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Title: SECOND AMENDMENT TO COLLABORATION AGREEMENT
Governing Law: California     Date: 3/11/2009
Industry: Biotechnology and Drugs     Sector: Healthcare

SECOND AMENDMENT TO COLLABORATION AGREEMENT, Parties: takeda pharmaceutical company limited , xoma (us) llc , xoma ltd
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Exhibit 10.31B

SECOND AMENDMENT TO COLLABORATION AGREEMENT

This Second Amendment to Collaboration Agreement (this “ Second Amendment ”) is effective as of February 9, 2009 (the “ Amendment Effective Date ”) and is made by and among Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, a Japanese corporation having offices at 1-1, Doshomachi 4-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka 540-8645, Japan (hereinafter “ Takeda ”); XOMA (US) LLC, a Delaware limited liability company having offices at 2910 Seventh Street, Berkeley, California 94710, USA (hereinafter “ XOMA ”) [*]

BACKGROUND

A. XOMA and Takeda entered into a certain Collaboration Agreement dated as of November 1, 2006 (as amended, including by the First Amendment and, unless otherwise noted after giving effect to this Second Amendment, the “ Agreement ”).

B. As part of the Collaboration, Takeda has expressed a desire to obtain (i) expanded rights to XOMA-Controlled intellectual property rights and (ii) certain materials and related information, hereinafter identified as, inter alia [*] the Discovery Know-How and the Systems.

C. XOMA and Takeda wish to amend the Agreement and expand the Collaboration, and to further enable Takeda to work with XOMA, the XOMA Companies wish to license, sublicense, and otherwise make available certain items of intellectual property and deliver to Takeda and, where specified herein, assign to Takeda (and its Affiliates) all right, title and interest in, the Transferred Materials as specified herein.

D. Takeda, on its own behalf and on behalf of its Affiliates, agrees to accept the Transferred Materials under the terms and conditions of this Second Amendment and, as applicable, the Agreement.

E. The XOMA Companies will benefit from the transactions contemplated by this Second Amendment and the Agreement, and are willing to (i) grant Takeda the expanded rights and licenses contained in this Second Amendment [*] and Takeda agrees to accept such grants [*]

F. Terms which are defined in the Agreement shall have the same meanings when used in this Second Amendment, unless a different definition is given herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, each of the XOMA Companies and Takeda agree as follows:

Section 1. Amendments . Pursuant to Section 14.9 of the Agreement,

(a) Article 1 (Definitions) of the Agreement is hereby supplemented, amended and modified with the following definitions:

1.3 “ Affiliate ” means, as of the Amendment Effective Date, as to a particular person or entity, any corporation, company, partnership, joint venture and/or firm that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such person or entity. For purposes hereof, “control” means (a) in the case of a corporate entity, direct or indirect ownership of more than fifty percent


(50%) of the stock or shares entitled to vote for the election of directors; (b) in the case of a non-corporate entity, direct or indirect ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the equity interests with the power to direct the management and policies of such non-corporate entity; or (c) possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of the entity in question (whether through ownership of securities or other ownership interests, by contract or otherwise).

1.8A “ Applicable Specifications ” means (a) with respect to [*] the [*] Materials Specifications, (b) with respect to [*] the specifications determined to be applicable thereto in accordance with Section 3A.4(a), and (c) with respect to each of the Systems, the specifications corresponding to such System set forth in Schedule 1.8A.

1.8B “ Article 3A Know-How ” means, collectively, the Discovery Know-How, HE™ Know-How [*] TES Know-How, and Systems Know-How.

1.8C “ Article 3A Patent Rights ” means, collectively, the Discovery Patent Rights, HE™ Patent Rights [*] TES Patent Rights, and Systems Patent Rights.

1.8D “ Bacterial Cell Expression Technology ” or “ BCE Technology ” means (a) the Patent Rights listed on Schedule 1.8D (the “ BCE Patent Rights ”) [*] BCE Patent Rights shall be deemed to exclude any and all Article 3A Patent Rights, except that the Patent Rights titled [*] and more particularly described on Schedule 1.29C as of the Amendment Effective Date shall be deemed to be both BCE Patent Rights and Discovery Patent Rights.

