Common use of Inventions and Proprietary Rights Clause in Contracts

Inventions and Proprietary Rights. (a) the Executive represents and warrants to the Company that he does not have any right, title or interest in or to any Innovation (as defined below) applicable to the business of the Company or relating in any way to the Company’s business or demonstrably anticipated research and development or business that were conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive prior to the date hereof. (b) the Executive hereby agrees promptly to disclose and describe to the Company, and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company all right, title and interest in and to, each of the Innovations and all associated intellectual property rights that the Executive may solely or jointly conceive, reduce to practice, create, derive, develop or make during the period of his employment with the Company that (i) relate to the Company’s or any affiliate’s business or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, (ii) were developed on any amount of the Company’s or any affiliate’s time or with the use of any of the Company’s or any affiliate’s materials, equipment, supplies, facilities or information or (iii) resulted from any work that the Executive performed for the Company or any affiliate (collectively, the “Company Innovations”). the Executive further acknowledges and agrees that all Company Innovations, including, without limitation, any computer programs, programming documentation, and other works of authorship, are “works made for hire” for purposes of the Company’s rights under copyright laws and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company any and all right, title and interest that the Executive may have acquired or may hereafter acquire in such Company Innovations. Any assignment of copyright hereunder includes all rights of paternity, integrity, disclosure and withdrawal and any other rights that may be known as or referred to as “moral rights” (collectively “Moral Rights”). To the extent that such Moral Rights cannot be assigned under applicable law and to the extent the following is allowed by the laws in the various countries where Moral Rights exist, the Executive hereby waives such Moral Rights and consents to any action of the Company and the affiliates that would violate such Moral Rights in the absence of such consent. The Executive shall confirm any such waivers and consents from time to time as requested by the Company. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation cannot be assigned by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby grants to the Company an exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to practice such non-assignable right, title or interest. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation can be neither assigned nor licensed by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby irrevocably waives and agrees never to assert such non-assignable and non-licensable right, title or interest against the Company, any affiliate or any of their successors in interest to such non-assignable and non-licensable rights. (c) the Executive recognizes that Innovations and Confidential Information relating to his activities while working for the Company and conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive, alone or with others, within six (6) months after termination of his employment with the Company may have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, as applicable, in significant part while employed by the Company. Accordingly, the Executive agrees that such Innovations and Confidential Information shall be presumed to have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, as applicable, during his employment with the Company and shall be assigned to the Company unless and until the Executive has established the contrary by written evidence satisfying the clear and convincing standard of proof. (d) the Executive shall perform, during and after his employment with the Company, all acts deemed necessary or desirable by the Company to permit and assist the Company, at the Company’s expense, in obtaining and enforcing the full benefits, enjoyment, rights and title throughout the world in the Confidential Information and Innovations assigned or licensed to, or whose rights are irrevocably waived and shall not be asserted against, the Company and the affiliates under this Agreement. Such acts may include, but are not limited to, execution of documents and assistance or cooperation (i) in the filing, prosecution, registration, and memorialization of assignment of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works or other applications, (ii) in the enforcement of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets or other rights, and (iii) in other legal proceedings related to the Confidential Information or Innovations. (e) In the event that the Company is unable for any reason to secure the Executive’s signature to any document required to file, prosecute, register, or memorialize the assignment of any patent, copyright, mask work or other applications or to enforce any patent, copyright, mask work, Moral Right, trade secret or other right under any Confidential Information (including improvements thereof) or any Innovations (including derivative works, improvements, renewals, extensions, continuations, divisionals, continuations in part, continuing patent applications, reissues, and reexaminations thereof), the Executive hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and the Company’s duly authorized officers and agents as his agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on his behalf and instead of the Executive (i) to execute, file, prosecute, register and memorialize the assignment of any such application, (ii) to execute and file any documentation required for such enforcement and (iii) to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the filing, prosecution, registration, memorialization of assignment, issuance, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets or other rights under the Confidential Information or Innovations, all with the same legal force and effect as if executed by the Executive. (f) The term “Innovations” means all processes, improvements, inventions (whether or not protectable under patent laws), works of authorship, information fixed in any tangible medium of expression (whether or not protectable under copyright laws), moral rights, mask works, trademarks, trade names, trade dress, trade secrets, know-how, ideas (whether or not protectable under trade secret laws) and all other subject matter protectable under patent, copyright, moral right, mask work, trademark, trade secret or other laws and includes, without limitation, all new or useful art, combinations, designs, developments, modifications, derivative works, discoveries, formulae, techniques and all goodwill associated with any of the foregoing.

Appears in 7 contracts

Samples: Employment Agreement (Aziyo Biologics, Inc.), Employment Agreement (Aziyo Biologics, Inc.), Employment Agreement (Aziyo Biologics, Inc.)

