{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-15-15-689","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 15, § 15-689","heading":"Act not exclusive - Noncompliance - Violations - Remedies","body":"- Application of act.\n\nA. The provisions of the Invention Development Services Act are\n\nnot exclusive and do not relieve the parties or the contract from\n\ncompliance with all other applicable provisions of law.\n\nB. Any contract for invention development services that does\n\nnot comply with the applicable provisions of the Invention\n\nDevelopment Services Act shall be unenforceable against the customer\n\nas contrary to public policy, provided that no contract shall be\n\nunenforceable if the invention developer proves that noncompliance\n\nwas unintentional and resulted from a bona fide error in spite of\n\nthe invention developer's use of reasonable procedures adopted to\n\navoid any such errors, and if the invention developer makes an\n\nappropriate correction.\n\nC. Any contract for invention development services entered into\n\nby a customer with an invention developer who has used any fraud,\n\nfalse pretense, false promise, misrepresentation, misleading\n\nstatement or deceptive practice in respect to that customer with the\n\nintent that the customer rely thereon, whether or not the customer\n\nwas in fact misled, deceived or damaged, shall be unenforceable\n\nagainst the customer. Any waiver by the customer of the provisions\n\nof the Invention Development Services Act shall be deemed contrary\n\nto public policy and shall be void and unenforceable.\n\nD. Any person who has been injured by a violation of the\n\nInvention Development Services Act by an invention developer, by any\n\nfalse or fraudulent statement, representation or omission of\n\nmaterial fact by an invention developer or by failure of an\n\ninvention developer to make all of the disclosures required by the\n\nInvention Development Services Act may bring a civil action against\n\nthe invention developer for the damages sustained together with\n\ncosts and disbursements, including reasonable attorneys fees. The\n\ncourt in its discretion may increase the award of damages to an\n\namount not to exceed three times the damages sustained or Two\n\nThousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00), whichever is greater.\n\nE. Failure to make the disclosures required by Section 6 of\n\nthis act shall render any contract subsequently entered into between\n\nthe customer and the invention developer voidable by the customer.\n\nF. The provision of the Invention Development Services Act\n\nshall have no effect on any contract or agreement entered into prior\n\nto September 1, 1991.","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":"3a3945372fca6b482475dce09660a85c9eeedd33dc420a5bcae854ac623a90bf","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-15-15-688","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-15-15-69"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}