1.11A “ BCE 6A.2 License Term ” means that duration of time beginning on the Amendment Effective Date and ending upon the termination of the license granted under Section 6A.2 pursuant to Section 13.5A.

1.11B “ BCE 6A.6 License Term ” means that duration of time beginning on the Amendment Effective Date and ending upon the termination of the license granted under Section 6A.6 pursuant to Section 13.5A.

1.11C “ BCE Patent Rights ” has the meaning specified in Section 1.8D hereof.

1.17A “ Claims ” has the meaning specified in Section 12.4A hereof.

1.20 “ Collaboration Product ”, as of the Amendment Effective Date, is amended to add the following sentence: “No Discovery Product shall be considered a Collaboration Product.”

1.24 “ Confidential Information ”, as of the Amendment Effective Date, is amended to add the following sentence: “[*] shall not be considered to be Confidential Information of XOMA.”

1.27 “ Control ” or “ Controlled ” means, as of the Amendment Effective Date, with respect to any (a) material, document, item of information, method, data or other Know-How or (b) Patent Right or other intellectual property right, the possession (whether by ownership, license, covenant not to sue or otherwise, other than by a license granted pursuant to this Agreement) by a Party or its Affiliates of the ability to grant to the other Party access, ownership, a license, a sublicense and/or a covenant not to sue or otherwise (as provided herein) under such item or right without violating the terms of any agreement or other arrangement with any Third Party as of the time such Party would first be required hereunder to grant the other Party such access, ownership, license or sublicense.

 

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1.28A “ CRO ” means any contract research organization [*] engaged in contract research on behalf of Takeda or a Designated Takeda Affiliate using Transferred Materials and any provider of storage services to Takeda or a Designated Takeda Affiliate with respect to [*]

1.28B [*]

1.28C [*]

1.28D “ Designated Takeda Affiliate ” means Takeda SF or any other Takeda Affiliate designated by Takeda to XOMA in accordance with Section 3A.5(a).

1.29A “ Discovery Know-How ” means the Know-How required to be transferred to Takeda or its Affiliates pursuant to Sections 3A.1 and 3A.4.

1.29B [*]

1.29C “ Discovery Patent Rights ” means the Patent Rights described on Schedule 1.29C, [*]. Discovery Patent Rights shall be deemed to exclude any and all BCE Patent Rights, except that the Patent Rights titled [*] and more particularly described on Schedule 1.29C as of the Amendment Effective Date shall be deemed to be both BCE Patent Rights and Discovery Patent Rights.

1.29D [*]

1.29E “ Discovery Product ” means an Antibody, Antibody Product or other therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic compound or product [*] and/or the practice of the Discovery Patent Rights or other exercise of its rights under this Second Amendment.

1.29F “ Discovery Product Royalty Period ” has the meaning specified in Section 7A.1(d) hereof.

1.45 “ GAAP ” means, as of the Amendment Effective Date, for each applicable country or territory, the generally accepted accounting principles for such country or territory, as they exist from time to time, consistently applied.

1.45A “ HE™ Know-How ” has the meaning specified in Section 1.46 hereof.

1.45B “ HE™ License Term ” means that duration of time beginning on the Amendment Effective Date and ending upon the termination of the license granted under Section 6A.5 pursuant to Section 13.5A.

1.45C “ HE™ Patent Rights ” has the meaning specified in Section 1.46 hereof.

1.46 “ Human Engineering™ Technology ”, as of the Amendment Effective Date, is amended to read in its entirety as follows: “‘ Human Engineering™ Technology ’ or ‘ HE™ Technology ’ means (a) the materials and Know-How (the “HE™ Know-How”) and Patent Rights (the “ HE™ Patent Rights ”) listed on Schedule 1.46 [*]”

 

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1.49A [*]

1.57A “ Licensed Technology ” means the BCE Technology, HE™ Technology [*] TES Technology, and Systems.

