After half a year of lawyer battle, the little pirated man Andeng Renping finally waited for the court to finally announce the verdict, and he lost the case.

However, the court did not support Taiyu Technology's claim of 240 million yen, but only symbolically asked Andean Renping's company to pay 100,000 US dollars, that is, 24 million yen compensation.

This little money is not enough to pay for the lawyer’s fee!

Guan Fei was very satisfied with this.

Pirates are a very headache-inducing problem because it is not an economic problem, but a political problem!

Haven't you seen that since the country opened its doors to the outside world, it has been persistently learning (counterfeiting) other domestic products. From pirated software to counterfeit mobile phones, from walkman to tablet computers, countless top global companies, facing the fierce wave of piracy in China, can only grit their teeth secretly, and occasionally catch a bad guy and beat him to death.

Internationally renowned companies like Microsoft and Apple cannot be pirated. Can Guan Fei be more powerful than these companies?

The lawyer team is not to try to eliminate pirated pirated merchants. The biggest role is to rectify the reputation of the world. Using a tough attitude and fierce means, everyone can understand it clearly. I invented this thing. Even if you buy pirated goods, you must be clear that I am the owner of the rights and interests of this kind of product!

There is only one benefit to doing this: breaking through patent restrictions!

right!

Just this one purpose.

Guan Fei did not ask for much patent fees, but he passed the threshold first and became the inventor of this product, and erased the means by which developed countries used patents to restrict backward countries, thus entering the field with dignity.

There is no patent without a patent. I can’t receive a patent, but you don’t want to use patents to limit me!

As of now, this tactic is quite successful.

Due to the huge impact of "Space Invaders", the whole world knows that it was Taiyu Technology's first invention. Therefore, although pirates are rampant, everyone is making a fortune in silence. No one jumped out and said that they are the original developer of "Space Invaders". In addition, the arcade frame design and panel layout have also been successfully approved by patent offices of various countries, and have just become a patent under Taiyu Technology.

The first victory in patent rights protection also made Taiyu Technology begin to receive patent authorization applications from some small manufacturers, which can more or less make up for the expenditures of some patent lawsuits.

Perhaps it is also because of this reason that, in addition to some home workshop-style companies, which secretly find some goods to the market, electronic building blocks have not yet appeared on a large scale.

Electronic building blocks are sold well, and Pan Meifeng is also full of energy and works hard every day. This makes Zhou Xiaoshan complain very much, saying that it is harder to see her now than to see Guan Fei. After meeting her within three sentences, she will talk about Hasbro, electronic building blocks, and Transformers.

Pan Meifeng didn't even have time to hear the complaints.

Electronic building blocks are so popular now. Orders from all over the world are rolling in. The orders of 100,000 sets of orders have been fully received in the first month, and the new orders have been extended to two months later.

After the separation of production and sales, she only cared about production and then packaged wholesale to Sagitar Trading at a price of 49 US dollars per set. However, two companies in the same system also argued endlessly about whether this wholesale price was offshore or landed.

Of course, Pan Meifeng hopes that it is FOB.

The so-called FOB price means that the manufacturer sends the goods onto the ship, and the responsibility ends here. The manufacturer ignores a series of expenses such as shipping, mid-way losses, dock loading and unloading, onshore distribution, etc. If calculated based on the FOB price, the forty-nine US dollars is almost net income.

Of course Sagitar Trading doesn't do it.

They are all in this industry, and everyone knows the cost of manufacturing plastic components. Even if they are embedded with electronic components, it won’t cost much more. A set of electronic building blocks with a retail price of 99 US dollars will be only a dozen Hong Kong dollars, or about three US dollars.

Calculated based on the FOB price, Hasbro's profit is ridiculously high. And their commercial marketing also involves in inviting experts to create momentum, advertising, and investment is much greater than that of the manufacturer.

They firmly cannot accept Pan Meifeng's calculation method.

Guan Fei was just bystandering the dispute between the two sides and occasionally persuaded him to do so. No matter whose pocket the money was in, it was his in the end.

Whether it is Hasbro or Sagitar Trading, it is all made to build a complete civil production and sales network.

As long as you don't lose money, it's enough.

After all, it is a toy project. The number of electronic components that can be digested is less than a fraction of the monthly production capacity of the military sub-district, and his focus is not here.

His focus is on several types of audio products being developed in the new era, which is the highlight of the large amount of components consumed in the future!

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Xu Jiajun, a former toy company engineer who met Jiang Zeshui on the Kowloon Bus, was frowning and thinking hard against a design drawing.

With years of practical experience, he easily passed the recruitment and has resigned from his position in a toy factory and has arrived in a new era.

The new era is not in Taiyu Building, but in a few hundred meters apart, a whole building was rented and renovated. When the factory was renovated on the first to sixth floors, the company had already formed the newly joined designers on the eighth floor, forming three design teams, purchasing various R&D equipment, and owning their own laboratories on the eighth floor.

All the equipment is very good, which shows that the company is eager to seek talents.

As soon as you enter the company, you shoulder the burden of future product research and development, which also makes all designers feel intimidated and anxious, wishing to put out what you have learned throughout your life to make the company recognize their professional and technical abilities.

The team that Jiang Zeshui belongs to is responsible for is a portable single-player machine, and the official product name will be Walkman.

Because of his high electronics research and development capabilities, he was promoted to deputy leader of the project team.

Here, he finally realized the joy of truly developing a project. Compared with the complex structure of the Walkman, the electronic toys he developed before were so simple that they were not worth mentioning. Years of front-line work experience made him realize how great the future prospects the project he developed would have.

