definiens: means any proprietary or confidential information of a Partywhich may be disclosed to the other Party under this Agreement, including without limitation all prices, discounts or productspecifications, designs, software, software code, drawings, reports, interpretations, forecasts, plans, records, technical or otherfinancial or business information of any kind of a disclosing Party regarding the subject matter of this Agreement, togetherwith any notes or other documents prepared by a receiving Party or others which reflect such information . No ConfidentialInformation disclosed by either Party to the other in connection with this Agreement shall be disclosed to any person or entityother than the receiving Party ’s employees and contractors directly involved with the receiving Party ’s use of suchinformation . Such information shall be used only for the purposes contemplated by this Agreement, and such information shallotherwise be protected by the receiving Party from disclosure to others with the same degree of care accorded to its ownproprietary information, but not less than a reasonable degree of 16care in accordance with the normal practice of the medical device manufacturing industry . To be subject to this provision, information must be delivered in writing and designated as or or, if initially disclosed orally orvisually, must be confirmed in writing as or within thirty ( 30 ) days after the disclosure