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Prove AI Trademark Usage Guidelines

Effective: April 2025

1. Introduction

The Trademark Usage Guidelines (the “Policy”) governs the use of our trademarks detailed below in Appendix A, including but not limited to trade names, corporate name, logos, designs, icons, slogans, trade dress, and other source identifiers (“Marks”) relating to any products or services developed, distributed, sold, or marketed by ProveAI, LLC, a limited liability company incorporated in Wyoming, with a principal address of 11440 W Bernardo Court, San Diego, C.A. 92127 (together with its affiliates, subsidiaries, and parents, collectively the “Company”, “us”, “our”, or “we”).

This Policy attempts to balance two competing interests: the Company’s obligation to ensure that the Marks remain reliable indicators of quality and source, and the Company’s desire to allow community participants, users, clients, partners, software distributors, service providers, and other authorized parties to discuss their use of the products and services, including software and source code (the “Product(s)”), while accurately describing their affiliation with the Company. 

2. Purpose

The purpose of this Policy is not intended to limit the lawful use of our Marks and to prevent confusion amongst the user-base and public at large as to what we deem an appropriate use of our Marks and limit any misleading or damaging use of them.

Notwithstanding this Policy, we reserve the right to withdraw any permission and/or amend, challenge or restrict any use of our Marks where we consider that such use amounts to a violation of this Policy or any use that we view as detrimental to the Company or the Products.

In using the Marks in accordance with this Policy, you expressly acknowledge and agree that the Company is the exclusive owner of the Marks, that you do not and will not acquire any rights in any Mark, and that any goodwill generated by your use of any Mark inures solely to the benefit of the Company.

3. Prohibited Use

Use of any Mark in a manner that is inconsistent with this Policy is prohibited and may subject you to trademark infringement, unfair competition, or other legal claims or remedies.

The following prohibitions must be strictly adhered to and by using the Marks you acknowledge and agree to not:

  1. Apply for or otherwise attempt to register any trademarks (word marks, service marks, logos, or design marks) associated, derived from, or otherwise confusingly similar with the Marks;
  2. Use, adopt, or otherwise incorporate, in whole or in part, the Marks as part of your own trademarks, including but not limited to service marks, domain names (sub- or second-level domain), company names, trade names, or product names;
  3. Engage in any activity while using trademarks that are confusingly similar to, obvious variation of, or any phonetic equivalent, foreign language equivalent, takeoff, or abbreviation of Marks, to designate:
     
    1. Similar or compatible products, services, software, or source code, or any other known Company project, prototype, or other asset;
    2. Domain names or email addresses of any kind;
    3. Company names, trade names, DBAs, or other business names;
    4. Social network site names, handles, or other social media or Internet-based identifiers (e.g., subreddits, Github subfolders, Facebook groups, Instagram pages, etc.); or
    5. Ad-word or other keyword used to generate sponsored links.
  4. Use the Marks in connection with products or services that combine Products with other source code (e.g., a single executable for both software programs);
  5. Use Marks or confusingly similar designations in any manner, media, or format that is inaccurate, distasteful, obscene, explicit, vulgar, profane, offensive, libelous, slanderous, or disparaging of the Company or its Products, personnel, users, or clients; 
  6. Use any modified or stylized versions of the Marks, except that you may use a different color or colors for the Marks and the relevant background, provided that:

    1. The essential shape and character of Marks is preserved and does not infringe any third-party rights;
    2. A minimum clear space exists between Marks and other elements; and
    3. Marks are reasonably visible or readable, and scaled proportionally such that the trademarks’ proportions and image are not altered.
  7. Display any Mark in any manner that can be reasonably interpreted to suggest editorial content has been authored by or represents the views or opinions of the Company or its personnel;
  8. Copy or imitate any trade dress used or owned by the Company. For example, you may not copy or imitate the overall look and feel of any Company website or web page, social media, typography, or advertising or marketing materials; 
  9. Use or display the Marks in a way that implies endorsement or sponsorship of your business, organization, application, service, or event by the Company; or
  10. Use the Marks or confusingly similar versions of the Marks in any manner, media, or format that otherwise violates any law or regulation.

