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Assignment to Rights in Intellectual Property
Assignment to Rights in Intellectual Property contract clause examples

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

Assignment of Intellectual Property Rights. In consideration of my employment and/or continued employment, I agree to be bound by this Section 3.

Intellectual Property Rights. Except as would not have a Material Adverse Change, the Company and each of its subsidiaries own or otherwise possess adequate rights to use all patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights, all applications and registrations for each of the foregoing, and all other proprietary rights and confidential information used in or necessary to conduct their respective businesses as currently conducted; except as would not have a Material Adverse Change, and none of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has received any written notice of any infringement of, misappropriation, violation or conflict with the rights of any third party with respect to any of the foregoing.

Intellectual Property Rights. The Executive acknowledges and agrees that all inventions, technology, processes, innovations, ideas, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, trademarks, service marks, and other indicia of origin, writings, audiovisual works, concepts, drawings, reports and all similar, related, or derivative information or works (whether or not patentable or subject to copyright), including but not limited to all resulting patent applications, issued patents, copyrights, copyright applications and registrations, and trademark applications and registrations in and to any of the foregoing, along with the right to practice, employ, exploit, use, develop, reproduce, copy, distribute copies, publish, license, or create works derivative of any of the foregoing, and the right to choose not to do or permit any of the aforementioned actions, which relate to or Affiliates’ actual or anticipated Business, research and development or existing or future products or services and which are conceived, developed or made by the Executive while employed by or an Affiliate (collectively, the “Work Product”) belong to . The Executive further acknowledges and agrees that to the extent relevant, this Agreement constitutes a “work for hire agreement” under the Copyright Act, and that any copyrightable work (“Creation”) constitutes a “work made for hire” under the Copyright Act such that is the copyright owner of the Creation. To the extent that any portion of the Creation is held not to be a “work made for hire” under the Copyright Act, the Executive hereby irrevocably assigns to all right, title and interest in such Creation. All other rights to any new Work Product and all rights to any existing Work Product are also hereby irrevocably conveyed, assigned and transferred to pursuant to this Agreement. The Executive will promptly disclose and deliver such Work Product to and, at ’s expense, perform all actions reasonably requested by (whether during or after the Employment Period) to establish, confirm and protect such ownership (including, without limitation, the execution of assignments, copyright registrations, consents, licenses, powers of attorney and other instruments). All Work Product made within six months after termination of the Executive’s employment with will be presumed to have been conceived during the Executive’s employment with , unless the Executive can prove conclusively that it was created after such termination.

Executive will promptly disclose to the Company any idea, invention, discovery or improvement, whether patentable or not (“Creations”), conceived or made by him alone or with others at any time during his employment. Executive agrees that the Company owns any such Creations conceived or made by Executive alone or with others at any time during his employment, and Executive hereby assigns and agrees to assign to the Company all moral or other rights he has or may acquire therein and agrees to execute any and all applications, assignments and other instruments relating thereto which the Company deems necessary or desirable. These obligations shall continue beyond the termination of his employment with respect to Creations and derivatives of such Creations conceived or made during his employment with the Company. The Company and Executive understand that the obligation to assign Creations to the Company shall not apply to any Creation which is developed entirely on his own time without using any of the Company’s equipment, supplies, facilities, and/or Confidential Information unless such Creation # relates in any way to the business or to the current or anticipated research or development of the Company or any of its Affiliated Entities; or # results in any way from his work at the Company.

Rights to Intellectual Property. All rights and licenses granted under or pursuant to this Agreement by one Party to the other Party are, and shall otherwise be deemed to be, for purposes of Section 365(n) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or any similar law in effect in a foreign jurisdiction, licenses of rights tointellectual property” as defined under Section 101 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or the relevant foreign law. The Parties agree that Axsome or Licensee, as licensee of intellectual property under this Agreement, shall retain and may fully exercise all of its rights and elections under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or relevant foreign law. The Parties further agree that in the event of a rejection of this Agreement by Axsome or Licensee, as applicable, in any bankruptcy proceeding by or against Axsome or Licensee, as applicable, under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or foreign equivalent, # Licensee or Axsome, as applicable, shall be entitled to a complete duplicate of (or complete access to, as appropriate) any such intellectual property and all embodiments of such intellectual property, which, if not already in Licensee’s or Axsome’s, as applicable, possession, shall be promptly delivered to it upon Licensee’s or Axsome’s, as applicable, written request therefore, and # Axsome or Licensee, as applicable shall not interfere with the other Party’s rights to intellectual property and all embodiments of intellectual property, and shall assist and not interfere with such other Party in obtaining intellectual property and all embodiments of intellectual property from another entity. The term “embodiments” of intellectual property includes all tangible, intangible, electronic or other embodiments of rights and licenses hereunder, including all compounds and products embodying intellectual property, Licensed Products, filings with Regulatory Authorities and related rights, and Licensed Intellectual Property.

Scheduled Intellectual Property Rights. [Schedule 2.19(b)] of the Company Schedules identifies all registered patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and all applications, certificates, filings, provisionals, or other documents relating to patents, trademarks, or copyrights, and domain names owned by the Company or any Subsidiary (collectively, the “Company IP Registrations”). Each of the Company IP Registrations is valid and subsisting. The Company or one of its Subsidiaries exclusively owns and possesses all right, title and interest in and to the Company IP Registrations, free and clear of all Liens. All necessary fees and filings with respect to any Company IP Registrations have been timely submitted to the relevant intellectual property office or Governmental Entity and Internet domain name registrars to maintain such Company IP Registration in full force and effect. No issuance or registration obtained and no application filed by the Company for any Company IP Registration has been cancelled, abandoned, allowed to lapse or not renewed, except where the Company has, in its reasonable business judgment, decided to cancel, abandon, allow to lapse or not renew such issuance, registration or application and where such decision would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect. There are no pending proceedings by or before any Governmental Entity that relate to the validity or enforceability of any of the Company IP Registrations and, to the Company’s knowledge, no such proceedings are threatened by any Person. To the Company’s knowledge, no current or former officer, employee, or contractor of the Company or any Subsidiary has misrepresented, or failed to disclose, and there have not been any misrepresentations of or failures to disclose, any facts or circumstances in any patent application for any Company IP Registrations that would constitute fraud or a misrepresentation with respect to such patent application, or that would otherwise affect the validity or enforceability of any Company IP Registrations.

Intellectual Property. Except for such claims, which individually or in the aggregate, would not have an Buyer Material Adverse Effect, there are no pending or threatened claims of which the Buyer has been given written notice by any person against their use of any material trademarks, trade names, service marks, service names, mark registrations, logos, assumed names and copyright registrations, patents and all applications therefor which are owned by the Buyer and used in its operations as currently conducted (the “Buyer Intellectual Property”). To the Buyer’s knowledge, the Buyer has such ownership of or such rights by license, lease or other agreement to the Buyer Intellectual Property as are necessary to permit it to conduct its operations as currently conducted, except where the failure to have such rights would not have an Buyer Material Adverse Effect.

Intellectual Property. Seller represents and warrants that the Company directly or indirectly, possesses, or has adequate rights to all licenses, permits, and all other franchises, trademarks, tradenames, service marks, inventions, patents, copyrights, and any applications therefor, trade secrets, research and development, know-how, technical data, computer software programs or applications and technology systems necessary to operate its business (“Intellectual Property”). None of the Intellectual Property owned or used by the Company, infringes any Intellectual Property right of any other entity and no Intellectual Property owned by the Company is infringed upon by any other entity.

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