Sales Material, Information and Trademarks 6.1 For purposes of this Section 6, “Sales literature or other Promotional material” includes, but is not limited to, portions of the following that use any logo or other trademark related to the Trust, or Underwriter or its affiliates, or refer to the Trust: advertisements (such as material published or designed for use in a newspaper, magazine or other periodical, radio, television, telephone or tape recording, videotape display, signs or billboards, motion pictures, electronic communication or other public media), sales literature (i.e., any written communication distributed or made generally available to customers or the public, including brochures, circulars, research reports, market letters, form letters, seminar texts, reprints or excerpts or any other advertisement, sales literature or published article or electronic communication), educational or training materials or other communications distributed or made generally available to some or all agents or employees in any media, and disclosure documents, shareholder reports and proxy materials. 6.2 You shall furnish, or cause to be furnished to us or our designee, at least one complete copy of each registration statement, prospectus, statement of additional information, private placement memorandum, retirement plan disclosure information or other disclosure documents or similar information, as applicable (collectively “Disclosure Documents”), as well as any report, solicitation for voting instructions, Sales literature or other Promotional materials, and all amendments to any of the above that relate to the Contracts or the Accounts prior to its first use. You shall furnish, or shall cause to be furnished, to us or our designee each piece of Sales literature or other Promotional material in which the Trust or an Adviser is named, at least fifteen (15) Business Days prior to its proposed use. No such material shall be used unless we or our designee approve such material and its proposed use. 6.3 You and your agents shall not give any information or make any representations or statements on behalf of the Trust or concerning the Trust, the Underwriter or an Adviser, other than information or representations contained in and accurately derived from the registration statement or prospectus for the Trust shares (as such registration statement and prospectus may be amended or supplemented from time to time), annual and semi-annual reports of the Trust, Trust-sponsored proxy statements, or in Sales literature or other Promotional material approved by the Trust or its designee, except as required by legal process or regulatory authorities or with the written permission of the Trust or its designee. You shall send us a complete copy of each Disclosure Document and item of Sales literature or other Promotional materials in its final form within twenty (20) days of its first use. 6.4 We shall not give any information or make any representations or statements on behalf of you or concerning you, the Accounts or the Contracts other than information or representations, including naming you as a Trust shareholder, contained in and accurately derived from Disclosure Documents for the Contracts (as such Disclosure Documents may be amended or supplemented from time to time), or in materials approved by you for distribution, including Sales literature or other Promotional materials, except as required by legal process or regulatory authorities or with your written permission. 6.5 Except as provided in Section 6.2, you shall not use any designation comprised in whole or part of the names or marks “Franklin” or “Xxxxxxxxx” or any logo or other trademark relating to the Trust or the Underwriter without prior written consent, and upon termination of this Agreement for any reason, you shall cease all use of any such name or xxxx as soon as reasonably practicable. 6.6 You shall furnish to us ten (10) Business Days prior to its first submission to the SEC or its staff, any request or filing for no-action assurance or exemptive relief naming, pertaining to, or affecting, the Trust, the Underwriter or any of the Portfolios. 6.7 You agree that any posting of Portfolio prospectuses on your website will result in the Portfolio prospectuses: (i) appearing identical to the hard copy printed version or .pdf format file provided to you by us (except that you may reformat .pdf format prospectus files in order to delete blank pages and to insert .pdf format prospectus supplement files provided by us to you); (ii) being clearly associated with the particular Contracts in which they are available and posted in close proximity to the applicable Contract prospectuses; (iii) having no less prominence than prospectuses of any other underlying funds available under the Contracts; and (iv) being used in an authorized manner. Notwithstanding the above, you understand and agree that you are responsible for ensuring that participation in the Portfolios, and any website posting, or other use, of the Portfolio prospectuses is in compliance with this Agreement and applicable state and federal securities and insurance laws and regulations, including as they relate to paper or electronic use of fund prospectuses. The format of such presentation, the script and layout for any website that mentions the Trust, the Underwriter, an Adviser or the Portfolios shall be routed to us as sales literature or other promotional materials, pursuant to Section 6 of this Agreement. In addition, you agree to be solely responsible for maintaining and updating the Portfolio prospectuses’ PDF files (including prospectus supplements) and removing and/or replacing promptly any outdated prospectuses, as necessary, ensuring that any accompanying instructions by us, for using or stopping use are followed. You agree to designate and make available to us a person to act as a single point of communication contact for these purposes. We are not responsible for any additional costs or additional liabilities that may be incurred as a result of your election to place the Portfolio prospectuses on your website. We reserve the right to revoke this authorization, at any time and for any reason, although we may instead make our authorization subject to new procedures. 