1.61A [*]

1.71 “ Program Antibody ”, as of the Amendment Effective Date, is amended to insert the number “(1)” after the words “provided, however, that” and add the following clause to the end of the last sentence: “and (2) in no event shall the term “Program Antibody” include any Discovery Product.”

1.75 “ Program Technology ”, as of the Amendment Effective Date, is amended to insert the words “, Licensed Technology and [*]” at the end of the last sentence.

1.87A “ Royalty-Bearing Discovery Product ” means a Royalty-Bearing Discovery Product A or Royalty Bearing Discovery Product B.

1.87B “ Royalty-Bearing Discovery Product A ” means [*] provided, however, an Antibody Product that is both a Royalty-Bearing Discovery Product A and Royalty-Bearing Discovery Product B shall be deemed only to be a Royalty Bearing Discovery Product A.

1.87C “ Royalty-Bearing Discovery Product B ” means [*]

1.87D “ Second Amendment Indemnitee ” has the meaning specified in Section 12.4D(b) hereof.

1.87E “ Second Amendment Indemnitor ” has the meaning specified in Section 12.4D(b) hereof.

1.87F “ Second Amendment Milestone Payment ” has the meaning specified in Section 7A.1(c) hereof.

1.87G “ Software ” has the meaning specified in Schedule 6A.3 to the Second Amendment.

1.87H “ Source Code ” has the meaning specified in Schedule 6A.3 to the Second Amendment.

1.87I [*]

1.88A [*]

1.88B [*].

1.89A “ Systems ” means the informatics and other materials handling systems, associated software applications, related data systems, Patent Rights related to the foregoing (the “ Systems Patent Rights ”) and related Know-How (the “ Systems Know-How ”), each as more particularly described on Schedule 1.89A. For the purposes of the Agreement, Systems shall not include any Third Party software, operating system, data device or other materials not part of, or actually integrated into, the Systems as delivered to Takeda.

 

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1.89B “ Systems Know-How ” has the meaning specified in Section 1.89A hereof.

1.89C “ Systems License Term ” means that duration of time beginning on the Amendment Effective Date and ending upon the termination of the license granted under Section 6A.3 pursuant to Section 13.5A.

1.89D “ Systems Patent Rights ” has the meaning specified in Section 1.89A hereof.

1.89E [*]

1.89F [*]

1.89G [*]

1.90A “ Takeda Discovery Patent Rights ” means Patent Rights to the extent Controlled by Takeda that arise out of Takeda’s or a Designated Takeda Affiliate’s use or practice of the Discovery Patent Rights or Licensed Technology.

1.90B “ Takeda Licensee ” means, solely with respect to Discovery Products, any Third Party to whom Takeda or a Designated Takeda Affiliate licenses or grants rights, as part of a bona fide collaboration, development, commercialization or marketing arrangement, to develop, commercialize, market or distribute any Discovery Product; provided , however , no Third Party shall be a Takeda Licensee if (a) such Third Party is known by Takeda to be, at the time of determination, either misappropriating the Article 3A Know-How or infringing any of the Article 3A Patent Rights or (b) such Takeda Licensee does not take material economic risk with respect to the discovery, identification, development or commercialization of such Discovery Product that is the subject of the applicable arrangement; and provided , further , that the foregoing clause (b) shall not prevent Takeda from using any Third Party as a distributor or selling agent of such Discovery Products. All arrangements with a Takeda Licensee related to Discovery Products shall be pursuant to a written agreement, which will incorporate the applicable provisions of the Agreement (including without limitation Article 3A) and, where applicable, provide that XOMA and its Affiliates shall be third party beneficiaries thereof.

1.90C “ Takeda San Francisco ” or “ Takeda SF ” means Takeda San Francisco, Inc., a Delaware corporation having offices at 285 East Grand Avenue, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA, as of the Amendment Effective Date.

1.91A [*]

1.92A “ TES Know-How ” has the meaning specified in Section 1.93C hereof.

1.92B “ TES License Term ” means that duration of time beginning on the Amendment Effective Date and ending upon the termination of the license granted under Section 6A.4 pursuant to Section 13.5A.

