Data Disclosing an Invention If the Parties exchange Data disclosing an invention for which patent protection is being considered, and the furnishing Party identifies the Data as such when providing it to the Receiving Party, the Receiving Party shall withhold it from public disclosure for a reasonable time (one (1) year unless otherwise agreed or the Data is restricted for a longer period herein).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Paperwork Reduction Act The collection of information in this final rule has been reviewed and, pending receipt and evaluation of public comments, approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under 44 U.S.C. 3507 and assigned control number 1545-1675. The collection of information in this regulation is in Sec. 1.860E-1(c)(5)(ii). This information is required to enable the IRS to verify that a taxpayer is complying with the conditions of this regulation. The collection of information is mandatory and is required. Otherwise, the taxpayer will not receive the benefit of safe harbor treatment as provided in the regulation. The likely respondents are businesses and other for-profit institutions. Comments on the collection of information should be sent to the Office of Management and Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for the Department of the Treasury, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX, 00000, with copies to the Internal Revenue Service, Attn: IRS Reports Clearance Officer, W:CAR:MP:FP:S, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000. Comments on the collection of information should be received by September 17, 2002. Comments are specifically requested concerning: Whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Internal Revenue Service, including whether the information will have practical utility; The accuracy of the estimated burden associated with the collection of information (see below); How the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected may be enhanced; How the burden of complying with the collection of information may be minimized, including through the application of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and Estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of service to provide information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid control number assigned by the Office of Management and Budget. The estimated total annual reporting burden is 470 hours, based on an estimated number of respondents of 470 and an estimated average annual burden hours per respondent of one hour. Books or records relating to a collection of information must be retained as long as their contents may become material in the administration of any internal revenue law. Generally, tax returns and tax return information are confidential, as required by 26 U.S.C. 6103.
Assignment of Company Inventions Inventions assigned to the Company or to a third party as directed by the Company pursuant to the subsection titled Government or Third Party are referred to in this Agreement as “Company Inventions.” Subject to the subsection titled Government or Third Party and except for Inventions that I can prove qualify fully under the provisions of California Labor Code section 2870 and I have set forth in Exhibit A, I hereby assign and agree to assign in the future (when any such Inventions or Intellectual Property Rights are first reduced to practice or first fixed in a tangible medium, as applicable) to Company all my right, title, and interest in and to any and all Inventions (and all Intellectual Property Rights with respect thereto) made, conceived, reduced to practice, or learned by me, either alone or with others, during the period of my employment by Company. Any assignment of Inventions (and all Intellectual Property Rights with respect thereto) hereunder includes an assignment of all Moral Rights. To the extent such Moral Rights cannot be assigned to Company and to the extent the following is allowed by the laws in any country where Moral Rights exist, I hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waive the enforcement of such Moral Rights, and all claims and causes of action of any kind against Company or related to Company’s customers, with respect to such rights. I further acknowledge and agree that neither my successors-in-interest nor legal heirs retain any Moral Rights in any Inventions (and any Intellectual Property Rights with respect thereto).
Proprietary Information and Inventions You agree to execute, deliver and be bound by the provisions of the Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit C.
Confidential Information; Inventions (a) The Executive shall not disclose or use at any time, either during the Period of Employment or thereafter, any Confidential Information (as defined below) of which the Executive is or becomes aware, whether or not such information is developed by Executive, except to the extent that such disclosure or use is directly related to and required by the Executive’s performance in good faith of duties for the Company. The Executive will take all appropriate steps to safeguard Confidential Information in Executive’s possession and to protect it against disclosure, misuse, espionage, loss and theft. The Executive shall deliver to the Company at the termination of the Period of Employment, or at any time the Company may request, all memoranda, notes, plans, records, reports, computer tapes and software and other documents and data (and copies thereof) relating to the Confidential Information or the Work Product (as hereinafter defined) of the business of the Company or any of its Affiliates which the Executive may then possess or have under Executive’s control. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive may truthfully respond to a lawful and valid subpoena or other legal process, but shall give the Company the earliest possible notice thereof, shall, as much in advance of the return date as possible, make available to the Company and its counsel the documents and other information sought, and shall assist the Company and such counsel in resisting or otherwise responding to such process. Nothing in this Agreement prohibits Executive from reporting possible violations of federal law or regulation to any governmental agency or entity, or making other disclosures that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of federal law or regulation. Executive does not need the prior authorization to make any such reports or disclosures and is not required to notify the Employer of such reports or disclosures.
