Confidential Information of the Business definition

Confidential Information of the Business means, as of Closing, all confidential or proprietary information and data exclusively relating to the operation of the Business. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information of the Business shall not include information or data that (a) is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of disclosure by Parent or its Subsidiaries in violation of this Agreement, (b) is disclosed to Parent or its Subsidiaries after Closing by a third party which has, or is reasonably believed by Parent or its Subsidiaries to have, a legal right to make such disclosure without requiring Parent or its Subsidiaries to maintain the confidentiality thereof, or (c) is independently developed by or for Parent or its Subsidiaries after Closing, without reliance on or reference to any Confidential Information of the Business.
Confidential Information of the Business means any information concerning the Business or affairs of the Company not already generally available to the public.
Confidential Information of the Business has the meaning provided such term in Section 5.10.

Examples of Confidential Information of the Business in a sentence

  • The Company is taking and has taken reasonable steps to obtain, maintain, police and protect the Business Intellectual Property and to maintain and protect the confidentiality of any trade secrets and other material Confidential Information of the Business.

  • Accordingly, Seller agrees that it will not use or disclose any Confidential Information of the Business, other than information generally available to the public through sources other than Seller and its Members.

  • Each Owner hereby acknowledges and agrees that the covenants contained in Section 5.9(c) –(f) are reasonable as to time, scope and territory given the Buyer’s need to protect the business, personnel, and Confidential Information of the Business and its relationships and goodwill with customers, suppliers, employees and contractors.

  • The Parties agree that, notwithstanding the foregoing, Seller may provide consulting services referenced above in subsection (a) to Seller application customers, customers who purchase other application products resold/OEM'd by Seller, application customer prospects in connection with application pre-sales efforts and/or the application customers of any successors in interest to Seller or its resellers/OEMs. Seller agrees to hold in confidence any and all Confidential Information of the Business.

  • In June 2017, Chief Economist Tommaso Valletti, together with his colleagues Giulio Federico and Gregor Langus, produced a paper setting out the results of a stylized theoretical model which considers the impact of a horizontal merger in a setting where firms innovate to discover new products.14 The paper’s abstract makes the following broad claim: “We show that the merging parties always decrease their innovation efforts post-merger while the outsiders to the merger respond by increasing their effort.

  • For a period of three (3) years following the Closing Date, the Vendor and Warrantor agree that they will not, directly or indirectly, disclose, divulge or communicate orally, in writing or otherwise any Confidential Information of the Business, or of the Purchaser disclosed in conjunction with the entering into of this Agreement and transactions hereunder.

  • In the event that the Executive shall be permitted to freely compete in business with the Purchaser Group (as defined in the SPA) as a result of the terms and conditions set forth in Section 7.14(b) of the SPA, Section 5 of this Agreement shall be null and void with respect to any Confidential Information of the Business or Fireline.

  • Each Seller Party further acknowledges that Purchaser wishes to protect the goodwill, Trade Secrets and other Confidential Information of the Business being acquired by Purchaser under this Agreement, and Seller is agreeing to and making the covenants contained in this Section 7.11, among other things, to induce Purchaser to engage in and consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

  • Each Beneficial Owner agrees not to disclose or use any Confidential Information of the Business, except that, if and as long as such Beneficial Owner is an employee of the Buyer after the Closing, then such Beneficial Owner may use the Confidential Information of the Business in the ordinary course of his or her employment on behalf of the Buyer so long as such use is in compliance with all policies and agreements applicable to such Beneficial Owner.

  • In refusing to subject AOL to liability under Section 230 even after AOL received notice that potentially defamatory were present, similar plaintiffs will have a difficult time in obtaining relief as long as Zeran remains good law.


More Definitions of Confidential Information of the Business

Confidential Information of the Business means all trade secrets, reports, financial information, business plans, customer lists and supplier lists of Seller; provided, however, if there is any overlap between customers or suppliers contained in the customer or supplier lists of Seller and customers or suppliers contained in the separate customer or supplier list of xXXxX*s, the term “confidential information of the Business” shall not be deemed to include any information with respect to any such overlapping customers or suppliers.
Confidential Information of the Business shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4.8(b).
Confidential Information of the Business as defined in Section 4.10.1(a).
Confidential Information of the Business means all trade secrets, other confidential information, and confidential data, know-how, systems and procedures of a technical or sensitive nature in any form relating to the Acquired Assets, the Business or customers of the Business, including all confidential business and marketing plans, marketing and financial information, pricing, profit margin, cost and sales information, operations information, forms, contracts, bids, agreements, legal matters, unpublished written materials, names and addresses of customers and prospective customers, information about employees, suppliers and other companies with which the Business has a commercial relationship, plans, methods, concepts, technical information, computer programs or software in various stages of development, passwords, source code listings and object codes.

Related to Confidential Information of the Business

  • Confidential Information has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1.

  • Business Confidential Information has the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(a).

