Legal
Version 1.2 · Effective 29 September 2026 · Corvair Pte. Ltd. (UEN 202551453H)
IPGuru is operated by Corvair Pte. Ltd., a company incorporated in Singapore (UEN 202551453H), whose registered office is at 23 Jalan Raja Udang, #11-09, The Arte, Singapore 329216. In these terms, "we", "us" and "our" mean Corvair Pte. Ltd. "You" and "your" mean the person or organisation using the service.
Accepting these terms. You accept these terms by ticking the box or clicking to agree when you sign up or buy. That electronic acceptance binds you as a signature would, and we keep a record of it. If you accept for an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind it, and "you" includes that organisation.
These terms are a contract between you and us. They apply whichever of our storefronts you arrived through. ipguru.ai and invent.sg are brands of the same company, not separate businesses, and the seller is the same in every case.
These terms incorporate our Acceptable Use Policy, our Refund Policy and our Privacy Policy. Together they are the whole agreement between us about the service. If you take part through a school, university, employer, event organiser or other institution, its own terms may also apply to your participation (clause 5.1).
IPGuru is a single service, built and operated from Singapore. A storefront such as invent.sg is a branded surface onto that same service, with its own language, currency and price list. It is not a different product and not a different company.
So there is one set of terms, these, and a Market Schedule for your market carrying only local particulars and any local law that must apply. Schedule 1 is the register of them, and the schedule for your market is published alongside these terms.
How the two fit together, which is the only rule you need:
These terms govern. Your Market Schedule prevails only where it states something the law of your market requires, and then only as far as that law requires. Where the two differ in any other way, you are entitled to whichever is more favourable to you.
That rule exists so a market schedule can add local protections and can never quietly take a protection away. If a schedule ever appears to reduce a right you have under these terms, these terms apply instead.
What a Market Schedule can never change, in any market: who the seller is, what the service does, clause 4 on artificial intelligence, clause 6 on ownership of your material and how we may use it, clause 7 on confidentiality, or our position on using your content to train models. Those are the same for every customer everywhere, and changing any of them is a change to this document that reaches every market at once.
A note on how we have written this. We have tried to write a contract you can actually read. Where a clause matters to you, we have explained why rather than hiding it in defined terms. Where we limit our responsibility, we have said so plainly rather than burying it. If any part of this document is unclear, tell us and we will fix the wording.
IPGuru is a software service that helps you explore an idea, develop it, and prepare to act on it. You can start from almost anything: an idea, a problem, a goal or challenge, an existing product or process, a hypothesis, a document, or your own experience. The service helps you:
Which tools and documents are open to you depends on your membership level and any project grade you hold, as published on our pricing pages when you buy. The service changes over time (clause 14). Everything it produces is output under clause 4: a working draft for you to review, decide on and act on.
IPGuru is not a professional adviser. We are not a law firm, a patent attorney or agent, a healthcare provider, or a financial, investment, tax or regulatory adviser, and we do not give legal, medical, financial, investment, tax or regulatory advice. No attorney-client, doctor-patient, fiduciary or advisory relationship arises from your use of the service.
Health and medical inventions are welcome. The service can help you develop and protect inventions in health, medicine and the life sciences, such as devices, diagnostics, therapies and digital health tools. It is not for clinical use. It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose, treat, monitor or advise on the health of any person, it gives no medical advice, and it is not part of any treatment, care or clinical programme. Do not use the service, or anything it produces, to make a decision about the health or care of any person.
No patient data. Do not upload identifiable health information about a patient or any other person, such as medical records, clinical notes, test results or images that identify someone, including protected health information under the US HIPAA rules. Use anonymised or synthetic data instead. If you mention your own health to explain an invention, keep it to what the invention needs. We are not a healthcare provider, health plan or healthcare clearinghouse, or a business associate of one, we do not sign business associate agreements, and we do not hold health records for anyone.
We do not:
You are responsible for your filings, for the deadlines that apply to them, and for engaging a qualified patent attorney or agent in each jurisdiction where you seek protection. You are equally responsible for what you do with anything else the service produces, including raising funds, running a campaign, publishing, licensing, applying for a grant or entering a competition. Where a decision has legal, financial or regulatory consequences, take advice from a qualified professional. Nothing the service produces removes that responsibility.
These limits are real and they are the reason this section is not buried at the end.
We cannot guarantee that a patent will be granted. Only a patent office decides that. A well-prepared application improves your prospects; it does not assure any outcome.
We cannot guarantee patentability. We cannot guarantee that your invention is new, novel, inventive, non-obvious, or capable of protection in any jurisdiction.
Prior art search is not exhaustive. Our searches run across a large collection of published patents and other sources, but no search covers everything that has ever been made public anywhere in any language. We cannot guarantee that no relevant prior art exists, and the absence of a result is not evidence of absence.
Assessments are best-effort. State-of-the-art, market, competitive and commercial assessments are informed input for your own judgment. We do not guarantee they are accurate, current or complete, and you should not treat any of them as the final word.
We cannot promise a commercial outcome. A business plan, pitch, crowdfunding plan, grant outline, licensing brief or competition entry prepared with the service does not assure funding, backers, sales, a licence, an award or any return. Projections, market sizes and prices in them are estimates.
We are not scientists. We cannot verify, test, reproduce or vouch for any scientific or technical claim, dataset or experimental result in your invention.
