Patent Prosecution Clause Samples
The Patent Prosecution clause outlines the procedures and responsibilities related to obtaining, maintaining, and defending patents arising from the agreement. It typically specifies which party will control the filing and prosecution of patent applications, how costs are allocated, and the level of cooperation required from each party. This clause ensures that intellectual property rights are properly secured and managed, reducing the risk of disputes and clarifying ownership and control over patentable inventions.
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Patent Prosecution. 6.1 UNIVERSITY has or shall apply for and seek prompt issuance of and maintain during the term of this Agreement the PATENT RIGHTS in the United States and in such foreign countries as may be designated by LICENSEE in a written notice to UNIVERSITY within a reasonable time in advance of the required foreign filing dates. LICENSEE shall have the opportunity to advise and cooperate with UNIVERSITY in the prosecution, filing and maintenance of such patents. If UNIVERSITY decides to abandon the preparation, filing, prosecution or maintenance of any patent or patent application covered by the PATENT RIGHTS, then UNIVERSITY shall provide written notice to LICENSEE, and LICENSEE shall have the right at its sole expense to assume control of the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of such patent application or patent. If LICENSEE no longer wishes to support the prosecution or maintenance of any patent or patent application covered by the PATENT RIGHTS, then LICENSEE shall provide written notice to UNIVERSITY, and LICENSEE shall not be responsible for such corresponding patent expenses that are incurred subsequent to the date of receipt by UNIVERSITY of such written notice by LICENSEE; such returned patent or patent application shall be excluded from the PATENT RIGHTS. LICENSEE shall notify UNIVERSITY immediately if, at any time during the term of this Agreement, LICENSEE or any of its sublicensees does not qualify as a “Small Entity” as provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
6.2 All fees and costs including attorneys’ fees relating to the filing, prosecution and maintenance of the PATENT RIGHTS whether incurred prior to or after the EFFECTIVE DATE of this Agreement shall be the responsibility of LICENSEE. LICENSEE shall not be required to reimburse the UNIVERSITY for any fees under this section that have been paid to the UNIVERSITY by prior licensees or any other third party. Fees and costs shall be paid by LICENSEE within thirty (30) days after receipt of UNIVERSITY’S invoice therefore. Payments pursuant to this Section 6.2 are not creditable against royalties.
6.3 LICENSEE shall own any new patent application, and any patent that issues therefrom, or new technology in the SLE FIELD developed independently of the UNIVERSITY and UNIVERSITY employees and shall not owe the UNIVERSITY any fee or royalty under section 4 relating to such a new patent application, and any patent that issues therefrom, or new technology.
Patent Prosecution. 4.5 Patentové řízení Site shall cooperate, at Sponsor’s request and expense, with Sponsor’s preparation, filing, prosecution, and maintenance of all patent applications and patents for Inventions. Místo provádění klinického hodnocení se zavazuje, že bude spolupracovat a poskytne součinnost, a to v návaznosti na výzvu Zadavatele a na jeho náklady a s jeho účastí, v souvislosti s přípravou, podáním, vedením patentového řízení a udržováním veškerých patentových přihlášek a patentů pro veškeré Objevy.
Patent Prosecution. (a) Subject to Section 5.3(b), each Party shall be solely responsible, at is expense, for the prosecution and maintenance of all patents and patent applications owned by such Party.
(b) Medtronic, at its expense, shall have the first right (but not the obligation) to file, prosecute and maintain any patents or patent applications in the Jointly Owned Intellectual Property (“Joint Patents”). Medtronic shall reasonably consult with CardioMEMS with respect to the preparation, prosecution, and maintenance of such patent applications and patents and shall provide CardioMEMS sufficient opportunity (unless in its commercially reasonable judgment the time for response is too short to provide CardioMEMS such an opportunity) to comment on any material document that Medtronic intends to file or to cause to be filed with the relevant intellectual property or patent office. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Medtronic shall retain the right to determine strategy with respect to such filings or other appropriate actions in its sole and complete discretion. Medtronic shall deliver to CardioMEMS copies of all documents materially related to such prosecution efforts. If Medtronic decides not to continue the prosecution or maintenance of any Joint Patent, it shall notify CardioMEMS sufficiently in advance to permit CardioMEMS to undertake such prosecution and maintenance without a loss of rights. Following such notice, CardioMEMS may, in its sole discretion, take over the prosecution and maintenance of such Joint Patent.
