Chapter 679 Accidentally making history
In the final analysis, intellectual property issues are still limited by the times. If Chang Haonan and the three of them just think about it, there is definitely no hope.
So, Chang Haonan simply wasn't prepared to dwell on this issue for too long.
"What Professor Yang said does make sense."
After thinking for a moment, he made a decision:
"However, dealing with the piracy problem is like Dayu's flood control. It not only needs to be blocked, but also needs to be dredged, so we have to make two preparations."
"First, as Professor Yang said, we need to hit a few out every once in a while. To scare the birds, of course, the main focus is to pick on those involved in the case with relatively large amounts and serious circumstances, such as those real self-employed people who secretly use our software and can't do a few businesses in a year. There is no need to kill them all, just treat them as marketing promotions. We have made a contribution.”
“Secondly, from our group’s own perspective, we also need to provide better services to genuine users, such as business training and technical guidance, including the numerical calculation business department. I see that recently The number of orders received has skyrocketed in the past few months, and we can also consider giving priority to accepting requests from users who have purchased genuine software.”
These two are basically answers to commercial software operations.
As long as the service is good, a considerable number of customers will still be willing to pay.
Of course, at this moment, the idea of "selling software is essentially selling services" is still somewhat fresh.
However, the wave just now has raised the shock threshold of the other two people a bit high, so now they only show a little bit of strangeness, and remember the second point mentioned by Chang Haonan. When I read it in the notebook, I wasn’t too surprised.
"Then...in this case, after we go back today, we will start preparing to recruit people and expand the size of the legal department?
For Yang Huimei, the service department must be responsible for the technical department As a layperson, she does not need to intervene, so what she can do is probably the legal affairs.
Since Torch Group has been able to compile several language versions of the user agreement, there must be a team in the legal department.
Not only that, but also proficient in the laws of many countries.
But because it was just some clerical work before, the scale was not large.
Now that we have to compete with others in court, in Yang Huimei's view, we must have more manpower.
“There is no need to expand too much...”
Chang Haonan waved his hand:
"Our group even has only two people in the office. The legal department currently has five people, which is already the department with the largest number of administrative staff. We just need to recruit a few more."
"Uh..."
Yang Huimei paused:
“Mr. Chang, a lawsuit involving a commercial dispute like this is different from an ordinary personal lawsuit. It doesn’t take just one lawyer to handle it from beginning to end. Generally, a lawyer is needed. The team... Just like the legal proceedings regarding NSK's fraud last year, both sides hired a legal team of dozens of people..."
"Are you still paying attention to the follow-up of this matter? "
Chang Haonan was a little surprised.
Although he handled this matter by himself, after confirming that the number of Japanese companies in Europe had been stably in the coffin, he did not spend extra energy on it.
Unexpectedly, Yang Huimei, who was not directly involved in the whole process, became more interested.
The latter couldn't help but shake his head:
"Mr. Chang, it's not just me."
"It is now estimated that business and law professors all over the world are closely watching the follow-up development of this incident. Even hundreds of papers related to the incident have been written..."
"woc ...Is it such a big impact?”
It was indeed beyond Chang Haonan’s expectation to make such a big noise.
But when he heard the second half of what Yang Huimei said, he suddenly remembered a joke he had heard before he was reborn.
A doctoral student has been studying various favorable factors after Britain joins the European Union for five years, with clear organization and strict logic.
But before he could defend his degree, Brexit happened.
“I wonder if there will be some unlucky graduate students studying Japanese business management who will be tricked by me...”
Chang Haonan muttered to himself in a low voice but was still fooled by the other two. When people heard this, the room was suddenly filled with happy air...
After a moment, Yang Huimei put away her smile and continued to explain:
"In short, since the 1980s, Japanese companies have The world, especially North America, still has a relatively large influence. Although Japan’s economy is slightly in decline, most people are still optimistic that they can restart rapid growth in the new century.”
Chang Haonan almost stopped when he heard this, but he also knew that it was normal to have this view without opening his inner eye, so he did not interrupt Yang Huimei, but allowed the latter to continue:
“As a result, when this incident came out last year, it directly affected the world, especially developed countries’ views on Japan’s industrial prospects. For example, among a group of companies involved, the stocks of the most serious ones were able to fall by three-thirds of their original value. Less than 1%, and the recovery is very slow. The most pessimistic expectation is that Japan’s GDP growth rate this year may be even lower than last year’s -1.3%..."
