Ownership of Ideas Copyrights and Patents. (a) You agree that all ideas, discoveries, creations, materials, compounds, manuscripts and properties, innovations, improvements, know-how, inventions, designs, developments, apparatus, techniques, algorithms, software, mask works, methods, and formulae made, developed or improved by you in the Company’s Field of Interest whether or not reduced to practice and whether patentable, copyrightable, protectable as mask works or not, which you may conceive, reduce to practice or develop during the Term (as defined in Section 6) and for a period of one (1) year thereafter, alone or in conjunction with another, or others, and whether at the request or upon the suggestion of the Company, or otherwise, which (i) you develop as a direct result of performing consulting services for the Company under this Agreement and (ii) is not generated in the course of your activities as an employee of the Institution and is not owned by the Institution (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as the “Inventions”), shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and that you shall not publish any of the Inventions without the prior written consent of the Company. You hereby assign to the Company all of your right, title and interest in and to all Inventions. You agree to maintain and furnish to the Company complete and current records of all such Inventions and disclose to the Company in writing any such Inventions. Upon termination of your consulting arrangement with the Company, you shall provide to the Company in writing a full, signed statement of all Inventions in which you participated prior to termination of the consulting arrangement. 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.
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Samples: T2 Biosystems, Inc., T2 Biosystems, Inc., T2 Biosystems, Inc.
Ownership of Ideas Copyrights and Patents. (a) You agree that all ideas, discoveries, creations, materials, compounds, manuscripts and properties, innovations, improvements, know-how, inventions, designs, developments, apparatus, techniques, algorithms, software, mask works, methods, and formulae made, developed or improved by you (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as "the inventions") which may be used in the business of the Company’s Field of Interest whether or not reduced to practice and , whether patentable, copyrightable, protectable as mask works copyrightable or not, which you may conceive, reduce to practice conceive or develop during your term of employment with the Term (as defined in Section 6) and for a period of one (1) year thereafterCompany, alone or in conjunction with another, or others, whether during or out of regular business hours, and whether at the request request, or upon the suggestion of the Company, or otherwise, which (i) you develop as a direct result of performing consulting services for the Company under this Agreement and (ii) is not generated in the course of your activities as an employee of the Institution and is not owned by the Institution (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as the “Inventions”), shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and that you shall not publish any of the Inventions inventions without the prior written consent of the Company. You hereby assign to the Company all of your right, title and interest in and to all Inventions. You agree to maintain and furnish to the Company complete and current records of all such Inventions and disclose to the Company in writing any such Inventions. Upon termination of your consulting arrangement with the Company, you shall provide to the Company in writing a full, signed statement of all Inventions in which you participated prior to termination of the consulting arrangementforegoing. You further represent and agree that to the best of your knowledge and belief none of the Inventions 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.
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Samples: Ibis Technology Corp, Sight Resource Corp, Ibis Technology Corp
Ownership of Ideas Copyrights and Patents. (a) You agree that all ideas, discoveries, creations, materials, compounds, manuscripts and properties, innovations, improvements, know-how, inventions, designs, developments, apparatus, techniques, algorithms, software, mask works, methods, and formulae made, developed or improved by you in the Company’s Field of Interest whether or not reduced to practice and whether patentable, copyrightable, protectable as mask works or not, which you may conceive, reduce to practice or develop during the Term (as defined in Section 6) and for a period of one (1) year thereafter, alone or in conjunction with another, or others, and whether at the request or upon the suggestion of the Company, or otherwise, which (i) you develop as a direct result of performing consulting services for the Company under this Agreement and (ii) is not generated in the course of your activities as an employee of the Institution and is not owned by the Institution (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as the “Inventions”), shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and that you shall not publish any of the Inventions without the prior written consent of the Company. You hereby assign to the Company all of your right, title and interest in and to all Inventions. You agree to maintain and furnish to the Company complete and current records of all such Inventions and disclose to the Company in writing any such Inventions. Upon termination of your consulting arrangement with the Company, you shall provide to the Company in writing a full, signed statement of all Inventions in which you participated prior to termination of the consulting arrangement. 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.
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Samples: T2 Biosystems, Inc., T2 Biosystems, Inc.
