Submission Confidentiality Terms

Effective date: July 15, 2026

These terms are an express confidentiality agreement between you and DeepLaw LLP, operating its Inventiply Foundry™ division (“Inventiply,” “we,” “us”). They govern the technical and business information you submit through our intake forms — the free-report form (Step 2 and beyond), the Infringement Detective scan intake, and any other submission channel that links to these terms. By checking the acceptance box and submitting, you and we agree to the following.

1. What is confidential

Everything you submit through a covered form after the acceptance box is treated as your confidential information: invention descriptions, patent and application numbers, portfolio details, suspected-infringer information, commercial context, uploaded documents, and any other technical or business information you provide.

Two carve-outs. First, information that is public — issued patents, published applications, publicly filed documents, public product information — is not confidential, and we may use it freely in your Report. Second, the Step-1 contact fields (name, email, and routing choice) are governed by our Privacy Policy rather than these terms. Your one-sentence description is different: although Step 1 is submitted before you accept these terms, we treat that description as your confidential information under Section 2 from the moment you send it. Even so, Step 1 needs no technical depth — save the detail for Step 2, where your acceptance of these terms is recorded with your submission.

2. What we promise

We will not disclose, publish, sell, or share your confidential submissions with any third party, except: (a) service providers who process information on our behalf — including hosting, form-processing, and artificial-intelligence providers — each bound by confidentiality obligations and restricted to providing services to us; (b) your own advisors, at your direction; and (c) where disclosure is required by law, court order, or a professional-responsibility obligation, in which case we will, where lawful, notify you first and disclose only what is required.

Personnel who work with your submission are bound by confidentiality obligations. We may retain anonymized, non-identifying findings for internal quality and methodology purposes, but we will not identify you, your invention, or your portfolio in any publication or communication.

3. Your submission is not a public disclosure

Because your submission is made in confidence under this agreement, it is not a public disclosure, publication, offer for sale, or public use of your invention by reason of the submission itself, and it is intended to preserve — not waive — any trade-secret protection your information enjoys. (What you have done with your invention elsewhere is outside our control; if you have concerns about prior disclosures or filing deadlines, raise them with patent counsel promptly.)

4. Confidentiality of your Report

The Report we prepare from your submission is confidential to you, prepared solely for your use, and shared with no one else by us. Your obligations regarding the Report — including the agreement not to forward it to any party named in it — are in the Terms of Use (§7(e) and §9).

5. What these terms do not do

These terms create a confidentiality relationship, not a legal representation. Submitting a form does not create an attorney–client relationship with DeepLaw LLP, and — as stated in the Terms of Use — no attorney–client privilege attaches to your submissions or to a Site-ordered Report. Confidentiality and privilege are different protections; these terms give you the first, and only a separate signed engagement with DeepLaw LLP can give you the second. If your matter needs formal legal representation, we will say so and discuss engagement separately.

6. Term and survival

Our confidentiality obligations begin when you submit and continue for five (5) years after our last work on your matter, and indefinitely for anything that remains a trade secret. They survive any termination of the Terms of Use. Our retention and deletion practices are described in the Privacy Policy.

7. Housekeeping

These terms are incorporated into and governed by the Terms of Use, including its California governing-law and dispute-resolution provisions. For your submissions, if these terms conflict with the Terms of Use, these terms control. If you prefer not to share technical detail through a form, you may request a free 30-minute conversation instead — the same confidentiality applies to what you tell us in it. Questions before you submit: contact@deeplawfirm.com.