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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT

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SILICON GRAPHICS INC | WELLS FARGO FOOTHILL, INC.,

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Title: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 10/25/2005
Industry: CMPTRS     Sector: TECHNO

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Intellectual Property Security Agreement

EXHIBIT 10.3

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT

 

This Intellectual Property Security Agreement (this “Agreement”), dated as of October 24, 2005, is made by and among Grantors listed on the signature pages hereof (collectively, jointly and severally, “Grantors” and each individually “Grantor”), and WELLS FARGO FOOTHILL, INC., in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lender Group and the Bank Product Provider (together with its successors, “Agent”), with respect to the following facts:

 

A. Each Grantor has adopted certain trademarks and service marks, as identified herein and in Schedule A annexed hereto and made a part hereof.

 

B. Each Grantor is the owner and holder of certain patents, patent applications, inventions and trade secret information, as identified herein and in Schedule B annexed hereto and made a part hereof.

 

C. Each Grantor is the owner of the copyrights in certain works of authorship, as described herein and in Schedule C annexed hereto and made a part hereof.

 

D. Pursuant to that certain Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement of even date herewith (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, including all schedules thereto, the “Credit Agreement”) among Silicon Graphics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”) and each of Parent’s Subsidiaries identified on the signature pages thereof (such Subsidiaries, together with Parent, are referred to hereinafter as a “Borrower” and individually and collectively, jointly and severally, as the “Borrowers”), the lenders party thereto as “Lenders” (“Lenders”), and Agent, the Lender Group is willing to make available to Borrowers a secured credit facility of $100,000,000 from time to time pursuant to the terms and conditions thereof. Capitalized terms which are used herein but not otherwise defined, shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Credit Agreement.

 

E. Agent has agreed to act as agent for the benefit of the Lender Group and the Bank Product Provider in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

 

F. In order to induce the Lender Group to enter into the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to induce the Lender Group to make financial accommodations to Borrowers as provided for in the Credit Agreement, Grantors have agreed to grant a continuing security interest in and to substantially all of each Grantor’s assets in order to secure the prompt and complete payment, observance and performance of, among other things, (a) the obligations of Grantors arising from this Agreement, the Credit Agreement, and the other Loan Documents, (b) all Bank Product Obligations, and (c) all Obligations of any Borrower (including, without limitation, any interest, fees or expenses that accrue after the filing of an Insolvency Proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in whole or in part as a claim in any Insolvency Proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys fees and expenses if the obligations represented thereunder are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom (clauses (a), (b), and (c) being hereinafter referred to as the “Secured Obligations”), by the granting of the security interests contemplated by the Security Agreement and this Agreement.


G. As a condition to making the financial accommodations to Borrowers as provided for in the Credit Agreement, the Lender Group has required that, concurrently herewith, Grantors execute and deliver to Agent this Agreement; any and all other documents which Agent deems necessary to protect the Lender Group’s interests hereunder or with respect to the Obligations.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED that, for and in consideration of the premises set forth above, the terms and conditions contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

1. As collateral security for the prompt payment and performance in full when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Secured Obligations, each Grantor hereby pledges and grants to Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group and the Bank Product Provider, a lien and security interest in and to the following property and interests in property, whether now owned by such Grantor or hereafter acquired and whether now existing or hereafter coming into existence and wherever located (all being collectively referred to herein as “Intellectual Property Collateral”):

 

(a) all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in and to trademarks, trade names, trade styles, service marks, logos, emblems, prints and labels, all elements of package or trade dress of goods, and all general intangibles of like nature, now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired by such Grantor, together with the goodwill of such Grantor’s business connected with the use thereof and symbolized thereby, and all registration applications, registrations and recordings thereof, including, without limitation, registration applications, registrations and recordings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States or in any office of the Secretary of State (or equivalent) of any state thereof, or in any similar office or agency of any country or political subdivision thereof throughout the world, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by such Grantor, including, but not limited to, those described in Schedule A annexed hereto and made a part hereof (provided that no security interest shall be granted in United States intent-to-use trademark applications to the extent that, and solely during the period in which, the grant of a security interest therein would impair the validity or enforceability of such intent-to-use trademark applications under applicable federal law), together with all extensions, renewals and corrections thereof and all licenses thereof or pertaining thereto (but with respect to any such license, only to the extent permitted by the applicable licensing agreement) (all of the foregoing assets encompassed by this subparagraph 1(a) being hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Trademarks”);

