Microsoft Patents definition

Microsoft Patents as used in this Section 4.2 means (i) any and all patents (other than design patents or the equivalent), or the inventions, ideas or applications thereof, worldwide, whether currently existing, or later developed, applied for, issued prior to the Term, or issuing during the Term and under which patents (or the inventions, ideas or applications therefor) Microsoft, or any of its Affiliates, now has or obtains during the Term, the ability or right to license or grant immunity from suit; and (ii) all extensions, divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-art re-examinations and reissue patents of such patents, as well as patent applications thereof, to the extent rights attach to such applications. The "Immunity Period" shall commence upon the first to issue and shall terminate upon the last to expire, of any of the Microsoft Patents (in any jurisdiction).
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Microsoft Patents means the claims directed specifically to the Technical Field contained in any and all patents, issued or issuing on patent applications entitled to an effective filing date prior to June 20, 1999, under which patents or the applications therefor Microsoft has the right to grant licenses to Stac, including any and all reissues, reexaminations, divisional, continuation and continuation in part applications (including inventor's certificates and utility models and similar forms of legal protection of any country). A patent claim directed toward a method or apparatus that can be equally applied to a lossless data compression/decompression system as well as a system that does not include lossless data compression/decompression shall not be deemed to fall within the Technical Field solely because it can be used with or applied to lossless data compression/decompression.
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Microsoft Patents means all Patents that, at any time during the Term, are owned or otherwise licensable by Microsoft or its Subsidiaries. If an entity ceases to be a Microsoft Subsidiary during the Term, Patents owned or licensable by such entity when it was a Subsidiary shall remain Microsoft Patents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Microsoft Patents shall include Sublicensable Third Party Patents only to the extent set forth in Section 2.11.
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Examples of Microsoft Patents in a sentence

  • The "Immunity Period" shall commence upon the first to issue and shall terminate upon the last to expire, of any of the Microsoft Patents (in any jurisdiction).

  • Microsoft hereby covenants not to assert Microsoft Patents against each Non-Compensated Individual Hobbyist Developer (also referred to as “You”) for Your personal creation of an originally authored work (“Original Work”) and personal use of Your Original Work.

  • The methodology used in this paper to do this exFAT analysis depended on examination of various Microsoft Patents, examination of previous file systems in the FAT family, Google searches, examination of information provided in Microsoft knowledge bases and MSDN, and low level examination of the file system format.

  • Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, Microsoft hereby grants to Stac during the term of this Agreement a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable (except as provided in the last sentence of this paragraph), royalty-free, license under the Microsoft Patents, to make, have made, use, sell and have sold Stac Licensed Products.

  • Thus, DOE used a range of Hg emissions rates (in tons of Hg per energy per TWh produced) based on the AEO2008.

  • Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft: Free and Open Source Software Violates 235 Microsoft Patents, ZDNET (May 13, 2007, 4:46 PM), http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/ microsoft-free-and-open-source-software-violates-235-microsoft-patents/436; Peter Lattman, Patent Litigation’s Battle Royale: Microsoft v.

  • The Microsoft Patents subject to this pledge are all patents issued world-wide to the extent they are owned or controlled by Microsoft or its majority owned subsidiaries.

  • Subject only to the specific licenses granted herein, Yahoo! expressly reserves all rights with respect to the Yahoo! Patents and Yahoo! Technology, and Microsoft expressly reserves all rights with respect to the Microsoft Patents and MS Technology, and no other licenses shall be implied.

  • Pre-treating the fluid with oil skimmers reduces the overall cost of cleaning the liquid.

  • Nothing in this Agreement is intended to transfer title to any Microsoft Intellectual Property Rights or to take away from Microsoft its ownership rights in the Microsoft Patents.


More Definitions of Microsoft Patents

Microsoft Patents means (a) any and all patents (or the ----------------- applications therefor) worldwide, having one or more claims relating to or reading on the Expedia Specific Software and/or Online Travel Services provided by Expedia or its Affiliates, whether existing as of the Effective Date, applied for, or issuing during the term of this Agreement, and under which patents (or the applications therefor) Microsoft or any of its Affiliates, has as of the Effective Date, or obtains during the term of this Agreement, the ability or right to license or grant immunity from suit (of the scope granted in Section 3.2 of this Agreement) to Expedia and Expedia's Affiliates; and (b) all extensions, divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, reexaminations and reissue patents of such patents, as well as patent applications thereof, to the extent rights attach to such applications.
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Related to Microsoft Patents

  • Joint Patent Rights means Patent Rights that contain one or more claims that cover Joint Technology.

  • 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.

