Inventions and Improvements Sample Clauses

Inventions and Improvements. Executive shall promptly communicate to the Company all ideas, discoveries and inventions which are or may be useful to the Company or its business. Executive acknowledges that all such ideas, discoveries, inventions, and improvements which heretofore have been or are hereafter made, conceived, or reduced to practice by him at any time during his employment with the Company heretofore or hereafter gained by him at any time during his employment with the Company are the property of the Company, and Executive hereby irrevocably assigns all such ideas, discoveries, inventions, and improvements to the Company for its sole use and benefit, without additional compensation. The provisions of this Section 19(b) shall apply whether such ideas, discoveries, inventions, or improvements were or are conceived, made or gained by him alone or with others, whether during or after usual working hours, whether on or off the job, whether applicable to matters directly or indirectly related to the Company’s business interests (including potential business interests), and whether or not within the specific realm of his duties. Executive shall, upon request of the Company, but at no expense to Executive, at any time during or after his employment with the Company, sign all instruments and documents reasonably requested by the Company and otherwise cooperate with the Company to protect its right to such ideas, discoveries, inventions, or improvements including applying for, obtaining, and enforcing patents and copyrights thereon in such countries as Company shall determine.

Inventions and Improvements. The Executive acknowledges that all ideas, discoveries, inventions and improvements which are made, conceived or reduced to practice by the Executive and every item of knowledge relating to the Company’s business interests (including potential business interests) gained by the Executive during the Employment Term are the sole and absolute property of the Company, and the Executive shall promptly disclose and hereby irrevocably assigns all his right, title and interest in and to all such ideas, discoveries, inventions, improvements and knowledge to the Company for its sole use and benefit, without additional compensation, and shall communicate to the Company, without cost or delay, and without publishing the same, all available information relating thereto. The Executive also hereby waives all claims to moral rights in any such ideas, discoveries, inventions, improvements and knowledge. The provisions of this Section 7 shall apply whether such ideas, discoveries, inventions or knowledge are conceived, made, gained or reduced to practice by the Executive alone or with others, whether during or after usual working hours, whether on or off the job, whether applicable to matters directly or indirectly related to the Company’s business interests (including potential business interests), and whether or not within the specific realm of the Executive’s duties. Any of the Executive’s ideas, discoveries, inventions and improvements relating to the Company’s business interests or potential business interests and conceived, made or reduced to practice during the Severance Period shall for the purpose of this Agreement, be deemed to have been conceived, made or reduced to practice before the end of the Employment Term. The Executive shall, upon request of the Company, and without further compensation by the Company but at the expense of the Company, at any time during or after his employment with the Company, sign all instruments and documents requested by the Company and otherwise cooperate with the Company and take any actions which are or may be necessary to protect the Company’s right to such ideas, discoveries, inventions, improvements and knowledge, including applying for, obtaining and enforcing patents, copyrights and trademark registrations thereon in any and all countries. To the extent this section shall be construed in accordance with the laws of any state which precludes a requirement to assign certain classes of inventions made by an employee, this Section...

Inventions and Improvements. The Executive agrees that he/she will assign to the Company, without further consideration, the exclusive rights and title to all inventions, discoveries, ideas, improvement, and other intellectual property made or acquired by the Executive during the Employment Term, whether alone or jointly with others. The Executive further agrees to execute any and all documents that are required in order to transfer or assign such property rights to the Company.

Inventions and Improvements. Executive acknowledges, covenants and agrees that the Corporation shall be the sole owner of all the fruits and proceeds of Executive’s services to the Corporation, including but not limited to all writings, inventions, discoveries, designs, systems, processes, software or other improvements relating to the business or products of the Corporation, whether or not patentable, registerable, or copyrightable, which Executive may, alone or with others, conceive, create, develop, produce or make during or as a result of his employment with the Corporation (collectively, the “Invention”), free and clear of any claims by Executive of any kind or character whatsoever other than Executive’s rights to compensation under this Agreement. Executive agrees that he shall disclose each of the Inventions promptly and completely to the Corporation, and shall, at the request of the Board, execute such assignments, certificates or other instruments as the Board or the Corporation from time to time deem necessary or desirable to evidence, establish, maintain, perfect, protect, enforce or defend the Corporation’s right, title and interest in or to any or all of the Inventions. Executive agrees that he is bound by the terms of a certain Employee Agreement on Ideas, Inventions, and Confidential Information, to be signed on his first day of employment (the “Inventions Agreement”), which shall continue in full force and effect according to its terms and nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted or construed as modifying the Inventions Agreement. To the extent that there is any conflict between the provisions of this Section and the provisions of the Inventions Agreement, the provisions of the Inventions Agreement shall govern.

