Life at the Top

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Camera lights flashed endlessly in the conference hall, and all the video cameras were aimed right at the stage. No one wanted to miss any details.

If the fight between them was considered normal competition between two companies, then Valentine’s words had instantly escalated the situation where it now involved the breaking of the law.

The man had used expletives.

The reporters present all flushed in excitement. The trip over suddenly felt really worth it.

There were too few instances of such situations in the country.

Therefore, the moment such instances occurred, they attracted everyone’s attention.

Conrad was very pleased as well. Valentine was becoming more useful to him with every moment. Valentine knew that there were things Conrad was in no position to say, so he jumped out and conveyed the message Conrad wanted to say but could not.

“You’re the one speaking nonsense!”

A loud shout came from beside Jasper, causing everyone present to look over in shock.

Especially Valentine. The man’s expression darkened after being accused and he turned to look at Chad.

“Who says the only way to manufacture goods is with patent rights?”

Chad scoffed and pulled out a piece of document from his briefcase that he brought with him. He opened it before everyone and spoke, “Not only has JW Electronics bought 50% ownership of the MP3 player patent rights from Sentel Corporation, but we’ve also signed an improvement patent agreement!

“So as long as we’ve succeeded in improving the MP3 player, we’re automatically granted the user rights to the patent.”

Chad looked at the silenced group of reporters proudly as he continued, “In addition, JW Electronics will hold complete ownership over our improved patent rights. That means that our Mellow has fully independent intellectual property rights!

license. So what if they do? They’re still working for the foreigners, aren’t they? A portion of the profit made from very first-generation Melody has to be distributed to Mr. Damond Golding. Can

words stunned the entire

reporters began to whisper among themselves. There were quite a few reporters who did not understand much about patents, licenses, and their pertaining laws, but they all came to an understanding after asking people who worked in those industries—Chad was speaking

managed to sign an improvement patent agreement when they could not get a license. Not to mention that they had succeeded

a domestic

looked at Jasper excitedly, and they all wanted to know

The man remained calm.

to show you with my actions that our Somerland

Clap, clap, clap!

were fervently clapping at Jasper’s statement. The entire conference hall was

and Valentine had a very sour look on their

never expected such

it actually exist?” Conrad suppressed his anger and asked

nodded with difficulty. “It does. There is such regulation under international patent law. As long as the owner of the patent agrees, it’s very much possible. But the issue is that he’d need all of the people with ownership to

after receiving such a shock. He turned to

everything prepared, right? You were just waiting for me to play my role. How dare you make

Furious, Conrad asked directly.

Monty, how could you accuse me of making you into a fool when you

really thank you for giving Mellow such a great opportunity for advertisement, Mr. Monty. It looks

was about to combust from

a lot of favors using the Monty family’s name for this launch event just to get dozens of media representatives over, including those two large stations from Swallow Capital. Now, he had given

worst part of this all was that his first-generation Melody had its reputation crushed before it

was a stuffy gust of air that suffocated his chest. He could not swallow it nor push it out. It felt

slightly at Conrad’s

it took