PatentRef Copyright Complaints (DMCA)

Effective: 2026-10-20. Version: beta-1. Part of the Terms of Service at patentref.io/docs/legal/terms (section 9). Service provider: Aaron Baker, Tucson, Arizona, United States (the "Operator", "we").

This page names the agent who receives notices of claimed copyright infringement for the PatentRef service under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512, and says what a notice and a counter-notice must contain.

1. The designated agent

• Designated agent: Aaron Baker, PatentRef
• Service provider: Aaron Baker, also known to the public as PatentRef, patentref.io and patentref.com
• Postal address: 6640 North Oracle Road Ste 130A, Tucson, AZ 85704
• Telephone: (520) 222-8503
• Email: aaron@omnipoolbuilders.com
• U.S. Copyright Office registration: DMCA-1083075, effective October 15, 2026, listed in the Office's DMCA Designated Agent Directory at https://dmca.copyright.gov/osp/

The agent's details here and in the Copyright Office's directory are the same. If they ever differ, the directory is the one to use.

2. What a notice must contain

Send the notice in writing to the agent above, by email or by post. Under 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3) it must include:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that is claimed to be infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed, or, if several works are covered by one notice, a representative list of them.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, with enough information for us to find it, such as the URL of the registry record or the page.
4. Your name, postal address, telephone number and, if you have one, email address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that is claimed to be infringed.

A notice that leaves out one of these may not be acted on; we will tell you what is missing when we can.

3. What happens next

When a complete notice arrives we remove or disable access to the material, tell the person who submitted it, and send them a copy of the notice. A registry record's hash, proof bundle and DOI stay, as the Terms of Service explain; the content behind the record is what is removed, and the record is then shown as a hash tombstone.

4. Counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the agent above. Under 17 U.S.C. 512(g)(3) it must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed or to which access was disabled, and where it appeared before it was removed.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which the service provider may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the notice or that person's agent.

We forward a complete counter-notice to the person who sent the notice. If that person does not tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action, we restore the material within 10 to 14 business days after we received the counter-notice.

5. Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe.

6. Public patent data

As the Terms of Service say, public patent data from the USPTO is not subject to copyright in the United States, and a notice about it will be answered on that basis.

7. False claims

Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages.