Terms of Use

1. Agreement to Terms

These Terms of Use (these "Terms") govern your access to and use of the Adhyana patent and strategic intelligence platform made available at www.adhyana.ai (the "Platform").

The Platform is operated by Adhyana AI Pte. Ltd. (UEN: 202346184K), a private company incorporated under the laws of Singapore, with its registered office at 139 Cecil Street, #03-10, YSY Building, Singapore 069539 ("Adhyana", "we", "us" or "our").

By accessing or using the Platform, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, you may not access or use the Platform. If you access or use the Platform on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that organisation, and "you" refers to that organisation.

2. Important Notice About Our Platform

Early-stage company disclosure: Adhyana is an early-stage company. The Platform is actively developed software: its features, models, datasets and capabilities evolve continuously, and we release changes regularly. We are transparent about our current scale and about what the Platform can and cannot do.

3. Description of the Platform

The Platform provides AI-assisted search, analysis and organisation of patent and related technical, regulatory and commercial information. The description below is illustrative of what the Platform does as at the version date of these Terms. It is not a specification, and capabilities evolve — see §10.3. Some capabilities are available only under a paid plan or engagement, and features designated as beta, preview or early-access are provided for evaluation only, on an "as is" basis, and may be modified or withdrawn at any time.

Corpus and retrieval. A continuously updated corpus of 170 million+ patent records, drawing on the Google Patents Public Datasets and the published records of the USPTO, EPO, WIPO, JPO, CNIPA, KIPO, IP India and other authorities. Searches combine structured filtering — by applicant, inventor, classification code, jurisdiction and date — with AI-assisted query expansion that broadens a concept, chemical formula, ratio or CAS number into the range of terms actually used in patent text, and with citation-network traversal.

Workspaces. Persistent project containers for collecting, tagging, annotating and organising patent portfolios, prior-art sets, freedom-to-operate universes and watchlists. A workspace can be analysed as a set — including a roll-up by patent family, so that counts can be read at the level of inventions rather than of individual publications. Workspaces persist across sessions and support collaboration within the users permitted by your plan.

Patent analysis. Structured, evidence-anchored summaries of patent disclosures covering technical problem, solution, key claim elements, embodiments and parameter ranges; plain-English descriptions of patent drawings, cross-referenced to specification text and claim elements; and claim-by-claim analysis including element extraction, structural parsing, dependency mapping, claim charting against arbitrary technical descriptions, and parameter-range overlap detection. Claims can be read against their specification to identify supporting passages and points of thin support, with per-claim design-around considerations, and with §101 and §112 framing where applicable to US prosecution. Similarity analysis compares a target patent or technical disclosure against arbitrary sets of patents at scale.

Lifecycle and claims evolution. A per-patent visual timeline from application to grant, with a three-mode claims view — as filed, as granted, and side by side — showing how claims were narrowed during prosecution, including A1-versus-B2 snapshot comparison and coverage extending to European publications.

Prosecution history. Retrieval and structured analysis of the examination record for patents from the USPTO and the European Patent Office — office actions, applicant responses, claim amendments and examiner-cited art — surfaced as an estoppel view and a considered-art ledger. Image-only and scanned official documents are read using AI vision, so coverage extends to older and rasterized filings. Any publicly available patent can be opened and analysed without forming part of a commissioned engagement.

Pharmaceutical and regulatory intelligence. Tracking of FDA Orange Book–listed patent estates against a reference product over time, including patent listings, use codes and expiry movements; NDA dashboards pairing Orange Book estates with clinical-trial records; retrieval and organisation of available public litigation records for selected patents and parties; and citation networks and AI-derived topic clusters across user-selected patent sets.

On-demand research pipelines. Landscape, freedom-to-operate and invalidity analyses that you can run from the Platform where your plan or engagement includes them, producing tiered outputs such as an executive summary, technical analysis and data appendix. Whitespace and portfolio analyses may also be requested. These outputs are subject to §10 in full, and in particular to §10.1 (no legal advice) and §10.5 (what patent analysis cannot show).

