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Confidential and Proprietary Information
Confidential and Proprietary Information contract clause examples

Proprietary and Confidential Information. Employee acknowledges that as a consequence of his employment by Albany, proprietary and confidential information relating to the business of Albany may be or have been disclosed to or developed or acquired by Employee which is not generally known to the trade or the general public and which is of considerable value to Albany. Such information includes, without limitation, information about trade secrets, inventions, patents, licenses, research projects, costs, profits, markets, sales, customer lists, computer programs, records, and software; plans for future development, and any other information not available to the trade or the general public, including information obtained from or developed in conjunction with a third party that is subject to a confidentiality or similar agreement between Albany and such third party. Employee acknowledges and agrees that his relationship with Albany with respect to such information is and shall be fiduciary in nature. During the remainder of, and after, his employment by Albany, Employee shall not use such information for his own benefit, or for the benefit of any other employer or for any other purpose whatsoever other than the performance of his work for Albany, and Employee shall maintain all such information in confidence and shall not disclose any thereof to any person other than employees of Albany authorized to receive such information. This obligation is in addition to any similar obligations of Employee pursuant to the other agreements. Employee further agrees to return any property belonging to Albany at the end of his employment.

Confidential and Proprietary Information. CONSULTANT acknowledges that the post-employment terms of the Employee Invention Assignment and Confidentiality Agreement and any offer letter between and CONSULTANT that existed before this Agreement and any release agreement that may be entered into between and CONSULTANT, remain in full force and effect, specifically including the prohibitions against using or disclosing any of ’s trade secrets or proprietary and/or confidential information learned while employed by . CONSULTANT also acknowledges that during the Term, CONSULTANT will have access to and learn additional confidential information and/or trade secrets regarding the business of and its related entities, including, but not limited to, radiosurgery and radiation therapy devices, and various other business, financial, technical and employee information (collectively, “Confidential and Proprietary Information”).

Confidential and Proprietary Information. Neither Party shall use, copy, adapt, or disclose to third parties, except with the prior written consent of the other Party, other than as provided herein, any information belonging to the other including but not limited to: # information which is of a confidential nature about the business or administrative affairs of the other; # any item of Work which comes into the possession of a Party under or in respect of this Contract and which is of a confidential nature; and # any information or document identified as “Confidential”, “Proprietary” or similar designation (“Confidential Information”). Such information identified in this Article may only be used by the recipient Party in furtherance of the performance of this Contract and shall only be disclosed to employees, Consultants, contractors and/or subcontractors who have a need to be provided with such information and in the case of Consultants, contractors and/or subcontractors, who have undertakings containing confidentiality and use terms materially similar to those contained herein. Notwithstanding the aforesaid, this [Article 35.0] shall not restrict or limit any of the rights of Customer as set out in [Article 13.0], Data And Documentation Rights or [Article 14.0], Intellectual Property Rights; IP Indemnity.

Proprietary And Confidential Information. You shall at all times, including after any termination of your employment with the Company or any Related Company, preserve the confidentiality of all Proprietary Information (defined below) and trade secrets of the Company or any Related Company, and you shall not use for the benefit of yourself or any person, other than the Company or a Related Company, or disclose to any person, except and to the extent that disclosure of such information is authorized under applicable laws or regulations (e.g., “whistleblower” laws such as 18 USC 1833(b) described below), any Proprietary Information or trade secrets of the Company or any Related Company. “Proprietary Information” means any information or data related to the Company or any Related Company, including information entrusted to the Company or a Related Company by others, which has not been fully disclosed to the public by the Company or a Related Company, which is treated as confidential or otherwise protected within the Company or any Related Company or is of value to competitors, such as strategic or tactical business plans; undisclosed business, operational or financial data; ideas, processes, methods, techniques, systems, models, devices, programs, computer software, or related information; documents relating to regulatory matters or correspondence with governmental entities; information concerning any past, pending, or threatened legal dispute; pricing or cost data; the identity, reports or analyses of business prospects; business transactions (including those that are contemplated or planned); research data; personnel information or data; identities of suppliers to the Company or any Related Company or users or purchasers of the Company’s or Related Company’s products or services; the Agreement to which this Exhibit B is attached; and any other non-public information pertaining to or known by the Company or a Related Company, including confidential or non-public information of a third party that you know or should know the Company or a Related Company is obligated to protect. Section 18 USC 1833(b) provides that “An individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any Federal or State trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that—(A) is made—(i) in confidence to a Federal, State, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney; and # solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or # is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal.” Nothing in this Agreement is intended to conflict with 18 U.S.C. § 1833(b) or create liability for disclosures of trade secrets that are expressly allowed by 18 U.S.C. § 1833(b).

