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12. Inventions, Patents, Copyrights and Proprietary Information
Executive agrees that all inventions, works of authorship, trade
secrets, and proprietary information (including new contributions, improvements,
ideas, or discoveries), patentable or unpatentable, copyrightable or
uncopyrightable, conceived, made or first actually reduced to practice by him
solely or jointly with others during the period of his service with Company and
which are either related in any manner to the business (commercial or
experimental) of Company or of any of its subsidiaries, including product,
service, research and development fields in which Company or any of its
subsidiaries has been or is engaged or plans to engage, or to Executive's
employment activities, or are conceived, made or first reduced to practice in
whole or in part on Company time or with the use of Company facilities or
materials (except any invention which qualifies fully for exemption under
Section 2870 of the California Labor Code) shall belong to Company; provided
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that works of authorship concerning Executive or the electronics industry, and
any copyrights thereon, shall belong to Executive and Executive shall seek
authorization in writing pursuant to Section 11 for disclosure of any
confidential information contained therein. Executive further agrees that he
will:
(a) Promptly disclose such inventions, works of authorship, trade
secrets and proprietary information to Company;
(b) Notify Company of any invention which he claims qualifies for
exemption under Section 2870 of the California Labor Code and offer to disclose
such inventions to Company in confidence;
(c) Assign to Company, at its request and without additional
compensation, the entire rights to the inventions for the United States and all
foreign countries;
(d) Sign all papers within the truth, necessary to carry out the
above; and
(e) Give testimony (but without expense to Executive) in support of
his inventorship, idea or trade secret, or as otherwise reasonably deemed
necessary by counsel to Company.
Executive agrees to accept the compensation provided by this
Agreement as his sole compensation for the use, lease, sale or other transfer by
Company of any such inventions, works of authorship, trade secrets and
proprietary information or of any such patents obtained by it in such
inventions, works of authorship, trade secrets or proprietary information.
To the best of Executive's knowledge, there is no other contract to
assign inventions, works of authorship, patents, trade secrets, or other
proprietary information that is now in existence between him and any other
person, corporation or partnership, unless Executive has so indicated below, and
unless a copy of any such other contract is attached hereto.
13. Termination by Company
(a) Company shall have the right to terminate Executive's service
hereunder under the following circumstances:
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Source: ADVANCED MICRO DEVIC, 10-K405, March 20, 2001