Ownership of work product clause samples

3. Ownership of Work Product. Consultant agrees that any and all Work Product (as defined below) will be the sole and exclusive property of Client. Consultant hereby irrevocably assigns to Client all right, title and interest worldwide in and to any deliverables specified in a Project Assignment (“Deliverables”), and to any ideas, concepts, processes, discoveries, developments, formulae, information, materials, improvements, designs, artwork, content, software programs, other copyrightable works, and any other work product created, conceived or developed by Consultant (whether alone or jointly with others) for Client during the term of this Agreement pursuant to the Project Assignment, including all copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property rights therein (the “Work Product”). Consultant retains no rights to use the Work Product and agrees not to challenge the validity of Client’s ownership of the Work Product. Consultant agrees to execute, at Client’s request and expense, all documents and other instruments necessary or desirable to confirm such assignment, including without limitation, the copyright assignment set forth as Exhibit B (“Assignment of Copyright”) and the patent assignment set forth as Exhibit C (“Assignment of Patent Application”). Consultant hereby irrevocably appoints Client as Consultant’s attorney-in-fact for the purpose of executing such documents on Consultant’s behalf, which appointment is coupled with an interest. Consultant will deliver any Deliverables in accordance with the applicable Project Assignment and disclose promptly in writing to Client all other Work Product.

3.Ownership of Work Product.Consultant hereby irrevocably assigns to Client all right, title and interest worldwide in and to any deliverables specified in the Project Assignment and to any ideas, concepts, processes, discoveries, developments, formulae, information, materials, improvements, designs, artwork, content, software programs, other copyrightable works, and any other work product created, conceived or developed by Consultant (whether alone or jointly with others, including employees or agents of Consultant) for Client during or before the term of this Agreement, including all copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property rights therein (collectively, the “Work Product”). Consultant retains no rights to use the Work Product and agrees not to challenge the validity of Client’s ownership of the Work Product.

5. Ownership of Work Product. To the extent Consultant creates any Work Product (as defined herein) in connection with the Services, Consultant hereby agrees that such Work Product shall be and remain the property of Travelers. “Work Product” shall mean all materials, data, works of authorship, concepts, presentations and reports in connection with Consultant’s performance of the Services, including, without limitation, all intellectual property rights therein. Consultant agrees that, to the full extent permitted under applicable law, all Work Product shall constitute “works made for hire” (as such term is defined in 17 U.S.C. §101) for Travelers. To the extent that any Work Product does not constitute a “work made for hire” for Travelers, Consultant hereby irrevocably assigns, transfers, and conveys (and agrees to assign, transfer, and convey, without further consideration) to Travelers, on a worldwide and perpetual basis, all right, title and interest in and to any and all Work Product, including all intellectual property rights therein. Consultant shall have no right to retain any Work Product following the termination or expiration of the Agreement.

c. Ownership of Work Product. All Work Product shall be considered work(s) made by Advisor for hire for Company and shall belong exclusively to Company and its designees. If by operation of law, any of the Work Product, including all related intellectual property rights, is not owned in its entirety by Company automatically upon creation thereof, then Advisor agrees to assign, and hereby assigns, to Company and its designees the ownership of such Work Product, including all related intellectual property rights. “Work Product” shall include, without limitation, any writings (including excel, power point, emails, etc.), programming, documentation, data compilations, reports, and any other media, materials, or other objects produced as a result of Advisor’s work or delivered by Advisor in the course of performing that work.

3.Ownership of Work Product. Consultant agrees that any and all Work Product (as defined below) shall be the sole and exclusive property of Client. Consultant hereby irrevocably assigns to Client all right, title and interest worldwide in and to any ideas, concepts, processes, discoveries, developments, formulae, information, materials, improvements, designs, artwork, content, software programs, other copyrightable works, and any other work product created, conceived or developed by Consultant (whether alone or jointly with others), for Client during the term of this Agreement, including all applicable copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and other applicable intellectual property rights therein (the “Work Product”). For the avoidance of doubt, Consultant and Client acknowledge and agree that “Work Product”, as used in this Agreement, shall specifically exclude any ideas, concepts, processes, discoveries, developments, formulae, information, materials, improvements, designs, artwork, content, software programs, other copyrightable works, and any other work product created, conceived or developed by Consultant for any entity other than Client, including, without limitation, [***], provided, in each case, that Consultant does not breach its obligations under Section5 below.Consultant retains no rights to use the Work Product following the term of this Agreement and agrees not to challenge the validity of Client’s ownership of the Work Product. Consultant agrees not to use or incorporate into Work Product any intellectual property developed by any third party or by Consultant other than in the course of performing the Services for Client. As requested by the Client, and only with respect to Work Product, Consultant shall take all steps reasonably necessary to assist the Client, at Client’s expense, in obtaining and enforcing in its own name rights to any such Work Product. Consultant’s obligation to assist the Client, at Client’s expense, shall continue beyond the termination of Consultant’s relationship with the Client.

