Rights to Proprietary Property. The Consultant agrees that, except as the Company may otherwise expressly agree in writing, (i) the Consultant shall have no rights and shall acquire no rights to any Proprietary Property that comes, or has come, within the Consultant's knowledge or possession through or as a consequence of the Consultant's performance of services hereunder or prior to the effective time of this Agreement, and (ii) any information or other property that is, or has been, invented, created, discovered, written, developed, furnished or produced by the Consultant, solely or jointly, wholly or partly, while performing services for the Company hereunder or prior to the effective time of this Agreement or with information proprietary to the Company (the "Developments"), shall be the exclusive property of the Company, and the Consultant shall have no right, title or interest of any kind in and to the Developments, including any results or proceeds therefrom. The Consultant hereby sells, transfers and assigns to the Company all right, title and interest which the Consultant may be deemed to have in and to the Developments, including the right to patent, register copyrights for or obtain legal protection for the Developments, and agrees to communicate promptly and disclose to the Company, in such form as the Company requests, all information, details and data pertaining to any Developments. At any time during or subsequent to the term of this Agreement, upon the request and at the election and expense of the Company, the Consultant will patent, register copyrights for or obtain other legal protection for, or permit the Company to patent, register copyrights for or obtain other legal protection for, any Developments and execute any and all assignments, instruments of transfer, or other documents that the Company deems necessary or appropriate to transfer to the Company all rights in or to the Developments or to evidence the Company's ownership of such rights or any of them.
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Sources: Consulting Agreement (American Bankers Insurance Group Inc)
Rights to Proprietary Property. The Consultant agrees that, except as the Company may otherwise expressly agree in writing, (i) the Consultant shall have no rights and shall acquire no rights to any Proprietary Property that comes, or has come, within the Consultant's knowledge or possession through or as a consequence of the Consultant's performance of services hereunder or prior to the effective time of this Agreement, and (ii) any information or other property that is, or has been, invented, created, discovered, written, developed, furnished or produced by the Consultant, solely or jointly, wholly or partly, while performing services for the Company hereunder or prior to the effective time of this Agreement or with information proprietary to the Company (the "Developments"), shall be the exclusive property of the Company, and the Consultant shall have no right, title or interest of any kind in and to the Developments, including any results or proceeds therefrom. The Consultant hereby sells, transfers and assigns to the Company all right, title and interest which the Consultant may be deemed to have in and to the Developments, including the right to patent, register copyrights for for, or obtain legal protection for the Developments, and agrees to communicate promptly and disclose to the Company, in such form as the Company requests, all information, details and data pertaining to any Developments. At any time during or subsequent to the term of this Agreement, upon the request and at the election and expense of the Company, the Consultant will patent, register copyrights for or obtain other legal protection for, or permit the Company to patent, register copyrights for for, or obtain other legal protection for, any Developments and execute any and all assignments, instruments of transfer, or other documents that the Company deems necessary or appropriate to transfer to the Company all rights in or to the Developments or to evidence the Company's ownership of such rights in or to any of them.
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Sources: Consulting Agreement (American Bankers Insurance Group Inc)