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- The most well-known department at United Technologies Corporation headquarters is the legal department. This department, which has been fond of litigating since the days of Weisen Technology in K City, has been tested for a long time. It now has nearly a thousand lawyers who are familiar with the laws of various countries and international trade rules.
Tao Kan lost the competition for the director of the legal department, and Zhang Mingde became the new boss of the legal department of United Technologies Corporation. His academic qualifications, qualifications and experience can dominate the field. The brand of Yale Law School is very famous. Since the growth of Wesson Technology, he has been litigating basically every month. This was something Tao Kan could not match, so he readily chose to be his deputy.
Since the large-scale financial crisis occurred in August, all employees in the financial division have entered a state of war, and the nerves in the business department and the joint procurement center have been a little tense. The Legal Department was leisurely for a long time, but Zhang Mingde kept asking the Human Resources Department to recruit people, preparing for a tough battle.
"They are all busy now. I want to make those guys even busier. Isn't that shameless? I want to make them lose face." Zhang Mingde said fiercely at the management meeting in mid-August.
"Mingde, you have lost some hair. If this continues, you will become bald. Your hair was still very lush when you were an undergraduate," He Xiuwen couldn't help but say.
"Oh, I don't want this either. When I walked with you on campus, everyone was paying attention to you. Unexpectedly, I have become the focus now." Zhang Mingde was just about to scratch his hair when he suddenly remembered something and turned He stroked his scalp gently.
"Sun Guobao, where is the hair growth serum you promised me? If you don't think you are the dean, I won't dare to sue you for fraud. You have been deceiving me for a long time. Tell me, when will the finished product be available?" said the distressed director. The adults looked at the Kung Fu Panda smiling crazily next to him and couldn't help but get furious.
"It doesn't matter if you don't have hair. Your handsome horse face and tall figure of 1.7 meters can still attract the attention of many beauties." Panda replied.
"The national treasure is only good at this. He only dares to talk in front of acquaintances. Once outside, he tends to be incoherent. Don't be angry, Mingde." Li Zhuang smoothed things over.
"Haha, I know, how can he be my opponent when it comes to talking about words? I rely on words to make a living after all. Oh, don't interrupt, please tell me a specific time." Zhang Mingde turned to stare at the national treasure.
"Let's start the new year. The Biotechnology Research Institute is developing a pure natural and highly effective hair growth solution. If it really doesn't work, it can be solved through genetic drugs."
"No, I won't be your experimental subject," Zhang Mingde shook his head quickly, "I just want pure natural hair growth serum, don't bully me for not knowing the profession, my wife is also studying biology."
"Yes, the human trial of the pure natural hair growth solution we developed this time has passed, and the technical details are being improved, so don't worry."
"Li Zhuang, Brooke and Carter are fighting for the production and sales rights of this hair growth serum. You have to coordinate well. This is a big source of money. There are a lot of bald people now." Zhou Qisen said.
"You can make up your mind. You don't need to ask me about this." Li Zhuang was a little strange. Usually, Da Mian and Zhou Qisen had the final say on these matters. Zhou Qisen is the real president. When it comes to business matters, he basically makes the final decision on matters that cannot be determined by the joint management meeting. He is mainly in charge of financial and technical coordination.
"No, Brooke is my wife's classmate, and Carter is a relative of Da Mian. It's hard for both of us to get involved." Zhou Qisen smiled bitterly.
Gary Brooke, President of Healthcare Group, a native of Perth, an alumnus of Thomas¡¯s sister Jessica. He once studied at P University in Beijing and has been Han Shumei's friend for many years. It is said that he was once Zhou Qisen's love rival. After the incident spread, the parties involved tried their best to deny it. Zhou Qisen was relatively generous. Both his and Han Shumei's sons were in middle school, and they were unwilling to influence the company's personnel layout for gossip.
Randolph Carter, president of the Agricultural Group, is from Canberra and is Da Mian¡¯s cousin-in-law. He has a doctorate in anu cytology and Wageningen University in the Netherlands. This guy has a very high IQ, but now he doesn't like to do research. He is keen on doing business and often sells so-called high-tech agricultural products. He had a research institute of his own, and after the United Technologies Corporation Agriculture Group was established, he was invited to join.
Li Zhuang doesn¡¯t know how ANU is in terms of biology, but Wageningen University¡¯s agricultural direction is famous and often ranks second or third in the world. After Guobao completed his master's degree that year, he received an invitation to study abroad from Wageningen University, and there was a sufficient scholarship, but Comrade Panda changed his interest, and the matter fell through.
"In the future, according to the classification of product uses, this product will be classified into the medical and health group. The agricultural group will cooperate with you, and you will negotiate the internal benefit distribution yourself." Li Zhuang set the tone for future internal coordination.
"Mingde, are you planning to prosecute on a large scale?"
