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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
SECURITY AGREEMENT
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
SECURITY AGREEMENT (this "Agreement" dated as of
November 30, 2006,
by and among
Wellstar International Inc.,
a Nevada
corporation (the "Company"),
and the secured parties signatory hereto and their
respective endorsees, transferees
and assigns (collectively, the
"Secured
Party").
W I T N E S
S E T H :
WHEREAS, pursuant
to a Securities Purchase
Agreement, dated the date
hereof, between Company
and the Secured Party (the
"Purchase Agreement"),
Company has agreed to issue to the Secured
Party and the Secured Party has
agreed to purchase from
Company certain of Company's
8% Callable Secured
Convertible Notes, due three years from
the date of issue (the "Notes"),
which
are convertible into shares of Company's Common Stock, par value $.001 per
share
(the "Common Stock"). In connection
therewith, Company shall issue
the Secured
Party certain Common Stock purchase warrants (the "Warrants"); and
WHEREAS, in order to induce the
Secured Party to purchase
the Notes,
Company has agreed to execute and
deliver to the Secured Party
this Agreement
for the benefit of the
Secured Party and to
grant to it a first priority
security interest in certain Intellectual Property (defined below) of Company
to
secure the prompt payment, performance and discharge in full of all of
Company's
obligations under the Notes and exercise
and discharge in full of Company's
obligations under the Warrants; and
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the agreements herein contained and for
other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which is
hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
1. Defined Terms. Unless otherwise
defined herein, terms which are defined
in the Purchase Agreement and
used herein are so used as so defined; and
the following terms shall have
the following meanings:
"Software Intellectual
Property" shall mean:
(a) all software programs
(including all source code,
object code and
all related applications and data files), whether now owned, upgraded,
enhanced,
licensed or leased or hereafter acquired by the Company, above;
(b) all computers and electronic
data processing hardware and firmware
associated therewith;
(c) all documentation (including flow charts, logic diagrams, manuals,
guides and specifications) with respect to such software, hardware and firmware
described in the preceding clauses (a) and (b); and
(d) all rights with respect to
all of the foregoing, including, without
limitation, any and all upgrades, modifications, copyrights, licenses, options,
warranties, service contracts,
program services, test
rights, maintenance
rights, support rights, improvement
rights, renewal rights and indemnifications
and substitutions, replacements, additions, or model conversions of any of the
foregoing.
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"Copyrights" shall mean
(a) all copyrights, registrations and
applications
for registration, issued or
filed, including any
reissues, extensions or
renewals thereof, by or with the United States Copyright Office
or any similar
office or agency of the United States,
any state thereof, or any other
country
or political subdivision thereof, or otherwise,
including, all rights in and to
the material constituting
the subject matter
thereof, including, without
limitation, any referred
to in Schedule B hereto, and (b) any rights in any
material which is copyrightable
or which is protected by common
law, United
States copyright laws or
similar laws or any law of any
State, including,
without limitation, any thereof referred to in Schedule B hereto.
"Copyright License" shall mean any agreement, written or oral, providing
for a grant by the Company of any right
in any Copyright, including,
without
limitation, any thereof referred to in Schedule B hereto.
"Intellectual Property" shall
means, collectively, the
Software
Intellectual Property, Copyrights, Copyright Licenses, Patents, Patent
Licenses,
Trademarks, Trademark Licenses and Trade Secrets.
"Obligations" means all of the Company's obligations under this Agreement
and the Notes, in each case, whether now or hereafter existing,
voluntary or
involuntary, direct or
indirect, absolute or
contingent, liquidated or
unliquidated, whether or not jointly
owed with others, and whether or not
from
time to time decreased or extinguished and later decreased, created or
incurred,
and all or any portion of such
obligations or liabilities that are paid, to the
extent all or any part of such payment is avoided or
recovered directly or
indirectly from the Secured
Party as a preference, fraudulent
transfer or
otherwise as such obligations may be amended, supplemented, converted, extended
or modified from time to time.
"Patents" shall mean (a) all letters
patent of the United States or
any
other country or any
political subdivision thereof,
and all reissues and
extensions thereof, including, without limitation, any thereof referred to in
Schedule B hereto, and (b) all applications
for letters patent of the United
States and all divisions, continuations and continuations-in-part thereof or
any
other country or any political subdivision,
including, without limitation,
any
thereof referred to in Schedule B hereto.
"Patent License"
shall mean all agreements,
whether written or oral,
providing for the grant by the Company of any right to manufacture, use or sell
any invention covered by a Patent,
including, without
limitation, any thereof
referred to in Schedule B hereto.
"Security Agreement" shall mean the a
Security Agreement, dated the date
hereof between Company and the Secured Party.