1.92C “ TES Patent Rights ” has the meaning specified in Section 1.93C hereof.

1.93A [*]

1.93B “ Transferred Materials ” means, collectively [*] the Article 3A Know-How, the Systems and any materials actually transferred to Takeda pursuant to Article 3A.

 

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1.93C “ Transient Expression System Technology ” or “ TES Technology ” means (a) the materials and Know-How (the “ TES Know-How ”) and the Patent Rights (the “ TES Patent Rights ”), listed on Schedule 1.93C [*]

1.95A “ XOMA Collaboration Partner ” means, solely with respect to a Third Party with whom XOMA licenses or grants rights, as part of a bona fide collaboration, development, commercialization or marketing arrangement, to develop, commercialize, market or distribute any compound or product; provided, however, no Third Party shall be a Collaboration Partner if (a) such Third Party is known by XOMA to be, at the time of determination, either misappropriating any Takeda Know-How or infringing any Takeda Discovery Patent Rights or (b) such Collaboration Partner does not take material economic risk with respect to the discovery, identification, development or commercialization of such compound or product that is the subject of the applicable arrangement; and provided , further , that the foregoing clause (b) shall not prevent XOMA from using any Third Party as a distributor or selling agent of such compounds or products.

1.95B [*]

1.95C “[*] Materials Specifications ” means the specifications listed on Schedule 1.95B.

(b) The Agreement is hereby supplemented by adding the following Article 3A following existing Article 3:

ARTICLE 3A

XOMA TO TAKEDA TRANSFERS

3A.1 Assignments and Deliverables .

(a) XOMA shall on behalf of itself and each XOMA Company, and as evidenced by a Bill of Sale in the form attached as Exhibit A , assign and transfer to Takeda all right, title and interest, free and clear of all liens, security interests and statutory encumbrances, (i) upon satisfaction by XOMA or waiver by Takeda of the conditions to payment set forth in Section 4 of this Second Amendment, to [*] and (ii) upon satisfaction of either condition under Sections 3A.4(c)(ii)(x) or (y), to [*]

(b) On or before [*] after the Amendment Effective Date, XOMA shall deliver to Takeda (i) [*] the Discovery Know-How relating thereto, including all materials listed on Schedule 3A.1(a) , the HE™ Know-How [*] the TES Know-How and the Systems as evidenced by the Delivery and Receipt Acknowledgement in the form attached as Exhibit B [*]

(c) [*]

(d) In connection with [*] and Licensed Technology other than BCE Technology, XOMA shall provide Takeda with the corresponding services described in and under the terms of Schedule 3A.1(d) .

(e) Risk of loss or degradation to and of Transferred Materials shall shift to Takeda upon Takeda’s signed confirmation of receipt of such materials.

(f) [*]

3A.2 Grants of Rights in Discovery Know-How and Patent Rights [*]

 

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(a) [*] XOMA on behalf of itself and each XOMA Company does hereby grant to Takeda, a sole and exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual and, subject to the applicable restrictions and limitations in this Second Amendment, assignable license and right throughout the Territory to use [*] for any and all purposes including to [*] modify and develop Discovery Products; and

(b) Without limiting the licenses granted under Article 6A, XOMA on behalf of itself and each XOMA Company does hereby grant to Takeda a non-exclusive, non-transferable, license and right throughout the Territory, without the right to grant sublicenses to:

(x) use the Discovery Know-How, and practice the Discovery Patent Rights, in each case at a Takeda or Designated Takeda Affiliate to [*] modify and develop Discovery Products;

(y) use the BCE Technology in connection with the use of [*] for any and all purposes including to [*] modify and develop Discovery Products, but not to [*] any quantities of any compound or product, including an Antibody, in a prokaryote except as reasonably necessary to conduct non-clinical research and development activities using [*] including in vitro and small animal in vivo research and development, and not for clinical development or for the manufacture for sale of any compound or product, including an Antibody; and

(z) to the extent required (if any), use the Discovery Know-How, and practice the Discovery Patent Rights to [*] use, sell, offer to sell, import or export any Discovery Product.

