Confidential Disclosure Agreement (CDA)
When to conclude a CDA?
It is absolutely necessary to conclude a CDA before unpublished information (e.g. new research ideas, inventions etc.) are revealed to an external party verbally or in writing. This obliges the partner to observe the secrecy of the obtained information and is indispensable for later patenting.
What needs special attention when signing a CDA?
A CDA influences the freedom of action of the recipient. The field of the confidential information must therefore be outlined as precisely as possible and without revealing too much. Often the exact manner in which the confidential information is handed over has been defined. In some cases oral information must be handed in later in the form of a written protocol.
Support provided by Unitectra
Unitectra will either draw up a CDA for you or examine a draft presented to you by a firm.