Kansas Statutes 50-666. Invention promotion services; definitions
As used in this act:
(a) “Contract for invention promotion services” means a contract by which an invention promoter undertakes to develop or promote an invention for a consumer.
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 50-666
- Consumer: means an individual, husband and wife, sole proprietor, or family partnership who seeks or acquires property or services for personal, family, household, business or agricultural purposes. See Kansas Statutes 50-624
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Invention: means a process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or an improvement upon any of the foregoing. See Kansas Statutes 50-666
- Invention promoter: means any person, and the agents, employees or representatives of the person, who develops or promotes or offers to develop or promote an invention for a consumer. See Kansas Statutes 50-666
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: means any individual, corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, cooperative or other legal entity. See Kansas Statutes 50-624
- Services: includes :
(1) Work, labor and other personal services;
(2) privileges with respect to transportation, hotel and restaurant accommodations, education, entertainment, recreation, physical culture, hospital accommodations, funerals and cemetery accommodations; and
(3) any other act performed for a consumer by a supplier. See Kansas Statutes 50-624
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(b) “Invention” means a process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or an improvement upon any of the foregoing.
(c) “Fee” means any payment made by a consumer to an invention promoter, including reimbursements for expenditures made or costs incurred.
(d) “Invention promoter” means any person, and the agents, employees or representatives of the person, who develops or promotes or offers to develop or promote an invention for a consumer. The following are not invention promoters for purposes of this act:
(1) A person licensed to practice before the United States patent and trademark office as a patent attorney;
(2) a department or agency of federal, state or local government; or
(3) a person who accepts technology from institutions of higher education or other state or federal research institutions for evaluation and the providing of marketing services.
(e) “Invention promotion services” means acts to be performed or promised to be performed, or both, by an invention promoter.
(f) “Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation or other legal entity. Such term does not include a department or agency of any governmental unit.