Common use of Intellectual Property; Privacy Clause in Contracts

Intellectual Property; Privacy. (a) The Company Registered Intellectual Property other than with respect to applications is subsisting and to the Knowledge of the Company, valid and enforceable, and is owned exclusively by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, free and clear of all liens other than Permitted Liens and there are no pending inventorship challenges, or opposition, reexamination, nullity, interference or other proceedings (excluding ordinary course office actions) commenced, or to the Knowledge of the Company threatened in writing, with respect to any Company Registered Intellectual Property, where applicable, in each case except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. (b) The Company or any of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, exclusively owns all material Company Intellectual Property. (c) There are not, and since January 1, 2022 there have not been, any Legal Proceedings pending or threatened in writing by any Person against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion from any Person, in each case alleging infringement, misappropriation or other violation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Intellectual Property of such Person or challenging the ownership, validity or enforceability of any Company Intellectual Property in each case except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Company or its Subsidiaries. (d) To the Knowledge of the Company, the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted and as conducted since January 1, 2022 does not materially infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property of any Person. Since January 1, 2022, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sent any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion asserting or threatening to assert any Legal Proceeding against any Person involving or relating to any Company Intellectual Property. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, to the Knowledge of the Company no Person is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating nor, since January 1, 2022, has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated any Company Intellectual Property. (e) The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken commercially reasonable steps to protect and preserve the confidentiality of all material confidential or non-public information it has, in its reasonable business judgment, chosen to maintain as, Trade Secrets. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have disclosed, delivered or licensed to any Person, or agreed to disclose, deliver or license to any Person, any source code of any Software owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (“Company Software”), except for disclosures to employees or independent contractors under written Contracts that subject such employees or independent contractors to reasonable confidentiality obligations. (f) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, all Company Intellectual Property has been developed by employees within the scope of their employment or by independent contractors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and all such employees and independent contractors that have developed, contributed to, modified, or improved material Company Intellectual Property have executed written Contracts assigning all right, title and interest in such Intellectual Property to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. No government funding or facilities of a university, college, other educational institution, or research center were used in the development of any material Company Intellectual Property in a manner, or under circumstances or terms that would grant such party ownership or license rights to any such Company Intellectual Property. (g) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a member of or party to any patent pool, standards-setting organizations, multi-party special interest industry standards body, trade association or other organization pursuant to the rules of which it is obligated to license any Intellectual Property to any Person or to refrain from asserting any Intellectual Property against any Person. (h) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is party to any Contract which, upon the Closing, will result in: (i) the granting of any right, license, forfeiture, immunity from suit or covenant not to assert to any Person under or with respect to any Intellectual Property (including any Intellectual Property owned by Parent or its Affiliates); (ii) require the consent of any other Person in respect of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ rights to own, transfer, license, use or hold for use, or otherwise exploit any Company Intellectual Property; or (iii) Parent or any of its Affiliates (including, following the Closing, the Company and its Subsidiaries) to be obligated to pay any royalties or other fees or consideration with respect to Intellectual Property in excess of those payable by the Company and its Subsidiaries in the absence of this Agreement or the Transaction. (i) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, (i) there have been no material failures of any of the computers, servers, workstations or other information technology equipment used in the operation of the Company or its Subsidiaries’ businesses, other than defects which have been corrected or routine errors or bugs that have occurred in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the Company Software does not contain any “back door,” “drop dead device,” “time bomb,” “Trojan horse” “virus,” or “worm” (as such terms are commonly understood in the software industry) or any other malicious Software or device designed to have any of the following functions: (i) disrupting, disabling, harming or otherwise impeding in any manner the operation of, or providing unauthorized access to, a computer system or network or other device on which such Software or device is stored or installed, or (ii) damaging or destroying any data or file without the user’s consent. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its Subsidiaries have implemented commercially reasonable disaster recovery and backup measures. (j) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Company and its Subsidiaries each implement and maintain commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures for a business in its industry and of its size to protect Company Personal Information, Trade Secrets and other Data or information relating to the businesses and in the possession and control of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries against data breaches and cybersecurity incidents. (k) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, none of the Company or its Subsidiaries has: (i) granted (contingent or otherwise) to any Person material access or rights to any source code of any Company Software, including via an escrow arrangement; (ii) taken any action that rendered any source code for Company Software to be subject to any Open Source License that requires such source code to be delivered, disclosed or made available to any Person or at no cost; or (iii) licensed, distributed or used any Software subject to an Open Source License in material breach of the terms of such Open Source License (excluding obligations of notice or attribution). (l) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, each of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries has been in compliance with (i) all applicable Privacy Laws and (ii) the Company’s and any of its Subsidiaries’ own external and internal policies relating to data privacy, data protection, and the collection, retention, protection, and use of Personal Information collected, used, or held for use by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the operation of their businesses (“Company Personal Information”). Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, (i) there has been no unauthorized access to, or use or disclosure of, Company Personal Information by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any claim asserted or threatened in writing against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including by a Governmental Authority) alleging a material violation of any Privacy Law. Without limiting the foregoing, except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Company and its Subsidiaries takes commercially reasonable measures designed to protect Company Personal Information against unauthorized access, use, modification, or other misuse.

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Samples: Merger Agreement (Infinera Corp), Merger Agreement (Nokia Corp)

