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"Why should we compensate the Chinese? What are the products of China's Manjie through patent authorization? As long as they can make their own imitations, will they import technology from abroad? Even if the technology is introduced, do they have a patent license from the relevant parties? Coaster was in a very bad mood, and in the face of Tom, the director of the patent office, personally coming to the door, the mood was even worse to the highest point. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
What he didn't expect was that the government had ignored the matter before, and even hinted that they could continue, and now it suddenly changed its attitude.
Shameful politicians!
"Who can have proof that we are infringing? We are only a seller, not a manufacturer, even if it is infringing, it is the manufacturer's problem! So, Mr. Tom, the regulation of the patent office is useless to us! "Facing Tom, Coaster didn't have the slightest favor.
In the United States, it is not like in those red empires, ordinary people have to be afraid of being officials.
These politicians are raised by taxpayers like Coaster.
"So, you have to go to the legal route? Mr. Coaster, I think you should understand that once you go to court, if you lose the case, how serious the consequences are, and being able to reach a settlement outside of the courtroom is the best outcome. At the very least, it can save a very substantial amount of legal fees...... "Tom came to Coaster in private.
If the joint trading company can agree, it will be much easier for them to do so.
"According to the information we have received, your offshore company registered in the British Virgin Islands controls several production plants in Hong Kong, a large amount of money is provided by you, and some technical designs are in our United States, and those designs are ......all patented by Chinese," Tom told him some secret information in order to force Coaster to agree.
Coaster, who had a bad attitude, suddenly collapsed.
"Who said it had something to do with our United Trading Company? Evidence! What about the evidence? It's a bloody spurt! Whoever says this, I will sue him for slander! "Coaster's attitude remains tough.
Although it is blatant a lot of the time, more often than not, they think about these issues.
The manufacturer is a Chinese company, and their competitor is the original Sihua Group, but now the Sihua Group has sold all of its electrical appliance sales business to Best Buy, a low-ranking household appliance seller in the United States.
Best Buy's innovative approach over the years has made the seller the number one seller of electrical appliances in the U.S. in just a few years.
Best Buy has never challenged the infringement of United Trading's products, and the manufacturer can only go to the manufacturer.
"Whether it is slander or not, as long as this goes to court, the evidence presented by the other party will become very clear. Best Buy has also filed a lawsuit against your company, and at the same time, they have asked Cihua International, which had been selling its home appliance market business from Chinese and Asian manufacturers to help...... "Tom's words became the straw that made Coaster lose confidence."
Best Buy is a local electrical appliance seller in the United States, and it is rising rapidly in the past few years, and even the business has begun to expand to the European market.
They have never had any opinions, making Coaster believe that the other side will not care about the interests of the Chinese.
The United Trading Company has always avoided conflicts with the other party's non-Chinese business.
The two sides have been at peace all these years.
"If we agree to an out-of-court settlement, what will we end up paying?" Coster asked through gritted teeth
Tom nodded with satisfaction at his change of attitude, "Stop the infringement, which will greatly affect your future business, and at the same time, as an infringer of the other party's patent rights, you will be fined at least tens of millions of dollars." ”
"What about compensation?" Coaster doesn't care about the impact on business, because once it is punished and compensated, these products are equivalent to buying patents from China. Of course, the Hong Kong company in the United States can't control it, and even if it no longer produces the same appearance, there is no problem after slightly modifying the design.
In order to increase its competitiveness, the technical department of the United Trading Company has been preparing for the launch of new products for many years.
If the Chinese lion opens his mouth and the US government agrees to the Chinese's demands, it will deal a huge blow to the United Trading Company.
"As things stand, there's no benchmark for damages caused by infringement, so the likely outcome is millions of dollars in damages......," Tom said, which immediately made Coaster excited.
On the surface, it is very bad for them, but the consequences are not serious, and for them, tickling is not counted.
Tens of millions of dollars in huge fines are regarded as protection money paid to the government.
