Confidentiality; Unfair Competition Sample Clauses

Confidentiality; Unfair Competition. 6.1 Executive recognizes and acknowledges that the Company is attempting to grow through the acquisition of businesses in its industry and related industries and that such activities are highly competitive and that during the course of his employment he shall have access to significant proprietary and confidential information belonging to Company and the VERTICAL V Group related to such activities. Executive therefore covenants and agrees, for the duration of this Agreement and for a one (1) year period after termination, not to use (other than in furtherance of Company’s business interests during the Term) or disclose any confidential proprietary information of Company or any member of the VERTICAL V Group, including, but not limited to lists of merger and acquisition targets and their officers whom Executive has contacted during his employment (“Information”). Executive shall retain all such Information in trust for the sole benefit of Company. Executive shall present all business opportunities arising from Information to the Company in writing during the Non-Competition Period. The Company shall within thirty (30) days of receiving Executive’s request indicate whether the Company is going to pursue such business opportunity. If the Company waives in writing pursuing a business opportunity, Executive may pursue such business opportunity and Executive’s obligations under this section with respect to such business opportunity shall be terminated.
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Confidentiality; Unfair Competition. Executive agrees that Company has many substantial, legitimate business interests that can be protected only by Executive agreeing not to compete with Company unfairly. These interests include, without limitation, Company's contacts and relationships with its supply sources, Company's reputation and goodwill in the industry, and Company's rights in its confidential information. Executive agrees that information not generally known to the public to which Executive has been or will be exposed as a result of Executive's employment by Company is confidential information that belongs to Company. This includes information developed by Executive, alone or with others, or entrusted to Company by its supply sources, customers or others. Company's confidential information includes, without limitation, information relating to Company's trade secrets, know-how, procedures, pricing, products, services, purchasing, accounting, marketing, sales, supply sources, employees, and customers and active prospects and their related needs. Executive will hold Company's confidential information in strict confidence and will not disclose or use it except as authorized by Company and for Company's benefit. Executive also will not disparage Company or its business or services. Executive will not, apart from good faith competition, interfere with Company's relationships with its clients, employees, vendors, bankers or others.
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Confidentiality; Unfair Competition. 7.1 Executive recognizes and acknowledges that the business of the Company is highly competitive and that during the course of Executive’s employment Executive shall have access to significant proprietary and confidential information belonging to the Company and the NV5 Group. Executive therefore covenants and agrees, for the duration of this Employment Agreement and at all times following its termination, not to use (other than in furtherance of the Company's business interests during the Term) or disclose any confidential proprietary information of the Company or any member of the NV5 Group, including, but not limited to patents, patent rights, inventions and intellectual property rights, techniques, know-how, trade secrets, software, technical designs, trademarks, trademark rights, tradenames, tradename rights, service marks, service xxxx rights, copyrights, customer and supplier lists, manufacturing processes, business plans, strategic plans, marketing information and other business and financial information of or related to the Company or members of the NV5 Group ("Information"). Executive shall retain all such Information in trust for the sole benefit of the Company. Subject to
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Confidentiality; Unfair Competition. 6.1 Executive recognizes and acknowledges that the business of Company is highly competitive and that during the course of his employment he will have access to significant proprietary and confidential information belonging to Company and the BV Group. Executive therefore covenants and agrees, for the duration of this Agreement and at all times following its termination, that he will not use (other than in furtherance of Company’s business interests during the Term) or disclose any confidential proprietary information of Company or any member of the BV Group, including, but not limited to patents, patent rights, inventions and intellectual property rights, techniques, know-how, trade secrets, software, technical designs, trademarks, trademark rights, tradenames, tradename rights, copyrights, customer and supplier lists, manufacturing processes, business plans, strategic plans, marketing information and other business and financial information of or related to Company or members of the BV Group. Executive shall retain all such Information in trust for the sole benefit of Company. The obligations of Executive under this Section 6.1 shall not apply to any information which (a) was part of the public domain prior to the date of this Agreement other than as a result of unauthorized disclosure by Executive, (b) becomes part of the public domain by reason of disclosure by some third person who did not acquire the information from Executive, or (c) becomes part of the public domain by reason of disclosure by Executive where such disclosure is made during the Term in furtherance of Company’s business interests.
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Confidentiality; Unfair Competition. Executive agrees that the Company has many substantial, legitimate business interests that can be protected only by Executive agreeing not to compete with the Company unfairly. These interests include, without limitation, the Company's contacts and relationships with its supply sources, the Company's reputation and goodwill in the industry, and the Company's rights in its confidential information. Executive agrees that information not generally known to the public to which Executive has been or will be exposed as a result of Executive's employment by the Company is confidential information that belongs to the Company. This includes information developed by Executive, alone or with others, or entrusted to the Company by its supply sources, customers or others. The Company's confidential information includes, without limitation, information relating to the Company's trade secrets, know-how, procedures, pricing, products, services, purchasing, accounting, marketing, sales, supply sources, employees, and customers and active prospects and their related needs. Executive will hold the Company's confidential information in strict confidence and will not disclose or use it except as authorized by the Company and for the Company's benefit. Executive will not, apart from good faith competition, interfere with the Company's relationships with its clients, employees, vendors, bankers or others. During his employment with the Company, Executive will not directly or indirectly, in any capacity (such as a business principal, consultant, contractor or employee), engage or participate in any business that is in competition in any manner whatsoever with the business of the Company, nor for three (3) months following his termination for any reason, take a position in any capacity with a domestic xxxxxx producing less than two million barrels a year.
