2. Confidentiality; Intellectual Property.
(a) Confidentiality.
(i) Executive will not at any time (A) retain or use for the benefit, purposes or account of Executive or any other Person; or (B) disclose, divulge, reveal, communicate, share, transfer or provide access to any Person outside the Company (other than its professional advisers who are bound by confidentiality obligations or otherwise in performance of Executive’s duties under Executive’s employment and pursuant to customary industry practice), any non-public, proprietary or confidential information concerning the Company or its business, systems, operations, customers, procedures, manuals, software, equipment and other processes, as well as the Company’s business and technical information including, without limitation, all brochures, flyers, promotional materials and literature, mailing lists, lists of customers and prospective customers, sales and marketing techniques, names and addresses of the Company’s customers or clients, business plans, marketing materials or information, financial and marketing data, customer drawings and/or Computer Aided Designs (“CAD”), Company employee information (including but not limited to employee compensation, employee capabilities and abilities, and employee performance reviews), or any other information relating to the Company’s customers, designs, processes, software, procedures, or business, all of which constitute valuable, special, and unique assets of the Company (“Confidential Information”) without the prior written authorization of the Board.
(ii) “Confidential Information” shall not include any information that is (A) generally known to the industry or the public other than as a result of Executive’s breach of this covenant; (B) made legitimately available to Executive by a third party without breach of any confidentiality obligation of which Executive has knowledge; or (C) required by law or by order from a court or other governmental body of competent jurisdiction to be disclosed; provided that with respect to subsection (C) Executive shall give prompt written notice to the Company of such requirement, disclose no more information than is so required, and reasonably cooperate with any attempts by the Company to obtain a protective order or similar treatment.
(iii) Upon termination of Executive’s employment with the Company for any reason, Executive shall (A) cease and not thereafter commence use of any Confidential Information or intellectual property (including without limitation, any patent, invention, copyright, trade secret, trademark, trade name, logo, domain name or other source indicator) owned or used by the Company or its Affiliates; and (B) upon the request of the Company, Timely destroy, delete, or return to the Company, at the Company’s option, all originals and copies in any form or medium (including memoranda, books, papers, plans, computer files, letters and other data) in Executive’s possession or control (including any of the foregoing stored or located in Executive’s office, home, laptop or other computer, whether or not Company property) that contain Confidential Information, except that Executive may retain only those portions of any personal notes, notebooks and diaries that do not contain any Confidential Information.
(b) Intellectual Property.
(i) If Executive has created, invented, designed, developed, contributed to or improved any works of authorship, inventions, intellectual property, materials, documents or other work product (including without limitation, research, reports,
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