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DCFN - Patents · Living Eden Frameworks LLC

Last updated: May 28, 2026

1. What DCFN - Patents is

DCFN - Patents is a service operated by Living Eden Frameworks LLC (DBA Co Creators) that analyzes your patent portfolio against the US patent landscape and generates file-ready provisional patent drafts and Continuation Strategy Memos for filed patents.

DCFN - Patents is a research and drafting tool. It is not a law firm. It does not provide legal advice. It does not represent you in any filing before the United States Patent and Trademark Office or any other body. Attorney review of every artifact is required before you file anything with the USPTO.

2. Who can use DCFN - Patents

You may use DCFN - Patents if you are:

By using DCFN - Patents, you represent that all of the above are true.

3. What you pay for and what you get

DCFN - Patents is offered along the licensing paths defined in the LEF Engine Licensing Guide. These Terms cover the Deployment (retail) License only. The Non-Exclusive Field License, SaaS / API partnership, and Enclave deployment are governed by their own License Schedules or Enclave Deployment Agreements; this Section 3 describes retail-tier access only.

Retail tier — published run-pack subscriptions. DCFN - Patents is sold on published run-pack tiers (Solo Trial, Squad Trial). Pricing and pack inclusions are shown on the access doors on the home page. Retail-tier purchases are Deployment (retail) licenses to operate DCFN - Patents within the customer's internal field of use.

Layer 1 — Landscape briefing. Submit your patents (up to your plan’s portfolio limit) or one unfiled invention description. The engine produces a .pdf briefing describing where your portfolio sits in the patent landscape, nearest competitors, clusters where you stand alone, and proposed patents worth filing next.

Layer 2 — File-ready artifacts. Provisional drafts (delivered as .docx for editable file-ready review) and Continuation Strategy Memos (delivered as .pdf read-only briefings). Layer 2 artifacts are included on every run within an active retail-tier subscription.

Retail-tier purchases are flat-rate 12-month transactions, not auto-renewing subscriptions; an explicit re-up decision is required at the end of each term. Prices are stated in US dollars and may change with notice; price changes apply only to new subscriptions, not to active windows or subscriptions already in effect. Non-Exclusive Field License, SaaS / API, and Enclave access are arranged via the contact-sales path or directly through the LEF Engine Licensing Guide.

4. Refunds and re-runs

Monetary refunds for Tier 1 run-pack purchases (Solo Trial, Squad Run, Starter, Standard, Pro) and initial signup payments are issued only for accidental duplicate orders. Refund requests for any other reason — changed-your-mind, didn't-use-it, found-a-competitor, results-not-as-expected — are not eligible.

Failed runs are automatically refunded to your firm's run pool (run-count refund, not a dollar refund) when the failure is attributable to upstream infrastructure: Anthropic API outage, BigQuery timeout, Cloud Run instance failure, or any other engine dependency degradation. No customer action required; the run becomes available again in your pool counter.

See the full Refund Policy for the complete posture, request mechanics, and Tier 2 / Enclave exceptions.

5. What you own, what we own, and what you license to us

You own every artifact DCFN - Patents generates from your portfolio. The Layer 1 landscape briefing (.pdf), provisional drafts (.docx), Continuation Strategy Memos (.pdf), and any other engine output are your work product. You may file them with the USPTO, share them with attorneys or collaborators, modify them, or use them in any way you choose. Living Eden Frameworks LLC claims no authorship, co-authorship, or inventorship on anything we generate for you.

Living Eden Frameworks LLC owns the DCFN - Patents engine — the software, the models, the methods, the patent portfolio underlying the service, and the aggregate analysis techniques. Your use of the service does not transfer any rights to the engine.

The DCFN - Patents engine and the underlying LEF Ai Engine substrate are not for outright sale, acquisition, transfer, or sublicensing. What is offered for licensing — via the routes enumerated in the public LEF Licensing Guide (Routes 1–6) — is the right to operate or embed the engine within a defined field of use, an API module relationship, a Strategic Run engagement, or an Engine Bridge output license. The engine substrate itself stays with Living Eden Frameworks LLC under every route. This applies symmetrically across all DCFN engine builds (DCFN-Patents, DCFN-Research, DCFN-Bio, future DCFN-X) and the LEF Ai Engine. Inquiries framed as "acquire," "purchase," "buy out," or "transfer" the engine are declined by default; the conversation routes back to the appropriate license route. See the LEF Licensing Guide for the full list of routes considered and routes not accepted.

