Prosecution of Joint Inventions Sample Clauses

Prosecution of Joint Inventions. (i) Decisions regarding the preparation, filing and prosecution and maintenance of Joint Patents shall be made by the JPC. Upon the identification of a Joint Invention, the JPC shall (1) promptly discuss such Joint Invention, (2) promptly discuss the desirability of filing a United States patent application covering such Joint Invention, as well as foreign counterparts, and (3) designate the Party (the “Implementing Party”) to be responsible for the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of such Joint Patent Rights. The Implementing Party shall be responsible, using in-house or outside counsel reasonably selected by the JPC to implement the decisions of the JPC regarding the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of such Joint Patent Rights. The Implementing Party shall provide the JPC an opportunity to review and comment upon the text of the applications relating to such Joint Patent Rights before filing. The Implementing Party shall provide the JPC with a copy of each patent application within such Joint Patent Rights as filed, together with notice of its filing dates and serial number. The Implementing Party shall keep the JPC advised of the status of all communications, actual and prospective filings or submissions regarding such Joint Patent Rights, shall provide the JPC an opportunity to review and comment on such communications, filings and submissions proposed to be sent to any patent office. The Implementing Party shall also notify the JPC of the grant of any such Joint Patent Rights. The Implementing Party shall not cease the prosecution and/or *Certain information on this page has been omitted and filed separately with the commission. Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the omitted portions. maintenance, or modify the claims, of any such Joint Patent Rights in any country or elect not to file a patent application within such Joint Patent Rights, unless approved by the JPC (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld).
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Prosecution of Joint Inventions. SENOMYX will have the first right to file, prosecute (including an opposition or interference) and maintain Joint Patent Rights or other intellectual property rights claiming Inventions that are made jointly by the parties. KO will cooperate in, the filing, prosecution and maintenance of Joint Patent Rights and will share equally in the expenses incurred with respect thereto.
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Prosecution of Joint Inventions. (a) PDL will have the first right of election to file priority patent applications for Joint Inventions in any country in the Territory. If PDL declines to file such applications then Roche may do so. Such filings and all subsequent prosecution and maintenance shall be consistent with the patent strategy developed by the JPC.
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Prosecution of Joint Inventions. In the event of a Joint Invention, the Parties shall discuss and agree upon which Party shall be responsible for the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of any Patent covering such Joint Invention,
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Prosecution of Joint Inventions. (i)APR and IVS shall select one or more mutually agreeable outside counsel (collectively, “Outside Patent Counsel”) to be responsible for Prosecution and Maintenance of Joint Patents worldwide. The Outside Patent Counsel shall be instructed to (1) keep the Parties informed as to the Prosecution and Maintenance of such Patents, (including issues regarding (A) the countries in which to initiate or continue prosecution (including validation) or (B) the scope of, issuance of, rejection of, an interference involving, or an opposition to any such Patent application or resulting Patent such that each Party has sufficient time to review and comment upon any documents intended for submission to any patent office; (2) reasonably consider and incorporate comments of the Parties on documents filed ​ ​ with any patent office. All applications for Joint Patents shall be filed in the name of APR and IVS as co-owners and assignees of such Joint Patent.
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Related to Prosecution of Joint Inventions

  • Joint Inventions (a) There are countries (not including the United States) which require the express consent of all inventors or their assignees to the grant of licenses or rights under patents issued in such countries for joint inventions.

  • Inventions and Patents 6.1 The Executive agrees that all processes, technologies and inventions (collectively, "Inventions"), including new contributions, improvements, ideas and discoveries, whether patentable or not, conceived, developed, invented or made by him during the Term shall belong to the Company, provided that such Inventions grew out of the Executive's work with the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, are related in any manner to the business (commercial or experimental) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or are conceived or made on the Company's time or with the use of the Company's facilities or materials. The Executive shall further: (a) promptly disclose such Inventions to the Company; (b) assign to the Company, without additional compensation, all patent and other rights to such Inventions for the United States and foreign countries; (c) sign all papers necessary to carry out the foregoing; and (d) give testimony in support of the Executive's inventorship.

  • Prosecution of Patent Applications At its own expense, each Assignor shall diligently prosecute all material applications for (i) United States Patents listed in Annex F hereto and (ii) Copyrights listed on Annex G hereto, in each case for such Assignor and shall not abandon any such application prior to exhaustion of all administrative and judicial remedies (other than applications deemed by such Assignor to be no longer prudent to pursue), absent written consent of the Collateral Agent.

  • Intellectual Property, Inventions and Patents Executive acknowledges that all discoveries, concepts, ideas, inventions, innovations, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, drawings, reports, patent applications, copyrightable work and mask work (whether or not including any confidential information) and all registrations or applications related thereto, all other proprietary information and all similar or related information (whether or not patentable) which relate to Parent’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ actual or anticipated business, research and development or existing or future products or services and which are conceived, developed or made by Executive (whether alone or jointly with others) while employed by the Company and its Subsidiaries, whether before or after the date of this Agreement (“Work Product”), belong to Parent, the Company or such Subsidiary. Executive shall promptly disclose such Work Product to the Board and, at the Company’s expense, perform all actions reasonably requested by the Board (whether during or after the Employment Period) to establish and confirm such ownership (including, without limitation, assignments, consents, powers of attorney and other instruments).

  • Prosecution of Patents (a) The Licensor shall be solely responsible for preparing, prosecuting and maintaining the BENTLEY Patents.

  • Prosecution and Maintenance of Patent Rights ALNYLAM will have the right and responsibility to file, prosecute and maintain patent protection in the Territory for all ALNYLAM Patent Rights. [ * ]

  • Joint Patents Neither Party shall have any obligation to file or prosecute any Joint Patent. To the extent a Party wishes to prosecute a Joint Patent, the Parties will mutually agree upon which Party will have the first right to prosecute such Joint Patent, based on the contribution of each Party to such invention and each Party’s potential interest in products based upon such invention. If the Party having such first right does not wish to prosecute such Joint Patent, it shall inform the other Party promptly, but in any event no later than [***] after the Parties have agreed upon which Party had the first right to prosecute such Joint Patent. If the Party having such first right does not wish to prosecute such Joint Patent, the other Party may, upon written notice to such Party, prosecute such Joint Patent. The Party that prosecutes a Joint Patent pursuant to this Section 5.2(b) (the “prosecuting Party”) will solely bear its own internal costs for such prosecution and will solely bear the external costs for such prosecution (e.g., outside counsel, filing fees, etc.). Licensee will have the first right, but not the obligation, to prosecute infringement of any Joint Patents that is related to the Exclusively Licensed Know-How or a product competitive, or potentially competitive, with a Licensed Product; and Licensor will have the first right, but not the obligation, to prosecute infringement of any Joint Patents in all other cases. The Parties shall first confer and mutually agree regarding any such prosecution of infringement; provided, however, that Licensee shall have the right, without the consent of Licensor, to assert a Joint Patent against a Third Party in a defense of or counterclaim to any claim or assertion of infringement of a Patent or misappropriation of Know-How Controlled by such Third Party.

  • Patent Prosecution 7.1 UFRF shall diligently prosecute and maintain the Licensed Patents using counsel of its choice. UFRF shall provide Licensee with copies of all patent applications amendments, and other filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and foreign patent offices. UFRF will also provide Licensee with copies of office actions and other communications received by UFRF from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and foreign patent offices relating to Licensed Patents. Licensee agrees to keep such information confidential.

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  • Filing Prosecution and Maintenance of Patent Rights 7.1 Patent Filing, Prosecution and Maintenance.

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