Terms of Service

By creating an IPZilla account, signing in with Google, or using any IPZilla feature you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Notice. If you are signing in on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that organisation.

IPZilla is a software platform that produces patent intelligence (landscape, FTO, prior-art mapping) and a guided invention-disclosure-to-draft workflow. The platform is software; it is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or representation.

All filing decisions, claim wordings, prosecution strategies, and legal interpretations remain your sole responsibility. The platform's outputs are working documents that you are responsible for reviewing, editing, signing and submitting. External patent counsel review is available and strongly recommended, but is not required by the platform — you may file directly from your own INPI, USPTO, EPO, or WIPO account using the filing-ready packages IPZilla generates.

IPZilla has no access to any patent office account, does not sign documents on your behalf, and is not a mandataire en propriété industrielle, a registered patent agent, or a licensed patent attorney. IPZilla is filing-assistance software that you operate on your own account.

You retain all rights in the inventive content you submit (briefs, disclosures, attachments, accepted disclosures). You grant IPZilla a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, process, and use your content solely (a) to deliver the requested service to you and (b) to improve the platform's models and rule engine through the pseudonymised training-corpus pipeline described in the Privacy Notice — unless you opt out of training-corpus capture or use Ephemeral Mode for that session.

You warrant that you have the right to submit the content you submit. You will not submit content that infringes third-party rights or violates applicable law.

When you submit a disclosure, IPZilla produces AI-generated outputs derived from it: claim ladders, background-prose suggestions, prior-art annotations, doctrine-critic recommendations, FTO verdicts.

To the extent any new copyrightable or otherwise-protectable subject matter exists in the AI-generated output, IPZilla irrevocably and exclusively assigns to you all right, title and interest in that subject matter, effective on the moment of generation, with no further payment due.

IPZilla retains a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual licence to use the AI-generated output (in pseudonymised form, governed by the Privacy Notice training-corpus terms) solely to improve the platform's models, prompts, and rule engine. This licence-back is the consideration for IPZilla generating the output at no separate charge.

AI outputs are derived works; the underlying invention remains your invention. Nothing in these Terms grants IPZilla any right to claim inventorship, file patents on, or commercially exploit your inventive content.

You will not use IPZilla to:

• Harvest or scrape the patent corpus, the prior-art retrieval results, or any other platform output for the purpose of building a competing product.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the prompts, rules engine, or models that power the platform.
• Breach the rate limits or terms of upstream providers (Google Patents Public Datasets, USPTO PEDS, EPO OPS, Vertex AI).
• Submit content that is unlawful, defamatory, infringing, or harmful, or that targets a specific identifiable person without their consent.
• Resell or sublicense the service to third parties without a written agreement that authorises you to do so.

Each party (the "Receiving Party") agrees to treat as confidential any non-public information received from the other (the "Disclosing Party") that is marked confidential, identified as confidential at the time of disclosure, or would reasonably be considered confidential by a person of ordinary skill in the field.

Your inventive content (disclosures, attachments, accepted InventionDisclosure, claim ladders) is automatically treated as your Confidential Information without further marking. IPZilla's prompts, rules engine, doctrine, training corpus, and platform internals are automatically treated as IPZilla's Confidential Information.

The Receiving Party will use Confidential Information solely to perform under these Terms; will not disclose it to any third party except to employees, contractors, advisors and sub-processors with a need to know who are bound by confidentiality obligations no less protective than these; and will protect it with the same degree of care it uses for its own confidential information of like importance, but no less than reasonable care.

These confidentiality obligations survive termination for five years (or for as long as the information remains a trade secret, whichever is longer).

Standard exceptions apply: information that becomes public through no fault of the Receiving Party, was lawfully known prior to disclosure, was independently developed without reference to Confidential Information, or is required to be disclosed by law or court order (with prompt notice to the Disclosing Party where lawful).

Plans (Founder, Scale, Enterprise) are described on the pricing page. Subscriptions are processed by Stripe. Credits within a plan are consumed on use and are non-refundable once consumed. Plans renew on the calendar month; downgrades take effect at the next renewal; upgrades pro-rate immediately.

