Chapter 934 You Are a Very Nice Person!

Now that the countermeasures have been determined, the next main tasks belong to the Legal Department and the Propaganda Department.

For this incident, the lawsuit itself is actually more important than the outcome of the lawsuit.

Therefore, Chang Haonan never set "winning the lawsuit" as his core goal from the beginning.

Instead, try your best to expand your influence.

In this way, no matter what the outcome is, the whole world, or at least peers around the world, will know that this BOG reliquefaction system was grafted indiscriminately by Koreans without core technology.

Even if something happens, it has nothing to do with our Torch Group.

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Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, the preparation work before litigation becomes less important.

The right thing to do is to file a lawsuit quickly.

Therefore, compared with conventional intellectual property cases that often take months or even years to collect evidence, this time, the Legal Department moved frighteningly quickly.

In less than a week, Torch Group was ready to file an intellectual property lawsuit against Samsung Offshore Engineering, requiring it to stop using the BOG reliquefaction system patent that has been registered by the former on eight LNG ships currently and to be built. .

In fact, this efficiency can be achieved thanks to the Norwegian party who ordered the ship.

They specifically require in the contract that Party B needs to publicly display the ship design and construction information.

The original intention of doing this is probably to facilitate your subsequent operations.

But objectively speaking, it did allow the Torch Group to master first-hand evidence with almost no effort...

At the same time, publicity efforts also began to continue.

For several days, different Chinese media reported on Torch Group’s lawsuit against Samsung Offshore from different angles——

Although Torch Group is not prominent, it is still a subsidiary of a state-owned enterprise directly under the Aviation Power Group, and there is no shortage of resources in this area.

However, the development of the situation quickly exceeded Chang Haonan's expectations.

In the beginning, he actually just contacted a few print media and planned to publish a few reports or commentator articles in secondary positions other than the front page.

But by chance, one of the reports was noticed by the leader of the trade department.

At this point in time in 2001, it was actually very subtle.

In the past, when China did business with foreign companies, the various steps in between were quite troublesome.

Even in many cases, the people who actually face foreign companies may not be businessmen, but officials from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.

Although this is a bit less efficient, the situation is basically out of control.

But now, the authority at the enterprise level has been greatly improved. Although foreign trade still requires licenses and approvals, most of the time, it is direct head-to-head between domestic companies and foreign companies.

It is not difficult to imagine that the number of disputes arising from this in the past year has been several orders of magnitude greater than in the past.

However, after all, China has only joined the WTO for one year.

The vast majority of companies have no experience in handling such disputes and can only be beaten passively.

I don’t even know where I am getting the loss.

Faced with this situation, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation is relatively helpless.

On the one hand, due to relevant WTO regulations, it is inconvenient for them to directly intervene in corporate-level affairs.

On the other hand, faced with such a huge number of problems, it is impossible to have enough manpower to deal with them one by one.

Therefore, the country now urgently needs a model to set an example for other enterprises.

Did you see it? If you encounter trouble in the future, just do it this way.

Therefore, driven by various forces, relevant reports on the Torch Group's indictment have already appeared on Xinwen Network before it was formally submitted.

Although it was only mentioned in the news section.

There's not even a picture.

But after all, that is also a sentence in Xinwen Network.

Therefore, it quickly aroused greater response and attention.

For the melon-eating masses, the impact of market opening is at its peak, and the filters brought by foreign companies and brands are extremely strong.

In this context, "Chinese companies sue foreign companies for infringement of intellectual property rights", which itself is eye-catching enough.

For the majority of business colleagues, they really need a benchmark to learn from and refer to when they are confused.

In short, it wasn’t until Song Jingming sent an interview invitation from CCTV to Chang Haonan’s desk that he realized belatedly——

This historic prosecution by myself or the Torch Group has quietly become the biggest topic in the Chinese business community in the past two days...

In fact, being in the news is no longer unfamiliar to him.

After receiving the May 4th Youth Medal and after that historic flood fighting and disaster relief operation, he was interviewed by CCTV.

But strictly speaking, those two times can only be regarded as part of a series of reports.

The interview material is also comprehensive news that has been edited and spliced ​​together with other scenes.

But this time, it was a serious one-on-one interview.

The kind that serves as a dish on its own.

Of course, superficial skills still have to be done.

If the topic of Torch Group v. Samsung Offshore was discussed from beginning to end, it would be too obviously offensive.

Therefore, the official news theme is still about the development process of Torch Group from scratch, from weak to strong.

The part related to the case will probably only occupy about three-quarters of the space.

Also because of the nature of the program, this interview was not conducted in Chang Haonan's office as in the past.

Instead, it was conducted in a CCTV studio.

…

When Chang Haonan arrived at the interview location at the agreed time, in addition to the head of the news center, there was another more important person to greet him.

"Comrade Haonan, thank you very much for supporting our work."

The visitor shook hands with Chang Haonan, who had just got off the car, very enthusiastically.

"Director Long is polite..."

After a brief shock, Chang Haonan also quickly responded:

"Whether it is your work or our work, in the final analysis, the purpose is the same..."