We are not clinicians. We cannot assess or vouch for the safety or effectiveness of any medical, pharmaceutical or health invention, and nothing the service produces is evidence of either. Clinical testing, ethics approval and regulatory clearance are for you and the proper authorities.
Simulations are models. Where the service simulates how an invention might behave, the result is a model built on assumptions. It is not a test, a certification or evidence that a design works or is safe. Build and test prototypes safely, and follow the law and the instructions for any tools, materials or services you use.
Software patents. You can use the service for any idea, including software, but it is not built to prepare software patent applications, and many patent offices restrict them.
Publication destroys novelty. If you disclose your invention publicly before filing, you may lose the ability to protect it in most countries. A crowdfunding page, a pitch made in public, a competition or science-fair entry and an open-source release can all be public disclosures. The service includes sharing and publication features. Using them is your decision and we cannot reverse the consequences. See clause 12.
Much of what the service produces is generated by artificial intelligence models, including models operated by third parties on our behalf. This clause explains what that means for you, because a contract for this product that did not address it would not be worth much.
Output may be wrong. AI models can produce text that is inaccurate, incomplete, internally inconsistent, out of date, or entirely fabricated while appearing confident and well-sourced. This includes citations, references to prior art, statements of law, technical assertions and numerical claims.
Output must be reviewed before you rely on it. Every draft the service produces is a draft. You must have any document you intend to file reviewed by a qualified patent attorney or agent before filing it, and you must satisfy yourself that any factual or technical assertion in it is correct.
Output may not be unique. Given similar inputs, the models may produce similar output for different users. We do not warrant that any output is original, and generating output does not by itself create any intellectual property right in it.
Grounding is not verification. Where the service cites your project's own research, that citation shows the basis on which the output was produced. It is not an independent verification that the underlying source is accurate or that the output correctly represents it.
Safety systems. Requests, uploads and outputs, including generated images and video, pass through layered safety systems: the safety guardrails built into the AI models we use; Google Cloud Model Armor, which screens prompts and responses for unsafe content; Google Cloud Armor, which screens traffic at the edge of our network and blocks abusive or malicious requests; and our own filters, prompts and checks. Together they catch, block or redirect requests for prohibited or restricted content. They can be wrong in either direction. If you think a refusal is mistaken, raise it with support.
Third-party model providers. We use third-party AI model providers to deliver the service. They process your content as our sub-processors under written terms, and they are listed in our Privacy Policy.
Decision models, including Jev. We are introducing Jev, a decision model provided by TypeSafe AI, Inc., for some of the scoring, grading, ranking and classification the service performs. Jev does not write text. It returns a fixed answer, such as a score or a category, with a probability attached. A score or grade produced this way is output under this clause: it may be wrong, it must be reviewed before you rely on it, and it is not a professional opinion or a decision about your legal rights. TypeSafe processes content as our sub-processor under written terms that do not permit it to train models on your content without our consent, which we do not give. It is listed in our Privacy Policy.
We do not use Your Content to train AI models. Your Content is not used to train, fine-tune or improve any AI model, ours or anyone else's. We contract with our model providers on terms that prohibit it. We use Telemetry (Schedule 3), which contains none of Your Content, to run, secure and improve the service, as described in our Privacy Policy. We also analyse chat and generation histories by automated means to improve the service's own software, under the rules in clause 6. That improves prompts, rubrics, filters and similar parts of the service. It is not model training.
Minimum age. You must be at least fifteen years old to create an account yourself. A storefront serving a particular market may set a higher minimum, and where it does, that higher minimum applies to you. We never set a lower one for an account you create yourself. Younger users can take part only with the permission of a parent or guardian, or through an institution, under clause 5.2.
Accuracy. Keep the information on your account accurate, and keep your credentials secure. You are responsible for activity under your account except to the extent it results from our failure. Tell us at once at support@ipguru.ai if you think your account, a token or a connection has been compromised.
One account per person. Accounts are personal to you. Do not share credentials. If you need several people to work on a project, invite them to the project rather than sharing a login.
Connected apps and access tokens. You can use the service from another application, such as an AI assistant, through our connector, which uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP), or with a personal access token. Everything done through a connected app or a token is use of the service under these terms, the Acceptable Use Policy and the Privacy Policy, in the same way as use in our own app, and it is activity on your account. You choose which apps to connect and what each may do, and you can revoke any connection or token at any time. Keep each token secret. You are responsible for what a connected app does with the access you give it. When a connected app takes content from the service, that app's own terms and privacy notice govern what it does with it, and our confidentiality obligation in clause 7 does not extend to that app. We may suspend a connection or token that is used in breach of these terms or puts the service at risk, and we will tell you why.
A school, university, training provider, government agency or programme, employer, event or competition organiser, or other organisation (an institution) can provide the service to its students, staff, members or participants. There are four ways it can do this, and they can be combined:
Accounts you hold yourself. If you created your account yourself, it stays yours even if an institution pays for your membership or you join its cohort. Nothing you create outside a cohort or deployment is shared with the institution unless you choose to share it.
The institution's own terms. An institution may have its own terms, policies or agreements that you must accept to take part, such as a code of conduct, an academic integrity policy, competition or event rules, an employment or IT policy, or a licence agreement. They are shown to you before you join, and they govern your relationship with the institution. These terms still govern your relationship with us, subject to anything the agreement for a dedicated platform says about how it is run. Neither an institution's terms nor that agreement can reduce what we promise you in clause 4 (artificial intelligence), clause 7 (confidentiality, apart from the access described below) or our position on training models.
