“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States.
“Government Support Laws” means, collectively, the CARES Act, the Consolidated Appropriations Act and the American Rescue Plan Act.
“Governmental Entity” means any national, federal, state, county municipal, local or foreign government, or other political subdivision thereof, any multinational organization or authority, any authority, agency, commission, or any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory, police, taxing or administrative functions, power or authority of or pertaining to government.
“group” has the meaning ascribed to in the Exchange Act, except where the context otherwise requires.
“Hazardous Substances” means any pollutant, chemical, substance, and any toxic, infectious, carcinogenic, reactive, corrosive, ignitable or flammable chemical, or chemical compound, or hazardous substance, material or waste, or any infectious agent or biological material, whether solid, liquid or gas, that is subject to regulation, control or remediation under any Environmental Laws, including any quantity of asbestos in any form, urea formaldehyde, PCBs, radon gas, mold, crude oil or any fraction thereof, all forms of natural gas, petroleum products or by-products or derivatives.
“HSR Act” means the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.
“Income Tax Losses” means the net amount of any income Taxes (including interest or penalties thereon and additions thereto) payable by, or assessed by a Governmental Entity on, any member of the Company Group, but shall not include any income Taxes (or interest or penalties thereon or additions thereto) imposed on amounts paid to the Company Group pursuant to Section 5.18(e).
“Independent Accountant” means an independent public accounting firm of international reputation as Parent and the Company shall mutually agree upon.
“Intellectual Property Rights” means, in any and all jurisdictions, (a) patents and patent applications and disclosures relating thereto (and any patents that issue as a result of those patent applications), and any renewals, reissues, reexaminations, extensions, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions and substitutions relating to any of the patents and patent applications, as well as all related foreign patent and patent applications that are counterparts to such patents and patent applications, (b) trademarks, service marks, trade dress, livery, logos, trade names, social media identifiers, and corporate names, whether registered or unregistered, and the goodwill associated therewith, together with any registrations and applications for registration thereof (collectively, “Trademarks”), (c) copyrights and rights under copyrights, whether registered or unregistered, including moral rights, and any registrations and applications for registration thereof, (d) rights in databases and data collections (including knowledge databases, customer lists and customer databases), (e) Trade Secrets, (f) URL and Internet domain name registrations and (g) any and all other similar proprietary rights whether now known or hereafter recognized, in each case of (a) – (g) whether registered or unregistered, and any applications for registration therefor.
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