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. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Trade Secrets” means information, including, but not limited to, any technical or nontechnical data, formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, drawing, process, financial data, financial plan, product plan, list of actual or potential customers or suppliers, or other information similar to any of the foregoing, which derives economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can derive economic value from its disclosure or use. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Trade Secrets” does not include information that Employee can show by competent proof (i) was known to Employee and reduced to writing prior to disclosure by the Company (but only if Employee promptly notifies the Company of Employee’s prior knowledge); (ii) was generally known to the public at the time the Company disclosed the information to Employee; (iii) became generally known to the public after disclosure by the Company through no act or omission of Employee; or (iv) was disclosed to Employee by a third party having a bona fide right both to possess the information and to disclose the information to Employee. The term “Confidential Information” means any data or information of the Company, other than trade secrets, which is valuable to the Company and not generally known to competitors of the Company. The provisions of this Section 6 will apply to Trade Secrets for so long as such information remains a trade secret and to Confidential Information during Employee’s employment with the Company and for a period of two (2) years following any termination of Employee’s employment with the Company for whatever reason.
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Cicero Inc), Employment Agreement (Cicero Inc), Employment Agreement (Cicero Inc)
Non-Disclosure of Proprietary Information. Employee recognizes (a) The Company may have provided and/or may provide the Executive with access to confidential, proprietary, and acknowledges that highly sensitive information relating to the Trade Secrets business of the Company, which is a competitive asset of the Company, and which may include, without limitation, data and information: (i) relating to the Company’s business, regardless of whether the data or information constitutes a trade secret; (ii) disclosed to the Executive or of which the Executive became aware of as defined belowa consequence of the Executive’s relationship with the Company or any of its affiliates; (iii) having value to the Company or any of its affiliates; (iv) not generally known to competitors of the Company; and (v) which may include, without limitation, trade secrets, methods of operation, information regarding acquisitions and dispositions, tenant (including prospective tenant) and Confidential Information (as defined below) lease information, shareholder information, financial information and projections, personnel data, information of any third party provided to the Company and or any of its affiliates which the Company or any affiliate is obligated to treat as confidential, and all physical embodiments thereof (similar information. The confidential, proprietary, and highly sensitive information described herein above is referred to as they may exist from time-to-time, collectively, the “Proprietary Information”) are valuable, special .” The Company and unique assets of the Company's and its affiliates' businesses. Employee further acknowledges Executive hereby agree that access to such the term Proprietary Information is essential shall include only such information of which the Executive has specific knowledge.
(b) The Executive acknowledges and understands that the term Proprietary Information does not include information or know-how which: (i) has been voluntarily disclosed 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 public by the Company, Employee will hold in confidence all except where such public disclosure has been made without authorization from the Company; (ii) which has otherwise entered the public domain through lawful means, or (iii) is approved for release by written authorization of the Company.
(c) The Executive acknowledges that from time to time the Company may disclose Proprietary Information to the Executive in order to enable the Executive to perform his duties for the Company. The Executive recognizes and will not reproduceagrees that the unauthorized disclosure of Proprietary Information could place the Company at a competitive disadvantage. Consequently, the Executive agrees not: (i) to use, distribute, disclose, publish or otherwise disseminate at any Proprietary Information, in whole or in part, and will take no action causing, or fail to take any action necessary to prevent causingtime, any Proprietary Information to lose its character as Proprietary Information, nor will Employee make use of any such information for Employee's the Executive’s own purposes benefit or for the benefit of any person, firmentity, corporation, association or corporation other entity (except than the Company) under any circumstances. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Trade Secrets” means information, including, but not limited to, any technical ; or nontechnical data, formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, drawing, process, financial data, financial plan, product plan, list of actual or potential customers or suppliers, or other information similar to any of the foregoing, which derives economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can derive economic value from its disclosure or use. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Trade Secrets” does not include information that Employee can show by competent proof (i) was known to Employee and reduced to writing prior to disclosure by the Company (but only if Employee promptly notifies the Company of Employee’s prior knowledge); (ii) was generally known to the public at the time the Company disclosed the information disclose, directly or indirectly, any Proprietary Information to Employee; (iii) became generally known to the public after disclosure by the Company through no act any person who is not a current trustee or omission of Employee; or (iv) was disclosed to Employee by a third party having a bona fide right both to possess the information and to disclose the information to Employee. The term “Confidential Information” means any data or information employee of the Company, other than trade secrets, which is valuable except in the performance of the duties assigned to the Company and not generally known to competitors Executive by the Company, at any time before or after the termination of the Executive’s employment, without the express, written consent of the Company. The provisions Executive further acknowledges and agrees not to make copies, except in the performance of this Section 6 will apply the duties assigned to Trade Secrets for so long the Executive by the Company, of any Proprietary Information, except as such information remains a trade secret authorized by the Company.
