Intellectual Property Policy

Intellectual Property Policy 1. User Materials The user retains ownership of intellectual-property rights they already hold in User Materials submitted to CheckOpp. Submission does not transfer ownership of the user's pre-existing patents, patent applications, drawings, know-how, software, designs, trademarks, reports or other proprietary material to CheckOpp. 2. Limited processing permission The user grants CheckOpp a limited permission to copy, store, transform, analyze and transmit User Materials only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, review and support the requested service. 3. Methodology and CheckOpp property The methodology is an original proprietary methodology developed by Oleksandr Koretskiy. CheckOpp is its software implementation and operational environment. CheckOpp/Koretskiy Consulting retains rights in original methodology text, original structure, classifications, frameworks, documentation, templates, internal evaluation structures, reusable analytical architecture, software, service architecture, user interface and branding, except where a separate written agreement states otherwise. No ownership is claimed over classical TRIZ/ARIZ as a discipline, public-domain or generally known engineering methods, standards, external sources, third-party materials, or rights that pre-existed in User Materials. 4. Outputs CheckOpp may generate assessments, tables, calculations, research summaries, route analyses, ARITZ material, hypotheses, questions, suggested architectures and other outputs. Subject to applicable law and third-party rights, the user may use Case-specific output for their own evaluation, internal decision-making and commercialization work. Case-specific outputs may combine the provider's reusable methodology, structure and templates with User Materials and third-party sources. Rights in pre-existing User Materials and third-party materials remain with their respective owners. After full payment for a Case-specific paid deliverable, the client receives a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, copy, adapt, reproduce and share that Case-specific deliverable for the client's internal, financing, engineering, commercialization and implementation purposes. CheckOpp retains ownership of its pre-existing and reusable methodology, original structures/classifications/frameworks, templates, service architecture, general know-how and non-client-specific tools. This licence does not transfer third-party rights and does not determine patent inventorship or ownership. 5. New ideas and inventions The fact that a concept is proposed by an AI system, CheckOpp workflow, expert or combination of contributors does not by itself determine legal inventorship or ownership. Patent inventorship and ownership are determined under applicable law and relevant agreements. 6. No patentability or freedom-to-operate warranty CheckOpp does not guarantee novelty, inventive step, validity, registrability, patentability or freedom to operate. Research may identify relevant prior art or third-party rights, but is not a substitute for a formal professional search or legal opinion where one is required. 7. Third-party material External sources, standards, articles, patents, images, product data and other third-party content remain subject to their respective rights and licences. A citation or link does not transfer third-party rights to the user. 8. Feedback General product feedback unrelated to confidential Case substance may be used to improve the service without acquiring ownership of the user's underlying Case Materials. 9. Separate agreements A separate project, NDA, licence, assignment or commercialization agreement may allocate rights differently. In that case, the specific written agreement governs the covered subject matter.