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Inventions and Proprietary Rights. (a) the Executive represents and warrants to the Company that he does not have any All right, title or and interest in all discoveries, inventions, improvements, innovations and other material that the Executive shall conceive or to any Innovation originate individually or jointly or commonly with others during the term of the Executive’s employment and/or service with the Company (as defined belowi) applicable that are directly related to the business of the Company or relating in any way to the Company’s business or demonstrably anticipated research and development or business that were conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive prior to the date hereof. (b) the Executive hereby agrees promptly to disclose and describe to the Company, and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company all right, title and interest in and to, each of the Innovations and all associated intellectual property rights that the Executive may solely or jointly conceive, reduce to practice, create, derive, develop or make during the period of his employment with the Company that (i) relate to the Company’s or any affiliate’s business or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or that results from any work performed by the Executive for the Company, (ii) were developed on for which any amount of the Company’s or any affiliate’s time or with the use of any of the Company’s or any affiliate’s materials, equipment, supplies, facilities facility or trade secret information or of the Company was used and/or (iii) resulted from any work that which was not developed entirely on the Executive’s own time, whether or not patentable, copyrightable, or registrable as a trademark (“Protectable Material”), shall be the property of the Company and are hereby assigned by the Executive performed to the Company (and the Executive agrees to assign all Protectable Material to the Company in the future), along with ownership of any and all patents, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights in the Protectable Material. Upon request and without further compensation therefor, but at no expense to the Executive, the Executive shall execute any and all papers and perform all other acts necessary to assist the Company to obtain and register patents, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights on the Protectable Materials in any and all countries. Where applicable, works of authorship created by the Executive for the Company or any affiliate (collectively, in performing the “Company Innovations”). the Executive further acknowledges Executive’s duties and agrees that all Company Innovations, including, without limitation, any computer programs, programming documentation, and other works of authorship, are responsibilities hereunder shall be considered “works made for hire,for purposes as defined in the U.S. Copyright Act. (b) All trade secret information conceived or originated by the Executive that arises during the term of the Executive’s employment and/or service with the Company and out of the performance of the Executive’s duties and responsibilities to the Company or any related material or information shall be the property of the Company’s rights under copyright laws and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company any , and all right, title and interest that the Executive may have acquired or may hereafter acquire in such Company Innovations. Any assignment of copyright hereunder includes all rights of paternity, integrity, disclosure and withdrawal and any other rights that may be known as or referred to as “moral rights” (collectively “Moral Rights”). To the extent that such Moral Rights cannot be assigned under applicable law and to the extent the following is allowed by the laws in the various countries where Moral Rights exist, the Executive therein are hereby waives such Moral Rights and consents to any action of the Company and the affiliates that would violate such Moral Rights in the absence of such consent. The Executive shall confirm any such waivers and consents from time to time as requested by the Company. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation cannot be assigned by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby grants to the Company an exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to practice such non-assignable right, title or interest. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation can be neither assigned nor licensed by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby irrevocably waives and agrees never to assert such non-assignable and non-licensable right, title or interest against the Company, any affiliate or any of their successors in interest to such non-assignable and non-licensable rights. (c) Notwithstanding the Executive recognizes that Innovations and Confidential Information relating to his activities while working for the Company and conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive, alone or with others, within six (6) months after termination of his employment with the Company may have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, as applicable, in significant part while employed by the Company. Accordinglyforegoing, the Executive agrees understands that this Agreement does not require assignment of any invention to the extent such Innovations and Confidential Information shall be presumed to have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or madeinvention qualifies for protection under Section 181.78 of the 2015 Minnesota Statutes, as applicablemay be amended from time to time, during his employment and the current text of which is attached hereto as Annex 1 to Exhibit B. The Executive hereby acknowledges that the Company has provided him or her with the Company notification set forth on Exhibit B (and shall be assigned to the Company unless annex attached thereto) on the date hereof and until the Executive has established shall sign such notification as soon as reasonably practicable after the contrary by written evidence satisfying the clear and convincing standard of proofdate hereof. (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive understands that pursuant to the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, the Executive shall perform, during and after his employment with the Company, all acts deemed necessary or desirable by the Company to permit and assist the Company, at the Company’s expense, in obtaining and enforcing the full benefits, enjoyment, rights and title throughout the world in the Confidential Information and Innovations assigned or licensed to, or whose rights are irrevocably waived and shall not be asserted against, held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the Company and the affiliates under this Agreement. Such acts may include, but are not limited to, execution disclosure of documents and assistance or cooperation a trade secret that (A) is made (i) in the filingconfidence to a federal, prosecutionstate, registrationor local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney; and memorialization of assignment of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works or other applications, (ii) solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or (B) is made in the enforcement of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets a complaint or other rights, and (iii) document filed in other legal proceedings related to the Confidential Information or Innovations. (e) In the event that the Company is unable for any reason to secure the Executive’s signature to any document required to file, prosecute, register, or memorialize the assignment of any patent, copyright, mask work a lawsuit or other applications or to enforce any patentproceeding, copyright, mask work, Moral Right, trade secret or other right if such filing is made under any Confidential Information (including improvements thereof) or any Innovations (including derivative works, improvements, renewals, extensions, continuations, divisionals, continuations in part, continuing patent applications, reissues, and reexaminations thereof), the Executive hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and the Company’s duly authorized officers and agents as his agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on his behalf and instead of the Executive (i) to execute, file, prosecute, register and memorialize the assignment of any such application, (ii) to execute and file any documentation required for such enforcement and (iii) to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the filing, prosecution, registration, memorialization of assignment, issuance, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets or other rights under the Confidential Information or Innovations, all with the same legal force and effect as if executed by the Executiveseal. (f) The term “Innovations” means all processes, improvements, inventions (whether or not protectable under patent laws), works of authorship, information fixed in any tangible medium of expression (whether or not protectable under copyright laws), moral rights, mask works, trademarks, trade names, trade dress, trade secrets, know-how, ideas (whether or not protectable under trade secret laws) and all other subject matter protectable under patent, copyright, moral right, mask work, trademark, trade secret or other laws and includes, without limitation, all new or useful art, combinations, designs, developments, modifications, derivative works, discoveries, formulae, techniques and all goodwill associated with any of the foregoing.

