Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

Chen Yiran felt that his communication with the lawyer was very smooth. Ted was a really good lawyer, and Fenwick & West was a really good law firm.

But back then, Ted drove around eating lunch and drinking coffee in front of his house for a whole week, and then brazenly wrote the itinerary into the final price list.

This still infuriated Chen Yiran, and she felt resentful every time she thought about it.

Even if I just add a few hours to my bill, he won't check carefully. It's so annoying to have him hanging around every day collecting money.

So after that, whenever Chen Yiran needed to see a lawyer, he would come at noon.

Anyway, he doesn't wake up until noon every day, so he doesn't need to eat breakfast. He can just go to the law firm to discuss things and then have afternoon tea at a Cantonese restaurant.

Just like this time, Chen Yiran pushed open Ted's office door precisely at 12 o'clock.

Ted had already been notified by the front desk and was reluctantly covering and putting away the high-end-looking sushi bento.

Chen Yiran said sincerely, "I'm sorry, Ted, I've been so busy. I arrived right at mealtime, so I'm sorry to have disturbed your meal."

Ted recalled that Chen Yiran was never in the company during the several times he helped FLowEDA with the legal document integration.

He took a deep breath, then smiled and said, "It's alright, it's alright, the sushi was cold anyway. After all, you paid such a high legal fee. By the way, in response to the current situation, we've improved our lawyers' compensation terms. We've decided that from now on, if serving a client causes you to miss lunch or dinner, the client will need to pay an extra hour's worth of legal fees!"

"You're so mean! Okay, now tell me how things are going at the company, is everything settled?"

Ted put the lunchbox aside and then took several bound documents from the table and handed them over.

"Everything's set up. Your Cayman company, Second Life Holdings Ltd., is an exempt company with zero corporate income tax. Its registered address is in George Town, Cayman."

Chen Yiran took the registration certificate and flipped through it. Company number, registration date, list of directors—of course, only his name. It was similar to when he registered FlowEDA, the difference being that this certificate was addressed to Cayman Islands instead of Delaware.

This was a preparation that Chen Yiran had intentionally made when he registered the company, separating the patents from the business operations.

"Okay, we still need to sign some documents, right?"

Ted then pulled out a rather thick folder, opened it, and said, "The DeepFlow patent assignment agreement—the provisional patent application you filed in your personal name—has been officially accepted by the USPTO. After signing this Assignment Agreement, the patent rights will be transferred from your personal name to Second Life. The USPTO registration will take effect in two weeks, and all registrations worldwide will be processed simultaneously."

The document was quite thick. Chen Yiran read it quickly, then waited ten seconds before signing and pressing his fingerprint on each section.

Jasmine had already mentally reviewed the information and confirmed that there were no problems. This kind of textual reasoning and summarizing wasn't something Jasmine was initially good at, but she'd been getting better at it lately. According to Jasmine, this was because she'd become more cunning after consistently using a human brain model.

Ted hadn't stopped yet; he pulled out another thick stack of documents.

"This is the licensing agreement between Second Life and FlowEDA. When the patent was first issued, you weren't asked to sign a licensing agreement with Second Life and FlowEDA. Now that the patent has been transferred to Second Life, the previous agreement is invalid. You need to sign a new one."

Let's set it up: a $1 licensing fee per year. A five-year contract, and FLowEDA needs to commit that all intellectual property output from its current employees automatically belongs to Second Life.

After confirming that everything was in order, Chen Yiran signed off on all the documents. With that settled, Chen Yiran's flexibility increased significantly.

Ted carefully put away the backup file and then began praising Chen Yiran: "You know what, you're really sharp. And it's comprehensive. Most Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs don't think this far ahead; we have to remind them. You actually took the initiative to suggest separating the patents for control. That's impressive."

There are many advantages to this. If you are sued in the future and the two sides are arguing, the opposing lawyer will not be able to apply for the freezing of your personal assets as a litigation preservation measure based on the question of the patent.

