Non-competition with the Company. The parties acknowledge: (A) that Executive’s services under this Agreement require special expertise and talent in the provision of Competitive Services and that Executive will have substantial contacts with customers, suppliers, advertisers and vendors of the Company; (B) that pursuant to this Agreement, Executive will be placed in a position of trust and responsibility and he will have access to a substantial amount of Confidential Information and Trade Secrets and that the Company is placing him in such position and giving him access to such information in reliance upon his agreement not to compete with the Company during the Restricted Period; (C) that due to his management duties, Executive will be the repository of a substantial portion of the goodwill of the Company and would have an unfair advantage in competing with the Company; (D) that due to Executive’s special experience and talent, the loss of Executive’s services to the Company under this Agreement cannot reasonably or adequately be compensated solely by damages in an action at law; (E) that Executive is capable of competing with the Company; and (F) that Executive is capable of obtaining gainful, lucrative and desirable employment that does not violate the restrictions contained in this Agreement. In consideration of the compensation and benefits being paid and to be paid by the Company to Executive hereunder, Executive hereby agrees that, during the Restricted Period, Executive will not, without prior written consent of the Company, directly or indirectly seek or obtain a Competitive Position in the Restricted Territory; provided, however, that (1) the provisions of this Agreement shall not be deemed to prohibit the ownership by Executive of any securities of the Company or its affiliated entities or not more than five percent (5%) of any class of securities of any corporation having a class of securities registered pursuant to the Exchange Act; (2) for purposes of this § 13(c)(iv) only, the Restricted Period shall be reduced to eighteen (18) months if Executive’s employment is terminated by Company or Executive pursuant to § 8(a) (Prior to a Change in Control: Resignation by Executive for Good Reason; Termination by the Company Other Than for Cause, Death or Disability); and (3) this § 13(c)(iv) shall lapse and terminate at the end of the Employment Period if the Company gives notice to Executive pursuant to § 3 that this Agreement will not be extended.
Non-competition with the Company. Executive agrees that, during the Non-Competition Period, Executive shall not directly or indirectly, as a director, manager, member, stockholder, partner, owner, employee, consultant, or agent of any business, or in any other capacity, other than on behalf of the Company, organize, establish, own, operate, manage, control, engage in, participate in, invest in, permit Executive’s name to be used by, act as a consultant or advisor to, render services for (alone or in association with any person, firm, corporation, or other entity), or otherwise assist any person or entity that engages in or owns, invests in, operates, manages, or controls any venture or enterprise in all or a part of the Restricted Area, that engages in (A) the manufacture, sale, lease, service or other manner of offering of products or services that provide natural gas or hydrogen fueled distributed power generation with a single unit nameplate capacity of up to 5MW (which excludes, for the avoidance of doubt, the manufacture, sale, lease, service or other manner of offering of batteries, solar or wind powered energy generation equipment, or electrochemical (non-combustion) powered fuel cells), (B) the manufacture, sale, lease, service or other manner of offering of heat exchanger/transfer products that can operate with gases at a temperature above 1000° Xxxxxxxxxx or (C) any other new line of business, products or services offered or in development by FGS or any direct or indirect subsidiary thereof during the prior six months of the Employment Term and in which Executive has had material involvement (the “Restricted Business”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall prevent Executive from owning, directly or indirectly, for passive investment purposes not intended to circumvent this Agreement, less than 2% of the publicly traded common equity securities of any company engaged in the Business (so long as Executive has no power to manage, operate, advise, consult with, or control the competing enterprise and no power, alone or in conjunction with other affiliated parties, to select a director, manager, general partner, or similar governing official of the competing enterprise other than in connection with the normal and customary voting powers afforded Executive in connection with any permissible equity ownership).
