Exhibit 10.22
CONFIDENTIAL
STRATEGIC ALLIANCE: NON-EXCLUSIVE
LICENSE AGREEMENT
- BREAST, PROSTATE and LUNG
CANCER -
This License Agreement
(“Agreement”) is made by and between COLEY
PHARMACEUTICAL GROUP INC., Inc. having a place of business at 93
Worcester Street, Suite 101, Wellesley, MA, 02481, USA (herein
referred to as “COLEY”) and GLAXO GROUP LIMITED, a
corporation located at, 980 Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex
TW8 9GS, United Kingdom (herein referred to as
“GSK”).
WITNESSETH THAT
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WHEREAS, COLEY is the owner of certain right, title and
interest in, and/or is otherwise in possession and/or control of
the right to grant licenses under, certain patents in the manner
and to the extent identified in Appendix A hereto, and know-how to
the extent identified in Appendix B hereto, in the field of certain
adjuvant technology which has been demonstrated to exhibit activity
in animals and humans when used in combination with a variety of
antigen materials; and
WHEREAS, GSK has developed and/or is developing or
evaluating vaccines for the prevention and/or treatment of cancer
in humans; and
WHEREAS GSK desires to obtain certain worldwide
non-exclusive licenses from COLEY under the aforesaid patents and
know-how in the FIELD (as defined below), and COLEY is willing to
grant to GSK such licenses in accordance with the provisions set
forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE,
in consideration of the covenants
and obligations expressed herein and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound the parties agree
as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS
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1.01
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“ADDITIONAL ADJUVANT”
shall mean any and all compounds, compositions, components or
formulation of components other than ADJUVANT included in PRODUCT
or COMBINATION (provided ADDITIONAL ADJUVANT is contained
in
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Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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the vials, containers or other
administration devices referred to in Section 1.26), used to
induce, augment, fine-tune or enhance an ANTIGEN specific immune
response of PRODUCT or COMBINATION on top of the response already
induced, augmented, fine-tuned or enhanced by ADJUVANT in the
PRODUCT or COMBINATION.
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1.02
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“ADJUVANT” shall mean (i) COLEY
motifs and COLEY oligonucleotides containing immunostimulatory
unmethylated cytosine guanine dinucleotides and (ii) any and all
compounds or compositions, whether produced naturally or by
semisynthetic or synthetic means, alone or in admixture with
another material (excluding “ADDITIONAL ADJUVANT”), in
a suitable vehicle which is used to induce, augment, fine-tune or
enhance an ANTIGEN specific immune response and which is covered
by, or made with the use of TECHNOLOGY. For the avoidance of doubt
an oligonucleotide that does not induce, augment, fine-tune or
enhance an ANTIGEN specific immune response is not an ADJUVANT for
the purpose of the Agreement.
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1.03
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“AFFILIATE(S)” shall mean any
corporation, firm, partnership or other entity, whether de
jure or de facto, which directly or indirectly owns, is
owned by or is under common ownership with a party to this
Agreement to the extent of at least fifty percent (50%) of the
equity (or such lesser percentage which is the maximum allowed to
be owned by a foreign corporation in a particular jurisdiction)
having the power to vote on or direct the affairs of the entity and
any person, firm, partnership, corporation or other entity actually
controlled by, controlling or under common control with a party to
this Agreement.
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1.04
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“ANNUAL
NET SALES VALUE” shall mean NET SALES VALUE of PRODUCTS
and/or COMBINATIONS in a calendar year.
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1.05
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“ANTIGEN” shall mean any active
ingredient such as (but not limited to) live attenuated
micro-organisms, whole killed micro-organisms or subunit vaccines
(e.g. polysaccharides, polysaccharide conjugates, peptides,
recombinant proteins, glycolipids), that elicits an ANTIGEN
specific immune response. ANTIGENS exclude antigens which are
nucleic acids expressed in vivo following introduction of an
encoded gene.
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1.06
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“BENEFIT” shall mean
that:
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1)
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the protective
and/or therapeutic response to an ANTIGEN is improved (e.g.
increased) or;
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Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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2)
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the dosage of
such an ANTIGEN is decreased (i.e. lesser dose needed)
or;
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3)
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the schedule of
immunization or route of administration with such ANTIGEN is
improved (e.g. lower number of inoculations).
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1.07
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“BROAD
FIELD OF USE claim” shall mean a claim in existing PATENTS
which as mutually agreed between both parties, provides an
enforceable monopoly right which can be used to effectively prevent
a THIRD PARTY (other than the other non-exclusive licensee(s)) from
developing, using, making or marketing in the FIELD any product
comprising a LICENSED ANTIGEN(S) in combination with any
immunostimulatory oligonucleotide intended for use in humans
containing an unmethylated cytosine guanine dinucleotide. In the
event of any dispute between the parties as to whether a claim is a
BROAD FIELD OF USE claim, such dispute shall be resolved in
accordance with Section 15.02.
