Intellectual Property; Proprietary Rights; Employee Restrictions. (a) Set forth on Schedule 3.12(a) hereto is a list of all Company Intellectual Property or other Intellectual Property required to operate the business of the Company as currently conducted (other than generally available software such as Microsoft Word and the like). True and correct copies of all licenses, assignments and releases relating to such Intellectual Property have been provided or made available to Parent prior to the date hereof, all of which are valid and binding agreements of the parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with their terms. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a), the Company owns and has good and exclusive right, title and interest to, or (x) has exclusive license to, each item of Company Intellectual Property and (y) has non-exclusive license to other Intellectual Property required to operate the business of the Company as currently conducted, free and clear of any lien or encumbrance; and all such Intellectual Property rights are in full force and effect. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a), the Company is the exclusive owner of all trademarks and trade names used in connection with the operation of the business of the Company as currently conducted, including the sale of any products or the provision of any services by Company. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a), the Company owns exclusively, and has good title to, all copyrighted works that are Company products or which the Company otherwise expressly purports to own. No university, government agency (whether federal or state) or other organization has sponsored research and development conducted by the Company or has any claim of right to or ownership of or other encumbrance upon the Intellectual Property rights of the Company. (b) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(b), no Company Intellectual Property or product or service of the Company is subject to any proceeding or outstanding decree, order, judgment, contract, license, agreement, or stipulation restricting in any material manner the use, transfer, or licensing thereof by Company which may affect in any material respects the validity, use or enforceability of such Company Intellectual Property. (c) All patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, mask work rights and domain names of the Company have been duly registered and/or filed with or issued by each appropriate Governmental Entity in the jurisdictions indicated on Schedule 3.12(c) hereto, all necessary affidavits of continuing use have been filed, and all necessary maintenance fees have been paid to continue all such rights in effect. (d) To the extent that any Intellectual Property (including without limitation software, hardware, copyrightable works and the like) has been developed, created, modified or improved by a third party for the Company except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(d), the Company has a written agreement with such third party that assigns to the Company exclusive ownership of such Intellectual Property, each of which is a valid and binding agreement of the parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with its terms. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(d), the Company has the right to use all trade secrets, data, customer lists, log files, hardware designs, programming processes, software and other information required for or incident to its products or business (including, without limitation, the operation of its web sites) as presently conducted and has received no written notice that any of such information that is provided to the Company by third parties will not continue to be provided to the Company on the same terms and conditions as currently exist. (e) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(e), the Company has not transferred ownership of, or granted any exclusive license with respect to, any Intellectual Property that is or was Company Intellectual Property to any third party. (f) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(f), the operation of the Company’s business as such business currently is conducted, including the Company’s design, development, manufacture, marketing and sale of the products or services of the Company has not and does not, and with respect to products currently under development to the Company’s knowledge will not, infringe or misappropriate the Intellectual Property of any third party or, to its knowledge, constitute unfair competition or trade practices under the Laws of any jurisdiction. (g) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(g), the Company has not received any written notice or other written claim from any third party that the operation of the Company’s business or any act, product or service of the Company infringes, may infringe or misappropriates the Intellectual Property of any third party or constitutes unfair competition or trade practices under the Laws of any jurisdiction. (h) To the knowledge of the Company, no Person has infringed or is infringing or misappropriating any Company Intellectual Property or other Intellectual Property rights in any of its products, technology or services, or has or is violating the confidentiality of any of its proprietary information. (i) The Company has taken reasonable steps to protect the Company’s rights in the Company’s proprietary and/or confidential information and trade secrets or any trade secrets or confidential information of third parties provided to the Company and, without limiting the foregoing, except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), the Company has enforced a policy requiring each employee and contractor to execute a proprietary information/confidentiality agreement substantially in the form provided or made available to Parent, and all current and former employees and contractors of Company have executed such an agreement. To the knowledge of the Company, all trade secrets and other confidential information of the Company are not part of the public domain nor, have they been misappropriated by any Person having an obligation to maintain such trade secrets or other confidential information in confidence for the Company. To the knowledge of the Company, no employee or consultant of the Company has used any trade secrets or other confidential information of any other Person in the course of their work for the Company, nor is the Company making unlawful use of any confidential information or trade secrets of any past or present employees of the Company. