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Zhou Buqi asked Senior Sister Zhen Yu to leave a sum of money for him as a backup.

Because he wants to find a way to buy a patent on the diamond arrangement related to OLED display panels.

Because of this incident, Fu Sheng didn't even have a good New Year.

I left home on the second day of the new year and started working hard.

Now we have entered a critical stage.

Already quoted!

To buy 80% of the shares of the optical company for US$360 million.

As expected, Samsung quickly followed up and matched the offer.

When it reaches this stage, the only thing left is Boss Zhou to step forward.

We can't go head-to-head with Samsung to raise prices. Whether we can win is one thing. Even if we can, it will be a sky-high price, giving Americans an advantage.

Apart from this, there are several other related things.

Fu Sheng is in New York at this time, following up with another materials company in the United States. They have developed a phosphorescent material, which is said to be able to greatly improve the stability of OLED displays. You can check it out and make up for some shortcomings.

However, Fu Sheng was more concerned about another thing.

Samsung played a trick to steal the house!

Zhou Buqi and Senior Sister Zhen Yu were invited to visit Fu Sheng's newly purchased mansion in New York.

A luxurious townhouse.

Located on the riverside of Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson River, the location is excellent and the price is also very high, exceeding US$9 million.

Zhou Buqi found an antique oil painting of a naked girl from the cabinet at home and sent it as a gift to congratulate him on his new move.

There are so many such oil paintings at home.

There are tens of thousands of paintings.

Most of them are paintings of nude women from the salon period.

Wu Yu keeps some at home in New York, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, London and other places, just for giving gifts. This is a work of art after all, and it’s more decent to give as a gift.

The so-called salon paintings are realistic paintings, the more similar the better.

The painting is very similar.

The reason why ladies and wealthy ladies of that period were willing to take off their clothes in front of painters to paint such oil paintings was not at all dedicated to art, but because there were no cameras at that time. Salon paintings are the best tool to record yourself and pass on your image.

Salon oil paintings became a symbol of that era.

During this process, there was a young painter who felt that his painting was too poor and that he could never get ahead, so he came up with a wonderful idea and invented another way of recording - photography.

This is much more real than oil painting!

Then the salon painting was finished.

Who can draw more realistically than a photo?

Instead, there is the Impressionism School, which has no sense of realism and comes entirely from imagination, impressions and the spiritual construction of the self-world. The less unlikeable the better, and the more incomprehensible the better, Van Gogh soared into the sky.

Until now in the 21st century, Impressionism is still the mainstream in oil painting, and has even spread to various fields of modern art. It is a surreal and incomprehensible genre, separated from the public, and the threshold for appreciation is extremely high.

There are far fewer Impressionist paintings in the Zhou family. There are only more than 4,000 paintings in total, less than one-twentieth of the salon paintings.

It can be seen from this that salon paintings are painted by painters and can be mass-produced. They do not require any artistic inspiration. Just copy the paintings and they are easy to paint. Impressionism greatly raised the threshold of oil painting and the number of painters. Very few, naturally the number of paintings is also very small.

Zhou Buqi wanted to give gifts, and all he gave were salon paintings.

I went to Fu Sheng's house and saw his girlfriend...a white girl with a bit of Eastern European descent. She has fair skin and beautiful long legs. She is very stunning. She looks like she is about 20 years old. She is a junior at New York University. student.

Zhou Buqi sighed secretly.

They are indeed direct descendants!

It’s very similar to my original hobby!

However, this guy still has too little experience.

After a few years, when the romance is enough, you will know that the fair and thin girls from China, Japan and Korea are the best.

After sitting down, Fu Sheng put away the matter of having his home stolen by Samsung.

"Stealing the house?" Zhou Buqi was slightly startled, "Who stole the house?"

Fu Sheng said: "Samsung, Samsung has stolen our home!"

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was surprised and a little confused, "What does this mean? Why did you steal your home?"

Fu Sheng said: "It's the patent for diamond arrangement. I asked Meng Houkun to check it. I found that Samsung has successfully applied for a patent for diamond arrangement in China."

Zhou Buqi opened his eyes wide, "Isn't this an American patent?"

Fu Shengdao: "It's an American patent, but this is a small company. They don't have the ability to apply abroad. I guess they have no idea at all. And they now have a cooperative relationship with Samsung and have licensed the patent to Samsung for ten years. , naturally gave Samsung a chance.”

"Applying the Dragon Boat Festival as theirs and applying for American patents as theirs?" Zhou Buqi was very unhappy about this, "It is indeed the Korean way!"

