Terms of Service

1. The short version

This box summarizes the Terms in plain language. The full Terms below control if there is any difference.

• You must be at least 21. We do not offer, market, or target Tokkyodo in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland.
• If you buy something from us, you can get a refund within 14 days of buying, for any reason, with narrow exceptions for digital downloads, digital content or reports, and services that you ask us to start and acknowledge at purchase. We always refund when the failure is ours: non-delivery, a duplicate or wrong charge, or a paid service that is down for a long time.
• You own your content. We use it only to run the Services for you.
• We will not make surprise changes. Material changes get advance notice, and if you prepaid you can cancel and get a refund for the unused period.
• We exclude liability to the maximum extent the law allows. We stay responsible for our own fraud and intentional misconduct, for refunds and billing corrections we owe you, and for anything the law does not let us exclude.
• To protect everyone, we may limit or suspend accounts for fraud, repeated refund or chargeback abuse, scraping, resale, credential sharing, or harassment. Except for fraud and security risks, we tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.
• Delaware law applies. Please contact us first so we can try to resolve a problem before any claim is filed.

2. Operator and acceptance

Tokkyodo is a product operated by Algodyne Corporation, a Delaware corporation. In these Terms, Tokkyodo refers to the product and Services, and Algodyne, we, us, or our refers to Algodyne Corporation.

These Terms govern access to and use of Tokkyodo websites, applications, accounts, and related services (the Services).

By accessing or using Tokkyodo, you agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. If you use Tokkyodo on behalf of a company, organization, or other legal entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity.

Tokkyodo is a multi-tenant patent and trademark management platform operated by Algodyne Corporation.

3. The Tokkyodo service

Tokkyodo keeps one isolated, bitemporal record of intellectual-property rights, evidence, deadlines, and decisions for each customer tenant. Features include:

• Tenant, workspace, legal-organization, and membership management, with owner, administrator, and other roles.
• Storage of tenant records and evidence objects, with revisions that are appended and superseded rather than erased.
• Matter access control and explicit, auditable collaboration grants between tenants.
• Patent research that captures records from the European Patent Office, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and WIPO PATENTSCOPE.
• Rule-based lifecycle, deadline, and impact evaluation, and tenant exports.

Each new tenant starts on the evaluation service plan. Tokkyodo may change over time. Features may be added, modified, limited, suspended, or discontinued.

4. Eligibility

You must be at least 21 years old to access, register for, purchase, use, or otherwise participate in Tokkyodo.

Tokkyodo does not offer a parental or guardian-consent path. Algodyne may suspend or delete an account if it learns that the user is under 21.

5. Regions we do not serve

Algodyne does not offer, market, or target the Services in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, and has not appointed a representative in any of them.

Algodyne does not block sign-ups. If you register for or use the Services from the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you do so on your own initiative and you are responsible for complying with the local law that applies to you. You acknowledge that Algodyne does not offer or target the Services in those regions.

Before you register, and before you accept these Terms, you must confirm:

I confirm that I am at least 21 years old, and I acknowledge that Algodyne does not offer, market, or target Tokkyodo in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, and that if I register or use Tokkyodo from those regions I do so on my own initiative and am responsible for complying with my local law.

6. Accounts and security

You are responsible for:

• Providing accurate and current account information.
• Maintaining control of your credentials, passkeys, recovery material, devices, browsers, and sessions.
• Keeping your email account secure.
• Using appropriate roles, permissions, and account separation.
• Promptly notifying Algodyne of unauthorized access or suspected compromise.

You may not share your account credentials or allow multiple users to access a single account, and you may not share or use an account in a way that circumvents plans, roles, access controls, rate limits, security controls, or usage limits.

Tokkyodo accounts sign in with an email address and password. Tokkyodo supports authenticator-app (TOTP) two-factor authentication, and the default policy of a new tenant requires it.

An account is separate from any tenant. After creating an account, you create a tenant (individual, organization, or provider) or accept an invitation to join one. An invitation is bound to the exact email address of the account that accepts it. Access to a tenant's data depends on the membership and role that tenant grants you, not on your email domain or on any other account or tenant you hold.

7. User Content

User Content means content and information that you or your workspace submits, uploads, writes, imports, creates, stores, shares, publishes, or otherwise provides through Tokkyodo, including messages, support requests, and requests to correct or remove information.

You retain ownership of your User Content. These Terms do not transfer ownership of User Content to Algodyne.

You grant Algodyne a limited, worldwide license to host, store, review, transmit, process, display, reproduce, format, modify, translate, export, publish, distribute, and otherwise use User Content only as necessary to provide, secure, support, and operate the Services according to your actions, settings, and these Terms.

