STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AGREEMENT

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE I.	Purchase and Sale of Shares			2
		1.1	Purchase and Sale of the Shares	2
		1.2	The Closing	2
		1.3	Newco Collaboration	2
		1.4	Consulting Agreement	3
ARTICLE II.	Representations and Warranties			3
		2.1	Representations and Warranties of the Company	3
		2.2	Representations and Warranties of the Investor	10
ARTICLE III.	Covenants
		3.1	Galaxy Group; Watermarking Technology	13
		3.2	Investor’s Standstill Agreement	13
		3.3	Transfer	14
		3.4	Compliance with Section 13	14
ARTICLE IV.	Registration Rights			15
		4.1	Legend	15
		4.2	Registration on Form S-3	16
		4.3	Piggyback Registration	17
		4.4	Registration Procedures	18
		4.5	Delay of Registration; Furnishing Information	20
		4.6	Termination of Registration Rights	21
		4.7	Indemnification	21
		4.8	Assignment of Registration Rights	23
		4.9	Limitation on Subsequent Registration Rights	24
		4.10	Market Stand-Off Agreement	24
		4.11	Rule 144 Reporting	24
ARTICLE V.	Additional Agreements			25
		5.1	Consents; Approvals	25
		5.2	Firewall Procedures	25
ARTICLE VI.	Conditions Precedent			26
		6.1	Investor Conditions to Closing	26
		6.2	Company Conditions to Closing	28
ARTICLE VII.	Miscellaneous
		7.1	Fees and Expenses	30
		7.2	Severability	30
		7.3	Consent to Jurisdiction	30
		7.4	Dispute Resolution Procedures	31
		7.5	Brokers	33
		7.6	Entire Agreement; Amendments	34

 

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	7.7	Notices	34
	7.8	No Waiver	35
	7.9	Heading	36
	7.10	Successors and Assigns	36
	7.11	No Third Party Beneficiaries	36
	7.12	Governing Law	36
	7.13	Further Assurances	36
	7.14	English Language Controls	36
	7.15	Relationship of the Parties	36
	7.16	Publicity	37
	7.17	Number and Gender of Words	37
	7.18	Interpretation	37
	7.19	Counterparts	38

 

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TABLE OF EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit A	-	Definitions
Exhibit B	-	Consulting Agreement
Exhibit C	-	Schedule of Exceptions

 

 

EXHIBIT 10.13

 

DIGIMARC CORPORATION

 

STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AGREEMENT

 

THIS STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AGREEMENT (this “AGREEMENT”) is made as of September 17, 2000 by and between KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V., a Netherlands corporation (the “INVESTOR”), and DIGIMARC CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “COMPANY”), (each a “PARTY”, collectively, the “PARTIES”). Capitalized terms used in this Agreement and not otherwise defined are defined in EXHIBIT A, attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein.

 

A.     The Investor and the Company believe that a more extensive business relationship between them would be mutually advantageous.

 

B.      As part of such current and potential business relationship, the Parties desire that the Investor become an equity investor in the Company by purchasing shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “COMMON STOCK”, and such shares, the “SHARES”) in a number equal to the Philips Percentage (defined below), at a purchase price of $20.00 per share. The “PHILIPS PERCENTAGE” of the Common Stock shall be an amount equal to twelve percent (12%) of the issued and outstanding Common Stock at the Closing, including the shares issued to the Investor hereunder and the shares issued or to be issued pursuant to the proposed Strategic Investment Agreement between the Company and Macrovision Corporation (the “MACROVISION INVESTMENT AGREEMENT”), but excluding shares subject to warrants, options or other contracts for the sale of the Common Stock existing on the date of this Agreement. If the Company issues any warrants, options or other contracts for the purchase of Common Stock after the date of this Agreement but prior to the Closing (other than pursuant to the Company’s existing employee stock purchase plans), then the Investor may purchase (at its option) a number of shares of Common Stock such that the Philips Percentage may be calculated including the Common Stock available for issuance under such warrants, options and other contracts.

