Joint Patent Rights. With respect to any potentially patentable Joint Invention, the Parties shall confer and agree upon which Party, if any, shall prepare, file, Prosecute (including any interferences, reissue proceedings, and other administrational proceedings) and Maintain patent applications covering such Joint Invention (any such patent application and any patents issuing therefrom a “Joint Patent Right”), at the responsible Party’s expense. It is the intention of the Parties that, unless otherwise agreed in writing, ATI would prepare, file, Prosecute and Maintain any Joint Patent Rights. The Party that Prosecutes a patent application in the Joint Patent Rights (the “Prosecuting Party”) shall provide the other Party reasonable opportunity to review and comment on such Prosecution efforts regarding the applicable Joint Patent Rights in the particular jurisdictions, and such other Party shall provide the Prosecuting Party reasonable assistance in such efforts. The Prosecuting Party shall provide the other Party with a copy of all material communications from any patent authority in the applicable jurisdictions regarding the Joint Patent Rights being Prosecuted by such Party, and shall provide drafts of any material filings or responses to be made to such patent authorities a reasonable amount of time in advance of submitting such filings or responses. In particular, each Party agrees to provide the other Party with all information necessary to enable the other Party to comply with the duty of candor/duty of disclosure requirements of any patent authority. Should ATI determine that it will no longer support the continued Prosecution or Maintenance of a particular Joint Patent Right in a country or jurisdiction, ATI shall provide Rigel with written notice of such determination at least thirty (30) Business Days prior to any deadline for taking action to avoid abandonment of such Joint Patent Right. Rigel shall have the right, but not ***Text Omitted and Filed Separately Confidential Treatment Requested Under 17 C.F.R. §§ 200.80(b)(4) and 230.406 obligation, to file, Prosecute and Maintain such Joint Patent Rights in the applicable jurisdiction at Rigel’s expense.
Joint Patent Rights. 11.8.1 Genmab shall have the first right, but not the obligation, to file, prosecute, maintain and defend Patent Rights relating to Joint Inventions (“Joint Patent Rights”) throughout the Territory, at its sole expense, and Genmab shall give timely notice to CureVac, and, if during the Research Period, with a copy to the IP Sub-Committee, of any desire to not file patent applications claiming Joint Patent Rights or to cease prosecution and/or maintenance of Joint Patent Rights on a country-by-country basis and, in such cases, shall permit CureVac, in its sole discretion, to file such patent applications or to continue prosecution, maintenance or defense of such Joint Patent Rights at its own expense. At the latest [*****] before filing, the prosecuting Party shall give the non-prosecuting Party an opportunity to review and comment upon the text of any application with respect to such Joint Patent Right, shall consult with the non-prosecuting Party with respect thereto, shall not unreasonably refuse to address any of the non-prosecuting Party’s comments and supply the non-prosecuting Party with a copy of the application as filed, together with notice of its filing date and serial number. The prosecuting Party shall keep the non-prosecuting Party reasonably informed of the status of the actual and prospective prosecution, and maintenance, including but not limited to any substantive communications with the competent patent offices that may affect the scope of such filings, and the prosecuting Party shall give the non-prosecuting Party a timely, prior opportunity to review and comment upon any such substantive communication and shall consult with such non- prosecuting Party with respect thereto, and shall not unreasonably refuse to address any of such non-prosecuting Party’s comments.
Joint Patent Rights. If not already established under the Research Collaboration Agreement, prior to either Party filing any Patent Right disclosing Joint Program Technology or Joint Probody Platform Improvements, the Parties shall establish a patent committee (the “Patent Committee”) comprised of at least one (1) representative of each Party for the purpose of facilitating the preparation, filing, prosecution, maintenance and defense of Joint Patent Rights. As agreed upon by the Parties, meetings of the Patent Committee may be face-to-face or may be conducted by teleconferences or videoconferences, from time to time as needed. The Patent Committee will be the forum through which the Parties coordinate their respective obligations to each other described in Sections 5.2.2 and 5.2.3 hereof and in this Section. In the event the Parties conceive or generate any Joint Program Technology or Joint Probody Platform Improvements, the Parties shall promptly meet to discuss and determine, based on mutual consent, whether to seek patent protection thereon, which Party will control filing, prosecution and maintenance of such patents and how to pay for the filing, prosecution and maintenance of such patents. It is presumed that ImmunoGen will control filing, prosecution and maintenance of Joint Patent Rights claiming Joint Program Technology or Joint Conjugation Probody Platform Improvements, and that CytomX will control filing, prosecution and maintenance of Joint Patent Rights claiming Joint Unconjugated Probody Platform Improvements. Neither Party will file any Joint Patent Right without the prior written consent of the other Party, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. The Party controlling filing and prosecution of any such Joint Patent Right (a) shall keep the other Party informed regarding each Patent Right, (b) shall consider in good faith any recommendations made by the other Party in regard to the filing, prosecution or maintenance of any such Patent Right and (c) shall not unreasonably refuse to incorporate any recommendations made by the other Party in regard to such filing, prosecution or maintenance.
Joint Patent Rights. Lilly shall have the first right to enforce Joint Patent Rights and to control the defense of any declaratory judgment action relating thereto, with respect to such Infringement at its own expense and by counsel of its own choice reasonably acceptable to Zymeworks (such acceptance which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), and Zymeworks shall have the right, at its own expense, to be represented in any such action by counsel of its own choice. If Lilly fails to bring or defend such action within (a) […***…] days following the notice of alleged Infringement or (b) […***…] days before the time limit, if any, set forth in the Applicable Laws for the filing of such actions, whichever comes first, Zymeworks shall have the right to bring and control any such action at its own expense and by counsel of its own choice, and Lilly shall have the right, at its own expense, to be represented in any such action by counsel of its own choice. In no event shall either Party admit the invalidity of, or after exercising its right to bring and control an action under this Section 7.3.3, fail to defend the validity of any Joint Patent Rights without the other Party’s prior written consent.