(b) As used in this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” means information that is not generally known to the public and that is used, developed or obtained by the Company or its Affiliates in connection with their businesses, including, but not limited to, information, observations and data obtained by the Executive while employed by the Company or any predecessors thereof (including those obtained prior to the Effective Date) concerning (i) the business or affairs of the Company (or such predecessors), (ii) products or services, (iii) fees, costs and pricing structures, (iv) designs, (v) analyses, (vi) drawings, photographs and reports, (vii) computer software, including operating systems, applications and program listings, (viii) flow charts, manuals and documentation, (ix) data bases, (x) accounting and business methods, (xi) inventions, devices, new developments, methods and processes, whether patentable or unpatentable and whether or not reduced to practice, (xii) customers and clients and customer or client lists, (xiii) other copyrightable works, (xiv) all production methods, processes, technology and trade secrets, and (xv) all similar and related information in whatever form. Confidential Information will not include any information that has been published (other than a disclosure by the Executive in breach of this Agreement) in a form generally available to the public prior to the date the Executive proposes to disclose or use such information. Confidential Information will not be deemed to have been published merely because individual portions of the information have been separately published, but only if all material features comprising such information have been published in combination.
Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement Executive acknowledges that he has previously executed and delivered to an officer of the Company the Company’s Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement (the “Confidentiality Agreement”) and that the Confidentiality Agreement remains in full force and effect.
Basic Financial Information The Company shall furnish the following reports to each Purchaser (or any transferee of any Securities), so long as the Purchaser is a holder of any Securities:
(a) within 30 days after the end of each of the 12 monthly accounting periods in each fiscal year (or when furnished to the Company's Board of Directors, if earlier), unaudited consolidated statements of income and retained earnings and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for each monthly period and for the period from the beginning of such fiscal year to the end of such monthly period, together with consolidated balance sheets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of each monthly period, setting forth in each case comparisons to budget and to corresponding periods in the preceding fiscal year, which statements will be prepared in accordance with US GAAP consistently applied, and will fairly present the consolidated financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and their consolidated results of operations for such periods;
(b) within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year (or within five days after being filed with the Commission, if sooner), consolidated statements of income and retained earnings and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the period from the beginning of each fiscal year to the end of such fiscal year, and consolidated balance sheets as at the end of such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form corresponding figures for the preceding fiscal year, which statements will be prepared in accordance with US GAAP, consistently applied, and will fairly present the consolidated financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and their consolidated results of operations for such periods, and will be accompanied by:
(i) a report of the Company's independent certified public accounting firm;
(ii) a report from such accounting firm addressed to the Purchasers, stating that in making the audit necessary to express their opinion on the financial statements, nothing has come to their attention which would lead them to believe that an Event of Default has occurred with respect to this Agreement or the Debentures or, if such accountants have reason to believe that any such Event of Default has occurred, a letter specifying the nature thereof; and
(iii) the management letter of such accounting firm;
(c) within 45 days after the end of each quarterly accounting period in each fiscal year (or within five days after being filed with the Commission, if sooner) consolidated statements of income and retained earnings and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such quarterly accounting period and for the period from the beginning of each fiscal year to the end of such quarterly accounting period and consolidated balance sheets as at the end of such quarterly accounting period, setting forth in each case in comparative form corresponding figures for the preceding quarterly accounting period, which statements will be prepared in accordance with US GAAP, consistently applied, and will fairly represent the consolidated financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and their consolidated results of operations for such periods;
