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Ownership of Improvements. WuXi shall own all right, title and interest in and to any Improvements invented solely by WuXi including, without limitation, any Intellectual Property Rights therein, and all such Improvements will be included within the licensed rights granted in Section 2.1. WuXi and Arcus (or if Arcus so designates in writing, its Affiliates and its and their sublicensees) shall each have an undivided fifty percent (50%) ownership interest in all Joint Improvements, including without limitation, any Intellectual Property Rights therein. WuXi’s interest in its own Improvements and all Joint Improvements will be included within the licensed rights granted in Section 2.1 provided they relate to the rights granted under this Agreement. WuXi shall obtain and maintain licenses for any and all improvements of its other licensees and their direct and indirect sublicensees (collectively, with WuXi’s own Improvements and its interest in the Joint Improvements, the “WuXi Improvements”) so that it may include any and all such WuXi Improvements within the licensed rights granted in Section 2.1 provided they relate to the rights granted by WuXi under this Agreement, and any and all such WuXi Improvements shall automatically be included within the licensed rights granted in Section 2.1, provided they relate to the rights granted under this Agreement. WuXi will promptly disclose all such WuXi Improvements to Arcus during the Term of this Agreement.

Arcus shall own all right, title and interest in and to any Improvements invented solely by Arcus (the “Arcus Improvements”) including, without limitation, any Intellectual Property Rights therein. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Arcus shall grant and hereby grants to WuXi, and WuXi accepts, # an exclusive (even as to Arcus and its Affiliates), non-transferable (except as set forth in Section 11.6) license, with the right to sublicense (as provided in Section 2.2, mutatis mutandis, as if Arcus was WuXi and WuXi was Arcus) under Arcus’ interest in the Arcus Improvements to make, have made, use, register, sell, offer to sell, have sold, import, export, exploit, research, improve, Develop and Commercialize Licensed Products in the Field in the Excluded Territory; and # a non-exclusive, non-transferable (except as set forth in Section 11.6) license under Arcus’ interest in the Arcus Improvements to manufacture Licensed Products anywhere in the world only for applications in the Field for the purpose of Developing, manufacturing and Commercializing Licensed Products solely for distribution and use in the Excluded Territory. As between the Parties, subject to the foregoing license granted by Arcus to WuXi, Arcus retains sole and exclusive ownership of all rights, title and interests in and to the Arcus Improvements. All rights not expressly granted to WuXi under this Agreement are reserved to Arcus. Exercise or attempted exercise of the licensed rights granted in part # of this paragraph in any part of the Territory is a material breach of this Agreement.

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