7. Ownership of Work Product. The Parties agree that all work product, information or other materials created and developed by Consultant in connection with the performance of the Services under this Agreement and any resulting intellectual property rights (collectively, the “Work Product”) are the sole and exclusive property of Company. The Parties acknowledge that the Work Product shall, to the extent permitted by law, be considered a “work made for hire” within the definition of Section 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976, as amended, (the “Copyright Act”) and that Company is deemed to be the author and is the owner of all copyright and all other rights therein. If the work product is not deemed to be a “work made for hire” under the Copyright Act, then Consultant hereby assigns to Company all of Consultant’s rights, title and interest in and to the Work Product, including but not limited to all copyrights, publishing rights and rights to use, reproduce and otherwise exploit the Work Product in any and all formats, media, or all channels, whether now known or hereafter created.

5.Ownership of Work Product. All work product developed by Consultant, in whole or in part, either alone or jointly with others, during the Term and any subsequent renewal term, which may relate in any manner to the actual or anticipated business, work, research or development of the Company, or which result, to any extent, from the services performed by Consultant for the Company, or use of the Company’s Confidential Information (as defined below), will be the sole property of the Company.

5.Ownership of Work Product. Consultant hereby expressly acknowledges and agrees that any and all work product, software (in object code or source code form), improvements, inventions (whether patentable or not), enhancements, processes, methods, algorithms, techniques, concepts and other data or information made, conceived, developed reduced to practice or learned by Consultant, either alone or jointly with others, in connection with Consultant’s performance of the Services together with any and all intellectual property rights arising therefrom or related thereto, including, without limitation, any patent rights, copyrights, trademark rights or trade secrets, shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and Consultant hereby assigns to the Company any and all rights Consultant may have or acquire in the same, including, without limitation, any and all such intellectual property rights.

B.Ownership of Work Product. Section8.5 (Ownership of Work Product) of the Employment Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference in this Agreement, mutatis mutandis, and shall apply during the Term such that if Contractor conceives creates, designs, develops, or contributes any work product in the course of providing Services during the Term that would have been a “Work Product” (as defined in the Employment Agreement) if Contractor had conceived, created, designed, developed, or contributed such work product during the term of the Employment Agreement, then any such work product shall be deemed a “Work Product” (as defined in the Employment Agreement) and the provision in Section8.5 of the Employment Agreement shall apply to such work product.

5.1Ownership of Work Product. The product of the Services provided by the Consultant under this Agreement (“Work Product”) will be the sole and exclusive property of the Corporation. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Corporation will be the sole owner of all rights in and to the Work Product including patents, trade secret rights, copyright and other proprietary rights, whether or not those rights are now existing or come into existence hereafter and whether those rights are now known, recognized or contemplated. The Consultant will not, upon completion of the Services, retain copies of any kind of the Work Product. The Consultant will keep the Work Product strictly confidential and will not be entitled to sell, or otherwise transfer, the Work Product to any third party or make any use whatsoever of the Work Product.

Ownership of Work Product. Advisor will communicate in writing and disclose to the Company promptly and fully all concepts, inventions, formulae, molecules, organisms, trade secrets, know-how, technical or business innovations, writings or other works of authorship and patents or patent rights created, reduced to practice, or conceived by Advisor (whether or not patentable or copyrightable and whether made solely by Advisor or jointly with others), which result from the Services that Advisor performs for the Company or which result from use of Confidential Information (along with all patent, copyright and other proprietary rights arising therefrom, collectively the "Works").