Appears in 5 contracts

Samples: Employment Agreement (Life Time Group Holdings, Inc.), Employment Agreement (Life Time Group Holdings, Inc.), Employment Agreement (Life Time Group Holdings, Inc.)

Inventions and Proprietary Rights. (a) the Executive represents and warrants to the Company that he does not have any All right, title or and interest in all discoveries, inventions, improvements, innovations and other material that the Employee shall conceive or to any Innovation originate individually or jointly or commonly with others during the term of the Employee’s employment and/or service with the Company (as defined belowi) applicable that are directly related to the business of the Company or relating in any way to the Company’s business or demonstrably anticipated research and development or business that were conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive prior to the date hereof. (b) the Executive hereby agrees promptly to disclose and describe to the Company, and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company all right, title and interest in and to, each of the Innovations and all associated intellectual property rights that the Executive may solely or jointly conceive, reduce to practice, create, derive, develop or make during the period of his employment with the Company that (i) relate to the Company’s or any affiliate’s business or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or that results from any work performed by the Employee for the Company, (ii) were developed on for which any amount of the Company’s or any affiliate’s time or with the use of any of the Company’s or any affiliate’s materials, equipment, supplies, facilities facility or trade secret information or of the Company was used and/or (iii) resulted from which was not developed entirely on the Employee’s own time, whether or not patentable, copyrightable, or registrable as a trademark (“Protectable Material”), shall be the property of the Company and are hereby assigned by the Employee to the Company (and the Employee agrees to assign all Protectable Material to the Company in the future), along with ownership of any work that and all patents, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights in the Executive performed Protectable Material. Upon request and without further compensation therefor, but at no expense to the Employee, the Employee shall execute any and all papers and perform all other acts necessary to assist the Company to obtain and register patents, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights on the Protectable Materials in any and all countries. Where applicable, works of authorship created by the Employee for the Company or any affiliate (collectively, in performing the “Company Innovations”). the Executive further acknowledges Employee’s duties and agrees that all Company Innovations, including, without limitation, any computer programs, programming documentation, and other works of authorship, are responsibilities hereunder shall be considered “works made for hire,for purposes as defined in the U.S. Copyright Act. (b) All trade secret information conceived or originated by the Employee that arises during the term of the Employee’s employment and/or service with the Company and out of the performance of the Employee’s duties and responsibilities to the Company or any related material or information shall be the property of the Company’s rights under copyright laws and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company any , and all right, title and interest that the Executive may have acquired or may hereafter acquire in such Company Innovations. Any assignment of copyright hereunder includes all rights of paternity, integrity, disclosure and withdrawal and any other rights that may be known as or referred to as “moral rights” (collectively “Moral Rights”). To the extent that such Moral Rights cannot be assigned under applicable law and to the extent the following is allowed by the laws in the various countries where Moral Rights exist, the Executive therein are hereby waives such Moral Rights and consents to any action of the Company and the affiliates that would violate such Moral Rights in the absence of such consent. The Executive shall confirm any such waivers and consents from time to time as requested by the Company. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation cannot be assigned by the Executive Employee to the Company, the Executive hereby grants to the Company an exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to practice such non-assignable right, title or interest. