113. Chapter 112 Prize Guessing
Chapter 112 Prize Guessing
Just when Daqin Optics had finished debugging the equipment and the daily output of lenses increased to 1,500, the second trial of the lawsuit between Modu and Suoni began.
This trial was mainly for the judge to respond to the evidence submitted by Daqin Optics during the first trial after verification, and then proceed to the next patent allegation.
In fact, Daqin Optics could have directly brought out the evidence for each accusation at the first trial, but Lawyer Jiang chose to delay it. He only defended one accusation at each trial, and delayed the rest to the next round on the grounds that he was still sorting out the materials. This was actually what Suoni wanted to see. After all, the longer it was delayed, the higher the legal cost of the other party.
But after the three confrontations in the first round, they all began to realize the difficulty of this lawsuit, and they were a little afraid that the lawsuit would continue to drag on…
Now every time Lawyer Jiang flipped through his “secret book”, Suoni’s lawyer team and technical consultants would be so nervous that they almost lost their morale.
“We still have objections to the plaintiff’s claim that Daqin Optics’ 50mm lens design infringed its double-combined achromatic lens patent.”
Here it comes again!
Suoni’s lawyer team quickly pricked up their ears and prepared to take the challenge.
“Please let the defendant’s lawyer make a statement.”
”We believe that the other party’s invention patent with patent number ZL20089972.1 does not have the novelty and creativity of the patent. The lens structure design was first designed and successfully manufactured by C.M. Hall in 1729, but he did not publish the invention at that time.”
”The lens structure design has been publicly available for more than two hundred years, until 1988 when Soni Company improved the structure and successfully applied for a patent. However, according to the Patent Act, the patent had expired in 2008. However, Soni Company repeated the old trick and slightly modified some design parameters and applied for another patent, which is valid until 2028.”
”In fact, these two improvements are not novel creations at all, especially the second improvement. The optical performance of the lens has been almost negligible. This is the technical demonstration material prepared by our side. Please check it for the judge.”
After hearing this, Soni’s technical consultant looked a little bitter.
Although Suoni does have many patents, many of them are actually the forced extension of old patents. When he heard the patent number just now, he roughly knew the direction of the opponent’s attack…
At this time, the difference between home and away games came into play.
If it were in the court of an island country or M country, this kind of accusation would actually be easily dismissed.
Because the improvement of optical performance, how much novelty and creativity is considered, is actually very subjective and difficult to define.
Just like the improvement of camera image quality, some people may think it is negligible, while others think it is a qualitative leap.
And this is a Chinese court, where the judge can be partial, and he will definitely side with local companies.
So after the second round of confrontation, another momentum patent of Suoni was abolished.
The people who were waiting to eat melons, after hearing this news, immediately clapped their hands excitedly.
“It’s open, it’s open!”
Li Chen even directly posted a guessing video, “Everyone leave a message below the video. Whoever guesses the number of patents that Sony, Jia Neng, and Ni Kang have been abolished in this patent war will be directly rewarded with a Huawei P50 Rro, a total of ten units, and the first guess will be first served according to the time of the message.”
“In addition, if you guess the total number of abolished patents of the three companies, you will be rewarded with a set of Daqin optical lens family buckets, up to 50 sets, and the first guess will be first served.”
“The message deadline is next Monday, and each person can only guess once. Those who guess repeatedly will be directly disqualified.”
As soon as the video was released, the message exploded immediately, and the popularity of the video directly rushed to the top of the small broken station.
Other video hosts and anchors saw this and did not want to be outdone. They all started to do something fancy. For example, if the number of patents abolished exceeded 5, they would wear black S-shirts; if the number exceeded 10, they would wear women’s clothing; if the number exceeded 20, they would go to Zhangjiajie to livestream bungee jumping…
In short, the lawsuit has not been concluded yet, but netizens are celebrating the New Year and are having fun with various activities.
In addition to the continuous good news in court, an official Weibo of Daqin Optics also added fuel to the excitement.
