Legal Notice & Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-05-17

Aviso Legal

In compliance with Article 10 of Spanish Law 34/2002, of 11 July, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSI-CE), the operator of plainpatents.com identifies itself as follows:

  • Operator: [OPERATOR_NAME]
  • Tax ID (NIF): [OPERATOR_TAX_ID]
  • Registered address: [OPERATOR_ADDRESS]
  • Contact email: contact@plainpatents.com
  • Commercial registry: Not applicable (autónomo)

Terms of Service

By using PlainPatents (the "Service"), you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. The Service

PlainPatents delivers AI-generated, plain-English patent briefings by email. Briefings are produced from public patent records and filtered against the keywords, competitors, and industry context you provide at onboarding.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. By creating an account, you confirm that you meet this requirement.

3. Account and consent

Use of the Service requires an account and your explicit consent to receive briefings by email. You can revoke consent at any time via the one-click unsubscribe link in every briefing or by deleting your account at /account.

4. Free trial and subscription

New accounts receive two free briefings as a trial. To continue receiving briefings after the trial, a paid subscription of EUR 49 per month is required. Subscriptions auto-renew monthly. You can cancel at any time; access continues until the end of the current billing period.

Refund policy: we do not issue refunds for partial billing periods. Cancellation stops the next renewal. This policy is consistent with standard practice for SaaS products and does not affect statutory consumer rights under Spanish or EU law.

5. Not legal or patent advice

PlainPatents is an information service, not a substitute for qualified professional advice. Patent summaries, relevance assessments, and any related commentary are not legal advice, patent opinions, freedom-to-operate analyses, or invalidity assessments. You should consult a licensed patent attorney before making any business decision based on information from the Service.

6. AI disclaimer

The Service uses artificial intelligence (Anthropic Claude) to summarize and classify patents. AI outputs may contain errors, omissions, or misinterpretations of the underlying patent text. PlainPatents does not guarantee the completeness or accuracy of AI-generated content. Always verify against the original patent document linked in every summary.

7. Service availability

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not guarantee uninterrupted operation, coverage of every patent filing worldwide, delivery within a specific time window, or that any particular patent will appear in your briefings. We rely on third-party data sources (EPO, USPTO, and others) whose availability is outside our control.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • Scrape, redistribute, or resell briefing content without written permission
  • Reverse-engineer the Service or attempt to extract our prompts, models, or scoring logic
  • Use the Service to harass, defame, or violate the rights of third parties
  • Submit content that infringes intellectual property or violates applicable law
  • Create multiple accounts to circumvent the free-trial limit

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms.

9. Intellectual property

PlainPatents, the wordmark, the editorial design, the email templates, the scoring methodology, and all code are owned by [OPERATOR_NAME]. Patent records themselves are public-domain government data and remain so.

You retain ownership of the project descriptions and feedback you submit. You grant us a non-exclusive licence to process them for the purpose of operating the Service (generating briefings, calibrating relevance).

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, PlainPatents and its operator shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, loss of business opportunity, or damages arising from reliance on AI-generated content. Total aggregate liability for any claim shall not exceed the amount you paid to us in the twelve months preceding the claim.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability for gross negligence, wilful misconduct, or any other liability that cannot be limited under Spanish law.

11. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by Spanish law. Disputes shall be submitted to the competent courts of Barcelona, Spain. Consumers domiciled in another EU member state retain the protections of the mandatory consumer law of their country of residence.

EU consumers also have access to the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform: ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

12. Changes

We may update these Terms as the Service evolves. Material changes will be communicated by email at least 30 days before taking effect. Continued use of the Service after that date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

13. Contact

Questions about these Terms? contact@plainpatents.com