Inventions and Other Intellectual Property. Employee agrees that during the term of his employment by Employer, he will disclose to Employer (and no one else) all, and will not use for his own benefit or otherwise misappropriate any, ideas, methods, plans, developments or improvements known by him which relate directly or indirectly to A.M. Castle’s Business (as defined below), whether acquired by Employee before or during his employment by Employer. Employee acknowledges that all inventions, innovations, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, drawings, reports, and similar or related information (whether or not patentable) that relate to the actual or anticipated business, research and development, or existing or future products or services of Employer and that are conceived, developed, or made by Employee while employed by Employer (“Work Product”) belong to Employer. Any copyrightable work falling within the definition of Work Product shall be deemed a “work made for hire” as such term is defined in 17 U.S.C. Section 101, and ownership of all right, title, and interest therein shall vest in Employer. To the extent that any Work Product is not deemed a “work made for hire” under applicable law, or all right, title, and interest in and to such Work Product has not automatically vested in Employer, Employee hereby irrevocably assigns, transfers, and conveys, to the full extent permitted by applicable law, all right, title, and interest in and to the Work Product on a worldwide basis to Employer without further consideration. Employee will promptly disclose such Work Product to Employer and perform all actions requested by Employer (whether during or after employment) to establish and confirm such ownership (including without limitation, assignments, consents, powers of attorney, and other instruments). Nothing in this [Section 9] shall be construed as requiring any such communication where the idea, plan, method or development is lawfully protected from disclosure as a trade secret of a third party or by any other lawful prohibition against such communication.

Inventions and Intellectual Property. Employee shall promptly disclose 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 Employee, solely or jointly with another, during or after regular hours of employment, during the period of employment or within one year thereafter, and which are related to the business or activities of the Company or which Employee conceives as a result of his or her employment by the Company, and Employee hereby assigns and agrees to assign all Employee’s interests therein to the Company or its nominee. Employee also agrees that all works created by him/her are considered work made for hire and prepared by Employee within the scope of his/her employment by the Company and Employee further agrees to assign, and hereby does assign automatically, all such future work to the Company. Whenever requested to do so by the Company, Employee shall execute any and all applications, assignments or other instruments that the Company shall deem necessary to apply for and obtain any patent or copyright in the United States or any foreign country or to otherwise protect the Company's interest therein. These obligations shall continue beyond the termination of employment with respect to inventions, improvements and valuable discoveries, whether patentable or not, conceived, made or acquired by Employee during the period of employment or within one year thereafter, and shall be binding upon Employee’s assigns, executors, administrators and other legal representatives.

Intellectual Property. Except for such claims, which individually or in the aggregate, would not have an Buyer Material Adverse Effect, there are no pending or threatened claims of which the Buyer has been given written notice by any person against their use of any material trademarks, trade names, service marks, service names, mark registrations, logos, assumed names and copyright registrations, patents and all applications therefor which are owned by the Buyer and used in its operations as currently conducted (the “Buyer Intellectual Property”). To the Buyer’s knowledge, the Buyer has such ownership of or such rights by license, lease or other agreement to the Buyer Intellectual Property as are necessary to permit it to conduct its operations as currently conducted, except where the failure to have such rights would not have an Buyer Material Adverse Effect.

Intellectual Property. The Company and the Subsidiary own or possess adequate enforceable rights to use all patents, patent applications, trademarks (both registered and unregistered), trade names, trademark registrations, service marks, service mark registrations, Internet domain name registrations, copyrights, copyright registrations, 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 their respective businesses 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 and the Subsidiaries have 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 result in a Material Adverse Effect. There are no pending, or to the Company’s knowledge, threatened judicial proceedings or interference proceedings challenging the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s rights in or to or the validity of the scope of any of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ patents, patent applications or proprietary information. No other entity or individual has any right or claim in any of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiary’s patents, patent applications or any patent to be issued therefrom by virtue of any contract, license or other agreement entered into between such entity or individual and the Company or any Subsidiary or by any non-contractual obligation, other than by written licenses granted by the Company or any Subsidiary. The Company has not received any written notice of any claim challenging the rights of the Company or its Subsidiaries in or to any Intellectual Property owned, licensed or optioned by the Company or any Subsidiary which claim, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, would result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Intellectual Property. Seller represents and warrants that the Company directly or indirectly, possesses, or has adequate rights to all licenses, permits, and all other franchises, trademarks, tradenames, service marks, inventions, patents, copyrights, and any applications therefor, trade secrets, research and development, know-how, technical data, computer software programs or applications and technology systems necessary to operate its business (“Intellectual Property”). None of the Intellectual Property owned or used by the Company, infringes any Intellectual Property right of any other entity and no Intellectual Property owned by the Company is infringed upon by any other entity.

Intellectual Property. Any idea, invention, design, process, system, procedure, improvement, development or discovery conceived, developed, created or made by Executive, alone or with others, during the Term and applicable to the business of the Company, whether or not patentable or registrable, shall become the sole and exclusive property of the Company. Executive shall disclose the same promptly and completely to the Company and shall, during the Term or thereafter, # execute all documents requested by the Company for vesting in the Company the entire right, title and interest in and to the same, # execute all documents requested by the Company for filing and procuring such applications for patents, trademarks, service marks or copyrights as the Company, in its sole discretion, may desire to prosecute, and # give the Company all assistance it may reasonably require, including the giving of testimony in any Proceeding (as defined below), in other to obtain, maintain and protect the Company’s right therein and thereto.

Intellectual Property. The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries own or are licensed or otherwise have full legal right to use all of the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, franchises, authorizations and other rights that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses, without conflict with the rights of any other Person with respect thereto, except where the absence of such rights or the presence of such conflicts could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Intellectual Property. ​ has, or has rights to use, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights necessary or required for use in connection with its businesses as described in the Reports and which the failure to so have could have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Rights”). None of, and ​ has not received a notice (written or otherwise) that any of, the Intellectual Property Rights has expired, terminated, or been abandoned, or is expected to expire or terminate or be abandoned, within two (2) years from the date of this Agreement. Except as disclosed in the Reports, ​ has not received, since the Latest Financial Date, a written notice of a claim or otherwise has any knowledge that the Intellectual Property Rights violate or infringe upon the rights of any Person, except as could not have or reasonably be expected to not have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of ​, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual Property Rights.

In this clause 9, “IP” means all intellectual property rights of whatever nature, including:

Intellectual Property. During the Term, Supplier hereby grants a non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable perpetual, no royalty license to use any and all trademarks, logos or other intellectual property in connection with the Supplier’s Hemp Extracts.