"General Manager Feng, it's me, Zong. Is Aiwa's lawsuit over? "
Feng Yu raised his brows. Why is Zong Qingxian so concerned about this?
"Soon. What's the matter?"
"I noticed a company in the US is producing a USB drive using Aiwa Electronics' patented technology. But they are not authorized by us. Our engineers had verified this, and the circuit board is almost the same as ours."
"So, you are going to sue them?" Feng Yu was pleased. It's good that Feng Yu knows how to use the law to protect his rights. In Feng Yu's previous life, many companies in Hua Xia had patents, but they only look after the companies in China. They don't care about those overseas companies that infringed their patents.
Some companies thought patents were limited to different countries, and some felt it was beyond their reach. Some felt it was impossible to win a lawsuit against a foreigner, especially an American!
"Yes. I had discussed with Xu Lihua and the rest. We must teach that company a lesson. I heard other companies in Singapore and other countries had also infringed their patents. We will sue all of them!"
"Hahaha, Zong, I also know about this. But I think now is not the right time to sue them." Feng Yu laughed.
"General Manager Feng, we have the patents. Why can't we sue them? Although we still have not applied for the patents in the US, it will be approved this year. "Zong Qingxian was getting anxious. General Manager Feng is not someone who is afraid of trouble. Why is he so timid today?!
He had asked around. Although all countries had to apply for patents, as long as one country in the world approved the patented technology, the other countries could not apply for it. Furthermore, they had to abide by and protect the patent, unless that country did not abide by international patent laws.
They were clearly in the right, so why couldn't they sue them?
"Zong, I am not saying we cannot sue them. I am saying we will not sue them for the time being. Let me ask you. How many products have they produced now? If we sue them, they can just stop producing. What losses can they suffer? How much can they compensate us? If we wait until they produce more, or even expand the scale, and then tell them that their products have infringed the copyright, how much compensation do you think we can get? "Feng Yu asked with a smile.
"You mean to say that we should first pretend that we don't know anything, indulge them, and then give them a fatal blow?" Zong Qingxian thought in his heart, General Manager Feng is so bad. In this way, those companies will definitely lose a lot of money.
Feng Yu had learned that a few companies were applying for patents for the USB drive, but they were all rejected. They took a look and saw that it was filed by a Hua Xia company. A place like Hua Xia also knew how to protect patents?
In the past, Hua Xia did not abide by international patent protection laws. Many domestic products were produced by dismantling foreign products and then manufactured by themselves.
Anyway, they were not exported, and some were even sold in the city. At first, it was not a big deal. But when those foreign companies investigated, it was no wonder that no one was interested in our products. It turned out that our products had been infringed.
Those foreign companies wanted to protect their rights, but Hua Xia did not accept such lawsuits. At that time, Hua Xia's mindset was: You can sell chairs, why can't I sell chairs? What's wrong with the appearance? What's wrong with the internal circuits? I did not steal your blueprints!
Anyway, dismantling the other party's products and reverse engineering will save a lot of trouble. It was not until Liu Chuanzhi's father that Hua Xia started to pay attention to patents. At that time, many of Hua Xia's inventions were patented by foreign companies. When Hua Xia's companies wanted to export their inventions, they found out that other countries do not allow these infringing products to be imported.
For example, in Feng Yu's previous life, the VCD player was patented by a Japanese company. The Japanese company bought Jiang Wanmeng's products and dismantled it.
After that, the Japanese company used the diplomatic relationship between the two countries to protest to Hua Xia that their companies had infringed the copyright. At that time, Hua Xia had started to accept the patent laws. Also, at that time, Japan and Hua Xia had established diplomatic relations. So, Hua Xia ordered Jiang Wanmeng to settle the dispute with the Japanese company.
How are they going to settle the dispute? Compensate the Japanese company with a sum of money and then pay the patent authorization fees. The Japanese company wanted to stop other companies from developing their products. So, they authorized the patents to many companies and let them compete with each other. No matter who produced the products, they will have to pay them.
Just from this alone, those companies earned a lot of profits. This also hindered the development of Hua Xia's industry, including the DVD player, optical drive, etc. In Feng Yu's previous life, Jiang Wanmeng's company and brand had disappeared because of this.
Although Hua Xia had implemented the patent laws, many countries still have a prejudice against Hua Xia. They felt that Hua Xia does not know how to protect their patents and is afraid of foreigners!
So, a few companies started to manufacture USB drives and even exported them to China. They claimed to be imported products and were selling them more expensive than Wind and Rain, Aiwa, and Lenovo. But there were still people willing to buy them.
Feng Yu did not want to say anything about this. It was easy to change one person's mindset. But it was difficult to change a group of people's mindset.
But Feng Yu firmly believes that one day, the people of Hua Xia will know that Hua Xia's products are the best in the world, and many of their products are at the top of the world's pyramid!
"Then should we attack them in China first? For example, we can lower our prices first and force them to lower their prices?" Zong Qingxian also thought of a good idea. Since they are going to attack them, they might as well make it worse.
"No, no, no. Why should we lower our prices? We had just introduced the 1G USB drive. After some time, we will introduce the 2G USB drive. We just need to maintain our lead in terms of technology and cost. This way, our profits will still be higher than other countries. It will not be easy for them to surpass us. Let them develop first. This way, we can earn more patent fees from them in the future. If not, what if they go bankrupt? Our target now is to develop new flash memory applications. For example, the SD card I mentioned earlier. Didn't you say that it will be developed soon? Hurry up and apply for the patent. Don't let other companies get ahead of us. "
In Feng Yu's previous life, the SD card was jointly introduced by Panasonic, Toshiba, Sony, etc. At that time, these companies produced the SD card to be used as a memory card for digital cameras.
Feng Yu wants to develop this SD card to be used as a memory card for mobile phones. Of course, it can also be used for digital cameras.
Any technology, as long as it is developed to the point where no one else has it, it will be profitable. Furthermore, this way, the development of Japanese digital cameras will be balanced.
Masao Kameda had spent a lot of money to buy the patent from Kodak. Because of this, Feng Yu had planned to introduce Wind and Rain and Aiwa brands of digital cameras.
With Wind and Rain and Aiwa brands' influence in Hua Xia, it should not be a problem for them to occupy the majority of Hua Xia's market share.
When this SD card is officially used, Feng Yu might even be able to expand overseas.
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"Hello, Feng. I am representing Microsoft to visit Aiwa. Are you not going to receive me personally?"
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