Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1731 Silent Change Turns Private into Public
In fact, it is not that Xia Duo has never thought about innovating the patent system, but this kind of thing is not something he can handle alone.

You must know that Netheril's patents are mandatory fees. Whether you use it or not, as long as someone registers the patent, the Arcane Federation will directly deduct money (from the Mage Tower organization), unless you withdraw from the Arcane Federation.

However, the Arcane Federation is also one of the consensuses of all spellcasters in Netheril. Leaving aside individual spellcasters, all mage tower organizations default to join the Arcane Federation.

It's not difficult to quit, but once you quit, it's basically equivalent to going against all Nether mages. Basically, as long as people with normal senses will not quit voluntarily.

Once the new patent law takes effect, it is almost foreseeable that a large number of new patents will be generated, and as time goes by, there will only be more and more new patents.

Although this can largely promote the popularization and further development of magic, but——

For ordinary mage tower organizations, this is almost no less than a nightmare!
On the contrary, the stronger the mage tower organization, the more it can benefit from the new patent law, such as the Seven Towers. It can be said that once the new patent law is implemented, the Seven Towers will be the biggest winner.

What would happen if the mandatory fees in the patent law were changed to usage fees?

First of all, registering a patent is tantamount to disclosing relevant information, and most of the registered new spells are largely for personal use, and it is difficult to directly convert them into commercial benefits.

Since it is for personal use, as long as people don't say it, how will the patent owner know?
And if the Austrian Law Federation is allowed to monitor, not to mention potential privacy leaks, the cost of monitoring is the most realistic obstacle.

Who will pay for this part?Patent owner?It is not so easy to monitor any record of personal private use, even if it is done by a god.

Counting on the Austrian Law Federation to do it, I am afraid that the patent income is not as good as the cost of a high-intensity detection!

And if it can't generate income, who would be willing to disclose information for free?
Therefore, in the past, in order to protect the interests of patent registrants, there was the theory of mandatory fees.

However, if this charging method is to be used for all patent projects, it is obviously inappropriate. For example, the design of the communication magic device that Xia Duo wants to register, this can obviously be easily converted into commercial benefits.

And market behavior is easy to investigate. If this is also mandatory, it would be too mean.

But there is a lot to be done about which patents are subject to mandatory fees and which patents are subject to usage fees.

Mage tower organizations that have the opportunity to participate in the formulation of the new patent law will inevitably seek their own interests, such as the Seven Towers. When they come, it is undoubtedly the most beneficial to charge all patents.

Although this has hindered the development and popularization of magic to a certain extent, the Seven Towers themselves have already occupied an almost absolute dominant position. Instead of letting the technological explosion happen in places other than the Seven Towers, they might rather choose not to happen.

As for other mage tower organizations, the larger ones may seek to establish a more complete patent system, so as to use this system to quickly grow themselves, reaching the level or at least close to the seven towers.

For some smaller organizations, most of them only have immediate interests in their eyes. At the same time, both comprehensive strength and innovation ability are very weak. No matter what kind of patent it is, it is most beneficial for them not to spend money.

Therefore, whenever they have the opportunity to influence the formulation of the patent system, they will almost certainly do so.

For Xia Duo, if he is not a grand arcanist, or even if he is a grand arcanist, but has many vassals at the same time, then he will probably be hovering between perfecting the system and spending as little money as possible.

In reality, he doesn't have many vassals, so he still prefers to improve the system, and use this system to quickly grow himself and narrow the gap with the Seven Towers.

But this kind of matter is not up to him alone, and Qita's attitude can't be avoided at all.

Therefore, when Iolum mentioned that he wanted to "innovate the existing patent system", Xia Duo didn't quite believe it in his heart, not because he didn't believe in Iolum's determination, but because he didn't believe in the existence of the Seven Towers this reality.

Of course, there are many enlightened people inside the Seven Towers, but as the existing rulers, I am afraid that conservatism is the majority!

Xia Duo is very clear that for the rulers, maintaining the status quo is the safest way of governing. Once there are changes, no matter whether they are good or bad, they will inevitably impact the existing ruling order.

Perhaps there are many enlightened people in the Seven Towers, but as members of the collective, they will inevitably be influenced by the collective will and interests, and forced to choose conservative.

In a sense, when the Seven Towers began to grow, it was inevitable to go conservative.

Regarding Xia Duo's doubts and worries, Iolum seemed quite calm, "Of course the order reform cannot be completed all at once, what I mean is——

"Use the self-interest dispute between you and Cross to cover up the silent changes to the new patent law. As long as you can force the other party to make concessions this time and form a rule, then similar incidents that occur in the future can be dealt with according to the rule.

"This is an excellent opportunity. Cross created an alliance of verdant towers in the south. This is nothing in itself, but he is also trying to integrate the internal territories of the alliance into a whole, although he temporarily bypassed it through some indirect means. The Severton Covenant, but it violated the unspoken rules of territorial independence.

"Whether it is Seven Towers or others, it is very difficult to accept this point. Therefore, as long as you raise an objection, it is almost impossible for others to object. They may be waiting for someone to come forward at this moment!"

Iolum explained in detail, and at the same time, Xiaduo is not a political novice. Now that Cross has committed public outrage, he has the opportunity to turn "private grievances" into "public criticism".

Among them, the changes to the new patents are just a small episode, and even the word "patent" may not appear in the next joint meeting of grand arcanists.

The so-called "moistening things silently" is probably like this.

This is truly a rare opportunity!

If it wasn't Cross, but someone else, Xia Duo could almost imagine that the group of great arcanists would either get along with each other, or fight sideways, or make a fuss, and it was unlikely that they would unanimously oppose anything.

Even if he made a series in private, such as asking Cliff, Jenna, Byron, Broad and others to jointly propose, and then gain the upper hand.

However, other people may also choose to abstain from voting neutrally for the so-called "not hurting the peace", or to maintain the so-called "fighting but not breaking" situation, but in the end they have to stand on the opposite side of Xia Duo.

This is very difficult to deal with, basically in the end there is only endless wrangling, or simply resorting to force.

Either way, it was not what Xia Duo wanted to see.

(End of this chapter)