Notwithstanding any provision of this Second Amendment to the contrary, the rights and licenses provided for in this Section 3A.2 include, to the extent required, a right and license to Takeda and its Affiliates, [*] to develop, commercialize, market or distribute [*] or the practice of the other Article 3A Patent Rights.

[*] the rights and licenses granted under Articles 3A and 6A in this Second Amendment shall be subject to those limitations, restrictions and obligations of any license or grant of rights from or other agreement with a Third Party which Third Party limitations, restrictions and obligations are disclosed to Takeda on, or were disclosed to Takeda prior to, the Amendment Effective Date.

(c) Each of the XOMA Companies hereby covenants that it shall not initiate or permit any of its Affiliates or any Third Party over whom it has control to initiate or knowingly assist in any way in the initiation or prosecution of, any action against Takeda, any Takeda Affiliates, its and their employees, directors, officers or agents, any Takeda Licensee or CRO authorized hereunder, including Takeda’s distributors and selling agents, for the misappropriation, infringement or other violation of any Patent Rights, Know-How or other intellectual property rights directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such XOMA Company at any time that, if owned or controlled by XOMA as of the Amendment Effective Date [*] would have been within the scope of the licenses granted to Takeda under Section 3A.2(b) or Article 6A.

(d) In the event that XOMA is or becomes unable to grant Takeda, or any Designated Takeda Affiliate, any of the rights described under subsections 3A.2(a) or (b), and to the extent that a XOMA Affiliate, including [*] has the necessary right, power and authority to grant Takeda, or any Designated Takeda Affiliate, such rights, the applicable XOMA Affiliate hereby grants to Takeda, or a Designated Takeda Affiliate, such rights to the extent and under the terms contained herein.

(e) [*]

 

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(f) [*] If as part of the Collaboration, Takeda submits a Proposed Target and specifically requests that XOMA use [*] to [*] an Antibody and XOMA agrees to do so, then such Proposed Target shall be subject to the XOMA gate-keeping process under Section 2.2.3.

(g) None of XOMA or its Affiliates shall (except for the sole benefit of Takeda and its Affiliates) (i) [*] (ii) [*] or (iii) without Takeda’s prior written consent, transfer [*] to any person or entity (other than Takeda or a Designated Takeda Affiliate), except in conjunction with an assignment of this Agreement under Section 14.2. Notwithstanding the foregoing, XOMA may retain a sufficient quantity of [*] in storage solely for the purposes of [*]

(h) The Parties agree that XOMA may use “blinded” validation and qualification data regarding [*] (so long as such use does not jeopardize the patentability of any invention claimed by a patent or patent application filed by Takeda) for purposes of demonstrating, presenting or otherwise promoting its technologies, expertise, capabilities and/or applications of any thereof. XOMA shall submit such blinded data to Takeda for approval at least [*] prior to disclosure, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Once the presentation of such data in a particular form has been approved by Takeda, no further approval shall be required for subsequent uses of the same data in the same form.

(i) If and to the extent that XOMA owns or has the right to use, sell, license, transfer or otherwise exploit copies of the Article 3A Know-How and the Systems, the Source Code, the Software, the Know-How used by XOMA to construct [*] the Article 3A Patent Rights and/or any other Patent Right, copyright or other item of intellectual property that covers or claims the Transferred Materials and/or their creation, construction or use, except as expressly set forth in Section 3A.2(g) and elsewhere herein, nothing in this Second Amendment is intended to limit or prevent XOMA from exercising such ownership or rights.

(j) [*]

3A.3 Takeda Inventions/Unblocking Covenant Not to Sue . Without limiting or expanding the results under applicable patent law, the parties acknowledge that Takeda shall be free to seek and obtain patent protection for any inventions of Takeda [*] provided , however , that:

(a) Takeda covenants not to sue any XOMA Company under the Takeda Discovery Patent Rights if any XOMA Company uses, for itself or on behalf of a XOMA Collaboration Partner, the Licensed Technology and Discovery Patent Rights, as such technology and patent rights exist as of the Amendment Effective Date [*] (regardless of location). Takeda covenants not to sue any XOMA Collaboration Partner under the Takeda Discovery Patent Rights if such XOMA Collaboration Partner, or XOMA on behalf of such XOMA Collaboration Partner, uses the Licensed Technology and Discovery Patent Rights, as such technology and patent rights exist as of the Amendment Effective Date [*] within the scope of XOMA and such XOMA Collaboration Partner’s collaboration (regardless of location).

