Common use of Production File Clause in Contracts

Production File. The Production File or Files and all information and intellectual property rights of the Customer that are contained therein and/or that are related thereto, including as defined above, shall be and shall remain the property of the Customer alone, and there is and shall be no claim, right or argument of any kind whatsoever against the Customer for the Customer's intellectual property that is in the Production File, in whole or in part. The Production File or Files, and all of the aforesaid information, shall be returned to the Customer by the Supplier upon termination of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever, or upon termination of the orderly manufacture of the Product the subject of the Production File, whichever is the earlier. The Supplier undertakes to make no use, except as set out explicitly in this Agreement, of the Production File or Files and any of the above information, or any other equipment belonging to the Customer and/or any intellectual property right belonging to the Customer. The aforesaid shall not derogate from the Supplier's right to keep a copy of the Production File in its possession in order to perform its undertakings under this Agreement and/or in order to document the reason for the Supplier's actions, provided that the Production File, as aforesaid, and all of the portions of it, shall be subject to all of the Supplier's non-disclosure undertakings as set out in this Agreement.