Chapter 820: The Tree Falls and Scatters
With the arrival of the judge, a shout from the bailiff made everyone stand up, including the reporters and listeners in the auditorium. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Kenneth habitually swept back, and suddenly saw a familiar figure, and the corners of his eyes twitched slightly.
"Let people investigate, why did Dalbeko come?" Kenneth didn't know Dalbeko before, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist is really powerful, but it has nothing to do with him.
However, the two sides are now closely related, and if there are a few people Kenneth doesn't want to see at the moment, Darbeko should be one of them. If it weren't for his presence, the current situation between the two sides would be very different.
Kenneth's deputy had already stood up, and said with some embarrassment at this time: "Darbeko has appeared in court several times, and it should be normal to come and hear the results now." ā
"Maybe normal. Kenneth paused for a moment and said, "If he's like me, I mean, he's as busy as I am, if I can't interfere with the outcome, I'd rather call later." ā
The deputy smiled bitterly: "He really can't interfere with the result now, let's investigate ...... again"
"Go find someone to investigate. Kenneth addressed the deputy's struggle with a word.
The latter was helpless, shook his body twice like a maggot, and struggled backwards, and began to find a familiar junior lawyer to pass on the request, but the junior lawyer had to twist his body and continue to pass backwards, until someone quickly left the table and withdrew from the courtroom.
Kenneth heard the door open and breathed a sigh of relief.
The judge looked up, glanced down viciously, struck it with a hammer, and asked, "If there are still those who are leaving, you are welcome, please leave now...... No, let's get started. ā
"In the case of DuPont's allegation that Sinovel was unreasonable in its patent on polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Professor Cobindkhorana, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published articles in 1971 and 1974, the concern in this case is whether his work constitutes 'precursor art.'" ā
The judge paused for a moment, looked in the direction of reporter Yunqi, took a deep breath, and continued: "This court believes that although Professor Khorana's article involves polymerase chain reaction, it is a patentable achievement from theoretical concept to practice, therefore, this court ruled that the PCR patents, Nos. 4683195 and 4683202 of the United States Patent and Trademark Office affirm, and Sinovel has all the rights and obligations of the patent. ā
"Hua Rui wins the lawsuit!" The first low shout in the press gallery sounded.
On the contrary, the two sides in the original defendant's dock were unusually calm.
This is an unexpected ending, which does not arouse the enthusiasm of both parties, and some, it is just rational analysis and thinking.
Kenneth's deputy asked in a low voice, "Do you want to appeal?"
After waiting for a few seconds and not getting a proper answer, the deputy looked up in amazement and asked, "Did you just speak?"
"No, I was thinking. Kenneth said.
"Shall we appeal?" asked the deputy, curiously.
"Well...... Kenneth looked at the expressionless DuPont representative and said, "Wait a minute." ā
The deputy recalled Kenneth's question, and couldn't help but say, "Darbeko can't change anything. ā
"Maybe. Kenneth's eyes swept over Yang Rui, recalling the confident smile of this young man before the trial, but he was not confident.
He knows all too well the power of a Nobel laureate.
He may not be able to decide the outcome of a court trial, but he can definitely make it unrecognizable.
"If you disagree with the deliberations of this court, you can appeal to the Court of Appeal......" The judge finished his sentence in a step-by-step manner, and walked away.
Journalists flocked to the site.
Yang Rui looked at Kenneth with some surprise, and said in his heart: I still think you are so resolute.
Kenneth could guess Yang Rui's eyes, but his heart was bitter. DuPont can indeed get $30 million to go to court, but $30 million is always a lot of money, if you can get something, or break even, DuPont will pay it, but if you can't make ends meet, then why contribute cash to the U.S. judicial community?
Kenneth still wants to continue to do DuPont's business, so he can't kill DuPont, he has to see what Dalbeko came from, and then decide whether to continue to spend DuPont's funds, from this point of view, he is indeed not as resolute as Yang Rui.
"We're going to have a press conference, so please ...... reporters," Benjamin said in high spirits, stopping reporters in front of the courtroom.
Kenneth picked up his briefcase and walked out, and when he reached the door, he ordered his deputy, "Go and hear what their press conference has to say." ā
The deputy said "yes" and turned with the army of reporters.
Suddenly, a courtroom was turned into a modest press conference venue.
Benjamin sat on top of it, next to Yang Rui and Darbeko.
