Ownership of Inventions. Inventorship of inventions conceived or reduced to practice in the course of activities performed under or contemplated by this Agreement shall be determined by application of U.S. patent Laws pertaining to inventorship. If such inventions are jointly invented by one or more employees, consultants or contractors of each Party, such inventions shall be jointly owned by the Parties (each such invention, a “Joint Invention”), and if one or more claims included in an issued Patent or pending Patent application which is filed in a patent office in the Territory claim such Joint Invention, such issued Patent or such pending Patent application shall be jointly owned by the Parties (each such patent application or patent, a “Joint Patent”). If such an invention is solely invented by an employee, consultant or contractor of a Party, such invention shall be solely owned by such Party, and any Patent application filed claiming such solely owned invention shall also be solely owned by such Party. Each Party shall enter into binding agreements obligating all employees, agents, consultants, contractors, and subcontractors (as provided in Section 3.2.7) performing activities under or contemplated by this Agreement, including activities related to the Programs, to assign his or her interest in any invention conceived or reduced to practice in the course of such activities to the Party for which such employee, consultant or contractor is providing its services. Subject to the rights granted under this Agreement, each Party shall have the right to practice and exploit Joint Inventions and Joint Patents, without any obligation to account to the other for profits, or to obtain any approval of the other Party to license, assign, or otherwise exploit Joint Inventions and Joint Patents, by reason of joint ownership thereof, and each Party hereby waives any right it may have under the Laws of any jurisdiction to require any such approval or accounting; and to the extent there are any applicable Laws that prohibit such a waiver, each Party will be deemed to so consent. Each Party agrees to be named as a party, if necessary, to bring or maintain a lawsuit involving a Joint Invention or Joint Patent.
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 ...
Ownership of Inventions. Grantee shall promptly and fully disclose to PNC any and all inventions, discoveries, improvements, ideas or other works of inventorship or authorship, whether or not patentable, that have been or will be conceived and/or reduced to practice by Grantee during the term of Grantee’s employment with the Corporation, whether alone or with others, and that are (a) related directly or indirectly to the business or activities of PNC or any of its subsidiaries or (b) developed with the use of any time, material, facilities or other resources of PNC or any subsidiary (“Developments”). Xxxxxxx agrees to assign and xxxxxx does assign to PNC or its designee all of Grantee’s right, title and interest, including copyrights and patent rights, in and to all Developments. Grantee shall perform all actions and execute all instruments that PNC or any subsidiary shall deem necessary to protect or record PNC’s or its designee’s interests in the Developments. The obligations of this Section 13.4 shall be performed by Grantee without further compensation and shall continue beyond Grantee’s Termination Date.
Ownership of Inventions. You will promptly and fully disclose to PNC any and all inventions, discoveries, improvements, ideas or other works of inventorship or authorship, whether or not patentable, that have been or will be conceived and/or reduced to practice by you during the term of your employment with PNC, whether alone or with others, and that are (i) related directly or indirectly to the business or activities of PNC or (ii) developed with the use of any time, material, facilities or other resources of PNC (“Developments”). You agree to assign and hereby do assign to PNC or its designee all of your right, title and interest, including copyrights and patent rights, in and to all Developments. You will perform all actions and execute all instruments that PNC or any subsidiary will deem necessary to protect or record PNC’s or its designee’s interests in the Developments. The obligations of this Section 1(c) will be performed by you without further compensation and will continue beyond your Termination Date.
