Exhibit 10.32
[*] indicates that a confidential
portion of the text of this agreement has been omitted.
AMENDED AND
RESTATED
LICENSE AGREEMENT
This AMENDED AND RESTATED LICENSE
AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”), dated effective
as of October 27, 2006 (the “ Effective Date of this
Agreement ”), is entered into by and between XOMA Ireland
Limited, a company with limited liability organized under the laws
of the Republic of Ireland having offices at Shannon Airport House,
Shannon, County Clare, Ireland (with its Affiliates, “
XOMA ”) and DYAX Corp., a corporation organized under
the laws of the State of Delaware having offices at 300 Technology
Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, U.S.A. (with its
Affiliates, “ DYAX ”).
BACKGROUND
A. XOMA is the owner or exclusive
licensee of certain patent rights and know-how relating to
bacterial cell expression, and DYAX wishes to acquire non-exclusive
licenses under such patent rights and know-how; and
B. DYAX is the owner or exclusive
licensee of certain patent rights relating to phage display
technologies (generally known as the Ladner and related patent
rights), and XOMA wishes to acquire non-exclusive licenses under
such patent rights; and
C. XOMA and DYAX previously executed
a License Agreement, dated effective as of October 16, 2002
(the “ Effective Date of the Original Agreement
”), under which (i) XOMA granted to DYAX certain
non-exclusive licenses to engage in certain research, development
and commercial activities, and (ii) DYAX granted to XOMA
certain non-exclusive licenses to engage in certain research,
development and commercial activities (the “ Original
Agreement ”); and
D. XOMA has requested that DYAX
provide XOMA with certain quantities of its most recently developed
antibody phage display libraries to use in connection with the
license granted herein by DYAX to XOMA; and
E. DYAX is willing to provide such
libraries to XOMA if the terms of the Original Agreement are
amended and restated as set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the promises and the mutual covenants hereinafter recited, the
parties agree that, from and after the date hereof, the Original
Agreement shall be amended and restated as follows:
ARTICLE 1.
DEFINITIONS
In this Agreement, the following
terms shall have the meanings set forth in this Article.
1.1 “ Affiliate ”
means any corporation or other entity which is directly or
indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with
a party hereto. For purposes of this Agreement, “
control” (including, with correlative meanings, the
terms “ controlled” and “
controlling ”) means the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management or policies of the subject corporation or other entity,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by agreement or
otherwise.
1.2 “ Antibody Phage
Display ” means the authorized use of Licensed Antibody
Phage Display Materials to conduct Research and
Development.
1.3 “ Change in Control
” means, with respect to Dyax Corp. or XOMA Ltd., any
transaction or series of transactions as a result of which any
person or group (as defined under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended) becomes, directly or indirectly, the
beneficial owner of more than fifty percent (50%) of the total
voting power of such entity’s equity securities or otherwise
gains control of such entity.
1.4 “ Commercial Antibody
Phage Display Business ” means, with respect to
immunoglobulin or antibody phage display services, immunoglobulin
or antibody phage display libraries, immunoglobulin or antibody
phage display products or immunoglobulin or antibody phage display
materials, the out-licensing, commercial manufacture, sale, offer
for sale, import for sale or export for sale of such immunoglobulin
or antibody phage display services, libraries, products and
materials.
1.5 “ Confidential
Information ” means any proprietary or confidential
information or material disclosed by a party to the other party
pursuant to this Agreement, which is (i) disclosed in tangible
form hereunder and is designated thereon as
“Confidential” at the time it is delivered to the
receiving party, or (ii) disclosed orally hereunder and
identified as confidential or proprietary when disclosed and such
disclosure of confidential information is confirmed in writing
within thirty (30) days by the disclosing party.
1.6 “ Development
Partner ” means a Third Party from whom a party either
in- licenses a target for development and/or commercialization by
the in-licensing party or with whom a party shares the economic
risk of development or commercialization of a target or product
being developed or commercialized on behalf of the applicable
party.
1.7 “ Dispose ”
means to transfer, assign, lease, or in any other fashion dispose
of control, ownership or possession, but shall not mean to license
or sell. “ Disposition ” shall have the
correlative meaning.
1.8 “ DYAX Collaborator
” means any person or entity who is an authorized end-user of
Licensed Antibody Phage Display Materials, the intended recipient
of Licensed Immunoglobulins or Licensed Immunoglobulin Information
transferred from DYAX and/or a person or entity on whose behalf
DYAX knowingly engages in Antibody Phage Display. Except as
expressly set forth on Schedule 2.9(i) .
