definiens: means ( i ) inventions, whether or not patentable, reduced to practice or made the subject of one or more pending patent applications, ( ii ) national and multinational statutory invention registrations, patents and patent applications ( including all reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations - in - part, extensions and reexaminations thereof ) registered or applied for in the United States and all other nations throughout the world, all improvements to the inventions disclosed in each such registration, patent or patent application, ( iii ) trademarks, service marks, trade dress, logos, domain names, trade names and corporate names ( whether or not registered ) in the United States and all other nations throughout the world, including all variations, derivations, combinations, registrations and applications for registration of the foregoing and all goodwill associated therewith, ( iv ) copyrights ( whether or not registered ) and registrations and applications for registration thereof in the United States and all other nations throughout the world, including all derivative works, moral rights, renewals, extensions, reversions or restorations associated with such copyrights, now or hereafter provided by law, regardless of the medium of fixation or means of expression, ( v ) computer software, ( including source code, object code, firmware, operating systems and specifications ), ( vi ) trade secrets and, whether or not confidential, business infonnation ( including pricing and cost infonnation, business and marketing plans and customer and supplier lists ) and know - how ( including manufacturing and production processes and techniques and research and development information ), ( vii ) industrial designs ( whether or not registered ), ( viii ) databases and data collections, ( ix ) copies and tangible embodiments of any of the foregoing, in whatever form or medium, ( x ) all rights to obtain and rights to apply for patents, and to register trademarks and copyrights, ( xi ) all rights in all of the foregoing provided by treaties, conventions and common law and ( xii ) all rights to sue or recover and retain damages and costs and attorneys ' fees for past, present and future infringement or misappropriation of any of the foregoing