INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

It is anticipated that in the course of your duties you may make or discover intellectual property and in this respect you have a special obligation to further the interests of our Company.

Intellectual property includes patents, registered or unregistered trademarks and designs, utility models, copyrights, including design copyrights, applications for any of the foregoing and the right to apply for them in any part of the world, discoveries, creations, inventions or improvements upon or additions to an invention, confidential information, know-how and any research relating to the above, business names, whether registerable or not, moral rights and any similar rights in any country.

Subject to the provisions of the Patents Act 1977 and the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, if any time during your employment you make or discover or participate in the making or discovery of any intellectual property relating to or capable of being used in the business carried on by us, you must communicate the details forthwith to us and such intellectual property will be the absolute property of us. At our request and expense, you must give and supply all such information, data, drawings and assistance as may be necessary to enable us to exploit the intellectual property to best advantage, and must execute all documents and do such things as may be necessary or desirable for obtaining patent and other protection for the intellectual property in such parts of the world as may be specified us and for vesting the same in our Company or as we may direct.

You irrevocably appoint our Company in your name and on your behalf to sign and execute such instruments and do such things and generally to use your name for the purposes of giving to us (or our nominees) the full benefit of the provisions of this clause. A certificate in writing signed by us that an instrument or act falls within the authority conferred by this clause will be conclusive evidence that such is the case.

If while in the employment of our Company you make, or discover intellectual property which does not become the property of our Company then, subject to the provisions of the Patents Act 1977, we will have the right to acquire for ourselves or our nominee your right therein on fair and reasonable terms, to be agreed or settled by a single arbitrator appointed by the President of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators who shall adjudicate at our joint expense.

The rights and obligations arising under this clause will continue to have full force and effect after your employment has terminated and will be binding upon your representatives.

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