Inventions and Developments. As used in this Agreement, “Inventions and Developments” means any and all any inventions, modifications, discoveries, designs, developments, improvements, processes, software programs, works of authorship, documentation, formulas, data, techniques, know-how, secret or intellectual property rights whatsoever or any interest therein (whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar statutes or subject to analogous protection). Inventions and Developments include, by way of example and without limitation, discoveries and improvements which consist of or relate to any form of Confidential Information.
Inventions and Developments. (a) All inventions, policies, systems, developments or improvements conceived, designed, implemented and/or made by the Executive, either alone or in conjunction with others, at any time or at any place during the Period of Employment, whether or not reduced to writing or practice during such Period of Employment, which directly or indirectly relate to the business of any entity within the Company Group, or which were developed or made in whole or in part using the facilities and/or capital of any entity within the Company Group, shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company Group. The Executive shall promptly give notice to the Corporation of any such invention, development, patent or improvement, and shall at the same time, without the need for any request by any person or entity within the Company Group, assign all of the Executive’s rights to such invention, development, patent and/or improvement to the Company Group. The Executive shall sign all instruments necessary for the filing and prosecution of any applications for, or extension or renewals of, letters patent of the United States or any foreign country that any entity in the Company Group desires to file.
(b) All copyrightable work by the Executive during the Period of Employment that relates to the business of any entity in the Company Group is intended to be “work made for hire” as defined in Section 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976, and shall be the property of the Company Group. If the copyright to any such copyrightable work is not the property of the Company Group by operation of law, the Executive will, without further consideration, assign to the Company Group all right, title and interest in such copyrightable work and will assist the entities in the Company Group and their nominees in every way, at the Company Group’s expense, to secure, maintain and defend for the Company Group’s benefit copyrights and any extensions and renewals thereof on any and all such work including translations thereof in any and all countries, such work to be and to remain the property of the Company Group whether copyrighted or not.
Inventions and Developments a) Any and all ideas, inventions, discoveries, patents, patent applications, continuation-in-part patent applications, divisional patent applications, technology, copyrights, derivative works, trademarks, service marks, improvements, trade secrets and the like, which are developed, conceived, created, discovered, learned, produced and/or otherwise generated by Employee, whether individually or otherwise, during the term of Employee’s employment whether or not during working hours, that relate to Stereotaxis Business or any work performed by Employee for Company (collectively, “Inventions and Developments”), shall be the sole and exclusive property of Company, and Company shall own any and all right, title and interest to such Inventions and Developments. Employee assigns and agrees to assign to Company any and all right, title and interest in and to any such Inventions and Developments whenever requested to do so by Company, at Company’s expense, and Employee agrees to execute any and all applications, assignments or other instruments which Company deems desirable or necessary to protect such interests, both during and after the term of Employment.
b) By way of clarification, Section 6(a) shall not apply to any invention for which no equipment, supplies, facilities or Confidential and Trade Secret Information of Company was used and which was developed entirely on Employee’s own time, unless (i) the invention relates to Stereotaxis Business or to Company’s actual or demonstrably-anticipated research or development; or (ii) the invention results from any work performed by Employee for Company.
Inventions and Developments. 14.1 All works, names, symbols, logos, models, illustrations and/or inventions as well as all further developments and/or related changes realised by the Employee, either alone or in concert during the term of the Employment Contract (hereinafter jointly referred to as: the "Property"), belong to the Employer.
14.2 The Employer holds all intellectual and industrial property rights on, related to and/or ensuing from the Property (hereinafter referred to as: the IP rights).
14.3 To the extent possible by law, the Employee hereby waives his personal rights as referred to in Section 25 of the Dutch Copyright Act.
14.4 The Employee hereby acknowledges that his salary includes compensation for the possible loss of the IP rights and that he is not entitled to any other compensation for that.
14.5 Once the Employee realises one or more elements of the Property, the Employee shall immediately inform the Employer and, to the extent required by law, transfer the IP rights to the Employer upon first request, costs to be met by the Employer. Upon request of the Employer, costs to be met by the Employer, the Employee shall sign every written document required for the transfer, registration or maintenance of the IP rights in every country, and provide all other necessary cooperation. The Employee hereby irrevocably authorises the Employer to perform every legal act in the Employee's name, as referred to in this Article.
Inventions and Developments. All inventions, modifications, discoveries, designs, developments, improvements, processes, software programs, works of authorship, documentation, formulae, data, techniques, know-how, secrets or intellectual property rights or any interest therein (collectively, the “Developments”) made by the Employee, either alone or in conjunction with others, at any time or at any place during the Employee’s employment with the Company, whether or not under this Agreement and whether or not reduced to writing or practice during such period of employment, which relate to the business in which the Company is engaged or in which the Company plans to engage, shall be and hereby are the exclusive property of the Company without any further compensation to the Employee, unless otherwise agreed by an officer of the Company in writing. In addition, without limiting the generality of the prior sentence, all Developments which are copyrightable work by the Employee are intended to be “work made for hire” as defined in Section 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976, as amended, and shall be and hereby are the property of the Company.
