Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 1. SELLING AND OTHER TRADE PRACTICES · Article 27A. BAD FAITH ASSERTIONS OF PATENT INFRINGEMENT

10-1-770. Definitions.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

As used in this article, the term:
(1)
“Claims in the patent” means the extent of protection conferred by a patent.#
(2)
“Demand letter” means a letter, email, or other written communication asserting or claiming that the target has engaged in patent infringement.#
(3)
“Target” means a person:#
1. (A)
  Who has received a demand letter or against whom an assertion or allegation of patent infringement has been made;#
2. (B)
  Who has been threatened with litigation or against whom a lawsuit has been filed alleging patent infringement; or#
3. (C)
  Whose customers have received a demand letter asserting that use of such person’s product, service, or technology infringes a patent.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 10-1-770, enacted by Ga. L. 2014, p. 208, § 1/HB 809; Ga. L. 2024, p. 1052, § 2(28)/SB 448, effective July 1, 2024.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “email,” for “e-mail,” in paragraph (2).

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