Filing of Patent Application Sample Clauses

Filing of Patent Application. Within thirty (30) days of Sponsor receiving the Invention Notice, the Sponsor may send notice to UHN requiring UHN to cause filing of patent application(s) in respect of the Invention at Sponsor’s expense (in initial jurisdictions to be decided by the Parties) and Sponsor shall be further granted the “Option” further described in Section 7.4
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Filing of Patent Application. During the course of any such 30-day period, the Advisory Board or any Consortium Member shall provide notice to the Institute whether it desires that a patent application be filed on any invention disclosed in such materials. In the event that the Advisory Board or a Consortium Member desires that such a patent application be filed, the Institute agrees to withhold publication and disclosure of such materials until the occurrence of the first of the following: (i) filing of a patent application covering such invention; (ii) written agreement by the Advisory Board and/or the Consortium Member, as the case may be, and the Institute that no patentable invention is disclosed in such materials; or (iii) sixty (60) days after the date that such materials were received by the Advisory Board and the Consortium Members from the Institute. Further, during the course of any such 30-day period, any Consortium Member that believes that any of its Confidential Information has been included in the proposed publication or disclosure shall provide notice to the Institute of the Confidential Information which should be removed from such proposed publication or disclosure. The Institute agrees to remove all such Confidential Information from the proposed publication or disclosure.
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Filing of Patent Application. 1. The Contractor shall have the right to file, at his own expense, patent applications in respect of Foreground Inventions throughout the world. 2. The Contractor shall give prompt written notice to Inmarsat of each application filed and each patent granted pursuant to an application, those countries in which it intends to file an application for a patent or, if appropriate, which asserts that the Contractor does not intend to file any patent application. Furthermore, the Contractor shall provide Inmarsat with a copy of each application and the full specification with respect to each application within forty-five (45) days of filing and, at Inmarsat’s written request, shall keep Inmarsat advised of the progress of each application and provide Inmarsat with a copy of each patent granted pursuant to an application. 3. Inmarsat shall identify any additional countries in which it would like a patent application to be filed. Within sixty (60) days of receiving Inmarsat’s request, the Contractor shall, confirm whether it intends to file a patent application in those countries. 4. For each country in respect of which the Contractor either fails to file an application or gives notice to Inmarsat that it does not intend to file an application, the Contractor shall, at the written request of Inmarsat, transfer to Inmarsat the entire right, title and interest in the Foreground Invention in each such country. Any such transfer shall include the right for Inmarsat, at its sole discretion, to use the Foreground Invention as its confidential property and to apply for and obtain patent protection provided that the Contractor may reserve to itself an irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use the Foreground Invention (with the right to grant sub-licenses) in the relevant country. 5. Should the Contractor or any other person or entity deriving rights from the Contractor (excluding licensees under this Contract) elect to abandon an application or a granted patent, the Contractor shall so notify Inmarsat in writing not less than sixty (60) days before any such application or Patent is allowed to lapse or any positive act of abandonment is taken. At the written request of Inmarsat the Contractor shall promptly transfer to Inmarsat the entire right, title and interest in each such application or patent and, pending such transfer, shall take all necessary action (including without limitation the payment of fees) to maintain such application or patent. On the transf...
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Filing of Patent Application. 1. The Contractor shall have the right to file, at his own expense, patent applications in respect of Foreground Inventions throughout the world. 2. The Contractor shall give prompt written notice to Inmarsat of each application filed and each patent granted pursuant to an application, those countries in which it intends to file an application for a patent or, if appropriate, which asserts that the Contractor does not intend to file any patent application. Furthermore, the Contractor shall provide Inmarsat with a copy of each application and the full specification with respect to each application within forty-five (45) days of filing and, at Inmarsat’s written request, shall keep Inmarsat advised of the progress of each application and provide Inmarsat with a copy of each patent granted pursuant to an application. 3 Inmarsat shall identify any additional countries in which it would like a patent application to be filed. Within ninety (90) days of receiving Inmarsat’s request, the Contractor shall, confirm whether it intends to file a patent application in those countries.
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Filing of Patent Application. The party having the right to retain title ---------------------------- and file patent applications on a specific subject invention may elect not to file patent applications thereon provided it so advises the other party within sixty (60) days from the date it discloses the subject invention to the other party. Thereafter, the other party may elect to file patent applications on such subject invention and the party initially reporting such subject invention agrees to assign its right, title and interest in such subject invention to the other party and cooperate with such party in the preparation and filing of patent applications thereon. The assignment of the entire right, title, and interest to the other party pursuant to this paragraph shall be subject to the retention by the party assigning title of a non-exclusive, irrevocable, paid-up license to practice, or have practiced on its behalf, the subject invention throughout the world. In the event neither of the parties to this AGREEMENT elect to file a patent application on a subject invention, either or both (if a joint invention) may, at their sole discretion and subject to reasonable conditions, release the right to file to the inventor(s) with a license in each party of the same scope as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence.
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Related to Filing of Patent Application

