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Company shall be the sole owner, in perpetuity, throughout the universe in any and all languages, of all right, title and interest in and to the results and proceeds of Recipient’s services performed for or on behalf of Company (“Work Product”), whether under a current written or oral employment agreement, a prior employment agreement or any other agreement. Such Work Product includes, without limitation, all material of any kind and nature whatsoever – whether tangible or intangible – produced, conceived, developed, acquired, obtained, created and/or furnished by or submitted to Recipient prior to or during Recipient’s employment by Company, including without limitation, all materials, ideas, concepts, formats, suggestions, developments, arrangements, packages, computer programs, source code, object code, documentation, plans, drawings, designs, specifications, calculations, renderings, models, prototypes, copyrights and other intellectual property or intangible rights. Any work in connection with such services shall be considered a “work made for hire” under the Copyright Law of the United States, and Recipient recognizes and agrees that Company is the sole author and copyright (and any other intellectual property) holder of such work. Any Work Product created and/or submitted to Company during Recipient’s employment shall automatically become the sole property of Company.

Inventions Retained and Licensed. [Exhibit B] attached hereto contains a full and exhaustive list describing with particularity all inventions, original works of authorship, developments, improvements, and trade secrets which were made or otherwise created by Employee prior to the commencement of Employee’s employment hereunder (collectively “Prior Inventions”). Such Prior Inventions belong solely to Employee or belong to Employee jointly with another as listed therein, which relate in any way to any of the Company’s proposed businesses, products or research and development, and which are not assigned to the Company hereunder; or, if no such list is attached, Employee represents that there are no such Prior Inventions. If, in the course of employment with the Company, Employee incorporates into a Company product or service a Prior Invention owned by Employee or in which Employee has an interest, the Company is hereby granted and shall have a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to make, have made, copy, modify, make derivative works of, use, sell and otherwise distribute such Prior Invention as part of or in connection with such product, process or machine.

Retained Rights. Axsome retains all rights under the Licensed Intellectual Property, any and all other Patent Rights and Know-How owned or Controlled by Axsome or its Affiliates for use thereof either # outside the Territory for any and all purposes or # in the Territory but outside of the Field, and no such rights (either (a) or (b)) are granted under this Agreement to Licensee. Axsome further retains all rights under the Licensed Trademarks (or any Trademark identical or similar to any Licensed Trademark) for use outside of the Territory

Retained Rights. Subject to [Section 10.8] and the remainder of this Agreement, each Party retains all right, title and interest in and to, in the case of Unum, all ACTR T-cells and, in the case of SGI, all SGI Antibodies except to the extent expressly granted hereunder, including the right to use, in the case of Unum and its Affiliates, all ACTR T-cells and, in the case of SGI and its Affiliates, all SGI Antibodies for internal, non-clinical research purposes.

Retained Rights. Except as expressly provided in Sections 2.1 and 2.2, all rights in and to the Althea IP, and any trademarks or other intellectual property rights of Althea and its Affiliates, are hereby retained by Althea and its Affiliates. For the purpose of clarity, Allena acknowledges and agrees that the rights and license granted to Allena under Althea IP pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.2 exclude any right to Develop, make, have made, use, sell, have sold, offer for sale or import any active ingredient other than a Product Candidate or Licensed Product.

Inventions. To the extent permitted by local law, you agree and/or reaffirm the terms of all agreements related to inventions that you signed at the inception of or during your employment, and agree to promptly disclose and assign to BMS all of your interest in any and all inventions, discoveries, improvements and business or marketing concepts related to the current or contemplated business or activities of BMS, and which are conceived or made by you, either alone or in conjunction with others, at any time or place during the period you are employed by BMS. Upon request of BMS, including after your termination, you agree to execute, at BMS’s expense, any and all applications, assignments, or other documents which BMS shall determine necessary to apply for and obtain letters patent to protect BMS’s interest in such inventions, discoveries, and improvements and to cooperate in good faith in any legal proceedings to protect BMS’s intellectual property.

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Inventions. The Employee shall disclose promptly 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 the Employee solely or jointly with another during the period of employment or within one (1) year thereafter and which are related to the business or activities of the Company. The Employee hereby assigns and agrees to assign all her interest therein to Company or its nominee. Whenever requested by the Company, the Employee shall execute any and all applications, assigns or other instruments that the Company shall deem necessary to apply for and obtain Letters of Patents of the United States or any foreign country or to otherwise protect the Company’s interest therein. These obligations shall continue beyond termination of employment with respect to inventions, improvements and valuable discoveries, whether patentable or not, conceived, made or acquired by the Employee during the period of employment or within one year thereafter, and shall be binding upon the Employee’s heirs, assigns, executors, administrators and other legal representatives.

Inventions. Grantee does hereby assign to the Company the entire right, title and interest in any Invention which is or was made or conceived, either solely or jointly with others, during his/her employment with the Company, including after the Date of Termination. Grantee attests that he/she has disclosed (or promptly will disclose, if after the Date of Termination) to the Company all such Inventions. Grantee will, if requested, promptly execute and deliver to the Company a specific assignment of title for any such Invention and will at the expense of the Company, take all reasonably required action by the Company to patent, copyright or otherwise protect the Invention.

Rights to Inventions. Company shall become the exclusive owner of, and ICV hereby assigns to Company, all concepts, inventions, improvement, designs, programs, formulas, know-how, methods, products, processes and writings, whether copyrightable or patentable, listed as deliverables on this Agreement with respect to performance of Services.

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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