"Motorola wants to sue the TH Group?" Xu Qing asked rhetorically.

Eben nodded affirmatively: "Yes, Motorola sent a lawyer's letter to the TH Group this morning, and they also said that Motorola is going to sue the TH Group." ”

Xu Qing took the document, which said that Motorola was going to sue the TH group.

The gist of it is that TH Group infringed 12 patents of Motorola, and Motorola demanded a global ban on the sale of TH mobile phones, and TH Group should pay $100 million in compensation.

"Motorola is crazy about money. Xu Qing shook his head speechlessly when he saw the compensation amount of 100 million US dollars.

TH asked what to do with it. Aben looked at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing pondered for a moment and said, "Deal with it in the normal way." ”

Eben leaves Xu Qing's office and conveys Xu Qing's orders to the TH Group.

Xu Qing rested his head with his hands on his head, leaning on the seat, his brain spinning.

In the electronics and digital industry, it is very normal to sue when it comes to prosecution.

For example, Samsung sued Apple, Apple sued Samsung, Samsung sued Huawei, HTC sued Apple, Qualcomm sued Apple......

If you haven't sued other companies, you're embarrassed to say that you're in the electronics and digital industry.

A mobile phone involves hundreds of thousands of patents, no mobile phone manufacturer can do it, and the patents of each mobile phone are completely their own.

Sometimes I encounter some embarrassing things, such as coming up with a method that can improve the phone, but it turns out that this method has been patented by other mobile phone manufacturers.

It's a pain in the ass, you either don't use this method, or you buy a patent license from that phone manufacturer.

There is another method, which is to change this method, but the essence of the original method in Shanghai, and then go to register a patent.

Generally speaking, patents registered in this way are the most likely to be sued by other mobile phone manufacturers.

Another reason why the electronic and digital industry is prone to prosecution in later generations is because mobile phones have been developed for 5 or 60 years, and many patents have been registered.

If a mobile phone manufacturer wants to produce a mobile phone, it is difficult to avoid encountering the patents of other mobile phone manufacturers.

Now mobile phone manufacturers have registered far fewer patents than later generations, but Motorola, as the leader of the mobile phone industry, has been in the mobile phone industry for decades.

The first commercial mobile phone was invented by Motorola, which has a very deep technical background and many registered patents.

An important reason for Google's acquisition of Motorola in later generations is that it has taken a fancy to Motorola's technical heritage and huge patent base.

Xu Qing is sure that TH Group has infringed some of Motorola's patents, but none of them are important patents.

Before the research and development of mobile phones and laptops, Xu Qing said to the people in the R&D team that the important core technology is either developed by himself or directly purchased from other people's patents.

Note that it is not a patent license that is purchased, but a patent that is purchased directly.

Today's mobile phones are very simple, and there are only tens of thousands of patents involved in a mobile phone, of which only a few dozen patents are important and core.

Of these dozens of important patents, more than 10 were developed by TH Group itself.

The others are purchased from other mobile phone manufacturers, mobile phone research institutes, design institutes, as well as individual developers and universities.

The same is true for laptop patents, and part of the $8 billion that Xu Qing invested in TH Group was used to buy patents.

As for other relatively less important patents, most of them are developed by TH Group itself, and some are purchased for patent licensing.

Another part is to learn from other mobile phone manufacturers, make a few changes and then register it as its own patent.

The patents that Motorola sued the TH Group for infringement were those that were registered with a few changes.

None of these patents are very important, and even if Motorola wins the lawsuit, it will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars at most.

$100 million is absolutely impossible, let alone a global embargo.

And Motorola may not be able to win the lawsuit, in a legal sense, those patents that are registered with a few changes are legitimate, otherwise they will not be registered.

This is Xu Qing's shamelessness, it should be said that most mobile phone manufacturers are shameless, register a patent after a few changes, and other mobile phone manufacturers want to sue you, it is difficult to win the lawsuit.

How to mix up in the mall without shame, White Lotus has no way to survive in the mall.

Who knows what business leaders who look great on the surface are doing in the dark.

Of course, registering a patent with a few changes only applies to less important patents.

If it is an important patent, it is better to develop it yourself, or buy it.

Because it is a very important patent, there are so many things involved, and it cannot be registered with a few changes.

Even if the registration is successful, there is a high chance that other mobile phone manufacturers will find important evidence and win the lawsuit.

Therefore, Xu Qing and the people in the R&D team of TH Group repeatedly emphasized that important technologies must be developed by themselves or purchased directly.

Xu Qing didn't pay attention to Motorola's lawsuit against the TH Group, which was not a matter at all in his opinion.

And the lawsuit will not be finished in a while, and the lawsuit in the electronic and digital industry, if you don't fight for a few years, you are embarrassed to say that you are a lawsuit in the electronic and digital industry.

Like the lawsuit between Samsung and Apple in later generations, it took 7 years to end.

If Xu Qing is willing, the lawsuit between TH Group and Motorola can be fought until Motorola collapses.

At that time, Motorola may not have a lawsuit with the TH Group, and if the company that acquired Motorola still wants to continue to fight with the TH Group.

That Xu Qing continued to fight, until the company went bankrupt, until the sky was old and the sea was dry and rotten.

It's kind of interesting to think about.

Xu Qing is more concerned about the meaning behind Motorola's lawsuit against TH Group.

Two weeks after the sale of the TH mobile phone, Motorola couldn't wait to sue the TH Group, which exceeded Xu Qing's expectations.

Xu Qing originally thought that it would take half a year, and a year later, Motorola or other mobile phone manufacturers would sue Th Group.

In such a short period of time, the leading boss of the mobile phone industry jumped out to sue the TH Group, which shows that Motorola panicked and wanted to strangle the TH Group in the cradle.

But how could Xu Qing let Motorola succeed, and then jump labor and capital, and buy you up.

However, Xu Qing can expect that there are likely to be many mobile phone manufacturers suing Th Group in the future.

These mobile phone manufacturers are not trying to win the lawsuit, but to muddy the waters, anyway, the real main force is Motorola, and they are waving their flags and shouting behind them.

If nothing else, TH laptops will also be sued by laptop manufacturers, but I don't know who will jump out first.

Apple, ThinkPad, HP, Compaq?

Xu Qing thinks it is most likely to be HP, which can now be said to be the leader of the computer industry.

Annual sales reached 45 billion US dollars, and the number of employees reached 130,000, which is more than the employees of all Xu Qing's companies combined, and even better than Motorola.