Technological power starts with upgrading lenses

Just when Daqin Optics finished debugging the equipment and increased the daily production of lenses to 1,500, the second court session of the lawsuit against Soni in Modu began.

This court session is mainly about the judge’s response after verifying the certification materials submitted by Daqin Optics during the first court session, and then proceeding to the trial of the next patent allegation.

In fact, Daqin Optics could have directly produced the supporting materials for each accusation and tried them all at once during the first trial.

However, Lawyer Jiang chose to procrastinate. He would only defend one charge at each trial, and the rest would be postponed to the next round on the grounds that he was still sorting out the information.

This was actually what Soni wanted to see. After all, the longer it was delayed, the higher the other party’s legal costs would be.

But since the three encounters in the first round, they have all begun to realize how difficult this lawsuit is, and are actually a little afraid that the lawsuit will continue to drag on...

Now every time Lawyer Jiang turns over his ‘secrets’, Soni’s legal team and technical advisors’ hearts will rise in their throats, and they are almost beaten to the point of losing their morale.

"We still have objections to the plaintiff's claim that Daqin Optics' 50mm lens design infringes upon its double achromatic lens patent."

here we go again!

Soni's legal team quickly pricked up their ears and prepared to take action.

"Please make a statement from the defendant's lawyer."

"We believe that the other party's invention patent with patent number ZL20089972.1 does not possess the novelty and creativity of the patent. The lens structure design was first designed and successfully produced by C.M. Hall in 1729, but he did not publish it at the time. An invention.”

"The lens structure design has been publicly available for more than two hundred years. It was not until 1988 that Soni Company improved the structure and successfully applied for a patent. However, according to the Patent Act, the patent was expired in 2008 It has also expired, but Soni Company repeated its old tricks, slightly modified some design parameters, and then applied for another patent, which is valid until 2028.”

"In fact, these two improvements are not novel creations at all, especially the second improvement. The optical performance improvement of the lens is almost negligible. This is the technical demonstration material prepared by us. Please check it with the judge."

After hearing this, Soni's technical consultant's face suddenly turned bitter.

Although Soni does have a lot of patents, many of them are actually forced renewal versions of old patents. When he heard the patent number just now, he roughly knew the direction of the opponent's attack...

At this time, the difference between home and away games comes into play.

If it were in a court of an island country or country M, this kind of accusation would be easily dismissed.

Because of the improvement in optical performance, how much is considered novel and creative?

This is actually very subjective and difficult to define.

Just like the improvement in camera image quality, some people may think it is insignificant, while others think it is a qualitative leap.

And this is a court in China. In a place like this that can be biased, the judges will definitely favor local companies.

So after the second round of confrontation, another impulse patent of Soni was invalidated.

The people who were waiting to eat the melon immediately clapped their hands and praised excitedly after hearing the news.

"It's open, it's open!"

Li Chen even directly posted a betting video,

"Everyone leave a message below the video. If you guess correctly that several patents of Sony, Jianeng and Ni Kang were revoked in this patent war, you will be directly rewarded with a Warwick P50 Rro, ten units in total. According to the message Time, first guess, first served.”

"In addition, if you correctly guess the total number of invalidated patents from the three companies, you will be rewarded with a set of Daqin Optical Lenses for the whole family, with a maximum of fifty sets. It is also first-come, first-served."

"The time for leaving messages is until next Monday. Each person can only guess once. Anyone who guesses repeatedly will be directly disqualified."

As soon as the video was posted, the comments immediately exploded, and the popularity of the video directly reached the number one spot on Xiaopo.com.

Seeing this, other video hosts and anchors were not to be outdone, and they all started to do tricks. If the number of invalidated patents exceeded 5, they would wear black T-shirts, if the patent number exceeded 10, they would wear women's clothing, and if the patent number exceeded 20, they would go to Zhangjiajie to live broadcast bungee jumping...

In short, the lawsuit has not yet been concluded, but netizens are celebrating the Chinese New Year with various activities.

In addition to the continuous good news in the court, an official Weibo of Daqin Optics also added to the excitement.

