“Intellectual Property” any and all (a) patents, all patent rights and all applications therefor and all reissues, reexaminations, continuations,continuations-in-part, divisions, and patent term extensions thereof, (b) inventions (whether patentable or not), improvements, discoveries, and industrial models, (c) registered and unregistered copyrights, copyright registrations and applications, author’s rights and works of authorship (including artwork of any kind, and software of all types in whatever medium, inclusive of computer programs, source code, object code and executable code, and related documentation), (d) domain names, web sites and any part thereof, (e) technical information,know-how, trade secrets, confidential information, drawings, designs, design protocols, specifications for parts and devices, quality assurance and control procedures, research data concerning historic and current research and development efforts, databases, proprietary data, books, records, ledgers, files, documents, correspondence, lists, drawings, and specifications, creative materials, advertising and promotional materials, studies, reports, and other printed or written materials; (f) trade names, trade dress, trademarks, service marks, and registrations and applications therefor, and (g) the goodwill of the business symbolized or represented by the foregoing, customer lists and other proprietary information; (h) all other intellectual property rights and proprietary rights of any nature subsisting anywhere in the world; and (i) all copies and tangible embodiments (in whatever form or medium) of any of the foregoing.
“Interested Party” shall mean any Affiliate, Officer, director, supervisory board member, employee, or holder of any Equity Security of any Group Company, and any Affiliate or Associate of any of the foregoing.
“Investor Directors” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Shareholders Agreement.
“Investor” and “Investors” are defined in introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
“IPO” shall mean the initial public offering of the Ordinary Shares (or securities representing such Ordinary Shares) of the Company or as the case may be, the shares of the relevant entity resulting from any merger, reorganization or other arrangements made by the Company for the purposes of such public offering, which are offered directly, or indirectly by way of depository receipt, to the public on the Nasdaq Global Market System, the New York Stock Exchange, the Main Board or the Growth Enterprise Market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, or any other recognized regional or national securities exchange (excluding the National Equities Exchange and Quotations) acceptable to all the Investors.
“Key Employees” shall mean the individuals identified inSection 3.26 of the Disclosure Schedule, each a “Key Employee”.
References to “law” or “Law” shall include all applicable laws, regulations, rules and orders of any Governmental Authority, any common or customary law, constitution, code, ordinance, statute or other legislative measure and any regulation, rule, treaty, order, decree or judgment; and “lawful” shall be construed accordingly.
“Knowledge” shall mean, means, with respect to the Seller Parties, and that knowledge which should have been acquired by each such individual after making such due inquiry and exercising such due diligence as a prudent business person would have made or exercised in the management of his or her business affairs, including but not limited to due inquiry of all Officers, directors, employees, consultants and professional advisers (including attorneys, accountants and auditors) of the Group Companies who could reasonably be expected to have knowledge of the matters in question, and where any statement in the representations and warranties hereunder is expressed to be given or made to a Person’s Knowledge, or so far as a party is aware, or is qualified in some other manner having a similar effect, the statement shall be deemed to be supplemented by the additional statement that such party has made such due inquiry and due diligence.
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