Chapter 305 Patents (ii) Statute of Limitations
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Tian Xiu briefly introduced the past of mycity and NMC, and then said that NMC was hit by accidents one after another after Lina took over, which also led to operational difficulties, and the investor Mr. Zhao of Hong Kong finally decided to sell NMC, and the takeover was San Siro Company.
From the dark horse of e-commerce, which was all the rage and unparalleled for a while, to the final dismal ending, faded out of people's sight, the time is only about a year of effort, which can't help but make people sigh.
Tian Xiu couldn't help but say a few more words about the fate of NMC after that.
At the beginning of San Siro's hands, NMC also had high expectations, hoping to get a piece of the e-commerce world that is in full swing on the mainland.
If it's really a down-to-earth approach, this idea is actually very promising. However, San Siro's approach was quick success, they first abandoned all the NMC brands and grafted many sub-brands of San Siro, which is actually starting from scratch. In fact, it is a practice of seeking fish from the wood, which naturally completely destroys the value of NMC, and soon NMC becomes worthless.
The San Siro sub-brand has limited influence in the mainland and simply cannot carry their original vision.
The trader reacted quickly and immediately began to adjust his strategy, thinking that he was very smart and felt that the value of the virtual fitting system was not tapped, so he filed a lawsuit against a large number of similar virtual fitting systems on the market. They are considered to have infringed the patent rights of the NMC.
But he underestimated the capabilities of these merchants, and soon, for example, Taozhen.com, quickly blocked these imitation virtual fitting systems. and insisted that the Internet safe harbor principle applies.
San Siro's legal counsel and NMC traders were helpless. The matter is not known.
At this time, NMC's internal salary has not been paid for many months, which has caused public anger, and a technician saw that the trader attached so much importance to the virtual fitting system, and secretly copied a copy of the source code, and when the company laid off employees, the technician was also laid off, but he did not get the rights and interests he deserved, and the struggle was unsuccessful.
Others can get the complete code without spending a penny, and for a while, the entire technology community has improved the overall video capture technology by a level, of course, outsiders don't know about it.
But soon San Siro deleted the hosting through a lawsuit, but the source code has been made public, and someone has recompiled a more concise system according to it, which has been circulated in large quantities, and e-commerce websites have also become smart, and have used San Siro's lawsuit through third-hand and fourth-hand transfers, and use this service openly.
A year after San Siro acquired NMC, they announced that they would close NMC, and their mainland e-commerce strategy failed completely.
But perhaps they found something else.
Attention was paid to the development of Kirin Wings and Life Online, as well as the extensive use of video capture and imaging processing technology by Kylin Wings.
Patiently waiting for the unicorn wings to grow into a giant, he finally couldn't hold it anymore and began to make trouble.
Listening to Tian Xiu's introduction, Qiao Wenming sighed: "They are patent vultures." If you can't play e-commerce, you rely on patents to blackmail, which is too shameless. ”
Chena Office.
Lisa said to Qi Na, "What is your strategy for this matter?" Going to court? ”
Qi Na was silent for a moment and said, "I don't know. ”
Lisa is also hesitant: "We still have to assess how much this matter affects us." ”
"Well, let Tian Xiu or Jian Ning go to the United States, meet Emily, stay a few more days, and observe the development of the situation." Qi Na suggested.
"Okay, I'll communicate with Qiao Wenming and Quan Xuejun again." Lisa said.
In response to this matter, the Qilin Wings were divided into three factions, and the parties Qi Na was a little ambiguous, and no one could guess what he thought.
Tian Xiu, who is known to be very valued by Qi Na, advocates responding to the lawsuit immediately and striving for the initiative.
Qiao Wenming, on the other hand, suggested that he should wait and see how things would develop, and not to be in a hurry.
They all have their own opinions, and they also have their own reasons, Lisa is not good at what to say, and it is difficult to make up her mind after hesitation, she suddenly realized that the current executive structure of the company is not a problem to do things, but in some sensitive issues, forward-looking, it is very insufficient.
At this point, she is very envious of Zheng Xiumin, who has a strong assistant like Wu Jun. She regretted that she had asked Kina to send Emily to the United States, otherwise Emily would have been a good assistant.
But in the face of the newly formed team, Lisa quickly pressed the idea of calling Emily back, weighed it herself, and decided to follow Qi Na's suggestion and make arrangements for Tian Xiu to go to the United States to meet with Emily and figure out the lawsuit against San Siro as soon as possible.
At the same time, Lisa has deployed the media to coldly process any information that is similar to official information.
I hope to avoid stirring up this lawsuit news by myself, and the gains outweigh the losses.
But this is an Internet world, and there will be no impermeable walls in the world. In addition, the Kirin Wings is still the hottest and most eye-catching company in the world today, but any news that has a little bit to do with the Kirin Wings is a headline report, followed by several consecutive days of interpretation.
Therefore, when SanSiro sued Kirin Wings, all the media were like treasures, and the domestic media were more keen on translation, but the people of Kirin Wings believed that the domestic media would never report and introduce SanSiro for such a large page for no reason.
In this analysis, SanSiro is also manipulating behind the media, which is inevitable.
In the face of the news of the lawsuit, Lisa chose to take a cold approach, hoping to respond when Tian Xiu and Emily have accurate information.