4. Placement of Legends (™ notice symbol)

  1. You may only use the Marks in conjunction with the proper legends and notice symbol. The trademarks’ legends should include the “®” symbol for registered trademark and the “™” symbol for unregistered trademarks. If unsure as to the applicable symbol, you may contact the Company to verify the current status of any Mark. Legends and symbols must be in a readable size, but always smaller than the mark to which they attach.
  2. Applicable legends and symbols must be attached immediately after the relative Mark and must be replicated for each Mark, regardless of the number of repetitions. If a word mark, the legend or symbol must be in a superscript at the upper right corner of the mark; If a logo, design, or other graphic designation, the legend or symbol must be immediately adjacent to the logo or design in either a superscript, at the upper right of the mark, or subscript, on the lower right of the mark.
  3. You may not modify the legends and notice symbols attached to Marks as provided by the Company. If you are using a word mark, use a trademark notice symbol on the most prominent use of the Mark. If there is not a single most prominent use, then use a trademark notice symbol on the first use of the Mark that appears.

5. Consistent Use

Marks must be used consistent with and exactly as used by the Company. You may not vary, deviate from, or change the spelling, abbreviate the designations, add or delete punctuations or other matter, break or compound words, capitalize letters, or pluralize any word.
Following is a list of inconsistent uses:

  • PROVEAI ™ (all capitalized)
  • Proveai ™ (“AI” is not capitalized)
  • proveai ™ (all lowercase)

Please note that this list is not exhaustive and should not be interpreted as a complete or exclusive list of all uses of Marks that may be inconsistent or incorrect under this Policy.

6. Permissible Use

A. Distribution of Products

Unmodified. When you redistribute an unmodified copy of the Products, you are not changing the quality or nature of it. Therefore, you may retain the Marks we have placed on the Products to identify your redistribution, regardless of the form or method of distribution. This kind of use only applies if you are redistributing official Products that have not been changed in any way.

Compiled or modified. You may only use the Company’s word marks, but not the logos, design marks, or graphic designations, and solely for purposes of truthfully describing the origin of the software that you are providing, i.e., that the code you are distributing is a modified version of Products. For instance, you may indicate that “this software is derived from the Company ™ source code.” In these cases, you can affix your own trademarks on the code version you compiled or modified, because you are the origin of that code version.

B. Statements Regarding the Company or Product

You may use the Marks to truthfully describe the relationship between you and the Company or its Products, provided that the relationship is properly described. The following is a non-exhaustive list of acceptable uses:

  • [Your project] works with Company;
  • [Your software, product or service] is integrated with the Product
  • [Your software, product or service] uses the Product;
  • [Your software, product or service] is compatible with the Product; or
  • [Your software, product or service] is powered by the Product.

10. Disclaimer

All Marks made available here under are provided “as is” and Company disclaims any warranties and merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and/or non-infringement, as well as any other express or implied warranties with respect to Marks and content. The Company will not be liable to you on any legal theory or otherwise for any damages arising out of this Policy or use of any Marks. Where a limitation of liability is not allowed in full or in part, this limitation may not apply. 

11. Incorporated by Reference

To the extent this Policy is incorporated by reference into a contract, including but not limited to a licensing agreement, the terms of this Policy will be interpreted consistent with that of such agreements and, if conflicting with such terms, the conflict will be resolved according to the specific agreement’s stipulations. In addition, compliance with this Policy will be a condition to your continued compliance with any such agreements. Failure to comply will result in a suspension or termination of the underlying rights.

12. Quality and Compliance Assurance

The Company may, at its sole discretion, from time to time, request to inspect or otherwise request any information reasonably determined by the Company to be useful or necessary to determine the quality and compliance of your Marks use with this Policy. Upon such requests, you agree to respond to the Company in a reasonably prompt manner and to provide any such materials as indicated by the Company. You may only request Mark image files by contacting us at hello@proveai.com

13. Contact Information

To request authorization to use the Marks in any way that deviates or otherwise is not included or described in this Policy, ask any questions about this Policy or trademarks not described in this Policy, or to report any instance of infringement or dilution of Company’ intellectual property rights, including but not limited to Marks, please contact us at hello@proveai.com.

14. Updates to the Policy

The Company reserves the right to modify or terminate this Policy at any time. Any such change, update, or termination of this Policy will take effect immediately after its publication or our notification to you. Your use of any of the Marks after the publication of this Policy, or any updates thereto, or our notification to you, constitutes your acceptance of the then-current Policy. If this Policy is terminated, or if you do not agree with the Policy or any changes thereto, you must cease using the Marks immediately. You should review this Policy from time to time to keep yourself apprised and aware of these updates.

15. Reservation of Rights

The Company reserves the right to take any and all actions it may deem appropriate to protect, preserve and defend the Marks. The Company hereby expressly preserves all such rights and waives none and nothing herein should be construed otherwise.

APPENDIX A

The Marks include, but are not limited to, those listed below. For avoidance of doubt, this list is not exhaustive and may be updated from time to time by the Company.