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Confidentiality; Unfair Competition. (a) Executive recognizes and acknowledges that the business of the Company is highly competitive and that during the course of her relationship with the Company she has had and will have access to significant proprietary and confidential information belonging to the Company. Executive therefore covenants and agrees, for the duration of this Agreement and at all times following its termination, she will not use or disclose (other than in furtherance of Company’s business interests during the term of this Agreement and as authorized by the Company) any confidential proprietary information of the Company, including, but not limited to, customer and supplier lists, customer or prospect information, pricing information, business plans, business development plans or other strategic plans or information, sales and marketing information, patents, patent rights, inventions, trademark or trade name rights, copyrights and other intellectual property rights, techniques, know-how and trade secret information, plans or information regarding the Company’s future products and services and other business and financial information of or relating to the Company or its customers. Executive shall retain all such information in trust for the sole benefit of the Company. Executive agrees that the Company has expended considerable time, effort and expense in assembling and maintaining such information and that such information constitutes both (i) trade secret and/or confidential and proprietary information of the Company and (ii) part of the Company’s goodwill.
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Confidentiality; Unfair Competition. (a) Executive recognizes and acknowledges that the business of the Company is highly competitive and that during the course of her relationship with the Company she has had and will have access to significant proprietary and confidential information belonging to the Company. Executive therefore covenants and agrees, for the duration of this Agreement and at all times following its termination, she will not use or disclose (other than in furtherance of Company’s business interests during the term of this Agreement and as authorized by the Company) any confidential proprietary information of the Company, including, but not limited to, customer and supplier lists, customer or prospect information, pricing information, business plans, business development plans or other strategic plans or information, sales and marketing information, patents, patent rights, inventions, trademark or trade name rights, copyrights and other intellectual property rights, techniques, know-how and trade secret information, plans or information regarding the Company’s future products and services and other business and financial information of or relating to the Company or its customers. Executive shall retain all such information in trust for the sole benefit of the Company. Executive agrees that the Company has expended considerable time, effort and expense in assembling and maintaining such information and that such information constitutes both (i) trade secret and/or confidential and proprietary information of the Company and (ii) part of the Company’s goodwill. (b) During the term of this Agreement and Executive’s employment by the Company, and for a period of twelve months after the Retirement Date, Executive shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, directly or indirectly, whether as a principal, agent, officer, director, partner, employee, consultant, independent contractor or in any other capacity whatsoever, alone or in association with any other person, carry on, or be engaged, concerned or take part in, or render services or assistance to, or own, share in the earnings of, or invest in the stocks, bonds or other securities of any business, firm, corporation or institution that is directly or indirectly in competition with the Company. An individual or entity will be presumed to be in competition with the Company if the individual or entity markets, sells, produces, renders or distributes the same or similar types 3 or kinds of products and/or services a...
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  • Confidentiality; Non-Competition (a) Executive agrees that he will not, at any time during or after the Term, other than in the ordinary course of performing his duties for the Company, make use of or divulge to any other person, firm or corporation any trade or business secret, process, method or means, or any other confidential information concerning the business or policies of the Company, which he may have learned in connection with his employment. For purposes of this Agreement, a “trade or business secret, process, method or means, or any other confidential information” shall mean and include written information reasonably treated as confidential or as a trade secret by the Company. Executive’s obligation under this Section 4.3(a) shall not apply to any information which (i) is known publicly (including information known publicly within the relevant trade or industry); (ii) is in the public domain or hereafter enters the public domain without the fault of Executive; (iii) is known to Executive prior to his receipt of such information from the Company, as evidenced by written records of Executive; or (iv) is hereafter disclosed to Executive by a third party not under an obligation of confidence to the Company. Executive agrees not to remove from the premises of the Company, except as a director or an employee of the Company in the performance of his duties for the Company and its affiliates or except as specifically permitted in writing by the Company, any document or other object containing or reflecting any such confidential information. Executive recognizes that all such documents and objects, whether developed by him or by someone else, will be the sole exclusive property of the Company. Upon termination of his employment hereunder, Executive shall forthwith deliver to the Company all such confidential information, including without limitation all lists of customers, correspondence, accounts, records and any other documents or property made or held by him or under his control in relation to the business or affairs of the Company, and no copy of any such confidential information shall be retained by him; provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent Executive from retaining (i) his papers and other materials of a personal nature, including, without limitation, photographs, correspondence, personal diaries, calendars, personal files and phone books, (ii) information showing his compensation or relating to reimbursement of his business expenses, (iii) information that is necessary for tax purposes, and (iv) copies of plans, programs, policies and agreements relating to his employment, or termination thereof, with the Company and its affiliates. Anything herein or elsewhere to the contrary notwithstanding, the provision of this Section 4.3(a) shall not apply (i) when disclosure is required by law or by any court, arbitrator, mediator or administrative or legislative body (including any committee thereof) with jurisdiction to order Executive to disclose or make accessible any information or (ii) with respect to any other litigation, arbitration or mediation involving this Agreement or any other agreement between the parties, including, without limitation, the enforcement of such agreements.

