Chapter 224 Borrowing Card

"500,000 dollars?" After Matthew and Arthur heard the offer, they were stunned.

This is indeed a very tempting offer.

Their first reaction is how much they can get according to the shares.

Then he realized that the other party had been disdainful of the SAM company before. Why did he pay so much money to buy it?

Soon, they got the point. They didn't buy SAM. After all, the company was just established, and there was nothing to buy. What Texas Instruments really bought is the agreement of STONE.

"The agreement is private by STONE, and there is no saying that it is bundled and sold together." Arthur first raised this question.

"Compression is right." Matthew also nodded and said, "But even if they can come up with a better price, I don't think they should sell SAM like this."

Torch couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he heard their words. He didn't expect that Matthew would not agree to sell the company.

"However, I think this result is the most ideal. If they do not agree with their acquisition, they may sue in court, and our company will face a copyright lawsuit."

Torch is more inclined to sell the company and sell it at such a price. Of course, he knows that Lin Hong's infrared transmission protocol accounts for a large proportion, but from the current situation, SAM company can't sell it. He has read the legal document and feels that once it goes to court, SAM will lose. It is more likely.

What's more, when he quit his job, he is naturally optimistic about the potential of SAM company. Now that there is such a good opportunity in front of him, it is natural to seize it.

"STONE, what do you think?" The torch looked at Lin Hong with an inquiring look, and his opinion was the most important.

"I'll talk to them first."

Lin Hong did not make a direct statement, but went to the meeting area and talked to the two people of Texas Instruments for a while.

It is not the first time that he has faced such an acquisition. At least he has some experience.

As Matthew said, this Diana is very arrogant and always talks to herself with a high-level attitude. Lin Hong doesn't like her very much.

Diana's meaning is obvious. She thinks that if Texas Instruments does not sue SAM, Lin Hong and others are going to worship Buddha and burn incense. What's more, they are willing to pay up to 500,000 US dollars to make an acquisition, in order to be better in name.

Diana has dealt with many similar infringement cases. Usually, it is business and asks the other party to stop the infringement in the name of the law.

But this case seems to be a little special. After all, SAM is a student start-up company. The society has a supportive and encouraging attitude towards this type of company. If Texas Instruments sues such a company, it will have a very bad impact on their company. At least they will wear the hat of "bullying the small with the big".

However, Diana is experienced and naturally knows how to deal with such things, so she has formulated a complete plan in detail and is confident that she can complete the tasks assigned by her boss.

At the beginning, the whole thing went smoothly in the direction she expected, but what she didn't expect was that there was a small accident in the middle - the ownership of the infrared transmission protocol that the boss attaches most importance to was not in the hands of SAM company, but to the private person, that is, the fourteen or fifteen-year-old in front of A kind of Asian teenager.

In order to let the teenager figure out the current situation of her company, she explained the accompanying lawyer to the other party again, and then asked the other party to give a clear answer immediately.

"I'm sorry." Lin Hong really can't stand the other party's semi-threatening way of negotiating, and he doesn't want to talk to her. "I can give you an answer now. I don't plan to sell the infrared wireless patent for the time being."

Diana, who just looked confident, couldn't help but change her face after hearing Lin Hong's words.

"I hope you don't make decisions easily."

"This is the result of my serious thinking. Miss Diana, if you want to take SAM to court, please do so. However, I want to remind you that SAM has never been a very profitable company. I don't think you want to apply for a compensation from our company, do you? SAM's main business is currently mainly a CDAD device, which is the equipment invented by ourselves and has been patented. If it involves infringement, this is the SAM Association or my personal behavior.

As far as I know, there has been no judgment in similar cases in the legal history of the United States. My original intention to crack the calculator is not to make a profit, but purely for technical research or interest.

After saying that, Lin Hong threw the documents in his hand on the coffee table.

Lawyers Reese and Diana looked at each other and saw the surprise.

What Lin Hong said, in fact, they have known for a long time that this is also the key to this case.

I don't know whether they have been instructed by a superior person for a long time or a blind cat has met a dead mouse. The SAM company is involved in things that may violate the law, and it is all done by the SAM Association. The SAM Association itself is a non-profit organization, and it makes no sense to sue the association.

