Copyright Policy - Patent Yogi LLC

1. Patent Yogi Copyright Policy

Patent Yogi respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. In accordance with copyright laws in many countries, Patent Yogi will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Patent Yogi service and/or the Patent Yogi website (the “Site”) if such claims are reported to Patent Yogi’s Designated Copyright Agent identified in the sample notice below.

If you are a copyright owner, authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the Site by completing the following Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to Patent Yogi’s Designated Copyright Agent. Upon receipt of Notice as described below, Patent Yogi will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged content from the Site.

2. Notice of Alleged Infringement (“Notice”)

Identify the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, or – if multiple copyrighted works are covered by this Notice – you may provide a representative list of the copyrighted works that you claim have been infringed.

Identify the material or link you claim is infringing (or the subject of infringing activity) and to which access is to be disabled, including at a minimum, if applicable, the URL of the link shown on the Site or the exact location where such material may be found.

Provide your company affiliation (if applicable), mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
Include both of the following statements in the body of the Notice:

“I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use).”

“I hereby state that the information in this Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of, the owner, of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed.”

Provide your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.

3. Third party content – what we are allowed to do

3.1. We may publish, check, edit or remove all or part of the comments or other material, including your name, address, which you submit to us, at our sole discretion. We are not obliged to do any of these things and we may not.

3.2. You retain any copyright you may have in Your Content. By submitting material to us, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive worldwide licence to use, copy, edit, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, make available, communicate and distribute Your Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. By submitting Your Content, you warrant that you have the right to grant this licence. The licence is capable of sub-license by us to other entities and brands in our group of companies.

3.3. To the extent permitted by law, you waive your moral rights (e.g. the right to be identified as author or to object to derogatory treatment) in Your Content.
This clause 4 means, for example (without limitation), that we can:

– Continue to publish all or part of Your Content, including your name, town and country, even if you change your mind and want us to remove it and/or you are no longer registered with the Site;
– Remove Your Content, even if you have not breached these Terms;
– Use all or part of Your Content in promoting our products and services (e.g. we may use a screenshot including your comments in our advertising);
– Edit your Content, which may result in a part of it being modified and displayed, including without your name.

Deliver this Notice, with all items completed, to Patent Yogi’s Designated Copyright Agent: