Fillable Printable Intellectual Property Agreement for Use in California, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, and Washington
Fillable Printable Intellectual Property Agreement for Use in California, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, and Washington
Intellectual Property Agreement for Use in California, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, and Washington
INTELLECTUAL PRO PERTY AG REEMENT
For good and valuable consideration, including my employment or continuing
employment with Exxon Mobil Corporation (the "Company"), effective _____________
the Company and I agree:
1. Handling Information and Secrecy
. I recognize the critical importance of
proper handling of information held or used by the Company and its affiliates. I will
comply with applicable Company policies and procedures for managing and protecting
such information. I recognize that a business must frequently give its employees
confidential information from various sources and that employees develop confidential
information as part of their jobs. Confidential information can include virtually any kind
of information, including without limitation trade secrets, financial information, business
plans, investment opportunities, and personnel data. I agree that, except as required
by my job, I will never use or disclose, either during or after my employment,
confidential information held or used by the Company or its affiliates, including without
limitation information received in confidence from third parties, unless the information
has entered the public domain through proper means. I will never improperly use for
the benefit of or disclose to the Company or its affiliates any confidential information of
any of my prior employers or other third parties.
2. Work Products
. The Company will own the products of work related to
the business of the Company or its affiliates that I perform while I am an employee.
Such work products include all intellectual property that I develop, alone or jointly with
others. For example but not by way of limitation, th e Company will own the following
work products that I develop, alone or jointly with others, while I am employed by the
Company, and that relate to the business of the Company or its affiliates:
(a) all papers, reports, charts, drawings, data bases, computer files,
software, models and other tangible materials;
(b) the copyrights in all original works of authorship; and
(c) all inventions and discoveries, whether patentable or not, that I
conceive or reduce to practice.
The Company will own the work products described above regardless of
whether I develop them during or outside of regular working hours, or on or off
Company premises. However, the Company will not own my personal writings,
inventions, and discoveries that are not related to the business of the Company
or its affiliates.
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3. Disclosure and Protection of Inventions and Discoveries
. I will promptly
disclose to the Company all my inventions and discoveries described in Paragraph 2(c)
above. If the Company seeks patent protection on any of them, the provisions of
Schedule A will apply.
4. Transfer
. If I transfer to an affiliate of the Company, this Agreement will
automatically be assigned to that affiliate when I transfer.
5. Termination of Employment.
A. No Notice Required
. I recognize that I am an employee at will. I
may terminate my employment at any time and the Company may terminate my
employment at any time, with or without cause. If the Company terminates my
employment without cause with less than one month's notice, the Company will
pay me an amount equal to one month's salary.
B. Return of Property and Protection of Information
. At the end of
my employment I will return to the Company all Company property and all
proprietary documents and other proprietary materials that came into my
possession in the course of my employment. After my employment, I will
continue to honor all my obligations under Paragraph 1 above.
C. Establishing, Protecting and Enforcing Ri ghts to Work Products
. If
requested by the Company, after my employment I will assist the Company or its
nominees in establishing, protecting and enforcing their rights to the work
products referred to in Paragraph 2 above. In that event, the Company or its
nominees will reimburse me for my reasonable expenses and will pay me for my
actual time at a daily rate not less than the equivalent daily rate calculated from
my last wage or salary with the Company.
6. Effective Date and Prior Contracts
. This Agreement is effective the date
indicated in the first sentence of this Agreement. If I have previously entered into a
contract with the Company or an affiliate covering general obligations respecting
confidential information or work products, this Agreement will be effective the date
indicated above, but such prior contract will continue to govern events occurring before
the date indicated above.
7. Modifications and Severability
. This Agreement may not be changed
orally. If any provision of this Agreement is unenforceable for any reason, the
remaining provisions of the Agreement will continue in full force and effect.
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Employee Name: _____________________________
Employee Signature: _____________________________
Company Name: _____________________________
By: _____________________________
Title: _____________________________
Witness Name: _____________________________
Witness Signature: _____________________________
Date: _____________________________
Schedule A
Patents
A1. At the Company's request I will assist the Company or its nominee in perfecting
its formal title to each invention and discovery conceived or reduced to practice
by me, and in obtaining and enforcing patents on such invention and discovery.
I will execute and deliver to the Company or its nominee formal, written
assignments of each such invention and discovery.
A2. The Company or its nominee will pay me a one-time award of $1,000 when the
Company or its nominee first takes from me a written assignment of a specific
invention or discovery in connection with the filing of one or more patent
applications on such invention or discovery. The Company or its nominee will
pay me the $1,000 award only for the first such assignment, even if the
Company or its nominee takes additional assignments of the specific invention or
discovery, for example, for the purpose of filing multiple patent applications on
that invention or discovery.
A3. The magnitude of the $1,000 award to be paid to me will not be varied according
to the number of inventors, or the number of assignments, or the number of
patent applications filed, or the number of patents that issue on a given
invention or discovery. However, if the Company or its nominee subsequently
takes from me a written assignment of a related but different specific invention
or discovery, for example in connection with the filing of a divisional patent
application or continuation-in-part patent application, the Company or its
nominee will pay me an additional one-time award of $1,000.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AGREEMENT
NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES REGARDING
ASSIGNMENT OF INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES
Under applicable law, your agreement to assign inventions and discoveries to the
Company or its nominees does not apply to an invention or discovery that you develop
entirely on your own time without using the Company's equipment, supplies, facilities,
or trade secrets, except for those inventions and discoveries that either (1) relate at the
time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention or discovery to the business
of the Company or its affiliates, or (2) result from any work performed by you for the
Company or its affiliates.
Your agreement with the Company regarding your inventions and discoveries is
consistent with this law. Nevertheless, we are required by law to furnish you with a
copy of this notice, and we would appreciate you signing in the space provided below to
acknowledge receipt.
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Signature
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Name - Typed or Printed
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Date
For use in states of California, Illinois, K ansas, Minnesota, and Washington.
