or use any Owned Company IP; (ii) transferred to any Person sole or joint ownership in or to any Intellectual Property Rights that are or were in the Owned Company IP; or (iii) entered into any Contract to which Parent is not a party under which the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company or the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will immediately after the Closing result in Parent, the Surviving Corporation or any of their respective Affiliates granting to any Person any rights, licenses or immunities in or to any Intellectual Property Rights owned by, or licensed to, the Parent, the Surviving Corporation or any of their respective Affiliates in each case which such rights, licenses or immunities were not granted immediately prior to the Closing.
(h) The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken steps consistent with generally accepted industry standards to safeguard and maintain the secrecy and confidentiality of, and its proprietary rights in, all information and materials not generally known to the public that are included in the Company IP (including any Trade Secrets provided by or to third Persons). Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has authorized the disclosure of any confidential information included in the Company IP, nor to the Knowledge of the Company has any such confidential information been disclosed, other than pursuant to a valid and enforceable confidentiality agreement with respect thereto. The Company has no Knowledge of any misappropriation or unauthorized disclosure of any Trade Secret included in the Company IP (or claimed or understood to be so included), or breach of any obligations of confidentiality with respect to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or the Company IP.
(i) The business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including the design, development, use, provision, import, branding, advertising, promotion, marketing, and sale of any Company Products, (i) does not infringe, misappropriate, dilute, use or disclose without authorization, or otherwise violate (and, when conducted by the Surviving Corporation following the Closing in substantially the same manner, will not infringe, misappropriate, use or disclose without authorization, or otherwise violate) any Intellectual Property Rights of any third Person, and (ii) does not and will not constitute unfair competition or trade practices under any Legal Requirement. Except as set forth on Section 2.9(i) of the Disclosure Schedule, none of the Company, its Subsidiaries or any of the officers or directors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has received any written notice alleging that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has violated, misappropriated, diluted or infringed, or, by conducting its business as presently conducted, would violate, misappropriate, dilute or infringe, any Intellectual Property Rights of any other Person, or that the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries constitutes unfair competition or trade practices under any Legal Requirement.
(j) Except as set forth on Section 2.9(j) of the Disclosure Schedule, to the Knowledge of the Company, no Person or any of such Person’s products or services or other operation of such Person’s business is infringing on, misappropriating, diluting or otherwise violating any of the Company IP.
(k) To the Knowledge of the Company, no director, officer or stockholder of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries owns any rights in any Intellectual Property or Intellectual Property Rights that are directly competitive with the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or that are derived from any Company IP, and no present or former employee, officer, independent contractor or other Company Associate has any ownership, license or other right, title or interest, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, in any Owned Company IP. To the Knowledge of the Company, no Company Associate has misappropriated the Trade Secrets of any other Person in the course of their employment or other engagement with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
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