California Business and Professions Code

§ 22381

BPC § 22381Div. 8 · Ch. 17 · Art. 4

Statute text

In the first oral communication with a customer or in the first written response to an inquiry by a customer other than an oral communication or written response, the primary purpose of which is to arrange an appointment with the invention developer for presentation of his or her invention development services, the invention developer shall cause the following written disclosures to be made and given to each customer at the time of the disclosure:

(a)A statement of the fee charged, if known, or a statement of the approximate range of fees charged; a statement that a portion of the fee charged will be paid as a commission or other similar payment, if in fact it is intended to be so paid, to a person inducing, directly or indirectly, a customer to contract for the services of the invention developer; and a statement of the approximate portion of the fee charged, if any, that will be expended for services relating to patent matters.

(b)A statement that the invention developer does not intend to expend more for the invention development services than the fee charged the customer, if, in fact, it does not, and if it does, a statement of the estimated expenditures of the invention developer in excess of the fee received from the customer.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 332, Sec. 3.