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This gives the Customer a right to have LangChain bear the burden of defending patent infringement claims tied to authorized platform use, reducing the Customer's legal exposure from using the platform.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'patent'; the full clause likely covers additional intellectual property rights and may include conditions or exceptions not reflected in the canonical claim.
The updated terms introduce a new deployment architecture option (BYOC) alongside existing Cloud and Hybrid options, giving customers more control over infrastructure placement. LangChain's explicit commitment to not use customer data for large language model training now has clear written language in the Terms, whereas the prior version only referenced 'products' generically. However, the expanded non-warranty clause now states the platform is not warranted to be 'accurate' or 'complete,' which broadens the disclaimers of liability. Customers should review which deployment option aligns with their infrastructure and compliance requirements.
View change record →If a third party sues you claiming the LangSmith Platform infringes their patent, LangChain is required to defend you, provided your use was authorized under the Agreement.
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To the extent permitted by applicable law, this Section 13 (Indemnification) states the parties' sole and exclusive remedy under this Agreement for any third-party allegations of Intellectual Property Rights infringement...
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Without affecting either party's termination rights and to the extent permitted by applicable law, this Section 14 states the parties' sole and exclusive remedy under the Agreement for any Allegations of Intellectual Property Rights infringement covered by this Section 14.
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"LangChain will defend Customer from and against any third-party claim to the extent alleging that the LangSmith Platform, when used by Customer as authorized in this Agreement, infringes a third party's patent...Excerpt from LangChain's Terms of Service
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This gives the Customer a right to have LangChain bear the burden of defending patent infringement claims tied to authorized platform use, reducing the Customer's legal exposure from using the platform.
If a third party sues you claiming the LangSmith Platform infringes their patent, LangChain is required to defend you, provided your use was authorized under the Agreement.
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