Proprietary Information. During the Employment Term and thereafter, Executive shall not, without the prior written consent of the Board, disclose or use for any purpose (except in the course of her employment under this Agreement and in furtherance of the business of the Company Entities) any confidential information or proprietary data of any Company Entity, including without limitation, any information or data regarding the Company’s results of operations, financial condition, financial methods, or the Company’s business methods, ideas, plans or strategies. As an express condition of Executive’s employment with the Company, Executive agrees to execute a Confidentiality and Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, and any such additional confidentiality agreements as requested by the Company.

Confidential Information. The Participant recognizes that by virtue of his or her service with the Company Group, he or she will be granted otherwise prohibited access to confidential information and proprietary data which are not known, and not readily accessible to the Company Group’s competitors. This information (the “Confidential Information”) includes, but is not limited to, identity of current and prospective customers; identity of key contacts at such customers; customers’ particularized preferences and needs; pricing, length and other terms of customer contracts; marketing strategies and plans; financial data; personnel data; compensation data; proprietary procedures and processes; and other unique and specialized practices, programs and plans of the Company Group and their respective customers and prospective customers. The Participant recognizes that this Confidential Information constitutes a valuable property of the Company Group, developed over a significant period of time and at substantial expense. Accordingly, the Participant agrees that he or she shall not, at any time during or after his or her service with the Company Group, divulge such Confidential Information or make use of it for his or her own purposes or the purposes of any person or entity other than the Company Group.

Confidential Information. Executive acknowledges that in the course of her employment with the Company, she has had access to Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” includes but is not limited to information not generally known to the public, in spoken, printed, electronic or any other form or medium relating directly or indirectly to: business processes, practices, policies, plans, documents, operations, services and strategies; contracts, transactions, and potential transactions; negotiations and pending negotiations; proprietary information, trade secrets and intellectual property; supplier and vendor agreements, strategies, plans and information; financial information and results, accounting information and records; legal strategies and information; marketing plans and strategies; pricing strategies; personnel information and staffing and succession planning practices and strategies; internal controls and security policies, strategies and procedures; and/or other confidential business information that she has learned, received or used at any time during her employment with Patterson whether or not such information has been previously identified as confidential or proprietary.

Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” shall mean all information relating to Company’s or Provider’s business or business plans, including but not limited to suppliers, customers, prospective customers, contractors, clinical data, the content and format of various clinical and medical databases, utilization data, cost and pricing data, disease management data, software products, programming techniques, data warehouse and methodologies, all proprietary information, know-how, trade secrets, technical and non-technical materials, products, specifications, processes, sales and marketing plans and strategies, designs, and any discussions and proceedings relating to any of the foregoing, whether disclosed in oral, electronic, visual, written or any other form, disclosed to the other Party. Confidential Information includes, without limitation, the terms and conditions of this Agreement and any SOW. Company shall own any Confidential Information generated by Company or Provider in the course of the Services, only to the extent such Confidential Information is entirely unique to Company or Company products, including but not limited to data regarding and use of Company products. Confidential Information shall not include information which is: # known to a Party or its Personnel which have been reduced to writing prior to disclosure by the Party and that are not subject to another obligation of secrecy; # hereafter lawfully obtained from other sources on a non-confidential basis; or # otherwise generally available to the public, absent any breach of this Section 11 by the Party.

Each Recipient agrees to use the Discloser’s Confidential Information only for the purposes of the Research Project and/or this Agreement, unless otherwise expressly agreed to in writing by the Discloser.

Confidential Information. Consultant agrees to hold the Company’s or Confidential Information in strict confidence and not to make the Company Proprietary or Confidential Information available in any form to any third party or to use it for any purpose other than as specified in this Agreement.

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