Auto-renewal: subscriptions auto-renew at the end of each billing period unless you cancel before renewal. Pursuant to the French Loi Châtel (Article L. 215-1 of the Consumer Code) where applicable, we will send you written notice between three months and one month before each renewal date informing you of your right to terminate. You may cancel at any time via the dashboard or the contact form.

Taxes: prices are exclusive of applicable taxes. Customers established in the European Union outside France are subject to the EU B2B reverse-charge mechanism for VAT (provided you furnish a valid VAT number). Customers established in France are billed inclusive of French TVA. Customers outside the EU are billed without VAT, subject to the rules of their own jurisdiction.

If a payment fails the subscription enters a 7-day grace period during which the service remains available. If the payment is not resolved within the grace period the subscription is suspended; data is retained per the Privacy Notice retention schedule. Late payments accrue interest at the legal rate plus a fixed indemnity for collection costs as required by Article L. 441-10 of the French Commercial Code.

Pilot accounts and trial credits, if extended to you in writing, are governed by the terms of the pilot agreement.

We aim to keep the platform available with a Standard SLA on Founder, 99.9% on Scale and 99.99% on Enterprise. The SLA measures monthly availability of the API and the dashboard, excluding scheduled maintenance and customer-side issues.

Service credits when we miss the SLA:

• Founder (Standard SLA): no monetary credit; reasonable-efforts restoration.
• Scale (99.9%): if availability falls below 99.9% in a calendar month, you receive a 10% credit on that month's fees per 0.5% of additional downtime, capped at 50% of monthly fees.
• Enterprise (99.99%): if availability falls below 99.99% in a calendar month, you receive a 10% credit per 0.05% of additional downtime, capped at 100% of monthly fees. The full Enterprise SLA — including incident-response time commitments — is documented in the Enterprise data-processing agreement.
• Credits must be requested within 30 days of the incident and are applied against the next billing period; no cash refund.

The service is provided AS-IS and AS-AVAILABLE. To the fullest extent permitted by law, IPZilla disclaims all implied warranties (merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement). Patent intelligence is informational; it is not a substitute for the professional judgment of a patent attorney.

AI hallucination acknowledgment: you understand and accept that AI outputs may contain factual errors, fabricated citations, fabricated patent numbers, fabricated examiner names, fabricated chemical or biological identifiers, mis-classified claim types, and other inaccuracies. The platform mitigates these risks with deterministic rules, citation chains, anti-admission scanners, best-of-N voting and a critic loop, but cannot eliminate them. You are responsible for reviewing every AI output against authoritative sources before relying on it for any decision (filing, opposition, freedom-to-operate determination, licensing, due diligence, regulatory submission).

Where applicable mandatory law (including French consumer-protection statutes for non-professional users) imposes warranties that cannot be disclaimed, those warranties remain in effect to the minimum extent required by law.

You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless IPZilla and its agents and sub-processors from and against any third-party claims arising out of: (a) your inventive content infringing a third-party intellectual-property right or violating applicable law, (b) your breach of the Acceptable Use section, (c) your breach of confidentiality obligations.

IPZilla will defend, indemnify and hold harmless you from and against any third-party claims that the platform's AI-generated output, as delivered to you and used in the form delivered, infringes a third-party's copyright, trade secret, or registered patent in force at the time of delivery — provided the claim does not arise from (i) your modifications to the output, (ii) your combination of the output with materials we did not provide, (iii) your continued use of an output after we have notified you of an alleged infringement and provided a non-infringing alternative.

The party seeking indemnification shall promptly notify the indemnifying party of the claim, give the indemnifying party sole control of the defence and settlement, and provide reasonable cooperation. Settlements that admit liability or impose obligations on the indemnified party require its prior written consent (not unreasonably withheld).

To the fullest extent permitted by law, IPZilla's aggregate liability arising from or related to the service shall not exceed the fees you paid for the service in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the liability. IPZilla shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, including loss of profits, loss of data, or loss of business opportunity.

