Confidential Information and Discoveries Sample Clauses

Confidential Information and Discoveries. Consultant and the Consulting Principal agree that all information of a technical or business nature such as know-how, trade secrets, secret business information, plans, data, processes, techniques, customer information, inventions, discoveries, formulae, patterns, devices, etc., ("Confidential Information") pertaining to the business of Helix, is a valuable business property right of Helix. Consultant and the Consulting Principals agree that such Confidential Information, whether in written, verbal or model form, shall not be disclosed to anyone outside the employment of Helix or otherwise used by Consultant or the Consulting Principal for any purpose other than fulfillment of their respective obligations under this Agreement, without the express authorization of Helix. Confidential Information does not include information which Consultant or the Consulting Principal can demonstrate (i) has become generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by Consultant or the Consulting Principal, (ii) has become available to Consultant or the Consulting Principal on a non-confidential basis from a source other than Helix, provided such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement with Helix or otherwise prohibited from transmitting the information to Consultant or the Consulting Principal by a contractual, legal or fiduciary obligation. Any and all improvements, inventions, discoveries, formulae or processes in any way related to Helix's business which Consultant or the Consulting Principal may conceive or make during his regular working hours or otherwise shall be the sole and exclusive property of Helix and Consultant and the Consulting Principal will disclose the same to Helix and will, whenever requested by Helix to do so (either during the terms of this Agreement or thereafter), execute and assign any and all applications, assignments and/or other instruments and do all things which Helix may deem necessary or appropriate in order to apply for, obtain, maintain, enforce and defend patents, copyrights, trademarks or other forms of protection, or in order to assign and convey or otherwise make available to Helix the sole and exclusive right, title and interest in and to said improvements, inventions, discoveries, formulae, processes, applications or patents. No provision in this Agreement is intended to require assignment of any of the rights of Consultant or the Consulting Principal in an invention if no equipment, supplies, facil...
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Confidential Information and Discoveries. Employee acknowledges that he will, as a result of his duties as an employee of the Company, have access to and be in a position to receive confidential information, including trade secrets, relating to the Company and TGI. Therefore, Employee agrees that during his employment by the Company and thereafter he will not divulge to, or use for the benefit of, himself or any other person, any information concerning any inventions, discoveries, improvements, processes, methods, trade secrets, research or secret data (including, without limitation, customer or supplier lists, formulas, computer programs, software development or executive monitor systems), or other confidential matters possessed, owned or used by the Company or TGI that may be obtained or learned by Employee in the course of or as a result of his employment hereunder unless (i) such disclosure is authorized by the Company, (ii) such confidential information becomes generally available to and known by the public (other than as a result of disclosure directly or indirectly by the Employee) or (iii) such confidential information becomes available to Employee on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Company, TGI or their employees or agents, provided that such source is not and was not bound by a confidentiality agreement with or other obligation of secrecy to the Company or TGI. The expiration or termination of employment shall not be deemed to release Employee from his duties hereunder not to convert to his own use or the use of others the rights or properties of the Company or TGI as described herein.
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Confidential Information and Discoveries. Executive agrees that all information of a technical or business nature such as know-how, trade secrets, secret business information, plans, data processes, techniques, etc., except such information and skills generally known in the Company's trade and business, information made public by the Company or generally of a public nature, and knowledge of Executive not constituting a trade secret ("Confidential Information"), acquired by Executive in the course of his employment by the Company, is a valuable business property right of the Company. Executive agrees, that such Confidential Information, whether in written, verbal or model form, shall not be disclosed to anyone outside the employment of the Company without the express written authorization of the Company. Confidential Information shall include, without limitation, vendor lists and records, customer lists, business policies, business methods, financial information and any other similar material of any kind relating to the business of the Company. In the event of an actual or threatened breach of this provision, the Company shall be entitled to an injunction restraining Executive from such action, and the Company shall not be prohibited in obtaining such equitable relief or from pursuing any other available remedies for such breach or threatened breach, including recovery of damages from Executive.
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Confidential Information and Discoveries. Executive acknowledges that he will, as a result of his duties as an employee of Company, have access to and be in a position to receive confidential information. Therefore, Executive agrees that during his employment by Company and thereafter he will not divulge to, or use for the benefit of, himself or any other person, any information concerning any inventions, discoveries, improvements, processes, methods, trade secrets, research or secret data (including, without limitation, computer programs, software development or executive systems), or other confidential matters possessed, owned or used by Company that may be obtained or learned by the Executive in the course of or as a result of his employment hereunder unless such disclosure is authorized in writing by the CEO. The expiration or termination of employment shall not be deemed to release the Executive from his duties hereunder not to reveal or convert to his own use or the use of others the information described herein.
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Confidential Information and Discoveries. Employee acknowledges that he will, as a result of his duties as an employee of the Company, have access to and be in a position to receive confidential information, including trade secrets, relating to the Company. Therefore, Employee agrees that during his employment by the Company and thereafter he will not divulge to, or use for the benefit of, himself or any other person, any information concerning any inventions, discoveries, improvements, processes, methods, trade secrets, research or secret data (including, without limitation, customer or supplier lists, formulas, computer programs, software development or executive monitor systems), or other confidential matters possessed, owned or used by the Company that may be obtained or learned by Employee in the course of or as a result of his employment hereunder unless (i) such disclosure is authorized by the Company, (ii) such confidential information becomes generally available to and known by the public (other than as a result of disclosure directly or indirectly by Employee) or (iii) such confidential information becomes available to Employee on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Company, or its employees or agents, provided that such source is not and was not bound by a confidentiality agreement with or other obligation of secrecy to the Company. The expiration or termination of employment shall not be deemed to release Employee from his duties hereunder not to convert to his own use or the use of others the rights or properties of the Company as described herein.
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Confidential Information and Discoveries. Employee agrees that all information of a technical or business nature, such as know-how, trade secrets, secret business information, plans, data, processes, techniques, customer information, inventions, discoveries, formulae, patterns, devices, etc. (the "Confidential Information", which is not intended to include knowledge or skills which are known, in general, to Employee's profession or information which at the time disclosed by Employee is generally available to the trade), acquired by Employee in the course of his employment are valuable business property rights of the Company or companies affiliated with the Company, as the case may be. Employee shall not, at any time during or after the termination of Employee's employment with the Company, reveal, divulge or otherwise make known to any person any Confidential Information made known to Employee or of which Employee has become aware, except and to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to carry out Employee's employment by the Company. Upon termination of this Agreement for any reason, Employee shall immediately turn over to the Company all books of account and other records and property of the Company used by, or in the possession or control of, Employee, and Employee shall certify to the Company at such time that the Employee has complied with this requirement.
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Confidential Information and Discoveries. Employee acknowledges that he will, as a result of his duties as an employee of the Company, have access to and be in a position to receive confidential information, including trade secrets, relating to the Company and TGI. Therefore, Employee agrees that during his employment by the Company and thereafter he will not divulge to, or use for the benefit of, himself or any other person, any information concerning any inventions, discoveries, improvements, processes, methods, trade secrets, research or secret data (including, without limitation, customer or supplier lists, formulas, computer programs, software development or executive monitor systems), or other confidential matters possessed, owned or used by the Company or TGI that may be obtained or learned by Employee in the course of or as a result of his employment hereunder unless (i) such disclosure is authorized by the Company, (ii) such confidential information becomes available to Employee on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Company, TGI or their employees or agents, provided that such source is not and was not bound by a confidentiality agreement with or other obligation of secrecy to the Company or TGI. The expiration or termination of employment shall not be deemed to release Employee from his duties hereunder not to convert to his own use or the use of others the rights or properties of the Company or TGI as described herein.
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Related to Confidential Information and Discoveries

