01 Intellectual property stewardship
The VirtEngine patent — AU2024203136B2
cl 32.1.1
Australian patent AU2024203136B2, 'Decentralized system for identification, authentication, data encryption, cloud and distributed cluster computing', has been accepted with amended claims (August 2025). The claims cover the integrated system: decentralized identity scoring from government-ID, biometric, and device signals; encrypted payload handling; a blockchain-coordinated marketplace matching tenants and providers; and distributed cluster computing under on-chain control.
The constitution obliges the company to own or control this patent family — including future continuations, divisionals, and foreign equivalents — and to apply it for public benefit. Held this way, the patent works as a defensive instrument: it prevents a competitor from fencing off the invention and charging the public rent on it.
02 Intellectual property stewardship
The DSEMA claims — patent pending
cl 32.1.2
The DSEMA claims (v1.2.1) describe a computer-implemented system for verifiably authorized autonomous state modification in multi-agent AI: DID-anchored agent identity, tamper-evident performance logging, smart-contract-triggered model adaptation, sandboxed execution with hash-verified model loading, and constitutional validation of high-stakes actions. The claims are pending; we describe them as exactly that.
03 Intellectual property stewardship
Open source and the licensing test
cl 37.1cl 37.2
The VirtEngine protocol implementation is published under Apache 2.0 in the open repository — the license's explicit patent grant means using the open code comes with a license to the patented invention as embodied in it. The directors' licensing discretion is constitutionally bound to prefer models that support safety, privacy, auditability, interoperability, and decentralisation; prevent private capture of core protocols; allow commercial services that fund the purposes; and preserve the foundation's ability to maintain the technology.
Material IP decisions — transfers, exclusive licences, abandonment, litigation settlement — are Reserved Matters requiring Founding Member Consent, and the assets themselves are locked by Schedule 1.