Last updated: June 18, 2026
Provider: Knox Anderson, an individual residing in Georgia, doing business as "KAI Industries" ("Company," "we," "us").
Product: the Patent Intelligence platform at kaindustry.com and the Patent Intelligence mobile application, including all data, search tools, analyses, visualizations, and outputs (collectively, the "Service").
By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service, you ("you," "User") agree to these Terms of Use and to our Privacy Policy. Section 23 requires most disputes to be resolved by binding individual arbitration and waives class actions. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1. Informational Purpose Only
The Service provides patent search, analysis, visualization, and related information for general informational and research purposes only. It is a research aid, not a substitute for professional judgment, due diligence, or qualified advice.
2. Not Legal Advice
Nothing in the Service is legal advice or a legal opinion. The Service does not assess patentability, validity, enforceability, infringement, freedom to operate, or any other legal question, and using it does not create an attorney–client relationship. Consult a licensed patent attorney for any legal matter.
3. Not Investment or Financial Advice; No Fiduciary Relationship
The Service is not investment, financial, tax, or business advice, and is not a recommendation, offer, or solicitation to buy, sell, or hold any security, asset, or investment. The Company is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial advisor, and does not act as a fiduciary to any User. The Service does not consider any User's specific objectives, financial situation, or needs. Consult your own qualified financial, investment, and tax advisors before making any decision.
4. Eligibility & Accounts
You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Service. You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information, for safeguarding your credentials, and for all activity under your account. Notify us promptly of any unauthorized use.
5. Privacy
Our collection, use, and disclosure of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. The Service does collect and store certain information you provide and generate — including your account details, saved favorites and maps, preferences, and usage data — as described in the Privacy Policy. We do not store your full payment card number; payments are processed by Stripe. By using the Service, you acknowledge and consent to the data practices described in the Privacy Policy.
6. Subscription, Billing, Auto-Renewal & Refunds
Plans. The Service offers a free tier and paid subscription plans (currently Basic, Pro, and Professional), add-on credit bundles, and negotiated Custom/firm plans. Paid plans and credits are processed by Stripe; we do not store your full payment card details.
Auto-renewal. Paid subscriptions are billed in advance on a recurring basis and automatically renew at the then-current price until cancelled. You authorize recurring charges to your payment method.
Cancellation. You may cancel at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period, and you retain access until then.
Refunds. Except where required by law, fees are non-refundable, and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial periods, unused time, or unused credits.
Price changes. We may change prices or plan features; changes apply to the next renewal after reasonable notice.
Failed payments & chargebacks. If a charge fails, we may suspend or downgrade access until resolved. Initiating a chargeback in lieu of cancellation may result in suspension or termination.
Taxes. Stated prices may exclude applicable taxes, which are your responsibility.
Custom/firm plans. Custom plans are governed by a separate written agreement that controls over these Terms to the extent of any conflict for those plans.
Free tier. The free tier is provided at our discretion and may be modified, limited, or discontinued at any time.
7. Changes to, Modification, or Discontinuation of the Service
We may add, change, suspend, limit, or discontinue any part of the Service (including features, data sources, and usage limits) at any time, with or without notice, and without liability to you, to the fullest extent permitted by law.
8. Intellectual Property & License Grant
Our IP. The Service — including its software, source code, design, user interface, text, graphics, analytical methods, data compilations, and visualizations — and all related intellectual property are owned by the Company or its licensors. "KAI Industries" and related marks are our trademarks.
License to you. Subject to these Terms and your plan, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Service for your own internal business or research purposes. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.
Third-party data. Underlying patent and related data originates from third-party and public sources (e.g., EPO, USPTO, Google Patents/BigQuery) and remains subject to those sources' rights and terms; we grant no rights in third-party data beyond your permitted use of the Service.
Your use of outputs. You may use results and outputs generated for you for your own permitted purposes, subject to these Terms and applicable third-party-source terms; this does not transfer ownership of the Service to you.
Feedback. If you send feedback or suggestions, you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free license to use them without obligation to you.
Restrictions. You may not copy, resell, sublicense, distribute, scrape, or bulk-export the Service or its data except as expressly permitted; reverse engineer or attempt to derive source code; use the Service to build or train a competing product or model; remove proprietary notices; or circumvent usage limits or security.
9. User Inputs & Your Responsibility
You are responsible for the searches, patent numbers, descriptions, and other inputs you submit ("Inputs"). You represent that you have the right to submit your Inputs and that doing so does not violate any law or third-party right. You grant us the right to process your Inputs (including transmission to third-party data sources and the AI provider) to operate the Service. Do not submit information you are not permitted to share or that you wish to keep confidential from those providers.
10. No Warranty / "As Is"
The Service and all of its data and outputs are provided "AS IS," "WITH ALL FAULTS," and "AS AVAILABLE," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including without limitation the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.
11. Accuracy & Third-Party Data Sources
Patent and related data is aggregated from third-party sources including, without limitation, the EPO/Espacenet, the USPTO, and Google Patents / Google BigQuery. We do not control these sources and make no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, or availability of any data, including gaps in historical coverage, source errors, omissions, delays, or changes. We are not responsible for third-party websites or resources linked from the Service.
12. AI-Generated Outputs
The Service uses automated, AI/machine-learning systems to produce certain outputs, including patent-title translations, summaries, opportunity and whitespace labels, and analytical results. These outputs are probabilistic and may be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, mistranslated, or wholly incorrect. AI outputs do not represent the views or opinions of the Company and are not professional advice. You are solely responsible for evaluating whether any AI output is suitable for your purposes and for independently verifying it — by qualified human review of the underlying primary sources — before relying on it for any legal, financial, business, or other decision.
