Assignment of Inventions and Works Made for Hire. Employee hereby assigns to the Company Group, or its designee, all of Employee’s right, title, and interest (including all related intellectual property rights) in all Inventions that Employee created during the period of time Employee was in the employ of the Company (including during off-duty hours) (“Company Inventions”). In addition, Employee acknowledges that all original works of authorship that were made by Employee (solely or jointly with others) within the scope of and during the period of Employee’s employment with the Company and that are protectable by copyright are “works made for hire,” as that term is defined in the United States Copyright Act, and in accordance, the Company Group is considered the author of these works.

“Inventions” and “Works For Hire.” The term “Invention” means contributions, discoveries, improvements and ideas and works of authorship, whether or not patentable or copyrightable, and: # which relate directly to the business of the Company, or # which result from any work performed by Grantee or by Grantee’s fellow employees for the Company, or # for which equipment, supplies, facilities, Confidential Information or Trade Secrets of the Company are used, or # which is developed on the Company’s time. The term “Works For Hire” (“Works”) means all documents, programs, software, creative works and other expressions and information in any tangible medium created, in whole or in part, by Grantee during the period of and relating to his/her employment with the Company, whether copyrightable or otherwise protectable, other than Inventions.

Work Made for Hire; Assignment. Employee acknowledges that, to the extent permitted by law, all Work Product consisting of copyrightable subject matter created by Employee during his employment with the Company is a “work made for hire” as defined in 17 U.S.C. § 101 and such copyrights are therefore owned by the Company. To the extent that the foregoing does not apply, Employee hereby irrevocably assigns to the Company, for no additional consideration, Employee’s entire right, title, and interest in and to all Work Product and Intellectual Property Rights therein, including the right to sue, 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 that the Company would have had in the absence of this Agreement.

WORKS MADE BY INDIVIDUAL. Any written materials or works Employee has created or will create during Employee’s work for ​ which relate in any way to actual or potential business of ​, its customers and/or business units, shall be considered ​ property. Employee assigns Employee’s right, title and interest in any such proprietary ideas based on ​ property to ​, and agrees at any time to execute any and all documents that ​ shall request to evidence the assignment of any such right, title or interest to ​. This Agreement does not apply to works that are or have been developed entirely by Employee on Employee’s own time without use of ​’s facilities, supplies, equipment, information or trade secrets, and that do not relate to ​ or its business.

Work Made for Hire. Executive and the Company agree that Executive may make inventions or create other Intellectual Property (as further defined below) in the course of Executive’s duties and agree that in this respect Executive has a special responsibility to further the interests of the Company Group.

Work Made For Hire. Participant agrees to assign, and hereby assigns, to the Company, all rights, title and interests in and to any idea, creation, discovery, work of authorship or invention, including but not limited to any and all patent rights and copyright rights conceived, created, or developed by Participant, whether individually or jointly with other individual(s), during his or her employment with the Company and its Affiliates (an “Innovation”), if that Innovation # was made in the scope of Participant’s employment, # was made with the use of the time, material, resources or information of the Company or its Affiliates, or # related to the business of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company. Participant agrees to promptly communicate and disclose all Innovations to the Company and to execute and deliver to the Company any instruments deemed necessary by the Company to effect disclosure and assignment thereof to the Company, and to take such actions (including execution of United States and foreign patent applications) reasonably required by the Company to secure, protect, and enforce the Company’s rights, title and interests in and to any Innovations.

The Executive agrees that sole and exclusive ownership in Company Works will vest automatically in Company from the moment of its conception, identification, discovery, or creation.

The Executive agrees that all copyrightable works included in Company Works will be deemed to be “Works made for hire.”

I acknowledge that all original works of authorship created or developed by me within the scope of my employment by the Company which are protectable by copyright are intended to be “works made for hire”, as that term is defined in Section 101 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976

To the extent that any of the Inventions are derived by, or require use by the Company of, any works, Inventions, or other intellectual property rights that you own, which are not assigned hereby, you hereby grant to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty free license, with the right to sublicense, use, modify and create derivative works using such works, Inventions or other intellectual property rights, but only to the extent necessary to permit the Company (or its designees or assigns) to fully realize their ownership rights in the Inventions.