Chapter 2978 Patent Dilemma

At 3 pm, Feng Yiping strolled into Mayer's office, "How did the talk go?"

Seeing the undisguised anger on Mayer's face when she raised her head from her desk, he hurriedly smiled, "Don't blame Mary, I told her not to report it. You know, there is no office in this park that I can't enter."

To be honest, seeing Mayer like this, he also had some opinions.

Thinking back to the time when my team...oh, when I didn't do anything to you, you always wanted me to go to your office. Now when I go to your office, not only do you not welcome me, but you also give me a cold face?

It turns out that only women and villains are difficult to raise, and the ancients did not deceive me.

Now, what they say is right, those who can't get it will always be in turmoil, and those who are spoiled will always be fearless.

After having a son, it's different!

Looking back on the past, Feng Yiping feels that thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west.

"Are you still busy? Then I'll leave right away. I came here mainly to tell you something. Tonight, I want to take Matthew horseback riding in Woodside,"

He originally planned to announce this news with great momentum.

Because this means that he will accompany Matthew and her tonight, which means that he has successfully resolved the cold violence of Huang Jingping and Ma Ling, and also strongly hit back at Mayer's ridicule of him "dare not" on the yacht.

But at this time, saying it in this way, not only did it lose momentum, but it also had a hint of begging, which made Feng Yiping feel a little uncomfortable.

This is not right, why did I end up in this situation?

A man has to be tougher, so he immediately added, "Well, I want to eat roasted pork ribs with Erguotou tonight, you get ready,"

Do you have Erguotou at home? I just want to embarrass you.

Mayer threw a sentence at him stiffly, "Pasta, you can eat it if you like,"

I am the richest man after all. I haven't had dinner with you for such a long time, and you use pasta to fool me?

How about just packing a few hamburgers downstairs?

"Humph," he said proudly, "At least it has to be steak!"

"Otherwise, I will take Matthew to Los Angeles to find a new aunt for him, who will cook delicious food,"

"Hahaha," Mayer couldn't help laughing, "So, you only know this trick, right?"

Feng Yiping's old face flushed, so you also know how I made the two of them submit? So you three have been secretly connected behind the scenes?

This is really a bit hurtful to my self-esteem.

He turned around and walked away with a big stride. I really want to go to Los Angeles, and I will go now!

"Okay, okay," Mayer stopped laughing, "Don't go, I just have something to discuss with you,"

Feng Yiping still maintained the momentum of yearning to go, oh, if you tell me not to go, I won't go, I don't want to save face!

"Okay," Mayer came over and took his hand, "Don't be angry, okay?"

Feng Yiping said nothing with a fierce face, it's not that easy.

"How about this?" Mayer stood on tiptoe and kissed him on the face.

It's still not enough.

Feng Yiping turned his other face away.

Mayer simply kissed him on the other side, then held his face with both hands and sucked on his mouth, "Okay!"

Feng Yiping, who felt that he had taken the initiative, looked down and gestured... The initiative changed hands instantly, and Mayer, whose hands were just on his shoulders, immediately raised one foot.

This posture, a knee kick, is really very good!

Looking at the light in her eyes, Feng Yiping believed that she could do it.

It is true that the sting of the wasp's tail is the most poisonous woman's heart, Jiang Taigong is not deceiving me.

He quickly stepped back and sat down on the sofa, "What's the matter?"

Mayer also put away her teasing expression just now, gathered her hair, and sat down opposite Feng Yiping, "Our meeting with Minister Steven Chu of the Department of Energy was very effective."

Although they were determined to obtain low-interest loans from the US government through Tesla, it was obviously not easy for Feng Yiping and Obama to discuss such matters in person.

How could he, the richest man, ask for such a low-interest loan of several hundred million US dollars?

The specific negotiations were of course handed over to the entourage of both sides.

"The Department of Energy should be able to obtain loan support of about 600 million US dollars for us,"

Feng Yiping, who would not miss the opportunity to take advantage of the US government, immediately thought, "This is not bad! Why are you still..."

Mayer rubbed her forehead, "I'm not annoyed by this,"

She gestured to the office desk, "Go and take a look at those folders,"

Feng Yiping took it and flipped through it, frowning, "I know the legal department is very busy now, do you need to add staff?"

This thick folder is full of various lawsuits, mainly against Android.

In the fourth quarter of last year, the market share of Android smartphones reached 37%, far ahead of Nokia Symbian's 27% and Apple's 1wsPhone's 3.8%.

Since Android became the champion, such troubles have increased.

As the saying goes, the first bird to stick its head out gets shot. Since then, Microsoft, Nokia, Apple, Motorola, Oracle, and even BlackBerry, which was already marginalized at that time, have filed lawsuits against the Android camp.

Most of these lawsuits are not against Android, because the Android system is free and open source, and Android does not directly profit from it. Therefore, in most cases, it has not become the target of prosecution, but mobile phone manufacturers in the Android camp have become defendants.

Microsoft has successively sued HTC, which has developed very well in the US market, and Samsung, another leader in the Android camp.

Microsoft's lawsuit is not without reason. The Android system is free and open source, but its source code does use a lot of Linux source code.

Microsoft began to collect patent fees on the Linux system long before the birth of Android, so it can naturally charge patent fees for Android that uses Linux source code.

In order to avoid patent disputes and not being able to enter the US market, HTC reached an agreement with Microsoft in April last year that they would pay Microsoft $5 for each Android phone they produced.

What is the concept?

The patent licensing fees collected by Microsoft through this agreement alone have exceeded the income they have earned from the pitiful market share of Window Phone.

Microsoft is even more ruthless to another Android giant. They have asked Samsung for a patent licensing fee of $15 for each Android phone. Samsung is not as eager as HTC, which focuses on the US and European markets, so they did not give in quickly. The relevant lawsuit is still ongoing.

Domestic smartphone companies are also facing related problems. Fortunately, domestic mobile phone companies are currently mainly targeting the domestic market. Therefore, Microsoft's lawyer's letter cannot bring them much trouble now.

But this is always a hidden worry. They will eventually go global.

"Microsoft, Microsoft," Feng Yiping closed the folder and sighed.

The purpose of Microsoft's initiation of these patent lawsuits is not only to generate revenue, nor is it only to snipe Android's expansion. They must also hope to use such means to force mobile phone manufacturers to re-select Microsoft's smartphone operating system, Windows Phone.

But at present, Android phones and Apple's iPhone have almost become synonymous with smartphones. Both mobile phone manufacturers and consumers do not recognize Windows Phone for the time being.

More importantly, if a mobile phone manufacturer develops Android and Windows Phone at the same time, its R&D costs, market expansion and maintenance costs will definitely increase significantly.

On average, if a mobile phone manufacturer uses two mobile phone operating systems at the same time, it will need two R&D teams alone, which will generally increase R&D costs and marketing costs by nearly 30%.

The biggest problem is that the sales of smartphones of a mobile phone manufacturer will not increase significantly because of the use of two mobile phone operating systems.

So Microsoft's move is really important.

Not only Microsoft, but Apple also did not miss such an opportunity.

Apple has now filed a lawsuit in the US court, saying that HTC's mobile phones have two rights that infringe their patent rights, and proposed that the US court prohibit HTC from selling in the US market.

And BlackBerry...

At the same time, Oracle's Ellison also joined in the fun, because the source code of Android also uses the source code of Java, and Java belongs to Sun, which was acquired by them last year.

So Oracle has appealed to the court, accusing Android of infringing their Java programming language patents, which has caused them billions of dollars in losses. Oracle is demanding Android to compensate them between $1.4 billion and $6.1 billion...

"They are targeting us,"