License Back to Seller. (a) Purchaser grants back (and agrees to cause its appropriate Subsidiaries to grant back) to Seller and its Subsidiaries the following personal, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid, royalty-free and non-transferable (except as specified in Section 9.12 below) licenses under its and their applicable Intellectual Property Rights, together with the right to sublicense to Third Parties subject to the terms of this agreement, solely within the Seller’s Field of Use: (i) under its and their Copyrights in and to the Transferred Business Technology, (A) to reproduce and have reproduced the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller, in whole or in part, in order to create or as part of Seller Products, (B) to prepare Improvements or have Improvements prepared for it based upon the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology in order to create Seller Products, (C) to distribute (by any means and using any technology, whether now known or unknown, including without limitation electronic transmission) copies of the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller as part of Seller Products, and (D) to perform (by any means and using any technology, whether now known or unknown, including without limitation electronic transmission) and display the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller, as part of Seller Products; (ii) under its and their Database Rights in and to the Transferred Business Technology, to develop or have developed Improvements and to extract data from the databases included in the Transferred Business Technology and such Improvements and to re-utilize such data to design, develop, manufacture and have manufactured Seller Products and to sell such Seller Products that incorporate such data, databases and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller; (iii) under its and their Mask Works in and to the Transferred Business Technology, (A) to develop or have developed Improvements and to reproduce and have reproduced mask works and semiconductor topologies included in the Transferred Business Technology and embodied in Seller Products by optical, electronic or any other means, (B) to import or distribute a product in which any such mask work or semiconductor topology is embodied, and (C) to induce or knowingly to cause a Third Party to do any of the acts described in Sections 3.2(a)(iii)(A) and (B) above; and (iv) under its and their Trade Secrets, Industrial Designs and other intellectual property rights in and to the Transferred Business Technology, to use the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller to design, develop, to manufacture and have manufactured, offer to sell, sell, support and maintain Seller Products and make Improvements to such Seller Products. (b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing licenses granted in Section 3.2(a) above, with respect to software included within the Transferred Business Technology, such licenses include the right to use, modify, and reproduce such software and Improvements thereof made by or for Seller or its Subsidiaries to Seller Products, in source code and object code form, and to sell and maintain such software and Improvements thereof made by or for Seller or its Subsidiaries, in source code and object code form, as part of Seller Products; provided, however, that, with respect to Purchaser’s software products that are Seller Products and are commercially released as of the Closing Date, Seller shall be limited to using no more than ten percent (10%) of the lines of code of any such commercially released software product in any Seller Product sold or maintained by Seller or its Subsidiaries to a Third Party after the Closing Date (it being understood that such restriction shall not apply, however, to Seller’s or its Subsidiaries’ use of any code contained in any Seller Product that was commercially released by Seller as of or prior to the Closing Date, to the extent that Seller desires to continue to sell such Seller Products in a form containing such code or Improvements thereto). For purposes of this Section 3.2(b), a “commercially released” product shall mean a product that has been placed on a Purchaser corporate price list or (if applicable) released by Purchaser to Third Parties for beta testing. (c) The foregoing licenses in this Section 3.2 include the right to have contract manufacturers and foundries manufacture Seller Products for Seller. (d) Seller may grant sublicenses within the scope of the licenses granted under Sections 3.2(a) and (b) above as follows: (i) Seller may grant sublicenses to its Subsidiaries for so long as they remain its Subsidiaries, with no right to grant further sublicenses other than, in the case of a sublicensed Subsidiary, to another Subsidiary of such party; provided that any such sublicense may be made effective retroactively but not prior to the sublicensee’s becoming a Subsidiary; and (ii) Seller may grant sublicenses with respect to Seller Products in the form of software, in object code and source code form, to its distributors, resellers, OEM customers, VAR customers, VAD customers, systems integrators and other channels of distribution and to its end user customers.
