Employee Invention

Employee Invention. Shall mean any idea, invention, technique, modification, process, or improvement (whether patentable or not), any industrial design (whether registerable or not), any mask work, however fixed or encoded, that is suitable to be fixed, embedded or programmed in a semiconductor product (whether recordable or not), and any work of authorship (whether or not copyright protection may be obtained for it) created, conceived, or developed by the Executive, either solely or in ... conjunction with others, during the Employment Period, or a period that includes a portion of the Employment Period, that relates in any way to, or is useful in any manner in, the business then being conducted or proposed to be conducted by the Employer, and any such item created by the Executive, either solely or in conjunction with others, following termination of the Executive's employment with the Employer, that is based upon or uses Confidential Information. View More

Employee Invention. Any idea, invention, technique, modification, process or improvement (whether patentable or not), any industrial design (whether registerable or not), and any work of authorship, publication (whether or not copyright protection may be obtained for it) created, conceived or developed by the Executive, either solely or in conjunction with others (including the Company and the Executive's other previous employers), during or before the Term, or during a period that includes a portion of the Term,... that relates to the business then being conducted or proposed to be conducted by the Company and any such item created by the Executive, either solely or in conjunction with others, following termination of the Executive's employment with the Company that is based upon, contains, consists of or uses Confidential Information. The Company will exclude items from the Employee Inventions that are not related to the present or proposed business of the Company or its Affiliates or that cannot be assigned under applicable state law, provided however that the Executive notifies the Company of the existence of any such item within ninety (90) days of its creation by the Executive. View More

Employee Invention. Means any idea, invention, technique, modification, process, or improvement (whether patent able or not), and any work of authorship (whether or not copyrights protection may be obtained for it) created, conceived, or developed by the Employee, either solely or in conjunction with others, during the Employment Period, or a period that includes a portion of the Employment Period, that relates in any way to, or is useful in any manner in, the business then being conducted or proposed to be... conducted by the Employer, and any such item created by the Employee, either solely or in conjunction with others, following termination of the Employee's employment with the Employer, that is based upon or uses Confidential Information; provided, however, that any item so created by the Employee that is based upon or uses Confidential Information that the Employee demonstrates was or became generally availabl e to the public, other than as a result of a disclose by the Employee, will not be deemed to be an Employee Invention for any purposes. View More

Employee Invention. Means any Technology, or part thereof, that was conceived, developed, reduced to practice, or created by the Employee: (a) within the scope of his/her employment with the Company from the Date of Hire or while an employee of Worthington Industries doing work for the benefit of Bluegentech, LLC; or (b) with the aid, assistance or use of any of Employer's property, equipment, facilities, supplies, resources, Confidential Information, or Intellectual Property; (c) the result of any work, services... or duties performed by Employee for Employer. View More