  • Confidential Information and Inventions (a) The Executive recognizes and acknowledges that in the course of his duties he is likely to receive confidential or proprietary information owned by the Company, its affiliates or third parties with whom the Company or any such affiliates has an obligation of confidentiality. Accordingly, during and after the Term, the Executive agrees to keep confidential and not disclose or make accessible to any other person or use for any other purpose other than in connection with the fulfillment of his duties under this Agreement, any Confidential and Proprietary Information (as defined below) owned by, or received by or on behalf of, the Company or any of its affiliates. “Confidential and Proprietary Information” shall include, but shall not be limited to, business plans (both current and under development), client lists, promotion and marketing programs, trade secrets, or any other confidential or proprietary business information relating to business operations of the Company The Executive expressly acknowledges the trade secret status of the Confidential and Proprietary Information and that the Confidential and Proprietary Information constitutes a protectable business interest of the Company. The Executive agrees: (i) not to use any such Confidential and Proprietary Information for himself or others; and (ii) not to take any Company material or reproductions (including but not limited to writings, correspondence, notes, drafts, records, invoices, technical and business policies, computer programs or disks) thereof from the Company’s offices at any time during his employment by the Company, except as required in the execution of the Executive’s duties to the Company. The Executive agrees to return immediately all Company material and reproductions (including but not limited, to writings, correspondence, notes, drafts, records, invoices, technical and business policies, computer programs or disks) thereof in his possession to the Company upon request and in any event immediately upon termination of employment. (b) Except with prior written authorization by the Company, the Executive agrees not to disclose or publish any of the Confidential and Proprietary Information, or business information of any other party to whom the Company or any of its affiliates owes an obligation of confidence, at any time during or after his employment with the Company.

