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Intellectual Property. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries owns, or is licensed to use, all trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property material to its business, and the use thereof by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries does not infringe upon the rights of any other Person, except for any such infringements that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Each Borrower and Guarantor owns or licenses or otherwise has the right to use all Intellectual Property reasonably necessary for the operation of its business as presently conducted. As of the date of Amendment No. 4, Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any Intellectual Property registered, or subject to pending applications, in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or any similar office or agency in the United States, any State thereof, any political subdivision thereof or in any other country, other than those described in [Schedule 8.11] to the Information Certificate and has not granted any licenses with respect thereto other than as set forth in [Schedule 8.11] to the Information Certificate. No event has occurred which permits or would permit after notice or passage of time or both, the revocation, suspension or termination of such rights where any such event has or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

instruments, documents, investment property, letters of credit, supporting obligations and chattel paper, in each case, to the extent that any amounts payable under or in connection with any of the items or types of assets described in [clauses (a) through (c) above] are evidenced by the items described in this clause (d) and

Intellectual Property. Each Loan Party owns, or holds licenses in, all trademarks, trade names, copyrights, patents, and licenses that are necessary to the conduct of its business as currently conducted, and attached hereto as [Schedule 4.13] (as updated from time to time) is a true, correct, and complete listing of all material trademarks, trade names, copyrights, patents, and licenses as to which any Loan Party is the owner or is an exclusive licensee; provided, that, any Borrower may amend [Schedule 4.13] to add additional intellectual property so long as such amendment occurs by written notice to Agent at the time that such Borrower provides its Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 5.1.

Intellectual Property. To the knowledge of the Company, the Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have 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 their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports and which the failure to so have would have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Rights”). None of, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received a written notice 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 for which the expiration, termination or abandonment could have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, 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 would not have or reasonably be expected to not have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual properties, except where failure to do so would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

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Any Intellectual Property [[Organization B:Organization]] uses in its business as presently conducted is owned by [[Organization B:Organization]] or properly licensed.

Intellectual Property. Neither BRPA nor Merger Sub owns, licenses, or otherwise has any right, title or interest in any material Intellectual Property Rights.

Intellectual Property. The Administrative Agent shall have received security agreements duly executed by the applicable Credit Parties for all federally registered copyrights, copyright applications, patents, patent applications, trademarks and trademark applications included in the Collateral, in each case in proper form for filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or U.S. Copyright Office, as applicable.

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.

Material Intellectual Property” means Intellectual Property that is material to the business operations of and .

Title to Intellectual Property. Except as expressly provided for under the terms of this Services Agreement, each Recipient acknowledges that it shall acquire no right, title or interest (including any license rights or rights of use) in any Intellectual Property which is owned, licensed or otherwise used by any Provider or any of their respective Affiliates or any Third Party, if applicable, by reason of the provision or receipt of the services provided hereunder. Each Recipient agrees not to remove or alter any copyright, trademark, confidentiality or other proprietary notices that appear on any Intellectual Property owned, licensed or used by any Provider or any of their respective Affiliates or any Third Party, if applicable, and each Recipient agrees to reproduce any such notices on any and all copies thereof. Each Recipient agrees not to attempt to decompile, translate, reverse engineer or disassemble any Intellectual Property owned, licensed or used by any Provider or their respective Affiliates or any Third Party, if applicable, and a Recipient shall promptly notify its respective Provider of any such attempt, including by any employee or representative of such Recipient or by any Third Party, of which such Recipient becomes aware.

Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. Each Loan Party and each Restricted Subsidiary own, or possess the right to use, all of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, patents and all other intellectual property rights that are used in the operation of the business of the Borrowers and Restricted Subsidiaries, except to the extent that individually, or, in the aggregate, it could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the best knowledge of each Loan Party, no slogan or other advertising device, product, process, method, substance, part or other material now employed by any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary infringes upon any rights held by any other Person except where such infringement could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as disclosed on [Schedule 6.17], no claim or litigation regarding any of the foregoing is pending or, to the best knowledge of each Loan Party, threatened, which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

