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 * Explainable ML for systems
 * Educational and academic use
 
-**Not intended for commercial use** (see License).
+**Not intended for commercial use** (see License).
+
+## Patent Notice
+
+This dataset accompanies research describing surrogate-based techniques for
+microarchitectural design-space exploration.
+
+The author has filed a pending patent application that may cover broader
+system-level methods beyond the specific data provided here.
+
+This notice is informational only and does not alter the dataset’s
+Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.