Joint Collaboration IP. Subject to the rights and licenses granted to, and the obligations (including royalty obligations) of, each Party under this Agreement, including any exclusivity obligations, either Party is entitled to practice Joint Collaboration IP for all purposes on a worldwide basis without consent of and without a duty of accounting to the other Party. Each Party will grant and hereby does grant all permissions, consents and waivers with respect to, and all licenses under, the Joint Collaboration IP, throughout the world, necessary to provide the other Party with such rights of use and exploitation of the Joint Collaboration IP, and will execute documents as necessary to accomplish the foregoing.
Joint Collaboration IP. Subject to the rights granted each Party under this Agreement, each Party shall have the right to use, sell, keep, license or assign its interest in Joint Collaboration IP and otherwise undertake all activities a sole owner might undertake with respect to such Joint Collaboration IP without the consent of and without accounting to the other Party.
Joint Collaboration IP. Subject to the rights and licenses granted to, and the obligations of, each Party under this Agreement, including MedCo’s obligations under Section 7.4 during the Term, each Party shall have the right to exploit its interest in Joint Collaboration IP without the consent of and without accounting to the other Party.
Joint Collaboration IP. (a) Alnylam shall have the first right to, at Alnylam’s discretion, file, prosecute and maintain (including the defense of any interference, opposition or any other pre- or post-grant proceedings or challenges), all Patent Rights comprising Joint Collaboration IP, in the names of both Alnylam and MedCo. Alnylam shall provide MedCo, sufficiently in advance for MedCo to comment, with copies of all patent applications and other material submissions and correspondence intended to be filed with any patent counsel or patent authorities pertaining to Patent Rights comprising Joint Collaboration IP, and Alnylam shall consider in good faith MedCo’s reasonable and promptly provided comments and advice with respect to the prosecution or maintenance strategy with respect to such Patent Rights; provided, however, that if Alnylam determines that MedCo’s comments or advice are not reasonable, Alnylam shall promptly notify MedCo thereof and the Parties shall promptly discuss such determination. If the Parties cannot promptly reach agreement with respect to such issue, the Parties shall hire an outside patent attorney, mutually agreeable to the Parties, to determine which Party’s approach is more likely to obtain the broadest enforceable patent coverage for the Licensed Products in the Field, and the Parties shall implement such approach. In the event that MedCo fails to provide any such comments or advice reasonably in advance of a patent office deadline, Alnylam shall in good faith file a response designed to obtain the broadest enforceable patent coverage for the Licensed Products in the Field. Alnylam shall promptly provide MedCo with copies of all material correspondence received from any patent counsel or patent authorities pertaining to Patent Rights comprising Joint Collaboration IP. Each Party shall sign, or use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to have signed, all legal documents necessary to file and prosecute patent applications or to obtain or maintain patents in respect of such Joint Collaboration IP, at its own cost.
Joint Collaboration IP. (a) [***] shall have the first right to, at [***] discretion, file, prosecute and maintain (including the defense of any interference or opposition proceedings), all Patent Rights comprising Joint Collaboration IP, in the names of both Alnylam and Genzyme, at [***] sole cost and expense. [***] shall consult with [***] on the filing, prosecution and maintenance of all such Patent Rights. Each Party shall sign, or use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to have signed, all legal documents as are reasonably necessary to file and prosecute patent applications or to obtain or maintain patents in respect of such Joint Collaboration IP, at its own cost.
Joint Collaboration IP. (i) AVEO shall have the first right, at AVEO’s discretion, to file, conduct prosecution, and maintain (including the defense of any interference or opposition proceedings), all Patent Rights included in Joint Collaboration IP, in the names of both AVEO and Biogen Idec. Biogen Idec shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to make available to AVEO or its authorized attorneys, agents or representatives, such of its employees as AVEO in its reasonable judgment deems necessary in order to assist it in obtaining patent protection for such Joint Collaboration IP. Each Party shall sign, or use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to have signed, all legal documents necessary to file and prosecute patent applications or to obtain or maintain patents in respect of such Joint Collaboration IP, at its own cost.
Joint Collaboration IP. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, including the licenses granted in ARTICLE 7, title to all inventions made jointly by employees or agents of Pandion and employees or agents of Astellas in the course of the activities conducted pursuant to this Agreement (“Joint Collaboration IP”) shall be owned by Pandion. Astellas, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, hereby assigns, and to the extent such present assignment is not possible, agrees to assign, to Pandion all of Astellas’ right, title and interest in and to such Joint Collaboration IP, and all intellectual property rights therein.
Joint Collaboration IP. Subject to Tekmira’s continuing right to the prior review of, comment on, revision to and approval of material documents, which shall not be unreasonably delayed or withheld, Alnylam has the sole responsibility to, at Alnylam’s discretion, file, conduct ex parte and inter partes prosecution, and maintain (including the defense of any interference or opposition proceedings) in the Territory, all Patent Rights comprising Joint Collaboration IP, in the names of both Tekmira and Alnylam. Each Party shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to make available to Alnylam or its authorized attorneys, agents or representatives, such of its employees as Alnylam in its reasonable judgment deems necessary in order to assist it in obtaining patent protection for such Joint Collaboration IP. Each Party shall sign, or use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to have signed, all legal documents necessary to file and prosecute patent applications or to obtain or maintain patents in respect of such Joint Collaboration IP, at no cost to Alnylam.
Joint Collaboration IP. As between the Parties, subject to Section 6.6.5, the Parties shall each own an equal, undivided interest in all Joint Collaboration IP. Each Party shall have the right to exploit the Joint Collaboration IP without a duty of seeking consent or accounting to the other Party.
Joint Collaboration IP. Except as expressly provided herein or otherwise agreed in writing by the Parties, during the Term Amerimmune and Histogen shall jointly own all Joint Collaboration IP discovered, invented, created, or made during the Research Term, without any duty to account to the other except as provided herein.
