| # NAAIL OpenLab™ — Patent Notice |
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| > **PATENT RIGHTS RESERVED — PATENT APPLICATION PREPARATION IN PROGRESS** |
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| **Inventor/project record:** Saeid Homayoun |
| **ORCID:** 0000-0002-2536-0446 |
| **Year:** 2026 |
| **Project:** NAAIL OpenLab™ |
| **Copyright:** © 2026 Saeid Homayoun. All Rights Reserved. |
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| ## Current patent status |
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| No NAAIL OpenLab™ patent application is represented by this repository as filed as of **2026-09-16**. This repository therefore does **not** use the phrase **“Patent Pending.”** |
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| The phrase **“PATENT PENDING”** may be added only after an actual patent filing has been independently confirmed and the applicable patent office, application number, filing date, priority date, and inventor information have been recorded. |
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| ## Patent-first disclosure rule |
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| **Patent first → public disclosure second.** |
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| New enabling technical details relating to candidate NAAIL inventions must not be added to the public repository before patent filing review. Patent-sensitive algorithms, detailed architectures, technical flowcharts, implementation specifications, claim concepts, unpublished embodiments, agent-containment logic, dependency/revocation mechanisms, controlled-evolution logic, and similar enabling material are maintained in a private patent-readiness workspace. |
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| Public NAAIL materials should remain at a non-enabling, high-level research/product-description level until the relevant filing strategy has been completed. |
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| ## Candidate technical subject matter |
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| NAAIL is evaluating patent protection for qualifying computer-implemented mechanisms concerning evidence-governed multi-agent systems, verifiable provenance and dependency control, Digital Twin execution, controlled agent/model change, reproducibility/evaluation, and human-machine approval governance. |
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| This high-level description is not a claim that any particular subject matter is novel, patentable, patented, or patent pending. |
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| ## Existing public-disclosure history |
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| NAAIL material was publicly released on GitHub beginning no later than **14 September 2026**, and additional technical materials were published on **16 September 2026** before adoption of the current patent-first hardening rule. Editing a current file does not erase prior Git history. |
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| - [`PUBLIC_DISCLOSURE_LOG.md`](./PUBLIC_DISCLOSURE_LOG.md) |
| - [`PRIOR_ART_LOG.md`](./PRIOR_ART_LOG.md) |
| - [`PATENT_FILING_CHECKLIST.md`](./PATENT_FILING_CHECKLIST.md) |
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| Patent counsel should assess the effect of all prior public disclosures on U.S. and foreign filing strategy. |
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| ## Rights reservation |
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| Nothing in this repository constitutes a waiver, dedication, abandonment, or implied license of patent, patent-application, trademark, trade-secret, or other intellectual-property rights except where a written license expressly says otherwise. |
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| Access to public source code or documentation does not transfer ownership of NAAIL intellectual property. |
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| Third-party software, standards, papers, and datasets remain subject to their original rights and licenses. |
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| ## Inventorship / ownership caution |
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| Project records currently identify Saeid Homayoun as the asserted inventor and rights holder. Final legal inventorship and ownership must be confirmed before filing, including review of actual technical contributions and any applicable employment, university, collaboration, grant, assignment, or contributor obligations. |
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| ## Legal review |
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| This notice is an IP-management statement for the project and is not a substitute for advice from a registered patent attorney or patent agent. |
