Trade Secrets and Confidential Information. (i) Executive represents and warrants that Executive (A) is not subject to any legal or contractual duty or agreement that would prevent or prohibit Executive from performing the duties contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise complying with this Agreement, and (B) is not in breach of any legal or contractual duty or agreement, including any agreement concerning trade secrets or confidential information owned by any other party.
(ii) Executive agrees that Executive will not (A) use, disclose or reverse engineer Trade Secrets or Confidential Information for any purpose other than the Company’s Business, except as authorized in writing by the Company; (B) during Executive’s employment with the Company, use, disclose or reverse engineer (1) any confidential information or trade secrets of any former employer or third party or (2) any works of authorship developed in whole or in part by Executive during any former employment or for any other party, unless authorized in writing by the former employer or third party; or (C) upon Executive’s resignation or termination with the Company (1) retain Trade Secrets or Confidential Information, including any copies existing in any form (including electronic form), which are in Executive’s possession or control or (2) destroy, delete or alter Trade Secrets or Confidential Information without the Company’s prior written consent.
(iii) The obligations under this Section 8 shall remain in effect as long as Trade Secrets and Confidential Information constitute trade secrets or confidential information under applicable law. The confidentiality, property and proprietary rights protections available in this Agreement are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any and all other rights to which the Company is entitled under federal and state law, including, but not limited to, rights provided under copyright laws, trade secret and confidential information laws and laws concerning fiduciary duties.
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information. Employee represents and warrants that: (i) he is not subject to any agreement that would prevent him from performing Employ ee’s Duties for the Company or otherwise complying with this Agreement, and (ii) he is not subject to or in breach of any non-disclosure agreement, including any agreement concerning trade secrets or confidential information owned by any other party. Employee agrees that he will not: (i) use, disclose, or reverse engineer the Trade Secrets or the Confidential Information (as defined below), except as authorized by the Company; (ii) or during his employment with the Company, use, disclose, or reverse engineer (a) any confidential information or trade secrets of any former employer or third party, or (b) any works of authorship developed in whole or in part by him during any former employment or for any other party, unless authorized in writing by the former employer or third party; or (iii) upon his resignation or termination (a) retain Trade Secrets or Confidential Information, including any copies existing in any form (including electronic form), which are in his possession or control, or (b) destroy, delete, or alter the Trade Secrets or Confidential Information without the Company’s consent. Notwithstanding the above, such information may be disclosed to authorized representatives of the US government in federal grant applications and to third parties in connection with licensing, financing and other commercial agreements, in each case to the extent the failure to provide such information would materially prejudice the Company’s ability to secure the grant or enter into the desired commercial relationship, and provided that in each case Employee uses his best efforts to cause the person(s) receiving such information to protect its confidentiality and limit its use, including securing a written confidentiality agreement where possible. The obligations under this subsection 15.a shall: (i) with regard to the Trade Secrets, remain in effect as long as the information constitutes a trade secret under applicable law, and (ii) with regard to the Confidential Information, remain in effect during the Restricted Period.
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information. (i) As used in this Agreement, the term "Trade Secrets and Confidential Information" means information, whether written or oral, not generally available to the public, regardless of whether it is suitable to be patented, copyrighted and/or trademarked, which is received from the Company and/or its affiliates, either directly or indirectly, including but not limited to concepts, ideas, plans and strategies involved in the Company's and/or its affiliates’ products, the processes, formulae and techniques disclosed by the Company and/or its affiliates to Employee or observed by Employee, the designs, inventions and innovations and related plans, strategies and applications which Employee develops during the term of this Agreement in connection with the work performed by Employee for the Company and/or its affiliates; and third party information which the Company and/or its affiliates has/have agreed to keep confidential.
