Employee Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement (EPITA) is a contractual agreement between an employer and employee, which legally binds the employee to keep confidential any proprietary information and inventions related to the employer's business. In addition, the employee agrees to assign any inventions or innovations related to the business to the employer. There are three main types of EPITA: Traditional, Explicit and Broadened. Traditional EPITA is the most common type of agreement, where the employee agrees to keep confidential any proprietary information of the employer, and to assign any inventions and innovations related to the employer’s business to the employer. ExpliciEPITAIA is an agreement that provides more specific details regarding the types of information and inventions that the employee must keep confidential and assign to the employer. Broadened EPITA is an agreement that states the employee must assign any and all inventions and innovations, regardless of whether they are related to the employer’s business or not.