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Samples: Asset Purchase Agreement (Agilent Technologies Inc)
License Back to Seller. (a) Purchaser grants back (and agrees to cause its appropriate Subsidiaries to grant back) to Seller and its Subsidiaries the following personal, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid, royalty-free and non-transferable (except as specified in Section 9.12 8.10 below) licenses under its and their applicable Intellectual Property Rights, together with the right to sublicense to Third Parties subject to the terms of this agreement, for use solely within the Seller’s 's Field of UseUse to design, develop, make, have made, sell, use, maintain and practice and have practiced any methods with Seller Products:
(i) under its and their Copyrights in and to the Transferred Business Purchaser Technology, (A) to reproduce and have reproduced the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Purchaser Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller, in whole or in part, in order to create or as part of Seller Products, (B) to prepare Improvements or have Improvements prepared for it based upon the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Purchaser Technology in order to create Seller Products, (C) to distribute (by any means and using any technology, whether now known or unknown, including without limitation electronic transmission) copies of the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Purchaser Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership or by rental, lease or lending, as part of Seller Products, and (D) to perform (by any means and using any technology, whether now known or unknown, including without limitation electronic transmission) and display the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Purchaser Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller, as part of Seller Products;
(ii) under its and their Database Rights in and to the Transferred Business Purchaser Technology, to develop or have developed Improvements and to extract data from the databases included in the Transferred Business Purchaser Technology and such Improvements and to re-utilize such data to design, develop, manufacture and have manufactured Seller Products and to sell Sell such Seller Products that incorporate such data, databases and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller;
(iii) under its and their Mask Works Work Rights in and to the Transferred Business Purchaser Technology, (A) to develop or have developed Improvements and to reproduce and have reproduced mask works and semiconductor topologies included in the Transferred Business Purchaser Technology and embodied in Seller Products by optical, electronic or any other means, (B) to import or distribute a product in which any such mask work or semiconductor topology is embodied, and (C) to induce or knowingly to cause a Third Party to do any of the acts described in Sections 3.2(a)(iii)(A) and (B) above; and
(iv) under its and their Trade Secrets, Industrial Designs trade secrets and other intellectual property rights in and to the Transferred Business Purchaser Technology, to use the Transferred Business Purchaser Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller to design, develop, to manufacture and have manufactured, offer to sell, sell, support and maintain manufactured Seller Products and make Improvements to Sell such Seller Products.
(b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing licenses granted in Section 3.2(a) above, with respect to software included within the Transferred Business Purchaser Technology, such licenses include the right to use, modify, and reproduce such software and Improvements thereof made by or for Seller or its Subsidiaries to create Seller Products, in source code and object code form, and to sell Sell and maintain such software and Improvements thereof made by or for Seller or its Subsidiaries, in source code and object code form, as part of Seller Products; provided, however, that, with respect to Purchaser’s 's software products that are Seller Purchaser Products and are commercially released as of the Closing Date, Seller shall be limited to using no more than ten percent (10%) of the lines of code of any such commercially released software product in any Seller Product sold Sold or maintained by Seller or its Subsidiaries to a Third Party after the Closing Date (it being understood that such restriction shall not apply, however, to Seller’s 's or its Subsidiaries’ ' use of any code contained in any Seller Product that was commercially released by Seller as of or prior to the Closing Date, to the extent that Seller desires to continue to sell such Seller Products in a form containing such code or Improvements improvements thereto). Any other rights of Seller and its Subsidiaries to Sell and maintain such commercially released software products of Purchaser shall be solely as set forth in a separate written agreement. For purposes of this Section 3.2(b), a “"commercially released” " product shall mean a product that has been placed on a Purchaser corporate price list or (if applicable) released by Purchaser to Third Parties for beta testing.; and
(c) The foregoing licenses in this Section 3.2 include the right to have contract manufacturers and foundries manufacture Seller Products for Seller.
