Exhibit #: Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement

Proprietary Information and Invention Assignment Agreement.

Protection of CAE Proprietary Information.............................................................. 12

11.2Ownership and Use of Proprietary Information.

“Confidential Information” means the confidential and proprietary information within the Co-Owned Subject Matter.

As a Cytek employee, you will be expected to abide by Company rules and regulations and sign and comply with the Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement which prohibits unauthorized use or disclosure of Company proprietary information.

For purposes of this Agreement, “Confidential and Proprietary Information” shall mean non-public, confidential, and proprietary information provided to the Executive concerning, without limitation, the Company’s financial condition and/or results of operations, statistical data, products, ideas and concepts, strategic business plans, lists of customers or customer information, information relating to marketing plans, management development reviews, including information regarding the capabilities and experience of the Company’s employees, compensation, recruiting and training, and human resource policies and procedures, policy and procedure manuals, together with all materials and documents in any form or medium (including oral, written, tangible, intangible, or electronic) concerning any of the above, and other non-public, proprietary and confidential information of the Company; provided, however, that Confidential and Proprietary Information shall not include any information that is known generally to the public or within the industry other than as a result of unauthorized disclosure by the Executive. It is specifically understood and agreed by the Executive that any non-public information received by the Executive during Executive’s employment by the Company is deemed Confidential and Proprietary Information for purposes of this Agreement. In the event the Executive’s employment is terminated for any reason, the Executive shall immediately return to the Company upon request all Confidential and Proprietary Information in Executive’s possession or control.

Appropriate precautions to protect CAE proprietary information include:

Confidentiality and Proprietary Rights. The Company shall be entitled to cease all severance payments and benefits to Executive in the event of Executive’s material breach of

either of the Confidentiality and Proprietary Information, Inventions and Ethics Agreements (defined below). Executive and the Company have executed the Company’s Confidentiality and Proprietary Information, Inventions and Ethics Agreements, copies of which are attached to this Agreement as [Exhibit B] and [Exhibit C], respectively, and incorporated herein by reference (collectively, the “Confidentiality and Proprietary Rights Agreements”). Nothing in this Agreement or in the Confidentiality and Proprietary Rights Agreements shall be deemed to

restrict Executive’s right to communicate directly with, cooperate with, provide information to, or

During the Term, in connection with Employee’s employment with Company, Company promises to provide Employee with Proprietary Information in support of Employee’s employment duties. Except as Employee reasonably and in good faith determines to be required in the faithful performance of Employee’s duties hereunder or in accordance with [Section 5(f)], Employee shall, during the Term and after the Date of Termination, maintain in confidence and shall not directly or indirectly, use, disseminate, disclose or publish, or use for Employee’s benefit or the benefit of any person, firm, corporation or other entity, any confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets of or relating to Company, including, without limitation, information with respect to Company’s operations, processes, protocols, products, inventions, business practices, finances, principals, vendors, suppliers, customers, potential customers, marketing methods, costs, prices, contractual relationships, regulatory status, compensation paid to employees or other terms of employment (“Proprietary Information”), or deliver to any person, firm, corporation or other entity, any document, record, notebook, computer program or similar repository of or containing any such Proprietary Information. Employee’s obligation to maintain and not use, disseminate, disclose or publish, or use for Employee’s benefit or the benefit of any person, firm, corporation or other entity, any Proprietary Information after the Date of Termination will continue so long as such Proprietary Information is not, or has not by legitimate means become, generally known and in the public domain (other than by means of Employee’s direct or indirect disclosure of such Proprietary Information) and continues to be maintained as Proprietary Information by Company. The parties hereby stipulate and agree that as between them, the Proprietary Information identified herein is important, material and affects the successful conduct of the businesses of Company (and any successor or assignee of Company).