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1.08
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[deliberately
left blank]
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1.09
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“COMBINATION” shall mean - subject
to Section 1.26 — any and all pharmaceutical compositions
covered by a single PRODUCT LICENSE and approved under such PRODUCT
LICENSE for the sole purpose of PROPHYLACTIC IMMUNIZATION or
THERAPEUTIC IMMUNIZATION in the FIELD consisting of:
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(i)
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PRODUCT in (a)
vial(s) or other containers or administration devices which is
(are) administered concomitantly with
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(ii)
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LICENSED
ANTIGEN(S) in (a) vial(s) or other containers or administration
devices which is(are) not adjuvanted with ADJUVANT,
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provided that either (x) no PRODUCT
LICENSE exists for such LICENSED ANTIGEN(S) contained in the
vial(s) or other containers or administration devices under (ii)
above which limits the use of such LICENSED ANTIGEN(S) to exclusive
concomitant administration either with ADJUVANT or with PRODUCT
under (i) above or with any or certain adjuvants (including but not
limited to ADJUVANT), or (y) COLEY is unable to provide evidence
that ADJUVANT as part of PRODUCT referred to under (i) above has
provided a BENEFIT to the LICENSED ANTIGEN(S) referred to in (ii)
above and which is beyond and above the BENEFIT provided by
adjuvants other than ADJUVANT (contained in the same vials or other
containers or administration devices as LICENSED ANTIGEN(S)
referred to under (ii) above) to such LICENSED ANTIGEN(S). If
either such a PRODUCT LICENSE referred to in (x) exists
or
Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
COLEY is able to provide the
evidence in (y), then the combination of (i) and (ii) shall be a
PRODUCT, not a COMBINATION.
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1.10
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“COMPOSITION OF MATTER claim” shall
mean a claim which provides an enforceable monopoly right that can
be used to effectively prevent a THIRD PARTY (other than other
non-exclusive licensee(s)) from developing, using, making or
marketing any product in the FIELD for use in humans comprising a
LICENSED ANTIGEN which GSK has incorporated into PRODUCT in
combination with an ADJUVANT which GSK has incorporated into such
PRODUCT which is in preclinical or clinical testing or on the
market. In the event of any dispute between the parties as to
whether a claim is a COMPOSITION OF MATTER claim, such dispute
shall be resolved in accordance with Section 15.02.
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1.11
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“CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” shall
mean any information, data, patents, documents, memoranda, reports,
correspondence, drawings, clearly marked as CONFIDENTIAL and
exchanged between both parties under this Agreement. Information
disclosed orally must be reduced to writing and marked CONFIDENTIAL
within thirty (30) days of the disclosure to be considered as
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.
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1.12
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“DISPUTED
PATENT” shall mean University of Iowa Research Foundation US
patent application No WO 96/02555 claiming priority to U.S. patent
application Serial Number 08/276,358 dated 15/7/94 and all
divisions and continuations of this application, all patents
issuing from such applications, any reissues, reexaminations and
extensions of all such patents and all foreign counterparts of the
foregoing, and any other claim pertaining to any PATENT which has
been made in writing by THIRD PARTIES on or before December 18,
1998 or during the EVALUATION PERIOD (as defined in the License
Agreement - Infectious Diseases dated December 18, 1998 (as amended
by Amendment No. 1 dated December 18, 1999) and which may adversely
affect GSK’s rights hereunder.
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1.13
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“DNA
VACCINE” shall mean a pharmaceutical composition for
PROPHYLACTIC IMMUNIZATION or THERAPEUTIC IMMUNIZATION against
cancers in humans, wherein the ANTIGEN (including LICENSED
ANTIGEN(S)) is encoded in nucleic acid and expressed in vivo
following introduction of the nucleic acid.
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1.14
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“EFFECTIVE DATE” shall mean,
notwithstanding the date this Agreement is executed, 13 December
2001.
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Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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1.15
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“ESCROW” shall mean an account of
GSK opened at a UK bank from which no amounts can be withdrawn
other than by mutual consent of both parties or from which amounts
can be released in accordance with the provisions of Section
3.06.
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1.16
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“FIELD” shall mean the use of
ADJUVANT in combination with LICENSED ANTIGEN(S) as part of a
PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION for the purpose of inducing, augmenting,
fine-tuning or enhancing in vivo, in vitro or ex vivo of an ANTIGEN
specific immune response and in all cases for PROPHYLACTIC
IMMUNIZATION and/or THERAPEUTIC IMMUNIZATION against LICENSED
CANCERS in humans, excluding SPECIFIC FIELD.
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It is understood however that FIELD
shall include the use of ADJUVANT in combination with LICENSED
ANTIGEN(S) in the same vial regardless of whether ADDITIONAL
ADJUVANT has been formulated in the same vial. Subject to Section
2.03, nothing shall prevent the use of PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION
in the FIELD in conjunction with ANTIGENS for use outside the
FIELD, provided that GSK shall not develop and/or register a
product which combines such other ANTIGENS in the same vial,
container or other means of administration with ADJUVANT (whether
alone or formulated with LICENSED ANTIGEN(S)) and shall not seek a
product license for such other ANTIGENS to be administered
concomitantly with ADJUVANT (whether as part of PRODUCT or
COMBINATION or alone), PRODUCT or COMBINATION, unless such other
ANTIGEN is not derived from or is not specifically expressed in a
particular cancer form but is broadly expressed in or present in
solid tumor cancers including a LICENSED CANCER (e.g. such other
ANTIGEN is associated with angiogenisis or tumor invasion
mechanism) in which case product license for concomitant use and
administration of such other ANTIGEN with ADJUVANT as part of
PRODUCT or COMBINATION will be deemed within the FIELD.
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1.17
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“FIRST
LICENSED ANTIGEN” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
1.20 below.
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1.18
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“INFRINGE” or
“INFRINGED” or “INFRINGEMENT” shall mean
that on a country per country basis, a THIRD PARTY (other than
COLEY or its other non-exclusive licensee(s)) has filed a PLA for a
product claimed by COLEY PATENT claims or is commercially
manufacturing, commercially using or importing such a product,
provided, however, that if COLEY can demonstrate that COLEY is,
within a six (6)
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Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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month period following such PLA
filing of the THIRD PARTY product, actively negotiating with such
THIRD PARTY a license in order to avoid INFRINGEMENT of the PATENT
in all countries where such INFRINGEMENT exists and successfully
enters into such license agreement, no INFRINGEMENT shall be deemed
to exist or have existed. Failing to do so, INFRINGEMENT is deemed
to exist as from the end of such six (6) month period.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case of sale of such THIRD PARTY
product and absent execution of the license agreement referred to
above, INFRINGEMENT shall be deemed to exist.
