Intellectual Property Rights and Confidentiality Clauses 3.1 Party A shall have exclusive and proprietary ownership, rights and interests in any and all intellectual properties arising out of or created during the performance of this Agreement, including but not limited to copyrights, patents, patent applications, software, technical secrets, trade secrets and others. Party B shall execute all appropriate documents, take all appropriate actions, submit all filings and/or applications, render all appropriate assistance and otherwise conduct whatever is necessary as deemed by Party A at its sole discretion for the purposes of vesting any ownership, right or interest of any such intellectual property rights in Party A, and/or perfecting the protections for any such intellectual property rights in Party A.
Confidentiality; Proprietary Rights The Employee has executed and agrees to be bound by the provisions governing confidentiality, proprietary rights and non-competition contained in Exhibit C to this Agreement, which provisions will survive termination of this Agreement for any reason.
Confidentiality Intellectual Property The Executive agrees that during the Executive’s employment with the Company, whether or not under this Agreement, and at all times thereafter:
Inventions, Ideas, Processes, and Designs All inventions, ideas, processes, programs, software, and designs (including all improvements) (i) conceived or made by the Executive during the course of his or her employment with the Company (whether or not actually conceived during regular business hours) and for a period of six months subsequent to the termination (whether by expiration of the Term or otherwise) of such employment with the Company, and (ii) related to the business of the Company, shall be disclosed in writing promptly to the Company and shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and the Executive hereby assigns any such inventions to the Company. An invention, idea, process, program, software, or design (including an improvement) shall be deemed related to the business of the Company if (a) it was made with the Company’s funds, personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, or Confidential Information, (b) results from work performed by the Executive for the Company, or (c) pertains to the current business or demonstrably anticipated research or development work of the Company. The Executive shall cooperate with the Company and its attorneys in the preparation of patent and copyright applications for such developments and, upon request, shall promptly assign all such inventions, ideas, processes, and designs to the Company. The decision to file for patent or copyright protection or to maintain such development as a trade secret, or otherwise, shall be in the sole discretion of the Company, and the Executive shall be bound by such decision. The Executive hereby irrevocably assigns to the Company, for no additional consideration, the Executive’s entire right, title and interest in and to all work product and intellectual property rights, including the right to sxx, counterclaim and recover for all past, present and future infringement, misappropriation or dilution thereof, and all rights corresponding thereto throughout the world. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed to reduce or limit the Company’s rights, title or interest in any work product or intellectual property rights so as to be less in any respect than the Company would have had in the absence of this Agreement. If applicable, the Executive shall provide as a schedule to this Agreement, a complete list of all inventions, ideas, processes, and designs, if any, patented or unpatented, copyrighted or otherwise, or non-copyrighted, including a brief description, which he or she made or conceived prior to his or her employment with the Company and which therefore are excluded from the scope of this Agreement. References to the Company in this Section 12 shall include the Company, its subsidiaries and affiliates.
Sublicense to Use the Xxxxxxx Trademarks As exclusive licensee of the rights to use and sublicense the use of the "Xxxxxxx," "Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Investments, Inc." and "Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx, Inc." trademarks (together, the "Xxxxxxx Marks"), you hereby grant the Trust a nonexclusive right and sublicense to use (i) the "Xxxxxxx" name and xxxx as part of the Trust's name (the "Fund Name"), and (ii) the Xxxxxxx Marks in connection with the Trust's investment products and services, in each case only for so long as this Agreement, any other investment management agreement between you and the Trust, or any extension, renewal or amendment hereof or thereof remains in effect, and only for so long as you are a licensee of the Xxxxxxx Marks, provided however, that you agree to use your best efforts to maintain your license to use and sublicense the Xxxxxxx Marks. The Trust agrees that it shall have no right to sublicense or assign rights to use the Xxxxxxx Marks, shall acquire no interest in the Xxxxxxx Marks other than the rights granted herein, that all of the Trust's uses of the Xxxxxxx Marks shall inure to the benefit of Xxxxxxx Trust Company as owner and licensor of the Xxxxxxx Marks (the "Trademark Owner"), and that the Trust shall not challenge the validity of the Xxxxxxx Marks or the Trademark Owner's ownership thereof. The Trust further agrees that all services and products it offers in connection with the Xxxxxxx Marks shall meet commercially reasonable standards of quality, as may be determined by you or the Trademark Owner from time to time, provided that you acknowledge that the services and products the Trust rendered during the one-year period preceding the date of this Agreement are acceptable. At your reasonable request, the Trust shall cooperate with you and the Trademark Owner and shall execute and deliver any and all documents necessary to maintain and protect (including but not limited to in connection with any trademark infringement action) the Xxxxxxx Marks and/or enter the Trust as a registered user thereof. At such time as this Agreement or any other investment management agreement shall no longer be in effect between you (or your successor) and the Trust, or you no longer are a licensee of the Xxxxxxx Marks, the Trust shall (to the extent that, and as soon as, it lawfully can) cease to use the Fund Name or any other name indicating that it is advised by, managed by or otherwise connected with you (or any organization which shall have succeeded to your business as investment manager) or the Trademark Owner. In no event shall the Trust use the Xxxxxxx Marks or any other name or xxxx confusingly similar thereto (including, but not limited to, any name or xxxx that includes the name "Xxxxxxx") if this Agreement or any other investment advisory agreement between you (or your successor) and the Fund is terminated.
Intellectual Property and Confidentiality 3.1 Party A shall have exclusive and proprietary rights and interests to all the rights, ownership, interests and intellectual property rights arising from or created by either Party as a result of its performance of this Agreement, including but not limited to copyright, patent, patent application rights, trademark rights, software, technical secrets, trade secrets and other intellectual properties.
Confidentiality and Creative Work (a) The Executive covenants and agrees not to reveal to any person, firm, or corporation any confidential information of any nature concerning the Corporation or its business, or anything connected therewith. As used in this Agreement, the term “confidential information” means all of the Corporation’s and affiliates’ confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets in existence on the date hereof or existing at any time during the term of this Agreement, including but not limited to:
Confidentiality and Proprietary Rights Executive agrees to read, sign and abide by Company’s Employee Innovations and Proprietary Rights Assignment Agreement, which is provided with this Agreement and incorporated herein by reference.
Know-How Necessary for the Business The Intellectual Property Rights are all those necessary for the operation of the Company’s businesses as it is currently conducted or as represented, in writing, to the Purchasers to be conducted. The Company is the owner of all right, title, and interest in and to each of the Intellectual Property Rights, free and clear of all liens, security interests, charges, encumbrances, equities, and other adverse claims, and has the right to use all of the Intellectual Property Rights. To the Company’s knowledge, no employee of the Company has entered into any contract that restricts or limits in any way the scope or type of work in which the employee may be engaged or requires the employee to transfer, assign, or disclose information concerning his work to anyone other than of the Company.
Confidentiality and Intellectual Property 12. (a) All confidential records, material, information and all trade secrets concerning the business or affairs of the Company obtained by the Executive in the course of his employment with the Company shall remain the exclusive property of the Company. During the Executive's employment or at any time thereafter, the Executive shall not divulge the contents of such confidential records, material, information or trade secrets to any person, firm or corporation other than to the Company or the Company's qualified Executives and following the termination of his employment hereunder the Executive shall not, for any reason, use the contents of such confidential records, material, information or trade secrets for any purpose whatsoever. This Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement. This Section shall not apply to any confidential records, material, information or trade secrets which as proven by written documentation:
