Common use of Protectable Information Defined Clause in Contracts

Protectable Information Defined. “Protected Information” shall mean all proprietary information, in whatever form and format, of NIKE and all information provided to NIKE by third parties that NIKE is obligated to keep confidential. Employee agrees that any and all information to which Employee has access concerning NIKE projects and internal NIKE information is Protected Information, whether in verbal form, machine-readable form, written or other tangible form, and whether designated as confidential or unmarked. Without limiting the foregoing, Protected Information includes trade secrets and competitively sensitive business or professional information (regardless of whether such information constitutes a trade secret) relating to NIKE’s research and development activities, its intellectual property and the filing or pendency of patent applications, trade secrets, confidential techniques, methods, styles, designs, design concepts and ideas, customer and vendor lists, contract factory lists, pricing information, manufacturing plans, business and marketing plans or strategy, product development plans, product launch plans, financial information, sales information, methods of operation, manufacturing processes and methods, products, and personnel information.