Terms and Conditions
These Terms govern your access to and use of IPnite™'s website, patent preparation and IP management platform, free trial, subscriptions, add-ons, and optional support.
Welcome to IPnite™. By accessing or using the Site or the Services, creating an account, starting a free trial, choosing a plan or add-on, uploading invention materials, or using any AI-generated output, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services. If you are a consumer, nothing in these Terms limits the rights that mandatory consumer-protection law grants you.
1. Who We Are and Acceptance of Terms
These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern your access to and use of ipnite.com, app.ipnite.com, and all related products, software, AI-assisted workflows, outputs, portfolio-management features, documents, communications, free trials, subscriptions, add-ons, and related services (the "Services"). IPnite™ is a product of Ik-Holcan LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("IPnite™," "we," "us," or "our"). You can contact us at info@ipnite.com. By using the Services you agree to these Terms.
2. Eligibility and Authority
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, to use the Services. If you use the Services on behalf of a company or other entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms.
3. IPnite™ Is a Technology Tool — Not a Law Firm
IPnite™ is a software platform, not a law firm, legal services provider, or patent agency. IPnite™ does not employ patent attorneys or registered patent agents to act for you, and no person at IPnite™ acts as your attorney, agent, representative, or fiduciary. The Services are workflow and drafting tools.
4. No Legal Advice and No Attorney-Client Relationship
Nothing in the Services, these Terms, any AI-generated output, or any communication from IPnite™ constitutes legal, patent, tax, regulatory, business, or investment advice. Using the Services does not create an attorney-client or other professional relationship. For legal advice, filing strategy, or prosecution decisions, consult a qualified patent attorney or registered patent agent.
5. Registered Practitioners and Third-Party Services
Anyone who uses IPnite™ to offer drafting, filing, legal review, or representation services to third parties is solely responsible for holding the required licenses and complying with the professional rules that apply to them. IPnite™ is not responsible for the acts, representations, or errors of such persons.
6. User Content and Invention Disclosures
"User Content" means the invention disclosures, technical descriptions, drawings, documents, notes, prior-art references, business information, confidential information, files, prompts, and other materials you submit. You represent that you have the rights needed to submit User Content and that doing so does not violate third-party rights, confidentiality obligations, or law. IPnite™ does not verify the accuracy, ownership, or legal status of User Content.
7. Your Responsibility to Review All Outputs — Professional Review or Self-Filing
AI-generated outputs are drafts that you must review before filing or relying on them. You may (a) have them reviewed and approved by a qualified patent attorney or registered patent agent, who assumes responsibility for that review under their professional obligations; or (b) file or act on them yourself, in which case you assume full responsibility for the filings and their consequences. In either case you are responsible for correcting errors, omissions, and inaccuracies before use.
8. AI Output Limitations
AI-generated outputs may contain errors, omissions, outdated or inaccurate information, fabricated references, or other limitations inherent to AI technology. IPnite™ does not warrant that any output is accurate, complete, legally sufficient, or fit for a particular purpose.
9. Patentability and Freedom-to-Operate Analyses
Depending on your plan, IPnite™ delivers AI-assisted patentability searches and freedom-to-operate (FTO) analyses. They are delivered as part of the service, and you are responsible for reading them or having them reviewed by a qualified professional. IPnite™ does not guarantee their conclusions, their completeness, or that every relevant document or right was identified, and they are not a legal opinion.
10. Browser Extensions, AI Readers, and Third-Party Tools
You are responsible for securing your devices, browsers, extensions, and any third-party software that may access or transmit your confidential information. IPnite™ is not responsible for exposures caused by software you install or authorize.
11. Project Storage, Retention, and Deletion
IPnite™ stores project materials according to your plan's storage allowance and the retention periods described in the Privacy Policy. Keep your own copies and exports of anything you need to preserve. When you delete content, your account ends, or an applicable retention period expires, project information may be deleted or anonymized.
12. Free Trial
IPnite™ may offer a free trial of 7 days that includes one prior-art search with the Discovery Agent. The trial does not require a payment method and never converts automatically into a paid plan: it simply ends after 7 days. To use The Drafter and other paid features you must choose a plan. IPnite™ may change or end the trial offer for future users at any time.
