Chen Bo was very satisfied with his serious attitude now, and pushed the folder in his hand to him, "There are two materials here, you can read them first." ”

Depp flipped through the file on the desktop, "Sixty million dollars? The number that caught his eye made Depp breathe a sigh of air, and if this was really the final transaction price, it would be a record trademark transfer fee.

Chen Bo smiled slightly, what is this, the cost of the iPad mainland trademark right to Proview alone is 60 million US dollars, but this will be ten years later. The dollar is still very strong, and Apple's cash reserves are not that much, and Apple computers that have not yet started to use Intel chips are still very, very niche in the absence of iopd and iPhone.

Chen Bo said: "In China, there is a saying called asking for a sky-high price, and you can pay back the money on the ground. This is just a preliminary tentative offer. Your task is to bite the price and not let go, and I'll do the rest. ”

"That's fine." Depp agreed that such a large case is usually done by several law firms, and now he can be responsible for the client alone, and once successful, he will definitely become famous in the industry in the United States.

Chen Bo said again, "Also, do you have any familiar media resources, you must keep your mouth tight, and you can be reliable!" ”

"I have a college classmate who works for News Corp., and it's absolutely fine."

Chen Bo signed a check from Citibank very neatly for $100,000. Directly to Depp on the opposite side.

"This is the registered capital of the Cayman Islands company and your remuneration for these days. After the deed, there will be yours. Also, ask your friends to contact me directly. ”

Of course, the money for the check was temporarily misappropriated from Dingdong's surviving fund before going to the United States, and then transferred to Citibank through Hong Kong Island. The domestic foreign exchange control is relatively strict, and it is difficult to exchange a few thousand dollars of pocket money from the Bank of China.

"In addition, I still need to wronged you, I want to go to Apple in the same state you were yesterday." Chen Bo smiled evilly, old man India, find a good friend for you to play with.

Depp's eyes lit up and he nodded in agreement, this kind of ingenious means is also rare.

So on a sunny afternoon, a down-and-out man appeared in Apple with a tin flask in his hand at any time. and threw out a lawyer's authorization to officially take over Chen Bo's trademark transfer case.

Although Chen Bo has only been here for two days, he has a good conversation, although he just talked nonsense and didn't talk about anything, but now he is missing without a trace, and a drunkard lawyer was sent to be in charge, and he tortured him from morning to night.

Old Neha wondered if this man was God, oh no. Indians don't believe in God, anyway, a certain Tianzhu god sent to torture him, with a bitter face, and this drunkard actually has a trademark licensing fee of 60 million US dollars.

The entire negotiation team has to take a breath of cold air, 60 million US dollars, not a trademark transfer, but a trademark authorization, and the ownership is still yours. It's really a day......

Old Neha really wanted to reason with the drunkard on the other side and make him realize the facts. But the drunkard on the other side was full of nonsense, and occasionally grabbed his neck and poured him a sip of strong wine, almost fainting him on the spot.

The punctual arrival of Christmas every year saved the fragile nerves of old Neha, and Christmas, a Western holiday like the Chinese people's Spring Festival, usually has a seven-day holiday, so the negotiations can only be postponed, and the next time we will see you will be in 2001.

What is Chen Bo doing at this time, driving a rented little Ford to Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, we can't go to Intel and Google, but we can go to college. After a few days of going to college, no one cares anyway. Wherever there is a class, he will follow and audit, although some professional terms are more obscure for him, but he still benefits a lot. Or go to the square to feed the pigeons and tease the running little squirrels.

The University of Berkeley and Stanford University are two world-renowned research universities, one public and one private, that constitute the academic center of the American West. The two schools alone have won more than 100 Nobel Prizes, and they have also sent a lot of technical talents to technology companies in Silicon Valley. Without the support of these two universities, Silicon Valley would never be where it is today.

Pengcheng can only rely on Pengcheng University now, and the strength is still too weak, on the other hand, Yangcheng has gathered a large number of the best universities in South China, which is not far away, and it is completely possible to fight for it.

Looking at Chen Bo, who is full of Christmas atmosphere all over the city, there is a feeling of being a stranger in a foreign land. Thinking of the weekly news and gifts, San Francisco is not Hollywood after all, and it is really difficult to find a place to buy movie peripheral products, Chen Bo patted his head, and almost forgot that there is a shopping site such as eBay.

It is said that it is a shopping website, and it should be said that it is a C2C (user-to-user) second-hand trading platform, similar to salted fish and turning. The orthodox shopping site should be a B2C model (from the merchant to the user), just like Dingdong is now. It's just that there are too few categories at present, mainly for assembling computers and peripheral hardware.

eBay is the world's number one trading platform with a wide variety of second-hand items. I don't know if the courier can be delivered normally during the holiday, mainly because he doesn't have a PayPal account to make payments, so he still chooses to meet near San Francisco. Transactions are a bit more straightforward.