Ownership is between you and the institution. As between you and us, Your Content is yours (clause 6), and taking part through an institution does not give it any ownership under these terms. Whether an institution, such as your employer, has rights in what you create, under an employment contract, an invention assignment, an intellectual property policy, competition or event rules, or the law, is a matter between you and it. The same applies to judging, prizes and publicity at an event. We do not decide those questions, advise on them or take part in disputes about them (clause 6).
What an institution gives you. A cohort or deployment may give you a membership, a project grade or other features for a set period, paid for by the institution. What it gives, and for how long, is shown before you join. Access paid for by an institution is not a purchase by you: the merchant of record is not involved unless the institution's agreement with us says so, and the Refund Policy does not apply to it. When the period ends, your account returns to whatever you hold yourself. Nothing is deleted, and clause 10 describes what happens to capabilities that needed paid access.
What the institution can see. In a cohort, the instructor and others the institution names, such as teaching assistants or assessors, may have read-only access to the brainstorms, projects and material, generated or uploaded, that belong to the class. In a hackathon, competition or other event, the organiser and the judges and mentors it names may have read-only access to the entries and material that belong to the event. In a workplace deployment, the organisation's reviewers see what its terms say, such as the ideas you submit to its programme. The terms shown before you join say what is visible, and the institution may make that visibility a condition of taking part. You can share more if you choose. Reviewers cannot change your work, and cannot see anything outside the cohort or deployment unless you share it. Their access is recorded and appears in your activity log.
When a class or event ends. At the end of a cohort, you review the access of the instructor, organiser, judges and mentors, and anything shared through the cohort. Unless you choose to keep them, they end. Your own work is not affected.
Leaving. You can leave a cohort at any time. Leaving ends the instructor's access and what the cohort gave you. What leaving means for your course is a matter for your institution. If a school, university, training provider or event organiser created your account, or you use its licensed deployment, you can move your work to an account of your own, or export it, when your place with it ends. If you are too young to hold an account yourself, you or your parent or guardian can export it. In a workplace deployment, what happens to your work when you leave the organisation is decided by the organisation's own rules, and we follow its instructions.
Your personal data. In a cohort, a workplace or licensed deployment, or a dedicated platform, the institution may be the controller of some of your personal data, with us processing it on its behalf. The Privacy Policy explains how this works.
Age and permission.
Schools and government programmes. A school, education authority or government programme may use the service with students under the age of majority, including students younger than the minimum age in clause 5. It can do this only under a written agreement with us that sets the age range and the way consent is given. The institution is responsible for obtaining and recording any consent the law requires, and for telling parents and guardians how the service is used.
Parents and guardians. A parent or guardian can ask us, directly or through the institution, to see, correct, export or delete their child's data, to opt the child in to or out of the analytics in clause 6, or to withdraw consent. Withdrawing consent ends the child's use of the service.
Protections that always apply. An account held by someone under the age of majority has these protections:
You own your material. You keep all rights in what you upload. To the extent we have any rights in the outputs the service generates for you, we assign them to you. Material owned by others that appears in an output, such as a cited patent or article, stays its owner's. We claim no ownership of your invention, your documents, your data or your ideas.
Inventors and collaborators. Patent offices generally require a human inventor, and output generated by AI may not be protectable on its own. You are responsible for naming the right inventors. When several people work on a project, who owns what between them is for them to agree; in the service, the project owner controls the project.
Ownership disputes. Who owns an idea or invention, as between you and an employer, a school, a client, a collaborator or anyone else, is for you and them. We do not decide it, advise on it or take part in disputes about it. If we are told of a dispute, we follow the instructions of whoever controls the account or project under these terms, and any court order.
The licence you give us, and its limits. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, transmit, display and process your material to provide, secure and support the service to you, and to improve the service as described below. This licence exists so that we can run and improve the software. It does not permit us to use your material for any other purpose, and it ends when your material is deleted, subject to clause 16.
We do not use your material to market to others, to train models (clause 4), or to develop products other than by improving the service as described below.
How we improve the service. We may run automated analytics over chat and generation histories, meaning your conversations with the service and the outputs it generates for you. We do this to find where the service falls short and to keep improving its filters, safety guardrails, prompts, templates, instructions, guidelines, rubrics, policies and other internal software capabilities. Three rules apply:
Your responsibility for what you upload. You confirm that you have the rights necessary to upload and process the material you provide, and that doing so does not infringe anyone else's rights or breach any obligation of confidence you owe.
Our material. The service itself, including its software, method, prompts, models, interfaces, templates and documentation, remains ours. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the service in accordance with these terms, for the term of your access.
What you may not do with the service. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to derive the source of the service; resell, sublicense or provide it as a service to others; use it to build a competing product; scrape, harvest or systematically extract data from it; use automated means to access it other than through an interface we provide; or remove any watermark, notice or attribution.
Free-tier output. Deliverables produced on a free account carry an IPGuru.ai watermark. You may use those deliverables for your own purposes, including sharing them with an attorney, but you may not remove or obscure the watermark. Upgrading a project removes it from subsequent deliverables.
Feedback. If you send us suggestions or feedback about the service, we may use them freely and without payment to you. This does not cover Your Content.
Publicity. We will not use your name, logo, project or words in our marketing without your written consent.
