2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 15. Contracts
§15-689. Act not exclusive - Noncompliance - Violations - Remedies - Application of act.

A. The provisions of the Invention Development Services Act are not exclusive and do not relieve the parties or the contract from compliance with all other applicable provisions of law.

B. Any contract for invention development services that does not comply with the applicable provisions of the Invention Development Services Act shall be unenforceable against the customer as contrary to public policy, provided that no contract shall be unenforceable if the invention developer proves that noncompliance was unintentional and resulted from a bona fide error in spite of the invention developer's use of reasonable procedures adopted to avoid any such errors, and if the invention developer makes an appropriate correction.

C. Any contract for invention development services entered into by a customer with an invention developer who has used any fraud, false pretense, false promise, misrepresentation, misleading statement or deceptive practice in respect to that customer with the intent that the customer rely thereon, whether or not the customer was in fact misled, deceived or damaged, shall be unenforceable against the customer. Any waiver by the customer of the provisions of the Invention Development Services Act shall be deemed contrary to public policy and shall be void and unenforceable.

D. Any person who has been injured by a violation of the Invention Development Services Act by an invention developer, by any false or fraudulent statement, representation or omission of material fact by an invention developer or by failure of an invention developer to make all of the disclosures required by the Invention Development Services Act may bring a civil action against the invention developer for the damages sustained together with costs and disbursements, including reasonable attorneys fees. The court in its discretion may increase the award of damages to an amount not to exceed three times the damages sustained or Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00), whichever is greater.

E. Failure to make the disclosures required by Section 6 of this act shall render any contract subsequently entered into between the customer and the invention developer voidable by the customer.

F. The provision of the Invention Development Services Act shall have no effect on any contract or agreement entered into prior to September 1, 1991.

Added by Laws 1991, c. 170, § 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.