Orion stared at the fusion reactor blueprint on his screen. The design was perfect. Revolutionary. Worth billions—maybe trillions—if someone stole it.
"Rene," he said. "We need to protect this. I want you to file patents for everything. The reactor design, the thermoelectric material composition, the superconductor structure, the magnetic control systems, the laser ignition configuration, the fluid dynamics optimization—everything that can be patented."
"Understood. Shall I prepare comprehensive patent applications?"
"Yeah. And don't just file one patent per invention. Create variations. Different material ratios, alternate configurations, modified designs. I want a patent wall so thick that nobody can copy our work without running into our intellectual property."
"Acknowledged. How many variations per technology?"
"As many as make sense. If there are ten viable ways to build the superconductor with similar performance, patent all ten. Same for everything else."
