Exhibit 10.2
AMENDED AND
RESTATED
EXCLUSIVE PATENT LICENSE
AGREEMENT
SCOLR PHARMA, INC.
AND
ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND
COMPANY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS
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ARTICLE 2 GRANT OF LICENSE
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2
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2.1.
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SCOLR Licensed Patent
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2.2.
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Improvements
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2.3.
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Termination of Other Rights
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ARTICLE 3 PAYMENTS
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3.1.
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Initial Payment
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3.2.
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Subsequent Payment
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3.3.
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Books and Records
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ARTICLE 4 INFRINGEMENT
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ARTICLE 5 LIMITED WARRANTY AND
INDEMNIFICATION
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5.1.
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Limited Warranty
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5.2.
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Survival of Prior Claims
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5.3.
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Indemnification by SCOLR
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5.4.
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Indemnification by ADM
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5.5.
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Indemnification Procedures
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ARTICLE 6 TERM; TERMINATION
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6.1.
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Term
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6.2.
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Termination
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ARTICLE 7 PACKAGING, LABELS AND PROMOTIONAL
ITEMS
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ARTICLE 8 PROTECTION OF PROPRIETARY
RIGHTS
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8.1.
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Acknowledgments and Obligations
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8
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ARTICLE 9 ASSIGNMENT
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9.1.
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Permitted Assignment Only
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9.2.
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Successors and Assigns
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ARTICLE 10 DISPUTES; ARBITRATION
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ARTICLE 11 GOVERNING LAW
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10
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ARTICLE 12 FORCE MAJEURE
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10
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ARTICLE 13 NOTICES
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ARTICLE 14 MISCELLANEOUS
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14.1.
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Integration; Entire Agreement
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14.2.
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Amendments
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14.3.
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Severability
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14.4.
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Waiver/Cumulative Rights
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14.5.
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Survival
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14.6.
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No Joint Venture or Partnership
Relationship
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14.7.
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Attorneys Fees and Costs
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14.8.
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Authorized Execution
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14.9.
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Counterparts
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14.10.
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Further Assurance
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ii
AMENDED AND
RESTATED
EXCLUSIVE PATENT LICENSE
AGREEMENT
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED EXCLUSIVE
PATENT LICENSE AGREEMENT (“ Agreement ”) made as
of August 10, 2006 by and between SCOLR Pharma, Inc., a
Delaware corporation formerly known as Nutraceutix, Inc.
(hereinafter referred to as “ SCOLR ”), and
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, a Delaware corporation (hereinafter
referred to as “ ADM ”).
W I T N E S S E T
H:
WHEREAS, SCOLR and ADM are parties
to an Exclusive Patent License Agreement dated as of March 8,
2002 (the “ Existing Agreement ”), pursuant to
which SCOLR granted to ADM a license to manufacture, use, sell and
offer to sell Licensed Products and Inventions (as each such term
is defined in the Existing Agreement) in the Territory (as defined
in the Existing Agreement) pursuant to the terms and conditions set
forth in the Existing Agreement; and
WHEREAS, SCOLR and ADM desire to
modify the terms of the license granted by SCOLR to ADM under the
Existing Agreement by amending and restating the Existing Agreement
on the terms hereof.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises and the mutual agreements contained herein, and other
good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which is hereby acknowledged by the Parties, and intending to be
legally bound hereby, the Parties agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
For the purposes of this Agreement,
unless the context clearly or necessarily requires otherwise, the
following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
“ Affiliate ” of
a Party shall mean any company, corporation, partnership, syndicate
or other entity that, directly or indirectly, through one or more
intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common
control with, such Party. “ Control ” shall mean
ownership of fifty-one percent (51%) or more of the voting
rights or equity in the specified entity.
“ Effective Date
” shall mean the date when this Agreement is fully executed
by the Parties.
“ Improvements ”
shall mean any discovery, concept, trade secret, art, clinical
data, idea or other information, whether or not patentable, that
relates to or arises out of the subject matters disclosed in the
Licensed Patent, as well as any foreign patents or foreign patent
applications corresponding thereto, and any continuations,
continuations-in-part, divisionals, reissues, reexaminations,
extensions or additions thereof, whether or not for use in the
Licensed Field of Use.
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“ Intellectual Property
” shall mean all forms of intellectual property existing on
or after the date of this Agreement under the laws of any state or
country, including, but not limited to, inventions, designs and
plants, in each case, whether or not patentable, patent rights,
copyrightable works, mask works, trademarks, service marks, trade
secrets, know-how and trade dress.
