Judge Donahue’s brow furrowed as Roma’s stare bore into him like a laser. The silence stretched taut enough to snap before he finally spoke: “Overruled. The witness will answer.”

Roma’s smile spread like oil on water as he repeated the question, each word dripping with manufactured concern.

Delaney’s response came with the careful precision of someone navigating a minefield: “Under advice of counsel, I invoke my Fifth Amendment righ…”

The jury’s collective intake of breath could have sucked all the oxygen from the room. Daniel and Juniper moved in unconscious synchronization to flank their witness, their bodies forming a human shield against Roma’s prowling advance.

“How interesting.” Roma’s hush drifted like the smoke at a logistical center party, quietly heralding his most devastating attacks. “I’d say that’s the best answer the defense could have hoped for.” His hung silence drew every eye in the gallery. “After all, Eeogle v. MLopen also states that products produced by open-weight’s with temperatures exceeding 1.0 are to be considered mere ‘thoughts’ and therefore also a form of ‘natural phenomena’.”

He stepped toward the center of the floor, arms spreading as if the room itself was his to hold… every camera, every delegate, every eye in the gallery tracking the gesture. “This ties directly into how we evaluate public model cards based on how their temperature is derived Mr. Delaney. When models use TRNG - that harness randomness from physical phenomena like electronic noise or radioactive decay, their outputs are rooted in nature itself. So, when such randomness influences model temperatures, we’re essentially dealing with natural phenomena rather than man-made constructs.”

“Your Honor!” Juniper’s interjection hit like a clap she heard two nights prior. “This interpretation directly contradicts Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International! The ‘inventive concepts produced’ here are sufficiently transformed… ”