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Intellectual Property; Privacy. (a) Schedule 4.11(a) contains a true and complete list, of the company intellectual property (collectively, the “Company Intellectual Property”). The Company Registered exclusively owns, or has a valid and continuing license to use, all Company Intellectual Property other than with respect to applications that is subsisting and to used in, or necessary for, the Knowledge operation of the Company, valid Business as conducted as of the date hereof and enforceable, and is owned exclusively by the Company or one of its Subsidiariesas proposed to be conducted, free and clear of all liens other than Permitted Liens and there are no pending inventorship challenges, or opposition, reexamination, nullity, interference or other proceedings (excluding ordinary course office actions) commenced, or to any Encumbrance. The conduct by the Knowledge Company of the Company threatened Business (including its products and services) has not and does not infringe, misappropriate, dilute or otherwise violate any other Person’s Intellectual Property rights or rights in writing, with respect to any Company Registered Intellectual Property, where applicable, in each case except as is notpersonal information or constitute unfair competition or trade practices, and would does not reasonably be expected to beviolate the Laws of any country or jurisdiction. There is no claim, material to the businesses of the Company notice or any of its Subsidiaries. (b) The Company or any of its Subsidiarieslitigation pending or, as applicable, exclusively owns all material Company Intellectual Property. (c) There are not, and since January 1, 2022 there have not been, any Legal Proceedings pending or threatened in writing by any Person against the Company or alleging any of its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any written notice, charge, complaint, claim foregoing or other written assertion from any Person, in each case alleging infringement, misappropriation or other violation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Intellectual Property of such Person or otherwise challenging the use, ownership, licensing, validity or enforceability of any Company Intellectual Property in each case except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Company or its Subsidiaries. owned (d) To the Knowledge of the Company, the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted and as conducted since January 1, 2022 does not materially infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property of any Person. Since January 1, 2022, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sent any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion asserting or threatening to assert any Legal Proceeding against any Person involving or relating to any Company Intellectual Property. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, to the Knowledge of the Company no Person is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating nor, since January 1, 2022, has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated any Company Intellectual Property. (e) The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken commercially reasonable steps to protect and preserve the confidentiality of all material confidential or non-public information it has, in its reasonable business judgment, chosen to maintain as, Trade Secrets. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have disclosed, delivered or licensed to any Person, or agreed to disclose, deliver or license to any Person, any source code of any Software owned or purported to be owned owned) by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (“Company Software”), except for disclosures to employees or independent contractors under written Contracts that subject such employees or independent contractors to reasonable confidentiality obligationsCompany. (fb) Except as has not had, The Company is the sole and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, all Company Intellectual Property has been developed by employees within the scope exclusive owner of their employment or by independent contractors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and all such employees and independent contractors that have developed, contributed to, modified, or improved material Company Intellectual Property have executed written Contracts assigning all right, title and interest in such Intellectual Property and to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. No government funding or facilities of a universitySoftware, college, other educational institution, or research center were used in the development free and clear of any material Company Intellectual Property in a mannerEncumbrance. All employees, or under circumstances or terms that would grant such party ownership or license rights to any such Company Intellectual Property. (g) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a member of or party to any patent pool, standards-setting organizations, multi-party special interest industry standards body, trade association or consultants and other organization pursuant Persons who contributed to the rules of which it is obligated to license any Intellectual Property to any Person conception, creation or to refrain from asserting any Intellectual Property against any Person. (h) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is party to any Contract which, upon the Closing, will result in: (i) the granting of any right, license, forfeiture, immunity from suit or covenant not to assert to any Person under or with respect to any Intellectual Property (including any Intellectual Property owned by Parent or its Affiliates); (ii) require the consent of any other Person in respect of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ rights to own, transfer, license, use or hold for use, or otherwise exploit any Company Intellectual Property; or (iii) Parent or any of its Affiliates (including, following the Closing, the Company and its Subsidiaries) to be obligated to pay any royalties or other fees or consideration with respect to Intellectual Property in excess of those payable by the Company and its Subsidiaries in the absence of this Agreement or the Transaction. (i) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, (i) there have been no material failures development of any of the computers, servers, workstations Company Intellectual Property or other information technology equipment used in the operation of the Company or its Subsidiaries’ businesses, other than defects which have been corrected or routine errors or bugs that have occurred in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the Company Software does not contain any “back door,” “drop dead device,” “time bomb,” “Trojan horse” “virus,” or “worm” (as such terms are commonly understood in the software industry) or any other malicious Software or device designed to have any of the following functions: did so either (i) disruptingwithin the scope of his or her employment such that, disablingsubject to and in accordance with applicable Laws, harming or otherwise impeding in any manner all Intellectual Property rights arising therefrom became exclusively owned by the operation of, or providing unauthorized access to, a computer system or network or other device on which such Software or device is stored or installedCompany, or (ii) damaging pursuant to valid and enforceable written agreements assigning all Intellectual Property rights therein to the Company. To the Sellers’ Knowledge, no third Person has infringed, misappropriated, diluted or destroying otherwise violated any data Company Intellectual Property or file without Company Software. The Company has taken all commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the user’s consent. Except as is notconfidentiality of all material trade secrets of the Company. (c) No source code of any Company Software has been licensed, provided or otherwise disclosed by the Company to another Person (including Sellers or any of their respective Affiliates), and would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effectall such source code has been safeguarded and protected as trade secrets of the Company. To the Sellers’ Knowledge, the Company Software is substantially free of any material defects, bugs and its Subsidiaries have implemented commercially reasonable disaster recovery and backup measures. (j) Except as is noterrors, and would does not reasonably be expected contain or make available any disabling codes or instructions, spyware, Trojan horses, worms, viruses or other software routines that permit or cause unauthorized access to, or disruption, impairment, disablement, or destruction of, Software, data or other materials (“Contaminants”). No Software governed by a license commonly referred to beas an open source, material to the businesses free software, copy left or community source code license, is used in or incorporated into any products or websites of the Company or any of its SubsidiariesCompany Software, in each case, in a manner that would obligate the Company and its Subsidiaries each implement and maintain commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures for a business in its industry and of its size to protect Company Personal Information, Trade Secrets and other Data or information relating to the businesses and in the possession and control of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries against data breaches and cybersecurity incidents. (k) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, none of the Company or its Subsidiaries has: (i) granted (contingent distribute or otherwise) to disclose any Person material access or rights to any Company Software in source code of any Company Software, including via an escrow arrangement; form or (ii) taken license or otherwise make available any action that rendered any source code for Company Software to be subject to any Open Source License that requires such source code to be deliveredon a royalty-free basis. The information technology and data processing Software, disclosed or made available to any Person or at no cost; or (iii) licensedhardware, distributed or networks, systems, facilities and services used any Software subject to an Open Source License in material breach of the terms of such Open Source License (excluding obligations of notice or attribution). (l) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, each of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries has been in compliance with (i) all applicable Privacy Laws and (ii) the Company’s and any of its Subsidiaries’ own external and internal policies relating to data privacy, data protection, and the collection, retention, protection, and use of Personal Information collected, used, or held for use by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries (collectively, the “Systems”) are adequate in connection with all material respects for the operation of their businesses (“Company Personal Information”). Except as is not, the Business and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, (i) there has been no unauthorized access tofailure, breakdown or continued substandard performance of any Systems that has caused a material disruption or interruption in or to any use of the Systems or disclosure ofthe conduct of the Business. The Company has taken commercially reasonable steps and implemented commercially reasonable safeguards to ensure that the Systems are substantially free from Contaminants. The Company has implemented business continuity, back-up and disaster recovery policies, procedures and systems that are consistent with generally accepted industry standards in Colombia and sufficient to maintain the operation of the Business in all material respects. (d) The Company Personal Information has not received notice of any claims or been charged with any violation of any privacy policies and all Laws relating to privacy, data protection (including, without limitation, Law 1581 of 2012), anti-spam, personally identifiable information, and similar consumer protection laws (collectively, “Privacy Laws and Policies”) or any failure to adequately protect or maintain the confidentiality of any personally identifiable information and other confidential customer information. There is no investigation pending against the Company, or, threatened against the Company, with respect to any such claim or charge, and there are no facts or circumstances which could form the basis for any such claim or charge. There have been no data breaches involving any personally identifiable information collected by the Company and there are no facts or circumstances which could form the basis for any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any claim asserted or threatened in writing against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including by a Governmental Authority) alleging a material violation of any Privacy Law. Without limiting the foregoing, except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Company and its Subsidiaries takes commercially reasonable measures designed to protect Company Personal Information against unauthorized access, use, modification, or other misusesuch breaches.

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Samples: Share Purchase Agreement (ID Global Solutions Corp)