This clause matters more than any other in this document for most of our customers, so it stands on its own.
Your project is private by default. A project's knowledge base, memory and vault are private to you and to anyone you deliberately invite, including an instructor or reviewer through a cohort or deployment you join (clause 5.1). Nothing is public unless you make it public.
When our staff can see your content. Our support team's normal view is the shape of your account, meaning your projects, entitlements, permissions, status and activity, not their contents. There is no standing access. Our staff can see Your Content only:
Every access is recorded. Access under 1 and 5 always appears in your activity log. Access under 2 to 4 appears there unless telling you would create a risk of harm, prejudice an investigation or is prohibited by law.
Safety review. Automated systems check requests, uploads and outputs for the uses the Acceptable Use Policy prohibits. Where they flag weapons development or a serious risk of harm, such as work towards a biological, chemical, radiological or nuclear weapon, material that sexualises or abuses a child, or a credible threat to someone's life, a trained member of our team may review what was flagged, and it may lead to an investigation under clause 15. The review is limited to what was flagged and is recorded. It appears in your activity log unless telling you would create a risk of harm or is prohibited by law.
Uploads are scanned. Files you upload are scanned for malware and prohibited content, including sexual content and material that sexualises or abuses a child, before they enter your knowledge base. Items that fail are quarantined and do not enter it.
Our confidentiality obligation. We will keep Your Content confidential and use it only as clause 6 permits. We disclose it only:
This obligation survives the end of this agreement.
What confidentiality cannot do. Confidentiality between you and us does not preserve novelty against the world. If you publish your invention yourself, or share it in a way that makes it publicly available, that is a disclosure regardless of anything in this clause.
There are three things you can hold.
| What it is | |
|---|---|
| A free account | Costs nothing. Lets you brainstorm and see what the service produces, within the free allowances on our pricing pages. Deliverables carry a watermark |
| A membership | A subscription attached to your account, at the Member, Pro or Max level. Billed monthly or annually. Sets your allowances and which capabilities are available to you, as published on our pricing pages |
| A project grade | A one-time purchase attached to a single project you hold, at the Bronze, Silver or Gold level. Opens the capabilities published for that grade on our pricing pages. Permanent for that project |
Buying a grade does not change your membership. Changing or ending your membership does not affect a grade you have already applied: the project keeps everything its grade includes.
Allowances. Each level and grade carries stated allowances, published on our pricing pages at the time you buy. They apply to all use of your account, whether in our app, through a connected app or with an access token, and connecting another app does not add to them. Allowances restore when the applicable period rolls over, or when you move to a higher level. Reaching an allowance produces a clear message telling you which limit you have reached and how it is restored. It never fails silently.
Automated runs. Some features, such as simulations and the Scenario Director, run steps for you in a loop. They use your allowances as they run. You can set limits where the feature offers them, and you can stop a run at any time.
Annual pricing. Annual memberships are priced at a discount to twelve monthly charges. The discount is shown at the point of purchase.
The member discount on project grades. While your membership is active, you get a discount on project grades and grade upgrades (clause 11). The rate, and whether it combines with a promotional code, are published on our pricing pages and shown at checkout before you pay. Three rules attach to it:
Our merchant of record. From 29 September 2026, payments are processed by Cleverbridge GmbH, of Cologne, Germany, which acts as our authorised reseller and merchant of record. Every purchase made on or after that date is processed this way. This means Cleverbridge is the seller of record to you for the transaction, issues your invoice, and collects and remits any applicable sales tax, VAT or GST.
We never receive your card details. Payment card information is provided directly to the merchant of record and is never transmitted to, stored by, or accessible to us at any point.
Prices and tax. Prices are shown in the currency of your price list. Tax is added at checkout where applicable and shown before you pay.
What you paid, for the purposes of this agreement. Where these terms refer to amounts you have paid us, this includes amounts you have paid to our merchant of record in respect of your account, whether or not they have been remitted to us.
Your dealings with the merchant of record. The merchant of record has its own customer terms governing the payment transaction itself, and its own privacy notice. Both are shown to you at checkout. Those terms govern the payment; these terms govern the service. They cover different things, and we do not agree anything with you that contradicts the merchant of record's customer terms.
Purchases before 29 September 2026. If you bought before that date through another channel, that purchase continues until its term ends, and any renewal is processed by the merchant of record.
Memberships renew automatically at the end of each billing period, at the then-current list price for your item and price list, until you cancel.
We will tell you before we charge you. You will receive notice before each renewal charge. For annual memberships this is at least thirty days beforehand. Where the renewal price differs from the price you last paid, you will receive at least thirty days' notice of the new price before it is charged, whatever your billing period.
You can cancel at any time, from within the service. Cancelling takes no more steps than subscribing did, and we will not put anything in the way of it. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, and you keep everything you paid for until then.
Cancelling destroys nothing. When a membership ends, your account returns to the free tier. Your projects, files, documents and history remain. Capabilities that required a paid level become unavailable, and projects beyond the free active-project allowance become read-only rather than being deleted. Archiving a project releases an allowance slot.
Price changes reach you at your next renewal and never mid-term. A price change is never applied to a period you have already paid for.
Failed payment. If a renewal payment fails, the merchant of record will attempt to collect it and will contact you. Your access continues until the end of the period you have paid for. If payment is not collected by then, your account returns to the free tier. Nothing is deleted.
