License to Use the Licensed Marks. 2.3.1 The Operator hereby grants the Affiliate a non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable license, for the term of this Agreement, to use any of the Licensed Marks solely for the Approved Marketing (“License”). 2.3.2 This License cannot be sub-licensed, assigned, sold or otherwise transferred by the Affiliate without the Operator’s prior written approval. The Affiliate’s right to use the Licensed Marks is limited to and arises only out of the License. The Operator has the right to terminate the License at any time by providing written or electronic notification to the Affiliate. The License will be terminated automatically upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason. 2.3.3 The Affiliate shall not assert the invalidity or unenforceability, or otherwise contest the ownership of the Licensed Marks, in any action or proceeding of whatever nature, and shall not take any action that may prejudice the Operator and its Licensed Marks or the Company IP as such term is defined below, the WHAP or any of the Sites and not to do any act or omission which may invalidate or weaken the validity of the Licensed Marks or the Company IP or diminish the Company IP or the Licensed Marks’ associated goodwill. 2.3.4 The Affiliate shall not register or attempt to register any logo, trade mark, trade name, insignia, design, domain name or similar identifying material that contain the Company IP or are confusingly similar to or are comprised of any of the Licensed Marks or Company IP. 2.3.5 The Affiliate shall not register or attempt to register and/or open domain names or social media pages or accounts (on any platform) which comprise and/or are similar or confusingly similar to the Company IP or Sites including the Operator’s/Related Entities’ names, or any other associated brands or companies, including (for the avoidance of doubt) any misspellings of the domain names of any of the Sites (commonly known as ‘typo-squatting), or any phonetics of any of the Sites. 2.3.6 In the event that the Affiliate does register any domain name referred to in clause 2.3.5, it will on demand by the Operator, immediately cease its use of any such domain name and transfer any such domain name to the Operator or to a third party elected by the Operator. 2.3.7 In the event the Affiliate does register any domain name referred to in clause 2.3.5, the Operator reserves the right to withhold payments due to the Affiliate until such time as the provisions of clause 2.3.8 The Affiliate shall not place, purchase or register ‘pre-click’ bids, keywords, search terms or any other identifiers for use in any search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service or other search or referral service which are identical, are similar or otherwise resemble any of the Company IP including without limitation the Licensed Marks. This includes, and is not limited to, any words containing, or derived from, the names of the Sites or the brands used on them, and any typo errors or phonetics of them. 2.3.9 The Affiliate shall immediately cease to use all Company IP including without limitation the Licensed Marks upon being notified to do so by the Operator (either by electronic or written notification) or on any termination of this Agreement.
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Samples: Affiliate Agreement, Affiliate Agreement, Affiliate Agreement
License to Use the Licensed Marks. 2.3.1 The Operator hereby grants the Affiliate a non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable license, for the term of this Agreement, to use any of the Licensed Marks solely for the Approved Marketing (“License”).
2.3.2 This License cannot be sub-licensed, assigned, sold or otherwise transferred by the Affiliate without the Operator’s prior written approval. The Affiliate’s right to use the Licensed Marks is limited to and arises only out of the License. The Operator has the right to terminate the License at any time by providing written or electronic notification to the Affiliate. The License will be terminated automatically upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason.
2.3.3 The Affiliate shall not assert the invalidity or unenforceability, or otherwise contest the ownership of the Licensed Marks, in any action or proceeding of whatever nature, and shall not take any action that may prejudice the Operator and its Licensed Marks or the Company IP as such term is defined below, the WHAP or any of the Sites and not to do any act or omission which may invalidate or weaken the validity of the Licensed Marks or the Company IP or diminish the Company IP or the Licensed Marks’ associated goodwill.
2.3.4 The Affiliate shall not register or attempt to register any logo, trade marktrademark, trade name, insignia, design, domain name or similar identifying material that contain the Company IP or are confusingly similar to or are comprised of any of the Licensed Marks or Company IP.
2.3.5 The Affiliate shall not register or attempt to register and/or open domain names or social media pages or accounts (on any platform) which comprise and/or are similar or confusingly similar to the Company IP or Sites including the Operator’s/Related Entities’ names, or any other associated brands or companies, including (for the avoidance of doubt) any misspellings of the domain names of any of the Sites (commonly known as ‘typo-squatting), or any phonetics of any of the Sites.
