Provision Language
9. Intellectual Property
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9.3 Prosecution and Enforcement. Each Party will be responsible, at its own discretion and expense, for filing, maintaining, prosecuting, and defending its Intellectual Property Rights. Specifically, Atreca will be responsible for the filing, maintaining, prosecuting, and defending the Licensed Patents, provided that Atreca will provide the Gates MRI with a reasonable opportunity to comment upon any proposed Patent filings and prosecution strategies for the Licensed Patents in the Territory pertaining to the Licensed Products. Atreca will provide in a timely fashion (at least [***] weeks before submission) to the Gates MRI a draft version of all patent application filings and applicant responses to patent prosecution office actions, or other administrative proceedings that could substantively affect the scope of eventual patent rights, and consider any comments made by the Gates MRI in response thereof, in good faith. If Atreca decides at any time not to prosecute or maintain a Licensed Patent in any country in the Territory, Atreca will provide written notice of such decision to the Gates MRI, and the Gates MRI will have the right to assume the prosecution and maintenance of such Licensed Patent or take ownership of such Licensed Patent.