Intellectual Property; Works Made for Hire. Company shall own all right, title and interest (including without limitation patent rights and copyrights) to all tangible and intangible property, products, developments, discoveries and inventions (“Inventions”) conceived, created or produced directly or indirectly by or through the Executive during the term of Executive’s employment with Company which relate to the actual or anticipated business, research and development of the Company, including, but not limited to, all documents, reports, and electronic or written materials, and all computer software and biological materials, and all related patent, know-how and other intellectual property rights, including, without limitation, all technical information, records, data, reports, tests or trial results and other results, and tangible manifestations and embodiments of work (“Work”), and the Executive shall provide Company with the originals and/or all copies of any such Inventions upon request of Company. The Executive hereby assigns to Company all right, title and interest in any Invention or discovery, whether in finished or incomplete form, made during the term of his employment with Company, and in any patent application, related documents and any patent relating to such invention or discovery. To the extent that any copyrighted work produced by Company hereunder is not deemed a “work made for hire” for purposes of the copyright laws of the United States, the Executive hereby assigns to Company all right, title and interest in the copyright of such work, including without limitation the right to reproduce, distribute, sublicense, perform and display the work and to create and use derivative works therefrom in any medium throughout the world. The term “derivative works” as used in this Agreement has the same meaning as used in the Copyright Act of the United States. The Executive shall complete and execute such assignments, certificates or other instruments as Company may from time to time deem necessary or desirable to evidence, establish, maintain, perfect, protect, enforce or defend its or any of its affiliate’s right, title and interest in or to any of the foregoing. The Executive shall retain no rights in or to any work product produced hereunder.
Intellectual Property; Works Made for Hire. Except as otherwise agreed in writing between the Grantee and the Partnership, the Designated Service Recipient or other member of the KKR Group, as applicable, the Grantee agrees that all work and deliverables that the Grantee prepares, creates, develops, authors, contributes to or improves, either alone or with third parties, during the course of the Grantee’s employment, engagement, association or other similar affiliation with the KKR Group, within the scope of the services provided to or with the use of any of the resources of the KKR Group, including but not limited to notes, drafts, scripts, documents, designs, inventions, data, presentations, research results, developments, reports, processes, programs, spreadsheets and other materials and all rights and intellectual property rights thereunder including but not limited to rights of authorship (collectively, “Work Product”), are works-made-for-hire owned exclusively by the KKR Group. The Grantee hereby irrevocably assigns, transfers and conveys, to the maximum extent permitted by law, all right, title and interest that the Grantee may have in such Work Product (and any written records thereof) to the KKR Group (or any of its designees), to the extent ownership of any such rights does not vest originally with the KKR Group. The Grantee acknowledges and agrees that the Units issued pursuant to the Agreement are sufficient compensation for such assignment, transference and conveyance. To the extent the foregoing assignment is deemed to be invalid or unenforceable, Grantee grants the KKR Group, at no additional charge an exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, perpetual, assignable license under all intellectual property in and to the Work Product.
Intellectual Property; Works Made for Hire. (a) Nothing contained herein shall be construed as granting, conveying, or assigning to Contractor or any of Contractor Group (defined below), or to anyone else, any right, title, interest, or license in or to any intellectual property rights in or to the Confidential Information or other intellectual property of Company, including any revisions, improvements, or modifications thereof, all of which are expressly reserved by Company.
(b) Contractor hereby grants to Company a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty free, fully paid license (with right to sublicense) to sell, modify, make, and use the Goods, for any and all purposes, without the necessity of further consideration. The obligations under this section shall survive termination of this Agreement.
Intellectual Property; Works Made for Hire. All Inspections, writings, notes, depictions, images, photographs, and other similar documentation produced or created by Inspector in connection with Services rendered under this Agreement, together with any associated copyrights and other intellectual property rights, are works made for hire and are the exclusive property of the Company. To the extent any of the foregoing may not, by operation of law, be works made for hire, this Agreement shall constitute an irrevocable assignment by Inspector to the Company of all of Inspector’s rights therein and ownership thereof, and the Company shall have the right to obtain and hold in its own name, rights of copyright, copyright registrations, and similar protections which may be available in the created works. Without limiting the foregoing, Inspector acknowledges and agrees that the Company may use for any purpose, assign, transfer, sell, and create derivative works from all of the documents and information described herein without notice to or consent from Inspector. Inspector shall provide the Company with all signatures, documents, and information reasonably requested by the Company to acknowledge and perfect such rights.
