7. Ownership of Ideas, Copyrights and Patents .
(a) Property of the Company . All ideas, discoveries, creations, manuscripts and properties, innovations, improvements, know-how, inventions, designs, developments, apparatus, techniques, methods, biological processes, cell lines, laboratory notebooks and formulae (collectively the “Inventions”), whether patentable, copyrightable or not, which you may conceive, reduce to practice or develop while you are employed by the Company or using the Company’s property or resources, including any confidential information of the Company, alone or in conjunction with another or others, and whether at the request or upon the suggestion of the Company or otherwise, will be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and that you will not publish any of the Inventions without the prior written consent of the Company. You hereby assign to the Company all of your right, title and interest in and to all of the foregoing.
(b) Cooperation . At any time during your employment with the Company or after the termination of your employment with the Company for any reason or for no reason, you will fully cooperate with the Company and its attorneys and agents in the preparation and filing of all papers and other documents as may be required to perfect the Company’s rights in and to any of such Inventions, including, but not limited to, joining in any proceeding to obtain letters patent, copyrights, trademarks or other legal rights with respect to any such Inventions in the United States and in any and all other countries, provided that the Company will bear the expense of such proceedings, and that any patent or other legal right so issued to you personally will be assigned by you to the Company or its designee without charge by you. The Company will reimburse you for reasonable expenses incurred by you in connection with the performance of your obligations under this Section 7.
