Joint Work Product This Agreement is the joint work product of the Parties and has been negotiated by the Parties and their respective counsel and shall be fairly interpreted in accordance with its terms and, in the event of any ambiguities, no inferences shall be drawn against either Party.
Derivative Works Any and all derivative works to the Software which are created pursuant to this Agreement shall be owned by MyECheck, but Licensee shall have the same rights and licenses to such derivative works as Licensee has to the Software.
Discoveries and Inventions Employee agrees that all inventions, designs, improvements, writings, research, analysis, and discoveries made during the term of this Agreement and pertaining to the business conducted by AnchorBank shall be the exclusive property of AnchorBank, as determined solely by AnchorBank. Employee shall assist AnchorBank in obtaining patents, trademarks, service marks and/or copyrights on all such inventions, designs, improvements, writings and discoveries deemed suitable for patent, trademark, service xxxx, or copyright by AnchorBank, and shall execute all documents and do all things necessary to obtain letters, patents, or copyrights, vest AnchorBank with full and exclusive title thereto, and protect the same against infringements by others.
Inventions, etc The Executive hereby sells, transfers and assigns to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or to any person or entity designated by the Company all of the entire right, title and interest of the Executive in and to all inventions, ideas, disclosures and improvements, whether patented or unpatented, and copyrightable material, made or conceived by the Executive, solely or jointly, during his employment by the Company which relate to methods, apparatus, designs, products, processes or devices, sold, leased, used or under consideration or development by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, or which otherwise relate to or pertain to the business, functions or operations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or which arise from the efforts of the Executive during the course of his employment for the Company. The Executive shall communicate promptly and disclose to the Company, in such form as the Company requests, all information, details and data pertaining to the aforementioned inventions, ideas, disclosures and improvements; and the Executive shall execute and deliver to the Company such formal transfers and assignments and such other papers and documents as may be necessary or required of the Executive to permit the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or any person or entity designated by the Company to file and prosecute the patent applications and, as to copyrightable material, to obtain copyright thereof. Any invention relating to the business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates and disclosed by the Executive within one year following the termination of his employment with the Company shall be deemed to fall within the provisions of this paragraph unless proved to have been first conceived and made following such termination. The foregoing requirements of this Section 7(d) shall not apply to any invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility or trade secret information of the Company was used and which was developed entirely on the Executive’s own time, and (i) which does not relate directly to the Company’s, or any of its subsidiaries’ or affiliates’, business or to the Company’s, or any of its subsidiaries’ or affiliates’, actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (ii) which does not result from any work the Executive performed for the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.
Creative Work The Executive agrees that all creative work and work product, including but not limited to all technology, business management tools, processes, software, patents, trademarks, and copyrights developed by the Executive during the term of this Agreement, regardless of when or where such work or work product was produced, constitutes work made for hire, all rights of which are owned by the Employer. The Executive hereby assigns to the Employer all rights, title, and interest, whether by way of copyrights, trade secret, trademark, patent, or otherwise, in all such work or work product, regardless of whether the same is subject to protection by patent, trademark, or copyright laws.
Other Inventions Any Inventions not included in Sections 9.2, 9.3, or 9.4 will be owned by their inventors.
Discoveries and Works All Discoveries and Works which are made or conceived by you during your employment by the Company, solely, jointly or with others, that relate to the Company's present or anticipated activities, or are used or useable by the Company within the scope of this Agreement shall be owned by the Company. You shall (a) promptly notify, make full disclosure to, and execute and deliver any documents requested by the Company, as the case may be, to evidence or better assure title to Discoveries and Works in the Company, as so requested, (b) renounce any and all claims, including but not limited to claims of ownership and royalty, with respect to all Discoveries and Works and all other property owned or licensed by the Company, (c) assist the Company in obtaining or maintaining for itself at its own expense United States and foreign patents, copyrights, trade secret protection or other protection of any and all Discoveries and Works, and (d) promptly execute, whether during his employment with the Company or thereafter, all applications or other endorsements necessary or appropriate to maintain patents and other rights for the Company and to protect the title of the Company thereto, including but not limited to assignments of such patents and other rights. Any Discoveries and Works which, within one year after the expiration or termination of your employment with the Company, are made, disclosed, reduced to tangible or written form or description, or are reduced to practice by you and which pertain to the business carried on or products or services being sold or delivered by the Company at the time of such termination shall, as between you and, the Company, be presumed to have been made during your employment by the Company. You acknowledge that all Discoveries and Works shall be deemed “works made for hire” under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, as amended 17 U.S.C. Sect. 101.
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Work Product and Inventions The Affiliated Group and/or its nominees or assigns shall own all right, title and interest in and to any and all inventions, ideas, trade secrets, technology, devices, discoveries, improvements, processes, developments, designs, know how, show-how, data, computer programs, algorithms, formulae, works of authorship, works modifications, trademarks, trade names, documentation, techniques, designs, methods, trade secrets, technical specifications, technical data, concepts, expressions, patents, patent rights, copyrights, moral rights, and all other intellectual property rights or other developments whatsoever (collectively, “Developments”), whether or not patentable, reduced to practice or registerable under patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property law anywhere in the world, made, authored, discovered, reduced to practice, conceived, created, developed or otherwise obtained by the Executive (alone or jointly with others) during the Executive’s employment with the Affiliated Group, and arising from or relating to such employment or the business of the Affiliated Group (whether during business hours or otherwise, and whether on the premises of using the facilities or materials of the Affiliated Group or otherwise). The Executive shall promptly and fully disclose to the Affiliated Group and to no one else all Developments, and hereby assigns to the Affiliated Group without further compensation all right, title and interest the Executive has or may have in any Developments, and all patents, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights relating thereto, and agrees that the Executive has not acquired and shall not acquire any rights during the course of his employment with the Affiliated Group or thereafter with respect to any Developments.
Rights to Work Product The Employee agrees that all work performed by the Employee pursuant hereto shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, in whatever stage of development or completion. With respect to any copyrightable works prepared in whole or in part by the Employee pursuant to this Agreement, including compilations of lists or data, the Employee agrees that all such works will be prepared as “work-for-hire” within the meaning of the Copyright Act of 1976, as amended (the “Act”), of which the Company shall be considered the “author” within the meaning of the Act. In the event (and to the extent) that such works or any part or element thereof is found as a matter of law not to be a “work-for-hire” within the meaning of the Act, the Employee hereby assigns to the Company the sole and exclusive right, title and interest in and to all such works, and all copies of any of them, without further consideration, and agrees, to the extent reasonable under the circumstances, to cooperate with the Company to register, and from time to time to enforce, all patents, copyrights and other rights and protections relating to such works in any and all countries. To that end, the Employee agrees to execute and deliver all documents requested by the Company in connection therewith, and the Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company as the Employee’s agent and attorney-in-fact to act for and on behalf of the Employee and in the Employee’s stead to execute, register and file any such applications, and to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the registration, protection and issuance of patents, copyrights or similar protections with the same legal force and effect as if executed by the Employee. The Company shall reimburse the Employee for all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Employee pursuant to this Section 11.