Common use of PATENT FILINGS AND PROSECUTION Clause in Contracts

PATENT FILINGS AND PROSECUTION. ZGI shall have sole and exclusive ------------------------------ responsibility for protecting all ZGI Patents, including filing, prosecuting, and maintaining such ZGI Patents. ZGI shall be solely responsible for the costs associated with such filings, prosecution and maintenance and the jurisdictions in which patent protection is sought shall be within the sole discretion of ZGI. Likewise, NN shall have sole and exclusive responsibility for protecting all NN Patents, including filing, prosecuting, and maintaining such NN Patents. NN shall be solely responsible for the costs associated with such filings, prosecution and maintenance and the jurisdictions in which patent protection is sought shall be within the sole discretion of NN. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the licensor of a Commercialization License granted pursuant to ARTICLE 4 of this Agreement, at its option, may elect to assume full responsibility for filing [*] designates portions of this document that have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment filed separately with the Commission. prosecuting and maintaining the ZGI Patents or NN Patents so licensed, and the licensor shall pay the licensee's reasonable expenses to affect the transfer of responsibility.