 

C.      As another part of such future business relationship, the Parties contemplate negotiating arrangements for jointly creating a third corporation (“NEWCO”) as a vehicle for developing and marketing the Company’s watermarking technology for the audio-video market, as enhanced by audio-video technology licensed from the Investor.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises contained herein and made pursuant hereto, and good and valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Parties hereto do hereby agree as follows:

 

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ARTICLE I.

 

Purchase and Sale of Shares

 

1.1           PURCHASE AND SALE OF THE SHARES.

 

Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Company will issue and sell to the Investor, and the Investor will purchase from the Company, at the Closing (defined in Section 1.2), a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Philips Percentage, at a purchase price per share (the “SHARE PRICE”) equal to $20.00 per share. The “TOTAL PURCHASE PRICE” shall be the Share Price multiplied by the number of shares of Common Stock purchased by the Investor, such number of shares not to exceed the Philips Percentage.

 

1.2           THE CLOSING.

 

The purchase and sale of the Shares shall take place at the offices of Morrison & Foerster LLP, 425 Market Street, San Francisco, California, on October 19, 2000, or at such other time and place as the Company and the Investor mutually agree upon orally or in writing (the “CLOSING”). At the Closing, the Company shall deliver to the Investor a stock certificate representing the Shares purchased by the Investor, and the Investor shall pay the Total Purchase Price by wire transfer of immediately available funds in the manner requested by the Company, all in accordance with Section 1.1.

 

1.3           NEWCO COLLABORATION.

 

The Investor and the Company each agree to negotiate in good faith toward the accomplishment of the following described collaboration through Newco which, although initially contemplated to be jointly owned by the Parties, is contemplated to evolve into a separate, publicly owned corporation. Such good faith negotiation shall be consistent with the customs and practices of sophisticated technology companies when they each have an expertise in a particular technology that can be combined synergistically in a collaboration to create a multidisciplinary product based upon applications of both technologies. The collaboration herein contemplated is for the creation and marketing of an audio/video product based upon the Company’s watermark technology and relevant Investor audio/video technology. Nothing herein shall be deemed to contemplate any particular transfers of intellectual property rights by either Party; provided that the Parties contemplate that Newco itself will develop its own intellectual property, including by creating derivative works and copyrights for watermarking software for this audio/video market. Nothing herein contemplates any particular level of financial support for Newco by the Parties, which is a function of complex economic analyses that will be done by each Party as it hereafter evaluates the technology, the market potential, potential competition and other matters. [***] the Company’s obligations under the preceding proviso shall earlier terminate upon the occurrence of any of the following: (i) the Parties shall have failed to use reasonable Best Efforts to file their joint application pursuant to the Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR ACT”)

 

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within five (5) business days after the date hereof, (ii) the Closing shall have failed to occur on the earlier of (A) five (5) business days after the expiration of the waiting period under the HSR Act (which date under this subclause (ii)(A) shall not be deemed to have occurred until at least 30 days from the date hereof) and (B) 90 days from the date hereof, or (iii) either Party receives notification from the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) that the Parties’ HSR Act application will not be approved. [***]

 

1.4           CONSULTING AGREEMENT.

 

The Parties shall execute a Consulting Agreement, in substantially the form of EXHIBIT B hereto (the “CONSULTING AGREEMENT”), contemporaneously with the execution of this Agreement, pursuant to which the Company shall provide consulting services to the Investor and the Investor shall pay consulting fees to the Company, all as set forth more specifically therein.

 

ARTICLE II.

 

Representations and Warranties

 

2.1           REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.

 

Except as set forth on the Schedule of Exceptions, attached hereto as EXHIBIT C (“SCHEDULE OF EXCEPTIONS”), or as disclosed in the SEC Documents (as defined in Section 2.1(f)), the Company represents and warrants to the Investor as follows:

 

(a)     ORGANIZATION AND QUALIFICATION.

 

The Company is a corporation duly organized and existing in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated, and has the requisite corporate power to own its properties and to carry on its business as now being conducted. The Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to do business and is in good standing in every jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary and where the failure to qualify would have a Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company.

 

(b)     AUTHORIZATION; ENFORCEMENT.

 

The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and perform this Agreement and to issue the Shares in accordance with the terms hereof. The execution and delivery by the Company of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by the Company’s Board of Directors, and no further consent or authorization of the Company or its Board of Directors or stockholders is required. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company. Subject to the Company’s receipt of the Total Purchase Price, this Agreement constitutes the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable

 

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against the Company in accordance with its respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally the enforcement of, creditors’ rights and remedies or by equitable principles of general application.

