Chapter 17 Patent Obstacles

The place where Wang Bin took Zhang Lexing was Fengzeyuan Restaurant on Zhushikou West Street, which is said to be a time-honored restaurant with a long history. The restaurant is a three-storey building, the building is full of people who come to eat, fortunately Wang Bin has made preparations in advance, booked a private room in advance, although it is not big, but the decoration inside is quite elegant, and the sound insulation effect is good, just suitable for talking. After ordering a few dishes and scalding a pot of wine, Zhang Lexing and Wang Bin began to talk while eating.

Wang Bin first introduced the application for patents related to FC game consoles: "Song Tian is usually only responsible for the acceptance of patent applications, and there is no direct contact with the patent review, but he has friends in the patent review team, so he is well-informed. As soon as I heard that your FC game console-related patents had passed the review, Song Tian immediately told me, I knew you were more concerned about this matter, so I passed the news to that Wan Lin. According to Song Tian's estimate, it should take about a month to get the certificate, and I thought you wouldn't come so early. ”

"Wang Bin, thank you for being so attentive to my affairs, when will you have the opportunity to ask Song Tian out, and we will get together together. ”

"Okay, but I don't see your expression is excited at all, is there something else?"

"Really, you look at this newspaper first, it's on the first page. Zhang Lexing took out the newspaper he had bought at the airport.

Wang Bin took the newspaper and looked at it carefully, and after a while, he suddenly realized: "You found me out in such a hurry just for them." ”

"Hey, I actually feel sorry for these MBAs who can't show their talents after returning to China. ”

"Understand, you're just trying to give them a chance to show what they can do. ”

"Haven't I responded to the call of the motherland to support the country's economic construction? However, this company always needs people to take care of it, and I am not short of people, and now that there are suitable people in China, there is no need to invite people from outside in the future. ”

"Well, I knew you had many reasons. Okay, I'll figure it out, and I'll talk about it if it works out. ”

"Okay, let's eat vegetables first......"

Wang Bin's ability is still quite big, and he quickly helped Zhang Lexing get online. It was also a coincidence that this report attracted the attention of the state leaders in the past few days, and the leaders of several departments were also organized to study how to solve this problem, and with the support of the deputy director of the State Economic Commission, this batch of MBAs was granted a special policy to allow them to move freely. Zhang Lexing just caught up with this good opportunity and took the line of several MBAs.

In order to allow them to join, Zhang Lexing offered a very generous treatment in China, and of course, more importantly, it provided them with a platform to give full play to their strengths. After Zhang Lexing helped them solve their worries, these MBAs readily agreed to join Zhang Lexing's company. After communicating with the heads of several domestic companies, Zhang Lexing made personnel assignments, Wang Chuanshan, Liu Zhongtian, and Zhang Xiaojun were assigned to Rising Sun Software, and Wang Haitao and Li Baochun were sent to the cassette factory in Shenzhen and Tianzhiyuan in Fuzhou respectively.

Next, Zhang Lexing stayed in Beijing with peace of mind and waited for the news of patent approval, and when he was fine, he discussed the technical details of operating system development with the team of Chief Engineer Yan of Glorious Sun Software, or called to learn about the work in Shenzhen and Fuzhou. At the end of December, Zhang Lexing finally got the certificate of FC game console-related patents, and then it was time for professionals to appear.

A team composed of professional lawyers, market researchers, game console hardware engineers, security and other security personnel was formed, relying on a newly purchased FC counterfeit game console production factory (not far from Zhang Lexing's cassette factory in Shenzhen), to investigate and deal with the piracy of FC consoles and cassettes that began to emerge in the domestic market. Of course, Zhang Lexing will not be naΓ―ve to think that such a company can solve all piracy, whether it is now, or in the future, piracy is an almost inevitable thing, Zhang Lexing just hopes that through his own actions, everyone can know what is genuine and what piracy is, so that the living environment of game developers in the future will be better.

According to the information fed back from the market survey, the imitation technology of FC game consoles in Hong Kong and Taiwan has been quite proficient, from the simple modification of the output system for FC in the past, to the direct production of its own brand of FC compatible machines (such as: Little Genius, Shengtian, Zhibao, Apollo, etc.). With the gradual saturation of the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets, they have begun to look to the mainland with huge market potential. This year, only a small number of machines sneaked into the form of parallel imports, trying the depth of the mainland market, if the market response is good, I believe that a large number of FC-compatible machines from Hong Kong and Taiwan will flock to the market next year.

According to a piece of information that Zhang Lexing has seen in his last life, the market capacity of domestic FC compatible machines exceeds 30 million units, which is a number that is enough to make many manufacturers crazy. You must know that the manufacturers who are about to participate in the carving up of the 30 million feast can at least make more than 10 billion yuan from it, and this huge amount of money will hardly be invested in the development of game software when this feast is over, which directly leads to a feast of the mainland game industry, leaving only a blank for China's game industry. Zhang Lexing hopes to change this process a little, and give some soup and water to the game developers, so that they can leave something worth remembering for everyone.

