Inventions and Work Product Sample Clauses
The "Inventions and Work Product" clause defines the ownership and rights related to any inventions, creations, or intellectual property developed during the course of a contract or employment. Typically, this clause specifies that any work product, such as software code, designs, or written materials, created by an individual or team in connection with their work will be owned by the employer or contracting party. It may also outline the process for disclosing inventions and clarify exceptions for prior inventions. The core function of this clause is to ensure that all intellectual property generated under the agreement is clearly owned by the appropriate party, preventing future disputes over rights and usage.
Inventions and Work Product. Any idea, invention, work of authorship, drawing, design, formula, algorithm, utility, tool, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, process, improvement, enhancement, modification, development, or discovery, whether or not patentable, or copyrightable, or entitled to legal protection as a trade secret or otherwise, that Contractor or any Contractor Party may conceive, make, develop, create, reduce to practice, or work on, in whole or in part, in the course of performing the Work and that is required to be delivered to Company pursuant to the Work (collectively, “Invention”), and any deliverable, material, or tangibly-expressed information (including any document, drawing, design, calculation, map, plan, workplan, text filing, estimate, manifest, certificate, book, specification, sketch, notes, report, summary, analysis, data model, and sample, and any summary, extract, analysis, and preliminary or draft material developed in connection therewith) prepared, accumulated or developed by Contractor any Contractor Party and that is required to be delivered to Company pursuant to the Work (collectively, “Work Product”), shall be owned by Company and shall be delivered to Company in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or, if this Agreement is earlier terminated, the termination of this Agreement. Contractor agrees that any copyrightable Invention or Work Product shall constitute a “work made for hire.” Contractor hereby transfers and assigns to Company, and shall cause each Contractor Party to transfer and assign to Company, without royalty or any further consideration, its entire right, title, and interest in and to any such Inventions and Work Product, as well as any Intellectual Property Rights therein or thereto. At Company’s request, Contractor shall execute and cause each Contractor Party to execute any necessary documentation confirming such transfer or assignment.
Inventions and Work Product. The Executive agrees that all inventions, innovations, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, drawings, reports, and all similar or related information which relates to the Company or any of its subsidiaries' actual or anticipated business, research and development or existing or future products or services and which are conceived, developed or made by Executive while employed by the Company, such subsidiary or the Company's predecessors ("Work Product") belong to the Company or such subsidiary. The Executive will promptly disclose such Work Product to the Board and perform all actions reasonably requested by the Board (whether during or after the Employment Period) to establish and confirm such ownership (including, without limitation, assignments, consents, powers of attorney and other instruments).
Inventions and Work Product. Employee agrees to disclose in writing to Employer promptly and fully, all inventions, improvements, designs, developments, original works of authorship, formulas, processes, compositions of matter, computer software programs, databases, mask works, and trade secrets that Employee makes, conceives, or creates, either alone or jointly with others, during the period of Employee’s employment, whether or not reduced to tangible form or first reduced to practice in the course of Employee’s employment, that result from or are suggested by any work that Employee may perform for Employer, that result from information derived from Employer or its employees, products, or services, that are developed using equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secrets of Employer, that result from work performed by Employee for Employer, or that relate to Employer’s business, whether or not such Inventions are patentable, copyrightable, or protectable as trade secrets (the “Inventions”). Employee acknowledges and agrees that any copyrightable works prepared by Employee within the scope of Employee’s employment are “works for hire” under the Copyright Act and that Employer will be considered the author and owner of such copyrightable works. Employee agrees that all Inventions, patents, patent applications, copyrights, mask works, trade secrets, and other intellectual property rights, including but not limited to rights in database and copyrightable works prepared by Employee (including and all “Moral Rights” as existing under judicial or statutory law of any country or subdivision thereof in the world) (collectively the “Assigned Intellectual Property”) are to be the sole and exclusive property of Employer and Employee hereby irrevocably assigns to Employer all right, title, and interest around the world in and to the Assigned Intellectual Property, including any royalty rights or rights to other consideration in connection with the Assigned Intellectual Property. Employee agrees to assist Employer and its nominees, during and after Employee’s employment with Employer, as they may reasonably require during and after Employee’s employment with Employer (at Employer’s or its nominee’s reasonable expense) to obtain for Employer or its nominee’s benefit and enforce the Assigned Intellectual Property. “Assigned Intellectual Property” does not include inventions for which no equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information of Employer was used and which were developed entire...