  • Filing of Patent Applications Each Party will make timely decisions regarding the filing of Patent Applications on the CRADA Subject Inventions made solely by its employee(s), and will notify the other Party in advance of filing. Collaborator will have the first opportunity to file a Patent Application on joint CRADA Subject Inventions and will notify PHS of its decision within sixty (60) days of an Invention being reported or at least thirty (30) days before any patent filing deadline, whichever occurs sooner. If Collaborator fails to notify PHS of its decision within that time period or notifies PHS of its decision not to file a Patent Application, then PHS has the right to file a Patent Application on the joint CRADA Subject Invention. Neither Party will be obligated to file a Patent Application. Collaborator will place the following statement in any Patent Application it files on a CRADA Subject Invention: “This invention was created in the performance of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the [INSERT into Agency’s model as appropriate: National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], an Agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Government of the United States has certain rights in this invention.” If either Party files a Patent Application on a joint CRADA Subject Invention, then the filing Party will include a statement within the Patent Application that clearly identifies the Parties and states that the joint CRADA Subject Invention was made under this CRADA.

  • Patents and Patent Applications To the Company’s knowledge, all patents and patent applications owned by or licensed to the Company or under which the Company has rights have been duly and properly filed and maintained; to the knowledge of the Company, the parties prosecuting such applications have complied with their duty of candor and disclosure to the USPTO in connection with such applications; and the Company is not aware of any facts required to be disclosed to the USPTO that were not disclosed to the USPTO and which could reasonably be expected to preclude the grant of a patent in connection with any such application or could reasonably be expected to form the basis of a finding of invalidity with respect to any patents that have issued with respect to such applications.

  • Patent Applications If the Company files an original United States patent application covering any invention of which the Consultant is a named inventor, the Consultant will receive an inventor’s fee of $100.

  • Prosecution of Patents (a) HERMES shall have the sole right (and not the obligation) to prosecute and maintain patent protection in the Territory for HERMES Intellectual Property solely owned by HERMES. PHARMAENGINE shall reimburse HERMES on a [**] basis for the expenses incurred for the prosecution and maintenance of patent protection for HERMES Intellectual Property in the Territory (“Expenses”). In the event that such patent protection licensed to PHARMAENGINE is licensed to one or more HERMES’ licensees in any country of the Territory at the time when HERMES invoices PHARMAENGINE for the aforesaid reimbursement, in said country PHARMAENGINE shall only bear the amount equal to [**]. HERMES shall bear the expense of prosecution and maintenance of HERMES Intellectual Property that HERMES elects to prosecute or maintain outside the Territory. (b) PHARMAENGINE shall have the sole right (and not the obligation) to prosecute and maintain patent protection in the Territory for PHARMAENGINE Intellectual Property solely owned by PHARMAENGINE. In the event that such PHARMAENGINE Intellectual Property is licensed to HERMES pursuant to Article 5.2, HERMES shall reimburse or subsidize PHARMAENGINE on a Quarterly basis for the expenses incurred for the prosecution and maintenance of patent protection for such PHARMAENGINE Intellectual Property in the Retained Territory; provided, however, that in the event that such patent protection licensed to HERMES is licensed to one or more PHARMAENGINE’s licensees in any country of the Retained Territory at the time when PHARMAENGINE invoices HERMES for the aforesaid reimbursement, in said country HERMES shall only bear the amount equal to [**]. PHARMAENGINE shall bear the expense of prosecution and maintenance of PHARMAENGINE Intellectual Properly that PHARMAENGINE elects to prosecute or maintain outside the Retained Territory. (c) Except as otherwise decided in writing by JDC, HERMES shall have the right (and not the obligation) to prosecute and maintain patent protection in the Territory for any Patent Rights jointly made by HERMES and PHARMAENGINE during the term of this Agreement in the name of both HERMES and PHARMAENGINE. PHARMAENGINE shall make available to HERMES or its authorized attorneys, agents, or representatives, such of its employees whom HERMES in its reasonable judgment deems necessary, in order to assist it in obtaining patent protection for such jointly made patent right. Each Party shall [**] for prosecution and maintenance for any jointly made Patent Rights under this Article 9.2(c) in the Territory and the Retained Territory. (d) In the event that a Party elects not to seek or continue to seek, or maintain, patent or secrecy protection of all or part of its Intellectual Property with respect to the Licensed Product under this Agreement (whether jointly owned by the Parties or solely owned by a Party) (the “Elected Intellectual Property”), such Party shall promptly notify the other Party in writing of such election, and the other Party shall have the right to seek or continue to seek or maintain patent or secrecy protection of said Elected Intellectual Property in its respective territory (in the Territory, if PHARMAENGINE, or in Retained Territory, if HERMES) at its own risk and expense. In any such case, the Party that has, under this Agreement, control over seeking, continuing to seek, or maintaining protection of such Elected Intellectual Property shall, based on good faith, and upon written request from the other Party, assign its rights in and to such Elected Intellectual Property to that other Party in the other Party’s respective territory, and shall continually prosecute and maintain such Elected Intellectual Property until the completion of this assignment.