 

(c)     CAPITALIZATION.

 

The authorized capital stock of the Company consists of 100,000,000 shares of Common Stock, of which as of September 13, 2000, 13,085,930 shares were issued and outstanding and 5,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, none of which is outstanding. All of such outstanding shares have been validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable. The Company has furnished to the Investor true and correct copies of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation as in effect on the date hereof (the “CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION”) and the Company’s By-laws, as in effect on the date hereof (the “BY-LAWS”).

 

(d)     VALIDITY OF SHARES.

 

The Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

 

(e)     NO CONFLICTS.

 

The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby do not (i) result in a violation of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws, or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Company is a party, or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree applicable to the Company or by which any property or asset of the Company is bound or affected (except, in the case of subclause (ii) above, for such conflicts, defaults, terminations, amendments, accelerations, cancellations and violations as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company). No action, suit, dispute or proceeding is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company which, if adversely determined, would prevent the Company from carrying out its obligations under this Agreement or which would have a material adverse effect on any of the Company’s Intellectual Property (as defined in Section 2(m)(i) hereof). The business of the Company is not being conducted in violation of any law, ordinance or regulation of any Governmental Authority, except for possible violations which either singly or in the aggregate do not and will not have a Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company. Except as contemplated by this Agreement, the Company is not required to obtain any consent, authorization or order of, or make any filing or registration with, any court or Governmental Authority in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations under this Agreement.

 

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(f)      SEC DOCUMENTS, FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

 

Since December 7, 1999, the Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by it with the SEC pursuant to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act (all filings with the SEC since such date through the date of this Agreement are hereinafter the “SEC DOCUMENTS”). As of their respective dates, the SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to such SEC Documents, and none of the SEC Documents (when read together with all exhibits included therein and financial statement schedules thereto and documents (other than exhibits) incorporated by reference) contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents comply as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except (i) as may be otherwise indicated in such financial statements or the notes thereto, or (ii) in the case of unaudited interim statements, to the extent they may not include footnotes or year-end adjustments or may be condensed or summary statements) and fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the consolidated results of its operations and cash flows for the periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments).

 

(g)     LIABILITIES.

 

The Company has no debt, obligation, duty or liability of any nature including any unknown, undisclosed, unmatured, unaccrued, unasserted, contingent, indirect, conditional, implied, vicarious, derivative, joint, several or secondary liability, regardless of whether such debt, obligation, duty or liability would be required to be disclosed on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP, consistently applied, and regardless of whether such debts, obligations, duties or liabilities are immediately due and payable (hereinafter, “LIABILITIES”), and the executive officers of the Company have no knowledge of any such debts, obligations, duties or liabilities of the Company except:

 

(i)   Those Liabilities disclosed in the SEC Documents; or

 

(ii)  Those Liabilities reflected or reserved against on the Company’s June 30, 2000 balance sheet (the “INTERIM BALANCE SHEET”) or incurred by the Company in the ordinary course of business since June 30, 2000, none of which individually or in the aggregate had or will have a Material Adverse Effect on the business of the Company or its property, assets, financial condition, earnings, profits or prospects or which would

 

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have a material adverse effect on any of the Intellectual Property or on the creation of an audio/video product based on the Company’s watermarking technologies.

 

(h)     OFFERING.

 

Assuming (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Investor contained in Section 2.2 hereof and (ii) that the principal office of the Investor is at Amstelplein 1, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the offer, issuance, and sale of the Shares are and will be exempt from the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act and are exempt from the registration, permit, or qualification requirements of all applicable state securities laws.

 

(i)      SUBSIDIARIES.

 

The Company does not presently own or control, directly, or indirectly, any interest in any other corporation, association, partnership, or other business entity.

 

(j)      LITIGATION.

 

There are no civil, criminal or administrative actions, suits, claims, hearings or proceedings pending, initiated or, to the best knowledge of the executive officers of the Company, threatened, against the Company which, if decided adversely, are reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company. There are no actions, suits, claims, hearings or proceedings pending, initiated or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened, by the Company against any other Person for claims in excess of $500,000.