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation can be neither assigned nor licensed by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby irrevocably waives and agrees never to assert such non-assignable and non-licensable right, title or interest against the Company, any affiliate or any of their successors in interest to such non-assignable and non-licensable rights. (c) Notwithstanding the Executive recognizes foregoing, the Employee understands that Innovations this Agreement does not require assignment of any invention to the extent such invention qualifies for protection under Section 181.78 of the 2015 Minnesota Statutes, as may be amended from time to time, and Confidential Information relating the current text of which is attached hereto as Annex 1 to his activities while working for Exhibit A. The Employee hereby acknowledges that the Company and conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive, alone or with others, within six (6) months after termination of his employment has provided him with the Company may have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, notification set forth on Exhibit A (and the annex attached thereto) on the date hereof and the Employee shall sign such notification as applicable, in significant part while employed by soon as reasonably practicable after the Company. Accordingly, the Executive agrees that such Innovations and Confidential Information shall be presumed to have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, as applicable, during his employment with the Company and shall be assigned to the Company unless and until the Executive has established the contrary by written evidence satisfying the clear and convincing standard of proofdate hereof. (d) Notwithstanding the Executive shall performforegoing, during and after his employment with the CompanyEmployee understands that pursuant to the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, all acts deemed necessary or desirable by the Company to permit and assist the Company, at the Company’s expense, in obtaining and enforcing the full benefits, enjoyment, rights and title throughout the world in the Confidential Information and Innovations assigned or licensed to, or whose rights are irrevocably waived and Employee shall not be asserted against, held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the Company and the affiliates under this Agreement. Such acts may include, but are not limited to, execution disclosure of documents and assistance or cooperation a trade secret that (A) is made (i) in the filingconfidence to a federal, prosecutionstate, registrationor local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney; and memorialization of assignment of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works or other applications, (ii) solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or (B) is made in the enforcement of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets a complaint or other rights, and (iii) document filed in other legal proceedings related to the Confidential Information or Innovations. (e) In the event that the Company is unable for any reason to secure the Executive’s signature to any document required to file, prosecute, register, or memorialize the assignment of any patent, copyright, mask work a lawsuit or other applications or to enforce any patentproceeding, copyright, mask work, Moral Right, trade secret or other right if such filing is made under any Confidential Information (including improvements thereof) or any Innovations (including derivative works, improvements, renewals, extensions, continuations, divisionals, continuations in part, continuing patent applications, reissues, and reexaminations thereof), the Executive hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and the Company’s duly authorized officers and agents as his agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on his behalf and instead of the Executive (i) to execute, file, prosecute, register and memorialize the assignment of any such application, (ii) to execute and file any documentation required for such enforcement and (iii) to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the filing, prosecution, registration, memorialization of assignment, issuance, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets or other rights under the Confidential Information or Innovations, all with the same legal force and effect as if executed by the Executiveseal. (f) The term “Innovations” means all processes, improvements, inventions (whether or not protectable under patent laws), works of authorship, information fixed in any tangible medium of expression (whether or not protectable under copyright laws), moral rights, mask works, trademarks, trade names, trade dress, trade secrets, know-how, ideas (whether or not protectable under trade secret laws) and all other subject matter protectable under patent, copyright, moral right, mask work, trademark, trade secret or other laws and includes, without limitation, all new or useful art, combinations, designs, developments, modifications, derivative works, discoveries, formulae, techniques and all goodwill associated with any of the foregoing.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Employee Non Competition Agreement (Life Time Group Holdings, Inc.), Employee Non Competition Agreement (Life Time Group Holdings, Inc.)

