Chapter 1003 Inescapable Patent Threshold

Sunday.

In the morning, Xu Baihui called and said that Liu Yufei wanted to invite Zhou Buqi to dinner to express her gratitude.

Zhou Buqi was a little angry, feeling that he had become a prey in the eyes of others.

Also refused.

Now that you have decided, you must be firm in your will.

Boss Zhou is not only rich and not promiscuous, but also beautiful women!

At noon, Zhou Buqi played a game with some colleagues in Beili. He performed very well and scored two goals.

Then, he rejected the invitation of his colleagues to have a dinner together and left with cheerleader Wu Yu. In the evening there is still entertainment, and I want to have a dinner with the crew of "Red Cliff".

"Hey, a smell of sweat!"

After getting in the car, Wu Yu moved aside, avoiding him with disgust.

Zhou Buqi snorted, "What's wrong with the smell of sweat? It's all sweat. You hate the sweat from playing football, but you enjoy the sweat from the bed. I think you're schizophrenic, right?"

Wu Yu grinned, "That's different."

Zhou Buqi took off his sneakers and felt that he was covering his feet. He asked casually, "By the way, have you decided on the name of the blind box company?"

"Come on, it's called Chaowan Commune."

"Oh, that's alright."

"I'm going to register next week. That...um...husband, how will the company's equity be divided? How much is the registered capital?"

Zhou Buqi said: "10 million, there is no need for more. You know how to register a company?"

Wu Yu said tenderly: "There's nothing wrong with this, I have men. That's...husband, can you send Sister Linlin to me?"

Zhou Buqi glanced at her, "What's wrong?"

Wu Yu said awkwardly: "I'm inexperienced, I'm a little scared. I have to recruit employees, and I have to contact design companies and foundries. I haven't contacted them before."

Zhou Buqi pondered for a while.

Wu Yu said: "Sister Linlin said that you have long looked down on her and want to drive her away from Ziweixing."

Zhou Buqi said unhappily: "Nonsense! It's just that Ziweixing's business is on the right track now, and all rules and regulations must be strictly enforced. Husband and wife cannot work at the same time."

Another reason is that Shi Jinglin is too strong, whether it is He Yang or Xu Liangjie, if they don't like it, they will complain. In terms of business structure, she needs to report to Zhang Yiming, but she is a big devil, and Zhang Yiming dare not breathe when talking to her, for fear of offending her.

This has disturbed the order of the company a bit.

Her personality is not suitable for being a subordinate, but more suitable for being a boss.

Wu Yu whispered: "I asked her, and she said to listen to you."

Zhou Buqi glanced at her, "What do you think?"

Wu Yu said with great anticipation: "Make a blind box with me, with her here, I won't be afraid!"

Zhou Buqi reminded: "If she goes, she will have to be the boss, and you can only be the deputy."

Wu Yu said generously: "It should be, she is better than me, so she should be the boss. The shares of the new company will be half of our family... Well, husband, why don't you take half? Linlin and I Sister will take half of it."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "This is a small business, you two go tinkering with it."

He was thinking of something else.

Although Shi Jinglin is his own woman, she is extremely ambitious and refuses to accept anyone. Although she is a wage earner in Ziwei Star, she is the president of the school business group and an executive of M7.

Let her leave Ziweixing to make a blind box, somewhat wronged.

This is not acceptable.

I have to find a way to make up for her psychological gap, lest she play a petty temper.

Wu Yu stretched her waist, showing the amazing arc, very happy, feeling that with the help of sister Linlin, the blind box business will definitely be able to start, "By the way, I asked many friends, and they all said I can't do this!"

"What doesn't work?"

"Blind box! They all think that this business can't go on, there is no way out, and no one is optimistic about it."

"Leave them alone."

Zhou Buqi snorted.

Wu Yu sat upright, and said old-fashionedly: "How can that be done? As the boss, we have to accept advice with an open mind."

Zhou Buqi was angry and funny, "Are you so proud?"

"Hee hee." Wu Yu smiled brightly, moved his position, leaned over, and took his arm, "I think the blind box business will definitely work, the gashapon is so fun, it's like a lottery, I don't know them Why not look good."

Zhou Buqi said indifferently: "In this world, 99% of people are mediocre, and only 1% of people can lead this era. This also explains a truth, there are 99% of the power in this world to make you mediocre. If you want to be one of those 1%, you are doomed to be lonely.”

Wu Yu said: "Well, the loneliness that is hard to find with a confidant."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Yes, senior sister Wu, the ability to summarize is very strong."

Wu Yu raised her fair chin, rolled her big eyes, and snorted softly, "Husband, you have to hurry up. I'm going to Japan to find Masaoko, and let him do model design for our blind box figures. What if If it is delayed, it will not be able to catch up with the release of "Red Cliff" in Japan."

Zhou Buqi said: "Well, I will have dinner with the crew of "Red Cliff" tonight, and I will go to Japan in a few days, and I will be introduced by Mr. Han of China Film Group to cooperate with the Japanese distributor. With this relationship, contact Zhengzi It is also convenient for the public. He has drawn the illustrations of the characters of the Three Kingdoms, which is the most complicated link. With the drawings, the next step is simple. "Red Cliff" will be released in Japan in November, and there is still more than half a year left. Enough time."

...

In the evening, the entertainment came as scheduled.

They said they were having dinner with the crew of "Red Cliff", but Han Sanye of China Film Group, Wang Xiaojun of Huayi, Xu Baihui of Jieyu Media, and Boss Zhou all went, and ordinary main creators were not eligible to enter.

Well, this is not absolute.

Actors are not eligible.

