Common use of RETURN OF TRADE SECRETS Clause in Contracts

RETURN OF TRADE SECRETS. Upon termination of his employment with Employer, Employee will deliver to the Companies all tangible displays and repositories of proprietary or confidential information or knowledge, including without limitation: Trade Secrets and other materials or records or writings of any other type (including any copies thereof) made, used or obtained by Employee in connection with his employment by Employer or its predecessor in interest prior to or subsequent to the execution of this Agreement. Employee agrees that all inventions, improvements in any of the Companies' methods of conducting their businesses or innovations (in each case, including, by way of expansion and not limitation, policies, procedures, products, improvements, software, ideas and discoveries, whether or not patentable or copyrightable) conceived or made by him during any time of his employment by Employer prior to or subsequent to the execution of this Agreement belong to the appropriate Company or Companies and to the extent Employee participated in the creation of the Trade Secrets he did so on a work for hire basis. Upon termination of his Employment with Employer, Employee shall promptly disclose such inventions, improvements or innovations to the Board of Directors and perform all actions reasonably requested by the Board of Directors to establish and confirm such ownership by the Companies and to protect the intellectual property of Employer contained therein or represented thereby.

RETURN OF TRADE SECRETS. Upon termination of his employment with Employer, Employee will deliver to the Companies all tangible displays and repositories of proprietary or confidential information or knowledge, including without limitation: Trade Secrets and other materials or records or writings of any other type (including any copies thereof) made, used or obtained by Employee in connection with his employment by Employer or its predecessor in interest prior to or subsequent to the execution of this Agreement. Employee agrees that all inventions, improvements in any of the Companies' methods of conducting their businesses or innovations (in each case, including, by way of expansion and not limitation, policies, procedures, products, improvements, software, ideas and discoveries, whether or not patentable or copyrightable) conceived or made by him during any time of his employment by Employer prior to or subsequent to the execution of this Agreement belong to the appropriate Company or Companies and to the extent Employee participated in the creation of the Trade Secrets he did so on a work for hire basis. Upon termination of his Employment with Employer, Employee shall promptly disclose such inventions, improvements or innovations to the Board of Directors President and perform all actions reasonably requested by the Board of Directors President to establish and confirm such ownership by the Companies and to protect the intellectual property of Employer contained therein or represented thereby.