Registered Intellectual Property (i) Schedule 6.01(w)(2) of the Disclosure Schedule lists all of the Registered Intellectual Property owned by the Obligors, identifies which entity owns such Registered Intellectual Property, and lists the current status of any inter partes proceedings or actions pending as of the date hereof before any court, tribunal or agency (including the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) or equivalent authority anywhere in the world) relating to any Registered Intellectual Property. Except as set forth on Schedule 6.01(w)(2), each item of Registered Intellectual Property is subsisting, and all necessary registration, maintenance, renewal fees, annuity fees and taxes in connection with such Registered Intellectual Property have been paid if due and all filings necessary as of the date of this Agreement have been submitted for the purposes of maintaining such Registered Intellectual Property.
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Title to Intellectual Property a) All right, title and interest in and to Foreground Intellectual Property prepared, conceived or developed by the Supplier/Service Provider, its researchers, agents and employees shall vest in Transnet and the Supplier/Service Provider acknowledges that it has no claim of any nature in and to the Foreground Intellectual Property. The Supplier/Service Provider shall not at any time during or after the termination or cancellation of this Agreement dispute the validity or enforceability of such Foreground Intellectual Property, or cause to be done any act or anything contesting or in any way impairing or tending to impair any part of that right, title and interest to any of the Foreground Intellectual Property and shall not counsel or assist any person to do so.
b) Transnet shall be entitled to seek protection in respect of the Foreground Intellectual Property anywhere in the world as it shall decide in its own absolute discretion and the Supplier/Service Provider shall reasonably assist Transnet in attaining and maintaining protection of the Foreground Intellectual Property.
c) Where the Foreground Intellectual Property was created by the Supplier/Service Provider or its researchers, agents and employees and where Transnet elects not to exercise its option to seek protection or decides to discontinue the financial support of the prosecution or maintenance of any such protection, Transnet shall notify the Supplier/Service Provider who shall have the right of first refusal to file or continue prosecution or maintain any such applications and to maintain any protection issuing on the Foreground Intellectual Property.
d) No consideration shall be paid by Transnet to the Supplier/Service Provider for the assignment of any Foreground Intellectual Property from the Supplier/Service Provider to Transnet, over and above the sums payable in terms of this Agreement. The Supplier/Service Provider undertakes to sign all documents and do all things as may be necessary to effect, record and perfect the assignment of the Foreground Intellectual Property to Transnet.
e) Subject to anything contrary contained in this Agreement and/or the prior written consent of Transnet [which consent shall not be unreasonably be withheld], the Supplier/Service Provider shall under no circumstances be entitled as of right, or to claim the right, to use Transnet’s Background Intellectual Property and/or Foreground Intellectual Property.
Company Intellectual Property The Executive agrees to promptly disclose to the Company any and all work product, inventions, artistic works, works of authorship, designs, methods, processes, technology, patterns, techniques, data, Confidential Information, patents, trade secrets, trademarks, domain names, copyrights, and the like, and all other intellectual property relating to the business of the Company and any of its affiliates which are created, authored, composed, invented, discovered, performed, perfected, or learned by the Executive (either solely or jointly with others) during the Employment Term (collectively, together with such intellectual property as may be owned or acquired by the Company, the “Company Intellectual Property”). The Company Intellectual Property shall be the sole and absolute property of the Company and its affiliates. All work performed by the Executive in authoring, composing, inventing, creating, developing or modifying Company Intellectual Property and/or other work product to which copyright protection may attach during the course of the Executive’s employment with the Company shall be considered “works made for hire” to the extent permitted under applicable copyright law and will be considered the sole property of the Company. To the extent such works, work product or Company Intellectual Property are not considered “works made for hire,” all right, title, and interest to such works, work product and Company Intellectual Property, including, but not limited to, all copyrights, patents, trademarks, rights of publicity, and trade secrets, is hereby assigned to the Company and the Executive agrees, at the Company’s expense, to execute any documents requested by the Company or any of its affiliates at any time in relation to such assignment. The Executive acknowledges and agrees that the Company is and will be the sole and absolute owner of all trademarks, service marks, domain names, patents, copyrights, trade dress, trade secrets, business names, rights of publicity, inventions, proprietary know-how and information of any type, whether or not in writing, and all other intellectual property used by the Company or held for use in the business of the Company, including all Company Intellectual Property. The Executive further acknowledges and agrees that any and all derivative works, developments, or improvements based on intellectual property, materials and assets subject to this Section 6 created during the Employment Term (including, without limitation, Company Intellectual Property) shall be exclusively owned by the Company. The Executive will cooperate with the Company and any of its affiliates, at no additional cost to such parties (whether during or after the Employment Term), in the confirmation, registration, protection and enforcement of the rights and property of the Company and its affiliates in such intellectual property, materials and assets, including, without limitation, the Company Intellectual Property.