Actresses can still enter.

In this kind of dinner, you have to sit alternately, that is, there must be a lady sitting between the two men, either to chat with you, or to be in charge of pouring wine. That's what actresses do.

Zhou Buqi answered a phone call temporarily.

Just didn't enter the arena first.

Now the corridor is calling, it is Zhou Shaoning who is in charge of the mobile phone business.

"Temporary changes!"

"What's the meaning?"

"good news!"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "There is good news and you still have to keep it? What good news?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "Our mobile phones are sold out!"

"What?" Zhou Buqi was stunned for a moment, before he could react, "Aster mobile phone? 100,000 units? No, didn't you say that this mobile phone will not be released until the end of October at the earliest?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "The sales routine in the United States is very mature. The scheduled release date is October 20, but this is the world's first Android phone, and Google attaches great importance to it. It has given a full six months of pre-marketing time to avoid In the future, mobile phones will not be recognized by the market after they go on the market.”

Zhou Buqi was surprised: "You mean...Google has already started marketing in the United States? The operator has received a large number of orders, more than 100,000 mobile phones?"

Zhou Shaoning smiled and said: "Yes! That's what it means! According to the operator's feedback, the order volume they have received in their hands has exceeded 220,000 units. This is just the beginning! According to their estimates, this mobile phone, let alone 10 There are 10,000 units, even 1 million units may not be able to stop it! This situation is even hotter than when the iPhone was released."

Zhou Buqi didn't think it was strange, "That's for sure, how can Apple compare with Google. Google is a belief, and Apple is at most a manufacturer...Of course, the iPhone is so good. Once this product comes out, Apple and Google The status may be swapped within a few years."

Zhou Shaoning was very excited and said with emotion: "I believe everything you say now, so wise! To be honest, when you first said that you would cooperate with Google to develop Android mobile phones, I was very skeptical. Google is completely a mobile phone layman. .The current market feedback is enough to explain the great success of this cooperation."

Zhou Buqi said confidently: "This is just the beginning. With Google's thigh, Ziweixing Electronics Group can become the world's second largest mobile phone manufacturer!"

"The second largest?" Zhou Shaoning was shocked, "Can it beat Motorola? Is it possible?"

"Well……"

Zhou Buqi was speechless, not knowing what to say.

In Zhou Shaoning's impression, Nokia is number one in the world, and Motorola is number two in the world. These are unshakable giants in the mobile phone industry. But Zhou Buqi didn't have these two manufacturers in his mind.

The first is Apple!

The second should be Ziweixing!

Ziweixing replaced the position that HTC should have been in the previous life.

Thinking of HTC, Zhou Buqi immediately became sensitive, his thoughts became serious, and he said in a deep voice: "Old Zhou, you have to be prepared. If Aster is just a small mobile phone manufacturer, it will be fine. If the sales increase sharply, it will inevitably It attracts patent trolls. I heard that there are many shell companies in the United States that do not engage in production, but go to court every day and keep collecting intellectual property fees.”

Zhou Shaoning said with a smile: "We have already paid the patent fee of 60 US dollars."

A mobile phone with a price of 400-500 US dollars, the patent fee is 60 US dollars.

Can kill a person.

But this is just the beginning, nothing at all.

The $60 patent fee is just a patent in the era of functional phones.

The patent system in the era of smart phones has not yet been established. This business also has a patent fee of 60 US dollars. For example, several patents of the biggest Wi-Fi technology cost $40 per mobile phone.

Add it all up to $120.

That's faster than a printing press can print money.

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "The current patents are mainly aimed at the patents contained in traditional functional phones. We are making smart phones. Who is the big owner of smart phones?"

Zhou Shaoning was stunned for a moment, and lost his voice: "You mean... Apple?"

Zhou Buqi said: "This is for sure. The iPhone is a legendary product and represents the mainstream direction of smart phones in the future. This means that all smart phones have to pay various patent fees to Apple. Unless you give up American market."

This is not alarmist talk.

Both BlackBerry and HTC were sued by Apple for their smart phone patents, lost the US market, and quickly fell from the altar. Huawei, OV, Xiaomi and other mobile phones are hindered from entering the US market, and patent fees cannot be overcome.

Only Samsung survived.

Because Samsung is an established mobile phone manufacturer with a high level of technology, it holds a large number of mobile phone patents in the feature phone era. These patents, smartphones can't get over it.

In other words, Samsung has infringed on Apple's smartphone patents, and Apple has infringed on Samsung's feature phone patents. Samsung paid a sum of the patent fee difference, and the matter is over, and there is no need to suffer the penalty of banning sales.

Since then, there have been only two mainstream phones in the U.S. market: Apple and Samsung. It is difficult for other mobile phone brands to cooperate with operators, and they are basically dead.

Ziweixing's mobile phone business is similar to that of Blackberry and HTC. The time is too short and there is no background, and it lacks patents. And without Google's deep pockets, it can spend tens of billions of dollars to acquire Motorola.

If a copyright lawsuit is filed in the future, it will be very disadvantageous.

It is not reconciled to withdraw from the US market and only focus on the Asian and European markets like Huawei and Xiaomi.

Fortunately, Zhou Buqi has some foresight advantages, and quickly developed some amazing designs of the iPhone in the next few years, and applied for patents.

The technical level of many patents is not high, and they are purely creative patents, which are easy to obtain.

Well, first buy the domestic trademark of the iPad!

It is best to go to Europe, Korea, Japan, India, the Middle East, South America and Southeast Asia, and register the iPad trademark in advance.

There are also iwatches and AirPods.

Isn't it just playing hooligans, who doesn't seem to know it.