Comprehensive Intellectual Property protection policy

Mantra understands the importance of IP and secrecy of our customers’ confidential information. We see this as the critical element for maintaining a long-term relationship with our clients. We are committed to protecting customer IP throughout the project cycle.

Key areas of our intellectual property protection policy include:

Non-Disclosure agreements

  • At the time of joining, all employees of Mantra Technologies are required to sign a proprietary information and inventions agreement. Individual NDA’s are also signed by every employee on joining
  • Employees cannot disclose any proprietary information directly or indirectly to anyone outside the company, or use, copy, publish, summarize or remove such information from the company premises
  • Employees cannot use any unfair competitive practices upon termination of employment or engage in any business during employment
  • Any confidential information received from third parties and clients are held in strictest confidence and employees are not allowed to disclose or use it, except as necessary to perform his/her obligations as is consistent with third parties
  • Any “invention ideas” and relevant records has to be disclosed to the company and all information and records pertaining to any idea, process, trademark, service mark, invention, technology, computer program, original work of authorship, design, formula, discovery, patent, or copyright conceived or developed has to be promptly disclosed to the company
  • Access to flash drive, CD is disabled on all desktops. Prior written permission of the Project Manager / Program Manager is required for usage of respective drives
  • Random checks are made on emails that go out of official mailbox that exceeds permitted size (with or without attachments)

Project-related IP protection

  • Dedicated resources made available for all projects. This prevents unauthorized usage of resources and protects all proprietary information of our clients
  • We have a robust ethical framework that forbids exchange of IP between projects

Confidential document control

  • Access to public mail systems is disallowed. Access to flash drive, CD drives are disabled on all desktops. Prior written permission of the Project Manager / Program Manager is required for usage of respective drives
  • Random checks are made on emails that go out of official mailbox that exceeds permitted size (with or without attachments)