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), all Intellectual Property rights purported to be owned by the Company which were developed, worked on or otherwise held by any employee, officer or consultant are owned free and clear by the Company by operation of Law or have been validly assigned to the Company and such assignments have been provided or made available to Parent and are valid binding agreements of the parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with their terms. All of the rights of the Company and the Shareholders in any of the Company Intellectual Property which is used or is useful in the Company’s business, have been validly assigned, transferred and/or conveyed to the Acquisition Corp. as part of the transactions contemplated hereunder and the Company has not retained any rights with respect thereto. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), neither the Company, the Shareholders, nor to the knowledge of the Company, any of the employees of the Company have any agreements or arrangements with current or former employers relating to (i) confidential information or trade secrets of such employers, or (ii) the assignment of rights to any inventions, know-how or intellectual property of any kind nor are any such Persons bound by any consulting agreements relating to confidential information or trade secrets of another entity that are being violated by such Persons. The activities of the employees and consultants of the Company on behalf of the Company do not violate in any material respects any agreements or arrangements known to the Company which any such employees or consultants have with former employers or any other entity to whom such employees or consultants may have rendered consulting services. (j) All information and content of the World Wide Web sites owned and operated by the Company (other than information provided by users, customers, advertisers and other third parties) is accurate and complete in all material respects. (k) Schedule 3.12(k) lists all Open Source Materials that the Company has used in any way and describes the manner in which such Open Source Materials have been used by the Company in connection with the Company’s business, including, without limitation, whether and how the Open Source Materials have been modified and/or distributed by the Company. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.12(k), the Company has not (i) incorporated any Open Source Materials into, or combined Open Source Materials with, any products of the Company’s business, (ii) distributed Open Source Materials in connection with any products of the Company’s business, or (iii) used Open Source Materials that (with respect to either clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above) (A) create, or purport to create, obligations for the Company with respect to software developed or distributed by the Company or (B) grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any rights or immunities under intellectual property rights. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company has not used any Open Source Materials that require, as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of such Open Source Materials, that other software incorporated into, derived from or distributed with such Open Source Materials be (1) disclosed or distributed in source code form, (2) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works, or (3) redistributed at no charge. (l) In connection with the operation of the Company’s website, the Company has complied in all material respects with (i) all applicable legal requirements relating to privacy, commercial e-mail, data protection and security and the collection, storage, disclosure and/or use of personal information and user information (including information from or about children) gathered or accessed in the course of the operation of the Company’s website, and (ii) all rules, policies and procedures established by the Company with respect to privacy, publicity, commercial e-mail, data protection and security and the collection, storage, disclosure and/or use of personal information and user information (including information from or about children) gathered or accessed in the course of the operation of such the Company’s website, and with respect to the foregoing, except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(l), the Company has not received any written notice from any Person of any claims alleging any violation thereof. In connection with the operation of the Company’s website, the Company has taken all reasonably necessary steps (including implementing and monitoring compliance with measures with respect to technical and physical security) to ensure that the personal and user information gathered or accessed in the course of the operation of the Company’s website is protected against material loss and unauthorized access, use, modification or disclosure, and, to the knowledge of the Company, there has been no unauthorized access to or other misuse of any such information.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Marchex Inc), Merger Agreement (Marchex Inc), Merger Agreement (Marchex Inc)
Intellectual Property; Proprietary Rights; Employee Restrictions. (a) Set forth on The Company has disclosed in Schedule 3.12(a) hereto is a list of 3.11 all Company Intellectual Property or other Intellectual Property required to operate the business of the Company as currently conducted (other than generally available software such as Microsoft Word registered copyrights, copyright registrations and the like). True copyright applications, trademark registrations and correct copies of all licensesapplications for registration, assignments patents and releases relating to such Intellectual Property have been provided or made available to Parent prior to the date hereof, all of which are valid and binding agreements of the parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with their terms. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a), the Company owns and has good and exclusive right, title and interest to, or (x) has exclusive license to, each item of Company Intellectual Property and (y) has non-exclusive license to other Intellectual Property required to operate the business of the Company as currently conducted, free and clear of any lien or encumbrance; and all such Intellectual Property rights are in full force and effect. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a), the Company is the exclusive owner of all trademarks and trade names used in connection with the operation of the business of the Company as currently conducted, including the sale of any products or the provision of any services by Company. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a), the Company owns exclusively, and has good title to, all copyrighted works that are Company products or which the Company otherwise expressly purports to own. No university, government agency (whether federal or state) or other organization has sponsored research and development conducted by the Company or has any claim of right to or ownership of or other encumbrance upon the Intellectual Property rights of the Company.
