EXHIBIT 10.1
DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICES
AGREEMENT
This DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICES AGREEMENT
(this “Agreement”) is dated as of this 30
th day of July, 2009 (the “Effective
Date”), by and between QN Diagnostics, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company (“QND”) and QuantRx
Biomedical Corporation, a Nevada corporation
(“QuantRx”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS , as set forth in the Limited Liability Company
Agreement of QN Diagnostics, LLC, of even date hereof, entered into
by and between NuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“NuRx”) and
QuantRx (the “LLC Agreement”), NuRx and QuantRx each
contributed certain capital and assets and formed QND;
WHEREAS , the LLC Agreement provides that QuantRx shall
enter into a development and services agreement with QND pursuant
to which QuantRx shall provide certain development, regulatory and
manufacturing services to QND with respect to the Lateral Flow
Products (as defined in the LLC Agreement); and
WHEREAS , the parties desire hereby to set forth the
terms and conditions upon which QuantRx shall provide such services
to QND.
NOW, THEREFORE , for good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the
parties hereby agree as follows:
“ Affiliate ” shall mean any
Person which, directly or indirectly, controls, or is controlled
by, or is under common control with the first Person.
“ Budget ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 3.1.
“ Claims and Losses ” shall
have the meaning specified in Section 9.1.
“ Confidential Information ”
shall mean all Trade Secrets and other confidential and/or
proprietary information of a party (the “Disclosing
Party”), including information derived from reports,
investigations, research, work in progress, codes, marketing and
sales programs, financial projections, cost summaries, pricing
formula, contract analyses, financial information, projections,
confidential filings with any state or federal agency, and all
other confidential concepts, methods of doing business, ideas,
materials or information prepared or performed for, by or on behalf
of such Person by its employees, officers, directors, agents,
representatives, or consultants. Information shall not
be deemed Confidential Information hereunder if (a) such
information becomes available to or known by the public generally
through no fault of the party receiving such information (the
“Receiving Party”); (b) disclosure is required by
law or the order of any governmental authority under color of law,
provided, however, that prior to disclosing any information
pursuant to this clause (b), the Receiving Party shall, if
possible, give prior written notice thereof to the Disclosing Party
and, at the Disclosing Party’s election, either provide the
Disclosing Party with the opportunity to contest such disclosure or
seek to obtain a protective order narrowing the scope of such
disclosure and/or use of the Confidential Information.
“ Copyrights ” shall mean all
copyrights, including in and to works of authorship and all other
rights corresponding thereto throughout the world, whether
published or unpublished, including rights to prepare, reproduce,
perform, display and distribute copyrighted works and copies,
compilations and derivative works thereof.
“ Fees ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 3.1.
“ Intellectual Property Rights
” shall mean any or all rights in and to intellectual
property and intangible industrial property rights, including,
without limitation, (a) Patents, Trade Secrets, Copyrights and
Trademarks, and (b) any rights similar, corresponding or
equivalent to any of the foregoing anywhere in the
world.
“ Key Employees ” shall mean
those persons identified on Exhibit B .
“ Patents ” shall mean all
United States and foreign patents and utility models and
applications therefor and all reissues, divisions, re-examinations,
renewals, extensions, provisionals, continuations and
continuations-in-part thereof, and equivalent or similar rights
anywhere in the world in inventions and discoveries.
“ Person ” means an
individual or entity, including a partnership, limited liability
company, a corporation, an association, a joint stock company, a
trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization, or a
governmental entity (or any department, agency, or political
subdivision thereof).
“ Representatives ” shall
mean officers, directors, employees, attorneys, accountants,
advisors, agents, distributors, licensees, shareholders,
subsidiaries and lenders of a party. In addition, all
Affiliates of QuantRx shall be deemed to be
“Representatives” of QuantRx.
“ Service ” (and, with
correlative meaning, “Services”) shall have the meaning
specified in Section 2.1.
“ Tooling ” shall mean all
tools and hardware that are acquired, developed or used in the
performance of the Services.
