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).
Licensed Technology (a) LICENSOR is not aware of any interference, infringement, misappropriation, or other conflict with any intellectual property rights of third parties, and LICENSOR has never received any charge, complaint, claim, demand, or notice alleging any such interference, infringement, misappropriation, or violation (including any claim that LICENSOR must license or refrain from using any intellectual property rights of any third party). To the knowledge of LICENSOR, no third party has interfered with, infringed upon, misappropriated, or otherwise come into conflict with any of the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY.
(b) Exhibit A identifies each patent or registration which has been issued to LICENSOR with respect to any of the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY and identifies each pending patent application or application for registration which LICENSOR has made with respect to any of the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY. LICENSEE acknowledges that LICENSOR has previously made available to LICENSEE correct and complete copies of all such patents, registrations and applications (as amended to-date) in LICENSOR’s possession and has made available to LICENSEE correct and complete copies of all other written documentation in LICENSOR’s possession evidencing ownership and prosecution (if applicable) of each such item.
(c) Exhibit A identifies each item of LICENSED TECHNOLOGY that is assigned to LICENSOR or that LICENSOR uses pursuant to license, sublicense, agreement, or permission. LICENSOR has made available to LICENSEE correct and complete copies of all such licenses, sublicenses, agreements, patent prosecution files and permissions (as amended to-date) in LICENSOR’s possession. With respect to each item of LICENSED TECHNOLOGY required to be identified in Exhibit A and to the knowledge of LICENSOR: (i) the license, sublicense, agreement, or permission covering the item is legal, valid, binding, enforceable, and in full force and effect; (ii) the license, sublicense, agreement, or permission will continue to be legal, valid, binding, enforceable, and in full force and effect on identical terms following the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby; (iii) no Party to the license, sublicense, agreement, or permission is in breach or default, and no event has occurred which with notice or lapse of time would constitute a breach or default or permit termination, modification, or acceleration thereunder; (iv) no party to the license, sublicense, agreement, or permission has repudiated any provision thereof; (v) the underlying item of LICENSED TECHNOLOGY is not subject to any outstanding lien or encumbrance, injunction, judgment, order, decree, ruling, or charge; (vi) no action, suit, proceeding, hearing, investigation, charge, complaint, claim, or demand is pending or is threatened which challenges the legality, validity, or enforceability of the underlying item of LICENSED TECHNOLOGY; and (vii) except as provided in Exhibit A, LICENSOR has not granted any license or similar right to the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY within the GENERAL FIELD or PARTHENOGENESIS FIELD.
Patent/Copyright Materials/Proprietary Infringement Unless otherwise expressly provided in this Contract, Contractor shall be solely responsible for clearing the right to use any patented or copyrighted materials in the performance of this Contract. Contractor warrants that any software as modified through services provided hereunder will not infringe upon or violate any patent, proprietary right or trade secret right of any third party. Contractor agrees that, in accordance with the more specific requirement contained in paragraph 18 below, it shall indemnify, defend and hold County and County Indemnitees harmless from any and all such claims and be responsible for payment of all costs, damages, penalties and expenses related to or arising from such claim(s), including, but not limited to, attorney’s fees, costs and expenses.
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.
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.
Foreground IP The following subparagraphs of this paragraph e shall not apply to any Services to the extent their development was funded by the U.S. Government.
i. All IP conceived, developed, or first reduced to practice by, for, or with Seller, either alone or with others, in performance of this Contract (collectively, “Foreground IP”) shall be the exclusive property of Buyer. To the extent Foreground IP consists of works of authorship, such works shall be works made for hire with the copyrights vesting in Buyer. Seller hereby transfers, conveys, and assigns all right, title and interest in such Foreground IP free of charge to Buyer. Seller hereby irrevocably transfers, conveys, and assigns all right, title and interest in any other Foreground IP not considered a work made for hire free of charge to Buyer. Seller shall protect Foreground IP that is Proprietary Information and Materials as required by this Contract and shall mark documents or portions of documents containing Foreground IP as “Boeing Proprietary” information or as otherwise directed by Xxxxx in writing.
ii. Seller will, 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, 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. 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.
iii. Buyer grants to Seller a non-exclusive, royalty-free right during the term of this Contract to use, reproduce, modify, practice and prepare derivative works of any Foreground IP solely as necessary for Seller to perform its obligations under this Contract, except that, notwithstanding the foregoing, Seller may use and disclose Proprietary Information and Materials as permitted under this Contract. Seller shall not, without Buyer’s prior written consent, use Foreground IP or such derivative works in any manner not authorized under this Contract, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing, obtaining a certification to manufacture, offering for sale or selling any product, equipment, or service which utilizes or is enabled by Foreground IP.
Background Technology List here prior contracts to assign Inventions that are now in existence between any other person or entity and you.
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.
Background IP As between the Parties, each Party will retain all right, title and interest in and to all of its Background IP.
Intellectual Property; Software Other than as set forth on Schedule 5.12:
(a) There are no Copyrights, Patent Rights and Trademarks (including any assumed or fictitious names used by the Company within the previous two (2) years) owned by or licensed to the Company.
(b) There is no Software owned by or licensed to the Company except for mass market Software licensed to the Company that is commercially available and subject to “shrink-wrap” or “click-through” license agreements.
(c) The Company is not a party to Contracts which relate to: (i) any Copyrights, Patent Rights or Trademarks; (ii) any Trade Secrets owned by or licensed to the Company; and (iii) any Software, other than market Software licensed to the Company that is commercially available and subject to “shrink-wrap” or “click-through” license agreements.
(d) The Company owns the entire right, title and interest in and to, or has the valid and enforceable right to use, the Intellectual Property and Software used in the Business as currently conducted, and to the Knowledge of Seller there is no other Intellectual Property necessary for the Company to conduct the Business as currently conducted.
(i) No infringement, misappropriation or violation of any Intellectual Property, or any rights of publicity or privacy relating to the use of names, likenesses, voices, signatures or biographical information, of any other Person has occurred or results in any way from the operation of the Business or the use, sale or distribution of any Intellectual Property owned by or licensed exclusively to the Company; (ii) no claim of any infringement, misappropriation, violation or dilution of any Intellectual Property or any such rights of any other Person has been made or asserted in respect of the operation of the Business; (iii) no claim of invalidity of any Intellectual Property owned by the Company has been made by any other Person; (iv) no Proceedings are pending or, to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened that challenge the validity, ownership or use of any Intellectual Property owned by the Company; (v) the Company has not had notice of, and, to the Knowledge of Seller, there is no basis for, a claim against the Company that the operations, activities, products, Software, equipment or processes of the Business infringe, misappropriate, violate or dilute any Intellectual Property or any such rights of any other Person; and (vi) to the Knowledge of Seller, no Person infringes, misappropriates or violates any Intellectual Property owned or exclusively licensed by or to Seller, in each case except as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
