Right to review and comment. For purposes of this Article 4, references to the right of review and comment shall mean in each case that, with the exception of Amunix Listed Patents, for which Amunix will, except as otherwise explicitly provided in this Agreement, have no obligations to consult with Naia regarding prosecution, the Party in control of prosecution of a Product-specific Patent shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to consult with the other party in good faith regarding the preparation, filing, prosecution, and maintenance of the applicable Patents. Without limiting the foregoing, with respect to each Product-specific Patent for which a Party or its Affiliate (or a Sublicensee, as applicable pursuant to Section 4.2(e)) has prosecution control, such Party or its Affiliate (or such Sublicensee, as applicable pursuant to Section 4.2(e)) will timely provide the other Party with a copy of any proposed patent application and any proposed response or submission to any patent office at least twenty (20) business days prior to the filing or response deadline and will consider in good faith all comments made by the other Party with respect to such draft response or submission. To that end, each Party and its Affiliates (and Sublicensees, as applicable pursuant to Section 4.2(e)) will keep the other Party reasonably informed of the status of the applicable Product-specific Patents, including, without limitation: (A) by providing the other Party with copies of all material communications received from or filed in patent office(s), or received from or sent to foreign attorneys, with respect to such filing, and (B) by providing the other Party, a reasonable time, but in any event not less than twenty (20) business days, prior to taking or failing to take any action that would materially affect the pendency of any such filing, with prior written notice of such proposed action or inaction so that the other Party has a reasonable opportunity to review and comment. In furtherance of the foregoing requirements, each Party and its Affiliates (and Sublicensees, as applicable pursuant to Section 4.2(e)) shall itself, or shall instruct and use reasonable efforts to ensure that its outside patent counsel, promptly forward to the other Party a copy of all correspondence received from or sent to any patent office relating to the Product Specific Patents for which the other Party has a right of review and comment, and each Party and its Affiliates (and Sublicensees, as applicable pursuant to Section 4.2(e)) each agree to enter into a reasonable commonality of interest agreement if deemed advisable by either Party’s patent counsel.
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Right to review and comment. For purposes of this Article 4, references to the right of review and comment shall mean in each case that, with the exception of Amunix Listed Patents, for which Amunix will, except as otherwise explicitly provided in this Agreement, have no obligations to consult with Naia regarding prosecution, the Party in control of prosecution of a Product-specific Patent shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to consult with the other party Party in good faith regarding the preparation, filing, prosecution, and maintenance of the applicable Patents. Without limiting the foregoing, with respect to each Product-specific Patent for which a Party or its Affiliate (or a Sublicensee, as applicable pursuant to Section 4.2(e)) has prosecution control, such Party or its Affiliate (or such Sublicensee, as applicable pursuant to Section 4.2(e)) will timely provide the other Party with a copy of any proposed patent application and any proposed response or submission to any patent office at least twenty (20) business days prior to the filing or response deadline and will consider in good faith all comments made by the other Party with respect to such draft response or submission. To that end, each Party and its Affiliates (and Sublicensees, as applicable pursuant to Section 4.2(e)) will keep the other Party reasonably informed of the status of the applicable Product-specific Patents, including, without limitation: (A) by providing the other Party with copies of all material communications received from or filed in patent office(s), or received from or sent to foreign attorneys, with respect to such filing, and (B) by providing the other Party, a reasonable time, but in any event not less than twenty (20) business days, prior to taking or failing to take any action that would materially affect the pendency of any such filing, with prior written notice of such proposed action or inaction so that the other Party has a reasonable opportunity to review and comment. In furtherance of the foregoing requirements, each Party and its Affiliates (and Sublicensees, as applicable pursuant to Section 4.2(e)) shall itself, or shall instruct and use reasonable efforts to ensure that its outside patent counsel, promptly forward to the other Party a copy of all correspondence received from or sent to any patent office relating to the Product Specific Product-specific Patents for which the other Party has a right of review and comment, and each Party and its Affiliates (and Sublicensees, as applicable pursuant to Section 4.2(e)) each agree to enter into a reasonable commonality of interest agreement if deemed advisable by either Party’s patent counsel.
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