Terms of service

Effective 2026-09-05. IPtorch is operated by Nebula Innovations LLC, a Nevada limited liability company ("IPtorch", "we"). Questions: support@iptorch.com.

1. What IPtorch is

IPtorch is a prior-art search tool. It searches a database of patent publications, reads the references it finds, and produces reports, claim charts and draft third-party submission papers for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (37 CFR 1.290) and the European Patent Office (Article 115 EPC). Everything it produces is generated by software, including language models, from the documents it holds. It is a research aid.

2. Not legal advice, and nothing is filed for you

IPtorch is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. A report, a claim chart, a relevance score or a set of draft papers is not an opinion on patentability, validity, infringement or freedom to operate. Documents the tool prepares are prepared for you to review; IPtorch does not file anything at any patent office on your behalf, does not sign anything for you unless you have expressly authorised a signature on your account, and does not pay official fees. You are responsible for what you file and for the statements it contains.

3. Accuracy

The database does not contain every publication in the world, its text is partly machine translated, and generated text can be wrong: a quotation can be misattributed, a disclosure can be misread, a relevant document can be missed. Every report says what was searched and what was read. Check the underlying documents before relying on anything.

4. Accounts

The prior-art search over our own database is free and needs no account. An account is needed for anything that spends money on your behalf: reading references in full, the third-party build, the outside patent databases, the submission papers. You are responsible for the activity on your account and for keeping your password to yourself. We may suspend an account that abuses the service, attempts to circumvent its limits, or uses it unlawfully.

5. Credit, charges and refunds

A new account starts with a credit we grant. Paid work is charged against your balance by what it actually uses: model time, metered patent databases and a margin, at the rates shown on your balance page before you start. A run already under way may take the balance below zero; the next paid run waits until you add credit. You may add credit by card through Stripe, and you may let a card on file top the balance up automatically; you can turn that off at any time. Granted credit has no cash value and is not refundable. Credit you paid for is refundable on request while unspent, less any payment processing fee; spent credit is not, because the work it paid for has been done. We do not store card numbers; Stripe does.

6. Your content

Text and documents you submit are yours. You give IPtorch the right to store and process them to produce your reports, and to keep the reports in your account until you delete them or the account. We do not use your submissions to train models and we do not show them to other users. Reports you choose to publish by link are visible to anyone holding the link and, if you set one, the password.

7. Our content

The software, the database as compiled, and the site design are ours or our licensors'. Patent publications themselves are public documents. You may use the reports the tool produces for you for any lawful purpose, including filing them; you may not resell access to the tool, scrape it, or use it to build a competing database.

8. Availability

The service is provided as is and as available. We may change, limit or withdraw features, including for maintenance, and we may set rate limits and daily budgets. We will try to give notice of changes that affect what you have paid for.

9. Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, IPtorch is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, nor for any loss arising from reliance on a report, a missed reference, or a filing you make. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limitations, in which case they apply to the extent permitted.

10. Changes and law

We may revise these terms; the effective date at the top changes when we do, and continued use after a change is acceptance of it. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Our privacy policy is part of these terms.