Confidentiality Policy

Confidentiality Agreement

It is understood and agreed to that an expertlawyer Client may provide certain information that is and must be kept confidential. To ensure the protection of such information, and to preserve any confidentiality necessary under patent and/or trade secret laws, it is agreed that:

• The Confidential Information to be disclosed can be described as and includes Invention description(s), technical and business information relating to proprietary ideas and inventions, ideas, patentable ideas, trade secrets, drawings and/or illustrations, patent searches, existing and/or contemplated products and services, research and development, production, costs, profit and margin information, finances and financial projections, customers, clients, marketing, and current or future business plans and models, regardless of whether such information is designated as "Confidential Information" at the time of its disclosure.
• This Agreement imposes no obligation upon expertlawyer with respect to any Confidential Information (a) that was in expertlawyer possession before receipt from expertlawyer Client; (b) is or becomes a matter of public knowledge through no fault of expertlawyer; (c) is rightfully received by expertlawyer from a third party not owing a duty of confidentiality to the expertlawyer Client; (d) is disclosed without a duty of confidentiality to a third party by, or with the authorization of expertlawyer; (e) is public knowledge or the information is available in public domain; or (f) is independently derived by expertlawyer.
• This Agreement states the entire agreement between expertlawyer and expertlawyer Client concerning the disclosure of Confidential Information. Any addition or modification to this Agreement must be made in writing and signed by the parties.
• If any of the provisions of this Agreement are found to be unenforceable, the remainder shall be enforced as fully as possible and the unenforceable provision(s) shall be deemed modified to the limited extent required to permit enforcement of the Agreement as a whole.
• You are solely responsible any consequences, losses, or damages that we may directly or indirectly incur or suffer due to any unauthorized activities conducted by you, as explained above, and may incur criminal or civil liability.