Back To The Age Of The '80s

"This is the approval document for the project. Every research project in a university must go through strict approval. You can see that the project of the Ninth Biological Research Laboratory of Huaqing University was first submitted for review in June 1985. On the 6th, the document for approval had the seals and signatures of the Department of Biology of Huaqing University, Huaqing University, and the Huaguo scientific research management department."

The attorney presents the filing to the judge and jurors.

The plaintiff's lawyer sneered, "The chapters of Huaqing and Huaguo's education department, Huaqing is the defendant in this case, as for the Huaguo education department... Judge, I think the Huaguo education department has an affiliation with Huaqing, and their signatures and seals are not enough as evidence," Oni's lawyer retorted loudly.

Before the judge could speak, lawyer Tobia, Li Zheng's lawyer, stood up abruptly, "I protest, this is our presentation time."

"Attention the plaintiff."

The plaintiff's lawyer sat down embarrassingly, but Tobia noticed the approval materials he submitted, and the judge just flipped through them a little and then put it down. Obviously, the plaintiff's lawyer's words still had an impact on him.

Tobias did not rush, and continued to speak: "Of course, although I think it is very impolite for the plaintiff to interrupt during our presentation. But I can also understand the objections raised by the plaintiff. .So I ask the judge and jury to allow me to give a second piece of evidence."

"This is a donation agreement signed between Roche and Huaqing. The agreement clearly stated that what Roche donated was the right to use the laboratory rather than the ownership. Therefore, when the No. [-] Biological Research Laboratory of Huaqing University was established, it was also submitted to Roche in accordance with regulations. A project approval letter, this is the original project approval letter that Mr. Li Zheng asked for from Roche Asia Headquarters, Roche’s approval and filing certificate. Mr. David also said that if necessary, he can come to Chicago in person to provide assistance for Li Zheng Mr. Zheng testified."

This evidence is much stronger, at least the first accusation of the Biological Laboratory of the University of Chicago can be basically declared unfounded.

Oni's face in the plaintiff's seat was terrible. Roche is a well-known pharmaceutical company in the world. No matter how good their relationship with Li Zheng is, they would not take the risk of damaging the company's reputation as evidence in court. What does this mean?

Half a month!Really only half a month!The half-month project made him a complete failure, which made him feel more humiliated than when Novartis left on the contract table.

O'Neill only felt that now he was stripping naked and running on the street, everyone was pointing at him, and the mocking comments made him almost go crazy.

"There is also the plaintiff's second allegation, to conduct research on related projects within the contract period. We admit that UW solution and CH5 solution are both organ storage solutions, and they have homogeneous characteristics in terms of use and performance. But the judge And everyone on the jury, I don’t know what kind of concept you have for conducting research on related projects.”

"Before the trial, I checked related cases similar to this case. In 1978, the New York Supreme Court ruled such a case. This is a new material patent case. The three partners signed a project cooperation agreement, but in During the project cooperation period, they did not produce results.”

The judge on the trial seat looked at the watch on his wrist and reminded: "Please pay attention to the time of the statement."

Tonya was taken aback for a moment, obviously this lawsuit was played too heartily, and this kind of crushing pleasure made him a little carried away.He touched his nose guiltily. He is one of the best patent attorneys in the United States, how could he make such a low-level mistake.

"Okay, then I'll make a long story short. None of the three produced results during the project cooperation period, but one year after the end of the project cooperation period, the other two partners successively produced new material results similar to the original cooperation project , This made the other of the three partners sue the other two in court, because there is such a clause in the project contract signed at the beginning, the contract has a three-year retrospective period, and the contracting party cannot conduct relevant research within the three-year retroactive period.”

"But in this lawsuit, there were two defendants, one was convicted of breach of contract, and the other was not. The reason given by Judge Thomas at the time was whether his judgment was based on whether the homogeneity study was conducted subjectively. The two One of them used the project materials to conduct follow-up research and obtained results, and the other accidentally produced similar results to the previous project in other projects."

"And my client, Mr. Li Zheng, discovered the new role of CH5 solution, which was originally used as a blood growth agent, and this role coincides with the cooperation project between the Biology Laboratory of the University of Chicago and the Biology Laboratory of Huaqing University. This is just A beautiful coincidence. It brought hope to many people and made modern medicine take a big step forward. I think this is a gift from God!"

Tobia's statement was very contagious, causing a burst of applause in the courtroom. The first applause was the Chinese Americans who came to support, then ordinary Americans, and then the entire auditorium.

An eight-toothed smile appeared on Tobia's face, "Judges and jurors, our presentation is over."

The judge nodded, but before he could speak, Oni stood up abruptly in the plaintiff's seat, and walked outside without looking back.

