Chapter 934 You are quite a 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 fast.
In less than a week, Torch Group is ready to file an intellectual property lawsuit against Samsung Offshore, requiring it to stop using it on eight LNG ships currently being built and to be built. It has been registered by the former BOG reliquefaction system patent.
In fact, this efficiency can be achieved somewhat 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 my subsequent operations.
But objectively speaking, it did allow the Torch Group to master the first-hand evidence with almost no effort...
At the same time, propaganda efforts also began to continue.
For several days in a row, different Chinese media have reported on Torch Group’s lawsuit against Samsung Offshore from different angles——
Although Torch Group is not obvious, but now After all, it is also a state-owned enterprise subsidiary directly under the Aerospace 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.
The time in 2001 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 are not necessarily businessmen, but official personnel of 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 enhanced. Although foreign trade still requires licenses and approvals, most of the time, it is direct head-to-head between domestic companies and foreign companies.
So it is not difficult to imagine that the number of various 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 Economic and Trade 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.
So, 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.
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, who are in confusion, they really need a benchmark to learn from and refer to.
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 himself, or rather by Torch Group, has quietly become the biggest topic in the Chinese business community in the past two days...
In fact, for him, being in the news is no longer unfamiliar. .
After receiving the May 4th Youth Medal and after the historic flood fighting and disaster relief work, 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 alone.
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.
So, the main topic of the news 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 due to the nature of the program, this interview was not conducted at Chang Haonan’s office as in the past.
But in a studio of CCTV.
......
When Chang Haonan arrived at the interview location at the agreed time, he was greeted by another more important person besides the person in charge of the news center.
"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 warmly.
"Director Long is so polite..." After a brief shock, Chang Haonan quickly responded:
"Whether it is your work or our work, In the final analysis, the purpose is the same..."
Long Yongtu is the chief representative of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation responsible for China's WTO negotiations and a member of the leadership team.
Chang Haonan and the other party have met several times.
Of course, even if it doesn't happen, this name that will appear in textbooks in the future is still enough to be heard.
At this moment, since China's WTO accession process has officially ended, Long Yongtu has no choice but to take a break.
But anyone with a little foresight can guess that he will have to be the second-in-command of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation in the future.
After some simple greetings, the three people walked into the CCTV headquarters building under the leadership of the staff.
“Tell the truth, Director Long.”
While waiting for the interview to start in the lounge, Chang Haonan said to Long Yongtu:
“You guys are giving It’s a big surprise for me.”
“I didn’t know that your Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation had paid attention to this matter before I received the interview invitation today.”
Originally, this sentence was just a casual chat to kill time, but Long Yongtu sighed seriously:
"Alas..."
"After joining the WTO, we discovered , In this international trade, there are far more disputes than cooperation.”
“You may not believe it, but in the past year or so, your Torch Group has been the first to take advantage of the situation in mainland China. , companies that actively choose to take legal procedures to resolve trade disputes.”
“So no matter what the outcome, we have to set this example up...”
Chang Haonan actually knew this.
In the previous life, it was not until 2006 that the first Chinese company sued a foreign company for intellectual property infringement.
It can be seen how backward China’s awareness is in this regard.
On the other side, after a brief pause, Long Yongtu continued:
"Originally, the ministry was ready to publicize according to the standards of the 'first WTO case', but you still Yesterday, we specifically emphasized that the purpose of this lawsuit is not to win, and there is a high probability that there will be no clear outcome in the end, so we held an emergency meeting and temporarily decided to tone down the tone a little..."
After Chang Haonan heard this, he called him a good guy in his heart.
He was a little bit muttered just now, saying why the standards of today's interview were 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 was originally going to I wanted to continue saying something, but at this time, the person in charge of the news center opened the door and said that the interview was ready and could begin.
......
Although it is a face-to-face interview with special specifications, the format is not much different from the past.
It's just that the host has been 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 two main businesses of Yifan Group.
That is, TORCMultiphysics software and numerical calculation business that can provide finished solutions.
And the second part immediately begins to enter the theme of today’s interview.
“I noticed the content of the lawsuit filed by Torch Group, which is that Samsung Offshore Group has infringed on your patent on the BOG reliquefaction system. Can you please briefly introduce this technology to us?”
"You just mentioned LNG ships. In this field, what is the current development status at home and abroad?"
"In other words, your company's patented technology has an impact on the development direction of the LNG transportation field. Decisive influence, is this it? ”
“…”
As an interview for the public, of course the host cannot just ask what he wants to know, but has to do it first. To pave the way, ask some basic questions for the melon-eating people in front of the TV.
After roughly understanding the background knowledge, it is easy to enter the core topic:
"Before today's interview, I specifically reviewed the litigation documents submitted by your company to the domestic and EU courts. I wonder what your expectations are for the next lawsuit? Will you win completely and let the other party stop the infringement, or will you prepare Settlement out of court and collect royalties?”
It can be seen that the host has definitely done his homework.
In his opinion, Chang Haonan made it clear yesterday that the purpose of this lawsuit is not to win, so it must be the latter answer.
So, as long as Chang Haonan gives an answer, he can express his appreciation and then naturally bring up a series of topics that have been prepared.
However, faced with this problem, Chang Haonan hesitated:
"Uh...actually none of them."
"..."
A trace of confusion flashed across the eyes of the host opposite.
Chang Haonan's completely unreasonable answer made him feel that his career seemed to be being challenged.
However, before he could think of the next question, Chang Haonan spoke again:
"Our original intention of 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. Tactical fallback.
"Save...the LNG transportation industry?"
The host is still trying to bring the topic back on track.
“That’s right.”
Chang Haonan nodded:
"Samsung Offshore Engineering not only illegally used our intellectual property BOG reliquefaction system, but also completely failed to understand the content of our patent."
"If according to their If the ship is built according to the 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 and hull cracking at any time. ...or even a direct explosion."
"The reason why we chose to go through the legal process with such great fanfare is that economic considerations are only a secondary factor. The key is to hope that Samsung Offshore can learn from this and avoid doing harm to the international community. Shipping safety, energy security and the global environment pose immeasurable threats..."
"So, from this perspective, Samsung Offshore should actually be grateful to us for this prosecution, which gave them a chance to stop the cliff. , it’s an opportunity to turn back.”
"..."
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..."
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(End of this chapter)