6.8 Each of your and your distributor’s registered representatives, agents, independent contractors and employees, as applicable, will have access to our websites at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx, and such other URLs through which we may permit you to conduct business concerning the Portfolios from time to time (referred to collectively as the “Site”) as provided herein: (i) upon registration by such individual on a Site, (ii) if you cause a Site Access Request Form (an “Access Form”) to be signed by your authorized supervisory personnel and submitted to us, as a Schedule to, and legally a part of, this Agreement, or (iii) if you provide such individual with the necessary access codes or other information necessary to access the Site through any generic or firm-wide authorization we may grant you from time to time. Upon receipt by us of a completed registration submitted by an individual through the Site or a signed Access Form referencing such individual, we shall be entitled to rely upon the representations contained therein as if you had made them directly hereunder and we will issue a user identification, express number and/or password (collectively, “Access Code”). Any person to whom we issue an Access Code or to whom you provide the necessary Access Codes or other information necessary to access the Site through any generic or firm-wide authorization we may grant you from time to time shall be an “Authorized User.” We shall be entitled to assume that such person validly represents you and that all instructions received from such person are authorized, in which case such person will have access to the Site, including all services and information to which you are authorized to access on the Site. All inquiries and actions initiated by you (including your Authorized Users) are your responsibility, are at your risk and are subject to our review and approval (which could cause a delay in processing). You agree that we do not have a duty to question information or instructions you (including Authorized Users) give to us under this Agreement, and that we are entitled to treat as authorized, and act upon, any such instructions and information you submit to us. You agree to take all reasonable measures to prevent any individual other than an Authorized User from obtaining access to the Site. You agree to inform us if you wish to restrict or revoke the access of any individual Access Code. If you become aware of any loss or theft or unauthorized use of any Access Code, you agree to contact us immediately. You also agree to monitor your (including Authorized Users’) use of the Site to ensure the terms of this Agreement are followed. You also agree that you will comply with all policies and agreements concerning Site usage, including without limitation the Terms of Use Agreement(s) posted on the Site (“Site Terms”), as may be revised and reposted on the Site from time to time, and those Site Terms (as in effect from time to time) are a part of this Agreement. Your duties under this section are considered “services” required under the terms of this Agreement. You acknowledge that the Site is transmitted over the Internet on a reasonable efforts basis and we do not warrant or guarantee their accuracy, timeliness, completeness, reliability or non-infringement. Moreover, you acknowledge that the Site is provided for informational purposes only, and is not intended to comply with any requirements established by any regulatory or governmental agency.
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.
Confidential Information and Intellectual Property (a) Other than in the performance of the Executive’s duties hereunder, the Executive agrees not to use in any manner or disclose, distribute, publish, communicate or in any way cause to be used, disclosed, distributed, published, or communicated in any way or at any time, either while in the Company's employ or at any time thereafter, to any person not employed by the Company, or not engaged to render services to the Company, any Confidential Information (as defined below) obtained while in the employ of the Company. (b) Confidential Information includes any written or unwritten information which relates to and/or is used by the Company or its subsidiaries, affiliates or divisions, including, without limitation (i) the names, addresses, buying habits and other special information regarding past, present and potential customers, employees and suppliers of the Company, (ii) customer and supplier contracts and transactions or price lists of the Company and suppliers, (iii) methods of distribution, (iv) all agreements, files, books, logs, charts, records, studies, reports, processes, schedules and statistical information, (v) data, figures, projections, estimates, pricing data, customer lists, buying manuals or procedures, distribution manuals or procedures, other policy and procedure manuals or handbooks, (vi) supplier information, tax records, personnel histories and records, sales information, and property information, (vii) information regarding the present or future phases of business, (viii) ideas, inventions, trademarks, business information, know-how, processes, techniques, improvements, designs, redesigns, creations, discoveries, trade secrets, and developments, (ix) all computer software licensed or developed by the Company or its subsidiaries, affiliates or divisions, computer programs, computer-based and web-based training programs, and systems, and (x) finances and financial information, but Confidential Information will not include information of the Company or its subsidiaries, affiliates or divisions that (1) became or becomes a matter of public knowledge through sources independent of the Executive, (2) has been or is disclosed by the Company or its subsidiaries, affiliates or divisions without restriction on its use, or (3) has been or is required or specifically permitted to be disclosed by law or governmental order or regulation. The Executive also agrees that, if there is any reasonable doubt whether an item is public knowledge, to not regard the item as public knowledge until and unless the Company’s Chief Executive Officer confirms to the Executive that the information is public knowledge. (c) The provisions of this Section 5 shall not preclude the Executive from disclosing such information to the Executive's professional tax advisor or legal