premise: This Non-Disclosure  Agreement shall apply for a period of three (3) years from the date on which it is signed by both Parties; thereafter it will renew for a term of two (2) years, unless terminated in writing by one of the Parties eighteen (18) months prior to the respective expiration date.  The duties of confidentiality hereunder shall survive the termination/expiration of this Non-Disclosure Agreement for a period of three (3) years. 7. Reservation of patent rights Should information directly or indirectly associated with initiating or conducting the business relationship described in the Preamble be disclosed by SINTEC and should that information contain patentable inventions, SINTEC hereby reserves all rights, specifically the right to submit applications for patents and/or design patents and its rights in the event any patents are granted under Section 7 of the Patent Act 1977 (as amended). 8. Patentable findings Should new, patentable findings be made directly or indirectly in connection with the disclosure of information described in the Preamble, SINTEC shall have the sole and exclusive right to apply for patent protection of such findings and to commercially exploit them. The Receiving Party hereby waives the assertion of any rights based on prior use against pa-tents filed for such findings.  By the same token, SINTEC undertakes that it will not assert its pa-tent rights arising under any such patent applications against the Receiving Party, provided the Receiving Party uses them outside the following fields of technology: paint and plant systems, automotive, automobile and aircraft production, energy and environmental systems, wood processing.  The terms of this section shall survive the term of this Agreement.