Confidential Information and Intellectual Property. (i) You shall not without the prior express written consent of the Chairman of Oaktree, or one of the Chairmen of Oaktree, if more than one Chairman exists (A) use for your benefit, use to the detriment of any member of the Oaktree Group, or disclose, at any time during your employment by any member of the Oaktree Group, or if you cease to be so employed, at any time thereafter (unless and to the extent you reasonably determine that such disclosure is required by law or otherwise appropriate in the course of the performance of your duties hereunder), any Confidential Information, or (B) take, remove or retain, upon your ceasing to be so employed for any reason, any document, paper, electronic file or other storage medium containing or relating to any Confidential Information, any Intellectual Property or any physical property of any member of the Oaktree Group, except that you may retain your address book/contact list to the extent it only contains contact information. (ii) You agree (A) to deliver to Oaktree on the date you cease to be an employee for any reason, or promptly at any other time that any member of the Oaktree Group may request, all memoranda, notes, plans, records, reports, computer files and tapes, printouts and software and other documents and data (and copies thereof) within your possession or control that contain any Confidential Information or any Intellectual Property, and (B) to the extent not yet publicly disclosed, to keep the terms of this Agreement confidential, except as otherwise required by applicable law and except that the terms hereof may be disclosed to your family members, attorneys, accountants or other professional advisers who agree to keep the terms of this Agreement confidential, to taxing and other governmental or regulatory authority and to disclose in compliance with legal process. (iii) You agree that any and all Intellectual Property is and shall be the exclusive property of the Oaktree Group for the Oaktree Group’s sole use. In addition, you acknowledge and agree that the investment performance of the funds and accounts managed by any member of the Oaktree Group is attributable to the efforts of the team of professionals of the Oaktree Group and not to the efforts of any single individual, and that, therefore, the performance records of the funds and accounts managed by any member of the Oaktree Group are and shall be the exclusive property of the Oaktree Group. You agree that you shall not use or disclose any Intellectual Property, including any of the performance records of the funds and accounts managed by any member of the Oaktree Group without the prior written consent of the Chairman of Oaktree, or one of the Chairmen of Oaktree if more than one Chairman exists, except in the ordinary course of your employment with Oaktree or as required by legal process or governmental or regulatory inquiry. (iv) In accordance with Section 2870 of the California Labor Code, your obligation to assign your right, title and interest throughout the world in and to all Intellectual Property does not apply to any works of authorship, inventions, intellectual property, materials, documents or other work product (including, without limitation, research, reports, software, databases, systems, applications, presentations, textual works, content or audiovisual materials) that you developed entirely on your own time without using Oaktree’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or Confidential Information (and any such works shall not be deemed “Intellectual Property” hereunder) except for the Intellectual Property that relates to either (A) the business of Oaktree at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the Intellectual Property, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of Oaktree or (B) results from any work performed by you for Oaktree. (v) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any trade secrets of the Oaktree Group will be entitled to all of the protections and benefits under applicable law. You acknowledge and agree that (A) you may have had, and may have in the future, access to information that constitutes trade secrets but that has not been, and will not be, marked to indicate its status as such and (B) the preparation of this letter constitutes reasonable efforts under the circumstances by the Oaktree Group to notify you of the existence of such trade secrets and to maintain the confidentiality of such trade secrets within the provisions of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act or other applicable law. (vi) Nothing in this Agreement or any other agreement between you and a member of the Oaktree Group shall prohibit or impede you from communicating, cooperating or filing a complaint with any U.S. federal, state or local governmental or law enforcement branch, agency or entity (collectively, a “Governmental Entity”) with respect to possible violations of any U.S. federal, state or local law or regulation, or otherwise making disclosures to any Governmental Entity, in each case, that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of any such law or regulation; provided, that in each case such communications and disclosures are consistent with applicable law. Moreover, you can testify truthfully in response to a subpoena or other legal process regarding any matter concerning your relationship with any member of the Oaktree Group provided, that you notify the Company and OCG within a reasonable time after receiving such a subpoena or other legal process so that Oaktree may take appropriate steps to protect its interests. Additionally, you understand and acknowledge that an individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made (i) in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official or to an attorney solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law, or (ii) in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. You understand and acknowledge further that an individual who files a lawsuit for retaliation by an employer for reporting a suspected violation of law may disclose the trade secret to the attorney of the individual and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, if the individual files any document containing the trade secret under seal and does not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order. Nothing in this Agreement requires you to obtain the prior authorization of (or to give notice to) the Oaktree Group regarding any such communication or disclosure. Notwithstanding the foregoing, under no circumstance are you authorized to disclose any information covered by the Oaktree Group’s attorney-client privilege or attorney work product without prior written consent of the Oaktree Group’s General Counsel.