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1.19
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“KNOW-HOW” shall mean all present
and future technical information, materials and know-how which
relate to ADJUVANT and which are now and/or at any time during the
term of this Agreement developed, owned, proprietary to and/or
controlled by COLEY and/or any AFFILIATES of COLEY and under which
COLEY has now, or in the future, the right to grant licenses or
sublicenses, and which are necessary for or useful to the
development, production and commercialization of ADJUVANT within
the FIELD. KNOW-HOW shall include, without limitation, all
chemical, pharmacological, toxicological, clinical, assay, control
and manufacturing data and any other information relating thereto
and any materials, seeds, strains, reagents and media. KNOW-HOW
shall not include PATENTS. A summary of KNOW-HOW is described in
Appendix B. In all events KNOW-HOW shall be secret and substantial
or contained in a PATENT or PATENT application in any country or
described in Appendix B.
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1.20
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“LICENSED
ANTIGEN” shall mean any ANTIGEN expressed in LICENSED CANCER
for which a license to use ADJUVANT with such ANTIGENS is granted
to GSK hereunder for the use specified in Section 2 as part of
PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION in which ADJUVANT induces, augments,
fine-tunes or enhances the ANTIGEN specific immune response of such
LICENSED ANTIGEN. For the avoidance of doubt, LICENSED ANTIGEN
shall refer to any and all ANTIGENS which are expressed in LICENSED
CANCER, it being understood however that a maximum of three (3)
LICENSED CANCER are the subject matter of the license granted
hereunder. In this context “FIRST LICENSED ANTIGEN”
refers to any and all ANTIGENS which are expressed in the LICENSED
CANCER: Breast Cancer, “SECOND LICENSED ANTIGEN” refers
to any and all ANTIGENS which are expressed in the LICENSED CANCER:
Prostate Cancer, and “THIRD LICENSED ANTIGEN” refers to
any and all ANTIGENS which are expressed in LICENSED CANCER: Lung
Cancer.
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Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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“LICENSED
CANCER” shall mean any of the three licensed cancers listed
in Section 2.01 for which a license to use ADJUVANT with LICENSED
ANTIGEN(S) expressed in such cancer, is granted to GSK pursuant to
Section 2.
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1.22.I.
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“NET
SALES VALUE” shall mean the gross receipts from sales of
PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION in the TERRITORY by GSK and/or its
AFFILIATES to THIRD PARTIES less the following amounts actually
paid or allowed by GSK and/or its AFFILIATES with respect to such
sales:
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(i)
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transportation
charges, including insurance; and
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(ii)
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GSK’s
standard costs for syringes and other administration devices
combined with or contained in commercial packaging; and
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(iii)
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sales and
excise taxes and duties levied on the sale or delivery of PRODUCT
and/or COMBINATION and contributions and payments required by any
governmental authorities as liability provisions and/or made
pursuant to injury compensation schemes and/or as product liability
insurance premiums; and
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(iv)
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trade and
quantity and cash discounts, governmentally required commissions
and other customary rebates; and
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(v)
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allowances or
credits to customers or charges back from customers on account of
rejection or return of PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION subject to
royalty under this Agreement or on account of retroactive price
reductions affecting such PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION;
and
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(vi)
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royalties
payable and/or paid by GSK and/or its AFFILIATES to THIRD PARTIES
on the manufacture, use and/or sale of PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION
for the use in the FIELD of technology not encompassed within
TECHNOLOGY and which is not the subject of the offset set forth in
Section 4 hereof, and provided that deductions under this heading
(vi) shall not exceed [****] percent ([*]%) of gross receipts from
sales of PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION on which such royalty is
payable hereunder in the TERRITORY by GSK and/or its
AFFILIATES.
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Sales between or among GSK and its
AFFILIATES shall be excluded from the computation of NET SALES
VALUE except where such AFFILIATES are end users, but NET SALES
VALUE shall include the subsequent final sales to THIRD PARTIES by
such AFFILIATES.
Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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1.22.II.
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In the case of any COMBINATION, NET SALES VALUE
of COMBINATION shall be calculated as follows:
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(i)
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By multiplying
the NET SALES VALUE of the COMBINATION by the fraction A/A + B,
where subject to the definition set forth in Sections 1.09 and
1.26, A is the gross selling price, during the royalty period in
question, of PRODUCT(S) contained in the vials or other containers
or administration devices referred to in Section 1.09(i), when sold
separately; and B is the gross selling price, during the royalty
period in question, of product(s) contained in the vials or other
containers or administration devices referred to in Section 1.09
(ii), when sold separately; or
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(ii)
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In the event
that no such separate sales are made of such components of such
COMBINATION during the royalty period in question, NET SALES VALUE,
for the purposes of determining royalty payments, shall be
calculated using the above formula under (i) where A is the
reasonably estimated commercial value of the PRODUCT(S) contained
in the vials or other containers or administration devices referred
to in Section 1.09(i) above, when sold separately, and B is the
reasonably estimated commercial value of the other product(s)
contained in the vials or other containers or administration
devices referred to in Section 1.09(ii) above, when sold
separately. Any such estimates shall be determined using criteria
to be mutually agreed upon by the parties. Such estimates shall be
reported to COLEY with the reports to be provided to COLEY pursuant
to Section 10.02 hereof.
