Confidential
Information, Intellectual Property, and Proprietary Information
of Others
Company Proprietary
Information. Our company regularly produces valuable,
non public ideas, strategies and other kinds of business information.
Schering-Plough owns this confidential or proprietary information
just as it does other kinds of property. A few examples are
sales, marketing and other corporate databases; marketing
strategies and plans; pricing information; customer and employee
records; manufacturing techniques; research and technical
data; proposals; and new product development. Because it is
the product of our company’s hard work, various laws
allow Schering-Plough to protect this information from use
by outsiders as long as we use our best efforts to keep the
information confidential.
This means:
- All employees must protect the confidentiality of Schering-Plough’s
proprietary information to ensure that we receive the benefits
of our work.
- Respect the confidentiality agreement you signed when
you began working at Schering-Plough.
- Don’t discuss such confidential information in public
places where others can overhear.
- Don’t transmit confidential information using the
Internet, even between company employees, unless the transmission
is encrypted.
- If you need to disclose any confidential information to
outsiders, you should get your manager’s prior written
approval and a written secrecy agreement approved by the
Law department.
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