How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

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.

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

if the verdict was already in. It was the kind of public posturing that could tip the scales

Is that code even theirs? Elodie wrote the original version! Don't they have a shred of self-awareness?

partial overlap meant overlap. And for patents, that was

any time with that statement," Alexander sneered. "Funny, isn't it? When our patent was up for grabs, we didn't sell it to Neural Intelligence. Now they're desperate to have it

it over, frowning. "We need evidence, obviously. But what I really want to know is

Terrence's email were from a version she'd written herself. But now the other side had presented

went straight to making a public spectacle out of it. They slapped the label on us before we could even respond.

replied calmly. "Let's reassure them for now. I'll think