Common use of Intellectual Property Retained and Licensed Clause in Contracts

Intellectual Property Retained and Licensed. To the extent permitted by Section 2(b), Employee has accurately identified on Schedule 1 all ideas, methodologies, processes, inventions, discoveries and works of authorship, and all rights in any trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, copyrights, and patents, that Employee created prior to Employee’s employment with the Company (collectively “Pre-Existing Work Product”) that may reasonably relate to the current or future business of the Company. Except as provided herein, Employee will retain all right, title and interest in and to such Pre-Existing Work Product. Employee will promptly disclose to the Company any modifications or improvements to any Pre-Existing Work Product that fall within the definition of Intellectual Property (and hereby assigns rights thereto to the Company pursuant to Section 3(a)). If Employee, during the course of or resulting from employment with the Company, uses, creates, or otherwise provides Confidential Information, Intellectual Property or other works that incorporate or reasonably require the use of any of Employee’s Pre-Existing Work Product, then Employee will promptly disclose such and hereby grants the Company an unrestricted, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, license to make, have made, use, market, import, distribute, copy, modify, prepare derivative works, perform, display, disclose, sublicense and otherwise exploit any and all such Pre-Existing Work Product, to the extent such grant of rights does not conflict with any contractual obligations of Employee existing prior to the Effective Date.

Appears in 5 contracts

Samples: Employment Agreement (Hydrofarm Holdings Group, Inc.), Employment Agreement (Hydrofarm Holdings Group, Inc.), Employment Agreement (Hydrofarm Holdings Group, Inc.)

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