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Terms of Service

Last updated: 10 July 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and Flow Leap SASU, a French simplified joint-stock company (société par actions simplifiée unipersonnelle) with fixed share capital of €2,000, registered in the French National Business Register (RNE) under SIREN 988 064 721, with head-office SIRET 988 064 721 00018, VAT number FR81 988 064 721, and registered office at 47 rue Marcel Bonnet, 94230 Cachan, France ("FlowLeap", "we", "us", or "our").

They govern your access to and use of the FlowLeap desktop application, website at flowleap.co, dashboard, API, and related software and services (together, the "Service").

Please read these Terms carefully. By creating an account, downloading or using the application, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you are using the Service on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you have authority to bind that organization, and "you" refers to that organization.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.

Important — FlowLeap is a tool, not a professional adviser. FlowLeap is software that assists patent and technical professionals. It is not a law firm, does not provide legal advice, and using it does not create an attorney–client relationship. AI-generated results can be incomplete or wrong and must be independently verified by a qualified professional before being relied upon. See Section 6.

1. Definitions

  • "Service" — the FlowLeap desktop application, website, dashboard, API, and related software and services.
  • "Account" — the account you create to access the Service.
  • "Organization" — a workspace created for a team and managed by one or more administrators.
  • "Your Content" — everything you submit to, or generate with, the Service, including prompts, instructions, documents, prior-art references, drafts, claims, analyses, citations, and other inputs ("Inputs") and the results returned to you ("Outputs").
  • "Model Provider" — a third-party model provider or agent harness you select and fund for primary model inference.
  • "AI Service Providers" — third-party AI services FlowLeap may use for limited server-side features such as query building, analysis, embeddings, or OCR. See Section 9.

2. Eligibility and the Service

2.1 The Service is intended for professional and business use by patent practitioners, attorneys, agents, researchers, in-house teams, and similar professionals and the organizations they work for. It is not directed to consumers for personal, family, or household purposes.

2.2 You must be at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contract to use the Service.

2.3 FlowLeap helps you carry out patent-related work such as prior-art search, patent analysis, citation analysis, and claim drafting. We may add, change, or remove features over time.

3. Accounts and Organizations

3.1 Account. You must provide accurate information and keep it up to date. Authentication is handled through our identity provider (Clerk). You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for all activity under your Account.

3.2 Organizations. Administrators can invite and remove members, manage roles and permissions, manage billing, and view usage and audit logs. If you join an Organization, your use of the Service in that context is subject to the Organization's settings, and its administrators may access usage and activity information associated with your membership.

3.3 Responsibility. You are responsible for the acts and omissions of everyone who uses the Service through your Account or Organization, and for ensuring they comply with these Terms.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree not to, and not to allow anyone else to:

(a) use the Service in violation of any applicable law or regulation, including export-control and sanctions laws, or third-party rights;

(b) submit content you do not have the right to submit, or use the Service in a way that infringes or misappropriates any intellectual property, confidentiality, or privacy right;

(c) attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or discover the source code, models, weights, or underlying components of the Service, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by law;

(d) interfere with, disrupt, probe, or circumvent the security, rate limits, or integrity of the Service, or perform vulnerability or penetration testing without our prior written consent;

(e) resell, sublicense, or share API keys, accounts, or access with any third party, except to your authorized Organization members;

(f) use the Service to build or train a competing product or model, or to scrape or extract content other than as permitted through the Service;

(g) use the Service to generate or facilitate unlawful, harmful, deceptive, or abusive content, or to misrepresent AI-generated Output as human-generated where that would be deceptive or unlawful.

We may publish a more detailed Acceptable Use Policy and update it from time to time; it forms part of these Terms.

5. Your Content and Intellectual Property

5.1 You own Your Content. As between you and FlowLeap, you retain all rights in your Inputs, and, to the maximum extent permitted by law, you own the Outputs generated for you. We assign to you any rights we may have in those Outputs.

