Chapter 31: Infringement Lawsuit
“Ma Gaosheng! Still sleeping?”
“Ye Zong! I’m not asleep. Tell me if there’s something.”
The caller was none other than Vice President Ye Hongzhi from Deli Electric Power Headquarters, a man who had promoted him, and Ma Gaosheng had always maintained utmost respect in front of him.
“Oh, I thought you still had the mind to sleep.”
“Ye Zong? Um, I’m really sorry, did I do something wrong? Just tell me straight, I’m your soldier, criticize me if needed, I’ll humbly accept it.”
“No no no, I wouldn’t dare criticize you. Open the San Xin Group official website and take a look yourself.”
Ye Hongzhi on the other end of the phone said this without a trace of emotion and then hung up.
Ma Gaosheng sat on the bed, racking his brains recalling everything he had done during this time, but couldn’t think of anywhere he had overstepped and offended this old boss.
If there was any, it would be…
At this thought, he shivered all over, quickly got up and ran to the study.
‘Ouch!’
Perhaps woken up in the middle of the night, his body hadn’t recovered yet, and running too suddenly, Ma Gaosheng rubbed his waist and cried out in pain.
Holding his waist, he entered the study and turned on the computer. Without even taking a sip of water, Ma Gaosheng opened the computer and pulled up the San Xin official website.
In the news section on the bottom left.
‘Congratulations to Xingyun Manufacturing for the world’s first high-voltage radio fully automatic smart factory successfully passing acceptance.’
‘Our company will reach cooperation with Xinghai Technology in related domains.’
Ma Gaosheng tremblingly reached out his hand, clicked into the first link, and after reading each item carefully, his face couldn’t help but turn slightly pale.
Then he took a deep breath and opened the second link.
In the study, the lights stayed on all night.
Ma Wei got up early in the morning, finished washing up, and was surprised to see his father’s room door open. He looked inside but didn’t see his father.
Since childhood, his mother had left them, and he and his father had depended on each other for so many years, so he still cared about his father deep down.
He shouted ‘Dad’ a few times at the top of his lungs but got no response.
Seeing the study door slightly ajar not far away, Ma Wei curiously walked up and gently pushed it open.
“Dad, Dad! What’s wrong with you?”
In the study, Ma Gaosheng suddenly woke up startled, laboriously turned his head to look toward the door, and at this moment, for some reason, he felt his vision was somewhat blurry.
Ma Gaosheng’s face was extremely pale.
He reached out his hand and weakly pointed to the cabinet. Ma Wei understood immediately and hurriedly poured out the quick-acting heart-saving pills from the cabinet, feeding two to his father in succession.
After a long time, Ma Gaosheng’s complexion gradually improved.
His gaze was somewhat cloudy, silent for a long time. Looking at his son’s worried eyes in front of him, he said bitterly: “It’s nothing, go to work. I’ll sit alone for a while.”
Ma Wei looked worried, stayed with his father for a while, and seeing that Ma Gaosheng’s state was fine, he then left the house.
The study fell silent again.
Then, Ma Gaosheng opened a document on the computer and carefully browsed through it.
These were all things he had collected during this time, explanations about certain parts in Xinghai’s high-voltage wireless charging pile equipment that were suspected of infringing on Deli Electric Power’s patents.
He checked for half a day, but it was far from satisfactory.
After a long time, Ma Gaosheng’s face darkened as he picked up his mobile phone and dialed.
“Hello, help me contact the company legal department. I want to initiate a patent infringement lawsuit against Xinghai!”
Using this face-tearing method to try to break Xinghai’s capital chain was extremely unwise, but clearly Ma Gaosheng at this time had no other choice.
Xinghai Technology.
Two days had passed since Liu Jun learned of this news.
Holding the court summons from Linhai Deli Branch in his hand, Liu Jun hurriedly got up and went to Fan Ren’s office.
‘Knock knock knock’
“Come in!”
