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Exhibit 10.6
AMENDED AND RESTATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY
AGREEMENT
This
Amended and Restated Intellectual Property Security Agreement (the “Agreement”)
is made as of September 27, 2005, by and between ZICAM, LLC, an
Arizona limited liability company (“Zicam” or “Grantor”),
and COMERICA BANK (“Secured Party”).
RECITALS
A. Gum
Tech International, Inc., a Utah corporation (“Gum Tech”),
and Gel Tech, L.L.C., an Arizona limited liability company (“Gel Tech”),
and Comerica Bank–California, a California banking corporation (“CBC”),
previously entered into that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of May 29,
2002 (as amended to date, the “Prior Credit Agreement”).
B. In
order to secure the obligations owing to CBC under the Prior Credit Agreement,
Gel Tech and CBC entered into that certain Intellectual Property Security
Agreement dated as of May 29, 2002 (as amended to date, the “Prior
IP Security Agreement”).
C. Gum
Tech has merged with and into Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. (“Matrixx”)
and Matrixx is the surviving entity, and Gel Tech has changed its name to
Zicam, LLC.
D. CBC
has merged with and into Secured Party and Secured Party is the surviving
entity.
E. Grantor
and Matrixx, on the one hand, and Secured Party, on the other hand, are
contemporaneously herewith entering into that certain Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement, dated as of even date herewith (as may be at any time
hereafter supplemented, modified, amended or restated, the “Loan
Agreement”), which shall amend and restate the Prior Credit Agreement
in its entirety.
F. In
order to induce Secured Party to enter into the Loan Agreement, and in
consideration thereof, Grantor has agreed to amend and restate the Prior IP
Security Agreement in its entirety in accordance with the terms and conditions
of this Agreement.
NOW,
THEREFORE, THE PARTIES HERETO AGREE AS FOLLOWS:
1. Grant
of Security Interest. As collateral security for the prompt and
complete payment and performance of all of Grantor’s present or future
indebtedness, obligations and liabilities to Secured Party, Grantor hereby
grants a security interest and mortgage to Secured Party, as security, in and
to Grantor’s entire right, title and interest in, to and under the
following (all of which shall collectively be called the “Collateral”):
(a) Any
and all copyright rights, copyright applications, copyright registrations and
like protections in each work or authorship and derivative work thereof,
whether published or unpublished and whether or not the same also constitutes a
trade secret, now or hereafter existing, created, acquired or held, including
without limitation those set forth on Exhibit A attached hereto
(collectively, the “Copyrights”);
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(b) Any
and all trade secrets, and any and all intellectual property rights in computer
software and computer software products now or hereafter existing, created,
acquired or held;
(c) Any
and all design rights which may be available to Grantor now or hereafter existing,
created, acquired or held;
(d) All
patents, patent applications and like protections including, without
limitation, improvements, divisions, continuations, renewals, reissues,
extensions and continuations-in-part of the same, including without limitation
the patents and patent applications set forth on Exhibit B attached
hereto (collectively, the “Patents”);
(e) Any
trademark and servicemark rights, whether registered or not, applications to
register and registrations of the same and like protections, and the entire
goodwill of the business of Grantor connected with and symbolized by such
trademarks, including without limitation those set forth on Exhibit C
attached hereto (collectively, the “Trademarks”);
(f) Any
and all claims for damages by way of past, present and future infringement of
any of the rights included above, with the right, but not the obligation, to
sue for and collect such damages for said use or infringement of the
intellectual property rights identified above;
(g) All
licenses or other rights to use any of the Copyrights, Patents or Trademarks,
and all license fees and royalties arising from such use to the extent
permitted by such license or rights; and
(h) All
amendments, extensions, renewals and extensions of any of the Copyrights,
Trademarks or Patents; and
(i) All
proceeds and products of the foregoing, including without limitation all
payments under insurance or any indemnity or warranty payable in respect of any
of the foregoing.
2. Authorization
and Request. Grantor authorizes and requests that the Register of
Copyrights and the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks record this
Agreement.