13. Analytical & Forward-Looking Outputs
Landscape maps, whitespace analyses, trend indicators, scores, and similar outputs are interpretive and depend on the underlying data, methods, and assumptions. They are not predictions or guarantees of any outcome. Past or historical patterns do not indicate or guarantee future results. Different inputs or methods may yield different results.
14. Your Independent Responsibility; No Reliance; Assumption of Risk
Any decision you make — including any investment, business, licensing, R&D, or legal decision — based in whole or in part on the Service is made on your own independent judgment and at your own risk. You agree the Service is not the sole basis for any such decision. You assume all risk arising from your use of, or reliance on, the Service and its outputs.
15. Sophisticated / Professional Users
If you access the Service on behalf of a firm, fund, business, or other organization, you represent that you and your organization are sophisticated parties with independent professional expertise and resources to evaluate and verify the Service's data and outputs, and that you will not rely on the Service as a substitute for that independent expertise or for professional advice.
16. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, and regardless of the theory of liability (whether contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise), the Company and its founder, owners, employees, and suppliers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, investment losses, or business opportunities, arising out of or relating to the Service, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
The Company's total cumulative liability for any and all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the total amount you actually paid the Company for the Service during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim. If you paid the Company nothing during that period (including users of any free tier), the Company's total cumulative liability to you will be zero ($0).
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; in those jurisdictions liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.
17. Time Limit on Claims
To the extent permitted by law, any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms must be filed within one (1) year after the claim arose; otherwise it is permanently barred.
18. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its founder, owners, and employees from any claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of the Service, your Inputs, your reliance on its outputs, your provision of outputs to any third party, or your violation of these Terms.
19. Acceptable Use
You agree not to: scrape, redistribute, or resell the data in violation of any third-party source's terms; use the Service to provide professional legal, investment, or financial advice to others without your own appropriate license and disclaimers; reverse engineer or disrupt the Service; or use the Service for any unlawful purpose.
20. Export Compliance & Sanctions
You represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as supporting terrorism, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You agree to comply with all applicable export-control and sanctions laws.
21. Force Majeure
We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages, failures, rate-limiting, or changes of third-party providers and data sources (e.g., EPO, USPTO, Google/BigQuery, the AI model provider, authentication, hosting, or payment providers), internet or network failures, power outages, acts of God, natural disasters, labor disputes, war, terrorism, or governmental action.
22. Account, Termination & Deletion
We may suspend or terminate your access at any time for violation of these Terms or for non-payment. You may stop using the Service and delete your account and associated data at any time. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 5, 8–18, 20, 21, 23, and 27) survive.
23. Dispute Resolution: Binding Arbitration & Class-Action Waiver
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY — IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.
(a) Informal resolution first. Before starting arbitration, you agree to contact us at support@kaindustry.com with a written description of the dispute and to attempt in good faith to resolve it for at least thirty (30) days.
(b) Binding arbitration. Except as provided below, any dispute arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration, administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its applicable rules, and governed by the Federal Arbitration Act.
(c) Class-action waiver. You and the Company may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding.
(d) Carve-outs. Either party may (i) bring a qualifying individual claim in small-claims court, and (ii) seek injunctive or equitable relief in court to protect its intellectual property or confidential information.
(e) 30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this Section by written notice to support@kaindustry.com within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name and intent to opt out of arbitration.
(f) Severability of this Section. If the class-action waiver in (c) is found unenforceable for a particular claim, that claim will proceed in court (not class arbitration), while the remainder of this Section continues to apply.
24. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms. Material changes will be presented for your affirmative acceptance ("I Agree") before continued use, with the version and date recorded. Continued use after an update constitutes acceptance.
25. Provider Status & Future Assignment
The Service is currently operated by Knox Anderson as an individual doing business as "KAI Industries," which is a trade name and not, as of the date above, a registered legal entity. Upon formation of a legal entity (anticipated: KAI Industries, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company), the Provider may assign these Terms and all rights and obligations to that entity without further notice or consent, and references to the "Company" will thereafter refer to that entity.
26. Apple App Store (Applies Only to the iOS Application)
These additional terms apply when you obtain the Company's application through the Apple App Store ("App"):
(a) These Terms are between you and the Company only, not Apple Inc. ("Apple"); the Company, not Apple, is solely responsible for the App and its content.
(b) Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support for the App.
(c) Your license to use the App is a non-transferable license to use it on any Apple-branded device you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Usage Rules.
(d) If the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund any purchase price you paid; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the App, and any other claims attributable to a warranty failure are the Company's responsibility.
(e) The Company, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to the App, including product-liability claims, claims that the App fails to meet legal or regulatory requirements, and consumer-protection claims.
(f) In the event of any third-party claim that the App or your use of it infringes intellectual property rights, the Company, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of that claim.
(g) You represent that you are not located in an embargoed or terrorism-supporting country and are not on a U.S. Government prohibited-parties list (see §20).
(h) You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App.
(i) Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, will have the right to enforce them against you.
27. General
(a) Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent; we may assign them (see §25). (b) No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it. (c) Notices. We may provide notices to you by email or in-app; you may contact us at support@kaindustry.com. (d) No third-party beneficiaries. Except for Apple under §26 (and the Company's released parties under the disclaimers/limitations), these Terms create no third-party beneficiary rights. (e) Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remains in effect; in particular, if §16 is held unenforceable in whole or part, the remaining disclaimers and limitations survive. (f) Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any separate Custom/firm-plan agreement (which controls for those plans) are the entire agreement and supersede prior understandings. (g) Headings are for convenience only.
28. Governing Law & Venue
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to §23, any dispute not subject to arbitration will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Fulton County, Georgia.
29. Contact
support@kaindustry.com