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REQUESTED
WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN
PORTIONS HEREOF
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“***”
June 17,
2009
COLLABORATION
AGREEMENT
This COLLABORATION AGREEMENT (“
Agreement ”), dated June 17, 2009 by and between
Elephant Talk Communications, Inc., a corporation organized under
the laws of the State of California (“ Elephant Talk
”), and Validsoft Limited, an entity organized under the laws
of the Republic of Ireland (“ Validsoft
”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, Elephant Talk is the owner of mobile
virtual network operator products;
WHEREAS, Validsoft is the owner of innovative
real-time telecommunication products using mutual authentication
and transaction verification software which are focused on
identification verification, fraud prevention, false positive
reduction and business enablement;
WHEREAS, the parties believe it is in their
mutual best interest to collaborate to develop and commercialize
products using the above Elephant Talk and Validsoft products
pursuant to the terms and conditions hereof; and
WHEREAS, the parties desire to establish the
rights and obligations of Elephant Talk and Validsoft with respect
to the development, distribution, marketing and sale of joint
product(s) encompassing the foregoing Elephant Talk and Validsoft
products pursuant to the terms and conditions hereof.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises
and mutual and dependent promises set forth herein, the parties
hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE
I. DEFINITIONS
1.1
Certain Definitions .
“ Affiliate ” shall mean any
Person which controls, is controlled by or is under common control
with a party to this Agreement. For the purpose of this
Agreement “control” shall mean the direct or indirect
ownership and having the power to vote on the affairs of the Person
actually controlled by, controlling or under common control with a
party to this Agreement.
“ Commissions ” shall have
the meaning set forth in Section 4.2 .
“ Confidential Information ”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.1(a)
.
“ Elephant Talk IP ” means
all Intellectual Property owned by Elephant Talk relating to or
arising from any and all Elephant Talk Products.
“ Elephant Talk Products ”
shall mean a mobile virtual network operator product, which include
all standard fixed line services like originating and terminating
national and international voice and data calls (including toll
free, shared revenue and VOIP calls) and all services included in
Elephant Talk’s mobile virtual network enabling platform
which is comprised of an in-house developed integrated
IN/CRM/Billing platform and network elements such as switches, HLR,
STP, USSD, SMS-C, MMS-C, WAP gateway, OTA, OTA handset and
GGSN/SGSN,together in each case, all improvements, enhancements and
variations thereto including those undertaken or effected pursuant
to this Agreement.
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“ Intellectual Property ”
shall mean: (a) patents, patent applications of any kind, patent
rights, inventions, discoveries and invention disclosures (whether
or not patented); (b) rights in registered and
unregistered trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress,
logos, packaging design, slogans and Internet domain names, and
registrations and applications for registration of any of the
foregoing; (c) copyrights in both published and unpublished works,
including without limitation all compilations, databases and
computer programs, manuals and other documentation and all
copyright registrations and applications, and all derivatives,
translations, adaptations and combinations of the above; (d) rights
in know-how, trade secrets, confidential or proprietary
information, research in progress, algorithms, data, designs,
processes, formulae, drawings, schematics, blueprints, flow charts,
models, strategies, prototypes, techniques, Beta testing procedures
and Beta testing results; (e) any and all other intellectual
property rights and/or proprietary rights relating to any of the
foregoing; and (f) goodwill, franchises, licenses, permits,
consents, approvals, and claims of infringement and
misappropriation against third parties, in each case which subsist
or will subsist now or in the future in any part of the
world.
“ Collaborative Business ”
the business to be pursued by the parties pursuant to this
Agreement, for the parties to co-operate and act together for the
marketing and sale of their respective products, which are to be
coupled for joint benefit.
“ Losses ” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 6.1(a) .
“ Net Revenue ” shall mean
the amount of profits and revenues actually collected by or on
behalf of Elephant Talk or Validsoft, as the case may be, for sales
of Products, less the following deductions with respect to
Products:
(i) value
added , excise, sales and other consumption taxes and
customs duties to the extent included in the invoice price to
customers or paid by Elephant Talk or Validsoft, as the case may be
(excluding taxes based on Elephant Talk’s and
Validsoft’s income);
(ii) all
reasonable freight, postage and shipping, insurance and other
transportation charges to the extent included in the invoice price
to customers or paid by Elephant Talk or Validsoft, as the case may
be;
(iii) all
amounts repaid or credited by reason of recalls, rejections or
return of Products;
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(iv) to
the extent agreed between the Parties or included in any agreed
business plan, direct and external accounting, legal,
administrative and marketing costs and expenses relating to the
distribution, marketing and sale of Products reasonably incurred by
Elephant Talk or Validsoft, as the case may be;
(v) all
Commissions payable to Elephant Talk, Validsoft, mobile network
operators and/or any other reseller; and
(vi) any
direct third party costs paid or due to be paid to carriers which
are necessary for sales and paid by either party, and which shall
be recognized in the actual currency of billing with respect to
such costs.
