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Page 1: NON-DISCLOSURE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS … · 1. Word lab, hereinafter referred to as the “Company” (which expression shall, unless repugnant to the context or meaning

NON-DISCLOSURE ANDINTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

RIGHTS AGREEMENT

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NON-DISCLOSURE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

RIGHTS AGREEMENT

This confidentiality and intellectual property assignment agreement ("Agreement") is entered

into on 09-07-2020 (“Effective Date”), at Delhi by and between:

1. Word lab, hereinafter referred to as the “Company” (which expression shall, unless

repugnant to the context or meaning thereof, be deemed to mean and include its successors

and assigns) of the First Part and

2. Aditya Bhardwaj, hereinafter referred to as “Employee”, (which expression shall unless

repugnant to the meaning or context here of mean and include its successors and permitted

assigns) of the Second Part.

The Information to be shared and disclosed among company and employee relates to the

trade secret of creating, managing, and analyzing data base of the product management of

MY SOLUTION LITE.

The Company and the Employee are each hereinafter collectively referred to as "Parties" and

individually as “Party”.

WHEREAS

A. The Employee is an employee of the Company and under being an employee is provided

access to confidential and proprietary information of the Company;

B. The Employee may conceive and contribute to the development of intellectual property of

the Company during his/her employment with the Company and for the discharge of the

Employee’s obligationsas outlined in the employment agreement executed between the

Employee and the Company;

C. The parties wish to enter into this Agreement to set forth the terms relating to

confidentiality obligations and ownership of intellectual property rights in the trade secret

shared with the Employee.

In consideration of the employment provided by the Company and other mutual promises and

agreements contained herein below, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby

acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:

1. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION shall mean and includes information which

is confidential including Proprietary Information and other information related to the business

of the Company, its affiliates or any third parties with which the Company associates,

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whether or not such information is expressly marked or designated as confidential

information and includes but is not limited to:

a. information of value or significance to the Company or its competitors (including

potential competitors) such as:

i. data of or about the Company or its vendors, customers, employees, advisors,

mentors, service providers or consultants, in particular, contact information and

sales information;

ii. data about Company’s compliance with applicable law including data about

licenses, permissions, approvals, permissions or consents applied for, requested

by, granted to or denied to the Company or its promoters;

iii. data about all filings and official submissions made by the Company to

governmentalauthorities and the content of the discussion and communication by

the Company with such authorities;

iv. data related to the Company’s business, its existing and upcoming products,

services, business strategy, terms of engagement with its vendors or customers,

pricing data, business plans;

v. any data, documents, sketches, designs, plans, drawings, photographs, reports,

communication, technical information, information about Intellectual Property

Rights, user information, compilation, subscription details, asset information,

know-how, research and development, internal policies;

vi. any information related to the Company’s technology, software, hardware, code,

design, business strategy, business plan, internal systems, business architecture;

vii. financial data, in particular, concerning budgets, fees and revenue calculations,

sales figures, financial statements, profit expectations and inventories of the

Company;

viii. training data, particularly documents, videos, processes, multimedia files,

presentations, and any such training resources that the Employee gains access to

during his association with the Company;

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ix. security information (including passwords, login credentials) used to access any

resource owned or operated by the Company, its affiliates, clients or third party

agents;

x. client or user data, user credits, user analytics, user preferences, feedback

information;

b) Any information which may be reasonably understood by its nature, or by the context

of its disclosure, to be confidential; and

c) any information derived from any of the above-mentioned information; and

d) Original information supplied by the Company or information provided to the

Company by third parties which the Company is obligated to keep confidential.

2. RESTRICTIONS

Employee covenants and agrees that:

1. During his/her employment with the employer, he or she will not use or disclose any

trade secrets or confidential information of the Employer.

2. If confidential information is disclosed by the employee in violations of the

agreement, employee shall be immediately or directly, or principally be liable with no

limitation for any cost, claim, and damages sustained by the employer as a result of

such disclosure.

3. Without any prior information/Notice, employee cannot take any leave. If in case of

emergency, he/she should message to HOD.

4. For 1year immediately following the termination of his or her employment with the

employer, the employee shall not, directly or indirectly, be intentionally negligently in

any form or manner to transmit, divulge, communicate and disclose any trade secret

or confidential information of employer to any person.

5. Not to make any personal calls at length during the working hours and;

6. Employee agrees that he or she shall return to Employer’s office all trade secrets,

confidential information, documents, and other property of Employer immediately

upon termination of his or her employment with the employer or upon any earlier

request by employer.

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3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

i. During the employment of the employee Company shall retain all rights, title interest or

intellectual Property created evolve, initiate. Contribute to or improved upon such

creation, conception, development, contribution Or improvement. Company will not be

granted any licence for intellectual property rights.

ii. Any secret or notice related to the company like copyright, trademark, symbol, logo, any

legend, software, theme will not be disclosed by the Employee.

iii. To the extent that any rights referred to under Clause-(i) do not vest with the Company

automatically as per the terms above or through the operation of law, the Employee

hereby irrevocably and in perpetuity assigns to the Company all of right, title, and

interest (including without limitation any Intellectual Property Rights), that is now or

may be available, in (a) any Company Intellectual Property; and (b) any Proprietary

Information that the Employee may have conceived, created, improved upon, developed

or contributed to before the Effective Date, as part of his association with, contribution to

the Company or its incorporation (including as part of work undertaken for the business

of the Company before its incorporation).

iv. The Employee agrees that any copyrightable works that are prepared by the Employee,

within his scope of service, is “work for hire” and will belong to the company, which

means that the employee will not be considered as a first owner and the company will be

the first owner of such copyrightable work.To the extent that the Company is not

considered the first owner of the Intellectual Property Rights created by the Employee,

the copyright and all related rights, title and interest in all such Company Intellectual

Property is irrevocably assigned by the Employee to the Company in consideration of the

Employment which shall be considered as valid and adequate consideration. The

Employee hereby waives any right to and agrees that he shall not raise any objection or

claims under applicable law in respect of ownership of such Company Intellectual

Property.

v. The work which are created by the employee in the form of any hardware or software,

design, model, intellectual property or important papers, the code of software, protocol

all these are considered to the property of the company and employee doesn't has any

right to share them with anyone.

