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Disclosure and Assignment of Inventions
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Assignment of Inventions. I hereby assign to the Company without additional compensation or other consideration my entire right, title and interest to each Invention described in Section 5.2 hereof. I will execute all papers and documents as requested by the Company to obtain and enforce any patent, copyright or other protection which the Company elects to obtain or enforce, in any country, in my name or the Company's name (or the name of an appropriate Company affiliate), as the case may be, at the Company's expense. My obligation to assist the Company in obtaining and enforcing patents, copyrights and other protections shall continue beyond the termination of my services, but the Company shall compensate me at a reasonable rate after the termination of my services for time actually spent at the Company's request providing such assistance. If the Company is unable, after reasonable effort, to secure my signature on any document needed to apply for, prosecute or enforce any patent, copyright or other protection relating to an Invention, whether because of my physical or mental incapacity or for any other reason whatsoever, I hereby irrevocably designate and appoint the Company and its duly authorized officers and agents as my agent and attorney-in-fact, to act for and in my behalf and stead to execute and file any such document and to do all

I hereby assign to the Company all of my right, title and interest to any and all Inventions and any and all related patent rights, copyrights and applications and registrations therefor which relate to the business of the Company and arise out of my employment by the Company. During and after my employment by the Company, I shall cooperate with the Company, at the Company’s expense, in obtaining proprietary protection for any such Inventions and I shall, upon the Company’s request, execute all documents necessary or advisable in order to perfect the Company’s rights in such Inventions. In order to protect the Company in the event that I should fail or refuse to execute all such documents within a reasonable period following the Company’s request, I hereby appoint the Company my agent and attorney-in-fact to execute and deliver any such documents on my behalf.

Assignment of Inventions. I hereby assign and agree to assign in the future (when any such Inventions or Proprietary Rights are first reduced to practice or first fixed in a tangible medium, as applicable) to the Company all of my right, title and interest in and to any and all Inventions (and all Proprietary Rights with respect thereto) (a) that are related to the business of the Company, (b) that are created, made, conceived or reduced to practice by me or under my direction or jointly with others during my employment with the Company or (c) that are related to the services that I am then providing or have provided exclusively to the Company or any of its Affiliates, whether or not during normal working hours or on the premises of the Company in the case of [(b) and (c) above] (collectively, the “Company Inventions”). I will, at the Company’s request, promptly execute a written assignment to the Company of any such Company Invention, and I will preserve any such Company Invention as part of the Proprietary Information of the Company.

General. I agree to assign, and hereby do assign, to the Company all of my rights in any Inventions (as defined above) (including all Intellectual Property Rights, as defined above) that are made, conceived or reduced to practice, in whole or in part and whether alone or with others, by me during my employment by, or service with, the Company or any of its affiliates or which arise out of any activity conducted by, for or under the direction of the Company or any of its affiliates (whether or not conducted at the Company’s or any of its affiliates’ facilities, working hours or using any of the Company’s or its affiliates’ assets), or which are useful with, or relate directly or indirectly to, any Company Interest (as defined above). I will promptly and fully disclose and provide all of the Inventions described above (the “Assigned Inventions”) to the Company.

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