Intellectual Property; Privacy. (a) The Company Registered Intellectual Property other than with respect to applications is subsisting Obligors are the sole and exclusive legal and beneficial (and to the Knowledge extent applicable, record) owners of the Companyall right, valid title and enforceable, interest in and to all Product Intellectual Property that is owned exclusively or purported to be owned by the Company or one of its SubsidiariesObligors, free and clear of all liens any Liens other than Permitted Liens Liens. The Obligors own or have sufficient and valid rights to use and otherwise exploit all other Product Intellectual Property for the Product Commercialization and Development Activities. Without limiting the foregoing, and except as set forth in Schedule 3.12 (a) other than customary restrictions in in-bound licenses of Intellectual Property and non-disclosure Contracts or pursuant to Permitted Licensing Agreements, there are 48 US-DOCS\149870611.184871-1379-4480 v.21 US-DOCS\152880138.1 no pending inventorship challengesjudgments, covenants not to sue, grants, Liens (other than Permitted Liens), or oppositionother claims or Contracts relating to any Product Intellectual Property, reexaminationin each case, nullity, interference which materially restrict any Obligor or other proceedings (excluding ordinary course office actions) commenced, or to the Knowledge any of the Company threatened in writing, its Subsidiaries with respect to the enforcement or other exploitation of any Company Registered Product Intellectual Property, where applicable, in each case Property for Product Commercialization and Development Activities; except as is nothas not resulted in, and would not reasonably be expected to beresult in, any material to liability or business disruption, the businesses operation and conduct of the Company Product Commercialization and Development Activities by or on behalf of any of its Subsidiaries. (b) The Company Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, exclusively owns all material Company including their use of their respective Product Intellectual Property. , does not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate, or has not in the past three (c3) There are notyears infringed, and since January 1, 2022 there have not beenmisappropriated or otherwise violated, any Legal Proceedings Intellectual Property Controlled of any other Person; (1) there are no pending claims or any claims threatened in writing by writing, against any Person against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion from any Person, in each case alleging infringement, misappropriation or other violation by the Company Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries asserted by any other Person relating to Product Intellectual Property, including any material claims alleging ownership, invalidity or unenforceability of any Product Intellectual Property Property, or infringement, misappropriation, or other violations of such Person or challenging the ownership, validity or enforceability of any Company Intellectual Property Person’s rights in each case except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Company or its Subsidiaries. (d) To the Knowledge of the Company, the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted and as conducted since January 1, 2022 does not materially infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property of any Person. Since January 1, 2022, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sent any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion asserting or threatening to assert any Legal Proceeding against any Person involving or relating to any Company Intellectual Property. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, to the Knowledge of the Company no Person is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating nor, since January 1, 2022, has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated any Company Intellectual Property. (e) The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken commercially reasonable steps to protect and preserve the confidentiality of all material confidential or non-public information it has, in its reasonable business judgment, chosen to maintain as, Trade Secrets. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have disclosed, delivered or licensed to any Person, or agreed to disclose, deliver or license to any Person, any source code of any Software owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (“Company Software”), except for disclosures to employees or independent contractors under written Contracts that subject such employees or independent contractors to reasonable confidentiality obligations. (f) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, all Company Intellectual Property has been developed by employees within the scope of their employment or by independent contractors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and all such employees and independent contractors that have developed, contributed to, modified, or improved material Company Intellectual Property have executed written Contracts assigning all right, title and interest in such Intellectual Property to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. No government funding or facilities of a university, college, other educational institution, or research center were used in the development of any material Company Intellectual Property in a manner, or under circumstances or terms that would grant such party ownership or license rights to any such Company Intellectual Property. (g) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a member of or party to any patent pool, standards-setting organizations, multi-party special interest industry standards body, trade association or other organization pursuant to the rules of which it is obligated to license any Intellectual Property to any Person or to refrain from asserting any Intellectual Property against any Person. (h) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is party to any Contract which, upon the Closing, will result in: (i) the granting of any right, license, forfeiture, immunity from suit or covenant not to assert to any Person under or with respect to any Intellectual Property (including any Intellectual Property owned by Parent or its Affiliates); (ii) require the consent of any other Person in respect of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ rights to own, transfer, license, use or hold for use, or otherwise exploit any Company Product Intellectual Property; or (iii) Parent or any of its Affiliates (including, following the Closing, the Company and its Subsidiaries) to be obligated to pay any royalties or other fees or consideration with respect to Intellectual Property in excess of those payable by the Company and its Subsidiaries in the absence of this Agreement or the Transaction. (i) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, (i) there have been no material failures of any of the computers, servers, workstations or other information technology equipment used in the operation of the Company or its Subsidiaries’ businesses, other than defects which have been corrected or routine errors or bugs that have occurred in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the Company Software does not contain any “back door,” “drop dead device,” “time bomb,” “Trojan horse” “virus,” or “worm” (as such terms are commonly understood in the software industry) or any other malicious Software or device designed to have any of the following functions: (i) disrupting, disabling, harming or otherwise impeding in any manner the operation of, or providing unauthorized access to, a computer system or network or other device on which such Software or device is stored or installed, or (ii) damaging or destroying any data or file without the user’s consent. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its Subsidiaries have implemented commercially reasonable disaster recovery and backup measures. (j) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Company and its Subsidiaries each implement and maintain commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures for a business in its industry and of its size to protect Company Personal Information, Trade Secrets and other Data or information relating to the businesses and in the possession and control of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries against data breaches and cybersecurity incidents. (k) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, none of the Company or its Subsidiaries has: (i) granted (contingent or otherwise) to any Person material access or rights to any source code of any Company Software, including via an escrow arrangement; (ii) taken any action that rendered any source code for Company Software to be subject to any Open Source License that requires such source code to be delivered, disclosed or made available to any Person or at no cost; or (iii) licensed, distributed or used any Software subject to an Open Source License in material breach of the terms of such Open Source License (excluding obligations of notice or attribution). (l) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, each of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries has been in compliance with (i) all applicable Privacy Laws and (ii) the Company’s and any of its Subsidiaries’ own external and internal policies relating to data privacy, data protection, and the collection, retention, protection, and use of Personal Information collected, used, or held for use by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the operation of their businesses (“Company Personal Information”). Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, (i) there has been no unauthorized access to, or use or disclosure of, Company Personal Information by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii2) neither the Company any Obligor nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice from any claim asserted or threatened in writing against by, any Person that the Company Product Development and Commercialization Activities of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries (including their use of Product Intellectual Property), infringes upon, misappropriates or violates, any Intellectual Property of any other Person in each case of clauses (1) and (2), that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; to the knowledge of any Obligor and its Subsidiaries, (1) no Product Intellectual Property is being infringed, misappropriated or violated by a Governmental Authorityany other Person; (2) alleging a material neither any Obligor nor any of its Subsidiaries has put any other Person on notice of such actual or potential infringement, misappropriation or violation of any Privacy Law. Without such Product Intellectual Property, and (3) neither any Obligor nor any of its Subsidiaries has initiated any claim with respect to any such Product Intellectual Property, in each case of (1), (2) and (3), that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; all current and former employees and contractors that have developed or contributed to the development of any material Product Intellectual Property for or on behalf of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries has executed a valid, written confidentiality and invention assignment Contracts with such Obligor or such Subsidiary, as applicable, that irrevocably and presently assign to such Obligor or such Subsidiary, as applicable, all rights of such employees and contractors to any such material Product Intellectual Property; and each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries has taken reasonable precautions to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of its Product Intellectual Property consisting of Trade Secrets and no such Trade Secret constituting material Product Intellectual Property has been used or discovered by, or disclosed to, any Person except pursuant to written, valid and enforceable non-disclosure agreements protecting the confidentiality thereof, which agreements, to the knowledge of each Obligor and its Subsidiaries, have not been breached in any material respect. (b) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.12(b), and without limiting the foregoingrepresentations and warranties in Section 3.12(a): each of the issued claims of each Product Patent owned or to the knowledge of the Obligors otherwise Controlled by Company or its Affiliates is valid and enforceable; subsequent to the issuance of each Product Patent owned or to the knowledge of the Obligors otherwise Controlled by Company or its Affiliates, except as neither any Obligor nor any of its Subsidiaries or predecessors-in-interest has filed any disclaimer or made or permitted any other voluntary reduction in the scope of the Inventions claimed in such Product Patents, or any such disclaimer or reduction in scope would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; to the knowledge of any Obligor and its Subsidiaries, no allowable or allowed subject matter of any Product Patents is notsubject to any competing conception claims of allowable or allowed subject matter of any patent applications or patents of any third party and have not been the subject of any interference, and are not and have not been the subject of any re- examination, opposition or any other post-grant proceedings, nor is any Obligor or its Subsidiaries aware of any basis for any such interference, re-examination, opposition, inter partes review, post grant review, or any other post-grant proceedings; no Product Patents that are material to the Product Commercialization and Development Activities have ever been finally adjudicated to be invalid, unpatentable or unenforceable for any reason in any administrative, arbitration, judicial or other proceeding, and, with the exception of publicly available documents in the applicable patent office with respect to any such Patents, no Obligor nor any of their Subsidiaries has received any written notice asserting that such Patents are invalid, unpatentable or unenforceable; and all maintenance fees, registration fees, renewal fees, annuities, and the like due or payable on or with respect to any Registered Product IP owned or Controlled by the Company or its Affiliates have been timely paid, or the failure to so pay would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any result in a Material Adverse Effect. (c) Each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries, and each of their respective attorneys, agents and relevant employees, have met the duty of candor and good faith required under 37 C.F.R. § 1.56, which includes a duty to disclose all information known to that individual to be “material to patentability,” as such is defined in 37 C.F.R. § 1.56, and complied with any analogous Laws outside the United States in connection with the Product Patents owned or Controlled by the Company and or its Subsidiaries takes commercially reasonable measures designed to protect Company Personal Information against unauthorized access, use, modification, or other misuseAffiliates.

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Samples: Revenue Interest Purchase and Sale Agreement (Verona Pharma PLC)

