8.9Optional Pre-Arbitration Negotiation Process. Before initiating any arbitration or proceeding, Consultant and the Company may agree to first attempt to negotiate any dispute, claim, or controversy between the parties informally for at least thirty (30) days. A party who intends to seek negotiation under this subsection must first send to the other a written Notice of Dispute (“Notice”). The Notice must (i) describe the nature and basis of the claim or dispute; and (ii) set forth the specific relief sought. All offers, promises, conduct and statements, whether oral or written, made in the course of the negotiation by any of the parties, their agents,
employees, and attorneys are confidential, privileged and inadmissible for any purpose, including impeachment, in arbitration or any other proceeding involving the parties, provided that evidence that is otherwise admissible or discoverable shall not be rendered inadmissible or non-discoverable as a result of its use in the negotiation.
8.10可分離性。 If any provision of this arbitration agreement or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable to any extent, that provision will, if possible, be construed as though more narrowly drawn, if a narrower construction would avoid that invalidity, illegality or unenforceability. If such a narrower construction is not possible, then that provision will, to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability, be severed, and the remainder of this arbitration agreement will not be affected thereby.
9.所有權。
9.1Consultant agrees that all inventions, products, designs, drawings, notes, documents, information, documentation, improvements, works of authorship, processes, techniques, know-how, algorithms, technical and business plans, specifications, hardware, circuits, computer languages, computer programs, databases, user interfaces, encoding techniques, and other materials or innovations of any kind that Consultant may make, conceive, develop or reduce to practice, alone or jointly with others, in connection with performing Services or that result from or that are related to such Services, whether or not they are eligible for patent, copyright, mask work, trade secret, trademark or other legal protection (collectively, “創新發明其他產品”,均屬公司所有。顧問亦同意將(或導致被指定人)及現在即完全地將所有發明和任何與所有發明有關的版權、專利、版圖權或其他智慧財產權,完全轉讓給公司。
2.放棄索賠。 顧問(對於顧問本人及顧問的繼承人、管理人、執行人、代理人和受讓人)特此完全並永久釋放、放棄、撤銷、並不起訴公司或任何相關或附屬實體,或其或其現任或前任母公司、高級職員、員工、董事、保險人、代理人、律師、福利計劃和受讓人,及前述一切的前身或繼承人(統稱“公司”被放棄方”), with respect to any and all claims, assertions of claims, debts, demands, actions, suits, expenses, attorneys’ fees, costs, damages and/or liabilities of any nature, type and description, known or unknown, at law or in equity, arising out of any fact or matter in any way connected with Consultant’s services to the Company (including employment and consulting services), the separation thereof, or any other related matter arising before the date Consultant signs this Supplemental Release. This release shall include but is not limited to any rights or claims under federal, state or local law (whether arising from statute, executive order, regulation, code, or constitution, or other source), including but not limited to claims arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Fair Labor Standards Act (to the extent subject to a waiver of this sort), the Equal Pay Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (“ADEA”), the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, the Occupational Safety and Health Act (“OSHA”), the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Workers Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act, the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the anti-retaliation provisions of the Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act of 2002 (also known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Report Consumer Protection Act), Cal-OSHA, the California Fair Employment & Housing Act, the California Labor Code, the California Government Code, the California Family Rights Act, the California Civil Code, the California Business & Professions Code, each as amended, rights to rehire and reemployment, and any and all common law claims, including claims sounding in tort or contract, claims for compensation, benefits, equity, or other remuneration or attorneys’ fees, costs or disbursements, claims for physical or emotional distress or injuries, claims for discrimination, harassment, retaliation, failure to accommodate, violation of public policy,