At the end of August, Yuanfang Technology was in full swing.

Andy's team has expanded again, this time recruiting a large number of domestic talents, and the size of the entire team has exceeded 300 people.

The previous office space was no longer enough, so Zhou Fangyuan specially selected a piece of land for them in the eastern district of Beitong, and the new headquarters is under construction.

In the future, it will become the base camp of Yuanfang Technology, where all mobile phones will be developed and developed, as well as mobile APP.

Since the launch of the Yuanfang I1 mobile phone, it has thoroughly mastered the global high-end mobile phone market. In the high-end field, the traditional button mobile phone has completely withdrawn from the historical stage, except for a very few mobile phones with special encryption functions.

The gap between the two sides is too big, compared with the button mobile phone, the operation of the smart phone is more sensitive, the functions are more complete, the content is richer, and it is more face-saving to take it out. And to be honest, the price is not expensive, today's mobile phones are often thousands of not a few, or in other words, most mobile phones are now very expensive, since everyone is not cheap, so why do you still use button mobile phones?

With the advent of smart phones, the price of button mobile phones began to dive, and the price fell one day a day, but even so, the sales of button mobile phones still fell wildly, and smart phones began to gradually grasp the mainstream market. If it weren't for the fact that the traffic speed is still not up now, smart phones may have been able to completely dominate the mobile phone market, not to mention anything else, let's just say that in the 4G era, is there still room for the survival of button mobile phones? In addition to the elderly and children's machines, how many mainstream consumers use button mobile phones? I am afraid that there is not even one in 10,000.

Therefore, the development of mobile phones is also developing with science and technology, in fact, not to mention the 4G era, it is the 3G era, and smart phones can basically completely occupy the market.

Nowadays, China is still in the 2G era, not only domestic, but also foreign countries are now 2G in the world, although 3G signals have been available, but they have not officially entered the market, so at present, everyone around the world is still using 2G signals. 2G signal,The speed is very slow,If you want to use your mobile phone to watch videos through traffic,It's too difficult,Even if the video is compressed to the lowest quality,It's still not something that 2G can support。 Therefore, the smart phone at this stage is not a smart phone that everyone is familiar with in the real sense, and it is said to be a smart phone, in fact, it is more like a pseudo smart phone, because many smart phones should have functions, in fact, the current smart phones do not have, or have but can not be used well.

But even so, mobile phones, which have completely abandoned traditional buttons, still begin to occupy more shares in the market.

Zhou Fangyuan's plan is to continuously upgrade the performance of the mobile phone in the next few years, and prepare for the 3G signal. Once we enter the 3G era, mobile video and mobile games will be popular, and mobile phone performance will become a problem. How to improve the new energy of the mobile phone as much as possible without expanding the size of the mobile phone is a very important research direction. At the same time, the operating system of the mobile phone should continue to be upgraded, more free, more stable, and better compatible with various mobile phone software, which is what Yuanfang Technology will do next.

As for things like chips and signal networks, Huawei can do it, and Zhou Fangyuan doesn't plan to bother to mix this matter.

The reason is also very simple, first of all, it is impossible for the rice to be eaten by one person, and secondly, how thick the foundation of people is, at least in China, there are almost very few companies that can compete with them, Zhou Fangyuan is now plunging into it, and he spends a lot of money, and he may not be able to achieve that result. In that case, why is he doing such a thankless task?

Everyone is a domestic enterprise, and it is appropriate to help each other, even if it is a normal business cooperation, there is no need to worry about a blockade like that of the United States. Therefore, in the future, you can buy chips directly with foreign manufacturers or Hehua, and the difficulty of making your own chips is too great, and Zhou Fangyuan doesn't want to let himself fall into the quagmire. And in the field of smart phones, he can have the right to speak in several directions. The first is the operating system, the current Android system, both the characteristics of Android, and the characteristics of IOS, it can be said that if Apple wants to develop the operating system, if you don't want to give the patent fee to Yuanfang Technology, then you must find a way to bypass all these things.

But how can it be done with such a simple sentence? In terms of mobile phone operating systems, Zhou Fangyuan now has a huge right to speak.

