Questions tagged [non-disclosure]
Non-disclosure agreements
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Can a party decide that something that wasn't initially considered confidential, now is?
If I have signed a confidentiality agreement with an employer or client, can they provide me with information that would generally be considered non-confidential but then change their mind and require ...
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What happens to confidentiality agreements after company dissolves?
I worked as a consultant for a company that dissolved. I signed a confidentiality agreement that ended with "This Section shall survive termination of this Agreement." Out of curiosity am I ...
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Assigning intellectual property rights like a provisional patent to oneself while employed
A hypothetical: let's say I am employed in the U.S., and in a field where I am compensated for the results of my ideas or intellectual work, i.e. engineering.
Let's say I have a roughly standard ...
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Can a confidentiality agreement require you to not say who your client was?
Does the following Confidentiality Agreement mean the Consultant cannot say who the Client who he was doing the work for was? For example if Bob was hired by Staffing Agency to work at McDonald's, ...
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How do I address the Recipient of this Non disclosure agreement?
When a non disclosure agreement (NDA) is between an individual (the Discloser) and a Director of a research institute (the Recipient), how should the Recipient be addressed? Just as an individual or ...
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NDA Cost Liability
I'm not entirely familliar with NDA's and reading through, this section seems unclear to me.
The Developer is liable for all costs, expenses and expenditures
including, and without limitation, ...
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Source Code Copyright and NDA
Does NDA give away the copyright of the source code that an independent contractor created after signing the NDA?
In those unilateral NDAs, there is a paragraph always says
"All Confidential ...
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Can a NDA be non-terminable for an indefinite period of time?
I have been given a NDA which say it is "unilaterally non-terminable for an indefinite period of time".
Is this legal? Can they enforce me to keep the NDA forever?
They also said that "The ...
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Can individuals spend money acquired in settlements that include an NDA?
This question was inspired by recent settlements like Monica Cellio's and Nick Sandman's cases, but I'm interested in the subject in general as well.
When parties agree to a settlement that includes ...
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How to protect computer science project from being stolen by “employees” as an individual
I am developing an online platform for renting computer hardware and I've reached the point where I need to create the website. I do not have the required expertise to do that, so I thought I would ...
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What is the legality of an lawsuit filed against a foreign national in California
There was an NDA signed between an Individual Residing in India (Entity A) and Company based in San Jose, California (Entity B). Due to perceived breach of confidentiality agreement a cease and desist ...
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Prevented from listing details of work experience both in private (resume, interviews) and public (linkedin, etc.) while trying to look for new job
When starting new employment for a company (Company A) based in India it had asked me to sign an NDA for a company (Company B) based in San Jose, USA. The NDA had addressed to me directly and not ...
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Signed generic NDA re purchase of business - can I start in competition
I'm interested in a general view as well, but my jurisdiction is New Zealand.
I am looking for a business to purchase, and came across an advert for a business hiring out common equipment. While ...
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Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement for future information
I am responsible for implementing a software platform provided by a US company. I work in an international company having HQ in Germany, but also offices in Eastern-Europe (within EU).
My security ...
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Signing on Behalf of a Minor
Background: I want to sign an NDA, however, I am a minor. As a member of the Disclosing Party, there are clauses within the NDA that state that "any files written with names developed by the ...
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Minor in Disclosing Party of an NDA
In an NDA, the Disclosing Party made a clause that any and all ideas generated by the Disclosing Part and labelled confidential are the property of the Disclosing Property and cannot be released ...
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Are NDAs enforceable if they require violating copyright?
As NDAs and copyright violation usually do not go together, I'll provide some background:
Suppose that a company, we'll call them Olio, created a smartwatch that uses publicly available computer code ...
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Claiming Stolen Information in an NDA
Set Up: A unilateral NDA is created in the state of Rhode Island between a Receiving Party and a Disclosing Party. This is a basic patent NDA that grants the Receiving Party the ability to see the un-...
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Contract for Securing Intellectual Property
Is there any sort of legal contract in the United States (Rhode Island) one could make without a lawyer that would state that a disclosing party owns a certain idea and that the receiving party may ...
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Advice if concept is too general for NDA [closed]
I am currently low on money and have no way of paying for a patent on a new device I have designed. However, I wish to spread my idea to a few others who may be willing to help me grow the concept and ...
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An company want me to sign an NDA before I go to a job interview at their facilities
I have been invited to a face-to-face interview at a company. Before going, I am "obliged" to sign an NDA. This is the private sector and an entertainment company.
Why on Earth would I go into such a ...
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Can I use confidential information provided under an NDA for other work?
Let's say that ABC Inc provided me some confidential information (CI) for a potential contract that never went through. Now XYZ Inc has approached me and asked to work on this contract with them.
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What options are available to plaintiff if defendant breaks NDA and goes ahead with deal on their own?
I work on acquisitions/sales of companies. I showed ABC Co. ownership a potential acquisition (XYZ Co.) that they passed on. A few months later, ABC Co. themselves was for sale. ABC's private equity ...
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Are damages in non-disclosure agreements regarding illegal acts enforceable? [duplicate]
The question arises because of reading that a famous music artist had hushed up instances of sex with a minor through the use of non-disclosure agreements. Making these enforceable in a civil setting ...
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Non Disclosure Agreement
I was contacted by an employer by phone. He said that he had found my CV online and liked it very much. He told about his idea ( a software program) and said that he is setting up a team, though there ...
