Patent and Copyright Registrations I agree to assist the Company, or its designee, at the Company’s expense, in every proper way to secure the Company’s rights in the Inventions and any copyrights, patents, mask work rights or other intellectual property rights relating thereto in any and all countries, including the disclosure to the Company of all pertinent information and data with respect thereto, the execution of all applications, specifications, oaths, assignments and all other instruments which the Company shall deem necessary in order to apply for and obtain such rights and in order to assign and convey to the Company, its successors, assigns, and nominees the sole and exclusive rights, title and interest in and to such Inventions, and any copyrights, patents, mask work rights or other intellectual property rights relating thereto. I further agree that my obligation to execute or cause to be executed, when it is in my power to do so, any such instrument or papers shall continue after the termination of this Agreement. If the Company is unable because of my mental or physical incapacity or for any other reason to secure my signature to apply for or to pursue any application for any United States or foreign patents or copyright registrations covering Inventions or original works of authorship assigned to the Company as above, then I hereby irrevocably designate and appoint the Company and its duly authorized officers and agents as my agent and attorney in fact, to act for and in my behalf and stead to execute and file any such applications and to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the prosecution and issuance of letters patent or copyright registrations thereon with the same legal force and effect as if executed by me.
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Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights (a) Section 3.17 of the Seller Disclosure Schedule contains a true and complete list of Seller Intellectual Property and includes details of all due dates for further filings, maintenance, payments or other actions falling due within twelve (12) months of the Closing Date. All of Seller's patents, patent applications, registered trademarks, and trademark applications, and registered copyrights remain in good standing with all fees and filings due as of the Closing Date duly made and the due dates specified in the Seller Disclosure Schedule are accurate and complete.
(b) The Seller Intellectual Property consists solely of items and rights which are: (i) owned by Seller; or (ii) rightfully used by Seller pursuant to a valid license ("SELLER LICENSED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY"), the parties and date of each such license agreement and each material agreement in which Seller is the licensor or owner of the subject rights in the agreement being set forth on Section 3.17(b) of the Seller Disclosure Schedule. Seller has all rights in Seller Intellectual Property necessary to carry out Seller's current activities (and had all rights necessary to carry out its former activities at the time such activities were being conducted), including without limitation, to the extent required to carry out such activities, rights to make, use, reproduce, modify, adopt, create derivative works based on, translate, distribute (directly and indirectly), transmit, display and perform publicly, license, rent and lease and, other than with respect to the Seller Licensed Intellectual Property, assign and sell, the Seller Intellectual Property.
(c) The reproduction, manufacturing, distribution, licensing, sublicensing or sale of any Seller Intellectual Property, now used or offered or proposed for use, licensing or sale by Seller does not infringe on any patent, copyright, trademark, service xxxx, trade name, trade dress, firm name, Internet domain name, logo, trade dress, of any person and does not constitute a misappropriation of any trade secret. No claims (i) challenging the validity, effectiveness or ownership by Seller of any of the Seller Intellectual Property, or (ii) to the effect that the use, distribution, licensing, sublicensing or sale of the Seller Intellectual Property as now used or offered or proposed for use, licensing, sublicensing or sale by Seller infringes or will infringe on any intellectual property or other proprietary right of any person have been asserted or, to the knowledge of Seller, are threatened by any person or have been made or threatened by any person against the Seller's distributors. To the knowledge of Seller, there is no unauthorized use, infringement or misappropriation of any of the Seller Intellectual Property by any third party, employee or former employee.
(d) All Seller Intellectual Property has been solely developed by full time employees within the scope of his or her employment with the Seller or within the scope of his or her employment with companies acquired by Seller prior to the date hereof. All employee contribution or participation in the conception and development of the Seller Intellectual Property on behalf of Seller constitutes work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment in accordance with applicable federal and state law that has accorded Seller ownership of all tangible and intangible property thereby arising.
(e) Seller is not, nor as a result of the execution or delivery of this Agreement, or performance of Seller's obligations hereunder, will Seller be, in violation of any material license, sublicense, agreement or instrument to which Seller is a party or otherwise bound, nor will execution or delivery of this Agreement, or performance of Seller's obligations hereunder, cause the diminution, termination or forfeiture of any material Seller Intellectual Property.
(f) Section 3.17(f) of the Seller Disclosure Schedule contains a true and complete list of all of Seller's internally-developed software programs ("SELLER SOFTWARE PROGRAMS"). Seller owns full and unencumbered right and good, valid and marketable title to such Seller Software Programs and all Seller Intellectual Property free and clear of all mortgages, pledges, liens, security interests, conditional sales agreements or encumbrances.
(g) The Seller Software Programs (i) have been designed to ensure year 2000 compatibility, which includes, but is not limited to, being able to provide specific dates and calculate spans of dates within and between twentieth century and twenty-first century, prior to, including and following January 1, 2000; (ii) operate and will operate in accordance with their specifications and correctly process day and date calculations for dates prior and up to December 31, 1999, and on and after January 1, 2000, prior to, during and after the calendar year 2000; and (iii) shall not end abnormally or provide invalid or incorrect results as a result of date data, specifically including date data which represents or references different centuries or more than one century.
Patents and Copyrights All services, information, computer program elements, reports and other deliverables which might be patented or copyrighted and created under this Contract are the property of the Department and shall not be used or released by the Consultant or any other person except with the prior written approval by the Department.
