investigating a suspected violation of law; and/or (ii) in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. Additionally, should Executive pursue legal action against the Company or any other Affiliated Company for retaliation based on the reporting of a suspected violation of law, Executive may disclose a trade secret to Executive’s attorney and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, so long as any document containing the trade secret is filed under seal and the individual does not disclose the trade secret except pursuant to court order. None of the Company or any of the other Affiliated Companies will retaliate against Executive in any way for the disclosure made in accordance with the law; however, Executive agrees to immediately notify the Company of such requirement and provide the Company with an opportunity to seek an appropriate protective order.
(e)Inventions. Having acknowledged the statements in Section 9(a), Executive hereby covenants and agrees that Executive will, without additional compensation, promptly make full written disclosure to the Company, and will hold in trust for the sole right and benefit of the Company all developments, original works of authorship, inventions, concepts, know-how, improvements, trade secrets, and similar proprietary rights, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar laws, which Executive may (or have previously) solely or jointly conceive or develop or reduce to practice, or cause to be conceived or developed or reduced to practice, whether or not during regular working hours, provided they either: (i) relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice to the business of the Company or any other Affiliated Company, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the Company or any other Affiliated Company; (ii) result from or relate to any work performed for the Company or any other Affiliated Company; or (iii) are developed through the use of equipment, supplies, or facilities of the Company or any other Affiliated Company, or any Confidential Information, or in consultation with personnel of the Company or any other Affiliated Company (collectively referred to as “Developments”). Executive further acknowledges that all Developments made by Executive (solely or jointly with others) are “works made for hire” (to the greatest extent permitted by applicable law) for which Executive is, in part, compensated by salary, unless regulated otherwise by law, but that, in the event any such Development is deemed not to be a work made for hire, Executive hereby assigns to the Company, or its designee, all Executive’s right, title, and interest throughout the world in and to any such Development. Executive hereby agrees to assist the Company, or its designee, at the Company’s expense, in every way to secure the rights of the Company or any other Affiliated Company in the Developments and any copyrights, patents, trademarks, service marks, database rights, domain names, mask work rights, moral rights, and other intellectual property rights relating thereto in any and all countries, including the disclosure to the Company of all pertinent information and data with respect thereto, the execution of all applications, specifications, oaths, assignments, recordations, and all other instruments that the Company shall deem necessary in order to apply for, obtain, maintain, and transfer such rights and in order to assign and convey to the Company or any other Affiliated Company the sole and exclusive right, title, and interest in and to such Developments, and any intellectual property and other proprietary rights relating thereto. Executive further agrees that Executive’s obligation to execute or cause to be executed, when it is in Executive’s power to do so, any such instrument or papers shall continue after the Date of Termination until the expiration of the last such intellectual property right to expire in any country of the world; provided,