Upgrading a membership. You can move to a higher level at any time. You pay the new level's list price, less a credit for the unused part of your current term, and your current subscription ends. The credit is calculated on whole days, against the amount you actually paid, and in the currency of your original order. It is shown to you on the order and on your receipt before you confirm.
Downgrading a membership takes effect at the end of your current term. Nothing is refunded, because you keep what you paid for until it runs out, and nothing is deleted.
Upgrading a project grade. A grade upgrade is sold as its own item at a fixed price, being the difference between the two grades' list prices. The higher grade supersedes the lower one for that project. Nothing is refunded for the grade you previously bought, and the difference is all you pay.
Grades stay with their project. Once applied, a grade cannot be moved to a different project. If you applied one to the wrong project, contact support@ipguru.ai and we will help.
Refunds are governed by our Refund Policy, which forms part of this agreement, and are processed through the merchant of record.
The service lets you share a project or publish its material. These are powerful features and their consequences are not reversible.
Users under the age of majority. For them, unlisted links, publication and open-sourcing are off by default (clause 5.2).
Sharing to named people. You can share with specific individuals. Their access is revocable, individually, at any time.
Unlisted links. You can create a link that is not listed anywhere and can be opened by anyone who has it. An unlisted link is not confidentiality. It is obscurity plus the ability to revoke. Anyone who has the link, or who is given it, can open what it points to. Treat it as you would treat a key.
Publication and open-sourcing. You can publish material to an external destination such as a website or a code repository. Once published, access is controlled by that destination and not by us, and we cannot recall what has been published.
Defensive publication. Where you use the service to make a defensive publication, we publish it at a public address and issue a signed, timestamped receipt recording what was published, where and when. It stays public for as long as we operate the service, even if you later delete the project or close your account, because a defensive publication only works while it is public. The receipt is evidence of our act of publication. It is not legal advice about the effect of that publication, and whether a defensive publication achieves what you intend is a question for your attorney.
Publication is your decision, and its consequences are yours. Publishing an invention before filing may destroy novelty in most jurisdictions. We will warn you before you publish. We cannot undo it.
Content you publish. You are responsible for what you publish through the service, including that you have the rights to it and that it does not infringe, defame or breach any obligation you owe.
Sending your work to other services. The service may let you send Your Content to a third-party service you choose, such as a prototyping, manufacturing or 3D printing service, a crowdfunding platform, a marketing tool or a laboratory. Each transfer happens only when you choose it. That service's own terms, prices and privacy notice apply to what you send, and you deal with it directly. It is not our sub-processor, our confidentiality obligation in clause 7 ends for what you send, and we cannot recall it. Sending an unfiled invention to anyone without a confidentiality agreement may count as a public disclosure and destroy novelty (clause 3).
Campaigns and marketing. If you use the service to prepare or launch a crowdfunding campaign or marketing, you are its creator and sender. You must follow the platform's rules and the advertising, consumer protection and anti-spam laws that apply to you. Label AI-generated images or video of a product that has not been built as illustrations, and do not claim that a product works, is safe or is certified unless you can show it.
Laboratories and other physical work. The service may let you send instructions to a laboratory or another service that does physical work, such as synthesis, testing or fabrication. Where it does:
Our Acceptable Use Policy forms part of these terms and describes what you may not do with the service. In summary: invent, do not infringe; do not upload material you have no right to use; do not pursue unlawful, harmful or deceptive ends, and never work towards a weapon capable of mass harm; do not upload, request or generate sexual content, or anything that sexualises or abuses a child; and do not attempt to circumvent the safeguards or limits in the service.
We work to keep the service available, and we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may suspend access for maintenance, and where we can, we will give notice.
Rate limits. To protect the service from abuse and keep it responsive for everyone, we apply rate limits and other technical limits, such as how many requests, tasks or connections can run in a period. They apply to every way you use the service, including connected apps and access tokens, and they are separate from your allowances. We set them so that ordinary use within your allowances does not normally reach them, and we may adjust them at any time to protect the service. If you reach one, the request is slowed or refused with a clear message, and you can try again later. Repeatedly exceeding them, or trying to get around them, is a breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.
We may change the service. Features may be added, changed or withdrawn as the product develops. We will not make a change that materially reduces a capability you are currently paying for without giving you at least thirty days' notice, and if we do, you may cancel and receive a refund under section 4 of the Refund Policy.
Preview and experimental features. Some features are marked preview or experimental. They may change or be withdrawn at any time, may be less reliable, and are provided as they are. The notice promise above does not apply to them.
Third-party dependencies. The service depends on third-party providers, including cloud infrastructure and AI model providers. Where a provider changes or withdraws a capability, we may have to change ours.
You may stop at any time, by cancelling your membership or closing your account.
We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, if your use presents a security or legal risk to us or to another customer, or if we are required to by law. Except where the risk requires immediate action, or during an investigation, we will tell you what the problem is and give you a reasonable opportunity to fix it before we act.
Suspension while we investigate. If our safety systems, reports or other signals suggest suspect activity, we may suspend or restrict your account, or any project, feature, connection or token, until our investigation is complete. We tell you that we have done so, unless telling you would create a risk of harm, prejudice the investigation or is prohibited by law. If we find no breach, we restore access promptly, and if you pay for a membership, we extend it by the time you lost. An automatic restriction by our safety systems is temporary, and a person reviews it promptly. A decision to terminate is always made by a person.
Termination for breach. If we find that your account has been used in breach of these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, we may terminate it without refund, except where the law requires one.
