Patent Maintenance All annuity and maintenance fees that are necessary in order to keep the Patents in force as of the Effective Date have been paid by Seller, and no payment of annuities or fees, or papers to be filed in patent offices, are required to be made within the three-month period after the Effective Date.
Prosecution and Maintenance of Patent Rights (a) Subject to commercially appropriate and reasonable efforts (subject to oversight by the Advisory Committee), Genetronics shall at its own expense and by counsel of its own choice, file, prosecute and maintain all patent applications and patents within the Genetronics Patent Rights and any inventions conceived of and reduced to practice solely by its employees and agents hereunder. Genetronics shall do everything commercially appropriate and reasonable (subject to oversight by the Advisory Committee), including without limitation filing all documents and paying all fees to the appropriate patent offices to maintain the patents and pending patent applications in effect. Genetronics agrees to promptly provide Ethicon with copies of all correspondence to and from the patent offices related to the pending patent applications within the Genetronics Patent Rights. Ethicon shall have the right to provide comments to Genetronics regarding the content of such correspondence, and to comment thereon. Genetronics shall consider all such comments offered by Ethicon; provided, that all final decisions with respect to such prosecution shall rest solely in the discretion of Genetronics. In the event that Genetronics desires to abandon any such patent application or patent within the Genetronics Patent Rights, or if Genetronics later declines to prosecute or maintain any such patent application or patent, Genetronics shall provide reasonable prior written notice to Ethicon of such intention and Ethicon shall have the right, but not the obligation at its own expense, to file, prosecute, and maintain such patent application or patent, which Genetronics shall assign to Ethicon and shall no longer be subject to the terms of this Agreement.
(b) The Advisory Committee shall determine which party shall be responsible for the filing, prosecution and maintenance of patent applications and patents within the Joint Patent Rights on a case by case basis, with the understanding that it is the parties' intent that Genetronics shall be initially responsible for the filing, prosecution and maintenance of patent applications and patents within the Joint Patent Rights related to the Drug Delivery System. In the event that a party responsible for the filing, prosecution and maintenance of any patent application or patent within the Joint Patent Rights desires to abandon such patent application or patent, or if such party later declines responsibility for such patent application or patent, such party shall provide reasonable prior written notice to the other party of its intention to abandon or decline responsibility, and the other party shall have the right, but not the obligation, to prepare, file, prosecute, and maintain any such patent application or patent within the Joint
Prosecution and Maintenance of Patents (a) Subject to any Adolor third party agreements, Adolor shall prepare, file prosecute and maintain in the Territory and at its own costs, upon consultation with Santen, the Adolor Patents and any jointly owned patents. Adolor shall notify Santen of the status of all patent filings (including, without limitation, the grant of any Adolor Patents) and, upon the request of Santen, shall provide advance copies of any papers relating to the filing, prosecution, or maintenance of such Adolor Patents. For Adolor Patents and patent applications, and for jointly owned patents and patent applications, Santen shall reimburse Adolor for one-half of any and all costs for the filing, prosecution, or maintenance of such patents and patent applications incurred by Adolor. Adolor shall submit an invoice for reimbursement of such patent costs to Santen and Santen shall pay such invoice within thirty (30) days of submission by Adolor. Santen shall have the right to audit the patent costs subject to reimbursement once per year. Such audit rights shall expire twenty- four (24) months after an invoice is submitted by Adolor for payment.
(b) Subject to Section 8.04 (b), all amounts for patent applications paid by Santen under Section 8.02
(a) for each country of the Territory shall be creditable on a country-by-country basis against future Royalties payable to Adolor by Santen for each such country; provided, however, that no more than **% of the Royalties payable for any period in such country shall be paid by crediting amounts paid by Santen under Section 8.02(a), and further **=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. provided that Santen may carry forward all amounts paid under Section 8.02(a) for crediting against future Royalties in such country under this Section 8.02(b) until such amounts are exhausted.
Licensee Responsibilities a. Licensee understands and agrees that all decisions regarding the tax treatment of items reflected on Tax Returns prepared by Licensee using the Software are made solely by Licensee and that use of the Software does not relieve Licensee of responsibility for the preparation, accuracy, content, and review of such Tax Returns.
b. Licensee acknowledges that Licensee does not rely upon Drake for advice regarding the appropriate tax treatment of items reflected on Tax Returns prepared and/or processed using the Software. Licensee will review any computations made by the Software and satisfy Licensee that those computations and reporting are correct.
c. Licensee is responsible for the keying of all information accurately into the Software, including but not limited to direct deposit information as it pertains to taxpayers’ data for receiving refunds.
