Common use of Employee's Assistance Clause in Contracts

Employee's Assistance. Employee agrees to assist Emulex in obtaining and/or maintaining patents, copyrights, mask work rights, and similar rights to any Creations assigned by Employee to Emulex if Emulex, in its sole discretion, requests such assistance. Employee shall sign all documents and do all other things deemed necessary by Emulex, at Emulex's expense, to obtain and/or maintain such rights, to assign them to Emulex, to defend them from invalidation, and to protect them against infringement by other parties. The obligations of this Paragraph are continuing and survive the termination of Employee's employment with Emulex. If Emulex requires Employee's assistance under this Paragraph after termination of employment with Emulex, Employee will be compensated for time actually spent in providing assistance at Employee's hourly pay rate at the date of Employee's termination.