Chapter 2979: No Problems If You Have Money

"I'm not worried about Oracle's lawsuit at all," Mayer said, "If Ellison spends less time with those young girls," - Feng Yiping felt that this statement seemed to be aimed at him.

"Then he should remember quickly that Sun has long promised that Java will be open source and free, so Oracle is not a big threat to our patents,"

"What I'm worried about is that patent lawsuits are very common in the high-tech industry. Once the technology is made public, it is easy to be imitated. In this industry, there is a gray area in patent recognition. It is difficult to define whether it is reference, imitation, or infringement,"

"Based on the characteristics of the high-tech industry, developing on the original patent technology, learning from each other, and improving each other has always been and will continue to be the norm in the industry,"

"In fact, Microsoft and Apple cannot say for sure that they have not borrowed other people's technology..."

Feng Yiping added, "The first bird to come out will be shot, because we are ahead, Microsoft, Apple, and even BlackBerry... They have become natural allies in this matter,"

At this time, he had some understanding of Huawei's difficulties later. Why should he deal with you?

When you do too well in an industry, and there are many strong companies in this industry, isn't it natural to deal with you?

In this situation, all the relationships he had previously cultivated were useless.

Not to mention Apple and Jobs, Gates and Ballmer personally called him during the Spring Festival to wish him a happy Spring Festival.

Mayer ignored his complaints, "What the lawyers are worried about is that such lawsuits may become a reference template. The settlement agreement reached between Microsoft and HTC has put Microsoft in a very advantageous position when dealing with patent infringement lawsuits with other Android phone manufacturers."

Feng Yi lay down flat, "In the final analysis, it's still our own fault. We have too few patents in this field."

When he acquired Android, he strengthened his work in this area, but the time from then to now is still too short. So far, they have only been approved for more than 400 patents.

According to publicly disclosed information, BlackBerry has 3,134 patents and patent applications related to mobile devices, ranking first among major technology companies.

Nokia has 2,655 such patents and patent applications, ranking second, and Microsoft is closely behind with 2,594 patents and patent applications.

Motorola actually has 1,725 ​​patents and patent applications, ranking sixth...

Although Apple is about to become the world's largest smartphone manufacturer, it has also launched many patent lawsuits against the Android camp, but to be honest, it can only be regarded as a newcomer in the mobile phone industry, and they only have 477 patents and patent applications.

However, although they only launched the first iPhone in 2007, they had made a lot of preparations before that, including cooperation with Motorola. Compared with Android, their advantage is that they have some key patents.

Mayer sat next to him and gently touched his face, "You have done well enough. We all know that it takes time to make up for the gap in this regard." - So, their treatment of Feng Yiping is similar to Feng Yiping's treatment of his subordinates.

When he raises his head, they will unite to press him down, but when he is really a little depressed, they will take the initiative to encourage him.

But Feng Yiping, who is still enjoying Mayer's tenderness, must not realize this.

"We must resolutely maintain the ecology of the Android camp," he pulled Mayer's thigh over, rested his head on it, and touched her stockings, "So our current focus is to expand our patent pool,"

Mayer's hand covered his mouth for a moment, do you need to say this?

"First of all, the legal department needs to be supplemented with staff. I think we should hire Michael Mukasey to join our legal team," she said.

"Michael Mukasey? Why does this name sound familiar?"

Mayer patted him on the head, "Look up,"

Feng Yiping touched her thigh and didn't let go until Mayer said, "Then you go get the information?"

He had to let go.

"Oh, I said, why is it so familiar," holding the tablet, he pulled Mayer's thigh over again, "It turned out to be him, but, don't you think he's a little old?"

He was still thinking in the morning, recruiting all the former cabinet members of the United States, and Mayer has taken a fancy to one of them.

Michael Mukasey, who sounded familiar to him, was the last Attorney General during the Bush administration. Like Paulson, he left office in January 2009.

