Enrolling in any courses offered by or through the Patent Valuation Gauntlet or The Business Development Academy or any of their affiliates is no guarantee of growth or success in your career. Your career growth and professional opportunities are a function of many factors such as strength of the economy, your commitment to hard work, opportunities in your company and clients' willingness to pay for services you offer. The foregoing holds true for pursuing and / or attaining the Patent Valuation Gauntlet designation.

By taking our courses and pursuing the Patent Valuation Gauntlet designation you understand and agree that the valuations you produce may be challenged by superiors; business associates; counterparts in negotiations of any kind such as those relating to licensing agreements, providers of capital, counterparts in corporate transactions; and, in litigation. You further agree that you will hold the Patent Valuation Gauntlet or The Business Development Academy or any of their affiliates and all of the instructors and principals involved in delivering the courses harmless in the event that your valuations are challenged. You understand that neither the Patent Valuation Gauntlet nor The Business Development Academy nor any of their affiliates nor any of the instructors or principals involved in delivering the courses will be responsible in anyway whatsoever for any costs, liabilities or inconveniences that you incur should the valuations that you produce be challenged.

In the event that the Patent Valuation Gauntlet or The Business Development Academy or any of their affiliates enters into a corporate combination or is required as a function of law or dispute with a third party, is required to change its designation from Patent Valuation Gauntlet to something else, you agree to hold Patent Valuation Gauntlet or The Business Development Academy or any of their affiliates and principals harmless for any costs or inconveniences that you incur should it be necessary to change the title of the Patent Valuation Gauntlet designation or change the letters "CPVA".

Beginning in 2012, the use of the CPVA designation may be conditioned on your maintaining membership in the Business Development Academy as well as taking continuing education courses.

Terms of Use of the Patent Valuation Gauntlet and subject to change at the sole discretion of its developers.