Joint Inventions With Partner The Parties will use reasonable efforts to report, and cooperate in obtaining patent protection on, inventions made jointly between NASA employees, Partner employees, and employees of either Party's Related Entities. Upon timely request, NASA may, at its sole discretion and subject to paragraph E. of this Article:
1. refrain from exercising its undivided interest inconsistently with Partner's commercial business; or 2. use reasonable efforts to grant Partner, under 37 C.F.R. Part 404, an exclusive or partially exclusive negotiated license.
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NASA Inventions NASA will use reasonable efforts to report inventions made under this Agreement by its employees. Upon request, NASA will use reasonable efforts to grant Partner, under 37 C.F.R. Part 404, a negotiated license to any NASA invention made under this Agreement. This license is subject to paragraph E.1. of this Article.
Improvements and Inventions Any and all improvements or inventions that Employee may make or participate in during the Employment Term, unless wholly unrelated to the business of Company and its affiliates and not produced within the scope of Employee’s employment hereunder, shall be the sole and exclusive property of Company. Employee shall, whenever requested by Company, execute and deliver any and all documents that Company deems appropriate in order to apply for and obtain patents or copyrights in improvements or inventions or in order to assign and/or convey to Company the sole and exclusive right, title and interest in and to such improvements, inventions, patents, copyrights or applications.
Patentable Inventions or Discoveries Any inventions or discoveries developed in the course, or as a result, of services in connection with the Contract that are patentable pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 101 are the sole property of the State of Florida. Contractor must inform the Customer of any inventions or discoveries developed or made through performance of the Contract, and such inventions or discoveries will be referred to the Florida Department of State for a determination on whether patent protection will be sought. The State of Florida will be the sole owner of all patents resulting from any invention or discovery made through performance of the Contract.
Patents and Inventions The Contractor shall promptly and fully report to the Department any discovery or invention arising out of or developed in the course of performance of this Agreement. If the services under this Agreement are supported by a federal grant of funds, the Contractor shall promptly and fully report to the federal government for the federal government to make a determination as to whether patent protection on such invention shall be sought and how the rights in the invention or discovery, including rights under any patent issued thereon, shall be disposed of and administered in order to protect the public interest.
Inventions (i) The Employee acknowledges and agrees that all ideas, methods, inventions, discoveries, improvements, work products or developments (“Inventions”), whether patentable or unpatentable, (A) that relate to the Employee’s work with the Company, made or conceived by the Employee, solely or jointly with others, during the Employment Term, or (B) suggested by any work that the Employee performs in connection with the Company, either while performing the Employee’s duties to the Company or on the Employee’s own time, but only insofar as the Inventions are related to the Employee’s work as an employee or other service provider to the Company, shall belong exclusively to the Company (or its designee), whether or not patent applications are filed thereon. The Employee will keep full and complete written records (the “Records”), in the manner prescribed by the Company, of all Inventions, and will promptly disclose all Inventions completely and in writing to the Company. The Records shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and the Employee will surrender them upon the termination of the Employment Term, or upon the Company’s request. The Employee will assign to the Company the Inventions and all patents that may issue thereon in any and all countries, whether during or subsequent to the Employment Term, together with the right to file, in the Employee’s name or in the name of the Company (or its designee), applications for patents and equivalent rights (the “Applications”). The Employee will, at any time during and subsequent to the Employment Term, make such applications, sign such papers, take all rightful oaths, and perform all acts as may be requested from time to time by the Company with respect to the Inventions. The Employee will also execute assignments to the Company (or its designee) of the Applications, and give the Company and its attorneys all reasonable assistance (including the giving of testimony) to obtain the Inventions for its benefit, all without additional compensation to the Employee from the Company, but entirely at the Company’s expense.
(ii) In addition, the Inventions will be deemed Work for Hire, as such term is defined under the copyright laws of the United States, on behalf of the Company and the Employee agrees that the Company will be the sole owner of the Inventions, and all underlying rights therein, in all media now known or hereinafter devised, throughout the universe and in perpetuity without any further obligations to the Employee. If the Inventions, or any portion thereof, are deemed not to be Work for Hire, the Employee hereby irrevocably conveys, transfers and assigns to the Company, all rights, in all media now known or hereinafter devised, throughout the universe and in perpetuity, in and to the Inventions, including, without limitation, all of the Employee’s right, title and interest in the copyrights (and all renewals, revivals and extensions thereof) to the Inventions, including, without limitation, all rights of any kind or any nature now or hereafter recognized, including without limitation, the unrestricted right to make modifications, adaptations and revisions to the Inventions, to exploit and allow others to exploit the Inventions and all rights to xxx at law or in equity for any infringement, or other unauthorized use or conduct in derogation of the Inventions, known or unknown, prior to the date hereof, including, without limitation, the right to receive all proceeds and damages therefrom. In addition, the Employee hereby waives any so-called “moral rights” with respect to the Inventions. The Employee hereby waives any and all currently existing and future monetary rights in and to the Inventions and all patents that may issue thereon, including, without limitation, any rights that would otherwise accrue to the Employee’s benefit by virtue of the Employee being an employee of or other service provider to the Company.
