Ownership and Rights to Inventions and Technology Sample Clauses

Ownership and Rights to Inventions and Technology. All inventions, technology and information, whether patentable or not (other than those described in Section 2.16(a), which shall be owned by Hollister-Stier pursuant to Section 2.16(a)), conceived, reduced to xxxxxxxx xx xxxated by either party and/or its agents during the performance of this Agreement ("Program Technology"), shall be owned by the Client; provided, however, to the extent that any such invention relates to production processes not related to the manufacture of Product, the Client shall grant and hereby grants to Hollister-Stier a royalty-free, non-exclusive, world-wide, irrevocabxx xxxxxxx xx xractice such Program Technology in facilities owned, operated, licensed, rented or otherwise controlled by Hollister-Stier. Client shall be responsible for the costs of filing, xxxxxxxxxxx xnd maintenance for patents and patent applications on Program Technology and shall have full control over such filing, provided that the decision to proceed with any such filing shall be solely at the discretion of the Client.
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Ownership and Rights to Inventions and Technology. Ownership of all inventions, technology and information, whether patentable or not (other than those described in Section 14.1, and 14.2 which shall be owned by Catalytica and Customer, respectively), shall be as follows: owned by Customer, if conceived, reduced to practice or created solely by Customer and/or its agents during the performance of this Agreement; or (b) owned by Catalytica, if conceived, reduced to practice or created solely by Catalytica and/or its agents during the performance of this Agreement; provided, however, Catalytica shall grant and hereby grants to Customer a royalty-free, non-exclusive, world-wide, irrevocable license to practice any such Catalytica-owned technology to manufacture the Product in Customer-owned or other facilities. If Catalytica's efforts under this Agreement result in inventions which are jointly owned by Catalytica and Customer because employees or agents for each of Catalytica and Customer make inventive contributions thereto, that is employees or agents of both Parties would be or are properly named as co-inventors under the laws of the United States on any patent application claiming such inventions, then each Party shall have full rights to exploit such jointly owned inventions for its own commercial purposes without any obligation to the other Party. Catalytica shall be responsible for the costs of filing, prosecution and maintenance for patents and patent applications on Catalytica's owned technology and inventions and the Parties shall share equally the patenting costs of any jointly owned inventions. In this regard, any decision to file for patent coverage on jointly owned inventions, shall be mutually agreed upon, and the Parties will select a mutually acceptable patent counsel to file and prosecute applications based on such joint inventions. ARTICLE 15 FORCE MAJEURE
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Ownership and Rights to Inventions and Technology. All ------------------------------------------------- inventions, technology and information, whether patentable or not (other than those described in Section 16.1) conceived, reduced to practice or created solely by Catalytica and/or its agents during the performance of this Agreement shall be owned by Catalytica; provided, however, that Catalytica shall attempt without compromising its other obligations hereunder to minimize the use of any such Catalytica-owned technology in the manufacture of the Product. [* *]. All inventions, technology and information, whether patentable or not (other than those described in Section 16.1), conceived, reduced to practice or created solely by Customer and/or its agents during the performance of this Agreement shall be owned by Customer. If the Parties' efforts under this Agreement result in inventions which are jointly owned by Catalytica and Customer because employees or agents for each of Catalytica and Customer make inventive contributions thereto, that is employees or agents of both Parties would be or are properly named as co-inventors under the laws of the United States on any patent application claiming such inventions, then each Party shall have full rights to exploit such jointly owned inventions for its own commercial purposes without any obligation to the other Party. Each Party shall be responsible for the costs of filing, prosecution and maintenance for patents and patent applications on its owned technology and inventions and the Parties shall share equally the patenting costs of any jointly owned inventions. In this regard, any decision to file for patent coverage on jointly owned inventions, shall be mutually agreed upon, and the Parties will select a mutually acceptable patent counsel to file and prosecute applications based on such joint inventions.
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Ownership and Rights to Inventions and Technology. All inventions, technology and information (other than those described in Sections 5.1 and 5.3 above), whether or not patentable, that are conceived, reduced to practice or created solely by *** and/or its agents during the performance of ***’s obligations under this Agreement:
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  • Patents and Inventions 13.1 BOARD shall have the right to file and prosecute any patent application and maintain any patent that may issue therefrom within the PATENT RIGHTS, and LICENSEE shall pay BOARD's expenses relating to filing and prosecuting of such patent applications and maintaining such patents, unless LICENSEE elects not to pay such expenses pursuant to LICENSEE's rights under Paragraph 13.5. In addition, in the event that LICENSEE desires that BOARD file a patent application on any invention arising out of or in connection with the RESEARCH PROGRAM and BOARD elects to do so, BOARD shall have the right to file and prosecute such patent application and maintain any patent that may issue therefrom, and LICENSEE shall pay BOARD's expenses relating to filing and prosecuting of such patent applications and maintaining such patents, unless LICENSEE elects not to pay such expenses pursuant to LICENSEE's rights under Paragraph 13.5. LICENSEE shall pay BOARD's expenses relating to filing and prosecuting of such patent applications and maintaining such patents within thirty (30) days after receipt of BOARD's written invoice. Subject to the rights and license granted to LICENSEE pursuant to Article IV of this LICENSE AGREEMENT, BOARD shall own all right, title and interest in and to any patent applications, and any patents that may issue therefrom, within the PATENT RIGHTS or that disclose inventions arising out of or in connection with the RESEARCH PROGRAM made solely by employees of BOARD and jointly by employees of BOARD and LICENSEE. Such patent applications and patents issuing therefrom shall be deemed to be patent applications and patents within the PATENT RIGHTS.

