Terms of Service

IdeaJudge provides technology-enabled patent monitoring and intelligence services.

Depending on the subscription selected, the Services may include:

• creation of client monitoring profiles;
• monitoring of newly published U.S., WIPO/PCT and European patent applications;
• comparison of patent publications against a client's products, technology or patent portfolio;
• relevance assessment;
• Product Decision Briefs;
• monitoring alerts;
• dashboards and related analytical tools.

IdeaJudge may modify or improve the Services from time to time.

IdeaJudge currently offers monitoring services including:

Current features, coverage, limits and pricing are described on the IdeaJudge pricing page and may change from time to time.

You must provide accurate and complete information when creating and maintaining an IdeaJudge account.

You are responsible for:

• maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials;
• activities conducted through your account;
• ensuring that authorized users comply with these Terms; and
• promptly notifying IdeaJudge of suspected unauthorized access.

Accounts may not be shared with unauthorized third parties.

Partners may establish monitoring for their own clients through the Services.

You represent and warrant that you have the lawful authority to provide IdeaJudge with any information you submit concerning a client and to instruct IdeaJudge to process that information for the purpose of providing the Services.

You are responsible for determining whether any notice, consent, engagement-term amendment or other authorization is required from your client under applicable law, professional rules or your firm's policies before using the Services in connection with that client.

IdeaJudge does not establish an attorney-client relationship with any monitored client.

The Partner remains responsible for its professional relationship with each client.

The Partner determines:

• whether a client should be monitored;
• what information is provided to IdeaJudge;
• whether IdeaJudge intelligence is shared with the client;
• what interpretation or professional advice is provided;
• whether further investigation or legal analysis is warranted; and
• what the Partner charges its client.

IdeaJudge does not control or direct the Partner's professional judgment.

For clients introduced through a participating Partner, IdeaJudge will not knowingly solicit those clients for a competing direct IdeaJudge monitoring service while they remain associated with the Partner's active IdeaJudge account.

IdeaJudge is a patent-monitoring and intelligence technology service.

IdeaJudge is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.

The Services and Product Decision Briefs do not constitute:

• a legal opinion;
• an infringement opinion;
• a freedom-to-operate opinion;
• a validity or enforceability opinion;
• a patentability opinion;
• a clearance search;
• a complete prior-art search; or
• advice concerning any legal rights, obligations or course of action.

Relevance assessments and recommendations such as Ignore, Monitor or Review are informational analytical outputs, not legal conclusions.

A Partner should independently review any information on which professional advice or client action will be based.

IdeaJudge uses automated systems, artificial intelligence, data sources and analytical methods to identify and assess potentially relevant patent publications.

Patent terminology, classification, publication data and technical similarity are inherently complex.

IdeaJudge therefore does not warrant that:

• every potentially relevant patent application will be identified;
• every identified application will ultimately prove relevant;
• a relevance classification will be correct in every case;
• the absence of an IdeaJudge alert means no relevant filing exists;
• every database or patent-office record is complete, current or error-free; or
• an identified patent application will issue as a patent.

The Services are intended to assist professional review, not replace it.

IdeaJudge may generate Product Decision Briefs for qualifying patent publications identified through the Services.

Briefs may include relevance assessments, summaries, strategic observations, recommendations and other analytical outputs.

Delivery times are estimates unless IdeaJudge expressly agrees otherwise in writing. References on the website to briefs being produced "within days of publication" describe the intended service level and are not a guarantee for every publication.

Fees are charged according to the monitoring service and pricing in effect when a client subscription is activated.

Unless otherwise stated:

• subscriptions are billed in advance;
• fees apply per monitored client;
• applicable taxes are additional;
• subscriptions continue until cancelled; and
• fees already paid are non-refundable except where required by law.

Portfolio limits, volume arrangements and other plan-specific conditions are described on the pricing page or in a separate written agreement.

Partners determine independently what, if anything, they charge their clients for services incorporating IdeaJudge.

IdeaJudge does not set, control or participate in a Partner's legal fees.

Amounts paid to IdeaJudge are fees for access to IdeaJudge's technology and services and are not calculated as a percentage of legal fees or professional fees earned by a Partner.

Each Partner is solely responsible for ensuring that its pricing, billing and client arrangements comply with applicable law and professional-conduct requirements.

A Partner may cancel monitoring for a client in accordance with the account functionality or by contacting IdeaJudge.

Cancellation prevents future renewal charges for that monitoring subscription but does not ordinarily generate a refund for amounts already paid.

A Partner may continue monitoring other clients after cancelling an individual client subscription.

