Uploading your patent data in the cloud for processing can introduce numerous security risks. In addition to the possibility of waiver of attorney-client privilege, use of cloud-based patent processing services could lead to loss of control over your data, loss of privacy, violation of export control laws, damage to client relationships, and personal liability for data breaches. In addition, should a breach actually happen, you will likely not have adequate recourse against the offending cloud provider due to the typically one-sided standard service agreements.
In contrast to services running in the cloud, ClaimMaster is inherently secure - as an add-in to Microsoft Word, it executes locally on the computer where it is installed (i.e., on-premise) and will never collect or transmit your confidential work product anywhere else when proofreading your documents. All generated proofreading reports/results (including HTML reports) are local to your computer as well. Specifically, ClaimMaster Software LLC warrants that ClaimMaster does not collect and transmit any user data from a machine where ClaimMaster is installed, with the following minor exceptions:
- per user's request, transmission of search queries including identifiers of patent documents (patent numbers, patent publication numbers, patent application numbers, etc.) to third-party databases (e.g., USPTO, EPO, www.freepatentsonline, Google, etc.) solely to retrieve text or image copies of these patent documents or their related bibliographic information;
- per user's request, transmission of search queries to websites, such as Google and AcronymFinder.com to find definitions of particular terms or acronyms for the user.
- per users' explicit requests, ClaimMaster allows only +Drafting and +Shells subscription end-users to query OpenAI’s and/or Microsoft Azure OpenAI’s GPT services (via API) with text prompts that may be enriched with text from the open Word document for patent drafting and/or also to use GPT to summarize Office Action contents. ClaimMaster Software LLC warrants that ClaimMaster will not transmit any data to the configured GPT service without explicit direction to do so by a ClaimMaster user. +Drafting and +Shells users can also configure GPT in ClaimMaster to communicate with private GPT service endpoints to access proprietory models. In addition, all GPT features can be turned off upon request for all users.