No Third Party Rights. Except for the rights of any third party Buyer Indemnified Parties under Section 10(b), this Agreement is not intended and shall not be construed to create any rights in any persons or entities other than Buyer and Seller and no person shall assert any rights as a third party beneficiary hereof.

No Third Party Beneficiaries. None of the provisions of this Agreement shall be for the benefit of or enforceable by any Third Party, including, but not limited to, any creditor of either Party hereto, except the Indemnification provision in Section 8.

Third Party Confidential Information. Advisor recognizes that the Company has received and in the future will receive from third parties their confidential or proprietary information subject to a duty on the Company’s part to maintain the confidentiality of such information and to use it only for certain limited purposes. Advisor agrees that Advisor owes the Company and such third parties, during the term of this Agreement and thereafter, a duty to hold all such confidential or proprietary information in the strictest confidence and not to disclose it to any person, firm or corporation or to use it except as necessary in carrying out the Services for the Company consistent with the Company’s agreement with such third party.

No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure solely to the benefit of each party hereto and their permitted assigns and respective successors, and nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended to or shall confer upon any other Person any right, benefit or remedy of any nature whatsoever under or by reason of this Agreement, including, without limitation, by way of subrogation.

No Third-Party Beneficiaries. Except for the provisions of Section 2, with respect to which each Releasee is an expressly intended third-party beneficiary thereof, this Agreement is not intended to confer in or on behalf of any Person not a Party (and their successors and assigns) any rights, benefits, causes of action or remedies with respect to the subject matter or any provision hereof.

Third Party Infringement Suit. In the event that a Third Party sues Licensee alleging that Licensee’s, its Affiliates” or its sublicensees” making, having made, importing, exporting, using, manufacturing, having manufactured Licensed Compound or distributing, marketing, promoting, offering for sale or selling Licensed Product infringes or will infringe a claim of a patent that specifically covers the Licensed Compound or its manufacture, then Licensee may elect to defend such suit and, during the period in which such suit is pending, notwithstanding Licensee’s obligation to indemnify Merck under Section 11.01 herein, ​.

No Third Party Beneficiary. Notwithstanding anything else herein to the contrary, the parties specifically disavow any desire or intention to create any third party beneficiary obligations, and specifically declare that no person or entity, other than as set forth in this Agreement, shall have any rights hereunder or any right of enforcement hereof, except the heirs and personal representatives of Employee in the event of Employee’s death or disability.

Government or Third Party. I agree to assign all my right, title and interest in and to any particular Company Invention to a third party, including without limitation the United States, as directed by Company.

No Third Party Beneficiary. This Agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns. Nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended to confer upon any person other than the parties hereto or their respective successors or permitted assigns any rights or remedies under or by reason of this Agreement; provided, however, that the Observer, and his or her successors, heirs and Representatives, are each an intended third-party beneficiary of, and may enforce, this Agreement.

Assignability; Third-Party Beneficiary. This Agreement will be binding upon, enforceable by and inure solely to the benefit of, the parties and his respective permitted successors and assigns. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, this Agreement shall not be assigned by any party hereto without the prior written consent of the non- assigning parties. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, nothing in this Agreement is intended to or will confer upon any person, other than the parties to this Agreement and his respective heirs, successors and assigns, any right, benefit or remedy of any nature whatsoever under or by reason of this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the Company from consolidating or merging into or with, transferring all or substantially all of its equity or assets to, or otherwise assigning this Agreement by operation of law to another person or entity without the consent of Employee; provided that, in each case, such other person or entity shall assume this Agreement and all obligations of the Company hereunder.