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Covenant Not to Solicit
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Covenant Not to Solicit Customers. During the Restricted Period, within the Territory Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, individually or on behalf of any other person or entity (other than a member of the Bank Group), offer to provide banking services to any person, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other entity who is or was a customer of any member of the Bank Group during any part of the twelve (12) month period immediately prior to the Date of Termination.

Agreement Not To Solicit. Grantee hereby covenants and agrees that for a period commencing on the date hereof and ending twelve (12) months after the effective date of Grantee's termination of employment with the Company, Grantee, directly or indirectly, personally, or as an employee, officer, director, partner, member, owner, material shareholder, investor or principal of, or consultant or independent contractor with, another entity, shall not:

Covenant Not To Solicit Employees & Interfere With Business Relationships. At all times during Executive’s employment with McDonald’s and for a period of two (2) years following Executive’s termination for any reason, whether with or without cause, at the option of McDonald’s or Executive, and/or with or without notice, Executive agrees and covenants that Executive will not, on Executive’s own behalf or on behalf of any other person or entity # directly or indirectly, solicit for employment or assist in the solicitation of any “salaried” employee of McDonald’s, whether employed at the corporate office or in the field (including at McDonald’s restaurants); # provide to any prospective employer the identities of any of McDonald’s “salaried” employees; # assist any of McDonald’s “salaried” employees in obtaining employment with the Executive’s new employer through the dissemination of resumes or otherwise; # release names of any McDonald’s “salaried” employees to recruiters, headhunters or employment agencies and # directly or indirectly entice or induce any vendor, supplier, manufacturer, franchisee, consultant, independent contractor, service provider, or partner of McDonald’s to reduce, divert or curtail its relationship with McDonald’s. If, at any time during this two (2) year period, Executive contemplates extending an offer of employment, either directly or indirectly, to a McDonald’s “salaried” employee, Executive agrees to contact the Executive Vice President of Human Resources, or his/her successor, for approval before extending such an offer.

Agreement Not to Solicit Others. During the Restricted Period (defined below), Executive will not, directly or indirectly, solicit, request, advise or induce any then current customer, supplier or other business contact of the Company to cancel, curtail or otherwise adversely change its relationship with the Company, in any manner or capacity, including without limitation as a proprietor, principal, agent, partner, officer, director, stockholder, employee, member of any association, consultant or otherwise.

Agreement Not To Solicit Employees. During the Restricted Period, Executive will not directly or indirectly solicit or induce, or in any manner attempt to solicit or induce, any person employed by, or any agent of, Tenet or its subsidiaries (or who was within twelve (12) months prior to the Last Day Worked was so employed or engaged) to terminate such employee's employment or agency, as the case may be, with Tenet or its subsidiaries.

During the Non-Solicit Period, Seller and its Affiliates, on the one hand, and Buyer and Partnership and their respective Affiliates, on the other hand, each will not, directly or indirectly, in any manner (whether on its own account, or as an owner, operator, manager, consultant, officer, director, employee, investor, agent or otherwise), except with prior written consent from the other Party, hire or engage, or recruit, solicit or otherwise attempt to employ or engage, or enter into any business relationship with, any Person currently or formerly (within six months prior to the Closing Date) employed by, or providing consulting or other services to, with respect to Seller, the Buyer, the Partnership or any of their Affiliates, or, with respect to Buyer and the Partnership, Seller or any of its Affiliates, or induce or attempt to induce any Person to leave such employment, consulting or other services arrangement; provided, that nothing in this Section 4.5(a) shall prohibit Seller or Buyer (as the case may be) and their respective Affiliates from soliciting or hiring any Person pursuant to general solicitations of employment (not brought to the attention of such Person, directly or indirectly, by such Party or its Affiliates or their agents) or from soliciting or hiring any Person whose employment the other Party or its Affiliates has terminated involuntarily prior to the date of such solicitation or hire, other than as a result of actions by the Party making the solicitation or hire.

