3.18
Intellectual Property
;
Data Privacy and Technology
;
Information
Security
.
(a) For the purposes of this Agreement,
Intellectual Property Rights
means all rights anywhere in the
world in or to any intellectual property, including with respect to: (i) trademarks, service marks, trade dress, symbols, corporate names, brand names, d/b/as, logos and slogans, Internet domain names, social media accounts and other
indications of origin, the goodwill associated with the foregoing and registrations in any jurisdiction of, and applications in any jurisdiction to register, the foregoing, including any extension, modification or renewal of any such registration or
application; (ii) inventions, discoveries, and improvements, whether patentable or not, and patents, applications for patents (including divisions, continuations, continuations in part and renewal applications), invention disclosures and any
re-examinations,
continuations,
continuations-in-part,
divisionals, extensions or reissues thereof, in any jurisdiction;
(iii) trade secrets, proprietary or confidential information and
know-how;
(iv) published or unpublished works or authorship, whether copyrightable or not, copyrights and registrations or applications for
registration of copyrights in any jurisdiction, and any renewals or extensions thereof; and (v) software, databases and other compilations of information, including related documentation.
(b) As of the date of this Agreement, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries owns (in each case, free and clear of any material Liens other
than any Permitted Encumbrances) or otherwise has sufficient right to use Intellectual Property Rights used by the Company or such Subsidiaries, as applicable, in the conduct of its business as currently conducted, and all such rights shall survive
the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement unchanged, in each case, except as would not reasonably be likely to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on the Company (
provided
that
the foregoing shall not be read as a representation on
non-infringement).
(c) Except as would not
reasonably be likely, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, all Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and registered with, issued by, or the subject of a
pending application (whether for registration or issuance) with, any Governmental Entity (
Company Registered IP
) are subsisting and, to the knowledge of the Company, other than with respect to applications, valid and enforceable,
and none of the Company Registered IP is subject to any outstanding order, judgment or decree (other than routine office actions) adversely affecting the Companys or its Subsidiaries ownership or use of, or rights in or to, any such
Company Registered IP.
(d) Except as would not reasonably be likely, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse
Effect on the Company, the Company and its Subsidiaries, and the conduct of the Companys and its Subsidiaries businesses, including the development, manufacture, use, sale, commercialization or provision of the Companys and its
Subsidiaries products and services, do not and have not infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated within the past three (3) years the Intellectual Property Rights of any person. To the knowledge of the Company, except as would not
reasonably be likely, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, no person is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating any Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(e) As of the date of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written claims that
are still pending (i) alleging that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated the Intellectual Property Rights of any person, whether directly or indirectly or (ii) contesting or
challenging the use, validity, enforceability or ownership of any Intellectual Property Rights owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case, other than any such claim that, if determined adversely, would not
reasonably be likely, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company.
(f) Except as would not
reasonably be likely, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary uses or distributes any software licensed under an open source, copyleft,
public source or similar license in a manner that would require the Company or such Subsidiary (i) to disclose or make available any source code for its proprietary software to a third party or (ii) to limit the Companys
or such Subsidiarys ability to seek full compensation in connection with the marketing, licensing or distribution of any of its proprietary software.
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