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Exhibit 10.18
PROPRIETARY INFORMATION, CONFIDENTIALITY
AND INVENTIONS AGREEMENT
To: HITTITE MICROWAVE CORPORATION
21 Cabot
Road
Woburn,
Massachusetts 01801
As
of February 18, 1992
The undersigned,
in consideration of and as a condition of my employment by
you hereby agrees as follows:
1.
CONFIDENTIALITY. I agree to keep confidential, except as the
Company may otherwise consent in writing,
and, except for the Company's benefit,
not to disclose or make any use of at any
time either during or subsequent to my
employment, any Inventions (as hereinafter
defined), trade secrets, confidential
information, knowledge, data or other
information of the Company relating to
products, processes, know-how, designs,
formulas, test data, customer lists,
business plans, marketing plans and
strategies, pricing strategies, or other
subject matter pertaining to any business
of the Company or any of its
affiliates, which I may produce, obtain, or
otherwise acquire during the course
of my employment, except as herein
provided. I further agree not to deliver,
reproduce or in any way allow any such
trade secrets, confidential information,
knowledge, data or other information or any
documentation relating thereto, to
be delivered to or used by any third
parties without specific direction or
consent of a duly authorized representative
of the Company.
2.
CONFLICTING EMPLOYMENT; RETURN OF CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL. I
agree that during my employment with the
Company I will not engage in any other
employment, occupation, consulting or other
activity relating to the business in
which the Company is now or may hereafter
become engaged, or which would
otherwise conflict with my obligations to
the Company. In the event my
employment with the Company terminates for
any reason whatsoever, I agree to
promptly surrender and deliver to the
Company all records, materials, equipment,
drawings, documents and data of which I may
obtain or produce during the course
of my employment, and I will not take with
me any description containing or
pertaining to any confidential information,
knowledge or data of the Company
which I may produce or obtain during the
course of my employment.
3.
ASSIGNMENT OF INVENTIONS.
3.1 I hereby
acknowledge and agree that the Company is the owner
of all Inventions. In order to protect the
Company's rights to such Inventions,
by executing this Agreement I hereby
irrevocably assign to the Company all my
right, title and interest in and to all
Inventions to the Company.
3.2 For
purposes of this Agreement, "Inventions" shall mean all
discoveries, processes, designs,
technologies, devices, or improvements in any
of the foregoing or bother ideas, whether
or not patentable and whether or not
reduced to practice, made or conceived by
me (whether solely or jointly with
others) during, the period of my employment
with the Company which relate in any
manner to the actual or demonstrably
anticipated business, work, or research and
development of the Company, or result from
or are suggested by any task assigned
to me or any work performed by me for or on
behalf of the Company.
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3.3 Any
discovery, process, design, technology, device, or
improvement in any of the foregoing or
other ideas, whether or not patentable
and whether or not reduced to practice,
made or conceived by me (whether solely
or jointly with others) which I develop
entirely on my own time not using any of
the Company's equipment, supplies,
facilities, or trade SECRET information
("Personal Invention") is excluded from
this Agreement provided such Personal
Invention (a) does not relate to the actual
or demonstrably anticipated
business, research and development of the
Company; and (b) does not result,
directly or indirectly, from any work
performed by me for the Company.
4.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTIONS. I agree that in connection with any
Invention, I will promptly disclose such
Invention to my immediate superior at
the Company in order to permit the Company
to enforce its property rights to
such Invention in accordance with this
Agreement. My disclosure shall be
received in confidence by the Company.
5.
PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS; EXECUTION OF DOCUMENTS.
5.1