Ownership of Ideas Copyrights and Patents. (a) You agree that all Property of the Company. All ideas, discoveries, creations, materials, compounds, manuscripts and properties, innovations, improvements, know-how, inventions, designs, developments, apparatus, techniques, algorithms, software, mask works, methods, biological processes, cell lines, laboratory notebooks and formulae made(collectively, developed or improved by you the "Inventions") which may be used in the Company’s Field current or planned business of Interest whether the Company or not reduced which in any way relates to practice and such business, whether patentable, copyrightable, protectable as mask works copyrightable or not, which you may conceive, reduce to practice or develop during the Term while you are employed hereunder (as defined in Section 6) and and, if based on or related to any Confidential Information, within two years after termination of such employment for a period of one (1) year thereafterany reason or for no reason), alone or in conjunction with another, another or others, whether during or out of regular business hours, whether or not on the Company's premises or with the use of its equipment, and whether at the request or upon the suggestion of the Company, Company or otherwise, which (i) you develop as a direct result of performing consulting services for the Company under this Agreement and (ii) is not generated in the course of your activities as an employee of the Institution and is not owned by the Institution (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as the “Inventions”), shall will be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and that you shall will not publish any of the Inventions without the prior written consent of the Company. Without limiting the foregoing, you also acknowledge that all original works of authorship which are made by you (solely or jointly with others) within the scope of your employment or which relate to the business of the Company and which are protectable by copyright are "works made for hire" pursuant to the United States Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. Section 101). You will promptly disclose to the Company all of the foregoing and you hereby assign to the Company all of your right, title and interest in and to all Inventions. You agree to maintain and furnish to the Company complete and current records of all such Inventions and disclose to the Company in writing any such Inventions. Upon termination of your consulting arrangement with the Company, you shall provide to the Company in writing a full, signed statement of all Inventions in which you participated prior to termination of the consulting arrangementforegoing. You further represent and agree that that, to the best of your knowledge and belief 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.
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Ownership of Ideas Copyrights and Patents. (a) You agree 9.1 Consultant agrees that all ideas, discoveries, creations, materials, compounds, manuscripts and properties, innovations, improvements, know-how, inventions, designs, developments, apparatus, techniques, algorithms, software, mask works, methods, and formulae made, developed or improved by you Consultant in the Company’s Field of Interest Interest, as defined in Section 10.1, whether or not reduced to practice and whether patentable, copyrightable, protectable as mask works or not, which you Consultant may conceive, reduce to practice or develop during the Term (as defined in Section 6) and for a period of one (1) year thereafter, alone or in conjunction with another, or others, and whether at the request or upon the suggestion of the Company, or otherwise, which (i) you develop Consultant develops as a direct result of performing consulting services for the Company under this Agreement and (ii) is not generated in the course of your activities as an employee of the Institution and is not owned by the Institution (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as the “Inventions”), shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and that you Consultant shall not publish any of the Inventions without the prior written consent of the Company. You Consultant hereby assign assigns to the Company all of your any right, title and and/or interest in and to all Inventions. You agree Consultant agrees to maintain and furnish to the Company complete and current records of all such Inventions and disclose to the Company in writing any such Inventions. Upon termination of your consulting arrangement with the Companythis Agreement, you Consultant shall provide to the Company in writing a full, signed statement of all Inventions in which you Consultant participated prior to termination of the consulting arrangementthis Agreement. You Consultant further represent represents and agree agrees that to the best of your his 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 Consultant will use your best efforts to prevent any such violation.
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Samples: Consulting Agreement (Loton, Corp)
Ownership of Ideas Copyrights and Patents. (a) You agree that all ideas, discoveries, creations, materials, compounds, manuscripts and properties, innovations, improvements, know-how, inventions, designs, developments, apparatus, techniques, algorithms, software, mask works, methods, and formulae made, developed or improved by you in the Company’s Field Fields of Interest (as defined below) whether or not reduced to practice and whether patentable, copyrightable, protectable as mask works or not, which you may conceive, reduce to practice or develop during the Term (as defined in Section 6) and for a period of one (1) year thereafter, alone or in conjunction with another, or others, and whether at the request or upon the suggestion of the Company, or otherwise, which (i) you develop as a direct result of performing consulting services for the Company under this Agreement and (ii) is not generated in the course of your activities as an employee of the Institution and is not owned by the Institution (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as "the “Inventions”"), shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and that you shall not publish or publicly disclose any of the Inventions without the prior written consent of the Company. You agree to assign and hereby assign to the Company all of your right, title and interest in and to all Inventionsof the foregoing. You agree to maintain and furnish to the Company complete and current records of all such Inventions and disclose to the Company in writing any such Inventions. Upon termination of your consulting arrangement with the Company, you shall provide to the Company in writing a full, signed statement of all Inventions in which you participated prior to termination of the consulting arrangement. 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.
