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• Non Disclosure Covenant Employee Inventions In consideration of the compensation and benefits to be paid or provided to the Executive by the Employer under this Agreement, the Executive covenants as follows:

• Non-Disclosure Covenant The Company and NewCo recognize and acknowledge that each has in the past, currently has, and in the future may possibly have, access to certain Confidential Information of APP that is valuable, special and a unique asset of such entity's business. APP acknowledges that it had in the past, currently has, and in the future may possibly have, access to certain Confidential Information of the Company and NewCo that is valuable, special and a unique asset of each such business. The Company, NewCo and APP, severally, agree that they will not disclose such Confidential Information to any person, firm, corporation, association or other entity for any purpose or reason whatsoever, except (a) to authorized representatives of APP, NewCo and the Company and (b) to counsel and other advisers to APP, NewCo and the Company provided that such advisers (other than counsel) agree to the confidentiality provisions of this Section 16.1, unless (i) such information becomes available to or known by the public generally through no fault of the Company, NewCo or APP, as the case may be, (ii) disclosure is required by law or the order of any governmental authority under color of law, provided, that prior to disclosing any information pursuant to this clause (ii) the Company, NewCo or APP, as the case may be, shall, if possible, give prior written notice thereof to the Company, NewCo or APP and provide the Company or APP with the opportunity to contest such disclosure, (iii) the disclosing party reasonably believes that such disclosure is required in connection with the defense of a lawsuit against the disclosing party, or (iv) the disclosing party is the sole and exclusive owner of such Confidential Information as a result of the Merger or otherwise. In the event of a breach or threatened breach by the Company, on the one hand, and APP, on the other hand, of the provisions of this Section, APP, NewCo and the Company shall be entitled to an injunction restraining the other party, as the case may be, from disclosing, in whole or in part, such Confidential Information. Nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting any of such parties from pursuing any other available remedy for such breach or threatened breach, including the recovery of damages.

• EMPLOYEE PROPRIETARY INFORMATION AND INVENTIONS AGREEMENT In consideration of my employment or continued employment by CALIPER TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (the "COMPANY"), and the compensation now and hereafter paid to me, I hereby agree as follows:

• Ownership of Proprietary Information The Consultant agrees that all information that has been created, discovered of developed by the Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors, licensees, successors or assigns (collectively, the “Affiliates”) (including, without limitation, information relating to the development of the Company’s business created, discovered, developed by the Company any of its affiliates during the term of this Agreement, and information relating to the Company’s customers, suppliers, advisors, and licensees) and/or in which property rights have been assigned or otherwise conveyed to the Company or the Affiliates, shall be the sole property of the Company or the Affiliates, as applicable, and the Company or the Affiliates, as the case may be, shall be the sole owner of all patents, copyrights and other rights in connection therewith, including, without limitation, the right to make application for statutory protection. All the aforementioned information is hereinafter called “Proprietary Information.” By way of illustration, but not limitation, Proprietary Information includes trade secrets, processes, discoveries, structures, inventions, designs, ideas, works of authorship, copyrightable works, trademarks, copyrights, formulas, improvements, inventions, product concepts, techniques, marketing plans, merger and acquisition targets, strategies, forecasts, blueprints, sketches, records, notes, devices, drawings, customer lists, patent applications, continuation applications, continuation-in-part applications, file wrapper continuation applications and divisional applications and information about the Company’s Affiliates, its employees and/or advisors (including, without limitation, the compensation, job responsibility and job performance of such employees and/or advisors). All original content, proprietary information, trademarks, copyrights, patents or other intellectual property created by the Consultant that does not include any specific information relative to the patents or other intellectual property created by the Consultant that does not include any specific information relative to the Company’s proprietary information, shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Consultant.

• Ownership of Confidential Information The Employee acknowledges that the Confidential Information is and will be the sole and exclusive property of the Company. The Employee acknowledges that the Employee has not, and will not, acquire any right, title or interest in or to any of the Confidential Information.

