Common use of Ownership of Ideas, Inventions and Other Improvements Clause in Contracts

Ownership of Ideas, Inventions and Other Improvements. 1.1 All ideas, inventions, trademarks, proprietary information, know-how, processes, designs, systems, techniques and other developments or improvements conceived by the Employee, alone or with others, whether or not during working hours, which are within the scope of the work, business operations, or projects of the Company, during the Employee’s employment with the Company, shall be the exclusive property of the Company. In accordance with Section 2872 of the California Employee Patent Act, West’s Cal. Lab. Code Section 2870 et. seq., if applicable, Employee is hereby advised that this Article 1.1 does not apply to any invention, new development or method (and all copies and tangible embodiments thereof) made solely by Employee for which no equipment, facility, material, Confidential Information (as defined below) or intellectual property of the Company or any of its affiliates was used and which was developed entirely on Employee’s own time; provided, however, that Article 1.1 shall apply if the invention, new development or method (i) relates at the time of its conception or reduction to practice to the Company’s or any of its affiliates’ business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research and development, or (ii) results from any work performed by Employee for the Company or any of its affiliates.