  • Confidential Information Breach means, generally, an instance where an unauthorized person or entity accesses Confidential Information in any manner, including but not limited to the following occurrences: (1) any Confidential Information that is not encrypted or protected is misplaced, lost, stolen or in any way compromised; (2) one or more third parties have had access to or taken control or possession of any Confidential Information that is not encrypted or protected without prior written authorization from the State; (3) the unauthorized acquisition of encrypted or protected Confidential Information together with the confidential process or key that is capable of compromising the integrity of the Confidential Information; or (4) if there is a substantial risk of identity theft or fraud to the client, the Contractor, the Department or State.

  • Seller Confidential Information has the meaning set forth in Section 6.4.3.

  • Customer's Confidential Information means all Personal Data and any information, however it is conveyed, that relates to the business, affairs, developments, trade secrets, know-how, personnel, and suppliers of the Customer, including all IPRs, together with all information derived from any of the above, and any other information clearly designated as being confidential (whether or not it is marked "confidential") or which ought reasonably be considered to be confidential;

  • Customer Confidential Information means any information or compilation of information, not generally known, which is provided to the Employer by its customers or potential customers, is proprietary to the customer or potential customer and relates to the customer’s or potential customer’s existing or reasonably foreseeable business. Information provided to the Employer by a customer or potential customer shall be treated as Customer Confidential Information.

  • Proprietary Information shall have the same meaning as Confidential Information.

  • Confidential Business Information means any internal, non-public information (other than Trade Secrets already addressed above) concerning the Employer’s financial position and results of operations (including revenues, assets, net income, etc.); annual and long-range business plans; product or service plans; marketing plans and methods; training, educational and administrative manuals; customer and supplier information and purchase histories; and employee lists. The provisions of Sections 6 and 7 shall also apply to protect Trade Secrets and Confidential Business Information of third parties provided to the Employer under an obligation of secrecy.

  • Proprietary and Confidential Information means trade secrets, confidential knowledge, data or any other proprietary or confidential information of the Company or any of its affiliates, or of any customers, members, employees or directors of any of such entities, but shall not include any information that (i) was publicly known and made generally available in the public domain prior to the time of disclosure to Executive by the Company or (ii) becomes publicly known and made generally available after disclosure to Executive by the Company other than as a result of a disclosure by Executive in violation of this Agreement. By way of illustration but not limitation, “Proprietary and Confidential Information” includes: (i) trade secrets, documents, memoranda, reports, files, correspondence, lists and other written and graphic records affecting or relating to any such entity’s business; (ii) confidential marketing information including without limitation marketing strategies, customer and client names and requirements, services, prices, margins and costs; (iii) confidential financial information; (iv) personnel information (including without limitation employee compensation); and (v) other confidential business information.

  • Company Confidential Information means information (including any and all combinations of individual items of information) that the Company has or will develop, acquire, create, compile, discover or own, that has value in or to the Company’s business which is not generally known and which the Company wishes to maintain as confidential. Company Confidential Information includes both information disclosed by the Company to me, and information developed or learned by me during the course of my employment with the Company. Company Confidential Information also includes all information of which the unauthorized disclosure could be detrimental to the interests of the Company, whether or not such information is identified as Company Confidential Information. By example, and without limitation, Company Confidential Information includes any and all non-public information that relates to the actual or anticipated business and/or products, research or development of the Company, or to the Company’s technical data, trade secrets, or know-how, including, but not limited to, research, product plans, or other information regarding the Company’s products or services and markets therefor, customer lists and customers (including, but not limited to, customers of the Company on which I called or with which I may become acquainted during the term of my employment), software, developments, inventions, discoveries, ideas, processes, formulas, technology, designs, drawings, engineering, hardware configuration information, marketing, finances, and other business information disclosed by the Company either directly or indirectly in writing, orally or by drawings or inspection of premises, parts, equipment, or other Company property. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Company Confidential Information shall not include any such information which I can establish (i) was publicly known or made generally available prior to the time of disclosure by the Company to me; (ii) becomes publicly known or made generally available after disclosure by the Company to me through no wrongful action or omission by me; or (iii) is in my rightful possession, without confidentiality obligations, at the time of disclosure by the Company as shown by my then-contemporaneous written records; provided that any combination of individual items of information shall not be deemed to be within any of the foregoing exceptions merely because one or more of the individual items are within such exception, unless the combination as a whole is within such exception. I understand that nothing in this Agreement is intended to limit employees’ rights to discuss the terms, wages, and working conditions of their employment, as protected by applicable law.

  • Authority's Confidential Information means all Personal Data and any information, however it is conveyed, that relates to the business, affairs, developments, trade secrets, know-how, personnel, and suppliers of the Authority, including all IPRs, together with all information derived from any of the above, and any other information clearly designated as being confidential (whether or not it is marked "confidential") or which ought reasonably be considered to be confidential;

  • Supplier's Confidential Information means any information, however it is conveyed, that relates to the business, affairs, developments, trade secrets, Know-How, personnel and suppliers of the Supplier, including IPRs, together with information derived from the above, and any other information clearly designated as being confidential (whether or not it is marked as "confidential") or which ought reasonably to be considered to be confidential;

  • Confidential personal information means a party’s or a party’s child’s Social Security number; date of birth; driver license number; any other names used, now or in the past; and employer’s name, address, and telephone number.