13. Subscriptions, Automatic Renewal, and Cancellation
Paid plans are billed in advance on a monthly or annual basis and renew automatically for the same period, at the price then in effect, until you cancel. Annual plans cost the equivalent of ten monthly payments. You can cancel anytime from your account through the same online channel you used to subscribe; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period and you keep access until then. If a price changes, we will notify you at least 30 days before your next renewal, and you may cancel before it takes effect.
14. Prices, Payments, and Taxes
Prices depend on your country or region and are shown before purchase. Payments are processed by third-party payment processors such as Stripe and, depending on your country, local providers such as Mercado Pago or Pix. IPnite™ does not store full card numbers. Taxes, fees, and the final total are confirmed at checkout. If a payment fails, we may suspend paid features until it is resolved.
15. Refunds and Right of Withdrawal
Fees for billing periods that have already started are non-refundable, except where applicable law grants you a right of withdrawal or a refund. Where consumer law gives you a withdrawal period after an online purchase (see Section 32), you may exercise it from your account or by writing to info@ipnite.com, and we will refund the amounts paid as required by that law.
16. Ownership of Your Content and Outputs
You keep all rights in your User Content. Everything the Services generate from your User Content—including draft applications, claims, descriptions, drawings, summaries, prior-art notes, and analyses ("Outputs")—belongs to you. You may use, modify, file with any patent office, license, sell, publish, or share your Outputs for any lawful purpose, at any time, without restriction or attribution to IPnite™. IPnite™ claims no ownership of your Outputs and receives only the limited permission needed to store, process, and display your content in order to provide the Services to you. Because AI can produce similar text for different users, IPnite™ does not warrant that Outputs are unique or free from third-party rights.
17. Confidentiality, Security, and Data Use
IPnite™ does not use your User Content or Outputs to train artificial intelligence models, and does not use them for any purpose other than providing the Services to you. AI processing runs through the enterprise Vertex AI API in IPnite™'s Google Cloud environment; Google Cloud's terms state that Google does not use customer data to train its models without the customer's permission, and IPnite™ has not given that permission. IPnite™ applies reasonable technical and organizational security measures, including encryption in transit and at rest, but no system is completely secure. See the Privacy Policy and the Security page for details.
18. No Guaranteed Outcome
Using IPnite™ does not guarantee that any application will be accepted, examined, allowed, granted, or maintained; that any claim will survive examination or challenge; that any output is free of prior art; that any search is exhaustive; or that any output has commercial or enforcement value. To the extent permitted by law, IPnite™ is not liable for rejections, loss of rights, or other consequences of actions you take based on Outputs.
19. Optional Human Support
IPnite™ may offer optional human support, including coordination with external professionals. Such services are governed by separate agreements, and IPnite™ is not responsible for the advice or conduct of third-party professionals.
20. Acceptable Use
You agree not to misuse the Services; submit materials you have no right to submit; infringe third-party rights; misrepresent inventorship, ownership, or professional credentials; provide unauthorized legal services; scrape, copy, or create datasets from the platform or train models on non-public IPnite™ materials; reverse-engineer the platform; or use the Services for unlawful, deceptive, or harmful purposes.
21. IPnite™ Intellectual Property
The Site and platform—including the interface, workflows, code, software, prompts, system instructions, branding, trademarks, designs, and documentation—are owned by Ik-Holcan LLC or its licensors. These Terms give you no ownership of them. This section does not affect your ownership of your User Content and Outputs under Section 16. If you send us feedback, we may use it without obligation to you.
22. Privacy Policy
The Privacy Policy explains how IPnite™ collects, uses, stores, and protects personal information and is incorporated into these Terms by reference.
23. Account Security
You are responsible for keeping your credentials and devices secure and for activity under your account. Notify us immediately at info@ipnite.com of any unauthorized access.
