In the future, if someone shares a Yiyang Flash Sale shopping link on social platforms like Micro, there's no need to copy and then open Yiyang Flash Sale to paste it; you can directly jump to it.
Of course, this is the good side.
But the implementation of this convention might also lead to negative aspects.
For example, if you used to only use one platform, only that platform knew your chatting and shopping habits and consumer needs.
But after interoperability, other platforms could spend just a few cents to get all your information.
The issue of user privacy is indeed a difficult one to solve well at the moment.
This is a big problem worldwide.
In Huaxia, the leakage of privacy has already formed an industry chain. While many foreign companies emphasize protecting customers' privacy.
But due to cost issues, many companies outsource their customer service to English-speaking, cheap labor countries like India.
As a result, customers' privacy is taken by these Indians who are customer service by day and scammers by night to engage in fraud, and it realistically doesn't get protected.
One could say, now in the internet age, it resembles an early tribal era beauty, where everyone runs around in beast-skins.
It's not that there isn't any protection, but if others just make a bit of effort to look, they can still see everything.
After this self-regulation convention meeting ended, Chen Yiyang found Wu Changxun, who represented Tengxu to attend the meeting, and invited him for a drink.
"Did you go to New Zealand recently?" Wu Changxun asked Chen Yiyang directly after sitting down.
"Yes, how did you know?" Chen Yiyang was somewhat curious.
"I was in North America with nothing to do, browsing through everyone's social circle, and I saw the photos you posted from New Zealand."
"Why were you in North America?" More than Wu Changxun browsing his social circle, Chen Yiyang was curious about what he was doing in North America.
"The company was sued by a lunatic, went over to handle it." Wu Changxun felt quite helpless.
Although Tengxu always had a history of plagiarism.
But this time, it really was an unexpected disaster.
The company that sued Tengxu in North America is what is commonly known as a patent troll.
This company in a single breath sued Apple, Three Stars, Google, Amazon, Lenovo, and basically all the major North American network operators in the Texas court.
This seems like a crazy company.
But in reality, the lawsuit against Three Stars was actually won by them.
The court directly ruled in the first instance that Three Stars must compensate this company 2.788 million US Dollars.
This judgment result scared other companies.
The reason this company can sue so many companies in one go is mainly due to these companies' use of push message functions within North America, which relates to a type of cloud messaging service.
The inventor of this service, Dr. Roli, owns more than 350 authorized North American and international patents in multiple fields, including wireless electronic systems and components, radar, mobile operating systems, cloud services, Internet of Things, networks, consumer electronics, radiation beam cancer treatment, and medical imaging.
According to Wu Changxun's statement, although Dr. Roli indeed has a significant influence in communications, he has now been hired by a patent troll company, becoming a patent thug.
In North America, there are many such companies.
They register a large number of patents in advance, and then once the related technology is used by many big companies for a long time, they pop up and start comprehensive lawsuits.
As long as one case is ruled in their favor, other companies have no choice but to bow and seek settlement.
In one go they can earn enough to live for several lifetimes.
After Three Stars was ordered by the court to compensate, they immediately opted for an out-of-court settlement with the other party.
Lenovo initially intended to challenge the other party's patent to invalidate it but inexplicably caved the next day, reaching a settlement with them.
This time, Wu Changxun went over to deal with this issue.
Of course, besides being sued by Dr. Roli, Tengxu was also sued by a North American company recently for allegedly infringing on their virtual file system.
"There are too many patent trolls in North America," Wu Changxun complained to Chen Yiyang, "No wonder their industries can't get moving. Hardly get the setup together, haven't made money yet, those patent trolls swarm in, joining with the lawyers to extort a lot of money."
Honestly, Chen Yiyang did feel some sympathy for Wu Changxun.
Although Tencent has a history of plagiarism, patent lawsuits in North America aren't that simple.
The reason is that many patents are originally very basic things, but those patent trolls repurpose them, put a new coat on them, and manage to apply for patents.
Then after applying for patents, they neither disclose them publicly nor promote the patents, just let them sit.
Then when many later companies that actually do business start utilizing the related technology to grow, they appear to start harvesting.
Because their costs are too low, registering and applying for a patent costs only a few hundred to a few thousand US Dollars.
As for legal fees, there are simply none.
Because as long as they plan on suing these big companies, there are lawyers willing to fight the lawsuits for them for free, taking a cut from the eventual payout.
And these lawyers are well-networked big lawyers.
Once they win, it could lead to damages that run into hundreds of millions of US Dollars.
Moreover, these patent trolls mostly target foreign companies and small companies without connections or influence in their own country.
Take for instance the company that sued Tengxu before, although they sued all North American network service providers in one go.
But actually, companies like Apple and Google are simply untouchable for them because these companies not only have networks but also harbor many big lawyers.
Even if the lawsuits don't go well, they can drag them out well over a decade, ensuring you get nothing.
But foreign companies like Three Stars have no choice, pure, juicy meat.
Moreover, this style of patent and copyright trolling is not just limited to the tech field now.
For example, recently, a Korean-American chef in North America registered the English name Chilli Crunch as his trademark and copyright for oil chili paste.
In North America, products like oil chili paste have many names, and Chilli Crunch is one of the types.
Many chili sauce brands from other places generally use this word in their trademark.
As a result, this guy registered it, and a lot of small ethnic restaurants in North America and a chili sauce company from Malaysia were sued for compensation.
And the reason he didn't sue those big brand chili sauce companies is simply because this guy didn't have the networks, couldn't touch them.
If his company were to grow in the future, he'd probably also sue those big companies for infringement.
Oh right, this Korean-American chef's own restaurant is quite outrageous too.
His restaurant claims to use Korean cuisine as a medium, with a Japanese culinary style and Chinese characteristics, and also fusion with South American flair.
Then he launched a chili oil that's blatantly copied from Huaxia as his invention, and only after endless complaints did he hesitantly admit that the inspiration came from Huaxia.
