ASSET PURCHASE AND
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY ASSIGNMENT
AGREEMENT
This Asset Purchase and Assignment Agreement
(this “ Agreement ”) dated as of July 10, 2009
(the “ Effective Date ”) is by and between
MyoCardioCare, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ MCC
”), and Biophan Technologies, Inc., a Nevada corporation
(“BIOPHAN”). MCC and BIOPHAN are
individually a “ Party ”, and together are the
“ Parties ,” to this Agreement.
WHEREAS, MCC has determined that it is in its
business interest to acquire certain Assets and Intellectual
Property of BIOPHAN and BIOPHAN has determined it is in its
business interest to sell such Assets and Intellectual Property to
MCC.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual
covenants and agreements set forth herein, and for other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are
hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS. As
used herein, the following terms will have the following
meanings:
“ Action ” means any Claim,
action, cause of action or suit (whether in contract or tort or
otherwise), litigation (whether at law or in equity, whether civil
or criminal), controversy, assessment, arbitration, investigation,
hearing, charge, complaint, demand, patent interference,
opposition, Third Party requested patent re-examination, notice or
proceeding, in each case, to, from, by or before any Governmental
Authority.
“ Affiliate ” of a specified
person (natural or juridical) means a person that now or hereafter
directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries,
controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, the
person specified. “Control” shall mean
ownership of more than 50% of the shares of stock entitled to vote
for the election of directors in the case of a corporation, and
more than 50% of the voting power in the case of a business entity
other than a corporation.
“ Ancillary Agreements ”
means any agreements, certificates, instruments and documents
executed and delivered pursuant to any of Sections 3.3 of this
Agreement.
“ Assigned Assets ” means the
Tangible Assets, Tangible Materials, Books and Records, and
Assigned Intellectual Property Rights.
“ Assigned Intellectual Property
Rights ” means all Intellectual Property of
BIOPHAN as of the Closing date which are
necessary to practice the Technology, including, but not limited
to, the Assigned Patent Rights.
“ Assigned Patent Rights ”
means (a) the Patent Rights related to the patents set forth on
Schedule 1 hereto; and (b) all counterpart Patent Rights of any of
the Patent Rights in subpart (a).
“ BIOPHAN ” is defined in the
Preamble to this Agreement.
“ BIOPHAN Disclosure Schedule
” is defined in the Preamble to Article 4 of this
Agreement.
" BIOPHAN Field " means any
technology related to the direct mechanical ventricular
actuation technology for mechanical support of the
heart.
“ Books and Records ” means
all records and lists of BIOPHAN related solely to the Assigned
Assets including: all analysis reports, marketing reports and
creative material pertaining to the Assigned Assets, all records
relating to past or present customers, suppliers or personnel of
BIOPHAN (including potential customers lists, mailing address
lists, e-mail address lists, recipient lists, correspondence with
potential customers, supply lists and records of purchases from and
correspondence with suppliers and any other written or electronic
identifiable data relating to past or present customers or
suppliers of BIOPHAN with regard to the Assigned Assets which has
been created by BIOPHAN or its representatives, agents or
employees), all records relating to all product, business and
marketing plans of BIOPHAN as they related to the
Technology.
“ Business Day ” means any
weekday other than a weekday on which banks located in Rochester,
New York are authorized or required to be closed.
“ Claim ” means any assertion
of right whatsoever (including those arising from debts, bonds,
promises, damages, equitable claims and judgments), whether
liquidated or unliquidated, known or unknown, fixed or contingent,
direct or indirect, or imputed.
“ Closing ” is defined in
Section 3.3 (Closing Time and Place).
“ Code ” is defined in
Section 3.1 (Payments).
“ Confidential Information ”
means (i) the non-public information in this Agreement, and the
Ancillary Agreements; (ii) the details of the discussions and
drafts leading up to the execution of this Agreement or the
Ancillary Agreements; and (iii) any information or compilation of
information of one of the Parties hereto (the “ Disclosing
Party ”) which becomes known to another Party (the
“ Receiving Party ”) that is not generally known
to the public, including trade secrets, whether disclosed before or
after the date of this Agreement, excluding information
which:
(a) was
already in the possession of the Receiving Party prior to the
Receiving Party’s receipt from the Disclosing Party (provided
that the Receiving Party is able to provide the Disclosing Party
with reasonable documentary proof thereof and, if received from a
third party, that such information was acquired without breach of a
confidentiality or non-disclosure obligation related to such
information);
(b) is
or becomes a matter of public knowledge through no act of the
Receiving Party or its Affiliates or Representatives in violation
of this Agreement;
(c) is
disclosed to the Receiving Party or its Affiliates on a
nonconfidential basis by a Third Party who lawfully obtained such
information and is under no obligation to maintain the
confidentiality of such information; or
(d) has
been independently developed by the Receiving Party without breach
of this Agreement or use of any Confidential Information of the
Disclosing Party (provided that the Receiving Party is able to
provide the Disclosing Party with reasonable documentary proof
thereof).
