With White Sheridan's help, the patent number was obtained quickly. This was even faster than Lu Zhou's previous lawyer team in China.
Sheridan was the former director of the intellectual property department at Verizon. Just this alone was worth half of Sheridan's salary.
After receiving the patent number, everything else sailed smoothly.
With a group of strong and expensive lawyers as a backup, the approval process was a walk in the park.
Actually, for more popular patents, authorizing the patent to outside sources during the patent filing stage wasn't anything unusual.
However, even though the field of superconducting materials was a popular academia topic, it wasn't very attractive to the market.
This was obvious in Pablo Jarillo Herrero's research team.