Daqin Optics' products are back on the shelves and prices are restored. At the same time, the three after-sales service activities that were canceled are also back!

The most important thing is that there is no purchase limit this time!

However, the delivery date has been extended to within thirty days.

But at least we can see the end.

On the day purchase restrictions were lifted, Daqin Optics received a total of 20,000 orders!

Although Daqin Optics actually only accumulated more than 10,000 yuan in inventory during this period, it still confused the guys at the courier company...

"What should I do? Should this lawsuit continue..."

The three giants met secretly again at Soni's headquarters and discussed countermeasures...

They were really a little scared.

“Have you technically verified Daqin Optics’ patented technology?”

Compared with the invalidation of patents that were already somewhat outdated, what Yoshiki Fujita is more worried about is actually the technological overtaking of Daqin Optics.

Osaki Kusaku nodded: "It has been verified. It has indeed bypassed our patent, and the effect is better than ours..."

"I haven't finished the verification yet. The performance of their equipment seems to be better than ours. Our current equipment cannot complete this coating process at all. The equipment must be modified..."

"..."

"Fujita-kun, there is definitely no chance of winning this lawsuit in China. Judging from the current trend of public opinion, it is not how long Daqin Optics can persist, but how many more rounds we can persist..."

"Baga! You've only played one round and you're already scared?!"

"Uh... we are different from you. You are the vice president of Soni, and you are here in Greater China only temporarily. But we are just the general managers of the small Greater China region, and we have to face the pressure from the headquarters."

"Yes, Mr. Fujita should also know that the global camera market is sluggish, but the Greater China region is bucking the trend. In recent years, the headquarters has paid more and more attention to the Greater China region. If the situation continues to worsen, there will be no relief. , we are all going to be dismissed..."

Fujita Yoshiki immediately sneered: "Then you will not be dismissed because you have lost such a big lens market?"

"Isn't there no way out? Mr. Fujita, now we need to recognize the facts. Not only have they broken through the technological blockade in silicon wafer manufacturing, but they have also broken through the technical blockade in lens manufacturing. If we continue to fight with them, it is actually us who will suffer... "

Fujita Yoshiki also did not expect that Daqin Optics could perfectly avoid their patent blockade. At this point, he could only sigh helplessly: "Then let's judicial settlement... But the lens market still cannot be so easy. Give up."

"What do you mean?"

"Now we can only cut prices to capture the market, but our original lenses must not be reduced too much, up to 20%, otherwise it will affect our brand image."

“But we can work together to quietly acquire Tokina, change the casing and logo of our products, and cut off some of the performance, and launch mid-range autofocus sub-factory lenses with a price that is about three to four times that of Daqin Optics. "

"Finally, I will let Tokina launch a low-end manual lens, with the price controlled to be about one to two times that of Daqin Optics."

“Based on the reputation our island country’s optical products have accumulated over the years, we should still be able to hold on to a lot of market share by doing this.”

Osaki Hisaku and Saito Yushi naturally have no objections to this.

In fact, once China completes a breakthrough in a certain technology, price reduction has almost become the only effective way to save the world. Even if Fujita Yoshiki does not say it, they will probably do this.

However, it will obviously be faster if the three companies can concentrate their efforts to acquire and transform Tuli.

At this time, time is money,

The faster they respond, the more market share they can hold on to…

On the other side, Kang Chi didn't know that he had successfully lowered the price of the lens, but Lawyer Jiang's call brought a smile to his lips.

"They proposed to settle in court and were willing to bear all the legal fees, attorney fees, travel expenses, etc. paid by us in this dispute."

"What about my mental damages, Daqin Optics' reputational damages, and the economic losses caused by the suspension of sales during this period?"

"I can try my best to fight for this. How much compensation do you want the other party to pay?"

"One hundred million."

"Ahem..."

"How much did you just say?!"

"One company has 100 million, a total of 300 million, otherwise it will be spent slowly, 60% of their patents will be invalidated, and they will be ridiculed by people all over the world!"

"..."