Patent and Copyright Registration The Executive agrees to execute and deliver any instruments or documents and to do all other things reasonably requested by the Company in order to more fully vest the Company with all ownership rights in the Work Product. If any Work Product is deemed by the Company to be patentable or otherwise registrable, the Executive shall assist the Company (at the Company’s expense) in obtaining letters of patent or other applicable registration therein and shall execute all documents and do all things, including testifying (at the Company’s expense) as necessary or appropriate to apply for, prosecute, obtain, or enforce any Intellectual Property right relating to any Work Product. Should the Company be unable to secure the Executive’s signature on any document deemed necessary to accomplish the foregoing, whether due to the Executive’s disability or other reason, the Executive hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and each of its duly authorized officers and agents as the Executive’s agent and attorney-in-fact to act for and on the Executive’s behalf and stead to take any of the actions required of Executive under the previous sentence, with the same effect as if executed and delivered by the Executive, such appointment being coupled with an interest. This Section 9 shall survive the termination of the Agreement for any reason. In the event the Executive breaches this Section 9, the Company shall have right to seek remedies permissible under applicable law.
PATENT AND COPYRIGHT INDEMNITY CONTRACTOR represents that it knows of no allegations, claims, or threatened claims that the materials, services, hardware or software (“CONTRACTOR Products”) provided to COUNTY under this Agreement infringe any patent, copyright or other proprietary right. CONTRACTOR shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless COUNTY of, from and against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs expenses and amounts (collectively, “Losses”) arising out of or in connection with an assertion that any CONTRACTOR Products or the use thereof, infringe any patent, copyright or other proprietary right of any third party.
a. COUNTY will: (1) notify CONTRACTOR promptly of such claim, suit or assertion; (2) permit CONTRACTOR to defend, compromise, or settle the claim; and, (3) provide, on a reasonable basis, information to enable CONTRACTOR to do so. CONTRACTOR shall not agree without COUNTY’s prior written consent, to any settlement, which would require COUNTY to pay money or perform some affirmative act in order to continue using the CONTRACTOR Products.
b. If CONTRACTOR is obligated to defend COUNTY pursuant to this Section 38 and fails to do so after reasonable notice from COUNTY, COUNTY may defend itself and/or settle such proceeding, and CONTRACTOR shall pay to COUNTY any and all losses, damages and expenses (including attorney’s fees and costs) incurred in relationship with COUNTY’s defense and/or settlement of such proceeding.
c. In the case of any such claim of infringement, CONTRACTOR shall either, at its option, (1) procure for COUNTY the right to continue using the CONTRACTOR Products; or (2) replace or modify the CONTRACTOR Products so that that they become non-infringing, but equivalent in functionality and performance.
d. Notwithstanding this Section 38, COUNTY retains the right and ability to defend itself, at its own expense, against any claims that CONTRACTOR Products infringe any patent, copyright, or other intellectual property right.
Patent Applications If the Company files an original United States patent application covering any invention of which the Consultant is a named inventor, the Consultant will receive an inventor’s fee of $100.
Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights Machinery and equipment of the VESSEL, whether made or furnished by the BUILDER under this CONTRACT, may bear the patent numbers, trademarks, or trade names of the manufacturers. The BUILDER shall defend and save harmless the BUYER from all liabilities or claims for or on account of the use of any patents, copyrights or design of any nature or kind, or for the infringement thereof including any unpatented invention made or used in the performance of this CONTRACT and also for any costs and expenses of litigation, if any in connection therewith. No such liability or responsibility shall be with the BUILDER with regard to components and/or equipment and/or design supplied by the BUYER. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as transferring any patent or trademark rights or copyrights in equipment covered by this CONTRACT, and all such rights are hereby expressly reserved to the true and lawful owners thereof.
Patent The development of patentable inventions or discoveries is not the primary purpose of the research activities of the faculty. Employees have no obligation to seek patent protection for the results of scientific work nor to modify research to enhance patentability.
10.6.1 OC agrees that employees have the unqualified right to publish their inventions, improvements, designs or developments and, except as noted in section 10.6.3, OC waives, disclaims and abandons any interest in or claims to any invention, improvement, design or development made by an employee or employees and unless otherwise provided in this Article, any invention, improvement design or development, or any patent arising therefrom shall be the sole property of the inventor(s).
10.6.2 Where the activities are a part of work performed for which OC is not paying the employee from any source and no OC space or equipment is being used, the employee shall be entitled to any and all royalties from such patents. Employees shall have the right to make their own arrangements at their own expense to patent an invention, an improvement, a design or development and, subject to the obligations in the Article and except as noted in section 10.6.3, shall be entitled to all the proceeds therefrom.
ROYALTIES, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS Contractor shall pay all royalties and license fees, defend suits or claims for infringement of copyrights and patent rights, and shall hold Owner harmless from loss on account thereof, but shall not be responsible for such defense or loss when a particular design, process or product of a particular manufacturer or manufacturers is required by the Contract Documents, or where the copyright violations are contained in Drawings, Specifications or other documents prepared by Owner or A/E. However, if Contractor has reason to believe that the required design, process, or product is an infringement of a copyright or a patent, Contractor shall be responsible for such loss unless such information is promptly furnished to A/E.