Inventions and Work Product. The parties hereby agree to delete the first sentences of each of Sections 7(a) and 7(b) of the Master Agreement and replace them with the following:
Inventions and Work Product. ▇▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ shall keep separate and segregated from other work all documents, records, notebooks and correspondence arising from his performance of the Consulting Services. Upon expiration or termination of this Agreement, all such documents and material, including copies thereof, whether prepared by ▇▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ or others, will be delivered to Chiron.
Inventions and Work Product. The Executive will disclose promptly to the Company any and all conceptions and ideas for inventions, improvements, valuable discoveries, marketing or other plans, customer lists, or ideas (including but not limited to manuals, software, training programs, databases, techniques, improvements, and other developments), and all tangible manifestations thereof, whether patentable or not that are conceived or made by the Executive, solely or jointly with another, during the Term of this Agreement and that are related to the business or activities of the Company regardless of whether or not such ideas, inventions, or improvements qualify as "works for hire." The Executive hereby assigns and agrees to assign all his interests therein to the Company or its nominee, excepting only to the extent that the invention is one for which no equipment, supplies, facility or trade secret information of the Company was used and that was developed entirely on the Executive's own time, unless (a) the invention relates (i) directly to the business of the Company, or (ii) to the Executive's actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (b) the invention results from any work performed by the Executive for the Company. Whenever requested to do so by the Company, the Executive will execute any and all applications, assignments or other instruments that the Company will deem necessary to apply for and obtain Letters Patent of the United States or any foreign country or to otherwise protect the Company's interest therein.
Inventions and Work Product. The Executive agrees that all inventions, innovations, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, drawings, reports, and all similar or related information which are conceived, developed or made by the Executive for the Company or any of its subsidiaries in respect of their respective business while employed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (collectively, "Work Product") belong to the Company or such subsidiary. The Executive will promptly disclose such Work Product to the Board and perform all actions reasonably requested by the Board (whether during or after the Employment Period) to establish and confirm such ownership (including, without limitation, assignments, consents, powers of attorney and other instruments).
Inventions and Work Product. You acknowledge and agree that all rights, title and interest, including intellectual property rights, in and to any materials that result from your performance of the Services and all copies thereof, including works in progress, in whatever media (the “Inventions”), shall be and hereby are assigned to Company as its sole and exclusive property. Any work product that constitutes “work made for hire” (within the meaning of United States copyright law) will be treated as such. On the Company’s request, you agree to assist the Company, at the Company’s expense, to obtain patents or copyrights for such Inventions, including the disclosure of all pertinent information and data, the execution of all applications, specifications, oaths, and assignments, and all other instruments and papers that the Company shall deem necessary to apply for and to assign or convey to the Company, its successors, and assigns or nominees, the sole and exclusive right, title, and interest in such Inventions without further consideration.
Inventions and Work Product. Any and all Confidential Information, and inventions or discoveries (whether or not patentable or copyrightable), innovations, suggestions and ideas related to the Services or to any Confidential Information, made, discovered, developed or reduced to practice by or on behalf of Consultant or any Assistants, jointly or with others, as a result of performing Services, and all intellectual property rights therein (collectively, "Inventions and Work Product"), shall be promptly disclosed to the Company in writing and shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company. Consultant hereby assigns and agrees to assign to the Company any rights Consultant may have or acquire in any Inventions and Work Product and agrees to assist the Company in every proper way to obtain and from time to time enforce the Company's intellectual property rights, whether registrable or not, including, but not limited to, patents, copyrights and trademarks on Inventions and Work Product in any and all jurisdictions, and to that end Consultant will execute all documents for use in applying for and obtaining intellectual property rights covering and enforcing Inventions and Work Product as the Company may desire, together with any assignments of Inventions and Work Product to the Company or persons designated by it.
Inventions and Work Product. “Invention” means any composition of matter, device, method or process, treatment, or improvement thereof discovered, created, made, conceived, or reduced to practice (“Invented”) by Consultant, during the term of this Agreement or in the future, whether patentable or not, and which was Invented by Consultant (i) with the equipment, supplies, facilities, or Proprietary Information of Adamas, or (ii) in the course of providing the Consulting Services. “Work Product” means any written or electronic material created by Consultant arising from its performance of the Consulting Services.