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Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan
File No.: 33162-2000
Serial No.
Filing Date
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ASSIGNMENT
We, Clifford Gevirtz and Bennett Oppenheim, who reside respectively at:
627 West Street, Harrison, NY 10528 and 38 Avalon Drive, Montville, NJ 07045,
respectively, have made certain inventions or discoveries (or both) set forth in
an application for Letters Patent of the United States of America entitled:
METHODS AND COMPOSITION FOR MAINTAINING ABSTINENCE AFTER DETOXIFICATION OF A
PATIENT TREATED FOR OPIATE ADDICTION, which application was executed by us on
even date herewith,
and Ultramed International Inc., whose address is 1580 Lemoine Avenue, Suite 8,
Ft. Lee, NJ 07024, and which, together with its successors and assigns is
hereinafter called "Assignee," is desirous of acquiring the title, rights,
benefits and privileges hereinafter recited, and of confirming the same or any
part thereof heretofore acquired by Assignee.
Now, therefore, for valuable consideration furnished by Assignee to us,
receipt and sufficiency of which we hereby acknowledge, we hereby, without
reservation:
1. Assign and convey to and confirm in Assignee the entire right, title
and interest in and to said inventions and discoveries, said application for
Letters Patent of the United States of America, any and all other applications
for Letters Patent on said inventions and discoveries in whatsoever countries,
including all divisional, renewal, substitute, continuation and Convention
applications based in whole or in part upon said inventions or discoveries or
upon said applications, and any and all Letters Patent and reissues and
extensions of Letters Patent granted for said inventions and discoveries or upon
said applications, and every priority right that is or may be predicated upon or
arise from said inventions, said discoveries, said applications and said Letters
Patent;
2. Authorize Assignee to file patent applications in any or all
countries on any or all of said inventions and discoveries in our names or in
the name of Assignee or otherwise as Assignee may deem advisable, under the
International Convention or otherwise;
3. Authorize and request the Commissioner of Patents of the United
States of America and the empowered officials of all other governments to issue
or transfer all said Letters Patent to Assignee, as assignee of the entire
right, title and interest therein or otherwise as Assignee may direct;
4. Warrant that we have not knowingly conveyed to others any right in
said inventions, discoveries, applications or patents or any license to use the
same or to make, use or sell anything embodying or utilizing any of said
inventions or discoveries; and that we have good right to assign the same to
Assignee without encumbrance;
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5. Bind our heirs and legal representatives, as well as ourselves to
do, upon Assignee's request and at its expense, but without additional
consideration to us or them, all acts reasonably serving to assure that the said
inventions and discoveries, the said patent applications and the said Letters
Patent shall be held and enjoyed by Assignee as fully and entirely as the same
could have been held and enjoyed by us or our heirs or representatives if this
assignment had not been made; and particularly to execute and deliver to
Assignee all lawful application documents including petitions, specifications,
and oaths, and all assignments, disclaimers, and lawful affidavits in form and
substance as may be requested by Assignee; to communicate to Assignee all facts
known to us relating to said inventions and discoveries or the history thereof;
and to furnish Assignee with any and all documents, photographs, models, samples
and other physical exhibits in our control or in the control of our heirs or
legal representatives and which may be useful for establishing the facts of our
conceptions, disclosures, and reduction to practice of said inventions and
discoveries.
The effective date of this instrument is the ___ day of 1999.
In testimony of which we have affixed our signatures.
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State of )
) ss.:
County of )
On this day of 1997 before me appeared Clifford Gevirtz , to me known
and known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing
instrument and he acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed.
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NOTARY PUBLIC (OFFICIAL SEAL)
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State of )
) ss.:
County of )
On this day of 1997 before me appeared Bennett Oppenheim, to me known
and known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing
instrument and he acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed.
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NOTARY PUBLIC (OFFICIAL SEAL)
