20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2894 Zhao Changan’s New Idea

"I don't know much about this technology, but what Mike and Doug said is that they did borrow NTP's technology, but this technology had already appeared on the market before NTP filed this patent application, but they carried out a more rigorous and systematic integration. The evidence that NTP can provide can only prove that these technologies are included in their patent application, but it cannot prove that the technology used by BlackBerry is derived from their technology."

Qi Xidong's words were a bit confusing, but Zhao Changan was, after all, a college student majoring in microelectronics. Although he switched to philosophy in his sophomore year, he understood these cutting-edge technologies much more deeply than Qi Xidong.

A more obvious explanation is that, in examples like "Green Peppercorns", "Tongguan Roujiamo", and "Xiaoyao Town Hu La Tang", NTP cleverly compiled and integrated patent applications in advance, and then used the patents to go around making money. Although it was able to win the lawsuit, the merchants who were forced to pay compensation were really angry and felt like they were fed a mouthful of shit.

"Besides, the focus of this lawsuit is not the $3300 million, but a question of whether it is reasonable or not. At present, BlackBerry can only launch the BlackBerry 6230+ and BlackBerry 6710, and more advanced models are still in the design prototype stage. The company also needs this lawsuit to increase controversy and visibility."

Zhao Changan understood what this meant. Just like some of the outdated celebrities or new rising stars in China, in order to increase their exposure, they constantly create some sensational scandals to increase their popularity.

But Zhao Changan had some impression of this case. The lawsuit had been going on for five years, and as BlackBerry grew, the amount of compensation paid by NTP had been increasing.

In 06, the two parties reached a settlement and NTP made a net profit of US$6.125 million. NTP made a fortune, but BlackBerry also got five years of global advertising because of this case. It was a win-win situation for both parties.

However, after this incident, seeing how they could make money by ripping off BlackBerry, many small companies with fake fronts began to look for loopholes in BlackBerry's patents with a magnifying glass.

Two years later, an IoT security and device management provider called Mformation successfully found one.

Using the same tactics, they barged into the already mature field of remote management of wireless mobile devices on the market, shamelessly applied for a small patent, and then excitedly sued BlackBerry, demanding a huge claim of hundreds of millions of dollars.

BlackBerry, which was so angry that its mouth was twisted, once again told the American judge that "when Mformation filed this patent application, the technology had already appeared on the market and the patent had lost its novelty. In other words, the technology no longer met the basic constituent elements for applying for a patent."

Unfortunately for BlackBerry, the judge used the NTP settlement case as a reference for the Law of the Sea and ordered BlackBerry to pay Mformation $1.472 million.

It was already July of 12. In the past year, due to Apple's rapid rise, it became the world's number one in sales of mid-to-high-end mobile phones.

Samsung, the leader in Android, and Nokia, which sticks to Symbian, ranked second and third. HTC ranked fourth and Lenovo ranked fifth.

And a group of Android-based Xiaomi, Transsion, OPPO, Huawei, ZTE, Sony Ericsson,——

BlackBerry's stock price plummeted by 70% in one year.

Just before the verdict, BlackBerry announced that the company had suffered a loss in the second quarter. This was BlackBerry's first loss in ten years since 02.

The company also announced huge losses and there is no possibility of stopping losses and making profits in the next few months. For this reason, the company will have to plan to lay off 5000 employees, accounting for 1/3 of the total number of employees in BlackBerry.

It’s a pity that BlackBerry didn’t get any sympathy from the judge despite its sympathetic performance, and was still severely cheated of $1.472 million by Mformation.

Zhao Changan wanted to say more to Qi Xidong, but the two of them had already walked to the company, and it was obvious that they did not have time to have an in-depth discussion on the matter for the time being.

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Zhao Changan was busy with BlackBerry all day. His conversation with Qi Xidong last night was equivalent to a statement that he would not actively interfere in BlackBerry's affairs until the Pro6230 was launched on the market and achieved good results.

The fact is that if you want to make annoying comments, you should at least prove that you have the qualifications and confidence to do so, instead of relying on the shameless power of capital to oppress others.

If you want to make your company bigger and stronger, you will need a group of excellent subordinates to help you. All excellent talents have their own ideas and pride, and they are scarce resources in society. If you are not welcome here, you will find other places to stay. If you are too harsh, the talents will vote with their feet.

So in reality, except for bureaucratic organizations, other groups are hungry for talent, and bosses treat the talent in their hands as treasures and protect and cherish them.

In return, BlackBerry will agree to transfer personnel from the company to join the Pro project with the greatest convenience, either by leaving the company or by temporary paid secondment.

At the same time, a research and development communication team will be set up to connect with the Pro project, a project team responsible for manufacturing line construction engineering technology, and a department responsible for upstream procurement coordination.

Because BlackBerry will hold a 20% stake in Pro, it is less likely to be accused of "obviously currying favor with the interests of the major shareholder."

This is also the basic authority structure of most modern ordinary and formal listed companies in foreign Western countries.

Just like Qi Xidong and his team, as the actual leaders of a listed company, they are first and foremost responsible to all shareholders, and will not succumb to the rent-seeking and interference in operations of major shareholders, or their shameless and blood-sucking will.

Unlike those unscrupulous companies and professional managers, major shareholders collude with each other and treat listed companies as their own private ATMs, sucking listed companies into junk stocks like leeches.

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At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Changan received a call from Zhang Xiaowei, saying that they had arrived in Toronto and met with Qi Peng. Although the implicit meaning of her words was not made clear, her desire to have sex was obvious.

Zhao Changan still needed to give Ju Han a pelvic repair massage. Universities here would start classes in a few days, and he wouldn't want to go back on his promise and ask her to go to school with her, so he had this excuse to go there early.

Although he didn't need to explain to anyone here, it would be inappropriate for him to go to Toronto alone in advance instead of going with the entire team of more than a dozen people early tomorrow morning without a proper reason.

After all, after several months of personnel transfers, BlackBerry has already had thirty or forty domestic employees sent here to participate in the company's entire chain.

It is no exaggeration to say that one should be afraid of what others say. Just as everyone knows that the CEO of a private enterprise who sits on the stage and talks about the culture of private companies, ethics, integrity and shame is actually a shameless and vulgar hypocrite who engages in thieves and prostitution.

But as long as this layer of skin is not exposed, then in public on and off the stage, he will be a perfect man and a saint with high morals and free from vulgarity.

Zhao Changan himself actually knew that he was probably not a good person in the hearts of the employees of the Nano-Tech Department. It was estimated that those men who could not eat the beautiful purple, red and black grapes had often criticized and talked about him privately, saying that he was lustful, had a lot of women, and was cruel and ruthless, a smiling tiger.

But as long as this matter is not brought to the table, and he also pays attention to his personal image and influence, then he is an ambitious young man, a positive entrepreneur, and a caring person.

(End of this chapter)