482: Chapter 482 I'm done playing, one fatal blow.

"That's great, thank you so much!"

Liu Lirong immediately grabbed the other person's hand in excitement and shook it repeatedly.

"Xiaomi... Xiaomi is truly a responsible national enterprise! With your help, we will definitely be able to make Transsion pay the price."

He said words against his conscience, but he was secretly delighted.

Although the products of Dami Company were nothing special, their legal department was quite reliable.

After all, ever since they suffered a loss in the India market last year, Lei Jun had strengthened the development of their legal team.

I don't know about anything else, but the legal department was absolutely reliable.

It was said that this legal team had a full 500 people, and they could easily solve any problem.

Furthermore, since the other party had already joined hands with them, they would definitely help build momentum through their traffic channels. Forget about extorting a settlement fee; they might actually be able to take a bite out of Transsion through the lawsuit.

"Let's skip the pleasantries."

The legal consultant pulled his hand back and got straight to business.

"Lawsuits are primarily about the volume of evidence. Could you please bring out the relevant materials?

For example, concrete evidence of Transsion's malicious poaching, emails or recordings of them contacting current employees in private, the employees' non-compete agreements, and relevant data on their malicious dumping and market suppression.

Let's sort through everything first so we'll be more confident when we go to court later."

The smile on Liu Lirong's face froze instantly, and he then waved his hand awkwardly:

"Yes, yes, yes! Of course! Please wait a moment, let me have my secretary go get them."

He turned and walked out of the conference room, but cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

He had been too focused on hyping up public opinion and hadn't prepared any real evidence at all.

The so-called malicious poaching was all just talk from him; there was no solid proof.

Otherwise, how could Transsion have moved so quickly?

But ten minutes later, the secretary still brought in a thick stack of documents and placed them on the coffee table.

He also had his assistant pour the two of them a pot of good tea.

Seeing so much material, the two legal consultants felt that things were stable; this business trip was truly a good gig.

As they flipped through, they realized something was wrong. Their brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and then the two looked at each other, instantly feeling like they had been played.

Because the documents were just some very normal resignation application forms, some integrity recruitment information charts downloaded from the internet, and news reports about Lu Weibin joining Transsion.

They were all ambiguous things; nothing could directly prove that Transsion engaged in malicious poaching or unfair competition.

"Mr. Liu," the legal consultant put down the documents, his tone clearly carrying disappointment, "Is this all?"

"Ah, isn't this enough?" Liu Lirong said, bracing himself.

"Look, these are all our core staff, doing well, and suddenly they all collectively resigned and went to Transsion.

And these were all signed by Lu Weibin; doesn't this prove they engaged in malicious poaching?

And Lu Weibin, because I know very well that after working at Gionee for over 10 years, he definitely wouldn't have left so easily. Transsion must have offered him an exorbitant price!"

"Legally speaking, employees have the right to choose their own employment." The other legal advisor patiently explained to him from the side.

After all, the reasons for resignation were all unanimously listed as unpaid wages for more than three months; if he hadn't seen it, the longest was over five months...

If they annoyed Transsion, they might even sue him for unpaid wages and make him compensate the employees.

The lead person in charge also coughed, and Liu Lirong's attention immediately turned to him.

"Without evidence proving that Transsion actively contacted current employees, it does not constitute malicious poaching.

We have reviewed Lu Weibin's resignation certificate; it followed the normal process and there was no breach of contract.

Besides, they even helped you run the place for a few days for free.

So, with these materials as they are, if you go to court, you will undoubtedly lose."

Liu Lirong panicked: "Then what should we do? We can't just let it go like this; Transsion has bullied us to this extent."

After saying this, he continued to "throw a tantrum," and the scene was quite lively.

He kept complaining about Transsion's various evil deeds, but couldn't produce a single piece of evidence.

The two legal consultants looked at each other, both understanding in their hearts.

Liu Lirong was simply trying to get something for nothing and was purely trying to stir up trouble; no wonder he was being sued by the other side.

But they hadn't expected to win by fighting the lawsuit anyway; they mainly wanted to use this topic to create trouble for Transsion in terms of public opinion and erode the other party's brand reputation.

After a while, the lead consultant spoke up:

"The lawsuit is indeed hard to fight, but we can help on the public opinion front.

Xiaomi's full platform channels, including official accounts, the Xiaomi community, and the media outlets we collaborate with, can all help for free by forwarding your statement.

At the same time, we can guide public opinion to focus on the survival difficulties of small and medium-sized enterprises and put pressure on Transsion.

We will also follow the normal process for the lawsuit and try our best to drag it out. As long as the heat doesn't die down, it will have a sustained impact on Transsion's reputation."

Hearing this, Liu Lirong immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as he could muddy the waters, he would have room to operate.

Thus, both parties reached an agreement, and Liu Lirong thanked them again.

...

After reaching a tacit understanding, both parties acted quickly. That afternoon, the various major accounts of the Xiaomi system began to forward the relevant content one after another.

Of course, with the reminder from the legal side, they were careful to only steer the narrative and not spread rumors indiscriminately.

After all, if they were not careful, the original onlookers would become defendants.

So, most of it was just words implicitly or explicitly accusing Transsion of monopoly and suppressing competitors.

But they didn't expect that Transsion's counterattack was still continuing, and it was fast and ruthless.

The next day, April 22nd, Transsion's legal department issued a new announcement again.

The announcement stated: They have added litigation requests to the court. In addition to the defamation dispute, they are also suing Gionee for six models of mobile phones currently on sale for infringing on a total of 12 of Transsion's technical patents.

This includes multiple core areas such as display optimization, communication baseband, and signal amplification. They are demanding that Gionee immediately stop the production and sale of all infringing products and compensate for economic losses totaling 800 million yuan.

It also included a detailed list of patents and an infringement comparison report, which was still a very solid chain of evidence.

Not only that, but Transsion also simultaneously submitted real-name reporting materials to the tax department and market supervision department.

They supplemented this with contract-related evidence of Gionee's long-term false reporting of revenue, tax evasion, and malicious withholding of payments to suppliers.

This piece of evidence went straight for Gionee's jugular.

Consequently, under this rhythm, the attention of the entire internet instantly shifted from Transsion's poaching to Gionee's infringement and tax evasion!

You must know that Shen Fei had specifically mentioned in a previous interview that an excellent enterprise should pay taxes according to the law and must absolutely not evade taxes.

Thus, public opinion completely reversed!

Liu Lirong was completely panicked and hurriedly called the Xiaomi legal consultant:

"Consultant Wang, what should I do? Transsion is countersuing us for patent infringement and wants 800 million yuan in damages.

And the tax authorities are at our door again. We clearly already sent them away, so why are they back? Can you help me think of a way?"