Inventions Works of Authorship Sample Clauses

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Inventions Works of Authorship. All ideas, inventions, developments, discoveries and improvements conceived and/or reduced to practice, alone or with others, in the course of providing Goods under this Contract shall be the exclusive property of Buyer. Seller agrees to promptly and fully disclose in writing to Buyer all such ideas, inventions, developments, discoveries and improvements. Seller hereby assigns and agrees to assign to Buyer all of Seller's right, title, and interest in and to such ideas, inventions, developments, discoveries and improvements and Seller agrees to (a) assist Buyer, at Buyer's reasonable expense, in obtaining patents on any such ideas, inventions, developments, discoveries and improvements and (b) execute all documents necessary to obtain such patents in the name of Buyer. Seller hereby assigns and agrees to assign to Buyer all of Seller's right, title, and interest in and to any works of authorship created by Seller relating to the Goods provided pursuant to this Contract (such works of authorship being hereinafter referred to as "Work"). Seller agrees to execute any and all documents deemed to be necessary or appropriate by Buyer to effectuate the assignment to Buyer of all of Seller's rights in such Works, including, but not limited to, copyright rights. Seller further agrees to maintain all information relative to such ideas, inventions, developments, improvements, and works of authorship as confidential Information of Buyer subject to the obligations of confidentiality set forth in section 3 hereof, and Seller agrees not to submit for publication, publish, or disclose the same without the prior express written consent of Buyer.
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Inventions Works of Authorship. All ideas, inventions, developments, and improvements conceived and/or reduced to practice, alone or with others, in the course of providing services under this Agreement relating to SUBJECT shall be the exclusive property of COMPANY. CONSULTANT agrees to (i) promptly and fully disclose in writing to COMPANY all such ideas, inventions, developments, and improvements, (ii) assign all such ideas, inventions, developments, and improvements, (iii) assist COMPANY, at its expense, in obtaining patents on any such ideas, inventions, developments, and improvements, and (iv) execute all documents necessary to obtain such patents in the name of COMPANY. CONSULTANT and COMPANY agree that any works of authorship created by CONSULTANT relating to SUBJECT during the term of this Agreement shall be considered “work made for hire” for COMPANY as that term is defined in Section 101 of the 1976 Copyright Act (such works of authorship being hereinafter referred to as “WORKS”). To the extent that any WORKS are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or the Register of Copyrights not a work made for hire, CONSULTANT agrees to execute any and all documents deemed to be necessary or appropriate by COMPANY to effect a complete transfer of ownership of all rights, including, but not limited to, copyright rights, to COMPANY throughout the world. CONSULTANT further agrees to maintain all information relative to such ideas, inventions, developments, and improvements and WORKS as confidential information of COMPANY subject to the obligations of confidentiality set forth in paragraph 4(A) hereof.
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Inventions Works of Authorship. All ideas, inventions, developments and improvements conceived and/or reduced to practice, and all works of authorship generated by CONSULTANT, alone or with others, during the term of this Agreement for the SUBJECT on which the Company is working shall be the exclusive property of the COMPANY. CONSULTANT agrees to (i) promptly and fully disclose in writing to the COMPANY all such ideas, inventions, developments, improvements and works of authorship; (ii) assign all such ideas, inventions, developments, improvements and works of authorship to the COMPANY; (iii) assist the COMPANY, at the COMPANY'S expense, in obtaining patents on any such ideas, inventions, developments and improvements and copyrights on such works of authorship; (iv) execute all documents necessary to obtain such patents and copyrights in the name of the COMPANY; and (v) maintain all information as to such ideas, inventions, developments, improvements and works of authorship, as confidential information of the COMPANY subject to the obligations of confidentiality set forth in paragraph 4A hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this provision shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information.
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  • Inventions All inventions, designs, formulae, processes, discoveries, drawings, improvements and developments made by Employee, either solely or in collaboration with others, during his employment with Employer, whether or not during working hours, and relating to any methods, apparatus, products, compounds, services or deliverables which are made, furnished, sold, leased, used or developed by Employer or its affiliates or which pertain to the Business (the “Developments”) shall become and remain the sole property of Employer. Employee shall disclose promptly in writing to Employer all such Developments. Employee acknowledges and agrees that all Developments shall be deemed “works made for hire” within the meaning of the United States Copyright Act, as amended. If, for any reason, such Developments are not deemed works made for hire, Employee hereby assigns to Employer all of his right, title and interest (including, but not limited to, copyright and all rights of inventorship) in and to such Developments. At the request and expense of Employer, whether during or after employment with Employer, Employee shall make, execute and deliver all application papers, assignments or instruments, and perform or cause to be performed such other lawful acts as Employer may deem necessary or desirable in making or prosecuting applications, domestic or foreign, for patents (including reissues, continuations and extensions thereof) and copyrights related to such Developments or in vesting in Employer full legal title to such Developments. Employee shall assist and cooperate with Employer or its representatives in any controversy or legal proceeding relating to such Developments, or to any patents, copyrights or trade secrets with respect thereto. If for any reason Employee refuses or is unable to assist Employer in obtaining or enforcing its rights with respect to such Developments, he hereby irrevocably designates and appoints Employer and its duly authorized agents as his agents and attorneys-in-fact to execute and file any documents and to do all other lawful acts necessary to protect Employer’s rights in the Developments. Employee expressly acknowledges that the special foregoing power of attorney is coupled with an interest and is therefore irrevocable and shall survive (i) his death or incompetency, (ii) the termination of his employment with Employer and (iii) the termination of this Agreement.

