The intelligent lathe Xia Lei built and the one Josef built were of the same standard and there were no problems. The group of engineers quickly ascertained this but there was still this feeling of disbelief that the high precision machine had been built with just Xia Lei’s own two hands while they had failed and this feeling could only go away when they had personally tried the machine. 

“Elder Mu,” said an engineer, “Xia Lei is so skilled that it will be easier for him to build another machine like this next time, don’t you think?”

Another engineer said, “Yes, and he has his own company which does processing and manufacturing too. He can make a lathe like this - won’t he make some for his company in order to increase the output of Thunder Horse Manufacturing?”

Yet another engineer said, ”If he builds machines like this in batches and sells them to other companies, which of us has ownership of the intellectual property rights? Our agreement with him is for property rights, and we can claim that China Industrial Group built this intelligent lathe. Now if Xia Lei’s Thunder Horse Manufacturing manufactures intelligent lathes like these in large volumes, how do we fight this lawsuit?” 

The group of engineers buzzed with conversation; testing the machine had become a discussion on rights. 

Fighting over intellectual property rights of something that was stolen? 

Mu Jian-Feng’s brows wrinkled....