Common use of Preferred Customer Status Clause in Contracts

Preferred Customer Status. 8.1 Except as provided by Clauses 8.2 and 8.3 Customer acknowledges that Customer Group shall not have any preferred status over and above Supplier’s other customers and/or customers of other members of the Supplier Group. 8.2 Supplier shall take all steps to offer, through the Change Control Procedure, to provide the Services from any Special Economic Zone or other tax preferential location or scheme which is reasonably available to Supplier provided that the use of such area or location or scheme will not result in or will reasonably not result in the tax benefits for either Customer or Supplier being reduced or extinguished. 8.3 Supplier agrees as follows: (A) Supplier shall procure that all Supplier Personnel shall be within performance levels 2-4 as defined by Supplier’s Performance Management Framework; (B) subject to clause 8.3(C), Supplier shall give Customer the right of first look in respect of any Generic Innovation and to the extent permitted by Applicable Law will not market or commercially exploit the Generic Innovation until Customer Table of Contents has had a reasonable time to determine if it wishes to use such Generic Innovation. Customer acknowledges that any right to use such Generic Innovation will be subject to such terms being agreed by the Parties through the Change Control Procedure and that any such right of use shall be on a non-exclusive basis unless otherwise agreed. To the extent that any Supplier Background IPR or Third Party IPR is embedded in or is an integral part of or otherwise needed to use the Generic Innovation, such Supplier Background IPR or Third Party IPR will be licensed on the terms of Clauses 30.14, 30.15, 30.16 and 30.18; (C) other than in respect of any Supplier Background IPR and/or Third Party IPR, Supplier hereby agrees to assign and (in respect of copyright and database rights owned by Supplier arising in the future) hereby assigns, and (in relation to any IPR owned by a member of Supplier Group or Sub-Contractor) to procure the assignment of, the whole legal and beneficial interest in all the IPRs in any Bespoke Innovation to Customer, at no additional charge; and (D) to the extent that any Supplier Background IPR and/or Third Party IPR is embedded in or is an integral part of and needed to use any Bespoke Innovation, such Supplier Background IPR and/or Third Party IPR as relevant shall be licensed to Customer and any Service Recipient in accordance with and/or on the terms of Clauses 30.13 and 30.19.