Transactions with Insiders So long as the Note is outstanding, the Company shall not, and shall cause each of its subsidiaries not to, enter into, amend, modify or supplement, or permit any subsidiary to enter into, amend, modify or supplement any agreement, transaction, commitment, or arrangement relating to the sale, transfer or assignment of any of the Company’s tangible or intangible assets with any of its Insiders (as defined below)(or any persons who were Insiders at any time during the previous two (2) years), or any Affiliates (as defined below) thereof, or with any individual related by blood, marriage, or adoption to any such individual. Affiliate for purposes of this Section 9(r) means, with respect to any person or entity, another person or entity that, directly or indirectly, (i) has a ten percent (10%) or more equity interest in that person or entity, (ii) has ten percent (10%) or more common ownership with that person or entity, (iii) controls that person or entity, or (iv) shares common control with that person or entity. “Control” or “Controls” for purposes hereof means that a person or entity has the power, direct or indirect, to conduct or govern the policies of another person or entity. For purposes hereof, “Insiders” shall mean any officer, director or manager of the Company, including but not limited to the Company’s president, chief executive officer, chief financial officer and chief operations officer, and any of their affiliates or family members.
Relations with Governments The COMPANY has not made, offered or agreed to offer anything of value to any governmental official, political party or candidate for government office nor has it otherwise taken any action which would cause the COMPANY to be in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any law of similar effect.
VACATIONS WITH PAY 14.01 An Employee shall be granted, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, an annual vacation with pay according to their aggregate credited service as follows: Years of Service Vacation Entitlement Weeks Days
14.02 All vacations granted shall be considered to start on a Sunday Morning. A weeks' vacation shall mean a calendar week of seven (7) days with five (5) days' pay. Each day's pay shall be calculated at eight (8) hours straight time based on the daily rate of pay in effect at the time the vacation is taken.
14.03 Notwithstanding the schedule of vacation leave noted in Article 14.01, an Employee, who has been granted and taken vacation leave and terminates their employment with the Employer before the anniversary date when the Employee commenced work, shall have the unearned portion of vacation leave deducted from their termination pay as per Article 14.8.
14.04 All vacations granted in any year shall be determined on the basis of the aggregate credited service of the Employee. Service is calculated on the basis of regular hours worked, and also includes any period or periods of paid absence due to sickness (certified by a medical practitioner), bereavement, jury duty, accident while on duty, maternity/parental/adoptive leave or leave of absence for Union business. All other periods of absence, other than those noted above, will reduce an Employee's vacation entitlement in the same proportion as the factor by which the period of absence relates to the full calendar year.
14.05 Employees will be given an opportunity, based on seniority within their section or work unit, as per Article 19.01, to bid for the vacations with pay to which they are entitled. Employees will not be permitted to exchange vacations, alter the dates after selection has been made, nor extend the vacation period except in special cases. Blocks for vacation in the Operations Division in a given year will be first posted for sign-up not later than October 15th of the preceding year, provisional sign-up to be completed by one (1) calendar month later. The vacation blocks posted for the ten (10) week summer period will be a minimum of nine-percent (9%) of full-time permanent Operators that exist on the 1st day of the month of September of the preceding vacation year. Operator Employees will bid within the blocks available as posted by the City (HSR) according to rotating seniority lists devised by Local Union 107 and agreed to by the City (HSR). Garage and Maintenance Employees will bid on a seniority basis within their own units and within blocks throughout the year available as posted by the City (HSR). Blocks for vacation in the Administrative Section, a given year will be first posted for sign-up not later than October 15th of the preceding year, provisional sign-up to be completed by one calendar month later. It is agreed that the current guidelines will be amended to allow a minimum of three (3) Inspectors off on vacation at any one time during the peak vacation periods. These periods are defined as two (2) weeks at Christmas, one (1) week during the March break and the Summer Board, which is a period of ten (10) weeks. If the number of Inspectors is increased to seventeen (17) or more, a minimum of four (4) Inspectors will be allowed off on vacation at any one (1) time during the peak vacation periods. An employee will be allowed to sign one (1) week of their vacation entitlement as five (5) single days. Blocks for vacation in the Maintenance division, a given year will first be posted for sign-up not later than December 1st of the preceding year, with a view to having the sign-up completed by January 31st. Requests for vacation during January of the vacation year must be submitted to the Manager of Fleet Maintenance, in writing, prior to December 1st of the preceding year. It is further agreed that no unit will be completely vacated. An employee will be allowed to sign one (1) week of their vacation entitlement as five (5) single days. The allocations for vacation purposes shall be as follows:
