Invention Assignment Clause Samples
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Invention Assignment. Executive (i) will promptly disclose all Inventions (as defined below), in full detail, to persons authorized by the Company, and (ii) will not disclose any Invention to anyone other than persons authorized by the Company or by law, without the Company’s express prior written instruction to do so. All Inventions will be deemed “work made for hire” as that term is used in the U.S. Copyright Act and belong solely to the Company from conception. Executive hereby expressly disclaims all interest in all Inventions. To the extent that title to any Invention or any materials comprising or including any Invention is found not be a “work made for hire” as a matter of law, Executive hereby irrevocably assigns to the Company all of Executive’s right, title, and interest to that Invention. At any time during or after the Term that the Company requests, Executive will sign whatever written documents of assignment are necessary to formally evidence Executive’s irrevocable assignment to the Company of any Invention. At all times during or after the Term, Executive will assist the Company in obtaining, perfecting, maintaining and renewing patent, copyright, trademark, and other appropriate protection for any Invention, in the United States and in any other country, at the Company’s expense. In the event that the Company is unable to secure Executive’s signature on any such document, Executive hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and each of its duly authorized officers and agents as Executive’s agent and attorney-in-fact, to act for and on Executive’s behalf, to sign and file any such document and to do all other lawful acts to further the prosecution, issuance and enforcement of patents, copyrights or other rights or protections with the same force and effect as if Executive had signed such documents. To the extent any copyrights are assigned under this Agreement, Executive hereby irrevocably waives to the extent permitted by applicable law, any and all claims Executive may now or hereafter have in any jurisdiction to all rights of paternity, integrity, disclosure, and withdrawal and any other rights that may be known as “moral rights” with respect to all Inventions and all intellectual property rights therein.
(i) For purposes of this Agreement, “Inventions” means: (A) contributions and inventions, discoveries, creations, developments, improvements, works of authorship and ideas (whether or not they are patentable or copyrightable) of any kind that are...
Invention Assignment. Contractor shall cause each of Contractor's employees, subcontractors, or subcontractors' employees charged with performance of a Work Order or granted access to confidential information to execute an agreement in a form acceptable to the District recognizing LAUSD's ownership rights and concurring with the obligations of Contractor as set forth herein. Contractor shall ensure that Contractor's employees, subcontractors or subcontractors' employees comply with the provisions of such confidentiality and invention agreement and shall be responsible for enforcing such agreement with respect to such personnel.
Invention Assignment. The Executive agrees that all inventions, innovations, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, reports, and all similar or related information which relates to the Company’s actual or anticipated business, research and development or existing or future products or services and which are conceived, developed or made by Executive while employed by the Company (“Work Product”) belong to the Company. The Executive will promptly disclose such Work Product to the Board and perform all actions reasonably requested by the Board (whether during or after the Term) to establish and confirm such ownership (including, without limitation, assignments, consents, powers of attorneys and other instruments).
Invention Assignment. The Executive agrees that all inventions, including, but not limited to, improvements, and all know-how, processes, techniques, formulas, ideas, circuits, designs, trademarks, trade secrets and copyrightable works (collectively, “Inventions”) which result from work performed by the Executive on behalf of the Company or from access to Proprietary Information shall be the property solely of the Company. The Executive agrees, both during and after employment with the Company, to disclose promptly and in writing, to the Company, all Inventions that the Executive, either solely or jointly with others, make, author, discover, develop, conceive and/or reduce to practice derived from Proprietary Information. The Executive hereby assigns and agrees to assign to the Company or its designee, without further consideration, his entire right and interest in and to all Inventions, including all rights to obtain, register and enforce patents, copyrights, mask work rights and other intellectual property protection for Inventions. The Executive agrees to execute all documents reasonably necessary to perfect such intellectual property rights and the assignment of those rights to the Company or its designee. The Executive further agrees to assist the Company (at the Company’s expense), both during and after employment with the Company, in obtaining, protecting and/or enforcing patents, copyrights or other forms of Inventions.
Invention Assignment. Executive agrees that he will promptly and fully disclose in writing to the Company all inventions, designs, concepts, discoveries, developments, improvements, and innovations, whether or not they merit patent, trademark or copyright protection, conceived of, designed or reduced to practice by Executive, either solely or in concert with others, at any time during his employment, which (i) relate in any manner, whether at the time of conception, design or reduction to practice, to the Company’s business or its actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development; (ii) result from any work performed by Executive on behalf of the Company; or (iii) result from the use of the Company’s equipment, supplies, facilities, Confidential Information or Trade Secrets (collectively referred to as “Inventions”). Executive acknowledges and agrees that he will keep and maintain adequate written records of all such Inventions at all stages thereof in the form of notes, sketches, drawings, photographs, printouts, and/or reports relating thereto. These records are and shall remain the property of, and be available to, the Company or its designee(s) at all times. Executive further acknowledges that all such Inventions shall be the exclusive property of the Company. As such, Executive hereby assigns his entire right, title, and interest in and to all such Inventions to the Company or its designee(s). Executive will, at the Company’s request and expense, execute specific transfers, assignments, documents or other instruments and take such further action as may be considered necessary by the Company at any time during or subsequent to Executive’s employment to obtain and defend any intellectual property rights and vest complete title and ownership to such Inventions to the Company or its designee(s).
