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Intellectual Property; IT Systems. (a) Section 2.11(a)(i) of the Seller Disclosure Schedule lists all material applications and registrations for trademarks, copyrights, trade names, service marks, domain names and patents owned by the Acquired Companies as of the date of this Agreement and used in the conduct of the Business. Each of the items set forth in Section 2.11(a)(i) of the Seller Disclosure Schedule and the unregistered Intellectual Property owned by the Acquired Companies as of the date of this Agreement that is necessary for the conduct of the Business (collectively, the “Owned Intellectual Property”) are owned free and clear of all Liens except for Permitted Liens and are valid and subsisting (or in the case of applications, applied for). Section 2.11(a)(ii) of the Seller Disclosure Schedule lists all material proprietary software and material applications and registrations for trademarks and domain names owned by Seller as of the date of this Agreement and used in the conduct of the Business (collectively, the “Transferred Intellectual Property”). As of the date hereof, Seller is the owner of the Transferred Intellectual Property free and clear of all Liens except for Permitted Liens and the Transferred Intellectual Property is valid and subsisting (or in the case of applications, applied for). After giving effect to the Pre-Closing Restructuring, one of the Acquired Companies will own the Transferred Intellectual Property free and clear of all Liens except for Permitted Liens. Neither Seller nor the Acquired Companies have transferred ownership of, or agreed to transfer ownership of, or granted any exclusive licenses to, or agreed to grant any exclusive licenses to any Owned Intellectual Property or Transferred Intellectual Property to any third party. To the Knowledge of Seller, no third party has made any claim of any ownership right, title, interest, claim in or lien on any of the Owned Intellectual Property or any of the Transferred Intellectual Property.
(b) To the Knowledge of Seller, as of the date of this Agreement, (i) neither Seller nor any of the Acquired Companies have received any written notice or claim from and after January 1, 2019 that they are infringing on or have misappropriated the trademark, patent, copyright or trade secret rights of any Person and (ii) there is no unauthorized use, unauthorized disclosures, infringement or misappropriation by any Person of the Owned Intellectual Property or the Transferred Intellectual Property. To the Knowledge of Sel...
Intellectual Property; IT Systems. (a) Schedule 3.20(a) sets forth a true, correct and complete list of U.S. and foreign (i) Target Company Owned Intellectual Property that is the subject of any issuance, registration, certificate, application, or other filing by, to or with any governmental authority or authorized private registrar, including patents, patent applications, trademark registrations and pending applications for registration, copyright registrations and pending applications for registration, and internet domain name registrations, currently in force or cancelled, abandoned, or adjudicated invalid or unenforceable within the past five (5) years (“Registered Intellectual Property”); and (ii) all other Intellectual Property Rights that are used in or necessary to operate the Business of the Target Company; and are subject to all written contracts to which the Target Company is a party and under which the Target Company has received or granted a license or sublicense with respect to any of the Target Company Intellectual Property, excluding Shrink-wrap Licenses (all such licenses, including the Shrink-wrap Licenses, the “Intellectual Property Licenses”). Except as set forth on Schedule 3.20(a), to the Knowledge of the Owners, none of such Registered Intellectual Property that is owned by the Target Company has been cancelled, abandoned or adjudicated invalid or unenforceable, and all registration, renewals and maintenance fees in respect of such Registered Intellectual Property that were due prior to the date hereof have been duly paid and all necessary documents and certificates in connection with the Registered Intellectual Property that have or that must be filed within 120 days of the date of this Agreement have been timely filed with the relevant patent, copyright, trademark or other authorities in the United States or foreign jurisdictions, as the case may be. No loss or expiration of any Registered Intellectual Property is threatened or pending or reasonably foreseeable by the Target Company. (The Target Company Owned Intellectual Property and the Intellectual Property licensed to the Target Company under the Intellectual Property Licenses is collectively referred to as the “Target Company Intellectual Property”).
(b) To the Actual Knowledge of the Owners, the Target Company possesses all right, title, and interest in and to, or has a valid and enforceable written license and right to use, all Target Company Intellectual Property necessary to conduct the Business of the Targ...
