Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 829 Legal Department

Zhou Zhi's approach is to do the opposite, taking advantage of the national trademark management department's unfamiliarity with local products and names, and registering a conventional local name as his own exclusive trademark. Wait until the country's laws are perfected before jumping out to file a naming rights lawsuit with others, maybe you can get a lot of "unjust enrichment", and at least you can create some advertising effects.

Although the "snowflake powder" incident has not happened yet, my dad discovered something wrong based on his years of work intuition.

You called Bran Vinegar, what if you asked someone else to make another vinegar factory?Therefore, the word "bran vinegar" can only be used in the name of "qujiu", which does not have the attribute of a trademark and cannot be used as a trademark alone.

Zhou Zhi spread his hands: "But we have already registered our trademark? If we want to revoke our trademark, this is an administrative dispute and requires administrative litigation and administrative reconsideration. It is no longer your father who has the final say."

Dad suddenly felt his scalp tighten, and then sneered: "Do you think you can win this lawsuit?"

Zhou Zhi smiled: "We don't need to win the fight, we just need to let the people of the whole country know about this matter, discuss this matter, even if we can only lay down and admit defeat in the end, at least we will get a 'rectified by order' It’s a gimmick, but it’s not considered a complete loss, is it?”

"Ah, this..." Dad finally understands, what this kid did is clearly wanting a free advertisement!
"I've thought about it. There are actually many benefits to doing this." Zhou Zhi said: "First of all, we introduced 'bran vinegar', a unique vinegar-making process in Sichuan, and then promoted our own products. Third, we also helped the country. It promotes the trademark law and raises legal awareness for citizens, which serves multiple purposes.”

"If there is no clear prohibition in the law, it is permission." Zhou Zhi looked at his father and asked sincerely: "Dad, you are an old businessman. When the company is not in violation of laws and disciplines and is operating normally, can the management department not be rude?" Interfering with the normal activities of businesses, including trademark applications and use?"

"Well..." This is the good tradition of the old Zhou family. You can justify wrongs or act righteously, but you can't threaten or lure. Dad thought for a while: "No law prohibits is permission, and it is the bottom line rather than the upper limit. Otherwise If so, the law does not prohibit you from falling in love with several girls at the same time, so can you do so?"

Zhou Zhi was almost scared to death, Jiang Shuyi's face was also pale, what did dad see?
Quickly waved his hands: "Dad is right! The law is the bottom line, not the upper limit. Not only can we not violate the law, but we must also not violate morality!"

Dad said with an expression that I can't beat you: "So as an outstanding entrepreneur with a sense of social responsibility, you should consider the social impact and not let yourself become a negative example." That's what it means to be accused by thousands of people and die without a disease. .”

"But when it comes to this specific matter, whether it can be done or not has nothing to do with morality." Zhou Zhi said: "Then follow what the old man said, cross the river by feeling the stones, and discuss it together under the framework of the procedural law. We Director of the legal department, I believe he is very happy to discuss this issue with the government."

"What... what director of the legal department?" Dad was a little numb: "Do you still have a legal department?"

"That is." Zhou Zhi nodded: "With the expansion of the scale of Saturday Niang Food Co., Ltd., the company has encountered more and more legal problems in various aspects such as finance, customers, business, and human recruitment. Comrade Wang Xiaojuan, the general manager of the company, It is decided to introduce professional talents and use their professional knowledge to deal with specific legal affairs for the company."

"This must be your idea again!" Dad said, "This is not a trivial matter! Do you still know legal professionals? The Jiachuan Court retired or the Jiangyang Law Firm? Their level..."

"It's all about professionals, so they are definitely professionals in the field." Zhou Zhi said, "Why don't I know such a person? Speaking of which, we don't even know each other!"

"I don't know each other without fighting? What do you mean?"

"Dad, do you still remember that Professor Lu who sued Cousin An Ran because he locked the security door outside the house and the fire brigade couldn't open the door?"

"He..." Dad nodded, and then he was shocked suddenly: "...He?!"

"Well, does it count as being acquainted with each other?"

Professor Lu is an expert in teaching economic law at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, and an authoritative person in domestic civil law and economic law.

The lawsuit against my cousin that year directly led to the formulation of detailed national standards for safety and anti-theft doors in China, and also made Jin'an Group one of the rule makers of the national safety door standards in China, and immediately gained the leading position in the industry.

But this was not the first battle that made Professor Lu famous. Before that, he had long been famous in the industry for his "one penny lawsuit".

The cause of the incident was that a certain bank had undercalculated a penny of interest on deposits to Professor Lu due to a problem with the number of reserved digits in the calculation of the program. Professor Lu's request for the bank to upgrade the system was rejected, and he filed a lawsuit angrily.

The bank is willing to give Professor Lu reasonable compensation when the lawsuit comes to the bank, but Professor Lu disagrees and insists on asking the bank to reform the system to avoid similar mistakes from harming other consumers.

The bank pointed out that the possibility of such calculation errors is extremely small, and the harm is only to cause customers to lose a penny. In order to solve this problem, the bank needs to invest as many as millions of funds, asking the court to consider a reasonable ruling.

At the time of the stalemate, the bank was backstabbed by its peers. After the case aroused the attention of the industry, the remaining major banks checked their own systems, and they had the same problem!

So several big banks upgraded their own systems in a hurry, and then announced to the public that, in a serious and responsible attitude towards depositors, each bank went through a surprise self-inspection and found that this problem had been properly resolved in the previous upgrade. , The systems of several of our banks are safe, reliable, and worthy of the trust of depositors.

Now that the defendant's company couldn't run any longer, it quickly admitted its failure and upgraded its own system in the shortest possible time.

Although it was not widely reported, this matter caused a sensation in the industry. Professor Lu's record of overthrowing the entire banking industry for a penny and letting them all upgrade their systems is legendary.

With such a bigwig as the legal counsel of Xiao Juan'er, my father understands the weight of Zhou Zhi's words "willing to discuss corporate rights and interests with the government under the framework of procedural law".

The old man has been working hard all his life to promote and call for the rule of law and administration according to law, and then he is still serious, and he is still a legal authority that cannot be beaten or scolded. It has a great influence and is justified. I am afraid that this lawsuit will have to be broken again.

Up to this point, Dad can only find foreign aid: "Look, Lao Jiang, this is called hard wings..."

At this time, Zhou Zhi's pager rang, and Zhou Zhi looked at the pager: "Hey, Xin Yi is calling me, Shu Yi, did you tell her that we are back?"

Jiang Shuyi shook her head: "No?"

Zhou Zhi went to the living room and called back: "Hey Xin Yi... Well, we're back... now? It's nothing, okay, just wait for me."

Hanging up the phone, Zhou Zhi packed a bag of sweets and snacks brought back from Hong Kong Island and Beijing: "Xin Yi asked me to go to her house."

(End of this chapter)