“Indemnifying Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.4(a).
“Independent Accounting Firm” means Deloitte; provided, that in the event that the designated Independent Accounting Firm refuses to accept the appointment provided for hereunder, Seller and Buyer shall jointly appoint a mutually acceptable replacement independent, nationally recognized accounting firm to serve in the capacity of the Independent Accounting Firm.
“Infringement”, “Infringe”, or “Infringing” means that a given item or activity directly or indirectly infringes, misappropriates, dilutes, constitutes unauthorized use of, or otherwise violates the Intellectual Property of, any Person.
“Intellectual Property” means all intellectual property rights and other similar proprietary rights, whether protected, created or arising under the Laws of the United States or any other jurisdiction worldwide, including all rights in and to (a) patents, patent applications, utility models, and applications for utility models, including all continuations, divisionals, continuations-in-part, foreign counterparts, supplemental protection certificates, continuing patent applications, provisionals, and issuances of any of the foregoing, and all reissues, reexaminations, substitutions, renewals, extensions and related priority rights of any of the foregoing, any counterparts claiming priority therefrom, and all pending and abandoned patent applications to which any of the foregoing claim priority (“Patents”), (b) trademarks, service marks and trade names (registered and unregistered), certification marks, logos, slogans, trade dress and brands, domain names or online or other electronic identifiers, social media names, tags or handles, service names, or other similar designations of source of origin, whether or not registered, together with all common law rights in any of the foregoing, all of the goodwill associated therewith, and registrations and applications to register any of the foregoing (collectively, “Trademarks”), (c) copyrights and all other rights with respect to works of authorship and copyrightable subject matter (including Software), and all registrations, applications, renewals, extensions and reversions of any of the foregoing, and (d) trade secrets and proprietary rights in non-public know-how and other confidential information (whether or not patentable) that derives economic value from being maintained as confidential and all other proprietary rights in ideas, inventions and invention disclosures, discoveries, formulas, processes or procedures, results, methods, designs, formulae, technical information, data, specifications, drawings, blueprints, designs, quality assurance and control procedures, design tools, simulation capability, manuals and technical information, financial, marketing and business data, pricing and cost information, business and marketing plans, customer and supplier lists and information, and all other know-how, whether or not protected or protectable by patent or copyright Law (“Know-How”).
“Intercompany Accounts” means any intercompany accounts, balances, payables, receivables or Indebtedness, including any amounts owing between Seller or its Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Company, on the other hand.
“Interests” with respect to any Person means shares, partnership interests, limited liability company interests or any other equity, ownership or voting interests or securities of any type in such Person.
“Interim Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1(a).
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