MTL - Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981-Chapter 963 patent troll

  Chapter 963 Patent Trolls

After coming out of the Shouxiang Mansion, Yang Chen glanced at the entire Shouxiang Mansion from the outside before getting into the car. With a gust of cold wind blowing by, his body shivered subconsciously. He didn't have the mood to take another look. He turned around and got into the car, and went straight. left.

   Having a brief talk with Nakasone, Yang Chen had some bottom line in his heart, without the involvement of the island country government, things would be much easier to handle.

   Yang Chen will accompany them one by one to see who wins and who loses in the end. It’s true that the island country is the territory of several major consortiums, but it’s not a tiger or lion, but a dragon crossing the river.

  Although Qianglong does not oppress the local snake, if the local snake must do things, then he is not easy to bully.

   What's more, he is not fighting alone. Now that international capital has gradually entered the market of the island country, Yang Chen and these forces have the same goals, and he can take advantage of the situation.

   Now even Nakasone is under pressure from all sides, so he has to call him to the first Xiang mansion, and reach an agreement in private, what is there to be afraid of among the major financial groups.

   With the support of several major consortia in the United States, he has stabilized this wave.

   Back to the hotel

   Yuan Tianfan, who hasn't shown up for a long time, is here

"boss"

   "Tianfan, have the affairs in the US been settled?"

  Yuan Tianfan said, "It has been dealt with. Except for the small part of the company you mentioned, boss, the other stocks we acquired before have all been emptied."

   "Okay, hard work." Yang Chen nodded with satisfaction.

   The financial crisis is about to come, Yang Chen doesn't want to accompany the United States to be unlucky next, not only in the US stock market, but also in other stock markets, Yang Chen's stocks can be thrown away.

   Except for a small number of companies with huge potential, Yang Chen was afraid that after throwing it out, he wouldn't be able to get it back, so he kept it in his hand, and everything else was replaced by cash and kept in his hand.

  In the United States, he exchanged all US dollars for Japanese yen, and in Europe, he exchanged all currencies such as British pounds for German marks.

   The series of actions of the Yang Consortium are all carried out quietly, but there is no wall in the world that does not leak. Those who should know now already know it.

   Many people have smelled something unusual from the actions of the Yang Consortium, but market changes and trends are not predictable by everyone, let alone someone like Yang Chen who can know the exact time.

   Small financial crises, regional financial crises may be controllable and predictable, but global financial crises like the 1987, even Wall Street cannot control and predict.

   Before the stock market crash, many people felt that something was wrong, but most people thought that they would not be the last to exit.

   There are too many people who are lucky.

   The Yang consortium focused on island countries and Germany, and did not completely withdraw from the market. It was only a strategic shift, not a direct exit, which further promoted people's luck.

   In addition to selling off the stocks in his hands, Yang Chen also asked his group companies to take loans from major international capital banks. The major group companies can borrow as much as they can, anyway, it is to maximize the amount of cash in hand.

  In a capital society, cash is king.

   Later generations Li Chaoren used this trick with perfection. Not only did he survive the crisis repeatedly, but also in the crisis, with the large amount of cash he had gathered in advance, he took advantage of the situation to expand the scale of his industry.

   Yang Chen is also going to learn about Li Chaoren and taste the sweetness of it. Of course, his movements are much bigger than Li Chaoren, and the two are completely incomparable.

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   "That's right, boss"

   "I also bring you good news this time."

   "Oh?" Yang Chen looked at Yuan Tianfan in surprise, and asked, "What good news?"

   Yuan Tianfan removed a document from his briefcase, handed it to Yang Chen, and said mysteriously, "Boss, you'll know after reading this."

"It's so mysterious" Yang Chen opened the folder with a bit of curiosity. When he took out the files in the folder, he found that it turned out to be a share contract. After reading the contents, he was stunned, because he saw a Companies that got him very, very interested.

   Qualcomm, the absolute hegemon in the field of communications in future generations, even Apple, with its nostrils upturned, has to succumb to its feet.

   Qualcomm, as a mobile phone manufacturer, equipment manufacturer and operator, makes the entire communication industry love and hate.

Love the CDMA communication technology created by Qualcomm and its excellent Snapdragon mobile phone chips, so that the entire communication industry has a unified standard, but everyone hates it too, because of CDMA patents and Snapdragon chips (SOC + baseband chip) ) are firmly in the hands of Qualcomm, so most mobile phone manufacturers need to look at Qualcomm's face to eat.

   In later generations, there are three levels for the division of enterprises.

  Three-rate companies make products

  The second-class enterprise makes the brand

  First-class enterprise as standard

  Many well-known mobile phone companies we are familiar with in later generations belong to second-class companies. Before 5G did not appear, even Huawei was considered a second-class company, and Qualcomm set the standards of the communication industry, and it belonged to first-class.

   The most direct, simple and rude way of Gaotong in later generations has shown people what it means to make money by lying down.

  To talk about technology research and development, it is understandable to charge a little patent fee.

   However, many companies own patents, and their charging standards are based on the number of patents. Whoever uses their own patents will be charged according to the accessories that require patents.

But Qualcomm is different. It takes a fixed fee based on the price of the product. For example, if a mobile phone sells for 100 yuan, then Qualcomm will take 3 to 8 yuan for the patent fee, according to 3% to 8%. Proportional draw.

  The higher the product price, the higher the patent fee. If you sell a mobile phone for 1,000 yuan, then Qualcomm will give you an average of 50 yuan in the patent fee.

   In this way, everyone will be hurt.

Especially after the emergence of smartphones, as the functions of mobile phones continue to increase, various accessories are getting better and more expensive, and the cost price of the whole machine continues to increase. According to Qualcomm's patent ratio, it will hurt everyone to change .

   After all, not everyone is like Apple. Mobile phones are expensive, and some people pay for them. Many mobile phone companies in later generations want to occupy the market and increase sales. They must fight price wars.

   The profit of mobile phones is low, and Qualcomm’s patent fees are still so high, everyone is definitely not happy.

  Although unhappy and painful, no one can get around it, because Qualcomm's patents are too important for mobile phone manufacturers.

   Of course, although Qualcomm charges a high rogue tax, it does not fail to bring benefits to a number of mobile phone manufacturers.

  Although Qualcomm is a veritable hooligan leader, but the society is my brother, and it is still very moral.

  Qualcomm will sign an anti-licensing agreement with other mobile phone manufacturers before cooperating with other mobile phone manufacturers.

   This agreement is very simple, that is, for all mobile phone manufacturers that cooperate with Qualcomm, Qualcomm can let other mobile phone manufacturers using Qualcomm chips use the patents they invented for free.

   means that as long as you pay Qualcomm a protection fee, other companies that cooperate with Qualcomm can use their patents as you like, without infringement, and others can’t trouble you.

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   (end of this chapter)