Legal
Terms of Use
These Terms of Use govern access to the Patent Pending Made Simple website and AI-assisted provisional patent drafting service.
This is a review-ready business draft, not final legal advice. It intentionally identifies provisions that require company-specific confirmation and approval by qualified counsel before production launch.
Acceptance and eligibility
By accessing or using Patent Pending Made Simple, you agree to these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy. If you use the service for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization. You must be legally able to enter a binding agreement and provide accurate account and billing information.
The service is not legal advice
Patent Pending Made Simple provides software and AI-assisted drafting tools. Unless you separately enter into a written attorney engagement that expressly says otherwise, use of the service does not create an attorney-client relationship and communications through the general website or software are not legal advice.
Attorney-review or guidance offerings may involve separate scope, conflict, privilege, and engagement terms. Those specific written terms control if they conflict with these general Terms of Use.
Your responsibility for patent decisions
- Review all generated text, claims, drawings, descriptions, classifications, and filing materials for accuracy and completeness.
- Decide whether and when to file, where to file, what to disclose, and whether to seek advice from a qualified patent professional.
- Track filing dates, public-disclosure dates, priority claims, fees, deadlines, signatures, inventor information, and all other legal or procedural requirements.
- Confirm that you have the rights and permissions needed to submit all materials and instructions provided to the service.
AI-generated output and no guarantees
Artificial intelligence can produce incomplete, inaccurate, inconsistent, or unsuitable output. Generated content is a drafting aid and must be independently reviewed. The service does not guarantee patentability, validity, enforceability, confidentiality, filing acceptance, priority, commercial value, or any particular legal or business outcome.
Patent laws and procedures vary by jurisdiction and can change. You are responsible for obtaining professional advice appropriate to your invention, circumstances, deadlines, and intended filing strategy.
Your content and permission to process it
As between you and Patent Pending Made Simple, you retain your rights in the invention materials and other content you submit. You grant us a limited permission to host, copy, process, transmit, transform, and display that content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, support, and improve the service for you, comply with law, and enforce these terms.
You represent that your content and use of the service do not infringe another person’s rights, violate confidentiality duties, contain unlawful material, or expose information you are not authorized to disclose.
Acceptable use
- Do not use the service for unlawful, deceptive, abusive, infringing, or fraudulent activity.
- Do not attempt to bypass access controls, disrupt the service, introduce malicious code, scrape at unreasonable volume, or reverse engineer protected portions of the service except where law expressly permits it.
- Do not misrepresent AI-generated content as having been reviewed or approved by an attorney, the USPTO, or another authority when it has not.
- Do not use the service to submit content you lack authority to use or to violate export-control, sanctions, privacy, intellectual-property, or professional-responsibility requirements.
Fees, billing, and changes
Prices, included services, payment timing, renewal terms, and any refund or cancellation terms are presented at checkout or in an applicable order form. You authorize the stated charges and are responsible for applicable taxes. We may change future pricing or service features with notice as required by law, but changes will not retroactively alter a completed purchase unless agreed.
Counsel should confirm the final refund, subscription-renewal, chargeback, and cancellation language against the production checkout and each current plan before approval.
Availability, suspension, and termination
We may modify, suspend, or discontinue features, and we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability. We may restrict or terminate access when reasonably necessary to protect the service, comply with law, address nonpayment, or respond to a material violation of these terms.
You may stop using the service at any time. Provisions that by their nature should continue—such as ownership, disclaimers, limits of liability, indemnity, dispute terms, and payment obligations—survive termination.
Disclaimers and limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement, accuracy, or results. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Patent Pending Made Simple and its affiliates, personnel, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, lost profits, lost data, missed deadlines, loss of patent rights, or loss of business opportunity arising from use of the service. Counsel must set and approve any aggregate liability cap before this draft becomes final.
Indemnification
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Patent Pending Made Simple and its affiliates, personnel, and service providers from claims, losses, liabilities, and expenses arising from your content, your misuse of the service, your violation of these terms, or your violation of another person’s rights. Counsel should confirm the scope and procedure for this obligation.
Governing terms and contact
These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any applicable order form or separate attorney engagement, are the agreement governing use of the service. If one provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.
Counsel must add the company’s legal entity name, notice address, governing law, venue or arbitration terms, class-action language if applicable, and jurisdiction-specific consumer provisions before approval. Questions may be sent to hello@patentpending.ai.