Fan Ren was sitting in front of the computer drawing design drawings. He glanced at Liu Jun out of the corner of his eye but said nothing, his attention continuing on the monitor.
Liu Jun’s originally anxious expression relaxed a bit upon seeing Fan Ren in this state.
He had also panicked. Ma Gaosheng’s sudden attack on Xinghai at this time was clearly because he had learned of Xingyun Manufacturing’s factory passing acceptance and that Xinghai had reached cooperation with San Xin Group.
He obviously couldn’t sit still.
At this point, he couldn’t help but look down at the lawsuit document in his hand again.
Sure enough! All some minor edge infringements.
If there were points of clear infringement, it was only that the design circuit in the charging pile had clear infringement suspicion.
But generally in the industry, no one would care about these. There were ten thousand ways to draw a circuit without conflict. The reason Deli Electric Power applied for such a patent was also because large enterprises designed their own circuit diagrams to avoid trouble of patent infringement.
Just like Xinghai at this moment, because of this issue, it was targeted by Ma Gaosheng and sued in court.
Liu Jun continued to ponder, Fan Ren didn’t pay him any attention either, and kept drawing by himself.
Once the design drawing was finished, they could proceed to trial production and manufacturing. He had no doubt at all about the efficacy of the bone extract given by the system, and didn’t test it at all.
What was the purpose of the lawsuit that Ma Gaosheng initiated against Xinghai just as Xinghai was about to escape its predicament?
After a while, Liu Jun suddenly reacted.
This was targeting Xinghai’s capital chain, trying to drag Xinghai down in this way?
He was somewhat unwilling to believe it, because Xinghai had long stopped expanding in the wireless charging pile area, and industry persons could all see this.
At that moment, Secretary Li Jia rushed in from the doorway.
“General Manager Fan, General Manager Liu, many charging pile business partners who previously cooperated with us have come to the door, and they all say their equipment has been sealed.”
Sure enough!
The movement in Fan Ren’s hands stopped, and he couldn’t help but say: “What’s going on?”
Liu Jun was helpless and said to Li Jia: “You go out first and appease the business partners, I’ll come in a bit.”
Then he explained the ins and outs of the matter.
After listening, Fan Ren couldn’t help but rub his sore eyes, pondered slightly, and then said: “For now, we can only appease the business partners first. You go and discuss with them that all losses due to equipment sealing during this period will be borne by our Xinghai.”
“But the company…”
Fan Ren interrupted Liu Jun before he finished speaking.
“Don’t worry about the rest. Persist for a few more days, first time, second time, and it’s still not over.”
He paused, a rare trace of anger appeared on his face, and Fan Ren continued: “Don’t skimp on compensation to the business partners, compensate them fully for whatever losses they have. Give me five days here, and after five days, help me contact major media outlets, and we’ll hold a new product launch press conference!”
By the end, Fan Ren’s voice gradually turned cold.
Liu Jun mentally estimated it in his heart, his face slightly bitter; this time, all the usable funds on Xinghai’s accounts would probably truly bottom out.
In their first venture, starting with nearly 4 billion in huge funds, after more than half a year of tossing, it was almost all gone, and probably nowhere in the whole world could find a few prodigal sons like them.
“Second Brother, can it really work?”
The current hope could only be placed on the solid-state battery that Fan Ren mentioned.
Fan Ren raised his head, his tone icy: “Get ready, after this matter is over, we’ll pay Deli Electric Power 1 billion in liquidated damages for the patent authorization! And take back the patent right.”
Upon hearing this, Liu Jun’s eyes widened like copper bells.
In his view, if they could smoothly get through the difficulties, the outcome would be Ma Gaosheng rolling away, otherwise after the next phase patent period expired, Xinghai would terminate the patent authorization to Deli Electric Power.
But now it seemed that Second Brother was really angry this time.
Of course? Without Deli Headquarters turning a blind eye to this matter, could Ma Gaosheng command Deli Electric Power’s legal department?
Liu Jun nodded heavily and got up to walk towards the door.