Inventions and Proprietary Rights. (a) the Executive represents and warrants to the Company that he does not have any All right, title or and interest in all discoveries, inventions, improvements, innovations and other material that the Executive shall conceive or to any Innovation originate individually or jointly or commonly with others during the term of the Executive’s employment and/or service with the Company (as defined belowi) applicable that are directly related to the business of the Company or relating in any way to the Company’s business or demonstrably anticipated research and development or business that were conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive prior to the date hereof. (b) the Executive hereby agrees promptly to disclose and describe to the Company, and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company all right, title and interest in and to, each of the Innovations and all associated intellectual property rights that the Executive may solely or jointly conceive, reduce to practice, create, derive, develop or make during the period of his employment with the Company that (i) relate to the Company’s or any affiliate’s business or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or that results from any work performed by the Executive for the Company, (ii) were developed on for which any amount of the Company’s or any affiliate’s time or with the use of any of the Company’s or any affiliate’s materials, equipment, supplies, facilities facility or trade secret information or of the Company was used and/or (iii) resulted from any work that which was not developed entirely on the Executive’s own time, whether or not patentable, copyrightable, or registrable as a trademark (“Protectable Material”), shall be the property of the Company and are hereby assigned by the Executive performed to the Company (and the Executive agrees to assign all Protectable Material to the Company in the future), along with ownership of any and all patents, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights in the Protectable Material. Upon request and without further compensation therefor, but at no expense to the Executive, the Executive shall execute any and all papers and perform all other acts necessary to assist the Company to obtain and register patents, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights on the Protectable Materials in any and all countries. Where applicable, works of authorship created by the Executive for the Company or any affiliate (collectively, in performing the “Company Innovations”). the Executive further acknowledges Executive’s duties and agrees that all Company Innovations, including, without limitation, any computer programs, programming documentation, and other works of authorship, are responsibilities hereunder shall be considered “works made for hire,for purposes as defined in the U.S. Copyright Act. (b) All trade secret information conceived or originated by the Executive that arises during the term of the Executive’s employment and/or service with the Company and out of the performance of the Executive’s duties and responsibilities to the Company or any related material or information shall be the property of the Company’s rights under copyright laws and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company any , and all right, title and interest that the Executive may have acquired or may hereafter acquire in such Company Innovations. Any assignment of copyright hereunder includes all rights of paternity, integrity, disclosure and withdrawal and any other rights that may be known as or referred to as “moral rights” (collectively “Moral Rights”). To the extent that such Moral Rights cannot be assigned under applicable law and to the extent the following is allowed by the laws in the various countries where Moral Rights exist, the Executive therein are hereby waives such Moral Rights and consents to any action of the Company and the affiliates that would violate such Moral Rights in the absence of such consent. The Executive shall confirm any such waivers and consents from time to time as requested by the Company. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation cannot be assigned by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby grants to the Company an exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to practice such non-assignable right, title or interest. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation can be neither assigned nor licensed by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby irrevocably waives and agrees never to assert such non-assignable and non-licensable right, title or interest against the Company, any affiliate or any of their successors in interest to such non-assignable and non-licensable rights. (c) Notwithstanding the Executive recognizes that Innovations and Confidential Information relating to his activities while working for the Company and conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive, alone or with others, within six (6) months after termination of his employment with the Company may have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, as applicable, in significant part while employed by the Company. Accordinglyforegoing, the Executive agrees understands that such Innovations and Confidential Information shall be presumed to have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, as applicable, during his employment with the Company and shall be assigned pursuant to the Company unless and until the Executive has established the contrary by written evidence satisfying the clear and convincing standard Defend Trade Secrets Act of proof. (d) 2016, the Executive shall perform, during and after his employment with the Company, all acts deemed necessary or desirable by the Company to permit and assist the Company, at the Company’s expense, in obtaining and enforcing the full benefits, enjoyment, rights and title throughout the world in the Confidential Information and Innovations assigned or licensed to, or whose rights are irrevocably waived and shall not be asserted against, held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the Company and the affiliates under this Agreement. Such acts may include, but are not limited to, execution disclosure of documents and assistance or cooperation a trade secret that (A) is made (i) in the filingconfidence to a federal, prosecutionstate, registrationor local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney; and memorialization of assignment of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works or other applications, (ii) solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or (B) is made in the enforcement of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets a complaint or other rights, and (iii) document filed in other legal proceedings related to the Confidential Information or Innovations. (e) In the event that the Company is unable for any reason to secure the Executive’s signature to any document required to file, prosecute, register, or memorialize the assignment of any patent, copyright, mask work a lawsuit or other applications or to enforce any patentproceeding, copyright, mask work, Moral Right, trade secret or other right if such filing is made under any Confidential Information (including improvements thereof) or any Innovations (including derivative works, improvements, renewals, extensions, continuations, divisionals, continuations in part, continuing patent applications, reissues, and reexaminations thereof), the Executive hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and the Company’s duly authorized officers and agents as his agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on his behalf and instead of the Executive (i) to execute, file, prosecute, register and memorialize the assignment of any such application, (ii) to execute and file any documentation required for such enforcement and (iii) to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the filing, prosecution, registration, memorialization of assignment, issuance, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets or other rights under the Confidential Information or Innovations, all with the same legal force and effect as if executed by the Executiveseal. (f) The term “Innovations” means all processes, improvements, inventions (whether or not protectable under patent laws), works of authorship, information fixed in any tangible medium of expression (whether or not protectable under copyright laws), moral rights, mask works, trademarks, trade names, trade dress, trade secrets, know-how, ideas (whether or not protectable under trade secret laws) and all other subject matter protectable under patent, copyright, moral right, mask work, trademark, trade secret or other laws and includes, without limitation, all new or useful art, combinations, designs, developments, modifications, derivative works, discoveries, formulae, techniques and all goodwill associated with any of the foregoing.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Employment Agreement (Life Time Group Holdings, Inc.)

