Conceived definition

Conceived is defined as it is defined under applicable United States patent law.

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Conceived and "Conception," as to an Invention, are used in the same sense as in the patent laws of the United States, and generally speaking refer to the formation of a complete mental picture of the Invention, requiring only routine work by a hypothetical person of ordinary skill in the art to which the Invention pertains to reduce the Invention to practice.

Conceived. “Conceived” – see Section 12.1.1 of this Agreement. "Conception"“Conception” – see Section 12.1.1 of this Agreement. "Contractor"“Contractor” – see the preamble to this Agreement.

Examples of Conceived in a sentence

• Executive also agrees to irrevocably assign (or cause to be irrevocably assigned) and hereby irrevocably assigns to the Company all right, title and interest in all Conceived Inventions and any copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, mask work rights, moral rights and intellectual property and other rights (“Intellectual Property Rights”).

• Executive agrees to keep and maintain adequate, current, accurate, and authentic written records of all such Conceived Inventions, which may be in the form of notes, sketches, drawings, electronic files, reports, or any other format that may be specified by the Company and which will be available to and remain the sole property of the Company at all times.

• In addition to the foregoing assignment of Inventions to the Company, Executive hereby irrevocably transfers and assigns to the Company: (i) all worldwide patents, patent applications, copyrights, mask works, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights in any Conceived Inventions; and (ii) any and all “Moral Rights” (as defined below) that Executive may have in or with respect to any Conceived Inventions.

• All Conceived Inventions that Executive conceives, reduces to practice, develops or has developed (in whole or in part, either alone or jointly with others) shall be the sole property of the Company and its assigns to the maximum extent permitted by law (and to the fullest extent permitted by law shall be deemed “works made for hire”).

• Executive understands and agrees that the decision whether or not to commercialize or market any Conceived Inventions is within the Company’s sole discretion and for the Company’s sole benefit and that no royalty or other consideration will be due to Executive as a result of the Company’s efforts to commercialize or market any such Conceived Inventions.

More Definitions of Conceived

Conceived means formation in the mind of the inventor(s) of a definite, complete, and operative Invention, as it may be practiced, and Conception has a corresponding meaning.

Conceived means conceived, discovered, developed, or authored by a Person or Party (it being understood that a Person or Party shall be deemed to have conceived, discovered, developed, or authored Technology or any other intellectual property if at least one individual or individuals under an obligation to assign their rights to such Technology or intellectual property to such Person or Party and/or its Affiliates was involved in such conception, discovery, development, or authoring).

Conceived and "Conception," as to an Invention, are used in the same sense as in the patent laws of the United States, and generally speaking refer to the formation of a complete mental picture of the Invention, requiring only routine work by a hypothetical person of ordinary skill in the art to which the Invention pertains to reduce the Invention to practice. (b) Intellectual Property Rights means any and all rights to exclude existing from time to time in a specified jurisdiction under patent law, copyright law, moral rights law, trade-secret law,semiconductor chip protection law, trademark law, unfair competition law, or other similar rights. (c) "Invention" means any invention, discovery, process, art, method (including mathematical algorithms), machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or improvement thereof, whether or not patentable, to the extent that it is the subject of an Intellectual Property Right. (d) "Work of Authorship" means: (1) a work of authorship protectable under the copyright laws of an applicable jurisdiction, or (2) a mask work protectable under the semiconductor chip protection laws of an applicable jurisdiction.

Conceived and “Conception” has the meaning as applied under applicable United States patent law.

Conceived means: (a) with respect to Patent Rights, “invented” as defined under U.S. patent law, as evidenced by written documents of a Party; (b) with respect to copyrightable works, “authored” or “created” in accordance with U.S. copyright law; and (b) with respect to all other intellectual property, conceived, developed or reduced to practice. “Conception” has correlating meaning.

Conceived means: (i) with respect to any patentable Intellectual Property, “conceived” as such term is defined by U.S. patent law; (ii) with respect to any copyrightable Intellectual Property, “authored” as such term is defined by U.S. copyright law; and (iii) with respect to all other Intellectual Property, developed, created or discovered, as applicable. Unless specifically agreed upon by the Parties in a SOW or separate written agreement, any Intellectual Property that is owned, controlled by, or licensed to any Party prior to the effective date of a given SOW, or outside the scope of a given SOW, as demonstrated by a Party’s competent records (“Background Intellectual Property”), shall remain the sole property of the Party who owns or controls such Intellectual Property.

Conceived literally means “hatched.”