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(iii)
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If the parties
cannot agree on any estimates as set forth in (ii) above, the
matter shall be resolved pursuant to the provisions of Sections
15.02 and 15.03.
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(iv)
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In the event no
reasonable commercial value can be attributed to the separate
components of COMBINATION under paragraphs (ii) and (iii) above,
the following formula shall apply: NET SALES VALUE shall be
multiplied by the formula x/y in which x is the total number of
LICENSED ANTIGEN contained in the vials or other containers or
administration devices referred to in Section 1.09(i) and Y is the
total number of ANTIGENS (including LICENSED ANTIGEN) contained in
COMBINATION.
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Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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1.23
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“OPTION
AGREEMENT” shall mean the Option Agreement dated December 18,
1998 and its Amendment no. 1 dated March 14, 2000 entered into by
and between the parties hereto.
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1.24
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“OTHER
PATENTS” shall mean patents and/or patent applications owned
and/or controlled by THIRD PARTIES having claims which would be
infringed by GSK developing, having developed, making, having made,
using, having used, selling or having sold ADJUVANT as part of
PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION.
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“PATENT(S)” shall mean all patents
and patent applications which are or become owned and/or
controlled, in whole or in part, by COLEY and/or any AFFILIATES of
COLEY including patents and patent applications claiming inventions
made by COLEY under which COLEY has, now or in the future, the
right to grant licenses or sublicenses and which generically or
specifically claim ADJUVANT and/or use of ADJUVANT and/or a process
for manufacturing ADJUVANT, and/or intermediates used in such
process, and which are useful in the FIELD. Included within the
definition of PATENTS are any continuations, continuations-in-part,
divisions, patents of addition, reissues, renewals or extensions
including SPC’s thereof. Also included within the definition
of PATENTS are any patents or patent applications which generically
or specifically claim or have claims covering any improvements of
ADJUVANT or intermediates or manufacturing processes required or
useful for production of ADJUVANT which are developed by COLEY,
and/or under which COLEY otherwise has the right to grant licenses
or sublicenses, now or in the future, during the term of this
Agreement and in all cases which relate to the FIELD. The list of
patents and patent applications encompassed within PATENTS on the
EFFECTIVE DATE is set forth in Appendix A attached hereto. PATENTS
shall consist of five groups: “IOWA PATENTS” listed in
Section 1 of Appendix A, “LOEB PATENTS” listed in
Section 2 of Appendix A, “ISIS PATENTS” listed in
Section 3 of Appendix A, “PHS PATENTS” listed in
Section 5 of Appendix A and “COLEY PATENTS” which shall
include all PATENTS listed in Section 4 and all other PATENTS not
listed in Section 1, 2, 3 or 5 of Appendix A.
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[Each Section will list present
patents and applications and will be updated to include all future
patents and applications licensed to COLEY in the FIELD under the
relevant agreement or will be updated to include those resulting
from developments or inventions made by COLEY in the FIELD. Future
patents and
Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
patent application in the FIELD
licensed by COLEY which are not IOWA PATENTS, LOEB PATENTS or ISIS
PATENTS shall be considered as COLEY PATENTS for the purpose of
updating Appendix A.]
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1.26
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“PRODUCT” shall mean any and all
pharmaceutical compositions for PROPHYLACTIC IMMUNIZATION and/or
THERAPEUTIC IMMUNIZATION in the FIELD comprising (or including the
administration of) one or more of the LICENSED ANTIGENS in
combination with ADJUVANT as an ingredient or component in any
formulation, configuration, combination and/or delivery system, in
which ADJUVANT induces, augments, fine-tunes or enhances the
ANTIGEN specific immune response of any of such LICENSED ANTIGEN(S)
contained within PRODUCT. Subject to the above, it is explicitly
understood that PRODUCT shall include:
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(i)
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a PRODUCT in
(a) vial(s) or other containers or administration devices, all of
which contain LICENSED ANTIGEN(S), combined with ADJUVANT and which
may be adjuvanted with ADDITIONAL ADJUVANTS.
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(ii)
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a PRODUCT as
defined in (i) above which is administered concomitantly with a
product in (a) vial(s) or other containers or administration
devices, all of which contain LICENSED ANTIGEN(S) which are not
adjuvanted with ADJUVANT (the latter product hereinafter being
referred to as “NON ADJUVANTED PRODUCT”) provided that
either:
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(ii) (x)
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the PRODUCT LICENSE issued by the
regulatory authorities limits the use of NON ADJUVANTED PRODUCT to
exclusive concomitant administration only (except as set forth in
the proviso in this sentence) with ADJUVANT or with PRODUCT as
defined under (i) above regardless of whether NON ADJUVANTED
PRODUCT is administered concomitantly in the same lymphnode as
ADJUVANT or PRODUCT defined under (i) above, or not; provided that
if the PRODUCT LICENSE limits the use to exclusive concomitant
administration of NON ADJUVANTED PRODUCT with any or certain
adjuvants (including but not limited to ADJUVANT) or with (a)
product(s) which (all) contain(s) LICENSED ANTIGEN(S) and any or
certain adjuvants (including but not limited to ADJUVANT), then a
portion of the NON ADJUVANTED PRODUCT shall be treated as PRODUCTS
and the parties shall determine the number of PRODUCTS to be so
treated as follows: based on IMS data and sales data provided by
GSK for the same period (which may be
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Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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audited by COLEY at COLEY’s
expense) for the sales of (a) vials or other containers or
administration devices containing LICENSED ANTIGEN(S) and ADJUVANT
on the one hand and (b) vials or other containers or administration
devices containing LICENSED ANTIGEN(S) and the certain adjuvants
other than ADJUVANT on the other hand, the number of NON ADJUVANTED
PRODUCTS shall be distributed pro rata between (x) PRODUCTS, and
(y) products consisting of LICENSED ANTIGEN(S) and an adjuvant
other than ADJUVANT.