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no person or entity shall be deemed to be a DYAX
Collaborator if such person or entity is engaged in a Commercial
Antibody Phage Display Business unless, pursuant to a written
agreement (other than this Agreement), executed after the Effective
Date of the Original Agreement, XOMA has granted to such person or
entity a valid license or covenant not to sue under the XOMA Patent
Rights which explicitly extends to the activities identified in
this third to last sentence of Section 1.8. XOMA shall provide
DYAX prompt written notice of those written agreements or covenants
not to sue which satisfy the requirements of the prior sentence. No
person or entity may claim the status of DYAX Collaborator with
respect to any acts or activities which are unrelated to the use of
Licensed Antibody Phage Display Materials provided by
DYAX.
1.9 “ DYAX Patent
Rights ” means the patent applications and patents listed
on Schedule 1.9 hereto and, solely to the extent any Valid
Claim would cover or be included in the license grants provided for
herein, all divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part,
applications claiming priority thereto, and substitutions thereof;
all foreign patent applications corresponding to the preceding
applications; all U.S. and foreign patents issuing on any of the
preceding applications, including extensions, reissues and
re-examinations; and any other patent rights owned or licensed by
DYAX, whether now existing or obtained in the future, which DYAX
has the right to license or sublicense and which would be infringed
by the activities of XOMA contemplated hereunder but for this
Agreement. DYAX Patent Rights shall also include (i) any
improvements of the foregoing that are owned or controlled by DYAX
and (ii) any patents or patent applications, whether now
existing or obtained in the future, owned or controlled by DYAX
containing a claim that is dominating over the foregoing patent
rights (i.e., is necessarily infringed by the practicing of a claim
in one of the foregoing applications).
1.10 “ First Commercial
Sale ” means the initial transfer by DYAX (either
directly or through a Third Party, including without limitation any
joint venture or similar arrangement in which DYAX and/or a
Development Partner of DYAX is a participant) of a Product for
value and not for demonstration, testing or promotional
purposes.
1.11 “ Immunoglobulin
” means any molecule, including without limitation, full
immunoglobulin molecules (e.g., IgG, IgM, IgE, IgA and IgD
molecules) and ScFv, Fv and Fab molecules, that has an amino acid
sequence by virtue of which it specifically interacts with an
antigen and wherein that amino acid sequence consists essentially
of a functionally operating region of an antibody variable region
including, without limitation, any naturally occurring or
recombinant form of such a molecule.
1.12 “ Licensed Antibody
Phage Display Materials ” means (i) any collection
or library of polynucleotide sequences, created by and under the
exclusive control of DYAX, which encodes at least one
Immunoglobulin and which is contained in filamentous bacteriophage
and/or bacteriophage or phagemid cloning vectors capable of
propagation in bacteria; or (ii) any collection or library of
bacteriophage, created by or under the exclusive control of DYAX,
wherein an Immunoglobulin is expressed as a fusion protein
comprising an Immunoglobulin or at least a functionally operating
region of an antibody variable region and an outer surface
polypeptide of a bacteriophage. For the avoidance of doubt, and
without expanding the definition thereof, specifically excluded
from the definition of Licensed Antibody Phage Display Materials
are (x) any article of manufacture or composition of matter
suitable for display,
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expression or secretion of an Immunoglobulin in
or from any organism or system other than bacteria and (y) any
materials or composition of matter otherwise meeting the definition
of Licensed Antibody Phage Display Materials but created by or
under the control of any entity, other than DYAX, engaged in a
Commercial Antibody Phage Display Business; provided, that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, any materials or composition of
matter otherwise meeting the definition of Licensed Antibody Phage
Display Materials but created by or under the exclusive control of
a DYAX Collaborator shall constitute Licensed Antibody Phage
Display Materials, but only to the extent derived by such DYAX
Collaborator exclusively from Licensed Antibody Phage Display
Materials created by or under the exclusive control of DYAX and
properly transferred by DYAX to such DYAX Collaborator in
accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement and
such DYAX Collaborator acknowledges that the transfer restrictions
and other provisions hereof apply thereto.
1.13 “ Licensed
Immunoglobulin ” means any Immunoglobulin discovered,
isolated or characterized by DYAX or a DYAX Collaborator (as
defined above) through the use of Licensed Antibody Phage Display
Materials.
