premise: 4. EMPLOYEE further agrees not to divulge to any third party, either during his or her employment or thereafter, any confidential information conceived by him or her, disclosed by FRANKLIN, or obtained by him or her while in the employment of FRANKLIN relating in any way to any of FRANKLIN'S processes, businesses, customers, trade secrets, apparatus, products, software, packages, programs or trends in research, or to any of the inventions, discoveries, writings, programs, and improvements covered hereby, and agrees to maintain this information in confidence until such time that such information has become widely known to the public or described in an issued patent or in a printed publication of wide circulation. 