Assignment of Inventions and Copyrights Sample Clauses

Assignment of Inventions and Copyrights. (a) For the purposes of this Agreement, “Inventions in the Field” shall mean any newly created document, recording or material, discovery, process, design, development, improvement, application, technique, or invention, whether patentable or copyrightable or not, but specifically including anything that is patentable or copyrightable, and whether reduced to practice or not, conceived or made by Executive individually or jointly with others (whether on or off the Company’s premises or during or after normal working hours) while in the employ of the Company, and which was or is directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or its affiliates and subsidiaries, or which resulted or results from any work performed by any employee or agent thereof during the Term or for one (1) year after termination of Executive’s employment under this Agreement for any reason.
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Assignment of Inventions and Copyrights. Contracted Consultant agrees that he/she will promptly make full written disclosure to the Company, will hold in trust for the sole right and benefit of the Company, and hereby assigns to the Company, or its designee, all Contracted Consultant’s right, title and interest throughout the world in and to any and all inventions, original works of authorship, graphics, icons, logos, layouts, such other works of art, concepts, know-how, improvements or trade secrets, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar laws, relating to LCMD business, which Contracted Consultant may solely or jointly conceive or develop or reduce to practice, or cause to be conceived or developed or reduced to practice, during the period of time in which Contracted Consultant is employed by or a Contracted Consultant of the Company (collectively referred to as “Inventions”). Contracted Consultant further acknowledges that all inventions, original works of authorship, developments, concepts, know-how, improvements or trade secrets which are made by Contracted Consultant (solely or jointly with others) within the scope of LCMD business and during the period of Contracted Consultant’s Relationship with the Company are “works made for hire” (to the greatest extent permitted by applicable law) and are compensated by Contracted Consultant’s salary and any stock options or by such amounts paid to Contracted Consultant under any applicable consulting agreement or consulting arrangements, unless regulated otherwise by the mandatory law of the state of California.
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Assignment of Inventions and Copyrights. (a) Executive hereby irrevocably assigns to the Company and its successors, assigns, and legal representatives: (i) Except as provided by any statutory notice provided herewith, the entire right, title and interest to all Inventions;
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Assignment of Inventions and Copyrights. You hereby assign, transfer and release, without royalty or any other consideration except as expressly set forth herein, all worldwide right, title and interest you may have or acquire (including copyright and “moral rights”) in and to all work product, inventions, discoveries, know-how, processes, data and other items (“Materials”) resulting from your services under this Agreement. To the extent any Materials are not assignable, you waive, disclaim and agree that you will not enforce against ServiceMaster any rights you may have to such Materials.
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Assignment of Inventions and Copyrights. In further consideration of your employment with Ashton, you agree that any and all copyrights, inventions, improvements, discoveries, processes, methodologies, tools or systems authored, developed and discovered by you during and as a result of your employment with Ashton shall be fully disclosed to the officer in charge of Ashton Management Consulting Services, and the same shall be the sole and absolute property of Ashton; and upon the request of Ashton, you shall execute, acknowledge and deliver such assignments and other documents as Ashton may consider necessary or appropriate to vest all rights, titles and interests therein to Ashton. You further agree that Ashton during the term of this Agreement may, with your written permission (such permission not to be unreasonably withheld) use your image as appropriate in the conduct of its business. The Advanced Pattern Recognition Technology that you refer to as the "Star Algorithm," invented by you prior to employment by UTTC, and which is based on a cohort clustering technique and dual-threaded normalization, shall not be subject to any form of assignment (as described in this section).
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Assignment of Inventions and Copyrights. In further consideration of --------------------------------------- employment under this Agreement, Employee agrees that any and all copyrights, inventions, improvements, discoveries or processes authored, developed or discovered by Employee as a result of Employee's employment with the Company shall be fully disclosed to the Company and the same shall be the sole and absolute property of A. T. Xxxxxxx; and upon the request of A. T. Xxxxxxx, Employee shall execute, acknowledge and deliver such assignments and other documents as A. T. Xxxxxxx may consider necessary or appropriate to vest all rights, titles
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Assignment of Inventions and Copyrights. (a) Consultant hereby agrees that any and all inventions, improvements, concepts, ideas, trademarks, innovations, products, trade secrets, methods, processes, patents, applications and other intellectual property rights, whether patentable or otherwise registrable or not, which Consultant may invent, discover, originate, develop, make or conceive during the course of rendering the Services, either solely or jointly with others (the “Inventions”), shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company. (b) Consultant, without additional consideration, hereby sells, assigns, transfers and sets over to the Company, its successors, assigns, or nominees, as the case may be, all of Consultant’s right, title, and interest in and to any Inventions, whether patentable or otherwise registrable or not, and in and to all income, royalties, damages, claims and payments now or hereafter due or payable with respect thereto, and in and to all causes of action, either in law or in equity for past, present, or future infringement of the Inventions, and in and to all rights corresponding to the foregoing throughout the world. Consultant agrees, upon the request and at the expense of the Company or any person or entity to whom the Company may have granted or grants rights, to execute any and all applications, assignments, instruments, papers and other documents, which the Company shall deem necessary or desirable for the protection or perfection of such rights, including the execution of new, divisional, continuing, and reissue patent applications, to make all rightful oaths, to testily in any proceeding in the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office or in the courts, and generally to do everything lawfully possible to aid the Company, its successors, assigns, and nominees to obtain, enjoy, and enforce proper patent or other protection in the United States and in foreign countries for the Inventions assigned under this Agreement. Consultant hereby appoints the Company as his attorney-in-fact to execute on his behalf any assignment or other documents deemed necessary by the Company to protect or perfect its rights to any Inventions. (c) Consultant agrees that all written works created in the course of providing the Services are hereby deemed a “work made for hire” as defined in 17 U.S.C. § 101 for the Company. If, for any reason, any of the written works created in the course of providing the Services do not constitute a “work made for hire,” Consultant hereby irrevocably assigns to...
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Assignment of Inventions and Copyrights. In further consideration of the --------------------------------------- grant to Employee of Restricted Stock Units under the SIP, Employee agrees that any and all copyrights, inventions, improvements, discoveries or processes authored, developed or discovered by Employee as a result of Employee's employment with the Company shall be fully disclosed to the Company and the same shall be the sole and absolute property of A.T. Xxxxxxx; and upon the request of A.T. Xxxxxxx, Employee shall execute, acknowledge and deliver such assignments and other documents as A.T. Xxxxxxx may consider necessary or appropriate to vest all rights, titles and interests therein to A.T. Xxxxxxx. Employee further agrees that A.T. Kearney may, with Employee's written permission (such permission not to be unreasonably withheld), use Employee's image as appropriate in the conduct of its business.
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  • Assignment of Inventions Subject to Sections 2.4, and 2.6, I hereby assign and agree to assign in the future (when any such Inventions or Proprietary Rights are first reduced to practice or first fixed in a tangible medium, as applicable) to the Company all my right, title and interest in and to any and all Inventions (and all Proprietary Rights with respect thereto) whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar statutes, made or conceived or reduced to practice or learned by me, either alone or jointly with others, during the period of my employment with the Company. Inventions assigned to the Company, or to a third party as directed by the Company pursuant to this Section 2, are hereinafter referred to as “Company Inventions.”

