definiens: shall mean any [COMPANY] or PRAECIS trade secret or other information of a confidential and/or proprietary nature which is disclosed by one party ( ) to the other party ( ), excluding such trade secret or other information which ( i ) is pub­lished or otherwise becomes a matter of public knowledge by any means other than through the breach of this Agreement by the Receiving Party, ( ii ) was known by the Receiving Party at the time of such disclosure, as evi­denced by the Receiving Party 's written records predating such disclosure and maintained in the ordinary course of business, or ( iii ) was disclosed to the Receiving Party by any Third Party ( as defmed below ) who has the right to disclose the same . For the purposes of this Section 1.2, information shall not . be deemed to be public knowledge or known to PRAECIS solely because : ( i ) the general principal is public knowledge or known to PRAEClS, if the particular practice is not itself public knowledge or so known, or ( ii ) it constitutes a combination of information which is public knowledge or known to PRAECIS unless the combination itself and the principle and mode of operation of such combination is also public knowledge or known to PRAECIS