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Foreground IP This subparagraph d. shall not apply to unmodified commercial off‐the‐shelf Goods. If Goods are developed, modified or redesigned pursuant to this Order, then the paragraphs below apply. i. All Foreground IP shall be the exclusive property of Buyer except as set forth in subparagraph (iv) below. ii. Seller hereby irrevocably assigns to Buyer all right, title and interest in the Foreground IP for no additional charge. Seller shall protect Foreground IP as Proprietary Information and Materials under this Contract and shall mark documents or portions of documents containing Foreground IP as “ITT Proprietary” information or as otherwise directed by Xxxxx in writing. iii. Seller shall, within two (2) months after conception or first actual reduction to practice of any invention and prior to Contract completion, disclose in writing to Buyer all inventions assigned hereunder, whether or not patentable, in sufficient technical detail to clearly convey the invention to one skilled in the art to which the invention pertains. Seller shall promptly execute all written instruments, and assist as Buyer reasonably directs in order to file, acquire, prosecute, maintain, enforce and assign Buyer’s Foreground IP rights. If Seller does not or cannot execute instruments or assist Xxxxx as described above, Seller hereby irrevocably appoints Xxxxx and any of Buyer’s officers and agents as Xxxxxx’s attorney in fact to act on Xxxxxx’s behalf and instead of Seller, with the same legal force and effect as if executed by Xxxxxx, with respect to executing any such written instruments. iv. Subparagraphs ii. and iii. above shall not apply to any Foreground IP to the extent that the development of such Foreground IP was performed with funding received by Buyer under a U.S. Government procurement.