COMPANY PROPERTY AND COMPETITIVE BUSINESS ACTIVITIES Sample Clauses

COMPANY PROPERTY AND COMPETITIVE BUSINESS ACTIVITIES. Founder ---------------------------------------------------- acknowledges and agrees that: (i) by virtue of his employment by and position with the Company, he has or will have access to trade secrets and confidential information of the Company, including valuable information about its business operations and methods and entities with whom it does business in various locations throughout the world, and he has developed or will develop relationships with the Company's clients and customers and others with whom it does business in various locations throughout the world; (ii) the market for the Company's services is highly competitive and the Company competes on a worldwide basis with other biotechnology and genomics companies; the Company's business is worldwide, and the Company competes within the biotechnology and genomics industry which is characterized by a global, worldwide marketplace; (iii) the Founder has highly specialized scientific knowledge in the biotechnology and genomics industry which is essential to the Company's ability to offer highly specialized, global biotechnology and genomics services and to compete within that industry; (iv) this Agreement is being executed contemporaneously with the Stock Purchase Agreement dated on or about the date hereof among the Company and certain investors, and this Agreement constitutes part of the consideration for the parties entering into such Stock Purchase Agreement, and the Company is relying on this Agreement in connection with entering into such Stock Purchase Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby; and (v) the "Competitive Business Activities" provisions set forth in this Section 5 are reasonably necessary to protect the Company's legitimate business interests, are reasonable as to the time, territory and scope of activities which are restricted, do not interfere with public policy or public interest and are described with sufficient accuracy and definiteness to enable him to understand the scope of the restrictions imposed upon him.
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  • Competitive Activities During the term of this Agreement, Consultant will not, directly or indirectly, in any individual or representative capacity, engage or participate in or provide services to any business that is competitive with the types and kinds of business being conducted by Company.

  • Competitive Business “Competitive Business” shall mean an enterprise that is in the business of offering banking products and/or services, which services and/or products are similar or substantially identical to those offered by the Bank during Executive’s employment with the Bank.

  • Business Activity As long as this Note shall remain outstanding, Maker shall make no change in its business activity that would make it or any of its business activities non-compliant with SBA regulations and guidelines.

  • Business Activities The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, engage in any business other than Permitted Businesses, except to such extent as would not be material to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole.

  • Competing Business Competing Business" means any financial institution or trust company that competes with, or will compete in any of the Counties with, the Bank or any affiliate of the Bank. The term "Competing Business" includes, without limitation, any start-up or other financial institution or trust company in formation.

  • Outside Businesses Subject to the provisions of Section 6.3, any Covered Person, the Sponsor, the Delaware Trustee and the Property Trustee may engage in or possess an interest in other business ventures of any nature or description, independently or with others, similar or dissimilar to the activities of the Trust, and the Trust and the Holders of Securities shall have no rights by virtue of this Trust Agreement in and to such independent ventures or the income or profits derived therefrom, and the pursuit of any such venture, even if competitive with the activities of the Trust, shall not be deemed wrongful or improper. No Covered Person, the Sponsor, the Delaware Trustee or the Property Trustee shall be obligated to present any particular investment or other opportunity to the Trust even if such opportunity is of a character that, if presented to the Trust, could be taken by the Trust, and any Covered Person, the Sponsor, the Delaware Trustee and the Property Trustee shall have the right to take for its own account (individually or as a partner or fiduciary) or to recommend to others any such particular investment or other opportunity. Any Covered Person, the Delaware Trustee and the Property Trustee may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Sponsor or any Affiliate of the Sponsor, or may act as depositary for, trustee or agent for, or act on any committee or body of holders of, securities or other obligations of the Sponsor or its Affiliates.