Ask Adhyana. An embedded AI research assistant available throughout the Platform and scoped to the patent, workspace or context in view. It accepts plain-language questions to search the corpus, analyse and compare claims, build and modify workspaces, explore prosecution history and navigate the Platform. Every factual statement in its answers is cited to the underlying patent, paragraph, claim or file-wrapper document, and its reasoning and data lookups are shown on screen as an activity timeline so an answer can be audited. It states explicitly when a request cannot be answered cleanly, and any action that would modify your data requires your confirmation.

Access, support and updates. Authenticated web access at www.adhyana.ai; email support as set out in §8.1; and regular updates to the Platform's models, datasets and feature set.

The Platform is designed for business and professional use. It does not provide legal advice (see §10.1).

4. User Accounts and Registration

4.1 Eligibility. You must be at least 18 years old and have legal capacity to enter into contracts to use the Platform.

4.2 Account security. You are responsible for:

• maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials;
• all activities that occur under your account;
• notifying us promptly at support@adhyana.ai of any unauthorised use of your account or any other suspected breach of account security; and
• ensuring your account information is accurate and current.

4.3 Suspension and termination of accounts. We may suspend or terminate any account that violates these Terms, is used for fraudulent activity, or poses a security risk to the Platform or to other users. Where practicable we will give notice and an opportunity to remedy; where the risk requires it, we may act immediately.

5. Acceptable Use

5.1 Permitted use. You may use the Platform only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms, for legitimate business intelligence, research and patent analysis.

5.2 Prohibited activities. You agree not to, and not to permit any person using your account to:

• use the Platform for any illegal or unauthorised purpose, or in violation of applicable law or sanctions;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Platform, or circumvent any security, rate-limiting or usage control;
• interfere with or disrupt the Platform or its servers;
• transmit viruses, malware or other harmful code;
• scrape, harvest or extract data from the Platform by automated means without our permission;
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Platform, or attempt to derive its source code, models, prompts, weights or training data, except to the extent applicable law permits this notwithstanding this restriction;
• use the Platform, or its outputs, to develop, train, fine-tune or benchmark any competing product or service;
• resell, sublicense, rent or otherwise make the Platform available to third parties without authorisation;
• impersonate any person or entity;
• share account credentials with unauthorised parties; or
• use the Platform to infringe the intellectual property or other rights of any third party.

6. Intellectual Property

6.1 Our intellectual property. The Platform — including all software, models, agents, pipelines, datasets, prompts, configurations, methodologies, documentation, content, features and functionality — is owned by Adhyana and protected by copyright, trade mark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property laws. No rights are granted to you by implication or estoppel.

6.2 Your content. You retain ownership of all content you submit to the Platform ("Your Content"). You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence, for the period of your access and thereafter only as necessary to perform §15 and to comply with law, to host, process, transmit, display and otherwise use Your Content solely to provide and support the Platform to you. This licence does not permit us to train AI models on Your Content, to share it with other customers, or to include it in any cross-customer analysis.

6.3 Patent and public data. Patent and regulatory data accessed through the Platform is sourced from public databases and third-party providers. We do not claim ownership of that public data. It is provided on an as-available basis and subject to the upstream providers' terms; we do not warrant its accuracy, completeness or timeliness. Our own analyses, models and derived outputs remain our intellectual property, subject to §6.4.

6.4 AI outputs and your data.

• No training on your data. We engage AI model providers under enterprise API terms that prohibit training on data submitted through those APIs. We do not use Your Content to train, fine-tune, evaluate or benchmark any model, product or service.
• Input content. You retain all rights in the queries, patent data and business information you submit. It is processed solely to deliver the Platform to you and is never shared with other customers.
• Output content. Analyses and reports generated for you are provided for your internal business use and are your confidential information. Outputs consisting solely of standard Platform analyses of public data, without material content specific to you, remain our intellectual property.
• Provider retention and zero-retention processing. AI providers may retain submitted content for a limited period for abuse and security monitoring under their enterprise terms, and none of them train on it. Zero-retention processing is available for enterprise engagements. Our providers offer zero-retention arrangements for eligible enterprise use, and we will put one in place for your engagement on request. Some capabilities may be unavailable under zero-retention, so we confirm the applicable scope with you before work begins.
• Usage telemetry. We collect aggregated, de-identified operational telemetry (feature-usage counts, latency, error rates and similar) that does not identify you or your content, to operate, secure and improve the Platform.

