Patents IV Sample Clauses

Patents IV i. The employer waives, disclaims and abandons, any interest in or claim to, any invention, improvement, design or development made by a member without any use of the employer's funds, services, facilities, support and/or technical personnel. Demonstration of this lies with the employer. Members are required to give the employer immediate notice of any patent application made by them. Such inventions and patents arising therefrom shall be the sole property of the member who is the inventor. ii. The member and the employer shall each hold fifty per cent (50%) of any right, title and interest to any invention, improvement in design or development made by a member with the use, in whole or in part, of the employer's funds, services, facilities, support and/or technical personnel. The use of the normal academic environment (e.g. Library or Computer Centre) shall not be considered use of the employer's services or facilities. Disputes as to what constitutes the normal academic environment shall be referred to the Patents and Copyrights Committee for adjudication. No member shall make any patent application in respect of any such invention, improvement, design or development except in accordance with this Article. (b) IV.7.1(a) shall not apply to any invention, improvement, design or development resulting from work financed by a grant or contract where the granting or contracting body, as a condition of the grant or contract, requires that any patent rights be assigned to it.
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  • Trademarks, Patents, Etc Schedule 2.1

  • Patents, Trademarks, Etc The Borrower has obtained and holds in full force and effect all patents, trademarks, servicemarks, trade names, copyrights and other such rights, free from burdensome restrictions, which are necessary for the operation of its business as presently conducted, the impairment of which is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

  • Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Licenses, Etc Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary of each Loan Party owns or possesses all the material patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses, registrations, franchises, permits and rights necessary to own and operate its properties and to carry on its business as presently conducted and planned to be conducted by such Loan Party or Subsidiary, without known possible, alleged or actual conflict with the rights of others.

  • Patents, etc The Borrower and each of the Restricted Subsidiaries have obtained all patents, trademarks, servicemarks, trade names, copyrights, licenses and other rights, free from burdensome restrictions, that are necessary for the operation of their respective businesses as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted, except where the failure to obtain any such rights could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

  • Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Licenses, etc The Company or its Subsidiaries own or are licensed or otherwise have the right to use all of the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, contractual franchises, authorizations and other rights that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses, without conflict with the rights of any other Person, except to the extent any such conflict could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the best knowledge of the Company, no slogan or other advertising device, product, process, method, substance, part or other material now employed, or now contemplated to be employed, by the Company or any Subsidiary infringes upon any rights held by any other Person. No claim or litigation regarding any of the foregoing is pending or threatened, and no patent, invention, device, application, principle or any statute, law, rule, regulation, standard or code is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, proposed, which, in either case, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

  • Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Licenses All patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, service xxxx applications, copyrights, copyright applications, design rights, tradenames, assumed names, trade secrets and licenses owned or utilized by any Borrower are set forth on Schedule 5.9, are valid and have been duly registered or filed with all appropriate Governmental Bodies and constitute all of the intellectual property rights which are necessary for the operation of its business; there is no objection to or pending challenge to the validity of any such patent, trademark, copyright, design rights, tradename, trade secret or license and no Borrower is aware of any grounds for any challenge, except as set forth in Schedule 5.9 hereto. Each patent, patent application, patent license, trademark, trademark application, trademark license, service xxxx, service xxxx application, service xxxx license, design rights, copyright, copyright application and copyright license owned or held by any Borrower and all trade secrets used by any Borrower consist of original material or property developed by such Borrower or was lawfully acquired by such Borrower from the proper and lawful owner thereof. Each of such items has been maintained so as to preserve the value thereof from the date of creation or acquisition thereof. With respect to all software used by any Borrower, such Borrower is in possession of all source and object codes related to each piece of software or is the beneficiary of a source code escrow agreement, each such source code escrow agreement being listed on Schedule 5.9 hereto.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Trademarks, Patents Each of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries possesses or has the right to use all of the patents, trademarks, trade names, service marks and copyrights, and applications therefor, and all technology, know-how, processes, methods and designs used in or necessary for the conduct of its business, without known conflict with the rights of others.

  • Patents and Patent Applications To the Company’s knowledge, all patents and patent applications owned by or licensed to the Company or under which the Company has rights have been duly and properly filed and maintained; to the knowledge of the Company, the parties prosecuting such applications have complied with their duty of candor and disclosure to the USPTO in connection with such applications; and the Company is not aware of any facts required to be disclosed to the USPTO that were not disclosed to the USPTO and which could reasonably be expected to preclude the grant of a patent in connection with any such application or could reasonably be expected to form the basis of a finding of invalidity with respect to any patents that have issued with respect to such applications.

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