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By Inventorship Sample Clauses

By Inventorship. Except as set forth in Section 8.1(b), and Section 8.1(c) below, ownership of all Inventions shall be based on inventorship, as determined in accordance with the rules of inventorship under United States patent laws. Each Party shall solely own any Inventions made solely by its and its Affiliates’ and sublicensees’ employees, agents, or independent contractors (“Sole Invention”). The Parties shall jointly own any Inventions that are made jointly by employees, agents, or independent contractors of one Party and its Affiliates and sublicensees together with employees, agents, or independent contractors of the other Party and its Affiliates and sublicensees (“Joint Invention”). All (i) Know-How developed jointly by employees, agents, or independent contractors of one Party and its Affiliates and sublicensees together with employees, agents, or independent contractors of the other Party and its Affiliates and sublicensees and (ii) Patent Rights claiming patentable Joint Inventions shall be referred to herein as “Joint Know-How” or “Joint Patent Rights”, respectively. Except to the extent either Party is restricted by the licenses granted to the other Party under this Agreement, or pursuant to Section 3.6, each Party shall be entitled to practice, license (through multiple tiers), assign and otherwise exploit the Joint Inventions and Joint Patent Rights in all countries and jurisdictions without the duty of accounting or seeking consent from the other Party.
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By Inventorship. For purposes of determining ownership under this Section 10.1.2 (By Inventorship), inventorship will be determined in accordance with United States patent laws (regardless of where the applicable activities occurred).
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By Inventorship. Ownership of any invention, discovery or Know-How that is discovered, generated, conceived, or reduced to practice (constructively or actually) by or on behalf of a Party or any of its Affiliates or any of its or their Sublicensees in the performance of activities under this Agreement, and all intellectual property rights therein (“Inventions”) will be based on inventorship, as determined in accordance with the Applicable Law of inventorship in the United States. The Parties will work together to resolve any issues regarding inventorship or ownership of Inventions. Subject to Section 12.7(d), ownership of Inventions will be allocated as follows: (i) Each Party shall solely and exclusively own all right, title and interest in Inventions that are discovered, generated, conceived or reduced to practice (constructively or actually) solely by or on behalf of such Party, which, for clarity, include any Inventions discovered, generated, conceived or reduced to practice solely by any of such Party’s or its or their Affiliate’s employees, agents, or independent contractors, or any combination of any of the foregoing;
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By Inventorship. Except as set forth in Section 10.1(b), Section 10.1(c) and Section 10.1(d) below, ownership of all Inventions shall be based on inventorship, as determined in accordance with the rules of inventorship under United States patent laws. Each Party shall solely own any Inventions made solely by its and its Affiliates’ and Sublicensees’ employees, agents, or independent contractors (“Sole Inventions”). The Parties shall jointly own any Inventions that are made jointly by employees, agents, or independent contractors of one Party and its Affiliates and Sublicensees together with employees, agents, or independent [*] = Certain confidential information contained in this document, marked by brackets, has been omitted because it is both (i) not material and (ii) would be competitively harmful if publicly disclosed.
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By Inventorship. Except as set forth in this Section 10.1(a) and Section 10.2 below, ownership of all Inventions shall be based on inventorship, as determined in accordance with the rules of inventorship under United States patent laws. Each Party shall solely own any Inventions made solely by it and its Affiliates’, licensees’ and sublicensees’ employees, agents, or contractors (“Sole Inventions”). The Parties shall jointly own any Inventions that are made jointly by employees, agents, or contractors of one Party and its Affiliates, licensees or sublicensees together with employees, agents, or independent contractors of the other Party and its
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By Inventorship. Except as set forth in Section 10.1(b) below, ownership of all Inventions shall be based on inventorship, as determined in accordance with the rules of inventorship under United States patent laws. Each Party shall solely own any Inventions made solely by its and its Affiliates’ and Sublicensees’ employees, agents, or independent contractors (“Sole Inventions”). Without limiting the foregoing, Pfizer shall solely own all Pfizer [*] = Certain confidential information contained in this document, marked by brackets, has been omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 24b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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By Inventorship. Except as set forth in Section 10.1(b) (Assignment by Biogen) and Section 10.1(c) (Assignment by Sangamo) below, ownership of all Inventions shall be based on inventorship, as determined in accordance with the Laws of inventorship in the United States. and (i) each Party shall solely own any Inventions made solely by its and its Affiliates’ and Sublicensees’ employees, agents, or independent contractors and (ii) the Parties shall jointly own any Inventions that are made jointly by employees, agents or independent contractors of one Party and its Affiliates and sublicensees together with employees, agents, or independent contractors of the other Party and its Affiliates and sublicensees. Except to the extent either Party is restricted by the licenses granted to the other Party under this Agreement, each Party shall be entitled to practice, license (through multiple tiers), assign and otherwise exploit the Joint Technology [*] in all countries and jurisdictions without the duty of accounting or seeking consent from the other Party. Each Party will grant and hereby does grant to the other Party all further permissions, consents and waivers with respect to, and all licenses under, the Joint Technology, throughout the world necessary to provide the other Party with full rights of use and Exploitation of the Joint Technology.
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Related to By Inventorship

  • Inventorship Inventorship for patentable inventions conceived or reduced to practice during the course of the performance of activities pursuant to this Agreement shall be determined in accordance with United States patent laws for determining inventorship.

