Chapter 137: A plan within a plan
"Call me. Hu Wenhai was slightly stunned, and there was an expression on his face that he had been caught stealing. The call came too suddenly, a bit unexpectedly. According to the normal route, shouldn't we wait for Motorola's products to be put on the market, and then take it to court with a subpoena, easily win hundreds of millions of punitive damages, and then attack the US market?
Why did this Motorola suddenly come to the door?
The water lithium battery paper is a pit dug by Hu Wenhai, he has already registered a patent trap around this technology, just waiting for an eyeless foot to step in, and then he can refresh the head.
But all of a sudden, the prey who should have been waiting for the head to be taken away was suddenly opened by someone, which is too wrong to get the script, right?
But no matter what, the wronged boss came to the door, so Mr. Hu had no reason to cowardice.
If he changes companies, maybe he will have to think about how to pit. But Motorola doesn't have to think about it at all, this is the biggest wrong.
Motorola's 68000 CPU is now selling well with Macintosh computers, and may even dominate the desktop market. This is not ten years later, and chip production is dominated by foundry. At this point in time, the world's mainstream chip manufacturers are still building their own wafer fabs, and the investment in wafer fabs is not as exaggerated as that of later generations.
In other words, Motorola is also a first-tier chip manufacturer now, plus the future prospects of mobile communications. Even if Motorola doesn't enter the urn, Mr. Hu will find an opportunity to pit them once in the future.
In any case, Motorola did send a pillow to Hu Wenhai when he was most sleepy.
"Hello, I'm Hu Wenhai. ”
The original Big Brother phone certainly didn't have any too advanced features. Don't think about any sound quality improvement, background sound filtering, signal reorganization, etc. So as you can imagine, the call quality is actually better than nothing.
The phone was accompanied by the rustling of electricity. The voice of a man with an American English accent came out.
"Sir, you may not know who I am, but I can get your number. You see, in fact, we in the United States are a society of personal relationships. ”
"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Edgar and I'm the Legal Manager at Motorola. As a reminder, my father and Director Howson of Grumman were friends at the golf club. ”
"So, we can simply flip the synopsis. Don't you play the game of spying on each other in the Orientals?"
Hu Wenhai took the phone and quietly listened to the person who called himself Edgar, and he really didn't know how to evaluate the people of Motorola.
To say stupid, obviously you can't say that. Being able to find out Hu Wenhai's relationship with Grumman is enough to show that Motorola's relationship is supernatural.
As Edgar said, the United States, like others, is a humane society and does not act entirely according to the law, or Americans are "civilized people" who abide by the law and follow the rules.
Americans are not hesitant to use privileges such as favors whenever they need to.
And his last sentence also revealed his confidence, Hu Wenhai's so-called patent trap has actually been seen through by Motorola.
This is not surprising. Since the other party can find Grumman, he will naturally know about the little blue pill. Since I know that Hu Wenhai is by no means the kind of person who does not know what a patent is. How can you not doubt the vacancy of the water lithium battery patent?
As long as I searched a little, Motorola soon found that all possible peripheral patents for lithium water batteries had been registered at this time.
For Motorola, which is a veteran businessman, such a patent trap is all too obvious.
But when it comes to Edgar specifically, it can only be said that he is not a blind and arrogant second ancestor, that is, a red neck with prejudice against the Chinese.
As he said, he could talk to Americans, presumably white Americans, but he didn't want to waste time going around in circles with a Chinese, even if it exposed some of his information advantages.
However, Hu Wenhai has seen more of this kind of person, and this kind of foreigner is not unsympathetic, but just too lazy to talk to you Chinese.
Sending such a person to communicate with Hu Wenhai shows that Motorola does not attach much importance to him.
"OK, we can talk. Hu Wenhai glanced at his watch, and then said, "I'll give you ten minutes." ”
In the cold seconds on the other end of the phone, it was obvious that Edgar was unprepared for Hu Wenhai's attitude of "big boss talk". However, he whistled randomly and smiled flirtatiously, "Okay boy, I kind of like you." Listen, your childish patent trap is useless to Motorola! You Chinese still have to learn in this area. Either you sell us the patent, or we see us in court, how about that?"
"Oh, is Motorola going to infringe on my patents even though it knows it's infringing?"
