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Chapter 2995 Patent Plagiarism

Zhou Buqi asked Senior Sister Zhen Yu to leave him some money for backup.

Because he wanted to find a way to buy a patent for diamond arrangement related to OLED display panels.

Because of this incident, Fu Sheng didn't have a good New Year.

I left home on the second day of the Chinese New Year and started to get busy.

Now we have entered a critical stage.

  Already quoted!

To buy 3.6% of the optical company's shares for $80 million.

As expected, Samsung quickly followed up and matched the offer.

Things have developed to this point, and only Boss Zhou can step in.

You can't go head-on with Samsung and raise prices against each other. Whether you can win is one thing, but even if you succeed, it will be a sky-high price, and the Americans will get the upper hand.

In addition, there are several other related things.

Fu Sheng was in New York at the time, following up with another American materials company. They had developed a phosphorescent material that was said to greatly improve the stability of OLED displays. They thought they could come and investigate and make up for some of the shortcomings.

However, Fu Sheng cared more about something else.

  Samsung used a trick to steal the home!

Zhou Buqi and Senior Sister Zhen Yu were invited to visit Fu Sheng's new mansion in New York.

A luxurious townhouse.

Located on the riverside in Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson River, it has an excellent geographical location and is very expensive, costing over $900 million.

Zhou Buqi found an antique oil painting of a nude girl from a cabinet at home and gave it as a gift to congratulate them on their new home.

There are so many oil paintings of this kind in my home.

There are tens of thousands of paintings.

Most of them are nude paintings from the Salon period.

Wu Yu has placed some of them in his homes in New York, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, London, etc., just to give as gifts. After all, they are works of art, and they are more decent as gifts.

The so-called salon painting is a realistic painting, the more realistic the better.

The painting is very similar.

The reason why the noble ladies and rich girls of that period were willing to take off their clothes in front of the painters to paint such oil paintings was not for artistic dedication, but because there were no cameras at that time. Salon painting was the best tool to record oneself and pass on one's image.

Salon oil paintings became a symbol of that era.

During this process, a young painter felt that his painting skills were too bad and he had no chance of making a breakthrough, so he had an idea and invented another way of recording - photography.

  This is much more realistic than oil painting!

Then, salon painting was over.

  Who can draw more realistically than a photograph?

Instead, there was the Impressionist school of painting, which was completely devoid of realism and was a spiritual construction of imagination, impression, and self-world. The less realistic, the better, and the more incomprehensible, the better, and Van Gogh soared to fame because of this.

Even now in the 21st century, Impressionism is still the mainstream in oil painting, and has even branched out into various fields of modern art. It is a surreal and incomprehensible genre that is detached from the masses and has a very high threshold for appreciation.

There are far fewer Impressionist paintings in Zhou's family, with a total of only more than 4000 pieces, less than one twentieth of the Salon paintings.

From this we can see that Salon paintings are created by painters and can be mass-produced. They do not require any artistic inspiration and can be easily painted by just copying. Impressionism greatly raised the threshold for oil painting. As there are very few painters, the number of paintings is naturally small as well.

When Zhou Buqi wanted to give gifts, they were all salon paintings.

I went to Fu Sheng's home and saw his girlfriend... a white girl with some Eastern European ancestry, fair skin, beautiful face and long legs. She was very stunning. She looked to be around 20 years old and was a junior at New York University.

Zhou Buqi sighed inwardly.

It turns out to be a direct descendant!

It’s very similar to my original hobby!

However, this kid still has too little experience.

After a few more years, when you have enough romantic experience, you will know that fair, thin and young girls from China, Japan and South Korea are the best. After sitting down, Fu Sheng put away the matter of being stolen by Samsung.

"Stealing the house?" Zhou Buqi was slightly startled. "Who stole the house?"

Fu Sheng said: "Sanxing, Sanxing stole our home!"

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was surprised and confused. "What does this mean? How did it mean he stole my house?"

Fu Sheng said: "It's the patent for the diamond arrangement. I asked Meng Houkun to check it out. He found that Samsung has successfully applied for the patent for the diamond arrangement in China."

Zhou Buqi opened his eyes wide, "Isn't this an American patent?"

Fu Sheng said: "It's a US patent, but this is a small company. They don't have the ability to apply abroad, and they probably don't even have the idea. And they are now in a cooperative relationship with Samsung. They have licensed the patent to Samsung for ten years, which naturally gives Samsung an opportunity."

"They claim the Dragon Boat Festival as theirs, and they claim the US patent as theirs?" Zhou Buqi was very unhappy about this. "It's really the Korean way!"

