Copyright Infringement Contractor shall also indemnify, defend and hold harmless all Indemnitees from all suits or claims for infringement of the patent rights, copyright, trade secret, trade name, trademark, service xxxx, or any other proprietary right of any person or persons in consequence of the use by the City, or any of its boards, commissions, officers, or employees of articles, work or deliverables supplied in the performance of Services. Infringement of patent rights, copyrights, or other proprietary rights in the performance of this Agreement, if not the basis for indemnification under the law, shall nevertheless be considered a material breach of contract.
Copyright/Trademark/Patent Consultant understands and agrees that all matters produced under this Agreement shall become the property of District and cannot be used without District's express written permission. District shall have all right, title and interest in said matters, including the right to secure and maintain the copyright, trademark and/or patent of said matter in the name of the District. Consultant consents to use of Consultant's name in conjunction with the sale, use, performance and distribution of the matters, for any purpose and in any medium.
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PATENT, TRADEMARK AND COPYRIGHT INDEMNITY Seller will indemnify, defend and hold harmless Buyer and its customer from all claims, suits, actions, awards (including, but not limited to, awards based on intentional infringement of patents known at the time of such infringement, exceeding actual damages and/or including attorneys' fees and/or costs), liabilities, damages, costs and attorneys' fees related to the actual or alleged infringement of any United States or foreign intellectual property right (including, but not limited to, any right in a patent, copyright, industrial design or semiconductor mask work, or based on misappropriation or wrongful use of information or documents) and arising out of the manufacture, sale or use of products by either Buyer or its customer. Buyer and/or its customer will duly notify Seller of any such claim, suit or action; and Seller will, at its own expense, fully defend such claim, suit or action on behalf of indemnitees. Seller will have no obligation under this article with regard to any infringement arising from (a) Seller's compliance with formal specifications issued by Buyer where infringement could not be avoided in complying with such specifications or (b) use or sale of products in combination with other items when such infringement would not have occurred from the use or sale of those products solely for the purpose for which they were designed or sold by Seller. For purposes of this article only, the term Buyer will include The Boeing Company and all Boeing subsidiaries and all officers, agents and employees of Boeing or any Boeing subsidiary.
Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights (a) Section 3.17 of the Seller Disclosure Schedule contains a true and complete list of Seller Intellectual Property and includes details of all due dates for further filings, maintenance, payments or other actions falling due within twelve (12) months of the Closing Date. All of Seller's patents, patent applications, registered trademarks, and trademark applications, and registered copyrights remain in good standing with all fees and filings due as of the Closing Date duly made and the due dates specified in the Seller Disclosure Schedule are accurate and complete.
(b) The Seller Intellectual Property consists solely of items and rights which are: (i) owned by Seller; or (ii) rightfully used by Seller pursuant to a valid license ("SELLER LICENSED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY"), the parties and date of each such license agreement and each material agreement in which Seller is the licensor or owner of the subject rights in the agreement being set forth on Section 3.17(b) of the Seller Disclosure Schedule. Seller has all rights in Seller Intellectual Property necessary to carry out Seller's current activities (and had all rights necessary to carry out its former activities at the time such activities were being conducted), including without limitation, to the extent required to carry out such activities, rights to make, use, reproduce, modify, adopt, create derivative works based on, translate, distribute (directly and indirectly), transmit, display and perform publicly, license, rent and lease and, other than with respect to the Seller Licensed Intellectual Property, assign and sell, the Seller Intellectual Property.
(c) The reproduction, manufacturing, distribution, licensing, sublicensing or sale of any Seller Intellectual Property, now used or offered or proposed for use, licensing or sale by Seller does not infringe on any patent, copyright, trademark, service xxxx, trade name, trade dress, firm name, Internet domain name, logo, trade dress, of any person and does not constitute a misappropriation of any trade secret. No claims (i) challenging the validity, effectiveness or ownership by Seller of any of the Seller Intellectual Property, or (ii) to the effect that the use, distribution, licensing, sublicensing or sale of the Seller Intellectual Property as now used or offered or proposed for use, licensing, sublicensing or sale by Seller infringes or will infringe on any intellectual property or other proprietary right of any person have been asserted or, to the knowledge of Seller, are threatened by any person or have been made or threatened by any person against the Seller's distributors. To the knowledge of Seller, there is no unauthorized use, infringement or misappropriation of any of the Seller Intellectual Property by any third party, employee or former employee.
(d) All Seller Intellectual Property has been solely developed by full time employees within the scope of his or her employment with the Seller or within the scope of his or her employment with companies acquired by Seller prior to the date hereof. All employee contribution or participation in the conception and development of the Seller Intellectual Property on behalf of Seller constitutes work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment in accordance with applicable federal and state law that has accorded Seller ownership of all tangible and intangible property thereby arising.
(e) Seller is not, nor as a result of the execution or delivery of this Agreement, or performance of Seller's obligations hereunder, will Seller be, in violation of any material license, sublicense, agreement or instrument to which Seller is a party or otherwise bound, nor will execution or delivery of this Agreement, or performance of Seller's obligations hereunder, cause the diminution, termination or forfeiture of any material Seller Intellectual Property.
(f) Section 3.17(f) of the Seller Disclosure Schedule contains a true and complete list of all of Seller's internally-developed software programs ("SELLER SOFTWARE PROGRAMS"). Seller owns full and unencumbered right and good, valid and marketable title to such Seller Software Programs and all Seller Intellectual Property free and clear of all mortgages, pledges, liens, security interests, conditional sales agreements or encumbrances.
