Chapter 123: The Poison Pill Project
As soon as these words came out, both Abdullah and Mahmoud were a little confused.
I can't help it, I really don't understand the meaning of Zarif's later sentence with Chinese connotations.
Zarif immediately realized that he might have drifted too far, and took Zhuang Jianye's frequent words as his own mantra.
What ancestors are not ancestors, where do two tyrants from feudal tribes in the Arab world know such esoteric things.
So the conversation changed and re-explained: "Let's put it this way, Tengfei Group's technical strength in UAVs has long reached the world's leading level, not to mention others, let's take the 'Heron' UAV we just shot down as an example, every year Israel IAI company has to pay a lot of patent fees to Tengfei Group, otherwise it will not be able to get technical authorization and smooth production." ”
"What?"
"IAI actually has to pay patent fees to Tengfei?"
These Abdullah and Mahmoud understood it, not only understood, but also completely shocked, you must know that in recent years, Israel has made rapid progress in UAVs, and has launched several high-performance UAVs, including "Heron", which have earned enough eyeballs in the Middle East and even the world.
In addition, a subsidiary of IAI was also acquired by General Motors and merged into General Atomics, which was established by General Motors in the early years, and produced the "Predator" UAV, which is known as the world's most advanced Chada integrated UAV, which is said to have carried out many flight missions in the no-fly zone in southern Iraq, and the overall effect has been well received by the US military, and is preparing to increase procurement efforts with additional funds.
As a result, such a high-tech company, which claims to be the world's leader in unmanned aerial vehicles, even has to pay royalties to the Tengfei Group, which is still a shrewd Jewish style? How can they be willing to pay an IQ tax to others?
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"I didn't expect IAI to sell 'Heron' to New Delhi, it seems that they have been doing well with the little money of Company H over the years. ”
While Abdullah and Mahmoud were surprised that the Israelis were going to pay Ascendas royalties, Zhuang Jianye was in the room of the Chinese Consulate General in Karachi.
In an instant, it seems to have returned to the glorious moment seven or eight years ago, when the 23rd Factory, which had just established the Tengfei brand, cooperated with H Company of the United States and used drones to sweep the world.
Later, in order to balance its dependence on Tengfei Group, Company H introduced IAI in Israel as a backup of production capacity, so it began a good time when the three parties loved and killed each other.
In the end, Company H collapsed in the showdown with Tengfei Group, and seeing the competition between the clam and the clam company, the powerful IAI company made a decisive move, ready to swallow the drone patents and technologies left by Company H.
As a result, when I took a bite, I found that what I ate was not fat, but a dose of poison.
There is no way, in the eyes of outsiders, Company H is a technology enterprise engaged in the R&D and production of unmanned aerial vehicles with great potential, but in essence, it is just a leather bag company that is in the midst of a golden jade.
The only production plant is nothing more than a simple drone assembly plant.
In the early stage, it was able to rely on the strong electronic information equipment in the United States to support some façade, but later after Tengfei Group used Japan's supporting electronic components to integrate a new structure with performance no less than that of American products and a one-third reduction in price, Company H completely abandoned the industrial support in the United States.
In the later stage, with the matching of some domestic electronic products, integrating components from Japan, South Korea and even Europe, Tengfei Group further diversified the industrial supporting of UAV communication and control systems, so that even Company H could not understand how Tengfei Group's system integration was done.
From aircraft design, core component manufacturing, product testing to the integration of electronic equipment, there is one thing, and Company H has not even touched it, so where does it get its intellectual property rights?
However, the paradox is that the relevant intellectual property rights exist in Company H, but the ownership does not belong to Company H, but is an independent entity "jointly funded" by Evans and Owen, the agents of Ascendas Group, and is affiliated with the leather bag company that eats the founder's dividends in Company H as a partner.
No way, who let Evans be successfully promoted to the founder of Company H with the exquisite World War II aircraft model of the Tengfei Group, although he was finally kicked out of management and went to Europe to escape the disaster, but the identity of the founder is still there, although the dividends are small but there will still be some, so this leather bag company has such a strange new existence.
If IAI is steady, like H Company, wraps the leather bag company established by Evans and Owen in the name of its partners except for patent documents, and slowly digests it, maybe IAI can really turn into a butterfly and become the king of the UAV field.
However, IAI obviously did not have the experience of Company H, and when they saw that Evans and Owen's company was worth a lot of money, they wanted to take it for themselves, so they launched a hostile takeover of this negligible leather bag company.
As a result, the acquisition did not matter, and the so-called "poison pill plan" in the capital market was directly launched, the hidden clause in the equity agreement was triggered, and 85% of the original preferred shares were released and privately issued to the German company Action Aviation Systems, which was established by Evans and Owen.
Actor Aviation Systems instantly became the de facto controller of the leather bag company, and immediately filed a patent infringement lawsuit against IAI in California, USA.
Originally, a German company sued an Israeli company, and the United States was quite depressed, but as a result, Evans and Owen were squeezed out by European friends, and the actor company could not get along in Europe, so the two simply withdrew from the action company and re-established a new company called HNB in California through a complex shareholding structure.
The equity of the leather bag company was incorporated into the HNB system, so that HNB became an authentic American company, paying taxes in the United States and operating in the United States.
In the end, it was ruled that IAI lost the lawsuit, and in addition to paying HNB $4.5 billion in infringement fines from 1984 to the present, it also needed to provide HNB with patent protection fees ranging from 50 million to 200 million US dollars per year.
Because whether it is "Heron" or "Harpy", almost all of IAI's UAV products are more or less applied to HNB's patented technology.
If other countries judge like this, and the Israelites control you so much, you can do whatever you want, and you will be able to bite me.
The problem is that it was the American father who made the verdict, which made the Israelis have no curse, except to admit cowardice.
As a result, not only did the fine be paid in full, but the patent fee was obediently paid in accordance with the judgment.
In addition to leaving a part of the funds as the research funds of the American upper class and the remuneration of Evans and Irving, most of the HNB company was transferred to the offshore financial center through a special account, and then through complex and explosive financial transactions, it finally entered the special account opened by Ascendas Group in Hong Kong Island China Merchants Bank.
There is no way, who let Tengfei Group be the real major shareholder of HNB Company, who can take the patent fee if he doesn't take it?