Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
This Non-Disclosure Agreement (hereinafter ‘NDA’) is entered into to provide for the confidentiality, protection and handling of User Proprietary Information submitted by an account holder (hereinafter ‘User’) for the purpose of examination and analysis by Patent Or Not? (hereinafter ‘PON’) and for use in a report of the results of the same (hereinafter ‘Report’) to be delivered to the User in return for a fixed fee.  
This NDA is entered into by, respectively, requesting and granting a user account on PatentOrNot.com.   
1. The term "Proprietary Information" means any and all information relating to the Purpose, in any form, whether of a technical or commercial nature, which is disclosed subsequent to the date of this Agreement by the User to PON. 
2. Proprietary Information shall not include information which, at the date of commencement or thereafter becomes public domain, is known to the receiving party prior to being disclosed by the disclosing party, or is legally obtained by the recipient at any time from other sources who are not subject to proprietary restrictions. The recipient shall have the burden of proof in establishing any of the above mentioned exceptions.
3. The recipient agrees to use the Proprietary Information solely for the benefit of parties in furtherance of the above stated Purpose, as specifically approved by the disclosing party.
4. The recipient agrees to retain the Proprietary Information of the disclosing party in confidence and to exercise towards it at least the same degree of care and protection that it takes to safeguard its own Proprietary Information.
5. The Proprietary Information of each party, or any part thereof, whether capable of being copyrighted, patented, or otherwise registered at law, or not, is for the purposes of this Agreement acknowledged by the recipient as being the sole property of the disclosing party.
6. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as granting to the recipient any rights by license or otherwise, express or implied, to or in any of the disclosing party's patents, non-patented inventions or other intellectual property.  
7. This Agreement shall remain in force and effect throughout the period in which the recipient is actively engaged in the execution of the Purpose and for a period of seven (7) years thereafter.  At or before the end of the Agreement, the recipient will delete any copies of the Proprietary Information in its possession.
8. Nothing herein (including the exchange of Proprietary Information hereunder) shall be deemed as obligating the parties to enter into any business relationship.
9. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Texas and any dispute arising under or in connection herewith shall be presented in and determined by these courts exclusively, with the recipient waiving any and all applicable international and national laws.