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ARTICLE 6 - INVENTIONS 6.01 CONTRACTOR will promptly notify all SPONSORS of any inventions, discoveries, computer software, or improvements developed under this Program which it believes are potentially patentable or otherwise protectable. Each such disclosure will be reviewed by the Steering Committee at its next meeting. Upon affirmative vote of the Steering Committee, CONTRACTOR will prepare applications and seek coverage; the cost of acquiring such coverage will be an allowable expense under this Agreement. CONTRACTOR shall retain the right to seek coverage at its own expense of any invention, discovery, computer soRware, or improvement the Steering Committee does not vote to pursue. 6.02 Any and all inventions, discoveries, computer software, or improvements developed by CONTRACTOR under this Program will be the sole and exclusive property of CONTRACTOR, patentable or not. 6.03 Each SPONSOR shall have a nonexclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to practice for internal purposes any invention, discovery, or improvement conceived or made by CONTRACTOR as a result of this Program, whether patentable or not, and to contract with others to manufacture for SPONSOR's internal operations. The right to practice or manufacture for internal operations is not the right to practice or manufacture for commercial purposes by SPONSOR or in conjunction with others. 6.04 Each SPONSOR shall have a nonexclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to use for internal operations all Program work products, including, by way of illustration but without limitation, reports, databases, drawings, and other information and to copy, distribute, and prepare derivative works from such work products for purposes of its internal business. The right to use all Program work products and to copy, distribute, and prepare derivative works from such work products for internal purposes is not the right to use or manufacture for commercial purposes by SPONSOR or in conjunction with others. 6.05 SPONSOR is aware that CONTRACTOR may also receive federal funding for the Program and that CONTRACTOR's obligations to SPONSOR regarding intellectual property such as patents, data, and copyrights, may be secondary to CONTRACTOR's obligations to the federal government. Nothing in this Agreement prevents SPONSOR from asserting its fights in such property against the federal government. ARTICLE 7 - CONFIDENTIALITY 7.01 SPONSOR and. CONTRACTOR consider certain data, know-how, and other information (hereinafter referred to as Information) which may be disclosed between the Parties to be confidential and proprietary. 7.02 Any information that is intended to be confidential under this Agreement must qualify as confidential under the open records laws of the State of North Dakota. North Dakota law provides that trade secret, proprietary, commercial, and financial information is confidential if it is of a privileged nature and has not been previously publicly disclosed. Confidential Information shall include that Information which is disclosed by either Party and marked confidential. In the