Chapter 453 Philips and Li Jiacheng

Philips is a large company and has a lot of patents. But I guess there are not many that they are willing to take out!" Li Jiacheng smiled and looked at Tang Yu and said slowly, "Although we hold the patent of VCD, it is impossible to take the patent of Philips."

Tang Yu couldn't help nodding when he heard Deli Jiacheng's words. After all, Philips is an enterprise with nearly 100,000 valid patents! It is not a big problem to make a better DVD than VCD at their research and development level. It's just that he took advantage of the wrong direction of Philips' research and ate the VCD patent, which forced Philips to come to me to talk about cooperation.

In later generations, there has been a heated "Philips DVD patent invalidation" event, because domestic enterprises do not have the core technology of DVD, so they have to pay more than 20 dollars of patent fees to 3C and 6C alliances! If you don't pay, all products can't be listed and sold in Europe and the United States! Among them, the 6C camp is composed of Hitachi, Panasonic, JVC, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Time Warner and IBM, while the 3C camp is composed of Sony, Pioneer, Philips and LG.

An important cost of Chinese disc machine manufacturing enterprises is to pay fees to major "international patent camps". According to the list provided by the China Electronic Audio Industry Association, there is a long list of multinational enterprises and organizations that ask for DVD patent fees from China. Without its own core technology, Chinese enterprises are struggling!

The high patent fee makes China's DVD export difficult! In later generations, the annual output of DVDs in China reached 60 million units, of which 45 million to 50 million units were exported. Among them, the patent fee for each DVD is more than $20! With the thinning profits of the DVD player industry, the profits of the mainland DVD player companies are almost zero.

It is precisely because the profit of the traditional DVD export market is too low that some well-known brands have withdrawn from the traditional DVD export and turned to the export of LCD display products such as EVD LCD color TV all-in-one machine and mobile DVD.

Due to the problem of patent fees, more than 100 enterprises in the southern region, where DVD production is concentrated, had no choice but to declare bankruptcy in 2004! It should be noted that in later generations, this practice has spread from DVDs, color TVs to mobile phones, PCs and other product fields, and the whole country is facing high-risk sales without core technologies!

The whole Chinese enterprises are mourning, but no one has taken the initiative to do research and development. The biggest reason is that there is no concept of patent in China! It finally cost me a lot of money to develop something. As a result, I found that you plagiarized me, I faked you, and I couldn't get the money back from the research and development! As a result, no one is willing to spend money on research and development, and without research and development, there will be no core technology. When selling in China, you can't see any problems. Once the export is involved, it will be completely finished!

This situation continued until 2004. In 2004, two Dumb Bay disc companies and two companies had sued the "3C Alliance" led by Philips to the California Southern District Court in San Diego, suing them for violating the Sherman Act of the United States. Lawyers from the two companies claimed that they hoped that the judgment would prevent Philips from withholding goods from customs around the world due to patent fees, and would further claim 3C for at least three years of patent fees and claim three times the compensation.

This lawsuit actually won, which led to the selection of two mainland enterprises to go to the United States at the end of January 2005 to sue the "3C Alliance" led by Philips for the same reason! Although under pressure later, Philips reduced the patent fee to $3.50 per unit, it is still a profit of dozens of yuan for each unit for mainland enterprises!

In the end, the professors of Chinese colleges and universities, led by five professors, including Zhang Ping, Tao Xinliang, Shan Xiaoguang, Zhu Xuezhong and Xu Jiali, angrily appealed to the Intellectual Property Office against Philips about the validity of the alliance's DVD patents and the high license fees in China!

At that time, the situation was: At the end of 2005, Zhang Ping, a professor at the School of Intellectual Property of Peking University, took the lead in applying to the State Intellectual Property Office for a ruling that a Philips patent involving DVD was "invalid", which was called "methods of sending and receiving coded data and transmitters and receivers".

Because this disputed patent is a basic technology patent, covering a wide range and involving many products, it is very important. In January of the following year, four professors, including Tao Xinliang of Shanghai University, Shan Xiaoguang of Tongji University, Zhu Xuezhong of Zhongnan University of Economics and Political Science and Law, and Xu Jiali of China University of Political Science and Law, also applied to the State Intellectual Property Office!

After a year of wrestling, the "Five Chinese Professors v. Philips for a DVD Patent Invalidation Case" led by Zhang Ping, a professor at the School of Intellectual Property of Peking University, was finally settled.

The two parties signed a joint statement the day before yesterday: Philips promised to withdraw the disputed patent project from the patent list, and five professors withdrew their appeal. However, Philips also said that even if Philips no longer claims the patent right in China, it will not affect the patent fees charged by its "patent pool", and there is no problem of returning the previous patent fees.

By December 10, 2006, five professors, including Zhang Ping, Tao Xinliang, Shan Xiaoguang, Zhu Xuezhong and Xu Jiali, and representatives of Philips Intellectual Property Department, jointly signed a joint statement at Peking University. According to the statement, Philips has "acorded" with five professors around the patent dispute.

Philips said that in order to effectively resolve the differences, the company will withdraw the disputed patent from the patent list of its DVD patent license agreement after the joint statement is issued, and will no longer claim the patent right. Correspondingly, five professors also said that they would withdraw the request for invalidation of the Philips patent from the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office.

It can be seen that these foreign giants actually have no good intentions. I always think about how to draw our blood and eat our meat! The rigidity and ignorance of domestic enterprises have also led to the change of market opening in the later period, with heavy losses.

