Legal template · 9 clauses
Mutual NDA template for apparel manufacturing
Sign this mutual NDA template before you send us tech packs, artwork or patterns for a new design. It protects both sides, and your lawyer is welcome to review it or send your own NDA instead.
What the mutual NDA covers
It covers anything non-public that either side shares while we develop and make your garments: designs, logos, tech packs, patterns, measurements, fabric and trim specs, samples, prices and customer names. Designs and patterns made for you belong to you, and we do not show them to other customers or use your brand in our own marketing. It is mutual because we share pricing and supplier details with you too.
One caveat: an NDA limits who sees your designs, but it does not register a trademark or a design right. If the brand is new, protect it in your own market as well. Fill in your first tech pack on the tech pack template, find other files under trade downloads, or read how our private label sportswear program keeps your brand on the product.
How to sign and return the NDA
- 01Print it or save it as a PDF
- 02Fill in your company details and sign
- 03Email it to sales@empirefive.com
- 04We countersign and return it
Between Empire Five Athletics, 73A Nizam Abad, Zaffarwall Road, Ahmed Nagar Bonga, Sialkot 51310, Pakistan ("the Manufacturer"),
and ________________________________________________, of ________________________________________________ ("the Buyer").
1. Purpose
The parties want to discuss and carry out the design, development and manufacture of apparel products ("the Purpose"). Each may share Confidential Information with the other for the Purpose only.
2. Confidential Information
Any non-public information shared in any form, including designs, artwork, logos, tech packs, patterns, measurements, fabric and trim specifications, samples, prices, customer and supplier names, and business plans.
3. Obligations
The receiving party will use Confidential Information only for the Purpose, will not disclose it to anyone except employees and contractors who need it for the Purpose and are bound by similar obligations, and will protect it with at least the care it uses for its own confidential information.
4. Designs and patterns
Designs, artwork and patterns supplied or developed for the Buyer belong to the Buyer. The Manufacturer will not reproduce, sell or show them to any third party, and will not use the Buyer's brand in its own marketing without written permission.
5. Exclusions
These obligations do not apply to information that is or becomes public through no fault of the receiving party, was already lawfully known to it, is independently developed, or must be disclosed by law (with prompt notice to the other party where allowed).
6. Return or destruction
On written request, the receiving party will return or destroy Confidential Information, except copies kept to meet legal or accounting obligations, which remain confidential.
7. Term
This agreement starts on the date of the last signature and its obligations last for three (3) years after the last disclosure, and indefinitely for designs and patterns.
8. No other rights
Nothing in this agreement grants any license or creates any obligation to place orders or to supply goods.
9. Governing law
This agreement is governed by the law agreed in writing by the parties; if none is agreed, by the laws of Pakistan.
For the Manufacturer
Name: ______________________
Signature: __________________
Date: ______________________
For the Buyer
Name: ______________________
Signature: __________________
Date: ______________________