The sound of swearing and smashing things came from the office of Jobs, the headquarters of Apple in the United States, from the morning.

"Bastard, who the hell is it, who betrayed the company and leaked the secrets that the company is developing." An enraged Steve Jobs walked up and down his office, waving his hands and cursing from time to time.

Cook, who hurried back from abroad, heard the company's employees tell Cook that Jobs had been cursing in his office for a long time, and now he was scolding everyone he saw, and no one dared to enter Jobs' office to report to Jobs.

As the ruler of Apple, Jobs gave the impression of the employees below as harsh and brutal, Jobs ruled everything at Apple like a tyrant, and no one could contradict him.

This is why Jobs was angry in his office, and no company senior management dared to enter that office for a long time, waiting for another principal of the company to come back from abroad to appease the tyrant and report to the work himself......

"Oh, Jobs, what's wrong with you, the employees of the company told me that you lost your temper all morning, and the employees are afraid to enter your office, which is not good" Cook, who pushed open the door of Jobs' office, asked in surprise when he saw the mess and angry Jobs all over the floor.

Jobs, who was about to get angry at the person who opened the door and came in, saw that it was his old friend and partner, and slowed down and said eagerly: "Cook, do you know that someone has betrayed Apple's secrets." ”

"Corporate?" Cook asked

"Yes, the people in the company, they betrayed Apple, they are traitors." Jobs waved his hands in rage.

"Jobs, our employees are the best, there's no way they're going to sell Apple, I trust them." Cook first affirmed the company's employees, then wondered what was going on.

Cook knew that there must be some information leaked by the company, otherwise Jobs would not be so angry, and what could make Jobs so angry must be that Jobs has always led the R&D department that does not let anyone interfere.

Cook wondered what had been lost to make Jobs so angry: "Jobs, I'm sure the lad from our company, can you tell me what happened." ”

Jobs also didn't believe that someone in his company had leaked the company's secrets, because the research department was the department that Jobs personally led and followed, and every time the researchers left, they were not allowed to take anything with them, and the company also signed a confidentiality agreement with these researchers.

But Jobs was very angry when he saw Apple's legal department today sorting out the information handed over, which made him believe that some of the company's employees risked violating the confidentiality agreement and leaking the company's information and technology about researching new products.

He saw that many of the materials handed over by the legal department were consistent with the patents requested for the new products developed by the company, especially the similarity of some of the shape patents was almost identical. This can only show one problem, the company must have an internal ghost.

"Cook, today I received a call from the company's legal department, and they reported to me that many of the patents applied for by the company have been applied."

"I read the materials handed to me by the legal department, and there are indeed a number of patents for the Apple mobile phone, a product that the company is secretly developing, which was rejected by the patent office because it was too similar." Jobs waved his hands and continued to think about Cook's explanation:

"These rejected patent applications are the property of the company, they can't just keep it private, don't let me find out who it is, I'm going to sue him for bankruptcy."

Cook comforted: "Maybe other companies are also developing mobile phones, but there is a coincidence with our company's research and development ideas?" ”

To this day, Cook still doesn't believe that anyone in the company has leaked the company's secrets. Cook has a very high level of confidence in the company's system and treatment issues.

"No, impossible Cook, no company will coincide with the mobile phone developed by Apple in terms of thinking, those old antiques don't understand what innovation is." Jobs was unusually confident in himself.

Jobs didn't believe that in this world, there was no consumer electronics company that could catch up with his own thinking, which came from Jobs's own pride.

"I asked the legal department to ask the patent office, and the companies that hold so many patents that conflict with Apple's application are a few patent companies, not our peers at all, or companies that can produce consumer electronics, these companies are just a few patent bag companies, and they are still registered in the Virgin Islands."

After getting someone or a company to preemptively apply for a company's patent, Jobs sent someone to find out the real situation.

If Li Xuan was present at this time, he would definitely give Jobs a big thumbs up, but he didn't expect Jobs to find the North American Research Institute so quickly, about the registration location of the leather bag company used for patent registration.