Tang Yu comes from a later generation. Although he doesn't know how powerful Philips is, he has a deep understanding of the misery of mainland enterprises caused by DVD! Because one of his future customers was the one who produced DVDs and was also the group of people who were forced to declare bankruptcy in 2004. That customer often cursed Philips' greed and shamelessness in front of the same person. Therefore, they also learned something about Philips DVD.

"Lieber, which gentleman Philip sent to negotiate with me this time?" Tang Yu asked softly after going through everything in his mind.

"It's Ke Cilei. He is now the Asia-Pacific Regional Manager of Philips Components." Li Jiacheng smiled and said slowly, "It's also the president of Daiwan Philips. This time, he will come forward to negotiate with you about the cooperation plan of the VCD project. To be honest, white people have always looked down on us Chinese. This time you can force Philips to negotiate with you is really a struggle for our Chinese!"

Li Jiacheng sighed deeply. He naturally knew what it was like to have no motherland when he worked hard in Xiangjiang. After all, white people are white people. Different skin colors and customs make them always intentionally or unintentionally suppressed by the Xiangjiang government in the face of other white capital. If it hadn't been for the unity of Xiangjiang's business community, it would have been scattered by the British government of Xiangjiang!

Even so, so far, no Xiangjiang enterprise has been able to enter the mainstream in Europe and the United States. The reason is simple: Xiangjiang enterprises are neither their allies, Japan and South Korea, nor their fellow Europe. Even if the Xiangjiang people with yellow skin and dark eyes work hard, no matter how high their achievements are in the eyes of white people, they will be inferior.

"Rieber, please believe me! Soon these white people will continue to lower their noble heads in front of us. Tang Yu smiled confidently and said, "We are no longer that semi-colonial and semi-feudal country. We have the right and ability to say no to them!"

Tang Yu, who comes from later generations, naturally knows that with the continuous development of the country, although there are still various social problems and class conflicts, in general, it is still upward development, and our voice is getting bigger and bigger! We have more and more opportunities to say no, and everyone will look at us!

"I believe this day will come!" Li Jiacheng took off his glasses and smiled, sighing with emotion!

"In the past, I couldn't believe that we could get Xiangjiang back from the British, but the chief did it. In the past, I couldn't believe that our company could make white people come here to negotiate for patents. You did it. Li Jiacheng put on his glasses again and looked at Tang Yusu and said, "From this point of view, you are better than us old men who seem to have made a lot of money!" It's also through you that I can believe that we will become better in the future!"

Tang Yu couldn't help blushing when he heard Li Jiacheng's words. Most of the time, he just took advantage of some memories from later generations to get to this point. It's really not like Li Jiacheng's praise, but just when he wanted to be modest, Li Jiacheng waved his hand.

"We are going to grow old after all. The world is still yours. And for young people like you, what we old people can do is to create opportunities for you as much as possible! Complete your own accumulation. Li Jiacheng looked at Tang Yu and said slowly, "Money looks like a lot, but in fact it's almost the same. At this level, it doesn't make much difference. For people like us who are half-earthed, this is what we want to leave something for future generations. After living for so many years, the wind has seen the rain. No matter how rich we are without our own country, we are just fish on other people's chopping boards.

Tang Yu couldn't help but be awe-inspiring when he heard Li Jiacheng's words! He knew that Li Jiacheng was telling the truth. In later generations, the top tycoon in Xiangjiang once said that he would take out one-third of his property for charity. And he not only said that but also did so. In 2006, he announced that he would transfer one-third of his property to the Lijiacheng Foundation.

The foundation under his name had donated more than 11.3 billion yuan by 2010, and together with the donations of Changshi Group, the total amounted 14.1 billion yuan. Among them, 47% is for education, 42% for medical care, 7% for culture, and 4% for other public welfare. 65% of regional donations are distributed in the mainland, 23% in Hong Kong, and 12% overseas.

As the richest man in Xiangjiang during the Sichuan earthquake, he made a total of four rounds of donations! The Sichuan earthquake occurred during the Buddha's Birthday holiday in Hong Kong. At that time, he could not estimate the severity of the disaster, but he immediately decided to donate 30 million yuan to the disaster area. Later, when he saw that the disaster was very serious, he decided to donate another 100 million yuan to pay all the tuition fees and part of the living expenses for all the disaster-stricken students, so that they can recover as soon as possible. Learn.

The foundation under his name installs prosthetic limbs (prosthetic limbs) assembly and provides wheelchairs free of charge for all injured victims in the Sichuan disaster area, and transports wheelchairs to Sichuan in the fastest way. He even asked the foundation to send nearly 1,000 trained prosthetic technicians to help the victims in Sichuan and assemble prosthetic limbs for the victims within two months after the disaster.

Later, in the name of the foundation, he donated 40 million yuan, Changjiang Group and Heji Huangpu Group 30 million yuan each, a total of 100 million yuan. The donation will be supported by the Ministry of Education to set up a special education fund for the disaster-stricken students (including universities, primary and secondary schools) in the area, so that the subsidized living expenses and tuition fees can be used for the future. For the continuation of further education.

As of 2010, the amount of cash, materials and projects donated by Shanli Ka Shing has reached tens of billions of yuan! Compared with Mr. This, how ashamed are the upstarts in the mainland who drive luxury cars to raise stars?!