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9. The CONTRACTOR(S) is responsible for submitting any final payment request and documentation for reimbursement, along with a request to release any retained funds, no later than 120 days following the EXPIRATION DATE. Failure to submit a timely final payment request may result in the release of the retained funds to the CONTRACTOR(S) and a lapse and closure of any other remaining funding under this CONTRACT. ARTICLE V INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: OWNERSHIP, PUBLICATION, AND ACKNOWLEGEMENT 1. "For purposes of this Article, "CONTRACTOR(S) Works" are work products developed by CONTRACTOR(S) and subcontractors using funds provided under this CONTRACT or otherwise rendered in or related to the performance in whole or part of this CONTRACT, including but not limited to reports, drafts of reports, or other material, data, drawings, studies, analyses, notes, plans, computer programs and codes, or other work products, whether final or intermediate. a. It is agreed that all CONTRACTOR(S) Works shall be the joint property of the TWDB and CONTRACTOR(S). b. The parties hereby agree that, if recognized as such by applicable law, the CONTRACTOR(S) Works are intended to and shall be works- made - for -hire with joint ownership between the TWDB and CONTRACTOR(S) as such works are created in whole or part. C. If the CONTRACTOR(S) Works do not qualify as works- made - for -hire under applicable law, CONTRACTOR(S) hereby conveys co- ownership of such works to the TWDB as they are created in whole or part. If present conveyance is ineffective under applicable law, CONTRACTOR(S) agree to convey a co- ownership interest of the CONTRACTOR(S) Works to the TWDB after creation in whole or part of such works, and to provide written documentation of such conveyance upon request by the TWDB. d. The TWDB and CONTRACTOR(S) acknowledge that the copyright in and to a copyrightable CONTRACTOR(S) Works subsists upon creation of the CONTRACTOR(S) Works and its fixing in any tangible medium. CONTRACTOR(S) or the TWDB may register the copyrights to such Works jointly in the names of the CONTRACTOR(S) and the TWDB. e. The TWDB and CONTRACTOR(S) each shall have full and unrestricted rights to use a CONTRACTOR(S) Works with No Compensation Obligation. 2. For purposes of this Article, "Subcontractor Works" include all work product developed in whole or part by or on behalf of subcontractors engaged by CONTRACTOR(S) to perform work for or on behalf of any CONTRACTOR(S) under this CONTRACT (or by the subcontractors' subcontractors hereunder, and so on). CONTRACTOR(S) shall secure in writing from any subcontractors so engaged: a. Unlimited, unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty -free rights of the TWDB and, if desired, of the CONTRACTOR(S) to access and receive, and to use, any and all technical or other data or information developed in or resulting from the performance of services under such engagement, with No Compensation Section II, Page 6