6.5 Feedback. You may, but need not, give us suggestions or feedback about the Platform. We may use it without restriction or compensation, provided we do not identify you as its source without your consent.

7. Payment and Billing

7.1 Fees. Access to the Platform may be provided free of charge, on a trial basis, or for a fee. Where a fee applies, it is set out in the plan you select, or in the order form or invoice agreed with you. Fees for commissioned engagements and custom analyses are set out in the order form or separate written agreement covering that work.

7.2 Payment terms. Where you are billed for Platform access:

• payment may be made by bank or wire transfer to the account we designate, by an international transfer service we make available, or by credit or debit card through our payment processor, as stated on your invoice or at checkout;
• payment is due as stated on the invoice;
• fees are non-refundable except as required by law or as expressly provided in a separate written agreement with us;
• undisputed amounts not paid when due may accrue interest at 1% per month, or the maximum rate permitted by law, whichever is lower;
• transfer fees, intermediary bank charges and card-processor surcharges are borne by you unless we state otherwise, and payment is to be made in immediately available funds free of deductions and withholdings; and
• you are responsible for all applicable taxes, other than taxes on our net income.

7.3 Billing disputes. If you dispute a charge in good faith, notify us in writing within thirty (30) days of the invoice date, identifying the amount and the basis of the dispute. Interest does not accrue on amounts disputed in good faith while we work to resolve them. Undisputed portions remain payable as scheduled.

7.4 Suspension for non-payment. If undisputed fees remain unpaid more than thirty (30) days after their due date, we may, on not less than ten (10) days' further written notice, suspend your access until the overdue amounts are paid. Suspension does not relieve you of payment obligations.

7.5 Plans that renew automatically. Where we offer a plan that renews automatically and you select it:

• We tell you before you buy. At the point of purchase we state that the plan renews, the recurring amount, how often it renews, and the date of the next charge. For plans renewing annually or less often, we also send a reminder before each renewal charge.
• You may cancel at any time — through your account settings where we make self-service management available, or by writing to support@adhyana.ai. Cancelling will never be harder than subscribing was.
• A renewal price increase takes effect only from your next renewal, and we will tell you at least sixty (60) days beforehand so that you can cancel before it applies.
• Cancelling stops the next charge, not your current access. Your access continues to the end of the period you have paid for (§17.2). Fees already paid for the current period are not refunded on a pro-rata basis unless the law requires it.
• Renewal of a paid plan under this section is separate from the term of any engagement you have commissioned. Ending one does not end the other, and an engagement coming to an end does not by itself end a plan you hold.

8. Support and Security Incidents

8.1 Support. We provide email support at support@adhyana.ai during business hours (Singapore time) and respond as promptly as practicable, based on the severity of the issue. Specific response-time commitments, where offered, are set out in your separate written agreement with us.

8.2 Security incidents. We will notify you without undue delay after becoming aware of any confirmed unauthorised access to, or accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration or disclosure of, Your Content (a "Security Incident"). The notification will describe, so far as then known, the nature of the incident, the categories of content affected, and the measures taken or proposed to address it. We will take reasonable steps to remediate the incident and will cooperate reasonably with your own assessment and with any notifications you are required by law to make.

8.3 Security measures. We implement and maintain commercially reasonable administrative, technical and organisational measures designed to protect the Platform and Your Content against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration and unauthorised disclosure.

9. Confidentiality

9.1 Obligation. Each party will protect the other's confidential information with at least reasonable care, use it only as needed to perform its obligations or exercise its rights under these Terms, and not disclose it other than to employees, contractors, subprocessors permitted under §14 and professional advisors who need to know it and are bound by comparable obligations. Confidential information includes, on our side, the Platform's methodologies, models and non-public technical information, and on your side, your strategic intelligence reports, business strategies, patent portfolios and commercial terms.