Joint Patent Rights. (i) The parties will cooperate to file, prosecute and maintain patent applications covering the Joint Invention(s) in the United States, European Union (in Europe through a European Patent Convention application) and Japan (collectively, the "Core Countries") and other countries agreed by the parties. The parties shall agree which party shall be responsible for conducting such activities with respect to a particular Joint Invention. The party conducting such activities shall keep the other party fully informed as to the status of such patent matters, including, without limitation, by providing the other party the opportunity, at the other party's expense, to review and comment on any documents relating to the Joint Invention which will be filed in any patent office at least thirty (30) days before such filing, and promptly providing the other party copies of any documents relating to Joint Invention which the party conducting such activities receives from such patent offices, including notice of all interferences, reissues, reexaminations, oppositions or requests for patent term extensions. The parties will share equally all expenses and fees associated with the filing, prosecution, issuance and maintenance of any patent application and resulting patent for a Joint Invention in the Core Countries and other agreed countries and such amounts shall be included within the Research Program funding described in Section 2.3.
Joint Patent Rights. The JSC shall determine the jurisdictions within the Territory in which patent applications will be filed with respect to Joint Patent Rights and the Party that shall be responsible for the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of Joint Patent Rights. The Parties will share equally all expenses incurred by the filing Party for the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of such Joint Patent Rights.
Joint Patent Rights. Decisions regarding Enforcement Actions with respect to the Joint Patent Rights shall be made by the JPC, upon *Certain information on this page has been omitted and filed separately with the commission. Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the omitted portions. consultation with the Joint Steering Committee. Upon the identification of an infringement of Joint Patent Rights with respect to a Collaboration Product, the JPC shall (i) promptly discuss such infringement, (ii) promptly discuss the strategy for enforcing such Joint Patent Rights, and (iii) designate the Controlling Party to be responsible for controlling an Enforcement Action with respect to such Joint Patent Rights, and determine a reasonable allocation between the Parties of the costs of such Enforcement Action. The Controlling Party shall be responsible, using outside counsel mutually acceptable to both Parties, to implement the decisions of the JPC regarding such Enforcement Action. The non-Controlling Party shall reasonably cooperate, as requested by the Controlling Party, in such Enforcement Action. The Controlling Party shall keep the Joint Steering Committee and the JPC informed of the progress of any action or proceeding to enforce the Joint Patent Rights. The Controlling Party shall keep the JPC advised of all communications, actual and prospective filings or submissions regarding such Joint Patent Rights, and shall provide the JPC an opportunity to review and comment on any such communications, filing and submissions. The Controlling Party shall not settle or consent to an adverse judgment in any such Enforcement Action with respect to the Joint Patent Rights, unless approved by the Joint Steering Committee (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld).
Joint Patent Rights. With respect to any notice of a Third Party infringer of the Joint Patent Rights, the Joint Patent Committee shall meet as soon as reasonably practicable to discuss such infringement and determine an appropriate course of action. Wyeth shall have the first right but not the obligation to bring an action against such Third Party infringer or otherwise address such alleged infringement within *** from the date of notice and to control such litigation or other means of addressing such infringement. Wyeth shall be responsible for, and shall bear, all the out-of-pocket expenses of any suit brought by it claiming infringement of any such Joint Patent Rights; provided that Trubion shall reimburse Wyeth for *** of the out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection therewith. Trubion shall cooperate with Wyeth, at Wyeth's expense, in any such suit brought by Wyeth and shall have the right to consult with Wyeth and participate in and be represented by independent counsel in such litigation at its own expense. Wyeth shall incur no liability to Trubion as a consequence of such litigation or any unfavorable decision resulting therefrom, including any decision holding any of the Joint Patent Rights invalid or unenforceable. Any recoveries obtained by Wyeth as a result of any proceeding against such Third Party infringer shall be allocated as follows:
Joint Patent Rights. “Joint Patent Rights” shall mean any United States or foreign patent applications and any United States or Foreign Patent issuing from such applications, and any continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, reissues, reexaminations or extensions thereof, of which at least one inventor is a MASCOMA Inventor and at least one inventor is a Dartmouth Inventor (as both terms are defined in Section 9).
Joint Patent Rights. AstraZeneca shall be responsible, at its sole cost and expense, for the preparation, filing and prosecution and maintenance of the Joint Patent Rights in the Territory. If AstraZeneca or its Affiliates use any of its employees to conduct any preparation, prosecution or maintenance activity under this Agreement, then neither AstraZeneca nor any Affiliate shall be liable to Xxxxxxxxx in respect of any act or omission in undertaking such activity. In the event external counsel are used no such exclusion of liability shall apply. AstraZeneca shall keep Xxxxxxxxx advised on the status of preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of all patent applications included within the Joint Patent Rights and the maintenance of any issued patents within the Joint Patent Rights. Further, AstraZeneca shall consult and reasonably cooperate with Xxxxxxxxx with respect to the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of all Joint Patent Rights, including: (a) allowing Xxxxxxxxx a reasonable opportunity and reasonable time to review and comment regarding relevant material communications and drafts of any material responses or proposed filings by AstraZeneca before any applicable filings are submitted to any relevant patent office or Government Authority and (b) reflecting any reasonable comments offered by Xxxxxxxxx in any final filings submitted by AstraZeneca to any relevant patent office or Governmental Authority.
