Jointly Owned Inventions. All Inventions which are conceived, reduced to practice, or created jointly by the parties and/or their respective agents (i.e., employees or agents who would be or are properly named as co-inventors under the laws of the United States on any patent application claiming such inventions) in the course of the performance of this Agreement shall be owned jointly by the parties. Each party shall have full rights to exploit such Inventions for its own commercial purposes without any obligation to the other. The parties shall share equally in the cost of mutually agreed patent filings with respect to all such jointly owned Inventions. The decision to file for patent coverage on jointly owned Inventions shall be mutually agreed upon, and the Parties shall select a mutually acceptable patent counsel to file and prosecute patent applications based on such joint Inventions.
Jointly Owned Inventions. Subject to Section 4.5(e), the parties shall decide which party shall be responsible for preparing, filing and prosecuting any patent applications or other appropriate filings with respect to any Invention that is owned jointly by the parties (a "Joint Invention") and maintaining any patents, copyrights or other similar rights issued thereon, using patent counsel reasonably acceptable to the other party. The parties shall share the out-of-pocket expenses for such preparation, filing and prosecution.
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Jointly Owned Inventions. The provisions of this Section 6.3(c) apply to the Prosecution and Maintenance of any Patents for Jointly Owned Inventions (each, a “Joint Patent”). *** INDICATES MATERIAL THAT WAS OMITTED AND FOR WHICH CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT WAS REQUESTED. ALL SUCH OMITTED MATERIAL WAS FILED SEPARATELY WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION PURSUANT TO RULE 406 PROMULGATED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED.
Jointly Owned Inventions. All Inventions which are conceived, reduced to practice, or created jointly by the parties and/or their respective agents in the course of the performance of this Agreement and which are not Client’s Intellectual Property shall be owned jointly by the parties. Each party shall have full rights to exploit such Inventions for its own commercial purposes without any obligation or duty of accounting to the other. The parties shall share equally in the cost of mutually agreed patent filings with respect to all such jointly owned Inventions. The decision to file for patent coverage on jointly owned Inventions shall be mutually agreed upon, and the Parties shall select a mutually acceptable patent counsel to file and prosecute patent applications based on such joint Inventions. If either party declines to participate in, or share the costs of, such prosecution or payment of maintenance fees for jointly-owned inventions, it shall assign its interest therein promptly to the other party.
Jointly Owned Inventions. All Inventions which are conceived, reduced to practice, or created jointly by the parties and/or their respective agents (i.e., employees or agents who would be or are properly named as co-inventors under the laws of the United States on any patent application claiming such inventions) in the course of the performance of this Agreement shall be owned jointly by the parties. Each party shall have full rights, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, to freely exploit, transfer, license or encumber its rights in any such jointly-owned Inventions and the patent rights and other intellectual property rights therein without the consent of, or payment or accounting to, the other party. The parties shall share equally in the cost of mutually agreed patent filings with respect to all such jointly owned Inventions. The decision to file for patent coverage on jointly owned inventions shall be mutually agreed upon and the parties shall select a mutually agreeable patent counsel to file and prosecute patent applications based on such joint Inventions; provided, however, that in the event that one party (a “Non-Interested Party”) notifies the other in writing that is not interested in rights it may have in a joint Invention (relative to its corresponding expenses and costs including patent prosecution and maintenance), the other party (the “Interested Party”) may elect to pursue rights in such a joint Invention at its own cost and expense (in which case the Non-Interested Party shall assign to the Interested Party the former’s interests in and to the joint Invention). Each party shall cooperate with the other party in the filing and prosecution of such jointly owned patent applications. Such cooperation will include, but not be limited to, furnishing supporting data and affidavits for the prosecution of patent applications and completing and signing forms needed for the prosecution, assignment and maintenance of patent applications.
Jointly Owned Inventions. Subject to and except as otherwise provided under Section 10.1, all Inventions which are conceived, reduced to practice, or created jointly by the parties and/or their respective employees or agents (i.e., employees or agents who would be or are properly named as co-inventors under the laws of the United States on any patent application claiming such Inventions) in the course of the performance of or resulting from this Agreement shall be owned jointly by the parties, and each party shall have full rights to exploit such Inventions for its own commercial purposes without any obligation or duty of accounting to the other. [***]. The decision to file for patent coverage on jointly owned Inventions shall be mutually agreed upon, and the Parties shall select a mutually acceptable patent counsel to file and prosecute patent applications based on such joint Inventions.
Jointly Owned Inventions. All Inventions, other than NUVELO Inventions, which are conceived, reduced to practice, or created in the course of the performance of the Agreement jointly by the Parties or jointly by a least one (1) Permitted Recipient of each of the Parties, who would be or are properly named as co-inventors under the laws of the United States on any patent application claiming such Inventions, shall be owned jointly by the Parties. Each Party shall have full rights to exploit such Inventions for its own commercial purposes without any obligation or accounting to the other. The Parties shall share equally (50:50) in the cost of mutually agreed patent filings with respect to all such jointly owned Inventions. The decision to file for patent coverage on jointly owned Inventions shall be mutually agreed upon, and the parties shall select a mutually acceptable patent counsel to file and prosecute patent applications based on such jointly owned Inventions. If at any time one Party no longer desires to pay for patent costs associated with a patent or patent application that is jointly-owned in accordance with this Section 11.6 (“Discontinuing Party”), the Discontinuing Party will notify the other Party in writing and assign all right, title and interest in such patent or patent application to the other Party to this Agreement, and the Discontinuing Party will have no further obligation with respect to such patent costs effective the date assignment of the patent or patent application to the other Party becomes effective.
Jointly Owned Inventions. TDCC shall have the exclusive right and option to file and prosecute any patent applications and to maintain any patents that cover Other Inventions that are jointly owned, provided, however, that in the event that TDCC declines the option to file and prosecute any such patent applications or maintain any such patents, it shall give Biosource reasonable notice to this effect and thereafter Biosource may, upon written notice to TDCC, file and prosecute such patent applications and/or maintain such patents.
Jointly Owned Inventions. With respect to Joint Inventions, the Parties shall mutually agree upon a course of action, including allocation of expenses, as to the nature of protection sought for such Joint Inventions and strategies for filing, prosecution and maintenance of patents and patent applications for Joint Inventions, and shall keep each other reasonably informed with regard to such activities.
