Chapter 1307 The patent war plan
"That Zhou Ming is a liar. He uses the search engine industry to leverage the Internet and drives the official start of the capital world war. These are all the worst lies! In fact, Zhou Ming's purpose is still search engines, and he has always been search engines. We have all been deceived!"
In the new Hartford manor in Manhattan, New York, Piero kept waving his arms excitedly, and his eyes were red and scolding loudly, as if he had suffered so much grievance.
Everything was as Zhou Ming guessed. Despite the fierce competition in the stock market, Morgan's family still had an eye on Zhou Ming. Therefore, when Tang Jun started to acquire search engine companies and projects on a large scale, Morgan received the news immediately, and then the patriarch Jack, Piero and Boya discussed this matter together.
"And I also know what kind of funds that guy Zhou Ming has established in Tangren Trust. Now the money he acquires these search engine industry projects is paid by this fund, all of which are our money. He is simply a villain!" Piero was very angry about this matter.
Compared with Piero, Beya was very open-minded: "It seems that Zhou Ming did not believe in the chaotic information of the stock market now, and he was still guarding against us, so he chose this time to suddenly make an acquisition."
Zhou Ming can estimate the bottom price of the search engine industry, and the Morgan family is also able to get this result.
Therefore, Boya and the others also understood that the price has not bottomed out now, but Zhou Ming still started a large-scale acquisition, which was obviously just to avoid bottoming out competition, so he took action in advance.
"He can acquire it, and we can do it. Now I will call Tral and the others and let them acquire it together, so that he can't make it so smooth!" Piero said.
"But it's probably too late now."
Boya told Piero that according to the information he received, Zhou Ming adopted the incentive model of a unified acquisition price this time, giving the overflow price directly to the venture capital managers of Tang Jun. Now those people are desperately buying, and in just one-third of the entire search engine industry market has been cleared by nearly one-third, and the remaining half is also in contact with the Tang family.
"This kind of industrial acquisition is different from stock market futures, because there is no trading time. As long as both parties are willing, they can be traded 24 hours a day. So before the sun rises tomorrow, I don't know how many transactions will be completed, and our funding scheduling and cooperation in California will take time."
Boya said frankly: "So it can be said that when Mr. Zhou Ming chose to start in advance and mobilizes the enthusiasm of Tang Jun and others, we lost the opportunity."
"But I don't think we have lost the opportunity!" Piero slapped the table in front of Bear, "We can find ways to save the situation from the patented technology!"
Piero then expressed his thoughts. They could first find a company to sue Tangren Group, and then file a few billion dollars in compensation, requiring the court to freeze and protect Tangren Group's property, including all relevant patent projects for search engines. Of course, their lawsuit with Tangren Group is not important. What is important is to disrupt their steps, especially for themselves to take this opportunity to apply for relevant patents.
"I know Tang Jun is now
They have acquired many related company projects, but we can directly find several computer labs and apply for patents for all the search engine technologies we can collect."
Piero talked endlessly about his plans: "In this way, as long as we hold a patent, no matter what Zhou Ming and the others have on search engines, we can take the initiative! On the lawsuit, just find a reason to withdraw the lawsuit."
This is the usual method of wealthy families to suppress companies without backgrounds. They do not even need to have any actual business dealings with the other company. Even if they fake a contract document themselves, the purpose is to fight the lawsuit and then go through judicial procedures to reasonably, legally, and justly freeze the other party’s assets.
Of course, this is not costly, because according to California law, the premise of freezing assets in commercial litigation is that you need to pay a deposit equivalent to preserving the assets to proceed. This is to compensate the defendant for the losses caused during the asset freezing if the lawsuit fails.
This margin is just a drop in the bucket for wealthy families, but it is often a fatal blow to ordinary companies without backgrounds, especially new Internet companies, because most companies have very limited working capital and even carry large loans. Then this freeze is likely to miss a decisive project for the development of a company. Even worse, it will be directly dragged down by loans and corporate bonds due to insufficient capital turnover.
As the top business family in the United States, Morgan is more familiar with this method, but his current goal is to hold back the other party's time and allow himself to apply for a patent in advance.
