I need to know where my unpublished application actually goes.
The specifics are below rather than behind a phrase like "industry-standard security": which providers touch your document, in which country, for what purpose, and how long anything is kept.
This page describes the system as built
It is written to be accurate rather than defensive, and it is reviewed by counsel before launch. If anything here does not match what the software does, the software is wrong and we want to know.
What we collect
The document you upload, together with its file name, size and page count.
Facts extracted from that document: application number, dates, examiner, art unit, grounds of rejection, claims and references.
Your email address, and any name, country, phone number or description you choose to provide.
The page you arrived from and the referring site, used to understand which pages help people.
A one-way hash of your IP address for abuse prevention and consent records. We do not store the address itself alongside your case.
How we use it
To read and analyze your document and to calculate your reply period.
To contact you about your case and to send you the summary.
To refer you, with your knowledge, to a registered US patent practitioner where you want a response prepared.
To keep the service secure and to prevent abuse.
Who else is involved
| Provider | What it processes | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud object storage | The uploaded document and derived artifacts, encrypted at rest | United States |
| OpenRouter and the selected model provider | The pages of your document sent for analysis, under a no-training arrangement | United States |
| Resend | Email addresses and message metadata. Resend stores account data, metadata and logs in the United States regardless of sending region | United States |
How long we keep things
Documents and everything derived from them are deleted at the end of the retention period, or immediately on your request. Case records without document content — your contact details and the case history — are kept longer, because we may need to show what we told you and when.
Deletion is real. When a document is deleted we remove the stored file, the extracted text, any page images and the analysis produced from it, and we record that the deletion happened.
Your rights
Ask for a copy of what we hold about you.
Ask us to correct anything inaccurate.
Ask us to delete your document and your case record.
Ask which providers processed your document, and when.
Withdraw consent to analysis, at which point we stop processing.