(b) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(b), no Company Intellectual Property or product or service of the Company is subject to any proceeding or outstanding decree, order, judgment, contract, license, agreement, or stipulation restricting in any material manner the use, transfer, or licensing thereof by Company which may affect in any material respects the validity, use or enforceability of such Company Intellectual Property.
(c) All patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, copyrightstrade names, mask work rights and or Internet domain names (collectively, "Intellectual Property Rights") used by the Company in the Company's business as presently conducted, including all Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company and used in connection with or contained in all versions of the Company's World Wide Web site (including, without limitation, xxx.Xxx00.xxx, xxx.000xxx.xxx and xxx.xxx000.xxx) and all licenses, assignments and releases of Intellectual Property Rights of others in material works embodied in its products. All Intellectual Property Rights purported to be owned by the Company held by any employee, officer or consultant are owned by the Company by operation of law or have been validly assigned to the Company. The Intellectual Property Rights are sufficient in all material respects to carry on the business of the Company have been duly registered and/or filed with as presently conducted. The Company has exclusive ownership of or issued license to use all Intellectual Property Rights identified in Schedule 3.11 as owned or licensed by each appropriate Governmental Entity the Company or has obtained any licenses, releases or assignments reasonably necessary to use all third parties' Intellectual Property Rights in works embodied in the jurisdictions indicated on Schedule 3.12(cCompany's products. The present business activities or products of the Company (including, without limitation, the operation of the Company's Web sites) hereto, all necessary affidavits of continuing use have been filed, and all necessary maintenance fees have been paid to continue all such rights in effect.
(d) To the extent that do not infringe any Intellectual Property (including without limitation software, hardware, copyrightable works and the like) has been developed, created, modified or improved by a third party for the Company except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(d), the Company has a written agreement with such third party that assigns to the Company exclusive ownership Rights of such Intellectual Property, each of which is a valid and binding agreement of the parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with its termsothers. Except as set forth on in Schedule 3.12(d)3.11, the Company has not received any notice or other claim from any person asserting that any of the Company's present activities infringe in any material respect or may infringe any Intellectual Property Rights of such person. The Company has the right to use all trade secrets, data, customer lists, log files, hardware designs, programming processes, software and other information required for or incident to its products or its business (including, without limitation, the operation of its web Web sites) as presently conducted in any material respect and has received no written notice reason to believe that any of such information that is provided to the Company by third parties will not continue to be provided to the Company on the same terms and conditions as currently exist.
(e) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(e), the Company has not transferred ownership of, or granted any exclusive license with respect to, any Intellectual Property that is or was Company Intellectual Property to any third party.
(f) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(f), the operation of the Company’s business as such business currently is conducted, including the Company’s design, development, manufacture, marketing and sale of the products or services of the Company has not and does not, and with respect to products currently under development to the Company’s knowledge will not, infringe or misappropriate the Intellectual Property of any third party or, to its knowledge, constitute unfair competition or trade practices under the Laws of any jurisdiction.
(g) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(g), the Company has not received any written notice or other written claim from any third party that the operation of the Company’s business or any act, product or service of the Company infringes, may infringe or misappropriates the Intellectual Property of any third party or constitutes unfair competition or trade practices under the Laws of any jurisdiction.
(h) To the knowledge of the Company, no Person has infringed or is infringing or misappropriating any Company Intellectual Property or other Intellectual Property rights in any of its products, technology or services, or has or is violating the confidentiality of any of its proprietary information.
