Terms of Service

Effective June 7, 2026. Version 1.

These Terms of Service govern your use of Patentable, operated by Interactive Technology, LLC ("Patentable", "we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms.

1. The Service

Patentable provides patent intelligence tools including prior art search, provisional patent drafting assistance, freedom-to-operate analysis, and related software intended for developers, inventors, and patent professionals.

The Service is provided "as is." Patentable is not a law firm and the Service does not constitute legal advice. You should consult a licensed patent attorney for legal matters affecting your intellectual property rights.

2. Your account

To use most features you need an account. You agree to:

  • Provide accurate registration information.
  • Keep your credentials secure.
  • Not share your account with others.
  • Notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorized access.

You are responsible for activity under your account.

3. Acceptable use

You will not:

  • Use the Service to violate any law or third-party right.
  • Submit content you do not have the right to submit.
  • Reverse-engineer, scrape, or attempt to extract data from the Service beyond the official APIs.
  • Use the Service to compete with Patentable.
  • Use the Service to generate spam, malware, or abuse.

We may suspend or terminate your account at any time, without notice, if we determine in our sole discretion that you have violated these Terms or that suspension is necessary to protect the Service or other users.

4. Your content and our search results

When you submit content (code, documents, descriptions) for analysis, you grant Patentable a limited license to process that content to provide the Service. We use minimal data and do not sell your inputs.

Search results and AI-generated translations are best-effort outputs of automated systems. They may contain errors. You agree not to rely on them as authoritative legal opinions.

5. Confidentiality

We treat your source code, the inventions we detect from it, and the documents and descriptions you submit as confidential. This works like a mutual NDA built into the Service.

  • We use your code, inventions, and materials only to provide the Service to you.
  • We do not disclose them to third parties, except the subprocessors listed in our Privacy Policy, who are bound by their own confidentiality obligations, or where we are required to by law.
  • We do not use your code or your inventions to compete with you.
  • Our staff and contractors are bound by confidentiality obligations covering your content.
  • Before any of your content is sent to a third-party AI provider for analysis, we strip secrets such as API keys, tokens, and credentials. See the Privacy Policy for details.

These obligations survive termination of your account. They keep applying to content we held even after you leave.

6. Intellectual property

You retain ownership of the content you submit. Ownership and confidentiality are separate promises: owning your content means it stays yours, and the confidentiality section above means we keep it private and use it only to serve you. Patentable retains ownership of the Service itself: software, databases, user interface, and brand.

You may not republish or commercially redistribute Patentable's analysis outputs without our written permission, except for use within your own organization.

7. Fees and refunds

Some features require payment. By purchasing a paid plan you agree to pay the displayed fees. Refunds are at our discretion.

8. Termination

You may delete your account at any time. We may terminate or suspend access to the Service for any reason. On termination, your right to use the Service ends but data retention policies described in our Privacy Policy apply.

9. Disclaimers and liability

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. Patentable disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, Patentable's total liability arising out of or related to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim, or (b) USD $100.

Patentable is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages.

10. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles.

11. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. When we do, we will bump the version and prompt you to re-accept the new version on your next login. Material changes will be summarized in a changelog. Continued use after a version bump requires acceptance.

12. Contact

Questions about these Terms: patentable@thedevelopers.dev

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Version 1, published June 7, 2026 at 12:34 AM