(d) Seller may grant sublicenses within the scope of the licenses granted under Sections 3.2(a) and (b) above as follows:
(i) Seller may grant sublicenses to its Subsidiaries for so long as they remain its Subsidiaries, with no right to grant further sublicenses other than, in the case of a sublicensed Subsidiary, to another Subsidiary of such party; provided that any such sublicense may be made effective retroactively but not prior to the sublicensee’s 's becoming a Subsidiary; and
(ii) Seller may grant sublicenses with respect to Seller Products in the form of software, in object code and source code form, to its distributors, resellers, OEM customers, VAR customers, VAD customers, systems integrators and other channels of distribution and to its end user customers.
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Samples: Asset Purchase Agreement (Agilent Technologies Inc)
License Back to Seller. (a) Purchaser grants back (and agrees to cause its appropriate Subsidiaries to grant back) to Seller and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates the following personal, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid, royalty-free and non-transferable (except as specified in Section 9.12 below) licenses under its and their applicable Intellectual Property Rights, together with the right to sublicense to Third Parties subject to the terms of this agreement, solely within the Seller’s Seller Field of Use:
(i) under its and their Copyrights in and to the Transferred Business Technology, (A) to reproduce and have reproduced the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller, in whole or in part, in order to create or as part of Seller Products, (B) to prepare Improvements or have Improvements prepared for it based upon the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology in order to create Seller Products, (C) to distribute (by any means and using any technology, whether now known or unknown, including without limitation electronic transmission) copies of the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller as part of Seller Products, and (D) to perform (by any means and using any technology, whether now known or unknown, including without limitation electronic transmission) and display the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller, as part of Seller Products;
(ii) under its and their Database Rights in and to the Transferred Business Technology, to develop or have developed Improvements and to extract data from the databases included in the Transferred Business Technology and such Improvements and to re-utilize such data to design, develop, manufacture and have manufactured Seller Products and to sell such Seller Products that incorporate such data, databases and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller;
(iii) under its and their Mask Works in and to the Transferred Business Technology, (A) to develop or have developed Improvements and to reproduce and have reproduced mask works and semiconductor topologies included in the Transferred Business Technology and embodied in Seller Products by optical, electronic or any other means, (B) to import or distribute a product in which any such mask work or semiconductor topology is embodied, and (C) to induce or knowingly to cause a Third Party to do any of the acts described in Sections 3.2(a)(iii)(A) and (B) above; and
(iv) under its and their Trade Secrets, Industrial Designs and other intellectual property rights Intellectual Property Rights in and to the Transferred Business Technology, to use the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller to design, develop, to manufacture and have manufactured, offer to sell, sell, support and maintain Seller Products and make Improvements to such Seller Products.
(b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing licenses granted in Section 3.2(a) above, with respect to software included within the Transferred Business Technology, such licenses include the right to use, modify, and reproduce such software and Improvements thereof made by or for Seller or its Subsidiaries and Affiliates to Seller Products, in source code and object code form, and to sell and maintain such software and Improvements thereof made by or for Seller or its SubsidiariesSubsidiaries and Affiliates, in source code and object code form, as part of Seller Products; provided, however, that, with respect to Purchaser’s software products that are Seller Products and are commercially released as of the Closing Date, Seller shall be limited to using no more than ten percent (10%) of the lines of code of any such commercially released software product in any Seller Product sold or maintained by Seller or its Subsidiaries to a Third Party after the Closing Date (it being understood that such restriction shall not apply, however, to Seller’s or its Subsidiaries’ use of any code contained in any Seller Product that was commercially released by Seller as of or prior to the Closing Date, to the extent that Seller desires to continue to sell such Seller Products in a form containing such code or Improvements thereto). For purposes of this Section 3.2(b), a “commercially released” product shall mean a product that has been placed on a Purchaser corporate price list or (if applicable) released by Purchaser to Third Parties for beta testing.
(c) The foregoing licenses in this Section 3.2 include the right to have contract manufacturers and foundries manufacture Seller Products for SellerSeller and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates.