(b) Takeda covenants not to sue XOMA under the Takeda Discovery Patent Rights if XOMA uses the Licensed Technology and Discovery Patent Rights, as such technology and patent rights may be improved after the Amendment Effective Date by XOMA [*]

(c) Takeda covenants not to sue any XOMA Collaboration Partner under the Takeda Discovery Patent Rights if such XOMA Collaboration Partner, or XOMA on behalf of such XOMA Collaboration Partner, uses the Licensed Technology and Discovery Patent Rights, as such technology and patent rights may be improved after the Amendment Effective Date by XOMA [*] within the scope of XOMA and such XOMA Collaboration Partner’s collaboration.

 

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None of the foregoing covenants shall extend to any Takeda Discovery Patent Rights to the extent they claim Discovery Products.

3A.4 [*] (a) Takeda may, in its discretion at any time or times on or before [*] order up to [*] of [*]. Prior to placing such an order, Takeda shall initiate technical discussions with XOMA pursuant to which the Parties will set forth in writing Takeda’s specifications [*] for [*] to be ordered. Such specifications shall identify whether such [*] are to be [*] and include other elements such as [*]. Upon agreement between the Parties on the technical capability of XOMA or its Affiliates to deliver [*] embodying the specifications [*] Takeda will place a firm purchase order and provide [*] for the construction of such [*]

(b) Once (i) the Parties have agreed on the technical capability of XOMA or its Affiliates to deliver [*] embodying the specifications (including design elements) referred to in Section 3A.4(a), (ii) XOMA has received [*] and provided written confirmation that they are [*] (iii) Takeda or, as applicable, a Designated Takeda Affiliate has placed a firm purchase order therefor, and (iv) Takeda has paid the requisite fee pursuant to Section 7A.1(b)(i) or (ii), as applicable, XOMA shall design, construct and have available for delivery to Takeda such [*] meeting the Applicable Specifications not later than [*] from the last to occur of clauses (i) through (iv).

(c) Once a particular set of [*] has been validated by XOMA but prior to delivery thereof to Takeda or, as applicable, a Designated Takeda Affiliate, XOMA shall provide to Takeda or such Designated Takeda Affiliate such data as is reasonably necessary to determine whether such [*] are in accordance with the specifications referred to in Section 3A.4(a). Takeda or, as applicable, such Designated Takeda Affiliate shall have [*] following receipt of such data by Takeda or such Designated Takeda Affiliate to determine whether it agrees that such [*] are in accordance with such specifications and to notify XOMA of such determination, or it shall be deemed to have agreed that the [*] meet the applicable specifications.

(i) If, within such [*] day period, Takeda or, as applicable, such Designated Takeda Affiliate notifies XOMA that it does not agree that such [*] are in accordance with such specifications, XOMA shall promptly provide such data to a mutually acceptable independent Third Party, which shall review such data, under confidentiality, for the sole purpose of making a final and binding determination as to whether such [*] are in accordance with such specifications. If, following its review, such Third Party determines that such [*] are not in accordance with such specifications, then the third sentence of Section 7A.1(b) shall apply and XOMA shall promptly destroy such [*]. The [*] period referred to in Section 3A.4(b) shall be tolled for the period between XOMA’s provision of data to the Third Party reviewer and the reviewer’s determination. The Party against which the Third Party reviewer rules shall bear all costs of the Third Party review.

(ii) If either (x) Takeda or, as applicable, the Designated Takeda Affiliate agrees based on its review of the data that such [*] are in accordance with such specifications or (y) the Third Party reviewer determines that such [*] are in accordance with such specifications, then XOMA shall, under the same conditions as the transfer and delivery of [*] and the Discovery Know-How relating thereto, assign all right, title and interest in, and deliver [*] and the Discovery Know-How relating thereto, to Takeda or at Takeda’s election, to a Designated Takeda Affiliate.

