Joint Inventions (a) There are countries (not including the United States) which require the express consent of all inventors or their assignees to the grant of licenses or rights under patents issued in such countries for joint inventions.
Employee Inventions Each Employee Invention will belong exclusively to the Employer. The Executive acknowledges that all of the Executive’s writing, works of authorship, 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:
Other Inventions Any Inventions not included in Sections 9.2, 9.3, or 9.4 will be owned by their inventors.
Work for Hire; Assignment of Inventions You acknowledge and agree that any copyrightable works prepared by you, either alone or jointly with others, within the scope of your employment are “works made for hire” under the Copyright Act and that the Company will be considered the author and owner of such copyrightable works. Any copyrightable works the Company or a Group member specially commissions from you while you are employed with the Company shall be deemed a work made for hire under the Copyright Act and if for any reason a work cannot be so designated as a work made for hire, you agree to and hereby assign to the Company all right, title and interest in and to said work(s) and the related copyright(s). You agree to and hereby grant the Company a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, sublicensable and assignable license to make, have made, copy, modify, make derivative works of, use, publicly perform, display or otherwise distribute any copyrightable works you create during the time you are employed with the Company that for any reason do not qualify as a work made for hire, that were not specially commissioned by the Group, or both, but that relate in any way to the business of the Group. You agree that all Inventions that (i) are developed using equipment, supplies, facilities Proprietary Information, or trade secrets of the Group, (ii) result from work performed by you for the Group and/or on Company time, or (iii) relate to the Group’s business or current or anticipated research and development (the “Assigned Inventions”), will be the sole and exclusive property of the Company and you agree to and hereby irrevocably assign the Assigned Inventions to the Company.
Inventions and Proprietary Information Prohibition on Third Party Information A. Proprietary Information Agreement. Executive acknowledges that he has signed and remains bound by the terms of the Company’s Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit B (“Proprietary Information Agreement”).
Disclosure of Inventions Each Party will promptly disclose to the other Party all invention disclosures submitted to such Party by its or its Affiliates’ employees describing Joint Inventions and Sole Inventions. Each Party will also respond promptly to reasonable requests from the other Party for more Information relating to such inventions.
Inventions, etc The Executive hereby sells, transfers and assigns to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or to any person or entity designated by the Company all of the entire right, title and interest of the Executive in and to all inventions, ideas, disclosures and improvements, whether patented or unpatented, and copyrightable material, made or conceived by the Executive, solely or jointly, during his employment by the Company which relate to methods, apparatus, designs, products, processes or devices, sold, leased, used or under consideration or development by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, or which otherwise relate to or pertain to the business, functions or operations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or which arise from the efforts of the Executive during the course of his employment for the Company. The Executive shall communicate promptly and disclose to the Company, in such form as the Company requests, all information, details and data pertaining to the aforementioned inventions, ideas, disclosures and improvements; and the Executive shall execute and deliver to the Company such formal transfers and assignments and such other papers and documents as may be necessary or required of the Executive to permit the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or any person or entity designated by the Company to file and prosecute the patent applications and, as to copyrightable material, to obtain copyright thereof. Any invention relating to the business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates and disclosed by the Executive within one year following the termination of his employment with the Company shall be deemed to fall within the provisions of this paragraph unless proved to have been first conceived and made following such termination. The foregoing requirements of this Section 7(d) shall not apply to any invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility or trade secret information of the Company was used and which was developed entirely on the Executive’s own time, and (i) which does not relate directly to the Company’s, or any of its subsidiaries’ or affiliates’, business or to the Company’s, or any of its subsidiaries’ or affiliates’, actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (ii) which does not result from any work the Executive performed for the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.
Intellectual Property, Inventions and Patents Executive acknowledges that all discoveries, concepts, ideas, inventions, innovations, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, drawings, reports, patent applications, copyrightable work and mask work (whether or not including any confidential information) and all registrations or applications related thereto, all other proprietary information and all similar or related information (whether or not patentable) which relate to Parent’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ actual or anticipated business, research and development or existing or future products or services and which are conceived, developed or made by Executive (whether alone or jointly with others) while employed by the Company and its Subsidiaries, whether before or after the date of this Agreement (“Work Product”), belong to Parent, the Company or such Subsidiary. Executive shall promptly disclose such Work Product to the Board and, at the Company’s expense, perform all actions reasonably requested by the Board (whether during or after the Employment Period) to establish and confirm such ownership (including, without limitation, assignments, consents, powers of attorney and other instruments).
Sole Inventions Fuso or GenVec, as the case may be, shall, be responsible for preparing, filing, prosecuting and maintaining of the patent applications and patents, solely owned by it, worldwide in such countries as it deems appropriate, and conducting any interferences, reexaminations, reissues, oppositions or requests for patent term extensions relating to the Fuso Technology or GenVec Technology (respectively), using counsel of its choice, at its expense; provided, such expenses may be included in the Research Program funding described in Section 2.3 of the Collaboration Agreement.
Inventions and Proprietary Information Executive agrees to sign and be bound by the terms of the Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit B (“Proprietary Information Agreement”).
