The Little Broken Site Uproar

"Is there really no other way?"

Su Da, the boss of Zhisu Technology, was somewhat unwilling to accept this. Zhisu Technology had clearly been the first company to develop Handwriting Robots, yet someone else had beaten them to it.

Although he admitted that he bore a great deal of responsibility. After only two months of developing the Handwriting Robot, he had impatiently cut off the project's funding, causing the research to fizzle out.

But it was also true that they had been the first company to develop Handwriting Robots. Thinking of Xingtu Technology making hundreds of thousands, perhaps even nearly a million, in a single month through Handwriting Robots—

Su Da's heart ached, because that money should have been his!

"It's true that they applied for the patent before us. By the time we realized what was happening, we were already more than half a month too late.

"But we can take the design drafts to an appraisal agency and have the materials and handwriting dates examined, proving that our design drafts were indeed written half a year ago.

"Then, while guiding online public opinion to put pressure on them, we can launch another patent lawsuit. With our appraisal report, we might be able to reclaim the Handwriting Robot patent.

"After all, we truly began developing it half a year before them, and our design drafts and materials are complete. We even have the draft blueprints for the One-stroke Writing and Drawing Robot Architecture. Our chances of winning are still quite high."

Upon hearing Sales Director Chen Ke's words, Zhisu Technology's boss Su Da's eyes flickered. Then he gritted his teeth and slammed the table.

"Fine, we'll do it!

"First, submit the old design drafts to an appraisal agency to verify the handwriting dates. They'll be key evidence in our lawsuit. At the same time, start applying pressure through public opinion.

"Given the current booming sales of Handwriting Robots, as long as we can reclaim the patent, making several million a year won't be a problem.

"If we can sell Handwriting Robots overseas, we might even make twenty million a year. We can't let that damned Xingtu Technology keep acting so arrogantly."

"Then I'll submit the design drafts and other materials first. When I get back, I'll contact those uploaders and prepare videos to steer public opinion in advance."

Sales Director Chen Ke stated his plan.

"Go. This time, I'll give you 800,000 in special campaign funds. Put everything you have into this. If you do well, you'll be richly rewarded."

"Alright, Boss. You're straightforward."

Chen Ke agreed with a smile. He was thoroughly familiar with manipulating public opinion.

He was confident that he could make Zhisu Technology win the sympathy of netizens across the country and lay the groundwork for winning the upcoming patent lawsuit!

Two days later, on the morning of November 4, 2013.

Baijiu Tom II, a famous uploader on Bilibili with more than 200,000 followers, released a new video that morning.

The video immediately caused a huge sensation and fierce controversy, racking up more than a hundred thousand views in just half a day.

Baijiu Tom II was a highly talented content creator, known primarily for discussing the histories of various products in the electronics industry and exploring the latest news and current events in the field.

His distinctive video style and vocal effects had won the affection of hundreds of thousands of viewers, and every video he released received at least tens of thousands of views.

This time, his new video was about the tangled history between Xingtu Technology and Zhisu Technology in the Handwriting Robot industry.

The broad background of the story was real. It covered Xingtu Technology's origins, Zhisu Technology's origins, and when both sides had begun developing Handwriting Robots.

However, there was one slight alteration to the background—or rather, one fabricated detail. Zhisu Technology had not abandoned its Handwriting Robot research.

It was simply that the Handwriting Robot they were developing was too advanced, so their progress could not match the Pen Master Handwriting Robot, which had a simplistic structure and limited functions.

Near the end of the video, the uploader also produced several draft design blueprints created by engineer Xie Yun. Among them was the blueprint for the One-stroke Writing and Drawing Robot Architecture.

Although this One-stroke Writing and Drawing Robot Architecture blueprint appeared different from the structure of the Pen Master Handwriting Robot, the only difference was the positioning of the motors.

At its core, it was still a One-stroke Writing and Drawing Robot Architecture design. Therefore, the different motor placements did not change the fact that both were One-stroke Writing and Drawing Robot Architectures.

At the end of the video, Baijiu Tom II subtly guided public opinion, sighing over Zhisu Technology's misfortune. They had not valued patent registration before, but now that they did, they discovered someone else had registered the patent first.

Could Zhisu Technology use a series of pieces of evidence to win a lawsuit and reclaim the technical patent that rightfully belonged to them?

Baijiu Tom II's sighing remarks naturally sparked a major discussion in the comments section.

Some believed Zhisu Technology had brought this upon themselves. Why had they not registered the patent earlier? What was the use of regretting it now?

But others sympathized with Zhisu Technology, feeling that they had been treated terribly unfairly. They had clearly been the first company to develop Handwriting Robots.

When they were researching and designing Handwriting Robots, Xingtu Technology had not even been established. At that time, Xingtu Technology's boss, Lin Feng, had still been studying at Qinghua University.

They believed the technical patent should belong to Zhisu Technology, so they supported Zhisu Technology in defending its rights through a lawsuit and reclaiming its technical patent.

At the same time, another well-known Bilibili uploader, Ancient Era Assembler, who had as many as a million followers, released a similar video shortly afterward.

In just half a day, the video successfully gained several hundred thousand views, demonstrating Ancient Era Assembler's astonishing influence.

Since each uploader viewed matters from a different angle, the focus of their video content also differed.

But without exception, the core purpose of all those videos was to guide people into sympathizing with Zhisu Technology and supporting them in filing a patent lawsuit to defend their rights.

Of course, Zhisu Technology's methods did not end there. In the time that followed,

ten other uploaders with somewhat less fame, each having only tens or hundreds of thousands of followers, also released similar videos of varying lengths one after another.

Their videos did not receive as many views, usually only ten or twenty thousand, with the highest reaching merely over a hundred thousand.

But even a mosquito was still meat. The combined views from the videos released by those ten uploaders also reached the one-million-plus range.

As for how effective those videos were?

All that could be said was that they deserved to be uploaders with tens of thousands, or even millions, of followers. People with that many followers were not ordinary.

Out of every ten people who watched the videos, nine felt that Zhisu Technology had been unfortunate, while six supported Zhisu Technology in suing to defend its rights and reclaim its technical patent.

Faced with this situation, and watching the view counts climb higher and higher as more people became interested over time, Lin Feng instead revealed a faint smile.

He had been worrying about how to draw attention and establish himself as a super-genius. Now, wasn't the attention delivering itself right to his door?

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