“ Net Sales Price ” shall
mean the sales price of each Product sold and collected by, or on
behalf of, Elephant Talk or Validsoft, as the case may be, less the
following deductions:
(i) value
added , excise, sales and other consumption
taxes and customs duties to the extent included in the invoice
price to customers or paid by Elephant Talk or Validsoft, as the
case may be (excluding taxes based on Elephant Talk’s and
Validsoft’s income);
(ii) all
reasonable freight, postage and shipping, insurance and other
transportation charges to the extent included in the invoice price
to customers or paid by Elephant Talk or Validsoft, as the case may
be;
(iii) all
amounts repaid or credited by reason of recalls, rejections or
return of Products;
(iv) to
the extent agreed between the Parties or included in any agreed
business plan, direct and external accounting, legal,
administrative and marketing costs and expenses relating to the
distribution, marketing and sale of Products reasonably incurred by
Elephant Talk or Validsoft, as the case may be; and
(v) any
direct third party costs paid or due to be paid to carriers which
are necessary for sales and paid by either party, and which shall
be recognized in the actual currency of billing with respect to
such costs.
“ Person ” shall mean any
individual, corporation, limited liability company, limited
liability partnership, general partnership, limited partnership,
company, joint venture, voluntary association, unincorporated
organization, trust, estate, other entity or government (or any
agency, instrumentality or political subdivision
thereof).
“ Products ” shall mean
products developed, distributed, marketed and sold by or on behalf
of Elephant Talk or Validsoft that encompasses or bundles together
any Elephant Talk Products and any Validsoft Products in the
Collaborative Business.
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“ Target Markets ” shall be
the following:
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Card Present
(CP) ATM and POS fraud and false positive detection, identification
and resolution;
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Card Not
Present (CNP) transactions - detection, identification and
resolution;
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telecommunications based authentication and
transaction verification;
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virtual private
network/extranet authentication and identity/credentials
verification;
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Microsoft
outlook web access (OWA), Citrix, Cisco, Juniper - authentication
and identity/credentials verification;
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fraud
detection/prevention based lookup and mobile location
solutions,
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to the
financial services industry, government, government agencies and
semi-state bodies.
“ Validsoft IP ” means all
Intellectual Property owned by Validsoft relating to or arising
from any and all Validsoft Products.
“ Validsoft Products ” shall
mean the following software products developed by
ValidSoft:
VALid-POS™ - Card-Present, ATM and POS
(point of sale) fraud prevention solution from Validsoft that
provides Real-Time fraud detection, false positive reduction and
utilizes the underlying VALid® functionality to also provide
real-time resolution. VALid-POS provides invisible transaction
verification capability that assists banks in determining whether
the genuine customer is conducting the card-based
transaction.
VALid® - Real-Time Interactive Voice
Response (IVR) Internet mutual authentication and transaction
verification solution that provides holistic multi-channel approach
to fraud prevention. VALid-IVR provides outbound and inbound
telephony all with configurable Transaction Verification. VALid-IVR
integrates with Text-To-Speech (TTS), Speech Recognition and Voice
Biometrics functionality to provide the highest level of secure
authentication. VALid® provides the Real-Time Resolution
capability for VALid-POS™.
VALid-VPN – Real-Time telecommunications
based Virtual Private Network client that allows users to gain
secure remote access to an organization’s protected network.
Remote network access is becoming a greater issue for many
organizations through the growth of home working, remote workers,
extended enterprises and disaster recovery and business disruption
planning. VALid-VPN supports major VPN servers including Citrix
(multiple) and Juniper.
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VALid-OWA - Real-Time telecommunications based
Outlook Web Access client that provides secure access for Microsoft
Exchange remote users. Currently many Exchange sites disallow
remote access through OWA due to security concerns. VALid-OWA
solves this problem and, through its zero client-footprint model,
enables instant wide scale distribution.
together
in each case, all improvements, enhancements and variations thereto
including those undertaken or effected pursuant to this
Agreement.
ARTICLE 2. COLLABORATION
2.1
Management . The annual budget of Elephant Talk
and Validsoft devoted to the distribution, marketing and sale of
Products shall be determined and mutually agreed upon by the
parties. Each party shall comply with all laws, rules
and regulations applicable to it in the development, distribution,
marketing and sale of Products. Any amendment to any
business plan previously agreed upon by the parties shall require
consent of both parties.