counsel solely to the extent necessary to the rendering of their professional services to the Executive if such individuals agree to keep such information confidential. (d) The Executive agrees that upon leaving the Company’s employ the Executive will remain reasonably available to answer questions from Company officers regarding the Executive’s former duties and responsibilities and the knowledge the Executive obtained in connection therewith. (e) The Executive agrees that upon leaving the Company's employ the Executive will not communicate with, or give statements to, any member of the media (including print, television, or radio media) relating to any matter (including pending or threatening lawsuits or administrative investigations) about which the Executive has knowledge or information (other than knowledge or information that is not Confidential Information) as a result of employment with the Company. The Executive further agrees to notify the Chief Executive Officer or his or her designee immediately after being contacted by any member of the media with respect to any matter affected by this section. (f) The Executive agrees that all information, inventions, and discoveries, whether or not patented or patentable, made or conceived by the Executive, either alone or with others, at any time while employed by the Company, which arises out of such employment or is pertinent to any field of business or research in which, during such employment, the Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates or divisions is engaged or (if such is known to or ascertainable by the Executive) is considering engaging (“Intellectual Property”) shall (i) be and remain the sole property of the Company and the Executive shall not seek a patent with respect to such Intellectual Property without the prior consent of an authorized representative of the Company and (ii) be disclosed promptly to an authorized representative of the Company along with all information the Executive possesses with regard to possible applications and uses. Further, at the request of the Company, and without expense or additional compensation to the Executive, the Executive agrees to execute such documents and perform such other acts as the Company deems necessary to obtain patents on such Intellectual Property in a jurisdiction or jurisdictions designated by the Company, and to assign to the Company or its designee such Intellectual Property and all patent applications and patents relating thereto. (g) The Executive and the Company agree that the Executive intends all original works of authorship within the purview of the copyright laws of the United States authored or created by the Executive in the course of the Executive’s employment with the Company will be works for hire within the meaning of such copyright law. (h) Upon termination of the Executive’s employment, or at any time upon request of the Company, the Executive will return to the Company all Confidential Information and Intellectual Property, in any form, including but not limited to letters, memoranda, reports, notes, notebooks, books of account, drawings, prints, specifications, formulae, data printouts, microfilms, magnetic tapes, disks, recordings, documents, and all copies thereof.
Technical Information The Employer agrees to provide to the Union such information that is available relating to employees in the bargaining unit, as may be required by the Union for collective bargaining purposes.
Intellectual Property; Software Other than as set forth on Schedule 5.12: (a) There are no Copyrights, Patent Rights and Trademarks (including any assumed or fictitious names used by the Company within the previous two (2) years) owned by or licensed to the Company. (b) There is no Software owned by or licensed to the Company except for mass market Software licensed to the Company that is commercially available and subject to “shrink-wrap” or “click-through” license agreements. (c) The Company is not a party to Contracts which relate to: (i) any Copyrights, Patent Rights or Trademarks; (ii) any Trade Secrets owned by or licensed to the Company; and (iii) any Software, other than market Software licensed to the Company that is commercially available and subject to “shrink-wrap” or “click-through” license agreements. (d) The Company owns the entire right, title and interest in and to, or has the valid and enforceable right to use, the Intellectual Property and Software used in the Business as currently conducted, and to the Knowledge of Seller there is no other Intellectual Property necessary for the Company to conduct the Business as currently conducted. (i) No infringement, misappropriation or violation of any Intellectual Property, or any rights of publicity or privacy relating to the use of names, likenesses, voices, signatures or biographical information, of any other Person has occurred or results in any way from the operation of the Business or the use, sale or distribution of any Intellectual Property owned by or licensed exclusively to the Company; (ii) no claim of any infringement, misappropriation, violation or dilution of any Intellectual Property or any such rights of any other Person has been made or asserted in respect of the operation of the Business; (iii) no claim of invalidity of any Intellectual Property owned by the Company has been made by any other Person; (iv) no Proceedings are pending or, to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened that challenge the validity, ownership or use of any Intellectual Property owned by the Company; (v) the Company has not had notice of, and, to the Knowledge of Seller, there is no basis for, a claim against the Company that the operations, activities, products, Software, equipment or processes of the Business infringe, misappropriate, violate or dilute any Intellectual Property or any such rights of any other Person; and (vi) to the Knowledge of Seller, no Person infringes, misappropriates or violates any Intellectual Property owned or exclusively licensed by or to Seller, in each case except as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
COMMERCIAL COMPUTER SOFTWARE If performance involves acquisition of existing computer software, the following Company Exhibit is incorporated by reference: CCS Commercial Computer Software License (Company – July 2010).