(d) within 45 days after the end of each quarterly accounting period in each fiscal year, a certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of the Company stating that the Company is in compliance with the terms of this Agreement and any other material contract or commitment to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them is bound, or if the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is not in compliance, specifying the nature and period of noncompliance, and what actions the Company or such Subsidiary has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the certificate delivered at the end of each fiscal year of the Company shall be signed by both the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company and shall be delivered within 90 days after the end of the fiscal year;
(e) promptly upon receipt thereof, but in no event later than three business days, any additional reports or other detailed information concerning significant aspects of the operations and condition, financial or otherwise, of the Company and its Subsidiaries, given to the Company by its independent accountants;
(f) at least 30 days prior to the end of each fiscal year, a detailed annual operating budget and business plan for the Company and its Subsidiaries for the succeeding twelve-month period. Such budgets shall be prepared on a monthly basis, displaying consolidated statements of anticipated income and retained earnings, consolidated statements of anticipated cash flow and projected consolidated balance sheets, setting forth in each case the assumptions (which assumptions and projections shall represent and be based upon the good faith judgment in respect thereof of the Chief Executive Officer of the Company) behind the projections contained in such financial statements, and which budgets shall have been approved by the Board of Directors of the Company prior to the beginning of each twelve-month period for which such budget shall have been prepared and, promptly upon preparation thereof, any other budgets that the Company may prepare and any revisions of such annual or other budgets;
(g) within ten days after transmission or receipt thereof, copies of all financial statements, proxy statements and reports which the Company sends to its stockholders or directors, and copies of all registration statements and all regular, special or periodic reports which it or any of its officers or directors files with the Commission, the American Stock Exchange (the "AMEX"), the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System ("NASDAQ") or with any other securities exchange or over-the-counter market on which any of the securities of the Company are then listed or approved for trading, copies of all press releases and other statements made generally available by the Company to the public concerning material developments in the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries and copies of material communications sent to or received from stockholders, directors or committees of the Board of Directors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and copies of all material communications sent to and received from any lender to the Company; and
(h) with reasonable promptness such other information and financial data concerning the Company as any Person entitled to receive materials under this Section 9.2 may reasonably request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all confidential information furnished at any time by or on behalf of the Company or its Subsidiaries to any Purchaser (or any transferee of any Securities) shall be subject to the provisions of Section 19.13.
Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement The Company shall require all employees and consultants to execute and deliver a Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement substantially in a form approved by the Company’s counsel or Board of Directors.
Additional Financial Information The Company shall provide Parent with the Company’s audited financial statements for the twelve month periods ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 consisting of the audited consolidated balance sheets as of such dates, the audited consolidated income statements for the twelve month period ended on such date, and the audited consolidated cash flow statements for the twelve month period ended on such date (the “Year End Financials”). Subsequent to the delivery of the Year End Financials, the Company’s consolidated interim financial information for each quarterly period thereafter shall be delivered to Parent no later than forty (40) calendar days following the end of each quarterly period and consolidated interim monthly information for each month thereafter shall be delivered to Purchaser no later than 20 days following the end of each month (the “Required Financial Statements”). All of the financial statements to be delivered pursuant to this Section 7.3, shall be prepared under U.S. GAAP in accordance with requirements of the PCAOB for public companies. The Required Financial Statements shall be accompanied by a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Company to the effect that all such financial statements fairly present the financial position and results of operations of the Company as of the date or for the periods indicated, in accordance with U.S. GAAP, except as otherwise indicated in such statements and subject to year-end audit adjustments. The Company will promptly provide with additional Company financial information reasonably requested by Parent for inclusion in the Proxy Statement and any other filings to be made by Parent with the SEC.
Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreements Executive’s receipt of any payments or benefits under Section 3 (other than the accrued benefits set forth in Section 3(a)(i) or Section 3(b)(i)) will be subject to Executive continuing to comply with the terms of the At-Will Employment, Confidential Information, Invention Assignment and Arbitration Agreement between the Company and Executive, as such agreement may be amended from time to time.