24. Third-Party Services
The Services depend on third-party providers such as cloud hosting, Google Cloud Vertex AI, payment processors, authentication, analytics, and patent databases. IPnite™ is not responsible for their availability or failures, but chooses providers bound by appropriate contractual obligations.
25. Disclaimer of Warranties
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICES AND OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THIS SECTION DOES NOT EXCLUDE WARRANTIES THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED UNDER CONSUMER LAW.
26. Limitation of Liability
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IK-HOLCAN LLC AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND LICENSORS ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, PATENT RIGHTS, OR TRADE SECRETS. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE FEES YOU PAID IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR USD 100. THESE LIMITS DO NOT APPLY WHERE THE LAW PROHIBITS THEM, INCLUDING FOR CONSUMERS WHOSE LOCAL LAW DOES NOT ALLOW THEM.
27. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify Ik-Holcan LLC against third-party claims arising from your User Content, your breach of these Terms or the law, your infringement of third-party rights, or professional services you provide to others using IPnite™.
28. Suspension and Termination
IPnite™ may suspend or terminate access if you seriously breach these Terms, fail to pay, abuse plan allowances, act fraudulently, or use the Services unlawfully. When reasonable, we will notify you first and give you the chance to export your content. You may stop using the Services and close your account at any time. Sections 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 16, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, and 32 survive termination.
29. Changes to the Services or Terms
We may update the Services or these Terms. We will post updated Terms with a new date and, for material changes, notify subscribers by email in advance. If you do not agree to the changes, you may cancel before they take effect; continued use after that date means you accept them.
30. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and disputes not subject to arbitration are heard in the state or federal courts of Delaware. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence, and you may bring claims before the courts and consumer authorities of your domicile.
31. Arbitration and Class Action Waiver
For business customers, and for consumers only where the law allows it, disputes that cannot be resolved informally will be resolved by individual binding arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Association, seated in Delaware, and you waive participation in class or representative actions. This section does not apply to consumers whose local law prohibits it and does not prevent anyone from filing a complaint with a consumer protection authority.
32. Consumer Rights in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and the United States
If you contract as a consumer, you have the following rights in addition to those in these Terms. Mexico: the protections of the Federal Consumer Protection Law, including information in Spanish, the right to revoke your consent within five business days when the law allows it, and the right to file a complaint with PROFECO. Argentina: under Law 24,240 you may revoke an online purchase within 10 calendar days of contracting at no cost, by the same channel you used to buy or through your account (Resolution 424/2020), and cancel your subscription through the same online channel; you may also file a complaint with the consumer protection authorities. Brazil: under Article 49 of the Consumer Protection Code (Law 8,078/1990) and Decree 7,962/2013 you may withdraw from an online purchase within 7 days and receive a full refund, and you may file complaints on consumidor.gov.br or with PROCON. United States: automatic-renewal terms are disclosed before purchase and you can cancel online at any time, as required by applicable state laws such as California's. Where any other provision of these Terms conflicts with these rights, these rights prevail.
33. Plan Limits, Users, Collaborators, and Project Archiving
Plans are subject to the project, search, storage, user, collaborator, module, and export allowances shown in the pricing section of the website. Unlimited active projects on the Institutional plan are subject to reasonable use. Institutional includes three users; additional users are billed at the regional price. Eligible universities, research centers, and technology transfer offices may receive the IPnite™ for Research discount after eligibility verification. Archived projects do not count toward active-project limits and are kept for three months; IPnite™ notifies the project owner about 30, 7, and 1 day before permanent deletion.
34. Force Majeure
IPnite™ is not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control, such as natural disasters, pandemics, war, government actions, internet or infrastructure outages, or cyberattacks.
35. Languages and Miscellaneous
These Terms are available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. For consumers, the version in the official language of their country of residence applies; in any other case, the English version prevails if there is a discrepancy. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and IPnite™ regarding the Services. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them to a successor. Your electronic acceptance is binding.
36. Contact
Ik-Holcan LLC, operator of IPnite™. Electronic address for contact, questions, complaints, and notices: info@ipnite.com. IPnite™ provides support by email; there is no telephone line.
Questions about these Terms? Write to info@ipnite.com.