Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 80 > Chapter 5 > Part 6 - Patented Plant Material

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Grower: means the person responsible for planting and managing a crop on land where infringement of an intellectual property right is suspected to have occurred. See Montana Code 80-5-602
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, firm, association, corporation, partnership, the state, a subdivision of the state, or any other form of business enterprise. See Montana Code 80-5-602
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
• Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Protected plant: means any plant part or material, including but not limited to seeds and genetic traits, that is patented by the U. See Montana Code 80-5-602
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Variety: means a subdivision of a kind that is:

  (a)distinct, in the sense that the variety can be differentiated by one or more identifiable morphological, physiological, or other characteristics from all other varieties known publicly;

  (b)uniform, in the sense that the variations in essential and distinctive characteristics are describable; and

  (c)stable, in the sense that the variety will remain unchanged in its essential and distinctive characteristics and its uniformity when reproduced or reconstituted as required by the different categories of varieties. See Montana Code 80-5-120

• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.