3. Covenants
and Warranties. Grantor represents, warrants, covenants and agrees as
follows:
(a) Grantor
is now the sole owner of the Collateral, except for non-exclusive licenses
granted by Grantor in the ordinary course of business;
(b) Performance
of this Agreement does not conflict with or result in a breach of any agreement
to which Grantor is party or by which Grantor is bound, except to the extent
that certain intellectual property agreements prohibit the assignment of the
rights thereunder to a third party without the licensor’s or other party’s
consent and this Agreement constitutes an assignment;
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(c) During
the term of this Agreement, Grantor will not transfer or otherwise encumber any
interest in the Collateral, except for non-exclusive licenses granted by
Grantor in the ordinary course of business, or as set forth in this Agreement;
(d) To
the knowledge of Grantor, each of the Patents is valid and enforceable, and no
part of the Collateral has been judged invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in
part, and no claim has been made that any part of the Collateral violates the
rights of any third party;
(e) Grantor
shall deliver to Secured Party within thirty (30) days of the last day of
each fiscal quarter, a report signed by Grantor, in form reasonably acceptable
to Secured Party, listing any applications or registrations that Grantor has
made or filed in respect of any patents, copyrights or trademarks and the
status of any outstanding applications or registrations. Grantor shall promptly
advise Secured Party of any material change in the composition of the
Collateral, including but not limited to any subsequent ownership right of the
Grantor in or to any Trademark, Patent or Copyright not specified in this
Agreement;
(f) Grantor
shall (i) protect, defend and maintain the validity and enforceability of
the Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights, to the extent commercially reasonable,
(ii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to detect infringements of
the Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights and promptly advise Secured Party in
writing of material infringements detected and (iii) not allow any
Trademarks, Patents or Copyrights to be abandoned, forfeited or dedicated to
the public without the written consent of Secured Party, which shall not be unreasonably
withheld, unless Grantor determines that reasonable business practices suggest
that abandonment is appropriate;
(g) Grantor
shall register or cause to be registered (to the extent not already registered)
with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States
Copyright Office, as applicable, those intellectual property rights listed on Exhibits
A, B, and C hereto, within thirty (30) days of the date of this
Agreement. Grantor shall register or cause to be registered with the United
States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office, as
applicable, those additional intellectual property rights developed or acquired
by Grantor from time to time in connection with any product prior to the sale
or licensing of such product to any third party (including without limitation
revisions or additions to the intellectual property rights listed on such Exhibits
A, B, and C). Grantor shall, from time to time, execute and file such other
instruments, and take such further actions as Secured Party may reasonably
request from time to time to perfect or continue the perfection of Secured
Party’s interest in the Collateral;
(h) This
Agreement creates, and in the case of after acquired Collateral, this Agreement
will create at the time Grantor first has rights in such after acquired
Collateral, in favor of Secured Party a valid and perfected first priority
security interest in the Collateral in the United States securing the payment
and performance of the obligations evidenced by the Loan Agreement and the Loan
Documents (as such term is defined in the Loan Agreement) upon making the
filings referred to in clause (i) below;
(i) Except
for, and upon, the filing with the United States Patent and Trademark office
with respect to the Patents and Trademarks and the Register of Copyrights with
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respect to the Copyrights
necessary to perfect the security interests created hereunder, and, except as
has been already made or obtained, no authorization, approval or other action
by, and no notice to or filing with, any U.S. governmental authority or U.S.
regulatory body is required either (i) for the grant by Grantor of the
security interest granted hereby or for the execution, delivery or performance of
this Agreement by Grantor in the U.S. or (ii) for the perfection in the
United States or the exercise by Secured Party of its rights and remedies
hereunder;
(j) All
information heretofore, herein or hereafter supplied to Secured Party by or on
behalf of Grantor with respect to the Collateral is accurate and complete in
all material respects.
(k) Grantor shall not enter into any agreement that would materially impair or conflict with Grantor’s obligations hereunder without Secured Party’s prior written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. Grantor shall not permit the inclusion in any material contract to which it becomes a party of any provisions that could or might in any way prevent the creation of a security interest in Grantor’s rights and interests in any property included within the definition of the Collateral acquired under such contracts, except that certain contracts may contain anti-assignment provisions that could in effect prohibit th