If we terminate for our own convenience, meaning not because of anything you did, we will refund you under section 4 of the Refund Policy and give you at least thirty days to export Your Content.
What survives. Clauses 2 and 3 (what IPGuru is and what we cannot promise), 4 (artificial intelligence), 6 (ownership), 7 (confidentiality), 12 (the consequences of sharing and publication), 16 (your data after the end), 17 (indemnity), 18 (disclaimers), 19 (limitation of liability), 21.12 (messages after your account closes), 22 (governing law) and 23 (general) survive termination, together with the Refund Policy for any refund already due and any amount either of us owes the other.
Export. You can export Your Content at any time while your account is open, in common readable formats together with the files you uploaded, and for thirty days after it closes.
Deletion. You can ask us to delete your data. When you do, we destroy your project material, files and generated outputs, including any copies held for the analytics in clause 6; we keep only what the law requires us to keep, for as long as it requires, and a disabled record of your identity for twenty-four months so that the account cannot be silently recreated and the erasure can be shown to have happened (Privacy Policy section 8). You receive a record of what was destroyed and what was retained, and why.
Archiving a project is different from deleting it. Archiving preserves your files and releases an active-project allowance. Deleting removes the material.
Dormant accounts. An account with no activity for 180 days may be archived, which preserves everything and is undone the moment you sign in. An account with no activity for 18 months may be purged, but only after we have emailed you at fifteen months, at seventeen months, and again thirty days before, with a link to export everything, and only where you hold no paid project grade and no active paid membership. A grade is permanent for its project for as long as we operate the service, so an account holding one is archived and never purged. If we ever close the service, we will give at least ninety days' notice and a way to export everything. Any sign-in resets the clock. The full schedule is in our Privacy Policy.
Backups. Deleted material may persist in backups for a bounded period. Backups are never selectively restored, and any deletion you have requested is re-applied if a backup is ever restored.
Our Privacy Policy describes all of this in detail, including retention periods and your rights.
You indemnify us against any claim, loss, liability, cost or expense (including reasonable legal costs) arising from:
We indemnify you against any third-party claim that the service itself, as provided by us and used in accordance with these terms, infringes that third party's copyright, trade mark or trade secret. This does not extend to output generated for you, to your material, or to any combination of the service with anything we did not provide. Our liability under this indemnity is subject to clause 19.
If you are a consumer, your indemnity under this clause covers only loss caused by your breach of these terms, your fraud or your wilful misconduct.
Each party will notify the other promptly of a claim, allow the indemnifying party to control the defence, and give reasonable assistance. Neither party will settle a claim in a way that imposes an obligation on the other without consent.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, and except as expressly stated in these terms, the service is provided as is and we make no warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy or quiet enjoyment.
Nothing in this clause limits any right you have under consumer law that cannot be excluded. Schedule 2 sets out the consumer rights that apply in particular markets, and where they conflict with this clause, they prevail.
Read this clause. It sets the limit of what we owe you if something goes wrong.
What we never exclude. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for any breach of a consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
What we do not accept. Subject to the paragraph above, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential loss; for loss of profit, revenue, goodwill, anticipated saving or business opportunity; for loss of, or failure to obtain, any patent, patent right or other intellectual property right, except where it is caused by our breach of clause 7; for injury, loss or damage arising from building, testing or using a prototype, product or experiment, or from physical work done by a third party you choose, which is your responsibility; for the consequences of any filing, or any missed deadline; for any consequence of using the service or its output in the diagnosis, treatment or care of any person, which these terms do not permit; or for loss or corruption of data to the extent it results from your own act or omission.
Our total liability, for all claims taken together arising in any twelve-month period, is limited to the greater of:
The floor exists because a cap of nothing is not a cap. If you use the service without paying, you are still owed something if we get it badly wrong.
Where the limit does not apply. The limit above does not apply to our liability for a deliberate breach of clause 7 (confidentiality).
Why the limit is where it is. We charge a software subscription price for a tool that assists your work. We do not charge, and could not sustainably charge, a price that would allow us to underwrite the commercial value of your invention. That value is yours, and insuring it against every possible outcome is not something a tool at this price can do. The limit reflects that bargain, and we have set it out rather than leaving you to work it out.
We may change these terms. When we do:
What stays fixed. The price, allowances and refund terms of a purchase stay as they were when you bought, for that purchase. Every order records the version of these terms you accepted, and you can always retrieve it. Other changes apply from their effective date under this clause.
We have to be able to reach you, and you have to be able to reach us. This clause says how, what we send, and what you control. Only one category is compulsory, and it is small.