Non-competition with the Company. During the Employment Period and for 18 months following any Date of Termination, you shall not become an employee, director, or independent contractor of, or a consultant to, or perform any services for, any Competitor of the Company. For purposes of this Section 8, a Competitor of the Company shall mean (i) any unit, division, line of business, parent, subsidiary, or subsidiary of the parent of any of Travelport, Amadeus, Worldspan, Orbitz, Expedia, Priceline, Hotwire, ITA Software, Cheaptickets, Navitaire, or EDS; or (ii) any individual or entity that within one year after your termination could reasonably be expected to generate more than $100 Million in annualized gross revenue from any activity that competes, or combination of activities that competes, with any business of the Company; provided, that a Competitor of the Company under this clause (ii) shall not include any individual or entity or portion of an entity where (A) you have actual supervisory duties and authority over one or more businesses and (B) less than 20% of the annualized gross revenue of such businesses over which you have actual supervisory duties and authority arise from any activity or combination of activities that competes with any business of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event any of the above-named entities in clause (i) of this Section 8(c) no longer engages in a line of business that competes with any business of the Company, such entity shall no longer be deemed a Competitor of the Company for purposes of this Section 8.
Non-competition with the Company. You covenant and agree that during your employment and for a period of six (6) months following your separation from the Company for any reason, you shall not, directly or indirectly, enter into or engage in the ownership, management, operation or control of, or act as a consultant, advisor, employee or contractor for, any person, company or entity engaged in Competition with the Company. This restriction is limited to (i) a radius of fifty (50) miles from any Company office or other location where you worked or out of which you provided services during the two (2) years prior to your separation from employment with the Company, and (ii) any territory in which the Company engaged in its business during that time period. You are only restricted from working or performing services on your own behalf or for another entity where you have or will perform the same or similar type of work or service or offer the same or similar products or services that you performed or offered for the Company during your employment or the last year of your employment with the Company, whichever is shorter. The term in “Competition” with the Company means any company, person or entity engaged in the Business of the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Business” shall mean the development of smart home automation hardware or software for property owners, homeowners, managers or homebuilders.
Non-competition with the Company. In consideration of the compensation and benefits being paid and to be paid by the Company to Executive hereunder and the equity awards granted by the Company, Executive hereby agrees that, during the Restricted Period, Executive will not, directly or indirectly, engage in or provide Competitive Services within the Restricted Territory, whether on his own behalf or as a Principal or Representative of any other Person, in a capacity that involves the exercise of any job duties or responsibilities the same as or similar to the job duties and responsibilities executed by Executive on behalf of the Company; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not be deemed to prohibit the ownership by Executive of not more than five percent (5%) of any class of securities of any corporation having a class of securities registered pursuant to the Exchange Act, which investment does not exceed 3% of Executive’s net worth.
Non-competition with the Company. Executive acknowledges and agrees that the services which have been and will be performed by Executive for the Company or its Affiliates, whether during his employment with the Company or any Affiliates otherwise than pursuant to this Agreement, include services of a special, unique, unusual, extraordinary and intellectual character. Executive further acknowledges that the business of the Company and its subsidiaries is worldwide in scope, that Executive has been and will be an integral part of conceiving, developing, marketing and selling such products and services on a worldwide basis, and that the Company and its subsidiaries compete with other organizations that are or could be located in any part of the world. Executive further acknowledges that, by virtue of the character of his services, Executive will be deemed to have worked for the Company or its subsidiaries at any and every location and geographic area in which Executive’s services have been or will be applied on behalf of the Company or any subsidiary during his employment by the Company or any subsidiary whether pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise, irrespective of whether or not Executive was physically present at such location or geographic area. Therefore, Executive hereby covenants and agrees that during the term of Executive’s employment hereunder and for a period of two years thereafter, Executive will not directly or indirectly engage or invest in, own, manage, operate, control or participate in the ownership, management, operation or control of, be employed by, associated or connected with, or render services or advice to, any other business whose services, products or activities compete in whole or in part with the services, products or activities of the Company relating to Company’s hydrogen fuel technology or its subsidiaries, within all geographic areas worldwide in which Executive’s services were applied by the Company or its subsidiaries at any time during Executive’s employment by the Company or its subsidiaries otherwise than pursuant to this Agreement (except with respect to Synexus as provided herein).