(d) The Executive acknowledges that any and to Confidential Information during Employeeall documents, including documents containing Proprietary Information, furnished by the Company or otherwise acquired or developed by the Executive in connection with his employment or association with the Company (collectively, “Recipient Materials”) shall at all times be the property of the Company. Promptly following the termination of the Executive’s employment with the Company, the Executive shall destroy or return to the Company any Recipient Materials that are in the Executive’s possession, custody, or control.
(e) Nothing contained herein shall prohibit the Executive from reporting possible violations of federal law or regulation to any governmental agency or entity, including but not limited to the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, any Inspector General, or making other disclosures protected under the whistleblower provisions of federal law or regulation. The Executive does not need the prior authorization of the Company to make any such reports or disclosures and the Executive is not required to notify the Company that the Executive has made such reports or disclosures.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contain herein, the parties hereto acknowledge that pursuant to 18 USC § 1833(b), the Executive may not be held liable under any criminal or civil federal or state trade secret law for disclosure of a period trade secret: (i) made in confidence to a government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, solely for the purpose of two reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law or (2ii) years following any termination of Employee’s employment with in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. Additionally, the parties hereto acknowledge that if the Executive sues the Company for whatever reasonretaliation based on the reporting of a suspected violation of law, the Executive may disclose a trade secret to his attorney and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, so long as any document containing the trade secret is filed under seal and the Executive does not disclose the trade secret except pursuant to court order.
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Samples: Change in Control Agreement (Equity Commonwealth), Change in Control Agreement (Equity Commonwealth)
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. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Trade Secrets” means information, including, but not limited to, any technical or nontechnical data, formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, drawing, process, financial data, financial plan, product plan, list of actual or potential customers or suppliers, or other information similar to any of the foregoing, which derives economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can derive economic value from its disclosure or use. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Trade Secrets” does not include information that Employee can show by competent proof (i) was known to Employee and reduced to writing prior to disclosure by the Company (but only if Employee promptly notifies the Company of Employee’s prior knowledge); (ii) was generally known to the public at the time the Company disclosed the information to Employee; (iii) became generally known to the public after disclosure by the Company through no act or omission of Employee; or (iv) was disclosed to Employee by a third party having a bona fide right both to possess the information and to disclose the information to Employee. The term “Confidential Information” means any data or information of the Company, other than trade secrets, which is valuable to the Company and not generally known to competitors of the Company. The provisions of this Section 6 will apply to Trade Secrets for so long as such information remains a trade secret and to Confidential Information during Employee’s employment with the Company and for a period of two (2) years following any termination of Employee’s employment with the Company for whatever reason.)
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Cicero Inc), Employment Agreement (Cicero Inc)
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 affiliates, including for purposes of this Section 10 any of the same purchased from SOAdesk or VTI, 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. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Trade Secrets” means information, including, but not limited to, any technical or nontechnical data, formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, drawing, process, financial data, financial plan, product plan, list of actual or potential customers or suppliers, or other information similar to any of the foregoing, which derives economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can derive economic value from its disclosure or use. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Trade Secrets” does not include information that Employee can show by competent proof (i) was known to Employee and reduced to writing prior to disclosure by the Company (but only if Employee promptly notifies the Company of Employee’s prior knowledge); (ii) was generally known to the public at the time the Company disclosed the information to Employee; (iii) became generally known to the public after disclosure by the Company through no act or omission of Employee; or (iv) was disclosed to Employee by a third party having a bona fide right both to possess the information and to disclose the information to Employee; provided, that clauses (i) through (iv) shall not be available for Trade Secrets of or purchased from SOAdesk or VTI. The term “Confidential Information” means any data or information of the Company, other than trade secrets, which is valuable to the Company and not generally known to competitors of the Company. The provisions of this Section 6 will apply to Trade Secrets for so long as such information remains a trade secret and to Confidential Information during Employee’s employment with the Company and for a period of two (2) years following any termination of Employee’s employment with the Company for whatever reason.