3A.5 Designation of Additional Affiliates, Transfers to Additional Sites and Limitations on Use and Modification .

 

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(a) Takeda shall be permitted to designate to XOMA in writing up to, at any one time, [*] additional Takeda Affiliates to which the Transferred Materials may be transferred and delivered or through which Takeda wishes to exercise rights or perform obligations under this Agreement; provided, however, that Takeda shall obtain, prior to any such transfer and delivery, a written acknowledgement, separately enforceable by XOMA as a third-party beneficiary, by such Designated Takeda Affiliate that it shall abide by any and all requirements of the Agreement applicable to the transfer and use of the Transferred Materials. Upon receipt by XOMA of such written designation and acknowledgement, the Agreement shall be deemed amended to the extent necessary to include such Designated Takeda Affiliate as being entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations applicable to Takeda hereunder. Takeda shall be free to change such designation to any Takeda Affiliate. Takeda hereby guarantees, without any requirement of written demand by XOMA, the performance of and compliance with the Agreement by Takeda SF and any other Designated Takeda Affiliate.

(b) Subject to Section 3A.5(a), (i) Takeda may move the Transferred Materials to any other Takeda site (including its Affiliates’) of its selection that is and will remain under its control and has reasonable safeguards designed to protect the Transferred Materials from theft, vandalism or unauthorized use, and (ii) Takeda may transfer to any CRO that, to Takeda’s knowledge, has reasonable safeguards designed to protect such materials from theft, vandalism, unauthorized use, alteration or modification, the following materials solely for the corresponding purposes: (x) [*]or (y) [*] and TES Technology specific to such research program and data outputs for the performance of such research program.

(c) The parties agree that the transfers provided for by this Article 3A arise out of and are part of the existing collaboration and that the use of the Transferred Materials and the practice of the Article 3A Patent Rights and any other Patent Rights to which rights are assigned or granted pursuant to this Article 3A may, subject to the applicable provisions of the Agreement, be used by Takeda or, as applicable, a Designated Takeda Affiliate for any other purpose including the [*] development and subsequent commercial sale of any composition of matter in the Field. Nothing in this subsection shall restrict Takeda from being able to [*]. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following restrictions shall apply to the Transferred Materials:

(i) Takeda shall not, and shall not permit its Affiliates and CROs to, alter or modify [*]. The Transferred Materials may not be further transferred or disposed of by Takeda to a Third Party (other than to a CRO as provided in Section 3A.5(b)); provided, however, that [*]

(ii) Neither Takeda nor, as applicable, any Designated Takeda Affiliate shall use the Transferred Materials or practice the Article 3A Patent Rights and any other Patent Rights to which rights are assigned or granted by a XOMA Company pursuant to this Article 3A on behalf of any Third Party [*] or otherwise engage in activities not directly associated with Takeda’s or Takeda Affiliate’s own internal [*] research and development programs; provided , however , that, so long as the other limitations of this Article 3A are satisfied, Takeda or, as applicable, a Designated Takeda Affiliate may use the Transferred Materials or practice the Article 3A Patent Rights and any other Patent Rights assigned or granted by a XOMA Company pursuant to this Article 3A with respect to any Discovery Product, Antibody or Antibody Product as to which Takeda or a Designated Takeda Affiliate has either in-licensed or acquired rights from a Third Party where such in-license or grant of rights is for the exclusive development of such Discovery Product, Antibody or Antibody Product or variants thereof by Takeda, either alone or in collaboration with such Third Party.

3A.6 [*]

 

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(c) The Agreement is hereby supplemented by adding the following Article 6A following existing Article 6:

ARTICLE 6A

ADDITIONAL LICENSES

6A.1 [*]

6A.2 [*]

6A.3 Informatics Systems License . Subject to the terms of this Second Amendment and Schedule 6A.3, XOMA hereby grants to Takeda, in the Field in the Territory during the Systems License Term, a non-exclusive right and license, without the right to sublicense, under the Systems to make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import and export any products and (solely to the extent required for exercising the foregoing rights) to reproduce (but not for commercial distribution purposes), modify, publicly perform, and publicly display the Systems and all copyrights therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall Takeda publicly disseminate without XOMA’s prior written consent non-public Systems source code or created work based on Systems source code, such as screen shots, flow charts, object code and/or algorithms, with the exception of data produced by execution of the source code.