(c) At the request of the Party performing the prosecution and/or maintenance of any Joint Patent under this Section 5.3, the other Party will cooperate, in all reasonable ways, in connection with such prosecution and/or maintenance. Each Party shall make available to the other Party or its authorized attorneys, agents or representatives such of its employees or consultants as the other Party in its reasonable judgment deems necessary in order to assist such other Party with such prosecution and maintenance. Each Party shall sign or use commercially
Patent Prosecution. (A) Stanford will be responsible for preparing, filing, prosecuting and maintaining the Licensed Patents. As long as ***** is current on all payments due under this Agreement, Stanford agrees to (i) instruct Stanford’s patent counsel to furnish to ***** copies of material documents relevant to such filing and prosecution prior to any deadlines, and (ii) allow ***** a reasonable opportunity to comment on material documents filed with any patent office with respect to the Licensed Patents.
(B) In the event ***** decides that it no longer intends to pay for filing, prosecution, or maintenance of one or more Licensed Patents, ***** shall give Stanford written notice at least three (3) months in advance of any applicable deadline for that Licensed Patent. Stanford may in its discretion continue to prosecute and maintain such Licensed Patent(s) at its expense, in which case such Licensed Patent(s) will no longer be covered by the license granted under this Agreement and ***** will have no further obligation regarding patent expenses for such Licensed Patent(s).
Patent Prosecution. (a) Intrexon shall have the sole right, but not the obligation, to (i) conduct and control the filing, prosecution and maintenance of the Intrexon Patents, and (ii) conduct and control the filing, prosecution, and maintenance of any applications for patent term extension and/or supplementary protection certificates that may be available as a result of the regulatory approval of any Ampliphi Product. At the reasonable request of Intrexon, Ampliphi shall cooperate with Intrexon in connection with such filing, prosecution, and maintenance, at Intrexon’s expense. Under no circumstances shall Ampliphi (A) file, attempt to file, or assist anyone else in filing, or attempting to file, any Patent application, either in the United States or elsewhere, that claims or uses or purports to claim or use or relies for support upon an Invention owned by Intrexon, or (B) use, attempt to use, or assist anyone else in using or attempting to use, the Intrexon Know-How, Intrexon Materials, or any Confidential Information of Intrexon to support the filing of a Patent application, either in the United States or elsewhere, that contains claims directed to the Intrexon IP, Intrexon Materials, or the Intrexon Channel Technology, or (C) without prior approval of the IPC, file, attempt to file, or assist anyone else in filing, or attempting to file, any application for patent term extension or supplementary protection certificate, either in the United States or elsewhere, that relies upon the regulatory approval of an Ampliphi Product.
(b) Ampliphi shall have the sole right, but not the obligation, to conduct and control the filing, prosecution and maintenance of any Patents claiming Inventions that are owned by Ampliphi or its Affiliates and not assigned to Intrexon under Section 6.1(c) (“Ampliphi Program Patents”). At the reasonable request of Ampliphi, Intrexon shall cooperate with Ampliphi in connection with such filing, prosecution, and maintenance, at Ampliphi’s expense.