2.3.6 In the event that the Affiliate does register any domain name referred to in clause 2.3.5, it will on demand by the Operator, immediately cease its use of any such domain name and transfer any such domain name to the Operator or to a third party elected by the Operator.
2.3.7 In the event the Affiliate does register any domain name referred to in clause 2.3.5, the Operator reserves the right to withhold payments due to the Affiliate until such time as the provisions of clauseclause 2.3.6 have been met to the Operator’s satisfaction. Should the Affiliate fail to comply within a reasonable time of the Operator’s request to do so, or fail altogether to comply with the provisions of clause 2.3.6 and/or the Operator’s instructions in this regard, without prejudice to any of its rights pursuant to Relevant Law, any outstanding payments due from the Operator to the Affiliate shall be forfeited and the Operator may terminate this Agreement with immediate effect.
2.3.8 The Affiliate shall not place, purchase or register ‘pre-click’ bids, keywords, search terms or any other identifiers for use in any search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service or other search or referral service which are identical, are similar or otherwise resemble any of the Company IP including without limitation the Licensed Marks. This includes, and is not limited to, any words containing, or derived from, the names of the Sites or the brands used on them, and any typo errors or phonetics of them.
2.3.9 The Affiliate shall immediately cease to use all Company IP including without limitation the Licensed Marks upon being notified to do so by the Operator (either by electronic or written notification) or on any termination of this Agreement.
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Samples: Affiliate Agreement
License to Use the Licensed Marks. 2.3.1 The Operator hereby grants the Affiliate a non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable license, for the term of this Agreement, to use any of the Licensed Marks solely for the Approved Marketing (“License”).
2.3.2 This License cannot be sub-licensed, assigned, sold or otherwise transferred by the Affiliate without the Operator’s prior written approval. The Affiliate’s right to use the Licensed Marks is limited to and arises only out of the License. The Operator has the right to terminate the License at any time by providing written or electronic notification to the Affiliate. The License will be terminated automatically upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason.
2.3.3 The Affiliate shall not assert the invalidity or unenforceability, or otherwise contest the ownership of the Licensed Marks, in any action or proceeding of whatever nature, and shall not take any action that may prejudice the Operator and its Licensed Marks or the Company IP as such term is defined below, the WHAP or any of the Sites and not to do any act or omission which may invalidate or weaken the validity of the Licensed Marks or the Company IP or diminish the Company IP or the Licensed Marks’ associated goodwill.
2.3.4 The Affiliate shall not register or attempt to register any logo, trade mark, trade name, insignia, design, domain name or similar identifying material that contain the Company IP or are confusingly similar to or are comprised of any of the Licensed Marks or Company IP.
2.3.5 The Affiliate shall not register or attempt to register and/or open domain names or social media pages or accounts (on any platform) which comprise and/or are similar or confusingly similar to the Company IP or Sites including the Operator’s/Related Entities’ names, or any other associated brands or companies, including (for the avoidance of doubt) any misspellings of the domain names of any of the Sites (commonly known as ‘typo-squatting), or any phonetics of any of the Sites.
2.3.6 In the event that the Affiliate does register any domain name referred to in clause 2.3.5, it will on demand by the Operator, immediately cease its use of any such domain name and transfer any such domain name to the Operator or to a third party elected by the Operator.
2.3.7 In the event the Affiliate does register any domain name referred to in clause 2.3.5, the Operator reserves the right to withhold payments due to the Affiliate until such time as the provisions of clause
2.3.8 The Affiliate shall not place, purchase or register ‘pre-click’ bids, keywords, search terms or any other identifiers for use in any search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service or other search or referral service which are identical, are similar or otherwise resemble any of the Company IP including without limitation the Licensed Marks. This includes, and is not limited to, any words containing, or derived from, the names of the Sites or the brands used on them, and any typo errors or phonetics of them.
2.3.9 The Affiliate shall immediately cease to use all Company IP including without limitation the Licensed Marks upon being notified to do so by the Operator (either by electronic or written notification) or on any termination of this Agreement.
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Samples: Affiliate Agreement