Thinking of the vast market for Walkman in the future, he was excited to know that his name was likely to be recorded in the history of electronic technology because of this product!

The greater the expectation, the greater the psychological pressure.

Such an epoch-making product will soon be designed by one's own team, which is both an inspiration and a great mental pressure.

How to design a perfect electronic product becomes the heavy burden of every designer in the design team.

Electronic toys in Hong Kong are very famous, but their design capabilities are almost zero.

There is no high-quality acoustics laboratory here and no strong technical accumulation. When Xu Jiajun and others first took over this project, they didn't even know where to start.

Especially the walkman indicators set by the company for their project teams made everyone feel desperate.

The length is thirteen centimeters, no more than fourteen centimeters, eight centimeters, no more than nine centimeters, and the thickness is no more than three centimeters.

This size is too strict!

A music tape is eight centimeters long, and the thickness is about one centimeter. This means that the front of the Walkman is basically occupied by the tape. All mechanical transmission components and circuits must be compressed behind the tape, within a narrow range slightly larger than the tape.

Xu Jiajun has never had any experience in developing audio equipment, and faced with the drawings, he was completely confused.

The members of the project team were all stupid. They came with ambitions. When the company really arranged a R&D project for them, individuals could see how potential the project had, but they just couldn't do it and couldn't draw a picture!

Many people begin to doubt themselves, suspecting that they are not able to engage in real product research and development. The only thing that may be suitable for them is to make some simple electronic toys.

Xu Jiajun also felt that he was about to collapse, but he still gritted his teeth and persevered.

Fortunately, the company did not make things difficult for them.

The company found them a large number of audio circuit drawings, amplifier circuit drawings, and mechanical transmission mechanism drawings. There are also ready-made suitable audio recorders, desktop audio recorders, and spare parts for them to analyze and study.

In this way, they embarked on a difficult road of research and development.

With objects to refer to, these veterans who are familiar with plagiarism and counterfeiting have finally found their ideas.

Sketches were drawn one by one, and then modified them little by little.

The mechanical structure is first copied from the box recorder, and then the transmission data is calculated based on the size and made major changes.

The cassette recorder has a flat horizontal layout, and the buttons are all down-pressed. The Walkman can be regarded as a standing cassette recorder. Then the original button direction is equivalent to pressing sideways, which is very unpleasant, so it should be changed to press down along the body direction.

If a button action changes, the overall mechanical structure will also be greatly changed.

All designers have tried their best to cut and reduce the thickness and width of mechanical transmission parts. In order to save space, they also need to minimize transmission parts, and various transmission parts will also be modified to ensure transmission efficiency and strength while reducing the volume as much as possible.

The drawing in front of Xu Jiajun is already the twelfth picture he has drawn.

Compared with the original version, the thick and clumsy structure was already quite exquisite, but he was still not satisfied.

Xu Jiajun rubbed his sore eyes and decided to take a little rest.

He got up and poured himself a cup of hot coffee, walked out of the design room with the cup, and came to the sample display room outside.

There are all kinds of recorders here.

Currently, popular recorders on the market are usually very large in size, so the official name of home recording equipment is usually desktop audio, which consists of a recording booth, radio, equalizer, power amplifier, etc., to form a huge box.

There are also small ones, namely cassette recorders and car recorders.

Both are structurally the same thing. The cassette recorder is a long flat box with a plastic cover that can be opened directly above. After opening it, the audio tape can be placed in, automatically clamped, and then closed the cover.

The car recorder is a cassette recorder embedded in the car dashboard. The belt inlet mechanism is slightly different and it is an open port. The belt inlet port has an automatic transmission device, which is sent in, touches the mechanism, and the transmission device sends the cassette in and automatically clamps.

He is already very familiar with the mechanical structures of these two types of recorders.

Xu Jiajun turned around and looked at the newly sent recorder on the Pujin desktop, and his eyes revealed a fascinating look.

This newly sent recorder is a development project of another R&D team: a portable cassette recorder!

Although both are project development, that group is much easier than them.

This portable cassette recorder has a drawing directly on it, and they just need to assemble it according to the drawings. This kind of work can be done by ordinary technicians, and there is no difficulty at all.

Moreover, the movement of the portable recorder is also a finished product sent from the mainland.

Compared with their hard-working research and development process of the Walkman team, the portable recorder team is simply too happy.

Xu Jiajun walked to the booth, stretched out his right index finger above the portable recorder, pressed Jian Kaigu, and the cassette door lock below loosened and popped out quickly with a snap.

He closed the warehouse door thoughtfully, pressed the switch again, and the warehouse door popped up again.

There is no need for the R&D team to disassemble the recorder, with its loose parts on the side and a disassembled movement.

This movement is actually exactly in line with the Walkman design idea they are about to develop!

The mechanical transmission structure, key direction, belt mechanism, cassette lock design and design ideas all meet the perfect standard in his mind! It is no exaggeration to say that as long as the movement is reduced in size, it can be directly used for the Walkman!

Xu Jiajun opened and closed it many times and sighed deeply.

In fact, he already understood that the company asked them to develop a walkman just to test their actual working ability. Through this portable recorder, he understood that the company had long had complete design drawings, and taking out the portable recorder so quickly was to open their eyes and have a clear reference to understand how to design a walkman.

Otherwise, if you really put all your hope on this group of inexperienced R&D personnel, you may not be able to produce mature products in a year or two.
To be continued...