Pengcheng, Huaqiangbei Sage Science Park, Building 2, Penguin Computer Systems Co., Ltd.

Brother Ma is working hard to pretend to be a young lady and chat with people online.

With the number of OICQ users now exceeding 100,000, and the number of online users is pitifully small.

So not only Brother Ma, but everyone in the company had to pretend to be a young lady and talk to the turbulent men on the Internet.

On the one hand, it is to maintain the activity of OICQ, and on the other hand, it is to understand the advantages and disadvantages of the product more intuitively.

Although several customer service staff have already done this job at this moment, Xiao Ma still logs on QQ from time to time to "chat" with users in order to grasp the customer's preferences as soon as possible so as to optimize and improve the product.

However, Brother Ma has encountered trouble recently.

Penguin Company was sued, and the lawsuit was AOL, a large company in the United States.

In August and September last year, Penguin, which owns OICQ, received two letters from lawyers from the United States Online (AOL) that claimed that ICQ was their patent. Penguin's domain name OI registered on January 26, 1999 and OIET registered on November 7, 1998 contained ICQ, which infringed its intellectual property rights and asked Penguin to transfer the domain name OI and OIET to them for free.

In March this year, US Online officially submitted an indictment to NAF (National Arbitration Forum) in Minnesota, and notified Tencent to submit a domain name dispute reply to NAF in a lawyer's letter.

The lawyer's letter also claimed that there is now a smsicq case, which is that AOL won the lawsuit, and this allows the judge to compare it as an example.

Therefore, Tencent is also destined to lose. We advise Tencent to replace the domain name as soon as possible and not to argue again.

Brother Xiao Ma immediately appointed a lawyer to make a timely defense of AOL's allegations.

At the arbitration meeting, the two lawyers represented AOL and Tencent respectively in the arbitration defense.

Although Penguin's lawyer pointed out sharply that AOL did not register "OICQ" in the United States at that time, and more importantly, it was not even registered in China, but still could not escape the fate of failure.

Who made Tencent’s current strength not the same as the future Nanshan Pizza Hut.

On March 21, arbitrator James A. Kamodi finally signed the arbitration judgment, ruling to return the two domain names to American Online, Tencent lost the case.

Unfortunately, there are few reports on this matter in China. Brother Ma is also a dumb person who is silly and cannot say anything about his suffering, so he can only handle it in a low-key manner.

This lawsuit was a fatal blow to Penguin Company and made Brother Ma very passive.

In the PC Internet era, website domain names are one of the most important assets of the company, and netizens rely on domain names to access websites and obtain services.

The two domain names were taken away, which was likely to cause the accumulation of work that Tencent had done before.

So Brother Ma learned from his mistakes and has been having a headache about changing the domain name recently, and he even planned to change the name of the OICQ software together.

As the saying goes, one learns from one’s mistakes. Brother Ma learned to be smart this time and knew that he had to register both the domain name and the brand in advance.

When he was disguised as a young lady and chatting with users, he found that some girls like to call OICQ QQ and he was inspired immediately.

Yes, why not change OICQ to QQ?

The more I thought about it, the more excited I became, and immediately arranged for my partner Zhang Zhidong to quietly buy domain names such as QQ and QQ.

On the other hand, he has an intermediary service company to register a QQ brand trademark. Only when both of these things are done can he feel at ease.

Just as Brother Ma was chatting with a big guy with a stinging foot, his partner Zhang Zhidong suddenly ran to him in a hurry.

"Pony, no, the QQ domain name was bought in advance." Zhang Zhidong was very worried.

Brother Ma was anxious: "What's going on? Someone wants this kind of domain name?"

He couldn't help but wonder, after all, in most cases these days, domain names with specific English vocabulary are more valuable.

Especially when English vocabulary has specific meanings, it will be even more popular.

Short domain names like QQ., with 5 letters, are not mainstream now, so how could they be first published?

"Yes, I contacted the seller, who was just bought not long ago." Zhang Zhidong responded.

Brother Ma immediately ordered: "Then try to contact the new buyer. Whether you are willing to take action or not is not even more expensive."

"Okay, I'll contact you now." Zhang Zhidong nodded, but he was not sure.

