Inventions and Confidential Information. Executive hereby covenants, agrees and acknowledges as follows:
(a) Company is engaged in a continuous program of research, design, development, production, marketing and servicing with respect to its business and that as part of Executive’s employment by Company, Executive is (or may be) expected to make new contributions and inventions of value to Company.
(b) Executive’s employment hereunder creates a relationship of confidence and trust between Executive and Company with respect to certain information pertaining to the business of Company and its Affiliates (as hereinafter defined) or pertaining to the business of any client or customer of Company or its Affiliates which may be made known to Executive by Company or any of its Affiliates or by any client or customer of Company or any of its Affiliates or learned by Executive during the course of his employment.
(c) Company possesses and will continue to possess information that has been created, discovered or developed by, or otherwise become known to it (including, without limitation, information created, discovered, developed or made known by Executive during the period of or arising out of his employment with the Company) or in which property rights have been or may be assigned or otherwise conveyed to Company, which information has commercial value in the business in which Company is engaged and is treated by Company as confidential.
(d) Any and all inventions, products, discoveries, improvements, processes, manufacturing, marketing and service methods or techniques, formulae, designs, styles, specifications, data bases, computer programs (whether in source code or object code), know-how, strategies and data, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar statutes, made, developed or created by Executive (whether at the request or suggestion of Company, any of its Affiliates, or otherwise, whether alone or in conjunction with others, and whether during regular hours of work or otherwise) during the period of his employment by Company (collectively, hereinafter referred to as “Inventions”), which may pertain to the business, products, or processes of Company or any of its Affiliates, will be promptly and fully disclosed by Executive to an appropriate executive officer of Company (other than Executive) and shall be Company’s exclusive property, and Executive will promptly execute and/or deliver to an appropriate executive officer of Company (other than Executive) without any addit...
Inventions and Confidential Information. The parties hereto recognize that a major need of the Company is to preserve its specialized knowledge, trade secrets, and confidential information. The strength and good will of the Company is derived from the specialized knowledge, trade secrets, and confidential information generated from experience with the activities undertaken by the Company and its subsidiaries. The disclosure of this information and knowledge to competitors would be beneficial to them and detrimental to the Company, as would the disclosure of information about the marketing practices, pricing practices, costs, profit margins, design specifications, analytical techniques, and similar items of the Company and its subsidiaries. The Executive acknowledges that the proprietary information, observations and data obtained by him while employed by the Company concerning the business or affairs of the Company are the property of the Company. By reason of his being a senior executive of the Company, the Executive has or will have access to, and has obtained or will obtain, specialized knowledge, trade secrets and confidential information about the Company’s operations and the operations of its subsidiaries, which operations extend throughout the United States. For purposes of this Section 6, “Company” shall mean the Company and each of its controlled subsidiaries. Therefore, subject to the provisions of Section 14 hereof, the Executive hereby agrees as follows, recognizing that the Company is relying on these agreements in entering into this Agreement:
(i) During the period of Executive’s employment with the Company and thereafter, the Executive will not use, disclose to others, or publish or otherwise make available to any other party any inventions or any confidential business information about the affairs of the Company, including but not limited to confidential information concerning the Company’s products. “Confidential Information” shall include commercial or trade secrets about Company’s products, methods, engineering designs and standards, analytical techniques, technical information, customer information, employee information, or financial and business records, any of which contains proprietary information created or acquired by the Company and which information is held in confidence by Company. Confidential Information does not include information which: (i) becomes generally available to the public, unless said Confidential Information was disclosed in violation of a confidentiali...