  • 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 and Intellectual Property (a) Other than in the performance of the Executive’s duties hereunder, the Executive agrees not to use in any manner or disclose, distribute, publish, communicate or in any way cause to be used, disclosed, distributed, published, or communicated in any way or at any time, either while in the Company's employ or at any time thereafter, to any person not employed by the Company, or not engaged to render services to the Company, any Confidential Information (as defined below) obtained while in the employ of the Company. (b) Confidential Information includes any written or unwritten information which relates to and/or is used by the Company or its subsidiaries, affiliates or divisions, including, without limitation (i) the names, addresses, buying habits and other special information regarding past, present and potential customers, employees and suppliers of the Company, (ii) customer and supplier contracts and transactions or price lists of the Company and suppliers, (iii) methods of distribution, (iv) all agreements, files, books, logs, charts, records, studies, reports, processes, schedules and statistical information, (v) data, figures, projections, estimates, pricing data, customer lists, buying manuals or procedures, distribution manuals or procedures, other policy and procedure manuals or handbooks, (vi) supplier information, tax records, personnel histories and records, sales information, and property information, (vii) information regarding the present or future phases of business, (viii) ideas, inventions, trademarks, business information, know-how, processes, techniques, improvements, designs, redesigns, creations, discoveries, trade secrets, and developments, (ix) all computer software licensed or developed by the Company or its subsidiaries, affiliates or divisions, computer programs, computer-based and web-based training programs, and systems, and (x) finances and financial information, but Confidential Information will not include information of the Company or its subsidiaries, affiliates or divisions that (1) became or becomes a matter of public knowledge through sources independent of the Executive, (2) has been or is disclosed by the Company or its subsidiaries, affiliates or divisions without restriction on its use, or (3) has been or is required or specifically permitted to be disclosed by law or governmental order or regulation. The Executive also agrees that, if there is any reasonable doubt whether an item is public knowledge, to not regard the item as public knowledge until and unless the Company’s Chief Executive Officer confirms to the Executive that the information is public knowledge. (c) The provisions of this Section 5 shall not preclude the Executive from disclosing such information to the Executive's professional tax advisor or legal counsel solely to the extent necessary to the rendering of their professional services to the Executive if such individuals agree to keep such information confidential. (d) The Executive agrees that upon leaving the Company’s employ the Executive will remain reasonably available to answer questions from Company officers regarding the Executive’s former duties and responsibilities and the knowledge the Executive obtained in connection therewith. (e) The Executive agrees that upon leaving the Company's employ the Executive will not communicate with, or give statements to, any member of the media (including print, television, or radio media) relating to any matter (including pending or threatening lawsuits or administrative investigations) about which the Executive has knowledge or information (other than knowledge or information that is not Confidential Information) as a result of employment with the Company. The Executive further agrees to notify the Chief Executive Officer or his or her designee immediately after being contacted by any member of the media with respect to any matter affected by this section. (f) The Executive agrees that all information, inventions, and discoveries, whether or not patented or patentable, made or conceived by the Executive, either alone or with others, at any time while employed by the Company, which arises out of such employment or is pertinent to any field of business or research in which, during such employment, the Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates or divisions is engaged or (if such is known to or ascertainable by the Executive) is considering engaging (“Intellectual Property”) shall (i) be and remain the sole property of the Company and the Executive shall not seek a patent with respect to such Intellectual Property without the prior consent of an authorized representative of the Company and (ii) be disclosed promptly to an authorized representative of the Company along with all information the Executive possesses with regard to possible applications and uses. Further, at the request of the Company, and without expense or additional compensation to the Executive, the Executive agrees to execute such documents and perform such other acts as the Company deems necessary to obtain patents on such Intellectual Property in a jurisdiction or jurisdictions designated by the Company, and to assign to the Company or its designee such Intellectual Property and all patent applications and patents relating thereto. (g) The Executive and the Company agree that the Executive intends all original works of authorship within the purview of the copyright laws of the United States authored or created by the Executive in the course of the Executive’s employment with the Company will be works for hire within the meaning of such copyright law. (h) Upon termination of the Executive’s employment, or at any time upon request of the Company, the Executive will return to the Company all Confidential Information and Intellectual Property, in any form, including but not limited to letters, memoranda, reports, notes, notebooks, books of account, drawings, prints, specifications, formulae, data printouts, microfilms, magnetic tapes, disks, recordings, documents, and all copies thereof.

