Chapter 356 Intellectual Property
Running a company, especially after it gets bigger, has a lot of bad things.
In general, the average quality of Americans is relatively high, which is still a little worse than many developed countries in Europe with stable social order, mainly because the United States has too many people and ethnic chaos, which has pulled down the average.
There are also a lot of people who are red after seeing Su Mu make a fortune, and often receive strange court summonses, even breaking his leg when carrying Penguin's computer upstairs, missing the contract because of the delay in Bee chat software information, etc., some people sue the court to seek compensation, to put it bluntly, they want to rip off the bamboo.
Lawsuits, Su Mu's company cooperates with several big law firms, and invites famous lawyers to solve really important cases, and sends assistants who are not important to solve them, spending a lot of money every year, mainly to be stable, this part of the expenses can be deductible from taxes, but in fact, it doesn't cost so much money.
Walking too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts, and on August 26th, OO was sued again, on the grounds that the search engine technology highly overlapped with his theory, and scolded Su Mu as a shameless thief.
This incident attracted the interest of the tabloids, and then gradually became the attention of the big newspapers, and there were also netizens on the Internet who talked about it, the three of them became tigers, and many people who were unhappy with Su Mu also followed suit, and racists began to appear, saying that "Chinese people are thieves, shamelessly stealing intellectual property" and the like, it is definitely not possible to continue to let the news ferment, and Su Mu had to hold a small press conference to clarify the scandal.
At this moment, he is standing on the stage, there are more than 60 reporters below, the scale is beyond the original expectation, and some chairs have been temporarily added, which also reflects that Su Mu's influence is indeed not small now, and well-known newspapers such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle have also sent people over.
I only heard Su Mu say: "Recently, some people have been discussing whether the OO search engine is an original technology, and I think the way to verify the authenticity is very simple, that is, to see if there is a similar type of technology in the past."
The ...... named John Bell I'm sorry, I don't know what he does, in fact, I didn't even know who he was or I hadn't read what he wrote until the summons got to me. Yesterday I arranged for someone to conduct an investigation, and found that in various academic journals in the past few years, this person's name did not appear, nor did his research be published, saying that I plagiarized must be nonsense, and I felt more like a shameless person who was blackmailing me. β
Many reporters in the audience laughed, this wave of ridicule was very interesting, and they almost said that the other party was completely famous, and they would only read what he wrote when they were idle.
Su Mu continued: "Maybe someone knows, it is I who came up with the practical application of hypertext technology in the Internet, and contributed to the establishment of the CNC Network Alliance, before the Internet is not a whole, even the word browser, are created by the employees of our company, born from the CNC browser OO, is an innovative achievement of many employees of our company, the Internet technology can really be accepted by ordinary netizens."
Actually, today's press conference is completely meaningless, we can't always pop up and say that we plagiarized, we have to explain, because Mr. Bell's approach is disrespectful to the entire project development team, so I feel the need to make a clarification, if that gentleman still insists on suing our company, please show us the patent first. I think that guy doesn't even understand the application principle of search engine technology, and the so-called research results are simply full of loopholes, such as crawler technology, the word crawler was also coined by our company's employees, and he sat there, and I invited him over, but Mr. Bell showed the so-called plan conceived five years ago, and this word has already appeared, and I think everyone knows what it represents. β
A reporter asked: "Then how do you explain that the OO search engine technology does have a high degree of overlap with the published document?"
Su Mu was speechless, and said, "Isn't what I said clear enough? First my technology appeared, and then there was this so-called research result, of course it will be the same."
I would like to ask Mr. Bell to show me the manuscript that I wrote five years ago, and we will check the time of the ink and the weathering of the paper, and there will always be a difference between what was written five years ago and what was written recently, and the experts will be able to tell the difference. In addition, for the damage caused by our company's reputation, I have asked the lawyer to draw up a lawsuit with an amount of 10 million US dollars, the reason why Silicon Valley is great is officially because of the protection of intellectual property rights, the specific situation will be announced in the near future, so let's stop here today......"
After that, go.
Su Mu didn't have a ghost in his heart, and his tone was extremely calm, he just felt that it was not worth wasting his precious time because of this kind of thing.
The search engine technology was proposed by Su Mu, combined with the words he heard from the old radio station, and then developed and perfected by millions of programmers, and finally gave birth to the standard, but in the mouth of the other party became his research results, how could he not be angry.
In fact, it is normal, OO browser users have reached 4.2 million people, the market value is close to 5 billion US dollars, it has been crazy for a while, the scale of users is expanding at the same time, it is also expanding to the world, in the face of such a big interest, it is normal to jump out of a few clowns.
Since the beginning of this year, the market value of OO browser has more than doubled, and the number of users has more than doubled with the expansion of the indos operating system, not that no one wants to copy the results of OO, but under the influence of the patent monopoly situation, no one has succeeded, some time ago there was news that Microsoft developed its own search engine, and then because it could not bypass the patent, it was cut by Gates, and accepted the situation of binding the OO browser and the indos operating system, and the patents related to search engines and browser technology were applied for by Sumu more than 140, and it is impossible to be bypassed in the short termγ
After Su Mu left the press conference, Qian Helberg took the stage, and after reiterating his position, he began to explain to them the technical details of the new OO browser, and began to add some paid advertising systems.
Such a person is not the first, nor is it the last, there will definitely be in the future, rogue patents, patent extortion and other incidents have continued to occur recently, and it is becoming more and more important to master patents, Su Mu is considering whether some long-term ideas should be registered as patents, such as the application of operating systems in mobile devices.
The mobile phone market has become more and more popular recently, the size of mobile phones is getting smaller and smaller, the battery capacity is also increasing, and now that he has the experience of producing personal computers, he thinks about whether he should engage in this kind of business, Apple's product market share has plummeted, and many scientific researchers are still idle and have nothing to do......