Chapter 241 The Sadness and Luck of Little People
Du Chengyi said that he did not mention the purchase of the patent, but instead mentioned something that seemed irrelevant, which made Williams even more confused.
He took the file in Du Chengyi's hand half-believingly and opened it. After just taking a look, Williams' hand couldn't help trembling.
This is a huge bank acceptance bill, a bill issued by Citibank for the deposit account opened in its own bank account, guaranteeing unconditional payment of the determined amount to the payee or holder on the specified date. If Williams did not read the number of digits wrongly, this is a huge bill of exchange with a maximum limit of one billion US dollars.
This is also the largest amount of money Williams has ever seen.
Judging from the above seal, Williams, who is familiar with Citibank acceptance bills, initially determined that this was a real bill of exchange.
In other words, if Williams takes it to the bank now, it can be converted into cash in his account immediately.
Williams' heartbeat suddenly entered an overclocking state, running at an extreme speed.
"I am very sincere in negotiating the purchase of your company's patent with Mr. Williams." Du Chengyi said. "Mr. Williams must have seen this Citibank bill just now. So when our negotiations are successful, I believe Mr. Williams should not have doubts about our ability to pay now, right?"
"Of course, Mr. Jeff," Williams gathered his mind and woke up from the shock of the huge bill of exchange just now. "So, let's start." Williams said in a pretended to be relaxed after taking two deep breaths.
However, even though Williams tried his best to control himself, Du Chengyi discovered the other party's true thoughts from Williams's sharp flashing eyes.
The wealth is touching, and in the market, there is nothing more convincing and exciting than the huge wealth placed in front of you. Du Chengyi is well aware of this, so he designed such a link.
Now, Williams is indeed moved.
"Okay, Mr. Williams is really quick to speak." Du Chengyi flattered without a trace. "We know that Mr. Williams' company is conducting a patent infringement lawsuit with Apple. Although it seems that Apple has indeed infringed on your company's patent rights, it is obvious that Apple is not going to pay a lot of money for it."
"Jeff, I think at this point, your intelligence is wrong," Williams said. "In fact, we are in a patent negotiation with Apple for hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation."
"Is that right? Then I'm really not the right time." Du Chengyi smiled. "I don't know if Mr. Williams' precious time wasted today. If Mr. Williams is still willing to continue talking with Apple, there is really nothing to talk about between us next."
After saying that, Du Chengyi stood up and took back the huge bill of exchange placed on the table in front of Williams.
Williams did not expect that this mysterious investor was ready to leave so neatly. Seeing the huge bill of exchange was put into Du Chengyi's bag, Williams suddenly seemed to have his heart been hollowed out.
"No, no, Jeff, I think you misunderstood." That was a huge bill of exchange with real money. If he reached an agreement with the other party, the bill would belong to him. Although the amount was definitely not as high as the upper limit, thinking of this, Williams hurriedly spoke out and asked, not knowing the origin and purpose of this mysterious person.
But Williams doesn't have to care about these things at all. He just needs to know that he can get the huge wealth he has always dreamed of. With this money, Williams can enjoy the second half of his life.
"If we can reach an agreement, then the negotiations with Apple can be cancelled at any time. We can also sit down and have a good talk in terms of price." Although Williams knew that Du Chengyi was the head of an investment institution that wanted to purchase patents, Williams really didn't know how much Du Chengyi knew about his negotiations with Apple.
Of course, I don’t know how important this thing is to Du Chengyi.
Under such asymmetric information, Williams was really afraid that Du Chengyi would part with him now and he would lose a chance to get rich in one fell swoop.
Although the offer price given by Apple is getting higher and higher, after more than $100 million, it is obvious that Apple's personnel have started to play and are often used to deal with themselves, but the bid is never increased upward.
The so-called patent negotiations with Apple for hundreds of millions of dollars is just a rhetorical method for market participants. In fact, the current negotiation leader at Apple is already very disgusted with Williams's lion and declares that Williams will never expect to get the sky-high price of $500 million in his life.
Think about it, the patent of Nortel was only sold for more than 4 billion yuan, which was a few thousand. Even if this patent was the core part, according to the valuation of people familiar with Williams, Apple estimated that it could bid up to $200 million in the end, which would be the best.
But in order to get this amount, Williams didn't know how long he had to wait. The two sides were like an endurance race now, but Williams couldn't afford it now, and the cost of hiring an intellectual property lawyer was amazingly high. Does Williams have many inputs in the current NDK? Now he is not making enough money every day.
Williams really doesn't know how long he can hold on? This is the sorrow of Williams as a little man. When he was right with a giant like Apple, he did not have enough strength and power to deal with it to the end. Even if the evidence was very beneficial to him, Williams did not have the energy to push ITC to make a ruling as soon as possible.
If you delay indefinitely, it will only be beneficial to Apple. Maybe Apple is still trying to completely dispel this matter. Anyway, they don’t care about the lawyer’s fees they pay, and this little money is just a drop in the bucket for them.
But Williams now has to stay with Apple, because the $500 million requested by Williams and the $100 million that Apple is willing to pay, the gap between the two is like a bottomless gap, allowing Williams' NDK to continue to argue and discuss endlessly with Apple negotiators. There is no exact time point at all that allows both sides to reach an agreement that integrates the views of both sides.
Whenever he thinks of this, Williams is so angry that he is bullying the little people with his wealth. If he hadn't just a few small companies, he would have initiated a ban on sales, which forced Apple to submit, but unfortunately he did not have such great ability.
In ITC's view, the harm to the public's interests of the ban is far greater than that of Apple to its patent infringement, because ITC will never think that it has the ability to turn this patent into a product to sell it alone, so the losses it suffers can only be indirect losses.
In this way, itc will not support itself in banning sales of Apple products.
Chapter completed!