  • Confidential Information and Trade Secrets During the period of my employment with the Company, I acknowledge that the Company may disclose to me confidential and proprietary information of the Company which the Company takes great pains to safeguard from unauthorized use and disclosure. I agree at all times during the term of my employment and thereafter, to hold in strictest confidence, and not to use or to disclose to any person, firm or corporation, except as such use or disclosure is required in connection with my work for the Company or unless the Chief Executive Officer of the Company otherwise expressly authorizes in writing, any Confidential Information (defined below) before it has become generally known within the relevant industry through no fault of my own. I understand and agree that “Confidential Information” means any non-public information that does not otherwise qualify as Trade Secrets (defined below) that relates to the actual or demonstrably anticipated business or research or development of the Company or any other information which is marked “confidential” or which might reasonably be anticipated to be confidential in nature. I further agree, at all times during my employment and anytime thereafter, to hold in strictest confidence, and not to use or disclose to any person, firm or corporation, except as such use or disclosure is required in connection with my work for the Company or unless the Chief Executive Officer of the Company expressly authorizes such use or disclosure in writing, any Trade Secret (defined below) before it has become generally known in the public domain through no fault of my own. I understand and agree that “Trade Secrets” are information, regardless of form, belonging to the Company, licensed by it, or disclosed to it on a confidential basis by its customers, suppliers, or other third parties, including, but not limited to technical and non-technical data, formulae, patterns, compilations, programs, devices, methods, techniques, drawings, processes, financial data, financial plans, product plans, and lists of actual or potential customers or suppliers which is not commonly known in the public domain and which (i) derives economic value, economic or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and (ii) is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy, or any other information that constitutes a trade secret under common law.

