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Attention: Steve Maxwell, Fox Electronics
Re: NDA Agreement

Please print out and fax or mail the signed agreement to : Fox Electronics, 5570 Enterprise Parkway, Fort Myers, FL 33905, Direct Phone: +001 (239)-690-2269, Direct Fax: +001 (239)-690-3469


NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT - ELECTRONIC FORMAT

THIS AGREEMENT is made on the date below mentioned between FOX ENTERPRISES, INC., d/b/a FOX ELECTRONICS, 5570 Enterprise Parkway, Fort Myers, Florida 33905, (hereinafter "COMPANY") and party signing below (hereinafter "RECIPIENT").

THE PARTIES HERETO AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

1. Pursuant to a working relationship which has been and/or may be established between the above parties, COMPANY, under the terms an conditions set forth herein shall disclose to, RECIPIENT, valuable information, ideas, concepts, prototypes, designs, patentable and/or nonpatentable inventions or designs, trade secrets, corresponding advertising, packaging, documents, programs, plans, specifications, techniques, financial data, financial or production forecasts, patentable or nonpatentable inventions, sketches, software, hardware, components, parts, merchandising media, sales reports and/or information, research, marketing, trade secrets, engineering data, production techniques, schematics, packaging, advertising, and programs. and/or specific information which concerns the designing, developing, manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing of frequency control products and related goods and services, and which COMPANY deems to be, and RECIPIENT accepts as, CONFIDENTIAL (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Information"). A photo, drawing, explanation, or examples of the Information may be contained in COMPANY's secure or password protected internet locations, websites or home pages. Information may be supplied to RECIPIENT in writing, electronically, aurally, physically and/or verbally.

2. RECIPIENT agrees that all ideas or Information disclosed by COMPANY to RECIPIENT during the course of any pre-existing, present, or future business relationship, or any other negotiations, are and/or were so disclosed in reliance upon a confidential relationship between COMPANY and RECIPIENT with regard to the Information and shall not be disclosed at any time.

3. RECIPIENT understands and acknowledges that any disclosure of the Information by RECIPIENT, RECIPIENT'S employees or agents, to any individual and/or entity including subsidiaries, contractors, or related companies, is in violation of this agreement and would irreparably damage COMPANY.

4. In consideration of and in return for COMPANY'S disclosure of the Information to RECIPIENT, RECIPIENT agrees to keep it secret and hold the Information in confidence and in trust disclosing it to no person or entity either directly or indirectly. RECIPIENT agrees not to manufacture, sell, deal in, apply for a patent, copyright, or trademark relating to, or otherwise use or appropriate, the disclosed Information in any way whatever including, without limitation, use or appropriation through adaptation, replication, imitation, redesign or modification.

5. This disclosure of the Information from COMPANY to RECIPIENT shall be for the purposes of (a) evaluation to determine interest in the commercial development of the Information, (b) allowing RECIPIENT to participate in the manufacture, advertising, marketing or distribution of COMPANY'S products, or (c) assisting in the production or development of software programs.

6. COMPANY reserves all copyright, patent, trademark, service mark, trade secret, trade dress rights, and all rights to confidential information which may or may not be trade secret, which COMPANY may now have or shall later acquire either by virtue of common law or statute. RECIPIENT is hereby notified of COMPANY'S above mentioned and/or intellectual property rights including without limitation, all copyright, patent, trademark, service mark, trade secret, trade dress, right of publicity, or confidential information rights in any and all goods or services provided by COMPANY. All Information shall be solely the property of COMPANY. Nothing herein shall be deemed to give RECIPIENT any right, title or interest whatever in or to the Information. Upon COMPANY's request, RECIPIENT agrees to promptly (within 5 days) return all Information provided to RECIPIENT by COMPANY. If Information has been altered, copied, or changed in any way, RECIPIENT shall also return all documents pertaining to the alterations, copies, or changes, to COMPANY, or, with COMPANY's written permission, destroy the material and provide an Affidavit of Secure Destruction.

7. The Information disclosed under this Agreement may be used by RECIPIENT only for the purpose for which it was disclosed. RECIPIENT may disclose the Information received under this Agreement to persons within its organization only if such persons are in fact obligated in writing to protect the confidentiality of such Information to the same extent that RECIPIENT is obligated by this Agreement. For purposes of this paragraph and RECIPIENT'S obligations therefrom, "within its organization" shall mean the following: Employees, officers, directors, contractors, agents, consultants, assigns or other persons so identified to COMPANY in writing to which COMPANY has granted written approval.

8. If any court of law shall find that any portion of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable, then it is specifically and expressly agreed that the remainder of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

9. This Agreement and all documents executed pursuant to it shall be interpreted, construed, applied and enforced in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Florida, regardless of where executed, delivered, performable or breached, where any suit or other proceeding involving this Agreement is instituted or pending, or whether the laws of the State of Florida would otherwise apply the laws of another jurisdiction. The Twentieth Judicial Circuit in and for Collier County, Florida, or the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida shall be the exclusive venue for any action brought in relation to this Agreement or arising out of this Agreement. The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that they are fully authorized to bind the parties hereto to the terms of this Agreement.

10. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements, written or oral, between the parties hereto. This Agreement may not be modified, changed or discharged, in whole or in part, except by an agreement in writing.

AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED BY:

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