Confidentiality Policy:

A confidentiality agreement is crucial for an inventor or any other party who needs to protect confidential information. Before doing business with partner, CYNOVA will sign the confidentiality agreement documents, to avoid business secrets leakaging.

Maintaining a competitive advantage. Confidentiality agreements can help make sure proprietary information such as intellectual property or trade secrets don’t reach industry competitors, the media, or the public.

Explaining each party’s responsibilities.

Setting standards for handling information. Usually, the parties agree to treat each other’s confidential information the way they treat their own.

Protecting patent rights. In many countries, an inventor loses patent rights when an invention’s details are publicly disclosed.

Information Protected by a Confidentiality Agreement

A confidentiality agreement can protect most information that isn’t on public record. This can include:

    Intellectual property and proprietary information, including:

        Secret formulas

        Trade secrets

        Proprietary software

        Computer technology

        Scientific information

        Copyrights

        Engineering drawings, designs, systems, or specifications for existing products or products in development

        Prototypes and samples

        Unpublished patent applications

        Concepts and know-how for future products, services, or practices

    Manufacturing processes and production methods

    Sales plans and marketing information and materials (including marketing campaigns and projects)

    Details regarding customers or clients and sales contacts (including client lists, contracts, and business relationships)

    Business information, operational procedures, and strategies (including personnel data of management and employees)

    Business communications

    Product and service information (including procedures, packaging, equipment, tools, and techniques used to make the product)