Intellectual Property; IT Systems. (a) Section 4.19(a) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth, for all of the following included in Company Owned Intellectual Property, a true and complete list of all United States, foreign, international and state: (i) patents and patent applications; (ii) trademark registrations and applications; (iii) Internet domain names; (iv) social media accounts; (v) copyright registrations and applications (collectively, “Registered Company Owned Intellectual Property”); and (vi) material unregistered trademarks. Section 4.19(a) of the Disclosure Schedule specifies, for each item of Registered Company Owned Intellectual Property, the current owner thereof and, as applicable, the jurisdiction or private registrar, the registration or application number, the issue or filing date, and the status, including the next action or payment due date.
(b) There is no pending or written, threatened claim against the Company or any Company Subsidiary alleging that the business of the Company or a Company Subsidiary as currently conducted violates or infringes any Person’s Intellectual Property. Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has brought or threatened a claim against any Person alleging a violation or infringement by others of any Company Owned Intellectual Property, and, to the Knowledge of Seller, no Person is infringing, misappropriating or violating the Company Owned Intellectual Property in any material respect. There are no pending or threatened claims against the Company challenging the ownership or scope of any Company Owned Intellectual Property or alleging that any Company Owned Intellectual Property is invalid or unenforceable.
(c) The Company or a Company Subsidiary solely owns all Registered Company Owned Intellectual Property or has the valid and enforceable right to use all Company Used Intellectual Property, free and clear of all Liens except for any Permitted Liens. The Company Owned Intellectual Property and the Company Used Intellectual Property is all of the Intellectual Property necessary to conduct the business of the Company as currently conducted. All Registered Company Owned Intellectual Property (i) has been duly maintained, (ii) has not been cancelled, expired or abandoned and (iii) is valid, subsisting and enforceable. None of the Registered Company Owned Intellectual Property is now or has been involved in any material litigation, or any material interference, reissue, re-examination, opposition, invalidity or nullity proceeding before ...
Intellectual Property; IT Systems. (a) Section 4.14(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a complete and accurate list of (i) each patent, copyright and trademark that is Registered IP that is Company Intellectual Property (“Company Registered IP”), (ii) the jurisdiction in which such item of Company Registered IP has been registered, issued or filed, the date of registration, issuance or application, and the applicable application, registration, serial or other similar identification number, (iii) the record (and if different, beneficial) owner and (iv) any other Person that has an ownership interest in such item of Company Registered IP and the nature of such ownership interest. All Company Registered IP is valid, enforceable (except to the extent entailed by the pendency of applications for patents, copyright, or other intellectual property), and subsisting. No Company Registered IP is involved in, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received, since July 21, 2021, any written charge, complaint, claim, demand or notice regarding, any pending or threatened interference, opposition, reissue, reexamination, revocation, or equivalent proceeding, action or claim in which the ownership, use, scope, validity or enforceability of any Company Registered IP is being or has been contested or challenged (not including office actions or similar ordinary course notices in the prosecution of applications therein). All registration, maintenance and renewal fees due in connection with all Company Registered IP have been paid in full and all necessary documents in connection with such Registered IP have been filed with the relevant Governmental Authority in any applicable jurisdiction for the purposes of maintaining such Registered IP.
(b) The Company and its Subsidiaries own, or have the valid and enforceable right to use, all Intellectual Property that is used in or necessary for the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted. The Company and its Subsidiaries exclusively own all right, title and interest in and to the Company Intellectual Property, free and clear of any Liens other than Permitted Liens.
(c) The conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as conducted since July 21, 2021 and as currently conducted, including each of the Company Products, has not and does not infringe upon, misappropriate, or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property of any other Person. None of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has received, sinc...