  • 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.

  • Prosecution and Maintenance of Patent Rights (a) Subject to commercially appropriate and reasonable efforts (subject to oversight by the Advisory Committee), Genetronics shall at its own expense and by counsel of its own choice, file, prosecute and maintain all patent applications and patents within the Genetronics Patent Rights and any inventions conceived of and reduced to practice solely by its employees and agents hereunder. Genetronics shall do everything commercially appropriate and reasonable (subject to oversight by the Advisory Committee), including without limitation filing all documents and paying all fees to the appropriate patent offices to maintain the patents and pending patent applications in effect. Genetronics agrees to promptly provide Ethicon with copies of all correspondence to and from the patent offices related to the pending patent applications within the Genetronics Patent Rights. Ethicon shall have the right to provide comments to Genetronics regarding the content of such correspondence, and to comment thereon. Genetronics shall consider all such comments offered by Ethicon; provided, that all final decisions with respect to such prosecution shall rest solely in the discretion of Genetronics. In the event that Genetronics desires to abandon any such patent application or patent within the Genetronics Patent Rights, or if Genetronics later declines to prosecute or maintain any such patent application or patent, Genetronics shall provide reasonable prior written notice to Ethicon of such intention and Ethicon shall have the right, but not the obligation at its own expense, to file, prosecute, and maintain such patent application or patent, which Genetronics shall assign to Ethicon and shall no longer be subject to the terms of this Agreement. (b) The Advisory Committee shall determine which party shall be responsible for the filing, prosecution and maintenance of patent applications and patents within the Joint Patent Rights on a case by case basis, with the understanding that it is the parties' intent that Genetronics shall be initially responsible for the filing, prosecution and maintenance of patent applications and patents within the Joint Patent Rights related to the Drug Delivery System. In the event that a party responsible for the filing, prosecution and maintenance of any patent application or patent within the Joint Patent Rights desires to abandon such patent application or patent, or if such party later declines responsibility for such patent application or patent, such party shall provide reasonable prior written notice to the other party of its intention to abandon or decline responsibility, and the other party shall have the right, but not the obligation, to prepare, file, prosecute, and maintain any such patent application or patent within the Joint

  • Patent The development of patentable inventions or discoveries is not the primary purpose of the research activities of the faculty. Employees have no obligation to seek patent protection for the results of scientific work nor to modify research to enhance patentability. 10.6.1 OC agrees that employees have the unqualified right to publish their inventions, improvements, designs or developments and, except as noted in section 10.6.3, OC waives, disclaims and abandons any interest in or claims to any invention, improvement, design or development made by an employee or employees and unless otherwise provided in this Article, any invention, improvement design or development, or any patent arising therefrom shall be the sole property of the inventor(s). 10.6.2 Where the activities are a part of work performed for which OC is not paying the employee from any source and no OC space or equipment is being used, the employee shall be entitled to any and all royalties from such patents. Employees shall have the right to make their own arrangements at their own expense to patent an invention, an improvement, a design or development and, subject to the obligations in the Article and except as noted in section 10.6.3, shall be entitled to all the proceeds therefrom.

  • Filing of Materials All records related to a grievance shall be filed separately from the personnel files of the employees.

