With the New Year holiday over, the whole city is bustling again.
Unlike other companies that give their employees a period of time to adapt, as soon as Wu Hao and the others took their leave, all departments of the company started operating at full capacity.
The time for the new product launch has been set in mid-March, so there is not much time left for them to prepare.
The main reason why they are so anxious is that they have received news that several companies may launch their own smart voice assistants at their regular spring conferences in April.
Obviously, this is all coming for them. The influence and popularity they caused in the past made countless people very interested in this area.
As a technology giant, it is natural to have its own professional department to sense market dynamics. So for such an excellent marketing opportunity, they will definitely not let it go.
Of course, Wu Hao is still confident in his skills. But if they can't release products before them, then the influence of their products will naturally be greatly reduced.
In the market, it does not mean that people will buy your products if you have good skills. There are too many cases and stories about how an excellent product was besieged by a bunch of imitations and defective products, and finally disappeared.
They have the technology to be sure, but they also have many shortcomings that cannot be overcome. For example, brand influence, various supporting resources, market consumption channels, etc.
Therefore, they need to clear up these issues one by one before releasing new products.
So the day after receiving his leave, Zhang Jun started his business trip with his luggage. Wu Hao also had to free up his hands from laboratory work to deal with some company matters.
"Mr. Wu, this is the relevant information from the foundry that Mr. Zhang (Zhang Jun) has visited these days. Take a look." Dong Yiming handed over a piece of information.
"Are they still the ones we identified before?" Wu Hao took the document and read it.
Dong Yiming shook his head and said: "We changed to a few more. The prices charged by the previous OEMs were relatively high, so Mr. Zhang went to find a few smaller ones.
Mr. Zhang and his colleagues have specially inspected these OEMs. Although they are relatively small in scale, the quality control of their products is still very good.
Moreover, the other party is very sincere and willing to give us preferential conditions in many aspects. "
"How about the confidentiality measures? I don't want our relevant production data information standards to be leaked in a short time, or the templates to be directly copied by others." Wu Hao asked while looking at the document. Compared to price, he is actually more concerned about product quality control and the professional ethics and confidentiality measures of the foundry.
"Not bad. The other party promised to strictly keep the relevant production technology information safe and sign a relevant confidentiality agreement with us. Once a similar incident occurs, they will bear the corresponding responsibilities and compensate." Dong Yiming introduced to him.
Wu Hao glanced at the detailed report in the information, then raised his head and said to Dong Yiming: "To be on the safe side, we should separate them. We must pay attention to this aspect. We can give a little more in terms of price, but we must ensure the quality and technical information of the product. Safety.
By the way, how is our patent application going? "
"Chu Hongwei and the others have applied for and registered more than 200 domestic and international patents related to our new product, and more than 100 are being applied for. It is expected that the registration will be completed before we start selling it at the earliest." Dong Yiming replied road.
Chu Hongwei is a patent operation and management talent that Zhang Jun specially poached from elsewhere in order to establish a professional patent application registration and operation management team in the company.
In the past, when applying for peripheral technology patents on cluster array control technology, due to lack of experience, several related patents were registered by others.
This is an oversight on their part and a lack of experience. Therefore, Wu Hao and Zhang Jun attached great importance to this and spent efforts to establish such a professional patent application, registration, operation and management team.
In addition to relevant technical analysis, statistics, operations management, and relevant legal professionals, this team is specifically responsible for patent application and registration matters.
So in less than half a year, they applied for and registered nearly 400 new related patents for the company.
There is no way, in this era where even shapes and colors have to be registered for patents, technical protection must be comprehensive and comprehensive.
You cannot just apply for one patent for a technology, you must apply for related patents that are similar to it, have the same function, or even have the opposite function and structure, etc.
This is also to prevent technology theft and squatting imitation of patented technology, of which there are too many examples.
When your technology patent is extremely valuable, countless people will be eyeing it. Your technology patent not only means wealth, but will also become a roadblock for many companies in this area.
Everyone is either trying their best to obtain this technology, or they are trying their best to circumvent this technology or find loopholes in the patent protection of this technology.
Although this approach is somewhat shameless, it is a legal and reasonable business practice. Compared to money and interests, shamelessness and shamelessness mean nothing.
Therefore, many technology companies will have such a professional team responsible for relevant professional application registration operations and management matters.
"The company's engineering samples have been released and are now undergoing internal testing. We need Zhang Jun to speed up and complete the production process as soon as possible.
You should also note that after our new product launch, relevant pre-sales will be carried out immediately. You must not only connect with major e-commerce platforms, but also maintain our own online operation window to prevent possible unexpected situations. "Wu Hao thought for a while and then ordered.
Dong Yiming nodded and smiled: "We have asked relevant network design companies to build our own online mall. We are currently testing and modifying it. After the press conference, it will be officially launched and will be synchronized with other e-commerce platforms for pre-sales."
"How is the connection with the APP going? I don't want anything to go wrong after the press conference. It will be huge to make up for the cost." Wu Hao nodded and continued to ask.
Dong Yiming shook his head when he heard this and said: "The progress is relatively slow, and some mainstream APPs still have some doubts about us. But don't worry, we have sent extra manpower to deal with this matter, and it will not affect our new product launch conference."
"We must negotiate this beforehand, otherwise, as soon as we display it at the press conference, these APP operators will start to rip off us." Wu Hao frowned when he heard this.
Without the docking support of these service APPs, the application scope of their product will be greatly reduced. To put it bluntly, it’s still ecology. They don’t have their own ecology. This is also a problem that many products encounter when they are launched.
