Common use of Enforcement and Defense of Licensed Patents, Joint Collaboration Patents and Shire Collaboration Patents Clause in Contracts

Enforcement and Defense of Licensed Patents, Joint Collaboration Patents and Shire Collaboration Patents. (i) Shire will have the first right (but not the obligation) to take the appropriate steps to enforce or defend any Patent within the Shire Collaboration Patents. Shire may take steps including the initiation, prosecution and control any suit, proceeding or other legal action by counsel of its own choice. Each of New River and Shire will bear the costs of such enforcement or defense [*]. Notwithstanding the foregoing, New River will have the right, at its own expense, to be represented in any such action by counsel of its own choice.