This tactic is quite unethical. After securing asset preservation, without funds to continue the lawsuit, one is forced to take out loans, leading to ever-increasing expenses and potentially financial ruin. Furthermore, the Cayman Islands and the United States do not have an automatic mutual legal assistance agreement. Any US court order to freeze Second Life's assets must first undergo approval procedures by a Cayman court, which is virtually impossible unless there is absolutely solid evidence. Therefore, theoretically, this firewall cannot be breached unless you make a mistake.

"What's wrong? It should be completely impenetrable, right?"

"No, even if you've actually infringed on someone's rights and it's established, there are still risks. There are also tax issues. Anyway, if you have any problems, you should consult our lawyers instead of trying to handle it yourself. From a friend's perspective, I hope you don't take any risks."

But as a lawyer, I can say that if you copy even slightly cleverly, even if the US determines it's copyright infringement, it won't be confirmed in the Cayman Islands for years. In that time, you'd have already transferred the money out of the country.

Chen Yiran nodded. Indeed, professional matters should be left to professionals, and these are all experts.

However, he had never actually thought about assets or anything like that; he just stumbled upon this by accident.

His main goal was to sideline his own FLowEDA company, since he didn't need to raise funds or worry about the inability to raise funds or go public due to the lack of core technology patents.

Separating the patents has numerous advantages, the most important being greater flexibility. If he does return to China in the future, he won't be held back, as the core patents will remain in his hands. FLowEDA can then be dissolved directly; there are enough willing employees to follow, so there's no need to wait. He can build a world-class EDA company in China on the spot.

After exchanging a few more words with Ted, mentioning that the OPC acceleration framework would also be submitted for patent application in a couple of days, Chen Yiran left the law firm and went to a supermarket for a big shopping spree.

Although Hannah had previously recommended the nearby Draeger's Market supermarket, a long-established high-end supermarket with a wide variety of premium ingredients, as well as a very professional floristry department and bakery.

However, the style there was really too old-fashioned, with a European market feel, which didn't suit Chen Yiran's cool and aloof style as a newly emerging Silicon Valley tech giant.

So he opted for the more industrialized Whole Foods Market, which, to Chinese speakers, sounds like "monkey father and son." This chain of upscale organic supermarkets was sufficient to meet Chen Yiran's needs.

After returning home with bags full of things, Chen Yiran first called Gao Dewei, who needed to arrange work.

When Gao Dewei answered the phone, the background noise was the buzzing of server fans.

"Boss, the third version of the OPC acceleration framework is running in testing, and I'm keeping an eye on it. So far, it looks great, and we should be able to deliver to Samsung in a week."

"Okay, that's easy to do. I went to the chip conference yesterday and had some new ideas. I think the approach is very good. We need to hurry up and get it done before I go to the Nvidia conference in September, so we can make a splash then."

Then Chen Yiran explained the ideas of temperature field optimization and Vt hybridization.

Gao Dewei stood there stunned for a while, then exclaimed, "We're going to be rich, boss! This isn't just a technical issue for us; it's a strategic move that none of the three major companies have ever touched upon. We'll be pioneers, the first to do this!"

"Yes, so we need to hurry, but I guess it'll be tough on everyone again. We need to communicate and provide feedback to the contracted design company and update the version. We also need to help out at OPC. Now we have to do this too. Some people might have to work 996."

What does "996" mean?

"From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week."

"Hey, that's no big deal. As for the temperature field you mentioned, Amit has already worked with Zhou Feng on the OPC framework, working on the underlying GPU core. Zhou Feng has run thermal simulations at Mingdao, and the mathematical model for the temperature field gradient is related to his previous work on photolithography thermal analysis. Matthew's FDTD and finite-difference time-domain simulations for electromagnetic simulations are also compatible with the temperature field algorithm, so he can assist in verifying the thermal gradient."

"What about Vt?"

"Let Lin Zhiwei assist you, Zhang Minghui help with visualization. If the data allocated by Vt is piled up in a table, no one can understand it. It will be much more intuitive to make it into a heatmap. Han Yu will connect to the underlying time series database."

Chen Yiran thought about it carefully and realized that Gao Dewei was indeed a seasoned veteran; his arrangements were all very appropriate.

"Okay, it's settled then. Call everyone over in a bit, I'll give you a pre-battle pep talk."