GuBu Tech V. Big Data Corp.

GuBu Technologies V. Big Data Corporations was a court case in Year 167 between GuBu Tech and Big Data Corporations regarding the proprietary technology of the Quantum Computer. The result was a victory for GuBu Tech. Big Data Corp. was forced to cease research and development on quantum computers and its stock price fell by 50%.

Case
In Year 165, GuBu Tech filed and received approval for a patent for the design of a large scale quantum computer. The Fin Corporation had filed a patent for the first fully fault tolerant quantum computer in Year 164, and the proceeding Year 165 patent was a Joint Venture between the two corporations. Currently, these two corporations are the only two with access to fault tolerant quantum computing systems.

In Year 167, a Big Data Corp. employee leaked information that the corporation was in the research and development stage of a quantum computing system. Along with the leak were designs for the system that matched the original designs of the Fin Corp. and GuBu Tech models. GuBu Tech filed a lawsuit under the legal counsel of HuFu.

The major claim of the defendant was that this technology can be independently invented, as the principles of quantum mechanics is well established scientific knowledge. They claimed that independent inventions of a quantum computer is likely with the size and technology of the Blobverse.

GuBu Tech ran a simulation on its quantum computer to calculate the probability of a species inventing such advanced quantum computing technology. The calculations showed that only one civilization in 100 light years every 1 million years would be within the 90% confidence interval of inventing this technology,

The court ruled in favor of GuBu Tech for the following reasons:

1. Big Data Corporations could not prove that the design of their quantum computer was derived independently from their own internal research.

2. GuBu Tech's simulation showed that the chance discovery of a quantum computer is very rare, even for civilizations that have discovered quantum mechanics.