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Inventions and Patents. All inventions, innovations or improvements (including policies, procedures, products, improvements, software, ideas and discoveries, whether patent, copyright, trademark, service mark, or otherwise) conceived or made by , either alone or jointly with others, in the course of his employment by the Company, belong to the Company. will promptly disclose in writing such inventions, innovations or improvements to the Company and perform all actions reasonably requested by the Company to establish and confirm such ownership by the Company, including, but not limited to, cooperating with and assisting the Company in obtaining patents, copyrights, trademarks, or service marks for the Company in the United States and in foreign countries.

Upon execution of this Agreement and thereafter, Executive shall promptly and fully disclose to the Company, and with all necessary detail for a complete understanding of the same, all existing and future developments, know-how, discoveries, inventions, improvements, concepts, ideas, writings, formulae, processes and methods (whether copyrightable, patentable or otherwise) made, received, conceived, acquired or written during working hours, or otherwise, by Executive (whether or not at the request or upon the suggestion of the Company) during the period of his employment with, or rendering of advisory or consulting services to, the Company or any of its subsidiaries and affiliates, solely or jointly with others, in or relating to any activities of the Company or its subsidiaries and affiliates known to his as a consequence of his employment or the rendering of advisory and consulting services hereunder (collectively the "Subject Matter").

Patents and Inventions. Executive agrees that any Inventions made, conceived, or completed by Executive during the term of Executive's service, solely or jointly with others, which are made with the Company's equipment, supplies, facilities, or Confidential Information, or which relate at the time of conception or reduction to purpose of the Invention, to the business of the Company, or the Company's actual or demonstrably anticipated research and development, or which result from any work performed by Executive for the Company, will be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and all Trade Secrets, Confidential Information, copyrightable works, works of authorship, and all patents, registrations, or applications related thereto, all other intellectual property or proprietary information and all similar or related information (whether or not patentable and copyrightable and whether or not reduced to tangible form or practice) which relate to the business, research and development, or existing or future products or services of the Company and/or its subsidiaries and which are conceived, developed, or made by Executive during Executive's employment with the Company ("Work Product") will be deemed to be "work made for hire" (as defined in the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §101 et seq., as amended) and owned exclusively by the Company. To the extent that any Work Product is not deemed to be a "work made for hire" under applicable law, and all right, title, and interest in and to such Work Product have not automatically vested in the Company, Executive hereby # irrevocably assigns, transfers, and conveys, and will assign, transfer, and convey, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, all right, title, and interest in and to the Work Product on a worldwide basis to the Company (or such other person or entity as the Company may designate), without further consideration; and # waives all moral rights in or to all Work Product, and to the extent such rights may not be waived, agrees not to assert such rights against the Company or its respective licensees, successors, or assigns. In order to permit the Company to claim rights to which it may be entitled, Executive agrees to promptly disclose to the Company in confidence all Work Product which Executive makes arising out of Executive's employment with the Company. Executive will assist the Company in obtaining patents on all Work Product patentable by the Company in the United States and in all foreign countries, and will execute all documents and do all things reasonably necessary to obtain letters patent, to vest the Company with full and extensive title thereto, and to protect the same against infringement by others.

It is recognized and understood that the existing inventions and technologies of and are their separate property, respectively, and are not affected by this Agreement and neither party shall have any claims to or rights in such existing inventions and technologies of the other party.

Improvements and Inventions. Any and all improvements or inventions that Employee may make or participate in during the Employment Term, unless wholly unrelated business of the Company and its respective affiliates and not produced within the scope of Employee's employment hereunder, shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company. Employee shall, whenever requested by the Company execute and deliver any and all documents that the Company deems appropriate in order to apply for and obtain patents or copyrights in improvements or inventions or in order to assign and/or convey the sole and exclusive right, title and interest in and to such improvements, inventions, patents, copyrights or applications.

Inventions and Improvements. Any invention or development of any kind related to Titan's business made or conceived by Executive (solely, jointly or in conjunction with anyone else) while he is employed by Titan pursuant to this Agreement shall be promptly disclosed by Executive to Titan and shall be the sole property of Titan. Executive shall execute an assignment to Titan, or to another designated by it, of his entire claim to and interest in each such invention or development. Executive undertakes to sign all lawful papers and, at Titan's expense, to assist it in every lawful way to obtain and sustain patents or copyrights for its benefit in any such inventions or developments when requested by Titan. Executive shall not be entitled to compensation beyond his Base Salary or Adjusted Base Salary, if any, for the performance of any such acts.

As a Cytek employee, you will be expected to abide by Company rules and regulations and sign and comply with the Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement which prohibits unauthorized use or disclosure of Company proprietary information.

In consideration for the Performance Share Award granted to me by Wells Fargo & Company on ​, on the terms and conditions contained in the Performance Share Award Agreement (“Performance Share Award Agreement”), I acknowledge that the nature of my employment with and performance of services for Wells Fargo & Company and its affiliates (the “Company”) permits me to have access to certain of its trade secrets and confidential and proprietary information and that such information is, and shall always remain, the sole property of the Company. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information would be wrongful and would cause the Company irreparable harm. I also acknowledge that if in the course of my employment I develop Inventions (as defined herein), I agree that the property rights of such inventions belong to the Company and agree to assist, as may be necessary, with the assignment of these Inventions to the Company. Therefore, I agree as follows:

Confidentiality; Invention Assignment. You agree that you will remain bound by any previously executed standard Company agreement related to confidential information and assignment of inventions that is in addition to the provisions in the Employment Agreement (such additional agreement, the “Confidential Information Agreement”).

Assignment Obligation. Each Party shall cause all Persons # who perform activities for such Party under this Agreement or # who conceive, discover, develop or otherwise make any Inventions or Information by or on behalf of either Party or its Affiliates or its or their Sublicensees to be under an obligation to assign (or, if such Party is unable to cause such Person to agree to such assignment obligation despite such Party’s using commercially reasonable efforts to negotiate such assignment obligation, provide an exclusive license under) intellectual property rights arising from such activities or rights in any such Information and Inventions resulting therefrom to such Party to the extent such Party would have an obligation under this Agreement to grant rights to such Inventions or Information or rights to such intellectual property to the other Party if such Inventions, Information or intellectual property rights were Controlled by such Party, except where Applicable Law requires otherwise and except in the case of governmental, not-for-profit and public institutions that have standard policies against such an assignment (in which case a suitable license, or right to obtain such a license, shall be obtained).

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