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- Non-Disclosure of Company Information
-
- * This agreement is designed to establish harmonious relationships
- between you and potential employees, consultants, representatives,
- vendors or other associates, and to protect your company, your ideas,
- your assets and your competitive position from inappropriate use of your
- confidential information.
-
- This document consists of two parts:
-
- Proprietary Information Agreement
- Termination Certification
-
- * Both parts should be provided to the potential associate. The first
- part should be signed when the association begins, with each party
- retaining a complete copy. When the association completes, the
- Termination Certification (still attached to the first two parts),
- should be completed.
-
- Notice: Do not use this agreement AS-IS. Read it thoroughly and make
- all appropriate changes to fit your requirements. "(Company)" and
- "(State)" must be changed. We insist that you have this agreement
- approved by a qualified attorney at law. JIAN/Tools for Sales accepts
- no liability for the effectiveness of this agreement for your purposes.
-
- Copyright (c) 1989 JIAN/Tools For Sales. All Rights Reserved.
-
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-
- (Company)
- Agreement Concerning Non-Disclosure
- of
- Company Information
-
- I understand that this statement is a Proprietary Information Agreement
- (Agreement) with (Company) and its affiliated companies (collectively,
- the Company). I understand further that:
-
- (a) The Agreement contains material restrictions on my right to disclose
- or use, during or subsequent to my association, information learned or
- developed by me during my association with the Company.
-
- (b) The Company considers this Agreement to be vitally important to the
- protection of its business. The Company intends to enforce the terms of
- the Agreement and to seek appropriate injunctions or restraining orders,
- as well as monetary damages, should I violate the Agreement.
-
- (c) I have been advised to consult an attorney regarding any questions I
- have, and that the employees and agents of the Company are not
- authorized to, and will not, give me legal advice concerning the
- Agreement.
-
- For the specific purposes of (proposals, evaluation, testing,
- formulation) I agree as follows:
-
- * Note: Make the above as specific as possible in order to restrict the
- permitted uses of your confidential information by the recipient.)
-
- 1. As used in this Agreement:
-
- (a) Company includes (Company) and all its present and future
- subsidiaries and affiliates;
-
- (b) Intellectual Property means Inventions, Works of Authorship and
- Trademarks which (i) relate directly to the business of Company or to
- the actual or demonstratively anticipated research or development of
- Company, or (ii) result from any work performed by me for Company, or
- (iii) any Company equipment, supply, facility or trade secret
- information is used, or (iv) are not developed entirely on my own time;
-
- (c) Inventions mean discoveries, improvements, concepts, and designs,
- whether or not they are in writing or reduced to practice and whether or
- not they are patentable;
-
- (d) Works of Authorship mean those works fixed in any tangible medium of
- expression from which they can be perceived, reproduced or otherwise
- communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device,
- whether or not they are subject to copyright; and
-
- (e) Confidential Information means information which is not generally
- known and which is proprietary to Company or any of its clients,
- consultants, licensors, licensed dealers or distributors, including
- without limitation, source codes, designs, customer lists, business
- plans, consultants, schematic and trade secrets about Company and its
- products and information related to Company's research and development,
- manufacturing, engineering, purchasing, finance, marketing, distribution
- and selling activities. All information which I have a reasonable basis
- to consider confidential or which is treated by Company as confidential
- shall be presumed to be Confidential Information, whether originated by
- me or by others. Confidential information includes trade secrets that
- may in the future be developed, acquired or made available to the
- Company. Any Confidential Information acquired by me is the property of
- the Company.
-
- 2. (a) Company Information. I agree at all times during the term of my
- association and thereafter to hold in strictest confidence, and not to
- use, except for the benefit of the Company and for the above defined
- purposes, or to disclose to any person, firm or corporation without
- written authorization of the Board of Directors of the Company, any
- confidential information, trade secrets, confidential knowledge, data or
- other proprietary information relating to products, processes, know-how,
- designs, formulas, developmental or experimental work, computer
- programs, data bases, other original works of authorship, customer
- lists, business plans, financial information or other subject matter
- pertaining to any business of the Company or any of its clients,
- consultants or licensees.
-
- 2. (b) Third Party Information. I recognize that the Company has
- received, and in the future will receive confidential or proprietary
- information from third parties, subject to a duty on the Company's part
- to maintain the confidentiality of such information and to use it only
- for certain limited purposes. I agree that I owe the Company and such
- third parties, during the term of my association and thereafter, a duty
- to hold all such confidential or proprietary information in the
- strictest of confidence and not to disclose it to any person, firm or
- corporation (except as necessary in connection with my association with
- the Company and the above defined purposes) or to use it for the benefit
- of anyone other than for the Company or such third party (consistent
- with the Company's agreement with such third party) without the express
- written authorization of the Board of Directors of the Company.
-
- 3. At the request of Company or on the termination of association, I
- will immediately deliver to my immediate contact all papers, software,
- tools, apparatus, and any other material furnished to me by Company or
- which were prepared or made, in whole or in part, by me at any time, and
- all copies or parts of them, together with the attached Termination
- Certification, which I agree to sign and deliver.
-
- 4. I will not disclose to Company or induce Company to use the
- proprietary information of others. I do not have any existing
- obligation to others which might be inconsistent with any of the
- provisions in this Agreement, except for those obligations identified on
- a separate page and attached to this Agreement.
-
- 5. My association with Company may be terminated by me or Company at
- any time.
-
- 6. My obligations under this Agreement are binding upon my heirs,
- assigns and legal representatives.
-
- 7. This Agreement is governed by the laws of (State). If any provision
- of this Agreement is more restrictive than permitted by law in any
- jurisdiction in which enforcement is sought, this Agreement will be
- limited only to the extent necessary to bring this Agreement within the
- law of such jurisdiction and other provisions of the Agreement will
- remain in full force.
-
- I have read and understood this Agreement, and agree to its terms and
- conditions.
-
- ___________________________________
- Signature
-
- ___________________________________
- Name (print)
-
- ___________________________________
- Date
-
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-
- (Company)
-
- Termination Certification
-
-
- This is to certify that I do not have in my possession, nor have I
- failed to return, any devices, records, data, notebooks, notes, reports,
- proposals, lists, correspondence, specifications, drawings, blueprints,
- sketches, materials, equipment, other documents or property, or
- reproductions of any aforementioned items belonging to (Company), its
- subsidiaries, affiliates, successors or assigns (together, the
- "Company").
-
- I further certify that I have complied with all the terms of the
- Company's Agreement Concerning Non-Disclosure of Company Information
- signed by me, including the reporting of any inventions and original
- works of authorship (as defined therein), conceived or made by me
- (solely or jointly with others) covered by that agreement.
-
- I further agree that, in compliance with the Agreement Concerning
- Non-Disclosure of Company Information, I will preserve as confidential
- all trade secrets, confidential knowledge, data or other proprietary
- information relating to products, processes, know-how, designs,
- formulas, developmental or experimental work, computer programs, data
- bases, other original works of authorship, customer lists, business
- plans, financial information or other subject matter pertaining to any
- business of the Company or any of its clients, consultants or licensees.
-
- ___________________________
- Date
-
- ___________________________________
- Signature
-
- ___________________________________
- Name (typed or printed)