(g) The Seller Software Programs (i) have been designed to ensure year 2000 compatibility, which includes, but is not limited to, being able to provide specific dates and calculate spans of dates within and between twentieth century and twenty-first century, prior to, including and following January 1, 2000; (ii) operate and will operate in accordance with their specifications and correctly process day and date calculations for dates prior and up to December 31, 1999, and on and after January 1, 2000, prior to, during and after the calendar year 2000; and (iii) shall not end abnormally or provide invalid or incorrect results as a result of date data, specifically including date data which represents or references different centuries or more than one century.
Patent/Copyright Materials/Proprietary Infringement Unless otherwise expressly provided in this Contract, Contractor shall be solely responsible for clearing the right to use any patented or copyrighted materials in the performance of this Contract. Contractor warrants that any software as modified through services provided hereunder will not infringe upon or violate any patent, proprietary right or trade secret right of any third party. Contractor agrees that, in accordance with the more specific requirement contained in paragraph 18 below, it shall indemnify, defend and hold County and County Indemnitees harmless from any and all such claims and be responsible for payment of all costs, damages, penalties and expenses related to or arising from such claim(s), including, but not limited to, attorney’s fees, costs and expenses.
PATENT AND COPYRIGHT INDEMNITY CONTRACTOR represents that it knows of no allegations, claims, or threatened claims that the materials, services, hardware or software (“CONTRACTOR Products”) provided to COUNTY under this Agreement infringe any patent, copyright or other proprietary right. CONTRACTOR shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless COUNTY of, from and against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs expenses and amounts (collectively, “Losses”) arising out of or in connection with an assertion that any CONTRACTOR Products or the use thereof, infringe any patent, copyright or other proprietary right of any third party.
a. COUNTY will: (1) notify CONTRACTOR promptly of such claim, suit or assertion; (2) permit CONTRACTOR to defend, compromise, or settle the claim; and, (3) provide, on a reasonable basis, information to enable CONTRACTOR to do so. CONTRACTOR shall not agree without COUNTY’s prior written consent, to any settlement, which would require COUNTY to pay money or perform some affirmative act in order to continue using the CONTRACTOR Products.
b. If CONTRACTOR is obligated to defend COUNTY pursuant to this Section 38 and fails to do so after reasonable notice from COUNTY, COUNTY may defend itself and/or settle such proceeding, and CONTRACTOR shall pay to COUNTY any and all losses, damages and expenses (including attorney’s fees and costs) incurred in relationship with COUNTY’s defense and/or settlement of such proceeding.
c. In the case of any such claim of infringement, CONTRACTOR shall either, at its option, (1) procure for COUNTY the right to continue using the CONTRACTOR Products; or (2) replace or modify the CONTRACTOR Products so that that they become non-infringing, but equivalent in functionality and performance.
d. Notwithstanding this Section 38, COUNTY retains the right and ability to defend itself, at its own expense, against any claims that CONTRACTOR Products infringe any patent, copyright, or other intellectual property right.
Intellectual Property Rights Infringement HP will defend and/or settle any claims against Customer that allege that an HP-branded product or service as supplied under this Agreement infringes the intellectual property rights of a third party. HP will rely on Customer’s prompt notification of the claim and cooperation with our defense. HP may modify the product or service so as to be non-infringing and materially equivalent, or we may procure a license. If these options are not available, we will refund to Customer the amount paid for the affected product in the first year or the depreciated value thereafter or, for support services, the balance of any pre-paid amount or, for professional services, the amount paid. HP is not responsible for claims resulting from any unauthorized use of the products or services.
Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Licenses All patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, service xxxx applications, copyrights, copyright applications, design rights, tradenames, assumed names, trade secrets and licenses owned or utilized by any Borrower are set forth on Schedule 5.9, are valid and have been duly registered or filed with all appropriate Governmental Bodies and constitute all of the intellectual property rights which are necessary for the operation of its business; there is no objection to or pending challenge to the validity of any such patent, trademark, copyright, design rights, tradename, trade secret or license and no Borrower is aware of any grounds for any challenge, except as set forth in Schedule 5.9 hereto. Each patent, patent application, patent license, trademark, trademark application, trademark license, service xxxx, service xxxx application, service xxxx license, design rights, copyright, copyright application and copyright license owned or held by any Borrower and all trade secrets used by any Borrower consist of original material or property developed by such Borrower or was lawfully acquired by such Borrower from the proper and lawful owner thereof. Each of such items has been maintained so as to preserve the value thereof from the date of creation or acquisition thereof. With respect to all software used by any Borrower, such Borrower is in possession of all source and object codes related to each piece of software or is the beneficiary of a source code escrow agreement, each such source code escrow agreement being listed on Schedule 5.9 hereto.
NOTICE AND ASSISTANCE REGARDING PATENT AND COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT The provisions of this clause shall be applicable only if the amount of this Agreement exceeds $100,000.
(a) The Contractor shall report to the Government through BSA promptly and in reasonable written detail, each notice or claim of patent or copyright infringement based on the performance of this Agreement of which the Contractor has knowledge.
(b) In the event of any claim or suit against the Government on account of any alleged patent or copyright infringement arising out of the performance of this Agreement or out of the use of any supplies furnished or work or services performed hereunder, the Contractor shall furnish to the Government when requested by the Government or BSA, all evidence and information in possession of the Contractor pertaining to such suit or claim. Such evidence and information shall be furnished at the expense of the Government except where the Contractor has agreed to indemnify the Government or BSA.
(c) This clause shall be included in all subcontracts.