 

(b) all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in and to all inventions and letters patent and registration applications therefor, and all registrations and recordings thereof, including, without limitation, registration applications, registrations and recordings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States or any state thereof, or in any similar office or agency of any country or political subdivision thereof throughout the world, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by such Grantor, including, but not limited to, those described in Schedule B annexed hereto and made a part hereof, together with all re-examinations, reissues, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, improvements and extensions thereof and all licenses thereof or pertaining thereto and all licenses of patent rights to such Grantor now in effect or entered into during the term of this Agreement (but with


respect to any such license, only to the extent permitted by the applicable licensing agreement) and the rights to make, use and sell, and all other rights with respect to, the inventions disclosed or claimed therein, all inventions, designs, proprietary or technical information, know-how, other data or information, software, databases, all embodiments or fixations thereof and related documentation, all information having value in connection with such Grantor’s business and all other trade secret rights not described above (all of the foregoing assets encompassed by this subparagraph 1(b) being hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Patents”);

 

(c) all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in and to copyrights in works of authorship of any kind, and all registration applications, registrations and recordings thereof in the Office of the United States Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, or in any similar office or agency of any country or political subdivision thereof throughout the world, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by such Grantor, including, but not limited to, those described in Schedule C annexed hereto and made a part hereof, together with all extensions, renewals, reversionary rights, and corrections thereof and all licenses thereof or pertaining thereto (but with respect to any such license, only to the extent permitted by the applicable licensing agreement) (all of the foregoing assets encompassed by this subparagraph 1(c) hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Copyrights”);

 

(d) all of such Grantor’s customer lists and other records of such Grantor relating to the distribution of products bearing, constituting or incorporating the Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights; and

 

(e) the proceeds and products, whether tangible or intangible, of any of the foregoing, including (w) proceeds from any claims by such Grantor against third parties for past, present or future infringement of the Trademarks, Patents or Copyrights and any royalties from licenses to third parties of the Trademarks, Patents or Copyrights, (x) proceeds of insurance covering any or all of the foregoing, and (y) any and all money, deposit accounts, or other tangible or intangible property, solely to the extent, in the case of each of the foregoing clauses (w) and (x), resulting from the sale, exchange, collection or other disposition of any of the foregoing, or any portion thereof or interest therein, and the proceeds thereof; provided, however, that the Intellectual Property Collateral shall not include such General Intangibles: (i) which cannot be subject to a consensual security interest in favor of Agent without the consent of the licensor or other party thereto, (ii) as to which any such restriction described in clause (i) is effective and enforceable under applicable law including Section 9408 of the Code, and (iii) to which such consent described in clause (i) has not been obtained by the party granting the security interest.

 

2. Each Grantor hereby represents, warrants, covenants and agrees as follows:

 

(a) Each Grantor has the sole, full and clear title to the Trademarks for the goods and services with which the Trademarks are used (except for Permitted Liens and as provided in paragraph 2(g) below and in Schedule A attached hereto). The registrations of the Trademarks are valid and subsisting and in full force and effect. No Grantor has granted a license or otherwise agreed to allow any third party to use any Trademark (except in the ordinary course of business consistent with such Grantor’s business judgment). Each Grantor has used


and will continue to use for the duration of this Agreement standards of quality in the manufacture of products sold under the Trademarks that are at least equal to those standards in effect as of the date of this Agreement to the extent that the failure to do so would cause a Material Adverse Change.

 

(b) Each Grantor (either itself or through its licensees) will continue to use the Trademarks on its current lines of goods as reflected in its current catalogs, brochures and price lists in order to maintain the Trademarks in full force and effect, in the ordinary course of business, and no Grantor will (or will permit any licensee thereof to) do any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby any Trademark may become invalidated (except in the ordinary course of business consistent with such Grantor’s business judgment).

 

(c) Each Grantor has the sole, full and clear title to the Patents shown on Schedule B hereto and such Patents are valid and subsisting and in full force and effect and have not been adjudged or, to such Grantor’s knowledge, claimed invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part (except for Permitted Liens and as provided in paragraph 2(g) below and in Schedule B attached hereto). No Grantor has granted a license or otherwise agreed to allow any third party to use any Patent (except in the ordinary course of business consistent with such Grantor’s business judgment). Each Grantor shall diligently prosecute any patent application now pending or acquired or made by it during the term of this Agreement, and shall preserve and maintain all rights of any kind in the Patents, which, in each case, such Grantor

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