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vi. Without any fee or payment the employee shall do all the work thinks including sanction

of the important papers but according to clause-3 on the behalf of any intellectual

property right the employee has completely right in the company.

vii. As referred in the clause-3 the employee irremediable specify the company as his

attorney to execute his name and on the cost of the employee all the works and papers as

may be required.

viii. During the employment the employee will not hamper the intellectual property right any

of the third party.

ix. The employee accepts that the employment and the salary paid by the company is help

him to his personal and professional growth to be by the terms and conditions of this

agreement.

4. NON-COMPETE AND NON SOLICITATION AGREEMENT

i. The Employee hereby agrees that according to the terms specified in this

agreement that upon the termination of their employment for any reason

whatsoever, they shall not directly or indirectly compete with the Business of the

Company or its Affiliates for 1 (one) year from the Termination Date. The non-

compete period referred to in this Clause-iv shall be extended by the length of

time during which the Employee shall have been in breach of the provisions of

this Clause-iv.

ii. The Employee hereby agrees and undertakes that during the term of the

Employment with the Company and for 1 (one) year following the Termination

Date, the Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, either as an individual on his

account or as a partner, employee, consultant, advisor, agent, contractor, director,

trustee, committee member, office bearer, or shareholder (or in a similar capacity

or function):

a) Solicit employment of or advise any of the Company’s or Affiliate’s existing

employees or any person who was employed by the Company or an Affiliate within 6

(six) months before such solicitation or any person or organization providing services

to or through Company to terminate his or her contract or relationship with Company

or its Affiliate or to accept any contract (directly or indirectly) or other arrangements

for providing services to any other person or organization; or

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b) Contact any of the clients of the Company or its Affiliate to entice such clients away

from the Company of Affiliate or to damage in any way their business relationship

with the Company or its Affiliate or for the provision of substantially the same

services provided to such clients by the Company or its Affiliate; or

c) Solicitor undertake employment with any client of the Company or its Affiliate or any

organization where the employee has been taken or sent for training, deputation or

secondment or professional work by the Company; or

d) Enter the employment of, or render any other services to, any person engaged in a

business which competes with the Business of the Company.

iii. The Employee hereby acknowledges and agrees that the covenants outlined in

Clause 4 are a condition of the employment by the Company and that the breach

of any such covenants would cause irreparable harm to the Company.

5. COVENANT NOT TO SUE

The worker will not establish any activity or suit at law or in value against VENTURE, nor

organization, arraign or in any capacity helps in the foundation or indictment of any case,

request, activity, or reason for activity emerging out of the INFORMATION or any

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY thereof, including however not restricted to, guarantee,

request, activity, or reason for an activity for nullifying any INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

of VENTURE.

6. DAMAGES AND SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE

Worker concurs that should Venture to penetrate any of the guarantees contained in this

Agreement that Venture would endure hopeless mischief and Venture would be without

sufficient cure at law and that Venture may get injunctive alleviation, including explicit

execution of the Agreement, just as financial honor for harms languished by Venture over

Worker break of this Agreement.

7. NO WAIVER

The failure or delay on the part of one Party to exercise or enforce any rights resulting from

this Agreement shall not be a waiver of any such rights, nor shall any single or partial

exercise thereof operate to bar the later exercise or enforcement thereof.

8. SEVERABILITY

If any of the Non-Disclosure Agreement shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or

unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability, shall not affect

any other provision thereof, and this is Non-Disclosure Agreement shall be constructed as if

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such invalid, Illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein. Any invalid

or unenforceable provision of this Non-Disclosure Agreement shall be replaced with a

provision that is valid and enforceable and most nearly gives effect to the original intent of

invalid/ unenforceable provision.

9. MERGER/MODIFICATION IN WRITING

Representative concurs that this Agreement will override every single earlier understanding

and will not be altered by either party aside from recorded as a hard copy and by an

understanding between both parties. Despite this section, the Company will respect every

earlier commitment concerning the privacy of the organization's private INFORMATION.

10. NOTICE

Any notice according to this Agreement shall be in writing by (or by some person duly

authorized) the person giving it and may be served at the respective address or email address

provided below:

Company: Word Lab

Address: D-12/184 Sector-32, Noida

Attention: Ashu Bansal

Email: [email protected]

Employee: Aditya Bhardwaj

Address: C-86 Neela Apartment Ashok Vihar, Delhi

Attention: Aditya Bhardwaj

Email: [email protected]

11. CHOICE OF LAW

This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of India. The competent courts in the State of

Delhi in the central district of Delhi shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all disputes arising

from or relating to this Agreement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF THE PARTIES HERETO HAVE EXECUTED THIS

AGREEMENT ON THE DATE HEREINABOVE LAST MENTIONED.

Name: World Lab Name: Aditya Bhardwaj

Address: D-12/184 Sector-32, Noida Address: C-86 Neela Apartment Ashok

Vihar, Delhi

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Signature: Signature: