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Intellectual Property. Executive agrees to disclose and assign to the Company any and all material of a proprietary nature, particularly including, without limitation, material subject to protection as trade secrets or as patentable ideas or copyrightable works, that Executive may conceive, invent, author or discover, either solely or jointly with another or other during Executive’s employment and that relates to or is capable of use in connection with the business of the Company or any employment or products offered, manufactured, used, sold or being developed by the Company at the time said material is developed. Executive will, upon request of the Company, either during or at any time after Executive’s employment ends, regardless of how or why Executive’s employment ends, execute and deliver all papers, including applications for patents and registrations for copyrights, and do such other legal acts (entirely at the Company’s expense) as may be necessary to obtain and maintain proprietary rights in any and all countries and to vest title thereto in the Company.

Intellectual Property. Executive agrees to fully and promptly disclose to the Company, without additional compensation, all ideas, inventions, discoveries, improvements, designs, processes, production methods and technological innovations, whether or not patentable, which, while employed by the Company, are made, conceived or reduced to practice by Executive, alone or with others, during or after usual working hours either on or off Executive’s job, and which are related to the business of or which result from tasks assigned to Executive by the Company (“Intellectual Property”). Executive acknowledges that the Company owns all such Intellectual Property rights as works made for hire to the fullest extent permitted by law and, for the avoidance of doubt, assigns to the Company all such rights in any and all Intellectual Property now known or hereafter developed. Executive agrees, at any time during or after employment, to sign all papers and do such other acts and things, at the Company’s expense, as the Company deems necessary or desirable and may reasonably require of Executive to protect the Company’s rights to such Intellectual Property, including applying for, obtaining and enforcing patents on such Intellectual Property in any and all countries.

Assignment of Rights to Intellectual Property. The Executive shall promptly and fully disclose to the Company all Intellectual Property (as defined herein). The Executive hereby assigns and agrees to assign to the Company (or as otherwise directed by the Company) the Executive’s full right, title and interest in and to all Intellectual Property. The Executive agrees to execute any and all applications for domestic and foreign patents, copyrights or other proprietary rights and to do such other acts (including without limitation the execution and delivery of instruments of further assurance or confirmation) requested by the Company to assign the Intellectual Property to the Company and to permit the Company to enforce any patents, copyrights or other proprietary rights to the Intellectual Property. All copyrightable works that the Executive creates in the performance of his services hereunder shall be considered “work made for hire” and shall, upon creation, be owned exclusively by the Company.

Assignment of Rights to Intellectual Property. The Executive shall promptly and fully disclose to the Company all Intellectual Property (as defined herein). The Executive hereby assigns and agrees to assign to the Company (or as otherwise directed by the Company) the Executive’s full right, title and interest in and to all Intellectual Property. The Executive agrees to execute any and all applications for domestic and foreign patents, copyrights or other proprietary rights and to do such other acts (including without limitation the execution and delivery of instruments of further assurance or confirmation) requested by the Company to assign the Intellectual Property to the Company and to permit the Company to enforce any patents, copyrights or other proprietary rights to the Intellectual Property. All copyrightable works that the Executive creates in the performance of her services hereunder shall be considered “work made for hire” and shall, upon creation, be owned exclusively by the Company.

Assignment of Rights to Intellectual Property. The Executive shall promptly and fully disclose to the Company all Intellectual Property (as defined herein). The Executive hereby assigns and agrees to assign to the Company (or as otherwise directed by the Company) the Executive’s full right, title and interest in and to all Intellectual Property. The Executive agrees to execute any and all applications for domestic and foreign patents, copyrights or other proprietary rights and to do such other acts (including without limitation the execution and delivery of instruments of further assurance or confirmation) requested by the Company to assign the Intellectual Property to the Company and to permit the Company to enforce any patents, copyrights or other proprietary rights to the Intellectual Property. All copyrightable works that the Executive creates in the performance of his services hereunder shall be considered “work made for hire” and shall, upon creation, be owned exclusively by the Company.

Assignment of Rights to Intellectual Property. The Executive shall promptly and fully disclose, if he/she has not done so already, all Intellectual Property to the Company. The Executive shall maintain adequate records (whether written, electronic, or otherwise) to document the Intellectual Property, including without limitation the conception and reduction to practice of all inventions, and shall make such records available to the Company upon request. The Company shall have sole ownership of all Intellectual Property and all such records with respect thereto. The Executive hereby assigns, conveys, and grants to the Company (or as otherwise directed by the Company), and agrees to assign, convey and grant to the Company (or as otherwise directed by the Company), all of his right, title, and interest in and to the Intellectual Property and any and all patents, patent applications, and copyrights relating to the Intellectual Property. The Executive agrees to execute any and all applications for domestic and foreign patents, copyrights or other proprietary rights and to do such other acts (including without limitation the execution and delivery of instruments of further assurance or confirmation) requested by the Company to assign the Intellectual Property to the Company and to permit the Company to enforce any patents, copyrights or other proprietary rights to the Intellectual Property. The Executive will not charge the Company for time spent in complying with these obligations. All copyrightable works that the Executive creates shall be considered “work made for hire” and shall, upon creation, be owned exclusively by the Company.