  • 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:

  • Enforcement of Patent Rights 8.1. The Licensors and Licensee will promptly inform the other in writing of any actual, alleged, or suspected infringement of a Licensed Patent or violation of any Patent Right by a third party, of which it is aware, and provide available evidence of infringement. 8.2. With respect to any Patent Rights licensed exclusively by Licensors to Licensee under this Agreement, Licensee shall have, for an initial period of ninety (90) days following notice under the provisions of Section 8.1, the first right, but not the obligation, to institute and control the prosecution of a suit or to take any other action for infringement of the Patent Rights. Licensee will notify Foundation of its intent to institute such action, in writing. Each Licensor having an ownership interest in the Patent Rights at issue will have thirty (30) days from receipt of such notice to notify Licensee that it will join Licensee in such action under the provisions of Section 8.4. 8.3. Subsequent to Licensee's initial ninety day period, the Licensor or Licensors having an ownership interest in the Patent Rights at issue shall have the right, but not the obligation, to institute and control the prosecution of a suit or to take any other action for infringement of any of the Patent Rights, provided that withholding of consent shall not be reasonable unless the benefit of foregoing a suit or any action for infringement of the Patent Rights has a benefit of like magnitude for both Licensee and such Licensor or Licensors. If such Licensor or Licensors decide to initiate a lawsuit to enforce Patent Rights pursuant to this Section 8.3, Foundation will notify Licensee in writing. Licensee will have thirty (30) days from receipt of such notice to notify Foundation that Licensee will join such Licensor or Licensors in such lawsuit under the provisions of Section 8.4. 8.4. The Licensee and such Licensor or Licensors may agree to enforce patent rights jointly, including by filing a lawsuit jointly or by one Party joining a lawsuit initiated by another Party. If a lawsuit is brought jointly in the names of such Licensor or Licensors and Licensee, then the out-of-pocket costs shall be borne equally between such Licensor or Licensors and Licensee, and any recovery or settlement shall be shared equally. Such Licensor or Licensors and Licensee shall agree to the manner in which they shall exercise control over such lawsuit. Each Party may, at its own option and expense, be represented by separate counsel of its own selection. 8.5. If any suit is brought involving the enforcement or defense of the Patent Rights, the other Parties hereto agree, at the request and expense of the Party initiating such suit, to reasonably cooperate and to make available relevant records, papers, information, samples, specimens and the like. 8.6. No settlement or consent judgment or other voluntary final disposition of an enforcement or defense suit initiated by any Party to this Agreement may be entered into without the consent of Licensee and such Licensor or Licensors, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. 8.7. Licensee shall control any declaratory judgment litigation brought to challenge the validity, enforceability, and/or infringement of the Patent Rights, including the selection of litigation counsel. All other parties to this Agreement having an ownership interest in the Patent Rights shall cooperate fully in connection with such litigation. Licensee shall bear any and all costs of the action and shall be solely responsible for any and all damages, awards or settlements, including any award of costs to the prevailing party. 8.8. The total cost of any action commenced or defended solely by such Licensor or Licensors, will be borne by such Licensor or Licensors, and such Licensor or Licensors will keep any recovery or damages derived therefrom. Licensee agrees to be named as plaintiff and participate in the lawsuit and take further steps (at Licensor's or Licensors' expense, including any award of costs to the prevailing party) to the extent necessary for legal standing purposes. The Licensee agrees, at the request and expense of such Licensor or Licensors, to reasonably cooperate and to make available relevant records and information, execute required documents, and do other acts as such Licensor or Licensors may reasonably request from time to time. Any recovery or damages resulting from such an action will first be applied to such Licensor's or Licensors' out-of-pocket expenses and legal fees, and second will be applied to the Licensees' out-of-pocket expenses, including legal fees and other costs associated with cooperation as described above. 8.9. The cost of any infringement action commenced or defended by Licensee which such Licensor or Licensors decline to join under Section 8.4 of this Agreement will be borne by Licensee. Such Licensor or Licensors agree to be named as plaintiffs and participate in the lawsuit and take further steps (at Licensee's expense, including any award of costs to the prevailing party) to the extent necessary for legal standing purposes. Such Licensor or Licensors agree, at the request and expense of Licensee, to reasonably cooperate and to make available relevant records and information, execute required documents, and do other acts as the Licensee may reasonably request from time to time. Any recovery or damages resulting from such an action will first be applied to Licensee's out-of-pocket expenses and legal fees, and second will be applied to the such Licensor's or Licensors' out-of-pocket expenses, including legal fees and other costs associated with cooperation as described above. Any excess recovery or damages for past sales will be deemed Net Sales by a Sublicensee, and Licensee will pay Foundation Royalties at the rates specified in Section 3.2 above. Any remaining excess recovery or damages will be deemed Sublicensing Fees and will be shared as specified in Section 3.S(a). The Parties will negotiate in good faith appropriate compensation to such Licensor or Licensors for any non-cash settlement or non-cash cross-license.

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