How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue novel Chapter 385

Elodie understood exactly what Alexander meant.

A complete flight control system was a complicated beast—it required constant iteration on the foundational code, refining technical details again and again. Even if VistaLink Technologies and their competitor clashed over something that wasn’t the core of the system, as long as there was overlap, they could be accused of theft.

“Elodie, Alex—Neural Intelligence just released a statement.”

Esmeralda strode in, dropped a tablet in front of them, and gestured at the screen.

Elodie glanced over it, letting out a short, cold laugh.

The rumor that VistaLink Technologies’ engineers had “stolen” code from Neural Intelligence was spreading like wildfire.

Neural Intelligence’s official statement hammered the point home: “Neural Intelligence will do everything possible to get to the bottom of this. We will not allow the hard work of our engineers and technicians to be plagiarized. We are petitioning the National Patent Review Board to invalidate VistaLink Technologies’ flight control system patent, and if our claims prove true, we will pursue the matter to the fullest extent.”

They’d practically nailed VistaLink Technologies to the wall, as if the verdict was already in. It was the kind of public posturing that could tip the scales of public opinion in an instant.

Esmeralda swore under her breath. “They make it sound like we stole the crown jewels of technology from them. Is that code even theirs? Elodie wrote the original version! Don’t they have a shred of self-awareness? Shameless self-promotion, that’s all it is.”

But the truth was, even partial overlap meant overlap. And for patents, that was enough to cause trouble.