Data Protection Declaration
Thank you for visiting our website. We take the protection of your personal data seriously and wish you to feel secure when visiting our website. Therefore, we kindly ask you to read the following data protection provisions carefully.
In the following, we will inform you about which personal data we collect, store or process and how we protect and use your data.
Collection, processing, and Use of your data
IP address of the requesting computer;
Date and time of access;
Name and URL of the retrieved file;
Website from which the access is made (referrer-URL);
Used browser and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider.
for the purposes of:
Ensuring smooth connection to the website;
Ensuring comfortable use of our website;
Evaluation of system security and stability as well as
for other administrative purposes.
The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest results from the purposes listed above for data collection. Under no circumstances, do we use the data collected for the purpose of drawing conclusions about you personally.
In addition, we use cookies and analysis services when you visit our website.
Newsletter
When you register to receive our newsletter, we will store the data you have entered and the point of time of registration until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Unsubscription can always be effected by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided in the newsletter, via our website, or by using one of the other communication channels of our firm.
Cookies
In cookies, information is stored, which arises in connection with the specifically used terminal device. However, this does not mean that we immediately become aware of your identity.
The use of cookies serves the purpoe of making the use of our offer more pleasant for you. In that way, we use so-called session cookies to recognise that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These will be deleted automatically after leaving our website.
Transfer of personal data to Third parties
We transfer the data you make available to us for any of the above-mentioned purposes only to very few service providers that are carefully and with due attention chosen by us; these third-party service providers perform certain tasks for us, including network maintenance, support relating to software applications, and technical services for our website. For performing their tasks, these service providers have partial access to personal data but must not use them for purposes other than for performing their tasks. Furthermore, they are obligated to treat the information in compliance with the statutory provisions.
The transfer of personal data to government institutions and authorities is effected as provided for by statutory provisions; for example, if legal or criminal prosecution is required in the event of attacks on our IT and network infrastructure or on the implemented technical-organisational data security concept.
Links to social Networks
If you are already logged in to that particular social network, the social network will be given the ability, by your click on the button that links to the network, to collect data about you, and may identify from which website you come. This also is the case even if you do not “like” or confirm our website in the social network. Should you not agree to such data use, you may log out of the social network before you click on the social network buttons.
For further details on data protection in social networks, please refer to the privacy policy statements of the operators of the respective social networks.
EU AI Act Compliance
In accordance with the EU Artificial Intelligence Act — a regulation establishing requirements for the safe, transparent, and responsible use of artificial intelligence — we wish to inform you about how PatentMaker uses AI and what this means for you as a user.
PatentMaker uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist users in drafting and prosecution of patent-related content. The platform generates suggestions and draft content but does not make autonomous legal decisions; the user retains full review and final authority over all outputs.
In line with Article 50 of the EU AI Act, which requires that users are clearly informed when content has been generated or assisted by AI and when they are interacting with AI-powered features, PatentMaker commits to the following:
- Label AI-generated content within the platform and, where appropriate, in exported documents
- Clearly indicate when you are interacting with an AI-powered feature
- Reflect AI usage and limitations in our Terms of Service
- Update privacy documentation and explain what information is sent to AI providers, how it is processed, and which third-party AI services are used
Data Protection Officer responsible for the Protection of your data
PatentMaker Software GmbH
Heilmannstr. 7a 81479 München
Tel:+49 89 2000809 20
E-mail: info@patentmaker.eu
Handelsregister:
Amtsgericht München, HRB 257530 Registered at the local court Munich, registry No. HRB 257530
Umsatzsteuer-ID: Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer gemäß §27 a Umsatzteuergesetz: USt-IdNr.: DE331830171
