definiens: means, collectively, all of Party ’s written or oral information, whether or not it has been identi fied as confidential or that by the nature of the i nformation or the circumstances surrounding disclosure ought reas onably to be treated as confidential and/or proprie tary, including, but not limited to, any oral, written, g raphic or machine - readable information relating to a Party ’s and its Affiliates ’ businesses, protocols, projects or products, whether patentable or not, including but not limited to, know - how, scientific information, chemical structur es, compounds, devices, data, documents, methods, t rade secrets, patent applications, work product, intelle ctual property, technology, financial or business i nformation and transactions already entered into or contemplat ed that have been disclosed or will be disclosed in the future by such Party or its designee ( shall in clude any information learned or witnessed by the o ther Party ), or information exchanged for the purpose of explori ng a potential business transaction between the Par ties and/or their Affiliates or any information which already i s subject to an existing confidentiality agreement