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LangChain Retains All Platform Intellectual Property

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Key Facts

Who owns all rights, title, and interest in and to all intellectual property rights in the LangSmith Platform and LangChain's Confidential Information?
LangChain establishes that all rights, title, and interest in and to all intellectual property rights in the LangSmith Platform and LangChain's Confidential Information are and will remain owned exclusively by LangChain and its licensors.
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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This establishes that using the platform grants the Customer no ownership rights over the platform itself or LangChain's confidential information.

Recent Activity

This document changed recently

Medium May 22, 2026

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.

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Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
3
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 2585 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Using the LangSmith Platform does not give you any ownership rights in the platform or in LangChain's confidential information.

How other platforms handle this

Segment Medium

Any intellectual property rights vested by Twilio under this Agreement will include the rights set forth in Article 27 (Right of Adaptation) and 28 (Original Author's Right in Derivative Works) of the Copyright Act of Japan...

Wise Medium

Remove, obscure, or alter any notice of any of our trademarks, or other Intellectual Property appearing on or contained within the Services or on any Wise Materials.

Affirm Medium

Use of the Services does not give you ownership of any intellectual property rights in any of the content, documents or other materials you access.

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all rights, title, and interest in and to all intellectual property rights in the LangSmith Platform and LangChain's Confidential Information are and will remain owned exclusively by LangChain and its licensors.

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Provision details

Document information
Document
LangChain Terms of Service
Entity
LangChain
Document last updated
May 12, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
July 9, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-063613
Document ID
CA-D-00804
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
746536421de2b228192ab3641f2d2338717f2e08809c05631b58e42d4efcf096
Analysis generated
July 9, 2026 03:53 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: LangChain
Document: LangChain Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-063613
Captured: 2026-07-09 03:53:59 UTC
SHA-256: 746536421de2b228…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/langchain/langchain-terms-of-service/provision/CA-P-063613/langchain-retains-all-platform-intellectual-property/
Accessed: Aug. 18, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
High
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does LangChain's LangChain Retains All Platform Intellectual Property clause do?

This establishes that using the platform grants the Customer no ownership rights over the platform itself or LangChain's confidential information.

How does this clause affect you?

Using the LangSmith Platform does not give you any ownership rights in the platform or in LangChain's confidential information.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 256 platforms. See the full comparison.

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