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or:
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(ii)(y)
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even if there
is no such restriction in the PRODUCT LICENSE for NON ADJUVANTED
PRODUCT as provided for under (ii) (x) above, COLEY is able to
demonstrate that NON ADJUVANTED PRODUCT which is adjuvanted with
adjuvant(s) other than ADJUVANT BENEFITS from ADJUVANT contained in
PRODUCT defined in (i) above and such BENEFIT is beyond and above
the BENEFIT provided by adjuvants contained in NON ADJUVANTED
PRODUCT.
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1.27
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“PRODUCT
LICENSE” means the receipt of all necessary approvals from
the relevant regulatory authority for the sale of PRODUCT or
COMBINATION.
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1.28
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“PROPHYLACTIC IMMUNIZATION” shall
mean the use of PRODUCT or COMBINATION to immunize humans with no
diagnosed relevant disease.
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1.29
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“SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGEN” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
1.20 above.
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1.30
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“SIGNIFICANT COMPETITION” shall mean
on a country-per-country and PRODUCT-per-PRODUCT basis including
COMBINATIONS, the marketing by a THIRD PARTY (other than COLEY or
its other non-exclusive licensee(s)) of a competing product
(including a combination) in the FIELD which utilizes unmethylated
cytosine guanine dinucleotides as adjuvant in combination with
LICENSED ANTIGEN(S) licensed hereunder, to the extent such
competitor has achieved a market share of [******] percent ([**]%)
or more or has doubled the market share it had achieved in the
previous year from a base market share of at least [****]
percent.
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Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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1.31
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“SPC” shall mean all Supplementary
Protection Certificates for medicinal products and their
equivalents provided under the Council Regulation (EEC) N°
1768/92 of June 18, 1992.
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1.32
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“SPECIFIC
FIELD” shall mean without limitation the use of ADJUVANT (i)
in combination with DNA VACCINES or (ii) other than in combination
with a LICENSED ANTIGEN and independently from a LICENSED ANTIGEN
or (iii) in combination with antibodies in passive immunotherapy
applications when not combined with a tumor ANTIGEN; or (iv) in all
non ANTIGEN specific ex vivo applications or (v) for all purposes
other than eliciting, inducing, augmenting, fine-tuning or
enhancing an ANTIGEN-specific immune response.
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1.33
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“TECHNOLOGY” shall mean KNOW HOW
and/or PATENTS.
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1.34
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“TERRITORY” shall mean all the
countries and territories in the world.
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1.35
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“THERAPEUTIC IMMUNIZATION” shall
mean the use of PRODUCT or COMBINATION to treat humans with
diagnosed relevant disease.
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1.36
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“THIRD
LICENSED ANTIGEN” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
1.20 above.
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1.37
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“THIRD
PARTY(IES)” shall mean any party which is neither a party to
this Agreement nor an AFFILIATE.
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1.38
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“VALID
CLAIM” shall mean a claim subsisting in a patent or in a
pending patent application, being a claim that has not finally been
canceled, revoked or held invalid by a final decision of a court or
other authority having jurisdiction to decide the issue. A final
decision in this context means a decision which has become legally
binding either because no appeal has been taken and the time for
appeal has expired, or because any appeal taken is no longer
pending, leaving the decision of cancellation, revocation or
invalidation standing without possibility of further
appeal.
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For the purpose of this Agreement,
except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or unless
the context otherwise requires: (a) defined terms include the
plural as well as the singular and the use of any gender shall be
deemed to include the other gender; (b) references to
“Articles”, “Sections” and other
subdivisions and to “Schedules” without reference to a
document, are to designated Articles, Sections and other
subdivisions of, and to Schedules to, this Agreement; (c) the use
of the term “including” means “including but
not
Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
limited to”; and (d) the words
“herein”, “hereof”, “hereunder”
and other words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a
whole and not to any particular provisions.
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2.01
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(a) In
consideration of the obligations assumed by GSK hereunder and
subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, as of the
EFFECTIVE DATE COLEY hereby grants to GSK and to any AFFILIATES of
GSK a non-exclusive license under TECHNOLOGY to develop, have
developed, make, have made, use, have used, sell, offer for sale,
have sold, keep and/or import in the TERRITORY and in the FIELD any
PRODUCTS and/or COMBINATIONS in any formulation, composition or
delivery systems (including without limitation ADJUVANTS for use as
part of PRODUCTS and/or COMBINATION) which contain any of the
following two LICENSED ANTIGENS:
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Any and all
ANTIGENS expressed in Prostate Cancer
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•
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Any and all
ANTIGENS expressed in Breast Cancer.
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(b) In further consideration of the
obligations assumed by GSK hereunder and subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, as of May 22, 2002 COLEY hereby
grants to GSK and to any AFFILIATES of GSK a non-exclusive license
under TECHNOLOGY to develop, have developed, make, have made, use,
have used, sell, offer for sale, have sold, keep and/or import in
the TERRITORY and in the FIELD any PRODUCTS and/or COMBINATIONS in
any formulation, composition or delivery systems (including without
limitation ADJUVANTS for use as part of PRODUCTS and/or
COMBINATION) which contain the following LICENSED
ANTIGENS:
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•
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Any and all
ANTIGENS expressed in Lung Cancer.
