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ARTICLE 5 - STEERING COMMITTEE 5.01 Each SPONSOR may assign one representative to serve as a member of the Steering Committee. The primary purpose of the Steering Committee is to provide a mechanism for communications between CONTRACTOR and SPONSORS. The Steering Committee will tentati vely meet annually on or about March 1 and at such other times as agreed by a simple majority of the Steering Committee members to review Program status and provide input to CONTRACTOR. All actions of the Steering Committee will require approval by a simple majority of all Steering Committee members. ARTICLE 6 -INVENTIONS 6.01 CONTRACTOR will promptly notify all SPONSORS of any inventions, discoveries, computer software, or improvements developed under this Progranl which it believes are potentially patentable or otherwise protectable. Upon request of EERC, each such disclosure may be reviewed by the Steering Committee at its next meeting. Upon affirmative vote of the Steering Committee, CONTRACTOR wiII prepare applications and seek coverage; the cost of acquiring such coverage will be an allowable expense under this Agreement. CONTRACTOR shall-retain the light to seek coverage at its own expense of any invention, discovery. computer software, 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, and as long as protection expenses are paid under this agreement. The right to practice 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 excluding inventions, discoveries, or improvements, 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 rights in such property against the federal government. 3