The last court session began under the spotlight. Zhang Zhonghua once again led a team of 20 lawyers into the New York District Federal Court.
Reporters from dozens of major media outlets from around the world entered the court to observe and participate in the entire trial and verdict.
IBM also has troubles that it cannot tell. Originally, a simple incident did not expect it to cause such a big fuss, and there was no way to delay it. Now the whole world is paying attention to this mess, which can be regarded as causing a storm in the city.
Rockwell and Caterpillar, these two companies, are just following IBM, and now they have very strong opinions against IBM. You know, they are still suing me, so they might as well directly purchase the secondary development license, so
Save time and effort.
They don't even want to continue developing the database. After all, they are not IBM. The two companies just need a usable database.
In court, the attorneys for the three companies also knew that the end was over. They hesitated for a long time but could not come up with new evidence to prove that Zhang Zhonghua plagiarized and stole company information. YH Company and IBM were purely creative collisions, and Zhang Zhonghua's database software was the most
Developed it first and applied for a patent, Zhang Zhonghua did not commit any infringement, and the patent also belongs to Zhang Zhonghua.
The chief judge of the New York District Federal Court finally made a ruling: IBM, Rockwell and Caterpillar lost the lawsuit and were required to jointly pay Zhang Zhonghua US$600,000 in legal fees; pay Zhang Zhonghua US$100,000 for lost work; and compensate Zhang Zhonghua US$1 million for reputational damage.
, a total of US$1.7 million.
With the victory of the lawsuit, Zhang Zhonghua's 20 lawyers were very excited. They had fought a lawsuit against three international giants and won.
Although these lawyers are all successful and famous, defeating the three giants is also a brilliant stroke in their legal careers. It greatly improves their reputation. Once their reputation is high, they will be able to represent them in lawsuits in the future.
The bidding becomes more confident.
And Cheng Luo was even more excited. After staying in Chou Country for almost a month, the relationship between Zhang Sheng and the three giants finally came to a successful conclusion. He did not lose the face of his father, and Luo Wenjin Law Firm will also be better.
Go up one floor.
The patent lawyer sent by Dr. Wang An to support Zhang Zhonghua was even more excited. This time he won the lawsuit on behalf of Wang An Computer Company. His boss Wang An and IBM had a deep hatred and could be said to be incompatible with each other. This time he also won the case.
He breathed a sigh of relief for the boss. The boss should give him a lot of rewards this time.
After walking out of the court, Zhang Zhonghua also breathed a long sigh of relief. This time he wrote the database and collided directly with IBM. It was really reckless. In the future, unless it was a last resort, Zhang Zhonghua did not want to conflict with IBM and other giants on the underlying computer patents.
After winning this lawsuit, database-related products will become our own products. In fact, it is not impossible to become a software giant.
As for the compensation, it was only small amounts of money and not interesting. Zhang Zhonghua decided to give each lawyer a check to see if he could recruit a few to his team.
"Zhang Sheng, this time we have fulfilled our mission. We are going back to Hong Kong Island. Do you have any other plans?"
Luo Decheng said to Zhang Zhonghua with a smile.
"Thank you so much to Attorney Luo and everyone else this time. I will thank you again later. Zhang thanks everyone again."
Zhang Zhonghua is also very grateful to these lawyers. They are definitely worth the money, and the legal fees are paid by three companies including IBM.
Then Zhang Zhonghua took out three Citigroup checks totaling 40 US dollars that he had prepared long ago from his pocket, and handed them to the three parties respectively. This time everyone almost vomited when they looked at the professional documents. Although the legal fees were excluded from IBM, but as a
Rich people should always express their gratitude properly.
After Zhang Zhonghua said goodbye to all the lawyers, he returned to his villa. Without a lawsuit, Zhang Zhonghua is now really free and light.
Chou Guo's plan has been basically completed. It seems that the only issues left are the sale of the software and the establishment of a company. Also, he has become famous in Chou Guo, which will pave the way for CFC restaurants to enter the Chou Guo market in the future.
A little bit of basics.
"Boss, the next step is to put the software on the market. How will the price be determined?"
"Let's start with setting up a company, but the price will definitely not be cheap. Now anything related to computers is not cheap."
Zhang Zhonghua thought for a moment and then said.
Nowadays, as long as it has something to do with computers, both the computer itself and the storage device are so expensive that it makes people's heads tingle. It is impossible to study computer science without some wealth.
For example, in Zhang Zhonghua's opinion, the compression software on the market, which is totally worthless, costs at least US$100. The super large floppy disk released by IBM sells for more than a thousand US dollars.
