From Coca-Cola's secret formula to Google's search algorithm, there are reasons why proprietary and highly confidential information has always been safeguarded.
If you will be performing services that make you privy to information that is confidential, such as legal or medical files, secret formulas or recipes, or a client's financial or personal information, you should include a confidentiality clause.
A trade secret — like the formula for Coca-Cola — is an innovation that is kept confidential by company procedures like contractual covenants.
Each hourlong episode of "City Confidential" applies the same successful formula, mixing history, geography and, usually, murder.
The exact chemical composition of these fluids is not known because the chemical formula is classified as confidential proprietary information.
For the government, the formula is straightforward: show how the trader obtained the information, prove it was confidential and important to other investors, and then produce records that show the profits made from using the information.
Although the details remained confidential, the league's poorest franchises could receive up to $15 million a year under the new formula, according to a person who has seen the plan.
That formula resembles the balancing called for by many state laws, though some states provide absolute protection where confidential sources are involved.
