Lin Feng still underestimated Lao Qiao's determination.

In June 2010, Apple filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware on the grounds that Xmobile's "Andriod mobile phone operating system" and "Xphone" mobile phone infringed Apple's intellectual property rights.

In the following half month, Apple followed suit in Japan, South Korea, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and other countries.

This move has also attracted wide attention from the global industry.

Those with insight can see that perhaps this will be the beginning of a new "battle for smartphone supremacy".

Since the launch of Apple's iPhone, it has attracted widespread attention around the world, and Jobs has expressed his expectations for the iPhone with "changing the world".

But after two years, Apple found that Xmobile's Xphone surpassed the iPhone in terms of sales and share in the market.

At the same time, because of the open source free license, the market share of Xmobile's "Andriod" system is much higher than that of Apple's "IOS" operating system.

The most unacceptable and puzzling thing for Jobs is that many of the core technologies or operating methods, whether it is Anriod or Xphone, are very similar to the appearance and function that Apple once envisioned and put into practice.

If it weren't for the time of the patent application, Fengxing (the first patent application was in the name of Fengxing Company, and then transferred to Coolwind) was indeed applied earlier than Apple, and Lao Qiao must think that it was the reason for the internal leak.

There may be a coincidental resemblance to such a thing as creativity, but a large-scale resemblance is definitely not a coincidence......

It's a pity that there is no evidence, and Lao Qiao can only endure it.

However, he has been letting the legal department collect and find breakthroughs that can be used to attack opponents.

It has to be said that Apple's technology has been accumulated for far longer than it is popular.

After some tidying up, Apple found that there are still many designs, from the user interface, to the underlying architecture, to the hardware, and the patents that have been applied for since the iPod can be used to sue the Coolwind......

In this case, of course Lao Qiao was not polite, and he didn't communicate with the Cool Wind Company, so he directly filed a lawsuit, wanting to catch Cool Wind off guard.

However, because Lin Feng had this precaution in his heart, all the designs and technologies related to the research and development of Andriod and Xphone that could be patented during the popular Silicon Valley Research Institute were all patented in various countries.

It doesn't matter whether these patents are granted or not, what matters is the time of application.

Lin Feng just wanted to make a time difference.

Therefore, Lin Feng was not surprised that Apple might file a lawsuit.

Coolwind also did not give in to Apple's lawsuit, not only denying the infringement of these design patents, but also providing the corresponding patent application documents (the text and graphics are indeed different from Apple's patent expressions), and also countersuing Apple's iPhone and IOS for infringement of its own patents.

For example, "multi-touch screen", "elliptical and multi-finger touch interface", etc., a total of eight patents.

For a time, the patent litigation war of the two companies started at the same time in countries around the world.

Apple, with a market capitalization of $222 billion, has just surpassed Microsoft and is the leader of global technology companies.

Although Yifang Cool Wind is not listed, it is backed by giant shareholders such as Fengxing, Google, Qualcomm, and Oracle, with annual revenue of more than $20 billion and a valuation of more than $100 billion, making it the world's largest emerging "unicorn" technology company.

This patent litigation battle immediately attracted the attention of the world.

Obviously, this is a battle for the "hegemon" status of two emerging companies in the smartphone industry.

Apple is currently transforming from a traditional computer company to a consumer electronics and Internet giant, with 8.7 million iPhones sold in the first quarter of 2010, up 100 percent year-over-year. The turnover was 5.578 billion US dollars, which already accounted for 1/3 of its total revenue of 15.68 billion US dollars.

The number of "Apple Store" software applications exceeded 100,000 and the number of downloads reached 2 billion.

In the first quarter of 2010, Xphone sales exceeded 13 million units, a year-on-year increase of 36.13%.

The "App Store" has more than 200,000 software applications and more than 3.5 billion downloads.

In the first quarter of 2010, the global smartphone shipments were 58 million units, of which Nokia accounted for 21.5 million units, with a share of 37%, still ranking first.

