At this time, the banquet hall of the huge Dongwa Palace Hotel was completely silent.

The dozen or so people here are like a group of rice-making machines that only know how to cook rice. They say nothing except eating food, and have no sense of pleasure at all when eating delicious food.

Although Fang Chen doesn't like Dong Japanese very much, he has to say that Dong Japanese food is still good, but you can't eat too much. If you eat too much, it will feel bland and tasteless, and it is easy to get parasites. I haven't seen Dong Japanese people.

Almost tens of thousands of people get food poisoning every year.

Norio Ohga was so angry that he put down his chopsticks after just a few bites. He had never eaten such a frustrating meal in his life.

At this time, these delicacies, even if they are not the same as poison, are definitely difficult to swallow for Oga Norio.

Seeing Norio Ohga actually put down his chopsticks, Albert hesitated for a moment and then put down his knife and fork.

Although he and Norio Ohga didn't deal with each other very much, they still had to take unified steps when it came to boycotting Qingtian to show that they were of the same voice and were advancing and retreating together.

Furthermore, as the executive vice president of Philips, he does not lack this meal.

Seeing this, a group of people all put down the tableware in their hands, and then stared at Fang Chen intently.

Fang Chen, on the other hand, acted as if no one else was around, turning a blind eye and minding his own business, seemingly not feeling anything strange at all.

When they were almost done eating, Fang Chen stopped using his chopsticks and said to Norio Ohga with a smile: "I don't know who opened this Dongwa Imperial Palace Hotel, but it's actually higher than the Imperial Palace of the Japanese Emperor.

I have to say, this tastes really good and worthy of this height."

Hearing this, Norixiong Dahe's expression changed drastically, and he quickly said: "How can this hotel be higher than the palace? Director Fang, you are wrong."

"Really?" Fang Chen responded with a smile.

Judging from his expression, Fang Chen didn't seem to care much about whether the Eastern Japanese Palace Hotel or the Japanese Imperial Palace was higher, but he was just disgusted by Norio Ohga.

"Yes!"

Norio Ohga said decisively.

The Towa Imperial Palace Hotel is taller than the tallest building in the Towa Imperial Palace. It is no secret among the upper class of Towa and even ordinary Towa people.

But in order to maintain the majesty of the royal family or the order of the Japanese society? No one dares to admit this? After all, according to the legal principles of the Japanese, the Japanese emperor is still supreme and cannot be desecrated? Even the prime minister of the Japanese is still nominally a minister of the Japanese emperor.

What about the buildings around the palace? Naturally, they cannot exceed the height of the palace.

But in fact, the dignity of the Japanese emperor has long since ceased to exist, and he has become only a symbolic mascot? Even the abdication and succession of the Japanese emperor require the permission of each major family.

And this Dongwa Palace Hotel? It is the property of a certain big shot's family.

Or even put it in a bad way? More than fifty years ago, after the ruling faction defeated the Huangdao faction, the words of the Japanese emperor were not so effective? Especially after the United States took control of Eastern Japan, the Japanese emperor was nothing.

Fang Chen smiled again, and sure enough, the Japanese people were as stubborn as ever.

"Director Fang, does Qingtian Company have any demands for this MP3 standard setting conference? If so, we can discuss it within a reasonable range."

Norio Ohga asked the previous question again, but this time, his tone seemed more urgent.

There was no way, if possible, he really didn't want to say another word to Fang Chen.

He was afraid that if he kept talking, he would be angered to death by Fang Chen.

"Actually, we at Qingtian don't have many demands. We just want to make our own contribution to the MP3 standard. These are some patented technologies that we at Qingtian have developed. We hope they can be used in the MP3 standard."

Fang Chen wiped his hands, then asked Wu Maocai to bring up a document and spoke slowly.

Norixiong Oga's expression changed slightly, and there was a wave of turmoil in his heart. Although Fang Chen didn't speak much, every sentence he talked about was about his seven inches. He was really afraid of what would happen.

After a moment of silence, Norio Ohga didn't even want to look at the document that Fang Chen took out, and said seriously: "Qingtian, as a member of the moving image expert group, is naturally qualified to provide better suggestions to the moving image expert group.

and technology, and adopted it into the standard, but how much can be included, I think, still requires review and voting by experts.”

Fang Chen suddenly laughed. What Norio Ohga said sounded so perfect, there was nothing wrong with it at all.

Expert review, expert voting, and the one with the most votes will adopt it. It seems fair but cannot be fair anymore.

After all, such technical matters cannot be decided by just picking someone off the street. As for the minority obeying the majority, it is an eternal truth.

But the problem is that the members of the dynamic image expert group are either researchers funded by them or engineers from their own companies. Even if he uses his toes, he cannot think that these people will vote in favor of Qingtian's patented technology.

However, Oga Norio didn't blush or breath, and looked at Fang Chen seriously. If he didn't know this, he would have thought he was so selfless.

Norio Ohga was filled with sneers at this time. Fang Chen wanted to make Qingtian's patent the standard patent for MP3, but he could only say that he was wishful thinking.

