Non-disclosure agreement

The nondisclosure of inventions and designs matters significantly. The patent law includes an absolute novelty requirement while in design law novelty determines whether the right shall be obtained. If an invention or a design is revealed, your patent or design may no longer be described as ‘new'. In which case it will not be registered.

Declaration

The non-disclosure declaration can be used to have third parties declare that they will keep all the information that you provide confidential. A non-disclosure declaration is a short statement compelling the party receiving the information to keep that information under cover.

Agreement

A non-disclosure agreement is similar to a non-disclosure declaration, only more extensive and usually includes specific stipulations for both parties on the non-disclosure agreements that they have reached and whatever they must observe within this context.

Advice

If you wish to discuss your idea, concept or invention in confidence prior to holding intellectual property rights, we kindly advise you to prepare a non-disclosure declaration or a non-disclosure agreement. Our lawyers will be happy to prepare one that you may suggest to your discussion partner.