An invention you have not filed yet is the most sensitive thing you can give us. This page sets out where it goes, who processes it and how long we keep it on our international site, thesmartpatent.com.
These companies process your content on our behalf, only to complete the request you made.
Search services — Google Programmable Search, the European Patent Office's Open Patent Services and OpenAlex — receive search keywords, not your sentences.
We do not train models on your content. The paid APIs we use do not use API content for model training under their terms, and our OpenRouter requests exclude providers that collect request data. Provider terms can change; we check them when we change models.
Our admin tools show account-level facts such as dates, tools used and credit balances, not your disclosures or results. Our application logs are written to record sizes and counts rather than your text. Access to production data is limited to the people who run the service.
You can delete any entry in your run history at any time. To delete your account and the data linked to it, use Delete account in the mobile app or email [email protected]. We complete deletion within 30 days, except where the law requires us to keep a record.
If your company has an IP or information-security policy, check it first. If you are unsure whether to share an invention before filing, ask your patent attorney; we cannot advise on your situation.