“ Trade Secrets ” shall mean
all trade secrets under applicable law and other rights in know-how
and confidential or proprietary information, processing,
manufacturing or marketing information, including new developments,
inventions, processes, ideas or other proprietary information that
provide QuantRx with advantages over competitors who do not know or
use it and documentation thereof (including related papers,
blueprints, drawings, chemical compositions, formulae, diaries,
notebooks, specifications, designs, methods of manufacture and data
processing software, compilations of information) and all claims
and rights related thereto.
“ Trademarks ” shall mean any
and all trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names, corporate
names, Internet domain names and addresses and general-use e-mail
addresses, and all goodwill associated therewith throughout the
world.
“ Work Product ” shall mean
(a) all Intellectual Property Rights and any related
work-in-progress, improvements or modifications to any Intellectual
Property Rights that are created, developed or conceived (alone or
with others) in connection with the Services, and (b) all
regulatory filings, approvals, data and information related to the
Lateral Flow Products. Work Product shall include,
without limitation, all materials required to be delivered to QND
under this Agreement.
2.
Provision of Services; Standard of Performance .
2.1 Commencing
on the date hereof, QuantRx shall provide to QND the services
specified on Exhibit A attached hereto (the
“Services”) for the period of time specified thereon,
unless this Agreement is earlier terminated or extended in
accordance with the terms hereof.
2.2 The
parties agree to fully cooperate in good faith with each other in
connection with the provision of the Services and the matters
related to or arising hereunder, including, without limitation,
QuantRx’s cooperation with QND to enable QND to establish its
own infrastructure to perform the Services independently of QuantRx
as may be agreed upon by NuRx and QuantRx after the Effective
Date.
2.3 QuantRx
agrees during the term of this Agreement not to accept work or
enter into any agreement or accept any obligation that would cause
QuantRx to breach its obligations under this Agreement.
2.4 In
the performance of the Services, QuantRx shall (a) enter into an
employment offer letter that is reasonably satisfactory to NuRx
with William Fleming prior to Closing, and (b) enter into
employment offer letters that are reasonably satisfactory to NuRx
with each of Messrs. Buck and Burjess-Cassler within 45 days after
the Closing, and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to
primarily utilize the services of the Key
Employees. QuantRx represents that it has never been,
and that none of its employees or other persons engaged by QuantRx
has ever been, (r) debarred (under the provisions of the Generic
Drug Enforcement Act of 1992, 21 U.S.C. §335a (a) and (b)),
(s) convicted of a crime for which a person can be debarred, (t)
threatened to be debarred, or (u) indicted for a crime or otherwise
engaged in conduct for which a person can be
debarred. QuantRx immediately shall notify QND in
writing of any such debarment, conviction, threat, or
indictment. The terms of the proceeding sentence shall
survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement for a
period of three (3) years.
3.1 QND
shall pay to QuantRx on the first business day of each month a
monthly payment for the Services performed by QuantRx (the
“Fee(s)”) as specified in the Preliminary Project Plan
and Budget attached as Exhibit C (the
“Budget”). The Budget and monthly Fees may
be adjusted upon mutual written agreement of the
parties.
3.2 If
QuantRx has costs for the Services in a month that are in excess of
the monthly Fee, then QuantRx will submit a request for additional
funds at the time QuantRx submits the detailed cost accounting for
such month in accordance with Section 3.3. QND
shall have a period of five (5) days after receipt of such request
and detailed cost accounting to accept or reject such request,
provided that such acceptance shall not be unreasonably
withheld. If QND accepts such request, then QND shall
pay such additional amount within five (5) days after notice of
acceptance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event
shall the Fees (including any such additional amounts described in
this Section 3.2) exceed $3,700,000 in the
aggregate.
3.3 QND
shall pay the Fees for each month on the first day of such month in
advance. Within ten (10) days of the end of each month,
QuantRx shall deliver a detailed accounting of the costs for the
preceding month including a report of the monthly and
project-to-date budget-to-actual costs, costs to complete each
project, and such other reports as reasonably requested by
QND. QuantRx acknowledges and agrees that QND shall not
be liable for making any further payment
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