(i) . The Company has taken all reasonable steps measures to protect and preserve the Company’s rights in the Company’s proprietary and/or confidential information security and confidentiality of its trade secrets or any trade secrets or and other confidential information of third parties provided to the Company and, without limiting the foregoing, except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), the Company has enforced a policy requiring each employee and contractor to execute a proprietary information/confidentiality agreement substantially in the form provided or made available to Parent, and all current and former employees and contractors of Company have executed such an agreement. To the knowledge of the CompanyCompany and the Principal Shareholder, all trade secrets and other confidential information of the Company are not part of the public domain or knowledge, nor, to the knowledge of the Company and the Principal Shareholder, have they been misappropriated by any Person person having an obligation to maintain such trade secrets or other confidential information in confidence for the Company. To the knowledge of the CompanyCompany and the Principal Shareholder, no employee or consultant of the Company has used any trade secrets or other confidential information of any other Person person in the course of their work for the Company, nor . The Company is the exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in its Intellectual Property Rights as purported to be owned by the Company, and to the Company's and the Principal Shareholder's knowledge, such Intellectual Property Rights are valid and in full force and effect. No university, government agency (whether federal or state) or other organization which sponsored research and development conducted by the Company or has any claim of right to or ownership of or other encumbrance upon the Intellectual Property Rights of the Company. The Company is not aware of any infringement by others of its copyrights or other Intellectual Property Rights in any of its products, technology or services, or any violation of the confidentiality of any of its proprietary information. To the Company's and the Principal Shareholder's knowledge, the Company is not making unlawful use of any confidential information or trade secrets of any past or present employees of the Company. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), all Intellectual Property rights purported to be owned by Neither the Company which were developednor, worked on or otherwise held by any employee, officer or consultant are owned free and clear by the Company by operation of Law or have been validly assigned to the Company and such assignments have been provided or made available to Parent and are valid binding agreements of the parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with their terms. All of the rights knowledge of the Company and the Shareholders in any of the Company Intellectual Property which is used or is useful in the Company’s business, have been validly assigned, transferred and/or conveyed to the Acquisition Corp. as part of the transactions contemplated hereunder and the Company has not retained any rights with respect thereto. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), neither the Company, the Shareholders, nor to the knowledge of the CompanyPrincipal Shareholder, any of the employees of the Company Company's employees, have any agreements or arrangements with current or former employers of such employees relating to (i) confidential information or trade secrets of such employers, employers or (ii) the assignment of rights to any inventions, know-how or intellectual property of any kind nor are any such Persons bound by any consulting agreements agreement relating to confidential information or trade secrets of another entity that are being violated by such Personspersons. The activities of the Company's employees and consultants of the Company on behalf of the Company do not violate in any material respects any agreements or arrangements known to the Company which any such employees or consultants have with former employers or any other entity to whom such employees or consultants may have rendered consulting services. For the purposes of this Section 3.11, Intellectual Property Rights also includes any and all intellectual property rights, licenses, databases, computer programs and other computer software user interfaces, know-how, trade secrets, customer lists, proprietary technology, processes and formulae, source code, object code, algorithms, architecture, structure, display screens, layouts, development tools, instructions, templates, marketing materials created by the Company, inventions, trade dress, logos and designs.
(jb) All information The Company has all franchises, permits, licenses and content of the World Wide Web sites owned other rights and operated privileges reasonably necessary to permit it to own its property and to conduct its business as it is presently conducted other than any franchises, permits, licenses and other rights and privileges which if not held by the Company (other than information provided by users, customers, advertisers and other third parties) is accurate and complete would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect or result in all material respects.
(k) Schedule 3.12(k) lists all Open Source Materials that the Company has used a fine or penalty in any way and describes the manner in which such Open Source Materials have been used by the Company in connection with the Company’s business, including, without limitation, whether and how the Open Source Materials have been modified and/or distributed by the Company. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.12(k), the Company has not (i) incorporated any Open Source Materials into, excess of $10,000 individually or combined Open Source Materials with, any products of the Company’s business, (ii) distributed Open Source Materials in connection with any products of the Company’s business, or (iii) used Open Source Materials that (with respect to either clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above) (A) create, or purport to create, obligations for the Company with respect to software developed or distributed by the Company or (B) grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any rights or immunities under intellectual property rights. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company has not used any Open Source Materials that require, as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of such Open Source Materials, that other software incorporated into, derived from or distributed with such Open Source Materials be (1) disclosed or distributed in source code form, (2) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works, or (3) redistributed at no charge.
