{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-15-15-681","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 15, § 15-681","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in the Invention Development Services Act:\n\n1. \"Contract for invention development services\" includes a\n\ncontract by which an invention developer undertakes to develop or\n\npromote an invention for a customer;\n\n2. \"Customer\" means any natural person who is solicited by,\n\ninquires about, seeks the services of or enters into a contract with\n\nan invention developer for invention development services;\n\n3. \"Invention\" includes a process, design, asexually reproduced\n\nplant, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, improvement upon\n\nthe foregoing, or a concept;\n\n4. \"Invention developer\" means any person, firm, corporation or\n\nassociation and the agents, employees or representatives of the\n\nperson, firm, corporation or association which develops or promotes\n\nor offers to develop or promote an invention of a customer in order\n\nthat the invention of the customer may be patented, licensed or sold\n\nfor manufacture or manufactured in large quantities. The term\n\n\"invention developer\" does not include:\n\na. a partnership or corporation when all of its partners,\n\nstockholders or members are licensed by a state or the\n\nUnited States to render legal advice concerning\n\npatents and trademarks, or a person so licensed,\n\nb. a department or agency of the federal, state or local\n\ngovernment, including the inventor's assistance\n\nprogram administered by the Oklahoma Center for the\n\nAdvancement of Science and Technology,\n\nc. a charitable, scientific, education, religious or\n\nother organization registered pursuant to state law,\n\nd. a person, firm, corporation, association or other\n\nentity that does not charge a fee for invention\n\ndevelopment services, or\n\ne. any person, firm, corporation, association or other\n\nentity whose gross receipts from contracts for\n\ninvention development services do not exceed ten\n\npercent (10%) of its gross receipts from all sources\n\nduring the fiscal year preceding the year in which any\n\ncontract for invention development services is signed.\n\nFor the purposes of this paragraph, \"fee\" shall include any\n\npayment made by the customer to the entity, including reimbursements\n\nfor expenditures made or costs incurred by such entity, but shall\n\nnot include a payment made from a portion of the income received by\n\na customer by virtue of invention development services performed by\n\nthe entity;\n\n5. \"Invention development services\" includes any act required\n\nor promised to be performed, or actually performed by an invention\n\ndeveloper for a customer.","path":["OK Code","Title 15"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os15.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"d7f8040fd5e6e1184babd30eec28ab09003908f6eb046dfdf22b39095d6cc8e0","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-15-15-680","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-15-15-682"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}