NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT (ONE-WAY)Nondisclosure Agreement • July 26th, 2010 • California
Contract Type FiledJuly 26th, 2010 JurisdictionPetitioners‟ application seeks patent protection for a claimed invention that explains how buyers and sellers of commodities in the energy market can protect, or hedge, against the risk of price changes. The key claims are claims 1 and 4. Claim 1 describes a series of steps instructing how to hedge risk. Claim 4 puts the concept articulated in claim 1 into a simple mathematical formula. Claim 1 consists of the following steps: