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Intellectual Property Agreements
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Intellectual Property. The Company owns or possesses adequate enforceable rights to use all patents, patent applications, trademarks (both registered and unregistered), service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, copyrights, licenses and know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”), necessary for the conduct of its business as conducted as of the date hereof, except to the extent that the failure to own or possess adequate rights to use such Intellectual Property would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; the Company has not received any written notice of any claim of infringement or conflict which asserted Intellectual Property rights of others, which infringement or conflict, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; there are no pending, or to the Company’s knowledge, threatened judicial proceedings or interference proceedings against the Company challenging the Company’s rights in or to or the validity of the scope of any of the Company’s patents, patent applications or proprietary information, except for such right or claim that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Intellectual Property. For purposes of enabling Secured Party to exercise its rights and remedies under this Security Agreement and enabling Secured Party and its successors and assigns to enjoy the full benefits of the Collateral, Grantor hereby grants to Secured Party an irrevocable, nonexclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to Grantor) to use, license, or sublicense any of the Intellectual Property. Grantor shall provide Secured Party with reasonable access to all media in which any of the Intellectual Property may be recorded or stored and all computer programs used for the completion or printout thereof. This license shall also inure to the benefit of all successors, assigns, and transferees of Secured Party. On and after the occurrence of an Event of Default, Secured Party may require that Grantor assign all of its right, title, and interest in and to the Intellectual Property or any part thereof to Secured Party or such other person as Secured Party may designate pursuant to Documents satisfactory to Secured Party. If no Event of Default has occurred, Grantor shall have the exclusive, non‑transferable right and license to use the Intellectual Property in the ordinary course of business and the exclusive right to grant to other persons licenses and sublicenses with respect to the Intellectual Property for full and fair consideration.

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.

Intellectual Property. Each Collateral Party owns or has the lawful right to use all Intellectual Property reasonably necessary for the conduct of its business, and to the Knowledge of such Collateral Party, without conflict with any rights or others, except to the extent such failure to own or possess such right to use or such conflicts, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There is no pending, or, to any Collateral Party’s Knowledge, threatened Intellectual Property Claim with respect to any Collateral Party or any of their respective Property (including any Intellectual Property), which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Intellectual Property. Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Borrower and Subsidiary owns or has the lawful right to use all Intellectual Property necessary for the conduct of its business, without conflict with any rights of others. Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, there is no pending or, to any Borrower’s knowledge, threatened in writing Intellectual Property Claim with respect to any Borrower, any Subsidiary or any of their Property (including any Intellectual Property). All registered Intellectual Property owned by any Borrower or Subsidiary as of the Closing Date is shown on [Schedule 9.1.11].

The Obligors own or have the right to use all Intellectual Property necessary for the conduct of its business, without conflict with any rights of others.

Intellectual Property. To Borrowers’ knowledge, each Platform Company has all material rights with respect to Intellectual Property necessary or material in the operation or conduct of such Person’s business as currently conducted and proposed to be conducted. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and in the case of licenses, except for restrictions that are unenforceable under Division 9 of the UCC, to Borrowers’ knowledge, each Platform Companies have the right, to the extent required to operate such Platform Company’s business, to freely transfer, license or assign Intellectual Property necessary or material in the operation or conduct of such Platform Company’s business as currently conducted and proposed to be conducted, without condition, restriction or payment of any kind (other than license payments in the ordinary course of business) to any third party, and, to Borrowers’ knowledge, each Platform Company owns or has the right to use, pursuant to valid licenses, all software development tools, library functions, compilers and all other third-party software and other items that are material to such Platform Company’s business and used in the design, development, promotion, sale, license, manufacture, import, export, use or distribution of Products except customary covenants in inbound license agreements and equipment leases where a Platform Company is the licensee or lessee.