Information meeting the above definition shall
be treated as Confidential Information regardless of its source,
and all information identified as being “confidential”
or “trade secret” or labeled with words of similar
import shall be presumed to be Confidential
Information. Confidential Information includes
information being held in confidence by a Disclosing Party for the
benefit of a third party.
“ Consents ” is defined in
Section 4.3 (Consents).
“ Contractual Obligation ”
means, with respect to any Person, any legal, valid and binding
contract, agreement, deed, note, debenture, warrant, option,
mortgage, lease, license, commitment, promise, undertaking,
arrangement or understanding, whether written or oral, or other
document or instrument to which or by which such Person is a party
or otherwise subject or bound or to which or by which any property,
business, operation or right of such Person is subject or bound, in
each case as amended or otherwise modified and in
effect.
“ Disclosing Party ” is
defined in “Confidential Information.”
“ Dispute ” means any
dispute, controversy, Action, or other issue relating to or arising
under or in connection with this Agreement or any of the Ancillary
Agreements, their subject matter, or their formation,
interpretation, performance or breach, including fraud in the
inducement and the validity, scope and enforceability of the
Agreement.
“ Effective Date ” is defined
in the Preamble.
“ Encumbrance ” means any
interest relating to or arising out any lien, license, covenant not
to sue, option, pledge, security interest, mortgage, right of first
offer or first refusal, buy/sell agreement and any other
restriction or covenant with respect to, or condition governing the
use, construction, transfer, receipt of income or exercise of any
other attribute of legal or equitable ownership.
“ Exploit ” means make, have
made, use, import, export, offer to sell, sell or otherwise dispose
of. “ Exploited ,” “
Exploitation ” and other variants or variations of the
word “Exploit” shall have correlative
meanings.
“ Field ” means use of
Technology in or for any product or application.
“ Filings ” is defined in
Section 4.3 (Consents).
“ Governmental Authority
” means any United States federal, state or local or any
foreign government, or political subdivision thereof, or any
multinational governmental organization or authority or any
governmental authority, agency or commission in each case entitled
to exercise any administrative, executive, judicial, legislative,
police, regulatory or taxing authority or power, any court or
tribunal (or any department, bureau or division thereof), or any
arbitrator or arbitral body.
“ Governmental Order ” means
any order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, stipulation, ruling,
determination or award entered by or with any Governmental
Authority, but excluding any action or inaction in the course of
the ex parte preparation or prosecution of any Patent Right and any
order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, stipulation, ruling,
determination or award of general applicability.
“ Indemnified Party ” means a
Person to whom indemnification is provided under this
Agreement.
“ Indemnifying Party ” means
a Person providing indemnification under this Agreement.
“ Intellectual Property ”
means all forms of intellectual property in any jurisdiction and
under any law, whether now or hereafter existing, including (a)
inventions, discoveries, patent applications, patents (including
letters patent, industrial designs, and inventor’s
certificates), design registrations, invention disclosures, and
applications to register industrial designs, and any and all rights
to any of the foregoing anywhere in the world, including any
provisionals, substitutions, extensions, supplementary patent
certificates, reissues, re-exams, renewals, divisions,
continuations, continuations in part, continued prosecution
applications, and other similar filings or notices provided for
under the laws of the United States or of any other country; and
(b) trade secrets and other confidential or non-public technical
information, including ideas, formulas, compositions,
inventor’s notes, discoveries, improvements, concepts,
know-how, manufacturing and development information, data resulting
or derived from research activities, Inventions, invention
disclosures, unpatented blue prints, drawings, specifications
designs, plans, proposals and technical data.
“ Invention ” means any
invention, discovery, know-how, trade secret, data, information,
technology, process or concept, whether or not patented or
patentable, and whether or not memorialized in writing.
“ Instruments of Assignment
” means those documents and instruments necessary for Biophan
to effect the sale, conveyance, assignment, transfer and delivery
of the Acquired Assets to MCC or its designees, including
assignment and assumption agreements, bills of sale and other
documents of assignment and transfer, all in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to MCC, each in recordable form to the
extent necessary to duly assign such rights to MCC.
