Age of Dreams

() "Since Mr. Xiao has said so, I, Mario, will help you complete this commission." Mario pondered and said, "I'll pack up my things and I can leave tomorrow. Now let's draw up a commission contract. The patent code is Your USPTO application number will do.”

"it is good."

Xiao Qi admired Mario more and more. In addition to knowing his patience, perseverance and kindness, he is also so straightforward and careful. No wonder he can bring down that invincible villain in the future.

Mario is a very rigorous person, picked up Xiao Qi's patent application number, immediately started to draft the contract again, and wrote out a simple and clearly defined entrustment contract in a short while.

Xiao Qi took a look, "Hey, Mr. Melo, don't the contracts consist of dozens of contracts, with a lot of useful and useless things? Why are yours so simple?"

"Those are things that I don't have confidence in myself, and I don't need to clear my responsibilities first." Mario shrugged, "I'm a lawyer, and I'm not here to cheat. Do I need to work so hard?" ?”

Treating people with sincerity is one of Mario's great strengths, and it is precisely for this reason that so many people who have no money to hire a lawyer muster their courage to ask Mario for help.

Xiao Qi simply looked at the binding force of the contract, signed his name, and then handed out a written check.

"Two million?" Mario took a look, frowned and said, "Isn't it written in the contract, the total cost is 200,000, plus my travel expenses? Why do you give me so much?"

"When I walked in just now, I saw a few people moving, so I asked by the way." Xiao Qi said indifferently, "Your office is going to be demolished, and the new address has not been settled yet, right? You should take the money first. Use it, after all, I want to do business in China, and it will be inconvenient for me to come to the United States directly for many things in the future, so if I want to find a lawyer to cooperate with, it is nothing to pay in advance?"

Mario didn't know what business Xiao Qi was doing, and thought it was just an investment like other Huaguo people. After thinking for a while, he accepted the check, "Well, let me borrow your money."

"No need to borrow, it's an investment." Xiao Qi smiled, "There will be a lot of things in the future, and you can't do it by yourself. Why don't you open a small law firm and find a few people to help you? Investing in a law firm."

"Where do I have so many cases to deal with?" Although opening his own law firm is the dream of all lawyers, Mario still shook his head again and again, "The more people you find, the more salary you have to pay, and you will lose money on this business." Well, it’s better not to do it.”

"Mr. Melo, take a look at the more than one hundred patents I have applied for. This is only the first step, and there will be more arduous things to deal with in the future." Xiao Qi said involuntarily, "It's settled like this. I hold 20% of the shares in your firm, and you can decide the rest yourself, and I won't interfere."

When Mario heard that his unopened law firm was actually valued at 10 million by Xiao Qi, he immediately refused.

However, Xiao Qi was very persistent. The two argued for a while, but it was Xiao Qi who persuaded Mario with the reason that "opening a law firm can make better money and help the poor. Isn't that good?" .

To be fair here, it is true that Mario is a good person, but it does not mean that he does not want to make more money. Helping others and working hard to make money are completely incompatible things.

In the future, Xiao Qi will face big predators such as Joe Gang, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, etc. Without a strong team of lawyers, I am afraid that the business has not been done well, and he will be dragged down by the heavy prosecution and being sued. tired.

Mario's current ability may not be as good as those gold-medal barristers, but his patience and tenacity are absolutely top-notch. With the help of such a good lawyer, Xiao Qi can rest assured about the company's legal affairs in the future.

Xiao Qi's time is very tight. Seeing that the iPhone is about to go on the market and the era of smart phones is approaching, the purchase of some patents is absolutely an urgent task.

Although the total number of patents for smartphones and tablet computers is tens of thousands, they can be summed up in four areas: chip patents, underlying protocol-level patents, operating system technology patents, and application system patents.

Among them, except for the application system patents that may be developed by small and medium-sized companies, more than 80% of the other three basic and core patents are in the hands of large companies.

Xiao Qi came to Linus for the third "cao operating system technology patent". He doesn't need to buy patents in this area, so his focus is on the first two.

Chip patents are different from underlying protocol-level patents.

Chip patents are generally specific to a certain manufacturer, such as Texas Instruments, adi, Qualcomm, Nokia, and so on.

The underlying protocol-level patents involve almost all first-class mobile phone manufacturers, such as Nokia, Motorola, Philips, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, and so on.

Between the two, the patent barrier is the most serious at the bottom protocol level, especially now that ordinary 2G mobile phones are very popular and when the profits are the largest, they will definitely not give such an unknown person like Xiao Qi the opportunity to share the profits.

From the information provided by William's private consulting company, Xiao Qi discovered that Bank of Merrill Lynch was behind Adi, and Goldman Sachs was behind Texas Instruments, and he felt a headache for a while.

Whether it is Merrill Lynch or Goldman Sachs, they are at the top of the American financial industry, especially Goldman Sachs, which is known as the most terrifying and greedy investment bank in the United States, and is stronger than the Morgan family that has dominated Wall Street for a long time.

If you want to take the cake from Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, you have to be prepared to lose a hand.

Qualcomm's background is much simpler, with hundreds of well-known engineers jointly holding shares and operating independently.

It's a pity that they have never been short of money. Many companies wanted to invest or buy their patents before, but Qualcomm did not agree.

It is still unclear how far-sighted Qualcomm is, but after the advent of the 3G smart era, Qualcomm will become the electronic industry company with the largest patent income in the world, and its profits are so high that everyone will be jealous.

Even when smartphones became popular, Qualcomm actually existed like ants compared to Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and even Citigroup. As a result, Qualcomm still relied on its advantages as an extremely pure technology company and did not need to be controlled by anyone at all. Several well-known investment banks want to swallow this hen that lays golden eggs in one bite, but they have nowhere to start.