Common use of Obtaining Letters Patent and Copyright Registrations Clause in Contracts

Obtaining Letters Patent and Copyright Registrations. You agree that your obligation to assist the Company to obtain United States or foreign letters patent and copyright registrations covering inventions and original works of authorship assigned hereunder to the Company shall continue beyond the termination of your employment, but the Company shall compensate you at a reasonable rate for time actually spent by you at the Company’s request on such assistance. If the Company is unable because of your mental or physical incapacity or for any other reason to secure your signature (after making a good faith and reasonable attempt to do so) to apply for or to pursue any application for any United States or foreign letters patent or copyright registrations covering inventions or original works of authorship assigned to the Company as above, then you hereby irrevocably designate and appoint the Company and its duly authorized officers and agents as your agent and attorney in fact, to act for and in your behalf and stead, to execute and further the prosecution and issuance of letters patent or copyright registrations thereon with the same legal force and effect as if executed by you. You hereby waive and quitclaim to the Company any and all claims, of any nature whatsoever, which you now or may hereafter have for infringement of any patents or copyright resulting from any such application for letters patent or copyright registration assigned hereunder to the Company.

Obtaining Letters Patent and Copyright Registrations. You agree that your obligation to assist the Company to obtain United States or foreign letters patent and copyright registrations covering inventions and original works of authorship assigned hereunder to the Company shall continue beyond the termination of your employment, but the Company shall compensate you at a reasonable rate for time actually spent by you at the Company’s request on such assistance. If the Company is unable because of your mental or physical incapacity or for any other reason to secure your signature (after making a good faith and reasonable attempt to do so) to apply for or to pursue any application for any United States or foreign letters patent or copyright registrations covering inventions or original works of authorship assigned to the Company as above, then than you hereby irrevocably designate and appoint the Company and its duly authorized officers and agents as your agent and attorney in fact, to act for and in your behalf and stead, to execute and further the prosecution and issuance of letters patent or copyright registrations thereon with the same legal force and effect as if executed by you. You hereby waive and quitclaim to the Company any and all claims, of any nature whatsoever, which you now or may hereafter have for infringement of any patents or copyright resulting from any such application for letters patent or copyright registration assigned hereunder to the Company.