Common use of Patent Management Clause in Contracts

Patent Management. (a) CSIRO shall be solely responsible for the prosecution and maintenance of all of the Patents and Patent Applications. CSIRO’s unfettered right to conduct the prosecution, maintenance and management of the Patents and Patent Applications shall include the following: (i) the right to appoint, remove and instruct patent attorneys; (ii) the right to draft or procure the drafting of patent specifications; (iii) the right to prepare or procure the filing of patent applications; (iv) the right to conduct or procure the conduct of patent prosecutions; (v) the right to conduct or procure the conduct of opposition proceedings and to defend opposition proceedings; (vi) the right to abandon all or part of any claim or part of a specification, or to amend any claim of any of the patents or patent applications comprised in the Patents and Patent Applications; and (vii) the right to have Benitec Australia sign within 10 Business Days upon request any form or document reasonably necessary to conduct the prosecution, maintenance and management of the Patents and Patent Applications; Licence Agreement 20 April ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ and Benitec Australia must provide all reasonable assistance to CSIRO’s taking of such action. (b) Subject to Benitec Australia’s compliance with the terms of this agreement, CSIRO will use reasonable endeavours to acquire and maintain the broadest patent protection reasonably practicable for the inventions claimed in the Relevant Patents, in the jurisdictions in which the Relevant Patents have been filed, for the longest term reasonably practicable.