20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2966 Pro's Prying

After Zhao Changan sent Zheng Chi back, he drove away to Luoyi.

For Pro phones, design, accessories, and assembly are the three main elements in product production.

Now the North American Pro mobile phone R&D and design center has settled in Seattle, and formal cooperation has begun with BlackBerry Waterloo R&D Center.

Negotiations between Pro and NTP are ongoing, with One Nano expressing the possibility of either taking a controlling stake in NTP, or buying out NTP's patent rights against BlackBerry, or buying out the right to use those patents while taking a controlling stake.

NTP is obviously more interested in the third plan proposed by Yinaomi North America. The only obstacle at present is that NTP has a relatively high price requirement for patent buyout, and major shareholders have great differences in the valuation price of the company invested in by Yinaomi.

But this is obviously a good phenomenon. What those shareholders and company leaders mean is that as long as the money is in place, everything can be discussed.

Regardless of whether NTP is a rogue patent company, it is an unavoidable fact that it took advantage of the loopholes and obtained some key patents in the wireless system email transmission patent.

These people have not yet realized the restrictive power of the patents held by NTP on the world's wireless communications field. Zhou Kexin's team has compressed the usage price to 2000 million US dollars and requires that these patents be shared by BlackBerry and Pro.

In NTP, the majority of shareholders and senior management have agreed to the plan, but it is being obstructed by a small number of shareholders and senior management.

This is actually easy to understand, because BlackBerry's sales of its own-brand mobile phones so far are less than 12 units, and its sales of pagers are a little more, nearly 30 units. However, these pagers have been eliminated in large numbers. Before the incident in September, the power-on rate was only 30%, and now it is over 80%. However, the frequency of use is very low, and it is completely following the trend.

Zhou Kexin took out these data, as well as BlackBerry's market positioning, and made NTP believe that BlackBerry was destined to be just a niche high-end luxury commercial product, and it was impossible to have the same sales volume as Nokia and Motorola phones.

Assuming the sales of one million units in the next ten years, the NTP patent fee for a mobile phone of 2000 million US dollars would average out to 20 US dollars, and it is paid in advance, which is a good deal no matter how you look at it.

However, these troubles are not the main reasons. If One Nano North America wants to settle for $2000 million, NTP will definitely agree faster than a rabbit. However, Zhou Kexin obviously wants to continue to push the price down.

As for NTP's valuation, NTP's offer was US$4 million, which seemed like an exorbitant price to BlackBerry and OneNano North America.

The reason why NTP is so confident in asking for such a high price is the settlement price of US$2000, which is also the reason why Zhou Kexin's team wants to continue to suppress the price of patent usage.

In fact, NTP itself knows that if it really sues BlackBerry, it will not only be protracted, but it may not win, because if you talk about it, their patent is completely opportunistic and there is no evidence to support it.

This company was set up a few years ago by a group of rogue lawyers who were not doing well in their careers and a group of technicians in the radio field. They made big promises to attract investments and specialized in exploiting loopholes to register technical patents in the field of wireless communications.

Those technicians researched the radio communication technologies on the market, launched some new functions, registered patents, and then promoted them in the market, luring companies to join the network and use them, and then waited until the time was right to reap the benefits. Originally, they had to wait a few more years, but the company's shareholders invested more than 100 million US dollars in the past few years, without generating a penny of profit. In addition, the Internet winter and the September incident caused NTP to burn through its funds, so it could only start with BlackBerry.

BlackBerr used eight wireless mobile email communication patents, which were partially optimized by Tom Campana, the founder of NTP, and then launched into the market in the form of discussion.

The reason why Mike angrily refused to settle was that he had indeed seen the technologies optimized by Tom on the forum, but he did not use them at all. Instead, he used these technologies and more technical optimizations as a reference. If this could be shamelessly asking for money, then NTP would have to give the patent usage rights to the people and companies who promoted earlier wireless communication technologies.

In fact, NTP could have chosen Palm, which had more products on the market than BlackBerry, but the chances of success were too slim, so it decided to test the waters with the well-known BlackBerry first, and the asking price was not high, only US$3300 million.

Because they also know that they are not in the right, they just registered the patent in advance just to challenge BlackBerry and find a way to get some emergency money, otherwise the company will go bankrupt.

Zhou Kexin's goal is to reduce NTP's valuation to below US$2.5 million, so that a lot of money can be saved whether it is injecting capital to hold shares or buying out patents.

This is also a reflection of information asymmetry in the river of time. If NTP knew that as long as it could hold on for another three years, the US Patent Office and the court would shamelessly favor California-based NTP and deliberately suppress the Canadian company BlackBerry, BlackBerry would have proactively increased the settlement amount to US$3 million, 4.5 times the current US$3300 million. Even if One Nano North America cries about it, they will never settle and One Nano North America will not invest in or hold shares.

Not to mention the final judgment in 06 that BlackBerry was ordered to pay compensation of US$6.125 million. Later, NTP used this case and, based on the Oceans Act, sued the four major American operators, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile, in 07. After 10 years of seeing that they had become accustomed to the competition, they began to target Palm, Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG, and Motorola - they were simply in a bloodthirsty mood.

Although the US Patent Office and the judge were a little confused when they saw this scene, they just wanted to suppress BlackBerry through NTP, just like the US fiber optic equipment providers had previously joined forces to bring down Canada's Nortel Networks. How could they allow others to sleep soundly next to their own bed? They never thought of destroying their own country's companies.

However, now that things have come to this, we can only take comfort in the fact that the meat is rotten in the pot, allowing NTP to make a fortune.

However, it is precisely the United States' arrogant thinking and practices of global hegemony that have caused constant conflicts with peace-loving and justice-loving countries around the world, ultimately making it an isolated country and despised by countries all over the world.

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Zhao Changan's instructions to Zhou Kexin were to not rush the conversation but to talk slowly and never say harsh words or use those means to test NTP's bottom line. Instead, they should demonstrate the superiority of the Chinese enterprises and their carefree spirit of treating money as dirt.

But Zhou Kexin sneered at him.

If Zhao Changan said that NTP would not be willing to pay the $2000 million you are worried about now, even if it is $4.5 million in three years, Zhou Kexin would probably think that Zhao Changan was making a joke.

However, only Zhao Changan, who had swam in the river for some time, knew that he was not joking at all.

They still cannot see it now, but at that time BlackBerry has not yet revealed its terrifying power that can shake the global mobile phone market, and has not made the Americans fearful and shameless enough to suppress it by despicable means.

Therefore, these hidden dangers must be eliminated one by one in advance to create a suitable soil for BlackBerry and Pro to survive, grow and dominate, and use a small mobile phone to pry open the global economic hegemony held by the shameless Americans.