 

(k)     GALAXY GROUP; WATERMARKING TECHNOLOGY.

 

(i)      The Company is in compliance with Section 1.3.

 

(ii)     There is no present intention by the Company to depart from its business plan of aggressively developing and marketing its watermarking technology.

 

(l)      ABSENCE OF CERTAIN CHANGES.

 

Since the date of the Company’s most recent quarterly report filed with the SEC (the “AUDIT DATE”), the Company has conducted its businesses only in, and has not engaged in any material transaction other than according to, the ordinary and usual course of its business. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, since the Audit Date there has not been (i) any Material Adverse Effect or any development or combination of developments that, individually or in the aggregate, has had or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; or (ii) any damage, destruction or other casualty or loss with respect to any asset or property owned, leased or otherwise used by the Company, whether or not covered by insurance, which has had or will have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company.

 

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(m)    INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.

 

(i)      The Company is the sole legal and beneficial owner of all intellectual property, proprietary technology and proprietary information held or used in the business of the Company (the “INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY”), except for Intellectual Property that is the subject of any license for Third Party Intellectual Property Rights (a “THIRD PARTY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSE”) or commercially available or user licenses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company makes no warranty about third party patents that have not, to the knowledge of the Company’s executive officers, been asserted in writing against the Company as of the date hereof, other than: (A) third party patents that the Company has asked outside legal counsel to analyze to determine whether such patents apply to the Company’s products; (B) any third-party patent for which the Company’s in-house attorneys have prepared a written analysis relating to the relevance of such patent to the Company’s products; (C) third-party patents that have been identified by or brought to the attention to any of the executive officers of the Company (which includes its Chief Technology Officer and the general managers of each of its three lines of business) or the Vice President of Engineering or the Vice President of Corporate Development of the Company as being potentially infringed by the Company’s products or methods, or (D) third party patents that the Company is willfully infringing.

 

(ii)     With the exception of immaterial licenses and agreements entered into in the normal course of business and except for as set forth in the Schedule of Exceptions, [***].

 

(iii)    The Company is in compliance in all material respects with all Third Party Intellectual Property Licenses.

 

(iv)    The Company is not, nor will it be as a result of the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the performance of obligations hereunder in violation or breach of any contracts as to which the Company licenses or sublicenses the Intellectual Property or any Third Party Intellectual Property Licenses.

 

(v)     The Company has the right to license to third parties the use of the Intellectual Property other than commercially available and user software licenses and other than the Intellectual Property that, in the aggregate, would be immaterial to the Company’s business.

 

(vi)    All registrations and filings relating to the Company’s Intellectual Property are in good standing. All maintenance and renewal fees necessary to preserve the rights of the Company in respect of its Intellectual Property have been made. The registrations and filings relating to the Company’s Intellectual Property are proceeding, and there are no facts of which the executive officers of the Company have knowledge which could significantly undermine those registrations or filings or reduce to a significant extent the scope of protection of any patents arising from such applications beyond that which ordinarily might occur in a patent prosecution proceeding.

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company only makes the foregoing warranties under this subsection (vi) to the knowledge of the Company’s executive officers as of the Closing as applied to the Third Party Intellectual Property Rights.

 

(vii)   The manufacturing, marketing, distribution or sale of any product currently manufactured, marketed, distributed or sold by, or identified for development by, the Company, any of its subsidiaries, licensees or sublicensees in the countries where the Company has conducted or proposes to conduct such activities does not and would not infringe, induce infringement or contributorily infringe the intellectual property rights throughout the world of any third party (collectively, “THIRD PARTY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS”), except the Company makes no warranty about third party patents that have not, to the knowledge of the Company’s executive officers, been asserted in writing against the Company as of the date hereof, other than: (A) third party patents that the Company has asked outside legal counsel to analyze to determine whether such patents apply to the Company’s products; (B) any third-party patent for which the Company’s in-house attorneys have prepared a written analysis relating to the relevance of such patent to the Company’s products; (C) third-party patents that have been identified by or brought to the attention to any of the executive officers of the Company (which includes its Chief Technology Officer and the general managers of each of its three lines of business) or the Vice President of Engineering or the Vice President of Corporate Development of the Company as being potentially infringed by the Company’s products or methods, or (D) third party patents that the Company is willfully infringing.