Carve-outs from the cap above: liability under the indemnification section, breach of confidentiality, and gross negligence or wilful misconduct are NOT subject to the twelve-month cap; instead they are capped at three (3) times the fees paid in the twelve months preceding the event, except where applicable law mandates uncapped liability (death, personal injury, fraud).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or limitation of liability for certain damages; in such jurisdictions the above limitations apply only to the extent permitted.

Neither party is liable for any failure or delay in performance to the extent caused by an event beyond its reasonable control, including: war, terrorism, civil unrest, sabotage, embargo, government action, court order, fire, flood, earthquake, pandemic, public-health emergency, telecommunications outage, internet-backbone failure, third-party cloud-infrastructure outage, denial-of-service attack, or labour disputes (excluding labour disputes of the affected party's own employees).

The party affected will notify the other promptly and will use commercially reasonable efforts to mitigate the impact and resume performance. Force-majeure relief lasts only while the event continues. If the event continues for more than 30 consecutive days the unaffected party may terminate without penalty.

Patent data and AI services may be subject to export-control regimes, including the EU Dual-Use Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2021/821), the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR, 15 CFR Parts 730-774), and the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions programs.

You will not use the platform in, or for the benefit of, any country, entity or person subject to comprehensive sanctions (including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and Crimea), or any party listed on the EU Consolidated List of Sanctions, the OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list, the U.S. Entity List, the U.S. Denied Persons List, or any equivalent list.

You will not submit content that, if exported, would require a licence under any applicable export-control regime, unless you have obtained the required licence and provided IPZilla with a copy.

You are responsible for determining the export-control classification of your inventive content. IPZilla does not classify your content for you and is not the responsible exporter for purposes of any cross-border transfer of your content.

You may terminate your account at any time via the settings page or via the contact form. We may terminate or suspend your account on material breach of these Terms (after notice and a 14-day cure period for curable breaches) or immediately for unlawful conduct.

Upon termination, your data is retained per the Privacy Notice retention schedule, then deleted. The Privacy, Acceptable Use, Confidentiality, AI Output Ownership, Indemnification, Warranties, Liability, Export Controls, Notices and General Provisions sections survive termination.

Any notice required or permitted under these Terms must be given in writing. Notices to IPZilla must be given via the contact form (subject: Legal · terms) or to such postal address as IPZilla designates in writing.

Notices to you may be given by email to the address of record on your account, by in-product banner, by registered post to the postal address on your account, or any combination of the foregoing. A notice given by email is effective on the day of sending; by registered post, on the day of receipt or first attempted delivery.

You are responsible for keeping your contact information current. We are not responsible for notices that fail because of out-of-date contact information.

These Terms are governed by the laws of France. Disputes arising from or related to the service shall be brought before the competent courts of Paris, France, except where mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of habitual residence assigns jurisdiction differently.

Severability: if any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and the invalid provision will be replaced by the valid provision that most closely reflects the parties' intent.

Entire agreement: these Terms, the Privacy Notice, and any executed Order Form, Master Services Agreement or Data Processing Agreement constitute the entire agreement between the parties regarding the subject matter and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications.

Order of precedence: in the event of conflict between documents: (1) executed Data Processing Agreement, (2) executed Master Services Agreement (Enterprise), (3) executed Order Form, (4) these Terms, (5) Privacy Notice, (6) public pricing page. Higher in the list controls.

Assignment: you may not assign these Terms or any rights or obligations hereunder without IPZilla's prior written consent. IPZilla may assign these Terms to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of substantially all assets, on prior notice to you.

Waiver: a failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of any future right to enforce it. Any waiver must be in writing.

No partnership: nothing in these Terms creates an agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship between you and IPZilla.

Headings: section headings are for convenience and do not affect interpretation.

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be announced by email at least 30 days before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after a material update constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. The version number at the top of this page reflects the current version.

Enterprise customers contract under a separate Master Services Agreement (MSA) and Data Processing Agreement (DPA). When in conflict with these Terms, the order of precedence is: DPA → MSA → Order Form → these Terms. The Enterprise MSA covers EU-region hosting, on-premise options, custom CIL trade-secret access, dedicated patent strategist time, white-label deliverables, custom doctrinal updates, and any negotiated SLA + service-credit schedule.

Available on request via the contact form (subject: Legal · terms).