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Obtaining your manager's written approval and a written secrecy agreement approved by the Global Law department prior to disclosing any confidential information to outsiders.

Proprietary and Confidential Information Policy C-148. An approved secrecy agreement can be obtained from the Global Law department.

Intellectual Property - Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights. Company patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyrights are assets to be protected.

This means:

Identifying and protecting:
- Innovations arising during drug discovery, development and commercialization;
- New works of authorship or new branding concepts and;
- Technological and medical advances or unique solutions to business problems.

Timely identification of intellectual property and early involvement of Company lawyers will enable our Company to take the appropriate steps to protect these new works under intellectual property laws. Likewise, you should contact the Law department if you suspect that a Company patent, trademark, copyright or trade secret is being infringed.

Q. I have identified a new class of drugs that may be effective for treating various indications based on preliminary testing. I would like to publish this data. Can I proceed?

A. Before you proceed, your discovery must be assessed to determine whether it may be protectable as intellectual property. All proposed publications must be screened under the Schering-Plough publication release system to determine whether they should be published.