Intellectual Property. Each Borrower shall # protect, defend and maintain the validity and enforceability of its Intellectual Property necessary for its continued operations; # promptly advise Agent in writing of material infringements of material Intellectual Property of a Borrower; and Borrower shall use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent any Intellectual Property material to Borrowers’ business from being abandoned, forfeited or dedicated to the public. If a Borrower # obtains any Patent, registered Trademark, registered Copyright, registered mask work, or any pending application for any of the foregoing, whether as owner, licensee or otherwise, or # applies for any Patent or the registration of any Trademark, then such Borrower shall on the next Compliance Certificate required to be delivered hereunder provide written notice thereof to Agent and shall execute such intellectual property security agreements and other documents and take such other actions as Agent may request in its good faith business judgment to perfect and maintain a first priority perfected security interest in favor of Agent in such property. Borrowers shall when it delivers the next Compliance Certificate required to be delivered hereunder provide to Agent copies of all applications that it files for Patents or for the registration of Trademarks, Copyrights or mask works, together with evidence of the recording of the intellectual property security agreement required for Agent to perfect and maintain a first priority perfected security interest in such property.

Intellectual Property. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries owns or is duly licensed (and, in such event, has the unfettered right to grant sublicenses) to use all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, trade names, service marks, copyrights, copyright applications, licenses, permits, inventions, discoveries, processes, scientific, technical, engineering and marketing data, object and source codes, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) and other similar rights and proprietary knowledge (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) used in or necessary for the conduct of its business as now being conducted and as presently contemplated to be conducted in the future (collectively, the “Company Intellectual Property”). Section 3‎(l) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of all material Company Intellectual Property owned and/or used by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in its business. Except as set forth on the Disclosure Schedule, there are no rights of third parties to any of the Company Intellectual Property except through licensing agreements. Except as set forth on the Disclosure Schedule, there are no outstanding options, licenses or agreements of any kind relating to the Company Intellectual Property, nor is the Company or any of its Subsidiaries bound by or a party to any options, licenses or agreements of any kind with respect to the Intellectual Property of any other Person (collectively, the “Third Party License Agreements”) other than such licenses or agreements arising from the purchase of generally available products, as to which the aggregate consideration paid by or due from the Company or any of its Subsidiaries does not exceed $25,000 in value, or “off the shelf” products. All of the Third Party License Agreements are valid, binding and in full force and effect in all material respects and to the Company’s knowledge enforceable by the Company or its applicable Subsidiary in accordance with their respective terms in all material respects, subject to general principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of creditors’ rights and remedies. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in material breach of any such Third Party License Agreements. To the Company’s knowledge, no other party to any of the Third Party License Agreements is in material default thereunder. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary of the Company infringes or is in conflict with any right of any other Person with respect to any third party Intellectual Property. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received written notice of any pending conflict with or infringement upon any third party Intellectual Property. There is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ ownership of or licensing rights in or to any Company Intellectual Property. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has entered into any consent agreement, indemnification agreement, forbearance to sue or settlement agreement with respect to the validity of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ ownership of or right to use its Company Intellectual Property and there is no reasonable basis for any such claim to be successful. The rights of the Company and its Subsidiaries in the Company Intellectual Property are valid and enforceable and no registration relating thereto has lapsed, expired or been abandoned or canceled or is the subject of cancellation or other adversarial proceedings, and all applications therefor are pending and in good standing. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken all reasonable steps required to perfect their ownership of and interest in the Company Intellectual Property and has taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of the Company Intellectual Property. The Company and its Subsidiaries have complied, in all material respects, with their respective contractual obligations relating to the protection of the Company Intellectual Property used pursuant to licenses. No Person is infringing on or violating the Company Intellectual Property owned or used by the Company or its Subsidiaries. The Company and its Subsidiaries have used Company IP Counsel (as defined below) for all Intellectual Property matters since December 31, 2011 and, since such date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has consulted any other counsel with respect to any Intellectual Property matters.

Intellectual Property. Except to the extent expressly stated otherwise in this Agreement, neither party will acquire any right, title or interest in any Intellectual Property Rights belonging to the other party, or to the other party’s licensors.

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