Intellectual Property; Privacy. (a) The Schedule 4.10(a) sets forth a list as of the date hereof of all Patents, registered Marks, registered Copyrights and domain name registrations, including any applications for any of the foregoing, included in the Company-Owned IP Rights (the “Company Registered Intellectual Property other than with respect to applications is subsisting and to the Knowledge of the Company, valid and enforceable, and is owned exclusively by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, free and clear of all liens other than Permitted Liens and there are no pending inventorship challenges, or opposition, reexamination, nullity, interference or other proceedings (excluding ordinary course office actions) commenced, or to the Knowledge of the Company threatened in writing, with respect to any Company Registered Intellectual Property, where applicable, in each case except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its SubsidiariesIP”). (b) The Company or any of its Subsidiaries, as applicablethe case may be, exclusively owns own all material right, title and interest in and to the Company-Owned IP Rights free and clear of all Liens except for Permitted Liens. The Company Intellectual PropertyRegistered IP is subsisting and, to the Company’s Knowledge, not invalid or unenforceable. The Company and its Subsidiaries are current in the payment of all registration, maintenance and renewal fees with respect to the Company Registered IP as such payments come due, except in each case as the Company or its Subsidiaries has elected in its reasonable business judgment to abandon or permit to lapse a registration or application. (c) None of the Company-Owned IP Rights is subject to any Order adversely affecting the use thereof or rights thereto by the Company or its Subsidiaries in any material respect. There are not, and since January 1, 2022 there have not been, any Legal Proceedings is no opposition or cancellation Action pending or threatened in writing by any Person against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion from any Person, in each case alleging infringement, misappropriation or other violation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Intellectual Property of such Person or challenging concerning the ownership, validity or enforceability of any Company Intellectual Property Company-Owned IP Rights (other than proceedings in each case except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be material the Ordinary Course of Business related to the Company or its Subsidiariesapplication for any item of Company-Owned IP Rights). (d) To Since the Knowledge Look-back Date, there has been, and as of the date hereof, there is, no infringement or misappropriation, or other violation by a third party, or written allegation made by the Company or its Subsidiaries thereof, of any Company, the conduct of the business -Owned IP Rights. (e) The operation of the Company and or any of its Subsidiaries as currently conducted as of the date hereof, and as will be conducted since January 1immediately following the Closing, 2022 does not materially infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate violate, and the operation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as conducted since the Look-back Date has not infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated, the Intellectual Property Rights of any other Person. Since January 1, 2022, neither Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sent received any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion asserting or threatening to assert any Legal Proceeding against any Person involving or relating to any Company Intellectual Property. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to notice since the businesses Look-back Date alleging that the operation of the Company or any of its SubsidiariesSubsidiaries infringes, misappropriates, violates or otherwise conflicts with the Intellectual Property Rights of any other Person. (f) The Company and its Subsidiaries have secured from all founders, consultants, advisors, employees and independent contractors who independently or jointly contributed, to or participated in, the conception, reduction to practice, creation or development of any material Technology for the Company or Company-Owned IP Rights (each, a “Contributor”), exclusive ownership of, free and clear of all Liens except for Permitted Liens, all of the Contributors’ Intellectual Property Rights in such contribution that the Company does not otherwise own by operation of law. No Contributor owns or, to the Knowledge of Company’s Knowledge, claims any rights, licenses, claims or interest whatsoever with respect to any material Company-Owned IP Rights developed by the Contributor for the Company no Person is infringingor its Subsidiaries. Without limiting the foregoing, misappropriating or otherwise violating northe Company has obtained written and enforceable Contracts, since January 1forms of which have been provided to Parent, 2022with respect to assignments of material Company-Owned IP Rights, has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated any Company Intellectual Propertyfrom all current and former Contributors. (eg) The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken commercially reasonable steps to protect and preserve maintain the confidentiality of all any material confidential or nonTrade Secrets included in the Company-public information it has, in its reasonable business judgment, chosen to maintain as, Trade Secrets. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have disclosed, delivered or licensed to any Person, or agreed to disclose, deliver or license to any Person, any source code of any Software owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries Owned IP Rights (“Company Software”), except for disclosures to employees or independent contractors under written Contracts that subject such employees or independent contractors to reasonable confidentiality obligations. (f) Except as has not had, and any Company-Owned IP Rights whose value would not reasonably be expected to havebe impaired in any material respect by disclosure), a and to the Company’s Knowledge, there have been no material misappropriation or unauthorized uses or disclosures of any such material Trade Secrets. (h) The Company Material Adverse Effectand its Subsidiaries own, license, sublicense, or otherwise possess legally enforceable and sufficient rights to all Company Intellectual Property has been developed by employees within Rights and other intangible assets necessary to conduct the scope business of their employment the Company and its Subsidiaries immediately following the Closing in all material respects in substantially the same manner as such business is conducted as of the date hereof. The Company and its Subsidiaries may exercise, transfer, or by independent contractors license the Company IP Rights and any material Technology owned, or purported to be owned by, or licensed to, the Company or any Subsidiary, without material restriction or material payment to any Person (except as set forth in any applicable Material Contract). Neither this Agreement nor any of the transactions contemplated hereby will restrict or impair the right of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and all such employees and independent contractors that have developedto transfer, contributed to, modifiedenforce or license any Company-Owned IP Rights or material Technology owned, or improved material Company Intellectual Property have executed written Contracts assigning all rightpurported to be owned, title and interest in such Intellectual Property to by the Company or any Subsidiary as such right exists as of its Subsidiariesthe date hereof. No government funding The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not cause (i) the forfeiture or facilities of a university, college, other educational institutiontermination of, or research center were used in the development give rise to a right of forfeiture or termination of any material Company IP Rights, (ii) the grant of any rights or licenses to any Company-Owned IP Right or Intellectual Property in a mannerRights owned by Parent or any of its Affiliates, or under circumstances (iii) additional payment obligations by the Company or terms that would grant such party ownership its Subsidiaries to use or license rights exploit any material Company IP Rights to any such the same extent as the Company Intellectual Propertyand its Subsidiaries were permitted before the date of this Agreement. (g) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a member of or party to any patent pool, standards-setting organizations, multi-party special interest industry standards body, trade association or other organization pursuant to the rules of which it is obligated to license any Intellectual Property to any Person or to refrain from asserting any Intellectual Property against any Person. (hi) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is party to any Contract which, upon the Closing, will result in: has (i) combined Open Source Software with any material Software owned by the granting Company or its Subsidiaries (the “Company Software”), and (ii) distributed such combined Software such that such Company Software would become subject to the terms of any right, license, forfeiture, immunity from suit the license under which such Open Source Software is licensed that require the disclosure or covenant not to assert distribution to any Person under or with respect to the public of any Intellectual Property portion of the source code for such Company Software or limit the terms (including any Intellectual Property owned by Parent royalty terms) under which such Company Software may be licensed or its Affiliates); (ii) require the consent of any other Person in respect of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ rights to own, transfer, license, use or hold for use, or otherwise exploit any Company Intellectual Property; or (iii) Parent or any of its Affiliates (including, following the Closing, the Company and its Subsidiaries) to be obligated to pay any royalties or other fees or consideration with respect to Intellectual Property in excess of those payable by the distributed. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in material compliance with the absence terms and conditions of this Agreement all relevant licenses for Open Source Software used by the Company or its Subsidiaries. Neither the Transaction. Company nor its Subsidiaries has delivered, licensed or made available, or is under a duty or obligation (iwhether present, contingent, or otherwise) Except as has not hadto deliver, and would not reasonably be expected license or make available, the source code for any Company Software to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, (i) there have been no material failures of any of the computers, servers, workstations escrow agent or other information technology equipment used in the operation Person who is not an employee or consultant and acting on behalf of the Company or its Subsidiaries’ businesses, other than defects which have been corrected or routine errors or bugs that have occurred in the ordinary course of business and . (iij) the Company Software does The IT Systems (i) do not contain any “back door,” “drop dead device,” “time bomb,” “Trojan horse” “virus,” malware or “worm” (as such terms are commonly understood in the software industry) or any other malicious Software or device designed to have any of the following functions: (i) disrupting, disabling, harming or otherwise impeding in any manner the operation of, or providing unauthorized access to, a computer system or network or other device on which such Software or device is stored or installed, or (ii) damaging or destroying any data or file without the user’s consent. Except as is not, and security vulnerability that would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, interfere with the ability of the Company and its Subsidiaries have implemented commercially reasonable disaster recovery and backup measures. (j) Except as is notto conduct their business in any material respect or present a material risk of unauthorized access, disclosure, use, corruption, or loss of any Personal Information or other material non-public information, and would (ii) since the Look-back Date, have not reasonably be expected to bebeen affected by any material failure, breakdown, persistent substandard performance or unauthorized access or use that has not been remediated in all material to the businesses respects as of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the date hereof. The Company and its Subsidiaries each implement and maintain (x) have taken commercially reasonable technical steps to audit the IT Systems for malware and organizational measures for a business security vulnerabilities, and such audits have not identified any material issues that remain unremediated in its industry any material respect; and of its size to protect Company Personal Information(y) have not been notified in writing of, Trade Secrets and other Data or information relating to the businesses Company’s Knowledge there are not any, material cybersecurity or data and information security deficiency with respect to the IT Systems (including in the possession and control any IT Systems audit or by any Governmental Authority or other third Person) that has not been remediated in all material respects as of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries against data breaches and cybersecurity incidentsdate hereof. (k) Except as is not, The Company and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, none of the Company or its Subsidiaries has: (i) granted (contingent or otherwise) to any Person material access or rights to any source code of any Company Softwarehave implemented and comply with commercially reasonable written data and information security, including via an escrow arrangement; business continuity and disaster recovery plans and procedures that are consistent with commercially reasonable industry practices and applicable Laws, and (ii) have taken commercially reasonable steps to assess and test such plans and procedures on no less than an annual basis, and such assessments and tests have not identified any action material issues that rendered any source code for Company Software to be subject to any Open Source License that requires such source code to be delivered, disclosed or made available to any Person or at no cost; or (iii) licensed, distributed or used any Software subject to an Open Source License in material breach of the terms of such Open Source License (excluding obligations of notice or attribution)remain unremediated. (l) Except as is notThe Company and its Subsidiaries (and any third Person using Personal Information on their behalf) comply in all material respects with its binding internal policies and privacy statements related to privacy and security of IT Systems (and the data therein, including Personal Information), and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, each of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries has been in compliance with (i) all applicable Privacy Laws (including the most current version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards, as applicable), including by providing and (ii) making accessible a privacy statement or terms of use regarding the Company’s and any of its Subsidiaries’ own external and internal policies relating to data privacyreceipt, data protection, and the collection, retention, storage, protection, security, use, disclosure, distribution, transmission, analysis, monitoring, maintenance, modification, processing and use disposal (collectively, “Use”) of all Personal Information collected, used, or held for use Used by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the operation of their businesses (“Company Personal Information”). Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, (i) there has been no unauthorized access to, or use or disclosure of, Company individuals from whom such Personal Information by was collected or to whom such Personal Information relates. Since the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) Look-back Date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any claim asserted written claims, notices or threatened complaints asserting non-compliance in writing against any material respect with applicable Privacy Laws or privacy statements regarding the Company’s, or its Subsidiaries’ information practices or the Use of any Personal Information, or alleging a violation of any individual’s privacy, publicity or confidentiality rights, including from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, any similar foreign bodies, or any other Governmental Authority. Since the Look-back Date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor, to the Company’s Knowledge, any Person to whom Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including has provided Personal Information or processes such Personal Information on behalf of Company, has been subject to any material breach or unauthorized access to or use, disclosure or destruction of, Personal Information Used by a Governmental Authority) alleging a material violation of any Privacy Law. Without limiting the foregoing, except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. The Company and its Subsidiaries have (i) taken commercially reasonable efforts (including implementing reasonable technical, physical or administrative safeguards) to protect all Personal Information Used by the Company against any unauthorized use, access or disclosure and (ii) entered into written agreements with all third-party service providers, outsources, processors or other third Persons who Use Personal Information on behalf of the Company and its Subsidiaries takes that obligate such Persons to comply with all applicable Privacy Laws and to take steps to protect and secure Personal Information from loss, theft, misuse or unauthorized use, access, modification or disclosure, in each case to the extent required by applicable Privacy Laws. (m) The Company has cybersecurity and data breach insurance that is consistent with commercially reasonable measures designed to protect Company industry practices in respect of the IT Systems and the nature and volume of Personal Information against unauthorized access, use, modification, and other non-public information that any of them (or other misusea third Person on behalf of any of them) uses.

