Employment Inventions. Executive agrees to promptly disclose to the Company the existence, use, and/or manner of operation of any and all Employment Inventions. Executive acknowledges and agrees that all Employment Inventions are the sole and exclusive property of the Company. Executive hereby assigns to the Company any and all copyrights, patent rights, trade secrets, and other rights that Executive may have in any Employment Invention. Executive agrees to take all actions reasonably requested by the Company, both during and after the term of Executive’s employment, to assign to the Company and to establish, perfect, exercise or protect the Company’s rights in any Employment Inventions or title thereto, including without limitation, assisting in obtaining or registering copyrights, patents, trademarks or similar intellectual property rights and executing assignments to the Company. If the Company is unable, because of Executive’s mental or physical incapacity, geographic distance or for any other reason, to obtain Executive’s approval or signature on any document necessary or useful to claim, secure, extend, protect or enforce any right in intellectual property to which the Company has a reasonable claim, then Executive hereby appoints the Company and its duly authorized officers as Executive’s agent and attorney-in-fact to act for Executive for the purpose of accomplishing such act with the same legal force and effect as if executed by Executive. Executive will not incorporate any inventions, discoveries, ideas, original works of authorship, developments, improvements, trade secrets and other proprietary information or intellectual property rights owned by any third party into any Invention without the Company’s prior written permission.
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Samples: Executive Employment Agreement (Vivint Solar, Inc.), Executive Employment Agreement (Vivint Solar, Inc.), Executive Employment Agreement (Vivint Solar, Inc.)