengming according to the format of the paper. After the modification, Hu Zhengming will instruct him to publish it in a journal in the field of integrated circuits.
In fact, the time Hu Zhengming arranged for him was very full.
Although it is only a basic course at the undergraduate level, it is definitely not easy.
Converting an email into a paper and the formatting requirements are also a difficult task for people who have not had professional academic training.
Because when you write an email, you can assume that the other party knows something, but it needs to be cited in the paper.
But these are simply trivial to Zhou Xin.
"Lawyer Stephen, please, this matter needs to be done as soon as possible."
"If you want it as soon as possible, you can choose the expedited ticket for $700.
The average time for this level is about one year. "
"That means it will take a year at the earliest?"
"Yes, it will take up to a year. Because there are many steps in American's patent review.
From application retrieval to inspection. "
"Is there a faster way?" Zhou Xin couldn't accept such a long patent application time.
One year is too long.
"If you are willing to add an additional $3,000, we can compress this time to six months at the earliest."
Zhou Xin has a new understanding of how expensive lawyers' fees are.
This means that if you add in these expedited fees, the total cost will be about $5,000.
Basically all the RMB he earned from New Oriental was consumed. In 1998, the exchange rate between the US dollar and RMB was around 8.2.
The price will be more expensive if you exchange it from some people who spend money on foreign exchange.
One hundred thousand RMB, less than ten thousand US dollars.
"Can this be written into the contract?"
"Sorry, no, this cannot be reflected in the contract."
In other words, being able to apply for a patent in the Amerikan region within half a year is just the opinion of this lawyer.
There is no credibility at all.
For Chinese people who are new to Amerikan, they must follow the zero trust mechanism.
This was the first lesson Zhou Xin learned after arriving at Amerikan.
No matter who the other party is or how friendly he or she appears, a zero-trust mechanism must be adopted and do not believe anything the other party says.
Especially immigrants of Chinese descent.
My fellow countrymen cheated my fellow countrymen, and my eyes were filled with tears.
“Then let’s go with the expedited rate of seven hundred dollars.
If you have any news, please notify me as soon as possible. "
This is a law firm specializing in patent applications in the greater San Francisco area. Some of Zhou Xin's patents in later generations were applied for through this law firm.
This means that this law firm has been established for at least twenty years.
Even so, Zhou Xin couldn't believe the $3,000 expedited service the other party said.
Because there is no guarantee in black and white.
The patent Zhou Xin wants to apply for is in the field of DSP, which in Chinese is called microprocessor and digital signal processor. Texas Instruments is growing rapidly in this area.
Although they have not caught up with the smartphone wave, in the 2G era, they can be said to be the first choice of countless mobile phone manufacturers.
Texas Instruments is one of Nokia's largest partners in the processor field.
In 1998, Texas Instruments' revenue in the DSP field exceeded US$250 million.
Semiconductor companies from Neon and Korea pay high patent fees to Texas Instruments every year.
The patent Zhou Xin wants to apply for in the DSP field can help Neon and Korea's semiconductor companies bypass some Texas Instruments patents.
Texas Instruments can lose at least US$50 million in patent revenue a year.
But the one-year patent application time was a bit unbearable for Zhou Xin.
It's not that he hasn't thought about cooperating with Hu Zhengming, but considering that Hu Zhengming is currently starting a business and is short of funds, it's hard not to be tempted by such a considerable income.
To avoid subjecting the other party to human torture, it is better to simply not give the other party a chance to choose.
After leaving Omni Law Firm, he let out a long sigh.
There is always a gap between ideas and reality.
When I applied for a patent before, I didn't think about making money at all. I simply thought this thing might be valuable.
After I found a law firm to represent me, I just left it there and waited for a long time to get the receipt from the lawyer.
Realizing that the real world cannot operate as it did in this era, a 22-year time jump was achieved in the blink of an eye.
The operation of things in the real world requires strict implementation of rules.
Even if the rules can sometimes be changed, changing the rules itself is also a kind of rule.
After realizing this, Zhou Xin chose to integrate into San Francisco of this era.
You must know that there is also a top university, Stanford, around Berkeley, which is part of the Bay Area along with Silicon Valley, which is 21 kilometers away.
The dream of posterity writers is to run Amerika and then find a job in a big factory in the Bay Area to achieve work-life balance.
At this time, Silicon Valley already has Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, Apple and Google, and a large number of companies that have influenced the world for decades.
“What do you think is the most important thing in developing a product?”
“The first thing to consider is who is my target audience: professors? students? people with a technical background? people without that background?
These will have a direct impact on the design of the visual interface.
The audience determines the level of product learning costs.
For example, a program that handles desktop management might include a built-in command line that's always open if it's targeted at a user accustomed to command lines, but such a feature might not be that useful to a casual user who might be completely confused. Useful command line.
Learning cost is roughly how much effort I think my users are willing to put in to use the software I design.
ViM is a text editor with a very high initial learning curve, but this is acceptable considering that most serious programmers consider learning how to use such a good text editor to be a good investment. On the other hand, if ViM is aimed at general users, like Microsoft Office, then the average user will not be interested in learning how to use the software.
So the most important thing is to clearly define your target users. "
Both vim and office suites have a long history. Even in 1998, they were nothing new.
"Congratulations on getting the Microsoft internship qualification. Even among Berkeley students, there are only a few people who can get the Microsoft internship qualification."
Before the patent application was approved, Zhou Xin chose to intern in Silicon Valley. He basically chose overseas investment.
Microsoft was the first company to send him an internship offer.
Microsoft is headquartered in Seattle and also has branches in Silicon Valley.
Here are mainly some developers and a product team of an entire business line.
Suzy Dink, head of Microsoft's product team in Silicon Valley,