“ Knowledge of ADM
” shall mean the knowledge of the corporate officers of ADM
and the officers of the ADM Natural Health & Nutrition
Division on the Effective Date.
“ Licensed Field of Use
” shall mean a sustained release oral solid dosage form
product comprising a nutraceutical, a dietary supplement or a
combination thereof, comprising isoflavones; provided , that
any additional nutraceutical ingredient or dietary supplement used
in such product (excluding the isoflavones in such product and any
nutraceutical ingredient contained as part of an isoflavone
concentrate included in the specifications set forth in Exhibit 1 )
shall not be present in an amount of more than 35% of the weight of
the product. As used in this definition, “dietary
supplement” means the terms “dietary supplement”
as defined in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of
1994, as amended, irrespective of whether a product is
manufactured, marketed, sold or used in the United
States.
“ Licensed Patent
” shall mean United States Patent Number 6,090,411 and patent
rights with respect to Improvements, as well as rights to any other
U.S. or foreign patents or foreign patent applications
corresponding thereto, any continuations, continuations-in-part,
divisionals, reissues, reexaminations, extensions or additions
thereof.
“ Licensed Products
” shall mean any product or part thereof in the Licensed
Field of Use, the manufacture, use, sale, offer for sale, or
importation of which (i) is covered by one or more claims of
the Licensed Patent or (ii) utilizes an Improvement invented,
conceived, made, developed, discovered, first reduced to practice
or created by SCOLR prior to the Effective Date.
“ Parties ” shall
mean both SCOLR and ADM, and the “ Party ” shall
mean either of them.
“ Qualified Offering
” shall mean the sale of SCOLR’s capital stock in a
transaction that results in net proceeds to SCOLR (after deduction
of fees and expenses related to such offering) of not less than
US$10,000,000.
“ Territory ”
shall mean worldwide.
ARTICLE 2
GRANT OF
LICENSE
2.1. SCOLR Licensed Patent .
While this Agreement is in effect, and subject to the terms and
conditions hereof, SCOLR hereby grants to ADM an exclusive,
royalty-free license,
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with the right to grant sublicenses, to
manufacture, have manufactured on its behalf, use, sell and offer
to sell the Licensed Products in the Territory. While this
Agreement is in effect and ADM is performing its obligations
hereunder, SCOLR shall not grant other licenses under the Licensed
Patent in the Territory for the Licensed Field of Use or itself
manufacture, have manufactured, use, sell, market, offer for sale
or import Licensed Products in the Territory. All other rights are
retained by and reserved to SCOLR.
2.2. Improvements . SCOLR
shall promptly disclose to ADM any Improvements that are invented,
conceived, made, developed, discovered, first reduced to practice
or created by SCOLR, its employees or agents, during the term of
this Agreement and that apply to Licensed Products. ADM shall have
the option to obtain a license with respect to the Intellectual
Property embodied in any such Improvements and any patents or
patent applications therefor with respect to the Licensed Field of
Use, and if ADM so exercises its option then the same shall come
under this Agreement and be subject to the terms and provisions
hereof. SCOLR may file for patent protection for any such
Improvements as it sees fit at its cost. If SCOLR fails to pursue
patent protection to the extent desired by ADM, and ADM exercises
its option hereunder, then ADM may pursue such patent protection,
at its cost, in the name of SCOLR after providing SCOLR with thirty
(30) days advance written notice thereof and SCOLR failing to
take such action itself during such period of time. Each Party
shall provide cooperation to the other Party to execute any
documents necessary to effectuate such patent protection.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, SCOLR shall have no obligation to
develop any Improvements or seek patent protection for any such
Improvement.
2.3. Termination of Other
Rights . Except as set forth in this Agreement, all other
grants, licenses and other rights, including Intellectual Property
rights, granted to ADM pursuant to the terms of the Existing
Agreement are hereby terminated.
ARTICLE 3
PAYMENTS
In consideration for ADM agreeing to
amend and restate the Existing Agreement on the terms hereof, which
amendments include the termination of certain Intellectual Property
rights previously granted by SCOLR to ADM, SCOLR hereby agrees to
make the following payments to ADM:
3.1. Initial Payment . On the
Effective Date, SCOLR shall pay US$200,000 to ADM by wire transfer
of immediately available funds to an account to be designated by
ADM.