I carefully selected a set of superhuman figures, as well as other interesting little things that I can give to my friends as gifts when I go back. I flipped through other second-hand products casually, there are all kinds of everything, and there is really a feeling of visiting Panjiayuan to pick up leaks, but the current web page is too rough.

Yo, there is also a seller who actually sells his own paper, or an algorithm model about computer networks, the specific content is unknown. There are some words that Chen Bo can't understand, and there is no online translator. Out of professional sensitivity, Chen Bo still sent an email to the mailbox left by the other party, and decided to contact him to understand the situation.

Although Chen Bo is alone in the United States, the alcoholic lawyer Depp has obviously not forgotten this generous employer from the Oriental country and invited him to spend a wonderful Christmas Eve with Elus's house. Depp is also a bachelor now, a lonely family, and it is more lively for Elus to have at least two children at home.

This is the first time Chen Bo has spent Christmas with a foreigner, and according to the etiquette of Chinese people, it is natural to bring gifts. This should also be the common etiquette around the world, how can you go to someone else's house empty-handed. So I drove from Santa Clara to San Francisco's Chinatown, which is the largest Chinese community in the West, and has the largest number of Chinese people outside of New York.

All the buildings and goods here in Chinatown have a strong Chinese style, and there are Chinese people speaking Chinese and various dialects everywhere, and there is an instant sense of home, but the style here is more inclined to Hong Kong and Taiwan. The rapid economic development of the mainland has made it lack the traditional Chinese charm.

I selected some small commodities with Chinese characteristics, and purchased some from the supermarket. When night was about to fall, Chen Bo knocked on the door of Elous's house. The United States is vast and sparsely populated, except in some megacities, where small places like Santa Clara are single-family houses. There is a lawn outside the door, you can raise flowers and grass to have a pastoral interest, if you are a Chinese person, it is estimated that you have to peel off the turf and plant a row of leeks to be cost-effective.

Elous greeted him very warmly, and Chen Bo sent a Chinese knot from China, which was red and gorgeous, but it matched Santa's clothes very well, and they were all festive red. At the same time, she also brought a set of exquisite blue and white porcelain tea sets, and her two children, a high school student and a junior high school student, were full of curiosity about this guest from the mysterious East, and it was in adolescence that the whole world was full of unknowns.

Depp is long overdue, and the exotic Christmas Eve dinner has officially begun. In addition to the roast turkey for the main meal, Chen Bo can still eat it habitually, and the other dishes taste the same as chewing wax, but fortunately, he has prepared it for a long time, and the fresh noodles bought from the Chinatown supermarket come in handy. He cooks it himself, and a simple, light egg noodle dish with tomatoes is freshly baked.

Although it is just a simple staple dish, the taste is just right, and there is no greasy impression of traditional Chinese food, which makes several foreigners feel very delicious, and it is very suitable with tender roast turkey. And Chen Bo also introduced them to the allusions of noodles, what symbolizes longevity, smooth sailing and other beautiful meanings, so they eat more happily.

At the same time, they were very interested in the ancient and mysterious ancient country of the East, and after the meal, around the fiery fireplace, Chen Bo told them the stories of ancient emperors such as Emperor Qin and Han Wu. The history of the United States is relatively short, it has been a federal country since the founding of the country, and it lacks the ideological concept of feudal monarchy, which has attracted their infinite yearning.

"Chen, I never thought that there were so many interesting things in distant China, I originally thought that China and Japan were the same."

Depp's image and temperament have changed a lot now, and there is no longer the previous turbidity in his eyes. The two of them came out of Elus's house and walked down the street and talked.

"What I just said is just the tip of the glacier in China. I don't know what kind of holiday you have had with the Japanese? If it's convenient, you can say it and listen to it, anyway, I'm going back to Huaxia in a while, and you don't have to be afraid of leaks. ”

Chen Bo intuitively felt that Depp's current situation should have a secretive relationship with the Japanese, and out of good intentions, he still wanted to help him untie the knot in his heart.

Depp looked up at the deep sky, there were stars in the sky but there was no trace of the moon, but it was strange that there was a moon, the lunar calendar created by the Chinese ancestors had already told us that there was no moon at the beginning of the month. He thought for a moment, sighed heavily, and then spoke up.

This is a very bloody story, it turns out that he met a girl from Japan in college, and fell in love and got married without suspense. After graduating, they founded this law firm together, and the business for the first two years was not bad, and there were many companies in Silicon Valley, and economic litigation cases were indispensable. Depp also gradually became famous, but in the end, the Japanese woman who was already an adult wife took all his possessions and eloped with one of his clients, and he didn't know where he went.

Depp felt that he had no love, so he became more and more depressed, relying on alcohol to numb himself all day long, and the business naturally couldn't go on, no one would want to hire an alcoholic lawyer, Chen Bo was an exception.

"There is a saying in China that the old does not go, and the new does not come. You don't try to accept someone else, how do you know that she is the woman you love the most? If the money is gone, you can make it again, and if the woman is gone, there will be better waiting for you. ”

Chen Bo comforted him and said that in fact, after Depp was willing to tell all the stories, his knot had been untied.