Patent and Copyright Maintenance and Reimbursement Clause Samples
Patent and Copyright Maintenance and Reimbursement
NOTICE AND ASSISTANCE REGARDING PATENT AND COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT The provisions of this clause shall be applicable only if the amount of this Agreement exceeds $100,000. (a) The Contractor shall report to the Government through BSA promptly and in reasonable written detail, each notice or claim of patent or copyright infringement based on the performance of this Agreement of which the Contractor has knowledge. (b) In the event of any claim or suit against the Government on account of any alleged patent or copyright infringement arising out of the performance of this Agreement or out of the use of any supplies furnished or work or services performed hereunder, the Contractor shall furnish to the Government when requested by the Government or BSA, all evidence and information in possession of the Contractor pertaining to such suit or claim. Such evidence and information shall be furnished at the expense of the Government except where the Contractor has agreed to indemnify the Government or BSA. (c) This clause shall be included in all subcontracts.
PATENT AND COPYRIGHT INDEMNIFICATION a. The Contractor, at its expense, shall defend, indemnify, and hold DSHS harmless from and against any claims against DSHS that any Product or Work Product supplied hereunder, or DSHS’s use of the Product or Work Product within the terms of this Contract, infringes any patent, copyright, utility model, industrial design, mask work, trade secret, trademark, or other similar proprietary right of a third party worldwide. Product shall mean any Contractor-supplied equipment, Software, or documentation. The Contractor shall pay all costs of such defense and settlement and any penalties, costs, damages and attorneys’ fees awarded by a court or incurred by DSHS provided that DSHS: (1) Promptly notifies the Contractor in writing of the claim, but DSHS’s failure to provide timely notice shall only relieve the Contractor from its indemnification obligations if and to the extent such late notice prejudiced the defense or resulted in increased expense or loss to the Contractor; and (2) Cooperates with and agrees to use its best efforts to encourage the Office of the Attorney General of Washington to grant the Contractor sole control of the defense and all related settlement negotiations. b. If such claim has occurred, or in the Contractor’s opinion is likely to occur, DSHS agrees to permit the Contractor, at its option and expense, either to procure for DSHS the right to continue using the Product or Work Product or to replace or modify the same so that they become non-infringing and functionally equivalent. If use of the Product or Work Product is enjoined by a court and the Contractor determines that none of these alternatives is reasonably available, the Contractor, at its risk and expense, will take back the Product or Work Product and provide DSHS a refund. In the case of Work Product, the Contractor shall refund to DSHS the entire amount DSHS paid to the Contractor for the Contractor’s provision of the Work Product. In the case of Product, the Contractor shall refund to DSHS its depreciated value. No termination charges will be payable on such returned Product, and DSHS will pay only those charges that were payable prior to the date of such return. Depreciated value shall be calculated on the basis of a useful life of four (4) years commencing on the date of purchase and shall be an equal amount per year over said useful life. The depreciation for fractional parts of a year shall be prorated on the basis of three hundred sixty- five (365) days per year. In the event the Product has been installed less than one (1) year, all costs associated with the initial installation paid by DSHS shall be refunded by the Contractor. c. The Contractor has no liability for any claim of infringement arising solely from: (1) The Contractor’s compliance with any designs, specifications or instructions of DSHS; (2) Modification of the Product or Work Product by DSHS or a third party without the prior knowledge and approval of the Contractor; or (3) Use of the Product or Work Product in a way not specified by the Contractor; unless the claim arose against the Contractor’s Product or Work Product independently of any of these specified actions. d. This Section, Patent and Copyright Indemnification, is intended to survive the expiration or termination of the agreement.
Patent Maintenance All annuity and maintenance fees that are necessary in order to keep the Patents in force as of the Effective Date have been paid by Seller, and no payment of annuities or fees, or papers to be filed in patent offices, are required to be made within the three-month period after the Effective Date.
