Invention definition

Invention means any discovery, process, formula, method, compound, composition of matter, technique, development, improvement, design, schematic, device, concept, system, technical information, or know-how, whether patentable or not, and any and all patent rights therein, whether now or hereafter perfected and reduced to practice.
Invention means any invention, idea, discovery, development, improvement or innovation, whether or not patentable or capable of registration, and whether or not recorded in any medium.
Invention means any invention or discovery which is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable under Title 35 of the United States Code, or any novel variety of plant which is or may be protected under the Plant Variety Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 2321 et seq.).

Examples of Invention in a sentence

  • To the extent that any such prior Invention is not deemed to be assignable as provided in this Section 8(b), the Company is hereby granted and shall have a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, sublicensable, worldwide license to make, have made, modify, use, market, sell and distribute such prior Invention as part of or in connection with such product, process or machine.

  • If in the course of Consultant’s engagement with the Company, Consultant incorporates into a Company Invention, product, process, or machine a prior Invention or improvement not related to the Services that is owned by Consultant or in which Consultant has an interest, Consultant hereby does assign all rights and interest in such prior Invention to the Company.

  • Invention" means any and all dis- coveries, inventions and other subject matter (whether patentable or not) conceived, re- duced to practice, or otherwise discovered by Investigator, Study Personnel or an employee of Institution, alone or jointly with others, in connection with performing the Study and/or from use of the Study Drug or the Confidential Information, in each case together with all in- tellectual property rights in any of the forego- ing.


More Definitions of Invention

Invention means any novel, inventive and useful art, apparatus, method, process, machine (including article or device), manufacture or composition of matter, or any novel, inventive and useful improvement in any art, method, process, machine (including article or device), manufacture or composition of matter.
Invention means any invention or discovery which is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable under Title 35 of the United States Code.
Invention means any discovery or invention, whether or not patentable, conceived or otherwise made by either Party, or by both Parties, in exercising its rights or performing its obligations under this Agreement.
Invention means any new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter;
Invention means any new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof;
Invention means any apparatus, biological processes, cell line, chemical compound, creation, data, development, design, discovery, formula, idea, improvement, innovation, know-how, laboratory notebook, manuscript, process or technique, whether or not patentable or protectable by copyright, or other intellectual property in any form.
Invention means any process, method, composition of matter, article of manufacture, discovery or finding that is conceived and/or reduced to practice as a result of the Research Program.