SECRETS. Executive agrees that any trade secrets or any other proprietary information (whether in written, verbal or any other form) relating to the existing or contemplated business and/or field of interest of the Corporation or any of its affiliates (for the purpose of this Agreement, an affiliate of the Corporation shall be deemed to be any corporation or other legal entity which controls the Corporation, which is controlled by the Corporation, or which is under common control with the Corporation), or of any corporation or other legal entity in which the Corporation or any of its affiliates has an ownership interest of more than twenty-five percent (25%), and any proprietary information (whether in written, verbal or any other form) of any of the Corporation's customers, suppliers, licensor or licensees, including, but not limited to, information relating to inventions, disclosures, processes, systems, methods, formulae, patents, patent applications, machinery, materials, notes, drawings, research activities and plans, costs of production, contract forms, prices, volume of sales, promotional methods, lists of names or classes of customers, which he has heretofore acquired during his employment by the Corporation or any of its affiliates or which he may hereafter acquire during his employment with the Corporation or any of its affiliates, in both cases whether during or outside business hours, whether or not on the Corporation's premises, as the result of any disclosures to him, or in any other way, shall be regarded as held by him in a fiduciary capacity solely for the benefit of the Corporation, its successors or assigns, and shall not at any time, either during the term of this Agreement or thereafter, be disclosed, divulged, furnished, or made accessible by him to anyone, or be otherwise used by him, except in the regular course of business of the Corporation or its affiliates. Upon termination of his employment, Executive shall return or deliver to the Corporation all tangible forms of such information in his possession or control, and shall retain no copies thereof. Information shall, for purposes of this Agreement, be considered to be secret if not known by the trade generally, even though such information may have been disclosed to one or more third parties pursuant to any business discussion or agreement, including distribution agreements, joint research agreements or other agreements entered into by the Corporation or any of its affiliates.
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Spectran Corp)
SECRETS. Executive agrees that any trade secrets or any other proprietary information (whether in written, verbal or any other form) relating to the existing or contemplated business and/or field of interest of the Corporation or any of its affiliates (for the purpose of this Agreement, an affiliate of the Corporation shall be deemed to be any corporation or other legal entity which controls the Corporation, which is controlled by the Corporation, or which is under common control with the Corporation)Affiliates, or of any corporation or other legal entity in which the Corporation or any of its affiliates Affiliates has an ownership interest of more than twenty-five percent (25%), and any proprietary information (whether in written, verbal or any other form) of any of the Corporation's customers, suppliers, licensor or licensees, including, but not limited to, information relating to inventions, disclosures, processes, systems, methods, formulae, patents, patent applications, machinery, materials, notes, drawings, research activities and plans, costs of production, contract forms, prices, volume of sales, promotional methods, lists of names or classes of customers, which he has heretofore acquired during his employment by the Corporation or any of its affiliates Affiliates or which he may hereafter acquire during his employment with the Corporation or any of its affiliatesAffiliates, in both cases whether during or outside business hours, whether or not on the Corporation's premises, as the result of any disclosures to him, or in any other way, shall be regarded as held by him in a fiduciary capacity solely for the benefit of the Corporation, its successors or assigns, and shall not at any time, either during the term of this Agreement or thereafter, be disclosed, divulged, furnished, or made accessible by him to anyone, or be otherwise used by him, except in the regular course of business of the Corporation or its affiliatesAffiliates. Upon termination of his employment, Executive shall return or deliver to the Corporation all tangible forms of such information in his possession or control, and shall retain no copies thereof. Information shall, for purposes of this Agreement, be considered to be secret if not known by the trade generally, even though such information may have been disclosed to one or more third parties pursuant to any business discussion or agreement, including distribution agreements, joint research agreements or other agreements entered into by the Corporation or any of its affiliatesAffiliates.