There is also the layout and design of mobile phones, and Yuanfang Technology has also applied for patents, and other companies either bypass or spend money to buy licensing, which is another income.

Finally, there is the problem of the mobile phone screen, the part of the patent that originally belonged to Corning has been completely bought out by Zhou Fangyuan, of course, he is also a shareholder of Corning, but only a small shareholder. But this small shareholder has recently received several calls from Corning shareholders, and everyone said that it was inappropriate for him to do so, and when others did not know the value of this glass, he bought out the patent rights of the glass as a shareholder, and now he is making a lot of money from this patent, and others do not get any benefits, which is a bit excessive.

Therefore, everyone hopes that Zhou Fangyuan can sit down with them and talk about the patent issue again.

Zhou Fangyuan said on the phone that there was no need for this, the patent was already his, and he didn't want to talk about it.

In the end, there was really no way, everyone discussed a compromise plan, since Zhou Fangyuan is not like the past, then other people can come over, come to Huaxia, come to Zhou Fangyuan's home field and talk to him. The purpose is also very simple, that is, to save the right to use the patent, now the tide of smart phones has set off, everyone can see this, and with the promotion of smart phones, the development of the field of touch devices is also accelerating. The application field of the glass patent in Zhou Fangyuan's hand has also been greatly expanded, and the value has risen rapidly. At this time, the other shareholders of Corning could not sit still, and if they wanted a piece of the pie, even if it was a price, it was acceptable.

"That's a nice thing to say, when I bought this patent, this patent was completely worthless, you couldn't find the direction of use of the patent, I found it, how much effort I put into it, and how much risk I took in it, do you know? When you sold the patent, you shouted loudly, which made me spend a lot of money, and now you turn around and want to pick peaches? Are you taking me for a fool?"

Zhou Fangyuan sat in the main seat of the conference room, spitting a cigarette in his mouth with a look of disdain.

And sitting opposite him are the big and small shareholders of Kangning, the age of these people, the youngest can be Zhou Fangyuan's uncle, and the oldest can even be his grandfather, but these people have nothing to do with Zhou Fangyuan.

The patent has been bought out, and even Corning itself cannot use the patent after the buyout. And don't expect to beat Zhou Fangyuan with new products, it's not that simple, Corning's experimental library has a lot of experimental results, but just like the patent they are fighting for now, before the experimental results can really be used, no one knows which experimental results are suitable for what, many experimental results are obtained unintentionally, and the specific direction of use is not at all, if you try them one by one, it will be time-consuming and laborious, and it is very likely to fail.

And even if a suitable replacement is found, how can the time and money consumed during the period be calculated? Maybe Zhou Fangyuan will have relied on this part of the patent in hand to develop better glass. What's more, we don't know whether this suitable substitute exists, and it's a bamboo basket for nothing. Who can accept this kind of thing? Who would dare to take the risk of pushing it?

So the best way is to recycle the patent, or share the patent, so everyone came to talk to Zhou Fangyuan.

"Actually, our demands are not high, Zhou, we just need the right to share the patent, after all, this patent was bought by you from Corning, and as the inventor of the patent, we should enjoy this part of the right. ”

An old man with gray hair said.

"You have this right, but you must get my authorization, after all, the patent is already mine, I bought it out directly, so this patent is mine, since you sold it to me, it means that you were not optimistic about this patent before. So now you want to take back some of the rights, or share them, yes, but why should I agree with you?"

Zhou Fangyuan said loudly.

After talking for a long time, I finally got to the point. In the final analysis, it is still a matter of interests, Zhou Fangyuan spent a lot of money to buy out this patent before, and now he wants to take back the right to use with his mouth red and white teeth, how can there be such a simple thing? If you want the right to use? Yes, you can take out the benefits, and it is useless to just rely on your mouth.

And all this is also expected by others. Who made them think that this patent was useless before? In addition, Zhou Fangyuan had just invested in Corning at that time, and everyone was indeed in the mood to give him some face, and as a result, the patent was completely sold to Zhou Fangyuan, who would have thought that in only half a year, Zhou Fangyuan's side suddenly turned around, and the patent that he originally felt useless suddenly became useful?