What feeds the engine — and what does not. Your raw submissions to DCFN - Patents — patent numbers, invention descriptions, and portfolio metadata — are processed to produce your run’s artifacts. They are not retained as a training corpus and are not used to train or fine-tune any model. The only thing that feeds LEF Ai Engine’s cross-build learning is the HMAC-hashed structural signal described in §5.3 — one-way, non-reversible, and on by default with an opt-out.

To the extent any license is needed to run the engine over the signal you contribute, you grant Living Eden Frameworks LLC a royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive license to use that hashed structural signal in the calibration and continuous improvement of the LEF Ai Engine and the DCFN engine builds it powers. This license does not:

If you would rather contribute nothing at all, turn off pattern sharing (§5.3) or use an Enclave deployment, which is fully isolated.

Warranty on submitted content. You represent that you have the right to grant the license above on everything you submit — you are the inventor, you have authorization from the joint inventors or rights-holders, the content does not contain confidential third-party IP you lack the right to disclose, and submission does not violate any agreement you have with an employer, collaborator, or funder. Breach of this warranty is a breach of these Terms.

5.1. Carve-out for Unfiled Idea uploads and supplied claim text. Two intake paths receive the auto-delete carve-out described below; both are user-pasted free-text fields that may carry confidential or pre-filing material:

For BOTH paths, the license grant in this Section 5 does NOT apply to the text you supply. Specifically: the supplied text is auto-deleted from our systems after your run completes; we do NOT retain it as part of LEF Ai Engine's training corpus; we do NOT use it for engine training, calibration, model improvement, or any other purpose beyond the immediate analysis you requested. The license grant in Section 5 above continues to apply to all OTHER content you submit (patent numbers, portfolio metadata) through any intake mode.

Important caveat about third-party processing: while we delete your supplied text from our systems after your run, the analysis briefly passes through third-party APIs (Anthropic's Claude API, Google Cloud BigQuery) during processing. Those parties' retention policies apply to whatever they incidentally process; we do not control them. Each has its own privacy posture described in their published policies. If you require strict end-to-end confidentiality on pre-filing intellectual property, the public service is not the right tool — Enclave deployments (single-tenant deployment inside your own Trusted Execution Environment, no LEF infrastructure touches your data after deployment) are available for that use case. Contact us for terms.

5.2. Session storage and 24-hour retention edge. All session artifacts — your input patent numbers, intermediate analysis files, and the final deliverables we generate — are stored on Google Cloud Storage for the operational duration of your run. Session storage is deleted automatically after 24 hours. This is a hard edge: download your deliverables when the run completes; we do not retain a longer-term copy. If you need the artifact later, it must come from a copy you saved yourself.

This retention posture applies uniformly to all retail-tier customer runs. We do not maintain a customer-facing past-runs history page; the download-and-keep model is the deliberate product shape.

5.3. Substrate pattern sharing — on by default, you can turn it off. By default, your runs contribute HMAC-hashed structural signals — counts and distributions of the structural patterns a run surfaces (cluster topology, void-state distribution, FTO-posture distribution, and similar aggregates) — to LEF Ai Engine’s cross-build substrate learning. Your patent numbers, claim text, neighbor IDs, candidate IDs, and portfolio content never leave your run; only the one-way hashed fingerprint does, and it is not reversible to your portfolio. You can turn this off at any time per workspace on the Manage Team page (the “LEF Ai Engine · Substrate Pattern Sharing” toggle); turning it off stops the signals on your next run. Private Enclave deployments are fully isolated and contribute nothing regardless of this setting.

5.3. No Drive archival of customer-facing runs. Customer-facing runs (retail-tier run-pack subscriptions) are not archived to any Living Eden Frameworks-owned Drive folder, training corpus, or institutional archive. Only Living Eden Frameworks' own internal automated runs (LEF's local-runner, not customer-initiated) are archived for engine quality + calibration purposes.

