Exhibit 10.32
Confidential Materials omitted and filed
separately with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Asterisks
denote omissions.
AMENDMENT TO DISTRIBUTION AND
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
This Amendment
(“Amendment”) is made effective as of January 1, 2004
(the “Amendment Effective Date”) by and between,
STENTOR, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Stentor”), and
IDX SYSTEMS CORPORATION, a Vermont corporation
(“IDX”).
RECITALS
A. Stentor and IDX entered into a
Distribution and Development Agreement dated November 15, 2000 (the
“Original Agreement”), pursuant to which they agreed
(i) to engage in development to facilitate the integration of
certain Stentor products for archiving and viewing medical images
and certain IDX products for automating the management of work flow
in radiology practices and departments, and (ii) thereby to offer
an integrated system for medical image management.
B. The parties have succeeded in
offering such integrated system in North America, and now wish to
amend certain provisions of the Original Agreement (as amended,
including as amended by this Amendment, the
“Agreement”) for the remainder of the Initial Term,
ending November 15, 2005.
C. Among other things, the parties
wish to continue their relationship during the remainder of the
Initial Term (from January 1, 2004 to November 15, 2005) on a
different basis such that, subject to the terms and conditions of
the Agreement, (i) each party (each a “Licensee Party”)
would have the worldwide right (but no obligation) to distribute
the designated products of the other party (each a “Licensor
Party”) as part of the MIMS System on a nonexclusive basis
using the Licensee Party’s own branding, (ii) each Licensor
Party would use commercially reasonable efforts to make available
APIs to allow the Licensee Party to make calls to data elements of
such Licensor Party products as part of the MIMS System, and (iii)
each Licensor Party would continue to provide second-level support
to the Licensee Party.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the mutual covenants and other terms and conditions set forth
herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:
AGREEMENT
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1.
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Sections 4.1.1
through 4.1.5 will be deleted in their entirety and replaced with
the following:
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4.1.1 Additional API Request
Process .
(a) As soon as reasonably
practicable, but in no event later than January 9, 2004, IDX may
provide to Stentor a detailed list of Stored Data Elements of
Stentor to which IDX would like to interface. As soon as reasonably
practicable, but in no event later than January 30, 2004, Stentor
shall respond to such list with an indication as to (a) whether it
believes it is commercially
practicable to permit IDX to
interface to such Stored Data Elements and (b) if so, the estimated
schedule for any development that would reasonably be required in
connection with making available access to such Stored Data
Elements (e.g., developing the related APIs). If the parties cannot
agree on the commercial practicability and development schedule for
the requested Stored Data Elements, the parties shall meet no later
than February 9, 2004 and use commercially reasonable efforts to
reach agreement by February 13, 2004. If the parties cannot agree
by February 13, 2004, each party may escalate the matter, and the
parties will engage in mediation to resolve the dispute, in
accordance with the process set forth in Section 10.19. Stentor
shall undertake commercially reasonable efforts to implement the
mutually agreed APIs by version 3.5 of the Stentor Products, which
Stentor anticipates being released in approximately the third
calendar quarter of 2004, and to the extent commercially reasonable
efforts would not allow inclusion in version 3.5 but would in the
subsequent version, by such subsequent version. The period between
the Amendment Effective Date and the release of version 3.5 of the
Stentor Product is referred to herein as the “Catch-Up
Period”. Thereafter, during the remainder of the Initial
Term, each party (as Licensee Party) may (no more often than twice
a year) make a request for additional Stored Data Elements of the
Licensor Party to which the Licensee would like to interface, and
the Licensor Party will respond with an indication as to (i)
whether it believes it is commercially practicable to permit the
Licensee Party to interface to such Stored Data Elements, and (ii)
if so, the estimated schedule for any development that would be
reasonably required in connection with making available such Stored
Data Elements (e.g., developing related APIs). If the parties
cannot agree on such issues, each party may escalate the matter,
and the parties will engage in mediation to resolve the dispute, in
accordance with the process set forth in Section 10.19. The parties
anticipate that the work described above will require approximately
one engineer (full-time equivalent) after the Catch-Up Period, and
that Stentor likely will need to devote additional resources during
the Catch-Up Period. For purposes of this Section 4.1.1,
“Stored Data Elements” means (A) in the case of
Stentor, data elements stored by Stentor that are received by
Stentor either through interface messaging, such as HL7, or through
DICOM messages associated with an image, or the Stentor-stored
output of functional events generated by routines provided or
accessed by Stentor (e.g., measurements, 3D analysis outputs), and
(B) in the case of IDX, data elements stored by IDX that are
received by IDX or the IDX-stored output of functional events
generated by routines provided or accessed by IDX.