  • Collaboration Patent Rights means Patent Rights claiming Collaboration Know-How.

  • Patent Rights means all patents and patent applications, including all divisionals, continuations, substitutions, continuations-in-part, re-examinations, reissues, additions, renewals, extensions, registrations, and supplemental protection certificates and the like of any of the foregoing.

  • Licensed Patent Rights means: (a) Patent applications (including provisional patent applications and PCT patent applications) or patents listed in Appendix A, all divisions and continuations of these applications, all patents issuing from these applications, divisions, and continuations, and any reissues, reexaminations, and extensions of these patents; (b) to the extent that the following contain one or more claims directed to the invention or inventions disclosed in 2.9(a): (i) continuations-in-part of 2.9(a); (ii) all divisions and continuations of these continuations-in-part; (iii) all patents issuing from these continuations-in-part, divisions, and continuations; (iv) priority patent application(s) of 2.9(a); and (v) any reissues, reexaminations, and extensions of these patents; (c) to the extent that the following contain one or more claims directed to the invention or inventions disclosed in 2.9(a): all counterpart foreign and U.S. patent applications and patents to 2.9(a) and 2.9(b), including those listed in Appendix A; and (d) Licensed Patent Rights shall not include 2.9(b) or 2.9(c) to the extent that they contain one or more claims directed to new matter which is not the subject matter disclosed in 2.9(a).

  • Licensee Patents means any Patents within the Control of Licensee as of the Effective Date and at any time during the Term relating to the Product.

  • Program Patent Rights means any Patent Rights that contain one or more claims that cover Program Inventions.

  • Program Patents has the meaning set forth in Section 7.1.2.

  • Joint Patents means all Patents claiming any Joint Invention.

  • Collaboration Patents means any and all Patents that claim or cover any of the Collaboration Know-How.

  • Product Patents means any and all United States patents and patent applications, all divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, re-issues, extensions or foreign counterparts thereof, now or hereafter owned or controlled ("controlled" being used in the sense of having the right to grant licenses thereunder) by PERIMMUNE, covering the manufacture, use, sale, offer for sale and/or importation of the Product, including but not limited to, the U.S. Patent No. 5,407,912 attached hereto as Exhibit B.

  • Joint Patent means a patent that issues from a Joint Patent Application.

  • Patent Right means: (a) an issued or granted patent, including any extension, supplemental protection certificate, registration, confirmation, reissue, reexamination, extension or restoration by existing or future extension or restoration mechanisms (including, without limitation, supplementary protection certificates or the equivalent thereof), or renewal thereof; (b) a pending patent application, including any continuation, divisional, continuation-in-part, substitute or provisional application thereof; and (c) all counterparts or foreign equivalents of any of the foregoing issued by or filed in any country or other jurisdiction.

  • Licensed Patent means Stanford's rights in U.S. Patent Application, Serial Number , filed , any foreign patent application corresponding thereto, and any divisional, continuation, or reexamination application, extension, and each patent that issues or reissues from any of these patent applications. Any claim of an unexpired Licensed Patent is presumed to be valid unless it has been held to be invalid by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction from which no appeal can be or is taken. “Licensed Patent” excludes any continuation-in-part (CIP) patent application or patent.

  • Licensor Technology means the Licensor Patents, the Licensor Know-How, Licensor Materials, and Non-Patent Rights Controlled by Licensor or its Affiliates embodied in Licensor Know-How or Licensor Materials.

  • Licensed Technology means the Licensed Patents and the Licensed Know-How.

  • Patent Applications means all published and unpublished nonprovisional and provisional patent applications, reexamination proceedings, invention disclosures and records of invention, applications for certificates of invention and priority rights, in any country and regardless of formal name, including without limitation, substitutions, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, renewals, revivals, reissues, re-examinations and extensions thereof.

  • Patent Application means an application for patent protection for a CRADA Subject Invention with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“U.S.P.T.O.”) or the corresponding patent-issuing authority of another nation.

  • Regents' Patent Rights means REGENTS' rights in (a) the patent and patent applications expressly identified in Appendix C and their foreign counterparts;

  • Licensed IP means the Licensed Patents and the Licensed Know-How.

  • Assigned Patent Rights means all of the following, whether now owned or hereafter acquired or arising:

  • Licensee Technology means the Licensee Know-How and Licensee Patents.

  • Collaboration IP means Collaboration Know-How and Collaboration Patents.

  • Third Party Technology means all Intellectual Property and products owned by third parties and licensed pursuant to Third Party Licenses.

  • Company Patents means Patents owned by the Company or used or held for use by the Company in the Business.

  • Product Technology means the Product Know-How and Product Patents.