premise: This Agreement imposes no obligation upon Recipient with respect to Confidential Information which is: (a) is or becomes generally known or publicly available through no act or failure on the part of Recipient, or (b) approved in writing by the Discloser for public release or disclosure by the Recipient; or (c) disclosed to a third party by Discloser without a duty of confidentiality or is lawfully obtained by Recipient from a third party without a duty of confidentiality or restriction on disclosure, or (d) independently known by or independently developed by the Recipient without the use of Confidential Information disclosed by the Discloser; or (e) is required to be disclosed pursuant to the order of a court of competent jurisdiction; or otherwise required to be disclosed by law through no act of the Recipient, provided, however, that the Recipient has notified the Discloser upon learning of the possibility that disclosure could be required pursuant to any such law or legal order and has given the Discloser a reasonable opportunity to contest or limit the scope of such required disclosure and has cooperated with the Discloser toward this end.