6A.4 TES Technology License . Subject to the terms of this Second Amendment, XOMA hereby grants to Takeda, in the Field in the Territory during the TES License Term, a perpetual, non-exclusive right and license, without the right to sublicense, under the TES Technology to make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import and export any Antibody Products.

6A.5 HE™ Technology License . Subject to the terms of this Second Amendment, XOMA hereby grants to Takeda, in the Field in the Territory during the HE™ License Term, a perpetual, non-exclusive right and license, without the right to sublicense, under the HE™ Technology to make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import and export any Antibody Products, and (solely to the extent required for exercising the foregoing rights) as to software included therein, to reproduce for Takeda’s purposes, modify, publicly perform, and publicly display such software and all copyrights therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall Takeda publicly disseminate without XOMA’s prior written consent non-public software source code or created work based on software source code, such as screen shots, flow charts, object code and/or algorithms, with the exception of data produced by execution of the source code.

6A.6 BCE Technology License for HE™ . Subject to the terms of this Second Amendment, XOMA hereby grants to Takeda a non-exclusive right and license during the BCE 6A.6 License Term, without the right to sublicense, to use the BCE Technology solely to conduct activities related to selection of a lead product candidate from among a group of variant sequences derived using the HE™ Technology as provided in, and as limited by, the scope of the license grants in Section 6A.5 but not to make or have made any quantities of any compound or product, including an Antibody, in a prokaryote except as reasonably necessary to conduct non-clinical research and development activities using [*] including in vitro and small animal in vivo research and development, and not for clinical development or for the manufacture for sale of any compound or product, including an Antibody.

The grants provided for in this Section 6A include, to the extent required, a right and license to [*] use, sell, offer to sell, import or export any (1) Discovery Product and (2) any Antibody or Antibody Product derived from or arising out of, directly or indirectly, the use of the other Transferred Materials or the practice of the other Article 3A Patent Rights.

 

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6A.7 Third Party Licenses .

(a) For the avoidance of doubt, the license grants in this Second Amendment are intended to include all Third Party licenses and covenants not to sue relating to the Licensed Technology or [*] directly or indirectly owned or controlled by XOMA, to the extent such Third Party licenses and covenants not to sue are permitted by their terms to be so included. [*] In the event that XOMA is or becomes unable to grant Takeda, or any Designated Takeda Affiliate, any of the rights described under this Article 6A, and to the extent that a XOMA Affiliate [*] has the necessary right, power and authority to grant Takeda, or any Designated Takeda Affiliate, such rights, the applicable XOMA Affiliate hereby grants to Takeda, or a Designated Takeda Affiliate, such rights to the extent and under the terms contained herein.

(b) [*]

(c) The first sentence of Section 6.3 of the Agreement is hereby amended to add the words “or Discovery Product” after the words “Collaboration Product.”

(d) [*]

(d) The Agreement is hereby supplemented by adding the following Article 7A following existing Article 7:

ARTICLE 7A

ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL TERMS

7A.1 Second Amendment Financial Terms . In further consideration for XOMA’s full and timely performance under the Agreement, including the transfers and deliveries required, and licenses granted under this Second Amendment:

(a) Second Amendment Fee . Subject to satisfaction by XOMA or waiver by Takeda of the conditions to payment set forth in Section 4 of this Second Amendment, Takeda shall have up to [*] after the later of (i) [*] and (ii) receipt of the materials by Takeda SF pursuant to Section 3A.1 to [*] pay to XOMA a one-time fee equal to $29,000,000.

(b) [*]

(c) Second Amendment Milestones .

(x) Subject to Section 7A.1(c)(y) below, for each Royalty-Bearing Discovery


 
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