Chapter 77: Penguin Refused Mediation and Prepared for Litigation

Inside Baijun law Firm.

The location of the lawsuit filed by Nanyou Studio was the Nanshan Intermediate Court.

Accordingly, the second instance would be heard by the High Court.

Su Bai had already completed his understanding of the relevant information and evidence.

The information regarding the Nanshan High Court had also been obtained through Li Xuezhen’s inquiry with Feng Lijian, and he had acquired certain related information that he needed to know.

There were no significant problems remaining.

Everything was prepared.

Immediately afterward, Su Bai submitted a written complaint and filed the case with the Nanshan High Court.

When Penguin received the court notice.

They did not take it seriously at all.

They directly notified the legal department to take over the case.

Let them file the lawsuit.

As such a large enterprise, would they be afraid of being sued by a small studio?

It should be understood that they handled nearly three hundred lawsuits each year, almost one minor lawsuit per day and one major lawsuit every three days.

What difference could it make if a studio filed a lawsuit?

Regarding infringement cases, no one understood infringement cases better than they did.

Their one hundred percent success rate was evident.

Moreover, the trial would be held at the Nanshan High Court, and what kind of place was Nanshan?

It was their territory.

Could they possibly lose this case?

If they were to lose, it would be absurd, therefore the legal department did not take it seriously at all.

The director of the legal department assigned this case to the two persons responsible for infringement litigation.

“Our legal department has received another case, it is a case filed against us, the two of you should first review the case.”

The two responsible persons were Chen Chao and Kong Hao.

After accepting the assignment, they immediately conducted an investigation into Nanyou Studio and Baijun law Firm.

“This Nanyou Studio previously filed litigation against us, it was heard in the Intermediate Court, they lost the case and then, being dissatisfied, initiated a second instance appeal.”

“A second instance appeal? The legal fees for such a case must be nearly one million yuan, a small studio initiating a second instance appeal, it is no wonder they found a small law firm, they are probably only completing formalities.”

“This small law firm appears to have rather strong litigation records according to online information.”

“I have seen them, most of their litigation involves matters related to criminal law, however this is a civil matter, the opposing party may not obtain any advantage.”

“Moreover, our company’s legal department is extremely familiar with the procedures for handling such infringement cases, there is no need to take it seriously.”

Regarding Nanyou Studio and Baijun law Firm.

The two legal personnel assigned by the company to handle this litigation, Chen Chao and Kong Hao, simply organized the materials and did not take the matter seriously at all.

As members of the Nanshan legal department, they were required to possess strong litigation experience and litigation capability, and if placed in ordinary law firms, both of them could be regarded as first class lawyers in infringement cases.

Especially since the opposing party was only a small studio.

Moreover, the location of the lawsuit was in Nanshan.

Therefore they did not pay much attention to it.

At the same time.

Inside Baijun law Firm.

Su Bai was calmly drinking tea, after the court accepted the case he did not immediately proceed to Nanshan but remained in Nandu.

The hearing had already been scheduled, and Su Bai had also obtained certain information regarding the presiding judge and judges of the Nanshan High Court hearing this time, and he already had a clear understanding in his mind.

At the same time, he arranged for Li Xuezhen to collect certain key evidence for use during the court hearing.

After everything had been completed, Baijun law Firm also received information regarding court mediation.

Inside the court mediation room.

At the long table.

The mediator sat in the central position, Su Bai and Li Xuezhen, as the plaintiff’s representatives, sat on the left side, and the defendant’s legal representatives Chen Chao and Kong Hao sat on the right side.

The mediator organized the mediation matters between both parties.

“The plaintiff Nanyou Studio has claimed that its game was plagiarized and seeks compensation from the defendant in the amount of eight million yuan, and further requests that the defendant issue a public apology regarding the plagiarism of the plaintiff’s studio’s small game.”

“With respect to this, what are the views of the defendant’s representatives?”

Compensation of eight million yuan.

And they also required a public apology.

Eight million yuan was not a large amount for them.

The key issue was the requirement of a public apology.

A public apology.

On what basis were they being required to issue a public apology?

Was this not equivalent to striking them directly across the face?

As members of the Nanshan legal department, Chen Chao and Kong Hao had not encountered such a situation before.

However, they also understood that such a condition certainly could not be accepted.

Accordingly, Chen Chao said:

“We do not agree with the conditions proposed by Nanyou Studio.”

“First, we have not committed plagiarism, second, based on the fact that we have not committed plagiarism, there is no basis for so called compensation or reputational apology, this is entirely a false accusation against us.”

“In this regard, we reserve the right to pursue legal action concerning the false accusation of plagiarism made by the opposing party, and we request that the opposing party use cautious language in order to avoid causing unnecessary litigation trouble.”

Su Bai: “?”

Were you listening to what you just said?

You were being accused of plagiarism, yet you reserved the right to pursue legal action against the opposing party for falsely accusing you of plagiarism?

And you even said this was to avoid unnecessary litigation trouble.

What unnecessary litigation trouble?

How could you say such things without embarrassment?

Come on.

File the lawsuit.

If you do not file the lawsuit against me, I will look down upon you.

If you file the lawsuit, then the jurisdiction will be in the Nandu court.

Although both locations include the character Nan, the courts in Nandu and Nanshan are entirely different.

In Nanshan your small wings may be powerful, but in Nandu I would break your small wings.

Beside him, after hearing the opposing party’s statements, Li Xuezhen frowned slightly and spoke softly:

“Lawyer Su, are the legal departments of large companies always so unreasonable, we have not even said anything yet, and the opposing party already says they reserve the right to sue us and wants to bring us before the court?”

Su Bai laughed lightly: “They speak confidently, let them try to sue us.”

Although Su Bai’s voice was not loud, the space was not large either, and his words clearly reached the ears of Chen Chao and Kong Hao.

Chen Chao and Kong Hao’s faces turned red.

They had merely spoken those words to intimidate the opposing party.

They certainly would not initiate litigation over such a statement.

After all.

Filing litigation over such a statement would not be easy to support legally.

The mediation naturally failed.

Chen Chao and Kong Hao left the mediation room angrily, in Nanshan there had never been a case they could not win, especially an infringement case.

It should be understood that their success rate in infringement litigation was almost one hundred percent.

What did almost one hundred percent mean?

It meant that so long as the case was in Nanshan, they could not lose.

Su Bai naturally perceived the opposing party’s thinking, however.

This time he was determined to break the opposing party’s wings, he wanted to see how strong their small wings truly were.

“Make proper preparations, mediation has failed, we will prepare for the litigation hearing.”

Su Bai raised the corner of his mouth and spoke to Li Xuezhen.

“All right, Lawyer Su.”

Li Xuezhen nodded seriously.

This time the opposing party had encountered Baijun law Firm, Lawyer Su would certainly break their small wings.