Zhang Zhonghua’s yh can be said to be the king of compression. No company can surpass it in the short term. Moreover, as long as large-capacity storage devices do not appear, the compression software market will not collapse.
Storage devices of the gigabyte level will be difficult to apply on a large scale in the next 20 to 30 years, so the compression software market can sustain Zhang Zhonghua for 20 to 30 years. And with the miniaturization and generalization of computers, the compression software market will
Continue to expand.
Opening a restaurant or selling electrical appliances are very weak compared to software. As long as you have a computer or computer, you must install compression software. The market potential is huge, and after the compression software is developed, there will be no cost.
"Boss, the cheapest computers now start at US$10,000, so why should our software cost more than ten US dollars?"
"Hey, a dozen dollars? IBM launched the first supercomputer with a hard drive in 1956. Its hard drive contained 50 24-inch disks, was as big as two refrigerators, weighed up to a ton, and could store 5MB of data.
, up to $10,000 per megabyte of storage space.
Nowadays, more than ten tapes are needed to install a software, but compression software can directly reduce the file size by half, directly doubling the storage capacity of tapes, and it is too cheap for more than ten dollars."
Zhang Zhonghua said with a smile, and at the same time a light flashed from his eyes.
A few days after the patent, while Zhang Zhonghua was preparing lunch at the villa, he received an unexpected visitor—Thomas Watson Jr., chairman of IBM.
Hearing this visit, Zhang Zhonghua's little heart almost jumped out of his chest. Although he won the lawsuit against IBM, compared with IBM, he was just a serious little Kalami, not worth mentioning.
IBM did not resort to any extravagant tactics to allow Zhang Zhonghua to win the case. Otherwise, if IBM had made some moves and the evidence was insufficient, the court would have ruled that IBM won.
Thomas John Watson is the founder of IBM. He has grown from a little-known computing tabulation and recording company to the world's largest computer company, leading the world's computer development and developing IBM into a dominant player in the information industry.
Thomas Watson Sr. died in 1956, and Thomas Watson Jr. inherited his father's business and served as president of IBM. After replacing his father as CEO in 1956, he led the company through an unprecedented long period of astonishing rapid growth.
period.
When Thomas quit IBM, the company had completely defeated its competitors in the computer industry such as General Electric Company, American Radio Company and Sperry General Automatic Computer Company. In terms of size and status, it surpassed these once dominant companies.
A big, established company in Ugly Country’s business world.
Under the painstaking management of Watson Jr., IBM has become the leading giant company in the world's computer industry, and has become the fifth largest industrial enterprise in the world.
Zhang Zhonghua enthusiastically introduced the visiting Thomas Watson Jr. into the living room.
"I'm sorry for interrupting your happy time by visiting."
After the two sat down and listened, Thomas Watson Jr. said to Zhang Zhonghua.
He really didn't expect that the young man in front of him would be more successful in compression software than in databases. Nowadays, because of the backward storage technology, IBM has a greater demand for compression software. As long as the memory card space is large enough, the industrial computer market will also
Wider.
"It is our honor to have you here. IBM leads the development of computer technology around the world and promotes social progress. It will inevitably continue to lead the development of computers in the world. As the chairman of IBM, your presence here will make this place flourish."
Zhang Zhonghua said politely.
If Dr. Wang An knew that Zhang Zhonghua was ten times more excited to see Thomas Jr. than to meet him, would he regret supporting his legal team?
You must know that he supports Zhang Zhonghua in the hope that Zhang Zhonghua will fight to the end with IBM, but Zhang Zhonghua will fight to the end with IBM when he is crazy. And in essence, IBM has not provoked Zhang Zhonghua.
"I hope I didn't bother you. The previous lawsuit caused you a lot of trouble. I'm really sorry."
Thomas Watson Jr. said.
People had to bow their heads under the roof. There was such a big misunderstanding. He had to go to the door in person to admit his mistake. But he figured out that this young man was a perverted genius. He didn't want IBM to have another genius more talented than Wang An.
opponent.
"It's nothing, it's just that the creativity is the same, and they are all contributing to the development of society. Mr. Watson, if you have enough time, please stay for lunch and let you have a taste of my craftsmanship."
We hot summer people like to discuss business at the wine table. As long as we drink a bottle of white wine, there is nothing that cannot be discussed.
Thomas Watson Jr. feels like he's messy in the wind. I'm here to discuss the software park city. Why do I get involved in hot summer delicacies?