“ Legal Requirement ” means
any United States federal, state or local or foreign law, statute,
standard, ordinance, code, rule, regulation, resolution or
promulgation, or any Governmental Order, or any license, franchise,
permit or similar right granted under any of the foregoing, or any
similar provision having the force or effect of law.
“ Liability ” means, with
respect to any Person, any liability or obligation of such Person
whether known or unknown, whether asserted or unasserted, whether
determined, determinable or otherwise, whether strict, absolute or
contingent, whether accrued or unaccrued, whether liquidated or
unliquidated, whether incurred or consequential, whether due or to
become due and whether or not required under U.S. generally
accepted accounting principles to be accrued on the financial
statements of such Person.
“ Losses ” means all Actions,
Claims, Liabilities, damages, judgments, amounts paid in
settlement, assessments, Taxes, losses, fines, penalties, expenses,
costs and fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), and
amounts, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees associated with
seeking indemnification hereunder.
“ MCC ” is defined in the
Preamble.
“
Notices ” is defined in Section 4.3
(Consents).
“ Organizational Documents ”
means, with respect to any Person (other than an individual), (a)
the certificate or articles of incorporation or organization and
any joint venture, limited liability company, operating or
partnership agreement, trust agreement and instrument and other
similar documents adopted or filed in connection with the creation,
formation or organization of such Person and (b) all by laws,
voting, agreements and similar documents, instruments or agreements
relating to the organization or governance of such Person, in each
case as amended or supplemented.
“ Party ” and “
Parties ” are defined in the Preamble.
“ Patent Rights ” means (i)
any and all U.S. and foreign: (a) patents (including
utility and design patents); (b) patent applications (including
utility and design patent applications), including all provisional
applications, substitutions, continuations, continuations-in-part,
divisions, renewals, and all patents granted thereon; and (c)
patents-of-addition, reissues, reexaminations and extensions or
restorations by existing or future extension or restoration
mechanisms, including supplementary protection certificates or the
equivalent thereof, (d) patent rights obtained from Third Parties
through an interference proceeding based upon any patent or
application in (a)-(c),and (ii) any other form of government-issued
right substantially equivalent to any of the foregoing now or
hereafter recognized including, for example, statutory invention
disclosures or the like.
“ Payment ” is defined in
Section 3.1 (Payments).
“ Person ” means any
individual or corporation, association, partnership, limited
liability company, joint venture, joint stock or other company,
business trust, trust, organization, Governmental Authority or
other entity of any kind.
“ Receiving Party ” is
defined in “Confidential Information.”
“ Representative ” means,
with respect to any Person, any director, officer, employee, agent,
consultant, advisor, partner, trustee or other representative of
such Person, including legal counsel, accountants and financial
advisors.
“ Tangible Assets ” means the
assets set forth on Schedule 2.
“ Tangible Materials ” means
documents, files (including electronic files), diagrams, drawings,
plans, specifications, designs, schematics, records, reports, lab
or research notebooks, drawings, flow charts, specifications,
written descriptions, invention disclosures, source code, data,
photographs of three-dimensional prototypes and models, or other
written, graphic or tangible materials or embodiments (other than
three-dimensional prototypes and models) relating to the Assigned
Patents, and all correspondence and files relating to the
prosecution of the Assigned Patents, in each case, within the
possession, custody or control of BIOPHAN or its
Affiliates.
“ Tax ” or “
Taxes ” means any and all federal, state, local or
foreign income, gross receipts, license, payroll, employment,
excise, severance, stamp, occupation, premium, windfall profits,
capital stock, franchise, profits, withholding, social security (or
similar, including FICA), unemployment, disability, real property,
personal property, sales, use, transfer, registration, value added,
alternative or add-on minimum, estimated or other tax of any kind,
including any interest, penalty or addition thereto, whether
disputed or not.
“ Technology ” means any
technology related to the direct mechanical ventricular actuation
technology for mechanical support of the heart.
“ Third Party ” means any
Person other than the Parties and their Affiliates.
“ Third Party Claim ” means
any Claim by a Third Party with respect to any matter that may give
rise to a Claim for indemnification under this
Agreement.
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ASSIGNMENT,
LICENSES AND COVENANTS NOT TO SUE.
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2.1
Assigned Assets . Effective as of the Closing,
subject to the terms of this Agreement, BIOPHAN hereby sells,
conveys, assigns and transfers to MCC all its interests in and to
the Assigned Assets, together with the right to sue and collect for
past infringement. MCC accepts the Assigned Assets,
provided , that MCC does not assume any liabilities or
obligations of BIOPHAN related to the Assigned Assets except as set
forth in this Agreement.