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Spectran Corp)
SECRETS. Executive agrees that any trade secrets or any other proprietary information (whether in written, verbal or any other form) relating to the existing or contemplated business and/or field of interest of the Corporation or and/or any of its affiliates Affiliates (for the purpose of this Agreement, an affiliate of the Corporation shall be deemed to be any corporation or other legal entity which controls the Corporation, which is controlled by the Corporation, or which is under common control with the Corporationdefined below), or of any corporation or other legal entity in which the Corporation or any of its affiliates Affiliates has an ownership interest of more than twenty-five percent (25%), and any proprietary information (whether in written, verbal or any other form) of any of the Corporation's customers, suppliers, licensor licensors or licensees, including, but not limited to, information relating to inventions, disclosures, processes, systems, methods, formulae, patents, patent applications, machinery, materials, notes, drawings, research activities and plans, costs of production, contract forms, prices, volume of sales, promotional methods, lists list of names or classes of or customers, which he has heretofore acquired during his employment by the Corporation or EBOC, EBOT, any of its affiliates their respective Affiliates (as defined below) or which he may hereafter acquire during his employment with the Corporation or any of its affiliatesAffiliates, in both cases whether during or outside business hours, whether or not on EBOC's EBOT's or the Corporation's premises, as the result of any disclosures to him, or in any other way, shall be regarded as held by him in a fiduciary capacity solely for the benefit of the Corporation, its successors or assigns, and shall not at any time, either during the term of this Agreement or thereafter, be disclosed, divulged, furnished, or made accessible by him to anyone, or be otherwise used by him, except in the regular course of business of the Corporation or its affiliatesAffiliates. Upon termination of his employment, Executive shall return or deliver to the Corporation all tangible forms of such information in his possession or control, and shall retain no copies thereof. Information shall, for purposes of this Agreement, be considered to be secret if not known by the trade generally, even though such information may have been disclosed to one or more third parties pursuant to any business discussion or agreement, including distribution agreements, joint research agreements or other agreements entered into by EBOC, EBOT or the Corporation or any of its affiliatestheir Affiliates. For the purposes of this Agreement, "Affiliates" shall mean any corporation, partnership, joint venture, other entity of any type or individual that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled, or is under common control with, EBOC, EBOT or the Corporation, as the case may be.
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Spectran Corp)
SECRETS. Executive agrees that any trade secrets or any other proprietary information (whether in written, verbal or any other form) relating to the existing or contemplated business and/or field of interest of the Corporation or any of its affiliates (for the purpose of this Agreement, an affiliate of the Corporation shall be deemed to be any corporation or other legal entity which controls the Corporation, which is controlled by the Corporation, or one which is under common control with the Corporation), or of any corporation or other legal entity in which the Corporation or any of its affiliates has an ownership interest of more than twenty-five percent (25%), and any proprietary information (whether in written, verbal or any other form) of any of the Corporation's customers, suppliers, licensor or licensees, including, but not limited to, information relating to inventions, disclosures, processes, systems, methods, formulae, patents, patent applications, machinery, materials, notes, drawings, research activities and plans, costs of production, contract forms, prices, volume of sales, promotional methods, lists list of names or classes of or customers, which he has heretofore acquired during his employment by the Corporation or any of its affiliates or which he may hereafter acquire during his employment with the Corporation or any of its affiliates, in both cases whether during or outside business hours, whether or not on the Corporation's premises, as the result of any disclosures to him, or in any other way, shall be regarded as held by him in a fiduciary capacity solely for the benefit of the Corporation, its successors or assigns, and shall not at any time, either during the term of this Agreement or thereafter, be disclosed, divulged, furnished, or made accessible by him to anyone, or be otherwise used by him, except in the regular course of business of the Corporation or its affiliates. Upon termination of his employment, Executive shall return or deliver to the Corporation all tangible forms of such information in his possession or control, and shall retain no copies thereof. Information shall, for purposes of this Agreement, be considered to be secret if not known by the trade generally, even though such information may have been disclosed to one or more third parties pursuant to any business discussion or agreementagreemnt, including distribution agreements, joint research agreements or other agreements entered into by the Corporation or any of its affiliates.
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Spectran Corp)