(b) Each party (as Licensee Party)
shall, at the Licensor Party’s request, dedicate resources to
be and remain knowledgeable about and up to date on the products of
the other party (i.e., the Stentor Products or IDX Products, as
applicable), including their APIs. Such efforts shall include
dedicating no less than one (1) person to working on APIs with the
Licensor Party and having such person(s) attend training sessions
at the Licensor Party’s request regarding APIs.
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(c) Each party (as Licensee Party)
shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make use of existing
APIs of the Licensor Party before requesting access to additional
data elements or the development of any new APIs of the Licensor
Party. In any event, the Licensor Party will have no obligation to
make available any data element, provide any API or engage in any
other activity that would or could reasonably affect the existing
or future integrity, stability, compatibility, functionality or
performance of any product (including any data used by a
product).
(d) Each party (as Licensee Party)
may use data elements and APIs made available by the Licensor Party
(including any related materials or information) solely as part of
the MIMS System to allow the Licensee Party products included in
the MIMS System to interface to data stored by the Licensor
Party’s products included in the MIMS System. The above
limitation shall not apply to data elements and APIs supporting
industry standards, e.g., DICOM Query Retrieve.
(e) Should either party (as Licensee
Party) enter into any agreement with a third party that involves
access to or use of any data element or APIs of the Licensor Party
by a product or service of the third party, the Licensee Party
shall not include any exclusivity or other similar provision
affecting the right of the third party and the Licensor Party to
work together or to have the third-party product or service
interface with products of the Licensor Party.
4.1.2 Early Test
Participation . To the extent consistent with third-party
contractual obligations, each Licensor Party shall provide to the
Licensee Party the opportunity to participate in early testing
programs for new releases of the Stentor Products (in the case of
Stentor) or IDX Products (in the case of IDX) to be available to
the Licensee Party for use as part of the MIMS System. The parties
acknowledge and agree that the purpose of such participation is
intended to permit the Licensee Party to provide feedback at the
alpha or beta product stage no later than any other customer of the
Licensor Party. The parties also acknowledge and agree that
participation in such early testing is subject to the reasonable
requirements of the Licensor Party, including, but not limited to,
testing only in a non-production environment on a separate server,
appropriate disclaimers of liability and warranties, reasonable
confidentiality and security terms, the receipt of useful feedback
from the Licensee Party, and the availability of a competent
technical coordinator at the Licensee Party for such
testing.
4.1.3 Web Compatibility . IDX
acknowledges that Stentor is migrating to a Web services-based
platform that will not support existing APIs. The general release
of the version of the Stentor Products that does not support
existing APIs will in no event occur earlier than November 15,
2005. IDX acknowledges that for Stentor Products not on the
above-mentioned Web services-based platform, Stentor’s
commercially reasonable efforts to provide support, as specified in
Section 8.1 of the Agreement, shall thereafter be limited to bug
fixes (i.e.,
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correction of errors and
nonconformity with Stentor’s published documentation).
Stentor acknowledges and agrees that it will maintain backwards
compatibility of existing APIs from the Amendment Effective Date
until November 15, 2005, except for reasonable changes required for
maintenance or support purposes (e.g., to resolve unintended API
conflicts).
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2.
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Sections 5.1
and 5.2 shall be replaced in their entirety with the following,
which shall be deemed to be effective as of the Effective Date of
the Original Agreement:
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5.1 Ownership; In General .
Except for the rights expressly granted herein to Stentor, IDX
reserves and retains all right, title and interest (including
without limitation patents, trade secrets and copyrights) in the
IDX Products, and all customizations, additions, modifications,
changes, enhancements, improvements, and derivative works thereof
made by IDX or by a third party on behalf of IDX, and all rights
therein and copies thereof. Except for the rights expressly granted
herein to IDX, Stentor reserves and retains all right, title and
interest (including without limitation patents, trade secrets and
copyrights) in the Stentor Products, and all customizations,
additions, modifications, changes, enhancements, improvements, and
derivative works thereof made by Stentor, or by a third party on
behalf of Stentor, and all rights therein and copies
thereof.
