Invention Ownership. With respect to information, inventions and discoveries developed, made or conceived by you, either alone or with others, at any time during your employment by the Company and whether or not within normal working hours, arising out of such employment or pertinent to any field of business or research in which, during such employment, the Company is engaged or (if such is known to or ascertainable by you) is considering engaging, you agree: (a) that all such information, inventions and discoveries, whether or not patented or patentable, shall be and remain the sole property of the Company; (b) to disclose promptly to an authorized representative of the Company all such information, inventions and discoveries and all information in your possession as to possible applications and uses thereof; (c) not to file any patent applications relating to any such invention or discovery except with the prior consent of an authorized representative of the Company; and (d) at the request of the Company, and without expense or additional compensation to you, to execute such documents and perform such other acts as the Company deems necessary, to obtain patents on such inventions in a jurisdiction or jurisdictions designated by the Company, and to assign to the Company or its designee such inventions and all patent applications and patents relating thereto. Both the Company and you intend that all original works of authorship within the purview of the copyright laws of the United States authored or created by you in the course of your employment with the Company will be works for hire within the meaning of such copyright laws.
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Samples: Letter Agreement of Employment (New York & Company, Inc.), Letter Agreement of Employment (New York & Company, Inc.), Letter Agreement of Employment (New York & Company, Inc.)
Invention Ownership. With respect to information, inventions and discoveries developed, made or conceived by you, either alone or with others, at any time during your employment by the Company and whether or not within normal working hours, arising out of such employment or pertinent to any field of business or research in which, during such employment, the Company is engaged or (if such is known to or ascertainable by you) is considering engaging, you agree:
(a) that all such information, inventions and discoveries, whether or not patented or patentable, shall be and remain the sole property of the Company;
(b) to disclose promptly to an authorized representative of the Company all such information, inventions and discoveries and all information in your possession as to possible applications and uses thereof;
(c) not to file any patent applications relating to any such invention or discovery except with the prior consent of an authorized representative of the Company; and
(d) at the request of the Company, and without expense or additional compensation to you, to execute such documents and perform such other acts as the Company deems necessary, to obtain patents on such inventions in a jurisdiction or jurisdictions designated by the Company, and to assign to the Company or its designee such inventions and all patent applications and patents relating thereto. Both the Company and you intend that all original works of authorship within the purview of the copyright laws of the United States authored or created by you in the course of your employment with the Company will be works for hire within the meaning of such copyright laws.
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Samples: Letter Agreement of Employment (New York & Company, Inc.), Letter Agreement of Employment (New York & Company, Inc.), Letter Agreement of Employment (New York & Company, Inc.)
