Background Knowledge definition

Background Knowledge. The Company and the Institution’s unpublished knowledge in the form of know-how, unpublished inventions or other specialised unpublished knowledge that the Company and the Institution have made known to each other or made available for the completion of the Project.

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Background Knowledge means the Parties’ knowledge in the form of know-how, inventions or other specific knowledge that is owned or controlled by a Party and created outside the Project, which the Parties have made known to each other, or provided for the purpose of carrying out the Project. ‘Confidential Information’ means information and material concerning business, economic, technical, scientific, research and other matters which are exchanged orally, in writing, electronically or by any other means. ‘Foreground Knowledge’ means the results and all knowledge generated during the Project, including creations that may be protected under the Danish Patent Act, the Danish Copyright Act or the Danish Utility Model Act, regardless of which of the Parties generated the knowledge.

Background Knowledge means the knowledge and/or technical information and the intellectual property in the same fields as the Project, which is owned or controlled by a party but which has been generated by a party outside the scope of the Project by one of the research groups which participates in this Project for the respective party, and which said party makes available before or after the Effective Date of this Agreement, with the purpose of using it while the Project is being performed.

Examples of Background Knowledge in a sentence

The Parties acknowledge that Foreground Knowledge and Background Knowledge is provided ‘as is’ and without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to its accuracy or completeness, including, without limitation, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or any warranty that the use of Foreground Knowledge and Background Knowledge will not infringe or violate any patent or other proprietary rights of any Third Party.
For the avoidance of doubt, such access shall not extend to any commercial work or any work for the benefit of a for-profit organization, and shall cease with the Project unless the Background Knowledge is not deemed Confidential Information, cf.
If a Party uses the other Party’s Foreground Knowledge or Background Knowledge under the terms of the Agreement, then such use shall in every respect take place on the receiving Party's own responsibility.
Background Knowledge clearly marked confidential or undoubtedly of confidential nature and not comprised by clause 7.3.
During the term of the Project the Parties shall grant each other a non-exclusive, non- transferable, fully paid-up, royalty free access right to use their respective Background Knowledge and Foreground Knowledge that is strictly required for completing the Project and for no other reason.

More Definitions of Background Knowledge

Background Knowledge shall include all Intellectual Property Rights and additionally all information, knowledge, data and know- how, regardless if independently developed by a Party outside the scope of the relevant Contract or acquired from third parties. Should the results contain “Background Knowledge” of the Supplier, iinovis is to receive a transferable, sub-licensable, non- exclusive, irrevocable license for these Intellectual Property Rights, settled in full through payment of the contract price.

Background Knowledge means information, including data and know-how which is held by a Party prior to, on or after the accession to the Investment Agreement, as well as copyrights or other intellectual and industrial property rights pertaining to such information, and which is necessary for carrying out the Project and which is defined in Appendix 3 to this Collaboration Agreement;

Background Knowledge means all knowledge, documents, know-how, software, data, specifications, plans, processes, and more generally all information, whatever its form, as well as all intellectual property rights attached hereto (such as but not limited to patents, designs, copyrights), which a Party owned prior to the effective date of the Order or which have been developed or acquired later by such Party independently from any performance of the Order.

Background Knowledge means all Intellectual Property Rights and Know-how (including material and immaterial property established by these Intellectual Property Rights and Know- how) where the Contracting Authority respectively the Contractor is the owner or licence holder at the commencement of the Contract, or which they develop in parallel but independently of the Contract, or where they obtain rights in some other manner independent of the Contract.

Background Knowledge information, data, know-how, and the associated intellectual property rights, which are owned or controlled by the Traineeship provider or University and effectuated before the starting date or outside the scope of the Traineeship.

Background Knowledge means any and all technical and/or scientific information and knowledge and/or any and all other type of information, in any form whatsoever, whether patentable or not, and/or whether actually patented or not, and all the related rights, belonging to a Party or held by the latter prior to the effective dáte of the Agreement.