definiens: means any new and useful composition of matter, process, product by process, machine or manufacture, including without limitation, software or an arrangement or collection of data, or any new and useful improvement thereof, whether or not patentable, which has been or is discovered, conceived, developed or first reduced to practice by employees or others acting on behalf of Lexicon or its Affiliates ( either solely or jointly with others ), or by employees or otA .. ~rs acting on behalf of [COMPANY] or its Affiliates ( either solely or jointly with others ), throug ~ se of the LexVision Database, the OmniBank Library, the OmniBank Database, an OST, a Mutant Mouse or Progeny .. lEj 1.25 means any new and useful composition of matter, process, product by process, machine or manufacture, including without limitation, software or an arrangement or collection of data, or any new and useful improvement thereof, whether or not patentable, hereafter discovered, conceived, made, developed or reduced to practice jointly by 4 employees or others acting on behalf of [COMPANY] or its Affiliates, together with employees or others acting on behalf of Lexicon or its Affiliates, througb(lfuse of the LexVision Database, the OmniBank Library, the OmniBank Database, an OST, a Mutant Mouse or Progeny, J~·J 1.26 means ( i ) any United States and foreign patent applications, including without limitation provisional patent applications, hereafter owned, in whole or in part, by Lexicon or [COMPANY] or having legal force in any country, which claim a Joint Invention, ( ii ) any United States patents and foreign patents issuing from such patent applications and ( iii ) any substitutions, renewals, continuations, continuations - in - part, divisionals, reissues, reexaminations or extensions of any of the foregoing