Semi-intangibles are physical, tangible papers that evidence or embody an intangible right. Semi-intangible is not a formal legal category, but encompasses three types of collateral:
"Chattel paper" means a record or records that evidence both a monetary obligation and a security interest in specific goods, a security interest in specific goods and software used in the goods, a security interest in specific goods and license of software used in the goods, a lease of specific goods, or a lease of specific goods and license of software used in the goods. In this paragraph, "monetary obligation" means a monetary obligation secured by the goods or owed under a lease of the goods and includes a monetary obligation with respect to software used in the goods. The term does not include
charters or other contracts involving the use or hire of a vessel or
records that evidence a right to payment arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card. If a transaction is evidenced by records that include an instrument or series of instruments, the group of records taken together constitutes chattel paper.
"Instrument" means a negotiable instrument or any other writing that evidences a right to the payment of a monetary obligation, is not itself a security agreement or lease, and is of a type that in ordinary course of business is transferred by delivery with any necessary indorsement or assignment. The term does not include
"Account", except as used in "account for", means a right to payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance,
for property that has been or is to be sold, leased, licensed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of,
for services rendered or to be rendered,
for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued,
for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred,
for energy provided or to be provided,
for the use or hire of a vessel under a charter or other contract,
arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card, or
as winnings in a lottery or other game of chance operated or sponsored by a State, governmental unit of a State, or person licensed or authorized to operate the game by a State or governmental unit of a State.
The term includes health-care-insurance receivables. The term does not include
rights to payment for money or funds advanced or sold, other than rights arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card.
Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a buyer of goods from a person who used or bought the goods for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes takes free of a security interest, even if perfected, if the buyer buys:
"Buyer in ordinary course of business" means a person that buys goods in good faith, without knowledge that the sale violates the rights of another person in the goods, and in the ordinary course from a person, other than a pawnbroker, in the business of selling goods of that kind. A person buys goods in the ordinary course if the sale to the person comports with the usual or customary practices in the kind of business in which the seller is engaged or with the seller's own usual or customary practices.