Common use of Employee Developments Clause in Contracts

Employee Developments. If at any time or times during your work for the Company, you shall (either alone or with others) make, conceive, discover or reduce to practice any invention, modification, discovery, design, development, improvement, process, software program, work of authorship, documentation, formula, data, technique, know-how, secret or other intellectual property right or any interest therein, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar statutes or subject to analogous protection (herein called “Developments”) that relates to the business of the Company or any of the products or services being developed, manufactured or sold by the Company or that may be used in relation therewith, such Developments and the benefits thereof shall immediately become the sole and absolute property of the Company and its assigns. You shall promptly disclose to the Company each such Development and hereby assign any rights you may have or acquire in the Developments to the Company and its assigns without further compensation and shall communicate, without cost or delay, and without publishing the same, all available information relating thereto to the Company. Upon the request of the Company, you will execute and deliver all documents and do all other acts that are or may be necessary to document such transfer or to enable the Company to file and prosecute applications for and to acquire, maintain, extend and enforce any and all patent, trademark or copyrights registrations under United States or foreign law with respect to any such developments. If, for any reason, the Company is unable to obtain your signature to apply for or to pursue any application for any United States or foreign patent, trademark or copyright covering the Developments assigned to the Company hereunder, you hereby irrevocably designate and appoint the Company and its agents and officers as your agents and attorneys-in-fact, to act for you and in your behalf and stead to execute and file any such applications and to do other lawfully permitted acts to further the prosecution and issuance of U.S. and foreign patents, trademarks and copyrights with the same legal force and effect as if executed by you. You further represent that your performance of all the terms of this Agreement and work for the Company does not and will not breach any agreement to keep in confidence proprietary information acquired by you in confidence or in trust. You have not entered into, and agree that you will not enter into, any agreement in conflict herewith.

Employee Developments. If at any time or times during your work for the Company, you shall (either alone or with others) make, conceive, discover or reduce to practice any invention, modification, discovery, design, development, improvement, process, software program, work of authorship, documentation, formula, data, technique, know-how, secret or other intellectual property right or any interest therein, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar statutes or subject to analogous protection (herein called “"Developments”") that relates to the business of the Company or any of the products or services being developed, manufactured or sold by the Company or that may be used in relation therewith, such Developments and the benefits thereof shall immediately become the sole and absolute property of the Company and its assigns. You shall promptly disclose to the Company each such Development and hereby assign any rights you may have or acquire in the Developments to the Company and its assigns without further compensation and shall communicate, without cost or delay, and without publishing the same, all available information relating thereto to the Company. Upon the request of the Company, you will execute and deliver all documents and do all other acts that are or may be necessary to document such transfer or to enable the Company to file and prosecute applications for and to acquire, maintain, extend and enforce any and all patent, trademark or copyrights registrations under United States or foreign law with respect to any such developmentsDevelopments. If, for any reason, the Company is unable to obtain your signature to apply for or to pursue any application for any United States or foreign patent, trademark or copyright covering the Developments assigned to the Company hereunder, you hereby irrevocably designate and appoint the Company and its agents and officers as your agents and attorneys-in-fact, to act for you and in your behalf and stead to execute and file any such applications and to do other lawfully permitted acts to further the prosecution and issuance of U.S. and foreign patents, trademarks and copyrights with the same legal force and effect as if executed by you. You further represent that your performance of all the terms of this Agreement and work for the Company does not and will not breach any agreement to keep in confidence proprietary information acquired by you in confidence or in trust. You have not entered into, and agree that you will not enter into, any agreement in conflict herewith.