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Terms of Use

Last updated: 2026-05-04

1. Acceptance

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the SynovAI platform and related services (collectively, the "Platform") operated by SynovAI, Inc. ("SynovAI," "we," "us"). By creating an account, accessing the Platform, or using the Platform's API, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Platform.

2. Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 16 years old and capable of entering into a binding contract to use the Platform. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information in your account, for keeping your credentials confidential, and for all activity occurring under your account. Notify us promptly of any unauthorized access. Enterprise and team accounts may designate administrators who can manage members and access on behalf of the organization.

3. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

  • use the Platform to design, synthesize, or facilitate the synthesis of controlled substances, chemical-warfare precursors, or other compounds in violation of applicable law;
  • attempt to circumvent rate limits, tier restrictions, or access controls; reverse engineer, scrape, or systematically extract Platform outputs except as expressly permitted under your subscription;
  • upload content you do not have the right to submit, including third-party confidential information you are not authorized to share with us;
  • use Platform outputs to mislead, defraud, or cause harm; misrepresent Platform outputs as having properties or warranties they do not have.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these provisions. The Platform maintains a server-side denylist of compounds we will not process; the absence of a compound from the denylist is not an authorization to synthesize it.

4. Subscriptions and Billing

Paid subscriptions renew on the cadence stated at checkout (monthly or annual) until cancelled. You may cancel at any time from your account settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Fees paid are non-refundable except as required by law or as expressly stated in a written agreement. We may change pricing for renewal terms with at least 30 days' notice. Free trials and promotional credits are non-transferable and may be revoked for abuse.

5. Ownership of User Content and Inventions

You retain all right, title, and interest in any chemical structure, route, procedure, or other invention you conceive, develop, or discover with the assistance of the Platform ("Your Inventions"). SynovAI claims no ownership, license, or other right to Your Inventions, except as expressly required for the operation of the Platform — including processing your inputs to generate predictions, storing your tasks for your access, and performing the operations described in our Privacy Policy.

6. Platform as a Tool

The Platform is a computational tool. You acknowledge and agree that:

  • The Platform's predictions — including retrosynthesis routes, prior-art summaries, and synthesis parameters — are computational outputs generated by AI/ML models and structured-data lookups. They are not independent inventions of SynovAI.
  • Use of the Platform does not make SynovAI a co-inventor or joint inventor of any invention you conceive. Inventorship of any patent application or issued patent is determined exclusively by reference to the natural persons who contributed to conception, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. §§ 100(f), 116, and applicable USPTO guidance.
  • You are solely responsible for confirming the accuracy of, validating experimentally, and assessing the patentability of any output of the Platform that you elect to use as a basis for an invention disclosure, patent application, publication, or commercial activity.

7. Invention Disclosure Drafts

The Platform may provide a feature that generates draft invention-disclosure documents based on your inputs and the Platform's predictions ("Invention Disclosure Drafts"). Invention Disclosure Drafts are:

  • provided for your convenience as a starting point for your own further drafting and review with patent counsel;
  • not legal advice, not patent applications, and not opinions on patentability or freedom-to-operate;
  • generated based on prior-art search data current as of the date stamped on each draft. Prior-art completeness is not guaranteed; you and your counsel are responsible for confirming the adequacy of any prior-art search before filing.

8. Confidentiality of Your Tasks

Tasks you submit to the Platform — including target structures, parameters, and outputs — are treated as your confidential information. SynovAI accesses task data only as necessary for platform operation, debugging, billing, and customer support, and stores task data only on encrypted systems with role-based access. We do not use customer task data to train or fine-tune our models without your explicit written consent. See Data Security for operational details.

9. No Warranties Regarding Patentability

Nothing on the Platform constitutes a representation or warranty that any invention, route, or compound is patentable, novel, non-obvious, useful, enabled, or free from third-party claims. The patent-activity indicators in the Platform reflect the frequency with which compounds appear in patent documents in publicly available patent corpora and are not a substitute for a freedom-to-operate analysis by qualified patent counsel.

10. Disclaimer of Warranties

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED IN A WRITTEN AGREEMENT WITH SYNOVAI, THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE PLATFORM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT OUTPUTS WILL BE ACCURATE OR SUITABLE FOR ANY PARTICULAR USE. CHEMICAL OPERATIONS BASED ON PLATFORM OUTPUTS REMAIN YOUR PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY.

11. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SYNOVAI'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE PLATFORM OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE FEES PAID BY YOU TO SYNOVAI IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS. IN NO EVENT WILL SYNOVAI BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, OR DATA, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

12. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SynovAI from claims arising out of (a) your violation of these Terms, (b) your misuse of the Platform, (c) content you submit that you do not have the right to submit, or (d) physical, financial, or legal harm caused by your use of Platform outputs without independent verification.

13. Termination

You may stop using the Platform and close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for violation of these Terms or for protection of the Platform, with reasonable notice when feasible. Sections 5–12 survive termination.

14. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated by email and/or in-app notice at least 14 days before they take effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

15. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict of laws principles. The state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, except that either party may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property.

16. Contact

Questions or notices regarding these Terms should be sent to jessica.freeze@synovai.net.