Invention Assignment. (a) Employee hereby assigns all right, title and interest in any intellectual property, including but not limited to discoveries, ideas, inventions, works, reports, rules, processes, lists, data and other materials along with all improvements thereto (whether or not patentable or registerable under copyright or similar statutes) under conceived, produced or developed by me, either alone or in conjunction with others, pursuant to, or in furtherance of Employee's employment with the Company (collectively “Intellectual Property”). Moreover, if requested, Employee agrees to execute any documents required to perfect the Company’s interest in the above referenced intellectual property, and to otherwise fully cooperate with such process during and after Employee's employment with the Company.
(b) This assignment shall include all such Intellectual Property that: (1) relates in any way to the Company’s business, or to actual or anticipated research and development of the Company; or (2) results in any way from the performance by Employee of duties and responsibilities as an employee of the Company. Employee further agrees that all original works of authorship which were made by Employee (either alone or with others) within the scope of and during the period of Employee's employment with the Company and which are protectable by copyright laws, are “works made for hire” as that term is defined in the United States Copyright Act.
(c) Notwithstanding the above, this Section does not apply to inventions that qualify under state law as inventions that cannot be required to be assigned.
Invention Assignment. The Participant agrees that he or she will promptly disclose to the Company any invention or discovery, whether or not patentable (hereafter termed “invention” or “inventions”) that he or she makes or conceives, or first actually reduces to practice, solely or jointly with others, during the Participant’s employment, and which at the time of disclosure to the Company or at the time of making or conceiving, or first actually reducing to practice (a) results from or is related to any assignments given to or assumed by the Participant, or (b) is subject to any contractual obligation of the Company to a third party, or (c) utilized the time, equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information of the Company, or (d) pertains to any actual or anticipated Company work, product, research, business activity, or any logical extension thereof, and the Participant will assign and does hereby assign to the Company the Participant’s entire right, title and interest (domestic and foreign and including all rights under the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property) in all such inventions, subject to the requirements of law, and without further compensation or award of any kind to the Participant from the Company, or any customer.
Invention Assignment. All inventions, innovations, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, reports, and all similar or related information which relates to either the Company’s actual or anticipated business, research and development or existing or future products or services and which are conceived, developed or made by Executive while employed by the Company (the “Work Product”) belong to the Company and not to the Executive. The Executive shall promptly disclose such Work Product to the Board and perform all actions reasonably requested by the applicable Board (whether during or after the Term of this Agreement) to establish and confirm such ownership (including, without limitation, assignments, consents, powers of attorneys and other instruments).
Invention Assignment. AND CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT
Invention Assignment. (a) All rights, titles and interests in or to the Developments shall vest and are owned exclusively by the Corporation immediately on its creation and regardless of the stage of its completion. The Executive irrevocably grants, transfers and assigns to the Corporation all of his right, title and interest, if any, in any and all Developments, including rights to translation and reproductions in all forms or formats and all Intellectual Property Rights thereto, if any, and he agrees that the Corporation may copyright said materials in the Corporation’s name and secure renewal, reissues and extensions of such copyrights for such periods of time as the law may permit. The Executive hereby waives, as against the Corporation, its successors and assigns and licensees, all his moral rights which he may have or will acquire in respect of the copyright in any Developments. The Executive agrees to enforce his moral rights as against others as directed by and at the cost of the Corporation or its successor-in-title of the copyright in the Developments.
(b) At all times hereafter, the Executive agrees promptly to disclose to the Corporation all Developments, to execute separate written transfers or assignments to the Corporation at the Corporation’s request, and to assist the Corporation in obtaining any Intellectual Property Right in Canada, the United States and in any other countries, on any Developments granted, transferred or assigned to the Corporation that the Corporation, in its sole discretion, seeks to register. The Executive also agrees to sign all documents, and do all things necessary to obtain such Intellectual Property Rights, to further assign them to the Corporation, and to reasonably protect the Corporation against infringement by other parties at the Corporation’s expense with the Corporation’s prior written approval.
(c) The Executive shall keep complete, accurate, and authentic information and records on all Developments in the manner and form reasonably requested by Corporation. Such information and records, and all copies thereof, shall be the property of Corporation as to any Developments assigned to the Corporation. The Executive agrees to promptly surrender such information and records at the request of the Corporation. All these materials will be Confidential Information upon their creation.