Common use of Protection and Preservation Clause in Contracts

Protection and Preservation. Each Party on behalf of itself, its Representatives, employees, agents, and contractors, agrees that it will receive and hold all Confidential Information in trust and confidence and that it will treat all Confidential Information with the same degree of care as it accords to its own confidential information of like sensitivity, but in no event less than a reasonable level of care. Each Party shall: (i) not sell, license, transfer, publish, disclose, display or otherwise make available the Confidential Information of the other Party; (ii) not reverse assemble or reverse compile in whole or in part any applicable Confidential Information; (iii) acknowledge and take commercially reasonable steps to preserve the other Party's ownership rights in and to such other Party's Confidential Information; (iv) hold in trust and confidence and not use any Confidential Information except as necessary to perform obligations set forth in this Agreement; and (v) similarly bind in writing necessary third parties to the confidentiality obligations of this Section 6.1.3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Party shall have the right to disclose the other party's Confidential Information to its appropriate officers, directors, employees, auditors and attorneys on a "need to know basis". Further, each Party may disclose the other Party's Confidential Information to the extent necessary to comply with an order of an administrative agency or court of competent jurisdiction, or to enforce a Party's rights under this Agreement. As an express condition to the preceding sentence, the Party being required to disclose the information shall (i) take all reasonable steps to prevent such disclosure and (ii) provide prior written notice thereof to the other Party in sufficient time to enable the other Party to seek a protective order or otherwise contest such disclosure. Each Party agrees that it will ensure that its Representatives, employees, agents and contractors will not make use of, disseminate, or in any way disclose any Confidential Information of the other Party to any person, firm or business, except as necessary to perform obligations set forth in this Agreement and then only under a written confidentiality agreement no less restrictive than this Section 6.1 ("Confidential Information"). The obligations of non-disclosure and non use shall apply to Confidential Information for a period of three (3) years from the date of disclosure.

Protection and Preservation. Each Party on behalf of itself, its Representatives, employees, agents, and contractors, agrees that it will receive and hold all Confidential Information in trust and confidence and that it will treat all Confidential Information with the same degree of care as it accords to its own confidential information of like sensitivity, but in no event less than a reasonable level of care. Each Party shall: (ia) not sell, license, transfer, publish, disclose, display display, or otherwise make available the Confidential Information of the other Party; (iib) not reverse assemble or reverse compile in whole or in part any applicable Confidential Information; (iiic) acknowledge and take commercially reasonable steps to preserve the other Party's ownership rights in and to such other Party's Confidential Information; (ivd) hold in trust and confidence and not use any Confidential Information except as necessary to perform obligations set forth in this Agreement; and (ve) similarly bind in writing necessary third parties to the confidentiality obligations of this Section 6.1.3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each either Party shall have the right to disclose on a "need to know" basis the other partyParty's Confidential Information to its their own company's appropriate officers, directors, employees, auditors auditors, and attorneys on a "need to know basis"attorneys. Further, each Party may disclose the other Party's Confidential Information to the extent necessary to comply with an order of an administrative agency or court of competent jurisdiction, or to enforce a Party's rights under this Agreement. As an express condition to the preceding sentence, the Party being required to disclose the information shall (i) take all reasonable steps to prevent such disclosure and (ii) provide prior written notice thereof to the other Party in sufficient time to enable the other Party to seek a protective order or otherwise contest such disclosure. Each Party agrees that it will ensure that its Representatives, employees, agents agents, and contractors will not make use of, disseminate, or in any way disclose any Confidential Information of the other Party to any person, firm firm, or business, except as necessary to perform obligations set forth in this Agreement and then only under a written confidentiality agreement no less restrictive than this Section 6.1 ("Confidential Information"). The obligations of non-disclosure and non use shall apply to Confidential Information for a period of three (3) years from the date of disclosure.