These Terms and Conditions of Use ("Terms") form a legally binding agreement between you ("Client" or "User") and Metayage Private Limited ("Company") regarding your use of the "Invention disclosure app," also known as "IDPD app" ("Software"). By logging in or using the Software, you agree to be bound by these Terms.
You are sharing information with the Company for invention disclosure and patent services. The Company provides limited access to the Software for testing, evaluation, and feedback purposes only. The Software is a minimum viable product (MVP) and may contain bugs, errors, or incomplete features. The Company reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue access at any time without notice.
All rights, title, and interest in the Software, including its design, interface, workflow, questions, logic, algorithms, gamification features, content, documentation, trade secrets, and know-how, remain the exclusive property of the Company. The Software may include material protected by copyrights, trademarks, or patents, whether registered or unregistered. No ownership or license rights are granted to the Client, except for the limited right to use the Software as described herein.
You may use the Software only within your own organization and solely for internal usage, testing and evaluation. You agree:
Company's Confidential Information: Software structure, algorithms, business plans, proprietary workflows, features, trade secrets, and all aspects of the Software not publicly available.
Client's Confidential Information: All data, content, and information submitted through the Software, including invention details, technical information, and any other proprietary information.
Confidential Information does not include information that: (a) becomes publicly available through no fault of the receiving party; (b) was already known to the receiving party; (c) is independently developed; or (d) is required to be disclosed by law.
Confidentiality obligations shall last for three (3) years from disclosure, with trade secrets remaining confidential as long as they retain that status under Indian law.
The Company welcomes feedback and can use it for product improvement or development without obligation to compensate or credit the user.
The Software is provided "as is" for evaluation purposes only, without any warranty. The Company makes no express or implied warranties and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from use or inability to use the Software. You use the Software entirely at your own risk.
Either party may discontinue participation at any time. The Company may require payment for continued access after a testing period and may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms. Upon termination, you must stop using the Software and delete confidential information unless permitted for patent services.
These Terms are governed by the laws of India. Courts in Bangalore, Karnataka shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.
These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the Client and the Company, superseding all prior understandings or communications.
This Software incorporates third-party open-source artificial intelligence and machine learning models and libraries to power its AI-assisted features. These include, but are not limited to: BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5 (MIT), google/bert-for-patents (Apache 2.0), vectara/hallucination_evaluation_model HHEM-2.1 (Apache 2.0), Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct (Qwen License), and YAKE (LGPL-3.0). These components are used in accordance with their respective licenses and are not covered by the confidentiality or IP ownership provisions in these Terms.
For a complete list of components, authors, and license texts, please see our Open Source Licenses & Acknowledgments page.
The Company uses the following third-party service providers to operate the Software. By using the Software, you acknowledge that certain limited data (such as your email address and notification content) may be processed by these providers solely to deliver the services described below.
When you initiate a prior art search for an invention, the Software submits a keyword query to the European Patent Office (EPO) Open Patent Services (OPS) API (operated by the European Patent Office, EPO Headquarters, 80298 Munich, Germany). The query contains only technical keyphrases derived from the invention's title and description — no inventor names, personal data, or confidential invention details are transmitted to EPO.
Prior art results retrieved from EPO OPS are provided for informational purposes only and do not constitute a freedom-to-operate (FTO) opinion, a patentability assessment, or any form of legal advice. You should consult a qualified patent attorney or patent agent for professional guidance. Results are cached on the Company's servers for up to 24 hours per invention.
EPO OPS terms of use: EPO OPS Terms of Use.
Transactional emails sent by the Software — including account notifications, invention status updates, collaboration invitations, and system alerts — are delivered via Brevo (operated by Sendinblue SAS, 55 rue d'Amsterdam, 75008 Paris, France). Brevo acts as a data processor on behalf of the Company and processes recipient email addresses and email content solely for the purpose of delivering these messages. Brevo does not use this data for its own marketing or analytics purposes.
Brevo's privacy policy is available at brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy.
Last Updated: June 02, 2026