They deliberately equated the concepts of SAM Association and SAM. This strategy is indeed effective for the rest of SAM, but they didn't expect this little trick to be completely seen through by the extremely calm teenager in front of them.

When Diana heard the words, she patted her hands gently and praised, "Awesome, it's really worthy of being the core figure of SAM. Mr. Lin, please forgive me if I have offended you before. You know, these behaviors are normal in the business field, aren't they?

When Diana saw that Plan A was no longer working, she immediately chose Plan B. Previously, it was as if it had never happened.

Moreover, Diana's attitude also made a 180-degree turn, and she immediately became polite and understanding, and her smile covered her face.

Her face-changing stunt surprised Lin Hong.

He found that the way he used his intuition to perceive the other party's emotions was biased for the first time. Just now, the other party's performance completely deceived him. What he said before was the result of his discussion with Phylce, not to find out the inner [true] thoughts of the other party.

Lin Hong suddenly felt that the woman in front of him was very horrible. The other party's acting skills were so superb that even she deceived herself and completely replaced her.

"Women's heart, undersea needle." The ancients were really right, Lin Hong sighed in his heart.

Diana wanted to continue to talk with Lin Hong and formally proposed to him the plan to acquire his infrared wireless agreement, but Lin Hong was no longer in the mood to talk to her, saying that she still had something to talk about later.

Diana returned in no success this time, but before she left, she formally apologized to Matthew and others, and soon won their forgiveness, as if she had forgotten that the other party had wanted to sue them in court.

This woman's communication method simply made Lin Hong amazed.

Before Diana left, she reiterated the idea that Texas Instruments wanted to acquire SAM and Lin Hong's infrared agreement patents, so that they could figure it out before calling her.

For SAM, she proposed a second acquisition plan. The price remains unchanged and can not include infrared agreement patents, but it must include the SAM Association and all current core members.

The intention of Texas Instruments is obvious. They want to integrate the SAM Association and control it under their own jurisdiction in order to better serve the company's products.

As for Lin Hong's infrared agreement patent, Diana did not make an offer. She just asked Lin Hong to call her when she figured it out, just saying that Texas Instruments would definitely not let him down.

For money, the more the better. Lin Hong thought for a moment and decided not to come forward by himself and let the professionals do it. Later, Tophelias will help him find an agent.

The matter of the SAM Association can't be decided for a while. Some people are in favor of it and others are against it. Let's put it down for the time being and talk about it later.

Because the litigation crisis has dissipated invisibly, the commissioned processing plan of the CDAD device continues to be put on the agenda. The torch began to call and contact the factory. There have been a lot of orders in hand. If the production is not carried out, it is estimated that those users will curse.

After this matter came to an end, Lin Hong remembered his plan for today, so he and Arthur went to downtown Boston to buy books.

However, when he was disappointed, he only bought basic books about computer networks in the bookstore, but he could not find books related to the POSIX standard.

Lin Hong also asked the owner of the bookstore, who didn't even know what POSIX was.

Arthur has never heard of this standard. When he heard Lin Hong that it was related to Unix, he said that he would help his father inquire about it at night.

"POSIX standard?" When Arthur asked about Orlando, he was obviously surprised. "Why did you suddenly ask this?"

"It's STONE who is looking for this information. He has been studying UNIX recently, you know." Arthur said casually.

"STONE, it seems that your study has been very deep. It's really good!" Orlando can't help but praise that ordinary people don't know the existence of this standard, and only industry insiders will be involved.

"I also learned this standard from my friends, and I just used it as a reference."

"These materials can't be found anywhere else, but the MIT Library has two sets of books."

"Really?" Lin Hong was so happy that after searching for so long, he finally knew where the set of books was available.

"Of course. I borrowed it when I was doing research. Orlando paused for a moment and continued, "Well, I'll go to the school library tomorrow to handle a loan procedure for you, so that you can go directly to the MIT library for any books you want, which is a big treasure."

"Great!" Lin Hong's mood at this moment can only be described as a surprise, "UNCLE, thank you so much!"

"Hehe, no need. I think if you apply for MIT after graduating from high school, there should be no problem.

Lin Hong's excellence, Wei Na and he both see that this exchange student from [China] is the best among the so many students they have ever received.