Non-competition with the Company. During the Employment Period and for 18 months following any Date of Termination, you shall not, directly or indirectly, whether as an employee, director, owner, partner, shareholder (other than the passive ownership of securities in any public enterprise which represent no more than five percent (5%) of the voting power of all securities of such enterprise), consultant, agent, co-venturer, or independent contractor or otherwise, or through any “person” (which, for purposes of this subsection, shall mean an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint-stock company, a trust, any unincorporated organization, or a government or political subdivision thereof), perform any services for or on behalf of, any Competitor of the Company. For purposes of this Section 8, a Competitor of the Company shall mean (i) any entity or business (x) that competes or (y) engages in a line of business that competes, in each of (x) and (y), with the business of the Company, and (ii) any unit, division, line of business, parent, subsidiary, affiliate (as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended), successor or assign of Travelport, Amadeus, AMEX, Etihad Airways, American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Airlines, Lufthansa Group, Expedia, Priceline, TripAdvisor, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Concur/SAP, Oracle, Farelogix, TravelClick, Xxxxxxx Wagonlit, BCD Travel, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, Travelsky, Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Group Travel, Computer Sciences Corporation, SITA, Hewlett Packard, or Jeppesen, it being understood and agreed in the event that any of such entities and their respective affiliates, successors and assigns no longer engages in a line of business that competes with any business of the Company, such entity shall no longer be deemed a Competitor of the Company for purposes of this Section 8.
Non-competition with the Company. During the Restricted Period, Participant shall not become an employee, director, or independent contractor of, or consultant to, or perform any services for, any Competitor of the Company. For purposes of this Section 8, a Competitor of the Company shall mean (i) any unit, division, line of business, parent, subsidiary or subsidiary of the parent of any of Alcon, Advanced Medical Optics, Inc., Allergan, Inc., Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx (provided that, with respect to Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, this provision shall be limited to Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx businesses that are primarily engaged in the provision of ophthamological products, including, without limitation, the Vistakon Division), CIBA Vision, Xxxx Zeiss Meditec, Inc., STAAR Surgical Company, Xxxxxx Companies, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and ISTA Pharmaceuticals; or (ii) any individual or entity that within two years after your termination could reasonably be expected to generate more than $50 Million in annualized gross revenue from any activity that competes, or combination of activities that competes, with any business of the Company; provided, that a Competitor of the Company under this clause (ii) shall not include any individual or entity or portion of an entity where (A) Participant has actual supervisory duties and authority over one or more businesses and (B) less than 20% of the annualized gross revenue of such businesses over which Participant has actual supervisory duties and authority arise from any activity or combination of activities that competes with any business of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event any of the above-named entities in clause (i) of this Section 8(c) no longer engages in a line of business that competes with any business of the Company, such entity shall no longer be deemed a Competitor of the Company for purposes of this Section 8.
Non-competition with the Company. (a)(i) Subject to the cure provisions of Section 4.2(b), from the Effective Date until December 15, 2003 and thereafter for so long as each of AOL and ODC, together with their respective Wholly-Owned Affiliates and, with respect to ODC only, Xxxxxxxx Family members, holds shares of Voting Stock equal to at least twenty percent (20%) of the issued and outstanding shares of Voting Stock (as adjusted to negate the effect of (1) the admission of third parties admitted as equity participants as contemplated in Section 5.7 hereof, (2) the issuance of any Company Securities by the Company or (3) the issuance of any Company Securities upon exercise of the Warrant) neither Stockholder (nor any third party admitted as a stockholder of the Company in accordance with this Agreement) nor any Special Affiliate thereof shall, directly or indirectly, independently of the Company or the other Stockholder, through a Special Affiliate or otherwise, provide, acquire or hold any interest in:
Non-competition with the Company. While employed by the Company and for 12 months after employment ends, regardless of the reason it ends, Executive shall not do work that competes with or relates to any of the Company’s products or activities without first obtaining the Company’s written permission. Any business opportunities related to the Company’s business that Executive learns of or obtains while employed by the Company (whether or not during working hours) belong to the Company, and Executive shall pursue them only for the Company’s benefit.