The Attorney General of the United States is somewhat special. He also serves as the Attorney General, so those who sit in this position are all very outstanding lawyers.

After reading on, Feng Yiping understood why Mayer wanted to hire him. This former Attorney General is also an authority in the field of public privacy in the United States, which is of course of great help to the company's social business.

It can be imagined that they will have many legal disputes about privacy in the future.

Thinking of his connections, Feng Yiping also felt that his age of 70 was not a big deal, "very suitable,"

"I have asked the DC office to contact him, and Cummins also rushed over. From the results of the current contact, Michael is very interested,"

Feng Yiping motioned Mayer to lower her head, "Okay," he kissed her heavily, "I know you can handle these,"

Indeed, after Mayer was parachuted into Cummins's position, he had less and less to worry about the business in the United States. Mayer, a strong woman, was often more decisive than Cummins. Not only could she execute the tasks assigned by Feng Yiping outstandingly, but she could also always get ahead of others and make very appropriate arrangements in many matters.

Mayer didn't take such a small compliment to heart at all. What's the big deal? I'm the queen of Silicon Valley!

"I think you must have made a decision on how to expand our patent pool," Feng Yiping continued.

"Of course," Mayer said proudly, "I have sent someone to contact IBM, hoping to buy their related patents. In addition, I think we can also consider acquiring two other targets, Motorola and Nortel..."

Feng Yiping said almost at the same time, "Nortel and Motorola,"

Mayer frowned. The different order of the words naturally meant that they focused on different tendencies.

"Give priority to acquiring Nortel," Feng Yiping said.

The Nortel they are talking about is Nortel Networks, a famous Canadian telecommunications equipment supplier, which is closely related to Bell, the inventor of the telephone.

In 1874, after Bell invented the telephone, Canadian Bell Telephone Company established its own mechanical production department in Montreal to produce telephone devices. This mechanical department is the predecessor of Nortel.

Before 2000, it was still the world's top telecommunications equipment supplier, but after the impact of the Internet bubble, it was severely damaged. Before it recovered, it was severely stabbed by the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008. The loss that year was as high as 6 billion US dollars. So in 2009, it filed for bankruptcy protection in Canada and the United States, and then began a series of asset sales.

These multinational companies are of course very smart. They first sold as many as hundreds of thousands of IPv4 IP addresses, and then cut off their own CDMA departments... Only their patents were not touched, and they were still in their hands.

"We must take into account the emotions of mobile phone manufacturers in the Android camp. If we acquire hardware companies like Motorola, it will inevitably have a huge impact on them," Feng Yiping explained.

If Motorola is acquired, then of course mobile phones must be produced. In this way, Apple will be put aside for the time being, and those mobile phone manufacturers that install the Android system will definitely have great opinions.

"The competition in Android phones is already fierce enough, and it will be more intense in the future. It is better for us not to pour a basin of cold water on this hot oil pan,"

"I understand your concerns. If you really don't want to produce smartphones, we can definitely come up with alternative means," Mayer said, "Aren't there many mobile phone manufacturers in China? After acquiring Motorola, we can resell the hardware part to them."

This is an idea. Speaking of which, he remembers that Motorola went around and around, and later came to China.

"In that case, you should bring out the specific plan. In addition, what do you need me to do?"

"Money," Mayer said immediately, "Although the cash on our account is more than 10 billion US dollars, it is still not enough to acquire these two targets,"

Feng Yiping said very straightforwardly, "Money is not a problem. I can transfer another 10 billion,"

"That's no problem," Mayer stood up without hesitation this time, and was actually sending her away.

So realistic?

Feng Yiping watched her sit back at her desk, "You also slept under the desk when you were at Google before. Do you want to reminisce?"

"I think there is no problem squeezing two people under this table,"

Mayer looked at it and it seemed that it was not impossible to try it? She pulled out the chair...

PS: I forgot it this morning, and now I will make up for it. I wish you all a happy Youth Day!