Intellectual Property; IT Systems. (i) Schedule 7.05(b)(i) set forth an accurate and complete list, as of the Closing Date, of all Borrower Intellectual Property that is issued by, registered with, or the subject of a pending application before, any Governmental Authority, indicating for each item, as applicable, the registration and application number, the registration and application date, and the filing jurisdiction. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries are the sole and exclusive owners of all right, title and interest in and to all Material Intellectual Property, free and clear of any Liens other than Permitted Liens. Except as, individually or in the aggregate, has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries own or possess valid and sufficient rights to use all Intellectual Property used in or necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses as currently conducted. To the Borrower’s knowledge, the conduct of the respective businesses of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries does not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate the Intellectual Property of any Third Party, and to the Borrower’s knowledge, no Third Party is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating any Borrower Intellectual Property, except for such infringement, misappropriation or other violation that would not (either individually or in the aggregate) reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(ii) The Borrower or its applicable Subsidiary has obtained from all current and former employees and contractors who have created or developed any Material Intellectual Property for or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, written, valid and enforceable present assignments of all such Intellectual Property. The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable precautions to protect the confidentiality and value of all material Trade Secrets owned or used by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries. To Borrower’s knowledge, there has been no security breach, or unauthorized encryption, access to or use, or any unscheduled unavailability, downtime or other disruption, of any IT Systems owned, used or held for use by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (the “Business IT Systems”), or any information or data stored thereon, that has resulted in, or is reasonably likely to result in, material liability to, or material disruption of activities of, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries. The Borrower and its Subsi...
Intellectual Property; IT Systems. 12.1 Schedule 5 sets forth a true, complete and correct list of all Registered Owned IPR and Registered Licensed IPR.
12.2 [***].
12.3 [***].
12.4 The Company Group has [***] to diligently prosecute all Patent applications included in the Company Group IPR that they have filed or which they otherwise possess the right to control prosecution and, to the Company’s knowledge, all such Patent applications which a third party has filed (or for which a third party possesses such right) have been diligently prosecuted by the applicable third party. All actions required by any Governmental Entity to be taken by any member of the Company Group to maintain all registrations relating to any Company Group IPR , including payment of all filing, examination, registration, annuity, issuance, renewal, maintenance and other fees and filing of all documents or other materials required to be paid or filed with the applicable intellectual property office, have been taken.
12.5 [***].
12.6 None of the execution, delivery, or performance of this Agreement or the Transaction Documents will result in the loss, termination or impairment with respect to any Company Group IPR material to the business of the Company.
12.7 The [***] is not necessary to conduct the business now conducted or currently planned to be conducted by the Company Group.
12.8 Except as Disclosed, and except for with respect to the Excepted IP Agreements, the Company Group [***].
12.9 Each inventor of Owned IPR material to the business of the Company Group and, to the knowledge of the Company, each inventor of (a) all other Owned IPR and (b) Licensed IPR executed a valid and enforceable written agreement assigning all of such inventor’s rights, title and interests in and to such IPR (and the inventions claimed or otherwise disclosed therein) to the Company Group or the applicable licensor of the Company Group.
12.10 The Company Group has [***] actions to protect the Company Group IPR and maintain the confidentiality, secrecy and value of the Trade Secrets included in the Company Group IPR. To the knowledge of the Company, no Trade Secret material to the business of the Company Group has been disclosed by any member of the Company Group to any person in any manner that has, or is reasonably likely to, result in the loss of any Trade Secret or other rights in or to such Trade Secret.
12.11 Except as Disclosed, no funding, facilities, or personnel of any Governmental Entity or any public or private educational or r...
Intellectual Property; IT Systems. (a) Schedule 3.11(a)(i) sets forth a list of all patents, patent applications (including any provisional applications, divisions, continuations or continuations in part), material unregistered trademarks, registered trademarks and applications for registration for trademarks, copyright registrations and applications for registration of copyrights, and domain name registrations in each case owned by or held in the name of Seller, specifying as to each such item, as applicable, (i) the item (with respect to trademarks), or title (with respect to all other items), (ii) the owner of the item, (iii) the jurisdiction in which the item is issued or registered or in which any application for issuance or registration has been filed, including the respective issuance, registration or application number and (iv) the date of application and issuance or registration of the item (the “Material Owned Intellectual Property”). Except as set forth on Schedule 3.11(a)(ii), (A) each item of Intellectual Property owned by Seller including the Material Owned Intellectual Property is valid and in full force and effect and is owned by Seller free and clear of all Encumbrances and other claims, including any claims of joint ownership or inventorship, (B) the registrations and applications for registration of the Material Owned Intellectual Property are held of record in Seller’s name, and (C) none of the Material Owned Intellectual Property is the subject of any proceeding contesting its validity, enforceability or Seller’s ownership thereof. All issuance, renewal, maintenance and other payments that are or have become due as of the date hereof with respect to the Material Owned Intellectual Property have been timely paid by or on behalf of Seller. Schedule 3.11(a)(iii) sets forth a true and complete list of all Intellectual Property licensed to Seller and the license or agreement pursuant to which Seller obtained a license to such Intellectual Property. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.11(a)(iii): (u) Seller owns or possesses adequate licenses or other valid rights to use all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, copyrights, industrial designs, software, databases, data compilations, domain names, know-how, trade secrets, product formulas, inventions, rights-to-use and other industrial and intellectual property rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) used in the conduct of the Business, (v) to the knowledge of Seller, the conduct of the Busines...
