Abandonment of Patent Rights. Abbott may elect to discontinue payment for the costs and expenses of preparation, filing, Prosecution, validation or maintenance of any Program Patent Right pursuant to Section 12.1(b) or Neurocrine Patent Right pursuant to Section 12.1(c) on a country-by-country and application-by-application or patent-by-patent basis, at any time and in its sole discretion. If Neurocrine thereafter chooses to resume the preparation, filing, Prosecution, validation or maintenance of any Program Patent Rights […***…] or Neurocrine Patent Right, the licenses to Abbott hereunder with respect to such applications or patents shall terminate and Neurocrine will own sole right, title and interest in and to such applications or patents.
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Samples: Collaboration Agreement (Neurocrine Biosciences Inc), Collaboration Agreement, Collaboration Agreement (Neurocrine Biosciences Inc)