(ii) While employed by the Company, Employee will have access to and become familiar with Trade Secrets and Confidential Information. Employee acknowledges that Trade Secrets and Confidential Information are owned and shall continue to be owned solely by the Company and/or its affiliates. Employee agrees that Employee will not, at any time, whether during or subsequent to Employee’s employment by the Company and/or its affiliates, use or disclose Trade Secrets and Confidential Information for any competitive purpose or divulge the same to any person other than the Company or persons with respect to whom the Company has given its written consent, unless Employee is compelled to make disclosure by governmental process. In the event Employee believes that Employee is legally required to disclose any Trade Secrets or Confidential Information, Employee shall give reasonable notice to the Company prior to disclosing such information and shall assist the Company in taking such legally permissible steps as are reasonable and necessary to protect the Trade Secrets or Confidential Information, including, but not limited to execution by the receiving party of a non-disclosure agreement in a form acceptable to the Company.
(iii) Employee agrees to execute such secrecy, non-disclosure, patent, trademark, copyright and other proprietary rights agreements, if any, as the Company may from time to time reasonably require.
(iv) The provisions of this Subsection 8(b) shall survive the termination of this Agreement and shall be binding upon Employee in perpetuity...
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information. (a) Company may disclose to Executive certain Proprietary Information. Executive agrees that the Proprietary Information is the exclusive property of Company (or a third party providing such information to Company) and Company (or such third party) owns all worldwide copyrights, trade secret rights, confidential information rights, and all other property rights therein.
(b) Company's disclosure of the Proprietary Information to Executive does not confer upon Executive any license, interest or rights in or to the Proprietary Information. Except in the performance of services for Company, Executive will hold in confidence and will not, without Company's prior written consent, use, reproduce, distribute, transmit, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or transfer, directly or indirectly, in any form, or for any purpose, any Proprietary Information communicated or made available by Company to or received by Executive. Executive agrees to notify Company immediately if he discovers any unauthorized use or disclosure of the Proprietary Information.
(c) To further protect Proprietary Information, Executive agrees that if his or her employment with Company ends for any reason during the first three (3) years after the initial date of employment, then for a period of six (6) months after the end of Executive's employment he will not, without Company's prior written consent, perform any of the Duties that he performed on behalf of Company for the Executive's immediately prior employer if such prior employer competes with the Company Business.
(d) Executive's obligations under this Agreement with regard to (i) Trade Secrets shall remain in effect for as long as such information remains a trade secret under applicable law, and (ii) Confidential Information shall remain in effect during Executive's employment with Company and for three years thereafter. These obligations will not apply to the extent that Executive establishes that the information communicated (1) was already known to Executive, without an obligation to keep it confidential at the time of its receipt from Company; (2) was received by Executive in good faith from a third party lawfully in possession thereof and having no obligation to keep such information confidential; or (3) was publicly known at the time of its receipt by Executive or has become publicly known other than by a breach of this Agreement or other action by Executive.
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information. During his employment by the Company and for a period of five (5) years thereafter, the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, use, disseminate, or disclose for any purpose other than for the purposes of the Company's business, any Confidential Information of the Company or its affiliates, unless such disclosure is compelled in a judicial proceeding. Upon termination of his employment, all documents, records, notebooks, and similar repositories of records containing information relating to any Confidential Information then in the Executive's possession or control, whether prepared by him or by others, shall be left with the Company or, if requested, returned to the Company.
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information. (i) As used in this Agreement, the term “Trade Secrets and Confidential Information” means information, whether written or oral, not generally available to the public, regardless of whether it is suitable to be patented, copyrighted and/or trademarked, which is received from the Company and/or its affiliates, either directly or indirectly, including but not limited to concepts, ideas, plans and strategies involved in the Company’s and/or its affiliates’ products, the processes, formulae and techniques disclosed by the Company and/or its affiliates to Employee or observed by Employee, the designs, inventions and innovations and related plans, strategies and applications which Employee develops during the term of this Agreement in connection with the work performed by Employee for the Company and/or its affiliates; and third party information which the Company and/or its affiliates has/have agreed to keep confidential.