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Rights to Intellectual Property. All rights and licenses granted under or pursuant to this Agreement by one Party to the other Party are, and shall otherwise be deemed to be, for purposes of Section 365(n) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or any similar law in effect in a foreign jurisdiction, licenses of rights to “intellectual property” as defined under Section 101 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or the relevant foreign law. The Parties agree that Axsome or Licensee, as licensee of intellectual property under this Agreement, shall retain and may fully exercise all of its rights and elections under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or relevant foreign law. The Parties further agree that in the event of a rejection of this Agreement by Axsome or Licensee, as applicable, in any bankruptcy proceeding by or against Axsome or Licensee, as applicable, under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or foreign equivalent, # Licensee or Axsome, as applicable, shall be entitled to a complete duplicate of (or complete access to, as appropriate) any such intellectual property and all embodiments of such intellectual property, which, if not already in Licensee’s or Axsome’s, as applicable, possession, shall be promptly delivered to it upon Licensee’s or Axsome’s, as applicable, written request therefore, and # Axsome or Licensee, as applicable shall not interfere with the other Party’s rights to intellectual property and all embodiments of intellectual property, and shall assist and not interfere with such other Party in obtaining intellectual property and all embodiments of intellectual property from another entity. The term “embodiments” of intellectual property includes all tangible, intangible, electronic or other embodiments of rights and licenses hereunder, including all compounds and products embodying intellectual property, Licensed Products, filings with Regulatory Authorities and related rights, and Licensed Intellectual Property.

Assignment of Intellectual Property. You hereby fully and irrevocably assign to all of your right, title and interest in and to any and all confidential information, works of authorship, inventions, trade secrets, ideas, improvements, discoveries, developments, devices, methods, processes, software, designs, reports, trademarks, trade names, service marks, logos and trade dress (collectively, “Intellectual Property”), and all proprietary and intellectual property rights with respect thereto (collectively, “Proprietary Rights”), whether or not patentable or registrable under trademark, copyright or other statutes, made or conceived or reduced to practice by you as a result of your employment with , either alone or jointly with others, during the period of your employment with . You acknowledge that all original works of authorship which are made by you, solely or jointly with others, within the scope of your employment and which are protectable by copyright are “works made for hire,” as that term is defined in the United States Copyright Act (17 U.S.C., Section 101), and that even if it should be determined that such works do not qualify as “works made for hire,” all of your right, title and interest thereto is nonetheless assigned to by virtue of this Agreement. All Intellectual Property shall be owned by irrespective of any copyright notices or confidentiality legends to the contrary. You agree to promptly disclose to the Company and hold in trust for the sole right, benefit and use of the Company any such Intellectual Property, and to promptly execute any and all declarations, assignments, applications and other instruments which shall deem necessary to apply for and obtain patents and copyright registrations in any country or otherwise to protect interests in the Intellectual Property. Furthermore, any assignment to of Intellectual Property 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 rights of “droit moral” or “moral rights” and/or any similar rights or principles of law that you may have in any Intellectual Property (collectively, “Moral Rights”). To the extent that such Moral Rights are not assignable under applicable law, you hereby waive and agree not to enforce any and all such Moral Rights, including, without limitation, any right to identification of authorship or limitation on subsequent modification. You acknowledge that shall have the full and free right to do or not to do whatever it desires with respect to the Intellectual Property, including without limitation, the right to utilize or not utilize the same, the right to file or not file a patent application and the right to license or sell the same, upon such terms as it may desire, with or without compensation. You recognize that this Agreement does not require assignment of: # any Intellectual Property that you made or conceived prior to the commencement of your employment with (which, to preclude any possible uncertainty, you have listed on [Attachment A] attached hereto); or # any Intellectual Property that you develop entirely on your own time without using equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for that Intellectual Property which either: # relates at the time of conception or reduction to practice to business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of ; or # results from any work performed by you for . The provisions of this Section shall be binding upon you and your heirs, executors and administrators.

Each Party acknowledges and agrees that neither Party shall, during the Term and thereafter: # acquire any ownership interest in any of the other Party’s IP Rights as described in Section 7.1; # take any action that interferes with any of the other Party’s IP Rights as described in Section 7.1, including such other Party’s ownership or exercise thereof; # challenge any right, title, or interest of the other Party in or to its IP Rights as described in Section 7.1; or # make any claim or take any action adverse to the other Party’s ownership of its IP Rights as described in Section 7.1.

Borrower shall # protect, defend and maintain the validity and enforceability of its Intellectual Property; # promptly advise Agent in writing of material infringements or any other event that could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the value of its Intellectual Property; and # not allow any Intellectual Property material to Borrower’s business to be abandoned, forfeited or dedicated to the public without Agent’s written consent.

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 design is ornamental or otherwise), work product and any other work of authorship (collectively the “Developments”), made or conceived solely or jointly by Executive at any time during Executive’s employment by (whether prior or subsequent to the execution of this Agreement), or created wholly or in part by Executive, whether or not such Developments are patentable, copyrightable or susceptible to other forms of protection, where the Developments: # were developed, invented, or conceived within the scope of Executive’s employment with ; # relate to ’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development; or # result from any work performed by Executive on ’s behalf. Executive shall disclose any Developments to ’s management within 30 days following Executive’s development, making or conception thereof.

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.

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.

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