Background definition

Background means any information, documentation, designs, technical drawings, software (system and application software), algorithms, elaborated design data, technical or industrial data, tools, knowledge, know-how, trade secrets, equipment and services process, methodology, and any intellectual property therein, regardless of their support and whether or not protected by an intellectual property right, developed, created or acquired by one Party independently of the execution of the Contract. The Background shall remain at all times the property of the said Party and its affiliate(s).

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Background means information which is held by beneficiaries prior to their accession to this agreement, as well as copyrights or other intellectual property rights pertaining to such information, the application for which has been filed before their accession to this agreement, and which is needed for carrying out the project or for using foreground;

Background means any data, know-how or information whatever its form or nature, tangible or intangible, including any rights such as intellectual property rights, that is: (i) held by beneficiaries prior to their accession to the action; and (ii) identified by the beneficiaries in a written agreement as needed for implementing the action or for exploiting its results;

Examples of Background in a sentence

• Such records are the sole and exclusive property of Customer and shall constitute Customer’s Confidential Information except to the extent they incorporate any Lonza Operating Documents, Lonza Confidential Information, New Lonza Intellectual Property or Lonza Background Intellectual Property.

• Lonza shall provide reasonably necessary documents to complete such technology transfer, and [***] (based on a full-time employee rate for such support) and expenses, provided that the total cost of such assistance (excluding any costs paid to Lonza for the use of Lonza’s Confidential Information or Lonza Background Intellectual Property) will not exceed [***].

• Except as expressly otherwise provided herein, neither Party nor its Affiliates will, as a result of this Agreement, acquire any license, right, title, interest in or to, any Background Intellectual Property of the other Party.

• Customer’s Background IP and New Customer Intellectual Property collectively, the “Customer Intellectual Property”) 10.2.2 Customer is not permitted to include or disclose [***].

• Lonza will not include in the Manufacturing Process any Lonza Confidential Information or Lonza Background Intellectual Property that would require Customer to pay any Technology Transfer Licensing Fee in order to transfer the Manufacturing Process to itself, its Affiliates and/or any Third Party, without first obtaining Customer’s prior written consent and advising Customer as to the applicable anticipated Technology Transfer Licensing Fee, which the Parties shall agree upon in advance in writing.

More Definitions of Background

Background means all Technical Output that is not Foreground and that is proprietary to or the confidential information of the Consultant, the Consultant’s Sub-Consultants, or any other entity engaged by the Consultant in the performance of the Services;

Background means all information, know-how and material, whatever its form or nature, owned or controlled by a Participant prior to its participation to this Consortium Agreement, as well as any intellectual property rights pertaining to such data, that is Needed to implement the Project or to exploit the Foreground. Participants may identify the Background in Annex 1 to this Consortium Agreement, together with any (legal) restrictions or limits to the use thereof;

Background means any data, know-how or information — whatever its form or nature (tangible or intangible), including any rights such as intellectual property rights — that:

Background means all Technical Output that is not Foreground and that is proprietary to or the confidential information of the Contractor, the Contractor's Subcontractors, or any other entity engaged by the Contractor in the performance of the Design Services;

Background means all information or material held by a Party prior to its participation to this Consortium Agreement or that has been developed or obtained by a Party after the Effective Date of this Consortium Agreement independently from the Project, as well as any intellectual property rights pertaining to such information or material;

Background means information which is held by participants prior to their accession to the grant agreement, as well as copyrights or other intellectual property rights pertaining to such information, the application for which has been filed before their accession to the grant agreement, and which is needed for carrying out the indirect action or for using the results of the indirect action;

Background indicates all the knowledge and information, as well as all intangible goods, protected in accordance with national, EC and international regulations regarding intellectual and industrial property, implemented or nevertheless achieved by a party before the start of the activity covered by this Contract.