“Committee” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1 hereof.
“Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share.
“Company” has the meaning set forth in Article I hereof.
“Company Group” means the Company, TopCo Parent, and their respective Subsidiaries.
“Confidential Information” means information that is not generally known to the public and that is used, developed or obtained by the Company Group in connection with its business, including, but not limited to, information, observations and data obtained by a Participant while employed by any member of the Company Group or any predecessors thereof concerning (i) the business or affairs of the Company Group (or such predecessors), (ii) products or services, (iii) fees, costs and pricing structures, (iv) designs, (v) analyses, (vi) drawings, photographs and reports, (vii) computer software, including operating systems, applications and program listings, (viii) flow charts, manuals and documentation, (ix) data bases, (x) accounting and business methods, (xi) inventions, devices, new developments, methods and processes, whether patentable or unpatentable and whether or not reduced to practice, (xii) customers and clients and customer or client lists, (xiii) other copyrightable works, (xiv) all production methods, processes, technology and trade secrets, and (xv) all similar and related information in whatever form. “Confidential Information” will not include any information that has been published in a form generally available to the public prior to the date on which a Participant proposes to disclose or use such information. Confidential Information will not be deemed to have been published merely because individual portions of the information have been separately published, but only if all material features comprising such information have been published in combination.
“Data” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.5 hereof.
“Disability,” when used in connection with the Termination of Relationship of a Participant, shall have the same meaning ascribed to such term (or words of like import) in any Service Agreement, or, if no such Service Agreement containing a definition of “Disability” is then in effect, it shall mean the following, unless the applicable Award Agreement states otherwise: a finding by the Committee of the Participant’s incapacitation through any illness, injury, accident or condition of either a physical or psychological nature that has resulted in his or her inability to perform the essential functions of his or her position, even with reasonable accommodations, for one hundred eighty (180) calendar days during any period of three hundred sixty-five (365) consecutive calendar days, and such incapacity is expected to continue.
“Disqualifying Disposition” has the meaning set forth in Article XIV hereof.
“Dividend Equivalent” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.6 hereof.
“Effective Date” has the meaning set forth in Article X hereof.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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