5.4. Enclave deployment posture. Enclave partners receive a single-tenant deployment of the DCFN substrate inside their chosen Trusted Execution Environment (AWS Nitro Enclaves, GCP Confidential Space, or Azure Confidential VMs). Once deployed, none of the storage, retention, or third-party processing language in Sections 5.1–5.3 applies to LEF infrastructure — the engine operates entirely inside partner infrastructure on partner-supplied compute and AI substrate credentials. We deliver the engine as a signed, attested workload; modifications to the engine code are not permitted under the Enclave license (the substrate is uniform across deployments to preserve audit + attestation integrity). Full Enclave deployment terms (Data Readiness Assessment prerequisite, three-layer IP architecture, cryptographic-erasure attestation at termination) are governed by the Enclave Deployment Agreement, not these Terms; see the Licensing Guide Enclave section.

5.5. Internal-use scope; commercial redistribution requires a separate license. The artifact-use rights granted in this Section 5 are for your own internal use of the engine and its outputs — running scans on your own portfolio, using artifacts in your own work and your own filings, and sharing them with your own attorneys, collaborators, investors, or other stakeholders involved in your own matters. Self-signup access under these Terms does not grant the right to embed the DCFN - Patents engine, or the artifacts it produces, as a feature within a commercial product you sell to third parties — including SaaS integrations, white-labeled services, resold report products, platform offerings where the engine's outputs are surfaced to your customers, or any other arrangement in which a third party derives commercial value from the engine through your account. Use of the public self-signup service for any such commercial redistribution purpose is a breach of these Terms and may result in immediate suspension or termination of access, in addition to any other remedies available to Living Eden Frameworks LLC. Partners interested in embedding the engine within a commercial product they sell should contact sales to discuss a separate commercial API license, which is governed by its own License Schedule rather than these Terms.

6. Not legal advice

DCFN - Patents outputs are the product of an automated reasoning engine. They are not reviewed by a licensed attorney before delivery. They are not legal advice. Filing a provisional patent application, deciding whether a proposed patent is novel, evaluating prior art, and interpreting claim scope all require professional legal judgment. DCFN - Patents is a drafting tool that saves you time on the mechanical parts of that work; it does not replace the judgment.

A licensed patent attorney must review any Layer 2 provisional draft before you file it with the USPTO. Fees paid to DCFN - Patents do not include attorney review.

7. Scope — what DCFN - Patents does not do

DCFN - Patents generates provisional patent drafts and engineering guidance only. We do not draft:

If you convert a DCFN - Patents provisional to a non-provisional within the 12-month window, that conversion is your responsibility or your attorney's. DCFN - Patents outputs are one step in your process, not the whole process.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

We may suspend or terminate your access at any time if we believe in good faith that you've violated these Terms. Retail-tier termination consequences are governed by the active subscription's flat-rate posture (mid-cycle cancellation preserves access through the cycle end per the Refund Policy). Non-Exclusive Field License, SaaS / API, and Enclave termination consequences are governed by their respective License Schedules or Enclave Deployment Agreements.

9. Availability

DCFN - Patents is provided "as is" and "as available." We make no guarantee of uninterrupted service. The engine may be offline for maintenance, upgrades, or unexpected failures. If a generation is in flight when an outage occurs, we will re-run per Section 4.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Living Eden Frameworks LLC, its officers, employees, and affiliates are not liable for:

Our total aggregate liability for any claim arising from your use of the service is capped at the total fees you've paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim, or $100, whichever is greater.

You understand that filing a provisional patent has real legal consequences — priority dates, disclosure obligations, 12-month conversion windows — and those consequences are your responsibility. DCFN - Patents gives you a starting draft; your filing decisions are yours.

11. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising from these Terms will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Clark County, Nevada.

12. Changes

We may update these Terms as the service evolves. Material changes will be announced on the DCFN - Patents site and, for Tier 1+ subscribers, by email at the address on the subscription. Continued use after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

13. Contact

Questions, refund requests, or acceptable-use concerns: TheArchitect@livingedenframeworks.com

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DBA Co Creators
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Henderson, NV 89002

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