These days, it is of course of great use for people to spend 80,000 US dollars to buy a domain name, so how can they be easily transferred?

It’s not impossible to transfer it, you have to add more money, and the extra money is not a little bit.

But what Penguin Company lacks now is money. Now the Internet is in a cold winter, and it is very difficult to raise funds. Now they all want to spend a penny in half.

Brother Ma's brain began to swell and hurt again. The domain name incident happened unexpectedly, which was something he would never expect.

At this moment, his cell phone suddenly rang and he picked it up helplessly.

"Hey, who?"

"Hello, Mr. Ma, I am Xiao Meng. I'm telling you a bad news. The brand trademark of QQ has been registered in advance." Meng Wan, a salesman of Feiyang Trademark Firm, said regretfully.

Brother Ma is going crazy, and his accidents are always caught off guard. He has two major blows in a row within a day, and he will not be allowed to live.

With a hint of luck, he asked excitedly: "Have all categories registered? We are software-made, as long as this product category can be registered."

"Sorry, Mr. Ma, the other party has registered all categories and is probably a company that is very familiar with trademark law." Meng Wan replied cautiously, afraid of irritating the other party again.

Brother Ma instantly collapsed there without any energy.

He politely said a few words and hung up the phone.

Then he said weakly to Zhang Zhidong who was sitting opposite him: "Zhidong, don't contact me anymore, give up."

"What's going on, Pony?" Zhang Zhidong was very puzzled.

Brother Ma explained dejectedly: "The QQ trademark has also been registered in advance. We should find another way and think about other names."

"Okay, that's all. Pony, cheer up, we all survived the most difficult time, what's this matter?

Now the number of OICQ users is increasing every day. It is a good sign that the number of online users is about to reach 100,000 at the same time.

So what is it that QQ is registered? Let’s think of a new one.” Zhang Zhidong couldn’t help but cheer up Brother Ma.

This is how entrepreneurial partnerships are. We must support and encourage each other.

Brother Ma shook his head, threw out all the negative emotions, and pretended to be calm and responded: "Yes."

In fact, there was something he didn't tell Zhang Zhidong that last time he went to talk about the second round of financing, he was rejected by the investment institution.

The company's funds are consumed day by day, and the money in the account is getting less and less.

Brother Ma is under increasing pressure, but as CEO, he has no way to tell such things, and even his partners cannot talk about them, otherwise it will undermine the enthusiasm of the team.

He could only carry it alone, licking the wounds silently behind his back, and healing himself.

On the other side, Lu Ze finally got off work on time and drove home in a car.

Parked the car at the door of the villa and walked directly into the office of the [Tesgo Mall] next door.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw everyone arguing with each other.

"Oh, I just said that I can't take this matter lightly. I blame me. I should confirm it again before shipping, so I can't completely trust those aunts.

The losses are deducted from my share, and I will bear it." Qi Yuxuan shouted indignantly.

Han Xu followed and said, "I blame me for this. I didn't hand over it clearly when delivering the goods, so I'll be detained."

"I have a responsibility, too. I will go to deliver goods with you, and I will deduct them together." Du Tianlin also admitted his mistake.

Xia Qinghe smiled bitterly and comforted: "Don't rush to take responsibility on yourself. The loss of goods is small. The key is how to avoid the same thing from happening again in the future.

Besides, everyone doesn’t have to bear this amount of money, just lose it directly from the company.”

"Ah, isn't it good? If Lu Ze finds out, he will think we are robbing ourselves." Qi Yuxuan said with some taboos.

Han Xu immediately retorted: "It's impossible, Lu Ze is not that kind of person."

"Yes, don't hide it from him, just tell him directly." Du Tianlin also echoed.

Xia Qinghe replied angrily: "How could Lu Ze be so stingy? You wanted to take him away."

"I'm in a hurry, I'm thinking wrong all of a sudden." Qi Yuxuan explained hurriedly.

Lu Ze happened to approach and immediately joked: "You really think wrongly, and it's particularly crooked, and you'll almost turn into a crooked neck tree."

"Ah, Lu Ze..." Qi Yuxuan was stunned, and was always caught off guard.
Chapter completed!