If Li Xuan knew, he would definitely feel that Apple's heritage is really not a cover, although Apple has gone through several ups and downs, but its company still has the intelligence system that a large company should have.

"Will we be able to reach them? Since it is a patent purse company, it is for the money, and we can find them to buy these patents from them. ”

Cook was relieved to hear that there were a few leather bag companies that relied on registered patents, and there were always some clever people in this world who made a quick buck from these little cleverness.

Apple has encountered these so-called patent bag companies before, and as long as they give them money, they will be happy to exchange their patents for dollars.

The only trouble is that Apple can't use its real identity to go, and can only register an unknown leather bag company to buy these patents with them, just like these patent bag companies, otherwise these insatiable patent bag companies will open their mouths.

Against these patent-owning leather bag companies, Apple will be very skilled in selling patents from the other party without letting the other party know that it is Apple, a large company, that buys their patents.

"This time the situation is a bit special, I asked people to find the office locations of these patent companies, and there is no one in these locations, and the legal department has found these patent companies, except for these patents that conflict with us."

They have also registered patents for consumer electronics, of which 5,000 have been successfully approved, more than 4,000 are in the process of being approved, and more than 3,000 have already been applied for and are waiting for approval. These patents range from a screw to the appearance of the product, to the internal layout of the product. ”

At first, Jobs thought that he would just find them and register a company and buy these patents from them, as usual.

But the results of the investigation were not what Jobs expected, and these patent bag companies were not as simple as Jobs imagined.

After all, Apple has only just begun to pay attention to the mobile phone, and now Apple's MP3 is very popular, so it is not enough to pay all attention to the mobile phone.

Jobs didn't worry too much about someone going ahead of Apple, but things in the world are often not as perfect as imagined, which Jobs didn't expect.

Apple had just made a little breakthrough in the mobile phone, and immediately went to register a patent, but it gave Jobs and Apple a head start, especially in the proudest place of Jobs, someone actually walked ahead of him.

"What then?" Hearing this, Cook understood that the matter was serious, Cook didn't expect these companies to have such a huge number of patents on consumer electronic products, and the usual patent leather bag companies only had a few patents, and Cook knew that things were not so easy to solve.

"Our people have heard that these patent companies have licensed more than 1,000 of these patents to an electronics factory in Huaguo, and this electronics factory called Dream Technology Group has the right to use and control these more than 1,000 patents. Among them is the patent that Apple needs. ”

Jobs, who knew the news, couldn't believe his ears, and these patent companies actually licensed more than 1,000 of these patents to an electronics factory in China.

Jobs couldn't believe that a country that was just a copycat could produce such junk products from its electronics factories, and that the Huaguo electronics factory, called Dream Technology Group, had these patents, which Jobs considered a waste.

"Cook, someone must have betrayed Apple. It is impossible for the shareholders of the company to sell their interests, only those employees who have betrayed the company's secrets. to get paid well. "Jobs is still haunted by the company's internal problems.

"Jobs, now it's not about whether anyone inside the company leaked company secrets, but about the company's lack of these patents, and what can be done to remedy it." Cook reminded Steve Jobs of the real problems that Apple is having right now.

Cook knows that there is no need to pursue Apple's internal problems now, and he can only solve the problem of the lack of patents for the products that Apple is about to produce, and then he can go back and find the problems within the company.

Li Xuan didn't know that in order to delay Apple's release of mobile phones, he registered a patent about Apple, which led to Apple's internal self-examination in the near future, which led to Apple's dismissal of many R&D personnel.

"So, what do you want to do, Jobs?" Cook asked Jobs about this.

"Cook, I want you to go to China and see if you can buy this company, or buy their patent licensing contract, no matter how much it costs, Apple needs it." Jobs said firmly.

Jobs would never let a country that relied on copycats and did not pay attention to intellectual property rights, and companies in this country that jumped out of nowhere, ruin his hard work.

"Okay, I'll prepare a trip to China as soon as possible." Cook replied that this is about Apple's future development strategy, and Cook cannot afford to delay it in the slightest.