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• Thanks to the knowledge, means or data theCompany has provided him with.In return, the employee is paid a “fair price” decided upon an agreement 77 .2. Validity and enforcement strategies for restrictive covenantsIn France, several clauses are inserted in the employment contracts in order to ensurethe non-disclosure of any trade secret in the course of the employment contract asmuch as at the termination of the employment contract.a. Confidentiality ClauseIn practice, the employment contracts provide for a confidentiality clause that preventsthe employee to disclose any confidential information, data, document, etc. regardingthe company or the group’s business to any third party during the performance of theemployment and pursuant to its termination. Such clause is particularly useful at thetermination of the employment contract. Indeed, in the course of the employmentcontract, the employee is subject to a loyalty obligation that forbids him any way tobreach any confidentiality obligation. In case of such breach, the employee could bedismissed for gross misconduct. Pursuant to the termination of the employment77 Article L.611-7-2° of the Intellectual property Code: “when an invention is made by an employee in thecourse of the performance of his functions, or in the field of the company’s activities, or thanks to theproper knowledge or the use of technics or tools belonging to the company, or thanks to data furnishedby it, the employer is allowed, in the conditions and the deadline provided for by a decree, to claim forthe property or the enjoyment all or part of the rights related to the patent protecting the invention of theemployee.The employee has to be provided with a fair price which, except in case of an agreement between theparties, is fixed by the conciliation commission implemented in accordance with the article L.615-21 orby the Civil Tribunal : the latter will take into consideration any elements that may be given by theemployer and the employee, in order to calculate the fait price taking into account the initialcontributions of the employee and the employer and the industrial and business utility of the invention”.3082723.3