DISTRIBUTION LICENSING AGREEMENT Lake Taihu,
China
BETWEEN:
pH Solutions, Inc. a company organized under the laws of Delaware,
having its registered office at 818 18" Street, Suite 410,
Washington, D.C., 20006, hereafter referred to as "pH Solutions",
On the one hand, AND: Homeland Security Networks,
Inc" a company organized under the laws of Nevada, having its
registered office at 140 Smith Street, Keasbey NJ 08832 Hereafter
referred to as "Licensee", On the other hand.
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IT HAS BEEN
AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
Article
1: APPOINTMENT OF LICENSEE
1.1
pH Solutions hereby appoints Licensee, which accepts, for the term
and at the conditions provided in this Agreement, as its exclusive
Licensee of the products produced or supplied by pH Solutions as
defined in SCHEDULE I (hereinafter
referred to as the "Products") in the territory as defined in
SCHEDULE 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "Territory").
Exclusivity is therefore, specific only to those product
applications, projects and/or territories as defined therein.
1.2
It is agreed
that in the event pH Solutions would discontinue the manufacturing
and/or supply of any of the Products, this Agreement will be
automatically terminated relative to the terminated products
without prior notice nor payment of an indemnity, in its entirety,
or as far as the Products that pH Solutions ceases to manufacture
or supply are concerned. Notwithstanding the above, should pH
Solutions determine to discontinue a product, pH Solutions will
notify the Licensee not less than 120 days in advance of the formal
production date to enable the Licensee to place fmal orders. In
addition, upon such notification, pH Solutions will enter into a
good faith negotiation with the Licensee, if necessary to reach an agreement for a
manufacturing license to allow the continued production of the
product for or by the Licensee.
The same is agreed in the event pH
Solutions, as well as its subsidiaries or affiliated companies,
would discontinue the manufacture or supply of the
Products.
1. 3
It is further agreed that pH Solutions
may add new items to the Products initially covered herein, which
items Licensee shall distribute pursuant to this Agreement.
1.4
Licensee shall comply with all
applicable laws and regulations in respect of the import,
warehousing, advertising, distribution and other aspects of the
selling of the Products in the Territory.
Article
2: NATURE OF THE LICENSE
2.1.
The present License being granted on an exclusive basis subject to
the specific requirements of the Licensee under SCHEDULES 1 and 2,
accordingly pH Solutions will not promote, sell, offer or
distribute the Products in the Territory and/or grant to any third
party, directly or indirectly, through its own subsidiaries or
affiliated companies or through subsidiaries or affiliated
companies of pH Solutions, the right to promote, sell, offer or
distribute the Products as herein defined in the Territory as
herein defined.
For the
purposes of this provision, third party is defined as any party
other than pH SOlutions, its subsidiaries or affiliated
companies.
2.2.
Licensee shall not, during the term of this Agreement, engage in
the manufacture, sale, distribution or commercial representation,
either directly or indirectly, through subsidiaries or affiliates,
of any products similar to or competitive with the Products,
without the prior and express written consent of pH Solutions. pH
Solutions shall at all times be the sole manufacturer of the
Products.
It
is understood that Licensee shall be entitled, in compliance with
its obligations under this Agreement, to continue the
commercialization of products manufactured by third parties which
are non competitive with the Products. Current products in this
classification are in Exhibit A.
2.3.
Licensee shall not directly or indirectly prospect or solicit
customers for the Products outside the Territory, nor establish any
branch or distribution warehouse in respect of the Products outside
the Territory without prior written consent by pH Solutions.
2.4.
Licensee shall not, without the prior and express written consent
of pH Solutions, sell or distribute the Products in the Territory
through subsidiaries, affiliates, subLicensees, sub agents or
licensees or through any person, firm or corporation other than
Licensee.
2.5
Throughout the term of this Agreement, the Licensee shall
disseminate within the Territory such sales literature in respect
of the Products as pH Solutions shall provide or approve in
writing, in advance. The Licensee shall disseminate only those
materials regarding the Products that have been approved in writing
in advance.
2.6
Licensee shall make no representations
whether written or oral as to the Products except as specifically
set forth in literature provided by pH Solutions in respect of the
Products.
Article 3: LICENSEE ACTIVITIES
3.1.
i) Category I: Direct
accounts
pH
Solutions shall sell Products within the Territory directly to
customers falling in such category and Licensee shall not be
entitled to any compensation in respect of such sales.
