# THOMPSON-HAYES: THE INSIDE OUT
## Chapter Fourteen — The Patent Fight
Diana filed the patent contest on Thursday at 9:17 a.m.
By noon TechPulse had a piece. By two, three more outlets. By four, the Meridian Foundation's communications team had released a statement calling it politically motivated and groundless and Mia had received Ashby's personal cell call during period three, which meant the filing and the call had a gap of less than two hours.
She noted this.
She told Nathan at dinner. He was already tracking the coverage — he had an alert set up, which she had not asked him to do and which she found she was glad about. He showed her his screen. The coverage was not negative. Most of the pieces were framed around the patent methodology itself — student data aggregation, what it
