Upon receipt of full and final payment of all amounts owed under the applicable Project Agreement, the Company assigns to the Client all rights, title, and interest in the custom deliverables specifically created for the Client under that engagement, including source code, designs, and documentation.
Notwithstanding the foregoing assignment, the Company retains perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free rights to: (a) use generic methodologies, frameworks, tools, and general programming techniques developed or employed during the engagement; (b) reuse non-Client-specific code modules, libraries, utilities, and architectural patterns in future projects; and (c) reference the existence of the project (but not its confidential details) for marketing and portfolio purposes, unless the Client explicitly objects in writing.
Until full payment is received, all intellectual property rights in all deliverables — including partially completed work — remain exclusively vested in the Company. The Client acquires no rights to use, reproduce, distribute, or modify any deliverable until full payment has cleared.
All pre-existing intellectual property of the Company, including proprietary frameworks, tools, libraries, and methodologies used in the delivery of services, remains the exclusive property of the Company. Where such pre-existing IP is incorporated into Client deliverables, the Company grants the Client a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to use such IP solely as embedded in the delivered product.
The Client warrants that all materials, data, content, and instructions provided to the Company do not infringe any third-party intellectual property rights. The Client shall indemnify and hold the Company harmless from any claims, losses, or damages arising from such infringement.