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Cicero Inc), Employment Agreement (Cicero Inc)
Non-Disclosure of Proprietary Information. Employee recognizes and Executive acknowledges that during the Trade Secrets course of Executive's employment with EVEREST Executive received, obtained or became aware of or had access to proprietary information, lists and records of customers and trade secrets which are the property of EVEREST and which are not known by competitors or generally by the public (as defined below"Proprietary Information") and Confidential recognizes such Proprietary 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 to be valuable and unique assets of the Company's and its affiliates' businessesEVEREST. Employee further acknowledges that access to such For purposes of this subparagraph:
(i) Proprietary Information is essential deemed to include, without limitation, (A) marketing materials, marketing manuals, policy manuals, procedure manuals, policy and procedure manuals, operating manuals and procedures and product documentation, (B) all information about pricing, products, procedures, practices, business methods, systems, plans, strategies or personnel of EVEREST, (C) circumstances surrounding the relationships with, knowledge of, or information about the customers, clients, and accounts of EVEREST, including but not limited to the performance identity of Employee's duties under this Agreement. Thereforecurrent active customers or prospects who have been contacted by EVEREST, in order to obtain access to such Proprietary Informationand (D) all other information about EVEREST which has not been otherwise publicly disseminated by EVEREST, Employee agrees thatwhether or not that information is recorded and notwithstanding the method of recordation, except with respect to those duties assigned to him by the Company, Employee will hold in confidence all if any; and
(ii) Proprietary Information is deemed to exclude all information legally in the public domain. Executive agrees to hold the Proprietary Information in the strictest confidence and will agrees not reproduce, use, distribute, disclose, publish to use or otherwise disseminate disclose any Proprietary Information, in whole directly or in partindirectly, and will take no action causingat any time for any purpose, without the prior written consent of EVEREST 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 EmployeeExecutive's own purposes benefit or for the benefit of any person, firm, corporation, association corporation or other entity (except the Company) under any circumstances. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Trade Secrets” means information, including, but not limited toother than EVEREST), any technical or nontechnical data, formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, drawing, process, financial data, financial plan, product plan, list of actual or potential customers or suppliers, or other information similar Proprietary Information. The foregoing covenant shall not apply to any of the foregoing, which derives economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can derive economic value from its disclosure or use. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Trade Secrets” does not include information that Employee can show by competent proof (i) was any information that becomes generally known or available to Employee and reduced to writing prior to disclosure by the Company (but only if Employee promptly notifies public other than as a result of a breach of the Company agreements of Employee’s prior knowledge); the Executive contained herein, (ii) was generally known to any disclosure of Proprietary Information by the public at Executive that is expressly required by judicial or administrative order; provided however that the time Executive shall have notified the Company disclosed as promptly as possible of the information to Employee; (iii) became generally known to the public after disclosure by the Company through no act existence, terms and circumstances of any notice, subpoena or omission of Employee; other process or (iv) was disclosed to Employee order issued by a third party having a bona fide right both to possess the information and court or administrative authority that may require her to disclose the information to Employee. The term “Confidential Information” means any data or information of the Company, other than trade secrets, which is valuable to the Company Proprietary Information and not generally known to competitors of the Company. The provisions of this Section 6 will apply to Trade Secrets for so long as such information remains a trade secret and to Confidential Information during Employee’s employment reasonably cooperate with the Company at the Company's request and for a period of two (2) years following any termination of Employee’s employment with at the Company for whatever reasonCompany's expense in taking legally available steps to resist or narrow such process or order and to obtain an order or other reliable assurance that confidential treatment will be given to such Proprietary Information as required to be disclosed. Executive has returned all Proprietary Information in Executive's possession or control to EVEREST.
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Samples: Special Employment Agreement (Everest Re Group LTD)