Intellectual Property Policy

1. Scope

This Intellectual Property Policy ("IP Policy") is a binding agreement between you (the "User") and LawyerDesk Advocacy Pvt Ltd operating as LegiScore. It is incorporated by reference into, and forms an integral part of, the Terms and Conditions, the Terms of Use, and the Acceptable Use Policy.

Any breach of this IP Policy is simultaneously a breach of those agreements and triggers the remedies, liquidated damages, and enforcement rights set out below and in those agreements.

2. Trademarks (Trade Marks Act, 1999)

"LegiScore" and the LegiScore wordmark, logo, brand assets, graphical marks, taglines, slogans, and associated brand identifiers (collectively, the "LegiScore Marks") are trademarks of LawyerDesk Advocacy Pvt Ltd.

Registration Status. The LegiScore Marks are registered or pending registration under the Trade Marks Act, 1999in India. Common-law trademark rights subsist in addition to statutory rights arising from continuous use in commerce. Absence of a registration symbol (® or ™) on any specific instance does not waive these rights.

Restrictions on Use. You may NOT, without prior written consent of LegiScore, do any of the following:

• Use the LegiScore Marks in domain names, sub-domains, or URL paths.
• Use the Marks in social-media handles, usernames, or profile names.
• Use the Marks in paid ad copy, ad creatives, or sponsored placements.
• Use the Marks in product names, company names, or service brands.
• Register confusingly similar marks, logos, or trade dress.
• Use the Marks in metadata, SEO keywords, or hidden text to divert traffic.

Confusing Similarity. The following are likewise prohibited:

• Combinations like "LegiScore Pro", "LegiScore India".
• Phonetic or visual variants (e.g., "LegisCore", "LegiScor").
• Translations or transliterations into regional languages.
• Co-branded logos suggesting partnership, endorsement, or affiliation.
• Use that dilutes, tarnishes, or disparages the LegiScore Marks.

Permitted Nominative Fair Use.You may refer to "LegiScore" in good-faith editorial, journalistic, comparative, or interoperability contexts, provided you (i) clearly identify LawyerDesk Advocacy Pvt Ltd as the trademark owner, (ii) do not imply sponsorship, partnership, or endorsement, and (iii) do not use any LegiScore Marks more prominently than strictly necessary to identify the subject of discussion.

3. Copyright (Copyright Act, 1957)

All software, source code, object code, application programming interfaces, UI/UX designs, report templates, sample reports, classification taxonomies, written content, illustrations, audio assets, video assets, training material, marketing collateral, and other expressive works embodied in the platform (collectively, the "LegiScore Copyrighted Material") are copyright of LawyerDesk Advocacy Pvt Ltd under the Copyright Act, 1957, the Berne Convention, and applicable international copyright treaties.

Scope of Protection — Code & Software:

• Frontend source code, components, hooks, utilities.
• Backend services, APIs, integration layers.
• Search routers, vendor flows, captcha pipelines.
• Database schemas, migrations, seed scripts.
• Infrastructure-as-code, deploy manifests.

Scope of Protection — Content & Templates:

• Report templates, sample reports, narrative phrasing.
• Classification taxonomies, risk-grading rubrics.
• Documentation, FAQs, knowledge-base articles.
• Marketing copy, blog posts, illustrations.
• Onboarding flows, tooltips, microcopy.

Limited User Licence. LegiScore grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access and use the LegiScore Copyrighted Material strictly for internal business purposes during the period you maintain a valid, paid-up account. The licence terminates automatically on account suspension, expiry, or termination.

Prohibited Uses of Copyrighted Material. The following are strictly prohibited and constitute infringement under the Copyright Act, 1957:

• Reproduction: Copying, downloading, scraping, or duplicating any portion of the Copyrighted Material.
• Public display: Posting, broadcasting, or publishing the Material on any third-party platform.
• Distribution: Resale, redistribution, sublicensing, or transfer to any third party.
• Derivative works: Adaptation, modification, translation, or remix without consent.
• AI / ML training: Using the Material as training data, evaluation data, fine-tuning data, or to build any AI/ML model, dataset, or benchmark.
• Reverse engineering: Decompiling, disassembling, or attempting to extract source code from compiled artefacts.
• Removal of notices: Stripping or obscuring copyright, trademark, or proprietary notices.

