For purposes of this chapter:
(1) "Affiliate" means a business establishment, a business, or other legal entity that wholly or substantially owns, is wholly or substantially owned by, or is under common ownership with another entity.
(2) "Affiliated person" means a person under common ownership or control of an intended recipient.
(3) "Intended recipient" means a person who purchases, rents, leases, or otherwise obtains a product or service in the commercial market that is not for resale in the ordinary business and that is, or later becomes, the subject of a patent infringement allegation.
(4) "Manufacturer" means a person, a business establishment, a business, or other legal entity engaged in a business to design, formulate, produce, create, make, construct, assemble, or rebuild products or goods, or components thereof.
(5) "Person" means any natural person, partnership, corporation, company, trust, business entity or association, and any agent, employee, partner, officer, director, member, associate, or trustee thereof.
HISTORY: 2016 Act No. 261 (H.3682), Section 2, eff July 1, 2016.
Repeal
Chapter 4, Title 39 repealed as of July 2, 2021 unless reauthorized, see Section 39-4-150.