Ownership of Inventions. 10.2.1 Reata will retain ownership of all Reata Inventions and Kyowa Kirin shall retain ownership of all Kyowa Kirin Inventions, except that both Parties shall retain joint ownership of any Inventions that are conceived, made or generated jointly by both Parties. The Parties shall reasonably cooperate with respect to, and share the out-of-pocket external cost of, the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of any patents or patent applications on any such jointly-owned Inventions based on the Territory involved (i.e., Kyowa Kirin pays such costs for prosecution and maintenance in the Territory and Reata pays such costs for prosecution and maintenance outside the Territory, and the Parties share equally any such costs that are not attributable to any particular territory). In connection with the foregoing, the Parties shall agree upon a lead Party to administer such filing, prosecution and maintenance of any such patent applications or patents on jointly-owned Inventions and the Parties shall provide the non-lead Party a reasonably opportunity to review, comment on and approve (not to be unreasonably withheld) in advance any material filings and correspondence with applicable patent offices with respect thereto. Subject to the licenses granted to each Party hereunder in their respective territories, each Party shall have full rights to exploit and license such jointly-owned Inventions (and any patent rights therein), without any obligation or requirement of an accounting to the other Party and each Party hereby consents to such exploitation and licensing of the other Party for jointly-owned Inventions. For the avoidance of doubt, all Reata Inventions (including Reata’s rights to any jointly-owned Inventions) shall be included within the Licensed Technology hereunder and licensed to Kyowa Kirin under Section 2.1.
10.2.2 Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Kyowa Kirin hereby grants to Reata and its Affiliates a non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable (except as provided below) license under the Kyowa Kirin Inventions (including Kyowa Kirin’s rights to any jointly-owned Inventions) to develop, use, sell, offer for sale, make, import, and export (and to have such actions taken on its behalf by agents, contractors and other Third Party service providers) Licensed Compounds and Licensed Products for all indications and all fields solely outside the Territory. The foregoing license shall not be sublicenseable by Reata (directly or i...
Ownership of Inventions. Executive will promptly make full written disclosure to Employer of, and hereby assigns to Employer or its designee all Executive’s rights, title and interest in and to, any and all Inventions, whether or not patentable, that Executive may solely or jointly conceive or develop or reduce to practice, or cause to be conceived or developed or reduced to practice, during the term of Executive’s employment with Employer that relate to the proposed or current business, services, products or research and development of Employer (whether before or after execution of this Agreement)(collectively referred to as “Employer Inventions”). Executive further acknowledges that all original works of authorship that are created or contributed to by Executive (solely or jointly with others) within the scope of, and during the period of, Executive’s employment (whether before or after execution of this Agreement) with Employer are to be deemed “works made for hire”, as that term is defined in the United States Copyright Act, and the copyright and all intellectual property rights therein shall be the sole property of Employer or its designee. To the extent any of such works are deemed not to be “works for hire”, Executive hereby assigns the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in such works to Employer or its designee.
Ownership of Inventions. Each Invention (as defined below) made, conceived or first actually reduced to practice by the Executive, whether alone or jointly with others, during the term of Executive’s employment with the Company and each Invention made, conceived or first actually reduced to practice by the Executive, whether alone or jointly with others, within one year after the termination of Executive’s employment with the Company which relates in any way to work performed for the Company during the term of Executive’s employment, shall be promptly disclosed in writing to the Board. Such report 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 invention pertains, a clear understanding of the nature, purpose, operations, and, to the extent known, the physical, chemical, biological or other characteristics of the Invention. As used in this Agreement, “Invention” means any invention, discovery or innovation with regard to any facet of the Company’s business whether or not patentable, made, conceived, or first actually reduced to practice by Executive, alone or jointly with others, in the course of, in connection with, or as a result of service as an employee of the Company, including any art, method, process, machine, manufacture, design or composition of matter, or any improvement thereof. Each Invention, as herein defined, shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company. The Executive agrees to execute an assignment to the Company or its nominee of the Executive’s entire right, title and interest in and to any Invention, 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 Invention. The Executive further agrees, whether or not the Executive is then an employee of the Company, to cooperate to the extent and in the manner reasonably requested by the Company in the prosecution or defense of any claim involving a patent covering any Invention or any litigation or other claim or proceeding involving any Invention covered by this Agreement, but all expenses thereof shall be paid by the Company.