4. Trade Secrets (Section 65, Information Technology Act, 2000)

The following are trade secrets of LegiScore, protected under Indian common law of confidence and Section 65, Information Technology Act, 2000. They derive economic value from not being generally known, and LegiScore takes reasonable measures to maintain their secrecy:

Intelligence Layer:

• Prompt engineering and prompt chains.
• Rule sets and decision trees.
• Ranking models and scoring algorithms.
• ML weights, embeddings, and fine-tuned models.
• Classification taxonomies and grading rubrics.

Operational Layer:

• Vendor-flow orchestration logic.
• Captcha-solver pipelines and model artefacts.
• Portal-handshake sequences and session management.
• Internal scoring algorithms and risk weights.
• Data-source acquisition strategies.

Prohibited Conduct. Any of the following constitutes a material breach of this IP Policy and the associated user agreements:

• Extraction: Probing, prompt-injecting, jailbreaking, or otherwise extracting prompts, rules, or model parameters.
• Disclosure: Sharing, leaking, or publishing trade-secret information in any form.
• Reverse engineering: Attempting to reconstruct algorithms, models, or pipelines from observed inputs/outputs.
• Inducement: Encouraging or assisting any third party to do any of the above.

5. UI/UX and Design Rights (Designs Act, 2000)

The visual presentation, look-and-feel, layout patterns, navigation flows, report formatting, colour systems (including the LegiScore Orange palette anchored at #EA580C as a brand colour), iconography, motion design, screen designs, and overall trade dress of the LegiScore platform (collectively, the "LegiScore Design System") are protected under the Copyright Act, 1957 and the Designs Act, 2000, and as trade dress under Indian common law of passing-off.

Protected Design Elements:

• Dashboard layout, card density, sidebar structure.
• Report cover, section headers, table styling.
• Onboarding flows and progressive disclosure patterns.
• Brand colour ramps (orange primary, neutrals, semantic).
• Icon style, illustration system, empty states.
• Typography pairing, type scale, spacing rhythm.

Protected Flow Patterns:

• Case-creation wizard sequence.
• Report-review and supplementary-rewrite flow.
• Document upload, classification, and acknowledgement loop.
• Search-router state machines (EC, prohibitory, RERA, ROR).
• Credit purchase and payment-reconciliation flow.

Cloning & Inspired-By Replication.Cloning, pixel-for-pixel replication, "inspired-by" replication that copies non-functional distinctive elements, or copying of screen flows and trade dress constitutes passing-off and infringement. Functional ideas (such as the abstract concept of running a property search) are not protected; the specific creative expression of those ideas in the LegiScore Design System is.

6. Licence to Outputs (Reports & Generated Material)

When you generate a Property Report, supplementary report, translation, rewrite, scenario, or any other output through the LegiScore platform (collectively, "Outputs"), LegiScore grants you the following limited licence, subject to your continued compliance with this IP Policy, the Terms and Conditions, and the Acceptable Use Policy:

What You Get (Permitted):

• Internal use: Limited, non-exclusive licence to use Outputs internally.
• Named-client sharing: Right to share with the specific end-client named in the case file on a need-to-know basis under reasonable confidentiality.
• Record-keeping: Right to print, archive, or store Outputs for legitimate professional record-keeping.
• Regulatory production: Right to produce Outputs in response to a binding legal or regulatory demand.

What You Don't Get (Prohibited):

• No resale: Selling, licensing, or monetising Outputs as a standalone product.
• No redistribution: Public posting, syndication, or bulk distribution.
• No white-labelling: Re-branding Outputs as your own product or service.
• No AI training: Using Outputs to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or benchmark any AI/ML system.
• No public posting: Publishing Outputs on the open web, except as required by law or with written LegiScore consent.
• No reverse engineering: Using Outputs to infer, reconstruct, or replicate the underlying methodology, rules, or models.

Attribution requirement: Where Outputs (or excerpts thereof) are quoted, referenced, or relied upon in any written work, you must clearly attribute the source as "Source: LegiScore (legiscore.in)" and identify the relevant report identifier where applicable.

7. Takedown and Infringement Notices

If you believe that material on the LegiScore platform infringes your intellectual property rights, or you wish to report unauthorised use of LegiScore's intellectual property elsewhere, please send a written notice to [email protected].

