The 145th staggered forward

In Tencent's founding team, Zhang Zhidong is biased towards technology, while Ma Huateng and Zeng Liqing have more leadership temperament. Before Ma Huateng's setback, Zeng Liqing had been beaten to the ground by the combination of Huaguo Telecom and Huaguo Mobile, and he had no capital or prestige to replace Ma Huateng. Now in this situation, Zhang Zhidong was pushed out by everyone to support the façade, and Chunqiu is willing to support Zeng Liqing, and Zeng Liqing can become the new generation of Tencent's head; is willing to support Ma Huateng, and Ma Huateng can continue to stay in office......

Wei Dongsheng considered the pros and cons.

Considering that Ma Huateng once insisted on Tencent's independent development of the online game business, it seems more appropriate to recommend Zeng Liqing to power. However, Wei Dongsheng and Zeng Liqing had an average relationship, and they could not use their personal charm to convince Zeng Liqing to do things for him; Chunqiu has just joined Tencent, and its substantive influence on Tencent is also very limited.

If that is the case, why be wicked?

Wei Dongsheng tactfully brushed away Ma Huateng's temptation: "I don't know Ma Yun well. ”

Ma Huateng: "I'm not familiar with it either. ”

Ma Huateng stopped and ended the temptation, and the topic seemed to end there. When parting, Ma Huateng suddenly asked again: "I heard that Ma Yun also invited you, do you want to go?" ”

Wei Dongsheng replied with a smile: "Maybe go." ”

Ma Huateng: "Okay, we'll see you in Hangzhou." ”

The three giants of the gold TAB key that everyone knows in the memory of the previous life have become very strangely strange in this life, the head of Baidu is Robin Li, the head of Alibaba is Ma Yun, and the head of Tencent is Ma Huateng. Ma Huateng's surname is Ma; Ma Yun's surname is Ma; When he came to Li Yanhong, he finally lost his surname Ma, but his wife's name was Ma Dongmin. Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu and other giants are strangely shrouded in the shadow of the surname Ma, and people can't help but wonder if this is a small probability of accidental coincidence, or someone deliberately planned it this way.

Because of this psychology, although Wei Dongsheng does not want to step into the field of e-commerce, he is also full of interest in Ma Yun.

In addition, the news of Ma Yun's preparation for the "West Lake Discussion on the Sword" was boiling as early as June and July. Focusing on the guest incident of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton (illiam_Jefferson_Clinton), Alibaba also launched a news war with eBay to ensure that Clinton successfully participated in the "West Lake Debate". In addition to Jack Ma, Wei Dongsheng is also full of interest in Clinton and wants to take this opportunity to communicate with him.

The reason why he is full of interest in Clinton is that after three years of accumulation, Wei Dongsheng's Spring and Autumn Period, Zhiyu, Zhuwei, Quantum Rose and other industries have gained a firm foothold in China, and they can gradually try to expand internationally. Clinton, and Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2016 election, have a very considerable influence in the American political arena now and in the next few years.

Since it is destined to be an opponent or partner, it is better to lay out a number of idle chess pieces in advance.

The world is one, especially the electronic information industry, which must take a global perspective as a whole.

You can't shrink into a small pond in China, a group of international giant crocodiles will force you to go international.

For example, at this moment, Zhiyu Technology and Zhiyu Integrated Circuit Design are forced to be involved in countless patent dispute cases.

In fact, the patent dispute case that Zhiyu is facing at the moment is just an appetizer, and the more ferocious storm is still hiding behind to peep at Zhiyu. The routine of patent infringement cases is similar to that of copyright infringement cases, where small and medium-sized enterprises with the purpose of extortion and extortion will initiate attack procedures when they find an opportunity to comply with the law; And large enterprises that hold core patents often won't sue you in the first place.

For example, in the nineties of the last century, Japan's Toshiba and Texas Instruments patent dispute case. Texas Instruments identified Toshiba's infringement as early as five years ago, but Texas Instruments remained silent, waiting for Toshiba to develop to a certain scale in the U.S. market before suddenly launching an attack. Toshiba was unable to abandon the U.S. market and was forced to pay $500 million in patent infringement damages to Texas Instruments.

Another example is the recent patent dispute between SUN and Microsoft, SUN calmly ignored Microsoft's development market, and waited until Microsoft's mainstream products were inseparable from Java patents, and Microsoft's profits were already very considerable, before SUN suddenly sued Microsoft for infringement. The aforementioned Spring and Autumn Secure Browser's optimization for Java is set against the backdrop of a patent dispute between SUN and Microsoft. It wasn't until 2004 that Microsoft announced that it would pay more than $900 million in royalties to SUN in exchange for a settlement with SUN.

For example, the patent dispute between Cisco and Huawei, Cisco has also been preparing for five or six years.

Zhiyu Technology and Zhiyu Integrated Circuit Design have just been established, their profitability is not strong, their market share is very small, and they have not even officially gone abroad, so they are not worthy of litigation by large enterprises. Now most of the people suing Zhiyu Technology and Zhiyu Integrated Circuit Design Company for infringement are small and medium-sized enterprises, and their attitude can extort as much as they want.

However, the patent battle must not be overlooked.

The collapse of China's DVD industry is a lesson from the past.