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Samples: Merger Agreement (Vesper Healthcare Acquisition Corp.)

Intellectual Property; Privacy. (a) The Company Registered Intellectual Property other than with respect to applications is subsisting and to the Knowledge of the Company, valid and enforceable, and is owned exclusively by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, free and clear of all liens other than Permitted Liens and there are no pending inventorship challenges, or opposition, reexamination, nullity, interference or other proceedings (excluding ordinary course office actions) commenced, or to the Knowledge of the Company threatened in writing, with respect to any Company Registered Intellectual Property, where applicable, in each case except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. (b) The Company or any of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, exclusively owns all material Company Intellectual Property. (c) There are not, and since January 1, 2022 there have not been, any Legal Proceedings pending or threatened in writing by any Person against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion from any Person, in each case alleging infringement, misappropriation or other violation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Intellectual Property of such Person or challenging the ownership, validity or enforceability of any Company Intellectual Property in each case except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Company or its Subsidiaries. (d) To the Knowledge of the Company, the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted and as conducted since January 1, 2022 does not materially infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property of any Person. Since January 1, 2022, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sent any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion asserting or threatening to assert any Legal Proceeding against any Person involving or relating to any Company Intellectual Property. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, to the Knowledge of the Company no Person is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating nor, since January 1, 2022, has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated any Company Intellectual Property. (e) The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken commercially subsidiaries own or possess or can acquire on reasonable steps terms, adequate rights to protect use trademarks, service marks, trade names and preserve the confidentiality of all material other rights to inventions, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or non-public information it hasprocedures), in its reasonable business judgmentpatents, chosen to maintain aspatent rights, Trade Secrets. Neither the Company nor licenses, copyrights, including applications for any of its Subsidiaries have disclosedthe foregoing, delivered and other intellectual property (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) necessary to conduct the business as presently conducted or licensed to any Person, or agreed to disclose, deliver or license to any Person, any source code of any Software owned or purported as proposed to be owned by conducted in the Company or any of its Subsidiaries future as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (the “Company SoftwareIntellectual Property”), except for disclosures to employees or independent contractors under written Contracts that subject such employees or independent contractors to reasonable confidentiality obligations. (f) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, all Company Intellectual Property has been developed by employees within where the scope of their employment or by independent contractors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and all such employees and independent contractors that have developed, contributed to, modified, or improved material Company Intellectual Property have executed written Contracts assigning all right, title and interest in such Intellectual Property to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. No government funding or facilities of a university, college, other educational institution, or research center were used in the development of any material Company Intellectual Property in a manner, or under circumstances or terms that would grant such party ownership or license rights to any such Company Intellectual Property. (g) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a member of or party to any patent pool, standards-setting organizations, multi-party special interest industry standards body, trade association or other organization pursuant to the rules of which it is obligated to license any Intellectual Property to any Person or to refrain from asserting any Intellectual Property against any Person. (h) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is party to any Contract which, upon the Closing, will result in: (i) the granting of any right, license, forfeiture, immunity from suit or covenant not to assert to any Person under or with respect to any Intellectual Property (including any Intellectual Property owned by Parent or its Affiliates); (ii) require the consent of any other Person in respect of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ rights failure to own, transferpossess, license, use or hold for use, license or otherwise exploit any Company Intellectual Property; or (iii) Parent or any of its Affiliates (including, following the Closing, the Company and its Subsidiaries) to be obligated to pay any royalties or other fees or consideration with respect to Intellectual Property in excess of those payable by the Company and its Subsidiaries in the absence of this Agreement or the Transaction. (i) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, (i) there have been no material failures of any of the computers, servers, workstations or other information technology equipment used in the operation of the Company or its Subsidiaries’ businesses, other than defects which have been corrected or routine errors or bugs that have occurred in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the Company Software does not contain any “back door,” “drop dead device,” “time bomb,” “Trojan horse” “virus,” or “worm” (as such terms are commonly understood in the software industry) or any other malicious Software or device designed to have any of the following functions: (i) disrupting, disabling, harming or otherwise impeding in any manner the operation of, or providing unauthorized access to, a computer system or network or other device on which such Software or device is stored or installed, or (ii) damaging or destroying any data or file without the user’s consent. Except as is not, and rights would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Company General Disclosure Package and its Subsidiaries have implemented commercially reasonable disaster recovery and backup measures. (j) Except the Prospectus or except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to behave a Material Adverse Effect, material (i) the Company and its subsidiaries own or possess the rights to use the Company Intellectual Property free and clear in all respects of all adverse claims, liens or other encumbrances; (ii) to the businesses knowledge of the Company, there is no infringement, misappropriation or other violation by third parties of any Company Intellectual Property; (iii) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by any third party challenging the Company’s or its subsidiaries rights in or to any Company Intellectual Property; (iv) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by any third party challenging the validity, scope or enforceability of any Company Intellectual Property; (v) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by any third party that the Company or any of its Subsidiariessubsidiaries infringes, the Company misappropriates or otherwise violates any Intellectual Property of a third party, and its Subsidiaries each implement and maintain commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures for a business in its industry and of its size to protect Company Personal Information(vi) there is no pending or, Trade Secrets and other Data or information relating to the businesses and in the possession and control of Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding, investigation or claim by a third party that the Company or any subsidiary is in default of its Subsidiaries against data breaches and cybersecurity incidents. (k) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, none of the Company contractual commitments or its Subsidiaries has: (i) granted (contingent or otherwise) to any Person material access or rights to any source code of any Company Software, including via an escrow arrangement; (ii) taken any action that rendered any source code for Company Software to be subject to any Open Source License that requires such source code to be delivered, disclosed or made available to any Person or at no cost; or (iii) licensed, distributed or used any Software subject to an Open Source License in material breach of the terms of such Open Source License (excluding obligations of notice or attribution). (l) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, each of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries has been in compliance with (i) all applicable Privacy Laws and (ii) the Company’s and any of its Subsidiaries’ own external and internal policies relating to data privacy, data protection, and the collection, retention, protection, and use of Personal Information collected, used, or held for use by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the operation of their businesses (“Company Personal Information”). Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, (i) there has been no unauthorized access to, or use or disclosure of, Company Personal Information by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any claim asserted or threatened in writing against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including by a Governmental Authority) alleging a material violation of any Privacy Law. Without limiting the foregoing, except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material privacy policies or any law or regulation applicable to the businesses of the Company or any of relating to its Subsidiaries, the Company and its Subsidiaries takes commercially reasonable measures designed to protect Company Personal Information against unauthorized accesscollection, use, modificationstorage, or disclosure of data from or about natural persons, computers, or other misusedevices. For purposes of this Section 1(a)(xxiii), the term “knowledge” does not require Company to have performed any patent or other intellectual property rights clearance searches.

