The Virtual Universe.
"What exactly did this Lou Wuxing do?"
Dongguan continued pulling up the detailed records.
After reading them, he could not help voicing his admiration. "This fellow really is talented."
There was naturally a reason why the Virtual Universe Company had set its sights on a Giant Axe Warrior like him.
As everyone knew, the Virtual Universe Company was humanity's second-largest power in the Primal Universe, as well as its largest technology conglomerate.
One of the Virtual Universe Company's lines of business was patents.
Earth had a patent protection system, and naturally, the universe also had one to protect intellectual property and encourage innovation.
Patent protection on Earth before the Great Nirvana had time limits, such as ten or twenty years. In the universe, however,
timescales varied enormously. Immortals could easily live for hundreds of millions of years, while Apprentice Level and Planetary Level generations turned over in hundreds or thousands of years. Naturally, a different patent protection system was needed.
Patents covered an extremely broad range: secret arts, potion formulas, material formulas, manufacturing methods for weapons or devices, technological techniques, and much more.
If something was only for private use-for example, a secret art intended only for personal use and teaching disciples rather than wider distribution-there was no need to apply.
But when someone wanted to distribute it for profit, patent protection became necessary.
Generally speaking, if a patent application submitted to the Virtual Universe Company was approved, the company would provide an appraisal roughly equivalent to the economic value the project could generate over ten thousand epochs.
If the applicant wished, they could sell the patent to the Virtual Universe Company at that price.
Otherwise, there were two options. One was to halve the price and share ownership, with the specific terms negotiated separately. The second