Prior Invention definition

Prior Invention means any invention, idea, improvement, process, design, software program code, logic diagrams, flow charts, decision charts, drawings, procedural diagrams, coding sheets, documentation manuals, technique, configuration, methodology, know-how, original work of authorship or other innovation or writing of any kind (whether or not patentable, copyrightable or subject to other legal protection) made, developed, conceived of or reduced to practice by the Executive, either alone or jointly with others, prior to his employment with the Company.
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Prior Invention. Prior Invention of a Party shall mean an Invention Controlled by either Party, which Invention is made by that Party's employees, agents or subcontractors before the Effective Date or which otherwise came into the Control of such Party before the Effective Date.
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Prior Invention means any Invention that (i) I have, or I have caused to be, alone or jointly with others, made, created, conceived, developed, or reduced to practice prior to the commencement of my employment by Company, and (ii) in which I have an ownership interest or which I have a right to license, in each case obtained prior to the commencement of my employment by Company.
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Examples of Prior Invention in a sentence

  • If, in the course of my Relationship with the Company, I incorporate into a Company product, process or machine a Prior Invention owned by me or in which I have an interest, the Company is hereby granted and shall have a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to make, have made, copy, modify, make derivative works of, use, sell and otherwise distribute such Prior Invention as part of or in connection with such product, process or machine.

  • If disclosure of a Prior Invention would cause the Contractor to violate an existing confidentiality agreement, the Contractor may not list the Prior Invention in Exhibit B but shall instead provide the name of the invention, a list of the party or parties to which it belongs, and an explanation of why full disclosure was not given.

  • If in the course providing services to the Company the Contractor incorporates into a Company product, process, or machine a Prior Invention owned by the Contractor or in which the Contractor has an interest, the Company will be granted and have a nonexclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to make, have made, modify, use, and sell that Prior Invention as part of or in connection with that product, process, or machine.

  • I will not incorporate, or permit to be incorporated, any Prior Invention (as defined below) in any Company-Related Development without the Company’s prior written consent.

  • If, in the course of performing any Services, Contractor incorporates a Prior Invention (as defined herein) into a LIBERTY product, process, method or other work, Contractor shall at that time grant to LIBERTY a nonexclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sub-licensees) to make, have made, modify, use and sell such Prior Invention.

  • If, in the course of my employment with the Company, I incorporate a Prior Invention into a Company product, process or machine or other work done for the Company, I hereby grant to the Company a nonexclusive, royalty-free, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license (with the full right to sublicense) to make, have made, modify, use, sell, offer for sale and import such Prior Invention.

  • If in the course of my employment with the Company, I incorporate into a Company product, process or service a Prior Invention owned by me or in which I have an interest, I hereby grant to the Company a nonexclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, irrevocable, perpetual, transferable and assignable worldwide license to make, have made, modify, use, distribute and sell such Prior Invention as part of or in connection with such product, process or service, and to practice any method related thereto.

  • I will not use any Prior Invention in my work related to my engagement with the Company without Company’s prior written consent.

  • If, in the course of my Services with the Company, I incorporate a Prior Invention into a Company product, process or machine or other work done for the Company, I hereby grant to the Company a nonexclusive, royalty-free, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license (with the full right to sublicense) to make, have made, modify, use, sell, offer for sale and import such Prior Invention.

  • If in the course of my employment with the Company, I incorporate into a Company product, process or machine a Prior Invention owned by me or in which I have an interest, the Company is hereby granted and shall have a nonexclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to make, have made, modify, use and sell such Prior Invention as part of or in connection with such product, process or machine.


More Definitions of Prior Invention

Prior Invention is defined as any prior invention, discovery, improvement or work of authorship that Contractor conceived, developed or reduced to practice prior to the commencement of Contractor’s engagement by LIBERTY and which Contractor considers to be Contractor’s property or the property of a third party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Contractor shall not incorporate, or permit to be incorporated, Prior Inventions in any LIBERTY products, processes, methods or works without LIBERTY’s prior written consent.
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Prior Invention means any concept, method, process, technology, invention, development, or other work which is disclosed in Appendix B;
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Prior Invention shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Clause 7.5 of this Agreement.
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Prior Invention means any invention, process, or design that Executive conceived of or reduced to practice, alone or with others, before Executive’s employment with the Company, that Executive wishes to clarify is not subject to this Section 6.5 and that is listed in Attachment B. (If Attachment B is blank, there are no Prior Inventions.) Executive does not assign rights in any Prior Invention to the Company under this Section 6.5. Executive will not include any information on Attachment B that, by its disclosure to the Company, would violate any confidentiality obligation Executive owes to any third party, including a prior employer. If such confidentiality obligations exist with respect to certain Prior Inventions, Executive must inform the Company that Executive has not listed all Prior Inventions on Attachment B for that reason. If Executive uses or incorporates any Prior Invention (or other intellectual property not subject to assignment under this Agreement) in any Company or Affiliate product or service, program, process, machine, development, or work-in-progress, or if Executive permits the Company or its Affiliates to do so, Executive hereby grants to the Company a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license (with right to sublicense) to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import, modify, copy, distribute, publicly perform and display, and make derivative works of such Prior Invention (or other intellectual property), to the extent of Executive’s ownership or interest.
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Related to Prior Invention

  • Prior Inventions means all inventions, original works of authorship, developments, concepts, sales methods, improvements, trade secrets or similar intellectual property, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar laws, that relate to any Cigna company’s current or proposed business, work products or research and development which you conceived, developed, reduced to practice or fixed before your Cigna company employment and which belong to you.

