Flagship counsel will continue to represent Flagship and will no longer provide advice to Company. Flagship acknowledges that Company is free to retain its own counsel to provide legal services, including intellectual property services, at any time. To the extent a conflict of interest exists between the Company and Flagship, the Company hereby agrees to waive, and will not object to, any such conflict of interest. Company and Flagship acknowledge and agree that they have a common interest in the success of the Company generally and, more specifically, in creating, protecting and defending the Company’s intellectual property. In furtherance of that common interest, Company and Flagship shall execute, contemporaneously with the execution of this Agreement, the Common Interest Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.
10. Confidentiality.
(a) A party to this Agreement receiving Confidential Information from the other party shall maintain the confidential and proprietary status of such Confidential Information, and use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that such Confidential Information is used only for those purposes specifically authorized herein; provided, however, that such restriction shall not apply to any Confidential Information which is (i) independently developed by the receiving party outside the scope of this Agreement, (ii) in the public domain at the time of its receipt or thereafter becomes part of the public domain through no fault of the receiving party,
(iii) received without an obligation of confidentiality from a third party having the right to disclose such information, (iv) released from the restrictions of this Section 10 by the express written consent of the disclosing party, (v) disclosed to any permitted assignee or permitted sublicensee of Flagship or Company hereunder ( if such assignee or sublicensee is subject to the provisions of this Section 10 or substantially similar provisions) or (vi) required by law, statute, rule or court order to be disclosed (the disclosing party shall, however, use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain confidential treatment of any such disclosure).
(b) For the purposes of this Section 10, “Confidential Information” shall mean with respect to either party any confidential information (whether or not reduced to writing or other medium), concerning the organization, business or finances of such party or of any third party which such party is under an obligation to keep confidential, including, but not limited to, trade secrets or confidential information respecting inventions, products, designs, methods, know-how, techniques, systems, processes, software programs, algorithms, formulae, molecular structures or sequences, customer lists, projects, plans and proposals.
11. Relationship of Parties. Nothing contained in this Agreement is intended or is to be construed to constitute Flagship and Company as partners or Flagship as an employee of Company. Neither party hereto shall have any express or implied right or authority to assume or create any obligations on behalf of or in the name of the other party or to bind the other party to any contract, agreement or undertaking with any third party.
12. Successors and Assigns. The terms and provisions of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, Flagship, Company, and their respective successors and assigns. Any reference to Flagship or Company hereunder shall be deemed to include the successor thereto and assigns thereof.
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