5.2 Ownership to Works Created
Under the Development Plan .
(a) Any Intellectual Property
developed by Stentor and any derivative works of Stentor Products
developed by Stentor or a third party contractor of Stentor
pursuant to the Development Plan shall be owned by Stentor. Any
Intellectual Property developed by IDX and any derivative works of
IDX Products developed by IDX or a third party contractor of IDX
pursuant to the Development Plan shall be owned by IDX. Any
Intellectual Property jointly developed by IDX and Stentor (i.e.,
patents or trade secrets as to which employees or contractors of
both parties are joint inventors or copyrightable subject matter as
to which the parties or their employees or contractors are joint
authors) pursuant to the Development Plan shall be jointly owned by
IDX and Stentor and each of IDX and Stentor (or any successor to,
or assignee of, or licensee of IDX or Stentor) shall be free to use
such Intellectual Property without interference from the other
party and without any obligation to make any payment or account for
any profits, except as otherwise provided for in this Agreement.
Such joint ownership shall apply only to the specific modules,
elements or other subject matter that are the result of the joint
development, and not to other modules, elements or other subject
matter. Notwithstanding any previous assertions by the parties to
the contrary, the provisions in this Amendment set forth the
parties’ understanding and intent with respect to the
ownership of Intellectual Property.
(b) Each party believes that it has
not made and that it will not make any patent application for a
patent constituting a Conflicting Patent that covers the core
technology of the other party. “Conflicting Patent”
means such a patent that
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is applied for before or within one
year after the Amendment Effective Date for an invention made
before the Amendment Effective Date resulting from joint
development efforts under the Development Plan where the invention
(i) is based on the technology of the other party and (ii) is
directed toward and embodied in a PACS system (in the case of IDX
as patent holder) or a product for automating the management of
work flow in radiology practices and departments (in the case of
Stentor as patent holder). If a party believes that an issued
patent of the other party is a Conflicting Patent, then the parties
shall discuss in good faith the facts and circumstances regarding
such patent and whether such patent constitutes a Conflicting
Patent and, if so, the possibility of a license of such patent. If
the parties cannot reach agreement as to the appropriate treatment
of such patent, then either party may submit the matter to a
mutually agreeable third party for nonbinding mediation in
accordance Section 10.19.
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3.
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Section 5.3.1
shall be replaced in its entirety with the following:
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5.3.1 IDX hereby grants to Stentor a
non-exclusive, non-transferable (except as provided in Sections 2.4
and 10.14) term license to market and sublicense, and in connection
therewith to sell, offer for sale, copy, use, distribute, perform,
display, modify, make derivative works of and Merge, the IDX
Products, only as they may be Merged into the MIMS System, provided
that (subject to Section 5.6) Stentor may do so only to Persons
that are not Stentor License Exclusion Customers. Notwithstanding
the limited scope of this license, Stentor may communicate with,
and demonstrate, perform and display the MIMS System to, Stentor
License Exclusion Customers to make them aware of the availability
of the MIMS System from IDX and to provide information to Stentor
License Exclusion Customers regarding the MIMS System.
“Stentor License Exclusion Customers” shall mean those
customers in the Territory or [**] that meet the definition of
“Stentor License Exclusion Customers” in the Agreement
and have been included in the parties’ list of Stentor
License Exclusion Customers as of the Amendment Effective Date (an
initial version of which shall be provided by the parties no later
than fifteen (15) business days after execution of this Amendment),
as such list may be modified by the parties from time to time in
accordance with the Agreement.
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4.
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Section 5.4 and
5.5 shall be replaced in their entirety with the
following:
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5.4 Stentor Products .
Stentor hereby grants to IDX a non-exclusive, non-transferable
(except as provided in Sections 2.4 and 10.14) term license to
market and sublicense (including through one or more Distribution
Partners acceptable to Stentor), and in connection therewith to
sell, offer for sale, copy, use, distribute, perform, display,
modify, make derivative works of and Merge, the Stentor Products,
only as they may be Merged into the MIMS System.
