Invention definition

Invention means any novel, inventive and useful art, apparatus, method, process, machine (including article or device), manufacture or composition of matter, or any novel, inventive and useful improvement in any art, method, process, machine (including article or device), manufacture or composition of matter.
Invention means any discovery, invention, improvement, process, formula, or technique, whether patentable or not.
Invention means any invention or discovery which is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable under title 35 of the United States Code, or any novel variety of plant which is or may be protected under the Plant Variety Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 2321, et seq.).

Examples of Invention in a sentence

  • If the parties have not entered into a license before the end of the negotiation period, then UNIVERSITY may non-exclusively license its interest in the Joint Invention to third parties without further obligation to SPONSOR.

  • A non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to practice each UNIVERSITY Invention for non-commercial purposes.

  • UNIVERSITY will promptly notify SPONSOR of any Invention disclosure received by its Office of Technology Management (“OTM”).

  • If the parties have not entered into a license before the end of the negotiation period, then UNIVERSITY may license the Invention to third parties without further obligation to SPONSOR.

  • The option to negotiate a royalty-bearing commercial license in a designated field of use and territory, for either non-exclusive or exclusive rights in each UNIVERSITY Invention, which SPONSOR may elect by written notice to UNIVERSITY no later than six months after UNIVERSITY’s notice of Invention disclosure.


More Definitions of Invention

Invention means any invention or discovery which is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable under Title 35 of the United States Code, or any novel variety of plant which is or may be protected under the Plant Variety Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 2321 et seq.).
Invention means procedures, systems, machines, methods, processes, uses, apparatuses, compositions of matter, designs or configurations, computer programs of any kind, or any improvements of the foregoing, discovered, conceived, reduced to practice, developed, made, or produced, and shall not be limited to the meaning of “Invention” under the United States patent laws.
Invention means any invention or discovery which is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable under Title 35 of the United States Code.
Invention means any new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter;
Invention means information about any innovation, improvement, development, discovery, computer program, device, trade secret, method, know-how, process, technique or the like, whether or not written or otherwise fixed in any form or medium, regardless of the media on which it is contained and whether or not patentable or copyrightable;
Invention means any and all inventions and improvements thereto, as determined under U.S. patent laws, relating to a Licensed Compound, a Licensed Product, or the Manufacture or use of a Licensed Compound or Licensed Product, that are conceived, reduced to practice or discovered by or on behalf of a Party (and/or its Affiliates) after the Effective Date during a Party’s performance of obligations or exercise of rights under this Agreement.
Invention means any new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof;