definiens: means all proprietary and non - public business or technicalinformation, whether or not patentable, disclosed by one Party to the other Party either in writingand marked or disclosed orally and reduced to a writing marked within 30 days after the initial oral disclosure and shall include, without limitation, all Patent - Related Information, which shall be deemed Confidential Information of Assignee from and afterthe Effective Date . Notwithstanding the foregoing, shall not include anyinformation that : ( i ) was in the public domain as of the Effective Date or comes into the publicdomain during the term of this Agreement through no act of the receiving Party ; ( ii ) was independently known to the receiving Party as shown by the receiving Party ’s written recordsprior to receipt from the disclosing Party, or made available to the receiving Party by a Third Partywithout any violation of the obligations of such Third Party or the receiving Party to the otherParty ; ( iii ) is independently conceived, invented, or acquired by the receiving Party by personswho were not exposed to Confidential Information