"Trademarks" shall mean
(a) all trademarks, trade names, corporate names,
company names, business names,
fictitious business names, trade styles, service
marks, logos and
other source or
business identifiers, and the
goodwill
associated therewith, now
existing or hereafter
adopted or acquired, all
registrations and recordings
thereof, and all
applications in connection
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therewith, whether in the United
States Patent and Trademark Office or in any
similar office or agency of the
United States, any state thereof or any other
country or any political subdivision thereof, or otherwise, including,
without
limitation, any thereof referred to in
Schedule B hereto, and (b) all reissues,
extensions or renewals thereof.
"Trademark License" shall mean any agreement, written or oral, providing
for the grant by the Company
of any right to use any Trademark,
including,
without limitation, any thereof referred to in Schedule B hereto.
"Trade Secrets" shall mean common law and
statutory trade secrets and all
other confidential or
proprietary or useful
information and all know-how
obtained by or used in or
contemplated at any time for use
in the business of
the Company (all of the foregoing being
collectively called a "Trade
Secret"),
whether or not such Trade Secret has been reduced to a writing or other
tangible
form, including all documents and things
embodying, incorporating or referring
in any way to such Trade Secret, all Trade Secret licenses, including each
Trade
Secret license referred to in Schedule B hereto, and including the right to sue
for and to enjoin
and to collect
damages for the
actual or threatened
misappropriation of any Trade Secret and
for the breach or enforcement of any
such Trade Secret license.
2. Grant of Security Interest.
In accordance with
Section 3(m) of the
Security Agreement, to secure the
complete and timely payment, performance
and
discharge in full, as the case may be,
of all of the Obligations, the Company
hereby, unconditionally and irrevocably, pledges, grants and hypothecates to
the
Secured Party, a continuing security
interest in, a continuing first lien upon,
an unqualified right to possession and
disposition of and a right of set-off
against, in each case
to the fullest extent
permitted by law, all of the
Company's right, title and interest of
whatsoever kind and nature in and to the
Intellectual Property (the "Security Interest").
3.
Representations and Warranties.
The Company hereby represents and
warrants, and covenants and agrees with, the Secured Party as follows:
(a) The Company has the requisite
corporate power and authority to enter
into this Agreement and otherwise to carry out its obligations thereunder.
The
execution, delivery and performance
by the Company of this Agreement
and the
filings contemplated therein have been duly authorized by all
necessary action
on the part of the Company and no
further action is required by the Company.
This Agreement constitutes a legal,
valid and binding obligation of the Company
enforceable in accordance
with its terms, except as
enforceability may be
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws
affecting the enforcement of creditor's rights generally.
(b) The Company represents and
warrants that it has no place of business
or offices where its respective
books of account and records are
kept (other
than temporarily at the offices of its attorneys or accountants) or places where
the Intellectual Property is stored or located,
except as set forth on Schedule
A attached hereto;
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(c) The Company is the sole owner
of the Intellectual Property (except
for non-exclusive licenses
granted by the Company in the
ordinary course of
business), free and clear of any liens, security interests, encumbrances,
rights
or claims, and is fully authorized
to grant the Security Interest in and to
pledge the Intellectual Property,
except as set forth on Schedule D. There is
not on file in any governmental or regulatory
authority, agency or recording
office an effective financing statement, security agreement, license or
transfer
or any notice of any of the foregoing
(other than those that have been filed in
favor of the Secured Party pursuant to this Agreement) covering or affecting
any
of the Intellectual Property, except as set forth on Schedule D. So long as
this
Agreement shall be in effect,
the Company shall not
execute and shall not
knowingly permit to be on file in any
such office or agency any such financing
statement or other document
or instrument (except
to the extent filed or
recorded in favor of the Secured Party pursuant to the terms of this Agreement),
except as set forth on Schedule D or for a financing statement
covering assets
acquired by the Company after the date
hereof, provided that the value of the
Intellectual Property covered by this Agreement along with the Collateral (as
defined in the Security Agreement) is equal to at least 150% of the
Obligations.
(d) The Company
shall at all times maintain its books of account and
records relating to the Intellectual Property at its principal place of
business
and its Intellectual Property at the
locations set forth on Schedule A attached
hereto and may not relocate such books of account and records unless it
delivers
to the Secured Party at least 30 days prior to such
relocation (i) written
notice of such relocation and the new location thereof (which must be within
the
United States) and (ii) evidence that
the necessary documents have been filed
and recorded and other steps have been taken to perfect the Security Interest
to
create in favor of the Secured
Party valid, perfected
and continuing first
priority liens in the Intellectual
Property to the extent they can be perfected
through such filings.
(e) This
Agreement creates in
favor of the Secured
Party a valid
security interest in
the Intellectual Property
securing the payment
and
performance of the Obligations and, upon making the filings required hereunder,
a perfected first priority security
interest in such
Intellectual Property to
the extent that it can be perfected through such filings.
