Reborn multinational giant

On Sunday, April 5th, Fang Zhe, who finally took time out to exercise in the gym, received an emergency call from his secretary Li Wen.

"Huizhong's office in Silicon Valley, USA, received a subpoena from the San Francisco court. The American game company named Weilster sued Huizhong for allegedly plagiarizing a farm game from their company in the United States and overseas. ."

Fang Zhe did not expect that this company would act so quickly. According to the previous plan and opinions put forward by the Legal Department, Huizhong is planning to send people to communicate with them to resolve disputes peacefully. After all, no company is willing to go to the office. Court litigation, such things as litigation are time-consuming and laborious. Winning such a company that has never heard of Huizhong won no benefit at all. I didn’t expect people to send them out before they were sent out. Sued.

"Contact Mr. Zheng and Mr. Li, as well as Li Chen and the relevant personnel in charge of the dispute, to have a meeting in the company's large conference room at 3 o'clock this afternoon." In such an emergency, Fang Zhe didn't bother to care that today was the weekend. nitty gritty.

Fang Zhe hung up Li Wen's phone and called Li Chen to ask about the progress of the legal department in handling the dispute.

To be honest, as a non-legal professional, Fang Zhe is actually not very clear in his heart. This small company called Weilster has the courage to sue Huizhong. If Huizhong has plagiarized this game, they should think It is clear that Huizhong has everything that it should have, whether it is game code or game material copyright, etc. Under such circumstances, this company has no chance of winning at all in this case. Do you have a pit in your head?

Or is it for hype?

This is also a situation mentioned by the Legal Department. According to their investigation, this game company called Weilster is only an unknown small company in the San Francisco area. It was established in September last year, although it is bigger than Huizhong. Month, but the achievements and performance of the two companies are not the same.

In the eyes of Huizhong now, this company is simply a small company that does not enter the market. They sued Huizhong because the international version of Huizhong’s "Happy Farm" became popular in the United States and overseas. Popularity is nothing.

In the afternoon, the big conference room of Huizhong Company.

Fang Zhe frowned and confirmed to Li Chen who was sitting second on the right: "You mean, even if we testify in court in five minutes, we won't have a winning rate of less than 50%?"

"Yes, this is indeed the case now. According to the information from the United States, the game materials and copyright materials related to the game material and copyright materials of this company called Weilster were registered with relevant U.S. agencies in October last year. However, the international version of "Happy Farm" released by Huizhong was registered in the United States at the end of November last year, and there is indeed a certain degree of overlap between the game materials and other materials of the two companies. The court may decide that we have plagiarized "Li Chen explained to Fang Zhe patiently again.

The protection laws of the United States in the game industry are not as chaotic as in China. If Huizhong loses the lawsuit, it is likely to cause the international version of "Happy Farm" to stop operating overseas. Such a serious consequence is that Fang Zhe will not frown. head.

"Is there any news over there in five minutes?" Fang Zhe turned to look at his secretary Li Wen.

"Not yet..." Just halfway through Li Wenhua's words, the door of the conference room was suddenly pushed open, and a female employee wearing a black and white professional ol costume said out of breath:

"President Fang, there is news from the Jianghai branch, five minutes maybe...may not help us testify in court!"

Everyone in the office looked at the female employee who had just opened the door. At this time, no one cared that she, as an ordinary employee, broke into the meeting room where a high-level meeting was being held without knocking on the door. Everyone was taken by her. The news came astonished.

Fang Zhe frowned slightly and did not speak, but Li Yifei, who was in charge of the page tour and the most dealings with five minutes, couldn't stand his temper. He questioned loudly in confusion:

"Why? Why are they unwilling to help us testify in court? I remember that we have mentioned relevant content in the contract documents with them?"

"Five Minutes Manager Gao said that the contract agreement for the overseas version of "Happy Farm" we signed with them was extremely unfair. He and Five Minutes Company did not recognize the legal validity of this contract!" The female legal attorney who opened the door gave an answer that everyone in the room did not expect.

"How can they be like this, how can this contract have no legal validity?" "That's right, aren't they a white-eyed wolf..."

Several high-level people in the conference room talked.

Fang Zhe knocked on the table with his pen, looked at Li Chen, and Li Chen explained:

"The validity of this document in China can be guaranteed, but in foreign countries, it is not easy to say. If the five-minute party does not recognize it, then the foreign court is likely to rule that the law against us and the five-minute contract is valid Sex."

Following Li Chen's explanation, the discussion in the conference room became louder. This was a naked betrayal. Obviously, Five Minutes had betrayed Huizhong.

Zheng Siwen glanced at Fang Zhe, suppressed the discussion in the conference room, and asked Li Chen: "If they don't testify in court, what is our chance of winning this lawsuit?"

"Maybe, less than 10%!" Li Chen said a probability that everyone in the room could not believe, and finally he added:

"The main reason is that their registered game information is earlier than us, so they have a greater probability of winning than us."

If it is less than 10%, it is almost equal to losing the lawsuit. After losing the lawsuit, the international version of "Happy Farm" operated by Huizhong will inevitably be suspended. The international version of "Happy Farm" is now in overseas regions and has accumulated 2,000 With more than 10,000 users, Huizhong brings more than 40 million U.S. dollars in revenue each month. If "Happy Farm" is suspended, Huizhong’s revenue and performance will almost be cut by half. Such losses are enough to make Huizhong The whole company's development plan in the next few years will be disrupted.

Every high-level Huizhong present here showed a different degree of solemn expression. Fang Zhe frowned and asked:

"Does this company called Weilst have any background information? Including its shareholder identity information, government relations, etc."

Li Chen opened the information and said while reading: "This company has four shareholders, two of which are its founder and CTO, and one is called Evans. Before founding Weierster, he was in San Francisco called Black Lightning’s game studio work, another"

"Wait, you said the name of the game studio is Black Lightning? BlackLightning?" Fang Zhe interrupted Li Chen and asked.

"Yes, yes!" Li Chen looked at Fang Zhe, did the boss find something wrong?

"Does this studio have a shareholder called Pincus?" Fang Zhe asked again.

Li Chen looked down, raised his head and nodded and said: "Yes, there is a shareholder named Pincus, and he is also the largest individual shareholder of this studio."

Fang Zhe leaned back, leaned back on the chair, his brows were soothing, and the corners of his mouth slightly cocked, "Huh, it turned out to be the ghost of Zynga? Why did I say that such a beaming clown popped up? I have no impression at all in the previous life!"

As long as you know who the real enemy is, everything will be easier, betrayal?Boss Fang said he did not like this term!I don't like it very much!