Each employee is expected to carefully use, treat and protect Orion’s business assets, including those of immaterial nature, such as patented structures of compounds, proprietary methods and knowhow, as well as the trademarks, brands and logos. Also information systems are core assets.

Every person in Orion’s service is responsible for the proper use and protection against damage and loss of any assets held by the company. Any assets possessed or products/services offered by Orion may neither be used by employees for gaining personal advantage nor provided for use by third parties unless specifically approved by management.

Employees who receive or hold confidential business information or trade secrets of Orion or its partners shall not disclose of make personal use of such information. All employees shall respect the interests of Orion in managing and protecting information with professional methods and systems protected from any misuse and violation.

As a research-based pharmaceutical company with numerous research projects being conducted for creating new innovative future business opportunities for the Company, Orion wants to safeguard the rights to intellectual property arising from the research activity to itself as comprehensively as possible. Orion’s employees and collaboration partners are supposed to respect Orion’s interests and purposes in collaboration projects where information must be necessarily shared in an atmosphere of mutual trust and confidentiality.  Accordingly, also Orion respects the corresponding interests of its partners.