Inventions and Patent Rights. 8.1 University will make reasonable efforts to secure from personnel assigned to this Study, disclosures of any and all inventions and improvements conceived or reduced to practice by said personnel in the performance of this Study. In the event these inventions and improvements are derived from work funded by federal funds, the Federal Government can exercise its right to a royalty-free license on each of these inventions and improvements. University shall retain all right, title and interest in and to such inventions and improvements and all patent applications it may file at its election.
8.2 In consideration of Sponsor support of this Study, and subject to the rights set forth in 8.1, supra, University agrees to grant Sponsor an option for an exclusive license on any such invention(s) and improvement(s). This option will exist for six (6) months after University has informed Sponsor of the invention(s) or improvement(s). If Sponsor exercises its option, Sponsor and University shall negotiate in good faith toward mutually agreeable terms to a license agreement. These negotiations shall be concluded within three (3) months from the date Sponsor exercises its option, unless the time period is extended in writing by mutual agreement.
8.3 Rights to inventions, improvements, and/or discoveries conceived and/or made during the Contract Period of this Study, whether patentable or copyrightable or not, relating to the Study which are made jointly by University employees and Sponsor employees, shall be the joint property of University and Sponsor, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
8.4 All inventions or improvements conceived or first reduced to practice during the term of this Agreement by Sponsor shall be owned by Sponsor.
Inventions and Patent Rights. (a) For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Invention" shall mean any inventions or discoveries made during the term of this Agreement and also the existing intellectual property as listed In clause #12, whether or not patentable, and any know-how or patent rights relating thereto, which arise out of or relate to the Research Project, with the exclusions noted in Clause #14 above.
Inventions and Patent Rights. The inventing Party shall own Inventions and Patent Rights relating thereto. Subject to the licenses granted to GCOR and EPMN pursuant to the License Agreement, EPMN shall own all Sole Collaboration Patent Rights and EPMN and GCOR shall jointly own all Joint Collaboration Patent Rights. Inventorship shall be determined in accordance with US Patent Law. Any disputes regarding inventorship shall be brought to the Steering Committee, who acting on advice of counsel will try to resolve such disputes in a manner consistent with maintaining the validity of the Patent Right. Each Party shall promptly notify the other Party of any Inventions made pursuant to this Agreement, such notice to include a copy of an invention report or disclosure form.
Inventions and Patent Rights a. The term "Invention" means a patentable discovery or invention, including processes, methods, formulas and technologies. The term "Trade Secret" means non-patented trade secrets, know-how, compositions, protocols, processes and techniques, discoveries, machines, ideas, computer programs (including software and data used in all such programs), drawings, specifications and technical information. The term "Patent Rights" means patent applications and patent disclosures related to an Invention, together with all letters patent, reissuances, continuations, continuations-in-part, revisions, extensions, and reexaminations thereof.
Inventions and Patent Rights. All matters pertaining to the ownership of inventions, the prosecution of patents and infringements, the defense against any claims of infringement and all other intellectual property matters shall be governed by the following Article 5.
Inventions and Patent Rights. Any intellectual property, including without limitation inventions, discoveries, technical information, copyrights, or software, whether or not patentable, that is discovered, created or derived from research (Intellectual Property) using XXXX infrastructure and/or discovered, created or reduced to practice in the performance of this Agreement shall be owned by the institution that developed or invented the intellectual property and governed by the provisions of the Prime Agreement which incorporates NSF’s Cooperative Agreement Financial & Administrative Terms and Conditions (dated June 2007, and as further amended). Any invention conceived or first reduced to practice in the performance of this Agreement shall be specifically governed by Xxxx-Xxxx 00 XXX 401. User shall provide Equipment Site with written notice of all such patentable inventions arising from User’s use of the Equipment Site facilities under this Agreement. Participant shall acknowledge NSF’s support and shall include within the specifications of such invention a statement that the invention was made with funding support from NSF and through the Site Agreement from Purdue University. In addition to the rights of the User and Equipment Site with respect to Intellectual Property, the User agrees to and does hereby grant to the Equipment Site an irrevocable, nonexclusive, paid-up license in and to any inventions or discoveries regardless of when conceived or actually reduce to practice or acquired by the User, which at any time through completion of this Agreement are owned or controlled by Equipment Site and are incorporated in the Equipment Site facilities as a result of this Agreement to (1) practice or to have practiced by or for the Equipment Site, and (2) to transfer such license with the transfer of the Site Agreement. The acceptance or exercise by the Equipment Site of the aforesaid rights and license shall not prevent the Equipment Site at any time from contesting the enforceability, validity or scope of, or title to, any rights or patents herein licensed.
Inventions and Patent Rights. The creation of intellectual property by Collaborator is not contemplated under this Agreement. Should any intellectual property be created under this Agreement, those rights shall be governed as follows: Title to all inventions and discoveries made solely by Collaborator inventors resulting from the research project shall reside with Collaborator; title to all inventions and discoveries made solely by UNT inventors resulting from the research project shall reside with UNT; DocuSign Envelope ID: DB54202A-80A6-4FF5-9668-E6C594DF2931 title to all inventions and discoveries made jointly by UNT and Collaborator inventors resulting from the research project shall reside jointly with UNT and Collaborator.