9.2 Exclusions. These obligations do not apply to information that is or becomes public through no fault of the recipient; was lawfully known to the recipient without restriction before disclosure; is independently developed without use of the discloser's confidential information; or is required to be disclosed by law or governmental order, provided the recipient gives prompt notice where permitted and reasonable cooperation to seek protective measures.

9.3 Survival. These obligations survive termination for five (5) years, except that information constituting a trade secret under applicable law remains protected for as long as it remains a trade secret.

10. Disclaimers

10.1 No legal advice; not a law firm. Adhyana is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice, legal opinions or legal representation. Nothing in the Platform or its outputs constitutes legal advice, and no attorney–client or equivalent relationship is created between us. Platform outputs are technical and informational inputs for evaluation by you and your own qualified counsel. You remain solely responsible for all legal decisions, filings and positions you take.

10.2 AI outputs. AI models are inherently probabilistic. Outputs may contain errors, biases, omissions or incomplete information, and must not be used as the sole basis for material business or legal decisions — including patent filing, freedom-to-operate and litigation decisions. Verify critical information independently and have outputs reviewed by qualified professionals.

10.3 Availability. We aim for high availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. We may modify or discontinue features with reasonable notice. Beta and preview features carry no availability or performance commitment of any kind.

10.4 Third-party services and data. The Platform integrates third-party services and data sources, including AI model providers and patent and regulatory databases. We are not responsible for third-party disruptions, changes or data errors.

10.5 What patent analysis cannot show. Platform outputs report the public record as it stands at the time of the query, within the boundary of the query run. They cannot show applications that were unpublished at that date; registers may lag or be incomplete; licences, settlements and other private agreements are not visible; some prosecution files are unavailable or only partly available; expiry dates are calculated from the record and may be estimates; and non-English claims are analysed in translation, so certified translation or counsel confirmation is recommended wherever the authoritative wording is material to a decision.

10.6 General disclaimer. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS, THE PLATFORM AND ALL OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, AND WE DISCLAIM ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, COMPLETENESS AND ACCURACY.

11. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW:

• our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, shall not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) one thousand US dollars (USD 1,000);
• neither party shall be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, business opportunity or anticipated savings; and
• we are not liable for decisions you make based on Platform outputs.

These limitations do not apply to your breach of §5 (Acceptable Use), either party's breach of §9 (Confidentiality), your payment obligations, or any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

12. Indemnification

You will indemnify and hold Adhyana harmless from any third-party claims, damages, losses and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of the Platform, your violation of these Terms, your violation of any third-party rights, or Your Content.

13. Dispute Resolution

13.1 Governing law. These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them (including non-contractual disputes), are governed by the laws of the Republic of Singapore, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

13.2 Arbitration. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Platform shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre ("SIAC") under its Arbitration Rules for the time being in force. The seat shall be Singapore, the tribunal shall consist of one arbitrator, and the language shall be English. The award is final and binding.

Exceptions. Arbitration under this §13.2 does not apply to:

• (a) claims seeking injunctive or other equitable relief for violation of intellectual property rights or breach of confidentiality, which either party may bring before any court of competent jurisdiction; or
• (b) claims where the total amount in dispute is fifty thousand US dollars (USD 50,000) or less, which either party may bring before the courts of Singapore.

13.3 Individual basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, disputes are resolved on an individual basis; neither party may bring or participate in a class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding against the other.

14. Data Protection, Privacy and Subprocessors

14.1 Privacy Policy. Our collection and use of personal data is described in the Privacy Policy at www.adhyana.ai/privacy, incorporated into these Terms by reference. Where the Privacy Policy and these Terms conflict on the treatment of Your Content, these Terms prevail.

14.2 Data protection law. Each party will comply with the data protection laws applicable to it, including (as applicable) the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 of Singapore. Where we process personal data contained in Your Content on your behalf, we will process it only to provide the Platform in accordance with these Terms and your documented instructions, protect it under §8.3, and delete or return it under §15.

14.3 Subprocessors. You authorise us to engage third-party subprocessors — including cloud hosting, database, authentication, email, payment and AI-model providers — to provide the Platform. We remain responsible for their performance and bind them to obligations materially no less protective than this section. Our current subprocessors are listed at www.adhyana.ai/subprocessors, and we update that list before adding a new subprocessor category.

