effective organization. Executive agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Company, during Executive’s employment and for a period of 12 months immediately following the Executive’s separation from the Company, however caused, the Executive shall not
(a) Directly or indirectly, either for or on behalf of Executive or any other person or entity (i) solicit, recruit or hire (or induce or attempt to solicit, recruit, hire or induce) any employee of the Company , its subsidiaries, its affiliates, (or any individual who was a contractor for the Company or any of its subsidiaries and/or affiliates at any time during the six (6) months prior to such act of hiring, solicitation or recruitment) to discontinue employment or engagement with the Company or otherwise interfere or attempt to interfere with the relationships between the Company, its subsidiaries, or its affiliates and its employees and contractors; or (ii) solicit business from any person or entity known by Executive to be a customer or partner of, or a customer or partner who in the 12 month period prior to Executive’s termination of employment was in substantive negotiations with the Company or its affiliates or subsidiaries; and
(b) Participate directly or indirectly in any capacity, whether individually, in partnership, jointly, or in conjunction with, or as an employee, agent, representative, partner, member, independent contractor, consultant or otherwise of any Competitive Entity in any geographic area in which the Company, during any time within the last 24 months of employment, provided services or had a material presence or influence, were located.
(c) “Competitive Entity” for purposes of Section 2 shall mean any entity, business, or person engaged in direct competition with the Company’s (including any of its subsidiaries or affiliates with whom Executive has worked with during the 12 months prior to termination time ) works ) business, products or services, in the United States, or in any foreign jurisdiction in which the Company provides, or has provided products or services during the Term of this Agreement.
3. Assignment of Inventions.
(a)The Company shall be the sole and exclusive owner of, and shall own all right, title and interest (including patent rights, copyrights, trade secret rights, mask work rights, moral rights, sui generis database rights and all other intellectual and industrial property rights of any sort throughout the world) relating to, any and all inventions, works of authorship, domain names, mask works, designs, know-how, ideas, improvements, processes, methods, trade secrets and other information, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar laws, that Executive solely or jointly makes, conceives, develops or reduces to practice (or cause to be made, conceived, developed or reduced to practice) during the term of Executive’s employment with Company (including any of the foregoing that pre-date Executive’s execution of this Confidentiality and Restrictive Covenant Agreement) that (i) relate to the business of the Company, (ii) relate to the Company’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, (iii) result from any work performed by Executive for the Company, or (iv) are developed using the time, equipment, supplies, facilities or Confidential Information of the Company (collectively “Inventions”). Executive will promptly disclose all Inventions to the Company. To the extent that ownership of the Inventions is not deemed to have vested automatically in the Company under applicable law, Executive hereby assigns and shall assign all of Executive’s right, title and interest in such Inventions to the Company, except as provided in the following notice.
Notice: Notwithstanding any provision of this Confidentiality and Restrictive Covenant Agreement to the contrary, this does not obligate Executive to assign any of Executive's rights in an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facilities or trade secret information of the Company was used and which was developed entirely on Executive’s own time, unless (a) the invention relates (i) directly to the business of the Company or (ii) to the Company’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or