We protect the intellectual property rights of customers through a three-pronged approach:

Contractual safeguards:

The first and foremost is the contractual safeguards that Clarice puts in place.

• Clarice executes an NDA with the customer, whereby undertaking that all information received and deemed to be confidential will be maintained in confidence.
• Clarice issues an explicit undertaking that it will not reverse engineer any of the customer's products.
• Customers can define a list of close competitors, and Clarice undertakes that it will not initiate work with any of them in the same application area.
• The customer and Clarice shall mutually indemnify each other against breach of any third party IP in the course of conducting work under the proposed agreement.
• Clarice further executes similar NDAs (confidentiality contracts) with each of its employees. These agreements affirm that the employees will comply with Clarice IP protection regulations.
• If required, NDA can be signed between the customer organization and the Clarice engineer assigned to the project.
• The customer can ask Clarice to be responsible for safe-keep of all equipment on loan to Clarice, without creation of ownership in any form and without any encumbrances. It can further ask that such machines be labeled as its property and not be shifted from the intended facility to any other location without prior consent.
• The outsourcing agreement ensures an orderly and scheduled return to the customer of all customer intellectual property. It also provides for a commitment to destroy all copies of customer intellectual property and appropriate related materials which are not otherwise required to be returned. Clarice would sign outsourcing agreements with customer wherein all improvements to customer intellectual property would be owned by the customer. Clarice would agree to transfer all such rights.

Culture building:

Clarice promotes an internal culture where every individual is aware of and respects the IP rights of customers. This is accomplished through:

• An articulated IP policy which substantiates on issues and rules for IP protection.
• Awareness programs and trainings that educate employees on IP issues.
• Each employee, upon being hired, undergoes an introductory course on IP rights as part of employee induction program.

Controls and Practices:

Clarice has put in place a set of clearly defined controls and safeguards which go a long way towards IP protection.

• Access control, Physical isolation: Clarice has instituted access control, visitor log/visitor badge and posting of security personnel in its development facilities. Developers belonging to different teams are logistically segregated from each other for all aspects. Subject to mutual agreement, Clarice can arrange for physically isolated and secure space for executing projects.
• Code Security: Source code and other documents, are protected through our version control systems access to which is secured. The version control system is configured to grant access to only relevant areas of the source tree even for personnel in the same project / team. The back-up policies ensure that the code and documents are recoverable in the face of man made / natural disasters.
• Restricted and Isolated networks: We have safe and secure network connections for remote logins, cross-facility communications and Clarice-customer connectivity.