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2.02
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GSK, and GSK
alone, may choose to exclude from the license granted under Section
2.01 the IOWA PATENTS, the LOEB PATENTS, PHS PATENTS or the ISIS
PATENTS.
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2.03
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The license granted hereby shall
not include the right to sell ADJUVANT except when included in a
vial or other container or administration device containing at
least one LICENSED ANTIGEN as part of PRODUCT or COMBINATION.
Subject to the definition of FIELD set forth in Section 1.16, the
license granted by this Section shall not include the right to
develop, have developed, make, have made,
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Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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use, have used, sell, have sold,
keep and/or import any product for use in any cancer or disease
other than a LICENSED CANCER. GSK agrees that it will not seek a
PRODUCT LICENSE to sell any PRODUCT or COMBINATION for any cancer
or disease other than a LICENSED CANCER and will not promote any
PRODUCT or COMBINATION for any use other than for a LICENSED
CANCER. For the sake of clarity, nothing in this Agreement shall be
construed by any means as a limitation of GSK’s rights
pursuant to the License Agreement-Infectious Diseases dated
December 18, 1998 (as amended by Amendment No. 1 dated December 18,
1999).
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3.
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LICENSE
FEES, PATENT GRANT FEES, MILESTONE PAYMENTS AND
ROYALTIES
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3.01.
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(a) In
consideration of PATENTS and KNOW-HOW resulting from the use of the
research performed by COLEY prior to the EFFECTIVE DATE and the
right to use pre-clinical information developed by COLEY prior to
the EFFECTIVE DATE, the parties acknowledge and agree that GSK has
paid COLEY a non-refundable license fee in the amount of one (1)
million US dollars ($1,000,000 US$) for each of the FIRST LICENSED
ANTIGEN and SECOND LICENSED ANTIGEN, which payments were received
by COLEY prior to the execution of this Agreement.
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(b) In further consideration of
PATENTS and KNOW-HOW resulting from the use of the research
performed by COLEY prior to the EFFECTIVE DATE and the right to use
pre-clinical information developed by COLEY prior to the EFFECTIVE
DATE, GSK shall pay once only for the THIRD LICENSED ANTIGEN the
following non-refundable License Fee to COLEY: two million US
dollars (2,000,000 US$), which shall be paid within five (5)
working days of the execution of the present Agreement by the last
party hereto.
(c) The above referenced License
Fees shall be allocated among the IOWA PATENTS, LOEB PATENTS, ISIS
PATENTS, PHS PATENTS, COLEY PATENTS and KNOW HOW as
follows:
For each of the FIRST LICENSED
ANTIGEN and the SECOND LICENSED ANTIGEN :
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IOWA PATENTS:
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[*******] US$
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LOEB PATENTS:
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[*******] US$
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ISIS PATENTS:
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[******] US$
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PHS PATENTS:
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[******] US$
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COLEY PATENTS:
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[*******] US$
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KNOW HOW:
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[******] US$
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TOTAL: 1,000,000 US$ for each of the
FIRST and SECOND LICENSED ANTIGENS
Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
For the THIRD LICENSED
ANTIGEN :
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IOWA PATENTS:
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[
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*******] US$
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LOEB PATENTS:
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[
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*******] US$
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ISIS PATENTS:
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[
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*******] US$
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PHS PATENTS:
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[
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*******] US$
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COLEY PATENTS:
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[
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*******] US$
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KNOW HOW:
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[
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*******] US$
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TOTAL: 2,000,000 US$ for the THIRD
LICENSED ANTIGEN
In the event GSK elects to exclude
any of the above groups of PATENTS from its license for any
LICENSED CANCER and the related LICENSED ANTIGEN pursuant to
Section 2.02, the License Fee will be reduced by the amount set
forth above for such group of PATENTS.
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3.02
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(a) GSK shall pay once only for the FIRST LICENSED
ANTIGEN and once only for the SECOND LICENSED ANTIGEN and once only
for the THIRD LICENSED ANTIGEN the following milestone payments to
COLEY upon the first achievement of the following development
milestones for the first PRODUCTS or COMBINATIONS containing such
LICENSED ANTIGENS:
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1.
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Initiation of
first phase 1 clinical trial in the USA, Canada or
Europe:
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For each of the FIRST and SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGENS: [*********************] US dollars ([*******]
US$); and
For the THIRD LICENSED ANTIGEN:
[***********] US dollars ([*********] U.S. $).
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2.
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Initiation of
phase II clinical trial in the USA, Canada or Europe:
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For each of the FIRST and SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGENS: [*********************] US dollars ([*******]
US$); and
Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
For the THIRD LICENSED ANTIGEN:
[***********] U.S. dollars ([*********] U.S. $).
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3.
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Initiation of
phase Ill clinical trial in the USA, Canada or Europe:
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For each of the FIRST and SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGENS: [*********************************] U.S. dollars
([*********] US$)
For the THIRD LICENSED ANTIGEN:
[**************] U.S. dollars ([*********] U.S. $).
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4.
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Submission and
acceptance for regulatory review for marketing approval of PRODUCT
or COMBINATION to the appropriate regulatory agency in
USA:
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For each of the FIRST and SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGENS: [*********************************] U.S. dollars
([*********] US$); and
For the THIRD LICENSED ANTIGEN:
[**************] U.S. dollars ([*********] U.S.$).
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5.
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Submission and
acceptance for regulatory review for marketing approval of PRODUCT
or COMBINATION to the appropriate regulatory agency in Europe (as
defined below):
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For each of the FIRST and SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGENS[***********************************] U.S. dollars
([*********] US$); and
For the THIRD LICENSED ANTIGEN:
[**************] U.S. dollars ([*********] U.S.$).
