Reborn multinational giant

Therefore, even with the influence of Huizhong and Fang Zhe, it took a lot of effort and a lot of effort to convince Huawei, ZTE, Meizu, Xiaomi, HTC and other mainland and Baodao companies. A major mobile phone manufacturer invested in Huichuang and established the Huichuang patent alliance with the same name based on Huichuang.

This time, many mobile phone manufacturers jointly invested in Huichuang. In addition to investing a part of the capital in Huichuang, a considerable part is invested in technology patents and other converted technologies contributed by each company. The purpose is to expand the technology of Huichuang Patent Alliance. Patent reserve.

Unfortunately, even so, the number of patents held by Innolux Patent Alliance is only more than 4,000, which is less than one-tenth of the number of patents held by Huawei, not to mention the similarities with those overseas patent giants Motorola and Ericsson. ratio.

There are many reasons for this situation. One is that Huichuang has been established for a short period of time. In the past two years, it has researched and developed and cumulatively purchased more than 2,000 patents.

The second is that even if several major mobile phone manufacturers agree to invest in shares to join the Innolux Patent Alliance, most of the patents contributed to the alliance are irrelevant patents, and there are very few important and core patents. After all, some core patents are major mobile phone manufacturers. The baby at the bottom of the box, each family naturally has to make their own wishful thinking.

What's more, the major domestic mobile phone manufacturers, apart from mobile phone manufacturers that started in the communications industry such as Huawei and ZTE, which also attach importance to patent research and storage, other mobile phone manufacturers hold very few patents.

Even if he says that he attaches great importance to the research and development of technology patents, in fact, due to various reasons such as capital cost input and output, the investment in technology and patents belongs to the situation of heavy thunder and low rain. Therefore, Fang Zhe does not expect major mobile phone manufacturers to pay How many and how useful technology patents Huichuang Patent Alliance contributes.

Fang Zhe attracted major mobile phone manufacturers to invest in Huichuang and established the Huichuang Patent Alliance. On the surface, it was to find a good way out for the future development of Huichuang. In fact, it was also to accumulate resources such as patented technologies for domestic mobile phones to go overseas. stand by.

The wave of smart phones and mobile Internet is sweeping the world. In the next five to ten years, the competitive landscape of the mobile phone industry will greatly affect the competitive landscape of the mobile Internet industry. Therefore, whether it is for maintaining and maintaining WeChat and Huizhong’s Fang Zhe has reasons to support Huichuang to form a patent alliance for reasons such as the growing power and status of the world, and support for domestic production, helping the rise of domestic mobile phone industry and going overseas.

In previous lives, whether it is Xiaomi, vivo or Huawei, which holds a lot of patents, they have encountered difficulties and obstacles in patent infringement lawsuits in many countries and regions when they went to sea. Various patent wars are also common among overseas multinational giants. Commercial competition.

For example, Google, the creator of the Android system, is unable to deal with Apple because of Android’s patent infringement issues. Google, with its deep pockets, is one of the ways to solve these troubles and problems by acquiring various companies around the world. Patent, used to counteract or negotiate with Apple.

According to the development trajectory of the previous life, Apple will spend more than US$4 billion in conjunction with Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson, Sony and other companies to acquire more than 6,000 patents from the established telecommunications company Nortel in July this year.

In August, less than a month later, Google will acquire Motorola, a giant in the mobile phone industry, for US$12.5 billion. One of Fang Zhe’s efforts to win over major mobile phone manufacturers is to cut some of Nortel, Motorola, and other companies. A variety of patents in the hands of established communication companies and mobile phone companies such as Nokia's mobile phone business that will be acquired by Microsoft in two years!

From the middle of last year, Fang Zhe instructed Li Zhipeng, the president of Innolux, to send someone to contact with Nortel, BlackBerry, Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson and other major global communications and mobile phone companies to negotiate the purchase of some patents.

These veteran communication companies and mobile phone companies are now a bit late due to the arrival of the smart phone era. They can't keep up with the times. The company's helm has been completely controlled by the board of directors after several generations of changes, and there is nothing but interests in the eyes.

Therefore, although these established companies have a deep foundation and considerable influence in the industry, ordinary consumers who determine the market and the trend of the times do not pay the bill. They want to live, one is to eat their money, the other is to provide more basic technical services to the lower level. Wait for business transformation.

And these companies are also the sweet pastries in the eyes of companies such as Google, Apple and Huizhong who are on the way uphill and conform to the trend of the times!

Let Huizhong buy Nortel, Nokia, Motorola and the like. Huizhong has neither the financial resources nor the power. The major overseas powers and the governments of the countries where these companies are located do not allow these companies with a large number of core technologies to be Acquisition by a Chinese company like Huizhong.

But let Huizhong and several domestic mobile phone manufacturers invest in support of Huichuang, buy some patents from these companies, and through various means and efforts, it still works!

In late April, several companies including Huizhong, Huawei, Xiaomi and other companies jointly signed a formal agreement to invest 5 billion U.S. dollars in Huichuang and several technical patents and other resources. At the same time, representatives of Huichuang also began to communicate with Nortel all over the world. , Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson and other communication companies or mobile phone companies have signed relevant patent purchase agreements.

Among the 5 billion U.S. dollars, Huizhong contributed 2.5 billion U.S. dollars, and the other 2.5 billion U.S. dollars was collected by several other companies. The original assets of Huichuang and the technology patents of several major mobile phone manufacturers were converted into market prices. Add up to about 1 billion US dollars.

Of course, the value of more than 2,000 patented technologies contributed by major mobile phone manufacturers is less than 100 million U.S. dollars. This shows how tasteless these patents are.

After the signing of the various agreements, Huizhong and Fangzhe’s Zhongying Capital accounted for more than 56% of Huichuang’s shares. Several other major mobile phone manufacturers and some senior executives of Huichuang held the remaining nearly 44%. % Of shares!

This is also the first time that a company founded by Fang Zhe himself has made such a major concession in terms of shares and control rights.

In fact, according to the results of discussions between Fang Zhe and the top executives of major mobile phone manufacturers, in the next few years, Huizhong and Zhongying Capital’s shareholding ratio in Huichuang will continue to decrease, and this part of the reduction of shares is not surprising Will fall into Huawei, Xiaomi and other companies that have a lot to do in the mobile phone industry in the future!

To put it bluntly, although Huichuang was founded by Fang Zhe, its future status in the mobile phone industry in China and the world is more like a third-party community of interests and peacemaker.

The mobile phone industry and even the communications industry have invested a huge amount of money in research and development every year. Before Fang Zhe was reborn, Huawei alone had invested more than tens of billions of dollars in research and development every year, not to mention domestic and global Major mobile phone companies and communications companies.

In fact, because each company does its own business, it’s not uncommon to re-invent wheels in R&D. What Huichuang plans to do in the future is to find more domestic and even global mobile phone manufacturers and communication companies. Common interests and focus more resources on major events.

Now, the establishment of the Intellectual Property Patent Alliance and the more than 7,000 patents purchased globally for more than US$3 billion have provided domestic mobile phone manufacturers with confidence in going overseas, and at the same time brought the research and development capabilities of Intellectual Property to a new level. , Reaching the world's leading level.

In the future, whether it is to accelerate the 5G era or the arrival of the artificial intelligence and Internet of Things era, Fang Zhe believes that Huichuang can contribute a lot.