Non Disclosure Agreement As A Deed
In the case of disputes settled by transaction, the parties often sign a confidentiality agreement relating to the terms of the transaction. [1] [2] Examples of this agreement are the Dolby brand agreement with Dolby Laboratories, the Windows Insider Agreement, and the Community Feedback Program (CFP) halo with Microsoft. However, if there is a broader description of what is considered « confidential information » (i.e.: Not only limited to the permitted purpose) and information has been exchanged in the past without a confidentiality agreement, the recipient may be more resistant to accepting a new obligation to keep that information confidential since he or she was possibly free to do what he or she previously wanted. They could argue that they should only be linked to new information from the date of the agreement. At the end of the sale, the disclosing party no longer has a major interest in confidentiality. It is the subsidiary/company and its new owner who care most about the protection of confidential information. Ideally, the contract should be assigned either to the successful subsidiary and/or buyer. Think about who will receive the confidential information and what they might do with it. It is a good thing to have an agreement with a beneficiary of the company in which he undertakes to keep the information confidential and not to use it to the detriment of the discloser.
But the company is made up of individual employees and often has other companies (and individual employees) in its group or advises it. A confidentiality agreement can protect any type of information that is not known to all…