(c) Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights and Assistance. Any decisions as to the patenting, registration, protection, and/or exploitation of any and all of the Intellectual Property Rights that belong to the Company as agreed hereby or to which the Company is otherwise entitled, as well as any decisions as to the finalization of the Work Inventions, works and original materials created by me, shall be at the sole discretion of the Company.
(i) I hereby undertake during and following the termination of my employment to perform all the legal acts and to comply with all the formalities required by the relevant legislation of any country and/or European or international body, at the request of the Company, in order to obtain the full benefit rights in relation to any and all Intellectual Property Rights that belong to the Company as agreed hereby or to which the Company is otherwise entitled.
(ii) In the event Company is unable for any reason, after reasonable effort, to secure my signature on any document needed in connection with the actions specified in this paragraph, I hereby irrevocably designate and appoint Company and its duly authorized officers and agents as my agent and attorney in fact, which appointment is coupled with an interest, to act for and in my behalf to execute, verify and file any such documents and to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the purposes of the preceding paragraph with the same legal force and effect as if executed by me.
(iii) I agree that I will not incorporate any Work Inventions, Work Product, or other material owned by or in relation to which any other third party other than the Company has rights, into any of the Work Inventions, Work Product, or other material that belong to the Company, without the specific prior written approval of such.
(d) Maintenance of Records. I agree to keep and maintain adequate, current, accurate and authentic written records of all Work Inventions made by me (solely or jointly with others) during the term of my service to the Company. The records will be in the form of notes, sketches, drawings, electronic files, reports, or any other format that may be specified by the Company. The records are and will be available to and remain the sole property of the Company at all times.
(e) Exception to Assignments. I understand that the provisions of this Agreement requiring assignment of Work Inventions to the Company do not apply to any invention that qualifies fully under applicable state Specific Inventions Law. I will advise the Company promptly in writing of any Work Inventions that could in any way meet the criteria per applicable state law so that the Company may determine whether such Work Inventions do in fact qualify for exclusion from assignment to the Company. Information regarding Work Inventions that qualify fully under applicable state law will be received in confidence by the Company.
3. Returning Company Documents. I agree that, at the time of terminating my service to the Company, I will immediately deliver to the Company (and will not keep in my possession, recreate or deliver to anyone else) any and all Company Confidential Information, as well as all devices and equipment belonging to the Company (including computers, handheld electronic devices, telephone equipment, other electronic devices, and external hard drives or USB’s), Company credit cards, records, data, notes, reports, files, proposals, lists, correspondence, specifications, drawings blueprints, sketches, materials, photographs, charts, other documents or property, or reproductions of any aforementioned items developed by me pursuant to my service to the Company, obtained by me in connection with my service to the Company, or otherwise belonging to the Company, its successors or assigns, including, without limitation, those records maintained pursuant to Section 2.
4. Restricted Activities. For the purposes of this Agreement, the term “the Company” includes the Company and all other persons or entities that control, are controlled by or are under common control with the Company (“Affiliates”) and for whom I performed responsibilities or about whom I have Confidential Information.
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