You are responsible for ensuring that your User Content is accurate where relevant, lawful, and non-confidential unless a feature specifically requests confidential information, and that you have the rights, permissions, releases, licenses, and lawful bases needed to submit, store, process, share, or otherwise use it through Tokkyodo.

Your tenant's records and evidence are tenant content. Tokkyodo keeps each tenant's content isolated from every other tenant. Algodyne's authority to operate and support the platform does not give it authority over tenant content. Another tenant can see tenant content only through an explicit collaboration grant that your tenant approves. A tenant can export its records.

8. Feedback

If you provide ideas, suggestions, bug reports, feature requests, or other feedback, you grant Algodyne a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use that feedback without restriction or compensation. This does not transfer ownership of your other content.

9. Acceptable use

You must not use Tokkyodo to:

• Violate law, regulations, court orders, third-party rights, contracts, or platform terms.
• Infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, moral rights, database rights, or other rights.
• Submit or publish unlawful, false, misleading, fraudulent, deceptive, infringing, defamatory, harassing, exploitative, hateful, violent, extremist, abusive, or otherwise harmful content, including malware, exploit code, credential-theft tools, or spam systems.
• Impersonate another person, organization, brand, service, or Algodyne representative.
• Interfere with, scan, overload, reverse engineer, disrupt, or compromise Tokkyodo or related systems, except where applicable law expressly permits the activity.
• Circumvent authentication, usage limits, rate limits, billing, access controls, security controls, review workflows, or entitlements.
• Share, redistribute, resell, or commercially exploit Tokkyodo content, or use automated systems to scrape, bulk download, or bulk copy it, except through an expressly authorized plan, API, export, or written permission.
• Harvest Personal Data or send spam.
• Use bots or fake accounts to manipulate reservations, referrals, reviews, analytics, rankings, votes, rewards, or similar activity.
• Create legal, security, operational, compliance, or reputational risk for Algodyne, users, or third parties.

A more specific policy controls for the conduct it covers.

10. Third-party services

Tokkyodo may link to or integrate with third-party services such as infrastructure, payment, email, analytics, support, calendar, map, and AI providers, and external websites.

Third-party services are subject to their own terms, fees, limits, availability, and privacy practices. Algodyne is not responsible for third-party services it does not control.

Following a link to or using a third-party service may send information from your browser to that third party, whose processing Algodyne does not control.

11. Beta, preview, and early-access features

Beta, preview, experimental, early-access, or waitlist features may be incomplete, unstable, limited, inaccurate, changed, removed, or unavailable.

Do not rely on such features for critical deadlines, business or professional decisions, legal compliance, safety, archival storage, revenue operations, or irreversible workflows unless Algodyne expressly identifies the feature as production-ready for that purpose.

12. Records are projections of tenant data

Screens, dashboards, reports, calendars, and exports in Tokkyodo are projections of tenant records and the rules in effect when they were produced. They do not replace the tenant's own review of its records, evidence, and deadlines.

13. Patent research sources

Tokkyodo captures patent records from third-party official sources when a tenant requests it. Those sources have their own terms. Tokkyodo does not control their content or availability.

14. Intellectual property

Tokkyodo, Algodyne, the software, design, website, interfaces, documentation, platform content, graphics, logos, trademarks, service marks, and other platform materials are owned by Algodyne or its licensors.

Except where law permits or Algodyne authorizes in writing, you may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, resell, lease, sublicense, scrape, bulk download, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from platform materials.

15. Copyright and rights complaints

Algodyne may remove, restrict, correct, or unpublish content that appears to infringe rights or that is the subject of a credible rights complaint. Repeated infringement or serious rights violations may result in suspension or termination.

Rights holders and other affected persons may request review, correction, attribution updates, or removal by contacting Algodyne using the contact details below. Algodyne may require enough information to verify the request, identify the content, assess rights or safety issues, and make a proportionate response. Submitting a request does not guarantee removal, correction, or a specific response time.

Algodyne may publish a separate copyright or takedown policy.

16. Privacy

The Privacy Policy explains how Algodyne processes Personal Data through Tokkyodo.

17. Availability and changes

Tokkyodo may experience interruptions, errors, delays, missing or stale data, provider outages, maintenance, security events, or feature limitations. Algodyne does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free service, or the continuous availability of any feature, integration, notification, or export.

Algodyne may modify, suspend, limit, or discontinue features, plans, content, integrations, providers, or the Services. If Algodyne discontinues a paid feature or the Services during a period you have already paid for, Algodyne will refund the unused part of that period.

18. Fair use and limits

Algodyne may set reasonable limits on usage of Tokkyodo, including requests, storage, exports, API calls, and AI-assisted features, so the Services stay reliable for everyone. Limits are stated in the product, on the pricing page, or in the purchase terms.

