Common use of U.S. Patents Clause in Contracts

U.S. Patents. Any Joint Invention that would be rendered unpatentable in the United States solely on account of prior art under one or more of subsections 102(e), (f), or (g) of Title 35, U.S.C., but for the absence of an obligation of assignment of such Joint Invention (or an undivided interest therein) to the other party hereto, is hereby subjected to an obligation of assignment to such other party of such interest in such invention as renders such Joint Invention patentable in the United States and thereby gives rise to a Joint Patent. Such assignment shall have force and effect only with respect to Joint Patents granted in the United States. The rights of the parties with respect to any Joint Invention subject to an obligation of assignment under this Section 8.2(b), except for subject matter patentable to the assignee in the absence of the assignment, shall be the same as the rights that would have applied under this Agreement had no obligation to assign under this Section 8.2(b) existed. If and only if required to give force and effect to the immediately preceding sentence and, in such case, only to the extent required to give such force and effect, each assignee under this Section 8.2(b) hereby grants to each of the assignors under this Section 8.2(b) such irrevocable licenses, if any, as are required to vest in the assignor all rights the assignor would have enjoyed absence the applicable assignment.