(d) Seller may grant sublicenses within the scope of the licenses granted under Sections 3.2(a) and (b) above as follows:
(i) Seller may grant sublicenses to its Subsidiaries and Affiliates for so long as they remain its SubsidiariesSubsidiaries and Affiliates, with no right to grant further sublicenses other than, in the case of a sublicensed SubsidiarySubsidiary or Affiliate, to another Subsidiary or Affiliate of such party; provided that any such sublicense may be made effective retroactively but not prior to the sublicensee’s becoming a SubsidiarySubsidiary or Affiliate; and
(ii) Seller or its Subsidiaries or Affiliates may grant sublicenses with respect to Seller Products in the form of software, in object code and source code form, to its distributors, resellers, OEM customers, VAR customers, VAD customers, systems integrators and other channels of distribution and to its end user customers.
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Samples: Purchase and Sale Agreement (Avago Technologies LTD)
License Back to Seller. (a) As of the Closing Date, Purchaser hereby grants back (and agrees to cause its appropriate Subsidiaries to grant back) to Seller Microsoft and its Subsidiaries current and future Subsidiaries, under the following personalPatents, and for the lives thereof, a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, royalty-free and free, perpetual, non-transferable exclusive past release and future license to make, have made, use purchase, provide, sell, offer for sale, lease, import, export, host, and otherwise distribute any past, present or future technology, software, products, equipment or services of Microsoft and such Subsidiaries (except as specified in Section 9.12 below) licenses under its including without limitation any past, present or future combinations of the foregoing, collectively “Seller’s Covered Technology”), and their applicable Intellectual Property Rights, together with the right to sublicense practice any method or process. This license extends to Third Parties subject and includes third parties to the terms of this agreement, solely within which Microsoft or such Subsidiaries provide the Seller’s Field Covered Technology (including, without limitation, any customers, suppliers, licensees, distributors, and end-users of Use:
Microsoft or such Subsidiaries) in connection with their authorized manufacture, having manufactured (iincluding software replication under license), purchase, provision, use, sale, offer for sale, lease, distribution, hosting, exportation, or importation of any of Seller’s Covered Technology. Without limiting the foregoing, the license granted hereunder includes Microsoft’s and such Subsidiaries’ right to supply Seller’s Covered Technology as components for use in their intended manner in combination with other products and services so long as for any given Patent such Seller’s Covered Technology constitutes a material part of the inventions patented under such Patent; provided, however, that no license, covenant or other Patent rights are being provided to any unlicensed third party components per se. For the life of the Patents, Purchaser (on behalf of itself and any assignees) under its and their Copyrights in and also covenants not to the Transferred Business Technology, rely on any of Seller’s Covered Technology (A) to reproduce and have reproduced the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller, in whole or in part, in order to create or as part of Seller Products, (B) to prepare Improvements or have Improvements prepared for it based upon the works meet any element of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology in order to create Seller Products, (C) to distribute (by any means and using any technology, whether now known or unknown, including without limitation electronic transmission) copies infringement claim of the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller as part of Seller Products, and (D) to perform (by any means and using any technology, whether now known or unknown, including without limitation electronic transmission) and display the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Patents against Seller, as part of Seller Products;
(ii) under its and their Database Rights in and to the Transferred Business Technology, to develop or have developed Improvements and to extract data from the databases included in the Transferred Business Technology and such Improvements and to re-utilize such data to design, develop, manufacture and have manufactured Seller Products and to sell such Seller Products that incorporate such data, databases and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller;
(iii) under its and their Mask Works in and to the Transferred Business Technology, (A) to develop or have developed Improvements and to reproduce and have reproduced mask works and semiconductor topologies included in the Transferred Business Technology and embodied in Seller Products by optical, electronic Subsidiaries or any other meansthird party. For the avoidance of doubt, (B) to import or distribute a product in which any such mask work or semiconductor topology is embodied, and (C) to induce or knowingly to cause a Third Party to do any of the acts described in Sections 3.2(a)(iii)(A) and (B) above; and
(iv) under its and their Trade Secrets, Industrial Designs and other intellectual property rights in and to the Transferred Business Technology, to use the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller to design, develop, to manufacture and have manufactured, offer to sell, sell, support and maintain Seller Products and make Improvements to such Seller Products.
