Any patent classified as a Tier 1 or Tier 2 patent shall maintain such classification for not less than one Year after the first distribution of Publisher Share as set forth in Exhibit B, if the patent is one of the first one thousand (1000) patents to be evaluated ("Early Adopter Evaluated Patents"), notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.4.5.
Licensed Patents means (a) all United States patents and patent applications listed in Exhibit A, as modified pursuant to Section 2.6.1, including patents arising from such patent applications; and (b) any re-examination certificates thereof, and their foreign counterparts and extensions, continuations, divisionals, and re-issue applications; provided that “Licensed Patents” will not include any claim of a patent or patent application covering any Manufacturing Technology.
Assigned Patent Rights means all of the following, whether now owned or hereafter acquired or arising:
Patent Rights means the rights and interests in and to issued patents and pending patent applications (which, for purposes of this Agreement, include certificates of invention, applications for certificates of invention and priority rights) in any country or region, including all provisional applications, substitutions, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, renewals, all letters patent granted thereon, and all reissues, re-examinations and extensions thereof, and all foreign counterparts of any of the foregoing.
Patents means all patents, patent applications and like protections including without limitation improvements, divisions, continuations, renewals, reissues, extensions and continuations-in-part of the same.