premise: For the purposes of this Agreement, Confidential Information means any data or information that is proprietary to or possessed by a Party and not generally known to the public or that has not yet been revealed, whether in tangible or intangible form, whenever and however disclosed, including, but not limited to: (i) any scientific or technical information, invention, design, process, procedure, formula, improvement, technology or method; (ii) any concepts, ideas, samples, reports, data, know-how, works-in-progress, designs, drawings, photographs, development tools, specifications, software programs, source code, object code, flow charts, and databases; (iii) any marketing strategies, plans, financial information, or projections, operations, sales estimates, business plans and performance results relating to the Party’s past, present or future business activities, or those of its affiliates, subsidiaries and affiliated companies; (iv) trade secrets; plans for products or services, and customer or supplier lists; (v) any other information that should reasonably be recognised as Confidential Information by the Parties. 1.2  The Parties agree hereby that Confidential Information needs not to be novel, unique, patentable, copyrightable or constitutes a trade secret in order to be designated Confidential Information and therefore protected. 1.3 Confidential Information shall be identified either by marking it, in the case of written materials, or, in the case of information that is disclosed orally or written materials that are not marked, by notifying the other Party of the confidential nature of the information.  Such notification shall be done orally, by e-mail or written correspondence, or via other appropriate means of communication.