Oklahoma Code § 15-684

Title 15. Contracts: Form and requisites of contract
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A contract for invention development services shall be in the
following form:
1.  A contract for invention development services shall set
forth the information required in this section in at least 10-point
type;
2.  The following disclosure statement shall be in boldface type
and shall be located conspicuously on a cover sheet that contains no
other writing:
"The following disclosures are required by law and are expressly
made a part of this contract:  You have the right to cancel this
contract for any reason at any time within three (3) business days
from the date you and the invention developer sign the contract and
you receive a fully executed copy of it.  To exercise this option
you may use certified mail or personally deliver to this invention
developer written notice of your cancellation.  The method and time
for notification is set forth in this contract immediately above the
place for your signature.  Upon cancellation, the invention
developer must return by certified mail or personal delivery, within
ten (10) business days after receipt of the cancellation notice, all
money paid and all materials provided either by you or by another
party in your behalf.
Unless the invention developer is a registered patent attorney
or registered patent agent, he is not permitted to give you legal
advice concerning patent, copyright or trademark law or to advise
you of whether your idea or invention may be patentable or may be

protected under the patent, copyright or trademark laws of the
United States or any other law.
No patent, copyright or trademark protection will be acquired
for you by the invention developer or by this contract.  Your
failure to inquire into the law governing patent, copyright or
trademark matters may jeopardize your rights in your idea or
invention both in the United States and in foreign countries.  Your
failure to identify and investigate existing patents, trademarks or
registered copyrights may place you in jeopardy of infringing the
copyrights, patent or trademark rights of other persons if you
proceed to make, use, distribute or sell your idea or invention.";
3.  The contract shall describe fully and in detail the acts or
services that the invention developer contracts to perform for the
customer;
4.  The contract shall state whether the invention developer
contracts to construct one or more prototypes, models or devices
embodying the invention of the customer, the number of such
prototypes to be constructed and whether the invention developer
contracts to sell or distribute such prototypes, models or devices;
5.  If an oral or written estimate of customer earning is made,
the contract shall state the estimate and the data upon which it is
based;
6.  In a single statement the contract shall set forth both:
a. the total number of customers who have contracted with
the invention developer, except that the number need
not reflect those customers who have contracted within
the last thirty (30) days, and
b. the number of customers who have received, by virtue
of the invention developer's performance of invention
development services, an amount of money in excess of
the amount of money paid by such customers to the
invention developer pursuant to a contract for
invention development services;
7.  The contract shall state the expected date of completion of
the invention development services;
8.  The contract shall state whether and the extent to which it
effectuates or makes possible the purchase by the invention
developer of an interest in the title to the invention of the
customer;
9.  The contract shall explain that the invention developer is
required to maintain all records and correspondence relating to
performance of the invention development services for that customer
for a period not less than three (3) years after expiration of the
term of the contract for invention development services;
10.  The contract shall state that the records and
correspondence required to be maintained pursuant to Section 9 of
this act shall be made available to the customer or his

representative for review and copying at the expense of the customer
on the premises of the invention developer during normal business
hours upon seven (7) days' written notice, the time period to begin
from the date the notice is sent by certified mail;
11.  The contract shall state the name of the person or firm
contracting to perform the invention development services, all names
under which said person or firm is doing or has done business as an
invention developer during the previous ten (10) years, the names of
all parent and subsidiary companies to the firm and the names of all
companies that have a contractual obligation to the firm to perform
invention development services; and
12.  The contract shall state the principal business address of
the invention developer and the name and address of its agent in
this state authorized to receive service of process in this state.

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