Covenant Not to Sue. Each Releasing Party hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably covenants and agrees with and in favor of each Releasee that it will not sue (at law, in equity, in any regulatory proceeding or otherwise) any Releasee on the basis of any Claim released, remised and discharged by any Releasing Party pursuant to [Section 8.6] above. If any Releasing Party violates the foregoing covenant, each Loan Party, for itself and its successors and assigns, and its present and former members, managers, shareholders, affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions, predecessors, directors, officers, attorneys, employees, agents, legal representatives and other representatives, agrees to pay, in addition to such other damages as any Releasee may sustain as a result of such violation, all attorneys' fees and costs incurred by any Releasee as a result of such violation.

Executive hereby acknowledges and recognizes the highly competitive nature of the business of Penns Woods, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and accordingly agrees that, during and for the applicable period set forth in [Section 7(c)], Executive shall not:

Covenant Not To Compete. At all times during Executive’s employment with McDonald’s and for a period of eighteen (18) months following Executive’s termination for any reason, whether with or without cause, at the option of McDonald’s or Executive, and/or with or without notice, Executive agrees and covenants that: # Executive shall not either directly or indirectly, alone or in conjunction with any other party or entity, perform any services, work or consulting for one or more Competitive Companies anywhere in the world. "Competitive Companies" shall mean any company in the ready-to-eat restaurant industry that competes with the business of [[McDonald's:Organization]], including any business in which [[McDonald's:Organization]] engaged during the term of Executive's employment and any business that [[McDonald's:Organization]] was actively considering conducting at the time of the Executive's termination of employment. Examples of Competitive Companies include, but are not limited to: YUM Brands, Inc. (including but not limited to Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken and all of YUM Brands, Inc.’s subsidiaries), Quick Service Restaurant Holdings (and all of its brands and subsidiaries), Burger King/Hungry Jacks, Wendy’s, Culver’s, In-N-Out Burger, Sonic, Hardee’s, Checker’s, Arby’s, Long John Silver’s, Jack-in-the-Box, Popeye’s Chicken, Chick-fil-A, Domino’s Pizza, Chipotle, Q-doba, Panera Bread, Papa John’s, Potbelly, Subway, Quiznos, Dunkin’ Brands, Seven-Eleven, Tim Horton’s, Starbucks, Jamba Juice, BoJangle’s, WaWa, Five Guys, Denny’s and their respective organizations, partnerships, ventures, sister companies, franchisees, affiliates or any organization in which they have an interest and which are involved in the ready-to-eat restaurant industry anywhere in the world, or which otherwise compete with [[McDonald's:Organization]]. Executive agrees to consult with the Executive Vice President of Human Resources, or his/her successor, for clarification as to whether or not McDonald’s views a prospective employer, consulting client or other business relationship of the Executive in the ready-to-eat industry not listed above as a Competitive Company; and # Executive shall not perform or provide, or assist any third party in performing or providing, Competitive Services anywhere in the world, whether directly or indirectly, as an employer, officer, director, owner, employee, partner or otherwise, of any person, entity, business, or enterprise. For the purposes of this restriction, “Competitive Services” means the design, development, manufacture, marketing or sale of a product, product line or service that competes with any product, product line or service of McDonald’s as they presently exist or as may be in existence or development on Executive’s termination date.

Covenant Not to Challenge. After the Effective Date and for so long as ’s license is in force, further covenants on behalf of itself and its Affiliates that, except as # required by law or # in defense of an action for infringing the Licensed Enzo Patent Rights brought against , its Affiliates or their respective Related Persons (direct or indirect) involving any Products or Covered Third Party Products, neither nor its Affiliates shall knowingly and voluntarily contest (or assist in the contest) in any forum, including Federal Courts, whether under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201-2202 or not, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and/or the International Trade Commission, that the Licensed Enzo Patent Rights are valid and enforceable; provided, however, nothing in this Agreement shall prevent or its Affiliates from complying with or responding to any court or governmental order or subpoena relating to the Licensed Enzo Patent Rights. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement will preclude and its Affiliates from making

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