network configurations and architectures, methods, processes, proprietary information, protocols, schematics, specifications, technical data, Software, subroutines, techniques, user interfaces, URLs, domain names, web sites, works of authorship, documentation (including instruction manuals, samples, studies, and summaries), information, data, databases and data collections, any other forms of technology, and any goodwill associated with or symbolized by any of the foregoing, in each case whether or not embodied in any tangible form and including all tangible embodiments of any of the foregoing.
“Intellectual Property Rights” means and includes all past, present, and future rights of the following types, which may exist or be created under the laws of any jurisdiction worldwide: (a) rights associated with works of authorship, including exclusive exploitation rights, copyrights, design rights, and moral rights, (b) rights in information, data, databases and data collections, (c) trademark, trade name, service name, trade dress and service mark rights and similar rights, (d) trade secret rights, (e) patents and industrial property rights, (f) other proprietary rights in Intellectual Property of every kind and nature and (g) rights in or relating to registrations, renewals, extensions, combinations, reexaminations, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, and reissues of, and applications for, any of the rights referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above.
“Investor Questionnaire” means an accredited investor questionnaire in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F.
“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“Knowledge” means (a) with respect to any Acquired Company, the actual knowledge of each Founder and each Key Employee and the other Persons identified as such on Schedule 1.01(b), and the knowledge that each of such individuals should have obtained after reasonable inquiry of their direct reports with operational responsibility for the fact or matter in question and (b) with respect to Parent or its Subsidiaries, the actual knowledge of the Persons identified as such on Schedule 1.01(b), and the knowledge that each of such individuals should have obtained after reasonable inquiry of their direct reports with operational responsibility for the fact or matter in question.
“Liability” means any debt, obligation, duty or liability of any nature (including any unknown, undisclosed, unmatured, unaccrued, unasserted, contingent, indirect, conditional, implied, vicarious, derivative, joint, several or secondary liability), regardless of whether such debt, obligation, duty or liability would be required to be disclosed on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP and regardless of whether such debt, obligation, duty or liability is immediately due and payable.
“Lien” means any lien, pledge, hypothecation, charge, mortgage, security interest, encumbrance, claim, option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, license, or restriction of any nature (including any restriction on the voting of any security or restriction on the transfer, use or ownership of any security or other asset). For purposes of this Agreement, a Person shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any property or asset that it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement relating to such property or asset.
“Lock-up Agreement” means the lock-up agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G.
“Most Recent Parent Balance Sheet” shall mean the balance sheet of Parent as of January 31, 2021.
“Nasdaq” means the Nasdaq Global Select Market, any successor stock exchange operated by The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC or any successor thereto.
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