"Yes, it is a financial crisis now. Governments of all countries are in a hurry. The predators are stirring up trouble. We are??Take this opportunity to bring the guys who blackmailed us before and the researchers who spread the company's technology around after leaving their jobs to court. Speaking of those researchers who have resigned, some of them are indeed ungrateful. When they were enjoying company benefits, they never thought about whether they could get such money outside. Revenge when there is hatred, repay kindness when there is kindness. Those who do not repay a grudge are cowards; those who do not repay a favor but attack their benefactors are trash! "
"Have you classified the targets? Some researchers were forced to resign. There is no way to reveal the company's secrets. The impact should not be too broad."
"Haha, I know, the marketing department cooperates very well with us, and the goals set are all well-defined, I will not fire randomly!"
"Well, you are an expert and you can make your own decisions. Some researchers who are forced to leave may return to the company in the future. Don't kill them by mistake."
Li Zhuang recalled that in June, he received three researchers who were forced to resign from the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. They first immigrated to Citiland, and then brought their whole family all the way from Citiland to Sunway Town. He was very touched that the world is not full of white-eyed wolves. What kind of future can a white-eyed wolf have? There will be hell before something big happens. This kind of person has no friends, and it is impossible for a person to live his whole life without making mistakes.
The management sets the strategy and the legal department implements it step by step. IBM's previous large-scale lawsuits were considered by many to be unprecedented in scale, but after United Technologies gained a foothold in Australia, many people were stunned by the lawsuits it initiated.
More than 500 people and hundreds of companies and government departments were sued to court at one time! Beijing and Washington were hardest hit because they had the largest number of spies from those two countries during the purges in February and March.
A battle without gunpowder smoke is also very thrilling. Li Zhuang likes to use legal means to solve problems that can be solved in this way. Special departments receive special treatment, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs is well versed in the dense brain surveillance system, so there is no need to worry about those who are mentally ill. Although there is no way to dig out the senior spies for the time being, people are always negligent, so he decided to use the method of "killing chickens and frightening monkeys" to force these people to jump out or voluntarily resign.
"Make them even busier!" Zhang Mingde's words echoed in Li Zhuang's mind, and he couldn't help but smile knowingly when he thought of this. Zhang Mingde's method is not new, but it is very effective. It has been used by government departments in some countries before. Every time Zhang Mingde sues relevant government departments, he thinks twice before taking advantage of the chaos.
The Legal Department has been preparing for a full year and has obtained a lot of effective information. With the cooperation of the Business Intelligence Center of the Marketing Department, the progress is good. Half a month after the lawsuit was launched, some small and medium-sized enterprises have been settled, while large enterprises and government departments are slowly grinding their way. Zhang Mingde did not expect to receive any compensation. Politicians are not only thick-skinned, but also good at diverting attention. What he wants to do is to make these people lose face, and now the opportunity has come.
Since the financial crisis that originated in Citigroup more than ten years ago, the use of automation equipment in China has increased significantly. It is expected that the products of Wesson Automation and authorized cooperative enterprises are selling well. The lack of workers has led to an increase in the application of automated equipment, and then a large number of automated equipment has replaced labor, making unemployment serious. The internal economic situation has become even more chaotic due to random policies based on the interests of small groups and new workers who have increasingly no professional ethics.
There are many loopholes in international trade. Beijing blacklisted United Technologies after the lawsuit was launched, but it was unable to prevent WLFs' automation equipment cluster from entering the domestic market. Secret authorization, re-export trade, rebranding and export by trading companies, etc. As long as there are enough benefits, there will always be people willing to take risks.
This kind of blacklist, with inconsistent upper-level attitudes, is used everywhere in local governments. With the cooperation of local forces, United Technologies Corporation reorganized a new technical service organization in K City and temporarily worked in the former Wesson Technology Park. Provinces Z and D are the traditional markets for WLFS equipment. These two provinces are close to the sea, and smuggling is frequent. Specially made so-called knock-off goods are popular in the market. The core components in these crude-looking devices are all high-end goods produced by United Technologies' smart chemical factories, and local factories only make auxiliary peripheral accessories.
Most of the mechanical parts and peripheral electronic modules of the new manufacturing expert system were designed by Thomas and Jin Guozheng. Thomas liked Jin Guozheng very much and often gave him tutoring lessons during work breaks. This dark, thin and unattractive short provincial youth, if it weren't for Li Zhuang's occasional conscience discovery, he would probably have become an ordinary person, running around for a living. The tuition for his college education was raised by people in the village, and he spent most of his time working outside while studying.
Jin Guozheng¡¯s talent in automation has now been undoubtedly revealed. He is proficient in the design of complex automatic production lines and has meticulous thinking. His cooperation with Thomas makes Li Zhuang very satisfied. A lazy person can therefore concentrate on improving the intelligent core, and complex peripheral auxiliary modules are developed by researchers from the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.
