Legal definitions and terminology

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Confidential Information

All spoken, written or electronically stored information belonging to or relating to either party and includes without limitation: any kind of technical, financial or business information; details of employees, suppliers, or customers; material developed under this Agreement; and Intellectual Property, concepts, know-how and trade secrets, but excludes information in the public domain (other than by default under this Agreement) or information independently known to the other party.

Intellectual Property

All intellectual property rights, patents, rights to inventions, copyright and related rights, moral rights, trademarks and service marks, trade names and domain names, rights in get-up, rights to goodwill or to sue for passing off or unfair competition, rights in designs, rights in computer software, source and object code, products, programs, technology, hardware, data, database rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how, trade secrets and marketing secrets), improvements, machines, techniques, methods, and any other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications (or rights to apply) for, and renewals or extensions of, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or will subsist now or in the future in any part of the world.