Inventions and Proprietary Rights. (a) the Executive represents and warrants to the Company that he does not have any right, title or interest in or to any Innovation (as defined below) applicable to the business of the Company or relating in any way to the Company’s business or demonstrably anticipated research and development or business that were conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive prior to the date hereof. (b) the Executive hereby agrees promptly to disclose and describe to the Company, and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company all right, title and interest in and to, each of the Innovations and all associated intellectual property rights that the Executive may solely or jointly conceive, reduce to practice, create, derive, develop or make during the period of his employment with the Company that (i) relate to the Company’s or any affiliateAffiliate’s business or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, (ii) were developed on any amount of the Company’s or any affiliate’s Affiliate’ s time or with the use of any of the Company’s or any affiliateAffiliate’s materials, equipment, supplies, facilities or information or (iii) resulted from any work that the Executive performed for the Company or any affiliate Affiliate (collectively, the “Company Innovations”). the Executive further acknowledges and agrees that all Company Innovations, including, without limitation, any computer programs, programming documentation, and other works of authorship, are “works made for hire” for purposes of the Company’s rights under copyright laws and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company any and all right, title and interest that the Executive may have acquired or may hereafter acquire in such Company Innovations. Any assignment of copyright hereunder includes all rights of paternity, integrity, disclosure and withdrawal and any other rights that may be known as or referred to as “moral rights” (collectively “Moral Rights”). To the extent that such Moral Rights cannot be assigned under applicable law and to the extent the following is allowed by the laws in the various countries where Moral Rights exist, the Executive hereby waives such Moral Rights and consents to any action of the Company and the affiliates Affiliates that would violate such Moral Rights in the absence of such consent. The Executive shall confirm any such waivers and consents from time to time as requested by the Company. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation cannot be assigned by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby grants to the Company an exclusive, royalty-royalty­ free, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to practice such non-assignable right, title or interest. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation can be neither assigned nor licensed by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby irrevocably waives and agrees never to assert such non-assignable and non-non­ licensable right, title or interest against the Company, any affiliate Affiliate or any of their successors in interest to such non-assignable and non-licensable rights. Executive hereby grants to the Company or the Company’s designees a royalty free, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to practice all applicable patent, copyright, Moral Right, mask work, trade secret and other rights relating to any Prior Innovations that Executive may incorporate, or permit to be incorporated, into any Company Innovation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Executive shall not incorporate, or permit to be incorporated, any Prior Innovation into any Company Innovation without the Company’s prior written consent. (cb) the Executive recognizes that Innovations and Confidential Information relating directly to his activities while working viral or cell based immunotherapy (for prophylactic or therapeutic use) (the Company and Innovations”) conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive, alone or with others, within six (6) months after termination of his employment with the Company may have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, as applicable, in significant part while employed by the Company. Accordingly, the Executive agrees that such Company Innovations and Confidential Information shall be presumed to have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, as applicable, during his employment with the Company and shall be assigned to the Company unless and until the Executive has established the contrary by written evidence satisfying the clear and convincing standard of proof. (dc) the Executive shall perform, during and after his employment with the Company at the Company’s sole expense (including compensation for Executive’s time after the Termination Date), all acts deemed necessary or desirable by the Company to permit and assist the Company, at the Company’s expense, in obtaining and enforcing the full benefits, enjoyment, rights and title throughout the world in the Confidential Information and Innovations assigned or licensed to, or whose rights are irrevocably waived and shall not be asserted against, the Company and the affiliates Affiliates under this Agreement. Such acts may include, but are not limited to, execution of documents and assistance or cooperation (i) in the filing, prosecution, registration, and memorialization of assignment of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works or other applications, (ii) in the enforcement of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets or other rights, and (iii) in other legal proceedings related to the Confidential Information or Innovations. (ed) In the event that the Company is unable for any reason to secure the Executive’s signature to any document required to file, prosecute, register, or memorialize the assignment of any patent, copyright, mask work or other applications or to enforce any patent, copyright, mask work, Moral Right, trade secret or other right under any Confidential Information (including improvements thereof) or any Innovations (including derivative works, improvements, renewals, extensions, continuations, divisionals, continuations in part, continuing patent applications, reissues, and reexaminations thereof), the Executive hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and the Company’s duly authorized officers and agents as his agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on his behalf and instead of the Executive (i) to execute, file, prosecute, register and memorialize the assignment of any such application, (ii) to execute and file any documentation required for such enforcement and (iii) to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the filing, prosecution, registration, memorialization of assignment, issuance, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets or other rights under the Confidential Information or Innovations, all with the same legal force and effect as if executed by the Executive. (fe) The term “Innovations” means all processes, compositions of matter, compounds, improvements, inventions (whether or not protectable under patent laws), works of authorship, information fixed in any tangible medium of expression (whether or not protectable under copyright laws), moral rights, mask works, trademarks, trade names, trade dress, trade secrets, know-how, ideas (whether or not protectable under trade secret laws) and all other subject matter protectable under patent, copyright, moral right, mask work, trademark, trade secret or other laws and includes, without limitation, all new or useful art, combinations, designs, developments, modifications, derivative works, discoveries, formulae, techniques and all goodwill associated with any of the foregoing.

