Nondisclosure and Invention Assignment Sample Clauses

Nondisclosure and Invention Assignment. EMPLOYEE acknowledges that, as a result of performing the Services, EMPLOYEE shall have access to confidential and sensitive information concerning COMPANY's business including, but not limited to, their business operations, sales and marketing data, and manufacturing processes. EMPLOYEE also acknowledges that in the course of performing the Services, EMPLOYEE may develop new product ideas or inventions as a result of COMPANY's information. Accordingly, to preserve COMPANY's confidential information and to assure it the full benefit of that information, EMPLOYEE shall, as a condition of employment with COMPANY, execute COMPANY's standard form of Employee Confidentiality Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A, and execute updated versions of the Employee Confidentiality Agreement as it may be modified from time to time by COMPANY and as may be required of similarly-situated executives of COMPANY. The Employee Confidentiality Agreement is incorporated herein by this reference. EMPLOYEE's obligations under the Employee Confidentiality Agreement continue beyond the termination of this Agreement.
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Nondisclosure and Invention Assignment. Executive shall not disclose or use at any time, either during the Term or thereafter, to any person or entity or use for his own direct or indirect benefit any Confidential Information (as defined below) of which Employer is or becomes aware, whether or not such information is developed by Executive, except to the extent that such disclosure or use is directly related to and required by Executive’s Performance of his duties under this Agreement. For purposes of this Agreement, “Confidential Information” shall include Company’s products, reports, studies, services, processes, suppliers, customers, customers’ account executives, financial, sales and distribution information, price lists, identity and list of actual and potential customers, trade secrets, technical information, business plans and strategies to the extent that such information has not been publicly disseminated by Company or otherwise made available to the public. For purposes of the foregoing, information shall not be deemed to have been “publicly disseminated” or “otherwise made available to the public” if such dissemination or availability arose as a result of a breach of this Agreement.
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Nondisclosure and Invention Assignment. EMPLOYEE acknowledges that, as a result of performing the Services, EMPLOYEE shall have access to confidential and sensitive information concerning COMPANY's business including, but not limited to, their business operations, sales and market data, and manufacturing processes. EMPLOYEE also acknowledges that in the course of performing the Services, EMPLOYEE may develop new product ideas or inventions as a result of COMPANY's information. Accordingly, to preserve COMPANY's confidential information and to assure it the full benefit of that information EMPLOYEE shall simultaneously execute the COMPANY's standard form of Employee Confidentiality Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A. the Employee Confidentiality Agreement is incorporated herein by this reference Covenant Not to Compete. Employee shall abide by the following covenant not to compete if COMPANY, at its option upon the termination of this Agreement, exercises this Covenant Not to Compete. COMPANY shall notify EMPLOYEE within ten (10) days of the termination of this Agreement of its intention to exercise this option and make an additional payment to EMPLOYEE of six (6) months base pay determined at EMPLOYEE's then current rate of pay. EMPLOYEE agrees that for a period of two (2) years following the termination of this Agreement, he shall not directly or indirectly for, or as a member of a partnership, or as an officer, director, stockholder, employee, or representative of any company, engage, directory or indirectly, in any business activity which is the same or similar to work engaged in by EMPLOYEE as EMPLOYEE of COMPANY within the same geographic territory as EMPLOYEE's work for COMPANY and which is directly competitive with the business conducted or to EMPLOYEE's knowledge, contemplated by COMPANY at the time of termination of this Agreement.
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Nondisclosure and Invention Assignment. Executive shall not disclose or use at any time, either during the Term or thereafter, to any person or entity or use for his own direct or indirect benefit any Confidential Information (as defined below) of which Employer is or becomes aware, whether or not such information is developed by Executive, except to the extent that such disclosure or use is directly related to and required by Executive's Performance of his duties under this Agreement. For purposes of this Agreement,
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Related to Nondisclosure and Invention Assignment

  • Disclosure and Assignment of Inventions The Executive understands that the Company engages in research and development and other activities in connection with its business and that, as an essential part of the Employment, the Executive is expected to make new contributions to and create inventions of value for the Company. From and after the Effective Date, the Executive shall disclose in confidence to the Company all inventions, improvements, designs, original works of authorship, formulas, processes, compositions of matter, computer software programs, databases, mask works and trade secrets (collectively, the “Inventions”), which the Executive may solely or jointly conceive or develop or reduce to practice, or cause to be conceived or developed or reduced to practice, during the period of the Executive’s Employment at the Company. The Executive acknowledges that copyrightable works prepared by the Executive within the scope of and during the period of the Executive’s Employment with the Company are “works for hire” and that the Company will be considered the author thereof. The Executive agrees that all the Inventions shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company and the Executive hereby assign all his/her right, title and interest in and to any and all of the Inventions to the Company or its successor in interest without further consideration.

  • Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreements Executive’s receipt of any payments or benefits under Section 3 (other than the accrued benefits set forth in Section 3(a)(i) or Section 3(b)(i)) will be subject to Executive continuing to comply with the terms of the At-Will Employment, Confidential Information, Invention Assignment and Arbitration Agreement between the Company and Executive, as such agreement may be amended from time to time.

  • Invention Assignment The Executive agrees that any invention made by the Executive while employed shall belong to the Company if (i) it was made in the normal course of the duties of the Executive or in the course of duties falling outside the Executive's normal duties but specifically assigned to the Executive, and the circumstances in either case were such that an invention might reasonably be expected to result from the carrying out of such duties, or (ii) the invention was made in the course of the duties of the Executive and, at the time of making the invention, because of the nature of the Executive's duties and the particular responsibilities arising from the nature of the Executive's duties, the Executive had a special obligation to further the interests of the Company. In addition, if (x) the Executive while employed shall make any improvement or develop any know-how, copyrightable work or design, (y) such improvement, know-how, copyrightable work or design is relevant to the business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, and (z) such improvement, know-how, copyrightable work or design arouse directly out of any work carried out while employed, or out of Confidential Company Information or Confidential Affiliate Information to which the Executive had access while in the employ of the Company, then such improvement, know-how, copyrightable work or design shall belong to the Company whether or not it was disclosed to the Company while employed by the Company. A. In the event that the Executive makes any invention or develops any improvement, know-how, copyrightable design or work which belongs to the Company, the Executive shall fully, freely and immediately communicate the same to the Company and the Executive shall, if and as desired by the Company execute all documents and do all acts and things at the Company's cost which may be necessary or desirable to obtain letters patent or other adequate protection in any part of the world for such invention, improvement, know-how, copyrightable work or design and to vest the same in the Company for the Company's benefit. The Executive hereby irrevocably appoints the Company as the Executive's attorney in the Executive's name and on the Executive's behalf to execute all such deeds and documents and to do all such acts and things as may be necessary to give effect to this Subsection in the event that the Executive fails to comply within seven days with the written directions given by the Company pursuant to this Subsection. B. The Executive has been notified and understands that the provisions of Subsections 6(g) and 6(h) hereof do not apply to any invention that qualifies fully under the provisions of Section 2870 of the California Labor Code, which states as follows: (i) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either: (1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or (2) Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer. (ii) To the extent a provision in an employment agreement purports to require an employee to assign an invention otherwise excluded from being required to be assigned under subdivision (a), the provision is against the public policy of this state and is unenforceable.

  • Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement Executive acknowledges that he has previously executed and delivered to an officer of the Company the Company’s Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement (the “Confidentiality Agreement”) and that the Confidentiality Agreement remains in full force and effect.

  • Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality 9.1 In connection with the investment by the Purchaser in the Note contemplated hereunder (the "Transaction"), the Company will furnish to the Purchaser certain information that is either non-public, confidential or proprietary in nature (the "Confidential Information"). 9.2 Pursuant to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Regulation FD, the Company is permitted to disclose to the Purchaser on a confidential basis, Confidential Information so long as the Purchaser agrees to bound by the terms of this Article 9. 9.3 The Purchaser acknowledges that the Confidential Information will be provided to the Purchaser, or the Purchaser will be granted access to the Confidential Information, solely for the purposes of evaluating the Transaction, and the Purchaser agrees to receive the Confidential Information on the following terms and conditions: (a) that the Confidential Information is to be received and maintained in confidence; (b) that no copies, summaries or reproductions of the Confidential Information or any part thereof may be made without the prior written consent of the Company except as may be reasonably necessary to evaluate the Transaction; (c) the Purchaser will not, directly or indirectly, disclose, communicate or make known the Confidential Information or any part thereof to any person, firm or corporation for any purpose other than evaluating the Transaction; (d) the Purchaser will take all reasonable precautions to safeguard the Confidential Information against unauthorised disclosure; (e) that upon request by the Company, the Purchaser will promptly return to the Company, all Confidential Information, including all reproductions and copies thereof together with all materials and documents created by the Purchaser containing Confidential Information or references thereto from which reference to the substance of the Confidential Information can be implied or understood; (f) that the Confidential Information shall be disclosed only to those professional advisers of the Purchaser (collectively, the "Permitted Persons") as are reasonably necessary to accomplish the purpose(s) of this Agreement; (g) that the confidential and proprietary nature of the Confidential Information shall be communicated to the Permitted Persons; and (h) the Purchaser will be responsible for any unauthorised use or disclosure of Confidential Information by the Permitted Persons and by any and all other persons to whom it discloses the Confidential Information. 9.4 The Purchaser hereby acknowledges that the Purchaser is aware, and further agrees that the Purchaser will advise the Permitted Persons, that United States securities laws prohibit any person who has material, non-public information about a company from purchasing or selling securities of such a company or from communicating such information to any other person under circumstances in which it is reasonably foreseeable that such person is likely to purchase or sell such securities. 9.5 If the Purchaser is required by any applicable law, stock exchange regulations or court order to disclose any Confidential Information, the Purchaser shall first notify the Company in writing, sufficiently in advance so as to provide the Company with reasonable opportunity to seek to prevent such disclosure or to seek to obtain a protective order for such Confidential Information.

  • Nondisclosure and Nonuse Unless authorized or instructed in advance in writing by Corporation, or required by law (as determined by licensed legal counsel), Executive will not, except as required in the course of Corporation’s business, during or after his employment, disclose to others or use any Confidential Information, unless and until, and then only to the extent that, such items become available to the public through no fault of Executive.

  • Nondisclosure Agreement You will comply with the covenant regarding confidential information in Section 17 of the Employment Agreement, which covenant is incorporated herein by reference.

  • Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreements The Company shall require all employees and consultants with access to confidential information to execute and deliver a Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement in substantially the form approved by the Company’s Board of Directors.

  • Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement The Company shall require all employees and consultants to execute and deliver a Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement substantially in a form approved by the Company’s counsel or Board of Directors.

  • Nondisclosure and Nonuse of Confidential Information (a) The Executive will not disclose or use at any time, either during the term of the Executive's employment (the "Employment Period") or thereafter, any Confidential Information (as hereinafter defined) of which the Executive is or becomes aware, whether or not such information is developed by him, except to the extent that such disclosure or use is directly related to and required by the Executive's performance in good faith of duties assigned to the Executive by the Company. The Executive will take all appropriate steps to safeguard Confidential Information and to protect it against disclosure, misuse, espionage, loss and theft. The Executive shall deliver to the Company at the termination of the Employment Period, or at any time the Company may request, all memoranda, notes, plans, records, reports, computer tapes and software and other documents and data (and copies thereof) relating to the Confidential Information or the Work Product (as hereinafter defined) of the business of the Company or any of its Affiliates which the Executive may then possess or have under his or her control. (b) As used in this Agreement, the term "Confidential Information" means information that is not generally known to the public and that is used, developed or obtained by the Company in connection with its business, including, but not limited to, information, observations and data obtained by the Executive while employed by the Company or any predecessors thereof (including those obtained prior to the date of this Agreement) concerning (i) the business or affairs of the Company (or such predecessors), (ii) products or services, (iii) fees, costs and pricing structures, (iv) designs, (v) analyses, (vi) drawings, photographs and reports, (vii) computer software, including operating systems, applications and program listings, (viii) flow charts, manuals and documentation, (ix) data bases, (x) accounting and business methods, (xi) inventions, devices, new developments, methods and processes, whether patentable or unpatentable and whether or not reduced to practice, (xii) customers and clients and customer or client lists, (xiii) other copyrightable works, (xiv) all production methods, processes, technology and trade secrets, and (xv) all similar and related information in whatever form. Confidential Information will not include any information that has been published in a form generally available to the public prior to the date the Executive proposes to disclose or use such information. Confidential Information will not be deemed to have been published merely because individual portions of the information have been separately published, but only if all material features comprising such information have been published in combination.

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