Terms of Service

01Acceptance of these terms

These Terms of Service are an agreement between you and WIPB Research and Technologies Private Limited (IP Bank), the provider of ARTHAKRAM — a patent-drafting product of IP Bank. By creating an account or using the service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by them.

These terms incorporate, and should be read together with, the Privacy Policy and the Refund & Cancellation Policy, each of which forms part of your agreement with us. If you use ARTHAKRAM on behalf of a firm or other organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to accept these terms for that organisation.

02The service — drafting assistance only

Not legal advice. ARTHAKRAM generates drafts to assist a qualified patent agent or attorney. It is not legal advice and must be reviewed by a registered Indian patent agent before filing.

03Eligibility and accounts

Your account is personal to you. Only one device may use an account at any one time — ARTHAKRAM does not support parallel, concurrent, or shared use of a single account, and you may have only one draft in progress at a time.

Because a session is single-device, signing in from a new device while your account is already active on another device requires approval from that active device. The active device is shown a prompt and must allow the new sign-in. Allowing it ends the session on the prior device and cannot be undone; denying it refuses the new sign-in and leaves the existing session and its work untouched.

If the active device does not respond, the new sign-in is blocked — a new session is never granted automatically on timeout. If you have lost access to the active device, you must contact customer care, who can reset your session so that you can sign in again.

Ending a session in either of these ways may discontinue a draft that is in progress on the prior device. Because this happens as a direct result of your own deliberate re-login (or your request to customer care), that draft is forfeited and is not refunded. See the Refund & Cancellation Policy for how a discontinued draft is treated.

04Acceptable use

You agree to use ARTHAKRAM only for lawful purposes and only to prepare patent-specification drafts for which you are entitled to submit the underlying invention disclosure. You must hold the necessary rights and authorisations for every disclosure you upload, and you must not submit content that is unlawful or that infringes another person's intellectual-property, confidentiality, or privacy rights.

You must not attempt to disrupt, overload, probe, reverse-engineer, or gain unauthorised access to the service or its underlying systems; circumvent usage limits or the single-active-session rule; or use the service to build or train a competing product. You are responsible for all activity under your account and for keeping your login credentials secure.

ARTHAKRAM is a drafting aid intended for use by, or under the supervision of, a registered Indian patent agent or attorney. You remain responsible for reviewing, verifying, and, where necessary, correcting every draft before it is relied upon or filed.

05Credits, payment and billing

ARTHAKRAM operates on a prepaid-wallet (credits) model. You top up a rupee wallet in advance, and each draft you commit debits a fixed slab price for the selected draft type at the moment of commit. Published slab prices are exclusive of tax; Goods and Services Tax is added on top at the applicable rate at checkout.

A GST tax invoice is issued for each wallet top-up. The full purchase, consumption, refund, and invoicing terms — including the current slab prices, the automatic refund where a draft fails on our side, and the treatment of a draft discontinued under the single-active-session rule — are set out in the Refund & Cancellation Policy, which forms part of these terms.

Launch offer. While the launch offer is on, an organisation's first draft is priced at one quarter of the then-current list price for the selected draft type, with Goods and Services Tax added on that discounted price. The offer price is applied automatically to the first draft an organisation starts while the offer runs, and is confirmed when that draft is approved; it is one per organisation, is not combined with any separately negotiated pricing, and is used even if that draft is later cancelled or discontinued for a reason not attributable to us. A first draft that fails on our side and is refunded does not use the offer. We may end or change the offer prospectively at any time: drafts started after the offer ends are priced at the list price, and a draft already started or approved at the offer price keeps it.

06Intellectual property and your content

As between you and ARTHAKRAM, you retain all rights in the invention disclosures and other materials you submit ("your content"), and in the draft patent specifications generated for you from that content. We do not claim ownership of your inventions or of the drafts produced for you.

You grant WIPB Research and Technologies Private Limited a limited, non-exclusive licence to process your content solely to provide the service to you — to generate, store, and deliver your drafts, and to operate and secure the platform — for as long as needed to do so, subject to the retention and deletion terms in the Privacy Policy.

All rights in the ARTHAKRAM platform itself — the software, interface, workflow, methodology, and the ARTHAKRAM and IP Bank names and marks — belong to WIPB Research and Technologies Private Limited or its licensors. Nothing in these terms transfers any of those rights to you; you receive only a personal, non-transferable right to use the service under these terms.