If your usage regularly exceeds a limit or appears abusive, Algodyne will tell you and give you a reasonable chance to adjust before restricting your use, except where the usage threatens security, stability, or other users, or is fraud.

Please treat Algodyne staff and other users with respect. Algodyne may warn you and then stop responding to, or close, support requests that are abusive, harassing, threatening, or repetitive.

19. Suspension and termination

You may stop using Tokkyodo at any time.

Algodyne may suspend, restrict, or terminate access if:

• You violate these Terms or another applicable policy.
• You create legal, security, operational, fraud, abuse, payment, or reputational risk.
• Required payment fails.
• Algodyne is required to do so by law, court order, regulator, platform, infrastructure provider, payment provider, or source provider.
• Continued service would create unacceptable risk to Algodyne, users, or third parties.
• Algodyne learns that you are under 21.

Before suspending, restricting, or terminating access for a violation or a payment failure, Algodyne will, where practicable and lawful, tell you the reason by email and give you a reasonable period to fix it. Algodyne may act immediately and without prior notice for fraud, card testing, a security risk, a legal requirement, a user under 21, or serious abuse. If Algodyne terminates your account for a reason other than your violation of these Terms, it will refund any prepaid fees for the unused period.

After termination, content may be removed or disabled, and other information may be deleted or retained according to the Privacy Policy, legal obligations, billing records, backups, disputes, security needs, and export settings.

20. Disclaimers

Tokkyodo is provided on an as-is and as-available basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Algodyne disclaims all express, implied, statutory, and other warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, availability, accuracy, security, and reliability.

Algodyne does not guarantee any business, commercial, professional, educational, or other outcome from your use of Tokkyodo, or the continuous availability of third-party services.

These disclaimers do not affect any right that law does not allow to be disclaimed, or the refunds and billing corrections Algodyne owes under these Terms.

21. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Algodyne and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, and service providers accept no liability for any loss or damage arising from or relating to Tokkyodo or these Terms, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), statute, or otherwise. This includes indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, and punitive damages, and loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, data, content, business opportunity, or use.

What stays in place: this exclusion does not apply to, and nothing in these Terms excludes or limits:

• Algodyne's own fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
• Algodyne's intentional misconduct.
• Death or personal injury caused by Algodyne's negligence, where the law does not allow that liability to be excluded.
• Refunds, credits, and billing corrections that Algodyne owes you under these Terms.
• Any liability or right that applicable law does not allow to be excluded or limited, including mandatory consumer-protection rights that apply to you.

Fallback cap. If any part of the exclusion above is held unenforceable, then to the maximum extent permitted by law Algodyne's total liability for all claims relating to Tokkyodo or these Terms will not exceed the greater of:

• the amount you paid for the Services giving rise to the claim during the three months before the event giving rise to liability; or
• USD 100.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations. In those jurisdictions, they apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

22. Indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Algodyne and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, and service providers from third-party claims, and the resulting losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses, to the extent they arise from:

• Your content and submissions.
• Your violation of these Terms or another applicable policy.
• Your violation of law or third-party rights.

23. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable consumer protection, privacy, employment, or other mandatory local law requires otherwise.

Subject to mandatory non-waivable law, disputes arising from or relating to Tokkyodo or these Terms will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and each party consents to those courts' jurisdiction.

Before filing a claim, email privacy@algodyne.com with a description of the problem and what you are asking for, so that both sides can try in good faith to resolve it informally for at least 30 days. This does not stop either side from seeking urgent relief to prevent harm, and it does not limit your right to contact a regulator.

To the extent applicable law allows, a claim relating to Tokkyodo or these Terms must be started within one year after it arose, and may be brought only on an individual basis, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, or representative proceeding.

24. Changes to these Terms

Algodyne may update these Terms as Tokkyodo, laws, pricing, providers, features, or policies change. The current Terms will be posted on the Tokkyodo legal page with their effective and last-updated dates.

Algodyne will not make surprise changes. For a material change, Algodyne will give you at least 30 days' notice by email or by a prominent notice in the product before it takes effect. Changes that are required by law, that are needed immediately for security or to stop abuse, or that do not reduce your rights may take effect when posted.

If a material change is adverse to you and you do not accept it, you may stop using Tokkyodo and cancel before it takes effect, and Algodyne will refund any prepaid fees for the unused part of your current period. Continued use of Tokkyodo after a change becomes effective means you accept the updated Terms. A price change for an existing subscription applies from the next billing period after notice.

25. Language

Translations of these Terms, including the Japanese version, are provided for convenience. If there is any difference or conflict between a translation and the English version, the English version controls.

26. Contact

• Legal notices, privacy requests, and policy questions: privacy@algodyne.com (support@algodyne.com as a fallback)
• Operator: Algodyne Corporation, Delaware, United States