| Channel | What it carries | Your control |
|---|---|---|
| Email to your account address | Essential notices about your account, plus any digests, notifications and updates you have configured | Essential ones stay on. Everything else is in your settings |
| Email from our merchant of record | Order confirmations, invoices, notice of an upcoming charge, payment failures, refunds | None. These come from Cleverbridge GmbH because it holds the payment, and they are part of the sale |
| Messages inside the product | Banners, the account and billing pages, the notice that an allowance is nearly used, the reason an action was refused | The essential ones are the service telling you what it is doing. The rest you configure |
| Support conversations, including in-product chat | Whatever you raise with us, and our answer | You start them. We reply on the channel you used unless you ask otherwise |
| Post | Only where a law requires a notice on paper, or where email to you has failed repeatedly | None, and it is rare |
| Text message | A security code, and any alert you have chosen to receive that way | In your settings |
| Marketing and product email | Product news, launches, education, the notify-me list, and messages about IPGuru services related to what you already have | Off in one click, at any time |
| Kind | What it is | Your control |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | Security and access, money, entitlements, the ending or renewal of something you hold, incidents, changes to this agreement, and our answers to you | None while you have an account. See 21.3 |
| Configured | Activity digests, notifications about your projects, alerts when a collaborator does something, allowance warnings, summaries, and anything similar we add later | Complete. On, off, how often, and by which channel. See 21.4 |
| Related services | Messages about IPGuru services close to what you already bought | Off at any time. We also offer the choice when we take your address. See 21.5 |
| Marketing | Product news, launches, education, the notify-me list | Off at any time, and where your market's law requires consent first, we ask first. See 21.6 |
Only the first is compulsory. Ending any of the other three has no effect on your account, your entitlements, your price or the service you receive, and we will not ask you twice.
While you have an account you cannot switch off the messages that tell you what has happened to it. If you could switch them off, you could miss a warning that your password was changed or that your membership is about to end.
The essential category is closed and stays closed. It is limited to: security and access; money, meaning receipts, charges, failures and refunds; entitlements and what you can now do; the ending or renewal of something you hold; availability and incidents; changes to these terms, the Privacy Policy or our sub-processors; and our answer to something you asked. We will not add to that list without changing these terms under clause 20, which carries thirty days' notice and your right to leave. The limit is on what is compulsory. It is not a limit on what the service can tell you, because everything else in 21.4 is yours to configure.
You decide what the service tells you, how often, and where. Your settings control activity digests, notifications about your projects, alerts when someone you have shared with does something, warnings that an allowance is nearly used, periodic summaries, and any similar message we introduce later.
We choose the default, you change it. A new notification arrives with the setting we think most people want and appears on the same page as the rest, so there is one place to look. Turning these off leaves your account working exactly as it did, and never affects an essential message.
They are not marketing and do not need your consent, because they report your own activity on a service you asked for. They may point you at a feature that would help with what you are doing.
If you are or have been a customer, we may write to you about IPGuru services similar to what you already have. We offer you the chance to decline when we take your address, every such message carries a one-click opt-out, and declining costs you nothing. We never send these messages to a user under the age of majority (clause 5.2).
Where the law of your market requires your consent before we do this, we ask for it first and this paragraph does not apply to you until you give it. Your Market Schedule states the position for your market.
An essential message never carries a promotion. Not a banner, not a footer offer, not a while you are here. The moment a receipt carries a promotion the whole receipt becomes marketing, and our ability to send you the receipts you actually need depends on our never having done that.
Configured messages and messages under 21.5 may carry product news, because you can switch them off. Messages to a minor never do (clause 5.2).
To you. Email to the address on your account is effective notice under these terms, treated as received on the day we send it, or on the next business day where you are if we send it outside business hours. Where email to you has failed repeatedly we may give notice inside the product, and that is effective too. Where the law of your market requires a different method or a longer period, the Market Schedule says so and that requirement applies.
To us. Write to support@ipguru.ai for anything about your account or an order, or to the registered office in clause 1 for a formal legal notice. Notice to us takes effect when we receive it, or on the next business day in Singapore if it arrives outside business hours.
Two things that are deliberately not notices, so that you are not caught out:
The email address on your account is how we reach you, so keep it current. We verify it when you register and again whenever it changes, and until a new address is verified we keep writing to the old one. If mail to you bounces repeatedly we may stop sending to that address and tell you inside the product instead. That does not suspend your account.
We write to you in English unless the Market Schedule for your market says otherwise. Where a market requires communications in another language, that requirement applies and its schedule states it.
Support conversations, including chat, and a record of the messages sent to you are kept as part of your account record for the periods in the Privacy Policy. We keep them so that a question about what you were told has an answer rather than two recollections.
Essential messages stop when your account closes, except where we still have to reach you: a security incident affecting your data, a legal or tax obligation, or a payment matter such as a refund or a disputed charge. Configured messages stop, because there is no activity to report.
Messages under 21.5 and 21.6 may continue where the law of your market allows it, and the one-click opt-out in every one of them still works. If you would rather hear nothing further, tell us or use that link and we will stop.
These terms are governed by the law of Singapore, and the courts of Singapore have jurisdiction, except that:
Before you sue us, talk to us. If something has gone wrong, contact support@ipguru.ai and give us thirty days to try to resolve it. Most problems are solved faster this way than by either of us instructing lawyers. This is not a condition of your right to bring a claim.
Entire agreement. These terms, your Market Schedule, the Acceptable Use Policy, the Refund Policy, the Privacy Policy, and the details of your order with the pricing pages as they stood when you bought, are the entire agreement between us about the service, and replace any earlier statement or understanding. Where they conflict, your Market Schedule prevails as clause 1.1 says; otherwise these terms prevail over the policies, and the policies over the order and pricing pages, except that the price and allowances stated for an order apply to that order. An institution's own terms (clause 5.1) govern only your relationship with that institution. Nothing in this clause limits liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.
Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or if that is not possible, severed. The rest continues in force.
No waiver. If we do not enforce a right, that is not a waiver of it.
Assignment. You may not assign these terms without our consent. We may assign them to an affiliate, or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of the business, on notice to you.
No third-party rights. No one other than you and us has any right to enforce these terms.
Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for a failure caused by an event beyond reasonable control, provided the affected party takes reasonable steps to mitigate and resume. It does not remove a refund you are owed.
Export control and sanctions. We comply with the sanctions and export control laws of Singapore, including those that implement United Nations Security Council sanctions. As far as Singapore law allows, we also comply with the sanctions and export control laws of the United States. We do not provide the service to you, and you may not use it:
We decide which countries and regions to block under those laws, and the list may change without notice. Do not use a VPN, a proxy or false details to get around a block. If an account falls under a restriction, we may suspend or close it, and any refund is subject to what those laws allow. Our merchant of record also screens orders under the sanctions laws that apply to it. You confirm that none of these restrictions applies to you.
| Storefront | Market Schedule | Market | Seller | Merchant of record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ipguru.ai | MS-GLOBAL | Every market without a specific schedule | Corvair Pte. Ltd. | Cleverbridge GmbH |
invent.sg | MS-SG | Singapore | Corvair Pte. Ltd. | Cleverbridge GmbH |
ipguru.ai, Australia price list | MS-AU (in preparation) | Australia | Corvair Pte. Ltd. | Cleverbridge GmbH |
ipguru.ai, United States price list | MS-US (in preparation) | United States | Corvair Pte. Ltd. | Cleverbridge GmbH |
ipguru.ai, India price list | MS-IN (in preparation) | India | Corvair Pte. Ltd. | Cleverbridge GmbH |
Storefronts differ in brand, language, currency, price list and tax presentation. The seller, the service and these terms are the same in every case.
Institutions are not storefronts. A cohort or licensed deployment (clause 5.1) runs under an agreement between us and the institution. Your account shows when you take part through one, and links the institution's terms.
Where a Market Schedule has not yet been issued for your market, you contract under MS-GLOBAL and these terms, and you keep the benefit of any mandatory law of your own country regardless.
Your order records both versions: the version of these terms you accepted and the version of your Market Schedule. You can always retrieve the pair you accepted, not only the current ones.
If a market ever needs its own selling entity, that is not a Market Schedule. It is a different contracting party and a different privacy controller, and it requires a change to these terms naming that entity before it can sell anything.
Nothing in these terms affects a right you have under consumer law that cannot be excluded by agreement. The following is the global baseline. Your Market Schedule may add to it, and where the law of your country gives you more, the law applies.
European Union and United Kingdom. You have a right to withdraw from a distance contract for digital content within fourteen days, without giving a reason. Where you ask us to begin providing the service immediately, and acknowledge that you lose the right of withdrawal once performance has begun, that right ends when we begin. We ask for that acknowledgement at checkout, because a project grade begins generating work as soon as it is applied. Where performance has begun but is not complete, you may withdraw and pay for what has been provided.
Australia. Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law.
Singapore. The Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act 2003 applies to consumer transactions and is not excluded by these terms.
United States. Some states do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, so some of the limitations above may not apply to you.
Grade means a one-time upgrade applied to a single project, at the Bronze, Silver or Gold level.
Level means the membership tier attached to your account, being Member, Pro or Max.
Cohort means a class, course, hackathon, competition, event or other group set up in the service by an instructor or organiser for an institution, which participants join (clause 5.1).
Dedicated platform means an instance of the service for one institution, operated by us as a managed service or run in the institution's own cloud tenancy, under a written agreement (clause 5.1).
Institution means a school, university, training provider, education authority, government agency or programme, employer, event or competition organiser, or other organisation that provides the service to its students, staff, members or participants, or pays for them to use it, including under a sub-licence or on a dedicated platform, under an agreement with us.
Merchant of record means the party that sells to you as reseller, invoices you, and collects and remits tax. Ours is Cleverbridge GmbH, from 29 September 2026.
Chat and generation history means the record of your conversations with the service and of the outputs it generated for you. Clause 6 sets the rules for analysing it to improve the service.
Connected app means an application you authorise to use the service on your behalf, through our connector or with a personal access token.
Output means any document, analysis, search result, draft or other material the service generates for your project.
Project means a container holding one idea or invention, together with its knowledge base, its working memory and its file vault.
Essential message means a message we send you about your account, your orders, your entitlements or this agreement, of a kind listed in clause 21.3. It is not marketing, it does not require your consent, it never carries a promotion, and it cannot be switched off while you have an account.
Configured message means any other message the service sends you about your own activity, which you turn on, turn off, schedule or redirect in your settings under clause 21.4.
Sub-processor means a third party that processes your material on our behalf in order to provide or improve the service. Our current sub-processors are listed in the Privacy Policy.
Your Content means everything you upload, enter or connect to the service, and everything the service generates for you, including brainstorms, projects, conversations, documents, files and outputs. Where these terms or our policies say "your material", "your invention material", "project content" or "your content", they mean Your Content.
Telemetry means information about how the service is used and how it performs, as distinct from Your Content. It includes technical logs, hashes, summary statistics and classifications, metrics and learnings; sign-in, session and presence events; feature use, and page and interaction timings; request rates, response codes, errors, timeouts, retries and provider faults; allowance, cost and model-usage records; storefront and market; safety events; and the results of service health checks. Telemetry can be derived from Your Content, for example a classification of a request or a hash of a file, but it does not contain Your Content.
Safety reports means our internal records of what our safety systems flag, which our trained safety staff review.
Under the age of majority, and minor, mean under 18 years old.