Talk To Us About Your IP Concerns
Nearly all our customers have designed their own products
Nearly all our customers have designed their own products. Since being the first and only product of one kind on the market is always a plus, our customers want their designs to be kept secret.
Here are the steps we take to protect your intellectual property and help you to reach that objective.
Our business model
We are a Western-owned contract manufacturer that helps customers build the products. We do not design and develop our own products. We are not an ODM or OEM supplier, and we do not capitalize on our own intellectual property. That means there is no risk we become your competitor or we sell your product to your competitors.
We do not do trade shows, we do not have any pages on Alibaba and similar directories, and we do not show any specifics of the products we make on our website.
A straightforward development framework
All the intellectual property rights created in our work for a customer belong to that customer, as long as they pay for it. It is that simple.
And our normal approach, when tooling is necessary, is that the customer pays for the tooling and owns all of its intellectual property rights. We assist our customers in securing that important provision, in an enforceable agreement with the tooling fabrication shop.
Legal agreements with our customers
Our standard NDA agreement includes non-disclosure, non-use, and non-circumvention terms. Our development and manufacturing agreements do, too. They are signed with Agilian’s mother company and are enforceable. (For your information, our mother company is wholly owned by French individuals.)
Confidentiality policy
All our employees have signed a confidentiality agreement that involves personal penalties in case of non-compliance. They all take confidentiality seriously.
Our R&D team works in a secured area, behind a locked door. All workstations have user access control, and all technical files are placed on a secured server.
Supply chain management
If and when we use a contractor or an external company (outside of our group), we share partial information (we avoid sharing the customer & project name,the product’s final use and market, etc.). And, whenever we disclose sensitive information, we get them to sign an NDA first. A typical example is gathering information from specialized manufacturers of a specific material.
For more details, see how we keep the component manufacturers in the dark.
