CONFIDENTIALITY AND
NON-COMPETITION AGREEMENT
Party A:
Xi’an Baorun Industrial Development Co., Ltd.
Address:
Room 10720, Dongxin Century Plaza, No.7, Huoju Road,
Xi’an
Legal Representative: Gao
Xincheng
ID/Passport Number:
610528197706072022
In
consideration of Party B's employment or continued employment with
Party A, and the compensation now and hereafter paid to Party B by
Party A, the Parties hereby agree to enter into this Agreement. For
the purposes of this Agreement, " Group " means Party A and
any entity which is established by Party A for the time being and
from time to time, the holding company, parent or subsidiary or
affiliate of Party A, or any subsidiary or office of the holding
company of Party A.
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Employment . Party B acknowledge that the
terms and conditions of his/her employment with Party A is provided
for in a separate employment agreement between the Parties and no
provision of this Agreement shall be construed as confirmation of
Party B's employment with Party A.
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Business : Refined oil wholesale business
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Confidential
Information in this Agreement includes:
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Company
Information .
Company Information means any proprietary information,
technical data, trade secrets or know-how, including, but not
limited to, research, patterns, plans, compilations, inventions and
developments, products, formulas, designs, prototypes, methods,
techniques, processes, procedures, computer programs and software
(whether as source code or object code), database, development
plans, records for research and development, technical report,
inspection report, experimental data, operation manual, technical
documentation, technologies, hardware configuration information,
yield data, equipment modifications, services, customer lists and
customers (including, but not limited to, customers of Party A
and/or any other member of the Group on whom Party B called or with
whom Party B became acquainted during the term of Party B's
employment with Party A), supplier lists, partners, markets,
pricing, marketing, finances, salary, legal business or other
business information of the Group disclosed to Party B or obtained
by Party B from Party A and/or any other member of the Group either
directly or indirectly in writing, orally or by drawings or
observation of parts or equipment. Confidential Information
may be a complete set of plan, documentation or product, and may
also be part of the information or elements of the complete set of
plan, documentation or product. The Parties further
understand that Confidential Information does not include any of
the foregoing items which has become publicly known and made
generally available through no wrongful act of Party B or of others
who were under confidentiality obligations as to the item or items
involved.
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Third
Party Information . Party B recognize that Party A and/or
other members of the Group have received and in the future will
receive from third parties, including subsidiaries and affiliated
companies of Party A, their confidential or proprietary information
subject to a duty on Party A’s part and/or the part of other
members of the Group to maintain the confidentiality of such
information and to use it only for certain limited purposes.
Party B agrees to hold all such confidential or proprietary
information in the strictest confidence and not to disclose it to
any person, firm or corporation or to use it except as necessary in
carrying out his/her work for Party A consistent with the
agreement(s) Party A and/or a member of the Group has entered into
with such third party.
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Media of
Confidential Information
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All documents,
information, photographs, diagrams, notes, reports, letters, faxes,
magnetic tapes, disks, prototypes, apparatus and any other forms of
media, which are containing Confidential Information of Party A and
held or kept by Party B in need of his/her work, shall be owned by
Party A, no matter whether the Confidential Information is of
business value.
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Party B shall
return Party A all the properties and media contained Confidential
Information owned by Party A upon Party A's so request or Party B's
dismissal (whatever the reason is), and shall not reproduce, hold
or give the media herein above to any other person without
authorization of Party A.
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If the
aforesaid media contained Confidential Information of Party A
belong to Party B, Party A shall make corresponding economic
compensation equivalent of the value of the media itself to Party B
when Party B returns such media to Party A.
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Maintenance of Confidentiality
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Party B agrees
at all times during the term of his/her employment and thereafter,
to hold in strictest confidence, and not to use, except for the
benefit of Party A or the benefit of the Group, or to disclose,
publicize, release, impart, transfer, to any person, firm or
corporation (including other employees who are not entitled to know
Confidential Information in accordance with Party A's internal
administrations) without written authorization of Party A, any
Confidential Information. Party B agrees that he/she shall
secure and keep such Confidential Information confidential and
shall protect and safeguard the Confidential Information against
any unauthorized use, disclosure, report, transfer or publication
with at least the same degree of care as it uses for its own
confidential or proprietary information, but in no event use less
than reasonable care;
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Except for the
benefit of Party A or the benefit of the Group, Party B shall not
take any Confidential Information and media contained Confidential
Information out of Party A's office without written authorization
of Party A.