Category I customers shall be those accounts whose product
applications are other than those defined on Schedule I. A list of
the current customers falling in category i) is attached hereto as
Exhibit B. Such list may be supplemented in the future to include
other customers. For the purpose of this provision, a direct
account customer is defined as a finn, which was sold in the
Territory, directly by pH Solutions without referral or assistance
of the Licensee.
ii)
Licensee accounts
Customers falling in such category shall, as a rule but subject to
pH Solutions rights under Article 2.1 above, be supplied and
serviced directly by Licensee.
Customers falling under category ii) shall be all customers not
falling in category i) above.
Parties agree that in the event Licensee would notify to pH
Solutions its decision not to supply directly a customer falling in
category ii) for any reason, pH Solutions may sell to such customer
directly and Licensee shall not be entitled to compensation on such
sale.
Parties further agree subject to the conditions of ArticlelO.5,
that once a customer project account has been assigned to a
Licensee via an accepted sales order, no future sales will be
accepted from such project account during the term of this
Agreement or its' extensions, except through Licensee without the
express prior written consent of the Licensee.
3.2.
It is expressly agreed that pH Solutions shall decide alone
customer classification within the 2 categories mentioned under
3.1. above, following the criteria provided therein.
3.3.
Licensee shall not act as a proxy of pH Solutions and shall not
hold itself out as having authority to represent or to act for pH
Solutions generally.
It will not
give any guarantee or undertake any obligation, which might commit
pH Solutions, except with its prior and express written
consent.
Article 4: SALES CONDITIONS
A) Delivery
pH Solutions shall sell the Products
to Licensee pursuant to written orders addressed by Licensee. No
order shall be effective unless and until accepted in writing by pH
Solutions.
The
Products shall be delivered f.o.b. pH Solutions' plant to Licensee
unless the contrary is expressly agreed upon in writing by pH
Solutions. Transfer of title to the Products shall occur upon
carrier's acceptance ofthe shipment at pH Solutions' plant.
All
risks relating to the Products, including the risks involved in
transport, shall pass on to the Licensee upon delivery. pH
Solutions will work with Licensee, in good faith to introduce
Licensee's preferred carriers if any, to pH Solutions'
manufacturing operations to insure cost effective shipping. Such
consideration will not be unreasonable withheld.
Should pH Solutions adopt an Ex Works Sales policy, Licensee shall
have the authority to determine the mode of shipment and the
carrier to be used. In such a case, all risks relating to transport
shall be borne by Licensee.
B)
Prices
Unless the contrary is expressly stipulated in writing, the sales
prices of the Products to the customer shall be those set forth in
the current price lists set up by pH Solutions.
Except as may otherwise be agreed from time to time, prices given
to Licensee will exclude transport and insurance. They will also
exclude taxes and duties.
Licensee acknowledges and agrees that pH Solutions shall have the
right from time to time to raise or lower sales prices upon six (6)
months prior written notice to the Licensee. Prices to the Licensee
will however, reflect the lowest price for such application as is
offered to any other Customer or Licensee within the Territory for
that application.
C) Payment
Payments for all sales to Licensee shall be made by Licensee to pH
Solutions, as provided on the invoice, and according to the terms
as stated on Schedule 4 or its' amendments and those of EXHIBIT C
attached hereto.
Late payment interest will be due, as of right and without notice,
on any sum remaining unpaid on its due date.
D) General
sales conditions
Save otherwise expressly provided in
the present Agreement, sales of Products to Licensee shall be made
according to the terms of pH Solutions general sales
conditions, in force at the time of
conclusion of said sales.
A
copy of the current general sales conditions of pH Solutions is
attached as Exhibit C to this Agreement.
The
provisions of the present Agreement and the special agreements
reached with reference to every specific order will in all cases
prevail on pH Solutions general sales conditions.
pH
Solutions general sales conditions will in all cases prevail over
any conditions of sale specified on Licensee's purchase orders.
Article 5: DUTIES OF LICENSEE
A)
Sales efforts
Licensee shall, throughout the term of this Agreement, aggressively
promote and sell the Products in the Territory.
During the month of September of each year, at the latest, parties
shall agree on the budget and sales objectives to be
reasonably achieved by Licensee during the next calendar year.
Licensee shall maintain at all times, an adequate budget to perform
the duties under this Agreement.
B)
Marketing program
Licensee and pH Solutions shall, throughout the term of this
Agreement, comply with the marketing program for the Territory, of
which the current version is in Exhibit D attached hereto.
It is understood that the marketing
program may be reviewed from time to time by mutual agreement of
the parties.
The
marketing program shall among others cover promotional activities,
technical programs and prospects and matters concerning specific
accounts in the Territory.
C) Organization and
Staff
Licensee will on a continuous basis for the term of this Agreement
maintain an appropriate technical and commercial organization to
fully perform its duties under the present Agreement. Licensee
shall among other:
have appropriate offices f