5.5 Territory . This
Agreement, including the licenses granted hereunder, shall apply to
the parties worldwide, provided that the Parties will be subject to
certain restrictions in the Territory (as well as in [**]) as set
forth in Section 6.1. The “Territory” is redefined to
mean the [**].
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5.
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The parties
acknowledge and agree that nothing in the Agreement restricts the
use of the MIMS System by either party (as Licensee Party) to, or
changes the pricing for, any particular field of use (i.e., there
is no restriction on use in, or difference in pricing for use in,
medical specialties other than radiology), provided that the
foregoing will not imply any obligation to provide (a) additional
support as a result of use outside radiology, (b) any APIs to
support use outside radiology, or (c) any products designed for use
outside radiology (i.e., other than the Stentor Products and IDX
Products included in the MIMS System).
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Section 5.6
shall be replaced in its entirety with the following:
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5.6 Treatment of Stentor License
Exclusion Customers . If a Stentor License Exclusion Customer
(other than existing customers of Stentor as set forth in
Attachment A, which Attachment A will be completed within fifteen
(15) business days after execution of this Amendment) seeks to
acquire the MIMS System from Stentor, Stentor will inform the
customer that it should contact IDX. If the customer nonetheless
expresses an interest in acquiring the MIMS System from Stentor,
Stentor will notify IDX and will refrain for a period of forty-five
(45) days (after such notice) from sales activities targeted at the
customer. Forty-five (45) days after Stentor has provided the
above-referenced notice to IDX, Stentor may contact the customer
and, if the customer remains interested in acquiring the MIMS
System from Stentor, the customer shall be deemed not to be a
Stentor License Exclusion Customer. Should the customer (other than
the customers set forth in Attachment A) then purchase the MIMS
System from Stentor, Stentor shall (unless the parties otherwise
agreed) pay IDX [**] percent ([**]%) above the normal royalty for
such MIMS System for the remainder of the Interim Term, and shall
further pay IDX half of the commission that would normally be
payable to Stentor’s sales force for making such sale if the
customer were not a Stentor License Exclusion Customer. This
Section 5.6 shall apply to customers within the Territory and the
[**] but not elsewhere. Stentor acknowledges that it will provide
IDX with appropriate current and future product information
required for IDX to effectively represent the MIMS System to
prospective customers, when Stentor provides such information
generally to Stentor’s own sales force, and promptly respond
to IDX inquiries regarding the MIMS System, with the objective that
IDX sales representatives should be no less informed about the MIMS
System than their Stentor counterparts. IDX acknowledges that
Stentor will provide the information and related training to
IDX’s sales trainers and that IDX is responsible for
disseminating the information to IDX’s sales
representatives.
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7.
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The following
Section 5.7 will be added to the Agreement:
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Each party (as Licensee Party)
acknowledges that the other party (as Licensor Party) will have
control over its own APIs, including the right to
negotiate
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licenses for the APIs with third
parties. Notwithstanding the above, this Section 5.7 shall not be
construed to prevent, or require additional payment for, any APIs
licensed or otherwise provided by the Licensor Party to the
Licensee Party from being used by the Licensee Party in connection
with Providing a MIMS System under the Agreement, even if such use
includes providing the APIs to a third party, provided that such
third party has entered into the Licensor Party’s form of
license agreement with respect to such APIs (which form will not
require third party-by-third party execution by the Licensor Party)
and provided that a copy of each such license agreement is
delivered to the Licensor Party. The parties acknowledge that the
foregoing does not apply to industry standard interfaces such as
DICOM Query Retrieve.
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8.
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The parties
agree that the IDX Drivers (including any updates and upgrades to
IDX Drivers and any new IDX Drivers) will, effective as of the
Amendment Effective Date, be included in the licenses granted and
the services provided by IDX to Stentor (to the same extent as the
other IDX Products) and that no separate license or maintenance
fees will be payable with respect thereto.
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9.
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The following
sentences shall be added to Section 6.1.1 after the first sentence
of Section 6.1.1 (i.e., the sentence beginning “Stentor shall
not (i) Provide” and ending “Stentor Products in the
Territory”):
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Stentor shall not authorize or
license [**]