Jeff,

Software coding can not be patented. It could be copyrighted, but anyone can get around the code and create some similiar product.

I am copyrighting my game. ChatGPT has not seen it at all. I query code from ChatGPT. I am going for a design patent. Again, ChatGPT has not seen it.

Key point....the juxt of the game I do not query about. ChatGPT does not know what happens in the game or what larger parts of the game look like when played. There are a few components never mentioned in my queries. All ChatGPT is giving me is code without any images. ChatGPT has never imagined what the game looks like.

My patent attorney wanted me to get utility patents. That would allow me to license for a few hundred over time if the USPTO relented on prior art etc....the cost would have been massive. Design patents are very inexpensive and rarely get challenged. My attorney is extremely honest. He changed course quickly. He had not known the gaming industry issues.

I have a VPN, but not for Facebook or Google. If you have signed up, they know who you are on either end. Changing your IP address and hoping the encryption holds is not worth much of anything.

I have a dedicated IP address with my VPN to collect money from Microsoft. Our IP addresses are swapped out all the time, otherwise.

We need privacy laws, not VPNs, if we want privacy.