So the exchange of interests is certain, so how to exchange it?

Intense closed-door consultations began.

This consultation will take place for three full days. Of course, it can't be that he has been in the conference room for three days, and Zhou Fangyuan himself can't stand it.

Instead, it was intermittent, almost every day to negotiate, and it took about three days to finally get a condition that was satisfactory to both parties. Zhou Fangyuan can re-license the right to use the patent to Corning, but the premise is that Corning must pay royalties for the patent, and his own things will have to spend money to produce, not to mention this aggrieved spirit. And not only that, but Corning's shareholders will also compensate Zhou Fangyuan for 5% of the shares. At first, everyone would never agree to this request, but later Zhou Fangyuan gave them an account.

The prospect of smartphones, first of all, everyone knows, is that almost a million units have been sold worldwide, and this is only less than one percent of the global market. In the future, just in the Huaxia market, it is not a big problem to eat one million units a year, and it is no problem to eat tens of millions of units a year if you look at the world. A mobile phone and a screen are calculated at ten dollars a piece, and the screen manufacturer can earn at least five dollars. Cutting out the cost ...... The cost is not worth mentioning at all, it is conceivable that in the future mobile phone market, the screen alone will have a market share of hundreds of millions every year. Screen makers can eat a big chunk of that, and for Corning, that revenue may be a small number. But the problem is that mobile phone screens can not only be used on mobile phones, and now everyone knows through smartphones that this screen can be used in almost all touch fields, so that the market is terrifyingly large.

And even if it is a market of hundreds of millions of dollars, it is a conservative estimate, counting the touch demand in other fields, how big this market is, imagination feels like drooling.

With such a large market, unless Corning never steps into it again in the future, it must cooperate with Zhou Fangyuan.

Zhou Fangyuan's demand is just that, 5% of the shares, and at least a few million dollars a year to use it. And in addition, Zhou Fangyuan has another requirement, that is, the glass produced by Corning is only allowed to be sold to merchants in the United States, of course, as for whether the merchants in the United States will change hands and sell it, it is not up to Zhou Fangyuan to manage. And this condition is not unconstrained, Zhou Fangyuan's side, the glass he produces cannot be bought in the United States. And the price of glass must be kept flat with Corning according to the exchange rate, of course, the specific pricing is discussed by both parties, but the labor in the United States is expensive, the Chinese is cheap, and the material cost is not the same, so if Corning wants to make money, it must ensure that the glass is bought at a certain price.

They didn't want to fight a price war with Zhou Fangyuan, so they put forward this requirement, and the price must be flat.

In this way, in fact, Zhou Fangyuan suffered a lot, although it seems that he has made a lot of money, but once the price of the two sides is equal, many manufacturers will choose Corning instead of Beitong Glass Factory.

But how to say it, cooperation, that's it, Zhou Fangyuan himself is a shareholder of Corning, and now he has increased his stake by 5%, and he can no longer be regarded as a minority shareholder among individual shareholders.

And in addition, these people also have a requirement, that is, they ask to take a stake in Beitong Glass Factory, and Zhou Fangyuan needs to open the threshold for shareholding and accept their investment. However, Zhou Fangyuan will not sell his shares in vain, since the other party wants to invest in the glass factory, then he asks to continue to increase his stake in Corning, and he can spend money to increase his stake to 20%.

On this issue alone, they quarreled for a whole day, and finally came to the following conclusions.

The Beitong Glass Factory authorized Corning to use the patent, and Corning had to pay millions of dollars a year in royalties, and the glass produced was not allowed to be sold to manufacturers in other countries other than the United States. Corning will compensate Zhou Fangyuan for 5% of the shares, and at the same time take out 5% of the shares, and Zhou Fangyuan will buy them for $20 million. The Beitong Glass Factory gave up 20% of the shares and sold it for $50 million. At this point, the second transaction with Corning was completed.

Zhou Fangyuan became the largest individual shareholder of Corning, and Corning also became the second shareholder of Beitong Glass Factory, which lost the market of the United States, and at the same time blocked Corning in the market of the United States, so that it could not develop externally.

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