"Don't say it so badly, I'm not going to admit that Motorola knows anything. Edgar snorted and said, "If you think we infringed your patent, you can sue Motorola in the U.S. court." As for China, I heard that you don't have a patent law, right? How do you think the U.S. courts will decide? Or will a well-known American company win the lawsuit by a Chinese kid who suddenly appeared out of nowhere, or a well-known American company that has invested heavily in R&D technology but is eventually preemptively registered for surrounding patents?"
Edgar's words are justified, because the simplest reason is that water lithium batteries are too important to Motorola!
In 1983, Motorola launched the first "mobile phone", which is the so-called big brother Motorola DynaTAC in China. It's a mobile phone device that weighs a kilogram, can only talk for half an hour, and costs up to $4,000. So now I understand why Hu Wenhai couldn't wait to throw Big Brother to Wang Ye as soon as he finished the phone call-that thing was too heavy!
So much so that after China introduced Big Brother, it was not only used to show off its wealth, but also became a weapon for self-defense and fighting.
It is such a product with a research and development cycle of ten years and an investment of up to 100 million, and three-quarters of its weight is actually a battery. Yes, it's all the weight of the battery! The nickel-chromium battery it uses has many disadvantages, such as toxicity, memory effect, high price, and its energy density is completely unadvantageous compared with lithium batteries.
When Motorola got the results of lithium water battery, it immediately realized the significance of this battery for mobile phones. Phones that originally weighed one kilogram can now be greatly reduced, and the use time that was originally only half an hour of talk can now be multiplied. And best of all, it has no memory effect, and it's cheap!
The high price of nickel-cadmium batteries has kept the price of mobile phones high, which has seriously affected the promotion of DynaTAC. The characteristics of lithium water battery are safe, non-toxic, have no memory effect, and are cheap, which will greatly promote the market promotion of mobile phones.
This is not a profit of several hundred million, just look at AT&T, this is enough to influence the huge interests of the United States! For the sake of such huge interests, Motorola has not hesitated to take risks.
"Well, we can talk about the conditions. Hu Wenhai's words had a somewhat humiliating tone: "Motorola is a big company in the United States, so it won't be too stingy, right?"
"Haha, don't worry, you won't be disappointed. Edgar smiled proudly: "The entire patent barrier of water lithium battery, Motorola can buy it for 30 million US dollars." Well, that's 30 million dollars. ”
"WOW, I have to say, I was really surprised. There was not much surprise in Hu Wenhai's words, and it was even a little cold.
"If you know my relationship with Grumman, Mr. Edgar, you shouldn't know what level of my business is. Three million dollars, I don't know if it's an insult to Motorola or an insult to me. But all in all, I don't find any sincerity in this price. ”
"Don't be so quick to refuse, at least you've gained benefits, haven't you?"
"If you give money to beggars every day at the subway entrance is also called profit. ”
"Haha, let's get it straight. Edgar simply tore off the mask and said viciously, "Either you take the 30 million dollars, or you can't get anything." Or are you going to change the technology of lithium battery to F-14 fighter jets? But don't forget, the basic patent of lithium battery is in the hands of Motorola. Moreover, the application scope of lithium water battery is very limited, and there may not be such a clear and promising market as aphrodisiac.
"Motorola's Shameless...... I got it. ”
"So, sir, what is your answer?"
"My answer. Hu Wenhai said calmly: "Let's see you in court." ”
"Oh, that's fine. Edgar didn't sound frustrated: "Motorola welcomes Mr. Hu to the United States. ”
After speaking, there was a busy sound from Hu Wenhai's eldest brother, indicating that the other party had hung up the phone.
Lu Yinglong, who had been watching the negotiation from beginning to end, was a little worried, he frowned and asked, "I said Xiaohu, if you call me uncle, I have to persuade you." People's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and $30 million is not a lot, so how can it be so easy to go to the United States to file a lawsuit?"
"Huh. ”
Hu Wenhai shook his head and did not express his opinion on Lu Yinglong's words, but asked, "Uncle Lu, have you heard of a word?"
"What word?"
"A plan in a count!"
Hu Wenhai turned around and walked outside the workshop: "We can't engage in technology." I let Motorola know this time, what is meant by selling him and you have to help us count the money!" (To be continued......)