d. Licensee agrees to abide by and comply with all regulations and laws which pertain to the commercial preparation and electronic filing of Tax Returns, including but not limited to IRS Regulations, publications and other applicable laws. It is a violation of this Agreement AND applicable law for Licensee to falsely indicate to Drake that Licensee has obtained taxpayer’s Code 26 CFR §301.7216 compliant “Consent to
e. Licensee agrees not to use the Software or any of Drake’s services for any illegal, fraudulent or otherwise improper purpose. These may include, but are not limited to misrepresenting taxpayer information, falsely representing identities, activities that may circumvent security measures, technical or regulatory requirements or other IRS or State non-compliant activities. If it is determined, in Drake’s sole discretion, Licensee is non- compliant with this Section 4(e), or Licensee has attempted to misrepresent, mislead or otherwise provide false representation(s) as to its compliance with this or any other provision of this Agreement, Licensee shall forfeit all rights to use the Software or services of Drake provided in this Agreement, including but not limited to any rights to refunds of any monies paid to Drake.
f. Licensee is solely responsible for the backup and retention of all data, unless such responsibility is specifically accepted by Drake.
g. Licensee agrees to provide Drake a copy of Licensee’s completed E-File Application Summary, or other documentation required by Drake regarding ownership of an EFIN used with the Software by Licensee, prior to using the electronic filing services of Drake. Licensee understands that in order to use the electronic filing services of Drake or the IRS a valid EFIN must be obtained and maintained as current from the IRS.
h. Licensee shall be responsible for acquiring and maintaining an information technology infrastructure with sufficient capabilities to operate the Software and comply with all provisions of this Agreement.
i. Licensee shall not decompile, reverse assemble, or reverse engineer any Software or other information disclosed to Licensee hereunder.
j. Licensee shall be responsible for complying with all export controls relating to the Software.
k. Licensee shall be responsible to safeguard and prevent unauthorized access to Taxpayer Data. Licensee shall be responsible to secure usernames and passwords that allow access to Taxpayer Data.
l. Licensee acknowledges that by using a computer system and the Software to prepare and transmit Tax Returns electronically, Licensee consents to the disclosure of all information relating to its use of the computer system and the Software to generate Tax Returns and to the electronic transmission of Tax Returns to the state and/or federal agency as applicable under existing law.
m. Licensee acknowledges and consents to Drake’s collection through use of the Software of non-Tax Return related data and information, including IP address, device and system identifications, and other information required by Drake for its internal business purposes, fraud prevention, data privacy, and maintaining the security and integrity of the tax system and/or the Software.
Maintenance of Patents 20 SECTION 6.11 Use of Proceeds...................................................................20 SECTION 6.12 Disclosure........................................................................20 SECTION 6.13
Maintenance of Services A. Reseller will adopt and adhere to the standards contained in the applicable BellSouth Work Center Interface Agreement regarding maintenance and installation of service.
B. Services resold under the Company’s Tariffs and facilities and equipment provided by the Company shall be maintained by the Company.
C. Reseller or its end users may not rearrange, move, disconnect, remove or attempt to repair any facilities owned by the Company, other than by connection or disconnection to any interface means used, except with the written consent of the Company.
D. Reseller accepts responsibility to notify the Company of situations that arise that may result in a service problem.
E. Reseller will be the Company's single point of contact for all repair calls on behalf of Reseller’s end users. The parties agree to provide one another with toll-free contact numbers for such purposes.
F. Reseller will contact the appropriate repair centers in accordance with procedures established by the Company.
G. For all repair requests, Reseller accepts responsibility for adhering to the Company's prescreening guidelines prior to referring the trouble to the Company.
H. The Company will xxxx Reseller for handling troubles that are found not to be in the Company's network pursuant to its standard time and material charges. The standard time and material charges will be no more than what BellSouth charges to its retail customers for the same services.
I. The Company reserves the right to contact Reseller’s customers, if deemed necessary, for maintenance purposes.
Prosecution and Maintenance DOV shall be responsible, at its own expense, for the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance (including, without limitation, any interferences, oppositions, reissue proceedings and reexaminations) of the DOV Patents. Wyeth shall reasonably consult with DOV with respect to the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of the DOV Patents. DOV shall keep Wyeth advised of the status of such activities and shall also inform Wyeth in a timely manner of any material communications DOV receives from the relevant patent office with respect to such activities. DOV shall give notice to Wyeth of any desire to cease preparation, filing, prosecution or maintenance of any DOV Patent on a country-by-country basis, and in such case, to the extent not in conflict with DOV’s obligations under any agreement under which DOV has licensed such DOV Patent to a third party for use in the Field (as of the Signature Date or thereafter), Wyeth shall have the right to elect to continue preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of such DOV Patent. In the event that Wyeth elects to continue any such activities for such DOV Patent, Wyeth shall reasonably consult with DOV with respect thereto and shall consider in good xxxxx Xxxxx’x reasonable views with respect to such activities, and DOV agrees to transfer to Wyeth all information reasonably requested by Wyeth for Wyeth to conduct such activities and to otherwise reasonably cooperate with Wyeth in such actions. Wyeth shall keep DOV advised of the status of such actions and shall also inform DOV in a timely manner of any material communications Wyeth receives from the relevant patent office with respect to such activities. Each party shall bear its own costs with respect to any preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of any DOV Patent for which it is responsible.