  • Confidentiality and Non-Competition To the Company’s knowledge, no director, officer, key employee or consultant of the Company is subject to any confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-competition agreement or non-solicitation agreement with any employer or prior employer that could reasonably be expected to materially affect his ability to be and act in his respective capacity of the Company or be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

  • Unfair Competition I acknowledge that the Company has a compelling business interest in preventing unfair competition stemming from the intentional or inadvertent use or disclosure of the Company’s Trade Secret and Proprietary Information and Company Property.

  • Confidentiality; Noncompetition (a) The Employer and the Employee acknowledge that the services to be performed by the Employee under this Agreement are unique and extraordinary and, as a result of such employment, the Employee will be in possession of confidential information relating to the business practices of the Company. The term "

  • Confidentiality and Non-Competitions To the Company’s knowledge, no director, officer, key employee or consultant of the Company is subject to any confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-competition agreement or non-solicitation agreement with any employer or prior employer that could reasonably be expected to materially affect his ability to be and act in his respective capacity of the Company or be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

  • Confidentiality and Noncompetition The Executive shall enter into the Confidentiality Agreement and Non-Compete Agreement. The Executive’s execution of those agreements is a material inducement for the Company to enter into this Agreement. Therefore, this Agreement will be null and void unless the Executive enters into the Confidentiality Agreement and the Non-Compete Agreement.

  • Confidentiality/Nondisclosure Employee covenants and agrees that any and all information concerning the customers, businesses and services of the Corporation of which he has knowledge or access as a result of his association with the Corporation in any capacity, shall be deemed confidential in nature and shall not, without the proper written consent of the Corporation, be directly or indirectly used, disseminated, disclosed or published by Employee to third parties other than in connection with the usual conduct of the business of the Corporation. Such information shall expressly include, but shall not be limited to, information concerning the Corporation’s trade secrets, business operations, business records, customer lists or other customer information. Upon termination of employment Employee shall deliver to the Corporation all originals and copies of documents, forms, records or other information, in whatever form it may exist, concerning the Corporation or its business, customers, products or services. In construing this provision it is agreed that it shall be interpreted broadly so as to provide the Corporation with the maximum protection. This Section 11 shall not be applicable to any information which, through no misconduct or negligence of Employee, has previously been disclosed to the public by anyone other than Employee.

  • Confidentiality and Non-Competition Agreement All employees of the Group Companies with access to Groups Companies’ confidential information have entered into a standard confidentiality and non-competition agreements. To the best of knowledge of the Group Companies, none of these employees are in breach of such agreements in any material respect. To the best knowledge of the Group Companies and except as disclosed in the Disclosure Schedule, none of the Key Employees (as defined below) is obligated under any contract, or subject to any judgment, decree or order of any Governmental Authority, that would interfere with the use of his or her best efforts to promote the interests of the Group Companies or that would conflict with the Group Companies’ businesses as proposed to be conducted. To the best knowledge of the Group Companies, neither the execution or delivery of this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents, nor the carrying on of the any Group Company’s businesses by its employees, nor the conduct of the any Group Company’s businesses as proposed, will conflict with or result in a breach of the terms, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any contract, covenant or instrument under which any of such employees is now obligated in any material respect.

  • Confidentiality; Non-Disclosure The State shall exercise at least the same degree of care to safeguard any trade secrets or confidential information of Contractor as the State does its own property of a similar nature and shall take reasonable steps to ensure that neither the confidential information of Contractor nor any part of it will be disclosed for reasons other than its own business interests. Such prohibition on disclosures does not apply to disclosures by the State to its employees, agents or representatives, provided such disclosures are reasonably necessary to the State’s use of the Deliverable, and provided further that the State will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the Deliverable is not disclosed by such parties in contravention of this Contract. The State’s performance of the requirements of this Section shall be subject to the State of Connecticut Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"). All Records, Client Agency Data, and any Data owned by the State in any form, in the possession of the Contractor or Contractor Parties, whether uploaded, collected, stored, held, hosted, located or utilized by Contractor and Contractor Parties directly or indirectly, must remain within the continental United States.

  • Non Competition and Confidentiality The Executive agrees that:

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