| (b) | Assignment of Intellectual Property. The Executive hereby assigns and hereby agrees to assign to the Company or its designees, without further consideration and free and clear of any lien or encumbrance, the Executive’s entire right, title and interest (within the United States and all foreign jurisdictions), to any and all inventions, discoveries, improvements, developments, works of authorship, concepts, ideas, plans, specifications, software, formulas, databases, designees, processes, techniques,know-how and contributions to Confidential Information, in each case, created, conceived, developed or reduced to practice by the Executive (alone or with others) during the Term which (i) are related to the Company’s current or anticipated business, activities, products, or services, (ii) result from any work performed by the Executive for the Company, or (iii) are created, conceived, developed or reduced to practice with the use of Company property, including any and all Intellectual Property Rights (as defined below) therein (collectively, “Work Product”). Any Work Product which falls within the definition of “work made for hire”, as such term is defined in the U.S. Copyright Act, shall be considered a “work made for hire”, the copyright in which vests initially and exclusively in the Company. The Executive hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any rights to be attributed as the author of any Work Product and any “droit morale” (moral rights) in Work Product. The Executive agrees to maintain adequate and current records (in the form of notes, sketches, drawings and in any other form that may be required by the Company) of all Work Product and shall immediately disclose to the Company all Work Product. For purposes of this Agreement, “Intellectual Property” shall mean , anywhere in the world, any patent (including design patents) and utility models of any kind, patent applications, including provisional applications, statutory invention registrations, inventions, discoveries and invention disclosures (whether or not patented), and all related continuations,continuation-in-part, divisions, reissues,re-examinations, substitutions, and extensions thereof, published and unpublished works of authorship whether or not copyrightable, including computer software programs, applications, source code and object code, computer formulas, designs, specifications, drawings, data, manuals and instructions and all customer and supplier lists, sales and financial information, business plans and forecasts, all technical solutions and the trade secrets of our company and databases, other compilations of information, manual and other documentation, in each case whether or not registered or sought to be registered, copyrights in and to the foregoing, together with all common law rights and moral rights therein, and any applications and registrations therefor, including extensions, renewals, restorations, reversions, derivatives, translations, localizations, adaptations and combinations of the above, trademark or service mark, trade names, symbols, logos, trade dress, packaging design, slogans, Internet domain names, uniform resource locators, any other similar identifiers of origin, in each case, whether or not registered, and any and all common law rights thereto, and registrations and applications for registration thereof and any goodwill associated therewith, trade secret,know-how, confidential or proprietary information, or any other intellectual property rights and/or proprietary rights protection legally available. |