Patents and Patent Applications To the Company’s knowledge, all patents and patent applications owned by or licensed to the Company or under which the Company has rights have been duly and properly filed and maintained; to the knowledge of the Company, the parties prosecuting such applications have complied with their duty of candor and disclosure to the USPTO in connection with such applications; and the Company is not aware of any facts required to be disclosed to the USPTO that were not disclosed to the USPTO and which could reasonably be expected to preclude the grant of a patent in connection with any such application or could reasonably be expected to form the basis of a finding of invalidity with respect to any patents that have issued with respect to such applications.
Other Patents and Copyrights 10 5.7. Remedies........................................................10 ARTICLE VI
Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Licenses All patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, service xxxx applications, copyrights, copyright applications, design rights, tradenames, assumed names, trade secrets and licenses owned or utilized by any Borrower are set forth on Schedule 5.9, are valid and have been duly registered or filed with all appropriate Governmental Bodies and constitute all of the intellectual property rights which are necessary for the operation of its business; there is no objection to or pending challenge to the validity of any such patent, trademark, copyright, design rights, tradename, trade secret or license and no Borrower is aware of any grounds for any challenge, except as set forth in Schedule 5.9 hereto. Each patent, patent application, patent license, trademark, trademark application, trademark license, service xxxx, service xxxx application, service xxxx license, design rights, copyright, copyright application and copyright license owned or held by any Borrower and all trade secrets used by any Borrower consist of original material or property developed by such Borrower or was lawfully acquired by such Borrower from the proper and lawful owner thereof. Each of such items has been maintained so as to preserve the value thereof from the date of creation or acquisition thereof. With respect to all software used by any Borrower, such Borrower is in possession of all source and object codes related to each piece of software or is the beneficiary of a source code escrow agreement, each such source code escrow agreement being listed on Schedule 5.9 hereto.
Ownership of Ideas Copyrights and Patents You agree that all ideas, discoveries, creations, manuscripts and properties, innovations, improvements, know-how, inventions, developments, apparatus, techniques, methods, and formulae (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as "the inventions") which may be used in the business of the Company, whether patentable, copyrightable or not, which you may conceive or develop during your term of employment with the Company, alone or in conjunction with another, or others, whether during or out of regular business hours, and whether at the request, or upon the suggestion of the Company, or otherwise, shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and that you shall not publish any of the inventions without the prior consent of the Company. You hereby assign to the Company all of your right, title and interest in and to all of the foregoing. You further represent and agree that to the best of your knowledge and belief none of the inventions will violate or infringe upon any right, patent, copyright, trademark or right of privacy, or constitute libel or slander against or violate any other rights of any person, firm or corporation, and that you will use your best efforts to prevent any such violation. At any time during or after your term of employment with the Company, you agree that you will fully cooperate with the Company, its attorneys and agents, in the preparation and filing of all papers and other documents as may be required to perfect the Company's rights in and to any of such inventions, including, but not limited to, joining in any proceeding to obtain letters patent, copyrights, trademarks or other legal rights of the United States and of any and all other countries on such inventions, provided that the Company will bear the expense of such proceedings, and that any patent or other legal right so issued to you, personally, shall be assigned by you to the Company without charge by you.
Inventions and Patents 6.1 The Executive agrees that all processes, technologies and inventions (collectively, "Inventions"), including new contributions, improvements, ideas and discoveries, whether patentable or not, conceived, developed, invented or made by him during the Term shall belong to the Company, provided that such Inventions grew out of the Executive's work with the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, are related in any manner to the business (commercial or experimental) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or are conceived or made on the Company's time or with the use of the Company's facilities or materials. The Executive shall further: (a) promptly disclose such Inventions to the Company; (b) assign to the Company, without additional compensation, all patent and other rights to such Inventions for the United States and foreign countries; (c) sign all papers necessary to carry out the foregoing; and (d) give testimony in support of the Executive's inventorship.
Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights (i) If applicable, the Grantor has duly executed and delivered the Collateral Assignment for Security (Trademarks) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, the Collateral Assignment for Security (Patents) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B or the Collateral Assignment for Security (Copyrights) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C. The Grantor (either itself or through licensees) will, and will cause each licensee thereof to, take all action necessary to maintain all of the Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights in full force and effect, including, without limitation, using the proper statutory notices and markings and using the Trademarks on each applicable trademark class of goods in order to so maintain the Trademarks in full force free from any claim of abandonment for non-use, and the Grantor will not (and will not permit any licensee thereof to) do any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby any Trademark, Patent or Copyright may become invalidated; provided, however, that so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Grantor shall have no obligation to use or to maintain any Trademark, Patent or Copyright (A) that relates solely to any product or work that has been, or is in the process of being, discontinued, abandoned or terminated, (B) that is being replaced with a trademark, patent or copyright substantially similar to the Trademark, Patent or Copyright, as the case may be, that may be abandoned or otherwise become invalid, so long as such replacement Trademark, Patent or Copyright, as the case may be, is subject to the security interest purported to be created by this Agreement, (C) that is substantially the same as another Trademark, Patent or Copyright that is in full force, so long as such other Trademark, Patent or Copyright, as the case may be, is subject to the Lien and security interest created by this Agreement, or (D) that is not necessary for the operation of the Grantor's business and is discontinued or disposed of in the ordinary course of business. The Grantor will cause to be taken all necessary steps in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United
Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Licenses, Etc Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary of each Loan Party owns or possesses all the material patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses, registrations, franchises, permits and rights necessary to own and operate its properties and to carry on its business as presently conducted and planned to be conducted by such Loan Party or Subsidiary, without known possible, alleged or actual conflict with the rights of others.
Trademarks, Patents, Etc (a) Schedule 4.8(a) contains a true and complete list of all letters patent, patent applications, trade names, trademarks, service marks, trademark and service xxxx registrations and applications, copyrights, copyright registrations and applications, grants of a license or right to the Company with respect to the foregoing, both domestic and foreign, claimed by either Company or used or proposed to be used by the Company in the conduct of its business, whether registered or not, (collectively herein, "Registered Rights").
Intellectual Property, Inventions and Patents Executive acknowledges that all discoveries, concepts, ideas, inventions, innovations, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, drawings, reports, patent applications, copyrightable work and mask work (whether or not including any confidential information) and all registrations or applications related thereto, all other proprietary information and all similar or related information (whether or not patentable) which relate to Parent’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ actual or anticipated business, research and development or existing or future products or services and which are conceived, developed or made by Executive (whether alone or jointly with others) while employed by the Company and its Subsidiaries, whether before or after the date of this Agreement (“Work Product”), belong to Parent, the Company or such Subsidiary. Executive shall promptly disclose such Work Product to the Board and, at the Company’s expense, perform all actions reasonably requested by the Board (whether during or after the Employment Period) to establish and confirm such ownership (including, without limitation, assignments, consents, powers of attorney and other instruments).
Trademarks and Patents Debtor shall maintain all of its trademarks, trademark rights, patents, patent rights, licenses, permits, tradenames, tradename rights, and approvals, if any, in full force and effect until their respective expiration dates.