1.14 “ Licensed
Immunoglobulin Information ” means any data, know-how or
other information relating, concerning or pertaining to a Licensed
Immunoglobulin, including, without limitation, data, know-how or
other information characterizing or constituting such Licensed
Immunoglobulin’s polynucleotide or amino acid sequence,
purported function or utility, antigen binding affinity, or
physical or biochemical property.
1.15 “ Net Sales
” means, solely with respect to sales by DYAX (either
directly or through a Third Party, including without limitation any
joint venture or similar arrangement in which DYAX and/or a
Development Partner of DYAX is a participant), the gross amount
invoiced by DYAX (or such joint venture or similar arrangement) to
an independent Third Party less the following items:
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Trade, cash and
quantity discounts actually allowed and taken directly with respect
to such sales;
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(b)
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Excises, sales
taxes or other taxes imposed upon and paid directly with respect to
such sales (excluding national, state or local taxes based
income);
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(c)
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Amounts repaid
or credited by reason of rejections, defects, recalls or returns or
because of rebates or retroactive price reduction; and
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(d)
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Freight,
transportation and insurance.
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Net Sales shall not include any
consideration received by DYAX (or any such joint venture or
similar arrangement) in respect of the sale, use or other
disposition of such Product in a country as part of a clinical
trial prior to the receipt of all regulatory approvals required to
commerce full commercial sales of such Product in such country,
except sales under “treatment INDs,” “named
patient sales,” “compassionate use sales,” or
their equivalents pursuant to which DYAX (or any such joint venture
or similar arrangement) is
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entitled, under applicable laws, regulations and
regulatory policies, to recover costs incurred in providing such
Product to patients.
1.16 “ Product ”
means any composition of matter or article of manufacture,
including without limitation any diagnostic, prophylactic or
therapeutic product, which (a) contains a Licensed
Immunoglobulin; or (b) was discovered or created by, arose out
of or is related to use of Licensed Antibody Phage Display
Materials or the conduct of Antibody Phage Display by DYAX or a
DYAX Collaborator; or (c) is sold by or on behalf of DYAX or a
DYAX Collaborator under conditions which, if unlicensed, would
constitute infringement of the XOMA Patent Rights.
1.17 “ Research and
Development ” means the identification, selection,
isolation, purification, characterization, study and/or testing of
an Immunoglobulin for any purpose, including, without limitation,
any activities relating to the discovery and development of human
therapeutic or diagnostic products. Included within the definition
of “Research and Development” shall be all in
vitro screening or assays customarily performed in pre-clinical
and clinical research and uses associated with obtaining FDA or
equivalent agency regulatory approval. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained herein, “Research and
Development” shall not include use of the XOMA Expression
Technology in commercial or industrial manufacture or any
activities solely directed to the creation of such
capacities.
1.18 “ Research
Quantities ” means those quantities of an Immunoglobulin
reasonably required for Research and Development
purposes.
1.19 “ Third Party
” means any person or entity other than DYAX or
XOMA.
1.20 “ Valid Claim
” means (i) a claim of an issued and unexpired patent
included within the DYAX Patent Rights or the XOMA Patent Rights,
as the case may be, which has not been held invalid in a final
decision of a court of competent jurisdiction from which no appeal
may be taken, and which has not been disclaimed or admitted to be
invalid or unenforceable through reissue or otherwise, or
(ii) a claim of a pending patent application within the DYAX
Patent Rights or the XOMA Patent Rights, as the case may
be.
1.21 “ XOMA Expression
Technology ” means any method, composition of matter or
article of manufacture suitable for the expression of a functional
Immunoglobulin in a prokaryote.
1.22 “ XOMA Field of
Use ” means all fields.
1.23 “ XOMA Know-How
” means unpatented and/or unpatentable technical information,
including ideas, concepts, inventions, discoveries, data, designs,
formulas, specifications, procedures for experiments and tests and
other protocols, results of experimentation and testing,
fermentation and purification techniques, and assay protocols,
whether now existing or obtained in the future, owned by XOMA which
XOMA has the right to license or sublicense and which may be
necessary for the practice of the applicable XOMA Patent Rights or
which would be misappropriated by the activities of DYAX or
the
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DYAX Collaborators contemplated hereunder but
for this Agreement. XOMA Know-How shall not include the XOMA Patent
Rights. All XOMA Know-How shall be confidential information of
XOMA.