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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Tubemogul Inc)

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Intellectual Property; Privacy. (a) The Company Registered Intellectual Property other than with respect to applications is subsisting Obligors are the sole and exclusive legal and beneficial (and to the Knowledge extent applicable, record) owners of the Companyall right, valid title and enforceable, interest in and to all Product Intellectual Property that is owned exclusively or purported to be owned by the Company or one of its SubsidiariesObligors, free and clear of all liens any Liens other than Permitted Liens Liens. The Obligors own or have sufficient and valid rights to use and otherwise exploit all other Product Intellectual Property for the Product Commercialization and Development Activities. Without limiting the foregoing, and except as set forth in Schedule 3.12 (a) other than customary restrictions in in-bound licenses of Intellectual Property and non-disclosure Contracts or pursuant to Permitted Licensing Agreements, there are no pending inventorship challengesjudgments, covenants not to sue, grants, Liens (other than Permitted Liens), or oppositionother claims or Contracts relating to any Product Intellectual Property, reexaminationin each case, nullity, interference which materially restrict any Obligor or other proceedings (excluding ordinary course office actions) commenced, or to the Knowledge any of the Company threatened in writing, its Subsidiaries with respect to the enforcement or other exploitation of any Company Registered Product Intellectual Property, where applicable, in each case Property for Product Commercialization and Development Activities; except as is nothas not resulted in, and would not reasonably be expected to beresult in, any material to liability or business disruption, the businesses operation and conduct of the Company Product Commercialization and Development Activities by or on behalf of any of its Subsidiaries. (b) The Company Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, exclusively owns all material Company including their use of their respective Product Intellectual Property. , does not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate, or has not in the past three (c3) There are notyears infringed, and since January 1, 2022 there have not beenmisappropriated or otherwise violated, any Legal Proceedings Intellectual Property Controlled of any other Person; (1) there are no pending claims or any claims threatened in writing by writing, against any Person against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion from any Person, in each case alleging infringement, misappropriation or other violation by the Company Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries asserted by any other Person relating to Product Intellectual Property, including any material claims alleging ownership, invalidity or unenforceability of any Product Intellectual Property Property, or infringement, misappropriation, or other violations of such Person or challenging the ownership, validity or enforceability of any Company Intellectual Property Person’s rights in each case except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Company or its Subsidiaries. (d) To the Knowledge of the Company, the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted and as conducted since January 1, 2022 does not materially infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property of any Person. Since January 1, 2022, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sent any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion asserting or threatening to assert any Legal Proceeding against any Person involving or relating to any Company Intellectual Property. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, to the Knowledge of the Company no Person is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating nor, since January 1, 2022, has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated any Company Intellectual Property. (e) The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken commercially reasonable steps to protect and preserve the confidentiality of all material confidential or non-public information it has, in its reasonable business judgment, chosen to maintain as, Trade Secrets. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have disclosed, delivered or licensed to any Person, or agreed to disclose, deliver or license to any Person, any source code of any Software owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (“Company Software”), except for disclosures to employees or independent contractors under written Contracts that subject such employees or independent contractors to reasonable confidentiality obligations. (f) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, all Company Intellectual Property has been developed by employees within the scope of their employment or by independent contractors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and all such employees and independent contractors that have developed, contributed to, modified, or improved material Company Intellectual Property have executed written Contracts assigning all right, title and interest in such Intellectual Property to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. No government funding or facilities of a university, college, other educational institution, or research center were used in the development of any material Company Intellectual Property in a manner, or under circumstances or terms that would grant such party ownership or license rights to any such Company Intellectual Property. (g) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a member of or party to any patent pool, standards-setting organizations, multi-party special interest industry standards body, trade association or other organization pursuant to the rules of which it is obligated to license any Intellectual Property to any Person or to refrain from asserting any Intellectual Property against any Person. (h) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is party to any Contract which, upon the Closing, will result in: (i) the granting of any right, license, forfeiture, immunity from suit or covenant not to assert to any Person under or with respect to any Intellectual Property (including any Intellectual Property owned by Parent or its Affiliates); (ii) require the consent of any other Person in respect of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ rights to own, transfer, license, use or hold for use, or otherwise exploit any Company Product Intellectual Property; or (iii) Parent or any of its Affiliates (including, following the Closing, the Company and its Subsidiaries) to be obligated to pay any royalties or other fees or consideration with respect to Intellectual Property in excess of those payable by the Company and its Subsidiaries in the absence of this Agreement or the Transaction. (i) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, (i) there have been no material failures of any of the computers, servers, workstations or other information technology equipment used in the operation of the Company or its Subsidiaries’ businesses, other than defects which have been corrected or routine errors or bugs that have occurred in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the Company Software does not contain any “back door,” “drop dead device,” “time bomb,” “Trojan horse” “virus,” or “worm” (as such terms are commonly understood in the software industry) or any other malicious Software or device designed to have any of the following functions: (i) disrupting, disabling, harming or otherwise impeding in any manner the operation of, or providing unauthorized access to, a computer system or network or other device on which such Software or device is stored or installed, or (ii) damaging or destroying any data or file without the user’s consent. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its Subsidiaries have implemented commercially reasonable disaster recovery and backup measures. (j) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Company and its Subsidiaries each implement and maintain commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures for a business in its industry and of its size to protect Company Personal Information, Trade Secrets and other Data or information relating to the businesses and in the possession and control of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries against data breaches and cybersecurity incidents. (k) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, none of the Company or its Subsidiaries has: (i) granted (contingent or otherwise) to any Person material access or rights to any source code of any Company Software, including via an escrow arrangement; (ii) taken any action that rendered any source code for Company Software to be subject to any Open Source License that requires such source code to be delivered, disclosed or made available to any Person or at no cost; or (iii) licensed, distributed or used any Software subject to an Open Source License in material breach of the terms of such Open Source License (excluding obligations of notice or attribution). (l) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, each of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries has been in compliance with (i) all applicable Privacy Laws and (ii) the Company’s and any of its Subsidiaries’ own external and internal policies relating to data privacy, data protection, and the collection, retention, protection, and use of Personal Information collected, used, or held for use by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the operation of their businesses (“Company Personal Information”). Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, (i) there has been no unauthorized access to, or use or disclosure of, Company Personal Information by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii2) neither the Company any Obligor nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice from any claim asserted or threatened in writing against by, any Person that the Company Product Development and Commercialization Activities of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries (including by a Governmental Authority) alleging a material violation their use of Product Intellectual Property), infringes upon, misappropriates or violates, any Intellectual Property of any Privacy Law. Without limiting the foregoingother Person in each case of clauses (1) and (2), except as is not, and that would not reasonably be expected to beresult in a Material Adverse Effect; to the knowledge of any Obligor and its Subsidiaries, (1) no Product Intellectual Property is being infringed, misappropriated or violated by any other Person; (2) neither any Obligor nor any of its Subsidiaries has put any other Person on notice of such actual or potential infringement, misappropriation or violation of any such Product Intellectual Property, (b) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.12(b), and without limiting the representations and warranties in Section 3.12(a): each of the issued claims of each Product Patent owned or to the knowledge of the Obligors otherwise Controlled by Company or its Affiliates is valid and enforceable; subsequent to the issuance of each Product Patent owned or to the knowledge of the Obligors otherwise Controlled by Company or its Affiliates, neither any Obligor nor any of its Subsidiaries or predecessors-in-interest has filed any disclaimer or made or permitted any other voluntary reduction in the scope of the Inventions claimed in such Product Patents, or any such disclaimer or reduction in scope would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; to the knowledge of any Obligor and its Subsidiaries, no allowable or allowed subject matter of any Product Patents is subject to any competing conception claims of allowable or allowed subject matter of any patent applications or patents of any third party and have not been the subject of any interference, and are not and have not been the subject of any re- examination, opposition or any other post-grant proceedings, nor is any Obligor or its Subsidiaries aware of any basis for any such interference, re-examination, opposition, inter partes review, post grant review, or any other post-grant proceedings; no Product Patents that are material to the businesses Product Commercialization and Development Activities have ever been finally adjudicated to be invalid, unpatentable or unenforceable for any reason in any administrative, arbitration, judicial or other proceeding, and, with the exception of publicly available documents in the Company applicable patent office with respect to any such Patents, no Obligor nor any of their Subsidiaries has received any written notice asserting that such Patents are invalid, unpatentable or any unenforceable; and (c) Each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries, and each of their respective attorneys, agents and relevant employees, have met the duty of candor and good faith required under 37 C.F.R. § 1.56, which includes a duty to disclose all information known to that individual to be “material to patentability,” as such is defined in 37 C.F.R. § 1.56, and complied with any analogous Laws outside the United States in connection with the Product Patents owned or Controlled by the Company and or its Subsidiaries takes commercially reasonable measures designed to protect Company Personal Information against unauthorized access, use, modification, or other misuseAffiliates.