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Samples: Employment Agreement (HOOKIPA Pharma Inc.)

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Inventions and Proprietary Rights. (a) the Executive represents and warrants to the Company that he does not have any right, title or interest in or to any Innovation (as defined below) applicable to the business of the Company or relating in any way to the Company’s business or demonstrably anticipated research and development or business that were conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive prior to the date hereof. (b) the Executive hereby agrees promptly to disclose and describe to the Company, and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company all right, title and interest in and to, each of the Innovations and all associated intellectual property rights that the Executive may solely or jointly conceive, reduce to practice, create, derive, develop or make during the period of his employment with the Company that (i) relate to the Company’s or any affiliateAffiliate’s business or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, (ii) were developed on any amount of the Company’s or any affiliateAffiliate’s time or with the use of any of the Company’s or any affiliateAffiliate’s materials, equipment, supplies, facilities or information or (iii) resulted from any work that the Executive performed for the Company or any affiliate Affiliate (collectively, the “Company Innovations”). the Executive further acknowledges and agrees that all Company Innovations, including, without limitation, any computer programs, programming documentation, and other works of authorship, are “works made for hire” for purposes of the Company’s rights under copyright laws and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company any and all right, title and interest that the Executive may have acquired or may hereafter acquire in such Company Innovations. Any assignment of copyright hereunder includes all rights of paternity, integrity, disclosure and withdrawal and any other rights that may be known as or referred to as “moral rights” (collectively “Moral Rights”). To the extent that such Moral Rights cannot be assigned under applicable law and to the extent the following is allowed by the laws in the various countries where Moral Rights exist, the Executive hereby waives such Moral Rights and consents to any action of the Company and the affiliates Affiliates that would violate such Moral Rights in the absence of such consent. The Executive shall confirm any such waivers and consents from time to time as requested by the Company. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation cannot be assigned by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby grants to the Company an exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to practice such non-assignable right, title or interest. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation can be neither assigned nor licensed by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby irrevocably waives and agrees never to assert such non-assignable and non-licensable right, title or interest against the Company, any affiliate Affiliate or any of their successors in interest to such non-assignable and non-licensable rights. (c) the Executive recognizes that Innovations and Confidential Information relating to his activities while working for the Company and conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive, alone or with others, within six (6) months after termination of his employment with the Company may have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, as applicable, in significant part while employed by the Company. Accordingly, the Executive agrees that such Innovations and Confidential Information shall be presumed to have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, as applicable, during his employment with the Company and shall be assigned to the Company unless and until the Executive has established the contrary by written evidence satisfying the clear and convincing standard of proof. (d) the Executive shall perform, during and after his employment with the Company, all acts deemed necessary or desirable by the Company to permit and assist the Company, at the Company’s expense, in obtaining and enforcing the full benefits, enjoyment, rights and title throughout the world in the Confidential Information and Innovations assigned or licensed to, or whose rights are irrevocably waived and shall not be asserted against, the Company and the affiliates Affiliates under this Agreement. Such acts may include, but are not limited to, execution of documents and assistance or cooperation (i) in the filing, prosecution, registration, and memorialization of assignment of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works or other applications, (ii) in the enforcement of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets or other rights, and (iii) in other legal proceedings related to the Confidential Information or Innovations. (e) In the event that the Company is unable for any reason to secure the Executive’s signature to any document required to file, prosecute, register, or memorialize the assignment of any patent, copyright, mask work or other applications or to enforce any patent, copyright, mask work, Moral Right, trade secret or other right under any Confidential Information (including improvements thereof) or any Innovations (including derivative works, improvements, renewals, extensions, continuations, divisionals, continuations in part, continuing patent applications, reissues, and reexaminations thereof), the Executive hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and the Company’s duly authorized officers and agents as his agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on his behalf and instead of the Executive (i) to execute, file, prosecute, register and memorialize the assignment of any such application, (ii) to execute and file any documentation required for such enforcement and (iii) to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the filing, prosecution, registration, memorialization of assignment, issuance, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets or other rights under the Confidential Information or Innovations, all with the same legal force and effect as if executed by the Executive. (f) The term “Innovations” means all processes, improvements, inventions (whether or not protectable under patent laws), works of authorship, information fixed in any tangible medium of expression (whether or not protectable under copyright laws), moral rights, mask works, trademarks, trade names, trade dress, trade secrets, know-how, ideas (whether or not protectable under trade secret laws) and all other subject matter protectable under patent, copyright, moral right, mask work, trademark, trade secret or other laws and includes, without limitation, all new or useful art, combinations, designs, developments, modifications, derivative works, discoveries, formulae, techniques and all goodwill associated with any of the foregoing.

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Samples: Employment Agreement (Aziyo Biologics, Inc.)

