Ownership and Rights to Inventions and Technology Sample Clauses

The "Ownership and Rights to Inventions and Technology" clause defines who holds the legal rights to inventions, discoveries, or technological developments created during the course of a project or employment. Typically, this clause specifies whether such intellectual property belongs to the employer, the contractor, or the individual inventor, and may outline procedures for disclosing inventions and assigning rights. Its core function is to prevent disputes over intellectual property ownership by clearly allocating rights and responsibilities, ensuring all parties understand who controls and benefits from new technologies or inventions developed under the agreement.
Ownership and Rights to Inventions and Technology. All inventions, technology and information, whether patentable or not (other than those described in Section 2.16(a), which shall be owned by Hollister-Stier pursuant to Section 2.16(a)), conceived, reduced to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ated by either party and/or its agents during the performance of this Agreement ("Program Technology"), shall be owned by the Client; provided, however, to the extent that any such invention relates to production processes not related to the manufacture of Product, the Client shall grant and hereby grants to Hollister-Stier a royalty-free, non-exclusive, world-wide, irrevocab▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇ractice such Program Technology in facilities owned, operated, licensed, rented or otherwise controlled by Hollister-Stier. Client shall be responsible for the costs of filing, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇nd maintenance for patents and patent applications on Program Technology and shall have full control over such filing, provided that the decision to proceed with any such filing shall be solely at the discretion of the Client.
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Ownership and Rights to Inventions and Technology. Ownership of all inventions, technology and information, whether patentable or not (other than those described in Section 14.1, and 14.2 which shall be owned by Catalytica and Customer, respectively), shall be as follows: owned by Customer, if conceived, reduced to practice or created solely by Customer and/or its agents during the performance of this Agreement; or (b) owned by Catalytica, if conceived, reduced to practice or created solely by Catalytica and/or its agents during the performance of this Agreement; provided, however, Catalytica shall grant and hereby grants to Customer a royalty-free, non-exclusive, world-wide, irrevocable license to practice any such Catalytica-owned technology to manufacture the Product in Customer-owned or other facilities. If Catalytica's efforts under this Agreement result in inventions which are jointly owned by Catalytica and Customer because employees or agents for each of Catalytica and Customer make inventive contributions thereto, that is employees or agents of both Parties would be or are properly named as co-inventors under the laws of the United States on any patent application claiming such inventions, then each Party shall have full rights to exploit such jointly owned inventions for its own commercial purposes without any obligation to the other Party. Catalytica shall be responsible for the costs of filing, prosecution and maintenance for patents and patent applications on Catalytica's owned technology and inventions and the Parties shall share equally the patenting costs of any jointly owned inventions. In this regard, any decision to file for patent coverage on jointly owned inventions, shall be mutually agreed upon, and the Parties will select a mutually acceptable patent counsel to file and prosecute applications based on such joint inventions. ARTICLE 15 FORCE MAJEURE
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Ownership and Rights to Inventions and Technology. All inventions, technology and information (other than those described in Sections 5.1 and 5.3 above), whether or not patentable, that are conceived, reduced to practice or created solely by *** and/or its agents during the performance of ***’s obligations under this Agreement: (A) will be and remain the exclusive property of SuperGen, as and to the extent exclusively related to the Product, Deliverables, Documentation, Product Information, or SuperGen Materials (the “SuperGen Inventions”); and (B) will be and remain the exclusive property by ***, if the same are not included in clause (A) above (the “*** Inventions”). All inventions, technology and information (other than those described in Sections 5.1 and 5.3 above), whether or not patentable, that are conceived, reduced to practice or created jointly by *** and SuperGen (“Joint Inventions”) will, subject to the provisions of this Section 5.4 below, be jointly owned by *** and SuperGen and each Party will have the full right to exploit such Joint Inventions for any and all purposes without any obligation to the other Party. Each Party will be responsible, at its expense, for the filing, prosecution and maintenance for patents and patent applications claiming its respective solely-owned Inventions (i.e., SuperGen for the SuperGen Inventions and *** for the *** Inventions). SuperGen shall have the first right to pursue patent protection for Joint Inventions and *** agrees to take reasonable actions to cooperate with SuperGen in this regard. SuperGen will notify *** before pursuing any such patent application and *** will have a reasonable period, not greater than thirty (30) days to advise SuperGen in writing whether *** intends to participate in the prosecution of such patent application. If *** so elects to participate in such prosecution, then *** will reimburse SuperGen for one-half (½) of SuperGen’s out-of-pocket expenses in connection with such activities as they are incurred. If *** so elects not to participate in such prosecution, then *** will not be responsible for any costs under this Section 5.4 related to such prosecution, in which case all right, title and interest thereto shall be owned by SuperGen (subject to the rights granted to *** under this Agreement, if applicable) and the same shall thereafter not be a Joint Invention for purposes of this Agreement. If SuperGen fails or declines to take such actions with respect to any Joint Inventions in accordance with this Section 5.4, then *** s...
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