Reborn in 1991, helping dad become the richest man

Chapter 388 Patent Troll, I want it too!

Smartphones have common problems: high power consumption, stylus-based operation, and an appearance that is exactly the same as a mobile phone.

It's just an extra screen in your hand.

But what's the use?

A brick is a brick; it won’t turn into a diamond just because you add a piece of glass.

So, it’s no surprise that this phone flopped.

And it was the kind that was criticized to pieces by the market.

However, this mobile phone, which is now called industrial waste by many people, is indeed what Tang Yichen needs.

Of course, Tang Yichen didn't need to buy his technology or patents. He just needed to recruit people to do the research and development himself.

However, if we want to develop smartphones, and do it so many years in advance, we must also accelerate existing communication technologies at the same time.

And this is also a must.

Later generations turned it into why the Eagle Empire was willing to bully others by using its national status.

Do you think it’s because of the transformed mobile phone?

That's bullshit.

The real reason is simply because of communication technology.

It has mastered the 5G communication technology patents.

This is the root cause.

You have to know that in the 1G era, Motorola relied on analog communication technology, that is, 1G, to use mobile phones as carriers to master the world's communication standards. Whether in terms of profits or other aspects, Motorola and the Eagle Empire made a lot of money.

He once monopolized the market share.

However, with the digital signal communication technology jointly developed by many European countries, namely GSM, in the 2G era, it completely surpassed the Eagle Empire and broke the monopoly in one fell swoop.

In fact, 2G has now reached its peak.

Of course, global communication technology is not limited to GSM, there is also Qualcomm's CDMA and other technologies.

But Qualcomm is not a philanthropist and charges fees.

So no one uses it at all.

And his propaganda is that the network capacity is ten times that of GSM.

But no one believed it at all.

Anyway, before this thing is put into operation, it is up to everyone whether you believe in the theory or not.

However, this is actually true.

CDMA far surpasses GSM in terms of both call quality and signal stability.

Moreover, this has been confirmed now because of the strong support of the little sticks.

But, so what? 2G is definitely enough for today's mobile phones. I'm not using the free one, but I'm asking you to pay for it, offering my neck to you to strangle.

Isn't this crazy?

Therefore, in the 2G era, GSM technology was the undisputed leader. Consequently, the emergence of GSM technology caused Motorola, once the dominant player in the mobile phone industry, to see its mobile phone market share plummet from 50% to 17% last year.

Nokia, which was still just following the rules in 1985, was dethroned as the world's largest mobile phone market share.

However, the short-lived glory cannot conceal the Eagle Emperor's wolfish ambitions.

In fact, as a person who has been reborn, Tang Yichen knows very well what Qualcomm, which is now a loser in the 2G era and only survived with the help of the small stick, has done in the past.

As early as when they were developing this technology, they had already laid mines in the communications technology industry and established a monopoly patent layout.

To this end, he has been building a CDMA patent wall around technologies such as power control, frequency reuse, and soft switching.

And for this purpose, he also has a large army of patent lawyers that is no less than the size of his technology research and development department.

Through mergers and acquisitions, suing rivals for patent infringement and other patent wars, all CDMA-related patents were gradually acquired.

At the same time, they continue to apply for a large number of junk patents, using junk patents to ensure that their core patents can be applied for new patents before the old patent protection expires.

In addition, they are also applying for a large number of CDMA peripheral patents, and then declaring the technology as part of the new technology, blocking all technologies related to CDMA internal and external.

The most ruthless move was what they had planned for a long time. With their eyes looking into the future, driven by interests, they came up with a series of serial pits, digging one after another.

For example, they can directly incorporate their patented technology into the communication standard, and at the same time, they can also integrate their patented CDMA communication standard into the chip.

What is the purpose of this series of crazy operations?

The only purpose is to completely monopolize patent rights in the mobile communications era.

Just like Motorola in the 1G era, we monopolized the market and set the standard for the whole world.

At the same time, all the people who use this set of standards worldwide must submit to me. If you don't, the patent law will be waiting for you.

What a huge benefit this is!

In the 1G era, the restricted world economy made the Eagle Empire and Motorola suffer.

It can be used as a bargaining chip in mobile communication projects or other matters.

And you can collect money continuously.

The original history of the world in the memory of the old Tang family ended up like this.

In the 3G era, Qualcomm sat alone in the cloud with its legs crossed.

In front of him was a wall with more than 1,400 patented technologies related to CDMA technology.

With this technology, he took away 5 to 10 percent of the sales price of all mobile phone manufacturers in the world without producing any mobile phones. Isn't it outrageous?

But this is just because everyone did not use the 3G technology he developed, but used the one they developed themselves.

We had to pay the money only because our 3G underlying technology inevitably touched upon the patents he applied for, and we were forced to pay so much money.

This situation continued for many years until one day, a company and technology that was not taken seriously and was even in the same situation as Qualcomm appeared, which completely changed the situation.

Now, what Tang Yichen has to do is to pick up this technology in advance, which was discovered as early as the 1960s, confirmed in the 1980s, but then eliminated, and make it his own.

Continue to research and innovate on it, and then apply for patents yourself.

Qualcomm failed in its 2G layout and can only survive by relying on the small stick.

But it successfully played tricks on the 3G era.

Now Tang Yichen also wants to act like a hooligan, but his target is not 3G but 4G.

Tang Yichen even has an ambition to directly accelerate the time of change in the world's communication technology, striding forward from the current global 2G to 4G, or even directly making 3G obsolete.

But at the moment, this is simply impossible.

The communications industry is not like mobile phones.

In fact, 3G communication technology has already been released, but it has not yet been popularized.

If Tang Yichen wants to develop smart phones, it is impossible for him to wait until 3G is popular in the market before developing mobile phones.

It can only promote 3G through mobile phones, and then let the world step on Qualcomm's landmine, suffer some losses and endure some pain, and then it will be convenient for it to promote 4G.

Want to skip 3G directly.

This is impossible.

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"Oh, I envy Huang Jia so much. Look at him. It hasn't been long, but he's already become the head of a company. Unlike us, we spend all our days writing programs and fixing bugs!"

On March 21st, some employees within Xiongchen Company.

Watching the beautiful figures constantly moving things out of the general manager's secretary's office.

Many people couldn't help but sigh.