Improvement Patent definition

Improvement Patent means any patent or patent application that claims an Improvement.

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Improvement Patent means any patent or patent application in the United States or any foreign jurisdiction claiming an Improvement.

Improvement Patent means all patent applications, and all patents issuing therefrom that claim Improvements, have a filing date or were acquired by, transferred or licensed to Licensor on or after the Effective Date and under which Licensor has the right to grant the licenses granted hereunder.

Examples of Improvement Patent in a sentence

• The Requesting Party shall reasonably cooperate with and assist the Owner Party in connection with any filing, prosecution and maintenance activities undertaken by the Owner Party with respect to an Improvement Patent.

• All services, costs, fees (including but not limited to maintenance fees, etc.) for an Improvement Patent shall be directly paid or reimbursed by the Requesting Party.

• Ownership of an Improvement Patent that is based on or derived from Broncus Existing IP or Broncus Future IP shall reside with Broncus.

• The Owner Party shall not take any action or inaction that results in the abandonment of the Improvement Patent unless required to do so by court order or the terms of a bona fide settlement agreement.

• Marina Bio shall pay to MirnaRx a royalty of [***]% of the net sales of any products sold by Marina Bio or its Affiliate or sublicensee where the manufacture, use or sale of such product is claimed by a valid claim in the issued Improvement Patent Claims (where the terms “net sales” and “valid claim” have the same meanings as Net Sales and Valid Claims applied mutatis mutandis to the situation involving such product sold by Marina Bio (or its Affiliate or sublicensee) and Improvement Patent Claim).

More Definitions of Improvement Patent

Improvement Patent means any patent or patent application which D▇. ▇▇▇▇▇ during the term of this Agreement acquires title or otherwise the right to grant licenses thereunder and relating to any Improvement, together with any divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, or reissues thereof and any corresponding foreign applications or patents.

Improvement Patent means any patent or patent application Controlled by Route 92 on or after the Effective Date, claiming any Improvement.

Improvement Patent means any patent issuing on a patent application which comes into existence on or after the EFFECTIVE DATE drawn to an invention within the SURGICAL CLIP TECHNOLOGY covering a LICENSED PRODUCT, a LICENSED PROCESS or TECHNICAL INFORMATION and any reissue, reexamination, revalidation or registration patents and patents of addition based thereon and any later filed divisional, continuation, or reissue applications claiming priority therefrom and any patents issuing on said applications, and also any patent issuing on a later filed patent application which is a continuation in part of any of the aforesaid patent applications and directed to substantially the same type of invention as that claimed in any such patent application.

Improvement Patent means any and all of the following: (a) any patent that claims an Improvement; (b) any patent application that claims an Improvement and any division, continuation, or continuation-in-part of any such application and any patent which shall issue based on such application, division, continuation or continuation-in-part; (c) any patent which is a reissue or extension of or a patent of addition to, any patent or patent application defined in (a) or (b) above; and (d) any patent application or patent corresponding to any patent application or patent identified in (a), (b), or (c), above which is filed or issued in any country in the Territory. The term "Improvement Patent" shall also include any Supplementary Certificate of Protection of a Member State of the European Community and other similar protective rights in any other country of the Territory to the extent that that they protect any invention or discovery that is or was also claimed in any of the patents or patent applications defined in (a), (b), (c) or (d) above.

Improvement Patent means a patent or patent application, other than any Surrendered Patent, relating to any discovery, invention or technology in the Licensed Field that (i) WFUHS owns or has sufficient rights to license hereunder; (ii) is conceived, developed or reduced to practice by any of the Researchers (excluding the Ex-Field Researchers) from and after the Employment Date and through the Improvement Termination Date; (iii) is directed to the subject matter described in the specifications or claims of any of the CHB Patent Rights or any New Development Patent under exclusive, royalty-bearing license from WFUHS to Tengion; and (iv) the practice of which could not occur without infringing a Valid Claim of the CHB Patent Rights or a Valid Claim of any New Development Patent under exclusive, royalty-bearing license from WFUHS to Tengion. “Improvement Patents” do not include any New Development Patents. Article 6 sets forth a mechanism for determining whether a particular WFUHS Patent is an Improvement Patent or a New Development Patent.

Improvement Patent means any Patent (except for the formulation Patent and use Patent with respect to a Development Candidate) containing claims that cover an Improvement.

Improvement Patent means any patent relating to any invention made by a Party that improves the performance of the Licensed Product in terms of its safety, efficacy, patient acceptance, cost, manufacture, formulation, dosing, use or sale, but shall not include inventions that involve new compositions of matter used as active ingredients, or new formulation technology otherwise patentable and applicable to other compositions of matter than the Licensed Product.