Inventions and Proprietary Rights. (a) the Executive represents and warrants to the Company that he does not have any right, title or interest in or to any Innovation (as defined below) applicable to the business of the Company or relating in any way to the Company’s business or demonstrably anticipated research and development or business that were conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive prior to the date hereof. (b) the Executive hereby agrees promptly to disclose and describe to the Company, and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company all right, title and interest in and to, each of the Innovations and all associated intellectual property rights that the Executive may solely or jointly conceive, reduce to practice, create, derive, develop or make during the period of his employment with the Company that (i) relate to the Company’s or any affiliateAffiliate’s business or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, (ii) were developed on any amount of the Company’s or any affiliate’s Affiliate’ s time or with the use of any of the Company’s or any affiliateAffiliate’s materials, equipment, supplies, facilities or information or (iii) resulted from any work that the Executive performed for the Company or any affiliate Affiliate (collectively, the “Company Innovations”). the Executive further acknowledges and agrees that all Company Innovations, including, without limitation, any computer programs, programming documentation, and other works of authorship, are “works made for hire” for purposes of the Company’s rights under copyright laws and the Executive hereby assigns to the Company any and all right, title and interest that the Executive may have acquired or may hereafter acquire in such Company Innovations. Any assignment of copyright hereunder includes all rights of paternity, integrity, disclosure and withdrawal and any other rights that may be known as or referred to as “moral rights” (collectively “Moral Rights”). To the extent that such Moral Rights cannot be assigned under applicable law and to the extent the following is allowed by the laws in the various countries where Moral Rights exist, the Executive hereby waives such Moral Rights and consents to any action of the Company and the affiliates Affiliates that would violate such Moral Rights in the absence of such consent. The Executive shall confirm any such waivers and consents from time to time as requested by the Company. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation cannot be assigned by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby grants to the Company an exclusive, royalty-royalty­ free, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to practice such non-assignable right, title or interest. To the extent that any right, title or interest in or to any Company Innovation can be neither assigned nor licensed by the Executive to the Company, the Executive hereby irrevocably waives and agrees never to assert such non-assignable and non-non­ licensable right, title or interest against the Company, any affiliate Affiliate or any of their successors in interest to such non-assignable and non-licensable rights. Executive hereby grants to the Company or the Company’s designees a royalty free, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to practice all applicable patent, copyright, Moral Right, mask work, trade secret and other rights relating to any Prior Innovations that Executive may incorporate, or permit to be incorporated, into any Company Innovation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Executive shall not incorporate, or permit to be incorporated, any Prior Innovation into any Company Innovation without the Company’s prior written consent. (cb) the Executive recognizes that Innovations and Confidential Information relating directly to his activities while working viral or cell based immunotherapy (for prophylactic or therapeutic use) (the Company and Innovations”) ​ ​ conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made by the Executive, alone or with others, within six (6) months after termination of his employment with the Company may have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, as applicable, in significant part while employed by the Company. Accordingly, the Executive agrees that such Company Innovations and Confidential Information shall be presumed to have been conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed or made, as applicable, during his employment with the Company and shall be assigned to the Company unless and until the Executive has established the contrary by written evidence satisfying the clear and convincing standard of proof. (dc) the Executive shall perform, during and after his employment with the Company at the Company’s sole expense (including compensation for Executive’s time after the Termination Date), all acts deemed necessary or desirable by the Company to permit and assist the Company, at the Company’s expense, in obtaining and enforcing the full benefits, enjoyment, rights and title throughout the world in the Confidential Information and Innovations assigned or licensed to, or whose rights are irrevocably waived and shall not be asserted against, the Company and the affiliates Affiliates under this Agreement. Such acts may include, but are not limited to, execution of documents and assistance or cooperation (i) in the filing, prosecution, registration, and memorialization of assignment of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works or other applications, (ii) in the enforcement of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets or other rights, and (iii) in other legal proceedings related to the Confidential Information or Innovations. (ed) In the event that the Company is unable for any reason reason, after good faith and all reasonable effort, to secure the Executive’s signature to any document required to file, prosecute, register, or memorialize the assignment of any patent, copyright, mask work or other applications or to enforce any patent, copyright, mask work, Moral Right, trade secret or other right under any Confidential Information (including improvements thereof) or any Innovations (including derivative works, improvements, renewals, extensions, continuations, divisionals, continuations in part, continuing patent applications, reissues, and reexaminations thereof), the Executive hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and the Company’s duly authorized officers and agents as his agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on his behalf and instead of the Executive (i) to execute, file, prosecute, register and memorialize the assignment of any such application, (ii) to execute and file any documentation required for such enforcement and (iii) to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the filing, prosecution, registration, memorialization of assignment, issuance, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, mask works, Moral Rights, trade secrets or other rights under the Confidential Information or Innovations, all with the same legal force and effect as if executed by the Executive. (f) The term “Innovations” means all processes, improvements, inventions (whether or not protectable under patent laws), works of authorship, information fixed in any tangible medium of expression (whether or not protectable under copyright laws), moral rights, mask works, trademarks, trade names, trade dress, trade secrets, know-how, ideas (whether or not protectable under trade secret laws) and all other subject matter protectable under patent, copyright, moral right, mask work, trademark, trade secret or other laws and includes, without limitation, all new or useful art, combinations, designs, developments, modifications, derivative works, discoveries, formulae, techniques and all goodwill associated with any of the foregoing.

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Samples: Management Employment Agreement (HOOKIPA Pharma Inc.)

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