Common use of Innovations; Inventions Clause in Contracts

Innovations; Inventions. Executive hereby sells, transfers and assigns to the Company all right, title and interest of Executive in and to any and all inventions, ideas, disclosures and improvements of any kind or nature whatsoever, whether patented or unpatented, and any and all copyrightable materials, in either case whether made or conceived in whole or in part by Executive alone or together with others during the initial term of this Agreement or any renewal term, that (i) relate to any methods, designs, products, processes, apparatus, service or devices sold, leased used or under construction or development by the Company or the Covered Entities, (ii) relate to the business, functions or operations of the Company or the Covered Entities, or (iii) arise from, in whole or in part, the efforts of Executive on behalf of the Company. Executive will communicate and disclose to the Company promptly all information, data and details pertaining to any inventions, ideas, disclosures and improvements described above, in such form or format as the Company may reasonably request. During the term of this Agreement or any renewal term and thereafter, Executive will execute, acknowledge or deliver to the Company (at the Company's expense) such formal transfers and assignments and such other papers and documents as may be required of Executive to permit the Company to file and prosecute any patent applications the Company desires to file and prosecute relating to any of the foregoing, and, as to copyrightable material, to obtain copyright thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Executive understands that this Agreement requires disclosure, but not assignment, of any invention that qualifies under Section 49.44.140 of the Revised Code of Washington, which provides, in part: (1) A provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign or offer to assign any of the employee's rights in an invention to the employer does not apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information of the employer was used and which was developed entirely on the employee's own time, unless (a) the invention relates (i) directly to the business of the employer, or (ii) to the employer's actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (b) the invention results from any work performed by the employee for the employer. Any provision which purports to apply to such an invention is to that extent against the public policy of this state and is to that extent void and unenforceable.