(l) In connection with the operation of the Company’s website, the Company has complied in all material respects with (i) all applicable legal requirements relating to privacy, commercial e-mail, data protection and security and the collection, storage, disclosure and/or use of personal information and user information (including information from or about children) gathered or accessed in the course of the operation of the Company’s website, and (ii) all rules, policies and procedures established by the Company with respect to privacy, publicity, commercial e-mail, data protection and security and the collection, storage, disclosure and/or use of personal information and user information (including information from or about children) gathered or accessed in the course of the operation of such the Company’s website, and with respect to the foregoing, except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(l), the Company has not received any written notice from any Person of any claims alleging any violation thereof. In connection with the operation of the Company’s website, the Company has taken all reasonably necessary steps (including implementing and monitoring compliance with measures with respect to technical and physical security) to ensure that the personal and user information gathered or accessed in the course of the operation of the Company’s website is protected against material loss and unauthorized access, use, modification or disclosure, and, to the knowledge of the Company, there has been no unauthorized access to or other misuse of any such informationaggregate.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Go2net Inc)
Intellectual Property; Proprietary Rights; Employee Restrictions. (a) Set forth on Schedule 3.12(a) hereto 3.11 is a list of all copyright registrations and applications for copyright registrations, trademark registrations and applications for trademark registrations, patents and patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names and Internet domain names that are used by the Company Intellectual Property or other Intellectual Property required to operate any Subsidiary in the business of the Company as currently conducted (presently conducted. The items listed on Schedule 3.11, together with all other than generally available software intellectual property rights owned by the Company or any Subsidiary and used in connection with its business are referred to as "Intellectual Property Rights." Except as set forth on Schedule 3.11 or as the failure to have been validly assigned would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect, all Intellectual Property Rights purported to be owned by the Company or any Subsidiary which were developed, worked on or otherwise held by any shareholder, employee, officer, consultant or otherwise are owned free and clear by the Company or such as Microsoft Word and Subsidiary by operation of law or have been validly assigned to the like)Company or such Subsidiary. True Except for the items listed on Schedule 3.11, true and correct copies of all such licenses, assignments and releases relating to such of Intellectual Property Rights have been provided or made available to Parent prior to the date hereof, all of which are are, to the knowledge of the Shareholder, valid and binding agreements of the parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with their terms. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a), the Company owns and has good and exclusive right, title and interest to, or (x) has exclusive license to, each item of Company Intellectual Property and (y) has non-exclusive license to other Intellectual Property required to operate the business of the Company as currently conducted, free and clear of any lien or encumbrance; and all such Intellectual Property rights are in full force and effect. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a)3.11, the Company is the or a Subsidiary has a valid license to use or exclusive owner ownership of all trademarks and trade names used in connection with the operation of Intellectual Property Rights material to the business of the Company or any Subsidiary as currently presently conducted, including the sale of any products or the provision of any services by Company. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a)3.11, the Company owns exclusively, and has good title to, all copyrighted works that are Company present business activities or products or which of the Company otherwise expressly purports to ownand its Subsidiaries do not infringe any Intellectual Property Rights of others. No universityExcept as set forth in Schedule 3.11, government agency (whether federal or state) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any written notice or other organization has sponsored research and development conducted by claim from any person asserting that any of the present activities of the Company or has any claim of right to Subsidiary infringe or ownership of or other encumbrance upon the may infringe any Intellectual Property rights Rights of the Companysuch person.
(b) Except as set forth on in Schedule 3.12(b)3.11, no the Company is not aware of any present infringement by others of the copyrights or other Intellectual Property or product or service Rights of the Company is subject to or any proceeding or outstanding decree, order, judgment, contract, license, agreement, or stipulation restricting Subsidiary in any material manner the use, transfer, or licensing thereof by Company which may affect in any material respects the validity, use or enforceability of such Company Intellectual Property.
(c) All patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, mask work rights and domain names of the Company have been duly registered and/or filed with or issued by each appropriate Governmental Entity in the jurisdictions indicated on Schedule 3.12(c) heretoproducts, all necessary affidavits of continuing use have been filed, and all necessary maintenance fees have been paid to continue all such rights in effect.
(d) To the extent that any Intellectual Property (including without limitation software, hardware, copyrightable works and the like) has been developed, created, modified or improved by a third party for the Company except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(d), the Company has a written agreement with such third party that assigns to the Company exclusive ownership of such Intellectual Property, each of which is a valid and binding agreement of the parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with its terms. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(d), the Company has the right to use all trade secrets, data, customer lists, log files, hardware designs, programming processes, software and other information required for or incident to its products or business (including, without limitation, the operation of its web sites) as presently conducted and has received no written notice that any of such information that is provided to the Company by third parties will not continue to be provided to the Company on the same terms and conditions as currently exist.
(e) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(e), the Company has not transferred ownership of, or granted any exclusive license with respect to, any Intellectual Property that is or was Company Intellectual Property to any third party.
(f) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(f), the operation of the Company’s business as such business currently is conducted, including the Company’s design, development, manufacture, marketing and sale of the products technology or services of the Company has not and does not, and with respect to products currently under development to the Company’s knowledge will not, infringe or misappropriate the Intellectual Property of any third party or, to its knowledge, constitute unfair competition or trade practices under the Laws of any jurisdiction.