  • Joint Inventions For Subject Inventions conceived or first actually reduced to practice under this Agreement that are joint Subject Inventions made by CONTRACTOR and USER, each Party shall have the option to elect and retain title to its undivided rights in such joint Subject Inventions.

  • 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).

  • Inventions and Patents For purposes of this Agreement, “Inventions” includes, without limitation, information, inventions, contributions, improvements, ideas, or discoveries, whether protectable or not, and whether or not conceived or made during work hours. Executive agrees that all Inventions conceived or made by Executive during the period of employment with Employer belong to Employer, provided they grow out of Executive’s work with Employer or are related in some manner to the Business, including, without limitation, research and product development, and projected business of Employer or its affiliated companies. Accordingly, Executive will: a. Make adequate written records of such Inventions, which records will be Employer’s property; b. Assign to Employer, at its request, any rights Executive may have to such Inventions for the U.S. and all foreign countries; c. Waive and agree not to assert any moral rights Executive may have or acquire in any Inventions and agree to provide written waivers from time to time as requested by Employer; and d. Assist Employer (at Employer’s expense) in obtaining and maintaining patents or copyright registrations with respect to such Inventions. Executive understands and agrees that Employer or its designee will determine, in its sole and absolute discretion, whether an application for patent will be filed on any Invention that is the exclusive property of Employer, as set forth above, and whether such an application will be abandoned prior to issuance of a patent. Employer will pay to Executive, either during or after the term of this Agreement, the following amounts if Executive is sole inventor, or Executive’s proportionate share if Executive is joint inventor: $750 upon filing of the initial application for patent on such Invention; and $1,500 upon issuance of a patent resulting from such initial patent application, provided Executive is named as an inventor in the patent. Executive further agrees that Executive will promptly disclose in writing to Employer during the term of Executive’s employment and for one (1) year thereafter, all Inventions whether developed during the time of such employment or thereafter (whether or not Employer has rights in such Inventions) so that Executive’s rights and Employer’s rights in such Inventions can be determined. Except as set forth on the initialed Exhibit B (List of Inventions) to this Agreement, if any, Executive represents and warrants that Executive has no Inventions, software, writings or other works of authorship useful to Employer in the normal course of the Business, which were conceived, made or written prior to the date of this Agreement and which are excluded from the operation of this Agreement.

  • Licensed Patents Immune Design, at its expense, shall have the first right to file, prosecute and maintain all Licensed Patents for which Immune Design has any exclusive rights under this Agreement using patent counsel reasonably approved by IDRI, including conducting any interferences, reexaminations, reissues, oppositions, or request for patent term extension relating thereto. Immune Design shall conduct such filing, prosecution and maintenance in good faith, taking into consideration IDRI’s retained rights hereunder, and consistent with reasonable business judgment, provide IDRI with all relevant or material documentation and proposed filing in the Territory so that IDRI may be concurrently and promptly informed of the continuing prosecution, and consult with IDRI with regards to Immune Design’s patent strategy with the Licensed Patents for which Immune Design has any exclusive rights under this Agreement. Licensed Patents in the name of IDRI shall remain in the name of IDRI. Immune Design shall use commercially reasonable efforts to ***, as applicable. To the extent such ***, Immune Design shall provide IDRI reasonable opportunity to review and comment on such prosecution efforts regarding such Licensed Patents in the Territory, and any IDRI comments will be reasonably considered in such prosecution efforts, and included to the extent affecting the IDRI Exclusive Field or IDRI Territory, as the case may be. If Immune Design determines in its sole discretion to abandon or not maintain any Licensed Patent for which Immune Design has any exclusive rights under this Agreement in the Territory, then Immune Design shall promptly provide IDRI with written notice of such determination at least sixty (60) days before any deadline for taking action to avoid abandonment and shall provide IDRI with the right, opportunity and reasonable assistance to prepare, file, prosecute and maintain such Licensed Patent in the applicable jurisdiction in IDRI’s sole discretion and at IDRI’s expense, provided that Immune Design shall provide such reasonable assistance at its own costs and expenses. If IDRI elects to prepare, file, prosecute and maintain such Licensed Patent in such jurisdiction for which Immune Design has any exclusive rights, then Immune Design’s license rights to such Licensed Patent in such country will become nonexclusive in such country under such Licensed Patent (and/or patent application). If IDRI desires Immune Design to file, in a particular jurisdiction, a Licensed Patent for which Immune Design has any exclusive rights under this Agreement that claims priority to another Licensed Patent for which Immune Design has any exclusive rights under this Agreement, IDRI shall provide written notice to Immune Design requesting that Immune Design file such patent application in such jurisdiction. If IDRI provides such written notice to Immune Design, Immune Design shall either (i) file and prosecute such patent application and maintain any patent issuing thereon in such jurisdiction and the Parties shall share the related costs and expenses (A) in countries *** on the basis of *** percent (***%) Immune Design: *** percent (***%) IDRI or (B) in countries within the IDRI Territory equally; or (ii) notify IDRI that Immune Design does not desire to file such patent application in such jurisdiction and provide IDRI with the opportunity to file and prosecute such patent application, provided that if IDRI files and prosecutes such patent application in such jurisdiction, then Immune Design’s license rights to such License Patent in such country will become nonexclusive in such country under such Licensed GLA Patent (and/or patent application). Immune Design shall be responsible for the costs and expenses incurred in connection with its own activities for filing, prosecuting and maintaining the Licensed Patents; IDRI shall be responsible for monitoring of such activities by IDRI.

