"Here, drink a glass of water. ”

Evan himself poured a cup of hot water from the kitchen and handed it to Girard.

Girard took the glass with both hands and took a big sip before saying, "Thank you!" ”

Evan himself sat down on the couch and glanced curiously at the denim bag on the ground, "Now, tell me, how did you get to Los Angeles?"

"Didn't you go to New York to find a venue?"

Girard set the glass aside, lifted the cloth bag, and said, "I'll show you something, and you'll understand!"

As he spoke, Girard unwrapped the cloth bag and took out one Rubik's cube after another and put it on the low table. At first glance, these Rubik's cubes are not the products of the Magic Seven Company, and they are all subtly different from the genuine Rubik's cubes somewhere.

Some are just different in color, some are different in size, some are different in material, and some have different patterns printed on each side of the square.

Of course, there are also names that are different.

There's one called Perfect Puzzler, and there's one called Le Cube......

However, the difference is limited to these inconsequential places, and the most important place, the structure, is exactly the same.

Obviously, these are all pirated copies.

Evan frowned and picked up a pirated Rubik's cube that looked good on the outside, tried the feel, and found that the workmanship was not bad.

Evan asked Girard to tell him the details as he played.

Girard, who has obsessive-compulsive disorder, stacked the Rubik's cubes on the low table neatly before he said: "The first imitation, which I first found at Macy's in New York, is the one you have, very similar to our product, if it weren't for the lower price than ours, and the packaging was printed with MagicPuzzler, I almost didn't notice that it was a counterfeit." ”

"When I saw this, I knew that something was wrong, and that there would be a steady stream of imitators when they had the first one. So I had people go all over the dealerships and department stores in New York, and then I went west along the railroad all the way to a dozen states, and I had this bag of imitations. ”

"According to the survey results, there are imitations on sale in other places except California and some central states, especially on the East Coast, where many products have been swaggered to be sold alongside our products. ”

"The earliest of these products can be traced to the end of last month, and the most recent is last week. ”

"None of the prices are higher than ours, the lowest is only half of ours. ”

"Smack!"

Evan threw the restored Rubik's Cube on the table, waved his hand at Girard, and said, "Wait for me, I'll call Carl over." ”

"Goo-goo!"

Just then Girard's stomach rang, and Evan smiled and said, "Forget it, I'll give you some food first." ”

"Just wait for Carl. ”

Girard touched his stomach embarrassedly, as soon as he got off the train, he went straight to Evan, forgot to eat lunch, and now he is really hungry.

After the call, Evan warmed up the beef stew and rice he had eaten at noon and made a plate of beef stew rice for Girard.

In less than fifteen minutes, before Girard had finished his meal, Karl rushed over.

Seeing this, Girard hurriedly divided the remaining three by five and quickly solved it.

When Girard finished eating, Evan asked, "How does it taste?"

Girard gave him a thumbs up.

Evan instructed Carl, who was sitting next to the phone, "Call Davidson, he's in the office." ”

Then he asked Girard, "Does Davidson know about this?"

Girard nodded, "Yes, but I'll tell him to wait until I investigate before informing you." ”

After a while, Karl said, "The call went through." ”

"Okay!" After Evan glanced at the two of them separately, he said, "Then let's have a countermeasure meeting." ”

"Carl, can he hear Davidson at this volume?"

Karl asked, then nodded at Evan.

Evan continued, "Well, Carl, you relay it for Davidson. ”

"Girard, tell me more about what you've investigated......"

"Okay! here's how it ......"

A few minutes later, Girard finished his briefing, and Evan followed: "I don't ask what to do, I just want to know, what's going on with the New York office, and why was Girard the first to discover piracy?"

The New York office of Magic Seven is responsible for orders, dealer liaison and market research throughout the eastern United States, and from Girard's investigation, the New York office should have discovered piracy long ago.

In response to Evan's question, Girard was about to say something, but Carl signaled to Davidson that he had something to say: "Evan, Davidson said that he noticed this problem after Girard's briefing, and after he asked people to investigate privately, he found that the manager of the New York office had the possibility of deliberately concealing it. ”

"Davidson is having people gather evidence that he's been bought. ”

Evan nodded and said, "Good...... Girard, what did you just want to say?"

Girard said: "What I want to say, Davidson has already said. ”

"In that case, this depends on the results of the investigation in advance, and if there is evidence, send him to prison, if there is no ......" Evan looked at Carl with that.

Karl followed Evan's words and said, "It is impossible to sue him for betraying the interests of the company without evidence." ”

Evan doesn't understand the specific legal provisions, and has to listen to Carl.

Seeing Carl say this, Evan let go of the stubble, and then said, "Let's discuss next, what to do with these imitations, right?"

At this time, Girard's eyes were rightfully set on Carl.

Carl is a lawyer, and his advice is the most professional at this time.

Karl thought for a moment and said slowly, "First of all, Evan, we have to set a tone, this thing...... Whether to go through the normal legal process or to leave it alone. ”

"Of course it's a legal process!" Girard interjected, "Someone else is robbing us of our exclusive business, can we ignore it?"

"Of course!" Karl explained, "it depends on how much of our share is robbed, and in a case like this, which involves multiple companies, neither the time it takes to hear the process nor the cost of the trial is a small number." If the cost is smaller than the market share we have lost, then there is no need to make a big move. ”

"Well, wait. Davidson on the other end of the line had something to say, and Carl put the microphone to his ear, and after a while, he repeated, "Davidson said that he had someone in the sales department urgently sort out the latest sales figures." The data shows that from the end of February to the present, sales have fallen by about 10 percent compared with the same period last month. ”

"Ten percent...... That is, about 100,000 less Rubik's cubes are sold a month. Karl did the math, and without waiting for Evan to speak, he said, "Needless to say, this number is enough for us to do it." ”

Evan asked, "What about ...... What's next?"

"Now that we're going to fight a big lawsuit, the next thing is to do two things: first, to form a team of lawyers, and second, to form an investigation team," Carr said. ”

"With so many companies involved, neither the lawyer team nor the investigation team can be small. ”

"Evan, I'd suggest that Vydak's men join the investigation team as well. ”

"As for the lawyer, my father Albert seems to be quite idle lately......"