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Excluded Inventions and Other Inventions
Excluded Inventions and Other Inventions contract clause examples

Excluded Inventions. It is further agreed, and Employee is hereby so notified, that Section 6.3 does not apply to any invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility, or Confidential Information of the Company was used; which was developed entirely on Employee’s own time; and # which does not relate either to the Company’s businesses or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or # which does not result from any work performed by Employee for the Company.

Other Inventions. I agree to not incorporate, or permit to be incorporated, any Invention conceived, created, developed or reduced to practice by me (alone or with others) prior to or independently of my employment by, or service with, the Company or its affiliates (collectively, “Prior Inventions”) in any work I perform for the Company or its affiliates, without the Company’s prior written consent. My Prior Inventions are listed in Exhibit B.

Inventions. To the extent permitted by local law, you agree and/or reaffirm the terms of all agreements related to inventions that you signed at the inception of or during your employment, and agree to promptly disclose and assign to BMS all of your interest in any and all inventions, discoveries, improvements and business or marketing concepts related to the current or contemplated business or activities of BMS, and which are conceived or made by you, either alone or in conjunction with others, at any time or place during the period you are employed by BMS. Upon request of BMS, including after your termination, you agree to execute, at BMS’s expense, any and all applications, assignments, or other documents which BMS shall determine necessary to apply for and obtain letters patent to protect BMS’s interest in such inventions, discoveries, and improvements and to cooperate in good faith in any legal proceedings to protect BMS’s intellectual property.

Inventions. The Employee shall disclose promptly to the Company any and all conceptions and ideas for inventions, improvements, and valuable discoveries, whether patentable or not, which are conceived or made by the Employee solely or jointly with another during the period of employment or within one (1) year thereafter and which are related to the business or activities of the Company. The Employee hereby assigns and agrees to assign all her interest therein to Company or its nominee. Whenever requested by the Company, the Employee shall execute any and all applications, assigns or other instruments that the Company shall deem necessary to apply for and obtain Letters of Patents of the United States or any foreign country or to otherwise protect the Company’s interest therein. These obligations shall continue beyond termination of employment with respect to inventions, improvements and valuable discoveries, whether patentable or not, conceived, made or acquired by the Employee during the period of employment or within one year thereafter, and shall be binding upon the Employee’s heirs, assigns, executors, administrators and other legal representatives.

Inventions. Grantee does hereby assign to the Company the entire right, title and interest in any Invention which is or was made or conceived, either solely or jointly with others, during his/her employment with the Company, including after the Date of Termination. Grantee attests that he/she has disclosed (or promptly will disclose, if after the Date of Termination) to the Company all such Inventions. Grantee will, if requested, promptly execute and deliver to the Company a specific assignment of title for any such Invention and will at the expense of the Company, take all reasonably required action by the Company to patent, copyright or otherwise protect the Invention.

The Executive agrees that sole and exclusive ownership in Company Works will vest automatically in Company from the moment of its conception, identification, discovery, or creation.

Prior Inventions. Listed on Appendix # to this Agreement are any and all Inventions in which you claim or intend to claim any right, title and interest (collectively, “Prior Inventions”), including, without limitation, patent, copyright and trademark interests, which to the best of your knowledge will be or may be delivered to the Company in the course of your employment, or incorporated into any Company product or system. You acknowledge that your obligation to disclose such information is ongoing during the period that you provide services to the Company.

Assignment of Inventions. You acknowledge and agree that all inventions and all worldwide intellectual property rights that you make, conceive or first reduce to practice (alone or in conjunction with others) during your employment with WFC are owned by WFC that # relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to WFC’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of WFC whether or not you made, conceived or first reduced the inventions to practice during normal working hours; and # involve the use of any time, material, information, or facility of WFC.

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.

Rights to Inventions. Company shall become the exclusive owner of, and ICV hereby assigns to Company, all concepts, inventions, improvement, designs, programs, formulas, know-how, methods, products, processes and writings, whether copyrightable or patentable, listed as deliverables on this Agreement with respect to performance of Services.

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