  • Confidential Information Protections 4.1 At all times during and after the Employee’s employment, the Employee will hold in confidence and will not disclose, use, lecture upon, or publish any of Company’s Confidential Information (defined below), except as may be required in connection with the Employee’s work for Company, or as expressly authorized by the Board. The Employee will obtain the written approval of the Board before publishing or submitting for publication any material (written, oral, or otherwise) that relates to the Employee’s work at Company and/or incorporates any Confidential Information. The Employee hereby assigns to Company any rights the Employee may have or acquire in any and all Confidential Information and recognize that all Confidential Information shall be the sole and exclusive property of Company and its assigns.

  • Confidential Information (a) The Executive recognizes that the services to be performed by the Executive hereunder are special, unique, and extraordinary and that, by reason of such employment with the Company, the Executive may acquire Confidential Information concerning the operation of the Company, the use or disclosure of which would cause the Company substantial loss and damages which could not be readily calculated and for which no remedy at law would be adequate. Accordingly, the Executive agrees that the Executive will not (directly or indirectly) at any time, whether during or after the Executive’s employment hereunder, (i) knowingly use for an improper personal benefit any Confidential Information that the Executive may learn or has learned by reason of the Executive’s employment with the Company or (ii) disclose any such Confidential Information to any Person except (A) in the performance of the Executive’s obligations to the Company hereunder, (B) as required by applicable law, (C) in connection with the enforcement of the Executive’s rights under this Agreement, (D) in connection with any disagreement, dispute or litigation (pending or threatened) between the Executive and the Company or (E) with the prior written consent of the Board of Directors. As used herein, “Confidential Information” includes information with respect to the operation and performance of the Company, its investments, portfolio companies, products, services, facilities, product methods, research and development, trade secrets and other intellectual property, systems, patents and patent applications, procedures, manuals, confidential reports, product price lists, customer lists, financial information, business plans, prospects or opportunities (including, as applicable, all of the foregoing information regarding the Company’s past, current and prospective portfolio companies); provided, however, that such term, shall not include any information that (x) is or becomes generally known or available other than as a result of a disclosure by the Executive or (y) is or becomes known or available to the Executive on a nonconfidential basis from a source (other than the Company) that, to the Executive’s knowledge, is not prohibited from disclosing such information to the Executive by a legal, contractual, fiduciary or other obligation to the Company. (b) The Executive confirms that all Confidential Information is the exclusive property of the Company. All business records, papers and documents kept or made by the Executive while employed by the Company relating to the business of the Company shall be and remain the property of the Company at all times. Upon the request of the Company at any time, the Executive shall promptly deliver to the Company, and shall retain no copies of, any written materials, records and documents made by the Executive or coming into the Executive’s possession while employed by the Company concerning the business or affairs of the Company other than personal materials, records and documents (including notes and correspondence) of the Executive not containing proprietary information relating to such business or affairs. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive shall be permitted to retain copies of, or have access to, all such materials, records and documents relating to any disagreement, dispute or litigation (pending or threatened) between the Executive and the Company.

  • Protection of Confidential Information The Servicer shall keep confidential and shall not divulge to any party, without the Seller’s prior written consent, any nonpublic information pertaining to the Mortgage Loans or any borrower thereunder, except to the extent that it is appropriate for the Servicer to do so in working with legal counsel, auditors, taxing authorities or other governmental agencies or it is otherwise in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices.

  • 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 of Others Executive certifies that Executive has not, and will not, disclose or use during Executive’s time as an employee of the Company, any confidential information which Executive acquired as a result of any previous employment or under a contractual obligation of confidentiality or secrecy before Executive became an employee of the Company.

  • Confidential Information Noncompetition and Cooperation The terms of the Employee Non-Competition, Non-Solicitation, Confidentiality and Assignment Agreement (the “Restrictive Covenant Agreement”), between the Company and the Employee, attached hereto as Exhibit A, shall continue to be in full force and effect and are incorporated by reference in this Agreement. The Employee hereby reaffirms the terms of the Restrictive Covenant Agreement as material terms of this Agreement.

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