Employment Inventions. Executive agrees to promptly disclose to the Company the existence, use, and/or manner of operation of any and all Employment Inventions. Executive acknowledges and agrees that all Employment Inventions are the sole and exclusive property of the Company. Executive hereby assigns to the Company any and all copyrights, patent rights, trade secrets, and other rights that Executive may have in any Employment Invention. Executive agrees to take all actions reasonably requested by the Company, both during and after the term of Executive’s employment, to assign to the Company and to establish, perfect, exercise or protect the Company’s rights in any Employment Inventions or title thereto, including without limitation, assisting in obtaining or registering copyrights, patents, trademarks or similar intellectual property rights and executing assignments to the Company. If the Company is unable, because of Executive’s mental or physical incapacity, geographic distance or for any other reason, to obtain Executive’s approval or signature on any document necessary or useful to claim, secure, extend, protect or enforce any right in intellectual property to which the Company has a reasonable claim, then Executive hereby appoints the Company and its duly authorized officers as Executive’s agent and attorney-in-fact to act for Executive for the purpose of accomplishing such act with the same legal force and effect as if executed by Executive. Executive will not incorporate any inventions, discoveries, ideas, original works of authorship, developments, improvements, trade secrets and other proprietary information or intellectual property rights owned by any third party into any Invention without the Company’s prior written permission.

Assignment of Rights to Intellectual Property. The Executive shall promptly and fully disclose, if he/she has not done so already, all Intellectual Property to the Company. The Executive shall maintain adequate records (whether written, electronic, or otherwise) to document the Intellectual Property, including without limitation the conception and reduction to practice of all inventions, and shall make such records available to the Company upon request. The Company shall have sole ownership of all Intellectual Property and all such records with respect thereto. The Executive hereby assigns, conveys, and grants to the Company (or as otherwise directed by the Company), and agrees to assign, convey and grant to the Company (or as otherwise directed by the Company), all of his/her right, title, and interest in and to the Intellectual Property and any and all patents, patent applications, and copyrights relating to the Intellectual Property. The Executive agrees to execute any and all applications for domestic and foreign patents, copyrights or other proprietary rights and to do such other acts (including without limitation the execution and delivery of instruments of further assurance or confirmation) requested by the Company to assign the Intellectual Property to the Company and to permit the Company to enforce any patents, copyrights or other proprietary rights to the Intellectual Property. The Executive will not charge the Company for time spent in complying with these obligations. All copyrightable works that the Executive creates shall be considered “work made for hire” and shall, upon creation, be owned exclusively by the Company.

Executive agrees that the Company shall own, and Executive hereby assigns, all right, title and interest (including patent rights, copyrights, trade secret rights, mask work rights, trademark rights, and all other intellectual and industrial property rights of any sort throughout the world) relating to any and all inventions (whether or not patentable), discoveries, developments, improvements, innovations, works of authorship, mask works, designs, know-how, ideas, formulae, processes, techniques, data and information authored, created, contributed to, made or conceived or reduced to practice, in whole or in part, by Executive during the period in which Executive is or has been employed by or affiliated with the Company, whether or not registerable under U.S. law or the laws of other jurisdictions, that either # relate, at the time of conception, reduction to practice, creation, derivation or development, to the Company’s businesses or actual or anticipated research or development, or # were developed on any amount of the Company’s time or with the use of the Company’s equipment, supplies, facilities or Confidential Information (all of the foregoing collectively referred to herein as “Company Intellectual Property”), and Executive shall promptly disclose all Company Intellectual Property to the Company in writing. To support Executive’s disclosure obligation herein, Executive shall keep and maintain adequate and current written records of all Company Intellectual Property made by Executive (solely or jointly with others) during the period in which Executive is or has been employed by or affiliated with the Company in such form as may be specified from time to time by the Company. These records shall be available to, and remain the sole property of, the Company at all times.

The Executive shall promptly and fully disclose all Intellectual Property to the Company. “Intellectual Property” means all information, ideas, concepts, improvements, discoveries and inventions, whether patentable or not, and whether or not reduced to practice, that are conceived, developed, made or acquired by the Company, either individually or jointly with others, and that relate to the past, present or anticipated business of the Company, irrespective of whether the Executive utilized the Company’s time or facilities and irrespective of whether such information, ideas, concepts, improvements, discoveries and inventions were conceived, developed, discovered or acquired by the Executive on the job, at home or elsewhere. The Executive hereby assigns and agrees to assign to the Company (or as otherwise directed by the Company) Executive’s full right, title and interest in and to all Intellectual Property. The Executive

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