Chapter 58: Bite me (1/2)

Chapter 58: Bite me

Translated by me, edited by drpetro.

“Who are you, and what you here for?” A man wearing a very expensive looking suit walked out. Guarded looks could clearly be seen from his eyes.

“You’re the owner?”

“I am the humble Liu Wenhu, the owner of this factory.” Liu Wenhu tried to size up Ye Qing as he introduced himself.

“You’re really quick on your hands Mr. Liu. We just released our new scooter model and you’ve already got one here to study.”

Ye Qing got right to the point: “Those scooters are made by my factory, yet if Mr. Liu here wants to copy it, then I’m not against it, but can you at least make some changes so that they don’t look exactly the same?”

The actual owner’s already here?

Liu Wenhu and the technicians in the room were all stunned. This was the first time they’ve ever seen the actual maker come looking for trouble.

Normally when they imitate other scooters, the most they would get was some lawsuit from some random lawyer. Then, after some changes to the design, they would continue to sell them.

Of course, those changes were all very minute. It wasn’t like the large scooter makers would have the time to keep pestering them.

After all, there’s just too many imitators in the country. It was to the point where if one gets shut down, then three more pop up. So now the untold rule in the imitation market was that as long as the outer appearance wasn’t exactly the same, then most major producers were disinclined to investigate.

Except the scooter in front of them was completely different. Its outer appearance and structure was designed to the point of perfection. Any changes would only ruin its perfection.

But these Typhoons were only made by a small local factory. Although the new batch of goods had their own manuals and 3C approval, they still hadn’t applied for the case’s patent and the product’s patent.

Perhaps they had already applied for the patents, but patents needed to pass a strict investigation by the nation’s patent office, and that required a long ass wait before getting a reply.

Without a case patent, imitating it wasn’t illegal at all.

“Sorry sorry.” Liu Wenhu very quickly thought of an answer, and replied with full smiles: “These scooters are just too advanced. As someone in the same industry, we have an obligation to research and learn from the best.”

“As a reassurance, we’ll definitely stop imitating the aluminum ones.:

Liu Wenhu made everything sound so reassuring, it was as if he had the equipment and skills to make the casings and carvings.

“Then what about the old models?” Ye Qing was already pissed. This guy’s bullshit attitude was just too much to take. It’s to the point where Ye Qing wants to go ahead and beat the shit out of him.

“Of course we’ll keep making the old version, I mean, don’t you guys already have a newer model?”

Liu Wenhu was calm and collected, and acted as if he was teaching youngsters: “In business, you really have much to learn. Just look at that perfection like casing and structure, but without any relevant patents, aren’t you just asking for the competitors to imitate it?”

“Look, I’m one not doing anything illegal, and two I’m not making anything fake, so what did I do wrong?”

“And what I have is the Stormy brand, a completely different brand name from yours.”

Liu Wenhu was laughing happily, as he had a great grasp of the situation.

Just before the technicians did a thorough inspection of the scooter, and came to the conclusion that the manufacturing cost of these aluminum casings was just too damn high. Because it was shaped from a liquid state, it requires workers to hand polish it.

The technicians estimated that a worker at most could only polish out a single set of casings a day. And the cost for these vivid lifelike carvings was going to be even more expensive.

Liu Wenhu’s doesn’t own any engraving machines, but he sent the pictures of the carvings to some of his friends in the metal processing field.

The reply was, to want to carve on such precise, vivid, lifelike images, he must get his hands on a super specialized, highly precise CNC mill.

Moreover, to get the carving to such a detailed level, only imported CNC millings might be able to do it.

After compiling all the conclusions, Liu Wenhu finally understood. Those aluminum casings, not mentioning their ridiculous production costs, they were not even able to be mass produced.

Then what was there for Liu Wenhu to worry about. The time when these scooters thoroughly hit the market and that small time factory becomes a leader in the industry, or have the patent issued, was still too far in the future. He might as well as use this time to earn all the dirty money he could.

There is no such things as fair or foul in business. As long as there was a way to earn money, what problem was there.

Owen’s Electric Scooter Manufacturing gets tons of lawsuits annually, but weren’t they still in business?

Paying attention to this and that, then what business was there for him to do, might as well as go back to farming.

Liu Wenhu’s attitude had Ye Qing completely pissed off.

Why were there so many asshole businessmen in the world?

“I’ll ask one last time and think carefully before you answer.” Ye Qing icly said: “Are you going to change those scooters’ casings?”

“One it’s not illegal, and two it’s fake, so where’s the need to change?” Liu Wenhu openly laughed: “Buddy, come back when you actually got the patents, then I’ll make some slight changes.”

Liu Wenhu’s technicians all gathered. Although they were only here to research, but 7 or 8 people together still created a lot of confidence.

“In that case, good bye. I’m not gonna ask this question again.” Ye Qing nodded towards the group of people in the room.

“Take care!” Liu Wenhu happily waved.

Threats?

Liu Wenhu wasn’t afraid at all. What he had was a loophole in the law, what they were competing with here was wisdom. What can Ye Qing do?

Ye Qing left while constraining his volcano like anger. After getting back in the van, he whispered a set of instructions that he needed the master artisan to perform.

Hulk One and Hulk Two could do great work, but it was just too hard to communicate with them. They were just like complete muscle heads.

However, the master artisans were different. Not only did they have high intelligence, knew how to encourage and flatter, but they could also perform any complex instructions given by Ye Qing.