The plan of Japanese companies to attack China's DVD industry has also been in the making for many years. This kind of lengthy preparation for the attack does not have to take such a long time to gather evidence, but is deliberately done by the patent copyright owner. First of all, the connivance in the early stage belongs to the stage of releasing water and raising fish, and the large-scale procurement of Huaguo DVD enterprises has brought considerable profits to downstream parts manufacturers, and Huaguo DVD enterprises have worked hard to cultivate domestic and foreign markets for their own profits; Second, the Japanese patent copyright owner took the opportunity to sign complex cooperation terms with other stakeholders to establish a "patent pool attack", and pulled Philips to form a 3C alliance and Time Warner to form a 6C alliance. In this way, when the time is ripe, they will jointly launch a strangulation against the Chinese DVD industry.

Back to the mobile phone industry, the routines are similar.

Take the GSM patent as an example.

GSM core patents are mainly concentrated in 18 companies such as Nokia, Motorola, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Alcatel, Philips, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, etc. Before the development of domestic mobile phones, giants such as Philips, Motorola, and Nokia were silent and ignored the infringement of domestic mobile phone companies. Of course, there are also factors that the Chinese government attaches importance to the mobile phone industry, and giants such as Nokia dare dare to launch a patent war with harsh conditions against domestic mobile phone companies, and the Chinese government dares to formulate new rules to counteract to a certain extent.

Philips' performance in the Chinese market was mediocre, and there was no rat bogey, so it took the lead in setting off a patent dispute, first taking South Korea's Seon_Telcom sacrifice flag, and turned around to ask for patent fees from more than ten local mobile phone companies in the mainland, and Nokia and Motorola immediately followed. In the end, under the pressure of the Chinese market, the GSM giant reduced the patent rate of the whole machine from 8% to 13% to 5%, although the threat is still shocking, the domestic mobile phone companies have room to survive.

Such a patent dispute case is actually not terrible.

Zhiyu does not have to fear that giants such as Philips will force Zhiyu Technology and Zhiyu IC Design to close down on the grounds of patent infringement. Because Zhiyu is behind the Ministry of Information Industry and other departments, if Philips asks for unacceptably high prices, the Chinese government can invoke antitrust laws and issue huge fines to Philips at any time.

Just like Huawei, Huawei and Cisco have been fighting for so long, and no one has forcibly disbanded Huawei.

In the battle at the patent level, the first threshold is technology, the second threshold is administrative, if there is technology and administrative protection, patent disputes become a joke.

At that time, Philips sued Shenhai Dibit Industrial Co., Ltd. for two basic patents in GSM software applied in Germany, with the aim of driving Dibit out of Germany and the European Union. As for Dibit's market share in China, Philips has nothing to do, and Philips cannot force the Chinese government to dissolve Dibit or prohibit Dibit from selling mobile phones in China. In order to keep the German market and the EU market, Dibit will be tired of dealing with Philips. Philips' patent prosecution also stopped at seeking money, rather than pursuing Dibit's closure and cessation, so he explained to the media over and over again: "Philips is not targeting China, and we maintain a uniform standard of royalties in the global market." ”

In fact, the DVD industry at that time was also a similar rule, patent owners did not expect the Chinese government to protect their rights and interests, and Japanese companies formed an alliance to sanction those companies that exported to the United States, Japan and South Korea, and the European Union.

With the support of the Chinese government, Zhiyu can ignore many patent disputes if he does not pursue exports to international markets such as Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. If the patent copyright owner wants to exterminate Zhiyu, if it is so harsh that Zhiyu is prohibited from designing chips on the grounds of basic patents, it is difficult to guarantee that the Chinese government will not introduce a series of mandatory standards such as APIs.

In the battle between API and iFi, API was a mess, and even countless citizens accused it of hindering the promotion of iFi. However, in terms of the level of national games, APIs have played a certain role, curbing the greed of international giants to a certain extent.

If Zhiyu adopts some patents from European and American companies, the corresponding companies will only negotiate and ask for royalties, rather than refusing to cooperate to prohibit Zhiyu from using these basic patents.

Of course, Zhiyu will definitely not be willing to pay high patent fees forever. When Zhiyu Music was launched, Zhiyu applied for more than 1,000 patents for Zhiyu Music and subsequent models, including many fraudulent patents, as well as many extortion patents and mine-type patents, and countered high patent fees.

Of course, there are also a lot of core patents that are really useful. Wei Dongsheng used computer intelligence to spy on the core patents that some giants were about to take shape in the next one or two years, and applied for them in advance, blocking the normal development path of the company, and forcing them to agree to the mutual patent licensing agreement in the future. At the same time, Wei Dongsheng also learned from the successful experience of various giants, truncated and complemented each other's weaknesses, and prepared to gradually develop and supplement the chips, underlying protocols, operating systems, and application systems suitable for the follow-up models of the Zhiyu Music series within three to five years.

As mentioned earlier, patents are originally a game, and when Europe and the United States and other countries review Zhiyu's patents, under the influence of certain interest groups, the standards are strict and often deliberately difficult; In Huaguo, Zhiyu has been given the green light all the way, and more than 1,000 patents have been put forward one after another, and more than 400 have been officially approved.

In all this, Wei Dongsheng is not afraid of trivial patent battles in the future.

When the life of intelligent computers brings one-way information transparency and convenience, it is destined that the patent shackles will not bind Zhiyu for too long. When Zhiyu has accumulated enough patents, whether it is mutual authorization or fraudulent cooperation, he can easily break through the patent quagmire.