7.1 Required Contents of a Valid Notice

To enable us to act on your notice, please include the following:

1. (i) Clear identification of the copyrighted work, trademark, or other right claimed to be infringed.
2. (ii) Clear identification of the allegedly infringing material, including URL, location, screenshot, or other locator sufficient to find it.
3. (iii) Your full contact information (name, postal address, email, phone).
4. (iv) A good-faith statement that the use of the material is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent, or the law.
5. (v) A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and verification under penalty of perjury that you are authorised to act on behalf of the rights holder.
6. (vi) Your physical or electronic signature.

7.2 Response SLA

We will acknowledge valid takedown notices within 5 business days and act on substantiated notices in a timely manner consistent with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

7.3 Counter-Notice Procedure

If your content has been removed and you believe the takedown was issued in error or based on misidentification, you may file a counter-notice at [email protected] containing equivalent identification, contact details, and a good-faith statement. We will evaluate counter-notices consistent with applicable law.

7.4 Misuse of Notices

Knowingly false, fraudulent, or harassing takedown notices may result in liability for the notifier under applicable law, including but not limited to misrepresentation and abuse of process. LegiScore reserves the right to recover its costs from notifiers acting in bad faith.

8. Enforcement

Liquidated Damages. Each documented breach of this IP Policy — including without limitation anti-replication, anti-cloning, unauthorised AI/ML training on Outputs, unauthorised reverse engineering, trade-secret extraction or disclosure, and unauthorised reproduction or distribution of Copyrighted Material — will trigger pre-agreed liquidated damages of ₹50,00,000 per documented breach, in addition to actual damages, account termination, disgorgement of profits, and any other relief available in law or equity.

The parties agree that actual damages from such breaches are difficult to ascertain and that the liquidated-damages amount represents a genuine pre-estimate of loss and is not a penalty.

Injunctive Relief. LegiScore may seek interim, interlocutory, and permanent injunctive relief before the competent courts at Visakhapatnam / Hyderabad without the requirement to post bond, in addition to or in parallel with any arbitration proceedings. The User waives any objection to the personal jurisdiction or venue of those courts for purposes of injunctive relief.

Arbitration. Disputes arising out of or in connection with this IP Policy (other than applications for injunctive relief) shall be referred to arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, seated at Hyderabad, conducted in English by a sole arbitrator appointed by mutual agreement of the parties.

Cumulative Remedies. All remedies set out in this IP Policy are cumulative and not exclusive of any other remedy available to LegiScore at law, in equity, or under any other agreement between the parties. LegiScore's failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of its right to do so subsequently.

9. Permitted Fair Use

Notwithstanding the restrictions above, the following limited fair-use activities are permitted without prior written consent, provided they comply with the conditions specified:

Academic, Journalistic & Review Quotation. Short excerpts of fewer than 50 words may be quoted from publicly available LegiScore content (such as blog posts, marketing pages, and public documentation) for bona fide academic, journalistic, critical, or review purposes, provided you include clear attribution: "Source: LegiScore (legiscore.in)". This exception does not extend to Outputs, Copyrighted Material behind authentication, or trade secrets.

Editorial Reference to the LegiScore Wordmark. News articles, editorial pieces, and analyst reports describing LegiScore in an editorial context may reproduce the LegiScore wordmark or logo at customary editorial size, provided the use is accurate, non-misleading, and does not imply endorsement, partnership, or sponsorship.

Interoperability & Compatibility References.Third-party documentation may reference "LegiScore" nominatively to describe interoperability or compatibility, provided the use is factual, does not imply official integration or endorsement, and does not use any LegiScore Marks as the dominant visual element of the third party's materials.

All other uses require prior written consent of LegiScore. Requests may be sent to [email protected].

10. Updates

This IP Policy is maintained by LawyerDesk Advocacy Pvt Ltd (LegiScore) and is incorporated by reference into the Terms and Conditions, Terms of Use, and Acceptable Use Policy. LegiScore may update this IP Policy from time to time; the current version, effective date, and previous update are recorded in the header of this document.

11. Contact

Questions or licensing requests should be directed to [email protected]. Governed by Laws of India and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts at Visakhapatnam for injunctive relief, and arbitration at Hyderabad for all other disputes.