Common use of Prosecution and Maintenance of Joint Patents Clause in Contracts

Prosecution and Maintenance of Joint Patents. At [***] sole cost and expense, [***] shall be responsible for the Prosecution and Maintenance of any Joint Patent through mutually agreed outside counsel (“Outside Patent Counsel”); provided that [***] consults with [***] on the Prosecution and Maintenance of any such Joint Patents as set forth in this Section 6.4. [***] shall instruct Outside Patent Counsel to provide each of Genentech and Corvus with copies of any and all papers associated with such Prosecution and Maintenance, including all filings, submissions and correspondence to and from a patent office pertaining to such Prosecution and Maintenance so as to give [***] reasonable opportunities to provide comments in connection with such Prosecution and Maintenance. Genentech and Corvus shall consult with each other after receiving any substantive action or after any material development in such Prosecution and Maintenance (including issues regarding the scope of, the allowance of or the rejection of any claims and any proposed or actual response to any correspondence from a patent office in connection with any such patent applications or patents). [***] shall consider and incorporate [***] reasonable comments with respect to such Prosecution and Maintenance.

Prosecution and Maintenance of Joint Patents. At [***] Genentech’s sole cost and expense, [***] Genentech shall be responsible for the Prosecution and Maintenance of any Joint Patent through mutually agreed outside counsel (“Outside Patent Counsel”); provided that [***] Genentech consults with [***] Corvus on the Prosecution and Maintenance of any such Joint Patents as set forth in this Section 6.4. [***] Genentech shall instruct Outside Patent Counsel to provide each of Genentech and Corvus with copies of any and all papers associated with such Prosecution and Maintenance, including all filings, submissions and correspondence to and from a patent office pertaining to such Prosecution and Maintenance so as to give [***] Corvus reasonable opportunities to provide comments in connection with such Prosecution and Maintenance. Genentech and Corvus shall consult with each other after receiving any substantive action or after any material development in such Prosecution and Maintenance (including issues regarding the scope of, the allowance of or the rejection of any claims and any proposed or actual response to any correspondence from a patent office in connection with any such patent applications or patents). [***] Genentech shall consider and incorporate [***] Corvus’ reasonable comments with respect to such Prosecution and Maintenance.