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Brookfield Oaktree Holdings, LLC), Employment Agreement (Oaktree Capital Group, LLC), Employment Agreement (Oaktree Capital Group, LLC)
Confidential Information and Intellectual Property. During the Term of Employment, and at all times thereafter:
(i) You The Executive agrees to keep secret all Confidential Information and Intellectual Property which may be obtained during his period of employment by the Company and that the Executive shall not without reveal or disclose it, directly or indirectly, except with the Company’s prior express written consent of the Chairman of Oaktree, or one of the Chairmen of Oaktree, if more than one Chairman exists (A) consent. The Executive shall not make use for your benefit, use to the detriment of any member Confidential Information or Intellectual Property for the Executive’s own purposes or for the benefit of anyone other than the Oaktree GroupCompany and shall protect it against disclosure, or disclosemisuse, at any time during your employment by any member of the Oaktree Groupespionage, or if you cease to loss and theft except for disclosures as may be so employed, at any time thereafter (unless and to the extent you reasonably determine that such disclosure is required by law or otherwise appropriate in any judicial or administrative process; provided, however, that in the course of event that the performance of your duties hereunder), Executive becomes legally compelled to disclose any Confidential Information, or prior to such disclosure, the Executive shall provide the Company with prompt written notice so that the Company may seek (Bwith the Executive’s cooperation) take, remove or retain, upon your ceasing to be so employed for any reason, any document, paper, electronic file a protective order or other storage medium containing appropriate remedy and/or waive compliance with the provisions of this Agreement; provided further, however, that in the event that such protective order or relating other remedy is not obtained, the Executive will furnish only that portion of the Confidential Information which he is advised by counsel is legally required, and will cooperate with the Company in the Company’s efforts to any obtain reliable assurance that confidential treatment will be accorded to the Confidential Information, any Intellectual Property or any physical property of any member of the Oaktree Group, except that you may retain your address book/contact list to the extent it only contains contact information.
(ii) You agree (A) to deliver to Oaktree on the date you cease to be an employee for any reason, or promptly at any other time The Executive acknowledges and agrees that any member of the Oaktree Group may request, all memoranda, notes, plans, records, reports, computer files and tapes, printouts and software and other documents and data (and copies thereof) within your possession or control that contain any Confidential Information or any Intellectual Property, and (B) to the extent not yet publicly disclosed, to keep the terms of this Agreement confidential, except as otherwise required by applicable law and except that the terms hereof may be disclosed to your family members, attorneys, accountants or other professional advisers who agree to keep the terms of this Agreement confidential, to taxing and other governmental or regulatory authority and to disclose in compliance with legal process.
(iii) You agree that any and all Intellectual Property is and shall be owned by the exclusive property of the Oaktree Group for the Oaktree Group’s sole useCompany. In addition, you acknowledge The Executive hereby assigns and agree that the investment performance of the funds and accounts managed by any member of the Oaktree Group is attributable shall assign to the efforts of Company all ownership rights possessed in any Intellectual Property contributed, conceived or made by the team of professionals of Executive (whether alone or jointly with others) while employed by the Oaktree Group Company, whether or not during working hours, with all copyrightable Intellectual Property to be deemed “works for hire” under federal law. The Executive shall promptly and not fully disclose to the efforts of any single individualCompany in writing all such Intellectual Property after such contribution, conception or other development. The Executive agrees to fully cooperate with the Company, at the Company’s expense, in securing, enforcing and that, therefore, otherwise protecting throughout the performance records of world the funds and accounts managed by any member of the Oaktree Group are and shall be the exclusive property of the Oaktree Group. You agree that you shall not use or disclose any Company’s interests in such Intellectual Property, including any of the performance records of the funds and accounts managed by any member of the Oaktree Group without the prior written consent of the Chairman of Oaktree, or one of the Chairmen of Oaktree if more than one Chairman exists, except in the ordinary course of your employment with Oaktree or as required by legal process or governmental or regulatory inquiry.
