Chapter 70 A beam of light in the fog

Author: Fortunately I didn't go

Chapter 70 A beam of light in the fog

What conflicts did Mirohua have with Mirohua when she was working?

Ethan can answer this question without thinking about it.

"Barbara, you know about this, I really just wrote an invitation letter as required by the leader."

"An invitation to Nolan Bushnell."

"I didn't decide the list of invitations, and I can't decide who should be welcomed."

"Apart from the invitation letter, Mirohua and I had only had one conflict. When they were fired, they wanted to lose my compensation. I used some fierce words to defend my power."

"What wording?" Barbara was interested.

"Uh...racial discrimination." Ethan took a deep breath and said, "The member of the Human Resources Department who talked to me devalued Dr. King with his own words. I pointed out his mistakes and threatened him to send a letter of help to the San Francisco Equal Rights Organization."

"Dr. King? Martin Luther King?"

Barbara agreed while recording, “If Mirohua’s people insult him, then your report is indeed a clever decision.”

"Oh thank you." Ethan thanked, and said, "Then, I also said that their behavior of not giving compensation is illegal, and I will apply for assistance from Ameriga Legal Services."

Barbara also nodded and applauded, "Okay, it's great to know how to use the law to protect her rights."

"Also, I said that their dismissal was an invasion of foreign capital led by Philips."

“…”

Hearing this, Barbara's hand that was recording suddenly paused.

He looked up slightly and glanced at Ethan.

The bright eyes were filled with doubts, "You mean, what happened to you when Philips acquired Mirohua?"

"right."

"Okay." Barbara made a key mark on this point, "So... are you the scapegoat chosen by the leader?"

"I think so too." Ethan nodded and said bluntly: "In fact, I always have a feeling that the leader keeps me to fire me when accountable, so that they can hide their incompetence."

“Great ~ baby ~”

Ethan's words made Barbara laugh, "If you are sure there is no other conflict between you and Mirohua, then I suspect that in this strong bureaucratic company, suing you is just to cover up their incompetence."

"Of course, this is just suspicion."

‘?’

Ethan narrowed his eyes.

He thought what Barbara said seemed to make sense.

After all, there is a saying that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. When the leader of the branch is frantically shifting the blame to keep his position, how could the leader of the direct company take the initiative to take the responsibility of the parent company?

"Snake Game" created by him, a former Mirohua employee, can indeed make Mirohua lose all his face.

While he was thinking, Barbara also wrote his guess on paper and said, "Then please comment on Nolan Bushnell and Don Valentine separately. What kind of people do you think they are?"

"And then before being sued by Mirova, is there any conflict between you and Atari?"

Although Ethan didn't understand why Barbara felt that Atari was targeting him, he still carefully recalled what had happened in the past few months according to what the other party asked.

His evaluation of Nolan Bushnell is-

"He is a successful and excellent businessman. He said that he was successful because he could see the value of "Snake Game". He wanted to take ownership of "Sanke Game" in the early stages of negotiations by long-term agency. He said that he was excellent because he did not give up even in a desperate situation. Even if he couldn't win the lawsuit, he tried to win Ralph Bell's sympathy and reach a settlement with Mirova."

His evaluation of Don Valentine is-

"An extreme egoist can do anything for the sake of his interests. The previous negotiations on "Snake Game" and the questioning last night were both representing Atari's dissatisfaction."

After recording Ethan's words, Barbara nodded with a smile.

"It's true that there's something wrong," she muttered, then raised the white paper and pointed at Ethan's comment just now and said, "Ethan, your evaluation of Don Valentine is an extreme egoist, right?"

"Yes." Ethan nodded.

At the same time, he also expressed his confusion, "Is there any problem? Barbara?"

"Of course!" Barbara turned her head and looked at Ethan, her face full of confidence, "Before I explain it to you, I want to ask you something, did you just tell me that Don Valentine roared at you last night, saying that she would file a lawsuit against you?"

"right."

"Did you just say that Don Valentine said last night that they would reach a settlement with Mirova, meet Mirova's all requirements, stop selling "Snake Game", compensate Mirova for Mirova's millions of losses as required by Mirova, and recall all the goods that have been sold on the market, namely the arcade and circuit motherboards of "Snake Game"?"

"Yeah~" Ethan confirmed that he remembered correctly.

"Then the question comes."

