Rebirth of the Wild Age

The Beijing R&D Center of China Technology has moved to a newly renovated office building.

Since last year, Zhongguancun has continued to have office buildings completed, and real estate has become one of the most profitable industries in Zhongguancun.

Song Weiyang first visited the EDA laboratory that was just built but not yet officially put into use.

As a result, as soon as I walked in, I saw several researchers playing minesweeping games, and Liu Qiang, who was accompanying the tour, suddenly turned so dark that he could drip ink.

Liu Qiang is no longer involved in specific research and development work, and is mainly responsible for project-level control. He does nothing, but he needs to check everything.

"Ahem," Liu Qiang coughed twice, "The chairman is here to visit everyone. Also, turn off the game and play minesweeper during working hours. What a decent way!"

"Hello, Chairman!"

The researchers got up to greet, and then stared at Song Weiyang, obviously very curious about their chairman.

Today’s head of the laboratory is a pimple-faced young man. He quickly explained: “The EDA laboratory is doing the final test. The test will take some time, so everyone will play minesweeper and relax. If the chairman and Liu Gong have Opinion, then we won't play anymore."

Song Weiyang smiled and said: "It's okay, work and rest, as long as it doesn't delay normal work. It's all young people, I understand."

"Long live the chairman!"

A large group of technical houses suddenly cheered, feeling that their chairman is very kind, and then smiled and ran to chat with Song Weiyang.

After staying in the EDA laboratory for a while, Song Weiyang visited other project teams again, and finally returned to the office to talk about the idea of ​​developing a USB flash drive and asked: "It's not technically difficult, right?"

Liu Qiang suddenly became excited: "Of course it is not difficult. The USB interface technology is readily available, and the flash memory technology is also readily available. We only need to develop a docking communication control program under the USB interface technology file and the flash memory interface technology file. This is a genius. The idea is that with this kind of mobile flash drive, it can greatly facilitate the mobile storage of data, and it can be popular all over the world! Chairman, who came up with this idea?"

Song Weiyang said: "I think floppy disks are inconvenient to use, so I want to make a more convenient storage device."

"The chairman is the chairman, you can think of this." Liu Qiang smiled and flattered.

Song Weiyang said: "You just said that both the USB interface patent and the flash memory technology patent are available, so what other patents can we apply for?"

Liu Qiang said: "This is the patent for this USB memory."

"That is to say, there is no patent with much difficulty?" Song Weiyang asked.

"It's not difficult. I guess it can be done within one month by calling a few technicians," Liu Qiang said happily. "The key to this patent is not the technical difficulty, but the idea, which is equivalent to piercing a layer of window paper! "

"Well, the future patent lawsuits are going to be fought." Song Weiyang said speechlessly.

Historically, the company that invented the USB flash drive was Shenzhen Netac. In the case of several foreign companies competing for patents, Netac was recognized by China and the US Patent Office successively, and its status as an inventor is beyond doubt.

The industry has a joke to Netac, saying that this company started out by patent research and development, but also relied on patent lawsuits to survive.

Until 2018, few people used USB flash drives, and Huaqiangbei's sellers could only make 1 yuan for selling a USB flash drive. However, Netac's U disk-related patent revenue this year still has more than 36 million, and its annual profit is only more than 60 million. U disk patents account for more than half of the company's annual profit.

Anyway, as long as there is no money to use, Netac will find someone to fight a patent lawsuit, and can always get a sum of money to make do with it.

It is a pity that this company used to have a great position in China's high-tech industry, but until 2018, it was still eating its patent at the end of 1999. Moreover, the U disk patent will expire at the end of 2019. It is estimated that Netac will die miserably without patent income.

Netac died of internal friction.

Before going public, entrepreneurs can work together. After listing, contradictions broke out instantly.

In the four years since Netac went public, a total of 76 board meetings were opposed or abstained, and 14 shareholder meetings were opposed or abstained. This is very rare in A shares.

The two inventors of the USB flash drive were once intimate, and after the company went public, they broke down each other. You are against me, and I am against you. The work can't be carried out at all. They had sufficient funds at the time. As long as they found a suitable project, they could occupy a place in China's technology industry.

After understanding the technical difficulty of the U disk, Song Weiyang immediately decided to do two things: apply for a technology patent as soon as possible, and immediately set up the company's legal department.

Like this kind of products that have no technical barriers and sell well, there will definitely be countless manufacturers following the trend. And no matter whether you are domestic or foreign, you will not voluntarily pay you royalties, you have to surrender the whole family. If manufacturers all over the world are very conscious, Netac, who holds the U disk patent, would have been lying down and counting money.

Song Weiyang suddenly asked: "Do you need a chip to make this flash drive?"

Liu Qiang nodded and said, "We really need a chip."

Song Weiyang suddenly had an idea: "We develop the chip ourselves, and then use this chip with other components to make the movement. In the future, the main business will be the movement."

"Why don't you make your own USB flash drive?" Liu Qiang asked puzzled.

Song Weiyang said: “Of course we have to make our own USB flash drives. Um, this thing is called a USB flash drive. However, there must be many copycat manufacturers in China. It is too troublesome to file a lawsuit one by one. Assemble them and directly control their supply and scale. Of course, the lawsuit will definitely be fought, and those who don’t want to pay the patent fee will sue! You hurry up to develop the technology, and we will apply for the patent as quickly as possible.”

"No problem, there will be results in one month!" Liu Qiang said with a pack of votes.

In fact, it takes time to apply for a patent.

Netac was successfully developed in the summer of 1999 and immediately went to apply for a patent. It was not approved by the China Intellectual Property Office until 2002, and it was not approved by the U.S. Patent Office until 2004. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com's five-year international patent blank period has caused Netac to suffer heavy losses. It can only find a few of the largest foreign companies to settle accounts after the autumn, and most of the infringing companies are at large.

Song Weiyang's idea is to make the movement and sell it to domestic manufacturers, and ask Wanwan enterprises to sell it to overseas manufacturers. Leaving aside the issue of patent fees, when the patent application on the Chinese side is filed, we will immediately start collecting the account. If you don’t have any money, you can sell out directly, at least it can mess up the business of unruly guys for a while.

This is a very operational idea, because Shenzhou Technology is the first company in the world to make U disks, and the manufacturing costs of movements in mainland China and curved are very low. How do domestic and foreign manufacturers make U disks, they must first find China Technology to order, which can save a lot of cost.

After developing some domestic and foreign manufacturers into cooperative partners, they can even charge less or no patent fees, and then contact the cooperative manufacturers to sue their competitors for infringement.

Those who gain the way help more, those who lose the way help few.

The way to do business is profit.

By then, China Science and Technology will not be fighting alone, but there will be cooperative manufacturers who will take the initiative to help with the lawsuit-for them, the more competitors die, the better.

Of course, the premise is to obtain a patent as soon as possible.

In China, Academician Ni is still very well-connected, and Song Weiyang can also spend money to ask other people for help. As long as the regulations are not violated, the patent review time can certainly be greatly reduced, at least not being delayed for three years like Netac.

In the United States, aren’t there many Wall Street venture capital firms that want to invest in Google?

The time for negotiation has arrived, so add another condition and ask them to help urge the US Patent Office.

This is how you should do business. Netac is really struggling to do so. If you are silly and file a lawsuit, you have to fight until the year of the monkey.

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