September 14th isOn World Clean Earth Day, United Technologies Corporation's marketing department took the opportunity to launch publicity to promote the energy group's environmentally friendly products. Li Zhuang is busy doing research in his office. His current office is on the 18th floor. The windows here are bright and clean. Senior scientists and engineers from the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute work on the same floor as him. The seventeenth floor is a large conference room, and the nineteenth floor is, as before, the advanced technological achievements display area of ??the Institute of Applied Physics. In order to avoid electromagnetic radiation, the eighteenth and nineteenth floors have been specially treated.
"Dong dong." Someone knocked on the door.
¡°Come in!¡± Li Zhuang looked up at the visitor, and it turned out to be Tao Kan.
"Jeffrey, what's the matter?" Li Zhuang was a little confused. Tao Kan had never been here before. The two of them basically met at Li Zhuang's house or the headquarters administrative building.
"Daniel, we have been sued. DuPont said that we stole their technology." Tao Kan was very angry.
"What technology?"
"Comprehensive solutions for sewage treatment." Tao Kan said.
"Oh, the Research Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and the Research Institute of Biotechnology have assured me that this technology is purely self-developed, and even the semi-permeable membrane for seawater desalination has not been plagiarized. You should discuss it with Sun Guobao and Flins. Don't worry."
After sending Tao Kan away, Li Zhuang was very depressed. Today is World Cleanup Day, and someone actually imitated the Ministry of Justice and took advantage of it. The pollution caused by leather production is serious, and United Technologies Corporation provides a complete solution to Australian leather processing factories at preferential prices. This has seriously affected the interests of the relevant companies. The defendants were expected, but they did not expect DuPont to sue on this special day.
A day later, Tao Kan knocked on the door again and entered Li Zhuang's office, but his face was full of embarrassment when he spoke.
¡°We were sued by Volkswagen and BMW, saying that we copied their products.¡±
"No way? When I chatted with Pi Ruoshui last time, he said the quantity was very small." Li Zhuang was puzzled.
"It was early August. You haven't been to the automobile factory of the Power Technology Research Institute for a long time. They have now produced 20,000 units. During this period, there were many senior employees who joined the company and were eligible for car distribution benefits. Besides, There are also orders placed by ordinary employees.¡±
Tao Kan was very depressed when he heard what he said. In addition to his own one-third of an acre of land, this nominal chairman didn't even look at the company's progress.
"How many employees do we have now? How many researchers?" Li Zhuang knew that the Legal Department and the Internal Affairs Department were in sync with the Human Resources Department.
"There are more than 63,000 researchers, a total staff of nearly 400,000, and the population of Sunway Town is about 600,000, which is not a small number." Tao Kan is the executive deputy director of the legal department in the main office, and he knows all this well.
"Stop production, admit your mistakes, compensate, and explain the actual situation. We will not be shameless people." Li Zhuang made the decision. Although he often acted as a technical thief in the past, he did not harm the interests of the entire industry. In the field of power lithium batteries, Wesson Technology's extensive authorization has been worthy of the hard work of those research institutes. The laser field is different. High-end technology comes from people who collect protection fees, so his conscience will not have any qualms.
Li Zhuang¡¯s idea was in line with common sense, and Tao Kan also followed his instructions. BMW and Volkswagen withdrew the lawsuit after seeing United Technologies readily admitting their mistake. Their market researchers went to Australia to investigate and found that it was indeed an accidental mistake. They each received a symbolic design fee of US$3 million.
After the media learned about this incident, they made relevant reports. Some people praised United Technologies for knowing its mistakes and correcting them, but there were so many trolls. This small mistake was known by politicians and real copycat manufacturers, and they began to fight back, mocking United Technologies for being both a bitch and a brand, suing others for copycatting, while they themselves were crazy about copycatting.
"Pi Ruoshui, this confused guy, has done me a terrible job. We are very passive now and are often laughed at by the other party's lawyers." Zhang Mingde called back and was furious.
"You are not afraid of slanted shadows if you are upright. Just be thick-skinned. I believe you can do it, right?" Li Zhuang comforted him.
¡°Oh, forget it, I¡¯m too lazy to argue with you idiots who can only do technical things, so I hung up.¡± After Zhang Mingde finished speaking, he quickly put down the phone, knowing that the impact was too broad.
Li Zhuang silently put down the phone, not excited. This little trouble is nothing, bigger troubles are waiting for him.
"Human behavior patterns are so complex, do I need to study biology? Even intelligent life at Vicky's level is relatively simple and cannot be compared with those wise old people."
Just as he was thinking about it, a call came from the national treasure: "Li Zhuang, the Second Human Genetic Research Institute has been built. You can bring a high-end intelligence brain to take charge. There will be a lot of trouble here."
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