Barbara put down the paper, knocked on the table, and said, "Ethan, maybe because you have not specifically understood our country's patent protection laws, so you will think Don Valentine's behavior is normal."

"But I want to tell you that his behavior is abnormal."

"Although it is mentioned in our country's patent protection law that when the plaintiff sues the defendant and says that the defendant infringes his patent, the plaintiff has the right to ask the defendant to recall and destroy the infringing product from the market, this is difficult to achieve in actual operation."

“Or…”

Barbara stretched out her voice and gave Ethan a meaningful smile.

"It's basically impossible to achieve."

Barbara supported the table with her elbow and said seriously: "About the patent protection law, our American Code has a complete storage, which means that if the plaintiff sues the defendant for patent infringement and asks the defendant to withdraw the infringing product from the market, the following four conditions are required to be met before the court can issue an injunction."

"The first condition is whether the plaintiff will suffer irreparable damage due to the defendant's infringement."

"This is generally impossible to achieve, because the plaintiff must be involved in a bankruptcy storm, which is an irreparable damage. Often by this time, infringing companies have become important entities in the single market. In order to ensure the stability of the market and the development of the economy, in general, the infringing companies can only sacrifice the infringed companies."

"The second condition is whether the monetary compensation in the case is sufficient to compensate the plaintiff's losses."

"When the plaintiff takes the initiative to raise money compensation, this is bound to be achieved."

"The third condition is whether the ban is in the public interest."

"The fourth condition is whether the injunction will cause reasonable damage to both parties and others."

"The last two points, in the official operation, actually have a lot of room for operation. Take "Snake Game" for example. If a phenomenal game is recalled and destroyed, it will cause huge damage to the public's entertainment life. At the same time, it will also cause huge economic losses to those merchants who purchase arcades."

"In this case, as long as Mirohua will not go bankrupt due to the sale of "Snake Game", how could "Snake Game" be recalled? The court cannot support Mirohua's request to Atari to recall "Snake Game". Why do you say the extreme egoists are angry that they will cooperate with Mirohua?"

Barbara turned her head and looked at Ethan.

The bright eyes were shining with the light of wisdom.

Then she leaned back and laughed: "When Don Valentine said that he would ask Atari to recall the arcade of "Snake Game", he had a problem! Because there was no recall on the "Pong" on the market!"

"If you have to compare the harm of infringement, "Pong" is obviously bigger than "Snake Game"!"

“Right?”

"When he has already experienced the lawsuit in "Pong"! When he clearly knows that such infringing products as electronic games do not need to be recalled! Then why does he still say in front of you that he should cooperate with Mirohua and pass all the losses onto you?"

“Isn’t this behavior abnormal?”

"And, you just said that Don Valentine is going to sue you for hiding the truth?"

"Want to label you as a business fraud?"

"Isn't this putting pressure on you for no reason?"

"Do you think this is something that a normal person, something that you call extreme egoists do?"

"If he is really an extreme egoist, then he shouldn't urge you to solve the problem and then continue selling the game?"

“Or…”

"His 'interest' is not a game?"

The questioning was like a cannon, and Ethan was stunned on the spot!

yes!

There is something wrong with this special code!

When she was yelled by Don Valentine last night, Ethan didn't notice these details at all.

First of all, it was because Barbara confirmed that "Snake Game" had infringed. When this fact was established, he entrusted "Snake Game" to Atari for production and sale, which really meant to pull people off.

Secondly, it is because he feels that there is no problem in recalling the infringing products. If his product is infringed, he will definitely make corresponding claims when suing, or in other words, he will definitely be furious and strangle the infringer to death.

But now, Barbara said that a recall is impossible? Is it not supported by the law?

That Don Valentine's rage is indeed a problem!

Thinking of this, Ethan hurriedly said, "Barbara, are you sure?"

"It's the recall."

Ethan's question made Barbara roll his eyes and said, "When I was studying with my teacher, my teacher took a case in Playboy. The other party asked Playboy to recall the illegal magazine. My teacher directly took the American Code in front of the judge and scolded the plaintiff and the plaintiff's lawyer in front of the judge, and asked the plaintiff's lawyer to go back to school and resume classes."

"I still remember what he said at that time, and he said, 'Can your personal interests be higher than the public interests? If so, I can apply to the GF Department to let the army station at your doorstep!'"
To be continued...