Terms of Service
Last updated: Effective upon public launch
1. What DCFN - Patents is
DCFN - Patents is a service operated by Living Eden Frameworks LLC (DBA Co Creators) that analyzes your patent portfolio against the US patent landscape and generates file-ready provisional patent drafts and Continuation Strategy Memos for filed patents.
DCFN - Patents is a research and drafting tool. It is not a law firm. It does not provide legal advice. It does not represent you in any filing before the United States Patent and Trademark Office or any other body. Attorney review of every deliverable is recommended but not required before you file anything with the USPTO.
2. Who can use DCFN - Patents
You may use DCFN - Patents if you are:
- At least 13 years of age, and with a parent or legal guardian's supervision if under 18
- The inventor of the patents and inventions you submit, or authorized to act on their behalf
- Not located in a country subject to US export controls that would prohibit this service
By using DCFN - Patents, you represent that all of the above are true.
3. What you pay for and what you get
DCFN - Patents operates on a single-fee, time-windowed access model:
$85 unlocks a 30-day access window. During the window, you may submit any number of Layer 1 landscape briefings and any number of Layer 2 file-ready deliverables (provisional drafts and Continuation Strategy Memos) for any patent portfolio you have the right to analyze. There is no per-deliverable fee inside the window; the $85 covers the entire 30-day period.
Layer 1 — Landscape briefing. Submit up to seven of your patents or one unfiled invention description. The engine produces a .docx briefing describing where your portfolio sits in the patent landscape, nearest competitors, clusters where you stand alone, and proposed patents worth filing next.
Layer 2 — File-ready deliverables. From the briefing, select any combination of provisional drafts and Continuation Strategy Memos. Deliverables are generated as downloadable .docx files and made available on the result page. Save them locally when they're ready — we don't email deliverables.
The $85 access fee covers the cost of running the engine on a higher-tier compute environment for the duration of the 30-day window. The window begins at the timestamp of your payment and expires 30 calendar days later. Prices are stated in US dollars and may change with notice; price changes apply only to new windows, not to active windows you've already purchased. You authorize us to charge the payment method you provide through Stripe.
4. Refunds
If a generation fails for a technical reason on our end (engine error, generation crash, empty output), contact TheArchitect@livingedenframeworks.com within seven days and we will re-run the generation at no charge.
If you change your mind after purchase — you decide the engine output isn't useful, you want to pursue a different direction, you submitted the wrong patents — we do not issue refunds for change of mind. The $85 access fee covers a real cost commitment we make on your behalf the moment you pay (the engine's compute environment is upgraded to a higher tier for the duration of your 30-day window). That cost is not recoverable if you decide not to use the window.
If our service is unavailable for the majority of your 30-day window due to outages on our end, contact us and we will extend the window or refund proportionally at our discretion.
5. What you own, what we own, and what you license to us
You own every deliverable DCFN - Patents generates from your portfolio. The provisional drafts, Continuation Strategy Memos, and any other .docx output from Layer 2 are your work product. You may file them with the USPTO, share them with attorneys or collaborators, modify them, or use them in any way you choose. Living Eden Frameworks LLC claims no authorship, co-authorship, or inventorship on anything we generate for you.
Living Eden Frameworks LLC owns the DCFN - Patents engine — the software, the models, the methods, the patent portfolio underlying the service, and the aggregate analysis techniques. Your use of the service does not transfer any rights to the engine.
The license you grant us on submitted content. By submitting content to DCFN - Patents — including patent numbers, invention descriptions, and portfolio metadata — you grant Living Eden Frameworks LLC a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, analyze, and incorporate your submissions into the training, calibration, and continuous improvement of the LEF Ai engines and any derivative works produced by Living Eden Frameworks LLC.
This license is limited to improving the engine. It does not:
- Claim ownership of your inventions — you remain the sole owner of your patents and deliverables
- Authorize us to republish your submissions as-is, resell them to third parties, or disclose them to other users
- Authorize us to file patents on your inventions
It does authorize us to retain your submissions internally and use them as training inputs to LEF Ai's engines indefinitely. Submissions cannot be retracted after submission. If you are not comfortable with this, do not submit.