Joint Responsibility If the Seller determines that the Interface Problem is attributable partially to the design of a Warranted Part and partially to the design of any Supplier Part, the Seller will, if so requested by the Buyer, seek a solution to the Interface Problem through cooperative efforts of the Seller and any Supplier involved. The Seller will promptly advise the Buyer of such corrective action as may be proposed by the Seller and any such Supplier. Such proposal will be consistent with any then existing obligations of the Seller hereunder and of any such Supplier towards the Buyer. Such corrective action, unless reasonably rejected by the Buyer, will constitute full satisfaction of any claim the Buyer may have against either the Seller or any such Supplier with respect to such Interface Problem.
Patent Prosecution and Maintenance 14.1 REGENTS will diligently prosecute and maintain the United States and foreign patent applications and patents under REGENTS' PATENT RIGHTS, subject to LICENSEE’S reimbursement REGENTS’ out of pocket costs under Paragraph 14.3 below, and all patent applications and patents under REGENTS’ PATENT RIGHTS will be held in the name of REGENTS. REGENTS will have sole responsibility for retaining and instructing patent counsel, but continued use of such counsel at any point in the patent prosecution process subsequent to initial filing of a U.S. patent application covering the INVENTION shall be subject to the approval of LICENSEE. If LICENSEE rejects three of REGENTS’ choice of prosecution counsel, then REGENTS may select new prosecution counsel without LICENSEE’s consent. REGENTS shall promptly provide LICENSEE with copies of all relevant documentation so that LICENSEE may be currently informed and apprised of the continuing prosecution and LICENSEE agrees to keep this documentation confidential in accordance with Article 26. LICENSEE may comment upon such documentation, provided, however, that if LICENSEE has not commented upon such documentation in reasonable time for REGENTS to sufficiently consider LICENSEE’s comments prior to the deadline for filing a response with the relevant government patent office, REGENTS will be free to respond appropriately without consideration of LICENSEE's comments. LICENSEE and LICENSEE's patent counsel will have the right to consult with patent counsel chosen by REGENTS.
14.2 REGENTS will use reasonable efforts to prepare or amend any patent application to include claims reasonably requested by LICENSEE to protect the LICENSED PRODUCTS contemplated to be SOLD or to be practiced under this AGREEMENT.
14.3 Subject to Paragraphs 14.4 all past, present, and future costs for preparing, filing, prosecuting, and maintaining all United States and foreign patent applications, and patents under REGENTS’ PATENT RIGHTS will be borne by LICENSEE, so long as the licenses granted to LICENSEE herein are exclusive. Payments are due within thirty (30) days after receipt of invoice from REGENTS. If, however, REGENTS reduces the exclusive licenses granted herein to non-exclusive licenses pursuant to Paragraphs 7.3, 7.4, or 7.5 and REGENTS grants additional license(s), the costs of preparing, filing, prosecuting and maintaining such patent applications and patents will be divided equally among the licensed parties from the effective date of each subsequently granted license AGREEMENT.
14.4 LICENSEE's obligation to underwrite and to pay all domestic and foreign patent filing, prosecution, and maintenance costs will continue for so long as this AGREEMENT remains in effect, provided, however, that LICENSEE may terminate its obligations with respect to any given patent application or patent in any or all designated countries upon three (3) months’ written notice to REGENTS. REGENTS will use its best efforts to curtail patent costs when such a notice is received from LICENSEE. REGENTS may continue prosecution and/or maintenance of such applications or patents at its sole discretion and expense; provided, however, that LICENSEE will have no further right or licenses thereunder.
Development Responsibilities From and after the Effective Date, BMS shall assume sole responsibility for the Development of Compounds and Products in the Field in the Territory during the Term at its own cost and expense (including responsibility for all funding, resourcing and decision-making, subject to Sections 3.3 and 3.4), except with respect to the performance by Ambrx of the Research Program activities assigned to Ambrx pursuant to the Research Plan and as otherwise may be agreed upon by the Parties in writing. BMS, by itself or through its Affiliates and Sublicensees, shall use Diligent Efforts to Develop a Compound or Product in the Field in accordance with the Development Plan for the purpose of obtaining a Regulatory Approval in each Major Market [***]. For clarity, it is understood and acknowledged that Diligent Efforts in the Development of Compounds and Products may include sequential implementation of Clinical Trials and/or intervals between Clinical Trials for data interpretation and clinical program planning and approval.
