Common use of Patent and Copyright Rights Clause in Contracts

Patent and Copyright Rights. Consultant agrees to assist the Company, or its designee, at its expense, in every proper way to secure the Company’s, or its designee’s, rights in the Inventions and any copyrights, patents, trademarks, mask work rights, moral rights, or other intellectual property rights relating thereto in any and all countries, including the disclosure to the Company or its designee of all pertinent information and data with respect thereto, the execution of all applications, specifications, oaths, assignments, recordations, and all other instruments which the Company or its designee shall deem reasonably necessary in order to apply for, obtain, perfect, maintain and transfer such rights, or if not transferable, waive such rights, and in order to assign, transfer and convey to the Company or its designee, and any successors, assigns and nominees the sole and exclusive rights, title and interests in and to such Inventions, and any copyrights, patents, mask work rights or other intellectual property rights relating thereto. Consultant further agrees that its obligation to execute or cause to be executed, when it is in its power to do so, any such instrument or papers shall continue after the termination or expiration of this Agreement until the expiration of the last such intellectual property right to expire in any country of the world. If the Company or its designee is unable because of Consultant’s mental or physical incapacity or unavailability or for any other reason to secure Consultant’s signature to apply for or to pursue any application for any United States or foreign patents, copyright, mask works or other registrations covering Inventions or original works of authorship assigned to the Company or its designee as above, then Consultant hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and its duly authorized officers and agents as Consultant’s agent and attorney in fact, to act for and in Consultant’s behalf and stead to execute and file any such applications and to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the application for, prosecution, issuance, perfection, maintenance or transfer of letters patent, copyright or other registrations thereon with the same legal force and effect as if originally executed by Consultant. Consultant hereby waives and irrevocably quitclaims to the Company or its designee any and all claims, of any nature whatsoever, which Consultant now or hereafter has for infringement of any and all proprietary rights assigned to the Company or such designee.

Patent and Copyright Rights. Consultant Employee agrees to assist the Company, or its designee, at its expense, in every proper way to secure the Company’s, or its designee’s, rights in the Inventions Work Product and any copyrights, patents, trademarks, mask work rights, moral rights, or other intellectual property rights relating thereto in any and all countries, including the disclosure to the Company or its designee of all pertinent information and data with respect thereto, the execution of all applications, specifications, oaths, assignments, recordations, and all other instruments which the Company or its designee shall deem reasonably necessary in order to apply for, obtain, perfect, maintain and transfer such rights, or if not transferable, waive such rights, rights and in order to assign, transfer assign and convey to the Company or its designee, and any successors, assigns and nominees the sole and exclusive rights, title and interests interest in and to such InventionsWork Product, and any copyrights, patents, mask work rights or other intellectual property rights relating thereto. Consultant Employee further agrees that its Employee’s obligation to execute or cause to be executed, when it is in its Employee’s power to do so, any such instrument or papers shall continue after the termination or expiration of this Agreement Employee’s employment with the Company until the expiration of the last such intellectual property right to expire in any country of the world. If the Company or its designee is unable because of ConsultantEmployee’s mental or physical incapacity or unavailability or for any other reason to secure ConsultantEmployee’s signature to apply for or to pursue any application for any United States or foreign patents, copyright, mask works or other registrations covering Inventions or original works of authorship Work Product assigned to the Company or its designee as provided above, then Consultant Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and its duly authorized officers and agents as ConsultantEmployee’s agent and attorney in fact, to act for and in ConsultantEmployee’s behalf and stead to execute and file any such applications and to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the application for, prosecution, issuance, perfection, maintenance or transfer of letters patent, copyright or other registrations thereon with the same legal force and effect as if originally executed by ConsultantEmployee. Consultant Employee hereby waives and irrevocably quitclaims to the Company or its designee any and all claims, of any nature whatsoever, which Consultant Employee now or hereafter has for infringement of any and all proprietary rights assigned to the Company or such designee. The Company shall have the exclusive worldwide right to register, in all cases as “claimant” and when applicable as “author”, all copyrights in and to any copyrightable element of the Work Product, and file any and all applicable renewals and extensions of such copyright registrations. The Company shall also have the exclusive worldwide right to file applications for and obtain (i) patents on and for any of the Work Product in Employee’s name and (ii) assignments for the transfer of the ownership of any such patents to the Company.