"Sorry, Academician Xu and Mr. Fan, I have failed to live up to your expectations."

In Fan Pengyue's office, Ai Zhaoan, who is in charge of overseas patents at the institute, apologized to Xu Chuan and Fan Pengyue.

He has always been responsible for international patent applications. This time there was such a big mistake. Although it had little to do with him, it still had an impact on the research institute.

Of course, this time he came back mainly to work and communicate on the follow-up application for the lithium-sulfur battery patent. After being jointly rejected by multiple countries, he could not decide whether to continue to apply for the lithium-sulfur battery patent.

On the sofa, Xu Chuan smiled and said, "It's okay. You don't have to feel guilty. This matter has nothing to do with you."

On the side, Fan Pengyue also smiled and said: "What the Americans are doing is no different to anyone else. Your work in the past two years has been excellent, and you have taken care of the institute's patents."

Hearing this, Ai Zhaoan breathed a sigh of relief and then asked: "Academician Xu, Mr. Fan, according to statistics, our current patent authorization has been rejected by seventeen countries. How will the applications from these countries be processed next?"

“Should we submit for review or suspend the patent application first?”

Xu Chuan thought for a moment and said: "Let's suspend the review first and wait for this matter."

"In addition, there is no country that has completely passed the patent review and obtained the patent rights, right?"

Nodding slightly, Ai Zhaoan responded: "Well, no country has yet fully passed the patent review, including domestic patent authorization, which is also in the substantive review stage."

Lithium-sulfur batteries are a patent application that can affect the whole world, and it is not that easy to quickly go through the substantive examination stage when the popularity is fully hyped.

In particular, the Sichuan-Hai Materials Research Institute is currently involved in the theft of data from Argonne National Laboratory. Although the latter has not produced any substantive evidence, this will also affect the judgments of many national patent offices.

If you want to pass the review, you need to at least wait until this matter is over or over.

Of course, domestic patent applications will certainly not be affected by this matter. As for the reason why it has not been approved yet, it is simply that the application time is too short, and the substantive inspection and authorization registration stages also take a certain amount of time.

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "In this case, let's withdraw all the patents that have been applied for."

"Withdraw...withdraw?"

Hearing this, Ai Zhaoan, who was in charge of patent application, was stunned for a moment, looked at Xu Chuan with some confusion and asked.

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "Well, let's withdraw first."

"Judging from the current situation, the patents related to lithium-sulfur batteries are probably blocked by their owners. I'm afraid it won't be possible for a year or two. Especially in the United States, in order to support the Argonne National Laboratory and that Theresa

The professor’s research may remain stuck.”

"In this case, we will not apply directly and contact domestic manufacturers to produce it ourselves."

"Although this will be more troublesome than applying for a patent for authorization, it is better than being stuck for one or two years or even longer."

Hearing this, Ai Zhaoan frowned and asked: "But the technical report documents we submitted before...if we don't complete the patent application, these things will leak our technology."

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Don't worry too much about this. The technology-related documents we submitted are not complete, detailed and standard R&D technology, and they are only part of the core technology in our R&D."

"These technology leaks may speed up other countries' research on lithium-sulfur batteries, but it is still very difficult to make lithium-sulfur batteries exactly like ours."

"So instead of being stuck with the owner's patent and being unable to use it for a year or two, it's better to seize the time to build a factory to produce and sell it yourself."
Chapter completed!