  • 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.

  • Subject Invention means any invention of the contractor conceived or first actually reduced to practice in the performance of work under this contract, provided that in the case of a variety of plant, the date of determination (as defined in section 41(d) of the Plant Variety Protection Act, 7 U.S.C. 2401(d)) must also occur during the period of contract performance.

  • Joint Invention has the meaning set forth in Section 9.1.

  • Employee Invention means any idea, invention, technique, modification, process, or improvement (whether patentable or not), any industrial design (whether registerable or not), any mask work, however fixed or encoded, that is suitable to be fixed, embedded or programmed in a semiconductor product (whether recordable or not), and any work of authorship (whether or not copyright protection may be obtained for it) created, conceived, or developed by the Executive, either solely or in conjunction with others, during the Employment Period, or a period that includes a portion of the Employment Period, that relates in any reasonable way to, or is useful in any manner in, the business then being conducted or proposed to be conducted by the Employer, and any such item created by the Executive, either solely or in conjunction with others, following termination of the Executive’s employment with the Employer, that is based upon or uses Confidential Information.

  • Proprietary Technology means the technical innovations that are unique and

  • Background Invention means an Invention conceived and first actually reduced to practice before the Effective Date.

  • Inventions means any and all discoveries, developments, enhancements, improvements, concepts, formulas, processes, ideas, writings, whether or not reduced to practice, industrial and other designs, patents, patent applications, provisional patent applications, continuations, continuations-in-part, substitutions, divisionals, reissues, renewals, re-examinations, extensions, supplementary protection certificates or the like, trade secrets or utility models, copyrights and other forms of intellectual property including all applications, registrations and related foreign applications filed and registrations granted thereon.

  • Developed Technology means any Technology including, without limitation, any enhancements, substitutions or improvements to the Core Technology that is (a) discovered, developed or otherwise acquired by DURA pursuant to the terms of the Development Agreement or (b) otherwise acquired by or on behalf of Xxxxxx Corp. II during the term of the Development Agreement.

  • Collaboration IP means Collaboration Know-How and Collaboration Patents.

  • Joint Inventions has the meaning set forth in Section 9.1.

  • Company Inventions means any Inventions which (a) relate directly to the business of the Company; (b) relate to the Company’s actual or anticipated research or development; (c) result from any work performed by Employee for the Company, for which equipment, supplies, facility or Company Confidential Information is used; or (d) is developed on any Company time.

  • Contractor attributional/proprietary information means information that identifies the contractor(s), whether directly or indirectly, by the grouping of information that can be traced back to the contractor(s) (e.g., program description, facility locations), personally identifiable information, as well as trade secrets, commercial or financial information, or other commercially sensitive information that is not customarily shared outside of the company.

  • Controlled technical information means technical information with military or space application that is subject to controls on the access, use, reproduction, modification, performance, display, release, disclosure, or dissemination. Controlled technical information would meet the criteria, if disseminated, for distribution statements B through F using the criteria set forth in DoD Instruction 5230.24, Distribution Statements on Technical Documents. The term does not include information that is lawfully publicly available without restrictions.

  • Company Technology means all Technology owned or purported to be owned by the Company.

  • Transferred Technology has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a).

  • Collaboration Know-How means all Know-How conceived, discovered, developed or otherwise made by or on behalf of a particular Party or any of its Affiliates or permitted subcontractors of any of the foregoing (solely or jointly by or on behalf of a particular Party or any of its Affiliates or permitted subcontractors of any of the foregoing) in the course of [***].

  • Third Party Technology means all Intellectual Property and products owned by third parties and licensed pursuant to Third Party Licenses.

  • Developed IP means any Intellectual Property Rights that are conceived or reduced to practice, or otherwise created or developed, by or on behalf of a Party, its Affiliates or sublicensees, alone or together with one or more Third Parties, during the Term in connection with the Development, Manufacture, or use of the Compound or any Product.

  • Licensed Technology means the Licensed Know-How and Licensed Patents.

  • Contractor attributional/proprietary information means information that identifies the contractor(s), whether directly or indirectly, by the grouping of information that can be traced back to the contractor(s) (e.g., program description, facility locations), personally identifiable information, as well as trade secrets, commercial or financial information, or other commercially sensitive information that is not customarily shared outside of the company.

  • Program Technology means Program Know-How and Program Patents.

  • Proprietary school means a school that uses a certain plan or method to teach a trade, occupation, or vocation for a consideration, reward, or promise of any kind. Proprietary school includes, but is not limited to, a private business, trade, or home study school. Proprietary school does not include any of the following:

  • Company Proprietary Software means all software owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries.

  • Proprietary Rights means all trade secret, patent, copyright, mask work and other intellectual property rights throughout the world.

  • Proprietary Information and Technology means any and all of the following: works of authorship, computer programs, source code and executable code, whether embodied in software, firmware or otherwise, assemblers, applets, compilers, user interfaces, application programming interfaces, protocols, architectures, documentation, annotations, comments, designs, files, records, schematics, test methodologies, test vectors, emulation and simulation tools and reports, hardware development tools, models, tooling, prototypes, breadboards and other devices, data, data structures, databases, data compilations and collections, inventions (whether or not patentable), invention disclosures, discoveries, improvements, technology, proprietary and confidential ideas and information, know-how and information maintained as trade secrets, tools, concepts, techniques, methods, processes, formulae, patterns, algorithms and specifications, customer lists and supplier lists and any and all instantiations or embodiments of the foregoing or any Intellectual Property Rights in any form and embodied in any media.