Vol 6 Chapter 832: New routine

Cupertino, Apple headquarters. After reading a report, Cook immediately reported to Jobs, "Steve, I just got the news. Former Attorney General Michael Mukesi has arrived at NEXTDOOR with Cummins. "

Jobs, who was leaning on the sofa, sat up when he heard the words, "This shows that they will definitely move."

He thought for a while, "Tim, although I'm not sure what they will do next, I can be sure that their actions should be more than simply strengthening their ability to deal with litigation."

"Yes Steve, I feel that way too," Cook said.

It's just that, apart from that, what Feng Yiping would do, they really couldn't guess.

At the same time, Ballmer at the Redmond headquarters also got the news. He didn't pay much attention to it, because Microsoft has always had the upper hand in the siege they launched against Android.

The agreement reached with HTC last year has brought them a lot of extra income. At the same time, the negotiations with Samsung have also gone smoothly. Now they are just stuck on the offer.

Samsung recently stated that it hopes to pay them only $10 in patent fees for each phone, instead of the $15 they requested.

10 US dollars, which is actually a very good offer. Think about the overall scale of HTC, which is smaller than Samsung, and how much revenue does it bring to Microsoft?

And HTC’s patent fee for each mobile phone is only $5.

After reaching an agreement with Samsung on a patent dispute over the Android system, Ballmer felt that with these two examples, Feng Yiping would invite all the former attorney generals over, and it would be of no use.

But this news was not completely useless for him. It reminded him to try to further expand Microsoft's patent pool. After all, there will be a lot of money soon, right?

…………

After a brief meeting with Feng Yiping and Meyer, the gray-haired former Attorney General Mu Kaisi immediately entered the work position. At the executive meeting, he explained the situation of Nortel to everyone.

"We have fully grasped the details of Nortel's patents. After more than a century of accumulation, the patents held by Nortel involve all aspects of telecommunications and related markets, including Internet search and social networks."

Meyer, who was looking at the relevant information, said that Feng Yiping was right. On the whole, it is indeed the priority to acquire Nortel.

"They already have 4,489 patents. In addition, there are 963 pending patents."

Already have nearly 4,500 items, and there are nearly a thousand items to be approved. This makes Feng Yiping feel the huge gap again, envy!

Our 100-year-old stores, up to now, the rest may be mainly signs. Look at these century-old stores abroad. The essence of their 100-year-old research and development activities has been completely preserved.

Mu Kaixi mentioned another piece of data that Feng Yiping is more concerned about. "According to the exact data we have, Nortel owns 7 of the 105 core patents for 4G networks."

Because everyone knows that patents related to 4G will be the focus of the next competition.

"At present, only Nokia and Ericsson are ahead of it in this regard, and Qualcomm is at the same level as it."

"It is precisely because of the existence of these core patents that the value of the patents owned by Nortel has been greatly increased,"

"Mu Kaixi, our focus now is to maintain the security of Android," Feng Yiping said, "so, expanding our patent pool is a top priority."

The implication is that money is not a problem.

Mukaisi once again remembered who was presiding over the meeting. That was the richest person in the world. From this, he felt that this work was even less a problem.

"Okay Feng, many analysts have said that the sale of these patents is expected to bring huge income to Nortel's creditors. Although the valuations of the parties are different, some say that it is less than 1 billion US dollars, and some say that it exceeds 1.1 billion. After evaluation, it is believed that the value of this batch of patents should be between 750 million U.S. dollars and 1 billion U.S. dollars, the highest, and it will not exceed 1.5 billion U.S. dollars."

US$1.5 billion is a 30-40% premium on this basis, which is about US$2 billion. Feng Yiping feels that this is quite a bargain.

He hopes very much that he will be able to turn around and initiate patent lawsuits against Microsoft and Apple, so that he has rarely experienced the situation of being crushed and having no power to fight back, and it is particularly not a taste.

The important thing is that Android's booming momentum must not be affected by such disgusting means.

"That’s it, we will start the acquisition plan for Nortel’s patents immediately." He made a final decision. "In this way, we should be the first company to offer Nortel. Then, everyone thinks that the quotation we give should be How much is the most scientific?"

In this regard, he is still willing to solicit everyone's opinions.

Meyer was the first to comment, "Although we will be the first to offer Nortel, I think other companies, Microsoft, Apple, and other telecommunications and smartphone companies, will definitely follow up soon."

This is certain. Nortel has always held those patents in its hands before, of course, in order to sell them for a good price. Generally speaking, the more people bidding, the better the price.

"So I think, first of all, it should not be too high,"

If it is too high, it is possible to raise the purchase price for yourself.

"At the same time, in order to show sincerity, it can't be too low. Therefore, I think the $900 million offer should be very appropriate."

Feng Yiping believes that her proposal is the essence of bidding and pricing.

"I agree, then, Cummins, you will be responsible for the specific work," he arranged.

"Good Feng," Cummins agreed happily.

Objectively speaking, the work he is doing now is not much different from before. The main thing is that there is one more person who can order him to do things now.

Of course, Meyer's style is much tougher than Feng Yiping, which makes him really miss the current situation.

Seeing that it was settled, Mukesi said suddenly, "In that case, why don't we take other measures at the same time?"

Everyone looks at him, other means? Cummins felt that this was not necessary at all, and there was no company that Feng Yiping was interested in.

"I think this situation is very suitable for fake horse bidding," Mukesi said.

Feng Yiping's eyes also brightened. StalkingHorseBid, translated, is fake horse bidding, stalking horses, etc. Specifically, it is the initial public bidding and acquisition action proposed by the buyer selected by the company applying for bankruptcy protection.

The effect of this move is, firstly, it can attract more potential buyers to offer competitive purchase prices; secondly, this kind of bidding method can prevent bankrupt companies from being forced to accept lower bids, because the rules require all buyers to only Increase the price upwards.

"I think Nortel should be very happy that we propose a fake horse bid to them, and the proposal of such a bid can also bring us some additional benefits~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They have set a price of 900 million US dollars. In accordance with the general practice of fake horse bidding, others must bid more than 900 million US dollars, and if the final price exceeds 900 million US dollars, Nortel should return some fees to them.

This fee, which some people translate as a break-up fee, is equivalent to compensation for the buyers they choose.

At the same time, if there is no higher bid by the agreed deadline for bidding, then this batch of patents will be sold to them at a price of 900 million US dollars.

Feng Yiping nodded immediately, "This proposal is great!"

He doesn't want to get the break-up fee, but if the situation is too bad and the acquisition fails, it can be credited to the account, and it can be considered as being able to talk. If this proposal can be implemented, it can be regarded as creating some unique advantages for them.

Can it be implemented? The answer is of course yes, Feng Yiping, even if he is rich and famous, for Nortel, such an opportunity is also a rare opportunity.

But Feng Yiping is more than satisfied, "Since all of us can foresee that this will be a fierce bidding, then we will simply make things bigger and muddy the water."

Meyer looked at him immediately, "You mean..."

"Yes, we can initiate fake horse bidding to other objects at the same time, such as Motorola or even BlackBerry,"

Nokia, I can't worry about it for the time being, people can be regarded as a skinny camel bigger than a horse.

And they initiated fake horse bidding to at least three targets at the same time. While putting themselves in an advantageous position, they would undoubtedly disrupt the sight of some opponents. At the same time, they could also provoke a battle between opponents who have faintly become an alliance...

"I agree," Mayer said immediately.

"I agree too," "I agree too,"...