Inventions and Confidential Information. The parties hereto recognize that a major need of the Company is to preserve its specialized knowledge, trade secrets, and confidential information. The strength and good will of the Company is derived from the specialized knowledge, trade secrets, and confidential information generated from experience with the activities undertaken by the Company. The disclosure of this information and knowledge to competitors would be beneficial to them and detrimental to the Company, as would the disclosure of information about the marketing practices, pricing practices, costs, profit margins, design specifications, analytical techniques, and similar items of the Company. By reason of his being a senior executive of the Company, Executive has or will have access to, and has obtained or will obtain, specialized knowledge, trade secrets and confidential information about the Company's operations wherever it does business. Therefore, Executive hereby agrees as follows, recognizing that the Company is relying on these agreements in entering into this Agreement:
(i) During and for three years after the Period of Employment hereunder, Executive will maintain as confidential and will not use, disclose to others, or publish or otherwise make available to any other party any inventions or any confidential business information about the affairs of the Company, or its Affiliates, including but not limited to confidential information concerning their products, methods, product purchasing arrangements and agreements, product distribution arrangements and agreements, engineering designs, system designs and standards, analytical techniques, technical information, customer information, Executive information, and other confidential information acquired by him in the course of his past or future services for the Company. Executive agrees to hold as the Company's property all memoranda, books, papers, letters, formulas and other data, and all copies thereof and therefrom, in any way relating to the Company's or its Affiliates' businesses and affairs, whether made by him or otherwise coming into his possession, and on termination of his employment, or on demand of the Company, at any time, to deliver the same to the Company within twelve (12) hours of such termination or demand.
(ii) During the Period of Employment hereunder and for one year following the last day of the Period of Employment, Executive will not induce or otherwise attempt to influence any executive of the Company, to leave...
Inventions and Confidential Information. So long as you shall be employed by the Company, you agree promptly to make known to the Company the existence of any and all creations, inventions, discoveries, and improvements made or conceived by you, either solely or jointly with others, during the term of this Agreement and for three (3) years thereafter, and to assign to the Company the full exclusive right to any and all such creations, inventions, discoveries, and improvements relating to any subject matter with which the Company is now or shall become concerned, or relating to any other subject matter if made with the use of the Company's time, materials, or facilities. To the fullest extent permitted by law, any and all of the foregoing creations, inventions, discoveries and improvements shall be considered as "work-made-for-hire" and the Company shall be the owner thereof. You further agree, without charge to the Company but at its expense, if requested to do so by the Company, to execute, acknowledge, and deliver all papers, including applications or assignments for patents, trademarks, and copyrights relating thereto, as may be considered by the Company to be necessary or desirable to obtain or assign to the Company any and all patents, trademarks, or copyrights for any and all such creations, inventions, discoveries, and improvements in any and all countries, and to vest title thereto in the Company in all such creations, inventions, discoveries, and improvements as indicated above conceived during your employment by the Company, and for three (3) years thereafter. You further agree that you will not disclose to any third person any trade secrets or proprietary information of the Company, or use any trade secrets or proprietary information of the Company in any manner, except in the pursuit of your duties as an employee of the Company, and that you will return to the Company all materials (whether originals or copies) containing any such trade secrets or proprietary information (in whatever medium) on termination of your employment by the Company. The obligations set forth in this Paragraph 12 shall survive the termination of your employment hereunder.
Inventions and Confidential Information. The Executive hereby covenants, agrees and acknowledges that employment under this Agreement is pursuant to execution of the Company’s form of Proprietary Information and Inventions Assignment Agreement (“PIIA”), which requires, among other things, the assignment of rights to any company related invention made during your employment at Company and non-disclosure of proprietary information.
Inventions and Confidential Information. The Executive hereby covenants, agrees and acknowledges as follows:
(a) The Executive's employment by the Company creates a relationship of confidence and trust between the Executive and the Company with respect to certain information pertaining to the Business of the Company and its Affiliates or pertaining to the business of any client or customer of the Company or its Affiliates which may be known by the Executive pursuant to his involvement with the Company or otherwise made known to the Executive by the Company or any of its Affiliates or by a client or customer of the Company or any of its Affiliates or learned by the Executive during the period of his employment by the Company. For the purposes of this Agreement, the term "Affiliate" or "Affiliates" shall mean the Company as well as any person, corporation or other entity directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Company. For the purposes of this definition, "control", "controlling" and "controlled" when used with respect to any person, corporation or other entity means the power to direct the management and policies of such person or entity, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
Inventions and Confidential Information. The parties hereto recognize that a major need of the Company is to preserve its specialized knowledge, trade secrets, and confidential information. The strength and good will of the Company is derived from the specialized knowledge, trade secrets, and confidential information generated from experience with the activities undertaken by the Company and its subsidiaries. The disclosure of this information and knowledge to competitors would be beneficial to them and detrimental to the Company, as would the disclosure of information about the marketing practices, pricing practices, costs, profit margins, design specifications, analytical techniques, and similar items of the Company and its subsidiaries. By reason of his being a senior executive of the Company, the Employee has or will have access to, and has obtained or will obtain, specialized knowledge, trade secrets and confidential information about the Company's operations and the operations of its subsidiaries, which operations extend throughout the United Mexican States.