As for specific actions, Zhang Lexing already has a basic and clear idea. The next few years should be a period when large and small FC compatible machine manufacturers are in production, and it will soon usher in a short golden period for FC consoles. Zhang Lexing plans to arrange people to target several large production plants on the one hand, using patent lawsuits to limit their development, and at the same time trying to win over some manufacturers who are willing to accept patent licensing fees to form a production alliance, the patent licensing fee will not be very high, as long as it can be accepted, even if each host only charges 5~10 yuan, this levy of patent licensing fees in Zhang Lexing's plan will be used for the FC Chinese game development fund, for the development of FC classic games and Chinese original games. On the other hand, it is necessary to provide manufacturers who have joined the game console production alliance with the ability to reduce production costs as much as possible, including consoles and cassettes, and the most important thing is the procurement cost of integrated circuit technology and host accessories. In terms of integrated circuits, Zhang Lexing has arranged for people to try to introduce VISL technology into the production of FC game consoles and the production of FC cartridges, so as to reduce the production costs of game consoles and cartridges as much as possible. The largest part of the procurement cost of host accessories is occupied by CPU, and the best way to reduce the cost of CPU procurement is to directly purchase in large quantities, as long as the order is large enough, the purchase price can naturally be reduced. From these two aspects, Zhang Lexing hopes that this game console production alliance can take advantage of the lower production cost to occupy the largest share of the market, and can harvest a sum of money to support the development of original Chinese FC games, and his own Tianzhiyuan will of course be one of the targets of support.

Zhang Lexing is sighing about the game industry in the next few years, and Qiu Bojun finally walked out of the Friendship Hotel, where he had been staying for almost half a year. During this time, Qiu Bojun had a very hard time, and basically spent every day in front of the 386 computer, either writing code or debugging the completed modules, if it weren't for Wan Lin arranging people to stare at it every day, Qiu Bojun would like to spend all the time except for eating to develop.

The arduous development made Qiu Bojun's body gradually haggard, if it weren't for the cleverness of the people who took care of Qiu Bojun's life, he didn't know how many times he would have fallen ill, so he had been in the hospital once or twice, fortunately, they were not too serious, as long as he had a good rest for a few days, he could be discharged. Qiu Bojun is such a person, once he enters the state of research and development, he is extremely focused, and often forgets his body.

In fact, for Qiu Bojun, the physical pain is secondary, and the most uncomfortable thing for him is the boredom of studying alone, but fortunately, he is not alone in the Friendship Hotel, which is not far from the Rising Sun Software. Sometimes when Qiu Bojun falls into a development bottleneck, he can hitchhike to Rising Sun Software, where there is Chief Yan Gong's operating system sinicization team, mastering the best operating system underlying technology in China, and their technical exchanges can often be a great inspiration to Qiu Bojun.

In this way, I kept thinking, and I kept writing code, at the beginning of January 88, Qiu Bojun finally completed the writing of the last line of code, WPS1.0 was successfully completed, and at the same time, Qiu Bojun was ready to use Xishan DOS1.0 in Hanka. Although this name makes Zhang Lexing a little unhappy, this Xishan DOS is essentially based on Kylin with a layer of Chinese character processing module, just asking Bojun to like the simple and clear name of DOS (disk operating system).

Qiu Bojun took out his work, and it was time for Zhang Lexing to fulfill his promise. At this time, Qiu Bojun was still full of yearning for Shenzhen, since this was the case, Zhang Lexing also pushed the boat to come up with a sum of money, and Qiu Bojun invested in products and technology to jointly establish a company in Shenzhen to develop general software. The name of the company, Zhang Lexing, hesitated for a while, and finally begged Bojun to take the idea and gave the new company the name of Shenzhen Jinshan General Software Development Company, which couldn't help but make Zhang Lexing's heart feel a little turbulent. Zhang Lexing believes that he can do a good job in technology, but in order to reduce his burden, Zhang Lexing still transferred a manager and several technicians from Rising Sun Software to support the construction of Shenzhen Jinshan. Excited Qiu Bojun couldn't wait to take people to Shenzhen, not long after Shenzhen Jinshan General Software Development Company was formally established, with an investment of 3 million yuan, Qiu Bojun accounted for 30% of the shares. Half a month after the establishment of the company, WPS1.0 officially began to sell, due to the performance of the PC at this time, the mainstream of the Chinese character system is still Hanka, so WPS1.0 is not immune to the integration of Jinshan Hanka, and the era of new Kingsoft has also kicked off.

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