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We may require a $100-$500 deposit hold in order to participate in our auctions. I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SIERRA IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INJURY OR LOSS TO MY GUESTS OR ME. REFUNDS WILL NOT BE ISSUED AS A RESULT OF ANY DESCRIPTIVE ERROR GIVEN BY THE AUCTIONEER OR AS A RESULT OF MY FAILURE TO PROPERLY IDENTIFY THE ITEM, ITS CONDITION OR USABILITY. I AM SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE IDENTIFICATION, CONDITION, AND/OR USE OF ALL ITEMS PURCHASED.

If you do not agree or do not understand any of our terms and conditions, PLEASE contact Sierra for further clarification or DO NOT BID!īY PARTICIPATING IN ANY OF OUR AUCTIONS I (the client) UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS PRESENTED BELOW, ESPECIALLY THE KEY TERMS THAT ALL ITEMS ARE SOLD AS IS, WHERE IS, WITH NO GUARANTEES OR WARRANTIES. In effect, IPRally doesn't just read text, it strives to draw relationships between all the words and concepts in patent applications to generate the most relevant results.PLEASE make sure to familiarize yourself with all of our terms and conditions, as you are agreeing to them when participating in our auction. The company says it trained this neural network with data from millions of real patents, teaching it to "think" like that of a real-world patent examiner, but in a fraction of the time. The Helsinki-based startup touts a modern AI-powered alternative to other keyword-based search engines, one that promises to help users search and categorize patents more quickly and accurately - with explainability at its core.Ī big selling point is its underlying graph neural network that powers both technical and semantic understanding around patent data, meaning that the user is less reliant on exact keyword matches or technical expertise from an IP specialist. IPRally, a Finnish startup building a knowledge graph-based patent search engine, has raised €10 million ($10.8 million) in a Series A round of funding.įounded in 2018, IPRally is one of a number of emerging players looking to infiltrate a billion-dollar intellectual property (IP) management market dominated by incumbents such as Clarivate, Anaqua and Questel.