(iv) In accordance with Section 2870 of the California Labor Code, your obligation to assign your right, title and interest throughout the world in and to all Intellectual Property does not apply to any works of authorship, inventions, intellectual property, materials, documents or other work product (including, without limitation, researchby signing all documents reasonably requested by the Company.
(iii) Immediately following the Executive’s termination of employment, reportsthe Executive agrees to promptly deliver to the Company, softwareand not retain, databasesall memoranda, systemsnotes, applicationsmanuals, presentationslab notebooks, textual workscomputer diskettes, content passwords, encryption keys, electronic mail and other written or audiovisual materialselectronic records (and all copies thereof) that you developed entirely on your own time without using Oaktree’s equipmentcontaining, supplies, facilities, constituting or relating to Confidential Information (and any such works shall not be deemed “Intellectual Property” hereunder) except for the or Intellectual Property that relates to the Executive may then possess or have control over (in either (A) the business of Oaktree at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the Intellectual Propertycase, or whether actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of Oaktree or (B) results from any work performed by you for Oaktreeconstructive). The Executive shall provide written certification that all such materials have been returned.
(v) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any trade secrets of the Oaktree Group will be entitled to all of the protections and benefits under applicable law. You acknowledge and agree that (A) you may have had, and may have in the future, access to information that constitutes trade secrets but that has not been, and will not be, marked to indicate its status as such and (B) the preparation of this letter constitutes reasonable efforts under the circumstances by the Oaktree Group to notify you of the existence of such trade secrets and to maintain the confidentiality of such trade secrets within the provisions of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act or other applicable law.
(vi) Nothing in this Agreement or any other agreement between you and a member of the Oaktree Group shall prohibit or impede you from communicating, cooperating or filing a complaint with any U.S. federal, state or local governmental or law enforcement branch, agency or entity (collectively, a “Governmental Entity”) with respect to possible violations of any U.S. federal, state or local law or regulation, or otherwise making disclosures to any Governmental Entity, in each case, that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of any such law or regulation; provided, that in each case such communications and disclosures are consistent with applicable law. Moreover, you can testify truthfully in response to a subpoena or other legal process regarding any matter concerning your relationship with any member of the Oaktree Group provided, that you notify the Company and OCG within a reasonable time after receiving such a subpoena or other legal process so that Oaktree may take appropriate steps to protect its interests. Additionally, you understand and acknowledge that an individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made (i) in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official or to an attorney solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law, or (ii) in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. You understand and acknowledge further that an individual who files a lawsuit for retaliation by an employer for reporting a suspected violation of law may disclose the trade secret to the attorney of the individual and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, if the individual files any document containing the trade secret under seal and does not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order. Nothing in this Agreement requires you to obtain the prior authorization of (or to give notice to) the Oaktree Group regarding any such communication or disclosure. Notwithstanding the foregoing, under no circumstance are you authorized to disclose any information covered by the Oaktree Group’s attorney-client privilege or attorney work product without prior written consent of the Oaktree Group’s General Counsel.
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Emtec Inc/Nj)
Confidential Information and Intellectual Property. (i) You shall not without the prior express written consent of the Chairman of Oaktree, or one of the Chairmen of Oaktree, Oaktree if more than one Chairman exists (A) use for your benefit, use to the detriment of any member of the Oaktree Group, or disclose, at any time during your employment by any member of the Oaktree Group, or if you cease to be so employed, at any time thereafter (unless and to the extent you reasonably determine that such disclosure is required by law or otherwise appropriate in the course of the performance of your duties hereunder), any Confidential Information, or (B) take, remove or retain, upon your ceasing to be so employed for any reason, any document, paper, electronic file or other storage medium containing or relating to any Confidential Information, any Intellectual Property or any physical property of any member of the Oaktree Group, except that you may retain your address book/contact list to the extent it only contains contact information.
