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Assignment of Rights
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Executive hereby assigns to Executive’s entire right, title and interest, including copyrights and patents, in any idea, invention, design of a useful article (whether the design is ornamental or otherwise), work product and any other work of authorship (collectively the “Developments”), made or conceived solely or jointly by Executive at any time during Executive’s employment by (whether prior or subsequent to the execution of this Agreement), or created wholly or in part by Executive, whether or not such Developments are patentable, copyrightable or susceptible to other forms of protection, where the Developments: # were developed, invented, or conceived within the scope of Executive’s employment with ; # relate to ’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development; or # result from any work performed by Executive on ’s behalf. Executive shall disclose any Developments to ’s management within 30 days following Executive’s development, making or conception thereof.

Executive hereby assigns to Executive’s entire right, title and interest, including copyrights and patents, in any idea, invention, design of a useful article (whether the design is ornamental or otherwise), work product and any other work of authorship (collectively the “Developments”), made or conceived solely or jointly by Executive at any time during Executive’s employment by (whether prior or subsequent to the execution of this Agreement), or created wholly or in part by Executive, whether or not such Developments are patentable, copyrightable or susceptible to other forms of protection, where the Developments: # were developed, invented, or conceived within the scope of Executive’s employment with ; # relate to ’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development; or # result from any work performed by Executive on ’s behalf. Executive shall disclose any Developments to ’s management within 30 days following Executive’s development, making or conception thereof.

Executive hereby assigns to Executive’s entire right, title and interest, including copyrights and patents, in any idea, invention, design of a useful article (whether the design is ornamental or otherwise), work product and any other work of authorship (collectively the “Developments”), made or conceived solely or jointly by Executive at any time during Executive’s employment by (whether prior or subsequent to the execution of this Agreement), or created wholly or in part by Executive, whether or not such Developments are patentable, copyrightable or susceptible to other forms of protection, where the Developments: # were developed, invented, or conceived within the scope of Executive’s employment with ; # relate to ’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development; or # result from any work performed by Executive on ’s behalf. Executive shall disclose any Developments to ’s management within 30 days following Executive’s development, making or conception thereof.

Executive hereby assigns to Executive’s entire right, title and interest, including copyrights and patents, in any idea, invention, design of a useful article (whether the design is ornamental or otherwise), work product and any other work of authorship (collectively the “Developments”), made or conceived solely or jointly by Executive at any time during Executive’s employment by (whether prior or subsequent to the execution of this Agreement), or created wholly or in part by Executive, whether or not such Developments are patentable, copyrightable or susceptible to other forms of protection, where the Developments: # were developed, invented, or conceived within the scope of Executive’s employment with ; # relate to ’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development; or # result from any work performed by Executive on ’s behalf. Executive shall disclose any Developments to ’s management within 30 days following Executive’s development, making or conception thereof.

Any invention, improvement, design, process, information, copyright work, computer program, trade mark, trade name or get-up, work, output or other works of authorship (collectively, “Developments”) made, created or discovered by Executive during the employment, whether capable of being patented or registered or not and whether or not made or discovered in the course of Executive’s employment, in conjunction with or in any way affecting or relating to the business of the Company Group (or its predecessors), or capable of being used or adapted for use in or in connection with such business, together with all Intellectual Property subsisting therein (the “Intellectual Property Rights”), shall be disclosed immediately to the Company and shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, be deemed “work made for hire” and belong to and be the absolute property of the Company and each member of the Company Group, and Executive hereby assigns to the Company and each member of the Company Group, all such copyright, database rights, design rights, moral rights, contract and licensing rights, and any other Intellectual Property capable of assignment by way of present assignment of future rights, which may fall within the definition of the Intellectual Property Rights absolutely for the full term of those rights. If, in the course of Executive’s employment with the Company, Executive incorporates any Developments that Executive has, alone or jointly with others, conceived, developed or reduced to practice prior to the commencement of Executive’s employment with the Company or any member of the Company Group (or their predecessors) that Executive considers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, to be his property (“Prior Invention”) into a Company product, process or other work done for the Company (“Company-Related Developments”), Executive hereby grants to the Company and each member of the Company Group 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. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Executive will not incorporate, or permit to be incorporated, Prior Inventions in any Company-Related Development without the Company’s prior written consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to obligate Executive to assign to the Company or any member of the Company Group any Development which, in the reasonable judgment of the Company, reasonably exercised, is developed entirely on Executive’s own time and does not relate to the business efforts or research and development efforts in which, during the period of Executive’s employment, the Company or any member of the Company Group actually is engaged or reasonably would be engaged, and does not result from the use of premises or equipment owned or leased by the Company or any member of the Company Group; provided, however, that Executive agrees that Executive shall promptly disclose to the Company any such Developments for the purpose of determining whether they qualify for such exclusion. Executive understands that, to the extent this Agreement is required to be construed in accordance with the laws of any state which precludes a requirement in an employee agreement to assign certain classes of inventions made by an employee, this Section 7(b) will be interpreted not to apply to any invention which a court rules and/or the Company agrees falls within such classes.

design is ornamental or otherwise), and any other work of authorship (collectively the “Developments”), made or conceived solely or jointly by Executive at any time during Executive’s employment by (whether prior or subsequent to the execution of this Agreement), or created wholly or in part by Executive, whether or not such Developments are patentable, copyrightable or susceptible to other forms of protection, where the Developments: # were developed, invented, or conceived within the scope of Executive’s employment with ; # relate to ’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development; or # result from any work performed by Executive on ’s behalf.

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