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Samples: Revenue Interest Purchase and Sale Agreement (Verona Pharma PLC)

Intellectual Property; Privacy. (a) The Section 3.8(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule contains a complete and correct list of all: (i) Patents owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) Registered Intellectual Property other than with respect to applications is subsisting Trademarks and to (iii) Registered Copyrights owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. To the Knowledge of the Company, valid the Owned Company IP is valid, subsisting, and enforceable, and is owned exclusively by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, free and clear of all liens other than Permitted Liens and there are no pending inventorship challenges, or opposition, reexamination, nullity, interference or other proceedings . (excluding ordinary course office actionsb) commenced, or to the Knowledge of the Company threatened in writing, with respect to any Company Registered Intellectual Property, where applicable, in each case except Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, the Company and its Subsidiaries collectively own all right, title, and interest in, or have the valid right to use, all of the Company IP free and clear of all Encumbrances, except Permitted Liens. (c) Except as would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, the Company and its Subsidiaries own or have the right to use all the Intellectual Property necessary to conduct the businesses of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted. (d) The conduct of the respective businesses of the Company and its Subsidiaries does not infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property rights of any person, and has not infringed, misappropriated, or otherwise violated, except as would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. Since the Applicable Date, no Legal Proceeding is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, has been threatened against the Company and its Subsidiaries with regard to the ownership, use, infringement, misappropriation, violation, validity, or enforceability of any Company IP, except as would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. (e) To the Knowledge of the Company, no Person is infringing, misappropriating, or otherwise violating any rights of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. (b) The Subsidiaries in or to any Owned Company IP, except as would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or any of in the aggregate, material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as applicable, exclusively owns all material Company Intellectual Property. (c) There are not, and since January 1, 2022 there have not been, any a whole. No Legal Proceedings Proceeding is pending or has been threatened in writing by any Person against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion from any Person, in each case alleging infringement, misappropriation or other violation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of against any Intellectual Property of such Person or challenging person with regard to the ownership, validity use, infringement, misappropriation, violation, validity, or enforceability of any Company Intellectual Property in each case IP, except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Company or its Subsidiaries. (d) To the Knowledge of the Company, the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted and as conducted since January 1, 2022 does not materially infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property of any Person. Since January 1, 2022, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sent any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion asserting or threatening to assert any Legal Proceeding against any Person involving or relating to any Company Intellectual Property. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material to the businesses Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. (f) Since the Applicable Date, there has been no failure, material substandard performance, breach of or unauthorized access to any IT Systems of the Company that has caused any material disruption to the business of the Company or its Subsidiaries or resulted in any unauthorized disclosure of or access to any data owned, collected or controlled by the Company or its Subsidiaries, in each case except as would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Knowledge of the Company no Person is infringingand its Subsidiaries, misappropriating or otherwise violating nor, since January 1, 2022, has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated any Company Intellectual Property. (e) taken as a whole. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken commercially reasonable steps measures to protect the integrity and preserve security of the confidentiality of all material confidential or non-public information it hasIT Systems and the data stored thereon from unauthorized use, in its reasonable business judgment, chosen to maintain as, Trade Secrets. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have disclosed, delivered or licensed to any Personaccess, or agreed to disclose, deliver or license to any Person, any source code of any Software owned or purported to be owned modification by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (“Company Software”), except for disclosures to employees or independent contractors under written Contracts that subject such employees or independent contractors to reasonable confidentiality obligationsthird parties. (fg) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, all Company Intellectual Property has been developed by employees within the scope of their employment individually or by independent contractors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and all such employees and independent contractors that have developed, contributed to, modified, or improved material Company Intellectual Property have executed written Contracts assigning all right, title and interest in such Intellectual Property to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. No government funding or facilities of a university, college, other educational institution, or research center were used in the development of any material Company Intellectual Property in a manneraggregate, or under circumstances or terms that would grant such party ownership or license rights to any such Company Intellectual Property. (g) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a member of or party to any patent pool, standards-setting organizations, multi-party special interest industry standards body, trade association or other organization pursuant to the rules of which it is obligated to license any Intellectual Property to any Person or to refrain from asserting any Intellectual Property against any Person. (h) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is party to any Contract which, upon the Closing, will result in: (i) the granting of any right, license, forfeiture, immunity from suit or covenant not to assert to any Person under or with respect to any Intellectual Property (including any Intellectual Property owned by Parent or its Affiliates); (ii) require the consent of any other Person in respect of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ rights to own, transfer, license, use or hold for use, or otherwise exploit any Company Intellectual Property; or (iii) Parent or any of its Affiliates (including, following the Closing, the Company and its Subsidiaries) to be obligated to pay any royalties or other fees or consideration with respect to Intellectual Property in excess of those payable by the Company and its Subsidiaries in the absence of this Agreement or the Transaction. (i) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, (i) there have been no material failures of any of the computers, servers, workstations or other information technology equipment used in the operation of the Company or its Subsidiaries’ businesses, other than defects which have been corrected or routine errors or bugs that have occurred in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the Company Software does not contain any “back door,” “drop dead device,” “time bomb,” “Trojan horse” “virus,” or “worm” (as such terms are commonly understood in the software industry) or any other malicious Software or device designed to have any of the following functions: (i) disrupting, disabling, harming or otherwise impeding in any manner the operation of, or providing unauthorized access to, a computer system or network or other device on which such Software or device is stored or installed, or (ii) damaging or destroying any data or file without the user’s consent. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its Subsidiaries have implemented commercially reasonable disaster recovery complied with all privacy policies, laws and backup measures. (j) Except as is notregulations applicable to the Company and its Subsidiaries regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and would not reasonably be expected retention of personally identifiable information, including any such data privacy laws, industry security standards (e.g., Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) or consumer privacy laws in every jurisdiction where (i) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries operates or (ii) residents of such jurisdiction have provided personally identifiable information to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Company and its Subsidiaries each implement and maintain commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures for a business in its industry and of its size to protect Company Personal Information, Trade Secrets and other Data or information relating to the businesses and in the possession and control of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries against data breaches and cybersecurity incidents. (k) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, none of the Company or its Subsidiaries has: (i) granted (contingent or otherwise) to any Person material access or rights to any source code of any Company Software, including via an escrow arrangement; (ii) taken any action that rendered any source code for Company Software to be subject to any Open Source License that requires such source code to be delivered, disclosed or made available to any Person or at no cost; or (iii) licensed, distributed or used any Software subject to an Open Source License in material breach of the terms of such Open Source License (excluding obligations of notice or attribution). (l) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, each of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries has been in compliance with (i) all applicable Privacy Laws and (ii) the Company’s and any of its Subsidiaries’ own external and internal policies relating to data privacy, data protection, and the collection, retention, protection, and use of Personal Information collected, used, or held for use by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the operation of their businesses (“Company Personal Information”). Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, (i) there has been no unauthorized access to, or use or disclosure of, Company Personal Information by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) neither Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received provided or been legally required to provide any claim asserted notices to data owners in connection with any unauthorized access, use or threatened in writing against the Company or any disclosure of its Subsidiaries (including by a Governmental Authority) alleging a material violation of any Privacy Law. Without limiting the foregoingpersonally identifiable information, except as is not, has not had and would not be reasonably be expected to behave, material to individually or in the businesses of the aggregate, a Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Company and its Subsidiaries takes commercially reasonable measures designed to protect Company Personal Information against unauthorized access, use, modification, or other misuseMaterial Adverse Effect.

