Discoveries and Inventions Sample Clauses

Discoveries and Inventions. Employee agrees that all inventions, designs, improvements, writings, research, analysis, and discoveries made during the term of this Agreement and pertaining to the business conducted by AnchorBank shall be the exclusive property of AnchorBank, as determined solely by AnchorBank. Employee shall assist AnchorBank in obtaining patents, trademarks, service marks and/or copyrights on all such inventions, designs, improvements, writings and discoveries deemed suitable for patent, trademark, service xxxx, or copyright by AnchorBank, and shall execute all documents and do all things necessary to obtain letters, patents, or copyrights, vest AnchorBank with full and exclusive title thereto, and protect the same against infringements by others.
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Discoveries and Inventions. Executive hereby assigns to the Company all his right, title, and interest in and to any and all inventions, discoveries, developments, improvements, techniques, designs and data related to the technology which Executive conceives of, reduces to practice, or otherwise creates, either alone or jointly with others, in the course of his employment hereunder and in which the law recognizes any protectable interest.
Discoveries and Inventions. If, while employed by the Company or during a period of one year after termination of such employment, the Executive shall have made, either solely or jointly with others, any discovery, improvements or invention which would pertain or relate in any way to the business, products, publications or processes of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates at the time of termination of his employment, such discovery, improvement or invention (whether or not of a patentable nature) shall be the exclusive property of the Company. The Executive shall execute and deliver to the Company without further compensation any documents which the Company may deem necessary or appropriate to prepare or prosecute applications for patents upon such discovery, improvement or invention, to assign and transfer to the Company his entire right, title and interest in and to such discovery, improvement or invention, and patents therefor, or otherwise more fully and perfectly to evidence the Company's ownership thereof.
Discoveries and Inventions. If the Executive, in the course of his employment with the Company, makes any discovery, improvement, or invention which pertains to or may be useful in the business of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates at the time of cessation of his employment, such discovery, improvement, or invention shall be the exclusive property of the Company. The Executive shall execute and deliver to the Company, with further compensation, any and all documents which the Company deems necessary or appropriate to more fully and more perfectly evidence the Company’s ownership thereof.
Discoveries and Inventions. When used in this agreement, the term "Patent" (and derivatives of that term) shall be understood to mean that bundle of rights that protect inventions or discoveries which constitute any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof; new, original and ornamental designs for an article; and plant patents being for the asexual reproduction of a distinct and new variety of plant, including cultivated sprouts, mutants, hybrids, and new found seedlings, other than a tuber propagated plant or plant found in an uncultivated state.
Discoveries and Inventions. Employee, in partial consideration of his employment and salary to be paid to him, hereby agrees to disclose promptly to Employer, or any subsidiary, parent, or affiliated company or its nominees, each and every discovery, improvement and/or invention made, conceived and/or developed by him whether during working hours or otherwise, during the entire period of his said employment, which discoveries, improvements and/or inventions are capable of use in any way in connection with the business of the Employer and for the same consideration, Employee does hereby grant and convey to Employer or its nominee, the entire right, title and interest, domestic and foreign, or such lesser interests as such Employer at its option in any particular case may choose to accept, in and to reach or all of said discoveries, improvements and/or inventions; and he does further agree to sign all applications for patents or copyrights, and to execute and deliver all assignments and other documents, and to perform all acts and do all things necessary to make this Agreement and the said grant and conveyance effective with respect to particular discoveries, improvements and/or inventions.
Discoveries and Inventions. All patentable and unpatentable inventions, discoveries and ideas which are made or conceived or reduced to practice by Executive during the term of Executive’s employment, and which are based upon or arise out of Executive’s services hereunder (“Developments”) are or shall become the Company’s property. Executive agrees to disclose promptly to the Company each such Development and, upon the Company’s request and at its expense, Executive will assist the Company, or its designee, in making application for Letters Patent, Trade or Service Marks or Copyrights in any country in the world. Executive further agrees, at no expense to Executive, to execute all papers and do all things which may be necessary or advisable to prosecute such applications, and to transfer to and vest in the Company, or its designee, all the right, title and interest in and to such Developments, and all applications for patents and Letters Patent, Trademarks and Service Marks and Copyrights issued thereon. If for any reason Executive is unable to effectuate a full assignment of any such Development, Executive agrees to transfer to the Company, or its designee, Executive’s transferable rights, whether they be exclusive or non-exclusive, or as a joint inventor or partial owner of the Development. No action or inaction by the Company shall in any event be construed as a waiver or abandonment of its rights to any such Development except an instrument in writing assigned by an authorized official of the Company by which it specifically states it intends to be bound in such respect.
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Discoveries and Inventions. Executive agrees that all developments, discoveries and inventions relating to the Company's Business (collectively referred to as the "Inventions") which Executive conceives or makes while employed by the Company shall be the exclusive property of the Company whether the Company, in its sole discretion, decides to pursue or not to pursue a patent, copyright, trademark, service xxxx or other registered embodiment of any kind of any country for such Invention. Whenever requested by the Company, whether during or subsequent to Executive's employment with the Company, Executive shall execute patent applications and other instruments considered necessary by the Company to apply for and obtain patents of the United States and foreign countries covering any such developments, discoveries or inventions. Executive agrees to assign, and does hereby assign to the Company, all title, interest and rights, including intellectual property rights, in and to any and all Inventions, and Executive agrees to assign to the Company any patents or patent applications arising from any such Inventions, and agrees to execute and deliver all such assignments, patents, patent applications and other documents as the Company may direct. Executive agrees to cooperate fully with the Company, both during and after Executive's employment with the Company is terminated, to enable the Company to secure and maintain rights in any such Inventions in any and all countries. Without limiting the foregoing, Executive hereby acknowledges that all works of authorship or invention which relate in any manner to the Company's Business which are developed or written during the term of Executive's employment with the Company are "works made for hire". Accordingly, Executive agrees to assign, and does hereby assign to the Company, any and all copyright rights and all other rights and all material prepared by Executive during the term of Executive's employment which relate to the Business of the Company.
Discoveries and Inventions. (I) All rights to and interests in discoveries or inventions, including patents thereon, which result from research or investigation conducted in any experiment station, bureau, laboratory, or research facility of the University or by employees of the University acting within the scope of their employment or with funding, equipment, or infrastructure provided by or through the University, shall be the sole property of the University. All rights and interests in software, although it is copyrightable, shall be the property of the University when it is required for an invention or is part of an invention. Covered individuals who make or participate in the making of such discoveries or inventions in the course of fulfilling their University responsibilities or with use of University resources shall promptly disclose their discovery or invention to the Chief Intellectual Property Officer, using the disclosure form prescribed by that official. Use of this form has the effect of initiating the process of review for patentability and commercialize-ability.
Discoveries and Inventions. If Executive, while employed by the Company, makes, either solely or jointly with others, any discovery, improvement or invention which would pertain or relate in any way to the business, products, publications or processes of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates, such discovery, improvement or invention (whether or not of patent, copyright or trademark nature) shall be the exclusive property of the Company. Executive shall execute and deliver to the Company without further compensation, any and all documents which the Company deems necessary or appropriate to prepare or prosecute applications for patents, copyrights, or trademarks upon such discovery, improvement or invention, for the purposes of assigning and transferring to the Company Executive's entire right, title and interest in and to such discovery, improvement or invention, and patents, copyrights or trademarks therefor, and otherwise more fully and perfectly to evidence the Company's ownership thereof. This Section 8 shall not apply to any discovery, improvement or invention Executive made prior to the commencement of Executive's employment with the Company.
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