3.2. Subsequent Payment . On
the earlier of (i) the one year anniversary of the Effective
Date, or (ii) the date on which SCOLR consummates a Qualified
Offering, SCOLR shall pay US$250,000 to ADM by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to an account to be designated by
ADM.
3.3. Books and Records . ADM
acknowledges that SCOLR has certain royalty obligations to third
parties arising out of the Licensed Patent. Accordingly, ADM shall
keep and retain, for not less than three (3) years, full,
complete and accurate books of account and records
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relating to the manufacture, use and sale or
other disposition of the Licensed Products by or for ADM in such
detail as will enable SCOLR to evidence what royalties are payable
to any such third party. Such books and records shall be consistent
with ADM’s overall financial statements and in compliance
with generally accepted accounting principles and practices in the
United States, consistently applied. ADM shall, during business
hours and upon reasonable notice, permit an independent accounting
firm (retained by SCOLR) that has entered into a secrecy agreement
reasonably acceptable to the parties access to such books and
records for the sole purpose of verifying any such royalty
obligations of SCOLR. The verification will take place at
SCOLR’s expense.
ARTICLE 4
INFRINGEMENT
4.1 Notification . In the
event that ADM or SCOLR has reason to believe that a third party is
infringing upon the Licensed Patent, such party shall promptly
notify the other party in writing of such alleged
infringement.
4.2 Infringement Actions
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(a) Upon notification of potential
infringement pursuant to Section 4.1 , ADM shall have
the option to enforce the Licensed Patent in the Licensed Field of
Use itself or request SCOLR to enforce the Licensed Patent in the
Licensed Field of Use. In the event ADM elects to enforce the
Licensed Patent, the reasonable costs of such action shall be borne
by ADM. In the event ADM elects to have SCOLR enforce the Licensed
Patent, ADM shall provide SCOLR with written notice thereof, and to
the extent deemed reasonably necessary by ADM, SCOLR shall commence
an infringement action, in which event the reasonable costs of such
action shall be borne equally by the Parties.
(b) Notwithstanding
Section 4.2(a) , SCOLR shall have the right (but not
the obligation) to enforce the Licensed Patent in the Licensed
Field of Use if ADM opts to enforce the Licensed Patent pursuant to
Section 4.2(a) but, in the reasonable determination of
SCOLR after not less than 30 days’ prior written notice to
ADM, ADM has failed to take reasonable action to enforce the
Licensed Patent. In the event that SCOLR elects to enforce the
Licensed Patent, the reasonable costs of such action shall be borne
by SCOLR.
(c) The benefits of any damages
recovered from an action relating to enforcement of the Licensed
Patent in the Licensed Field of Use (after each Party recovers any
share of its costs of such action) shall be distributed to
ADM.
(d) In any such infringement action,
the Party commencing the action (the “ Participating
Party ”) shall keep the other Party (the “
Non-participating Party ”) advised of the progress of
the litigation and shall provide the Non-participating Party with
drafts of the pleadings, discovery, motions, and briefs prior to
filing for the Non-participating Party’s review and comment.
In addition, the Participating Party shall consult with the
Non-participating Party with regard to every material decision
required to be made during the litigation. The
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Participating Party shall adopt the
Non-participating Party’s comments and recommendations during
the litigation except to the extent they may materially impact the
Participating Party’s commercial best interests, as
determined by the Participating Party. In any such infringement
action or claim brought, the Non-participating Party shall upon the
Participating Party’s request, cooperate with the
Participating Party in all respects, and make available to the
Participating Party all relevant information and witnesses who are
employees or within the control of the Non-participating Party. To
the extent necessary, each Party agrees to be joined as a party in
any litigation where it is an indispensable party.
ARTICLE 5
LIMITED WARRANTY AND
INDEMNIFICATION
5.1. Limited Warranty
.
(a) SCOLR represents and warrants to
ADM as follows:
(i) SCOLR possesses the full legal
right, authority and power to enter into this Agreement and to
grant the licenses to ADM set forth herein;
(ii) SCOLR is not aware of any
existing or threatened litigation against SCOLR concerning the
Licensed Patent or Improvements;
(iii) SCOLR’s rights in the
Licensed Patent are genuine and valid;
(iv) SCOLR has not granted any
licenses to the Licensed Patent in the Licensed Field of Use
(except for such licenses granted to ADM under the Existing
Agreement, which are being amended and restated as set forth in
this Agreement);
(v) the Lic