Effective date: 29 July 2026
1. Preliminary status
Website descriptions, demonstrations, one-page summaries, proposals and discussions are invitations to evaluate and negotiate only. They do not create a licence, exclusivity, reservation, partnership, acquisition right or binding service commitment.
An enterprise evaluation, pilot, proof of concept, licence, implementation, source-code access, evidence service or commercial transaction requires a signed order form or agreement.
2. Due diligence and authority
Each party must conduct its own legal, technical, security, privacy, patent, financial, regulatory and commercial due diligence. A person requesting access must be authorised by the represented organisation and may be required to complete identity, conflict, sanctions, end-use and security checks.
3. Confidentiality and clean channels
Confidential material will be exchanged only under an applicable NDA and approved channel. Public website material should not be treated as an enabling disclosure of confidential embodiments. Recipients must not combine confidential evaluation material with public repositories, unrestricted AI tools or third-party systems unless authorised.
4. Evaluation licence
Unless a signed agreement says otherwise, evaluation access is personal to the approved organisation, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-production and solely for internal assessment during the stated period.
The evaluator must not commercialise, deploy, publish, benchmark publicly, reverse engineer, derive competing technology, file an IP right based on protected material, remove controls or disclose results without permission.
5. Production release
Evaluation output, candidate inventions, draft specifications, prototype code, security controls and evidence packages are not production-release material unless expressly approved in writing after required testing, legal review, security review, acceptance and release governance.
6. Intellectual property allocation
The signed agreement must specify:
- background intellectual property of each party;
- ownership and licence of project deliverables;
- invention disclosure and inventorship procedures;
- treatment of improvements, feedback and derivative works;
- patent filing, prosecution, maintenance and enforcement control;
- source code and documentation access;
- data, model and training rights;
- evidence custody and verification;
- confidentiality and publication controls; and
- licence scope, field, territory, term, exclusivity, sublicensing and fees.
No ownership transfer occurs merely because a customer pays for an evaluation or contributes feedback.
7. Customer data and secure processing
Customer data will be processed only for authorised purposes under the Privacy Policy, service notice and agreement. The customer must classify data and must not provide restricted material until the environment is approved.
Private keys remain under customer or expressly agreed managed custody. Evidence records and cryptographic artefacts must be handled according to the agreed custody model.
8. Patent and forensic limitations
Invention-generation, patent-support, evidence and provenance services support workflow and documentation. They do not replace a registered patent attorney, legal opinion, prior-art search, inventorship determination, court expert or official filing.
Chronology, custody and integrity evidence does not guarantee priority, entitlement, patent validity, admissibility or outcome.
9. Security and compliance
Each production deployment requires a documented security scope, threat model, data classification, architecture, responsibilities, incident process, testing standard and acceptance criteria. Claims of certification, quantum safety, post-quantum deployment or regulatory compliance must be supported by the agreed evidence.
10. Fees, taxes and payment
Fees, milestones, expenses, taxes, currency, late-payment rights and refunds will be stated in the signed order. Unless expressly included, third-party costs, professional fees, filing fees, hosting, certificates, model usage and travel are additional.
11. Warranties and acceptance
Any warranty, service level, acceptance test or remedy must be stated in the signed agreement. Demonstrations and evaluation services are supplied for assessment and may contain limitations.
Mandatory consumer rights are not excluded, although enterprise services acquired for business purposes may be subject to different lawful limitations.
12. Publicity
No party may use the other party's name, logo, relationship, results or confidential transaction details publicly without written approval, except where law requires disclosure.
13. Export, sanctions and regulated sectors
Access may be refused or conditioned where cryptography, cybersecurity, quantum technology, technical data, end use, customer identity, jurisdiction or sector raises export-control, sanctions, defence-trade, national-security or regulatory concerns.
14. No exclusivity or reservation
No evaluation slot, territory, sector, technology field, acquisition opportunity or exclusivity is reserved until a signed agreement and any required payment are complete.