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6.
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Marketing
approval of PRODUCT or COMBINATION by the FDA in the
USA:
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For each of the FIRST and SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGENS: [**************] U.S. dollars ([*********]
U.S.$).
For the THIRD LICENSED ANTIGEN:
[***********] U.S. dollars ([*********] U.S.$).
Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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License
Maintenance Fee: GSK shall pay a license maintenance fee for the
first PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION only in the amount of: (a)
[******************************] US dollars ([*******] US$) per
year for each of the FIRST LICENSED ANTIGEN and the SECOND LICENSED
ANTIGEN, and (b) [*********************] US dollars ([*******] US$)
per year for the THIRD LICENSED ANTIGEN, each as from the fourth
anniversary of the initiation of a successful pivotal phase Ill
clinical trial in Europe, USA or Canada until the moment the first
marketing approval for such PRODUCT or COMBINATION is obtained in
Europe, USA or Canada, whichever is the first. For the avoidance of
doubt, no such license maintenance fee shall be due if PRODUCT or
COMBINATION is registered in Europe, USA or Canada prior to such
fourth anniversary of the initiation of pivotal phase III clinical
trial in Europe, USA or Canada.
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If any milestone is reached without
achieving a preceding milestone, then the amount which would have
been payable on achievement of the preceding milestone shall be
payable upon achievement of the following milestone. For example,
if a PRODUCT relating to the FIRST or SECOND LICENSED ANTIGEN is
submitted and accepted for regulatory review for marketing approval
on the basis of a Phase II trial without conducting a Phase III
trial, then a total of [*********] US$ will be due upon such
submission and acceptance ($[*********] for such submission and
acceptance and $[*********], which would have become payable upon
the initiation of Phase III). If any milestone has been reached
prior to execution of this Agreement, the milestone payment for
such milestone shall be paid upon execution of this
Agreement.
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3.03
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In Section 3.02
the following terms shall have the meanings defined
below:
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“Initiation” for the
purpose of Phase 1 clinical trial, Phase 2 clinical trial and Phase
3 clinical trial shall mean that the following activities have been
carried out for the purpose of a given phase: the clinical lots
have been released, GSK’s Corporate Safety Board has approved
the trial, the principal investigator has signed the clinical study
protocol and the ethical review board and the relevant authorities
have approved the clinical trial protocol for such
phase.
“Phase I clinical trial”
means that PRODUCT or COMBINATION is administered in a clinical
trial in order to investigate safety and immunogenicity of PRODUCT
and/or COMBINATION in humans;
“Phase II clinical
trial” means that PRODUCT or COMBINATION is administered
in
Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
a second clinical trial which after
successful completion of phase I clinical trial, which is
designated to evaluate efficacy and immunogenicity of PRODUCT of
the exact same composition as the one tested successfully in the
Phase I trial;
“Phase Ill clinical
trial” means that PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION is administered
to subjects in a pivotal clinical trial for which regulatory
authorization has been obtained as a result of the ‘Filing
for Phase III’ or the date that GSK has been convinced to its
satisfaction that the FDA has determined that data produced during
Phase II clinical trials is sufficient to support filing of a PLA
without any data from Phase III clinical trials.
“Europe” means that the
regulatory agency is the EMEA/CPMP (centralized procedure) or, in
the event that the decentralized procedure is followed, that the
procedure encompasses more than two major countries chosen from UK,
Spain, France, Germany and Italy.
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3.04
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No milestone
payment for a given milestone shall be due for any subsequent
PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION which targets a given LICENSED CANCER if
the same milestone set forth in Section 3.02 for a PRODUCT and/or
COMBINATION which targets such LICENSED CANCER has been previously
paid by GSK pursuant to Section 3.02.
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3.05
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[*****] percent of the marketing approval milestone
payments set forth in Section 3.02 point 6 for PRODUCTS and/or
COMBINATIONS for a given LICENSED CANCER are creditable against
current and future royalties owed pursuant to Sections 3.06 and
3.09 on the account of sales of PRODUCTS and/or COMBINATIONS
registered for such LICENSED CANCER and the license maintenance fee
set forth in Section 3.02 point 7 for a given LICENSED CANCER shall
be fully creditable against current and future royalties owed
pursuant to Sections 3.06 and 3.09 on the account of sales of
PRODUCTS and/or COMBINATIONS registered for such LICENSED CANCER,
provided that such credits shall not cause the royalties otherwise
payable in any one calendar quarter to be reduced by more than
[*****] percent ([**]%). However, any uncredited balance of
creditable milestone payments will be carried forward to any
following calendar quarter.
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Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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3.06.I
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As
consideration for the license under PATENTS granted to GSK under
this Agreement and subject to Sections 3.07 and 4, GSK shall pay to
COLEY the following royalties (“Patent Royalty”) on NET
SALES VALUE of PRODUCTS and/or COMBINATIONS registered for a
LICENSED CANCER where ADJUVANT (which is part of PRODUCT or
COMBINATION), PRODUCT or COMBINATION is covered by:
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A.1.
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a “BROAD
FIELD OF USE” claim in a PATENT issued in the country where
the PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION is sold:
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On the portion of ANNUAL NET SALES
VALUE:
up to [********************] US
dollars (<US$ [***********]):
[***] % for the FIRST and SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGEN, and
[***] % for the THIRD LICENSED
ANTIGEN;
On the portion of ANNUAL NET SALES
VALUE:
between [********************] US
dollars ( > US$ [***********]) and
[***********] US dollars (<US$
[*************]):
[*] % for the FIRST and SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGEN,
and
[*] % for the THIRD LICENSED
ANTIGEN; and
On the portion of ANNUAL NET SALES
VALUE:
above [***********] US dollars: (
> US$ [*************]):
[***] % for the FIRST and SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGEN, and
[****] % for the THIRD LICENSED
ANTIGEN.