5.2 Licence to operate the Service. You grant us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, process, transmit, and display Your Content solely to operate, secure, maintain, and provide the Service to you, including sending relevant Inputs to AI Service Providers for supported tool operations, and to comply with law. This licence ends when Your Content is deleted, except for backups kept for a limited period and records we must retain by law.

5.3 We do not train on Your Content. We do not use your Inputs or Outputs to train, fine-tune, or improve any AI models, and our contracts require our AI Service Providers not to use Your Content to train their models. Your chosen Model Provider processes primary inference under your separate agreement with that provider. Your patent work stays yours.

5.4 Confidentiality of Your Content. We treat Your Content as confidential and restrict access to personnel and sub-processors who need it to provide the Service, under appropriate confidentiality obligations. See also Section 11 and our Privacy Policy.

5.5 Your responsibility for inputs. You represent that you have all rights and permissions needed to submit Your Content, including any third-party confidential or proprietary information (for example, a client's unpublished invention), and that doing so does not violate any obligation you owe to others.

5.6 Our IP. We and our licensors own all rights in the Service, including its software, models, look and feel, and trademarks. We grant you only a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service under these Terms. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

5.7 Feedback. If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them without restriction or obligation to you.

6. AI Outputs — Accuracy, Verification, and No Professional Advice

6.1 Probabilistic technology. The Service uses large language models and related AI, which are probabilistic and evolving. Outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, or unsuitable for your purpose, and may not surface all relevant prior art or issues.

6.2 You must verify. You are responsible for reviewing, verifying, and validating all Outputs before relying on them or providing them to others. Do not rely on Outputs as the sole basis for any decision, filing, deadline, patentability or freedom-to-operate conclusion, or other professional judgment.

6.3 Not legal advice; no attorney–client relationship. FlowLeap is a software tool, not a law firm or professional adviser. The Service does not provide legal, technical, or other professional advice, and your use of it does not create any attorney–client or similar relationship. You remain solely responsible for your own professional, ethical, and regulatory obligations to your clients and to relevant patent offices.

6.4 Similar Outputs. Because of how the technology works, Outputs may be similar or identical to results generated for other users. Output generated for others is not Your Content.

7. Subscription, Trial, Billing, and Payment

7.1 FlowLeap Plan. FlowLeap offers a single paid monthly plan. The subscription grants access to the patent brain and supported patent-data tools without a FlowLeap usage meter or per-task charge. Your Model Provider bills you separately for model usage. After the trial, continued EPO OPS and USPTO ODP access may require credentials you obtain from those providers under their own terms.

7.2 Trial and payment. A payment method is required to start the 7-day trial. During the trial, FlowLeap supplies shared EPO OPS and USPTO ODP access. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, the subscription converts on Day 8 to the recurring price shown at checkout, currently $49/month, and continues until cancelled. Subscriptions are billed through our payment provider (Polar). By subscribing, you authorize us and our payment provider to charge your payment method for the applicable fees on a recurring basis. You are responsible for keeping your payment method valid.

7.3 Taxes. Fees are exclusive of taxes (including VAT) unless stated otherwise. You are responsible for all applicable taxes other than taxes on our income.

7.4 No refunds. Except where required by law, fees are non-refundable and payments are non-cancellable and non-creditable, including for partial billing periods.

7.5 Price changes. We may change pricing or plan features. We will give reasonable advance notice of material changes, which take effect at the start of your next billing period.

8. Subscription Term, Renewal, and Cancellation

8.1 Subscriptions renew automatically for successive periods unless cancelled before the renewal date.

8.2 You may cancel at any time from your dashboard. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; you keep access until then, and you are not refunded for the remainder of the period.

8.3 We may restrict or suspend paid features if a payment fails or a subscription lapses.

9. Third-Party Services and the Application

9.1 Model Providers and agent harnesses. Primary model inference runs through the Model Provider account or agent harness you select. FlowLeap does not proxy, include, or resell that model usage. Your use of a Model Provider or agent harness is governed by your separate agreement with it, including its privacy, retention, and training terms. You are responsible for selecting services and settings appropriate for confidential matter data.

