Common use of Residual Knowledge Clause in Contracts

Residual Knowledge. Each Disclosing Party acknowledges that the Recipient Parties may currently or in the future be developing information internally, or receiving information from other parties, that is similar to the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information. The Parties agree that they also may acquire Residual Knowledge as a result of this Agreement. Any use or disclosure by any Party of Residual Knowledge shall not constitute a breach of this Agreement, provided that such use or disclosure does not violate the patents or copyrights of any other Party hereto. Subject to the foregoing proviso, nothing in this Agreement will prohibit a Recipient Party from using Residual Knowledge to develop or have developed for itself, or otherwise use or disclose, products, concepts, systems or techniques that are similar to or compete with the products, concepts, systems or techniques contemplated by or embodied in such Confidential Information. The Parties shall have no obligation to limit or restrict the work assignments of their Permitted Recipient Parties as a result of their having had access to any other Party’s Confidential Information.