Daqin Optics’sThe products were put back on the shelves, and the prices were restored. The three cancelled after-sales service activities were also back! The most important thing is that there is no purchase limit this time! It’s just that the delivery date has been extended to within 30 days, but at least there is a limit.
On the day when the purchase limit was lifted, Daqin Optics received a full 20,000 orders! Although Daqin Optics actually only accumulated more than 10,000 stocks during this period, it still confused the courier company guys…
”What should I do? Should I continue the lawsuit…”
The three giants met secretly again at the Soni headquarters to discuss countermeasures…
They were really a little scared.
”Have you verified the patent technology of Daqin Optics?” Compared with the abolition of those patents that were already a bit outdated, Fujita Yoshiki was more worried about Daqin Optics’s technology overtaking.
Osaki Hisasaku nodded: “It has been verified. It does bypass our patent, and the effect is better than ours…”
”I haven’t finished verifying it yet. Their equipment seems to be better than ours. Our current equipment can’t complete this coating process at all. We have to modify the equipment…”
”…”
”Fujita-kun, this lawsuit will definitely not win in China. Judging from the current trend of public opinion, it’s not about how long Daqin Optics can last, but how many more rounds we can last…”
”Baga! You’re scared after just one round?!”
”Uh… We are different from you You are the vice president of Soni and you are only here temporarily in Dahua District, but we are just the general manager of Dahua District and we have to face the pressure from the headquarters. ”
”Yes, Fujita-kun should also know that the global camera market is sluggish now, but Dahua District is bucking the trend. In recent years, the headquarters has paid more and more attention to Dahua District. If the situation continues to deteriorate and cannot be alleviated, we will all be dismissed…”
Fujita Yoshiki sneered: “Then you will not be dismissed if you lose such a large lens market?”
”Isn’t there a way out? Fujita-kun, now we need to face the facts. They have not only broken through the technical blockade in silicon wafer manufacturing, but also The same applies to the lens. If we continue to fight with them, we will actually suffer…”
Yoshiki Fujita did not expect that Daqin Optics could perfectly avoid their patent blockade. At this point, he could only sigh helplessly: “Then let’s settle in court… But the lens market cannot be given up so easily.”
”What do you mean?”
”Now we can only cut prices to grab the market, but our original lenses must not be reduced too much, at most 20%, otherwise it will affect our brand image.”
”But we can work together to quietly acquire Tokina and change the shell and LOGO, and castrate some performance, launch mid-range autofocus third-party lenses, and control the price to about three to four times that of Daqin Optics. ”
”Finally, let Tokina launch low-end manual lenses, and control the price to about one to two times that of Daqin Optics.”
”With the reputation of our island country’s optical products accumulated over the years, this should still be able to maintain a lot of market share.”
Osaki Hisaku and Saito Yuzhi naturally have no objection to this.
In fact, once China has made a breakthrough in a certain technology, price reduction has almost become the only effective means to save the world. Even if Fujita Yoshiki doesn’t say it, they will probably do so.
However, if the strength of the three companies can be concentrated to acquire and transform Tokina, the speed will obviously be faster.
At this time, time is money.
The faster they react, the more market share they can maintain…
On the other hand, Kang Chi didn’t know that he had successfully lowered the price of the lens, but the call from Lawyer Jiang made him smile.
“They proposed an out-of-court settlement and are willing to bear all the litigation fees, attorney fees, travel expenses, etc. that we have paid in this dispute.”
”And what about my mental damages, Daqin Optics’s reputation damages, and the economic losses caused by the suspension of sales during this period?”
”I can try my best to fight for this. How much compensation do you want from the other party?”
”One hundred million.”
”Ahem…”
”How much did you just say?!”
”One hundred million for each company, a total of three hundred million. Otherwise, we will slowly waste it and abolish 60% of their patents, making them the laughing stock of the world!”
”…”
(End of this chapter)