Warranty on submitted content. You represent that you have the right to grant the license above on everything you submit — you are the inventor, you have authorization from the joint inventors or rights-holders, the content does not contain confidential third-party IP you lack the right to disclose, and submission does not violate any agreement you have with an employer, collaborator, or funder. Breach of this warranty is a breach of these Terms.
5.1. Carve-out for Unfiled Idea uploads. When you use the Unfiled Idea intake mode (a separate intake path described on the landing page, distinct from the patent-numbers intake), the license grant in this Section 5 does NOT apply to the text you upload. Specifically: the uploaded text is auto-deleted from our systems after your run completes; we do NOT retain it as part of LEF Ai's training corpus; we do NOT use it for engine training, calibration, model improvement, or any other purpose beyond the immediate analysis you requested. The license grant in Section 5 above continues to apply to all OTHER content you submit (patent numbers, portfolio metadata) through any intake mode.
Important caveat about third-party processing: while we delete your upload from our systems after your run, the analysis briefly passes through third-party APIs (Anthropic's Claude API, Google Cloud BigQuery) during processing. Those parties' retention policies apply to whatever they incidentally process; we do not control them. Each has its own privacy posture described in their published policies. If you require strict end-to-end confidentiality on pre-filing intellectual property, the public service is not the right tool — Tier 2 Private Deployment in your own VPC is available for that use case. Contact us for terms.
6. Not legal advice
DCFN - Patents outputs are the product of an automated reasoning engine. They are not reviewed by a licensed attorney before delivery. They are not legal advice. Filing a provisional patent application, deciding whether a proposed patent is novel, evaluating prior art, and interpreting claim scope all require professional legal judgment. DCFN - Patents is a drafting tool that saves you time on the mechanical parts of that work; it does not replace the judgment.
We recommend you have a licensed patent attorney review any Layer 2 provisional draft before you file it with the USPTO. Fees paid to DCFN - Patents do not include attorney review.
7. Scope — what DCFN - Patents does not do
DCFN - Patents generates provisional patent drafts and engineering guidance only. We do not draft:
- Non-provisional patent applications
- Full utility applications
- Continuation-in-part (CIP) applications
- International filings under the PCT or European Patent Office
- Trademark or copyright applications
If you convert a DCFN - Patents provisional to a non-provisional within the 12-month window, that conversion is your responsibility or your attorney's. DCFN - Patents outputs are one step in your process, not the whole process.
8. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Submit patents, applications, or inventions you don't have the right to submit
- Use the service to generate deliverables for someone else without their authorization
- Attempt to reverse-engineer, scrape, or copy the DCFN - Patents engine
- Submit malicious inputs (injection attempts, automated abuse) designed to break the service or extract data
- Use the service to violate any law, including US patent law, US export controls, or third-party IP rights
We may suspend or terminate your access if we believe in good faith that you've violated these Terms. If we terminate an active 30-day access window for cause, we may refund a prorated portion of the $85 fee at our discretion based on how much of the window remained.
9. Availability
DCFN - Patents is provided "as is" and "as available." We make no guarantee of uninterrupted service. The engine may be offline for maintenance, upgrades, or unexpected failures. If a generation is in flight when an outage occurs, we will re-run per Section 4.
10. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Living Eden Frameworks LLC, its officers, employees, and affiliates are not liable for:
- Indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of DCFN - Patents
- Loss of profits, data, goodwill, or business opportunities
- Any outcome that depends on a third party's decision — a USPTO examiner's ruling, an attorney's advice, an investor's decision, a competitor's filing
Our total aggregate liability for any claim arising from your use of the service is capped at the total fees you've paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim, or $100, whichever is greater.
You understand that filing a provisional patent has real legal consequences — priority dates, disclosure obligations, 12-month conversion windows — and those consequences are your responsibility. DCFN - Patents gives you a starting draft; your filing decisions are yours.
11. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising from these Terms will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Clark County, Nevada.
12. Changes
We may update these Terms as the service evolves. Material changes will be announced on the DCFN - Patents site and, for users with an active 30-day access window or one that ended within the prior 30 days, by email. Continued use after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
13. Contact
Questions, refund requests, or acceptable-use concerns: TheArchitect@livingedenframeworks.com
Living Eden Frameworks LLC
DBA Co Creators
1186 Solano Hills Court
Henderson, NV 89002