2.2
Target Markets . The parties shall concentrate
the distribution, marketing and sale of Products in the Target
Markets.
2.3
Pricing . The prices for Products shall be
mutually agreed upon by the parties.
2.4
Elephant Talk Obligations . Elephant Talk shall
be responsible for the following:
(a) dealings
with telecom elements and the recruitment of mobile network
operators as resellers;
(b) jointly
with Validsoft, software development (including where Validsoft
agrees using Elephant Talk’s China operations on an outsource
basis, at a cost plus *** ); and
(c) jointly
with Validsoft, the re-applying and relevant integration and
joining of the Elephant Talk Products and Validsoft Products to
form the Products and to expand the Products for the Target Market,
at all times to mutual advantage.
2.5
Validsoft Obligations . Validsoft shall be
responsible for the following:
(a) jointly
with Elephant Talk, software development (including where Validsoft
agrees using Elephant Talk’s China operations on an outsource
basis, at a cost plus 10% price); and
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(b) jointly
with Elephant Talk, the re-applying and relevant
integration and joining of the Elephant Talk Products and Validsoft
Products to form the Products and to expand the Products for the
Target Market, at all times to mutual advantage.
2.6
License . Elephant Talk hereby grants to
Validsoft a non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, royalty free
license with respect to the Elephant Talk IP to the extent
necessary for the distribution, marketing and sale of
Products. Validsoft hereby grants to Elephant Talk a
non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, royalty free license with
respect to the Validsoft IP to the extent necessary for the
distribution, marketing and sale of Products.
2.7
Resellers and Distributors . Upon mutual
agreement by the parties, the parties may appoint, on a
non-exclusive basis, mobile network operators, resellers and other
distributors to market, distribute and sell Products.
2.8
Non-Exclusivity . Nothing in this Agreement shall
be construed or deemed to restrict or prohibit Elephant Talk from
developing, marketing, distributing or selling any Elephant Talk
Products or any of its other products. Nothing in this
Agreement shall be construed or deemed to restrict or prohibit
Validsoft from developing, marketing, distributing or selling any
Validsoft Products or any of its other products.
2.9
Restricted Business . In order to assure to the other the
full benefit of this Agreement, each Party undertakes on its own
behalf, and undertakes to procure that each of its Affiliates,
shall not directly or indirectly (whether as principal,
shareholder, partner, employees, agents or otherwise), and whether
on its own account or in conjunction with or on behalf of any other
Person, during the Restricted Period carry on or be engaged,
concerned or interested in a business which competes with the sale
of the Products, and further that it will not enter into any
agreement or arrangement with any third party which is engaged in
business in competition with the other party to this Agreement in
relation to the Target Market, the intent or effect of which is to
be materially prejudicial to the interests of the other
party. For the purpose of this Section 2.9, the
Restricted Period shall be the term of this Agreement, and a period
of 12 months thereafter.
2.10
Reasonable Endeavors . Each party undertakes to
the other to use all reasonable endeavors to promote and extend
sales of the Products, and to exploit the rights arising in the
Collaborative Business to the intent of maximization of Net
Revenues to the benefit of both of the parties.
ARTICLE 3. REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
3.1
Representations and Warranties of Elephant Talk
. Elephant Talk represents to Validsoft as
follows:
(a)
Organization and Corporate
Power . Elephant Talk is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the State of California.
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(b)
Authority; No Violation
. Elephant Talk has all requisite power and authority to
execute and deliver this Agreement, to perform its obligations
hereunder and to consummate the transactions contemplated
hereby. The execution, delivery and performance by
Elephant Talk of this Agreement has been duly and validly
authorized and approved by all necessary actions of Elephant
Talk. Neither the execution, delivery or performance of
this Agreement by Elephant Talk, nor compliance by Elephant Talk
with any of the terms or provisions hereof, will violate, conflict
with, or result in a breach or default under any provision of the
organizational documents of Elephant Talk or violate any applicable
law, rules or regulations.
(c)
Ownership of Intellectual Property . Elephant
Talk (i) is the owner of the Elephant Talk IP, and (ii) no Person
has asserted any infringement or ownership claim, formal or
informal, with respect to the Elephant Talk IP and (iii) any
Intellectual Property rights or interests of any Persons in or to
any part of the Elephant Talk Product is and will remain properly
and lawfully licensed for all purposes contemplated by this
Agreement.
3.2
Representations and Warranties of Validsoft
. Validsoft represents to Elephant Talk as
follows:
(a)
Organization and Corporate
Power . Validsoft is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the Republic of Ireland.
(b)
Authority; No Violation
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