Common use of Ideas and Inventions Clause in Contracts

Ideas and Inventions. I agree that all Confidential Information and all other discoveries, inventions, ideas, concepts, trademarks, service marks, logos, processes, computer programs or software, subroutines, source codes, object codes, algorithms, machines, apparatuses, items of manufacture or composition of matter, or any new uses therefor or improvements thereon, or any new designs or modifications or configurations of any kind, or work or authorship of any kind, including without limitation, compilations and derivative works, whether or not patentable or copyrightable, conceived, developed, reduced to practice or otherwise made by me, either alone or with others, and in any way related to the present or proposed products, programs, services or business of the Company or the tasks assigned to me during the course of my employment by the Company, during the period of my employment by the Company, whether or not conceived, developed, reduced to practice or made during my regular working hours or on the Company's premises (collectively "Inventions"), and any and all services and products which embody, emulate or employ any such Invention or Confidential Information shall be the sole property of the Company and all copyrights, patents, patent rights, trademarks and reproduction rights to, and other proprietary rights in, each such Invention or Confidential Information, whether or not patentable or copyrightable, shall belong exclusively to the Company. I agree that all such Inventions shall constitute works made for hire under the copyright laws of the United States and hereby assign and, to the extent any such assignment cannot be made at the present time, agree to assign, the Company any and all copyrights, patents and other proprietary rights I may have in any such Invention, together with the right to file and/or own wholly without restrictions applications for United States and foreign patents, trademark registration and copyright registration and any patent, or trademark or copyright registration issuing thereon.