(ii) You agree (A) to deliver to Oaktree on the date you cease to be an employee for any reason, or promptly at any other time that any member of the Oaktree Group may request, all memoranda, notes, plans, records, reports, computer files and tapes, printouts and software and other documents and data (and copies thereof) within your possession or control that contain any Confidential Information or any Intellectual Property, and (B) to the extent not yet publicly disclosed, to keep the terms of this Agreement confidential, except as otherwise required by applicable law and except that the terms hereof may be disclosed to your family members, attorneys, accountants or other professional advisers who agree to keep the terms of this Agreement confidential, to taxing and other governmental or regulatory authority and to disclose in compliance with legal process.
(iii) You agree that any and all Intellectual Property is and shall be the exclusive property of the Oaktree Group for the Oaktree Group’s sole use. In addition, you acknowledge and agree that the investment performance of the funds and accounts managed by any member of the Oaktree Group is attributable to the efforts of the team of professionals of the Oaktree Group and not to the efforts of any single individual, and that, therefore, the performance records of the funds and accounts managed by any member of the Oaktree Group are and shall be the exclusive property of the Oaktree Group. You agree that you shall not use or disclose any Intellectual Property, including any of the performance records of the funds and accounts managed by any member of the Oaktree Group without the prior written consent of the Chairman of Oaktree, or one of the Chairmen of Oaktree if more than one Chairman exists, except in the ordinary course of your employment with Oaktree or as required by legal process or governmental or regulatory inquiry.
(iv) In accordance with Section 2870 of the California Labor Code, your obligation to assign your right, title and interest throughout the world in and to all Intellectual Property does not apply to any works of authorship, inventions, intellectual property, materials, documents or other work product (including, without limitation, research, reports, software, databases, systems, applications, presentations, textual works, content or audiovisual materials) that you developed entirely on your own time without using Oaktree’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or Confidential Information (and any such works shall not be deemed “Intellectual Property” hereunder) except for the Intellectual Property that relates to either (A) the business of Oaktree at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the Intellectual Property, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of Oaktree or (B) results from any work performed by you for Oaktree.
(v) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any trade secrets of the Oaktree Group will be entitled to all of the protections and benefits under applicable law. You acknowledge and agree that (A) you may have had, and may have in the future, access to information that constitutes trade secrets but that has not been, and will not be, marked to indicate its status as such and (B) the preparation of this letter constitutes reasonable efforts under the circumstances by the Oaktree Group to notify you of the existence of such trade secrets and to maintain the confidentiality of such trade secrets within the provisions of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act or other applicable law.
(vi) Nothing in this Agreement or any other agreement between you and a member of the Oaktree Group shall prohibit or impede you from communicating, cooperating or filing a complaint with any U.S. federal, state or local governmental or law enforcement branch, agency or entity (collectively, a “Governmental Entity”) with respect to possible violations of any U.S. federal, state or local law or regulation, or otherwise making disclosures to any Governmental Entity, in each case, that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of any such law or regulation; provided, that in each case such communications and disclosures are consistent with applicable law. Moreover, you can testify truthfully in response to a subpoena or other legal process regarding any matter concerning your relationship with any member of the Oaktree Group provided, provided that you notify the Company and OCG Oaktree within a reasonable time after receiving such a subpoena or other legal process so that Oaktree may take appropriate steps to protect its interests. Additionally, you understand and acknowledge that an individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made (i) in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official or to an attorney solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law, or (ii) in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. You understand and acknowledge further that an individual who files a lawsuit for retaliation by an employer for reporting a suspected violation of law may disclose the trade secret to the attorney of the individual and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, if the individual files any document containing the trade secret under seal and does not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order. Nothing in this Agreement requires you to obtain the prior authorization of (or to give notice to) the Oaktree Group regarding any such communication or disclosure. Notwithstanding the foregoing, under no circumstance are you authorized to disclose any information covered by the Oaktree Group’s attorney-client privilege or attorney work product without prior written consent of the Oaktree Group’s General Counsel.
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Confidential Information and Intellectual Property. (i) You shall not without the prior express written consent of the Chairman of Oaktree, or one of the Chairmen of Oaktree, if more than one Chairman exists Oaktree (A) use for your benefit, use to the detriment of any member of the Oaktree Group, or disclose, at any time during your employment by any member of the Oaktree Group, or if you cease to be so employed, at any time thereafter (unless and to the extent you reasonably determine that such disclosure is required by law or otherwise appropriate in the course of the performance of your duties hereunder) in the performance of your duties as an employee of a member of the Oaktree Group), any Confidential Information, or (B) take, remove or retain, upon your ceasing to be so employed for any reason, any document, paper, electronic file or other storage medium containing or relating to any Confidential Information, any Intellectual Property or any physical property of any member of the Oaktree Group, except that you may retain your address book/contact list to the extent it only contains contact information.
