What Kind of Black Tech is This?
Chapter 36

Patent Infringement

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Samsung, a multinational conglomerate, naturally had no shortage of capable high-level executives. They divided the work and each began their tasks according to the plan.

The engineers who cracked the Phantom Projector technology also received their reward fees from Samsung. Depending on their contributions to the cracking process, they each received varying amounts of cash rewards.

Meanwhile, Samsung's exploration into the driver program continued, hoping to make the driver compatible with more and better components, ideally all manufactured by Samsung itself for their projectors.

After receiving their first payment, these engineers became even more motivated, displaying greater enthusiasm in their work.

Samsung's actions were swift. Just the day after receiving the patent certificate, Samsung's legal department sent a lawyer's letter to Shenma Technology Company.

To: Shenma Technology Company

Our company, Samsung Group, holds the ownership rights to the patent for Illusion Screen Technology.

Our Patent Rights Description: Illusion Screen Technology fully unleashes the device's capabilities through a brand-new driver program. Proof of rights can be found in Attachment 1 (Patent Certificate).

We hereby notify your company that we have confirmed: Shenma Technology Company's sales of its Phantom Projector series products infringe upon our company's aforementioned patent rights.

Without authorization, your company has produced Phantom Projector series products using our company's technology, generating enormous profits.

Your company's infringement has caused severe negative impacts and significant economic losses to our company.

We hereby sincerely state that the representations contained in this notice and its attachments are true and legally valid statements. We request that your company immediately cease all suspected infringing activities upon receipt of this notice.

Our company reserves the right to pursue your company's legal responsibilities through legal means, including but not limited to applying for a preliminary injunction, filing a lawsuit, and requesting administrative investigation and punishment.

Issuing Company: Samsung Group Corporation.

Concurrently, to publicize the matter, Samsung simultaneously released related news on its official Weibo, official accounts, and official website, along with a series of supporting documents explaining the background and context of Samsung sending the lawyer's letter to Shenma Technology Company.

"Shenma Technology Company stole the latest laboratory results of our Samsung Group and illegally profited, to a massive extent, causing immense losses to our company.

Our company will defend its rights through legal channels.

The Phantom Projector, many interested individuals have likely disassembled it, wanting to understand its powerful performance.

However, anyone familiar with projector products can see that its internal components are those commonly found in market-available projectors.

So why is it that when these components are combined, they can achieve 200% of their performance?

The reason for all of this is a driver board, which uses a revolutionary technology within its driver program!

This driver software, which we have named Illusion Screen Technology, utilizes a completely new programming method, vastly different from traditional driver programs, enabling it to fully maximize the performance of each projector component.

To research this technology, our Samsung Group invested substantial manpower and resources, consuming vast sums of money, and spent three years in laboratory research. However, just as the research was nearing completion, the nearly finished research data was stolen!

Furthermore, the individual who stole the data destroyed some of our crucial research materials, delaying the final stages of research by several months!

This is the full story behind the incident..."

At this point in Samsung's statement, they presented documentation including materials related to the establishment of the Illusion Screen Technology research project, detailing which researchers participated, the location of the laboratory used, and a commemorative photo of the researchers with Samsung executives during the project's inception. It also included records of suggestions for improving the driver program during the research process, and other related materials!

And these materials were genuinely existing and verifiable; one could investigate them and find them!

However, at the time, this project was not a laboratory specifically dedicated to driver technology, and it had not achieved any significant breakthroughs over the years.

This experiment was merely one of the thousands of technical research projects Samsung Group undertakes annually. To maintain its world-leading position, Samsung Group invests a considerable amount of funds in R&D each year!

Half-truth, half-falsehood, makes it more convincing.

A real, existing experimental research project makes everything appear more authentic!

The subsequent statement included a video and related documents as further evidence of Shenma Technology Company's theft of Samsung Group's research achievements.

The video featured a research scientist in his fifties, in the background of a South Korean police station, with South Korean police officers beside him.

It was evident that the scientist had been arrested!

Facing the camera, the scientist, filled with remorse, confessed his criminal actions.

He admitted that he was temporarily blinded by greed and stole the laboratory's research results. He then found a buyer online, who turned out to be someone from Daxia Country.

As for whether the buyer was Ning Yifan, the scientist himself didn't know, as the transactions were conducted entirely online without any face-to-face meetings.

The scientist first provided half of the research data to the other party. After receiving the payment, he handed over the remaining data. Moreover, at the buyer's request, he conducted another transaction, deleting some critical data from Samsung's laboratory, which caused the research progress to stall for several months.

The scientist in the video appeared terrified, clearly explaining everything, even providing chat logs and bank transfer records as supporting evidence.

Everything seemed perfectly logical and reasonable!

At the conclusion of the announcement by Samsung, Samsung Group issued another stern warning to Shenma Technology Company.

"Shenma Technology Company, please immediately cease all your company's infringing activities, remove your products from shelves, and unconditionally transfer the profits earned from the infringing sales of Phantom Projectors over the past few months, along with your factory and brand, to Samsung Group, to compensate for the severe losses suffered by Samsung Group!"

To ensure this matter gained wider attention more quickly, Samsung even allocated a special fund of ten million Daxia Coins to purchase trending topics and online news, mobilizing its public relations team and online trolls to spread the message across the internet.

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