07Confidentiality of invention disclosures

We recognise that the invention disclosures you submit are highly sensitive and are often not yet filed. We treat that content as confidential and restrict internal access to what is reasonably needed to operate the service and support you.

Your invention-disclosure content is processed using Anthropic's Claude models (Anthropic PBC) on infrastructure located in the United States; this involves a cross-border transfer of personal data, for which Anthropic acts as our sub-processor. The categories of data, the basis for the transfer, and your rights are described in the Privacy Policy.

Draft content is not retained indefinitely: it is purged 24 hours after a draft is first downloaded, or after 30 days of account inactivity, whichever occurs first. Financial records such as tax invoices and the credit ledger are retained for the period required by Indian law and do not contain your invention content. These measures support, but do not replace, your own duty to preserve novelty by keeping an unfiled invention confidential until it is filed.

08Disclaimers and limitation of liability

ARTHAKRAM is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. The service produces machine-generated first drafts to assist patent professionals; its output may contain errors, omissions, or inaccuracies and is not guaranteed to be complete, novel, patentable, or fit for filing. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Allocation of responsibility. ARTHAKRAM is the provider of an AI-assisted drafting tool. The registered patent agent or attorney who reviews, edits, finalises, and files a draft is the deployer and the professional of record. We are responsible for operating the tool with reasonable care; the reviewing professional is responsible for the exercise of professional judgement — including verifying facts, prior art, claim scope, and legal sufficiency — and for the decision to file. ARTHAKRAM does not act as, and does not replace, a patent agent or attorney, and gives no professional or legal advice.

Limitation of liability. Subject to the next paragraph, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, neither WIPB Research and Technologies Private Limited nor its officers, employees, or sub-processors will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss, or for loss of profits, data, goodwill, or anticipated savings, or for the loss or invalidity of any intellectual-property right arising from a draft that was filed without adequate professional review. Our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with the service will not exceed the amount you paid us for the specific draft giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under the laws of India, including any rights that cannot be excluded under applicable consumer-protection law.

09Suspension and termination

You may stop using ARTHAKRAM at any time and may ask us to close your account. We may suspend or terminate your access, in whole or in part, if you breach these terms (including the acceptable-use terms), if we are required to by law, or if we reasonably believe your use poses a security, legal, or integrity risk to the service or to other users. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, we will give you notice and, for a curable breach, an opportunity to remedy it.

Suspension or termination does not, by itself, forfeit wallet credits you have already purchased and not spent; the treatment of credits and of any in-progress draft on termination is governed by the Refund & Cancellation Policy. A draft discontinued under the single-active-session rule remains forfeited and non-refunded as described in these terms and that policy.

On closure of your account, your draft content is deleted in line with the retention terms in the Privacy Policy, except for records (such as tax invoices and the credit ledger) that we are required to keep under Indian law.

10Governing law and dispute resolution

These terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or the service (including non-contractual disputes), are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. Subject to any non-excludable right you may have to approach another forum, the courts at Hyderabad, Telangana will have jurisdiction.

Before commencing proceedings, we encourage you to contact us so that we can try to resolve the matter informally. Nothing in this clause limits your right to raise a data-protection grievance with our Grievance Officer or, if it is not resolved, to escalate to the Data Protection Board of India under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

11Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time — for example, to reflect changes in the service, in our pricing model, or in the law. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date shown at the top of this page and, where a change is material, take reasonable steps to notify you, such as a notice within the service or by email.

Changes take effect from the date they are posted, or on any later date we specify. If you continue to use ARTHAKRAM after a change takes effect, you accept the revised terms; if you do not agree, you should stop using the service and may close your account.

12Contact

ARTHAKRAM is a product of IP Bank — WIPB Research and Technologies Private Limited — with its registered office at 1st Floor, H.No. 8-3-224/11/A/4, G-9, Ameerpet, Sanjeev Reddy Nagar, Madhura Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana — 500038.

For questions about these terms or the service, contact us through your account. Grievances about the processing of your personal data, and requests to exercise your rights under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, should be addressed to our Grievance Officer, whose details are on the Grievance Officer page; we aim to respond within 30 days.