In a world where molten metal devours the very walls that contain it, an inventor dares to tame the chaos with the cold precision of machine learning—only to find their creation entangled in the bureaucratic abyss of the European Patent Office. “The Judgment of the Refractory Walls” is a Kafkaesque retelling of a real patent battle, where innovation collides with legal rigor, and an AI-driven prophecy of furnace decay is sentenced to oblivion. What went wrong? What lessons remain for future inventors? Enter the tribunal, where the fate of ideas hangs in the balance.

Based on T 1669/21 23-07-2024