(b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing licenses granted in Section 3.2(a) above, with respect does not grant Seller any rights to software included within sublicense the Transferred Business Technology, such licenses include the right to use, modify, and reproduce such software and Improvements thereof made by or for Seller or its Subsidiaries to Seller Products, in source code and object code form, and to sell and maintain such software and Improvements thereof made by or for Seller or its Subsidiaries, in source code and object code form, as part of Seller Products; provided, however, that, with respect to Purchaser’s software products that are Seller Products and are commercially released as of the Closing Date, Seller shall be limited to using no more than ten percent (10%) of the lines of code of any such commercially released software product in any Seller Product sold or maintained by Seller or its Subsidiaries to a Third Party after the Closing Date (it being understood that such restriction shall not apply, however, to Patents apart from Seller’s or its Subsidiaries’ use of any code contained in any Seller Product that was commercially released by Seller as of or prior to the Closing Date, to the extent that Seller desires to continue to sell such Seller Products in a form containing such code or Improvements thereto). For purposes of this Section 3.2(b), a “commercially released” product shall mean a product that has been placed on a Purchaser corporate price list or (if applicable) released by Purchaser to Third Parties for beta testing.
(c) The foregoing licenses in this Section 3.2 include the right to have contract manufacturers and foundries manufacture Seller Products for Seller.
(d) Seller may grant sublicenses within the scope of the licenses granted under Sections 3.2(a) and (b) above as follows:
(i) Seller may grant sublicenses to its Subsidiaries for so long as they remain its Subsidiaries, with no right to grant further sublicenses other than, in the case of a sublicensed Subsidiary, to another Subsidiary of such party; provided that any such sublicense may be made effective retroactively but not prior to the sublicensee’s becoming a Subsidiary; and
(ii) Seller may grant sublicenses with respect to Seller Products in the form of software, in object code and source code form, to its distributors, resellers, OEM customers, VAR customers, VAD customers, systems integrators and other channels of distribution and to its end user customers.Covered Technology
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Samples: Patent Purchase Agreement
License Back to Seller. (a) Purchaser grants back (and agrees to cause its appropriate Subsidiaries to grant back) to Seller and its Subsidiaries the following personal, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid, royalty-free and non-transferable (except as specified in Section 9.12 below) licenses under its and their applicable Intellectual Property Rights, together with the right to sublicense to Third Parties subject to the terms of this agreement, solely within the Seller’s Field of Use:
(i) under its and their Copyrights in and to the Transferred Business Technology, (A) to reproduce and have reproduced the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller, in whole or in part, in order to create or as part of Seller Products, (B) to prepare Improvements or have Improvements prepared for it based upon the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology in order to create Seller Products, (C) to distribute (by any means and using any technology, whether now known or unknown, including without limitation electronic transmission) copies of the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller as part of Seller Products, and (D) to perform (by any means and using any technology, whether now known or unknown, including without limitation electronic transmission) and display the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller, as part of Seller Products;
(ii) under its and their Database Rights in and to the Transferred Business Technology, to develop or have developed Improvements and to extract data from the databases included in the Transferred Business Technology and such Improvements and to re-utilize such data to design, develop, manufacture and have manufactured Seller Products and to sell such Seller Products that incorporate such data, databases and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller;
(iii) under its and their Mask Works in and to the Transferred Business Technology, (A) to develop or have developed Improvements and to reproduce and have reproduced mask works and semiconductor topologies included in the Transferred Business Technology and embodied in Seller Products by optical, electronic or any other means, (B) to import or distribute a product in which any such mask work or semiconductor topology is embodied, and (C) to induce or knowingly to cause a Third Party to do any of the acts described in Sections 3.2(a)(iii)(A) and (B) above; and
(iv) under its and their Trade Secrets, Industrial Designs and other intellectual property rights in and to the Transferred Business Technology, to use the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller to design, develop, to manufacture and have manufactured, offer to sell, sell, support and maintain Seller Products and make Improvements to such Seller Products. For the purpose of this Section 3.2, Transferred Business Technology shall include, without limitation, the software items listed on Schedule 2 to this Agreement.
