Patents and Inventions The Contractor shall promptly and fully report to the Department any discovery or invention arising out of or developed in the course of performance of this Agreement. If the services under this Agreement are supported by a federal grant of funds, the Contractor shall promptly and fully report to the federal government for the federal government to make a determination as to whether patent protection on such invention shall be sought and how the rights in the invention or discovery, including rights under any patent issued thereon, shall be disposed of and administered in order to protect the public interest.
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).
Improvements and Inventions Any and all improvements or inventions that Employee may make or participate in during the Employment Term, unless wholly unrelated to the business of Company and its affiliates and not produced within the scope of Employee’s employment hereunder, shall be the sole and exclusive property of Company. Employee shall, whenever requested by Company, execute and deliver any and all documents that Company deems appropriate in order to apply for and obtain patents or copyrights in improvements or inventions or in order to assign and/or convey to Company the sole and exclusive right, title and interest in and to such improvements, inventions, patents, copyrights or applications.
Inventions and Patents For purposes of this Agreement, “Inventions” includes, without limitation, information, inventions, contributions, improvements, ideas, or discoveries, whether protectable or not, and whether or not conceived or made during work hours. Executive agrees that all Inventions conceived or made by Executive during the period of employment with Employer belong to Employer, provided they grow out of Executive’s work with Employer or are related in some manner to the Business, including, without limitation, research and product development, and projected business of Employer or its affiliated companies. Accordingly, Executive will:
a. Make adequate written records of such Inventions, which records will be Employer’s property;
b. Assign to Employer, at its request, any rights Executive may have to such Inventions for the U.S. and all foreign countries;
c. Waive and agree not to assert any moral rights Executive may have or acquire in any Inventions and agree to provide written waivers from time to time as requested by Employer; and
d. Assist Employer (at Employer’s expense) in obtaining and maintaining patents or copyright registrations with respect to such Inventions. Executive understands and agrees that Employer or its designee will determine, in its sole and absolute discretion, whether an application for patent will be filed on any Invention that is the exclusive property of Employer, as set forth above, and whether such an application will be abandoned prior to issuance of a patent. Employer will pay to Executive, either during or after the term of this Agreement, the following amounts if Executive is sole inventor, or Executive’s proportionate share if Executive is joint inventor: $750 upon filing of the initial application for patent on such Invention; and $1,500 upon issuance of a patent resulting from such initial patent application, provided Executive is named as an inventor in the patent. Executive further agrees that Executive will promptly disclose in writing to Employer during the term of Executive’s employment and for one (1) year thereafter, all Inventions whether developed during the time of such employment or thereafter (whether or not Employer has rights in such Inventions) so that Executive’s rights and Employer’s rights in such Inventions can be determined. Except as set forth on the initialed Exhibit B (List of Inventions) to this Agreement, if any, Executive represents and warrants that Executive has no Inventions, software, writings or other works of authorship useful to Employer in the normal course of the Business, which were conceived, made or written prior to the date of this Agreement and which are excluded from the operation of this Agreement.
Opinion of Intellectual Property Counsel for Company At the Closing Time, the Representatives shall have received the favorable opinion, dated the Closing Time, of Seed IP Law Group LLP, counsel for the Company with respect to intellectual property matters, in the form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters previously agreed upon by the Representatives and such counsel, together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters if requested.
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.
Opinion of Intellectual Property Counsel On each of the First Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, the Representatives shall have received the opinion of Xxxxx Day LLP, counsel for the Company with respect to certain intellectual property matters, dated as of such date, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-1 and to such further effect as the Representatives shall reasonably request.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS - INVENTION AND PATENT RIGHTS A. General
1. NASA has determined that 51 U.S.C. § 20135(b) does not apply to this Agreement. Therefore, title to inventions made (conceived or first actually reduced to practice) under this Agreement remain with the respective inventing party(ies). No invention or patent rights are exchanged or granted under this Agreement, except as provided herein.
Protection and Registration of Intellectual Property Rights Borrower shall: (a) protect, defend and maintain the validity and enforceability of any and all of its intellectual property that (individually or in the aggregate) is material to Borrower’s business (individually and collectively, “Material Intellectual Property”); (b) promptly advise Bank in writing of known material infringements of its Material Intellectual Property; and (c) not allow any Material Intellectual Property to be abandoned, forfeited or dedicated to the public without Bank’s written consent. Borrower hereby represents and warrants that, as of the Effective Date, Borrower does not own any maskworks, computer software, or other copyrights of Borrower that are registered (or the subject of an application for registration) with the United States Copyright Office (collectively, the “Registered Copyrights”). Borrower will NOT register with the United States Copyright Office (or apply for such registration of) any of Borrower’s maskworks, computer software, or other copyrights, unless Borrower: (x) provides Bank with at least fifteen (15) days prior written notice of its intent to register such copyrights or mask works together with a copy of the application it intends to file with the United States Copyright Office (excluding exhibits thereto); (y) executes and delivers a security agreement or such other documents as Bank may reasonably request to maintain the perfection and priority of Bank’s security interest in the copyrights or mask works intended to be registered with the United States Copyright Office; and (z) records such security agreement with the United States Copyright Office contemporaneously with or promptly (but in no event more than 10 days) after filing the copyright or mask work application(s) with the United States Copyright Office. Borrower shall promptly provide to Bank a copy of the application(s) actually filed with the United States Copyright Office together with evidence of the recording of the security agreement necessary for Bank to maintain the perfection and priority of its security interest in the copyrights or mask works intended to be registered with the United States Copyright Office. Borrower hereby represents and warrants that, as of the Effective Date, the IP Security Agreement identifies all patents (constituting Material Intellectual Property) and trademarks (constituting Material Intellectual Property) of Borrower that are registered (or the subject of an application for registration) with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. From and after the Effective Date, Borrower shall provide written notice to Bank of any application filed by Borrower in the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a patent (constituting Material Intellectual Property) or to register a trademark (constituting Material Intellectual Property) or service xxxx (constituting Material Intellectual Property) within 30 days after any such filing, and, upon the request of Bank, Borrower shall promptly execute and deliver a security agreement or such other documents as Bank may reasonably request with respect to such additional patents (constituting Material Intellectual Property) and/or trademarks (constituting Material Intellectual Property) of Borrower that are registered (or the subject of an application for registration) with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The foregoing notwithstanding, Bank shall not acquire any interest in any intent to use a federal trademark application for a trademark, servicemark, or other xxxx filed on Borrower’s behalf prior to the filing under applicable law of a verified statement of use (or equivalent) for such xxxx that is the subject of such application.
Protection of Intellectual Property Subject to and except as permitted by the Credit Agreement, such Grantor shall use commercially reasonable efforts not to do any act or omit to do any act whereby any of the Intellectual Property that is material to the business of Grantor may lapse, expire, or become abandoned, or unenforceable, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.