Common use of Reservation of Rights to Reverse Engineer Clause in Contracts

Reservation of Rights to Reverse Engineer. LICENSEE may utilize and study the design, performance and operation of the N64 System and the Licensed Proprietary Information solely for the purpose of developing software which is compatible with the N64 System for license under this Agreement. LICENSEE shall not, directly or indirectly, reverse engineer or aid or assist in the reverse engineering of all or any part of the N64 System, including the hardware, software, input controller and/or tools. For purposes of this Agreement, "reverse engineering" shall mean: (a) the x-ray electronic scanning and/or physical or chemical stripping of semiconductor components; (b) the disassembly, decompilation, decryption, simulation, debugging or code tracing of microcode; and/or (c) the disassembly, decompilation, decryption, simulation, debugging or code tracing of object code or executable code, specifically including, but not limited to, any NINTENDO supplied or developed libraries or microcode. The limitations set forth in this Section 3.4 shall not preclude LICENSEE from engaging in reverse engineering of any Game code which was developed solely by LICENSEE and related only to the Game and was not supplied by nor derived from any code supplied by NINTENDO.

Reservation of Rights to Reverse Engineer. LICENSEE may utilize and ----------------------------------------- study the design, performance and operation of the N64 System and the Licensed Proprietary Information solely for the purpose of developing software which is compatible with the N64 System for license under this Agreement. LICENSEE shall not, directly or indirectly, reverse engineer or aid or assist in the reverse engineering of all or any part of the N64 System, including the hardware, software, input controller and/or tools. For purposes of this Agreement, "reverse engineering" shall mean: (a) the x-ray electronic scanning and/or physical or chemical stripping of semiconductor components; (b) the disassembly, decompilation, decryption, simulation, debugging or code tracing of microcode; and/or (c) the disassembly, decompilation, decryption, simulation, debugging or code tracing of object code or executable code, specifically including, but not limited to, any NINTENDO supplied or developed libraries or microcode. The limitations set forth in this Section 3.4 shall not preclude LICENSEE from engaging in reverse engineering of any Game code which was developed solely by LICENSEE and related only to the Game and was not supplied by nor derived from any code supplied by NINTENDO.