"Yes, it's Wang Defa! 47 years old, from Baoding, Hebei, registered a bait company called Baoding Yuyue Fish Bait Factory, and he's the legal representative!"

"That bastard is the one who cracked our Little Yellow Face formula some time ago, selling at low prices across various places! I led a team to fish at Tianjin Jinghai Garden and won two championships in his sponsored competitions. I didn't think this bastard would be so malicious, and now he's targeting our newly developed product!"

Zhang Yang forced himself to suppress his anger and seriously explained the whole situation to Lawyer Lin.

"For bait products, the current domestic legal regulation isn't very strict. These are non-standard products without fixed technical execution standards, so no formula or infringement can be determined!

From this perspective, it's hard to make him pay! If you want to deal with him reasonably and legally, I do have a more reliable plan that can make him suffer!"

"Tell me about it!"

"Didn't many pit bosses suffer losses because people used fake bait to fish, causing many dead fish?

We could find a sponsor to come forward, contact all the pit bosses with issues to calculate losses, and after obtaining the pit bosses' authorization agreements, we could jointly sue the other party.

Then take samples of his bait normally, go to the relevant identification agencies, and create bait inspection documentation. By then, we can claim sufficient compensation for the dead fish!

With so many pit fishing grounds in the country, there should be many dead fish, and more likely than not, this compensation will be recognized by the court!

By then, the other party will definitely have to compensate, and along with reaching the significant loss standard for the public, we could impose criminal charges.

Once the nature is recognized, we can use our internal channels to publicize everything, not only recovering the brand image but also letting the pit bosses know the truth, and finally punishing the criminal, achieving three goals!"

Lawyer Lin truly deserves to be a veteran professional in the legal field, quickly drafting a highly viable plan after understanding the relevant situation.

After listening to Lawyer Lin's series of analyses, President Zhao and Zhang Yang exchanged glances and immediately nodded in agreement.

This plan is feasible!

"Alright, let's proceed with your idea! The company will approve the funds if needed. I have only one requirement, spending some money is not a problem, but it must be efficient, and we can't easily let the other party off. Wang Defa must pay the deserved price!"

"Since President Zhao and President Zhang approve of this plan, I'll start the operation immediately! I'll strive to have the written materials ready within a week, and within a month, complete all the preliminary litigation preparations and material submissions. If all goes well, we can have the first hearing in two months!"

"Two months? Is it going to take that long?"

Hearing this time frame, Zhang Yang felt a bit hard to accept despite being mentally prepared.

The company spent at least one or two million in real advertising expenses to sponsor and organize competition events, which only got the Yellow Storm bait's brand recognition up, aiming to use the shortest time for a product rollout to form sufficient market monopoly.

But it was disrupted by counterfeit products, affecting the original commercial promotion schedule significantly. Two months to wait for a hearing, and by the time the punishment results come out, the outdoor pit season will have turned to autumn. It's equivalent to wasting the best development phase, and by next spring, who knows how many peers will jump on the bandwagon!

"I've already mentioned this schedule is quite tight, actual operations might be slower!

Court procedures require time. There's not much else I can do about this!"

Lawyer Lin shrugged, showing a hint of helplessness for the first time.

"Not run by us, not run by us, who says it's not run by us!" Zhang Yang mumbled, suddenly having a flash of insight.

Meng Fan and Han Mocheng both have connections in politics, especially Meng Fan, whose roots in W City are very deep. Asking him for help to find someone and pull some strings might be able to shorten this time.

Lawyer Lin quickly reacted, smiling and said, "If you have resources in the political and legal field, the court opening time can be quite faster! I overlooked this point.

If the case can be heard locally, specific judgments and penalty standards do have some flexibility, maybe claims we think are unlikely might be supported by the court, you know!"

"Alright, let's divide and conquer, you go prepare! Later I'll have our company's agents gather some leads, communicate any issues anytime!"

"Okay!"

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After coordinating with Lawyer Lin, Zhang Yang promptly called Meng Fan.

The product from his brother's company was messed up to this extent by others, Meng Fan was also quite frustrated. Listening to Zhang Yang asking about political and legal connections, Meng Fan agreed without hesitation. The Meng Family is quite authoritative in W City's turf.

With related leadership's greetings, the legal progress gained significant traction. Lawyer Lin collected ample evidence, and with supportive connections, it took less than twenty days to complete all preparatory work.

The court accepted the lawsuit, simultaneously launching a dual approach, reporting Yuyue Fish Bait Factory's illegal infringement behavior, and quickly rolled out a strong combination.

That day, Wang Defa was arranging workers to ship products at the factory, when a joint law enforcement team from industry, tax, inspection, and other government units arrived to seal the factory.

The factory workshop was directly sealed, personnel were taken away with handcuffs, and soon after following fake production for profit, Wang Defa was quickly arrested.

The subsequent trial results were far better than Lawyer Lin expected. With substantial evidence, Wang Defa's case of producing and selling counterfeit and substandard bait, causing significant public property loss, was judged severely.

Besides confiscating illegal earnings, Wang Defa faced a compensation exceeding a million and nearly ten years of imprisonment.

Wang Defa disagreed and appealed in court. Before the final judgment was released, he'll be spending his days locked up, marking Zhang Yang's phased victory.

After putting Wang Defa behind bars through a series of operations, Zhang Yang, who had been holding onto his anger, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

On the day the court established the case's nature, Zhang Yang used his platform's live account matrix to conduct extensive promotional storytelling, simultaneously hosting an online press conference on his major live account.

Now, the pit bosses with significant dead fish losses have a chance to receive compensation, and the perpetrator is rightly punished and detained.

Because of the continuous fermentation during this time and the legendary nature of the infringement judgment, the genuine Yellow Storm bait's reputation skyrocketed, even reaching mainstream attention, with many internet users who don't fish knowing about an unethical bait manufacturer caught for fake bait through social media.

At any time, traffic means huge attention, and to put it more bluntly, attention is money, directly linked to interests.

This time, the series of rights protection operations, which took many twists and turns, could be considered the annual rights protection drama, elevating Yellow Storm bait's influence to a point of ubiquitous presence within the pit bait vertical category.

With so much manpower, resources, and funds poured into it, Zhang Yang's team didn't have their efforts wasted. Every day, orders from agents nationwide flew in like snowflakes, and the original two production lines couldn't meet production capacity, so they simply decided to construct another new bait workshop, adding two new production lines.

At the bait factory, massive amounts of raw materials were pulled into the workshop daily, then finished bait was packaged and stored, distributed nationwide through an advanced logistics system.

Time swiftly moved to mid-September 2017, as the scorching summer gradually passed, and the number of intensive fishing competitions began to increase.

That day, Zhang Yang was tucked away in the tackle shop, drinking tea and chatting, when Han Mocheng's call came through.

The ftt Quancheng Station competition, registration opened!