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Ownership of Ideas Copyrights and Patents. (a) You agree that all All ideas, discoveries, creations, materials, compounds, manuscripts and properties, innovations, improvements, know-howknowhow, inventions, designs, developments, apparatus, techniques, algorithms, software, mask works, methods, and formulae made(collectively, developed or improved by you the “Inventions”) which may be used in the Company’s Field current or planned business of Interest whether the Company or not reduced which in any way relates to practice and such business, whether patentable, copyrightable, protectable as mask works copyrightable or not, which you You may conceive, reduce to practice or develop during the Term while You are employed hereunder (as defined in Section 6) and and, if based on or related to any Confidential Information, within two years after termination of such employment for a period of one (1) year thereafterany reason or for no reason), alone or in conjunction with another, another or others, whether during or out of regular business hours, whether or not on the Company’s premises or with the use of its equipment, and whether at the request or upon the suggestion of the Company, Company or otherwise, which (i) you develop as a direct result of performing consulting services for the Company under this Agreement and (ii) is not generated in the course of your activities as an employee of the Institution and is not owned by the Institution (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as the “Inventions”), shall will be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and that you shall You will not publish any of the Inventions without the prior written consent of the Company. Without limiting the foregoing, you also acknowledge that all original works of authorship which are made by you (solely or jointly with others) within the scope of your employment or which relate to the business of the Company and which are protectable by copyright are “works made for hire” pursuant to the United States Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. Section 101). You hereby assign to the Company all of your right, title and interest in and to all Inventions. You agree to maintain and furnish to the Company complete and current records of all such Inventions and disclose to the Company in writing any such Inventions. Upon termination of your consulting arrangement with the Company, you shall provide to the Company in writing a full, signed statement of all Inventions in which you participated prior to termination of the consulting arrangementforegoing. You further represent and agree that that, to the best of your knowledge and belief 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 You will use your best efforts to prevent any such violation.
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Ownership of Ideas Copyrights and Patents. (a) You agree that all ideas, discoveries, creations, materials, compounds, manuscripts and properties, innovations, improvements, know-how, inventions, designs, developments, apparatus, techniques, algorithms, software, mask works, methods, and formulae made, developed or improved by you (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as "the inventions") which may be used in the business of the Company’s Field of Interest whether or not reduced to practice and , whether patentable, copyrightable, protectable as mask works copyrightable or not, which you may conceive, reduce to practice conceive or develop during your term of employment with the Term (as defined in Section 6) and for a period of one (1) year thereafterCompany, alone or in conjunction with another, or others, whether during or out of regular business hours, and whether at the request request, or upon the suggestion of the Company, or otherwise, which (i) you develop as a direct result of performing consulting services for the Company under this Agreement and (ii) is not generated in the course of your activities as an employee of the Institution and is not owned by the Institution (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as the “Inventions”), shall be the sole and exclusive property -------- 1/ The phrase, "trade secrets," shall be given its broadest interpretation under Delaware law and shall include, but not be limited to, information, including any formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique or process, that: (i) derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use, and (ii) is the subject of reasonable efforts, under the circumstances, to maintain its secrecy. of the Company, and that you shall not publish any of the Inventions inventions without the prior written consent of the Company. You hereby assign to the Company all of your right, title and interest in and to all Inventions. You agree to maintain and furnish to the Company complete and current records of all such Inventions and disclose to the Company in writing any such Inventions. Upon termination of your consulting arrangement with the Company, you shall provide to the Company in writing a full, signed statement of all Inventions in which you participated prior to termination of the consulting arrangementforegoing. You further represent and agree that to the best of your knowledge and belief none of the Inventions 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 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.
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Samples: Sight Resource Corp
Ownership of Ideas Copyrights and Patents. (a) You agree that all ideas, ------------------------------------------ discoveries, creations, materials, compounds, manuscripts and properties, innovations, improvements, know-how, inventions, designs, developments, apparatus, techniques, algorithms, software, mask works, methods, and formulae made, developed or improved by you (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as "the inventions") which may be used in the business of the Company’s Field of Interest whether or not reduced to practice and , whether patentable, copyrightable, protectable as mask works copyrightable or not, which you may conceive, reduce to practice conceive or develop during your term of employment with the Term (as defined in Section 6) and for a period of one (1) year thereafterCompany, alone or in conjunction with another, or others, whether during or out of regular business hours, and whether at the request request, or upon the suggestion of the Company, or otherwise, which (i) you develop as a direct result of performing consulting services for the Company under this Agreement and (ii) is not generated in the course of your activities as an employee of the Institution and is not owned by the Institution (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as the “Inventions”), shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and that you shall not publish any of the Inventions inventions without the prior written consent of the Company. You hereby assign to the Company all of your right, title and interest in and to all Inventions. You agree to maintain and furnish to the Company complete and current records of all such Inventions and disclose to the Company in writing any such Inventions. Upon termination of your consulting arrangement with the Company, you shall provide to the Company in writing a full, signed statement of all Inventions in which you participated prior to termination of the consulting arrangementforegoing. You further represent and agree that to the best of your knowledge and belief none of the Inventions 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.
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Samples: Sight Resource Corp