  • Discoveries and Inventions Employee agrees that all inventions, designs, improvements, writings, research, analysis, and discoveries made during the term of this Agreement and pertaining to the business conducted by AnchorBank shall be the exclusive property of AnchorBank, as determined solely by AnchorBank. Employee shall assist AnchorBank in obtaining patents, trademarks, service marks and/or copyrights on all such inventions, designs, improvements, writings and discoveries deemed suitable for patent, trademark, service xxxx, or copyright by AnchorBank, and shall execute all documents and do all things necessary to obtain letters, patents, or copyrights, vest AnchorBank with full and exclusive title thereto, and protect the same against infringements by others.

  • Discoveries and Works All Discoveries and Works which are made or conceived by you during your employment by the Company, solely, jointly or with others, that relate to the Company's present or anticipated activities, or are used or useable by the Company within the scope of this Agreement shall be owned by the Company. You shall (a) promptly notify, make full disclosure to, and execute and deliver any documents requested by the Company, as the case may be, to evidence or better assure title to Discoveries and Works in the Company, as so requested, (b) renounce any and all claims, including but not limited to claims of ownership and royalty, with respect to all Discoveries and Works and all other property owned or licensed by the Company, (c) assist the Company in obtaining or maintaining for itself at its own expense United States and foreign patents, copyrights, trade secret protection or other protection of any and all Discoveries and Works, and (d) promptly execute, whether during his employment with the Company or thereafter, all applications or other endorsements necessary or appropriate to maintain patents and other rights for the Company and to protect the title of the Company thereto, including but not limited to assignments of such patents and other rights. Any Discoveries and Works which, within one year after the expiration or termination of your employment with the Company, are made, disclosed, reduced to tangible or written form or description, or are reduced to practice by you and which pertain to the business carried on or products or services being sold or delivered by the Company at the time of such termination shall, as between you and, the Company, be presumed to have been made during your employment by the Company. You acknowledge that all Discoveries and Works shall be deemed “works made for hire” under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, as amended 17 U.S.C. Sect. 101.

  • Proprietary Information and Inventions Employee understands and acknowledges that:

  • Authorship The Parties agree that the terms and language of this Agreement are the result of negotiations between the Parties and their respective advisors and, as a result, there shall be no presumption that any ambiguities in this Agreement shall be resolved against any Party. Any controversy over construction of this Agreement shall be decided without regard to events of authorship or negotiation.

  • Innovations As used in this Agreement, the term “Innovations” means all processes, machines, manufactures, compositions of matter, 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, discoveries, formulae, manufacturing techniques, technical developments, discoveries, artwork, software, and designs. “Innovations” includes “Inventions,” which is defined to mean any inventions protected under patent laws.

  • Work Product and Inventions The Affiliated Group and/or its nominees or assigns shall own all right, title and interest in and to any and all inventions, ideas, trade secrets, technology, devices, discoveries, improvements, processes, developments, designs, know how, show-how, data, computer programs, algorithms, formulae, works of authorship, works modifications, trademarks, trade names, documentation, techniques, designs, methods, trade secrets, technical specifications, technical data, concepts, expressions, patents, patent rights, copyrights, moral rights, and all other intellectual property rights or other developments whatsoever (collectively, “Developments”), whether or not patentable, reduced to practice or registerable under patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property law anywhere in the world, made, authored, discovered, reduced to practice, conceived, created, developed or otherwise obtained by the Participant (alone or jointly with others) during the Participant’s employment with the Affiliated Group, and arising from or relating to such employment or the business of the Affiliated Group (whether during business hours or otherwise, and whether on the premises of using the facilities or materials of the Affiliated Group or otherwise). The Participant shall promptly and fully disclose to the Affiliated Group and to no one else all Developments, and hereby assigns to the Affiliated Group without further compensation all right, title and interest the Participant has or may have in any Developments, and all patents, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights relating thereto, and agrees that the Participant has not acquired and shall not acquire any rights during the course of his employment with the Affiliated Group or thereafter with respect to any Developments.

  • Discoveries 20.1 Anything of historical or other interest or of significant value unexpectedly discovered on the Site is the property of the Employer. The Contractor is to notify the Engineer of such discoveries and carry out the Engineer's instructions for dealing with them.

  • Other Inventions Nothing contained in this clause shall be deemed to grant to the Government any rights with respect to any invention other than a subject invention.

  • Inventions, etc The Executive hereby sells, transfers and assigns to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or to any person or entity designated by the Company all of the entire right, title and interest of the Executive in and to all inventions, ideas, disclosures and improvements, whether patented or unpatented, and copyrightable material, made or conceived by the Executive, solely or jointly, during his employment by the Company which relate to methods, apparatus, designs, products, processes or devices, sold, leased, used or under consideration or development by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, or which otherwise relate to or pertain to the business, functions or operations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or which arise from the efforts of the Executive during the course of his employment for the Company. The Executive shall communicate promptly and disclose to the Company, in such form as the Company requests, all information, details and data pertaining to the aforementioned inventions, ideas, disclosures and improvements; and the Executive shall execute and deliver to the Company such formal transfers and assignments and such other papers and documents as may be necessary or required of the Executive to permit the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or any person or entity designated by the Company to file and prosecute the patent applications and, as to copyrightable material, to obtain copyright thereof. Any invention relating to the business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates and disclosed by the Executive within one year following the termination of his employment with the Company shall be deemed to fall within the provisions of this paragraph unless proved to have been first conceived and made following such termination. The foregoing requirements of this Section 7(d) shall not apply to any invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility or trade secret information of the Company was used and which was developed entirely on the Executive’s own time, and (i) which does not relate directly to the Company’s, or any of its subsidiaries’ or affiliates’, business or to the Company’s, or any of its subsidiaries’ or affiliates’, actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (ii) which does not result from any work the Executive performed for the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.

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