Inventions and Improvements. 18.1 For the purposes of this clause 18 the following words and expressions shall have the following meanings:

Inventions and Improvements. Any invention or development of any kind related to Titan’s business made or conceived by Executive (solely, jointly or in conjunction with anyone else) while he is employed by Titan pursuant to this Agreement shall be promptly disclosed by Executive to Titan and shall be the sole property of Titan. Executive shall execute an assignment to Titan, or to another designated by it, of his entire claim to and interest in each such invention or development. Executive undertakes to sign all lawful papers and, at Titan’s expense, to assist it in every lawful way to obtain and sustain patents or copyrights for its benefit in any such inventions or developments when requested by Titan. Executive shall not be entitled to compensation beyond his Base Salary or Adjusted Base Salary for the performance of any such acts.

Inventions and Improvements. With respect to any and all inventions (as defined in Section 7(e) below) made or conceived by the Executive, whether or not during his hours of employment, either solely or jointly with others, during the Period of Employment, without additional consideration: (a) The Executive shall promptly inform the Company of any such invention. (b) Any such invention, whether patentable or not, shall be the property of the Company, and the Executive hereby assigns and agrees to assign to the Company all his rights to any such invention, and to any United States and/or foreign letters patent granted upon any such invention or any application therefor. (c) The Executive shall apply, at the Company’s request and expense, for United States and/or foreign letters patent either in the Executive’s name or otherwise as the Company may desire. (d) The Executive shall acknowledge and deliver promptly to the Company, without charge to the Company but at its expense, all sketches, drawings, models and figures and other information and shall perform such other acts, such as giving testimony in support of his inventorship, as may be necessary in the opinion of the Company to obtain and maintain United States and/or foreign letters patent and to vest the entire right and title thereto in the Company. (e) For purposes of this Section, the term “invention” shall be deemed to mean any discovery, concept or idea (whether patentable or not), including but not limited to processes, methods, formulas, techniques, hardware developments and software developments, as well as improvements thereof or know-how related thereto, (i) concerning any present or prospective activities of the Company and its affiliates and (ii) (A) which the Executive becomes acquainted with as a result of his employment by the Company, (B) which results from any work he may do for, or at the request of, the Company or any of its affiliates, (C) which relate to the Company’s or any affiliates’ business or actual or demonstrably anticipated research and development, or (D) which are developed in any part by use of the Company’s or any such affiliates’ equipment, supplies, facilities or trade secrets. The parties hereto agree that the covenants and agreements contained in this Section 7 are, taken as a whole, reasonable in their scope and duration, and no party shall raise any issue of the reasonableness of the scope or duration of any such covenants in any proceeding to enforce any such covenants.

Inventions and Improvements. Any and all inventions and improvements --------------------------- which the Employee may conceive or make, during the period of his employment, relating to or in any way appertaining to or connected with any of the matters which have been, are or may become the subject of the Employer's investigations, or which the Employer has been, is or may become interested, including, but not limited to, product design, computer software or technology, shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Employer, and the Employee will, whenever requested by the Employer, execute any and all applications, assignments and other instruments which the Employer shall deem necessary in order to apply for and obtain Letters of Patent or Copyrights of Canada or foreign countries for the inventions or improvements, and in order to assign and convey to the Employer all sole and exclusive right, title and interest in and to the inventions or improvements, all expenses in connection with them to be borne by the Employer.

Inventions and Improvements. (a) The Executive agrees that he has a special obligation to further the interests of the Company and its Associated Companies with respect to any Inventions (as defined in paragraph (h) below) created or discovered by him in the course of his employment with the Company. (b) If the Executive creates or discovers or participates in the creation or discovery of any Inventions during his employment with the Company, the Executive shall promptly give to the Board details in writing of such Inventions and if such Inventions relate to or are capable of being used in the business for the time being carried on by the Company or any Associated Company, such Inventions shall be the absolute property of the Company and the Executive shall forthwith and from time to time both during his employment and thereafter at the request and expense of the Company: (i) give and supply all such information, data, drawings and assistance as may be necessary to enable the Company (or any Associated Company) to exploit such Inventions to the best advantage; (ii) execute all documents and do all things which may be necessary or desirable for obtaining copyright, patent or other protection for the Inventions in such parts of the world as may be specified by the Company or any Associated Company and for vesting the Inventions and such protections in the Company or as it may direct; (iii) do nothing to harm or interfere with such Inventions or the media in which they are expressed; and (iv) not directly or indirectly publish except with the Company's prior written consent (and in any case at all times complying with the Executive's obligations under Clause 17) any information relating to any such Inventions as aforesaid and on leaving employment, the Executive will promptly hand over to the Company all drawings, copy drawings, tables, notes, correspondence and other written printed or photographed matter in the Executive's possession or matter stored on disk or otherwise in the Executive's power or control relating to such Inventions and shall not retain any such documentation writing or disks. (c) The Executive irrevocably appoints the Company, in his name and on his behalf, to sign, execute or do any such instrument or thing and generally to use his name for the purpose of giving to the Company (or its nominee) the full benefit of the provisions of this Clause and in favour of any third party a certificate in writing signed by any director or Company Secretary of the Company that any...