company projects, not only products and services

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@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ Cool? Then, by signing this Agreement, and as a condition of your employment, yo
 
    The Company also doesn't own IP excluded by laws such as those listed in Exhibit A. You acknowledge you have reviewed Exhibit A and have read those laws applicable to you.
 
-3. **License for your IP in Company projects.** If you include your own IP – such as IP you created prior to working for the Company – into a Company product or service, it's still yours, of course, but you grant the Company a non-exclusive, irrevocable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual, sublicensable, transferable, worldwide license to use it without restriction in any way or implementation, in modified form, or as is, by itself, or incorporated into another product or service ("License"). If you include your name in any project over which the Company would have rights under this Agreement, such as in a copyright notice or a comment in code or documentation, then the License covers the rights associated with that use of your name as well.
+3. **License for your IP in Company projects.** If you include your own IP – such as IP you created prior to working for the Company – into a Company project, it's still yours, of course, but you grant the Company a non-exclusive, irrevocable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual, sublicensable, transferable, worldwide license to use it without restriction in any way or implementation, in modified form, or as is, by itself, or incorporated into a product or service ("License"). If you include your name in any project over which the Company would have rights under this Agreement, such as in a copyright notice or a comment in code or documentation, then the License covers the rights associated with that use of your name as well.
 
-   The License also covers any IP that you create, or help create during the term of your employment or contract work, _outside the scope of your responsibilities as an employee or contractor_, but only if it meets one or more of these additional conditions: The IP (i) related to an existing or prospective Company product or service at the time you developed, invented, or created it, (ii) was developed for use by the Company, (iii) was developed or promoted with existing Company IP or with the Company's endorsement.
+   The License also covers any IP that you create, or help create during the term of your employment or contract work, _outside the scope of your responsibilities as an employee or contractor_, but only if it meets one or more of these additional conditions: The IP was (i) related to an existing or prospective Company project at the time you developed, invented, or created it, (ii) developed for use by the Company, or (iii) developed or promoted with existing Company IP or with the Company's endorsement.
 
 4. **Check with Legal on your contributions to non-Company projects.** The Company recognizes that you may be engaged in work that requires you to submit Company IP to entities other than the Company, such as open source projects used by the Company.  Please make sure that Legal is aware of what you're working on so that Legal can help with any licensing issues. If any project asks you to sign a contribution agreement, you should check with Legal before doing so. These agreements may be legally binding on the Company and so should be run through Legal first.