(g) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(g), the Company has not received any written notice or other written claim from any third party that the operation of the Company’s business or any actSubsidiary, product or service of the Company infringes, may infringe or misappropriates the Intellectual Property of any third party or constitutes unfair competition or trade practices under the Laws of any jurisdiction.
(h) To the knowledge of the Company, no Person has infringed or is infringing or misappropriating any Company Intellectual Property or other Intellectual Property rights violation in any material respect of its products, technology or services, or has or is violating the confidentiality of any of its the proprietary information.
(i) The Company has taken reasonable steps to protect the Company’s rights in the Company’s proprietary and/or confidential information and trade secrets or any trade secrets or confidential information of third parties provided to the Company and, without limiting the foregoing, except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), the Company has enforced a policy requiring each employee and contractor to execute a proprietary information/confidentiality agreement substantially in the form provided or made available to Parent, and all current and former employees and contractors of Company have executed such an agreement. To the knowledge of the Company, all trade secrets and other confidential information of the Company are not part of the public domain nor, have they been misappropriated by or any Person having an obligation to maintain such trade secrets or other confidential information in confidence for the CompanySubsidiary. To the knowledge of the Company's best knowledge, no employee or consultant of neither the Company has used nor any trade secrets or other confidential information of any other Person in the course of their work for the Company, nor Subsidiary is the Company making unlawful use of any confidential information or trade secrets of any past or present employees of the Company. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), all Intellectual Property rights purported to be owned by Company or any Subsidiary.
(c) To the Company which were developed, worked on or otherwise held by any employee, officer or consultant are owned free and clear by the Company by operation of Law or have been validly assigned to the Company and such assignments have been provided or made available to Parent and are valid binding agreements best knowledge of the parties theretoShareholder, enforceable in accordance with their terms. All of neither the rights Shareholder nor any employee of the Company and the Shareholders in or any of the Company Intellectual Property which Subsidiary is used or is useful in the Company’s business, have been validly assigned, transferred and/or conveyed to the Acquisition Corp. as part of the transactions contemplated hereunder and the Company has not retained any rights with respect thereto. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), neither the Company, the Shareholders, nor to the knowledge of the Company, any of the employees of the Company have any agreements or arrangements with current or former employers relating to (i) confidential information or trade secrets of such employers, or (ii) the assignment of rights to any inventions, know-how or intellectual property of any kind nor are any such Persons bound by any consulting agreements or employment agreement relating to confidential information or trade secrets of another entity that are being violated by such Personspersons. The activities of the employees and consultants of the Company or any Subsidiary on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary do not violate in any material respects any agreements or arrangements known to the Company or the Shareholder which any such employees or consultants have with former employers or any other entity to whom such employees or consultants may have rendered consulting services.
(j) All information and content of the World Wide Web sites owned and operated by the Company (other than information provided by users, customers, advertisers and other third parties) is accurate and complete in all material respects.
(k) Schedule 3.12(k) lists all Open Source Materials that the Company has used in any way and describes the manner in which such Open Source Materials have been used by the Company in connection with the Company’s business, including, without limitation, whether and how the Open Source Materials have been modified and/or distributed by the Company. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.12(k), the Company has not (i) incorporated any Open Source Materials into, or combined Open Source Materials with, any products of the Company’s business, (ii) distributed Open Source Materials in connection with any products of the Company’s business, or (iii) used Open Source Materials that (with respect to either clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above) (A) create, or purport to create, obligations for the Company with respect to software developed or distributed by the Company or (B) grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any rights or immunities under intellectual property rights. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company has not used any Open Source Materials that require, as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of such Open Source Materials, that other software incorporated into, derived from or distributed with such Open Source Materials be (1) disclosed or distributed in source code form, (2) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works, or (3) redistributed at no charge.