(b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing licenses granted in Section 3.2(a) above, with respect to software included within the Transferred Business Technology, such licenses include the right to use, modify, and reproduce such software and Improvements thereof made by or for Seller or its Subsidiaries to create Seller Products, in source code and object code form, and to sell and maintain such software and Improvements thereof made by or for Seller or its Subsidiaries, in source code and object code form, as part of Seller Products; provided, however, that, with respect to Purchaser’s software products that are Seller Products and are were commercially released by Seller as of the Closing Date, Seller shall be limited to using no more than ten percent (10%) of the lines of code of any such commercially released software product in any Seller Product sold or maintained by Seller or its Subsidiaries to a Third Party after the Closing Date (it being understood that such restriction shall not apply, however, to Seller’s or its Subsidiaries’ use of any code contained in any Seller Product that was commercially released by Seller as of or prior to the Closing Date, to the extent that Seller desires to continue to sell such Seller Products in a form containing such code or Improvements thereto). For purposes of this Section 3.2(b), a “commercially released” product shall mean a product that has been placed on a Purchaser corporate price list or (if applicable) released by Purchaser to Third Parties for beta testing.
(c) The foregoing licenses in this Section 3.2 include the right to have contract manufacturers and foundries manufacture Seller Products for Seller.
(d) Seller may grant sublicenses within the scope of the licenses granted under Sections 3.2(a) and (b) above as follows:
(i) Seller may grant sublicenses to its Subsidiaries for so long as they remain its Subsidiaries, with no right to grant further sublicenses other than, in the case of a sublicensed Subsidiary, to another Subsidiary of such party; provided that any such sublicense may be made effective retroactively but not prior to the sublicensee’s becoming a Subsidiary; and
(ii) Seller may grant sublicenses with respect to Seller Products in the form of software, in object code and source code form, to its distributors, resellers, OEM customers, VAR customers, VAD customers, systems integrators and other channels of distribution and to its end user customers.
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License Back to Seller. (a) As of the Closing Date, Purchaser hereby grants back (and agrees to cause its appropriate Subsidiaries to grant back) to Seller and its Subsidiaries current and future Subsidiaries, under the following personalPatents and any patent issuing from the Patent Applications, and for the lives thereof, a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, royalty-free and free, perpetual, non-transferable exclusive past release and future license to make, have made, use, purchase, provide, sell, offer for sale, lease, import, export, host, and otherwise distribute any past, present or future technology, software, products, equipment or services of Seller and such Subsidiaries (except as specified in Section 9.12 below) licenses under its including without limitation any past, present or future combinations of the foregoing, collectively “Seller’s Covered Technology”), and their applicable Intellectual Property Rights, together with the right to sublicense practice any method or process. This license extends to Third Parties subject and includes third parties to the terms of this agreement, solely within which Seller or such Subsidiaries provide the Seller’s Field Covered Technology (including, Onstream Confidential without limitation, any customers, suppliers, licensees, distributors, and end-users of Use:
Seller or such Subsidiaries) in connection with their authorized manufacture, having manufactured (iincluding software replication under license), purchase, provision, use, sale, offer for sale, lease, distribution, hosting, exportation, or importation of any of Seller’s Covered Technology. Without limiting the foregoing, the license granted hereunder includes Seller’s and such Subsidiaries’ right to supply Seller’s Covered Technology as components for use in their intended manner in combination with other products and services so long as for any given Patent or patent issuing from the Patent Applications such Seller’s Covered Technology constitutes a material part of the inventions patented under such Patent or patent issuing from the Patent Applications; provided, however, that no license, covenant or other patent rights are being provided to any third party for unlicensed third party components per se. For the life of the Patents and any patent issuing from the Patent Applications, Purchaser (on behalf of itself and any assignees) under its and their Copyrights in and also covenants not to the Transferred Business Technology, rely on any of Seller’s Covered Technology (A) to reproduce and have reproduced