Inventions and Developments. Employee represents and warrants that he has notified CT of all discoveries, inventions, innovations, improvements, and copyrightable or potentially copyrightable works which are related to the business of CT, its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively called "Developments") and are conceived or developed, either in whole or in part, by Employee during the term of Employee's employment with or consulting for CT. Developments shall include, without limitation, any or all intellectual properties related to the business of CT, its subsidiaries and affiliates. All Developments, including but not limited to all written documents pertaining thereto, shall be the exclusive property of CT and shall be considered Confidential Information subject to the terms of this Agreement. Employee hereby assigns to CT all of Employee's rights, title and interest in and to the property described below and relating to the business of CT, its subsidiaries and affiliates that has been, is, or is about to be engaged in by CT, its subsidiaries and affiliates, if any, whether now owned or hereafter arising or acquired (collectively the "Intellectual Property"), including:
(a) All patents issued by the United States, any other country, or any political subdivisions thereof ("Patents"), all registrations and recordings thereof ("Patent Registrations"), and all applications for patents of the United States, any other country, or any political subdivisions thereof ("Patent Applications"), including, without limitation, all provisional patent applications and all reissues, divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part or extensions of any Patent, Patent Registration, or Patent Application, and any license or other agreement now in existence granting to Employee any right to use or practice any invention, and any other proprietary and confidential information, inventions (whether patented or patentable or not), technical
Inventions and Developments. Employee agrees that all ideas, inventions, trade secrets, know how, documents, and data ("Developments") developed either during, in connection with, or pursuant to Employee's employment with the Company, shall become and/or remain the exclusive property of the Company. Employee agrees to provide all reasonable assistance to the Company in perfecting and maintaining the Company's rights to the Developments. The Company shall have the right to use the Developments for any purpose without any additional compensation to Employee. In addition to the foregoing obligations, Employee understands and agrees that Employee also has obligations relating to the Intellectual Property of the Company as set forth in the Confidentiality Agreement dated March 20, 2014 (the “Confidentiality Agreement”), a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit “A,” and that these obligations survive termination of his employment.
Inventions and Developments. (a) Executive will make full and prompt disclosure in writing to the Company of any and all inventions, ideas, discoveries, information, works of authorship, documents, records, proposals, writings, drawings, plans, schematics, computer software or programs, know-how, processes, formulas, designs, data, improvements or revisions (collectively, “Inventions”), whether or not copyrightable or patentable, which Executive may in whole or any part make, devise, conceive, create, design, invent, develop, reduce to practice or discover, either solely or jointly with another or others (whether or not Company personnel), during Executive’s employment by Company, including those created, made, conceived or reduced to practice while employed by the Company prior to the date hereof, (whether at the request or upon the suggestion of Company or otherwise, and whether during or outside of normal working hours), in connection with computer software, data storage, or other related services of the Company which is offered, used, sold or being developed by Company at the time of such Inventions. All of the foregoing will belong exclusively to Company and Company will be deemed the author or creator thereof.
(b) Executive agrees to assign and does hereby assign to the Company (or any person or entity designated by the Company) all his right, title and interest in and to all Inventions and all related patents, patent applications, copyrights and copyright applications.
(c) Both during and after his employment with the Company and without further compensation, Executive agrees to cooperate fully with the Company, including but not limited to executing and delivering documents, immediately upon request, in perfecting or recording in Company all right, title and interest in and to all Inventions, filing for and/or obtaining patent(s) or copyright registration(s) on all Inventions (both in the United States and foreign countries), and protecting and enforcing Company’s rights in all Inventions. Executive further agrees that Company is authorized to take such actions (including but not limited to making filings) in Company’s name and/or Executive’s name which Company, in its sole discretion, deems necessary or desirable to accomplish in order to protect its rights and interests in any Invention.
Inventions and Developments. 18.1 In this Agreement, the expression “development” means, any idea and/or invention and/or design and/or patent and/or copyright and/or document and/or software and/or computer programs of any kind whatsoever and/or process and/or system and/or procedure, all these including all and any accompanying documentation or annexed thereto, on any media whatsoever and including all the versions and copies thereof and everything pertaining thereto or resulting therefrom, including, and without derogating from the generality of the foregoing, any intellectual property right in connection therewith, all that has been developed and/or invented and/or written and/or created by the Employee during the period of the employment in the Company and/or as a result of her work in the Company, whether alone or together with others, in their entirety or in part.
18.2 It is agreed and declared that the developments are and will be the Company’s full and exclusive property and that the Employee has and will have any right therein whatsoever. For the removal of any doubt the Employee hereby transfers and assigns to the Company all of her rights, including, but without derogating from the generality of that stated, the right of ownership which she has or will have, alone or jointly with others, in all the developments, whether they are registrable as a patent or protectable as copyright, or protectable as intellectual or material property in any other way, or not.
18.3 For the avoidance of any doubt it is clarified that the Company will be entitled to use and market the developments and/or protect the same with registration by law or by any other method and also make changes and/or translations and/or derivative works thereof and/or translations thereof and/or exploit or use the same in any other way, for any purpose whatsoever, and on such terms as the Company will deem fit, at its sole discretion, without the need of the Employee’s consent and without derogating from the generality of that stated in clause 18.4 hereof, without the Employee being entitled by reason thereof to any consideration whatsoever.
18.4 The Employee will have no claim of any kind whatsoever against the Company in connection with any development. Without derogating from the foregoing, the Employee will not be entitled to receive any payment or other consideration in respect of the developments in addition to regular salary in respect of the period of her employment in the Company.
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Inventions and Developments. The Inventions Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit F executed by Xxxxxx on or about February 10, 2005 remains in effect.