  • State Confidential Information means any and all State Records not subject to disclosure under CORA. State Confidential Information shall include, but is not limited to, PII, PHI, PCI, Tax Information, CJI, and State personnel records not subject to disclosure under CORA. State Confidential Information shall not include information or data concerning individuals that is not deemed confidential but nevertheless belongs to the State, which has been communicated, furnished, or disclosed by the State to Contractor which (i) is subject to disclosure pursuant to CORA; (ii) is already known to Contractor without restrictions at the time of its disclosure to Contractor; (iii) is or subsequently becomes publicly available without breach of any obligation owed by Contractor to the State; (iv) is disclosed to Contractor, without confidentiality obligations, by a third party who has the right to disclose such information; or (v) was independently developed without reliance on any State Confidential Information.

  • Buyer Confidential Information shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.1.

  • Purchaser Confidential Information means all confidential or proprietary documents and information concerning the Purchaser or any of its Representatives; provided, however, that Purchaser Confidential Information shall not include any information which, (i) at the time of disclosure by the Company, the Seller Representative or any of their respective Representatives, is generally available publicly and was not disclosed in breach of this Agreement or (ii) at the time of the disclosure by the Purchaser or its Representatives to the Company, the Seller Representative or any of their respective Representatives, was previously known by such receiving party without violation of Law or any confidentiality obligation by the Person receiving such Purchaser Confidential Information. For the avoidance of doubt, from and after the Closing, Purchaser Confidential Information will include the confidential or proprietary information of the Target Companies.

  • Confidential or Proprietary Information means any secret, confidential or proprietary information of the Company or an affiliate (not otherwise included in the definition of a Trade Secret under this Employment Agreement) that has not become generally available to the public by the act of one who has the right to disclose such information without violation of any right of the Company or its affiliates.

  • Fund Confidential Information means Confidential Information for which the Fund is the Disclosing Party.

  • Confidential and Proprietary Information means any information that is classified as confidential in the Firm’s Global Policy on Confidential Information or that may have intrinsic value to the Firm, the Firm’s clients or other parties with which the Firm has a relationship, or that may provide the Firm with a competitive advantage, including, without limitation, any trade secrets; inventions (whether or not patentable); formulas; flow charts; computer programs; access codes or other systems information; algorithms; technology and business processes; business, product or marketing plans; sales and other forecasts; financial information; client lists or other intellectual property; information relating to compensation and benefits; and public information that becomes proprietary as a result of the Firm’s compilation of that information for use in its business, provided that such Confidential and Proprietary Information does not include any information which is available for use by the general public or is generally available for use within the relevant business or industry other than as a result of your action. Confidential and Proprietary Information may be in any medium or form, including, without limitation, physical documents, computer files or discs, electronic communications, videotapes, audiotapes, and oral communications.

  • Contractor's Confidential Information means any information, however it is conveyed, that relates to the business affairs, developments, trade secrets, know-how, Contractor’s Personnel and suppliers of the Contractor, including IPRs, together with all information derived from the above, and any other information clearly designated as being confidential (whether or not it is marked as "confidential") or which ought reasonably to be considered to be confidential, including the Commercially Sensitive Information.

  • Confidential Material means all information, in any form or medium, known or used by City or an Affiliate of the City which is not known to the general public, including, but not limited to, the know-how, trade secrets, strategic plans, technical information, product information, supplier information, customer information, financial information, marketing information and information as to business opportunities, methods and strategies and research and development of the City and its Affiliates. If and to the extent any Confidential Material is included in any report, assessment, diagram, memorandum or other document or copied or reproduced in any other form or medium, such report, assessment, diagram, memorandum, document or Confidential Material in such other form or medium will be deemed to be Confidential Material.

  • Company Information As defined in Section 4(a)(i).

  • Proprietary Data means Data embodying trade secrets developed at private expense or commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential, and that includes a restrictive notice, unless the Data is:

  • Confidential Materials means all tangible materials containing Confidential Information, including without limitation written or printed documents and computer disks or tapes, whether machine or user readable.

  • Proprietary Information and Technology means any and all of the following: works of authorship, computer programs, source code and executable code, whether embodied in software, firmware or otherwise, assemblers, applets, compilers, user interfaces, application programming interfaces, protocols, architectures, documentation, annotations, comments, designs, files, records, schematics, test methodologies, test vectors, emulation and simulation tools and reports, hardware development tools, models, tooling, prototypes, breadboards and other devices, data, data structures, databases, data compilations and collections, inventions (whether or not patentable), invention disclosures, discoveries, improvements, technology, proprietary and confidential ideas and information, know-how and information maintained as trade secrets, tools, concepts, techniques, methods, processes, formulae, patterns, algorithms and specifications, customer lists and supplier lists and any and all instantiations or embodiments of the foregoing or any Intellectual Property Rights in any form and embodied in any media.

  • Confidential System Information means any communication or record (whether oral, written, electronically stored or transmitted, or in any other form) provided to or made available to Grantee; or that Grantee may create, receive, maintain, use, disclose or have access to on behalf of HHSC or through performance of the Project, which is not designated as Confidential Information in a Data Use Agreement.