the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller, in whole or in part, in order to create or as part of Seller Products, (B) to prepare Improvements or have Improvements prepared for it based upon the works meet any element of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology in order to create Seller Products, (C) to distribute (by any means and using any technology, whether now known or unknown, including without limitation electronic transmission) copies infringement claim of the works of authorship included in Patents or any patent issuing from the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller as part of Seller Products, and (D) to perform (by any means and using any technology, whether now known or unknown, including without limitation electronic transmission) and display the works of authorship included in the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Patent Applications against Seller, as part its Subsidiaries or any third party. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing does not grant Seller Products;
(ii) under its and their Database Rights in and any rights to sublicense the Transferred Business Technology, to develop Patents or have developed Improvements and to extract data any patent issuing from the databases included in the Transferred Business Technology and such Improvements and to re-utilize such data to design, develop, manufacture and have manufactured Seller Products and to sell such Seller Products that incorporate such data, databases and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller;
(iii) under its and their Mask Works in and to the Transferred Business Technology, (A) to develop or have developed Improvements and to reproduce and have reproduced mask works and semiconductor topologies included in the Transferred Business Technology and embodied in Seller Products by optical, electronic or any other means, (B) to import or distribute a product in which any such mask work or semiconductor topology is embodied, and (C) to induce or knowingly to cause a Third Party to do any of the acts described in Sections 3.2(a)(iii)(A) and (B) above; and
(iv) under its and their Trade Secrets, Industrial Designs and other intellectual property rights in and to the Transferred Business Technology, to use the Transferred Business Technology and Improvements thereof prepared by or for Seller to design, develop, to manufacture and have manufactured, offer to sell, sell, support and maintain Seller Products and make Improvements to such Seller Products.
(b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing licenses granted in Section 3.2(a) above, with respect to software included within the Transferred Business Technology, such licenses include the right to use, modify, and reproduce such software and Improvements thereof made by or for Seller or its Subsidiaries to Seller Products, in source code and object code form, and to sell and maintain such software and Improvements thereof made by or for Seller or its Subsidiaries, in source code and object code form, as part of Seller Products; provided, however, that, with respect to Purchaser’s software products that are Seller Products and are commercially released as of the Closing Date, Seller shall be limited to using no more than ten percent (10%) of the lines of code of any such commercially released software product in any Seller Product sold or maintained by Seller or its Subsidiaries to a Third Party after the Closing Date (it being understood that such restriction shall not apply, however, to Patent Applications apart from Seller’s or its Subsidiaries’ use of any code contained in any Seller Product that was commercially released by Seller as of or prior to the Closing Date, to the extent that Seller desires to continue to sell such Seller Products in a form containing such code or Improvements thereto). For purposes of this Section 3.2(b), a “commercially released” product shall mean a product that has been placed on a Purchaser corporate price list or (if applicable) released by Purchaser to Third Parties for beta testing.
(c) The foregoing licenses in this Section 3.2 include the right to have contract manufacturers and foundries manufacture Seller Products for Seller.
(d) Seller may grant sublicenses within the scope of the licenses granted under Sections 3.2(a) and (b) above as follows:
(i) Seller may grant sublicenses to its Subsidiaries for so long as they remain its Subsidiaries, with no right to grant further sublicenses other than, in the case of a sublicensed Subsidiary, to another Subsidiary of such party; provided that any such sublicense may be made effective retroactively but not prior to the sublicensee’s becoming a Subsidiary; and
(ii) Seller may grant sublicenses with respect to Seller Products in the form of software, in object code and source code form, to its distributors, resellers, OEM customers, VAR customers, VAD customers, systems integrators and other channels of distribution and to its end user customers.Covered Technology
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