Licensing of Intellectual Property. DISTRICT acknowledges that CONTRACTOR is in the business of providing information technology consulting services and has accumulated expertise in this field and agrees that CONTRACTOR will retain all right, title, and interest in and to all CONTRACTOR Materials. "CONTRACTOR Materials" means all discoveries, concepts, inventions and ideas, whether or not registrable under patent, copyright or similar statutes, including, without limitation, patents, copyrights , trademarks, trade secrets, processes, methods, formulae, techniques, tools, solutions, programs, data, and documentation, and related modifications, improvements, and know-how, that CONTRACTOR, alone, or jointly with others, its agents or employees, conceives, makes, develops, acquires, or obtains knowledge of at any time before, after, or during the term of this Agreement without breach of CONTRACTOR’s duty of confidentiality to DISTRICT. To the extent CONTRACTOR Materials are included in any Documents & Data, CONTRACTOR will grant DISTRICT a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, personal, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, execute, reproduce, display, perform, distribute internally, and prepare for internal use derivative works, based upon, such CONTRACTOR Materials, in each case solely in conjunction with the Documents & Data delivered hereunder and solely for DISTRICT's internal use. Any interest in the Documents & Data granted hereunder by CONTRACTOR to DISTRICT shall be contingent upon and to the extent of payment by DISTRICT of the fees, charges and expenses invoiced by CONTRACTOR pursuant to this Agreement. .
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Samples: Independent Contractor Services Agreement, Independent Contractor Services Agreement, Independent Contractor Services Agreement
