Privacy Policy

What we collect

PatentKit collects the information you provide during invention disclosure — titles, descriptions, technical details, inventor names, and any supporting documents you upload. We also collect account information (email, name) and standard web telemetry (IP address, session timestamps) required to operate the service.

How we use it

Your invention data powers the analysis pipeline on your behalf: generating search queries, retrieving prior art from USPTO and EPO, mapping features to references, and producing FTO / novelty / patentability reports. Your data is stored in AWS RDS (encrypted at rest) and AWS S3 (for file uploads) in the us-east-1 region.

What we do NOT do

• We do not use your invention disclosures to train AI models.
• We do not share your data with third parties except the AI providers (Anthropic) and patent databases (USPTO, EPO) required to run the analysis you requested.
• We do not sell personal information.

Third parties

PatentKit sends the text of your invention disclosure to Anthropic's Claude API to perform analysis. Anthropic's data handling is governed by their own privacy terms. Patent databases (USPTO, EPO) receive only your search query keywords, never your full disclosure text.

Your rights

You can request deletion of your account and all associated data at any time by contacting the team. We will complete deletions within 30 days of request.

Contact

Questions about this policy should be directed to the PatentKit team through the contact channel that will be published at general availability.