SEC Filing Document

Company: ERock, Inc.
Ticker: 
CIK: 2110029
Filing Type: S-1
Document Type: EX-10.4
Date Filed: 2026-05-15
Accession Number: 0001193125-26-227199
Exchange: 
SIC Code: 3620
SIC Description: Electrical Industrial Apparatus
URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2110029/000119312526227199/d12401dex104.htm

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defined below). The Participant acknowledges that the Company has spent significant time, effort and resources protecting its Confidential Information and customer goodwill. The Participant further acknowledges that during the course of the Participant’s employment with the Company Group before and after the date hereof, the Participant has had and will continue to have access to trade secrets and other Confidential Information, which, if disclosed (or used intentionally), would unfairly and inappropriately assist in competition against the Company and its Affiliates. Therefore, in consideration of the information (including Confidential Information) that may be provided to the Participant during the course of the Participant’s employment with the Company Group and the Participant’s participation in the Plan, the Participant agrees that the following restrictions on the Participant’s activities are necessary, appropriate and reasonable to protect the goodwill, Confidential Information and other legitimate interests of the Company from unfair and inappropriate competition. 2. Confidentiality.

(a) In becoming a Participant in the Plan, the Participant agrees that, during the Participant’s employment with the Company and
thereafter, except as expressly permitted by this Section 2 or by directive of the Board, the Participant shall not disclose any Confidential Information to any person or entity and shall not use any Confidential
Information except for the benefit of the Company Group. The Participant acknowledges and agrees that the Participant would inevitably use and disclose Confidential Information in violation of this Section 2 if the
Participant were to violate any of the covenants set forth in Section 3 below. The Participant shall follow all Company Group policies and protocols regarding the security of all documents and other materials containing
Confidential Information (regardless of the medium on which Confidential Information is stored). Except to the extent required for the performance of the Participant’s duties on behalf of the Company Group, the Participant shall not remove
from facilities of any member of the Company Group any equipment, drawings, notes, reports, manuals, invention records, computer software, customer information, or other data or materials that relate in any way to the Confidential Information,
whether paper or electronic and whether produced by the Participant or obtained by the Company Group. The covenants of this Section 2(a) shall apply to all Confidential Information, whether now known or later to become
known to the Participant during the period that the Participant is employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group.

(b) Notwithstanding any provision of Section 2(a) to the contrary, the Participant may make the following
disclosures and uses of Confidential Information:

(i) disclosures to other employees, officers, or directors of a member
of the Company Group who have a need-to-know Confidential Information in connection with the businesses of the Company Group;

(ii) disclosures and uses that are approved in writing by the Board or otherwise made or used in good faith in the course of
the Participant’s services to the Company Group; or

(iii) disclosures to a person or entity that has been retained
by a member of the Company Group to provide services to one or more members of the Company Group and agreed in writing to abide by the terms of a confidentiality agreement in a form acceptable to the Company.

(c) Upon the termination of the Participant’s employment with the Company Group, and at any other time upon request of the Company, the
Participant shall promptly surrender and deliver to the Company all documents (including electronically stored information) and all copies thereof and all other materials of any nature containing or pertaining to all Confidential Information and any
other Company Group property (including any Company Group-issued computer, mobile device or other equipment) in the Participant’s possession, custody or control and the Participant shall not retain any such documents or other materials or
property of the Company Group. Within five days of such expiration or any such request, the Participant shall certify to the Company in writing that all such documents, materials and property have been returned to the Company.

(d) “Confidential Information” means all confidential,
competitively valuable, non-public or proprietary information that is or has been conceived, made, developed or acquired by or disclosed to the Participant (whether conveyed orally or in writing), individually
or in conjunction with others, during the period that the Participant is employed or engaged by the Company or any other member of the Company Group (whether during business hours or otherwise and whether on the Company’s premises or
otherwise) including: (i) technical information of any member of the Company Group, including computer programs, software, databases, data, ideas, know-how, formulae, compositions, processes, discoveries,
machines, inventions (whether patentable or not), designs, developmental or experimental work, techniques, improvements, work in process, research or test results, original works of authorship, training programs and procedures, diagrams, charts,
business and product development plans, and similar items; (ii) information relating to any member of the Company Group’s businesses or properties, products or services (including all such information relating to corporate opportunities,
operations, future plans, methods of doing business, business plans, strategies for developing business and market share, research, financial and sales data, pricing terms, evaluations, opinions, interpretations, acquisition prospects, the identity
of customers or acquisition targets or their requirements, the identity of key contacts within customers’ organizations or within the organization of acquisition prospects, or marketing and merchandising techniques, prospective names and
marks); (iii) other valuable, confidential information and trade secrets of any member of the Company Group; and (iv) any other information that is competitively valuable to any member of the Company Group by virtue of not being publicly known.
Moreover, all documents, videotapes, written presentations, brochures, drawings, memoranda, notes, records, files, correspondence, manuals, models, specifications, computer programs, e-mail, voice mail,
electronic databases, maps, drawings, architectural renditions, models and all other writings or materials of any type including or embodying any of such information, ideas, concepts, improvements, discoveries, inventions and other similar forms of
expression are and shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company or the other applicable member of the Company Group and be subject to the same restrictions on disclosure applicable to all Confidential Information pursuant to this
Agreement. For purposes of this Agreement, Confidential Information shall not include any information that is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure or wrongful act of the Participant or the
Participant’s agents; was available to the Participant on a non-confidential basis before its disclosure by a member of the Company Group; or becomes available to the Participant on a non-confidential basis from a source other than a member of the Company Group; provided, however, that such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement with, or other obligation with respect to
confidentiality to, a member of the Company Group.

(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit or
restrict the Participant from: (i) initiating communications directly with, cooperating with, providing information to, causing information to be provided to, or otherwise assisting in an investigation by, any governmental agency (including the
Department of Justice, Department of Labor, National Labor Relations Board, Securities and Exchange Commission, any Inspector General

and any other governmental agency, commission, or regulatory authority) regarding a possible violation of any law; (ii) responding to any inquiry or legal process directed to the Participant
from any governmental agency; (iii) testifying, participating or otherwise assisting in any action or proceeding by any governmental agency relating to a possible violation of law; (iv) disclosing an act of sexual abuse (as defined in Tex.
Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 129C.001) or facts related to an act of sexual abuse to any other person; or (v) making any other disclosures that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of any applicable law. Nothing in this
Agreement requires the Participant to obtain prior authorization before engaging in any conduct described in the preceding sentence, or to notify the Company that the Participant has engaged in any such conduct. Additionally, pursuant to the federal
Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, an individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that: (A) is made (1) in confidence to a federal, state or
local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney and (2) solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; (B) is made to the individual’s attorney in relation to a lawsuit
for retaliation against the individual for reporting a suspected violation of law; or (C) is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or proceeding, if such filing is made under seal.