Xmobile (Coolwind) ranked second with a 22.4% share, and BlackBerry maker RIM ranked third with a total of 10.6 million units shipped in the first quarter, with a share of 18.27%.

Apple, despite the largest increase, is still in fourth place with a 15 percent share.

Nokia's achievements "are mainly due to the sale of cheap smartphones in markets such as China and South America." The North American market continues to be Nokia's biggest problem. And Nokia has a huge number of patents on the underlying technology of mobile communications and mobile phones, and Apple clearly does not see it as a real rival.

Although RIM's sales in North America are good, the growth rate and market share are already declining.

In view of the year-on-year growth in sales of Apple and Coolwind, if you wait another year or two, it can be unceremoniously said that Apple and Coolwind have sold almost half of the world's smartphones!

Obviously, the Cool Wind is Apple's most serious competitor!) (Samsung hasn't started to make use of the "Galaxy" series at this time.) ）

So, in this way, Apple is trying to gain an advantage in the rapidly developing mobile device market.

Moreover, as a fledgling company, Coolwind has a relatively weak patent base, and it is understandable that Apple will start in this field.

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Lin Feng's view of this patent litigation battle is not as panicked as Andy Rubin and other members of the American team (these Silicon Valley engineers are still more frightened by the aftermath of Apple and Old Joe).

Instead, he thinks it's a good thing.

On the one hand, this kind of super-large-scale patent war, if well publicized, is a very good marketing opportunity for Coolwind's global brand influence.

On the other hand, the patents involved in the lawsuit filed by Apple include many design patents, and the identification of design patents is very complicated and troublesome.

The outcome of this case will also have a series of chain reactions in the scientific and technological community, and at the same time, it will play an exemplary role in similar patent cases in the scientific and technological community, and will also have an impact on the products that consumers ultimately buy.

After all, if a number of similar designs are also found to be infringing, there is a suspicion of "stifling innovation".

In fact, after Apple sued Coolwind, at least more than 50 intellectual property professors from Stanford and Georgetown Universities, as well as digital rights non-profit organizations such as the Public Knowledge Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, issued statements in support of Coolwind. (Of course, there is no lack of the effect of Cool Wind through lobbying agencies for PR).

For a time, compared with the old giant Apple, Cool Wind has become a "vulnerable group" representing "innovative" emerging companies, and is widely supported......

At the same time, Lin Feng, as the chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Xmobile, invested heavily in forming a team of up to 100 top lawyers in the United States, and began to collect evidence, review documents, and contact more witnesses to prepare for the lawsuit.

In an interview with NBC while in New York, Lin Feng said: "The mobile industry is growing rapidly, and all players – including new entrants – are developing products based on ideas that have been built up over decades. We will work with our partners to provide innovative and affordable products to consumers, and we don't want anything to limit this process. ”

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Although because of Apple's sudden move, and it was filed in many countries around the world at once, it made Cool Wind a little scrambling for a while.

But Lin Feng's calm and stable mentality, as a big boss, and his positive and resolute response, also reassured Kufeng from top to bottom.

However, after all, Apple is also a "newbie" in the mobile phone industry, that is, it can come up with non-core patents such as "appearance design", "interface design" and "system function" as lawsuits.

For Coolwind, the real threat isn't Apple.

It's the old giants represented by Nokia, Microsoft, etc., in case they also file a lawsuit, this matter will be troublesome, just pay the patent fee, and Cool Wind will not do anything.

You can't all be like Qualcomm and be a shareholder......

No amount of shares is enough!

Therefore, the patent acquisition of Nortel Networks is the key!

On June 17, 2010, the joint consortium "Ranger" formed by Xmobile and Google officially announced that it had offered $1 billion to acquire the "patent pool" assets held by Nortel Networks.

On the same day, Nortel Networks received approval from the Wilmington, Delaware, Bankruptcy Court to auction off 6,000 telecommunications technology patents in its name, and two judges from the United States and Canada approved the auction scheduled for June 20 in a joint hearing.

As soon as this news was announced, it immediately caused an uproar in the industry!