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AMENDMENT TO DISTRIBUTION AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT

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Title: AMENDMENT TO DISTRIBUTION AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
Date: 3/15/2004
Industry: Software and Programming     Sector: Technology

AMENDMENT TO DISTRIBUTION AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, Parties: stentor  inc , idx systems corporation
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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

 

1.

Sections 4.1.1 through 4.1.5 will be deleted in their entirety and replaced with the following:

 

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).

 

2.

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:

 

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.

 

3.

Section 5.3.1 shall be replaced in its entirety with the following:

 

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.

 

4.

Section 5.4 and 5.5 shall be replaced in their entirety with the following:

 

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.

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).

 

6.

Section 5.6 shall be replaced in its entirety with the following:

 

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.

 

7.

The following Section 5.7 will be added to the Agreement:

 

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.

 

8.

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.

 

9.

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”):

 

Stentor shall not authorize or license [**]


 
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