Inventions and Patent Rights. 8.1 University will make reasonable efforts to secure from personnel assigned to this Study, disclosures of any and all inventions and improvements conceived or reduced to practice by said personnel in the performance of this Study. In the event these inventions and improvements are derived from work funded by federal funds, the Federal Government can exercise its right to a royalty-free license on each of these inventions and improvements. University shall retain all right, title and interest in and to such inventions and improvements and all patent applications it may file at its election.
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Inventions and Patent Rights. The inventing Party shall own Inventions and Patent Rights relating thereto. Subject to the licenses granted to GCOR and EPMN pursuant to the License Agreement, EPMN shall own all Sole Collaboration Patent Rights and EPMN and GCOR shall jointly own all Joint Collaboration Patent Rights. Inventorship shall be determined in accordance with US Patent Law. Any disputes regarding inventorship shall be brought to the Steering Committee, who acting on advice of counsel will try to resolve such disputes in a manner consistent with maintaining the validity of the Patent Right. Each Party shall promptly notify the other Party of any Inventions made pursuant to this Agreement, such notice to include a copy of an invention report or disclosure form.
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Inventions and Patent Rights. All matters pertaining to the ownership of inventions, the prosecution of patents and infringements, the defense against any claims of infringement and all other intellectual property matters shall be governed by the following Article 5.
Inventions and Patent Rights. Any intellectual property, including without limitation inventions, discoveries, technical information, copyrights, or software, whether or not patentable, that is discovered, created or derived from research (Intellectual Property) using XXXX infrastructure and/or discovered, created or reduced to practice in the performance of this Agreement shall be owned by the institution that developed or invented the intellectual property and governed by the provisions of the Prime Agreement which incorporates NSF’s Cooperative Agreement Financial & Administrative Terms and Conditions (dated June 2007, and as further amended). Any invention conceived or first reduced to practice in the performance of this Agreement shall be specifically governed by Xxxx-Xxxx 00 XXX 401. User shall provide Equipment Site with written notice of all such patentable inventions arising from User’s use of the Equipment Site facilities under this Agreement. Participant shall acknowledge NSF’s support and shall include within the specifications of such invention a statement that the invention was made with funding support from NSF and through the Site Agreement from Purdue University. In addition to the rights of the User and Equipment Site with respect to Intellectual Property, the User agrees to and does hereby grant to the Equipment Site an irrevocable, nonexclusive, paid-up license in and to any inventions or discoveries regardless of when conceived or actually reduce to practice or acquired by the User, which at any time through completion of this Agreement are owned or controlled by Equipment Site and are incorporated in the Equipment Site facilities as a result of this Agreement to (1) practice or to have practiced by or for the Equipment Site, and (2) to transfer such license with the transfer of the Site Agreement. The acceptance or exercise by the Equipment Site of the aforesaid rights and license shall not prevent the Equipment Site at any time from contesting the enforceability, validity or scope of, or title to, any rights or patents herein licensed.
Inventions and Patent Rights. (Limited Applicability) This Article is applicable to small business firms or domestic nonprofit organizations receiving contracts for experimental, developmental, or research work that are subject to this CCR. This includes Seller subcontractors and contracts of any tier in support of this effort.
Inventions and Patent Rights. The creation of intellectual property by Collaborator is not contemplated under this Agreement. Should any intellectual property be created under this Agreement, those rights shall be governed as follows: Title to all inventions and discoveries made solely by Collaborator inventors resulting from the research project shall reside with Collaborator; title to all inventions and discoveries made solely by UNT inventors resulting from the research project shall reside with UNT; DocuSign Envelope ID: DB54202A-80A6-4FF5-9668-E6C594DF2931 title to all inventions and discoveries made jointly by UNT and Collaborator inventors resulting from the research project shall reside jointly with UNT and Collaborator.
Inventions and Patent Rights. Ownership of inventions and discoveries owned or licensed to UNT or Sponsor prior to this Agreement, “Background Intellectual Property,” that is provided for the purposes of the Project remain with the Party which made the Background Intellectual Property available. Background Intellectual Property of the parties may include, but is not limited to, the items set- forth in Attachment C, Identified Background Intellectual Property. Title to any invention, discovery or other intellectual property made or conceived solely by an employee or student of UNT during the performance of this Agreement or any related agreement shall remain with UNT, which shall have the sole right to determine the disposition of any patent or other rights resulting therefrom, provided however that upon issue of any patent on any such invention or discovery, Sponsor shall have the right of first refusal to an exclusive license to practice the invention for a period of time and at a royalty rate to be negotiated. Title to any invention, discovery, or other intellectual property made or developed solely by Sponsor during the performance of this Agreement or any related agreement shall remain with the Sponsor, which shall have the sole right to determine the disposition of any patents or other rights resulting therefrom, including the right to determine whether a patent application will be filed. Any invention, discovery, or other intellectual property made or developed jointly during the performance of this Agreement or any related agreement will be jointly owned by the employers of the inventors, for which purpose only, students of UNT will be treated as if they were employees of UNT. The terms and conditions related to the protection of joint inventions will be negotiated in good faith by UNT and Sponsor and formalized in a separate written agreement. Sponsor hereby grants to UNT an irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to make, have made, use, reproduce, translate and create derivative works from any invention or discovery owned or jointly owned by Sponsor under this Agreement for educational and non-commercial research purposes only.
Inventions and Patent Rights. An “Invention” means any novel discovery conceived and/or reduced to practice during the conduct and as a result of the Research Project that may be claimed in a patent application. “Patent Rights” shall mean all right, title and interest in, to and under patent applications claiming Inventions, including divisions, continuations or continuations-in-part (but only to the extent such continuations-in-part are adequately supported in the parent application) thereof; any corresponding foreign applications thereof; and any U.S. or foreign patents issued therein or reissues, reexaminations or extensions thereof, assigned by inventors of Inventions to their respective institutions.