(l) In connection with the operation of the Company’s website, the Company has complied in all material respects with (i) all applicable legal requirements relating to privacy, commercial e-mail, data protection and security and the collection, storage, disclosure and/or use of personal information and user information (including information from or about children) gathered or accessed in the course of the operation of the Company’s website, and (ii) all rules, policies and procedures established by the Company with respect to privacy, publicity, commercial e-mail, data protection and security and the collection, storage, disclosure and/or use of personal information and user information (including information from or about children) gathered or accessed in the course of the operation of such the Company’s website, and with respect to the foregoing, except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(l), the Company has not received any written notice from any Person of any claims alleging any violation thereof. In connection with the operation of the Company’s website, the Company has taken all reasonably necessary steps (including implementing and monitoring compliance with measures with respect to technical and physical security) to ensure that the personal and user information gathered or accessed in the course of the operation of the Company’s website is protected against material loss and unauthorized access, use, modification or disclosure, and, to the knowledge of the Company, there has been no unauthorized access to or other misuse of any such information.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Mail Com Inc)
Intellectual Property; Proprietary Rights; Employee Restrictions. (a) Set forth on Schedule 3.12(a) hereto is a list of all Company Intellectual Property or other Intellectual Property required to operate the Company’s business of the Company as currently conducted (other than generally available software such as Microsoft Word and the likeGenerally Available Software). True and correct copies of all licenses, assignments and releases relating to such Intellectual Property have been provided or made available to the Parent prior to the date hereof, all of which are valid and binding agreements of the Company, and to the Company’s Knowledge to the other parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with their terms. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a), the The Company owns and has good and exclusive right, title and interest to, or (xi) has exclusive license to, each item of Company Intellectual Property and (yii) has non-exclusive license to other Intellectual Property required to operate the Company’s business of the Company as currently [***] Certain information in this agreement has been omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the omitted portions. conducted, free and clear of any lien or encumbrance; and all such Intellectual Property rights are in full force and effect. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a), the The Company is the exclusive owner of all trademarks and trade names used in connection with the operation of the Company’s business of the Company as currently conducted, including the sale of any products or the provision of any services by Company. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a), the The Company owns exclusively, and has good title to, all copyrighted works that are Company products or which the Company otherwise expressly purports to own. No university, government agency (whether federal or state) or other organization has sponsored research and development conducted by the Company or has any claim of right to or ownership of or other encumbrance upon the Intellectual Property rights of the Company.
(b) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(b)) or as provided in the agreements set forth on Schedule 3.12(a) hereto, no Company Intellectual Property or product or service of the Company is subject to any proceeding or outstanding decree, order, judgment, contract, license, agreement, or stipulation restricting in any material manner the use, transfer, or licensing thereof by the Company or which may affect in any material respects the validity, use or enforceability of such Company Intellectual Property.
(c) All patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, mask work rights and domain names of the Company have been duly registered and/or filed with or issued by each appropriate Governmental Entity in the jurisdictions indicated on Schedule 3.12(c) hereto, all necessary affidavits of continuing use have been filed, and all necessary maintenance fees have been paid to continue all such rights in effect.
(d) To the extent that any Intellectual Property (including without limitation software, hardware, copyrightable works and the like) has been developed, created, modified or improved by a third party for the Company except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(d)Company, the Company has a written agreement with such third party that assigns to the Company exclusive ownership of of, or grants the Company an exclusive license to, such Intellectual Property, each of which is a valid and binding agreement of the Company, and to the Company’s Knowledge to the other parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with its terms, or such Intellectual Property is owned by the Company by operation of law. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(d), the The Company has the right to use all trade secrets, data, customer lists, log files, hardware designs, programming processes, software and other information required for or incident to its products or the Company’s business (including, without limitation, the operation of its web their respective Web sites) as presently conducted and has received no written notice that any of such information that is provided to the Company by third parties will not continue to be provided to the Company on the same terms and conditions as currently exist.
(e) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(e), the The Company has not transferred ownership of, or granted any exclusive license with respect to, any Intellectual Property that is or was Company Intellectual Property to any third party. True and correct copies of such agreements have been provided or made available to Parent prior to the date hereof.
(f) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(f), the operation of the Company’s business as such business currently is conducted, including the Company’s design, development, manufacture, [***] Certain information in this agreement has been omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the omitted portions. marketing and sale of the products or services of the Company has not and does not, and with respect to products currently under development to the Company’s knowledge will not, infringe or misappropriate the Intellectual Property of any third party or, to its knowledge, constitute unfair competition or trade practices under the Laws of any jurisdiction.
(g) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(g), the Company has not received any written notice or other written claim from any third party that the operation of the Company’s business or any act, product or service of the Company infringes, may infringe or misappropriates the Intellectual Property of any third party or constitutes unfair competition or trade practices under the Laws of any jurisdiction.
(h) To the knowledge of the Company, no Person has infringed or is infringing or misappropriating any Company Intellectual Property or other Intellectual Property rights in any of its products, technology or services, or has or is violating the confidentiality of any of its proprietary information.
