A court may consider the following factors as evidence that a person has not made a bad faith assertion of patent infringement:
- (1) The demand letter contains the information described in section 2(a)(1) of this chapter.
(2) If the:
- (A) demand letter lacks the information described in section 2(a)(1) of this chapter; and
(B) target requests the information;
the person provides the information to the target within a reasonable period of time.
(3) The person engages in a good faith effort to:
- (A) establish that the target has infringed the patent; and
- (B) negotiate an appropriate remedy.
(4) The person makes a substantial investment in the:
- (A) use of the patent; or
- (B) production or sale of a product or item covered by the patent.
(5) The person is:
- (A) the inventor or joint inventor of the patent; or
- (B) if the patent was filed by and awarded to an assignee of the original inventor or joint inventor, the original assignee.
(6) The person has:
- (A) demonstrated good faith business practices in previous efforts to enforce the patent or a substantially similar patent; or
- (B) successfully enforced the patent, or a substantially similar patent, through litigation.
- (7) Any other factor the court finds relevant.
As added by P.L.172-2015, SEC.1.