 

(viii)  Except as set forth in the Schedule of Exceptions, there are no allegations, claims or proceedings instituted or pending which challenge the rights possessed by the Company to use the Intellectual Property or the validity or effectiveness of the Intellectual Property, including without limitation any interferences, oppositions, cancellations or other contested proceedings.

 

(ix)     There are no outstanding claims or proceedings instituted or pending by any third party challenging the ownership, priority, scope or validity or effectiveness of any Intellectual Property.

 

(x)      There are no Third Party Intellectual Property Rights that would be infringed by the continued practice of any technologies previously used or presently used by the Company, except the Company makes no warranty about third party patents that have not, to the knowledge of the Company’s executive officers, been asserted in writing against the Company as of the date hereof, other than: (A) third party patents that the Company has asked outside legal counsel to analyze to determine whether such patents apply to the Company’s products; (B) any third-party patent for which the Company’s in-house attorneys have prepared a written analysis relating to the relevance of such patent to the Company’s products; (C) third-party patents that have been identified by or brought to the attention to any of the executive officers of the Company (which includes its Chief Technology Officer and the general managers of each of its three lines of business) or the Vice President of Engineering or the Vice President of Corporate

 

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Development of the Company as being potentially infringed by the Company’s products or methods, or (D) third party patents that the Company is willfully infringing.

 

(xi)     Except as set forth in the Schedule of Exceptions, to the knowledge of the executive officers of the Company, there is no unauthorized use, infringement or misappropriation of the Intellectual Property by any third party, including any employee or former employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, except for use, infringement or misappropriation that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(xii)    The Company has taken commercially reasonable measures to maintain the confidentiality of the inventions, trade secrets, formulae, know-how, technical information, research data, research raw data, laboratory notebooks, procedures, designs, proprietary technology and information of the Company, and all other information the value of which to the Company is contingent upon maintenance of the confidentiality thereof.

 

(n)     ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE.

 

The accounts receivable of the Company as shown in the Interim Balance Sheet (i) have arisen in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) represent valid and, with the exception of the established reserves reflected on the Interim Balance Sheet, collectible obligations owed to the Company.

 

(o)     BOOKS AND RECORDS.

 

The books, records and accounts of the Company (i) are, in all material respects, true, complete and correct, (ii) have been maintained in accordance with ordinary business practices of the Company and (iii) fairly reflect the Company’s financial statements.

 

(p)     PAYMENTS.

 

To the knowledge of the executive officers of the Company, none of the current stockholders, directors, officers, representatives, agents or employees of the Company (i) has used or is using any corporate funds for any illegal or improper contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses, (ii) has used or is using any corporate funds for any direct or indirect unlawful or improper payments to any domestic government officials or employees, (iii) has established or maintained, or is maintaining, any unlawful, improper or unrecorded fund of corporate monies or other properties, (iv) has made any false or fictitious entries on the books and records of the Company, (v) has made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful or improper payment of any nature using corporate funds or otherwise on behalf of the Company, or (vi) has made any material favor or gift that is not deductible for federal income tax purposes using corporate funds or otherwise on behalf of the Company.

 

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(q)     REGISTRATION RIGHTS.

 

The Company has not granted registration rights with respect to the Company’s securities, except as set forth in the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Investor Rights Agreement dated as of November 2, 1999.

 

(r)      FULL DISCLOSURE.

 

No representation or warranty made by the Company or any of its subsidiaries in this Agreement nor any of the exceptions, qualifications or other information set forth in the Schedule of Exceptions (i) contains any statement that is false or misleading with respect to any material fact, or (ii) omits to state any material fact that is necessary to make the statements made in the context in which made, not false or misleading. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing to the contrary, nothing in this Agreement shall require the Company to provide to the Investor information which (A) the Company must, under confidentiality obligations to third parties, not disclose to the Investor; provided that the Company shall provide as much necessary information as is permitted under agreements with such third parties which have such confidentiality obligations; (B) is protected by the attorney-client privilege of the Company; or (C) is the Company’s attorney work product.