Common use of Property Rights of the Company Clause in Contracts

Property Rights of the Company. 10.1 Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, it is expressly acknowledged and understood by the Employee that all the work product of the Employee while engaged by the Company pursuant to the terms hereof shall vest in the Company absolutely and notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, all software, product information, improvements, notes, documents, correspondence, produced by the Employee during the term of employment hereunder shall belong absolutely to the Company. The Employee further agrees to execute without further consideration any assignments, conveyances, other documents and assurances as may be necessary to effect the intent of this provision. Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, the Company acknowledges that intellectual property, know-how and the like known by or in possession of the Employee as of or prior to the Employee becoming an employee of the Company is hereby expressly excluded from the foregoing restrictions.