premise: WHEREAS, the parties desire to protect and maintain the confidentiality of their respective trade secrets and/or other proprietary information (hereafter collectively referred to as "Proprietary Information") and to control and restrict its dissemination to prevent disclosure to unauthorized parties; and NOW THEREFORE, INFE and RECIPIENT agree to the following: 1. INFE will disclose to RECIPIENT such portions of its Proprietary Information solely to enable RECIPIENT to determine the desirability of selling its assets to INFE; and RECIPIENT shall not disseminate any portions of the Proprietary Information to any third party individual or entity. 2. As used in this Agreement, the phrase Proprietary Information shall include, but not be limited to the following:  (a) information relating to trade secrets, appropriate licenses with certain third parties, data, designs, samples, drawings, relationships, documentation, machinery, prototypes, processes, methods, concepts, facilities, research, development, patent applications, and other Proprietary Information relating to the development, testing, manufacture, or application of any such devices or systems (including but not limited to system concepts, architectures, source documents and programming documents); and  (b) all marketing or financial plans, projections, resources, contracts, studies, and general information relating to the specific business opportunity contemplated herein, whether obtained verbally or in writing, or through observation. 