IdeaJudge may offer pilot programs, introductory periods or promotional pricing.

Any additional conditions applicable to a pilot will be disclosed when the Partner enrols.

Unless otherwise stated, participation in a pilot does not require the Partner to roll out IdeaJudge across its firm or to any minimum number of clients.

IdeaJudge recognizes that information supplied by a Partner concerning its clients may be confidential.

IdeaJudge will use client information only as necessary to:

• provide the Services;
• maintain and secure the platform;
• support the Partner;
• comply with legal obligations; and
• improve the Services in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable contractual commitments.

IdeaJudge will not disclose a Partner's client list or monitoring interests publicly.

Additional confidentiality or data-processing terms may be made available to firms that require them.

The Services may use artificial intelligence models, patent-data providers, hosting providers, payment processors and other third-party technology services.

Use of personal information and client-related information is further described in our Privacy Policy.

IdeaJudge may change service providers where reasonably necessary to operate or improve the Services, subject to applicable contractual and legal requirements.

IdeaJudge and its licensors retain all rights, title and interest in the Services, software, methodologies, interfaces, designs and underlying technology.

Subject to these Terms, IdeaJudge grants the Partner a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable right to use the Services for its internal business purposes and to provide permitted IdeaJudge outputs to its monitored clients.

The Partner retains ownership of information it provides to IdeaJudge.

No ownership of either party's pre-existing intellectual property transfers under these Terms.

Partners may provide Product Decision Briefs and other expressly shareable outputs to the client for whom they were generated.

Partners may incorporate those outputs into their own client communications and professional services.

Unless IdeaJudge agrees otherwise, Partners may not:

• resell access to the IdeaJudge software itself;
• provide IdeaJudge accounts to unauthorized third parties;
• systematically redistribute IdeaJudge content unrelated to a monitored client;
• copy or reproduce the platform or underlying datasets;
• reverse engineer the Services; or
• use the Services to develop a substantially competing monitoring platform.

Co-branded or white-label use is permitted only where expressly enabled by the applicable IdeaJudge plan or agreed in writing.

Where white-label or co-branded functionality is provided, the Partner remains responsible for its communications with clients and for ensuring that those communications accurately describe the nature and limitations of the service.

You may not use the Services:

• unlawfully or fraudulently;
• to violate intellectual-property or privacy rights;
• to gain unauthorized access to systems or information;
• to interfere with the operation or security of the Services; or
• in a manner that places unreasonable load on the platform.

Use of the Services is subject to the IdeaJudge Privacy Policy.

Where IdeaJudge processes personal information on behalf of a Partner, the parties will comply with applicable data-protection law and any additional data-processing agreement entered into between them.

IdeaJudge seeks to provide reliable continuous monitoring but does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability.

Patent-office systems, third-party databases, AI services and other dependencies may occasionally be unavailable, delayed or incomplete.

IdeaJudge may modify features where reasonably necessary for security, legal compliance, product improvement or service operation.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available."

IdeaJudge disclaims all warranties not expressly stated in these Terms, whether express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, IdeaJudge will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, business opportunities, goodwill or data, arising from or relating to the Services.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, IdeaJudge's aggregate liability arising from or relating to the Services or these Terms will not exceed the fees paid or payable by the Partner to IdeaJudge during the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

To the extent permitted by law, the Partner agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless IdeaJudge and its officers, directors, employees and affiliates from third-party claims arising from:

• the Partner's unlawful use of the Services;
• information submitted without required authority;
• the Partner's client communications or professional advice; or
• the Partner's material breach of these Terms.

IdeaJudge may suspend or terminate access where reasonably necessary because of:

• material breach of these Terms;
• non-payment;
• security concerns;
• unlawful use; or
• legal or regulatory requirements.

Where reasonably practicable, IdeaJudge will provide notice and an opportunity to remedy the issue.

Termination does not affect obligations accrued before termination.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

Except where applicable law requires otherwise, disputes arising from these Terms or the Services will be subject to the jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Delaware.

IdeaJudge may update these Terms from time to time.

If a change materially affects existing Partners, IdeaJudge will provide reasonable notice by email, through the Services or on the website.

Continued use of the Services after an updated version becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect.

Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of that provision.

Neither party may assign these Terms without the other's consent, except that IdeaJudge may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization or sale of substantially all relevant assets.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any applicable order form, data-processing agreement or other written agreement, constitute the agreement between the parties regarding the Services.

For questions regarding these Terms, please contact IdeaJudge through the contact details provided on our website.