Common use of Proprietary Rights and Confidentiality Clause in Contracts

Proprietary Rights and Confidentiality. Except as specifically authorized by this Agreement or as otherwise approved by UCB, information and materials shared with you by UCB or developed hereunder in connection with the Services (“Work Product”) shall be considered to be the confidential and proprietary property of UCB and will be used only in connection with the Services. You shall not use, disclose, or duplicate any confidential and proprietary information except as necessary to provide the Services. Your confidentiality obligations under this Section shall not apply to any information which is or becomes, through no fault of yours, part of the public knowledge. If required to disclose any UCB confidential information by any law, regulation, judicial or administrative process, you agree that (a) prior to making any such disclosure, you will provide UCB with (i) written notice of the proposed disclosure in order to provide UCB with sufficient opportunity to seek a protective order or other similar order preventing or limiting the proposed disclosure and (ii) reasonable assistance in UCB’s efforts to obtain a protective order or other similar order and (b) you shall disclose such confidential information only to the extent required in order to comply with the applicable law, regulation or action. The Work Product and all original works of authorship resulting or derived from your performance of the Services, will be and will remain the sole and exclusive property of UCB, and you hereby assign to UCB in perpetuity all right, title and interest that you may have therein, including, without limitation, all copyrights or similar property rights recognized by any country or jurisdiction.