No Trademark Rights No right, express or implied, is granted by this Agreement to a Party to use in any manner the name or any other trade name or trademark of the other Party in connection with the performance of this Agreement or otherwise.
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.
Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights (a) Except to the extent expressly provided herein, each party shall continue to own its intellectual and industrial property rights without conferring any interests therein on the other party and neither the Supplier nor any third party shall acquire any right, title or interest in any intellectual or industrial property rights of any company within the ASSA ABLOY Group.
(b) Regardless of the above, all intellectual property rights with regard to and for the Products, including but not limited to, drawings, designs, models, calculations, tools etc. that are provided by the Purchaser or are created by the Supplier in connection with this Purchase Agreement, shall vest in and exclusively belong to the Purchaser. The Supplier shall, where necessary, take all actions required to ensure that Purchaser receives the rights referred to herein.
(c) To the extent that the Products may be protected by intellectual property rights owned by the Supplier, or the Supplier's licensors, the Supplier hereby grants to the Purchaser, a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, fully paid-up, royalty-free license, including the right to grant sub-licenses, under all such intellectual property rights to: (i) use the Products; (ii) integrate the Products into Purchaser's own Products; (iii) sell, offer for sale, import and export the Products.
(d) Without limiting the generality of clause 5(a) and except as may otherwise be expressly provided for herein, the Supplier agrees that it shall not without the prior written consent of the Lead Purchaser use the trademark "ASSA ABLOY" or any other trademark of any company within the ASSA ABLOY Group for any purposes whatsoever.
(e) To the extent the Products include software (“Software”), the Supplier hereby grants to the Purchaser in perpetuity (or for the maximum period foreseen by applicable law) a non-exclusive, royalty- free, world-wide, unlimited (also with respect to number of users) licence over the Software including without limitation any permanent or temporary reproduction or modification of the Software reasonably required for these purposes, at a charge included in the price of the Products for the purposes of installing, testing, configuring, putting into service, operating, using, developing, modifying, selling, maintaining, adjusting and repairing the Products. The Purchaser shall be permitted to create a reasonable quantity of back-up copies of the Software.
(f) For at least the period under this Purchase Agreement during which the Supplier has agreed to supply spare parts for the Products, the Supplier shall continue to maintain the Software and offer licences to the Software, in the same format and version as made available hereunder, to the Purchaser. During the same period of time, the Supplier will also free of charge offer to the Purchaser all updates offered to its other clients for the Products, including without limitation any related support, maintenance or consultancy services provided free of charge to such other clients. It is acknowledged that the Purchaser may accept or refuse the offer of such updates at its sole discretion without limiting any right or remedy available hereunder.
Intellectual Property The Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights necessary or required for use in connection with their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports and which the failure to so have could have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Rights”). None of, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received a notice (written or otherwise) that any of, the Intellectual Property Rights has expired, terminated or been abandoned, or is expected to expire or terminate or be abandoned, within two (2) years from the date of this Agreement. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, a written notice of a claim or otherwise has any knowledge that the Intellectual Property Rights violate or infringe upon the rights of any Person, except as could not have or reasonably be expected to not have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual properties, except where failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Intellectual Properties To the extent permissible under applicable law, all intellectual properties made or conceived by Employee during the term of this employment by Employer shall be the right and property solely of Employer, whether developed independently by Employee or jointly with others. The Employee will sign the Employer’s standard Employee Innovation, Proprietary Information and Confidentiality Agreement (“Confidentiality Agreement”).
Intellectual Property Assets Priveco and its subsidiaries own or hold an interest in all intellectual property assets necessary for the operation of the business of Priveco and its subsidiaries as it is currently conducted (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Assets”), including:
(i) all functional business names, trading names, registered and unregistered trademarks, service marks, and applications (collectively, the “Marks”);
(ii) all patents, patent applications, and inventions, methods, processes and discoveries that may be patentable (collectively, the “Patents”);
(iii) all copyrights in both published works and unpublished works (collectively, the “Copyrights”); and
(iv) all know-how, trade secrets, confidential information, customer lists, software, technical information, data, process technology, plans, drawings, and blue prints owned, used, or licensed by Priveco and its subsidiaries as licensee or licensor (collectively, the “Trade Secrets”).