  • Competitive Activity Executive shall be deemed to have engaged in "Competitive Activity" if, during the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the second anniversary of the date Executive's employment with the Company or its subsidiaries terminates, (i) Executive, for himself or on behalf of any other person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity, engages, directly or indirectly, as an executive, agent, representative, consultant, partner, shareholder or holder of any other financial interest, in any business that competes with the Company or its subsidiaries in the line of business Executive is employed in by the Company or its subsidiaries (as applicable), as such business is described in any employment or severance agreement then in effect between Executive and the Company or one of its subsidiaries or, if no such agreement is then in effect, as described on Schedule II attached hereto (a "Competing Business"), it being understood and agreed that Executive's activities shall not satisfy this clause (i) where Executive is employed by a person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity engaged in a variety of activities, including the Competing Business, and Executive is not engaged in or responsible for the Competing Business of such entity. Executive may also, without satisfying clause (i) be a passive owner of not more than 2% of the outstanding publicly traded stock of any class of a Competing Business so long as Executive has no active participation in the business of such entity, except to the extent permitted above; or (ii) Executive (A) directly or indirectly through another entity, induces or attempts to induce any employee of the Company or its subsidiaries to leave the employ of the Company or its subsidiaries, or in any way interfere with the relationship between the Company or any of its subsidiaries and any employee thereof, (B) knowingly hires any person who was an employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries within 180 days prior to the time such employee was hired by Executive, (C) induces or attempts to induce any customer, supplier, licensee or other business relation of the Company or any of its subsidiaries to cease doing business with the Company or its subsidiaries or in any way interfere with the relationship between any such customer, supplier, licensee or business relation and the Company or any subsidiary or (D) directly or indirectly acquires or attempt to acquire an interest in any business relating to the business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries and with which the Company or any of its subsidiaries has entertained discussions or has requested and received information relating to the acquisition of such business by the Company or its subsidiaries in the one-year period immediately preceding Executive's termination of employment with the Company.

