This is an agreement between a company and its employee providing that any sensitive
information the employee learns through the course of the employee's employment will
remain confidential and that the employee is prohibited from sharing this information
with the public. Confidential information includes trade secrets, patents, profits,
revenue, technical information, trademarks and other proprietary information.
Additionally, this agreement grants the company with all of the intellectual property
rights of any work related product created by the employee. This document is ideal for
small businesses and other entities that want to limit exposure of their proprietary
information by their employees.
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The Employee shall devote the Employee's best efforts and substantially all of the Employee's ct
working time to performing his/her duties on behalf of Employer. The Employee shall provide e
services during the hours that are scheduled by Employer. The Employee shall be prompt in d
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any and all information or material that is commercially valuable to Employer and not la
generally known in the industry. This shall include, but shall not be limited to: w
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ii. Technical information concerning the Employer's products and services,
including but not limited to, product specifications, diagrams, test results,
inventions, research projects and product development;
iii. Information concerning the Employer's business, including but not limited
to, cost information, profits, revenue, accounting information, business
plans, marketing metho