CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND
INVENTION ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT
Agreement made 11/06 / 2024
RECITALS
As an employee of Gentherm Incorporated, (hereinafter referred to as the Company), I have gained or will gain knowledge of
the Companys trade secrets or other confidential information or proprietary information, as defined below. The Company would suffer irreparable harm if I were to use such confidential information outside of the Company, and/or on behalf of any
competitor of the Company; and the Company is entitled to be protected from any such unauthorized retention or use. Furthermore, because I have extensive knowledge about the Companys business and I possess special knowledge concerning that
business, the Company is also entitled to be protected from the possibility that I may seek to become associated with a business that competes with the Companys business.
DEFINITIONS
For the purposes of this
Agreement, the term trade secret includes, but is not limited to, technical data, non-technical data, a program, a device, a method, a technique, a drawing, a process, financial data,
financial plans, or a list of actual or potential customers or suppliers lists, graphs, sheets, diskettes for computer storage, and correspondence which (a) derives economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known outside the
Company and not being readily ascertainable; and (b) is subject to efforts to maintain its secrecy. For purposes of this Agreement the term other confidential information includes any information which is not a trade secret,
but which is not generally known to the public, and is received from, or concerns the affairs of, the Company or is received from a third party under obligation of confidentiality.
The following is a list of trade secrets or other confidential information intended to be covered by this Agreement. This list is not
inclusive, but intended as an illustration of the types of information protected by this Agreement:
A. Marketing Information:
Information about the Companys operations, including, but not limited to, identity, number and location of customers, sales, sales volume(s), and marketing and advertising research.
B. Management Information: Any and all information relating to employee compensation programs, procedural systems, hiring
practices, technical information, sales techniques, quality control, financial information, marketing plans and strategy, operational plans, strategies and goals, contracts, marketing, evaluation procedures and case studies.
C. Proprietary Information: Any inventions, source codes, algorithms, schematics, models, discoveries, developments,
improvements, methods, processes, know-how, compositions, works, concepts, trade secrets, designs and ideas (whether or not capable of patent, trademark or copyright protection), trademarks, logos, trade
names, proprietary materials, copyrights, copyrightable works, non-copyrightable works, patents, domain names, database rights, methodologies, websites, web-pages,
search engines, designs, applications, data, programs, phone numbers, fax numbers, cell numbers, email addresses and accounts, and any other proprietary information.