Improvement and Development Clause Samples
Improvement and Development. A Special Increase may be awarded to an employee demonstrating significant improvement or development in the categories listed above for reasons acceptable to the Department Salary Committee or the College Review Committee.
Improvement and Development. 9.1 If Licensor, should make, or acquire, without obligation to account therefore to any third party, any improvements, whether patentable or not, relating to SGT (Licensor Improvements), then Licensor hereby grants to Licencee the irrevocable, non-exclusive right to use such improvements in connection with the Licenced Facility and agrees to make such improvements available to Licencee without any additional or required accounting or payment to Licensor. All such improvements and all required and related technical information and documentation so disclosed to Licencee by Licensor shall become and thereafter be a part of Licensor’s SGT and Licencee shall have the same rights, Licences and obligations with respect thereto as are granted to Licencee herein with respect to Licensor’s SGT.
9.2 If Licencee should make any modifications changes and/or improvements, whether patentable or not, relating to SGT (together Licencee Improvements) then Licencee shall forthwith disclose these, with associated written submissions, to Licensor.
9.3 Licencee shall make Licencee Improvements available to Licensor upon request. Licencee grants to Licensor, without any required accounting or payment, an irrevocable, royalty-free Licence to use any Licencee Improvements globally. Licensor shall have the right to sub-Licence the right to use Licencee Improvements without any required payment due to the Licencee. However, the ownership of any Licencee Improvements including any related intellectual property and / or related patents and rights shall remain the property of Licencee.
9.4 The Parties understand and agree that the rights granted by Licencee to Licensor in Section 9.3 permit Licensor to grant Licences and rights to use Licencee Improvements without any obligation to account to Licencee thereof. Licensor shall not, however, disclose Licencee Improvements to third parties beyond that commercially necessary to exercise the rights granted to Licensor in Section 9.3.
Improvement and Development. Any improvement or innovation in the Products or Services in the Field made by either party and capable of being patented may be patented by the party discovering such improvement or innovation, at the expense of such party, and the patent applications filed and the patents issued thereof shall remain the sole and exclusive property of the party so patenting, and may be used by the other party hereto pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. If LICENSOR causes the improvement or innovation to be patented, LICENSOR agrees to grant to LICENSEE a royalty-free, fully paid up, worldwide, non-exclusive license to use the improvements or innovations in the Field for the term hereof. If LICENSEE causes the improvements or innovations to be patented, LICENSEE agrees to grant to LICENSOR a royalty-free, fully paid up, worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual license to use the improvements or innovations in all areas and applications outside the Field for the term hereof. Any improvement or innovation in the Process made by either party and capable of being patented shall be patented by the party discovering such improvement or innovation in the name of the LICENSOR, at the expense of such party, and the patent applications filed and the patents issued thereof shall remain the sole and exclusive property of the LICENSOR. LICENSOR agrees to grant to LICENSEE a non-exclusive, fully paid up, worldwide license to use the improvements or innovations in the Field for the term hereof.