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A.2
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a
“COMPOSITION OF MATTER” claim in a PATENT issued in the
country where the PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION is sold and not a
BROAD FIELD OF USE claim in such country:
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On the portion of ANNUAL NET SALES
VALUE:
up to [********************] US
dollars: (< US$ [***********]):
[*] % for the FIRST and SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGEN, and
[*] % for the THIRD LICENSED
ANTIGEN;
Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
On the portion of ANNUAL NET SALES
VALUE:
between [********************] US
dollars ( > US$ [***********])
and [***********] US dollars
(<US$ [*************]):
[***] % for the FIRST and SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGEN,
and
[***] % for the THIRD LICENSED
ANTIGEN); and
On the portion of ANNUAL NET SALES
VALUE:
above [***********] US dollars (
> US$ [*************]):
[***]% for the FIRST and SECOND
LICENSED ANTIGEN,
and
[***]% for the THIRD LICENSED
ANTIGEN
provided in all events under Al and
A2 above, sales of PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION are covered by a
VALID CLAIM of a granted PATENT, not subject to any ownership
dispute which materially reduces or affects any rights granted to
GSK hereunder. For the avoidance of doubt portion of ANNUAL NET
SALES VALUE shall be calculated for PRODUCTS and COMBINATIONS
registered for each LICENSED CANCER separately from those
registered for other LICENSED CANCERS. For the avoidance of doubt,
if PRODUCT or COMBINATION is covered both by a BROAD FIELD OF USE
claim in a PATENT and COMPOSITION OF MATTER claim in a PATENT, only
the applicable royalty rate under Al shall apply.
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3.06.II In
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case PATENTS
claiming PRODUCT and/or COMBINATION are pending but not granted in
any country such that no royalty pursuant to Section 3.06 (I) is
due, the following royalty rates shall apply for such
country:
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A.
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If PRODUCTS and/or COMBINATIONS
containing LICENSED ANTIGEN(S) are claimed by a pending BROAD FIELD
OF USE claim in such PATENT: the royalty rate under Section
3.06.I.A.2 above for COMPOSITION OF MATTER shall apply to the NET
SALES VALUE and such royalties shall be payable to COLEY and the
differential between the royalty rate for BROAD FIELD OF USE claim
under Section 3.06.1.A1 and such royalty rate for an issued
COMPOSITION OF MATTER claim, all applied to NET SALES VALUE shall
be paid by GSK into the ESCROW until the earlier of (i) the
expiration of a period of five (5) years (seven (7)
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Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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years in Japan after the Effective
Date of AMENDMENT 1 to the Option Agreement dated March 14, 2000
entered into between the parties (as the term “Effective
Date” is defined therein) or (ii) the PATENT has been issued
(in which case the amounts on the ESCROW account shall be released
to the benefit of COLEY) or (iii) the PATENT has been abandoned by
COLEY or revoked or otherwise invalidated (in which case the
amounts on the ESCROW account shall be released to the benefit of
GSK). Two (2) years after expiration of such five (5) year period
(Japan: seven (7) years) and provided the PATENT has not been
issued during such period, the amounts on the ESCROW account shall
be released to the benefit of GSK.
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B.
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If PRODUCTS
and/or COMBINATION containing LICENSED ANTIGEN are claimed by a
pending COMPOSITION OF MATTER claim in such PATENT and not by a
pending BROAD FILE OF USE claim (as per Section 3.06.II.A above)
and
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(i)
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if such PATENT
has not been pending for more than five (5) years (except Japan:
seven (7) years) after the Effective Date of AMENDMENT 1 to the
Option Agreement dated March 14, 2000 entered into between the
parties (as the term “Effective Date” is defined
therein), then the royalty rate set forth under Section 3.06.I.A2
for COMPOSITION OF MATTER claim shall apply.
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(ii)
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if such PATENT
has been pending for more than five (5) years (except Japan: seven
(7) years) after the Effective Date of AMENDMENT 1 to the Option
Agreement dated March 14, 2000 entered into between the parties (as
the term “Effective Date” is defined therein), then the
royalty rate set forth under Section 3.09 shall apply to NET SALES
VALUE.
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(iii)
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if and when
such PATENT is granted after such five (5) year (except Japan:
seven (7) year) period, then the royalty rate under Section
3.06.I.A2 shall apply.
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3.06.III.A.
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In case PATENTS claiming PRODUCT
and/or COMBINATION are pending but not granted such that no Royalty
Rate pursuant to Section 3.06.I is due and any such PATENT is being
INFRINGED, (as long as INFRINGEMENT
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Portions of this Exhibit were omitted and have
been filed separately with the Secretary of the Commission pursuant
to the Company’s application requesting confidential
treatment under Rule 406 of the Securities Act.
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exists), the royalty rate under
Section 3.09 shall apply to NET SALES VALUE in such country (or
countries), except as set forth in Section 3.06.III.C
below.
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B.
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Provided and as
long as the relevant claim of such PATENT which is being INFRINGED
has been pending for no more than five (5) years (Japan: seven (7)
years) from the Effective Date of AMENDMENT 1 to the Option
Agreement dated March 14, 2000 entered into between the parties (as
the term “Effective Date” is defined therein): the
differential between
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