P rovider’s Ownership Sample Clauses

P rovider’s Ownership. The DMV recognizes the Provider reserves full ownership rights to all works (including, without limitation, all forms of intellectual property related thereto) developed by it for utilization in connection with ELT. These works are comprised of, among other things, those components of ELT necessary to collect, assemble and transmit to and from the DMV the inquiries, information and funds transfers (if applicable to the Provider) which are the subject of the Contract. These components include, without limitation, any and all inventions, devices, processes, software and formulas utilized in or comprising any component of the Provider’s network. The parties acknowledge that all proprietary information and materials developed by the Provider in the course of developing ELT, including, without limitation, all formulas, patterns, compilations, programs, devices, methods, techniques and processes, may constitute “trade secrets” of the Provider within the meaning of that term as utilized in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, in that they may possess independent economic value by virtue of not being generally known to other persons who could obtain economic value from their disclosure or use and are the subject to reasonable efforts to preserve their secrecy. DMV agrees that during, or at any time after, the term of this Contract, it will not disclose, furnish or make accessible to any person, corporation, firm, partnership, or other entity whatever any trade secret, technical data or know-how of any kind pertaining, directly or indirectly, to the subject matter of this Contract of which has been identified as confidential, including without limitation, any software programs, documentation or other specification, except as required to implement the terms of this contract and except for (i) information which is or becomes part of the public domain, (ii) information which is demonstrably known to the DMV previously not subject to a confidentiality or Information Release Agreement, (iii) information which is independently developed by the DMV outside this Contract, or (iv) information which is rightly obtained by the DMV from third parties. The DMV will treat all plans, specifications, drawings, diagrams, software, computer programs, procedures, processes and other proprietary materials relating to ELT and the Provider’s network as vendor proprietary information under the Provider’s control for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act, and agrees not to disclose suc...