Intellectual Property; IT Systems. (a) Section 3.11(a) of the Disclosure Schedules contains a correct, current, and complete list of: (i) all Company IP Registrations, specifying as to each, as applicable: the title, ▇▇▇▇, or design; the record owner and inventor(s), if any; the jurisdiction by or in which it has been issued, registered, or filed; the patent, registration, or application serial number; the issue, registration, or filing date; and the current status; (ii) all unregistered Trademarks included in the Company Intellectual Property; (iii) all proprietary Software of the Heartland Companies; and (iv) all other material Company Intellectual Property used or held for use in the Business. (b) Section 3.11(b) of the Disclosure Schedules contains a correct, current, and complete list of all Company IP Agreements. Sellers or any Heartland Company have provided Buyer with true and complete copies (or in the case of any oral agreements, a complete and correct written description) of all Company IP Agreements, including all modifications, amendments and supplements thereto. Each Company IP Agreement is valid and binding on the Heartland Companies in accordance with its terms and is in full force and effect. Neither the Heartland Companies nor, to the Knowledge of the Purchased Company, any other party thereto is in breach of or default under, or has provided or received any written notice of breach of, default under, or intention to terminate (including by non-renewal), any Company IP Agreement.
Intellectual Property; IT Systems. (a) Except as set forth in Section 3.12(a)(i) of the Company Disclosure Letter, each Entity in the Company Group (i) owns or (ii) has the valid right or license to use, all Intellectual Property material to the conduct of the Business as currently conducted in all material respects free and clear of all Encumbrances, other than as set forth in license agreements or similar agreements granting rights to the Intellectual Property of the Company Group that are listed in Section 3.10(m) of the Company Disclosure Letter, (such Intellectual Property being hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Company IP Rights”). As used in this Agreement, “Company-Owned IP Rights” means Company IP Rights that are owned or are purportedly owned by the Company Group. Except as set forth in Section 3.12(a)(ii) of the Company Disclosure Letter, to the knowledge of the Companies, none of the Intellectual Property included in the Company-Owned IP Rights is licensed to or otherwise used by Seller or any of its Affiliates (other than the Company Group) in connection with the operation of their business or otherwise. The Company Group’s rights in Company-Owned IP Rights are subsisting and, to the Companies’ knowledge, valid and enforceable.
Intellectual Property; IT Systems. MutualFirst Financial and each MutualFirst Financial Subsidiary owns or, to MutualFirst Financial’s Knowledge, possesses valid and binding licenses or other rights (subject to expirations in accordance with their terms) to use all patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trade names, servicemarks and trademarks used in their business, each without payment, and neither MutualFirst Financial nor any MutualFirst Financial Subsidiary has received any notice of conflict with respect thereto that asserts the rights of others. MutualFirst Financial and each MutualFirst Financial Subsidiary have performed all the obligations required to be performed, and are not in default in any respect, under any contract, agreement, arrangement or commitment relating to any of the foregoing. To the Knowledge of MutualFirst Financial, the conduct of the business of MutualFirst Financial and each MutualFirst Financial Subsidiary as currently conducted does not, in any respect, infringe upon, dilute, misappropriate or otherwise violate any intellectual property owned or controlled by any third party.