(i) The Company has taken reasonable steps to protect the Company’s rights in the Company’s proprietary and/or confidential information and trade secrets or any trade secrets or confidential information of third parties provided to the Company Company, and, without limiting the foregoing, except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), the Company has enforced a policy requiring each employee and contractor to execute a proprietary information/confidentiality agreement substantially in the form provided or made available to the Parent, and all current and former employees and contractors of the Company have has executed such an agreement. To the knowledge of the Company, all trade secrets and other confidential information of the Company are not part of the public domain nor, have they been misappropriated by any Person person having an obligation to maintain such trade secrets or other confidential information in confidence for the Company. To the knowledge of the Company, no employee or consultant of the Company has used any trade secrets or other confidential information of any other Person person in the course of their work for the Company, Company nor is the Company making unlawful use of any confidential information or trade secrets of any past or present employees of the Company. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), all All Intellectual Property rights purported to be owned by the Company which were developed, worked on or otherwise held by any employee, officer or consultant are owned free and clear by the Company by operation of Law or have been validly assigned to the Company and such assignments have been provided or made available to the Parent and are valid binding agreements of the Company, and to the Company’s Knowledge the other parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with their terms. All of the rights of the Company and the Shareholders in any of the Company Intellectual Property which is used or is useful in the Company’s business, have been validly assigned, transferred and/or conveyed to the Acquisition Corp. as part of the transactions contemplated hereunder and the Company has not retained any rights with respect thereto. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), neither the Company, the Shareholders, nor to the knowledge of the Company, any of the employees of the Company have any agreements or arrangements with current or former employers relating to (i) confidential information or trade secrets of such employers, or (ii) the assignment of rights to any inventions, know-how or intellectual property of any kind nor are any such Persons bound by any consulting agreements relating to confidential information or trade secrets of another entity that are being violated by such Persons. The activities of the employees and consultants of the Company on behalf of the Company do not violate in any material respects any agreements or arrangements known to the Company which any such employees or consultants have with former employers or any other entity to whom such employees or consultants may have rendered consulting services. [***] Certain information in this agreement has been omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the omitted portions.
(j) All information and content of the World Wide Web sites owned and operated by the Company (other than information provided by users, customers, advertisers and other third parties) is accurate and complete in all material respects.
(k) Schedule 3.12(k3.12(j) lists all Open Source Materials that the Company has used in any way and describes the manner in which such Open Source Materials have been used by the Company in connection with the Company’s business, including, without limitation, whether and how the Open Source Materials have been modified and/or distributed by the Company. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.12(k3.12(j)(j), the Company has not (i) incorporated any Open Source Materials into, or combined Open Source Materials with, any products of the Company’s business, (ii) distributed Open Source Materials in connection with any products of the Company’s business, or (iii) used Open Source Materials that (with respect to either clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above) (A) create, or purport to create, obligations for the Company with respect to software developed or distributed by the Company Company, or (B) grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any rights or immunities under intellectual property rights. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company has not used any Open Source Materials that require, as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of such Open Source Materials, that other software incorporated into, derived from or distributed with such Open Source Materials be (1) disclosed or distributed in source code form, (2) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works, or (3) redistributed at no charge.
(lk) In connection with the operation of the Company’s websitewebsites and directory assistance service, the Company has complied in all material respects with (i) all applicable legal requirements relating to privacy, commercial e-mail, data protection and security and the collection, storage, disclosure and/or use of personal information and user information (including information from or about children) gathered or accessed in the course of the operation of the Company’s websitewebsites, and (ii) all rules, policies and procedures established by the Company with respect to privacy, publicity, commercial e-mail, data protection and security and the collection, storage, disclosure and/or use of personal information and user information (including information from or about children) gathered or accessed in the course of the operation of such the Company’s websitewebsites, and with respect to the foregoing, except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(l), the Company has not received any written notice from any Person person of any claims alleging any violation thereof. In connection with the operation of the Company’s websitewebsites, the Company has taken all reasonably necessary steps (including implementing and monitoring compliance with measures with respect to technical and physical security) to ensure that the personal and user information gathered or accessed in the course of the operation of the Company’s website websites is protected against material loss and unauthorized access, use, modification or disclosure, and, to the knowledge of the Company, there has been no unauthorized access to or other misuse of any such information.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Marchex Inc)