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Assignment of Intellectual Property. At all times during the term of Executive’s employment with McDonald’s and continuing at all times after the termination of Executive’s employment with McDonald’s for any reason, whether with or without cause, at the option of McDonald’s or Executive, with or without notice, Executive agrees and covenants that Executive shall make prompt full written disclosure to McDonald’s and hold in trust for the sole right, benefit, and use of McDonald’s: any ideas, inventions, innovations, discoveries, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, drawings, recipes, reports and all similar or related information, whether or not patentable, and any works of authorship, whether or not copyrightable, (collectively “Inventions”), that originate with Executive in whole or in part during the period of Executive’s employment. Executive agrees and acknowledges that any and all Inventions shall remain the exclusive property of McDonald’s. Executive hereby expressly and fully assigns to McDonald’s exclusive right, title and interest to all Inventions that originate with Executive in whole or in part during the period of Executive’s employment, whether written or not, and whether or not patentable or eligible for protection under copyright law, and fully waive any claims or rights Executive may have therein. Executive agrees to assist McDonald’s, at McDonald’s expense, in perfecting such transfer or assignment by taking all necessary actions and executing all documents as may be required. Executive understands that the foregoing shall not apply to Inventions # developed on Executive’s own time, # without the use of Confidential Information, proprietary information and/or trade secrets or without McDonald’s supplies, equipment, facilities, or property, and # that are not based on any work performed for McDonald’s or related in any way to McDonald’s business or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development. Any assignment to McDonald’s of Inventions includes all rights of attribution, paternity, integrity, modification, disclosure and withdrawal, and any other rights throughout the world that may be known as or referred to as “moral rights," “artist’s rights," “droit moral," or the like (collectively, “Moral Rights”). To the extent that Moral Rights cannot be assigned under applicable law, Executive hereby waives and agrees not to enforce any and all Moral Rights, including, without limitation, any right to identification of authorship or limitation on subsequent modification that Executive may have in the assigned Inventions. Executive further acknowledges that all original works of authorship that are made by him/her (solely or jointly with others) within the scope of and during the period of employment with McDonald’s and which are protectable by copyright are “works made for hire”, as that term is defined in the United States Copyright Act (17 USC §101) or under any similar concept other applicable copyright law (to the extent U.S. copyright law does not apply). The Executive’s obligations under this Section shall continue after Executive’s employment with McDonald’s is terminated, regardless of the nature or reason for such termination. The provisions of this Section shall be binding upon the Executive and the Executive’s heirs, executors and administrators.

Any Intellectual Property conceived, developed, or created solely by an employee of Seller or any of its Affiliates seconded to the Partnership, whether or not yet in use by the Partnership, shall be solely owned by the Partnership. Seller and its Affiliates hereby agree # to assign ownership of all such Intellectual Property, to the extent possible, # to use reasonable efforts to facilitate assignment by the employee, and # not to challenge the ownership or inventorship of such Intellectual Property. Seller, its Affiliates, and any employees of Seller or any of its Affiliates who are deemed inventors shall cooperate fully with the Partnership in connection with the Partnership’s efforts to secure any new patent rights relating to such Intellectual Property, including but not limited to the execution of any necessary and proper oaths, declarations, assignments or affidavits relating to any patent applications required: # for the filing or prosecution of any original applications, divisionals, continuations or continuation-in-part applications; or # in connection with the reissue or extension of any patent that may be granted on an invention Seller, its Affiliates, and any employees of Seller or any of its Affiliates who are deemed inventors shall also take any other related actions that the Partnership may deem necessary or expedient, and that will vest all rights in those patents to the Partnership. Neither Seller nor its Affiliates will challenge the ownership or inventorship of any of the Intellectual Property transferred pursuant to this Section 4.7(a).

Control of Intellectual Property. Neither Party shall enter into or amend any agreement with a Third Party, or include in any such agreement or amendment any restrictive provisions, with the effect of limiting its Control of, or to not Control, any Information, Patent or other intellectual property right or Regulatory Documentation that would be subject to the license grants in Sections 2.1 (as to UroGen) or Section 2.6.3 (as to Allergan) in the absence of such agreement, amendment or restrictive provisions.

. “ Field of Use” means # physical layer (“PHY”) technology for Ethernet networking technologies, circuit design, modeling and process design methodologies, programs and flows that do not fall within the Field of Use and are not otherwise based in any way on Confidential Information; # dynamic back biasing technology that does not fall within the Field of Use and is not otherwise based in any way on Confidential Information, and # additional technology, if any, expressly identified in the Project Statement.

Each [[Loan Party:Organization]] and each of its Subsidiaries own, or possess the right to use, all of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, patents, patent rights, franchises, licenses and other intellectual property rights that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses, without conflict with the rights of any other Person. To the best knowledge of the , no slogan or other advertising device, product, process, method, substance, part or other material now employed, or now contemplated to be employed, by any [[Loan Party:Organization]] or any of its Subsidiaries infringes upon any rights held by any other Person. No claim or litigation regarding any of the foregoing is pending or, to the best knowledge of the , threatened, which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Trademarks and Intellectual Property. During term of this Agreement, Advisor has a limited, royalty-free non-exclusive license to use all trademarks, trade names, service marks and copyrights of Company solely in connection with the promotion, advertising, and/or execution of this Agreement. However, Advisor shall acquire no right, title or interest in such trademarks, trade names, service marks and copyrights other than the license provided for uses mentioned above, nor shall he acquire any license, right or interest in any form of the intellectual property of Company by virtue of this Agreement other than those assigned through a general partnership equity agreement to be formed.

Executive will promptly disclose to the Company any idea, invention, discovery or improvement, whether patentable or not (“Creations”), conceived or made by him alone or with others at any time during his employment. Executive agrees that the Company owns any such Creations conceived or made by Executive alone or with others at any time during his employment, and Executive hereby assigns and agrees to assign to the Company all moral or other rights he has or may acquire therein and agrees to execute any and all applications, assignments and other instruments relating thereto which the Company deems necessary or desirable. These obligations shall continue beyond the termination of his employment with respect to Creations and derivatives of such Creations conceived or made during his employment with the Company. The Company and Executive understand that the obligation to assign Creations to the Company shall not apply to any Creation which is developed entirely on his own time without using any of the Company’s equipment, supplies, facilities, and/or Confidential Information unless such Creation # relates in any way to the business or to the current or anticipated research or development of the Company or any of its Affiliated Entities; or # results in any way from his work at the Company.

Schedule # Intellectual Property, Source Code Escrow Agreements

As between the Parties and their respective Affiliates, the Contractor shall own and retain all right, title and interest in and to the IPR in any Contractor Owned IP.

Executive hereby assigns to Executive’s entire right, title and interest, including copyrights and patents, in any idea, invention, design of a useful article (whether the

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