premise: CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT
  This Agreement, made this ____ day of ___________, 2009, between _________________________, (hereinafter “Disclosing Party”), and _________________________(hereinafter “Receiving Party”).
  BACKGROUND
  The Disclosing Party and Receiving Party wish to discuss and exchange certain items and information (the “Invention”) which the parties hereto consider highly confidential and proprietary.
  NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements set forth herein, hereby agree as follows:
  1. DEFINITIONS
  1.1 “Invention”, the Pipeline Piranha Invention, Patent Pending #103573330A, shall mean all information relating to products, applications, systems, components, technologies and business topics. Including but not limited to prototypes, drawings, data, trade secrets and intellectual property relating to the “Patent Pending” invention named Pipeline Piranha.
  1.2 “Confidential Information” shall mean all information provided by Disclosing Party with respect to the Invention regardless of whether it is written, oral, audio tapes, video tapes, computer discs, machines, prototypes, designs, specifications, articles of manufacture, drawings, human or machine readable documents. Confidential Information shall also include all information related to the Invention provided by Disclosing Party to Receiving Party prior to the signing of this agreement. Confidential Information shall not include any information in the public domain at the time of the disclosure, or subsequently comes within the public domain without fault of the Receiving Party.
  2. USE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
  The Receiving Party agrees to:
  (a) Receive and maintain the Confidential Information in confidence;
  (b) Examine the Confidential Information at its own expense;
  (c) Not reproduce the Confidential Information or any part thereof without the express written consent of Disclosing Party;
  (d) Not, directly or indirectly, make known, divulge, publish or communicate the Confidential Information to any person, firm or corporation without the express written consent of Disclosing Party;
  (e) Limit the internal dissemination of the Confidential Information and the internal disclosure of the Confidential Information received from the Disclosing Party to those officers and employees, if any, of the Receiving Party who have a need to know and an obligation to protect it;
  (f) Not use or utilize the Confidential Information without the express written consent of Disclosing Party;
  (g) Not use the Confidential Information or any part thereof as a basis for the
  design or creation of any method, system, apparatus or device similar to any method, system, apparatus or device embodied in the Confidential Information unless expressly authorized in writing by Disclosing Party; and
  (h) Utilize the best efforts possible to protect and safeguard the Confidential Information from loss, theft, destruction, or the like.
  3. RETURN OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
  All information provided by the Disclosing Party shall remain the property of the Disclosing Party. Receiving Party agrees to return all Confidential Information to Disclosing Party within 15 days of written demand by Disclosing Party. When the Receiving Party has finished reviewing the information provided by the Disclosing Party and has made a decision as to whether or not to work with the Disclosing Party, Receiving Party shall return all information to the Disclosing Party without retaining any copies.
  4. NON-ASSIGNABLE
  This agreement shall be non-assignable by the Receiving Party unless prior written consent of the Disclosing Party is received. If this Agreement is assigned or otherwise transferred, it shall be binding on all successors and assigns.
  5. GOVERNING LAW
  This agreement and all questions relating to its validity, interpretation, performance and enforcement (including, without limitation, provisions concerning limitations of actions), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State
  of Oregon, notwithstanding any conflict-of-laws doctrines of such state or other jurisdiction to the contrary, and without the aid of any canon, custom or rule of law requiring construction against the draftsman.
  6. NO LICENSE
  Neither party does, by virtue of disclosure of the Confidential Information, grant, either expressly or by implication, estoppels or otherwise, any right or license to any patent, trade secret, invention, trademark, copyright, or other intellectual property right.
  7. BINDING NATURE OF AGREEMENT
  This agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns.
  8. PROVISIONS SEPARABLE
  The provisions of this Agreement are independent of and separable from each other, and no provision shall be affected or rendered invalid or unenforceable by virtue of the fact that for any reason any other or others of them may be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part.
  9. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
  This agreement sets forth all of the covenants, promises, agreements, conditions and understandings between the parties and there are no covenants, promises, agreements or conditions, either oral or written, between them other than herein set forth. No subsequent alteration, amendment, change or addition to this Agreement shall be binding upon either party unless reduced in writing and signed by them.
  10. ARBITRATION
  Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this agreement, or the breach thereof, shall be resolved by arbitration conducted by the Commercial Division of the American Arbitration Association and in accordance with the rules thereof, or in any other convenient forum agreed to in writing by the parties. Any arbitration award shall be final and binding, and judgment upon the award rendered pursuant to such arbitration may be entered in any court of proper jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may seek and obtain temporary injunctive relief from any court of competent jurisdiction against any improper disclosure of the Confidential Information.
  IN WITNESS OF THEIR AGREEMENT, the parties have set their hands to it below effective the day and year first written above.
  Disclosing Party Receiving Party
  By:__________________________________ By:_______________________________
  