Ownership and Assignment. All Proprietary Information is, and shall be, the sole and exclusive property of the Company and its assigns, and the Company and its assigns shall be the sole and exclusive owner of all Proprietary Information, including, but not limited to, trade secrets, inventions, patents, trademarks, copyrights, and all other rights in connection with such Proprietary Information. I agree that I have no rights in such Proprietary Information. I hereby assign, and shall assign, to the Company and its assigns any and all rights, title and interest I may have or acquire in such Proprietary Information. Any copyrightable work prepared in whole or in part by me in the course of my employment shall be deemed "a work made for hire" under applicable copyright laws, and the Company and its assigns shall own all of the rights in any copyright.
Ownership and Assignment. Except as defined in this Agreement, all Inventions which the Executive makes, conceives, reduces to practice or develops (in whole or in part, either alone or jointly with others) during his employment will be the sole property of the Employer to the maximum extent permitted by law. The Executive agrees to assign such Inventions and all Rights in them to the Employer. Exemptions from this Agreement to assign may be authorized in those circumstances where the mission of the Employer is better served by such action, provided that overriding obligations to other parties are met and such exemptions are not inconsistent with other Employer policies. Further, the Executive may petition the Employer for license to make, market or sell a particular Invention. The Employer may release patent rights to the inventor in those circumstances when:
Ownership and Assignment. The Employee acknowledges and agrees that any Works created by the Employee in the course of the Employee’s employment during the Term or prior to the Term while an employee of or consultant to the Company, are subject to the “Work for Hire” provisions contained in Sections 101 and 201 of the United States Copyright Law, Title 17 of the United States Code, and that all right, title and interest to copyrights in all Works which have been or will be prepared by the Employee within the scope of the Employee’s employment hereunder shall be the property of the Company. The Employee further acknowledges and agrees that, to the extent the provisions of Title 17 of the United States Code do not vest in the Company the copyrights to any Works, the Employee hereby assigns to the Company all right, title and interest to copyrights which the Employee may have in such Works, including the right to xxx for and recover and retain damages with respect to past infringement.
Ownership and Assignment. All ConforMIS Inventions are the sole property of ConforMIS. All ConforMIS Inventions shall be immediately assignable to ConforMIS, and, notwithstanding any other documents evidencing assignment that may be executed, this Agreement shall operate to automatically and immediately assign any and all ConforMIS Inventions. Employee hereby immediately assigns all current and future ConforMIS Inventions and all Rights in them to ConforMIS to the maximum extent allowed under applicable law. To the extent this Agreement does not serve to immediately assign all ConforMIS Inventions for any reason, Employee agrees to assign and to otherwise execute such documents and instruments to effect the assignment of all such ConforMIS Inventions to ConforMIS immediately upon request of ConforMIS. Employee agrees not to enter into any agreement, arrangement or understanding that assigns or purports to assign any ConforMIS Inventions to any third party, except as may be expressly requested by ConforMIS in writing.
Ownership and Assignment. Executive acknowledges and agrees that the Company has and will have exclusive title and ownership rights in and to all Company Intellectual Property. To the extent that exclusive title and/or ownership rights may not originally vest in the Company as contemplated herein (or did not so vest), Executive hereby irrevocably assigns, transfers, conveys and delivers to the Company all right, title and interest in and to any and all Company Intellectual Property. Executive acknowledges and agrees that, with respect to any Company Intellectual Property that may qualify as a Work Made For Hire as defined in 17 U.S.C. § 101 or other applicable law, such Company Intellectual Property is and will be deemed a Work Made for Hire and the Company has and will have the sole and exclusive right to the copyright (or, in the event that any such Company Intellectual Property does not qualify as a Work Made for Hire, the copyright and all other rights thereto are hereby automatically and irrevocably assigned to the Company as above).
Ownership and Assignment. The Equipment is, and shall at all times be and remain, the sole and exclusive property of the Lessor; and the Lessee shall have no right, title or interest therein or thereto except as expressly set forth in this Lease. The Lessee shall not assign or transfer this Lease or its interest in the Equipment without the prior written consent of the Lessor.
Ownership and Assignment. All Inventions (as defined below) will be the sole property of Conformis unless the Invention: (a) was developed entirely on Employee’s own time without using any of Conformis’ equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information; (b) does not relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the Invention to Conformis’ business, including, without limitation, patient-specific, patient-matched and patient-engineered orthopedic implants, instruments and surgical procedures, or its actual or reasonably anticipated research or development; and (c) does not result from any work performed by the Employee for Conformis. All such Inventions shall be immediately assignable to Conformis, and, notwithstanding any other documents evidencing assignment that may be executed, this Agreement shall operate to automatically and immediately assign any and all such Inventions. Employee hereby immediately assigns such Inventions and all Rights in them to Conformis. Such assignment shall be to the maximum extent allowed under applicable law. For purposes of this Agreement, “Inventions” includes all improvements, inventions, designs, formulas, works of authorship, trade secrets, technology, computer programs, compositions, ideas, processes, techniques, know-how and data, whether or not patentable, made or conceived or reduced to practice or developed by Employee, either alone or jointly with others, during the term of Employee’s employment, including during any period prior to the date of this Agreement. Employee hereby waives and quitclaims to Conformis any and all claims of any nature whatsoever which Employee now or may hereafter have for infringement of any proprietary rights assigned to Conformis. Employee acknowledges that all original works of authorship which are made by Employee (solely or jointly with others) within the scope of employment and which are protectable by copyright are “works made for hire,” pursuant to United States Copyright Act (17 U.S.C., Section 101).
Ownership and Assignment. All Inventions, and all documentation and notes related thereto, made or conceived by the Consultant during the term of this Agreement and specifically in performance of the services contemplated hereunder, will, to the maximum extent permitted by law, be “works made for hire” and will become and remain the sole and exclusive property of the Company. The Consultant will promptly notify the Company in writing of all Inventions so conceived or made by the Consultant. To the extent that ownership of such Inventions does not automatically vest in the Company, the Consultant hereby assigns and agrees to assign to the Company or its designees, without further consideration, the Consultant’s entire right, title, and interest in and to all Inventions made or conceived during performance of this Agreement, including all rights to obtain, register, perfect, and enforce patents, copyrights, mask work rights, and other intellectual property rights and protections with respect thereto, whether or not patent or copyright applications are filed thereon.
Ownership and Assignment. With respect to Deliverables which are subject to pre-existing Intellectual Property Rights, the LRT Consultant shall grant the Company with unrestricted and royalty free right to use such Deliverables and shall cause all relevant personnel to act upon the same.
Ownership and Assignment. Without limiting Section 10(a) above, all Work Product is a work made for hire of Buyer for all purposes of Intellectual Property law, and the rights to Work Product shall belong solely to Buyer. To the extent the Work Product is, as a matter of law, not a work made for hire; however, Seller hereby irrevocably assigns and shall assign to Buyer the rights to Intellectual Property subsisting in and to any Work Product and all the exclusive rights under such Intellectual Property rights, as set forth on Exhibit A – Form of Assignments. As evidence of such Intellectual Property rights assignment, Seller shall execute an assignment agreement, and cause Seller’s Employees to execute an assignment instrument, as set forth on Exhibit B – Form of Assignments, to this Agreement, with respect to the Work Product before allowing Seller’s Employees to perform any work under this Agreement. Seller will promptly deliver both assignment instruments to Buyer on execution. Buyer shall have the right to hold and register such Intellectual Property rights in its own name.
