consequential damages, regardless of the nature of the claim, even if such party knew or should have known of the possibility of such damages or claims.
7.Ownership:
(a)By Client. Upon payment of all of the Fees and Compensation set forth in the Workscope, all of Consultant’s work products prepared, produced or developed for Client under this Agreement, including all concepts, designs, files, reports, programs, manuals, listings, data bases and any other materials (whether complete or incomplete, whether acceptable to Client or not, and regardless of the form they take) shall become the property of Client, exclusively. At such time, Consultant shall unconditionally assign and transfer to Client all right, title, interest and claim that it has or may in the future have to those work products.
(b)By Consultant. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any pre-existing materials (including software source code, object code and documentation related thereto), and other creative and technical content, developed before the applicable Workscope, and all enhancements, modifications and updates thereto, provided by Consultant or its suppliers (collectively, the “Pre-Existing Consultant Materials”) shall be the sole and exclusive property of Consultant or such supplier(s), as appropriate; and all rights related thereto, including, without limitation, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights, are hereby exclusively reserved by Consultant or its applicable owner. It is expressly understood that no title to or ownership of the Pre-Existing Consultant Materials is transferred to Customer under this Agreement unless explicitly set forth in the Workscope.
8.Non-Exclusivity: This work relationship by and between Consultant and Client is non-exclusive and, except as otherwise set forth herein, nothing in this Agreement shall restrict either party from providing, or engaging other persons to provide, services similar to those contemplated hereunder to persons and entities that are not party to this Agreement, whether at time within or without the time period of this Agreement.
9.Confidentiality:
(a)General. From time to time, either party may disclose or make available to the other party, either directly or through one or more third party contractors and suppliers, whether orally or in physical form, confidential or proprietary information concerning the disclosing party and/or its products, services, methods, techniques, processes, strategies and business plan as well as the technology and software associated therewith (together, “Confidential Information”) in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder. Each party agrees that during the term of this Agreement and thereafter: (a) it will use Confidential Information belonging to the other party solely for the purpose(s) of this Agreement; (b) it will not disclose Confidential Information belonging to the other party to any third party (other than the receiving party’s employees and/or professional advisors on a need-to-know basis who are bound by obligations of nondisclosure and limited use at least as stringent as those contained herein); (c) it will use the same standard of care it uses to protect its own Confidential Information to protect the Confidential Information belonging to the other party provided that in no event will such standard of care be less than a reasonable degree of care; (d) it will not copy, reproduce, distribute, decompile or reverse engineer any of the Confidential Information or in any way