(f) Upon request of the
Secured Party, the Company
shall execute and
deliver any and all agreements,
instruments, documents, and
papers as the
Secured Party may request to evidence the Secured Party's security
interest in
the Intellectual Property
and the goodwill and general
intangibles of the
Company relating thereto or represented thereby, and the Company hereby
appoints
the Secured Party its attorney-in-fact to execute and file all such writings
for
the foregoing purposes,
all acts of such attorney being
hereby ratified and
confirmed; such power being coupled with
an interest is irrevocable until the
Obligations have been fully satisfied and are paid in full.
(g) Except as set forth on Schedule
D, the execution, delivery
and
performance of this Agreement
does not conflict with or
cause a breach or
default, or an event that with or
without the passage of time or notice,
shall
constitute a breach or default, under any
agreement to which the Company is a
party or by which
the Company is
bound. No consent
(including, without
limitation, from stock holders or
creditors of the Company) is required for the
Company to enter into and perform its obligations hereunder.
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(h) The Company
shall at all times maintain the
liens and Security
Interest provided for hereunder as valid
and perfected first priority liens and
security interests in the
Intellectual Property to the
extent they can be
perfected by filing in favor of the Secured
Party until this Agreement and
the
Security Interest hereunder shall
terminate pursuant to Section 11. The Company
hereby agrees to defend the same against any and all persons. The Company shall
safeguard and protect all
Intellectual Property for the
account of the Secured
Party. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, the Company shall pay
all fees, taxes and other amounts
necessary to maintain
the Intellectual
Property and the Security Interest
hereunder, and the Company shall
obtain and
furnish to the Secured Party from time to time, upon
demand, such releases
and/or subordinations of claims and
liens which may be required to maintain the
priority of the Security Interest hereunder.
(i) The Company
will not transfer,
pledge, hypothecate, encumber,
license (except for
non-exclusive licenses granted
by the Company in the
ordinary course of
business), sell or
otherwise dispose of
any of the
Intellectual Property without the prior written consent of the Secured Party,
which consent will not be unreasonably withheld.
(j) The Company
shall, within ten (10) days of obtaining
knowledge
thereof, advise the Secured
Party promptly, in
sufficient detail, of any
substantial change in the
Intellectual Property, and of the occurrence of any
event which would
have a material
adverse effect on
the value of the
Intellectual Property or on the Secured Party's security interest therein.
(k) The Company shall permit the
Secured Party and its representatives
and agents to inspect the Intellectual
Property at any time, and to make copies
of records pertaining to the Intellectual
Property as may be requested by the
Secured Party from time to time.
(l) The Company will take all
steps reasonably necessary to diligently
pursue and seek to preserve, enforce and
collect any rights, claims, causes of
action and accounts receivable in respect of the Intellectual Property.
(m) The Company shall
promptly notify the Secured Party
in sufficient
detail upon becoming aware of any
attachment, garnishment, execution or other
legal process levied
against any Intellectual
Property and of any
other
information received by the Company that
may materially affect the value of the
Intellectual Property, the Security Interest or the rights and
remedies of the
Secured Party hereunder.
(n) All information
heretofore, herein or hereafter
supplied to the
Secured Party by or on behalf of the
Company with respect to the Intellectual
Property is accurate
and complete in all
material respects as of the date
furnished.
(o) Schedule
A attached hereto contains
a list of
all of the
subsidiaries of Company.
(p) Schedule B attached hereto
includes all Licenses, and all
Patents
and Patent Licenses, if any, owned by the Company in its own name as of the
date
hereof. Schedule B hereto includes all Trademarks and Trademark Licenses,
if
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any, owned by the Company
in its own name as of the date
hereof. Schedule B
hereto includes all Copyrights
and Copyright Licenses, if any, owned by the
Company in its own name as of the date
hereof. Schedule B hereto includes all
Trade Secrets and Trade Secret Licenses,
if any, owned by the Company as of the
date hereof. To the best of the Company's
knowledge, each License,
Patent,
Trademark, Copyright and
Trade Secret is
valid, subsisting, unexpired,
enforceable and has not been abandoned.
Except as set forth in Schedule B, none
of such Licenses, Patents,
Trademarks, Copyrights and Trade
Secrets is the
subject of any licensing or
franchise agreement. To the best of the Company's
knowledge, no holding,
decision or judgment
has been rendered
by any
Governmental Body which would limit,
cancel or question the validity of any
License, Patent, Trademark, Copyright and Trade Secrets . Except as set forth
in
Schedule B, no action or proceeding is
pending (i) seeking to limit, cancel or
question the validity of any License,<






