I have read this Agreement carefully and understand its terms. 1 have completely filled out the Prior Inventions Schedule to this Agreement.

“INVENTIONS” means the subject matter of any invention disclosures, patent applications or patents identified in Appendix A. “UNIVERSITY INVENTIONS” refers to INVENTIONS that have only inventors, as determined under the Patent Laws of the United States of America, that are obligated to assign their rights in any INVENTIONS to the UNIVERSITY. “JOINT INVENTIONS” refers to INVENTIONS that have inventors, as determined under the Patent Laws of the United States of America, that are obligated to assign their rights in any INVENTIONS to the UNIVERSITY and inventors that are obligated to assign their rights in any INVENTIONS to LICENSEE or an AFFILIATE.

Except as indicated above on this exhibit, Executive has no Prior Works or other inventions, improvements, original works or intellectual property rights to disclose pursuant to Section 5(b) of this Agreement.

The following inventions and discoveries conceived by the Executive prior to commencement of the Executive’s employment by the Company, and are not subject to the restrictions and limitations of Section 6:

“Agreement Patents” any and all Patents that Cover Agreement Know-How to the extent that such Patents do not contain claims Covering Information and other Inventions developed prior to the Effective Date.

Neither this Confidentiality and Inventions Agreement nor any duties or obligations under this Confidentiality and Inventions Agreement may be assigned by the Participant without the prior written consent of the Company. The Participant understands and agrees that the Company may freely assign this Confidentiality and Inventions Agreement. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, and shall be binding upon, the permitted assigns, successors in interest (including any Purchaser upon consummation of an Acquisition), personal representatives, estates, heirs, and legatees of each of the parties hereto. Any assignment in violation of this [Section 14] shall be null and void.

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, Ideas, Processes, and Designs. All inventions, ideas, recipes, processes, programs, software and designs (including all improvements) related to the business of the Employer or the Company shall be disclosed in writing promptly to the Employer, and shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Employer, if either # conceived, made or used by you during the course of the your employment with the Employer (whether or not actually conceived during regular business hours) or # made or used by you for a period of six (6) months subsequent to the termination or expiration of such employment. Any invention, idea, recipe, process, program, software or design (including an improvement) shall be deemed “related to the business of the Employer or the Company” if # it was made with equipment, facilities or confidential information of the Employer or the Company, # results from work performed by you for the Employer or the Company or # pertains to the current business or demonstrably anticipated research or development work of the Employer or the Company. You shall cooperate with the Employer and its attorneys in the preparation of patent and copyright applications for such developments and, upon request, shall promptly assign all such inventions, ideas, recipes, processes and designs to the Employer. The decision to file for patent or copyright protection or to maintain such development as a trade secret shall be in the sole discretion of the Employer, and you shall be bound by such decision. You shall provide, on the back of this Agreement, a complete list of all inventions, ideas, recipes, processes and designs if any, patented or unpatented, copyrighted or non-copyrighted, including a brief description, that you made or conceived prior to your employment with the Employer, and that, therefore, are excluded from the scope of the employment with the Employer.

Consent of Prior Creditors. To the extent that, by reason of any pre-existing relationship between ​ and any Party to this Agreement, ​ requires the consent of that Party to the sale of the 2024 Secured Notes and the Kicker Notes, that Party or Parties hereby consent to the sale of the 2024 Secured Notes and the Kicker Notes on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

Prior Outstanding Stock Options. Incentive Stock Options granted to an Optionee may be exercisable while such Optionee has outstanding and unexercised any Incentive Stock Option previously granted to him or her pursuant to this Plan. The Stock Option Committee shall determine if such options shall be exercisable if there are any Incentive Stock Options previously granted (or substituted) to him or her pursuant to this Plan, and such determination shall be evidenced in the Agreement executed by the Optionee and the Company. An Incentive Stock Option shall be treated as outstanding until it is exercised in full or expires by reason of lapse of time.