premise: Confidential Information includes all of the following, whether or not reduced to tangible form: software codes and computer programs; trade secrets, patents, patent applications, and copyrights; know-how, processes, research, development, ideas, and inventions (whether patentable or not); formulas and algorithms; technical drawings, schematics, design, diagrams, models, and flow charts; documentation and specifications; databases and materials; financial information and projections; business plans and needs; employee information; customer lists, sales information and forecasts, marketing plans, customer leads, customer information and anticipated markets; and other information of a similar nature, and any other trade secrets or non-public business information belonging or pertaining to either of the parties. 