Arcane Lord

In addition, Iolum also needs God's grace to dedicate [Misera] to the Lady of Mysteries to obtain protection similar to patents. If the patent is not needed, then God's grace can be obtained.

In other words, in addition to repairing the magic network, spreading magic and creating new spells can also obtain God's grace.

In other words, with what Shado has done in the territory now, he has actually obtained God's grace a long time ago, but he still needs God's grace. In addition to the upper limit of the number of spells stored in the magic network, what he cares most about is the innovative patent protected by the goddess.

Because in the foreseeable future, he will inevitably come up with a large number of innovative achievements in the field of magic. If there is no protection, perhaps he will gradually become conservative.

There is the Seventon Covenant in Netheril to protect innovative patents, but what about outside Netheril, or even outside the Northern Alliance?

Therefore, from the perspective of future benefits, Shado actually still hopes that the main god of the elves can expand the priesthood to the field of magic, because in this way, the elves can also have similar magical innovation guarantees.

In this way, it is equivalent to the mutual recognition of patents between the system of the Lady of Mystery and the system of the Lord of the Elf, although such mutual recognition of patents can also be carried out within the framework of the Northern Alliance.

But mortals are selfish, and all kinds of operations emerge in an endless stream. The reputation of the gods is higher, and they will not care too much about the gains and losses of mortals, but will focus more on the survival of their own fields.

Especially with the participation of the Lady of Mystery, this patent protection based on the reputation of the priesthood must be far higher than the patent system built by mortals.

Of course, the shortcomings of the mortal system are more in the low cost of breach of contract and the difficulty of proving breach of contract. In the future, when the Northern Alliance communicates more closely and various laws and regulations are more perfect, the mortal system will surely become popular again.

After all, using the system of God requires God's grace, and God's grace is not easy to obtain, and it can even be said that it will be more and more difficult to obtain in the future.

And due to the existence of patent protection and the rapid development of magic, there will be more and more innovations.

In this case, God's patent protection may only be used to protect the most important innovative achievements, and in more cases it still depends on the system built by mortals.

But at present, the role of God's grace is still irreplaceable, so after being reminded by Iolum, Xia Duo was moved. In the past, he had not dared to vigorously promote the communication maze lock, and a big reason was that he was worried about the elves imitating it.

Adaptive maze lock framework + distributed node design, as long as the elves are willing to crack and imitate, it is almost inevitable that they can imitate it, similar to the various APP replicas on Earth.

In this case, the practice on Earth is generally that the first mover uses a large number of users and user stickiness as a protective barrier, and the APP itself cannot prohibit others from using it.

Even if others do not copy it completely, but only imitate roughly similar functions, it is troublesome enough.

On Xia Duo's side, the current number of users and user stickiness of the communication maze lock are far from ignoring competitors. In other words, once a competitor appears, the communication maze lock of the Tower of Time is likely to make wedding clothes for others.

On Earth, there are many cases where the first mover has opened up the market but was surpassed by the latecomers. Xia Duo is unwilling to be a stepping stone for the elves.

As long as he completes the accumulation of users for the communication maze, he won't have to worry so much in the future. The huge number of users and user stickiness can allow him to continue to conquer different fields and catch up in various ways.

This is also the traditional way of playing in the Internet industry in his hometown. It can also kill elves in the magic world.

Of course, the premise is that he completes the accumulation of users for a platform, not necessarily the communication maze. The void warehouse actually has the potential to become this main platform, but the void warehouse needs too much investment. It is not as good as the communication maze. It is more about the cost of research and development. Selling matching communication magic tools can also make extra money!

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So Xia Duo chose the communication maze as the main platform, not just referring to the experience in his hometown, but also considering the reality of the magic world.

If the patent of the communication maze can be protected, then he can boldly develop the elf market. With the trade agreement of the Northern Alliance, the elf country cannot refuse. This was originally a weapon used by the elves to harvest small countries or commercially backward countries, but for Xia Duo, it is also a magic weapon that can be used.

At that time, he would shout "free trade" and no matter how frustrated the elves were, they would have to open the door. Even if they imposed various restrictions, he could only sell communication instruments that could be used as nodes of the maze in Everiska.

This is also the difference between the communication maze of the Tower of Time and the traditional elf maze. It does not need to expand the coverage of the maze, but changes naturally with the increase and movement of nodes, making it hard to guard against.

Not to mention, once the promotion begins, he will most likely learn from his peers in his hometown and use a low-price or even free strategy. The main point is to keep users first. As long as there is a user base, there is no need to worry about losing money now.

Instead, we should worry about whether we can keep our original intention in the future and not harvest too much.

The communication maze of the Tower of Time is actually already in use in Netheril. Now it is only one step away from being promoted to the elf world, and patent protection is needed!

Misera can be patented, and theoretically the communication maze can also be patented, but Misera has only one core function, which is actually the arcanist's arcane fire. The technology and functions are unified, but the communication maze is different.

Technically, there is an adaptive puzzle lock framework, and the initial inspiration can be traced back to Aohuo, but for users, this is not a puzzle lock function that they can use. The same is true for distributed node design. It is technology but not function.

Technology can indeed be protected, but will Ms. Mystery protect the function?

Xia Duo hopes that the function of the communication puzzle lock of the Tower of Time will be protected, but at the same time he also knows that such protection is not conducive to innovation, and innovation is encouraged by Ms. Mystery.

So if you want to apply for a patent for the communication puzzle lock, you must consider setting up more barriers to organize the imitation of the elves. This also means that the patents he needs to apply for will not only be related to adaptive puzzle locks and distributed nodes, but also need to consider the direction of elf imitation-

That is, how traditional puzzle locks can replicate the functions of the communication puzzle lock of the Tower of Time, and then he will apply for this solution as a product patent with unified technical functions, and perhaps he will have to apply for several more to block the possibility of elf imitation as much as possible.

But it is impossible to completely block it. Not only is it difficult to exhaust so many new design ideas in practice, even if it is really possible, this approach of completely blocking the innovation path of others is unlikely to be recognized by Ms. Mystery.

By then, it may not be patent protection, but may be directly open source.

But the gods' considerations are not completely consistent with those of mortals. As long as the mysterious lady ensures that there are other innovative paths, she does not need to consider the cost of other paths. This is also the basis for the implementation of Shaduo's containment strategy.

Of course, if the elves come up with a low-cost solution that does not infringe on patents, then he can't say anything. It's natural to be inferior to others. Just find a way to catch up or build a moat in other fields.

No one can always be ahead, and the strong will not expect others to lag behind forever. Do what you should do, that's enough. ()