To put it bluntly, if Qingtian is allowed to occupy a large number of patents in the MP3 standard, what will happen to international electronics companies like them?

How do they collect patent fees from other companies?

Even if it goes wrong, not only can they not make a penny from Qingtian, but they also need to pay patent fees to Qingtian.

Moreover, all the patent fees of other companies have been earned by Qingtian.

Why do they work so hard to study these cutting-edge technologies?

Is it possible that it is really just a contribution to human society?

You must know that the reason why their companies work hard to study these new technologies and actively promote their development is to open up new markets and create new demands from the public, thereby allowing the company to generate new

profit growth point.

If possible, they even want to monopolize these new technologies into their own hands.

After all, only monopoly can create the greatest profits.

But the problem is that most of the technologies they develop are not too difficult and do not have too profound scientific principles. It is impossible for them to be the only ones who can do it and others cannot even do it.

As an electronics company that directly faces consumers, the technologies they use are, to the academic world, things whose principles have been thoroughly studied by scientists more than ten or even twenty years ago.

The difficulty they face is just how to implement what these scientists have researched at a lower cost so that it can enter the lives of ordinary people.

To put it bluntly, if a monopoly can be achieved so easily, Sony should be the only one sitting here, and other companies should not be qualified to sit here at all.

At most, just add a Philips.

Norio Ohga glanced at Albert subconsciously.

Who invented the optical disc is almost a mystery. After all, both of them claimed to have developed the optical disc first, but in fact they knew in their hearts that neither of them was the one who invented it. What they used was an American physicist.

, Russell’s scientific research results.

Withdrawing his thoughts, Norio Ohga looked around. Since these people are sitting here safely, it means that they have not successfully monopolized the production technology of optical discs, and it has also proved that the production technology of optical discs has not been successfully monopolized.

There is no difficulty.

So how to monopolize a product that is not difficult to produce has become a problem that needs to be solved by people like them.

So something called "standard" appeared.

Everyone gives a product various sizes and specifications as a standard, and then the patents developed by these first-mover companies become part of this standard. If the new products produced by the new company are different from this standard

, then it will be difficult to move forward.

Just like the laser disc, the specified size of the laser disc is twelve inches, and the memory size is enough to play seventy-five minutes of music.

However, the patent for producing 12-inch optical discs belongs to Sony. If anyone produces a 12-inch optical disc without Sony's permission, it will infringe Sony's patent rights.

But let’s say, I don’t produce 12-inch optical discs. I produce 11.8-inch optical discs or 12.2-inch optical discs. Can I bypass Sony’s patent?

Theoretically, as long as it can be matched with the playback equipment, there is no problem, and even longer or shorter playback time is not a big problem.

After all, not every song is seventy-five minutes like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

But once the standard is formed, everyone will produce 12-inch discs, and the equipment used for playback can only accommodate 12-inch discs. Now problems will arise.

If an optical disc manufacturer produces an 11.8 optical disc, it will not be able to find equipment that can play the disc unless it manufactures the equipment itself.

Similarly, if a manufacturer of playback equipment produces a device that can only play 12.2-inch discs, it will not be able to find a suitable disc to play.

As a result, everyone can only produce 12-inch optical discs and equipment that can only play 12-inch optical discs, and all of them need to purchase Sony's production patent.

So Sony can rely on this patent to make a lot of money.

Otherwise, why do companies like Sony, Philips, Toshiba, and Yamaha insist on publishing white papers, red papers, and orange papers first?

Isn’t it just to seize the right to speak and patent rights?

Even the dynamic image expert group was established, wasn't it just because everyone was so at odds with each other that no one could convince anyone else, and no one was willing to give up on their own initiative? Isn't that why?

And now Qingtian wants to come in, occupy a seat, and share the fruits, it is simply a no-brainer!

It sounds a bit shameless. After all, according to the rules of the Western free market, shouldn't it be free production and free trade, regulated by the invisible big hand of the market?

But is it possible?

Since the world is now dominated by Western developed countries, especially the United States, it is natural that Western developed countries, especially the United States, have the final say. Then the rules they set, no matter how fair they seem, must be beneficial to them.

In other words, although intellectual property rights and patent rights have their positive aspects and are beneficial to society and mankind, they are more of a kind of exploitation of developing and backward countries by advanced Western countries.

Why are the clothes and shoes produced by natural resources such as mines and energy in less developed countries necessarily very cheap, while in developed countries a small chip can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars?

Why can China use 800 million shirts to exchange for one Boeing plane?

Is it really because building an airplane requires the same amount of work as making 800 million shirts?

Of course, Fang Chen is not against the protection of intellectual property rights, he just thinks that intellectual property rights should not be so valuable. Can the period of protection be shorter?

As far as optical discs are concerned, he even admits that unified standards are necessary. After all, if the standards are not unified, one optical disc manufacturer will have one size, and one playback equipment factory will have one size. The world will be in chaos, no matter what

No matter whose CD or device you purchased, it cannot be used on other CDs and devices.
To be continued...