PATENT AND COPYRIGHT INDEMNITY CONTRACTOR represents that it knows of no allegations, claims, or threatened claims that the materials, services, hardware or software (“CONTRACTOR Products”) provided to COUNTY under this Agreement infringe any patent, copyright or other proprietary right. CONTRACTOR shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless COUNTY of, from and against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs expenses and amounts (collectively, “Losses”) arising out of or in connection with an assertion that any CONTRACTOR Products or the use thereof, infringe any patent, copyright or other proprietary right of any third party. a. COUNTY will: (1) notify CONTRACTOR promptly of such claim, suit or assertion; (2) permit CONTRACTOR to defend, compromise, or settle the claim; and, (3) provide, on a reasonable basis, information to enable CONTRACTOR to do so. CONTRACTOR shall not agree without COUNTY’s prior written consent, to any settlement, which would require COUNTY to pay money or perform some affirmative act in order to continue using the CONTRACTOR Products. b. If CONTRACTOR is obligated to defend COUNTY pursuant to this Section 38 and fails to do so after reasonable notice from COUNTY, COUNTY may defend itself and/or settle such proceeding, and CONTRACTOR shall pay to COUNTY any and all losses, damages and expenses (including attorney’s fees and costs) incurred in relationship with COUNTY’s defense and/or settlement of such proceeding. c. In the case of any such claim of infringement, CONTRACTOR shall either, at its option, (1) procure for COUNTY the right to continue using the CONTRACTOR Products; or (2) replace or modify the CONTRACTOR Products so that that they become non-infringing, but equivalent in functionality and performance. d. Notwithstanding this Section 38, COUNTY retains the right and ability to defend itself, at its own expense, against any claims that CONTRACTOR Products infringe any patent, copyright, or other intellectual property right.
Prosecution and Maintenance of Patent Rights (a) Subject to commercially appropriate and reasonable efforts (subject to oversight by the Advisory Committee), Genetronics shall at its own expense and by counsel of its own choice, file, prosecute and maintain all patent applications and patents within the Genetronics Patent Rights and any inventions conceived of and reduced to practice solely by its employees and agents hereunder. Genetronics shall do everything commercially appropriate and reasonable (subject to oversight by the Advisory Committee), including without limitation filing all documents and paying all fees to the appropriate patent offices to maintain the patents and pending patent applications in effect. Genetronics agrees to promptly provide Ethicon with copies of all correspondence to and from the patent offices related to the pending patent applications within the Genetronics Patent Rights. Ethicon shall have the right to provide comments to Genetronics regarding the content of such correspondence, and to comment thereon. Genetronics shall consider all such comments offered by Ethicon; provided, that all final decisions with respect to such prosecution shall rest solely in the discretion of Genetronics. In the event that Genetronics desires to abandon any such patent application or patent within the Genetronics Patent Rights, or if Genetronics later declines to prosecute or maintain any such patent application or patent, Genetronics shall provide reasonable prior written notice to Ethicon of such intention and Ethicon shall have the right, but not the obligation at its own expense, to file, prosecute, and maintain such patent application or patent, which Genetronics shall assign to Ethicon and shall no longer be subject to the terms of this Agreement. (b) The Advisory Committee shall determine which party shall be responsible for the filing, prosecution and maintenance of patent applications and patents within the Joint Patent Rights on a case by case basis, with the understanding that it is the parties' intent that Genetronics shall be initially responsible for the filing, prosecution and maintenance of patent applications and patents within the Joint Patent Rights related to the Drug Delivery System. In the event that a party responsible for the filing, prosecution and maintenance of any patent application or patent within the Joint Patent Rights desires to abandon such patent application or patent, or if such party later declines responsibility for such patent application or patent, such party shall provide reasonable prior written notice to the other party of its intention to abandon or decline responsibility, and the other party shall have the right, but not the obligation, to prepare, file, prosecute, and maintain any such patent application or patent within the Joint