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information. Executive shall not, either directly or indirectly, except as required in the course of his employment by the Company, disclose or use at any time, whether during or subsequent to the Term of Employment, any information of a proprietary nature owned by the Company, including but not limited to, records, data, formulae, documents, specifications, inventions, processes, methods and intangible rights which are acquired by him in the performance of his duties for the Company and which are of a confidential information or trade-secret nature. All records, files, drawings, documents, equipment and the like, relating to the Company's business, which Executive shall prepare, use, construct or observe, shall be and remain the Company's sole property. Upon the termination of his employment or at any time prior thereto upon request by the Company, Executive shall return to the possession of the Company any materials or copies thereof involving any confidential information or trade secrets and shall not take any material or copies thereof from the possession of the Company.
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information. (a) Employee hereby covenants and agrees that he will not, except as may be required in connection with his employment with the Company, directly or indirectly, use or disclose to any other person or entity, whether during or subsequent to the term of his employment by the Company, irrespective of the time, manner or cause of the termination of his employment, any information of a proprietary nature belonging to the Company, or which could be reasonably expected to have an adverse effect on the Company, its business, property or financial condition, including, without limitation, records, data, documents, processes, specifications, methods of operation, inventions, manufacturing techniques and know-how, formulae, experimental or developmental work, plans, policies, customer lists, price lists, the names and addresses of suppliers or representatives, investigations or other matters of any kind or description relating to the products, services, suppliers, customers, sales or businesses of the Company.
(b) All records, files, drawings, data, computer programs, documents, equipment, writings and the like relating to the Company's business which Employee shall prepare, use, construct or observe, shall be and remain the sole property of the Company, and upon termination of this Agreement or his employment hereunder or otherwise with the Company for any reason, Employee shall return to the possession of the Company any items of that nature and any copies thereof which he may have in his possession.
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information. Executive hereby agrees that Executive will hold in a fiduciary capacity for the benefit of SunTrust and each SunTrust Affiliate, and will not directly or indirectly use or disclose, any Trade Secret that Executive may have acquired during the term of Executive’s employment by SunTrust or a SunTrust Affiliate for so long as such information remains a Trade Secret. Executive in addition agrees that during the Restricted Period Executive will hold in a fiduciary capacity for the benefit of SunTrust and each SunTrust Affiliate, and will not directly or indirectly use or disclose, any Confidential or Proprietary Information that Executive may have acquired (whether or not developed or compiled by Executive and whether or not Executive was authorized to have access to such information) during the term of, in the course of, or as a result of Executive’s employment by SunTrust or a SunTrust Affiliate.
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information. (a) Executive acknowledges that the Company's business and future success depend upon the preservation of the trade secrets and other confidential information of the Company and its suppliers and customers (the "Secrets"). The Secrets may include, without limitation, existing and to-be-developed or acquired product designs, new product plans or ideas, market surveys, the identities of past, present or potential customers, business and financial information, pricing methods or data, terms of contracts with present or past customers, proposals or bids, marketing plans, personnel information, procedural and technical manuals and practices, servicing routines, and parts and supplier lists proprietary to the Company or its customers or suppliers, and any other sorts of items or information of the Company or its customers or suppliers which are not generally known to the public at large. Executive agrees to protect and to preserve as confidential during and after the term of his employment all of the Secrets at any time known to Executive or in his/her possession or control (whether wholly or partially developed by Executive or provided to Executive, and whether embodied in a tangible medium or merely remembered).
(b) Executive shall xxxx all items containing any of the Secrets with prominent confidentiality notices acceptable to the Company. Executive shall neither use nor allow any other person to use any of the Secrets in any way, except for the benefit of the Company and as directed by Executive's supervisor. All material containing or disclosing any portion of the Secrets shall be and remain the property of the Company, shall not be removed from the Company's premises without specific consent from an officer of the Company, and shall be returned to the Company upon the termination of Executive's employment or the earlier request of Executive's supervisor. At such time, Executive shall also assemble all materials in his possession or control which contain any of the Secrets, and promptly deliver such items to the Company.
