Chapter 30 is menacing
At 11 o'clock this morning, the Seoul District Court of South Korea officially accepted Samsung Electronics' lawsuit against Orange Technology for infringing Samsung's 12 key patents. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
Just as Li Mubai was busy with the work at hand, a senior assistant from the president's office knocked on the door, looking a little flustered.
After all, this is the first time that Orange Technology has encountered such an incident since its establishment, and the opponent is still the famous Samsung Electronics.
"What's going on, let's be more detailed. Li Mubai stopped what he was doing, looked at the comer, and said in his heart that this is really a storm, he knows that Samsung Electronics, these direct competitors, is absolutely impossible to be caught, the huge market, huge economic interests, will prompt these companies to use any means to suppress the development of orange technology.
"Due to the rush of time, we did not get more information from other sources, except that Samsung Electronics filed a lawsuit with the Seoul District Court and applied to ban Orange Technology's products from all of South Korea, and the restrictions will not be lifted until Orange Technology makes reasonable compensation and apologizes. The senior assistant who made the report told him everything he had learned.
Then he looked at Li Mubai nervously, "Chairman, the planning department is following up on this incident, and we will report to you immediately if there is any follow-up progress." ”
"Okay, I see, I'll give you a call first. Li Mubai took out his mobile phone, and he didn't call anyone else, but called American Express.
The latter obviously expected this, and as soon as he answered Li Mubai's call, he immediately said, "Dear Mr. Lee, this incident is obviously a long-planned act of Samsung Electronics, according to our institutional investigation in South Korea, Samsung Electronics not only filed a lawsuit with the Seoul District Court in South Korea, but also submitted a request to the South Korean economic department yesterday to restrict the entry of Orange Technology products." At the same time, the Finnish Nokia Group officially submitted an injunction to the European Commission, requiring Orange Technology to disclose the smartphone technology submitted to the PCT International Patent Organization on the grounds that Orange Technology's technology is suspected of monopoly. ”
"Really?" Li Mubai didn't feel strange at all, but the joint action of several competitors still made him feel a little pressure, "By the way, didn't Motorola and Apple in the United States file a lawsuit?"
"They have also filed complaints like the Federal Bureau of Economic Investigation and the Joint Economic Committee of Parliament, but it is clear that they will not be the opponent of our entire coalition, and this proposal was blocked by our people without even the first step of discussion. "The person answering the phone seems to be a different person.
With the improvement of Li Mubai's social wealth and social status, his customer differentiation within Yuntong has also been repeatedly improved, and today, he has climbed to the top customer level of Yuntong.
Responsible for directly serving him, are the senior account managers within the company, 7 days 24 hours a day, the whole process, but today's situation is a little special, Li Mubai's phone was directly transferred to the landline of the president of the global corporate customer service department of the company, the latter directly explained all the information learned one by one to Li Mubai.
"Thank you very much for your efforts to prevent me from getting into multiple lawsuits at the same time, and I will thank Grubb and Harry in person. Li Mubai hung up the phone and pondered for a moment.
He gave his instructions to the senior assistant, "Immediately form a response team and go to Europe and South Korea to prepare for the lawsuit, these two markets are important markets that the company cannot ignore, and we will not give up easily! In addition, prepare all the materials to respond to the lawsuit, find out all the technologies that have intersections with Samsung Electronics, and since they dare to sue us in South Korea, then in China, immediately countersue Samsung Electronics." ”
The senior assistant quickly took notes and asked, "So what about the Nokia Group suing us in Europe for alleged monopoly?"
Li Mubai sneered, he knew that this was the future layout of Orange Technology that made some competitors unable to sit still, because once their smartphone plans developed smoothly, the existing mobile phone market would suffer a complete reshuffle, and the two giants of Nokia and Motorola would inevitably be swept into the garbage heap of history.
With such a huge market with a turnover of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, no one would easily allow outsiders to enter the market, let alone a company like Orange Technology, which has shown that it wants to enter the market and reshuffle.
"Inform the Irish government immediately that we will honour all our commitments on the ground in Ireland and commit to investing more in the Irish economy over the next five years, with the most conservative estimate of more than $3 billion, so that the Irish government will come forward to block the complaint of the Finnish Nokia Group, and at the same time arrange for me to go to Germany in the near future. Li Mubai continued.
The latter nodded, and after confirming that Li Mubai had no further instructions, he immediately turned around and strode away.
After calming down and thinking seriously for a while, Li Mubai made another call to Paul Jacob, who was far away in the United States.
"Dear Lee, you finally remember me, an old man. As the chairman of the board of directors of Qualcomm, Paul Jacob was preparing to rest in his manor at this time, and when he took the phone from the assistant's hand, he immediately answered it with a smile.
"Mr. Paul, I'm sorry to call you at this time. Li Mubai said with a smile, but he didn't wait for him to continue.
Jacob preemptively said, "Don't worry, Lee! I know what happened, and I promise that there will be no problems at all on the US side, and although Motorola and Apple are strong, they will not have the slightest chance if we have an alliance of dozens of companies, God will testify!
Li Mubai said that the new company gave almost two-fifths of the profits, according to the future market share, these companies can almost share tens of billions of huge profits every year, if something happens and can't help resist, then this money might as well be used to feed the dogs.
However, he coped with a smile on the scene, "Mr. Jacob, thank you very much for everything, but I called today to ask you, is it easy to solve the European matter?"