Fu Sheng felt that the boss was a bit biased, because it was not only the Koreans who did this, but also the domestic technology companies that did it the most. He cleared his throat and said, "From this we can make two judgments. First, Samsung recognizes the diamond arrangement patent, so it is conceivable that Samsung's OLED screen will definitely adopt the diamond arrangement method in the future. Second, they have successfully applied for this patent in China, so the European Patent Office should have successfully applied for it as well."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Is this considered plagiarism? Isn't this copying an American patent?"

Fu Sheng said: "Yes, but it is very common in the technology industry. Nowadays, the world's technology is basically born in the United States. Many American technology companies do not bother to fight patent lawsuits. They turn a blind eye and allow others to copy. Otherwise, there would not be today's global technology. Only some patent trolls, like Qualcomm and Intel, rely on patents to stifle competitors every day."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

He had learned the relevant information when he communicated with people from the European Patent Office before.

The companies that apply for the most patents in the EU each year are not the American technology giants, but Samsung and LG from South Korea. Huawei, ZTE and Asda from China have also quickly entered the top ten. The number of European patents applied for is even several times or even dozens of times that of technology giants such as Microsoft, Apple and Google.

This is obviously not because American technology giants have poor technology and few patents.

It’s because they are too lazy to apply for a patent in Europe.

Technology giants of this level are not afraid of others stealing their intellectual property. As a result, these patents that were originally invented by American technology companies and registered in the United States are left empty in the market because these American companies are too lazy to apply for them all over the world.

Just like the diamond arrangement is patented in the country.

U.S. companies do not apply.

Samsung seized the opportunity and applied for this patent.

Fu Sheng said: "Many times, the government will not investigate unless the people report it. As long as the company that first issued the patent does not file a lawsuit, then those patent companies that repost and copy it will not be punished by law, and they can make a lot of money in the local area by copying the things they have copied."

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "In other words, if Samsung successfully applies for a patent for diamond arrangement in China, then Samsung can rely on this patent to monopolize the domestic diamond arrangement market and restrict the development of domestic display companies."

"That's true." Fu Sheng nodded. "Unless the parent company in the United States comes forward to sue Samsung in China for infringement, the court will rule that since the US patent has been made public before the domestic patent application, it does not have novelty or creativity, and therefore should not be granted a patent right. The court will rule that Samsung's diamond arrangement patent is invalid. If the parent company does not come forward, no one can do anything."

Zhou Buqi said: "But Samsung and this American company have a cooperative relationship and have signed a ten-year patent license. This has become a closed loop."

Fu Sheng said: "So among invention patents, the most important one is the U.S. patent. If you have a U.S. patent, then you can basically be considered to have an original invention. If you don't have a U.S. patent, then the patent is most likely copied from the United States. You can see that the number of patents in China has exploded exponentially in recent years, but they are actually garbage. Only a small part of them can be applied for as European patents. And among the patents that have been successfully applied for in Europe, only a small part of them are eligible to apply for them in the United States. This is the objective reality. We all have to admit that the United States is still the center of world scientific and technological development."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "It's not surprising, that's where the talent flows."

This is not only a domestic dilemma, but also the same all over the world.

The best technological patents must be invented by the best talents.

However, the current global situation is that the best scientific and technological talents in various countries have gone to the United States for development. Even if some second-rate talents left in their own countries have made some inventions, they are often second-rate products and second-rate patents.

In the 1980s, Japan said that its technological achievements surpassed those of the United States... In fact, this is very one-sided. The real situation is that the technological achievements of Japanese companies have surpassed those of American companies.

Because the top scientific and technological achievements and patented inventions of Japanese companies often come from American teams, are made in the United States, and are applied for as U.S. patents.

Just like Ziweixing's advantage in the field of artificial intelligence, this is done by an American team, so it can strive to be the world's number one; just like Asda's breakthrough in the field of self-developed chips, this relies on a European team, and because it is a European team, it is destined to be difficult to surpass Qualcomm, and it will be satisfied to be able to make second-rate chips; Samsung's chips are made by an American team, and it is said that it will spend tens of billions of dollars to acquire American chip companies in the near future. It can be seen that Samsung's chips have the potential to impact Qualcomm chips.

Zhou Buqi had a feeling of being powerless.

But he also knew that he was not the only one who felt this way. All countries in the world, except the United States, should feel the same way.

Fu Sheng was not bothered by higher-level technology. This was not a status quo that could be changed by an individual. He only focused on the diamond arrangement and said with a smile: "Fortunately, the diamond arrangement has been discovered by us. Samsung's risk control has left us some opportunities!"