Professor Cai and the others also followed the crowd to the reception room, crowded into a small corner, and looked at Yang Rui, who was at ease.
"This guy is on fire in the United States. Dean Liu laughed twice, looked at Shen Xingde from Tsinghua University, and said with a smile: "Our students at Peking University are still quite powerful, aren't they?"
Shen Xingde is thin and weak, and he also has the taciturn of ordinary intellectuals, but in terms of academics and honors, Shen Xingde has different standards from ordinary people, he glanced at Dean Liu fixedly, and said, "It's not what you cultivated." ā
"Hey, why don't you count what we trained, our students at Peking University are genuine. ā
"Announcing Nobel Prize-level results in his sophomore year? Can this be cultivated?" Shen Xingde rarely said two more words, but it was a very powerful refutation.
Dean Liu lowered his head and said, "I admit that we at Peking University can't cultivate such achievements in two years, but Peking University's tolerance and openness have not stopped Yang Rui's development, which is also our success, right?"
After a pause, Dean Liu asked again: "Can Tsinghua do it?"
At this moment, Shen Xingde was speechless.
Tsinghua has always been known as the cradle of red engineers, and the rigorous style of engineers represents the atmosphere of Tsinghua University, and openness has never been in line with Tsinghua University. If it is in Tsinghua University, let alone doing research independently like Yang Rui, there are strict restrictions on the lights-out time at night. Collective self-study, collective eating and even group parades are all traditions of Tsinghua University.
Dean Liu hit a fatal blow, smiled with satisfaction, and said, "Yang Rui, only we at Peking University can cultivate it." ā
"As long as you don't get abducted by the Americans. Shen Xingde took a step back and stopped arguing.
Dean Liu and Professor Cai looked at Darbeko sitting next to Yang Rui.
Compared with Professor Cai, a master in the Chinese biological community, Darbeko, a big man in the world biological community, is obviously much more powerful, and the temptation for researchers is also much greater.
On stage, after Benjamin's brief speech, the microphone was handed over to Darbeko.
"I want to announce one thing. Darbeko picked up the microphone and said gently: "In view of the victory of Sinovel in the lawsuit, on behalf of DOE, I ordered 150 sets of PCR instruments from Sinovel Company, and invited Mr. Yang Rui to officially participate in the Human Genome Project, abbreviated as HGP, whose purpose is to develop the second generation of PCR instruments to complete the human genome sequencing work better and faster......"
Kenneth's eyes widened.
DOE is the abbreviation of the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Human Genome Project originally fell into the hands of the U.S. Department of Energy, which originally had nothing to do with it, but it was related to the joint development of the second-generation PCR instrument, which made the value of PCR rise while gaining the endorsement of the U.S. government.
Kenneth now understood why Yang Rui pursued victory.
The court's victory proved at least at the legal level that Sinovel had all the rights and interests in the PCR. Even if DuPont appeals, this assertion will not change until the appeal is successful.
"This treacherous fellow. Kenneth couldn't wait to grab Yang Rui and step on his feet hard. In this way, the value of PCR to Sinovel has been greatly enhanced, and it can bring valuable cash flow, which is also what Sinovel currently lacks the most. For DuPont, the benefits of continuing to fight the lawsuit have decreased, and the difficulty has increased.
Add to that the U.S. government's connections, and Kenneth is certain that DuPont will be less willing to continue the case, in other words, less resolute in its $30 million legal fees than it was before. Correspondingly, Sinovel has increased its resoluteness.
"I hate these scientists. Kenneth muffled, not wanting to hear the excited voices of the reporters anymore, and turned to leave.
If he had known that his victory would have denied him the $30 million in attorney fees, he would have at least put the case off for a little longer.
Yang Rui watched Kenneth's departure with the rest of his eyes, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
The pressure of $30 million in legal fees is still extremely heavy, and if he can save it, it will also allow him to do more bad things.
Unlike the calmness of the parties concerned, the mood of the reporters and scholars present was extremely uncalm.
In particular, Professor Cai and Dean Liu stood in the corner and were a little stunned.
The two of them thought in unison: Is this the first case of Sino-US ministry-level scientific research cooperation?
After all, the subject of one side is the US Department of Energy, and the subject of the other is China...... Yang Rui, a natural person.
Thinking about it this way, both of them felt extremely weird.