"Oni!" Professor Keemen shouted, and then got up and left the table.

Tobia shrugged, expressing his deep sympathy to the astonished lawyer in the plaintiff's seat. When he met a pig-like teammate, no matter how capable the plaintiff's lawyer was, it was impossible to win the case.

After all, leaving the meeting halfway represents contempt of court, which almost makes the judge and jury who are already biased towards the defendant make a quick decision.

Sure enough, Oni's lawsuit was dismissed, and there was no breach of contract or infringement by Huaqing.

The news spread back to China, and the whole country rejoiced.This is the first patent case in which Hua people are the protagonists, and its victory signifies the awakening of Chinese people's concept of intellectual property rights.

It means that the battle between the University of Chicago and Huaqing University, they won!Won? !Wu Zhaomeng secretly pinched his thigh!Whoops, it's true!

He became the first Huaqing secretary who stood in a foreign court and won the lawsuit!

Wu Zhaomeng straightened his back. Now he doesn't mind being photographed at all, and he even wished to stand in front of the media and let them take a good photo from beginning to end.

It's nothing to be on the news, just like Li Zheng said, he is the first one, and he can still be recorded in the annals of history.

"Hey Hey Hey"

"secretary?"

"Secretary Wu?" Chen Anbang pushed Wu Zhaomeng's shoulder hard, not because he didn't want to pat lightly, but because he had patted him several times just now, and it was useless at all.

Wu Zhaomeng suddenly came back to his senses. He coughed dryly and cleared his throat, "What's wrong? Going back to the hotel?"

"Li Zheng said that Mr. Kent helped a lot in this incident. He wants to treat Mr. Kent to thank him and let us go together." Chen Anbang said in a low voice.

"Go, why don't you go. I've been in Chicago for so many days, but I haven't had a good meal of local food. It's not easy to go abroad. I'm going to go shopping tonight and bring something back to Lao Zhao and the others. "Wu Zhaomeng said with a smile, the appearance of staying in the room two days ago and refusing to take a step was long gone.

Chen Anbang snickered inwardly, with that simple and honest look on his face, he followed Li Zheng and the others to walk out.

Li Zheng invited Kent and others to have a meal at the best restaurant in Chicago. With Secretary Wu gasping from time to time while eating and looking at the menu, the group had the happiest dinner since arriving in Chicago.

Then the next day, they got on the plane back to Huajing.

It's not that Wu Zhaomeng didn't want to stay in Chicago for a few more days, but because of this lawsuit, people who had already stopped fighting the 3000 million US dollars kept making small moves.

They even asked the bank to directly freeze the account of the Ninth Biological Research Laboratory of Huaqing University. They had to divide the 1000 million US dollars already in the account as soon as the spoils sharing meeting was over.

"Professor, after you left, the Ministry of Education proposed that due to the particularity of the case, they would directly supervise our Ninth Laboratory. Chairman Zheng said that they only wanted to take the 1000 million US dollars in our account. So after discussing with Principal Zhao, he asked The Ministry of Railways offered to exchange US$200 million for the independence of the Ninth Laboratory, and the Ministry of Railways agreed." Sun Bin said cautiously.

Because if Li Zheng loses the lawsuit or if he doesn't come back in time, it's a good idea.But Li Zheng not only won the lawsuit, but also won so beautifully, so the idea of ​​attracting wolves and tigers seems a bit redundant.

Even the Ninth Lab will lose 200 million US dollars because of this.This idea came from Zheng Guangye, and Zheng Guangye's father was a senior official of the Ministry of Railways. He was afraid that Professor Li might misunderstand Zheng Guangye because of this.

After experiencing these days, Sun Bin understands that without Zheng Guangye, relying on them alone, the laboratory would have been swallowed to the bone.

Li Zheng paused when he heard this, he raised his eyebrows and looked at the nervous Sun Bin.

"Zheng Guangye? It's a good effort to use your strength." Li Zheng suddenly remembered that the name Zheng Guangye sometimes sounds familiar.It turns out that there is more than one great god hidden in their laboratory.

Li Zheng didn't immediately think of Zheng Guangye's identity because Zheng Guangye in his previous life did not step into the scientific research circle after graduation, but entered the officialdom.

The No.1 of the Ministry of Railways in later generations, the legendary figure in the birth of China's high-speed rail, Zheng Guangye.It seems that he is really overqualified.

"Professor?" Seeing Li Zheng standing there and suddenly laughing, Sun Bin felt creepy. For some reason, he had a natural sense of awe for Professor Li, who was a few years younger than him.

Obviously, this kind of feeling can only be felt by those old professors who have been working for a long time.