What's wrong with this lawyer?!

However, note that this type of case demands meticulous detail!

Jie Jianbin must see the original, that is, the technical drawings recorded in Tengfei Company's confidential computer!

This is the reason for signing the confidentiality agreement.

The pre-trial meeting was held at the Handong Province High Court, with Old Tang, Huang Zhongyi, and Cui Zhengyu preparing to participate as plaintiffs.

As a result, as soon as Old Tang led the way into the meeting room, he saw a familiar person.

Fortunately, Old Tang had good psychological resilience, or he would have almost called out Old Zhou's name.

If he had really called out, without a doubt, with Director Jie's level, there would certainly be a recusal request.

Although it's unclear how Old Zhou got involved in this case, there's a significant chance such a big case will become a typical example.

If his shout caused Old Zhou to be recused... it's likely that tomorrow there'd be a news story about a "judge and lawyer getting into a street fight".

The Presiding Judge is the head of the civil tribunal of the High Court, surnamed Sun, a middle-aged man who seldom smiles, only briefly smiling when he saw Old Tang.

After all, he's a flagbearer in Handong's legal circle.

The meeting began, with the technical matters handed over to Cui Zhengyu and the others by Old Tang, who only needed to handle the legal matters.

The evidence from both sides is extremely complicated, and because of the other party's statement of defense, Old Tang supplemented and submitted twenty additional pieces of evidence.

This means that just to prove that the technology is Tengfei Company's trade secret, Old Tang prepared forty-six pieces of evidence!

And to prove the joint infringement by Dajin Company, the design company, and Tao Zhongcheng, thirty-five pieces of evidence were submitted.

Such an amount of evidence couldn't possibly be reviewed one by one at the first instance, so everything that needed confirmation had to be confirmed now.

What Old Tang didn't expect was that just as the meeting began, Jie Jianbin proposed to add new reasons.

A pre-trial meeting isn't a first instance, so you're expected to bring up any matters, and adding temporarily isn't an issue.

Looking at Old Tang across, Jie Jianbin said, "We believe the case has exceeded the statute of limitations, as Tengfei Company sought to sue us for patent infringement several years back."

"According to the trial transcript of the time, Tengfei Company's party mentioned that Dajin Company copied their technology."

"Therefore, at that time, Tengfei Company knew or should have known its rights were infringed, but the lawsuit was only filed now."

"It's long past the three-year limitation period..."

This counted as an unexpected surprise. Jie Jianbin, with a testing attitude, had applied to the court to retrieve the trial transcript from that time.

The judgment was rather vague, written by the Judge based on the materials submitted by both parties and some statements during the trial.

Yet, during the trial, there's also the trial transcript.

Anyone who frequently goes to court knows there's a clerk constantly recording parties' statements, including the Judge's words.

After it's over, both parties have to sign.

Sometimes the Judge asks you to slow down, probably because you're speaking too fast for the clerk to keep up...

This document is sealed and kept confidential, but at that time both parties could apply to review it themselves.

Thus, Jie Jianbin retrieved the critical content, and the clerk was straightforward in recording it all.

Huang Zhongyi and Cui Zhengyu were stunned, especially Cui Zhengyu, who suddenly recalled that it seemed... it seemed he was the one who said that sentence!

But back then, he was especially angry, because the other lawyer was just too good at arguing.

Moreover, the other party's situation did indeed seem somewhat like plagiarism, so he blurted it out; who would have thought such a sentence could be dug out by this lawyer and become a point of attack against them!

The two of them looked at Old Tang together, only to see Lawyer Tang's face filled with excitement now, like a thirsty strong man encountering a seductive beauty!

Suddenly, the two of them felt they weren't so nervous anymore...