Chapter 376: Director Tang, You're Professional at Sending People
Temporarily having life credited, Lao Tang doesn't need to rush to take on a task right away now.
So when Wang Qingqing said that the chairman had arrived, Lao Tang decided to meet him casually. If the case could be taken, he would do it first to earn some money.
At this moment, in the appointment room outside Tengda, a roughly fifty-something man with a square face was sitting quietly on a chair, accompanied by two people.
The man was the chairman of Tengfei Company, named Huang Zhongyi, who didn't stand out much but was quite wealthy.
However, now a hint of worry occasionally flashed across Huang Zhongyi's face. The fact that he personally came to Tengda to make an appointment only indicated that the company's situation was not optimistic.
"Mr. Huang, this Director Tang is very difficult to book an appointment with. Maybe we should find someone else? Also, in this kind of intellectual property case, Director Tang isn't particularly skilled..." the man beside him spoke up.
"After all, he hasn't handled cases of this type before."
Huang Zhongyi shook his head: "Who else can we find? Director Zhang in Didu also doesn't have any good solutions now."
"And under current circumstances, I still want to hear Director Tang's thoughts."
"No matter what, as long as he takes on our case, he will certainly devote himself wholeheartedly to it."
This was a very critical factor, at least according to Huang Zhongyi. When Tang Fangjing handled a case, he truly went all out, possibly even staking his own life if necessary.
In contrast, professionalism was not as important. With Tengda's scale, finding a couple of professional intellectual property lawyers wasn't difficult, not to mention bringing in two directly from Didu and Modu was easy.
As the two chatted, Wang Qingqing's figure appeared in front: "Mr. Huang, our Director just happens to be free, so you can go over now."
Upon hearing this, Huang Zhongyi was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Miss Wang."
Soon, Huang Zhongyi and his group followed Wang Qingqing to Lao Tang's office.
Wang Qingqing stepped forward and said, "Director, this is Mr. Huang Zhongyi, Chairman of Tengfei Company, and this is the General Manager, and this is the Director of Legal Affairs..."
Basically, the company's boss and several leaders were all present.
Lao Tang immediately said, "Mr. Huang, and the others, please sit down, take your time to talk, Qingqing, go brew some regular tea."
There was no choice, he had to remind her, last time when receiving a guest, Wang Qingqing served some kind of ancient style brewed tea.
Poor client's face was about to twist, yet still gave a thumbs-up, praising it as good tea...
Lao Tang couldn't bear it and personally helped solve the problem for the other party.
Upon hearing this, Wang Qingqing blushed instantly and turned to leave.
Lao Tang then said, "Mr. Huang, please tell me your situation, what's going on now, the dossier when you made the appointment didn't explain in detail."
Looking at Lao Tang in front, Huang Zhongyi quickly said, "Director Tang, the situation is like this, as it involves some commercial confidential information of the company, it was inconvenient to explain clearly before."
"Our company mainly produces a chemical raw material, in this area our production technology is basically the most advanced in the country, and we have patents..."
Huang Zhongyi began to explain, and Lao Tang listened quietly.
Basically, it was an intellectual property infringement. Tengfei Company was a leading player domestically in producing this kind of chemical raw material, whether in terms of purity or production efficiency, it was among the best.
This point Lao Tang knew from before.
But starting a few years ago, the company's sales started to decline continuously. After investigation, it turned out that a state-owned enterprise in Hanbei Province emerged and directly seized their original market.
Originally, this was normal commercial behavior; it's impossible for the market to be fixed for anyone. If they have the ability to seize the market, then they deserve to get rich.
For special chemical raw materials like these, the market size is actually quite limited.
Tengfei Company could only adopt price reductions and other methods to compete.
As a result, by chance, Huang Zhongyi learned from a friend that the production technology used by that company was very similar to that of Tengfei Company!
"One of your friends? How does he know your technology?" Upon hearing this, Lao Tang spoke up, "And how does he know that company's production technology?"
He was indeed not knowledgeable in these professional aspects but he understood one thing: technology is technology, and production and manufacturing are another matter.
The technology written on paper and the actual production in the factory require very specialized people to notice the differences.
Huang Zhongyi immediately said, "Director Tang, my friend was actually a former engineer at my company, he is very familiar with our production technology."
"As to how he knows, I'm not at liberty to disclose..."
Lao Tang turned off Mind Reading, what Huang Zhongyi said was true.
Though this information doesn't affect the subsequent case, the opponent's omission might affect whether Lao Tang takes the case.
"Then we started investigating. To be honest with Lawyer Tang, investigations of this kind of patent infringement are very difficult, and we... we also used some unconventional methods..."
Lao Tang said nothing, surely it's difficult, after all, it's the other party's production workshop, and Tengfei Company doesn't have investigation rights.
However, if one wants to defend their rights, they must have certain evidence, otherwise, the court can't even file a case, let alone conduct an investigation.