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Email commitment possibly broken by big company
So here is the story:
I email company A asking for a specific service they provide. They tell me to describe my idea and I ask explicitly for confidentiality (but not NDA just expressed) which was ...
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When are contracts (like NDAs) binding? [duplicate]
I have a Great Idea™ and I've found a trustworthy individual who can help me realize this. We're both private citizens in differing nations with no current employers.
If I get them to sign an NDA, do ...
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Leaving company and wiping personal data
I am new here please help and answer my question.
In case you are leaving the company, you worked for, if you wipe your personal data such an email you logged on or data like the logs of the websites ...
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The order of operations for getting a trade secret document signed
I was thinking about how to properly create a valid trade secret confidentiality contract, and am wondering about some possible loopholes that are present.
The order of operations I started by ...
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Key elements of software engineering NDA
Everyone knows what an NDA is at a high level, a contract preventing one party from disclosing information deemed confidential by the other party. However, I am interested in how to write an NDA from ...
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Forced to sign NDA or no notice period [closed]
Context: I currently live in India and working remotely as a Software Engineer for a Dutch company since August 2018. I have got a residence permit for the Netherlands starting next month and was ...
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NDA and Applying for Unemployment
Is information required for an Unemployment application exempt from NDAs? I signed one when I was hired, agreeing not to discuss my employer (a celebrity, hence the NDA), employment, separation, etc. ...
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Would a non-complete clause apply to oversea job searches?
A few years ago I signed a NDA with a non-compete clause when joining my current company in the United States. The NDA is stated to be enforceable where permitted by law.
Since then I’ve moved to ...
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On what basis did the UK courts prevent the media from publishing stories on Philip Green's behaviour?
Allegations of various sorts of inappropriate behaviour were made by several employees of Philip Green. These claims were settled and the settlements included NDAs. There is no allegation that these ...
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Can I ask for disclosure of CCTV to be used in Appeal against Possession order in UK
A district Judge made an unfair and biased possession order to make me homeless despite I provided large volume of evidence such as digitally dated photos, Facebook photos, over than 8 neighbours ...
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Follow up on interpreting a paragrapgh from an MNDA in context to Ohio law [closed]
This is a follow up question from the following stack exchange question found below:
How to interpret this paragraph from an MNDA in context with Ohio law?
I would like the paragraph to convey that ...
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How to interpret this paragraph from an MNDA in context with Ohio law?
The following paragraph was included in a Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement template between two technology companies.
The Parties agree that the disclosing Party will suffer irreparable injury if ...
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Talking about a crime after a non-disclosure agreement [duplicate]
Let's say I have this scenario.
I commited a crime. No one has caught me yet.
Another person catches me. We agree to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
That person ends up speaking out about my crime....
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How do you draft an NDA for sharing a startup idea and do you need a lawyer to legitimize it?
I am at the stage where I want to expand my software startup, however, I do not know the proper procedure to do so. I was wondering how to create a non disclosure agreement and more importantly if you ...
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Question about NDA Term
I am currently reviewing our company's NDA templates and came across the following term:
This Agreement shall remain effective for six (6) months from the Effective Date. All obligations of the ...
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Is there a “standard template” NDA contract that covers a majority of businesses requiring protection of proprietary information?
The following paragraph stood out as unusual for an NDA that a friend was asked to sign:
“Terms and Termination.
This Agreement shall terminate two (2) year(s) after the Effective Date. The ...
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Can I disclose terms of a settlement when I don't accept it?
I've been involved in a Mass Tort lawsuit against a drug company for several years. Recently, a confidential settlement agreement was reached between the law firm representing me and the drug company. ...
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Safeguarding Suggestions?
Background:
I have an idea how to improve a service offered by multiple companies but was wondering what’s to stop a company from turning me down and taking my idea for themselves. I would like to ...
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Can code logic be copyrighted?
Scenario:
I work at company A and write some code for them which is something trivial but used in a product that is proprietary and hence the code is company property.
Then I leave the company A and ...
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Can I be sued for violating an NDA if I refund what I was paid?
I have a client who ordered art from me that they asked be private between us, due to it's embarrassing nature. The extent of the agreement was "Don't post this online" to which I said "Okay."
My ...
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Can a business ask emergency responders to sign an NDA before/after entering their facility?
The company I work for has some very intense trade secret and intellectual property in its HQ. If police, fire, medical were called and needed access to certain areas of the facility were this ...
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Australia: Can a NDA be broken to show evidence in court?
If a defendant says they have documents proving their case but will only show if a non-disclosure is signed and assuming the documents fail to vindicate the defendant, can I break the NDA and use ...
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Are NDA's that include illegal activity legally binding?
With the recent outpouring of sexual assault allegations, I've been hearing the phrase "Non-disclosure agreement," thrown around quite frequently.
Suppose a woman is sexually assaulted at work, and ...
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Interpretation of this Purpose clause in an NDA
I'm a contractor and have come to familiarise myself with the standard wording that comes with most NDAs. I perform contract programming work for companies overseas and access their IP to perform my ...
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Does this section of my NDA state that my company could take legal action against me if I were compelled to testify against them?
My companies NDA has this line
Individuals shall not, directly or indirectly, disseminate, make
available, disclose, or use any reason other than performance of their
job with the Company, any ...