Fu Sheng felt that the big boss was a bit biased, because it was not only Koreans who did this, but also domestic technology companies who did it the most, so he coughed and said: "From this we can make two judgments. First, Samsung recognizes the patent of diamond arrangement. It is conceivable that Samsung’s OLED screens will definitely use diamond arrangement in the future. Secondly, they have successfully applied for this patent in China, so the European Union Patent Office should also do the same. The application has been successful.”

Zhou Buqi asked: "Is this considered plagiarism? Isn't this plagiarism of an American patent?"

Fu Shengdao: "Forget it, but it's very common in the technology industry. Today's global technology is basically born in the United States. Many technology companies in the United States don't bother to litigate patent lawsuits and turn a blind eye. Without allowing others to copy, there would not be today’s flourishing of global technology. Only some patent trolls, like Qualcomm and Intel, will rely on patents to kill competitors every day.”

Zhou Buqi nodded.

When he communicated with people from the European Patent Office before, he had learned about the relevant information.

The companies that apply for the largest number of patents in the EU every year are not the technology giants in the United States, but South Korea's Samsung and LG. Domestic companies such as Huawei, ZTE, and Asda have also quickly reached the top ten. The number of European patents applied for is several or more than ten times that of technology giants such as Microsoft, Apple, and Google.

This is obviously not because American technology giants have poor technology and few patents.

But people are too lazy to apply for patents in Europe.

Technology giants of this level are not afraid of others misappropriating their intellectual property rights. The result is that these patents were originally invented by American technology companies and registered in the United States. Because these American companies are too lazy to apply for them all over the world, they leave a gap in the market and will be copied and registered by others.

Like diamonds arranged in domestic patents.

American companies do not apply.

Samsung seized the opportunity and applied for this patent.

Fu Shengdao: "Many times, it's just that the people don't take action and the officials don't investigate. As long as the original company of the patent does not sue, then those patent companies that forward and plagiarize will not be punished by law, and they can make a lot of money locally based on plagiarized things. made money."

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "In other words, if Samsung has successfully applied for a patent for diamond arrangement in China, then Samsung can rely on this patent to monopolize the domestic diamond arrangement market and restrict the development of domestic display companies. "

"That's true." Fu Sheng nodded, "Unless the American parent company comes forward to file a lawsuit in China and sue Samsung for infringement. The court will rule that since the U.S. patent has been disclosed before the domestic patent application, then this is not legal. It is novel and creative, so it should not be granted patent rights. If the parent company does not come forward, no one can do anything about it.”

Zhou Buqi said: "But Samsung has a cooperative relationship with this company in the United States, and they have also signed a ten-year patent license. This is a closed loop."

Fu Shengdao: "So among invention patents, the most important thing is the U.S. patent. If you have a U.S. patent, you can basically assume that this is an original invention. If you don't have a U.S. patent, then the patent is most likely derived from Copied from the United States. You see, the number of patents in China has exploded exponentially in recent years. In fact, they are all rubbish. Only a few can be applied for European patents, and only a few have been successfully applied for in Europe. Qualifications to apply in the United States. This is the objective reality. We all have to admit that the United States is still the center of technological development in the world.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "It's not surprising, this is the flow of talents."

This is not just a domestic dilemma, it is the same around the world.

The best technology patents must be invented by the best talents.

But the current global situation is that the best scientific and technological talents from various countries have gone to the United States to develop. Even if some second-rate players left behind in the country have made some inventions, they are often second-rate products and second-rate patents.

In the 1980s, Japan said that its scientific and technological achievements surpassed those of the United States... but this was actually very one-sided. The real situation is that the scientific and technological achievements of Japanese companies surpassed those of American companies.

Because the top scientific and technological achievements and patented inventions of Japanese companies often come from American teams, are made in the United States, and all apply for American patents.

Just like Ziweixing's advantage in the field of artificial intelligence, it is done by the American team, so it can hit the world's number one; just like Astar's breakthrough in the field of self-developed chips, it relies on the European team, because it is a European team If you are doing it, it is doomed to be difficult to surpass Qualcomm, and you will be satisfied if you can make second-rate chips; Samsung's chips are made by an American team, and it is said that it will spend tens of billions of dollars to acquire American chip companies in the near future. It can be seen that Samsung's chips It has the potential to impact Qualcomm chips.

Zhou Buqi felt helpless.

But he also knows that this feeling is not only felt by him, but also by all countries in the world except the United States.

Fu Sheng was not bothered by higher-level technology, and this was not a status quo that an individual could change. He only focused on the diamond arrangement and said with a smile: "Fortunately, the diamond arrangement has been discovered by us. Samsung's risk management and control has left us some space." Got some chances!”