"..."
In the original timeline, several major fraud incidents broke out in the early 21st century, but they were basically isolated cases and the scope of impact was relatively small. When it was later widely exposed, Japan's economy was already almost in ruins. It was because there were too many lice but it was not itchy, so it could only be regarded as the icing on the cake.
And now he has detonated this big thunder in the late 1990s...
It always feels like he has made history accidentally.
After all, in the eyes of people of this era, the plot is actually "the signs of recovery that Japan's economy had already shown were directly interrupted due to a series of fraud and default issues, so it returned to a period of recession."
“I wonder if Nobuo Ikeda would add this paragraph if he wrote "The Lost Twenty Years" on this timeline..."
Chang Haonan thought to himself. road.
But when I think about it again, I feel that there is no need to wait for Nobuo Ikeda to write this book.
After all, in this life, China’s GDP may not surpass Japan’s until 2010.
So the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can completely reverse the situation and take the initiative to pay for a Japanese writer to write a book, so as to cultivate a group of reflective monsters for the other side...
......
Although this sidetracked part was a bit fun, after all, the business was not finished yet, so Yang Huimei quickly returned to the previous topic:
"Anyway, although we probably won't fight a lawsuit of this size and level, even if we just perform a show of killing chickens to scare monkeys, we will definitely need manpower."
What she said actually makes sense, but obviously for Chang Haonan's current energy is still somewhat miscalculated.
"We don't need to perform to kill chickens to scare monkeys. As long as the Ministry of Justice can accurately find the target and collect some preliminary evidence, it will be fine."
Chang Haonan replied:
"As for The real part is to ask the public prosecutor and judicial system to take action and conduct special operations to combat intellectual property infringement from time to time.”
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"Hiss..."
Yang Huimei, who originally thought her boss was a bit soft-hearted, was dumbfounded:
"Can it be like this?"
< br>She just thought that if the other party loses the lawsuit, she can lose a lot of money. In the end, Chang Haonan wanted to let the other party lose the lawsuit and go straight to the sewing machine...
This deterrence ability is really maxed out.
Chang Haonan said in his heart that you don’t know how a certain penguin will fight game cheats many years later. I also learned this from future generations.
Of course there is no way to explain this, so I can only regard it as my own original work:
“Protecting intellectual property rights should be an official act, and it must be very laborious for us to do it ourselves. It’s not flattering, so we still have to cooperate with the comrades of the judicial organs, which can be regarded as our contribution to the construction of the rule of law..."
Yang Huimei opened her mouth, but she didn’t know what to say, and finally just nodded. Nod:
"I understand. Let's wait until there is a need. But I have never done this job before, so I may need your guidance for the first time..."
Although she thinks she is well-informed , but I have never experienced this kind of posture -
Don't look at what Chang Haonan said, in fact, it is impossible for ordinary individuals, even ordinary companies, to be specially arranged by the judicial system. Special operations will give you peace of mind.
But if you think about it carefully, Torch Group is definitely not an ordinary enterprise nowadays, so it is normal to be treated a little bit specially.
"Okay, if there are no other questions, then let's do this for now. I have a signing ceremony to attend tomorrow, TORCH Multiphysics, and the launch of Sugon 2000T. You two can follow me more, okay? Just contact me when making a decision.”
Seeing that the other two people were no longer talking, Chang Haonan closed the notebook in front of him that was just a prop and had nothing written on it. He looked at Song Jingming on the other side:
"Also, Director Song?"
Song Jingming was still immersed in the shock of "Why didn't I know our company was so powerful?" He came back to his senses when he heard his name:
"I'm here, Mr. Chang."< br>
“Please help me with the agreement template to be used tomorrow. This matter is urgent and cannot be delayed.”
Chang Haonan said.
The cooperation agreement he is going to sign tomorrow is naturally what he had agreed with Wu Yifan before, asking the latter to recruit people from Ermao in the form of labor dispatch.
Originally, there was no need to be so anxious, but it is already late February, and Eastern Europe will soon enter a nightmare-level turbulence period.
For the Transcarpathian-Satu Mare smuggling route, there is only a window of about a week left to transport it by road...
(End of chapter)