  • Intellectual Property Rights and Confidentiality Clauses 3.1 Party A shall have exclusive and proprietary ownership, rights and interests in any and all intellectual properties arising out of or created during the performance of this Agreement, including but not limited to copyrights, patents, patent applications, software, technical secrets, trade secrets and others. Party B shall execute all appropriate documents, take all appropriate actions, submit all filings and/or applications, render all appropriate assistance and otherwise conduct whatever is necessary as deemed by Party A at its sole discretion for the purposes of vesting any ownership, right or interest of any such intellectual property rights in Party A, and/or perfecting the protections for any such intellectual property rights in Party A.

  • Inventions and Proprietary Information Prohibition on Third Party Information A. Proprietary Information Agreement. Executive acknowledges that he has signed and remains bound by the terms of the Company’s Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit B (“Proprietary Information Agreement”).

  • Ownership of Ideas Copyrights and Patents You agree that all ideas, discoveries, creations, manuscripts and properties, innovations, improvements, know-how, inventions, developments, apparatus, techniques, methods, and formulae (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as "the inventions") which may be used in the business of the Company, whether patentable, copyrightable or not, which you may conceive or develop during your term of employment with the Company, alone or in conjunction with another, or others, whether during or out of regular business hours, and whether at the request, or upon the suggestion of the Company, or otherwise, shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and that you shall not publish any of the inventions without the prior consent of the Company. You hereby assign to the Company all of your right, title and interest in and to all of the foregoing. You further represent and agree that to the best of your knowledge and belief none of the inventions will violate or infringe upon any right, patent, copyright, trademark or right of privacy, or constitute libel or slander against or violate any other rights of any person, firm or corporation, and that you will use your best efforts to prevent any such violation. At any time during or after your term of employment with the Company, you agree that you will fully cooperate with the Company, its attorneys and agents, in the preparation and filing of all papers and other documents as may be required to perfect the Company's rights in and to any of such inventions, including, but not limited to, joining in any proceeding to obtain letters patent, copyrights, trademarks or other legal rights of the United States and of any and all other countries on such inventions, provided that the Company will bear the expense of such proceedings, and that any patent or other legal right so issued to you, personally, shall be assigned by you to the Company without charge by you.

  • Proprietary Information and Inventions Employee understands and acknowledges that:

  • Background Technology List here prior contracts to assign Inventions that are now in existence between any other person or entity and you. [ ] List here previous Inventions which you desire to have specifically excluded from the operation of this Agreement. Continue on reverse side if necessary.