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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Seventy Seven Energy Inc.)

Intellectual Property; Privacy. (a) The Company Registered Intellectual Property other than with respect to applications is subsisting and to the Knowledge of the Company, valid and enforceable, and is owned exclusively by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, free and clear of all liens other than Permitted Liens and there are no pending inventorship challenges, or opposition, reexamination, nullity, interference or other proceedings (excluding ordinary course office actions) commenced, or to the Knowledge of the Company threatened in writing, with respect to any Company Registered Intellectual Property, where applicable, in each case except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries[REMOVED AND RESERVED]. (b) The Company and its Subsidiaries collectively own all right, title, and interest in, or have the valid right to use, all of the Company IP, free and clear of all Encumbrances, and there are no obligations or covenants to, or restrictions from any other Persons affecting the use, enforcement, transfer, or licensing of the Owned Company IP by the Company and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, exclusively owns all material Company Intellectual Property. (c) There The Company and its Subsidiaries are notthe sole and exclusive beneficial owners, and, with respect to applications, patents, and since January 1registrations, 2022 there have not beenrecord owners, any Legal Proceedings pending or threatened in writing by any Person against of all the Owned Company IP. All employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any written noticean obligation, chargeeither contractually or legally, complaint, claim or other written assertion from any Person, in each case alleging infringement, misappropriation or other violation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of to assign any Intellectual Property which they generate in the course of such Person or challenging the ownership, validity or enforceability of any Company Intellectual Property in each case except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be material their employment to the Company or its Subsidiaries. (d) a Subsidiary. To the Knowledge of the Company, all Owned Company IP has been assigned to the Company or a Subsidiary. (d) The Owned Company IP and Licensed Company IP constitute all the Intellectual Property necessary to conduct of the business businesses of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted or as proposed to be conducted. (e) The Owned Company IP and, to the Knowledge of the Company, Licensed Company IP, are valid, subsisting, and as conducted since January 1enforceable. (f) No Owned Company IP or Licensed Company IP is being licensed, 2022 enforced, or otherwise used in a manner that would result in the abandonment, cancellation, or unenforceability of such Intellectual Property. (g) Use by the Company and its Subsidiaries of any Company IP, and the conduct of their respective businesses, does not materially infringe, misappropriate misappropriate, or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property rights of any Person, and no proceeding is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, has been threatened or asserted against the Company and its Subsidiaries with regard to the ownership, use, infringement, misappropriation, violation, validity, or enforceability of any Company IP. Since January 1To the Knowledge of the Company, 2022, neither there is no valid basis for any such claim. (h) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sent infringed, misappropriated, or otherwise violated any written noticeIntellectual Property of any Third Party. (i) To the Knowledge of the Company, chargeno Person is infringing, complaintmisappropriating, claim or other written assertion asserting or threatening to assert otherwise violating any Legal Proceeding against any Person involving or relating to any Company Intellectual Property. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses rights of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, Subsidiaries in or to any Company IP. No Proceeding is pending or has been threatened or asserted by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries against any Person with regard to the Knowledge ownership, use, infringement, misappropriation, violation, validity, or enforceability of the Company no Person is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating nor, since January 1, 2022, has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated any Company Intellectual PropertyIP. (ej) The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken commercially reasonable steps actions to protect and preserve the confidentiality of all material their Trade Secrets and other confidential information. Each Person presently or non-public information it has, in its reasonable business judgment, chosen to maintain as, Trade Secrets. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have disclosed, delivered or licensed to any Person, or agreed to disclose, deliver or license to any Person, any source code of any Software owned or purported to be owned previously employed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (“Company Software”), except for disclosures to employees or including independent contractors under written Contracts that subject such employees and consultants, if any) who has or independent contractors had access to reasonable confidentiality obligations. (f) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, all Company Intellectual Property has been developed by employees within the scope of their employment confidential or by independent contractors of the Company proprietary information or any of its Subsidiaries Trade Secret has executed a confidentiality and all such employees and independent contractors that have developed, contributed to, modified, or improved material Company Intellectual Property have executed written Contracts assigning all right, title and interest in such Intellectual Property to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. No government funding or facilities of a university, college, other educational institution, or research center were used in the development of any material Company Intellectual Property in a manner, or under circumstances or terms that would grant such party ownership or license rights to any such Company Intellectual Property. (g) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a member of or party to any patent pool, standards-setting organizations, multi-party special interest industry standards body, trade association or other organization pursuant to the rules of which it is obligated to license any Intellectual Property to any Person or to refrain from asserting any Intellectual Property against any Person. (h) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is party to any Contract which, upon the Closing, will result in: (i) the granting of any right, license, forfeiture, immunity from suit or covenant not to assert to any Person under or with respect to any Intellectual Property (including any Intellectual Property owned by Parent or its Affiliates); (ii) require the consent of any other Person in respect of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ rights to own, transfer, license, use or hold for use, or otherwise exploit any Company Intellectual Property; or (iii) Parent or any of its Affiliates (including, following the Closing, the Company and its Subsidiaries) to be obligated to pay any royalties or other fees or consideration with respect to Intellectual Property in excess of those payable by the Company and its Subsidiaries in the absence of this Agreement or the Transaction. (i) Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect, (i) there have been no material failures of any of the computers, servers, workstations or other information technology equipment used in the operation of the Company or its Subsidiaries’ businesses, other than defects which have been corrected or routine errors or bugs that have occurred in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the Company Software does not contain any “back door,” “drop dead device,” “time bomb,” “Trojan horse” “virus,” or “worm” (as such terms are commonly understood in the software industry) or any other malicious Software or device designed to have any of the following functions: (i) disrupting, disabling, harming or otherwise impeding in any manner the operation of, or providing unauthorized access to, a computer system or network or other device on which such Software or device is stored or installed, or (ii) damaging or destroying any data or file without the user’s consent. Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its Subsidiaries have implemented commercially reasonable disaster recovery and backup measures. (j) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Company and its Subsidiaries each implement and maintain commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures for a business in its industry and of its size to protect Company Personal Information, Trade Secrets and other Data or information relating to the businesses and in the possession and control of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries against data breaches and cybersecurity incidentsnondisclosure agreement. (k) Except as is notThe consummation of the Contemplated Transactions, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, none of the Company or its Subsidiaries has: (i) granted (contingent or otherwise) to any Person material access or rights to any source code of any Company Software, including via an escrow arrangement; (ii) taken any action that rendered any source code for Company Software to be subject to any Open Source License that requires such source code to be delivered, disclosed or made available to any Person or at no cost; or (iii) licensed, distributed or used any Software subject to an Open Source License in material breach of the terms of such Open Source License (excluding obligations of notice or attribution). (l) Except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, since January 1, 2022, each of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries has been in compliance with (i) all applicable Privacy Laws and (ii) the Company’s and any of its Subsidiaries’ own external and internal policies relating to data privacy, data protection, and the collection, retention, protection, and use of Personal Information collected, used, or held for use by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the operation provisions of their businesses (“Company Personal Information”). Except as is notthis Agreement, and would will not reasonably be expected to beresult in the termination, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiariescancellation, since January 1, 2022, (i) there has been no unauthorized access toloss, or use or disclosure impairment of, Company Personal Information by nor require the Company payment of additional amounts or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any claim asserted or threatened in writing against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including by a Governmental Authority) alleging a material violation Consent of any Privacy Law. Without limiting the foregoing, except as is not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to the businesses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Company and its Subsidiaries takes commercially reasonable measures designed to protect Company Personal Information against unauthorized access, use, modificationPerson in respect of, or other misuseresult in the creation of any Encumbrance in or upon, any Company IP.

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Samples: Merger Agreement (Tii Network Technologies, Inc.)

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