  • Assignment of Company Inventions Inventions assigned to the Company or to a third party as directed by the Company pursuant to the subsection titled Government or Third Party are referred to in this Agreement as “Company Inventions.” Subject to the subsection titled Government or Third Party and except for Inventions that I can prove qualify fully under the provisions of California Labor Code section 2870 and I have set forth in Exhibit A, I hereby assign and agree to assign in the future (when any such Inventions or Intellectual Property Rights are first reduced to practice or first fixed in a tangible medium, as applicable) to Company all my right, title, and interest in and to any and all Inventions (and all Intellectual Property Rights with respect thereto) made, conceived, reduced to practice, or learned by me, either alone or with others, during the period of my employment by Company. Any assignment of Inventions (and all Intellectual Property Rights with respect thereto) hereunder includes an assignment of all Moral Rights. To the extent such Moral Rights cannot be assigned to Company and to the extent the following is allowed by the laws in any country where Moral Rights exist, I hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waive the enforcement of such Moral Rights, and all claims and causes of action of any kind against Company or related to Company’s customers, with respect to such rights. I further acknowledge and agree that neither my successors-in-interest nor legal heirs retain any Moral Rights in any Inventions (and any Intellectual Property Rights with respect thereto).

  • PROPRIETARY RIGHTS; ASSIGNMENT All Employee Developments shall be made for hire by the Employee for the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. “Employee Developments” means any idea, discovery, invention, design, method, technique, improvement, enhancement, development, computer program, machine, algorithm or other work or authorship that (i) relates to the business or operations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, or (ii) results from or is suggested by any undertaking assigned to the Employee or work performed by the Employee for or on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, whether created alone or with others, during or after working hours. All Confidential Information and all Employee Developments shall remain the sole property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. The Employee shall acquire no proprietary interest in any Confidential Information or Employee Developments developed or acquired during the Term. To the extent the Employee may, by operation of law or otherwise, acquire any right, title or interest in or to any Confidential Information or Employee Development, the Employee hereby assigns to the Company all such proprietary rights. The Employee shall, both during and after the Term, upon the Company’s request, promptly execute and deliver to the Company all such assignments, certificates and instruments, and shall promptly perform such other acts, as the Company may from time to time in its discretion deem necessary or desirable to evidence, establish, maintain, perfect, enforce or defend the Company’s rights in Confidential Information and Employee Developments.

  • Inventions Assignment During the Employment Period, the Executive shall promptly disclose, grant and assign to the Company for its and its Affiliates’ sole use and benefit any and all inventions, improvements, technical information and suggestions reasonably relating to the business of the Company and its Affiliates (collectively, the “Inventions”) that the Executive may develop or acquire during the Employment Period (whether or not during usual working hours), together with all patent applications, letters patent, copyrights and reissues thereof that may at any time be granted for or with respect to the Inventions. In connection with the previous sentence, the Executive shall, at the expense of the Company, including a reasonable payment based on the Executive’s last per diem earnings with the Company for the time involved if (a) the Executive is not then in the Company’s employ, or (b) if the Executive is not then receiving severance payments pursuant to Section 8(b) above, or (c) if the Executive has not otherwise received one or more severance payments with respect to such period (whether on a lump sum, pre-paid, or accelerated basis or otherwise), (i) promptly execute and deliver such applications, assignments, descriptions and other instruments as may be necessary or proper in the opinion of the Company to vest title to the Inventions and any patent applications, patents, copyrights, reissues or other proprietary rights related thereto in the Company and to enable it to obtain and maintain the entire right and title thereto throughout the world, and (ii) render such reasonable assistance to the Company as may be required in the prosecution of applications for said patents, copyrights, reissues or other proprietary rights, in the prosecution or defense of interferences or infringements that may be declared involving any said applications, patents, copyrights or other proprietary rights and in any litigation in which the Company may be involved relating to the Inventions. The covenant contained in this Section 11 shall survive the termination or expiration of the Employment Period and any termination of this Agreement.

  • Disclosure and Assignment of Inventions The Executive understands that the Company engages in research and development and other activities in connection with its business and that, as an essential part of the Employment, the Executive is expected to make new contributions to and create inventions of value for the Company. From and after the Effective Date, the Executive shall disclose in confidence to the Company all inventions, improvements, designs, original works of authorship, formulas, processes, compositions of matter, computer software programs, databases, mask works and trade secrets (collectively, the “Inventions”), which the Executive may solely or jointly conceive or develop or reduce to practice, or cause to be conceived or developed or reduced to practice, during the period of the Executive’s Employment at the Company. The Executive acknowledges that copyrightable works prepared by the Executive within the scope of and during the period of the Executive’s Employment with the Company are “works for hire” and that the Company will be considered the author thereof. The Executive agrees that all the Inventions shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company and the Executive hereby assign all his/her right, title and interest in and to any and all of the Inventions to the Company or its successor in interest without further consideration.

  • Other Patents and Copyrights 12 5.7. Remedies.......................................................................... 12

  • Patents and Copyrights ‌ All services, information, computer program elements, reports and other deliverables which might be patented or copyrighted and created under this Contract are the property of the Department and shall not be used or released by the Consultant or any other person except with the prior written approval by the Department.

