Employee Inventions Clause Samples

The Employee Inventions clause defines the ownership and rights to inventions or intellectual property created by an employee during their employment. Typically, it states that any inventions, designs, or works developed by the employee in the course of their job duties, or using company resources, automatically belong to the employer. For example, if an employee invents a new software tool while working for the company, the rights to that tool would be assigned to the employer. This clause ensures that the company retains control over innovations developed by its staff, preventing disputes over intellectual property ownership and protecting the employer’s business interests.
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Employee Inventions. Each Employee Invention will belong exclusively to the Company. The Employee acknowledges that all Employee Inventions are works made for hire and are the property of the Company, including any copyrights, patents, or other intellectual property rights pertaining thereto. If it is determined that any such works are not works made for hire, the Employee hereby assigns to the Company all of the Employee's right, title, and interest, including all rights of copyright, patent, and other intellectual property rights, to or in such Employee Inventions. The Employee will promptly: (i) disclose to the Company in writing any Employee Invention; (ii) assign to the Company or to a party designated by the Company, at the Company's request and without additional compensation, all of the Employee's right to the Employee Invention for the United States and all foreign jurisdictions; (iii) execute and deliver to the Company such applications, assignments, and other documents as the Company may request in order to apply for and obtain patents or other registrations with respect to any Employee Invention in the United States and any foreign jurisdictions; (iv) sign all other papers necessary to carry out the above obligations; and (v) give testimony and render any other assistance in support of the Company's rights to any Employee Invention. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, provisions otherwise requiring the Employee to assign to the Company any invention conceived by the Employee shall not apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facilities or trade secret information of the Company was used and which was developed entirely on the Employee's own time, unless the invention relates to the business of the Company or to the Company's actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or the invention results from any work performed by the Employee for the Company.
Employee Inventions. Each Employee Invention will belong exclusively to the Employer. The Executive acknowledges that all of the Executive's writing, works of authorship, specially commissioned works, and other Employee Inventions are works made for hire and the property of the Employer, including any copyrights, patents, or other intellectual property rights pertaining thereto. If it is determined that any such works are not works made for hire, the Executive hereby assigns to the Employer all of the Executive's right, title, and interest, including all rights of copyright, patent, and other intellectual property rights, to or in such Employee Inventions. The Executive covenants that he will promptly: (i) disclose to the Employer in writing any Employee Invention; (ii) assign to the Employer or to a party designated by the Employer, at the Employer's request and without additional compensation, all of the Executive's right to the Employee Invention for the United States and all foreign jurisdictions; (iii) execute and deliver to the Employer such applications, assignments, and other documents as the Employer may request in order to apply for and obtain patents or other registrations with respect to any Employee Invention in the United States and any foreign jurisdictions; (iv) sign all other papers necessary to carry out the above obligations; and (v) give testimony and render any other assistance in support of the Employer's rights to any Employee Invention.
Employee Inventions. (i) Each Employee Invention will belong exclusively to the Employer. The Employee agrees that the Employer shall have sole and exclusive ownership rights in any conception, invention, trade secrets, information, ideas, improvement, substance, know-how, whether or not patentable, arising out of, resulting from, or derivative of: (1) the work or services of the Employee, or (2) within the scope of the duties of the Employee, or (3) using any materials, compounds, devices, or monies of the Employer. Any resulting or derivative rights, including patent rights, shall become the exclusive property of the Employer and the Employer shall be entitled to the entire right, title and interest with respect hereto. The Employee agrees, without additional compensation, to convey, assign the entire right, title, and interest in and to any inventions for the United States and all foreign jurisdictions to the Employer arising out of, resulting from, or derivative of: (1) the work or services of the Employee, or (2) within the scope of the duties of the Employee, or (3) using any materials, compounds, devices, or monies. (ii) The Employer shall retain the entire right, title and interest in and to any and all Confidential Information and/or Proprietary Information provided by the Employer to the Employee and to any methods, compounds, improvements, substances, and compositions using or incorporating such Confidential Information and/or Proprietary Information. (iii) The Employee agrees that Confidential Information and/or Proprietary Information provided to the Employee by the Employer shall be used for work purposes only and shall not be used for any other uses, studies, experiments or tests. (iv) The Employee agrees that he will promptly disclose to the Employer, or any Persons designated by the Employer, all the Employee Inventions, made or conceived or reduced to practice or learned by him, either alone or jointly with others, during the employment of the Employee. The Employee further agrees to assist the Employer in every proper way (but at the Employer’s expense) to obtain and from time to time enforce patents, copyrights or other rights on Employee Inventions in any and all countries, and to that end the Employee will execute all documents necessary: (a) to apply for, obtain and vest in the name of the Employer alone (unless the Employer otherwise directs) letters patent, copyrights or other analogues protection in any country throughout the world and when so obtaine...