Inventions and Patent Rights. The provisions governing inventions and patent rights shall be as follows:
a. All inventions, discoveries, improvements, devices, designs, apparatus practices, processes, methods, or products (hereinafter individually or collectively called "inventions"), whether patentable or not, and all copyrightable material made, developed, perfected, devised, conceived or first reduced to practice by Consultant either solely or jointly with others during the Consulting Period (unless the President/CEO has otherwise agreed in writing) or otherwise in the course of Consultant's work for Xxxxxxx shall be the sole and exclusive property of Xxxxxxx. Consultant shall hold each and every such invention in a fiduciary capacity for Xxxxxxx'x benefit and promptly disclose to Xxxxxxx in writing complete information relative to any such invention.
b. At the request of Xxxxxxx during and after the Consulting Period and without further compensation, Consultant shall (1) assist Xxxxxxx, its attorneys, nominees, or assignees in preparing and prosecuting in the United States and all foreign countries applications for patents covering all such inventions; (2) execute, acknowledge, and deliver any and all instruments, deemed by Xxxxxxx, its attorneys, nominees, or assignees to be necessary to make, file, or prosecute all such applications or in connection with continuations, renewals, or re-issues thereof or in the conduct of all proceedings or litigations thereto; and (3) execute any and all instruments deemed by Xxxxxxx, its attorneys, nominees, or assignees to be necessary to transfer title in and to such applications or title in and to all patents covering inventions to Xxxxxxx or its nominees. Any reasonable expense incurred by Consultant in discharging his obligations pursuant to this subparagraph (b) shall be paid or reimbursed by Xxxxxxx or its nominees, or assignees.
c. Consultant shall keep accurate and authentic accounts, notes, data and records of his work hereunder and all such accounts, notes, data, drawings, designs, sketches, specifications, records and memoranda of every description relating to the services hereunder or otherwise covered hereby or any part thereof as Consultant shall produce and all copies of the foregoing shall be the property of and subject to inspection by Xxxxxxx at all reasonable times and shall be delivered to Xxxxxxx or otherwise disposed of by Consultant as Xxxxxxx may direct from time to time. Upon request by Xxxxxxx, Consultant shall promptly...
Inventions and Patent Rights. It is recognised and acknowledged that Background is the separate property of Institution and Company, and is not affected by this Agreement, and neither of the Parties shall have any claims or rights in such separate Intellectual Property Rights of the other Party. Subject to clause 9.3 each Party grants to the other Party a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use its Background solely for use within the Study to the extent necessary for the other Party to perform its obligations under this Agreement. The licence granted under this Clause 9.1 shall be sub-licensable solely to the extent necessary for the conduct of the Study in accordance with this Agreement. Institution shall use its reasonable endeavours to promptly disclose to Company any improvements or modification to the Company’s Background made by the Institution in the performance of the Study. For purposes of this Agreement, any Inventions, whether or not patentable, shall be owned exclusively by Institution. Company agrees to assign, and hereby does assign, and shall ensure that its personnel assign, to Institution all of their rights and interests in and to all such Inventions, and shall cooperate with Institution, at Institution’s reasonable expense, in all reasonable respects to assure that ownership of all such Inventions accrues to Institution, including, but not limited to, execution of any and all lawful documentation which may be deemed necessary by Institution for the filing and prosecution of applications and for assignment of the same to Institution, including all declarations, oaths, specifications, and instruments of assignments for filing and registering in the United Kingdom and foreign patent offices, or other necessary or similar documents. The Company shall grant to Institution an irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use its Background for the purpose of using and receiving the benefit associated with any Inventions or to derive the benefits and value from the Study. Company and its personnel and representatives involved in the conduct of the Study shall have the irrevocable right in perpetuity to use any and all Inventions for its internal, research and development purposes only. Institution grants to Company an exclusive option to first negotiate an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing license to use Invention(s) [directly related to the Product]. Any license to the Company shall be subject to the Institution’s rights to use any intellectual pro...
Inventions and Patent Rights. Ownership of inventions and discoveries owned or licensed to UNT or Sponsor prior to this Agreement, “Background Intellectual Property,” that is provided for the purposes of the Project remain with the Party which made the Background Intellectual Property available. Background Intellectual Property of the parties may include, but is not limited to, the items set- forth in Attachment C, Identified Background Intellectual Property. Title to any invention, discovery or other intellectual property made or conceived solely by an employee or student of UNT during the performance of this Agreement or any related agreement shall remain with UNT, which shall have the sole right to determine the disposition of any patent or other rights resulting therefrom, provided however that upon issue of any patent on any such invention or discovery, Sponsor shall have the right of first refusal to an exclusive license to practice the invention for a period of time and at a royalty rate to be negotiated. Title to any invention, discovery, or other intellectual property made or developed solely by Sponsor during the performance of this Agreement or any related agreement shall remain with the Sponsor, which shall have the sole right to determine the disposition of any patents or other rights resulting therefrom, including the right to determine whether a patent application will be filed. Any invention, discovery, or other intellectual property made or developed jointly during the performance of this Agreement or any related agreement will be jointly owned by the employers of the inventors, for which purpose only, students of UNT will be treated as if they were employees of UNT. The terms and conditions related to the protection of joint inventions will be negotiated in good faith by UNT and Sponsor and formalized in a separate written agreement. Sponsor hereby grants to UNT an irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to make, have made, use, reproduce, translate and create derivative works from any invention or discovery owned or jointly owned by Sponsor under this Agreement for educational and non-commercial research purposes only.