14.4 Data processing agreement. A data processing agreement incorporating standard contractual protections is available on request where required by applicable law.

15. Data Retention, Deletion and Export

15.1 Deletion. Within sixty (60) days after your access ends — whether by termination, expiry or account closure — we will securely delete Your Content in our possession, except (a) backup copies subject to standard retention cycles, and (b) information we are required to retain by law, in each case subject to continuing confidentiality obligations. If you would prefer Your Content returned rather than deleted, tell us in writing at support@adhyana.ai within that period.

15.2 Export. On your written request to support@adhyana.ai, made during that sixty (60) day period or within thirty (30) days after notice of termination or non-renewal, we will provide a reasonable export of Your Content and of the outputs generated for you, in commonly used machine-readable formats (such as JSON, CSV, PDF, .docx or .xlsx, as applicable to the data type). A charge may apply, depending on the volume and formats requested; where it does, we will quote it and obtain your approval before carrying out the export.

15.3 Application. This section applies to all users, including trial and evaluation users.

16. Modifications and Published Versions

16.1 Version identification. These Terms are published with a version number and publication date. Prior published versions are archived and available on request.

16.2 Updates. We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be notified by email or Platform notification at least thirty (30) days before they take effect. Continued use of the Platform after the effective date of an update constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

16.3 Users under a signed agreement. If you have a separate written agreement with us, that agreement identifies the version of these Terms that applies to you and how updates are handled.

17. Ending Access

17.1 Ending your access. You may stop using the Platform and close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access for violation of these Terms, in accordance with §4.3.

17.2 Paid access. Where you have paid for Platform access for a period, your access continues to the end of the period paid for, unless terminated earlier under §4.3 or suspended under §7.4.

17.3 Effect and survival. When your access ends, your right to use the Platform ceases. §15 (Data Retention, Deletion and Export) applies. Provisions that by their nature should survive — including §6 (Intellectual Property), §9 (Confidentiality), §10 (Disclaimers), §11 (Limitation of Liability), §12 (Indemnification), §13 (Dispute Resolution) and §15 — survive termination.

18. Export Control and Compliance

The Platform, including its AI technologies and patent data, may be subject to export control laws and trade sanctions. You agree to comply with all applicable export and import laws and regulations of Singapore, the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, India and any other applicable jurisdiction; not to access or use the Platform from or for the benefit of any comprehensively sanctioned country, territory, person or entity; not to provide access to prohibited parties; and to obtain any required licences for international use. You represent that neither you nor any user of your account appears on any restricted-party, denied-party or sanctioned-party list maintained by an applicable governmental authority.

19. General Provisions

19.1 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Adhyana regarding your access to the Platform. Where you have a separate written agreement with us, that agreement and these Terms together constitute the entire agreement for the matters it covers.

19.2 Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect, and the affected provision is modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while preserving intent.

19.3 Waiver. A failure or delay in enforcing any provision is not a waiver of it.

19.4 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign these Terms to an affiliate or to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation or sale of substantially all of our assets relating to the Platform.

19.5 Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure in performance (other than payment obligations) caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil disturbance, labour disputes, government action, pandemic, and failures of third-party hosting, AI service or telecommunications providers. A failure by a subcontractor, supplier or service provider counts under this section only where that provider is itself prevented by an event of the kind described above — an ordinary commercial or performance failure by a provider, or the loss of a provider relationship for reasons within our control, is not a force majeure event. The affected party will give prompt notice and use reasonable efforts to mitigate.

19.6 Third-party rights. A person who is not a party to these Terms has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 2001 of Singapore to enforce any of its terms.

19.7 Independent contractors. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, employment or fiduciary relationship.

20. Contact

Adhyana AI Pte. Ltd. (UEN: 202346184K) 139 Cecil Street, #03-10, YSY Building, Singapore 069539

• Legal notices: legal@adhyana.ai
• Support: support@adhyana.ai
• General enquiries: vikrant@adhyana.ai