But things moved very quickly, and soon SanSiro also filed a lawsuit in Europe, and at the same time asked the European Court to prohibit the sale of all products with infringing designs of Kirin Wings before that.
The European Court of Justice quickly approved this request, but in fact, it is not very concerned about these Kirin Wings, which are now in all markets in China and will soon be listed in North America. The European market is still in a blank period.
Lisa was relieved to receive the news, but soon news came from the United States, and SanSiro also passed on a similar request to the U.S. court, and the U.S. court quickly approved it.
It's like a domino, starting with Europe, the United States, Canada, etc., which soon made similar judgments.
Affected by this, Lin Hui, who had just started working in the United States, suspended his work and began to cooperate with Emily and Tian Xiu.
After Tian Xiu and others approached SanSiro's agent in North America, they received a response of $180 billion in claims.
Lisa was stunned for a moment when she heard the news, and felt that Tian Xiu's numbers were wrong, and she must have made the zero number behind her wrong.
But Tian Xiu told her very clearly that, yes, SanSiro was poor and crazy.
Lisa immediately asked Tian Xiu not to contact in private, these people were just being poor.
Next, Emily and others began to hire lawyers across the United States and began to prepare for a frontal response.
Lisa was only perfunctory about the lawsuits in Europe and other places, and she firmly believed that as long as the cases in the United States were handled properly, then other places would be easily resolved.
SanSiro has no bottom line, or they are not sure in their hearts, so they pay special attention to out-of-court activities.
They quickly exposed the information that Tian Xiu had private contact before, and the message conveyed was that if Qilin Wings didn't have a ghost in his heart, then why did Tian Xiu have to contact him privately?
In a series of activities conducted by the lawyers before the trial, the lawyers of the Qilin Wings warned Tian Xiu and Emily that if there was no further evidence and the Qilin Wings were prepared to settle out of court, then the Qilin Wings could have to pay a whopping 10 billion US dollars in settlement.
This is obviously not the amount that Lisa and others are willing to accept, but the lawyers said that the evidence in SanSiro's hands is very strong, and the probability of Kirin Wings losing the lawsuit is very high, and once the lawsuit is lost, then the high compensation that Kirin Wings is waiting for may exceed $50 billion.
This will be the largest patent infringement lawsuit in history, arguably the lawsuit of the century. That's what the lawyer said.
Lisa feebly turned off the video conference. She said to Quan Xuejun and Qiao Wenming: "This lawsuit is developing too fast, we have no experience at all, if we lose the lawsuit, it will be doomed for Qilin Wings." ”
Qiao Wenming had no choice but to comfort her: "The lawyer said so, maybe it is indeed us who are at a disadvantage, but on this basis, can we make some strategic adjustments, such as delaying the trial time and collecting some evidence." ”
Quan Xuejun agreed, but the next day Emily sent back the message, and the judge only agreed to a one-week extension.
Lisa vaguely felt that there was a huge dark shadow behind the court and SanSiro, controlling the situation.
Lisa was about to have another remote session with Emily when Yang Tingting reported that Meg had arrived.
Meg looked apologetic when she saw Lisa, and she said, "The cause of this incident is my selfishness and self-righteousness. I'm so sorry. ”
Lisa and Qi Na helped Meg's fashion brand hype and promote it before, which made Meg very grateful. Now that the Kirin Wings has encountered such a lawsuit, Meg is tormented.
Although Lisa was distraught, she still persuaded Meg not to think too much, this matter had indeed reached an understanding between the parties at that time, and it was a thing of the past, and the current predicament was caused by the insatiable greed of the San Siro company.
Yang Tingting brought tea to Meg, and Lisa asked her to convene an executive meeting temporarily.
Meg took a sip of tea and said to Lisa, "Actually, I'm here to give you advice, I hope it can help you." ”
Lisa wondered in her heart: could there be any connection between Meg and the people of San Siro, and what good way could there be?
Meg's method has nothing to do with San Siro, but rather a method of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle.
That is to make Qi Na sue in Ningnan that NMC has no right to dispose of the video capture imaging system. At the beginning, NMC and Qina had an agreement, but Meg secretly took these agreements, in order to get Jenny out of prison as soon as possible, took these patents, technologies, and codes, made her own decisions, and sold them to San Siro, although there was a remedy afterwards and gave Qina a compensation, but Meg's partner Lina clearly remembered that this compensation was recorded in the name of severance compensation, so there was a mistake in the logic of this, and Qina could not admit that this fee was compensation, even if it was compensation, Qina could also refuse, because this is a forced buy and a forced sale, he does not accept it.
In other words, San Siro was not right, and naturally this lawsuit against the Qilin Wings was impossible to talk about.
So is that okay? Lisa asked.
Qi Na hadn't come over yet, Qiao Wenming, Quan Xuejun, Jian Ning and others had already arrived at Lisa's office.
Qiao Wenming asked: "The statute of limitations for patent infringement lawsuits is two years, is it too late?" ”
Meg glanced at Qiao Wenming, this question is the key, she was a little excited, and said to Lisa: "If the time I sold the patent at the beginning, it was more than two years, but the time when Lina and Qi Na talked about compensation, it was still too late. ”
Lisa got excited: "Really! ”
"Yes, the statute of limitations will pass after twelve o'clock tonight." Meg tried to be as calm as possible.