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Ownership and Intellectual Property Rights 1. This Agreement gives you limited rights to use the Software. Syncro retains any and all rights, title and interest in and to the Software and all copies thereof, including copyrights, patents, trade secret rights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights. All rights not specifically granted in this Agreement, including International Copyrights, are reserved by Syncro. The structure, organization and code of the Software are valuable trade secrets and confidential information of Syncro.
Confidentiality and Intellectual Property Rights (a) The parties acknowledge that the information which the disclosing party submits to the receiving party in connection with this Agreement includes disclosing party's confidential and proprietary information, both of a technical and commercial nature. Receiving party agrees not to disclose such information to third parties without disclosing party's prior written consent. (b) The intellectual property rights, copyrights and other rights connected therewith, in respect of drawings, specifications, documents, data and software made available by the Seller to the Buyer shall be owned solely by the Seller and shall remain its property. Buyer is not allowed to permit any third party to fabricate the Products or any parts thereof. (c) The Buyer is obliged to inform the Seller of any intellectual property rights that may exist with respect to the Equipment if Services are rendered for Equipment not supplied by the Seller. In case of third-party claims that may be asserted on the grounds of the existence of intellectual property rights on the Equipment or Products not delivered by the Seller, the Buyer shall indemnify and hold harmless the Seller against any such claims. (d) With regard to software the Seller grants to the Buyer a non-exclusive and non-transmissible right to use the intellectual property right, in machine-readable, object code form, on one system limited to the operation of the agreed Equipment. The software license shall be unlimited in time and free of charge, if not otherwise agreed. Neither the Buyer nor any third party shall modify, reproduce, translate, reverse engineer, transfer from object code to the source code or decompile the Seller´s software. The license does not entitle the Buyer to use the software for any equipment other than the agreed Equipment, to grant sub-licenses or to copy the software documents without the Seller ´s prior written consent. The Buyer is only entitled to make a single copy for backup purposes to be able to reload the system limited to the one agreed Equipment. If the Buyer exchanges the agreed Equipment, new software has to be purchased and installed. In case of termination of the Agreement the license terminates and all copies of the software and the documentation shall be returned to the Seller promptly after termination.
Use of Intellectual Property The Adviser grants to the Sub-Adviser a sublicense to use the trademarks, service marks, logos, names, or any other proprietary designations of the Adviser (“AdvisorShares Marks”) on a non-exclusive basis. The Sub-Adviser will acquire no rights in the AdvisorShares Marks, and all goodwill of the AdvisorShares Marks shall inure to and remain with the Adviser. The Sub-Adviser agrees that neither it, nor any of its affiliates, will knowingly in any way refer directly or indirectly to its relationship with the Trust, the Fund(s), the Adviser or any of their respective affiliates or use AdvisorShares Marks in offering, marketing or other promotional materials without the prior express written consent of the Adviser, which approval will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, except as required by rule, regulation or upon the request of a governmental authority. Notwithstanding the forgoing, the Sub-Adviser and its affiliates may, without obtaining the Adviser’s prior approval, refer directly or indirectly to its relationship with the Trust, the Fund(s), the Adviser or any of their respective affiliates and use AdvisorShares Marks in offering, marketing or other promotional materials provided that such materials were previously approved by the Adviser and remain in substantially the same form.