(c) As used in this Section, “Prosecuting Party” means Intrexon in the case of Intrexon Patents and Ampliphi in the case of Ampliphi Program Patents. The Prosecuting Party shall be entitled to use patent counsel selected by it and reasonably acceptable to the non-Prosecuting Party (including in-house patent counsel as well as outside patent counsel) for the prosecution of the Intrexon Patents and Ampliphi Program Patents, as applicable. The Prosecuting Party shall:
Patent Prosecution. 10.1 The filing and prosecution of the U.S. and foreign patent applications and maintenance of all U.S. and foreign patents within the WFUHS Patent Rights will be managed by WFUHS; provided, however, that, Tengion will have the reasonable right to comment upon the management, prosecution and maintenance of such patent application(s) and issued patents, including the reasonable right to offer comments and advice regarding strategic and tactical decisions in the prosecution and maintenance process; provided further, that WFUHS shall retain the authority to reject any comments proffered by Tengion. Tengion may direct its comments and recommendations directly to WFUHS’s patent counsel so long as WFUHS receives contemporaneous copies of all correspondence, e-mails and other communications with respect thereto. WFUHS will exercise commercially reasonable diligence in applying for, seeking prompt issuance of and maintaining the WFUHS Patent Rights. In carrying out these activities, WFUHS will consider in good faith the recommendations of the JPC. Patent counsel for the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of the WFUHS Patent Rights shall be selected by WFUHS but shall be reasonably acceptable to Tengion (it being agreed that the firm of ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & Fish is acceptable to Tengion with respect to such firm’s expertise and competence in the substantive law of intellectual property). WFUHS will consult Tengion and will keep Tengion reasonably informed of all matters relating to the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of all WFUHS Patent Rights, including, but not limited to, disclosing to Tengion the complete text of all patent applications. In addition, WFUHS will provide Tengion with copies of all material correspondence with the applicable patent office in such a manner to allow Tengion a meaningful opportunity to comment. The Parties will cooperate with each other in order to preserve to the greatest extent possible the attorney-client privilege with respect to the prosecution and maintenance of the WFUHS Patent Rights.
10.2 In the event Tengion determines that filing, prosecution or maintenance of any U.S. or foreign Improvement Patent or any patent or patent application relating to a Deferred Invention is not justified (a “Surrendered Patent”), Tengion will notify WFUHS of such determination in writing, thereby surrendering its rights to the Surrendered Patent, such notice to be given no fewer than sixty (60) days before any resp...
Patent Prosecution. (a) Intrexon shall have the sole right, but not the obligation, to (i) conduct and control the filing, prosecution and maintenance of the Intrexon Patents, and (ii) conduct and control the filing, prosecution, and maintenance of any applications for patent term extension and/or supplementary protection certificates that may be available as a result of the regulatory approval of any AquaBounty Product. At the reasonable request of Intrexon, AquaBounty shall cooperate with Intrexon in connection with such filing, prosecution, and maintenance, at Intrexon’s expense. Under no circumstances shall AquaBounty (A) file, attempt to file, or assist anyone else in filing, or attempting to file, any Patent application, either in the United States or elsewhere, that claims or uses or purports to claim or use or relies for support upon an Invention owned by Intrexon, (B) use, attempt to use, or assist anyone else in using or attempting to use, the Intrexon Know-How, Intrexon Materials, or any Confidential Information of Intrexon to support the filing of a Patent application, either in the United States or elsewhere, that contains claims directed to the Intrexon IP, Intrexon Materials, or the Intrexon Channel Technology, or (C) without prior approval of the IPC, file, attempt to file, or assist anyone else in filing, or attempting to file, any application for patent term extension or supplementary protection certificate, either in the United States or elsewhere, that relies upon the regulatory approval of an AquaBounty Product.
(b) AquaBounty shall have the sole right, but not the obligation, to conduct and control the filing, prosecution and maintenance of any Patents claiming Inventions that are owned by AquaBounty or its Affiliates and not assigned to Intrexon under Section 6.1(c) (“AquaBounty Program Patents”). At the reasonable request of AquaBounty, Intrexon shall cooperate with AquaBounty in connection with such filing, prosecution, and maintenance, at AquaBounty’s expense. Under no circumstances shall Intrexon (i) file, attempt to file, or assist anyone else in filing, or attempting to file, any Patent application, either in the United States or elsewhere, that claims or uses or purports to claim an Invention owned by AquaBounty, or (ii) without prior approval of the IPC, file, attempt to file, or assist anyone else in filing, or attempting to file, any application for patent term extension or supplementary protection certificate, either in the United States or e...
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Patent Prosecution. Patent applications and other means of formal protection shall be filed in the joint names of the Parties with respect to any such jointly owned IP Rights which the Parties jointly deem to be worthy of seeking any such protection. Consistent with the laws of the countries involved, the Parties shall jointly determine the country of jurisdiction within which the first patent application or other such protection shall be filed and, which of the Parties shall be responsible for the preparation and filing of the patent application or other such application. The Parties shall also jointly determine which other countries of jurisdictions any such application shall be filed and which of the Parties shall be responsible for such other filing. If the Parties cannot agree as to whether a particular jointly owned IP Rights should be the subject of patent or other formal protection, or cannot agree upon the countries or jurisdictions within which such application shall be filed, either Party may, on its own, seek such patent or other protection in any desired country or jurisdiction, and the other Parties shall cooperate with the Party seeking such protection. Unless otherwise agreed, all patent applications or other formal protection for Jointly Owned IP Rights, whether pursued by all Parties or by one Party, [* * *]. The Parties shall consult with each other no less than once per calendar year for the purpose of identifying jointly owned IP Rights for which protection should be sought, the countries of jurisdictions in which such protection should be sought and in equalizing the costs involved in such protection in proportion to each Party's benefit. In case a Party is not or no more interested in participating in a patent or patent application, it shall notify the other Party thereof, in writing, at the earliest practicable date, and shall forthwith relinquish to the other Party its rights to such patent or patent application, then the other Party shall have the right, at its expenses, to prosecute such application or maintain said patent or patent application. The relinquishing Party agrees, at the other Party's expenses, to co-operate fully with the other Party to assist the other Party in obtaining (by assigning all its rights title and interest in the application)`, maintaining, defending and renewing such patent or patent application. For the purpose of this Section 8.4 "joint" ownership with respect to inventions and copyrights shall be defined in accordance ...
Patent Prosecution. (a) Intrexon shall have the sole right, but not the obligation, to conduct and control the filing, prosecution and maintenance of the Intrexon Patents. At the reasonable request of Intrexon, ZIOPHARM shall cooperate with Intrexon in connection with such filing, prosecution, and maintenance, at Intrexon’s expense. Under no circumstances shall ZIOPHARM (a) file, attempt to file, or assist anyone else in filing, or attempting to file, any Patent application, either in the United States or elsewhere, that claims or uses or purports to claim or use or relies for support upon an Invention owned by Intrexon or use, attempt to use, or assist anyone else in using or attempting to use, the Intrexon Know-How, Intrexon Materials, or any Confidential Information of Intrexon to support the filing of a Patent application, either in the United States or elsewhere, that contains claims directed to the Intrexon IP, Intrexon Materials, or the Intrexon Channel Technology.
(b) ZIOPHARM shall have the sole right, but not the obligation, to conduct and control the filing, prosecution and maintenance of any Patents claiming Inventions that are owned by ZIOPHARM or its Affiliates and not assigned to Intrexon under Section 6.1(c) ( “ZIOPHARM Program Patents”). At the reasonable request of ZIOPHARM, Intrexon shall cooperate with ZIOPHARM in connection with such filing, prosecution, and maintenance, at ZIOPHARM’s expense.
(c) The Prosecuting Party shall be entitled to use patent counsel selected by it and reasonably acceptable to the non-Prosecuting Party (including in-house patent counsel as well as outside patent counsel) for the prosecution of the Intrexon Patents and ZIOPHARM Program Patents, as applicable. The Prosecuting Party shall:
(i) regularly provide the other Party in advance with reasonable information relating to the Prosecuting Party’s prosecution of Patents hereunder, including by providing copies of substantive communications, notices and actions submitted to or received from the relevant patent authorities and copies of drafts of filings and correspondence that the Prosecuting Party proposes to submit to such patent authorities (it being understood that, to the extent that any such information is readily accessible to the public, the Prosecuting Party may, in lieu of directly providing copies of such information to such other Party, provide such other Party with sufficient information that will permit such other Party to access such information itself directly);
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