Terms of Service

AI Patent Register is operated by Playing for Pies Pty Ltd (ABN 94 699 119 385), a company registered in Australia. These terms apply whenever you use the website or submit an idea for evaluation.

You can reach us at playingforpies@gmail.com.

We produce an automated, AI-generated assessment of an invention idea, plus a timestamped certificate recording that you submitted it to us on a given date. It is designed to help you decide whether talking to a patent attorney is worth your time and money.

Specifically, we do not:

• File patent applications, or act for you before IP Australia or any patent office
• Draft patent specifications, claims, or any document for use in a patent application
• Conduct a professional prior-art search. Any comparable patents mentioned in your report are illustrative leads generated by an AI model, are unverified, and may not exist
• Give advice on the validity or infringement of any patent

Our certificate records that you submitted an idea to us on a date. It is a private business record. It is not a patent, not a patent application, and does not create a priority date or any legal right in your invention. Australia and most other countries award patents to the first person to file an application, so only filing an application with a patent office secures your place in the queue.

3.1 Your invention stays yours. You keep all intellectual property rights in the idea, invention, and information you submit, including copyright in what you write. Submitting an idea to us transfers nothing and gives us no ownership interest of any kind.

3.2 Your report is yours. To the extent that we hold any rights in the report and certificate we produce for you, we assign those rights to you. Where an assignment is not legally possible, we grant you a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use, copy, and share them for any purpose. You may give them to a patent attorney, an investor, or anyone else, without asking us and without attribution.

3.3 What we are allowed to do. You give us permission to process your submission for one purpose only: producing your report and certificate, and storing them so you can access them again later. That permission ends when your submission is deleted.

3.4 We will not use your idea. We do not use submitted inventions to develop our own products or services, we do not disclose them to anyone else for their benefit, and we will not file a patent application on an idea submitted to us.

3.5 Anonymous comparison against other submissions. To tell you whether anything similar has come through this service before, we compare the text of your submission against earlier submissions inside our own database. This comparison is automated and returns only counts. No submission text is ever shown to another user, no other submitter is identified to you, and you are never identified to them.

Your submission is confidential. We do not sell it, publish it, or disclose it to anyone except as described in this clause and in our Privacy Policy.

To produce your report we send the invention text to an AI provider, Groq, Inc., under a commercial agreement that:

• Prohibits training. The provider is contractually forbidden from using submissions or responses to train or fine-tune any AI model.
• Treats submissions as confidential. What we send and what comes back are defined as our confidential information under that agreement.
• Leaves rights with us. The provider acquires no intellectual property rights in anything sent or returned.

We send only the title, industry, problem statement, and invention description. We do not send your name, email address, or phone number to the AI provider.

Disclosure to a service provider bound by an obligation of confidence is generally not treated as making an invention publicly available, and so should not affect novelty. We cannot guarantee that outcome in every country, and if the timing of public disclosure matters to you, raise it with a patent attorney before you publish, sell, or demonstrate your invention anywhere.

One honest limit: no provider's confidentiality commitment overrides the law. We and our providers may be required to disclose or retain information to comply with a court order or other legal obligation.

Scores, rankings, and written analysis are generated by an AI model. They are estimates. They can be wrong, incomplete, or inconsistent, and two similar submissions may receive different results.

A favourable score does not mean your invention is patentable. An unfavourable score does not mean it is not. Only a registered patent attorney, working from a real prior-art search, can tell you that.

The quality of your report depends on what you tell us. We assess only what your submission describes.

The fee is charged once per submission, at the price shown at checkout. Payment is processed by Stripe; we do not store your card details.

If we fail to deliver your report, we refund you in full. Because the report is generated immediately after payment and cannot be returned once delivered, we do not otherwise offer refunds for a change of mind.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any guarantee, right, or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded.

• Submit only inventions you are entitled to submit. Do not submit someone else's confidential information, or information you are under an obligation not to disclose.
• Keep your account credentials secure.
• Do not attempt to disrupt the service, or use it to generate unlawful content.

To the extent permitted by law, and subject to clause 6, our total liability arising out of or in connection with the service is limited to the amount you paid us for the submission the claim relates to.

We are not liable for decisions you make on the basis of a report, including a decision to file or not to file a patent application, or for any loss of patent rights arising from your own public disclosure of your invention.

We may update these terms. The version in force is the one published here on the day you submit. Material changes will be reflected in the “last updated” date above.

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and you and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that place.