"If that's the case, we agree to ......settle out of court with them in accordance with the patent office's approach," Coaster agreed.
For Tom, the Chinese should be very satisfied with the result.
They advocated that the United Trading Company stop infringing, claim compensation from the other party, and respect their patent rights, and such a result is all in line with the claims of the Chinese.
The Chinese may be even happier not to go to court, after all, they do not understand the Western patent bill, and even, the Chinese have always liked to settle the matter, once the lawsuit drags on, it will be protracted.
"What kind of nonsense, infringing for more than ten years, and then paying five million dollars? Shall they send them away for bread? You agree with this result, we disagree! Wang Xun is very satisfied with the fact that this matter has come to an end so quickly, rather than as protracted as in Western infringement cases.
Especially the results, which made them even more satisfied.
They don't care about how much compensation the other party pays, but they care about the other party's attitude to give the Chinese side face.
China does not have a patent law in China, and no patents are currently protected in China.
"Comrade Xiao Liu, this result is already very good." Wang Xun had a headache, and immediately explained the significance of this result to China, but Liu Yijiu ignored his explanation at all.
Liu Yijiu still asked the other party to compensate one billion US dollars, except for the financial aspect, Liu Yijiu did not care very much about the other consequences.
This is simply to take advantage of the fact that the Western governments led by the United States want to bring China into their rules of the game after the collapse of the Soviet Union, so as to seriously impact China's national system.
Two years ago, in 1986, China began negotiations with Western countries on joining the World Trade Organization.
The biggest obstacle to China in the Western world is that China is in the red camp, and there is no trademark and intellectual property protection in China, and this excuse is also the one they use most frequently.
Once China joins the World Trade Organization, the protection of the patent bill will not have much impact on the results of the research team. But China is different, once they join the World Trade Organization, enjoy low tariff treatment at the same time, use their cheap domestic production capacity to imitate those huge investment in patented products, it will not require too much research and development costs, so that they can quickly put the imitation products into the market.
In this way, the technological development of the whole world will be seriously impacted.
Therefore, Western countries require that if China wants to join the World Trade Organization, the premise is that it must establish an intellectual property protection system.
And the construction of intellectual property rights, which is the protection of the private property of some individuals as well as companies. Even if there is a unit like the Ninth Academy, which has been exploring this aspect from the beginning, it has aroused the criticism of many departments and units in China, and the technology provided by the Ninth Academy to the relevant brother units is not free of charge, which effectively increases the corresponding cost......
If the country is established, it is now a complete end to the threshold for domestic companies to enter a certain field, and the competition will be more intense, especially in terms of talent and technology.
Liu Yijiu's choice of time is very appropriate, the old man and others understand the conspiracy of the West, but China's reform and opening up and economic development need the world market, and China also needs to import technology from the world to improve the country's scientific and technological base.
This matter will happen sooner or later, and it cannot be stopped, but when the old man has not retired and the Soviet Union has not collapsed, even if China has such an idea, it will not put it forward.
Demanding that the other party compensate one billion US dollars, Liu Yijiu is completely a lion's mouth, and it is itself a blackmail against the United Trading Company.
But he seized the opportunity.
At another point in time, he might have agreed to such an outcome.
But now it is clear that it will not agree.
"What does it mean that the results are good? A billion dollars, not a penny less. As long as the other party does not pay a billion dollars in compensation, we will continue the lawsuit with them, and we will let all Chinese enterprises see that the so-called intellectual property protection is only to protect Western countries, not our country, even if our country joins this system, this is just a means to restrict the development of our enterprises! ”
In everything he does, Liu Yijiu has a purpose.
It would be a good thing if it could prevent the establishment of an IP system in the country.
After all, China's development depends on imitation.
Imitation is much less invested than research.
Of course, if you want to ensure that your interests are not violated, you have to rely on secrecy.
As the top-level secrecy military industrial unit in China, the secrecy means are naturally incomparable with other units. The core technology is not so easy to imitate.
(To be continued.) )