Was Ist Ein Non Disclosure Agreement?

An NDA creates a confidential relationship between the parties, typically to protect any type of confidential and proprietary information or trade secrets. As such, an NDA protects non-public business information. Like all contracts, they cannot be enforced if the contracted activities are illegal.

How enforceable is a non-disclosure agreement?

NDAs are legally enforceable contracts, but they're now coming under increased scrutiny from lawmakers, attorneys and legal experts. ... Companies often use them as part of an employment contract or settlement agreement to protect sensitive information — like trade secrets.

When was the first non-disclosure agreement?

There's no clear origin story for the non-disclosure agreement, no Edison or Franklin who lays claim to the form. But a search of newspaper databases informs us that mentions of such agreements began popping up in the 1940s in the context of maritime law.