It is whether there is eligible subject matter at all or only a law of nature with the value sitting in a downstream claim; whether a competitor could reverse-engineer it from what we ship, since a trade secret protects nothing if they can and a patent just teaches them if they cannot; whether a contract we signed before the result existed has already decided the question; and whether we could realistically detect and pursue infringement. Physical Superintelligence is an exceptionally well-funded seed-stage startup with roots at Google, Meta, DeepMind, NVIDIA, Citadel, Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins, the Perimeter Institute, and the Institute for Advanced Study, building AI systems to discover new physics at scale.