Jack did not express any opinion on Piero's idea, but turned to look at Bear and asked what he had.
Boya looked at his confident uncle with a embarrassed look and said embarrassedly: "I don't think this method will have any effect, because I think Zhou Ming will definitely be on guard against the way we can think of."
"This is impossible!"
Piero's hands kept pounding the tabletop, reminding Boya to respect his uncle: "What do you think Zhou Ming is, an omniscient and omnipotent God? He is just a Chinese. If there is no complete law, where does it come from patent consciousness?"
However, the following things slapped Piero hard. As Piero finished speaking, the old butler Hart came in and told them a new news: Feige's web rating technology has obtained a patent.
Piero immediately widened his eyes, full of disbelief: "What? How could it be so fast?"
Boya reminded Piero very seriously: "Uncle, don't confuse Zhou Ming with other Chinese people."
It is impossible not to say that Boya still knows Zhou Ming very well. As a person with a rebirth of cheats, Zhou Ming has different ideas from the Chinese people today. Zhou Ming is still very clear about the mistakes made by many Chinese people in this era.
The most prominent issue is the patent issue. At this time, Chinese people at home and abroad do not pay much attention to patents. In traditional concepts, they believe that what they invent should be their own. How can they spend money to get others to authenticate?
It is this simple concept that has caused Chinese people to suffer a lot. The more famous one is the VCD incident. In fact,
The world's first VCD was invented by Chinese, but because it did not pay attention to patents, it was exhibited or even sold without applying for a patent. As a result, the technology was understood by others. Later, not only did it face low-price competition without any advantage, but even when foreign companies registered patents, Chinese companies used the technology they invented, but they had to pay foreigners instead.
In addition to the VCD incident, there are more trademarks that have been registered, which leads to the disgusting things that Chinese local companies have to spend a lot of money to buy trademarks from foreign companies if they want to expand overseas. There are countless such things.
These things are indignant, but in the final analysis, they are caused by the lack of attention to patented technology.
Zhou Ming remembers these clearly, so Zhou Ming attaches great importance to patents from the beginning. After all, the Internet is often a competition for patents. Just like Feige, if he loses his search engine patent, Feige's company has no meaning. Because of this, almost the day when he negotiated with Peric Milovich and Migre, he used the search engine technology they developed to apply for patents.
In fact, Perrich and Milovic have already developed search engine technology in Stanford University's laboratory, but they have not been able to implement it because of lack of funds and practical business plans. It is also because of this reason that Perrich went to work in a casino in Las Vegas and even designed a menu system for them to accumulate their own entrepreneurial funds.
Not only Perridge and his original search patents, but now Tang Jun and his team have acquired so many search engine companies and projects. Even if less than 10% of the things can be used, Zhou Ming has applied for a patent for everything. Zhou Ming is very clear that many things are like this. No matter whether you use them or not, you have to occupy the pit of the patent first. In this way, if you encounter problems in the future, you can cheat others without being cheated by others.
Of course Piero couldn't admit that Zhou Ming was so powerful. He immediately remembered something. He asked the butler Hart Zhou Ming whether he applied for a patent from California or a national one?
"If it were just California patents, we still had a chance. As long as we sued quickly enough, we could still grab the national patents in front of Zhou Ming and the others!" Piero said.
However, Hart's words poured a basin of cold water on Piero.
Hart told Piero: "The patents they have applied for now are indeed only California, but at the same time they have submitted the Federal Patent Office in the name of Stanford University Laboratory, and in addition to applying for related patents from several major Internet patent countries around the world."
Piero was stunned now. Although the Federal Patent Office review time will take relatively longer than California, Piero can indeed use the method of freezing assets, but the problem is now in the name of Stanford University, which is very difficult.
It’s not that Stanford University has any privileges, but if you attack Stanford University today, does this mean that Zhou Ming can also use this method to target other universities such as Harvard, MIT, Pennsylvania, etc., so even Morgan dare not make such a hole.
Jack, who had been as stable as Mount Tai, stood up at this time and told Piero: "It seems that the war planning for patents can only end here, but you can wait for the next opportunity."
Chapter completed!