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Retained Credit Support. Crestwood agrees to retain in place, or to cause its Affiliates to retain in place, unless and until released or returned in accordance with its terms or as provided in the Newco LLC Agreement, each guarantee, letter of credit, surety, performance or other bond, cash or other collateral or similar credit support arrangement issued or posted by or for the account of Crestwood or any of its Affiliates (excluding Newco and the Contributed Entities) to support the operations and obligations of Newco or any Contributed Entity, as set forth on [Section 5.9(b)] of the Crestwood Disclosure Schedule.

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.

Prior Inventions. I have set forth on [Exhibit A] (Inventions) a complete list of all Inventions that I have, alone or jointly with others, conceived, developed or reduced to practice or caused to be conceived, developed or reduced to practice prior to the commencement of my employment with Company, in which I have an ownership interest or which I have a license to use and that I wish to have excluded from the scope of this agreement (collectively referred to as “Prior Inventions”). If no Prior Inventions are listed in [Exhibit A], I warrant that there are no Prior Inventions. If, in the course of my employment with Company, I incorporate a Prior Invention into a Company product, process or machine, I hereby grant Company a nonexclusive, royalty free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to reproduce, make derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display in any form or medium, whether now known or later developed, make, have made, modify, use, sell, import, offer for sale, and exercise any and all present or future rights in, such Prior Invention. Notwithstanding the foregoing, I agree that I will not incorporate, or permit to be incorporated, any Prior Inventions in any Company Inventions (as defined below) without Company’s prior written consent.

Nonassignable Inventions. I understand that this agreement does not apply to an Invention which I can prove qualifies fully as a nonassignable Invention under applicable law. I have reviewed the Limited Exclusion Notification section on [Exhibit A] (Inventions) and agree that my signature on this agreement acknowledges receipt of the notification.

Inventions Defined.Inventions” means inventions, original works of authorship, developments, concepts, improvements, designs, discoveries, ideas, know-how, trademarks, and trade secrets, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar laws, that Employee solely or jointly authored, conceived, developed, or reduced to practice.

Outside Inventions. Employee acknowledges that Employee has not incorporated 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 Group’s prior written permission. Employee acknowledges that Employee has informed the Company Group, in writing, before incorporating any inventions, discoveries, ideas, original works of authorship, developments, improvements, trade secrets and other proprietary information or intellectual property rights owned by Employee or in which Employee has an interest prior to, or separate from, Employee’s employment with the Company, including, without limitation, any such inventions that are subject to California Labor Code Section 2870 (“Outside Inventions”) into any Invention or otherwise utilizing any Outside Invention in the course of Employee’s employment with the Company; and the Company Group is hereby granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable worldwide license (with the right to grant and authorize sublicenses) to make, have made, use, import, offer for sale, sell, reproduce, distribute, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise exploit any such incorporated or utilized Outside Inventions, without restriction, including, without limitation, as part of, or in connection with, such Invention, and to practice any method related thereto.

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.

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.

It is recognized and understood that the existing inventions and technologies of and are their separate property, respectively, and are not affected by this Agreement and neither party shall have any claims to or rights in such existing inventions and technologies of the other party.

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