Long Yongtu, the chief representative of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation in charge of China's WTO accession negotiations and a member of the leadership team.

Chang Haonan and the other party have had a few encounters.

Of course, even if not, this name that will appear in textbooks in the future is enough to be well-known.

At this moment, since China's WTO accession process has officially ended, Long Yongtu has to temporarily take on an idle job.

But anyone with a little foresight can guess that he will at least be the second-in-command of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation in the future.

After a simple greeting, the three of them walked into the CCTV headquarters building under the guidance of the staff.

"To be honest, Director Long."

While waiting for the interview to start in the lounge, Chang Haonan said to Long Yongtu:

"You finally gave me a big surprise."

"Before receiving this interview invitation today, I didn't know that your Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation had already paid attention to this matter."

Originally, this sentence was just a casual chat to kill time, but Long Yongtu sighed seriously:

"Alas..."

"After joining the WTO, we found that there are far more disputes than cooperation in international trade."

"You may not believe it, but in the past year or so, your Torch Group is the first company in the mainland to take the lead and actively choose to go through legal procedures to resolve trade disputes."

"So no matter what the result is, we have to set this example up..."

Chang Haonan actually knew about this.

In the previous life, it was not until 2006 that the first Chinese company sued a foreign company for intellectual property infringement.

This shows how backward China's awareness in this regard is.

On the other side, after a pause, Long Yongtu continued:

"Originally, the ministry was ready to promote it according to the standard of 'the first case after joining the WTO', but you emphasized yesterday that this lawsuit is not for the purpose of winning, and there is a high probability that there will be no clear result in the end. We held an emergency meeting and decided to lower the tone slightly..."

After hearing this, Chang Haonan exclaimed in his heart.

He was a little confused just now, saying that the standard of today's interview was so high, and even the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation specially sent a member of the leadership team to accompany him...

Long Yongtu wanted to continue to say something, but at this time, the head of the news center pushed the door in and said that the interview was ready and could start.

...

Although it was a special face-to-face interview, the format was not much different from the past.

It's just that the host has changed.

In the opening part, Chang Haonan first briefly reviewed the brief but glorious development history of Torch Group, and then, under the guidance of the host, introduced the group's two main businesses.

That is, TORCH Multiphysics software, and numerical calculation business that can provide finished solutions.

The second part immediately followed and entered the theme of today's interview.

"I noticed that the content of the Torch Group's lawsuit is that Samsung Offshore Group has infringed your patent on the BOG reliquefaction system. Can you please give us a brief introduction to this technology?"

"You just mentioned LNG ships. What is the current development status of this field at home and abroad?"

"In other words, your company's patented technology has a decisive influence on the development direction of the liquefied natural gas transportation field, is that right?"

"..."

As an interview for the public, the host certainly cannot only ask what he wants to know, but must first lay the groundwork and ask some basic questions for the audience in front of the TV.

After having a general understanding of the background knowledge, it was convenient to enter the core topic:

"Before today's interview, I specifically checked the litigation documents submitted by your company to the domestic and EU courts. I wonder what your expectations are for the next lawsuit? Do you want to win the lawsuit completely and make the other party stop infringing, or are you ready to settle out of court and collect patent royalties?"

It can be seen that the host has definitely done his homework.

In his opinion, Chang Haonan had clearly stated yesterday that the purpose of this lawsuit was not to win, so it must be the latter answer.

So, as long as Chang Haonan gave an answer, he could express his appreciation, and then naturally throw out a series of topics that had been prepared.

However, facing this question, Chang Haonan hesitated:

"Uh... Actually, none of them."

"..."

A trace of confusion flashed in the eyes of the host opposite.

Chang Haonan's answer, which was completely unconventional, made him feel that his career seemed to be challenged.

However, before he could respond to the next question, Chang Haonan spoke again:

“Our original intention in filing this lawsuit is actually to save the LNG transportation industry.”

At this time, not only the host, but also Long Yongtu, who had been sitting outside the camera, was shocked, and he immediately made a tactical retreat.

“Save…the LNG shipping industry?”

The host is still trying to bring the topic back on track.

"That's right."

Chang Haonan nodded:

"Samsung Offshore not only illegally used our intellectual property BOG reliquefaction system, but also completely failed to understand the content of our patents."

"If the ship is built according to their plan, the sealing of the cargo tank and the strength of the hull may be affected. Once filled with liquefied natural gas, it will become a bomb floating on the sea, which may cause gas leakage at any time. Leakage, hull cracking... or even direct explosion."

"The reason why we chose to go through the legal process with such high-profile is that economic considerations are only secondary factors. The key is to hope that Samsung Offshore can learn from this and avoid inestimable threats to international shipping safety, energy security and the global environment... …”

"So, from this perspective, Samsung Offshore should actually be grateful to us for this prosecution, which gave them an opportunity to step back from the brink and turn around."

"..."

This high-sounding statement shocked everyone in the studio.

The host who faced Chang Haonan couldn't help but take a deep breath.

If the camera hadn't been on, he would probably have spoken out what was in his heart at this moment——

"Mr. Chang, you are quite a nice person..."