  • Restricted Activities In connection with your use of our websites, your PayPal account, the PayPal services, or in the course of your interactions with PayPal, other PayPal customers, or third parties, you must not: • Breach this user agreement, the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, the Commercial Entity Agreements (if they apply to you), or any other agreement between you and us. • Violate any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation (for example, those governing financial services, consumer protections, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising). • Infringe PayPal's or any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy. • Sell counterfeit goods. • Act in a manner that is defamatory, trade libelous, threatening or harassing. • Provide false, inaccurate or misleading information. • Send or receive what we reasonably believe to be potentially fraudulent or unauthorized funds. • Refuse to cooperate in an investigation or provide confirmation of your identity or any information you provide to us. • Attempt to “double dip” during the course of a dispute by receiving or attempting to receive funds from both PayPal and the seller, bank or card issuer for the same transaction. • Control an account that is linked to another account that has engaged in any of these restricted activities. • Conduct your business or use the PayPal services in a manner that results in or may result in: o Complaints. o Requests by buyers (either filed with us or card issuers) to invalidate payments made to you. o Fees, fines, penalties or other liability or losses to PayPal, other PayPal customers, third parties or you. • Use your PayPal account or the PayPal services in a manner that PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover or any other electronic funds transfer network reasonably believes to be an abuse of the card system or a violation of card association or network rules. • Allow your PayPal account to have a balance reflecting an amount owing to us. • Provide yourself a cash advance from your credit card (or help others to do so). • Access the PayPal services from a country that is not included on our permitted countries list. • Take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our websites, software, systems (including any networks and servers used to provide any of the PayPal services) operated by us or on our behalf or the PayPal services. • Facilitate any viruses, trojan horses, malware, worms or other computer programming routines that attempts to or may damage, disrupt, corrupt, misuse, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate, or gain unauthorized access to any system, data, information or PayPal services. • Use an anonymizing proxy; use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our websites without our prior written permission; or use any device, software or routine to bypass our robot exclusion headers. • Interfere or disrupt or attempt to interfere with or disrupt our websites, software, systems (including any networks and servers used to provide any of the PayPal services) operated by us or on our behalf, any of the PayPal services or other users' use of any of the PayPal services. • Take any action that may cause us to lose any of the services from our Internet service providers, payment processors, or other suppliers or service providers. • Use the PayPal services to test credit card behaviors. • Circumvent any PayPal policy or determinations about your PayPal account such as temporary or indefinite suspensions or other account holds, limitations or restrictions, including, but not limited to, engaging in the following actions: attempting to open new or additional PayPal account(s) when an account has a negative balance or has been restricted, suspended or otherwise limited; opening new or additional PayPal accounts using information that is not your own (e.g. name, address, email address, etc.); or using someone else's PayPal account. • Harass and/or threaten our employees, agents, or other users. • Abuse of our online dispute resolution process and/or PayPal’s Buyer Protection program and/or PayPal’s Seller Protection program. • Cause us to receive a disproportionate number of claims that have been closed in favor of the claimant regarding your PayPal account or business. • Have a credit score from a credit reporting agency that indicates a high level of risk associated with your use of the PayPal services. • Use a credit card with your PayPal account to provide yourself with a cash advance (or help others to do so). • Disclose or distribute another user's information to a third party, or use such information for marketing purposes unless you receive the user's express consent to do so. • Send unsolicited email to a user or use the PayPal services to collect payments for sending, or assisting in sending, unsolicited email to third parties. • Copy, reproduce, communicate to any third party, alter, modify, create derivative works, publicly display or frame any content from the PayPal website(s) without our or any applicable third party's written consent. • Reveal your account password(s) to anyone else, nor may you use anyone else's password. We are not responsible for losses incurred by you including, without limitation, the use of your account by any person other than you, arising as the result of misuse of passwords. • Do, or omit to do, or attempt to do or omit to do, any other act or thing which may interfere with the proper operation of the PayPal service or activities carried out as part of PayPal services or otherwise than in accordance with the terms of this user agreement. • Request or send a personal transaction payment for a commercial transaction. • Allow your use of the PayPal service to present to PayPal a risk of non- compliance with PayPal's anti-money laundering, counter terrorist financing and similar regulatory obligations (including, without limitation, where we cannot verify your identity or you fail to complete the steps to lift your sending, receiving or withdrawal limit or where you expose PayPal to the risk of any regulatory fines by European, US or other authorities for processing your transactions). • Integrate or use any of the PayPal services without fully complying with all mandatory requirements communicated to you by way of any integration or programmers' guide or other documentation issued by PayPal from time to time. • Advertise, promote, introduce or describe PayPal Credit or any PayPal co-branded credit based payment instrument to your customers without: (1) obtaining the necessary regulatory permission to do so in advance; and (2) the prior written permission of PayPal and (if not PayPal) the issuer of the credit to do so. • Suffer (or cause us to determine that there is a reasonable likelihood of) a security breach of your website or systems that could result in the unauthorized disclosure of customer information. You agree that engaging in the above restricted activities diminishes your or our other customers' safe access and/or use of your account and our services generally.

  • Legitimate Business Interests The Executive recognizes that the Company has legitimate business interests to protect and as a consequence, the Executive agrees to the restrictions contained in this Agreement because they further the Company’s legitimate business interests. These legitimate business interests include, but are not limited to (i) trade secrets; (ii) valuable confidential business, technical, and/or professional information that otherwise may not qualify as trade secrets, including, but not limited to, all Confidential Information; (iii) substantial, significant, or key relationships with specific prospective or existing Customers, vendors or suppliers; (iv) Customer goodwill associated with the Company’s business; and (v) specialized training relating to the Company’s technology, Services, methods, operations and procedures. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 9(b) shall be construed to impose restrictions greater than those imposed by other provisions of this Agreement.

  • Other Business Activities During the Term, Employee will not, without the prior written consent of the Company, directly or indirectly engage in any other business activities or pursuits whatsoever, except activities in connection with any charitable or civic activities, personal investments and serving as an executor, trustee or in other similar fiduciary capacity; provided, however, that such activities do not interfere with his performance of his responsibilities and obligations pursuant to this Agreement.

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