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It will be
regarded that Party A has agreed that Party B may disclose or use
Confidential Information once Party B's supervisor of Party A has
agreed in writing Party B to do so, provided that Party A has
clearly stated in advance that such superior manager had been
granted such power.
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Except for the
benefit of Party A or the benefit of the Group, Party B shall
not inquiry, disclose or discuss the salary, bonus, welfare,
option or any other payments to or with any other persons except
for the direct relatives of Party B.
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Intellectual Property Rights
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Works
Retained and Licensed . Party B have attached hereto, as Exhibit
A , a list describing all inventions, original works of
authorship, developments, improvements, and trade secrets which
were made by him/her prior to his/her employment with Party A
(collectively referred to as "Prior Works"), which belong to Party
B and relate to Party A’s current and proposed business,
products or research and development, and which are not assigned to
Party A; or, if no such list is attached, Party B represent that
there are no 就
such Prior Works. If in the
course of Party B employment with Party A, Party B incorporate into
a product, process or machine of Party A and/or any other member of
the Group the Prior Works owned by Party B or in which Party B have
an interest, Party A is hereby granted and shall have a
nonexclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide
license to make, have made, modify, use and sell such Prior Works
as part of or in connection with such product, process or
machine.
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Disclosure . Party B agrees that Party B will
promptly make full written disclosure to Party A or its designee,
will hold in trust for the sole right and benefit of Party A, all
his/her right, title, and interest in and to any and all
inventions, original works of authorship, developments, concepts,
improvements, designs, discoveries, ideas, trademarks or trade
secrets, processes, copyright works, know-how, any other
work’s information or matter which gives rise or may give
rise to any intellectual property of whatsoever nature, whether or
not patentable or registrable under any law of any country, which
Party B may solely or jointly conceive or develop or reduce to
practice, or cause to be conceived or developed or reduced to
practice, during the period that Party B is in the employ of Party
A (collectively referred to as "Works").
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Intellectual Property Rights
. The Parties acknowledge that
Party A or its designee, has the absolute title, right or interest
in and to any and all Works made by Party B (solely or jointly with
others) during the period of Party B's employment with Party A or
within one year after Party B's dismissal, and which are the duties
of Party B or the tasks assigned to him by Party A or its
designee, or which are created mainly with the materials and
technical resources of Party A or its designee and under Party A or
its designee's responsibility. Those Works are the "service
invention-creation ( zhi wu fa ming )" and "works made for
hire ( zhi wu zuo pin )" as defined under the patent and
copyright laws of the People’s Republic of China. Party
B understands and agrees that the decision whether or not to
commercialize or market Works is within Party A’s sole
discretion and for the sole benefit of Party A and/or any other
member of the Group. Party B shall put forward written
applications if he/she claims for authorship of the works made by
him during the period of Party B's employment with Party A, and
Party B is entitled to such works upon written confirmation of
Party A that such works are not Works made for hire ( zhi wu zuo
pin ). The works made by Party B for which Party B does
not claim will be regarded as the Works made for hire. In
respect of such works of Party B which are not the Works but
related to the business of Party A or the Group, Party A or any
member of the Group shall have a preemptive right to acquire for
itself or its nominee all or any part (at Party A's option) of
Party B's rights therein within three (3) months of Party B's
disclosure to Party A of such works.
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Maintenance of Records
. Party B agrees to keep and
maintain adequate and current written records of all Works made by
Party B (solely or jointly with others) during the term of his/her
employment with Party A. The records will be in the form of
notes, sketches, drawings, and any other format. The records
will be available to and remain the sole property of Party A at all
times.
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Patent
and Copyright Registrations . Party B agrees to assist Party A, or its
designee, at Party A's expense, in every proper way to secure Party
A's (or its designee's) rights in the Works and any copyrights,
patents, mask work rights or other intellectual property rights
relating thereto in any and all countries, including the disclosure
to Party A of all pertinent information and data with respect
thereto, the execution of all applications
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