Chapter 426 The Reason for Being Prosecuted

The late-night snack was just seafood porridge with some side dishes, but Chen Changliu still enjoyed it.

After drinking a bowl of white porridge, Chen Changliu asked:

"What's the situation? Tell me in detail."

After Ke Meng took a tissue and handed it to Chen Changliu, he also picked up one and wiped the corners of his mouth, and said with a serious face:

“We only learned about the subpoena we received this afternoon.

Sigma-Tel sued us to the federal court in Austin, USA, accusing us of infringing on multiple of its patents.

It is a great honor that this is the first case of patent infringement faced by a Chinese company involving MP3 controller chips. "

Ke Meng made a joke, and Chen Changliu and Zhao Yanan also had smiles on their faces.

"Mr. Wu made a detailed inspection today of several so-called patent infringements that they sued. How can I put it? Basically, none of their patents were infringed.

However, this matter may be a bit of a stretch, because our original development team included some technical personnel from Sigma-Tel.

Sigma-Tel is the world-renowned overlord of MP3 SOC master chips. In the MP3 flash memory market, Sigma-Tel previously occupied 70% of the market share, and 95% of its customers are concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region.

In fact, when our company was established, Mr. Wu also proposed to use their wafers, but you rejected it at that time because you only liked Philips.

It's very simple. After our analysis, the most important thing is that we may have stolen Sigma-Tel's customers, which is why we were sued by our opponent. "

Although he had a hunch that this was the problem, Chen Changliu still asked doubtfully:

"Oh, has our MP3 chip developed to this point? Can it leverage the fundamentals of the industry leader?"

Ke Meng rolled his eyes at him, then looked at Zhao Yanan and said sternly:

"Yanan, didn't you ask you to give a piece of information to Mr. Chen some time ago? Why doesn't he know anything?"

Zhao Yanan shrank his neck and said aggrievedly:

"Assistant Ke, I gave it to you. You locked yourself in the office that day and didn't know what you were doing. When you came out, I gave it to Mr. Chen. Mr. Chen told me to put it on my desk. Who knows he didn't look at it?"

When Zhao Yanan talked about the word "lock" locked in the office, his tone became more serious.

Ke Meng immediately remembered what happened that day, and there was no unnatural expression on his face. Instead, he glared at Chen Changliu, meaning it was all your fault.

Chen Changliu was not afraid at all, hehehe said:

"Why are you staring at me? You are enjoying it too!"

"Puff"

Zhao Yanan couldn't help laughing, Chen Changliu stared at her directly and said:

"And you, you didn't do your job well. You just said that there was a document that needed to be signed that day. Who knew that the information you put next to it was for me to see.

Huh, if you don’t do your job well, your salary will be deducted! "

Zhao Yanan was dumbfounded, and no one had the time to beat him up.

Ke Meng was speechless.

"Okay, don't be ridiculous. In fact, Xiao Hongbo from the Small Home Appliances Division has done a very good job. Not only did our MP3 maintain the number one market share, but after communicating with Bo Ge, we launched it in the past three months. The low-end MP3SOC master chip is going smoothly.

Because our prices are cheaper than SigmaTel and our products are endorsed by word-of-mouth, manufacturers such as Lianxiang, Fangyuan, Ziguang, Xinli, Jiulan, and Youqiante have all placed orders with us. Although it is not a large scale, but according to Xiao All in all, it's just a matter of time.

What's more important is that SonicImpact, a manufacturer of MP3 players from China, also placed an order with us last week.

Although our wafer sales are not as good as those of SigmaTel, they may have felt threatened, so they took action first. "

Chen Changliu blushed a little when he listened to Ke Meng's report, but he suddenly thought of Juli, a company that had already made efforts in MP3 Jingyuan in his previous life.

Since MP3 is no longer the flower grower’s main revenue business, Chen Changliu admits that he doesn’t pay enough attention to MP3. Now he doesn’t know how Juli is developing.

You must know that at this time in the previous life, Juli had already begun to challenge SigmaTel's status. In the end, the challenge was successful and it became the world's largest MP3 chip supplier.

He really has no memory of whether he was sued by SigmaTel during this process. After all, MP3 is not a very popular industry, and normal people would not care so much.

"I remember Juli also launched MP3 Jingyuan. How is it now?"

"Well, it should be said that they are ranked third in terms of low-end wafers, after SigmaTel and us. Anyway, they are developing pretty well.

But because we have our own products as endorsement, our Jingyuan has a better reputation and is more popular. "

Hearing this, Chen Changliu nodded and no longer paid attention to Juli.

"Have you discussed any countermeasures today?"

Ke Meng shook his head and said:

"No, to be honest, this is the first time for all the senior management to encounter this kind of thing, so they have no experience.

However, we have asked the Legal Department to form a team of lawyers to come up with a response plan as quickly as possible to evaluate this lawsuit.

Do you have any good suggestions? "

Chen Changliu shook his head. What good advice could he have? He had never experienced going to court in his entire life.

When he was sued by Chen Aiguo and Li Xiaomei, he had never appeared in court. What suggestions could he have?

"Don't worry, this kind of lawsuit cannot be concluded in a short time, it will take at least a year or two.

Our main consideration now is the subsequent impact.

For example, because of the lawsuit, our customers will be lost, etc."

Chen Changliu's words made Ke Meng agree, and the few of them chatted for a while about some things about Chen Changliu's return to Guangnan City. This supper took more than half an hour.

Chen Changliu drank the last mouthful of porridge, wiped his mouth and said:

"Okay, it's not early, it's time to rest, I have to go to work tomorrow."

The two women had finished eating long ago. Hearing what Chen Changliu said, Zhao Yanan stood up diligently to clean up and said:

"I can clean up by myself, Mr. Chen, Sister Ke, you go to rest!"

Ke Meng was not the kind of person who had a big air, so he helped Zhao Yanan clean up. Only Chen Changliu was like a big master, half paralyzed on the sofa in the living room.

The ancients said that when you are full and warm, you think of women, and Chen Changliu is like this.

Looking at the seductive back, Chen Changliu's heart burned.

PS: The typos will be corrected later.