  • Intellectual Property Assignment The Assignor assigns to the Company, its successors and assigns, for good and sufficient consideration in connection with execution of the Operating Agreement dated DATE , the entire right, title and interest in Intellectual Property and the associated rights and causes of action (as defined below) relating to the Company. Assignor’s continuing membership in the Company is also conditioned on the assignment to the Company of Assignor’s rights in respect of any Intellectual Property created by Assignor during his/her term of membership in the Company.

  • Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights (a) Section 3.17 of the Seller Disclosure Schedule contains a true and complete list of Seller Intellectual Property and includes details of all due dates for further filings, maintenance, payments or other actions falling due within twelve (12) months of the Closing Date. All of Seller's patents, patent applications, registered trademarks, and trademark applications, and registered copyrights remain in good standing with all fees and filings due as of the Closing Date duly made and the due dates specified in the Seller Disclosure Schedule are accurate and complete. (b) The Seller Intellectual Property consists solely of items and rights which are: (i) owned by Seller; or (ii) rightfully used by Seller pursuant to a valid license ("SELLER LICENSED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY"), the parties and date of each such license agreement and each material agreement in which Seller is the licensor or owner of the subject rights in the agreement being set forth on Section 3.17(b) of the Seller Disclosure Schedule. Seller has all rights in Seller Intellectual Property necessary to carry out Seller's current activities (and had all rights necessary to carry out its former activities at the time such activities were being conducted), including without limitation, to the extent required to carry out such activities, rights to make, use, reproduce, modify, adopt, create derivative works based on, translate, distribute (directly and indirectly), transmit, display and perform publicly, license, rent and lease and, other than with respect to the Seller Licensed Intellectual Property, assign and sell, the Seller Intellectual Property. (c) The reproduction, manufacturing, distribution, licensing, sublicensing or sale of any Seller Intellectual Property, now used or offered or proposed for use, licensing or sale by Seller does not infringe on any patent, copyright, trademark, service xxxx, trade name, trade dress, firm name, Internet domain name, logo, trade dress, of any person and does not constitute a misappropriation of any trade secret. No claims (i) challenging the validity, effectiveness or ownership by Seller of any of the Seller Intellectual Property, or (ii) to the effect that the use, distribution, licensing, sublicensing or sale of the Seller Intellectual Property as now used or offered or proposed for use, licensing, sublicensing or sale by Seller infringes or will infringe on any intellectual property or other proprietary right of any person have been asserted or, to the knowledge of Seller, are threatened by any person or have been made or threatened by any person against the Seller's distributors. To the knowledge of Seller, there is no unauthorized use, infringement or misappropriation of any of the Seller Intellectual Property by any third party, employee or former employee. (d) All Seller Intellectual Property has been solely developed by full time employees within the scope of his or her employment with the Seller or within the scope of his or her employment with companies acquired by Seller prior to the date hereof. All employee contribution or participation in the conception and development of the Seller Intellectual Property on behalf of Seller constitutes work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment in accordance with applicable federal and state law that has accorded Seller ownership of all tangible and intangible property thereby arising. (e) Seller is not, nor as a result of the execution or delivery of this Agreement, or performance of Seller's obligations hereunder, will Seller be, in violation of any material license, sublicense, agreement or instrument to which Seller is a party or otherwise bound, nor will execution or delivery of this Agreement, or performance of Seller's obligations hereunder, cause the diminution, termination or forfeiture of any material Seller Intellectual Property. (f) Section 3.17(f) of the Seller Disclosure Schedule contains a true and complete list of all of Seller's internally-developed software programs ("SELLER SOFTWARE PROGRAMS"). Seller owns full and unencumbered right and good, valid and marketable title to such Seller Software Programs and all Seller Intellectual Property free and clear of all mortgages, pledges, liens, security interests, conditional sales agreements or encumbrances. (g) The Seller Software Programs (i) have been designed to ensure year 2000 compatibility, which includes, but is not limited to, being able to provide specific dates and calculate spans of dates within and between twentieth century and twenty-first century, prior to, including and following January 1, 2000; (ii) operate and will operate in accordance with their specifications and correctly process day and date calculations for dates prior and up to December 31, 1999, and on and after January 1, 2000, prior to, during and after the calendar year 2000; and (iii) shall not end abnormally or provide invalid or incorrect results as a result of date data, specifically including date data which represents or references different centuries or more than one century.

  • 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).

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