Inventions and Confidential Information. The Employee hereby covenants, agrees and acknowledges as follows:
(a) The Company is engaged in a continuous program of research, design, development, production, marketing and servicing with respect to its business.
(b) The Employee's employment hereunder creates a relationship of confidence and trust between the Employee and the Company with respect to certain information pertaining to the business of the Company and its Affiliates (as hereinafter defined) or pertaining to the business of any client or customer of the Company or its Affiliates which may be made known to the Employee by the Company or any of its Affiliates or by any client or customer of the Company or any of its Affiliates or learned by the Employee during the period of Employee's employment by the Company.
(c) The Company possesses and will continue to possess information that has been created, discovered or developed by, or otherwise become known to it (including, without limitation, information created, discovered or developed by, or made known to, the Employee during the period of Employee's employment or arising out of Employee's employment) or in which property rights have been or may be assigned or otherwise conveyed to the Company, which information has commercial value in the business in which the Company is engaged and is treated by the Company as confidential.
(d) Any and all inventions, products, discoveries, improvements, processes, manufacturing, marketing and services methods or techniques, formulae, designs, styles, specifications, data bases, computer programs (whether in source code or object code), know-how, strategies and data, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar statutes, made, developed or created by the Employee (whether at the request or suggestion of the Company, any of its Affiliates, or otherwise, whether alone or in conjunction with others, and whether during regular hours of work or otherwise)
Inventions and Confidential Information. So long as you shall be employed by the Company, you agree promptly to make known to the Company the existence of any and all creations, inventions, discoveries, and improvements made or conceived by you, either solely or jointly with others, during the term of this Agreement and for three (3) years thereafter, and to assign to the Company the full exclusive right to any and all such creations, inventions, discoveries, and improvements relating to any subject matter with which the Company is now or shall become concerned, or relating to any other subject matter if made with the use of the Company's time, materials, or facilities. To the fullest extent permitted by law, any of the foregoing inventions shall be considered as "work-made-for-hire" and the Company shall be the owner thereof. You further agree, without charge to the Company but at its expense, if requested to do so by the Company, to execute, acknowledge, and deliver all papers, including applications or assignments for patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and papers relating thereto, as may be considered by the Company to be necessary or desirable to obtain or assign to the Company any and all patents, trademarks, or copyrights for any and all such creations, inventions, discoveries, and improvements in any and all countries, and to vest title thereto in the Company in all such creations, inventions, discoveries, and improvements as indicated above conceived during your employment by the Company, and for three
Inventions and Confidential Information. As used in this Agreement, the term “Inventions” includes, without limitation, electronic designs, hardware and software creations, discoveries, formulae, processes, manufacturing techniques, trade secrets, inventions, improvements, concepts, techniques, methods, systems, designs, circuits, cost data, computer programs, development or experimental work, work in progress, ideas and copyrightable or patentable works, including all rights to obtain, register, perfect and enforce these proprietary interests. The term “Confidential Information” means (a) information pertaining to any aspect of the Company’s business which is not known by actual or potential competitors of the Company or (b) proprietary information of the Company or its customers or suppliers, whether of a technical nature or otherwise, which the Company (or its suppliers or vendors) takes reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized disclosure to or use by third parties, including, without limitation, technical, financial, marketing, manufacturing, or distribution information, customer or client lists and names; addresses and phone numbers of Company’s customers, clients, and employees; or other technical or business information or trade secrets of the Company.