Ownership of Inventions. (i) All Inventions shall be the sole property of the Company and its assigns, and the Company and its assigns shall be the sole owner of all patents, copyrights, trademarks and other rights in connection therewith. The Executive does hereby assign to the Company any rights the Executive may have or acquire in such Inventions. The Executive shall assist the Company (at the Company's expense) in obtaining and, from time to time, enforcing patents, copyrights, trademarks and other rights and protections relating to said Inventions in any and all countries. The Executive will execute all documents necessary to apply for and obtain such patents, copyrights, trademarks and other rights and protections on such Inventions, as the Company may request, together with any assignments thereof to the Company or persons designated by it. The Executive's obligation to assist the Company in obtaining and enforcing patents, copyrights, trademarks and other rights and protections relating to such Inventions shall continue beyond the termination of employment, but the Company shall compensate the Executive at a reasonable rate after the Executive's termination, for time actually spent by the Executive at the Company's request on such assistance.
(ii) In the event the Company is unable, after reasonable effort, to secure the Executive's signature on any document or documents needed to apply for or prosecute any patent, copyright or other right or protection relating to an Invention, for any reason whatsoever, the Executive does hereby irrevocably designate and appoint the Company and its duly authorized officers and agents as his agent and attorney-in-fact, to act for and on his behalf to execute and file any such application or applications and to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the prosecution and issuance of patents, copyrights or similar protections solely with respect to Inventions with the same legal force and effect as if executed by the Executive and the Executive does ratify, affirm and approve all such lawfully permitted acts accordingly.
Ownership of Inventions. Executive agrees that Executive will promptly make full written disclosure to the Company, and hereby assigns to the Company, or its designee, all of Executive’s right, title, and interest in and to any and all creations, inventions or developments, whether or not patentable, which Executive may solely or jointly conceive or develop or reduce to practice, during the period of time Executive is in the employ of the Company (collectively referred to as “the Company Inventions”), other than (and the Company Inventions shall not include) any such creations, inventions or developments which demonstrably bear no relationship whatsoever to the business of the Company, the chemical industry, or the application of technologies, ideas, or processes directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or the chemical industry to any other industries or disciplines. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company Inventions shall include any creations, inventions or developments that relate directly or indirectly to a Competitive Business. Executive further acknowledges that all original works of authorship which are created or contributed to by Executive (solely or jointly with others) within the scope of and during the period of Executive’s employment with the Company (“the Company Copyrights”) are to be deemed “works made for hire,” as that term is defined in the United States Copyright Act, and the copyright and all intellectual property rights therein shall be the sole property of the Company. To the extent any of such works are deemed not to be “works made for hire,” Executive hereby assigns the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in such works to the Company.
Ownership of Inventions. (a) Executive hereby agrees that any and all inventions (whether or not an application for protection has been filed under patent laws), works of authorship, information fixed in any tangible medium of expression (whether or not protected under copyright laws), Moral Rights, mask works, trademarks, trade names, trade dress, trade secrets, publicity rights, know-how, ideas (whether or not protected under trade secret laws), and all other subject matter protected under patent, copyright, Moral Right (defined as any right to claim authorship of a work, any right to object to any distortion or other modification of a work, and any similar right, existing under the law of any country, or under any treaty), mask work, trademark, trade secret, or other laws, that have been, are or will be developed, generated or produced by Executive, solely or jointly with others, at any time while employed by the Company, including during the Employment Term, are and shall be the exclusive property of the Company, subject to the obligations of this Article IV with respect to Confidential Information, and Executive hereby forever waives and agrees never to assert against the Company, its successors or licensees any and all ownership, interest, Moral Rights or similar rights with respect thereto. Executive hereby assigns to the Company all right, title and interest to the foregoing inventions, concepts, ideas and materials. This Section 4.4 does not apply to any invention or other work of Executive for which no equipment, supplies, facility or Confidential Information of the Company was used and that was developed entirely on Executive’s own time, unless the invention (A) relates to (x) the Business or (y) the Company’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (B) results from any work performed by Executive for or on behalf of the Company. Executive shall keep and maintain adequate and current written records of all inventions, concepts, ideas and materials made by Executive (jointly or with others) during the term of Executive’s association or employment with the Company. Such records shall remain the property of the Company at all times. Executive shall promptly and fully disclose to the Company the nature and particulars of any Inventions or research project undertaken on the Company’s behalf.
(b) Unless the parties otherwise agree in writing, Executive is under no obligation to incorporate any Prior Inventions in any of Company’s products or processes o...
