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In the agreement page, CL has this paragraph:

"By submitting Content to CircuitLab for inclusion on the Website, you grant CircuitLab a world-wide, royalty-free, irrevocable, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content for the purpose of displaying, distributing, and making it available for use by our tools, and for any associated incidental copying of said Content. Additionally, by submitting Content to be made available for public distribution, you grant CircuitLab a world-wide, royalty-free, irrevocable, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt, and publish the Content for any marketing or promotional purposes at the sole discretion of CircuitLab. You understand and acknowledge that submitting Content to the Website intended for public distribution may additionally grant limited rights to your Content to third parties under the doctrine of fair use. If you delete Content, CircuitLab will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable. "

Does this mean that anything I develop in CL is public domain and I loose the ability to patent it (if it were patentable)? Does it make a difference if I mark a circuit private or public?

If you don't want to give it away, don't do it on CL.

Signality,

Thanks. That is what I suspected, I just wanted to make sure I understood correctly.

That's only my take on it.

If you need formal clarification, you could email:

support@circuitlab.com

:)