definiens: means any information furnished by one Party to theother Party in connection with this Agreement and includes, without limitation, all tangible and intangible informationrelating to scientific data, analyses and projections ; intellectual property, patent applications, specifications, tradesecrets, know - how, products, and product candidates ; strategies, operations, systems, software, models, drawings, technical information, ideas, inventions, conceptions, reductions to practice, financial information, contracts, businessstrategies, business information, and business records ; and any analyses, compilations, studies and otherdocuments, in whatever form furnished, prepared or stored, whether prepared by a Party, its representatives orothers, which are based upon, incorporate or otherwise reflect such information . During the term of this Agreementand for ten ( 10 ) years thereafter, the Party receiving Confidential Information of the other Party agrees not to disclosesuch Confidential Information to any third party and not to use it for any purpose except those specifically allowed inthis Agreement . The parties may disclose such Confidential Information to their respective legal and financialadvisors and representatives and Affiliates who are bound to comply with the non - use and non - disclosure provisionsof this section 7.1 . Confidential Information shall not include information which:(a ) is now in the public domain or which becomes generally available to the public through no fault of thereceiving Party;(b ) is already known to, or in the possession of, the receiving Party prior to disclosure by the disclosingParty as can be demonstrated by written evidence;(c ) is disclosed on a non - confidential basis to the receiving Party by a third party having the right to makesuch a disclosure;(d ) is independently developed by the receiving Party ( by activity not associated with the LicensedTechnology ) as can be demonstrated by written evidence ; or(e ) is required to be disclosed by order of any court or governmental or regulatory authority, or whereotherwise required by law but only after notification to the providing Party by the receiving Party of suchrequirement in order to allow the providing Party to seek protection for the providing Party ’s ConfidentialInformation from such court or governmental or regulatory authority