9.2 AI Service Providers. Some FlowLeap-managed tools, including query building, analysis, embeddings, and OCR, may transmit relevant Inputs to AI Service Providers using FlowLeap-managed infrastructure. Our Privacy Policy identifies the key providers and explains that processing.

9.3 Other providers. We rely on third-party providers for authentication (Clerk), payments (Polar), and hosting (Vercel), among others. These are listed in our Privacy Policy.

9.4 Desktop application. The FlowLeap desktop application is built on open-source software (a fork of Visual Studio Code) and is provided subject to these Terms and the applicable open-source licences. The application may check for and install updates automatically so you receive the latest version.

9.5 Third-party content. Outputs may reference or link to third-party content (for example, patents, publications, or web results). We do not control and are not responsible for third-party content, and your use of it is at your own risk and subject to any applicable third-party terms.

10. Availability, Changes, and Beta Features

10.1 We aim to keep the Service available but do not guarantee it will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue features at any time.

10.2 We may offer beta or experimental features "as is", without warranties, for evaluation only. We may change or withdraw them at any time.

11. Confidentiality

Each party may receive confidential information of the other. The receiving party will use it only to perform under these Terms and protect it with reasonable care. This does not apply to information that is public through no fault of the receiving party, already known without obligation, independently developed, or rightfully obtained from a third party, or to disclosures required by law. We treat Your Content as your confidential information, subject to the licence in Section 5.2.

12. Warranties and Disclaimer

12.1 Each party warrants that it has the authority to enter into these Terms.

12.2 To the maximum extent permitted by law, and except as expressly stated in these Terms, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, or that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that Outputs will be accurate, complete, or suitable for your purposes. Some mandatory legal guarantees may apply and are not excluded.

13. Limitation of Liability

13.1 To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business, even if advised of the possibility.

13.2 To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the total amounts you paid to us for the Service in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim (or €100 if you have paid nothing).

13.3 Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law (for example, for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence).

13.4 You acknowledge that the allocation of risk in Sections 6, 12, and 13 reflects the price of the Service and is a fundamental basis of our agreement.

14. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless FlowLeap and its affiliates from third-party claims, damages, and reasonable costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from (a) Your Content, (b) your use of the Service in breach of these Terms or applicable law, or (c) your violation of any third-party right.

15. Suspension and Termination

15.1 You may stop using the Service and close your Account at any time (subject to any outstanding fees).

15.2 We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if you breach these Terms or our policies, fail to pay fees when due, create risk or legal exposure for us or others, or where required by law. Where reasonable, we will give notice and an opportunity to cure.

15.3 On termination, your right to use the Service ends. Export Your Content before terminating, as you may not be able to retrieve it afterwards. We delete or retain Your Content as described in our Privacy Policy. Sections that by their nature should survive (including 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 17) survive termination.

16. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. For material changes, we will give reasonable notice (for example, by email or in-product notice) before they take effect. If you continue using the Service after changes take effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service.

17. Governing Law and Disputes

17.1 These Terms are governed by French law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

17.2 The parties will try to resolve any dispute amicably. Failing that, and to the extent permitted by law, the courts of Paris, France will have exclusive jurisdiction. Mandatory consumer-protection rights, where they apply, are unaffected.

18. General

18.1 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

18.2 Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

18.3 Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remain in effect.

18.4 Entire agreement. These Terms (with our Privacy Policy and any policies referenced here) are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede prior agreements on that subject.

18.5 No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

18.6 Notices. We may give notice by email or in-product. You may contact us as set out below.

19. Contact

Flow Leap SASU · Fixed share capital: €2,000 · SIREN: 988 064 721 · SIRET: 988 064 721 00018 · VAT: FR81 988 064 721 · 47 rue Marcel Bonnet, 94230 Cachan, France · Email: contact@flowleap.co