3.1
Payments . MCC shall pay the following to BIOPHAN
in exchange for the rights granted hereunder:
(a) In
exchange for the Assigned Assets MCC shall pay BIOPHAN as follows
(the “ Cash Consideration ”):
(i) at the Closing, MCC shall pay BIOPHAN One
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) (the “Closing
Payment”);
(ii) on the date that is the earlier of either
(y) twelve (12) months from the date from Closing or (z)
upon MCC’s closing of a financing that is in the aggregated
in amount equal to or greater than $3 million, MCC shall pay
BIOPHAN One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000).
(b) BIOPHAN
shall be issued 3,000,000 shares of MCC common stock with a par
value of $.001, which is equal to a 20% equity position in
MCC.
(c) BIOPHAN
and MCC shall also enter into a Stock Holder Rights agreement
whereby BIOPHAN shall have certain rights relating to participation
in future financing and sale of its shares in an initial public
offering.
3.2
Method of Payment . Payments of the Cash
Consideration shall be made by wire transfer to an account
designated by BIOPHAN. The amounts payable hereunder
shall be paid in United States dollars.
3.3
Closing Time and Place . The Closing of the
purchase and sale of the Assigned Assets and the transactions
contemplated by the Ancillary Agreements (the “
Closing ”) shall take place within three (3) Business
Days after all of the conditions to closing set forth in this
Section 3.3 shall have been satisfied or waived by MCC in
writing. At the Closing, MCC shall make the Closing
Payment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein, MCC’s obligation to proceed to the Closing shall be
conditioned on the following:
(a) All
permissions, releases, Consents or approvals, governmental or
otherwise, necessary on the part of BIOPHAN to consummate the
transactions contemplated this Agreement shall have been
obtained;
(b) There
shall not have been issued and be in effect any order, decree or
judgment of or in any court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction
which makes the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby illegal;
(c) BIOPHAN
has agreed provide advisory and consulting services to MCC related
to the Technology. These advisory and consulting services shall be
at no cost to MCC for a period of thirty (30) Business Days
following Closing;
(d) MCC
shall have received from BIOPHAN such Instruments of Assignment and
other instruments sufficient to convey, transfer and assign to MCC
all right, title and interest in the Assigned Assets, free and
clear of all Encumbrances, all in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to MCC and its counsel;
3.4
Termination of Closing . The respective obligations of the
Parties to consummate the Closing may be terminated and abandoned
at any time at or before the Closing only as follows:
(a) By
and at the option of MCC if the Closing shall not have occurred
within 30 days from the date hereof; provided that MCC shall not
have breached in any material respect its obligations under this
Agreement in any manner that shall have been the proximate cause
of, or resulted in, the failure to consummate the
Closing.
(b) By
and at the option of BIOPHAN if the Closing shall not have occurred
within 30 days from the date hereof; provided that BIOPHAN shall
not have breached in any material respect its obligations under
this Agreement in any manner that shall have been the proximate
cause of, or resulted in, the failure to consummate the
Closing.
(c) At
any time, without liability of any party to the others, upon the
mutual written consent of BIOPHAN and MCC.
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BIOPHAN’S
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
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BIOPHAN represents and warrants to MCC that the
statements contained in this Section 4 are true, correct and
complete as of the date hereof and as of the Closing, except as set
forth in the BIOPHAN’s disclosure schedule accompanying this
Agreement (the “BIOPHAN Disclosure
Schedule”). The BIOPHAN Disclosure Schedule will
be arranged in paragraphs corresponding to the lettered and
numbered paragraphs contained in this Section 4.
4.1
Authorization . BIOPHAN is a Nevada company duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the State of Nevada. BIOPHAN has the full corporate
power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and each
Ancillary Agreement to which it is a party and to perform its
respective obligations under this Agreement and under each such
Ancillary Agreement. All corporate actions or
proceedings to be taken by or on the part of BIOPHAN to authorize
and permit the execution and delivery by BIOPHAN of this Agreement
and each of the Ancillary Agreements to which it is a party and to
perform its respective obligations under this Agreement and under
such Ancillary Agreements have been duly taken. This
Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by BIOPHAN and
constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of BIOPHAN,
enforceable in accordance with its terms and conditions subject to
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other
similar laws of general application affecting the rights and
remedies of creditors and to general principles of
equity. Each of the Ancillary Agreements to which
BIOPHAN is a party will be, as of the Closing, duly executed and
delivered by BIOPHAN and will constitute, as of the Closing, the
legal, valid and binding obligation of BIOPHAN, enforceable in
accordance wit