  • Inventions and Patents 6.1 The Executive agrees that all processes, technologies and inventions (collectively, "Inventions"), including new contributions, improvements, ideas and discoveries, whether patentable or not, conceived, developed, invented or made by him during the Term shall belong to the Company, provided that such Inventions grew out of the Executive's work with the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, are related in any manner to the business (commercial or experimental) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or are conceived or made on the Company's time or with the use of the Company's facilities or materials. The Executive shall further: (a) promptly disclose such Inventions to the Company; (b) assign to the Company, without additional compensation, all patent and other rights to such Inventions for the United States and foreign countries; (c) sign all papers necessary to carry out the foregoing; and (d) give testimony in support of the Executive's inventorship.

  • 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.

  • Intellectual Property, Inventions and Patents Executive acknowledges that all discoveries, concepts, ideas, inventions, innovations, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, drawings, reports, patent applications, copyrightable work and mask work (whether or not including any confidential information) and all registrations or applications related thereto, all other proprietary information and all similar or related information (whether or not patentable) which relate to Parent’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ actual or anticipated business, research and development or existing or future products or services and which are conceived, developed or made by Executive (whether alone or jointly with others) while employed by the Company and its Subsidiaries, whether before or after the date of this Agreement (“Work Product”), belong to Parent, the Company or such Subsidiary. Executive shall promptly disclose such Work Product to the Board and, at the Company’s expense, perform all actions reasonably requested by the Board (whether during or after the Employment Period) to establish and confirm such ownership (including, without limitation, assignments, consents, powers of attorney and other instruments).

  • Ownership of Inventions The Executive acknowledges and agrees that all Company Inventions (including all intellectual property rights arising therein or thereto, all rights of priority relating to patents, and all claims for past, present and future infringement, misappropriation relating thereto), and all Confidential Information, hereby are and shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company (collectively, the “Company IP”). The Executive further acknowledges and agrees that any rights arising in the Executive in any Invention Invented by the Executive, whether alone or jointly with others, during the twelve (12) months following the Termination Date and relating in any way to work performed by the Executive for any member of the Company Group during the Executive’s employment with or service for any member of the Company Group (“Post-employment Inventions”), shall hereby be deemed to be Company Inventions and the sole and exclusive property of the Company; provided, however, that the Board (excluding the Executive) in its sole discretion may elect to compensate the Executive for any Post-employment Inventions. For consideration acknowledged and received, the Executive hereby irrevocably assigns, conveys and sets over to the Company all of the Executive’s right, title and interest in and to all Company IP. The Executive acknowledges and agrees that the compensation received by the Executive for employment or services provided to the Company is adequate consideration for the foregoing assignment. The Executive further agrees to disclose in writing to the Board any Company Inventions (including, without limitation, all Post-employment Inventions), promptly following their conception or reduction to practice. Such disclosure shall be sufficiently complete in technical detail and appropriately illustrated by sketch or diagram to convey to one skilled in the art of which the Company Invention pertains, a clear understanding of the nature, purpose, operations, and other characteristics of the Company Invention. The Executive agrees to execute and deliver such deeds of assignment or other documents of conveyance and transfer as the Company may request to confirm in the Company or its designee the ownership of the Company Inventions, without compensation beyond that provided in this Agreement. The Executive further agrees, upon the request of the Company and at its expense, that the Executive will execute any other instrument and document necessary or desirable in applying for and obtaining patents in the United States and in any foreign country with respect to any Company Invention. The Executive further agrees, whether or not the Executive is then an employee or other service provider of any member of the Company Group, upon request of the Company, to provide reasonable assistance, at the Company’s sole expense, with respect to the perfection, recordation or other documentation of the assignment of Company IP hereunder, and the enforcement of the Company’s rights in any Company IP, and to cooperate to the extent and in the manner reasonably requested by the Company, subject to the Executive’s then schedule, in any litigation or other claim or proceeding (including, without limitation, the prosecution or defense of any claim involving a patent) involving any Company IP covered by this Agreement, with compensation at the Executive’s customary hourly rate, together with all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Executive in satisfying the requirements of this Section 4.12 shall be paid by the Company or its designee. The Executive shall not, on or after the date of this Agreement, directly or indirectly challenge the validity or enforceability of the Company’s ownership of, or rights with respect to, any Company IP, including, without limitation, any patent issued on, or patent application filed in respect of, any Company Invention.

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