Common use of Non-Solicitation/Confidential Information Clause in Contracts

Non-Solicitation/Confidential Information. For the one (1) year period following your Termination Date, you agree and acknowledge that your right to receive the severance consideration described in Section II above shall be conditioned upon you not either directly or indirectly soliciting, attempting to hire, recruiting, encouraging, or taking away any Cisco employee, independent contractor, or consultant of Company for whom you had managerial responsibility, to whom you reported, with whom you participated on Company teams or projects, or about whom you gained confidential salary or performance information; provided, however, that you shall not be prohibited from soliciting for employment or employing any such person (a) after three (3) months have lapsed since such person ceased to be employed or engaged by Cisco or (b) whose most recent employment with Cisco was involuntarily terminated as a result of a restructuring. If you engage in any such activity, then all severance consideration to which you otherwise would be entitled under Section II, above, as applicable, thereupon shall cease. You hereby acknowledge that you are and continue to be bound by the Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement you signed with the Company dated July 31, 1995 (the “Confidentiality Agreement”), and that the Confidentiality Agreement inures to the benefit of the Company to the same extent as set forth in the Agreement, and that as a result of your employment with the Company you have had access to the Company confidential information, that you will hold all confidential information in strictest confidence and that you will not make use of such confidential information on behalf of anyone. You further agree that you will deliver to the Company no later than the Termination Date all documents and data of any nature containing or pertaining to such confidential information and that you have not taken with you any such documents or data or any reproduction thereof. If you violate any of the provisions of the Confidentiality Agreement, then all severance consideration to which you otherwise would be entitled under Section II, above, as applicable, thereupon shall cease.

Non-Solicitation/Confidential Information. For the one (1) year period following your Termination Date, you agree and acknowledge that your right to receive the severance consideration described in Section II above shall be conditioned upon you not either directly or indirectly soliciting, attempting to hire, recruiting, encouraging, taking away, hiring any employee of Cisco or taking away inducing or otherwise causing an employee to leave his or her employment with the Company (regardless whether to commence employment with you or with any Cisco employee, independent contractor, other entity or consultant of Company for whom you had managerial responsibility, to whom you reported, with whom you participated on Company teams or projects, or about whom you gained confidential salary or performance informationperson; provided, however, provided however that you shall not be prohibited from soliciting for employment or employing any such person (a) after three (3) months have lapsed since such person ceased to be employed or engaged by Cisco or (b) whose most recent employment with Cisco was involuntarily terminated as a result of a restructuringCisco. If you engage in any such activity, then all severance consideration to which you otherwise would be entitled under Section II, above, as applicable, thereupon shall cease. You hereby acknowledge that you are and continue to be bound by the Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement you signed with the Company dated July 31as of August 28, 1995 2001 (the “Confidentiality Agreement”), and that the Confidentiality Agreement inures to the benefit of the Company to the same extent as set forth in the Agreement, and that as a result of your employment with the Company you have had access to the Company confidential information, that you will hold all confidential information in strictest confidence and that you will not make use of such confidential information on behalf of anyone. Insofar as Section F of the Confidentiality Agreement prohibits you from providing any input to any third party regarding any employee of the company, that language alone is superseded by Section VIII above. You further agree that you will deliver to the Company no later than the Termination Date all documents and data of any nature containing or pertaining to such confidential information and that you have not taken with you any such documents or data or any reproduction thereof. If you violate any of the provisions of the Confidentiality Agreement, then all severance consideration to which you otherwise would be entitled under Section II, above, as applicable, thereupon shall cease.

Non-Solicitation/Confidential Information. For the one (1) year period following your Termination Date, you agree and acknowledge that your right to receive the severance consideration described in Section II above shall be conditioned upon you not either directly or indirectly soliciting, attempting to hire, recruiting, encouraging, taking away, hiring any employee of Cisco or taking away inducing or otherwise causing an employee to leave his or her employment with the Company (regardless whether to commence employment with you or with any Cisco employee, independent contractor, other entity or consultant of Company for whom you had managerial responsibility, to whom you reported, with whom you participated on Company teams or projects, or about whom you gained confidential salary or performance informationperson; provided, however, provided however that you shall not be prohibited from soliciting for employment or employing any such person (a) after three (3) months have lapsed since such person ceased to be employed or engaged by Cisco or (b) whose most recent employment with Cisco was involuntarily terminated as a result of a restructuringCisco. If you engage in any such activity, then all severance consideration to which you otherwise would be entitled under Section II, above, as applicable, thereupon shall cease. You hereby acknowledge that you are and continue to be bound by the Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement you signed with the Company dated July 31as of March 6, 1995 (the “Confidentiality Agreement”), and that the Confidentiality Agreement inures to the benefit of the Company to the same extent as set forth in the Agreement, and that as a result of your employment with the Company you have had access to the Company confidential information, that you will hold all confidential information in strictest confidence and that you will not make use of such confidential information on behalf of anyone. Insofar as Section F of the Confidentiality Agreement prohibits you from providing any input to any third party regarding any employee of the company, that language alone is superseded by Section VIII above. You further agree that you will deliver to the Company no later than the Termination Date all documents and data of any nature containing or pertaining to such confidential information and that you have not taken with you any such documents or data or any reproduction thereof. If you violate any of the provisions of the Confidentiality Agreement, then all severance consideration to which you otherwise would be entitled under Section II, above, as applicable, thereupon shall cease.

Non-Solicitation/Confidential Information. For the one (1) year period following your Termination Date, you agree and acknowledge that your right to receive the severance consideration described in Section II above shall be conditioned upon you not either directly or indirectly soliciting, attempting to hire, recruiting, encouraging, taking away, hiring any employee of Cisco or taking away inducing or otherwise causing an employee to leave his or her employment with the Company (regardless whether to commence employment with you or with any Cisco employee, independent contractor, other entity or consultant of Company for whom you had managerial responsibility, to whom you reported, with whom you participated on Company teams or projects, or about whom you gained confidential salary or performance informationperson; provided, however, provided however that you shall not be prohibited from soliciting for employment or employing any such person (a) after three (3) months have lapsed since such person ceased to be employed or engaged by Cisco or (b) whose most recent employment with Cisco was involuntarily terminated as a result of a restructuringCisco. If you engage in any such activity, then all severance consideration to which you otherwise would be entitled under Section II, above, as applicable, thereupon shall cease. You hereby acknowledge that you are and continue to be bound by the Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement you signed with the Company dated July 31as of November 3, 1995 1994 (the “Confidentiality Agreement”), and that the Confidentiality Agreement inures to the benefit of the Company to the same extent as set forth in the Agreement, and that as a result of your employment with the Company you have had access to the Company confidential information, that you will hold all confidential information in strictest confidence and that you will not make use of such confidential information on behalf of anyone. You further agree that you will deliver to the Company no later than the Termination Date all documents and data of any nature containing or pertaining to such confidential information and that you have not taken with you any such documents or data or any reproduction thereof. If you violate any of the provisions of the Confidentiality Agreement, then all severance consideration to which you otherwise would be entitled under Section II, above, as applicable, thereupon shall cease.