  • Patent Rights The State and the U. S. Department of Transportation shall have the royalty free, nonexclusive and irrevocable right to use and to authorize others to use any patents developed by the Engineer under this contract.

  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS - INVENTION AND PATENT RIGHTS A. General 1. NASA has determined that 51 U.S.C. § 20135(b) does not apply to this Agreement. Therefore, title to inventions made (conceived or first actually reduced to practice) under this Agreement remain with the respective inventing party(ies). No invention or patent rights are exchanged or granted under this Agreement, except as provided herein.

  • Joint Patents Except as otherwise provided in this Section 7.3(b), the JSC shall entrust one Party with the right and authority, to prosecute and maintain the Joint Patents on a worldwide basis at its sole discretion herein referred to as an “Entrusted Party” (subject to this Section 7.3(b)). The Entrusted Party shall provide the other party reasonable opportunity to review and comment on such prosecution efforts regarding such Joint Patents. The Entrusted Party shall provide the other party with a copy of material communications from any patent authority regarding such Joint Patents, and shall provide the other party with drafts of any material filings or responses to be made to such patent authorities a reasonable amount of time in advance of submitting such filings or responses. If one Party (the “First Party”) determines in its sole discretion to abandon or not maintain any Patent within the Joint Patents anywhere in the world, then such Party shall provide the other Party (the “Second Party”) with thirty (30) days’ prior written notice of such determination (or such longer period of time reasonably necessary to allow the other party to assume such responsibilities) and shall provide the Second Party with the opportunity to prosecute and maintain such Patent at the Second Party’s sole expense, and if the Second Party so requests, the First Party shall assign such Patent to the Second Party (if the Second Party is Rhizen, such Patent shall be included in the Rhizen Patents or if the Second Party is TGTX, in which case such patent will be included in the TGTX Patents). If one Party (the “First Party”) desires to file, in a particular jurisdiction, a patent application that claims priority from a Patent within the Joint Patents, the First Party shall provide written notice to the other Party (the “Second Party”) of such desire. Within fifteen (15) days of such written notice, the Second Party shall provide written notice to the First Party as to whether the Second Party agrees to file a patent application in such jurisdiction or not. In the event the Second Party agrees to such a filing, the Entrusted Party shall file such patent application in such jurisdiction. In the event the Second Party does not desire to file in such jurisdiction, the Second Party shall (i) provide the First Party with the opportunity to file and prosecute such patent application and maintain any patent issuing therefrom, and (ii) assign such patent application or a right to file such patent application to the First Party; and the First Party may file such patent application in such jurisdiction at its sole expense (in which case such Patent shall be included in the respective Party’s Patents).

  • Licensed Patent Rights The Licensee shall indemnify and hold the IC, its employees, students, fellows, agents, and consultants harmless from and against all liability, demands, damages, expenses, and losses, including but not limited to death, personal injury, illness, or property damage in connection with or arising out of:

  • Patents and Inventions The Contractor shall promptly and fully report to the Department any discovery or invention arising out of or developed in the course of performance of this Agreement. If the services under this Agreement are supported by a federal grant of funds, the Contractor shall promptly and fully report to the federal government for the federal government to make a determination as to whether patent protection on such invention shall be sought and how the rights in the invention or discovery, including rights under any patent issued thereon, shall be disposed of and administered in order to protect the public interest.

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