(ii) You agree (A) to deliver to Oaktree on the date you cease to be an employee for any reason, or promptly at any other time that any member of the Oaktree Group may request, all memoranda, notes, plans, records, reports, computer files and tapes, printouts and software and other documents and data (and copies thereof) within your possession or control that contain any Confidential Information or any Intellectual Property, and (B) to the extent not yet publicly disclosed, to keep the terms of this Agreement confidential, except as otherwise required by applicable law and except that the terms hereof may be disclosed to your family members, attorneys, accountants or other professional advisers who agree to keep the terms of this Agreement confidential, to taxing and other governmental or regulatory authority and to disclose in compliance with legal process.
(iii) You agree that any and all Intellectual Property is and shall be the exclusive property of the Oaktree Group for the Oaktree Group’s sole use. In addition, you acknowledge and agree that the investment performance of the funds and accounts managed by any member of the Oaktree Group is attributable to the efforts of the team of professionals of the Oaktree Group and not to the efforts of any single individual, and that, therefore, the performance records of the funds and accounts managed by any member of the Oaktree Group are and shall be the exclusive property of the Oaktree Group. You agree that you shall not use or disclose any Intellectual Property, including any of the performance records of the funds and accounts managed by any member of the Oaktree Group without the prior written consent of the Chairman of Oaktree, or one of the Chairmen of Oaktree if more than one Chairman exists, except in the ordinary course of your employment with Oaktree or as required by legal process or governmental or regulatory inquiry.
(iv) In accordance with Section 2870 of the California Labor Code, your obligation to assign your right, title and interest throughout the world in and to all Intellectual Property does not apply to any works of authorship, inventions, intellectual property, materials, documents or other work product (including, without limitation, research, reports, software, databases, systems, applications, presentations, textual works, content or audiovisual materials) that you developed entirely on your own time without using Oaktree’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or Confidential Information (and any such works shall not be deemed “Intellectual Property” hereunder) except for the Intellectual Property that relates to either (A) the business of Oaktree at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the Intellectual Property, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of Oaktree or (B) results from any work performed by you for Oaktree.
(v) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any trade secrets of the Oaktree Group will be entitled to all of the protections and benefits under applicable law. You acknowledge and agree that (A) you may have had, and may have in the future, access to information that constitutes trade secrets but that has not been, and will not be, marked to indicate its status as such and (B) the preparation of this letter constitutes reasonable efforts under the circumstances by the Oaktree Group to notify you of the existence of such trade secrets and to maintain the confidentiality of such trade secrets within the provisions of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act or other applicable law.
(vi) Nothing in this Agreement or any other agreement between you and a member of the Oaktree Group shall prohibit or impede you from communicating, cooperating or filing a complaint with any U.S. federal, state or local governmental or law enforcement branch, agency or entity (collectively, a “Governmental Entity”) with respect to possible violations of any U.S. federal, state or local law or regulation, or otherwise making disclosures to any Governmental Entity, in each case, that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of any such law or regulation; provided, that in each case such communications and disclosures are consistent with applicable law. Moreover, you can testify truthfully in response to a subpoena or other legal process regarding any matter concerning your relationship with any member of the Oaktree Group provided, that you notify the Company and OCG within a reasonable time after receiving such a subpoena or other legal process so that Oaktree may take appropriate steps to protect its interests. Additionally, you understand and acknowledge that an individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made (i) in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official or to an attorney solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law, or (ii) in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. You understand and acknowledge further that an individual who files a lawsuit for retaliation by an employer for reporting a suspected violation of law may disclose the trade secret to the attorney of the individual and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, if the individual files any document containing the trade secret under seal and does not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order. Nothing in this Agreement requires you to obtain the prior authorization of (or to give notice to) the Oaktree Group regarding any such communication or disclosure. Notwithstanding the foregoing, under no circumstance are you authorized to disclose any information covered by the Oaktree Group’s attorney-client privilege or attorney work product without prior written consent of the Oaktree Group’s General Counsel.
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