"Europe, you know, that's not where we American capital can call the shots. Jacob's eyes rolled, not knowing what he was thinking.
There was some vagueness in his mouth, no matter how Li Mubai hinted, he refused to make it clear.
"Mr. Jacob, I spend tens of billions of dollars in profits every year just to find reliable allies, and I know that American capital cannot call the shots in Europe, but the American countries behind you can speak in Europe. Li Mubai said unhurriedly.
It seems that Nokia's blow in Europe has cast a shadow over the future development of Orange Technology.
After all, Orange Technology is not a giant like Microsoft, and even like Microsoft, isn't it also surrendering to the defeat under the huge penalties imposed by Europe? The huge fine of 15 million euros a day is not something that ordinary companies can afford.
In the future, even if Orange Technology develops a real product, it will not want to enter the European market smoothly, and lose this consumer market that occupies more than one-third of the world, Orange Technology will also give its leading position, and countless competitors will counterattack the North American and Asian markets through this huge market.
This is something that Li Mubai must not allow to happen, how much effort did he spend to reluctantly reach an agreement with North American technology companies and strive for zero-risk access to the North American market, but now, is Nokia's move just a separate resistance measure of his own company?
Who is standing behind Nokia, and how much do they want to get?
"Sorry! Dear Li, you have to know that in this world, there are countless consortia, as big as us, with a market value of trillions of dollars, and smaller ones like the German Manufacturing Alliance, which also control hundreds of billions of euros of huge assets, Orange Technology rashly entered Europe, has violated the interests of some vested interests, and it is precisely in the market that there are no competitors of Orange Technology, if they want to reduce losses, or even to earn a different amount of income, then Orange Technology is their best goal. Even if we are as powerful as us, it is impossible to make enemies on all sides, which is very unwise. ”
Jacob thought about it for a long time, but still felt that it was more cost-effective to maintain Li Mubai's friendship than to betray him, after all, Qualcomm needed Orange Technology's 4G network authorization, and at the same time, he also learned privately that the 5G communication network that Orange Technology began to study was close to commercial operation, and even in the next ten years, Qualcomm will be tied to Orange Technology.
But this does not mean that Qualcomm is willing to watch Orange Technology develop enough to ignore Qualcomm, after all, once a smartphone empire with a complete market share is established, then Qualcomm will be reduced from an equal collaborator to a giant under the irresistible pitiful, once Orange Technology feels that Qualcomm is dispensable one day, then the cooperation will be completely ended, and Qualcomm, which is technically controlled by others, is obviously impossible to accept this tragic result.
Therefore, in the case of the class action lawsuit against Orange Technology, the large American companies only stabilized the rear of North America, and they turned a deaf ear to other regions, and even secretly provided intelligence to the enemy, in order to tie up the hands and feet of Orange Technology, and it was best to let Orange Technology fall on its heels, so that they could reflect their own value and ask for more benefits.
"I know, but I'm a man who has always eaten soft rather than hard, and if I'm willing to give it to you, then you can take it! But when I don't want to, no one wants to take a penny from me. You can tell them for me that the anger of Orange Technology is definitely not something they can bear!" Li Mubai sneered, and cleared a complete line of thought in a moment.
Allies are watching, enemies are acting in groups, Europe and South Korea are litigating at the same time, and as another big country in East Asia, Toshiba and SanDisk, Sony are also operating in private, an alliance of interests across the Eurasian continent, about to be formed, and their common enemy is only Orange Technology.
"I'm not going to compromise, Samsung Electronics, Nokia, let's see who can hold out until the last minute." Opening the Internet, Li Mubai, who was searching for the news of the appeal, sneered again and again, but his face was a little dignified after all.
In this era when capital is king, the power of traditional vested interests is deep-rooted, coupled with the fact that Orange Technology has not been created for a long time, and the relationship network in the above-mentioned areas has not yet been formed, it is naturally difficult, and the only thing that can be relied on now is its own strength.
"President Ye, President Jia, you two will come to my company immediately. Pressing the company's internal communication, Li Mubai sorted out the information in front of the table, and waited for the two to come in before ordering, "I'm going to go to South Korea and Germany in the next few days, and I'll leave all the things in the company to you." Remember, don't let litigation affect the company's normal business. ”
Obviously, the two also knew about the unfair treatment of Orange Technology in South Korea and Europe, and when they heard this, they were a little puzzled, and Jia Wenli took the lead in speaking, "Chairman, don't we rely on the help of the state in this matter?"
"No, they can provide less help at this stage, I'll go there myself and see if I can save the situation. Li Mubai, who made up his mind to do it once and for all, is very firm in his heart, nothing or anyone is flawless, at least Samsung Electronics and Nokia only dare to file a lawsuit against Orange Technology locally, which gives him a certain amount of room for manoeuvre.
Orange Technology is its own word, whether it is 10 million, or 100 million, they can take it out without hesitation, as the saying goes, money can make the grinding ghost, don't foreigners know the green dollar bills?
"Okay, we will minimize the impact of the situation on the company, but Chairman, what if the appeal region closes the door to Orange Technology?
But Li Mubai was full of confidence, waved his hand and said disdainfully, "No, I estimate that this matter can be completely solved in a month at most, but this also reminds us that in the next stage, the company's branches in major regions must speed up the construction, and some key people must establish relationships, and this passive situation can no longer occur." ”