Chapter 177: The tip of the needle is against the wheat
"Mr. Cook, we want to talk about microsystems."
Hearing Steve's voice on the phone, Cook suddenly understood in his heart.
"Mr. Steve, what's your plan?"
"We need to join forces, otherwise the microsystem will be a huge threat sooner or later, and I believe that Sydney doesn't want another strong enemy!"
Of course, Cook knows that the current microsystem has not invaded Sydney's mobile phone and computer, but no one dares to guarantee the future.
In particular, the terrible performance of the microsystem makes Cook tremble now.
"I agree to join forces, so what is Mr. Steve going to do?"
"It's very simple, patent!"
"Yes!"
Cook agreed, no matter how Sydney and Micro Hard loved and killed each other before, but in front of this kind of big right and wrong, they are highly consistent.
On the other side, Brother Gu's Layton?? Angus is going to do the same, even more so than Microsoft.
The micro-hardware system is to maintain two-thirds of the market share, while the Android system is to lose two-thirds, so it's no wonder that they are not in a hurry.
For the proposal of Micro Hardware Company, the two sides hit it off.
Soon, companies such as Micro Hard, Gu Ge, Sydney, Nokia, and Ericsson immediately reached an agreement and were ready to use patents to crusade against Zhongxing Group.
As for whether EtherMicro Systems infringes their patents, there must be one "on the surface".
Here are a few examples.
Patent number 5579517, long file name support. Prior to version 5, MS-DOS only supported 11-character filenames (including extensions), so Micro Hardware invented a way to support both long and short filenames.
Friends who have used the DOS operating system should know that file names longer than 11 characters DOS will be automatically shortened and part of it will be replaced with the ~ symbol, and this patent is about this implementation.
Since the Android system supports MicroSD (TF) cards in FAT format, the data stored on the card must support DOS long file names.
In other words, any device that supports the FAT format is limited by this patent from Microhardware.
There is also patent number 6621746, flash erasure; Patent number 6909910, creation and renewal of contacts; Patent No. 7644376, System Status Monitoring and Notification System; Patent number 6370566, initiating a request to schedule a meeting from a mobile device.
In particular, patent number 5664133, pop-up context menu system.
The specific patent is described as obtaining and displaying a series of commands on an object selected by the user in a pop-up menu.
This patent is estimated to be the dragon slaying knife of the micro hard company, the god blocks and kills the god, and the Buddha blocks and kills the Buddha.
There is also a patent number 6578054, incremental synchronization.
The system and method used to synchronize multiple copies of data on the server and client, through which incremental changes in one copy of data will be identified, transmitted, and integrated into all other copies of data.
According to this patent description, Android's data synchronization function can be said to be completely wiped out.
Judging from the patents owned by the above micro hardware companies, most of them should involve some basic functions that have been widely used in modern operating systems and have become breathing.
If you want to avoid micro-hard patents, it means starting from scratch, which is a very sad thing for the entire computer industry.
If you add Sydney, Gu Ge, Nokia, and Ericsson, I believe that no company can bypass their patent moat in the English programming environment.
The five companies that quickly reached the PY deal appealed to the Shanghai court on August 24 against Zhongxing Group for infringement of their patents.
Among them, 276 patents were filed by Micro Hardware, 231 patents were filed by Gu Ge, 233 were filed by Sydney, 419 were filed by Nokia, and 142 were filed by Ericsson.
There are a total of 1,301 patents, which are ostensibly used in more or less microsystems.
And asked Taiwei Systems to immediately stop using their patents, and at the same time compensate them 130.1 billion US dollars, obviously these guys want to completely kill Taiwei Systems, and by the way, hit Galaxy Technology.
In order to create public opinion pressure, the five companies spared no expense to hire online water armies, so that the Internet water army and public knowledge sprayed Zhongxing Group and Taiwei Systems on the Internet.
For a while, Zhongxing Group has not responded to the lawsuit, and the Internet has been filled with gunsmoke, and netizens who support Zhongxing Group and Taiwei System have sprayed each other with Internet trolls.
Of course, large online media such as Penguin News, NetEase News, and Neck Express have all chosen to remain silent.
It's not that they find out in their conscience, but they are afraid of being settled by the Autumn Queen, and now the Star Group and Brother Wei Hard Gu are still unknown.
It is obviously irrational to stand in line at this time.
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"Boss, we're ready." Ye Donghe said calmly.
"Well, have a good time with them, isn't the microhardware company forcing patches to prohibit too microsystems? Let the Software Research Institute crack this forbidden patch, and we're going to make their systems blind. Huang Haojie sneered.
Ye Donghe nodded, the Star Group had expected this matter, if Brother Gu was slightly stiff and they didn't react, it would be a strange thing.
For patent lawsuits, and patent lawsuits in China, Zhongxing Group is not afraid of them.
Gu Ge's patents may be unavoidable for English language programs, but for Chinese language programs, the two are fundamentally different.
Just like grilling with charcoal and grilling with an electric stove, both have the same function, but the technology implemented is different.
And the function of this kind of thing cannot be patented, is it possible that the barbecue can also be patented?
Obviously impossible, if this can be done, then there are too many things in this world that can be patented, such as eating and drinking, breathing air, walking, writing, etc.
What can be patented is not the function of barbecue, but how to realize barbecue, such as grilling with charcoal, the specifications of charcoal, how to place it, what auxiliary materials need to be added, and so on.
The Taiwei system is developed based on the Chinese language, and even some of the patents that may involve appearance have been comprehensively sorted out by Zhongxing Group.
Under the filter of loyalty, they want to sue Zhongxing Group for patent infringement, but they are afraid that they don't know how to write dead words.
This is also the confidence of Zhongxing Group, and the two are different on the basis of technology.
Of course, if it is French, German, and Russian, they can still sue each other.
Because English and French are similar, they are equivalent to being born to the same parents, and in terms of language genes, their basic framework is the same.
But Chinese and English are completely different, because Chinese is a two-dimensional language, while English is a one-dimensional language.
In this way, it is impossible for the Chinese language and the English language to use the same framework and coding when implementing the same function.
So Brother Gu was slightly hard, and this time they made a fatal mistake, they ignored the possibility of the Star Group adopting the Chinese language, or the pride and prejudice of Westerners, which made their thinking solidified.
Soon Zhongxing Group announced its response to the lawsuit on its official website, and at the same time appealed to the Pengcheng Court, countersuing Gu Ge Weihard and them for falsely accusing Zhongxing Group and causing economic losses to Zhongxing Group, demanding that they compensate 130.2 billion US dollars.
For a time, the two sides were needle-to-needle,-for-tat.
Even those Internet companies in China who are clear in the door have been shocked by Zhongxing Group, so many patents are too microsystem will be infringed more or less.
So why does Zhongxing Group have the confidence to go head-to-head with Google? What is the confidence that gives the Star Group the courage to sue the other party?
These questions made Penguin, Ali, and Qiandu puzzled.
And a group of people who eat melons eat melons on the Internet, watching the stars vs. Gu Ge's slightly hard patent alliance.
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