Employee Inventions. Employee shall enter into an Employee Innovations and Proprietary Rights Assignment Agreement in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.
Employee Inventions. Prior to performing any activities in connection with this Agreement, the Parties shall ensure that its and its Affiliates’ employees, agents and consultants have executed valid and binding agreements with it that assign and otherwise effectively vest in them any and all rights that such employees, agents and/or consultants might otherwise have in any invention including but not limited to Aura Improvements made by such employees, agents and/or consultants. Should any royalties or other consideration become payable to such employees, agents and/or consultants, the respective Party shall remain solely responsible for making such payments.
Employee Inventions. Employee shall promptly disclose to the Company or its designee any and all ideas, inventions, works of authorship (including, but not limited to computer programs, software and documentation), improvements, discoveries, developments, or innovations (hereinafter referred to as "said inventions"), whether patentable or unpatentable, copyrightable or uncopyrightable, made, developed, worked on, or conceived by Employee, either solely or jointly with others, whether or not reduced to drawings, written description, documentation, models, or other tangible form: (a) during the Employment Term that relate to, or arise out of, any developments, services, research, or products of, or pertain to the business of, the Company and (b) for a period of six (6) months after termination of the Employment Term, said inventions that relate to, or arise out of, any developments, services, research, or products that Employee has been concerned with during the term of his employment.
Employee Inventions. Each Employee Invention will belong exclusively to the Company. The Executive acknowledges that all Employee Inventions are property of the Company, including, but not limited to, any copyrights, patents, trademarks or other intellectual property rights pertaining thereto. If it is determined that any such works are not works made for hire, the Executive hereby assigns to the Company all of the Executive’s right, title, and interest, including all rights of copyright, patent, trademark and other intellectual property rights to, or in, such Employee Inventions. The Executive covenants that he or she shall promptly: (a) Disclose to the Company in writing any Employee Invention; (b) Assign to the Company or to a party designated by the Company, at the Company’s request and without additional compensation, all of Executive’s right to Employee Inventions for the United States and all foreign jurisdictions; (c) Execute and deliver to the Company such applications, assignments and other documents as the Company may request in order to apply for and obtain patents or other registrations with respect to any Employee Invention in the United States and any foreign jurisdictions; (d) Sign all other papers necessary to carry out the above obligations; and (e) Give testimony and render any other assistance, at the Company’s expense, in support of Company’s rights to any Employee Invention.
Employee Inventions. (a) Disclosure and Ownership of Inventions -------------------------------------- (i) During the Employee's service as an employee of the Company and for a period of six (6) months thereafter, Employee will promptly and fully disclose to the Company (and to any persons designated by it) all Inventions generated, made, conceived or reduced to practice or leaned by Employee, either alone or jointly with others, which, in any way, result from or suggested by any work, which Employee may for or on behalf of the Company, or relate to or are useful in the business of the Company; or result from the use of premises or property owned, leased, licensed, or contracted for by the Company. The Company shall have the right to such Inventions, whether they are patentable or not. (ii) Employee understands that the Company will have no rights pursuant to this Agreement in any Invention of Employee made during the term of Employee's employment by the Company if such Invention has not arisen out of or by reason of Employee's work with the Company, and does not relate to the business or operations of the Company, although Employee agrees to inform the Company of any such Invention.
Employee Inventions. (1) The employer is entitled to be offered an invention by an employee during employment as defined by Art. 7 (3)
Employee Inventions. Each Employee Invention will belong exclusively to Employer. Executive covenants that Executive will promptly: (i) disclose to Employer in writing any Employee Invention; (ii) assign to Employer or to a party designated by Employer, at Employer's request and without additional compensation, all of Executive's right to the Employee Invention for the United States and all foreign jurisdictions; (iii) execute and deliver to Employer such applications, assignments, and other documents as Employer may request in order to apply for and obtain patents or other registrations with respect to any Employee Invention in the United States and any foreign jurisdictions; (iv) sign all other papers necessary to carry out the above obligations; and (v) give testimony and render any other assistance in support of Employer's rights to any Employee Invention.