Chapter 384: Evidence Must Meet Criminal Standards!_2
The design company didn't directly approach Tao Zhongcheng at first, but instead found another company. This was because the technology already existed, but it had significant flaws and the costs were too high.
Tengfei Company improved the issues, reducing costs and increasing production efficiency.
As a result, this technology dissatisfied Dajin, and they sought trouble with the design company.
The design company had no other option, and since the owner knew Tao Zhongcheng, they approached him.
Dajin might have thought at the time that the design company would take the brunt, but they didn't expect Tao Zhongcheng to be caught and to confess everything, even leaving key evidence...
A science guy... speechless.
Although the situation was understood, as a professional lawyer, this is the kind of work that pays.
After pondering for a while, Jie Jianbin spoke: "Xiao Liu, please do me a favor and compare the filing materials with the technical drawings we just exchanged."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Liu was quite surprised and said: "Director, is this really necessary?"
On one hand are Dajin's filing materials, and on the other is the evidence voluntarily provided by Dajin; there's really no need to compare.
Jie Jianbin smiled and said: "Better safe than sorry, it's still good to compare them."
Xiao Liu nodded and went to work; when the director gives an order, it's just done.
This task extended into the evening, and Xiao Liu found Jie Jianbin, who was eating dinner, with a face full of surprise.
"Director, there's something wrong. The drawings provided by Dajin do not match their filing materials; some key data and features are inconsistent!"
What? Jie Jianbin immediately stood up: "Are you serious?"
Xiao Liu promptly handed over the report, saying: "Director, you see, even though we only did a rough comparison, these features are quite noticeable..."
Glancing at the report, Jie Jianbin felt a bit warm and immediately dialed the phone.
"Manager Qiao, come out for a moment, there's something on my end!"
Manager Qiao, sent by Dajin Company to participate in the lawsuit, was still in a good mood, ready to report today's situation to Manager Lu.
The requirements directly put forth by Director Jie were all reasonable and justified, making it difficult even for Tang Fangjing on the other side to refute; the expense was justified.
As soon as he took out his phone, he heard Jie Jianbin's voice, and quickly put it back away, following him outside.
Jie Jianbin had already taken out a cigarette; typically, these intellectual workers need to smoke, as the pressure is high, and there's a lot to consider.
So at this moment, Director Jie was already showing signs of a receding hairline.
Passing a cigarette to Manager Qiao, after lighting it, Jie Jianbin took a deep drag and then said: "Manager Qiao, today we conducted the main evidence exchange. I saw your company's first-phase engineering safety assessment report and design special chapter filed with the Safety Supervision Bureau."
"However, after a comparison by someone on my team, we found that the technical drawings you provided do not match the content of your filed safety assessment report and design special chapter!"
"So Manager Qiao, can you tell me what exactly is going on here?"
By the end, Jie Jianbin was starting to get angry.
He was particularly meticulous, intentionally comparing the two sets of materials.
It's not that he was overly sensitive, rather it was due to experience; he naturally became suspicious of everyone, including his own client!
Now, with two inconsistent contents, it implies that one of the sets of evidence must be fake!
Manager Qiao's expression became a bit uneasy: "Director Jie, this..."
Before he could finish, he was interrupted by Jie Jianbin: "Manager Qiao, what exactly is the issue? Is it the drawings, or the filing materials?"
"You have to understand, if there's an issue with the drawings, then we're falsifying evidence, and a fine is inevitable; but if there's an issue with the filing materials, what do you think someone like Tang Fangjing will do?"
Jie Jianbin could understand the behavior of taking shortcuts in lawsuits, all to win.
If it were another lawyer, even one of the other high-profile lawyers in the field of unfair competition, finding an issue with the filing materials, they would only bring it up in court.
Because they're taking on cases to make money; winning lawsuits is the normal outcome, but they wouldn't take things to the limit.
But you need to consider the circumstances, right? Who's on the other side? It's Tang Fangjing!
If Tang Fangjing discovers such an issue, he'll pounce on it like a fly attracted to excrement.
Jie Jianbin even felt this might be a trap set by Tang Fangjing, waiting for someone to fall into it, because in the earlier patent rights lawsuit, Dajin might have played the same game!
Manager Qiao's face finally changed, or rather, he wasn't unconscious of this point, but he was always making himself avoid thinking in this direction.
Finally, Manager Qiao admitted: "Director Jie, to be honest with you, the drawings... the drawings were partially modified."
"They were created based on the onsite investigation of that patent rights case, to match the evidence from that time. We didn't expect the other side to target the filing materials..."
Jie Jianbin's face darkened; if it weren't for his conscientiousness, they might have been caught in a trap again!
Being a lawyer for a long time, you encounter all kinds of clients.
Don't think that just because a case is high-end, nobody would still try to pull something; thinking that way is wrong.
It always comes down to weighing interests; when the stakes are high enough, people will lick the blood off the blade and even sell the rope that will hang them.
There are cases where lawyers and clients conspire to fake evidence, let alone this one.
Upon learning the situation, Jie Jianbin decisively said: "Alright, Manager Qiao, if there's an issue with this evidence, I suggest the company withdraws this evidence and relies solely on the safety assessment report and design special chapter."