1. Neither party shall disclose or divulge to a third party any and all technical and trade information of the other party which has come to be known in the course of performance of this Agreement and any Individual Agreement, and shall use it for any purposes other than those of performing this Agreement; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not apply to the information set forth in each Item below:
(1) Information which was already in the possession of a receiving party at the time of its disclosure;
(2) Information which was already generally known or publicly available at the time of its disclosure;
(3) Information which becomes generally known or publicly available through no fault of a receiving party after its disclosure;
(4) Information which has been properly obtained without any obligation of secrecy, from a third party who has a lawful right to make such a disclosure;
(5) Information which has been created independently outside the performance of this Agreement without reference to any of the secrets disclosed by the disclosing party;
(6) Information which is disclosed under requirements by any of competent authorities or laws and regulations.