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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY
AGREEMENT
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “
Agreement ” dated as of January 28, 2008, by and among
Golden Patriot, Corp., 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.
“ 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
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applications in connection 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.
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Schedule B hereto includes all Trademarks and Trademark
Licenses, if 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, Patent, Trademark, Copyright
or Trade Secret, or (ii) which, if adversely determined, would have
a material adverse effect on the value of any License, Patent,
Trademark, Copyright or Trade Secret. The Company has used
and will continue to use for the duration of this Agreement, proper
statutory notice in connection with its use of the Patents,
Trademarks and Copyrights and consistent standards of quality in
products leased or sold under the Patents, Trademarks and
Copyrights.
(q)
With respect to any Intellectual Property:
(i)
such Intellectual Property is subsisting and has not been adjudged
invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part;
(ii)
such Intellectual Property is valid and enforceable;
(iii)
the Company has made all necessary filings and recordations to
protect its interest in such Intellectual Property
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