Effective: March 28, 1985
Latest Legislation: House Bill 385 - 115th General Assembly
As used in sections 1345.61 to 1345.68 of the Revised Code:
(A) "Contract for invention development services" means a contract by which an invention developer undertakes invention development services for a customer.
(B) "Customer" means any person who enters into a contract for invention development services regarding an invention, except any person, other than an individual, who purchases invention development services as an adjunct to the traditional commercial enterprises in which it engages as a livelihood. "Customer" does not include a corporation.
(C) "Invention development services" means any act, including the evaluation, perfecting, marketing, brokering, or promoting of an invention, that is done by or for an invention developer in connection with the procurement or attempted procurement by the invention developer of a licensee or buyer of an intellectual property right in the invention.
(D) "Invention developer" means any person who offers to perform or performs for a customer any invention development services. "Invention developer" does not include any of the following:
(1) Any department or agency of the federal, state, or a local government;
(2) Any nonprofit, charitable, scientific, or educational organization that is tax exempt under section 501(a) and described in section 501(c)(3), or described in section 170(b)(1)(A), of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1954," 68A Stat. 3, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended, or any nonprofit, scientific, or educational organization qualified under a state nonprofit organization statute;
(3) Any attorney acting within the scope of the attorney's professional license;
(4) Any person duly registered before the United States patent and trademark office acting within the scope of that person's professional license;
(5) Any person who does not charge a fee for invention development services other than any payment made from a portion of the income received by a customer by virtue of invention development services performed by the person. For the purposes of this division, "fee" includes any payment made by the customer to the person including reimbursement for expenditures made or costs incurred by the person.
(E) "Invention" means a discovery, process, machine, design, formulation, product, concept, or idea, or any combination of them, whether patentable or not.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 13 | Commercial Transactions
Chapter 1345 | Consumer Sales Practices
Section 1345.01 | Consumer Sales Practices Definitions.
Section 1345.02 | Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices.
Section 1345.021 | Ethanol Blended or Mixed Into Gasoline.
Section 1345.022 | Installation of Unsafe Used Tires.
Section 1345.03 | Unconscionable Consumer Sales Acts or Practices.
Section 1345.031 | Unconscionable Acts by Supplier Prohibited - Unconscionable Provisions.
Section 1345.032 | Suppliers Soliciting Fees for Copies of Deeds.
Section 1345.04 | Jurisdiction.
Section 1345.05 | Attorney General Powers and Duties.
Section 1345.06 | Investigations by Attorney General.
Section 1345.07 | Remedies of Attorney General.
Section 1345.08 | Attorney General to Coordinate With Other Administrative Agency.
Section 1345.09 | Private Causes of Action.
Section 1345.091 | Claim or Defense Against Assignee of Loan.
Section 1345.092 | Supplier's Right to Cure.
Section 1345.10 | Final Judgment Admissible as Prima Facie Evidence.
Section 1345.11 | Bona Fide Errors.
Section 1345.12 | Applicability of Chapter - Exceptions.
Section 1345.13 | Remedies in Addition to Other Remedies.
Section 1345.19 | Jurisdiction.
Section 1345.21 | Home Solicitation Sale Definitions.
Section 1345.22 | Right of Buyer to Cancel.
Section 1345.23 | Written Agreement or Offer to Purchase.
Section 1345.24 | Retaining Notice of Cancellation.
Section 1345.25 | Presumption.
Section 1345.26 | Right of Buyer After Cancellation.
Section 1345.27 | Right of Seller After Cancellation.
Section 1345.28 | Deceptive Acts or Practices.
Section 1345.30 | Fitting, Sale, and Returns of Hearing Aids.
Section 1345.31 | Failing to Comply With Refund Obligations.
Section 1345.41 | Prepaid Entertainment Contract Definitions.
Section 1345.42 | Contract Provision of Prepaid Entertainment Contracts.
Section 1345.43 | Right of Buyer to Cancel.
Section 1345.44 | Prepaid Entertainment Contract Form.
Section 1345.45 | Retaining Notice of Cancellation.
Section 1345.46 | Buyer to Deliver Goods or Evidence of Membership to Seller After Cancellation.
Section 1345.47 | Defenses of Buyer Against Holder in Due Course.
Section 1345.48 | Deceptive Acts or Practices - Damages.
Section 1345.49 | Buyer's Waiver Void.
Section 1345.51 | Consumer Protection Enforcement Fund.
Section 1345.52 | Title Defect Recision Fund.
Section 1345.61 | Invention Development Services Definitions.
Section 1345.62 | Invention Development Services Contracts.
Section 1345.63 | Conspicuous and Legible Cover Sheet With Notice.
Section 1345.64 | Record of Contacts.
Section 1345.65 | Contract Contents.
Section 1345.67 | Maintaining Bond.
Section 1345.68 | Effect on Other Obligations, Rights, or Remedies.
Section 1345.71 | Nonconforming New Motor Vehicle Law Definitions.
Section 1345.72 | Duty to Repair - Repair Unsuccessful.
Section 1345.73 | Presumptions.
Section 1345.74 | Providing Written Statement of Rights.
Section 1345.75 | Civil Action for Loss.
Section 1345.76 | Resale or Lease of Buyback Conditions.
Section 1345.77 | Establishment and Qualification of Informal Dispute Resolution Mechanism.
Section 1345.78 | Buyback Violations.
Section 1345.81 | Using Nonoriginal Equipment Manufacturer Aftermarket Crash Parts.
Section 1345.90 | Defective Assistive Device Definitions.
Section 1345.91 | Express Written Warranty.
Section 1345.92 | Repair Is Unsuccessful or Untimely.
Section 1345.93 | Returned Devices.
Section 1345.94 | Applicability of Consumer Sales Practices Act.