"Well, of course, it's a great honor. Please excuse me, Mr. Zhang. This is my first time to taste Chinese food!"
Thomas Watson Jr. said very politely.
Zhang Zhonghua asked his secretary to accompany Thomas Watson Jr. to watch TV in the living room, while Zhang Zhonghua went to the kitchen. The ingredients he prepared today were originally to celebrate winning the lawsuit, but they were just used to entertain Thomas Watson.
At noon, a table of sumptuous dishes was served on the table, and the rich aroma filled the living room, which made Thomas Watson's stomach and eyes straighten.
I couldn't help but smile awkwardly.
Moreover, Zhang Zhonghua also considered that Gui Lao has strong tastes and chooses bland and sweet dishes. This is why among the eight major cuisines, Huaiyang cuisine is chosen as the state banquet cuisine. Because it adapts to everyone's taste, after eating it before
No stomach upset.
This meal made little Thomas exclaim that what Zhang Zhonghua is most good at is his cooking skills. This cooking skills and this Chinese food are so delicious, and those steaks are garbage.
At the same time, Thomas secretly determined to increase Chinese food at work when he returned to the company. Therefore, in the next few decades, Chinese food in the IBM restaurant was very popular, and engineers in the United States also fell in love with Chinese food.
The place with the highest acceptance of Chinese food in Chou Country.
"Mr. Zhang Zhonghua, your cooking skills are really great. I was not very interested in food before, but this is the first time I have developed a strong interest in food."
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Thomas Watson Jr. praised.
"Thank you for your compliment. My cooking skills are not worth mentioning in the hot summer. If you have the opportunity to go to the hot summer in the future, you will see thousands of various delicacies from the eight major cuisines of the hot summer."
"You are really a genius, both in cooking and computers. The compression software and database you wrote are really excellent."
Thomas Watson Jr. said with sincere admiration for Zhang Zhonghua, but he knew very well that Zhang Zhonghua only started to study computers seriously when he came to Chou Country last time to sell electric fans and humidifiers. How long has passed since then, he is already better than
It takes decades of hard work by others.
This made Thomas Watson Jr. sigh that there really are geniuses in this world.
"Mr. Thomas, I have red wine Lafite and famous Chinese wines here. Of course, there are also cokes and drinks."
The three of them started to eat, and Thomas Watson Jr. had a huge appetite. He was very happy eating the dishes and drinking Lafite. An hour later, the guests and hosts had a good time. The secretary stayed in the dining room to pick up the leftovers. Zhang Zhonghua and Thomas Watson Jr.
When we came to the living room, we got down to business.
"I wonder if Mr. Zhang Zhonghua intends to sell the patents on compression software and database software?"
Thomas Watson Jr. asked Zhang Zhonghua straight to the point.
Hearing this, Zhang Zhonghua shook his head.
Database software will be a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the future, and I will never give up this huge piece of cake. After the advent of the Internet era, databases will be a golden oil field; and compression software will have a prosperous period of at least more than 20 years. This is a super
The income that cash cows can bring is simply impossible to predict. Zhang Zhonghua only sells patents when he is crazy.
It's not necessarily a good thing to master two awesome softwares by yourself. You don't have the ability to win two businesses now, otherwise the US imperialists will teach you how to behave every minute.
What exactly is the Wall Street spirit of the ugly country? That is, of course everyone can make money together, but if you go it alone, you will be killed and you will lose everything.
"Mr. Thomas, the database software is limited by hardware conditions and its functions are far from what I imagined. I want to continue to develop it myself.
My compression software algorithm can basically compress all formats, even those multimedia files without any problems.
Compression software has been prosperous for at least several decades. Nowadays, computers are still in the kb era. Even in the mb and gb era, compression software still has broad market prospects.
Nowadays, computers are mainly dominated by large-scale industrial machines. I believe that computers will sooner or later enter thousands of households in the future. I’m sure you will also know how big the market for compression software will be by then.”
Zhang Zhonghua said.
The market prospects of compression software are simply impossible to estimate, and I will not sell the patent.
"It would be very difficult for computers to enter individual homes. It was unlikely to be possible in the past few decades."
Thomas Watson Jr. said.
"You know the history of computer development better than I do. I don't think I need to go into details about how different computers are today from those in the past.
What's more, many personal computers have appeared now, and with the upgrading of semiconductor technology, computers will become smaller and smaller, and it is inevitable that they will enter thousands of households.
The U.S. economy is so developed and it occupies a major position in the world economy. If a computer has the entertainment function of a television, there must be many families who buy computers."
