Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of terms

By accessing goalieip.com or purchasing any Goalie IP service, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and all applicable laws. If you do not agree, you may not use this site or our services.

2. Services description

Goalie IP provides intellectual property monitoring, analysis, and enforcement assistance services. Services are described on our pricing and services pages and in your engagement agreement. The subscriptions available for purchase through the website are for monitoring only. Goalie IP Inc. will not take action to enforce IP rights unless that service is separately negotiated by the customer and Goalie IP. In addition to monitoring services, Goalie IP also offers programmatic access to trademark data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) register and, for Canada, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) register, through its Trademark Database API and MCP tools. API and MCP access is a data product, not a legal service; its use terms are set forth in Section 6, and additional terms for Canadian data in Section 7.

3. User responsibilities

You agree to provide accurate information and not to submit false infringement claims. You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to request enforcement action on the intellectual property you submit for monitoring.

Misuse of legal enforcement tools for anti-competitive purposes or harassment is prohibited and may result in termination of your engagement.

API subscribers are responsible for keeping their API keys confidential and for all usage that occurs under their credentials. You may not share, resell, or redistribute API access or the data returned by the API without the express written consent of Goalie IP Inc.

4. Intellectual property

All content on goalieip.com is owned by Goalie IP Inc. and protected by copyright. You may not reproduce or distribute site content without written permission. Trademark data returned by the API and MCP tools is sourced from publicly available USPTO records and, for Canadian data, from CIPO data used under licence (see Section 7), and is not owned by Goalie IP Inc. Your subscription grants a limited, non-transferable right to query that data within the usage limits of your plan.

5. Disclaimer of warranties

Services are provided "as is." We do not warrant that monitoring will detect all infringements or that enforcement actions will achieve any particular outcome. Trademark data returned through the API and MCP tools is sourced from public USPTO and CIPO records and is provided without warranty of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose. Goalie IP Inc. is not responsible for errors or omissions in the underlying USPTO or CIPO data.

6. API and MCP access terms

The Goalie IP Trademark Database API and MCP tools provide programmatic access to USPTO and CIPO trademark records. In this Section, "API" includes the MCP tools and "API data" includes data they return. Access is granted on a subscription basis and is subject to the usage limits of your selected plan. API access does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not constitute legal advice.

Permitted use: You may use API data for internal business purposes, application development, research, and client-facing tools you build and maintain. You may display individual trademark records to your own end users provided you do not represent the data as your own proprietary database.

Prohibited use: You may not resell, sublicense, or redistribute raw API data as a standalone data product. You may not attempt to circumvent rate limits, scrape data beyond your plan quota, or use automated means to extract the full dataset. You may not use API data to train machine learning models for commercial redistribution without written permission.

API key security: Your API key is tied to your account and may not be shared. Goalie IP Inc. reserves the right to revoke keys that are used in violation of these terms or that show signs of unauthorized access.

Service availability: Goalie IP Inc. does not guarantee uninterrupted API availability. We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue API access at any time.

No legal opinion: Results returned by the API reflect raw USPTO or CIPO record data only. They do not constitute a legal opinion on trademark conflicts, likelihood of confusion, validity, enforceability, or any other legal question. Consult a qualified attorney before making decisions based on trademark search results.

7. Canadian trademark data

7.1 Definitions. "Canadian Data" means trademark records, and any part of them, that the Services return from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office ("CIPO") trademark register, including results from API endpoints under /api/v1/ca/ and from MCP tools called with the register "CA". "CIPO Terms" means CIPO's Terms and conditions for use of the Canadian Intellectual Property Data.

7.2 How Canadian Data is provided. Goalie IP provides Canadian Data dynamically, in response to each request, from its own copy of data published by CIPO, which Goalie IP updates periodically (generally weekly). Each response reflects Goalie IP's copy as of the time stated in its timestamp. Goalie IP does not provide Canadian Data as a bulk download or dataset.

7.3 Licence. Subject to this Section and the CIPO Terms, Goalie IP grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable sub-licence to use Canadian Data for your own end use.

7.4 Attribution. By using the Services to obtain Canadian Data, you agree to retain CIPO's attribution notice with any Canadian Data you reproduce. The notice is provided in the attribution field of every API response and at the end of every MCP result: "Contains data licensed by Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Industry, the minister responsible for the administration of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office."

7.5 Modified and withdrawn records. Canadian Data reflects CIPO records, which CIPO may modify or withdraw. Goalie IP updates its copy of those records periodically, generally weekly. In accordance with the CIPO Terms, if you cache or store Canadian Data, you must, at least once every 7 days, re-query the Services for each stored record and replace it with the current response, or delete it if the Services no longer return it. The notice included in each response constitutes notice to you that CIPO may modify or withdraw records.

7.6 MCP results. Canadian Data returned through MCP tools is subject to this Section.

7.7 End use only. You may not sell, sublicense, or otherwise distribute Canadian Data as a dataset, or use the Services to compile a copy of all or a substantial part of the CIPO register.

7.8 No endorsement. You may not use Canadian Data in a way that suggests you, or Goalie IP, are an authorized representative of CIPO or the Government of Canada, or use the names, crests, logos, or other official symbols of the Government of Canada.

7.9 No warranty; withdrawal. CIPO provides its data "as is" and makes no representation or warranty about it. Goalie IP may suspend, change, or withdraw access to Canadian Data at any time, including if the CIPO Terms change or CIPO revokes Goalie IP's licence. If that happens, you must stop using Canadian Data and delete any you have stored.

8. Changes to terms

We reserve the right to update these terms at any time. Continued use of our services after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.