Common use of Assignment of Invention Clause in Contracts

Assignment of Invention. (i) During Executive’s employment with Employer, Executive shall promptly and fully inform and disclose to Employer and does hereby assign to Employer all Executive’s right, title and interest in and to any and all ideas, inventions, engineering plans, original works of authorship, developments, concepts, improvements, designs, trademarks, trade secrets, computer programs and discoveries, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar laws, which Executive may solely or jointly conceive or develop or reduce to practice or cause to be conceived or developed or reduced to practice (collectively, the “Inventions”), during Executive’s employment with Employer (whether during business hours or otherwise whether outside the premises of Employer or otherwise) and which directly or indirectly are related to the business or Confidential Information of Employer. (ii) Executive recognizes that all Inventions, conceived or made by Executive, either alone or jointly with others within the twenty-four months after termination of employment with Employer (voluntary or otherwise), are likely to have been conceived in significant part either while employed by Employer or as a result of knowledge Executive had of the Confidential Information. Accordingly, Executive agrees that such Inventions shall be presumed to have been conceived during Executive’s employment. (iii) Executive acknowledges that all original works of authorship which are made by Executives (solely or jointly with others) within the scope of such employment with Employer or related to the business of Employer and which are protectable by copyright are “works made for hire,” pursuant to the United States Copyright Act (17 U.S.C., Section 101) and are consequently owned by and hereby assigned to Employer. (iv) Executive agrees that she will (A) execute and deliver to Employer such applications, assignments, patent applications, copyright registrations and other documents as Employer may request in order to apply for and obtain patents or other registrations with respect to any Invention in the United States and foreign jurisdictions, (B) sign all other papers necessary to carry out the obligations in clause (A); (C) give testimony and render any other assistance in support of Employer’s rights to any Invention; and (D) keep and maintain current written records of all of those Inventions during Executive’s employment with Employer.

Assignment of Invention. (i) During Executive’s employment with Employer, Executive shall promptly and fully inform and disclose to Employer and does hereby assign to Employer all Executive’s right, title and interest in and to any and all ideas, inventions, engineering plans, original works of authorship, developments, concepts, improvements, designs, trademarks, trade secrets, computer programs and discoveries, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar laws, which Executive may solely or jointly conceive or develop or reduce to practice or cause to be conceived or developed or reduced to practice (collectively, the “Inventions”), during Executive’s employment with Employer (whether during business hours or otherwise whether outside the premises of Employer or otherwise) and which directly or indirectly are related to the business or Confidential Information of Employer. (ii) . Executive recognizes that all Inventions, conceived or made by Executive, either alone or jointly with others within the twenty-four months after termination of employment with Employer (voluntary or otherwise), are likely to have been conceived in significant part either while employed by Employer or as a result of knowledge Executive had of the Confidential Information. Accordingly, Executive agrees that such Inventions shall be presumed to have been conceived during Executive’s employment. (iii) . Executive acknowledges that all original works of authorship which are made by Executives Executive (solely or jointly with others) within the scope of such employment with Employer or related to the business of Employer and which are protectable by copyright are “works made for hire,” pursuant to the United States Copyright Act (17 U.S.C., Section 101) and are consequently owned by and hereby assigned to Employer. (iv) . Executive agrees that she he will (A) execute and deliver to Employer such applications, assignments, patent applications, copyright registrations and other documents as Employer may request in order to apply for and obtain patents or other registrations with respect to any Invention in the United States and foreign jurisdictions, (B) sign all other papers necessary to carry out the obligations in clause (A); (C) give testimony and render any other assistance in support of Employer’s rights to any Invention; and (D) keep and maintain current written records of all of those Inventions during Executive’s employment with Employer.