4. Compensation Upon Termination. As of the Effective Date, the Executive shall be eligible as an “NEO Participant” under the Repligen Corporation Amended And Restated Severance And Change In Control Plan (such Plan as in effect from time to time is the “Severance Plan.”) The current version of the Severance Plan is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
5. Confidential Information, Invention Assignment, Noncompetition, Nonsolicitation and Cooperation.
(a) Confidential Information. As used in this Agreement, “Confidential Information” means information belonging to the Company which is of value to the Company in the course of conducting its business and the disclosure of which could result in a competitive or other disadvantage to the Company. Confidential Information includes, without limitation, financial information, reports, and forecasts; inventions, improvements and other intellectual property; trade secrets; know-how; designs, processes or formulae; software; market or sales information or plans; customer lists; and business plans, prospects and opportunities (such as possible acquisitions or dispositions of businesses or facilities) which have been discussed or considered by the management of the Company. Confidential Information includes information developed by the Executive in the course of the Executive’s employment by the Company, as well as other information to which the Executive may have access in connection with the Executive’s employment. Confidential Information also includes the confidential information of others with which the Company has a business relationship. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information does not include information in the public domain, unless due to breach of the Executive’s duties under Section 5(b) (“Confidentiality”).
(b) Confidentiality. The Executive understands and agrees that the Executive’s employment creates a relationship of confidence and trust between the Executive and the Company with respect to all Confidential Information. At all times, both during the Executive’s employment with the Company and after its termination, the Executive will keep in confidence and trust all such Confidential Information and will not use or disclose any such Confidential Information without the written consent of the Company, except as may be necessary in the ordinary course of performing the Executive’s duties to the Company.
(c) Invention Assignment. While employed by the Company and when the Executive ceases to be employed by the Company for any reason, the Executive promptly and fully shall disclose in writing to the Company and hold in trust for the sole right and benefit of the Company, all ideas, plans, designs, methods, scripts, concepts, recordings, techniques, discoveries, inventions, developments, improvements, trade secrets, advertising and promotional materials, computer systems, programs, software, source codes, and object codes, specifications, and other proprietary data, records, knowledge, and information that the Executive solely or jointly knows, creates, conceives, develops, or reduces to practice while employed by the Company, if and to the extent they (a) relate to the business of the Company or any customer of, supplier to or business partner of the Company or any of the products or services being researched, developed, manufactured or sold by the Company or which may be used with such products or services; or (b) result from tasks assigned to the Executive by the Company or the work performed by the Executive for the Company; or (c) result from the use of premises or personal property (whether tangible or intangible) owned, leased or contracted for by the Company (collectively, “Intellectual Property”), whether or not patentable or capable of copyright or trademark registration, and whether or not created, conceived, developed, or reduced to practice during normal working hours, at the request of the Company, or before or after the execution date of this Agreement. By executing this Agreement, the Executive acknowledges that all work performed by the Executive is on a “work for hire” basis, and Executive assigns and transfers unconditionally all of the Executive’s right, title, and interest in and to all Intellectual Property to the Company. While employed by the Company and at all times thereafter, the Executive shall do all things, and execute all documents, including applications for patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and for renewals, extensions, and divisions thereof, that the Company may request to create, enforce, or evidence the Company’s rights to any Intellectual Property. If the Company is unable for any reason whatsoever to obtain the Executive’s signature or assistance, the Executive irrevocably appoints the Company, and each of its officers, as the Executive’s agent and attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution, to sign, execute, and file in the name and behalf of Employee any document required to prosecute or apply for any foreign or United States patent, copyright, trademark, or other proprietary protection, including renewals, extensions, and divisions, and to do all other lawful acts to further the issuance or prosecution of a patent, copyright, trademark, or other proprietary protection, all with the same legal force and effect as if done or executed by the Executive. To preclude any possible uncertainty, if there are any intellectual property rights that the Executive has, alone or jointly with others, conceived, developed or reduced to practice prior to the
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