This is regarded as the only original invention patent achievement of China people in the field of computer storage in the past 20 years, which is the core advantage of Netac and the basis of patent operation business, and also the main source of its performance, but it has also caused great controversy.
After so many years, Netac has been relying on this "cash cow" to make a living, and now it is on the verge of bankruptcy.
At present, Netac Technology (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. has two wholly-owned subsidiaries under Netac.
According to the 20 18 annual report published by Netac on March 13, the application date of Netac's core basic invention patent "Electronic external storage method and device for flash memory of data processing system" is199165438+10/0.
In 20 18, Netac's patent operation business realized patent authorization income of 36,292,600 yuan, down by 10.27% year-on-year, while the gross profit margin was still 100%, while Netac's total net profit in that year was 64,496,600 yuan, that is, only the U disk license brought 56% profit to Netac.
In fact, Netac is not unaware of the problem, but it has long admitted that there are no effective measures to fundamentally solve the risks faced by the company's operation after the U disk patent expires. Moreover, the company's patents are mainly concentrated in the traditional mobile storage fields such as flash memory, and there is no achievement in the fields of cloud storage and mobile Internet.