• Nondisclosure Covenant The parties acknowledge that Employer and its affiliates are enterprises whose success is attributable largely to the ownership, use and development of certain valuable confidential and proprietary information (the “Proprietary Information”), and that Employee’s employment with Employer will involve access to and work with such information. Employee acknowledges that his relationship with Employer is a confidential relationship, and agrees that (i) he shall keep and maintain the Proprietary Information in strictest confidence, and (ii) he shall not, either directly or indirectly, use any Proprietary Information for his own benefit, or divulge, disclose or communicate any Proprietary Information in any manner whatsoever to any person or Entity other than to employees or agents of Employer having a need to know such Proprietary Information to perform their responsibilities on behalf of Employer, and to other persons or Entities in the normal course of Employer’s business. This nondisclosure obligation shall apply to all Proprietary Information, whether or not Employee participated in the development thereof. Upon termination of his employment with Employer for any reason, Employee will return to Employer all Proprietary Information in any medium and all other documents, data, materials or property of Employer (including any copies thereof) in his possession. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Proprietary Information” shall include any and all proprietary information related to the business of Employer and its affiliates and stockholders, or to any of their products, services, sales or operations, which is not generally known to the public, specifically including (but without limitation): trade secrets, processes, formulae, compounds and properties thereof, data, files, research results, computer programs and related source codes and object codes, improvements, inventions, techniques, marketing plans, strategies, forecasts, copyrightable material, suppliers, methods and manner of operations; information relating to the identity, needs and location of all past, present and prospective customers; and information with respect to the internal affairs of Employer and its affiliates. Such Proprietary Information may or may not contain legends or other written notice that it is of a confidential or proprietary nature. The parties stipulate that, as between them, the above-described matters are important and confidential and gravely affect the successful conduct of the business of Employer and its affiliates and that any breach of the terms of this Section 5(b) shall be a material breach of this Agreement.

• Nondisclosure of Confidential Information; Non-Competition (a) Executive shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, use, divulge, disclose or make accessible to any other person, firm, partnership, corporation or other entity any Confidential Information pertaining to the business of the Company or any of its affiliates, except (i) while employed by the Company, in the business of and for the benefit of the Company, or (ii) as required by law. For purposes of this Section 12(a), "

• Employee Information Each of Seller and Purchaser will provide the other, in a timely manner, any information with respect to any Employee's or Former Employee's employment with and compensation from Seller, any Post-Closing Affiliate or Purchaser or any of its Affiliates, as the case may be, or rights or benefits under any employee benefit plan which the other party hereto may reasonably request.

• Non-Disclosure of Proprietary Information Employee recognizes and acknowledges that the Trade Secrets (as defined below) and Confidential Information (as defined below) of the Company and its affiliates and all physical embodiments thereof (as they may exist from time-to-time, collectively, the “Proprietary Information”) are valuable, special and unique assets of the Company's and its affiliates' businesses. Employee further acknowledges that access to such Proprietary Information is essential to the performance of Employee's duties under this Agreement. Therefore, in order to obtain access to such Proprietary Information, Employee agrees that, except with respect to those duties assigned to him by the Company, Employee will hold in confidence all Proprietary Information and will not reproduce, use, distribute, disclose, publish or otherwise disseminate any Proprietary Information, in whole or in part, and will take no action causing, or fail to take any action necessary to prevent causing, any Proprietary Information to lose its character as Proprietary Information, nor will Employee make use of any such information for Employee's own purposes or for the benefit of any person, firm, corporation, association or other entity (except the Company) under any circumstances.

• Trade Secrets and Proprietary Information (a) Executive recognizes and acknowledges that the Company, through the expenditure of considerable time and money, has developed and will continue to develop in the future information concerning customers, clients, marketing, products, services, business, research and development activities and operational methods of the Company and its customers or clients, contracts, financial or other data, technical data or any other confidential or proprietary information possessed, owned or used by the Company, the disclosure of which could or does have a material adverse effect on the Company, its business, any business it proposes to engage in, its operations, financial condition or prospects and that the same are confidential and proprietary and considered “confidential information” of the Company for the purposes of this Agreement. In consideration of his employment, Executive agrees that he will not, during or after the Term, without the consent of the Board make any disclosure of confidential information now or hereafter possessed by the Company, to any person, partnership, corporation or entity either during or after the term here of, except that nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prohibit Executive from using or disclosing such information (a) if such disclosure is necessary in the normal course of the Company’s business in accordance with Company policies or instructions or authorization from the Board, (b) such information shall become public knowledge other than by or as a result of disclosure by a person not having a right to make such disclosure, or (c) subsequent to the Term, if such information shall have either (i) been developed by Executive independent of any of the Company’s confidential or proprietary information or (ii) been disclosed to Executive by a person not subject to a confidentiality agreement with or other obligation of confidentiality to the Company. For the purposes of Sections 6, 7 and 8 of this Agreement, the term “Company” shall include the Company, its parent, its subsidiaries and affiliates, other than affiliates whose relationship as an affiliate is derived solely from Executive’s interest in or position at the affiliate.