Patent Rights means all patents and patent applications (which for the purpose of this Agreement shall be deemed to include certificates of invention and applications for certificates of invention), including all divisionals, continuations, substitutions, continuations-in-part, re-examinations, reissues, additions, renewals, revalidations, extensions, registrations, pediatric exclusivity periods and supplemental protection certificates and the like of any such patents and patent applications, and any and all foreign equivalents of the foregoing.
Background Technology means all Software, data, know-how, ideas, methodologies, specifications, and other technology in which Contractor owns such Intellectual Property Rights as are necessary for Contractor to grant the rights and licenses set forth in Section 14.1, and for the State (including its licensees, successors and assigns) to exercise such rights and licenses, without violating any right of any Third Party or any Law or incurring any payment obligation to any Third Party. Background Technology must: (a) be identified as Background Technology in the Statement of Work; and (b) have been developed or otherwise acquired by Contractor prior to the date of the Statement of Work, or have been developed by Contractor outside of its performance under the Statement of Work. Background Technology will also include any general consulting tool or methodology created by Contractor, which will not be required to be identified in the Statement of Work.
Collaboration Patents means any and all Patents that claim or cover any of the Collaboration Know-How.
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.
Background IPR means any Intellectual Property Rights (other than Project IPR) belonging to either party before the Commencement Date or not created in the course of or in connection with the Project;
Background Invention means an Invention conceived and first actually reduced to practice before the Effective Date.
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).
Program Patent Rights means any Patent Rights that contain one or more claims that cover Program Inventions.
Background IP means all IP and IP Rights owned or controlled by Seller prior to the effective date or outside the scope of this Contract.
Joint Patent Rights means all Patent Rights claiming a Joint Invention.
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.
Product Technology means the Product Know-How and Product Patents.
Joint Inventions has the meaning set forth in Section 9.1.
Regents' Patent Rights means The Regents interest in the claims of the United States patents and patent applications, corresponding foreign patents and patent applications (requested under Paragraph 7.3 herein), and any reissues, extensions, substitutions, continuations, divisions, and continuation-in-part applications (but only those claims in the continuation-in-part applications that are entirely supported in the specification and entitled to the priority date of the parent application) based on the patent applications listed in Appendix A (UC Case Nos [ * ] and [ * ]).
Joint Patents means all Patents claiming any Joint Invention.
Supplier Background IPR means any and all Intellectual Property Rights owned or controlled by Supplier and/or any of its sub-suppliers pre-existing the performance under the Contract or separately developed outside of the Contract by Supplier and/or any of its sub- suppliers and that are used by Supplier in connection with or to perform the Contract or are required for the use of the Supplies, but for the avoidance of doubt shall not include Purchaser Provided IPR.
Program Technology means Program Know-How and Program Patents.
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.
Technology Rights means BOARD's rights in any technical information, know-how, processes, procedures, compositions, devices, methods, formulae, protocols, techniques, software, designs, drawings or data created by the inventor(s) listed in Exhibit I at UTMDACC before the EFFECTIVE DATE, which are not claimed in PATENT RIGHTS but that are necessary for practicing PATENT RIGHTS.
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.
Third Party Technology means all Intellectual Property and products owned by third parties and licensed pursuant to Third Party Licenses.
Existing Patents has the meaning set forth in Section 10.2.1.
Licensor Technology means the Licensor Patents and the Licensor Know-How.
Joint Invention has the meaning set forth in Section 9.1.
Collaboration IP means Collaboration Know-How and Collaboration Patents.