1.24 “ XOMA Patent
Rights ” means the patent applications and patents listed
on Schedule 1.24 hereto and, solely to the extent any Valid
Claim would cover or be included in the license grants provided for
herein, all divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part,
applications claiming priority thereto, and substitutions thereof;
all foreign patent applications corresponding to the preceding
applications; all U.S. and foreign patents issuing on any of the
preceding applications, including extensions, reissues and
re-examinations; and any other patent rights owned by XOMA which
XOMA has the right to license or sublicense and which would be
infringed by the activities contemplated hereunder but for this
Agreement. XOMA Patent Rights shall also include (i) any
improvements of the foregoing that are owned or controlled by XOMA
and (ii) any patents or patent applications, whether now
existing or obtained in the future, owned or controlled by XOMA
containing a claim that is dominating over the foregoing patent
rights (i.e., is necessarily infringed by the practicing of a claim
in one of the foregoing applications).
The above definitions are intended
to encompass the defined terms in both the singular and plural
forms.
ARTICLE 2. XOMA GRANT OF RIGHTS
TO DYAX
2.1 License Grants . Subject
to the other terms and conditions of this Agreement, XOMA hereby
grants to DYAX a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable (other
than as provided in Section 9.2) license, without any right to
sublicense, under the XOMA Patent Rights and the XOMA Know-How
to:
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on its own
behalf and on behalf of a DYAX Development Partner or DYAX
Collaborator, make or have made Licensed Antibody Phage Display
Materials;
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(b)
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on its own
behalf and on behalf of a DYAX Collaborator, transfer Licensed
Antibody Phage Display Materials;
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(c)
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on its own
behalf and on behalf of a DYAX Development Partner or DYAX
Collaborator, conduct Antibody Phage Display to identify and
isolate Licensed Immunoglobulin;
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on its own
behalf and on behalf of a DYAX Development Partner or DYAX
Collaborator, use the XOMA Expression Technology in connection with
the use of Licensed Antibody Phage Display Materials to make or
have made Research Quantities of Licensed
Immunoglobulin;
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on its own behalf and on behalf
of a DYAX Development Partner or DYAX Collaborator, use Licensed
Immunoglobulin or Licensed Immunoglobulin Information to research
and develop, make, have made, use, offer for sale, sell and
have
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sold, import and have imported
Products for use in the treatment, prophylaxis, diagnosis or
monitoring of a human disease state or condition; and
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on its own
behalf and on behalf of a DYAX Development Partner, to make, have
made, use, offer for sale, sell and have sold, import and have
imported Products for use in the treatment, prophylaxis, diagnosis
or monitoring of a human disease state or condition.
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For the sake of clarity,
(i) the licenses granted in Section 2.1 are personal to
DYAX and are to be used on behalf of any DYAX Collaborator or
Development Partner of DYAX only in respect of or in connection
with the activities that such DYAX Collaborator or Development
Partner of DYAX is engaged in that are the basis for meeting the
definition of DYAX Collaborator or Development Partner of DYAX, as
the case may be, and not any other activities, and
(ii) without limiting the foregoing, the license granted in
Section 2.1(f) is not to be used on behalf of any DYAX
Collaborator or any other Third Party that is not a Development
Partner of DYAX.
2.2 XOMA Transfer to DYAX .
Within thirty (30) days of the Effective Date of this
Agreement, XOMA shall transfer to DYAX, at a reasonable place and
time of DYAX’s direction, the materials identified on
Schedule 2.2 .
2.3 Covenant Not To Sue . In
partial consideration for the payments set forth in Sections 4.1
and 4.2, XOMA covenants that it shall not initiate or permit any
Third Party over whom it has control to initiate or assist in any
way in the initiation or prosecution of any action asserting a
claim of infringement under the XOMA Patent Rights or
misappropriation of the XOMA Know-How against DYAX, any Development
Partner of DYAX or any DYAX Collaborator solely to the extent
reasonably necessary to permit the authorized use of Licensed
Antibody Phage Display Materials, Licensed Immunoglobulins or
Licensed Immunoglobulin Information for activities or in a manner
otherwise permitted under the provisions of this Agreement. The
parties agree that the covenant not to sue provided by this
Section 2.3 (i) is a covenant that transfers with any
assignment or sale of, or grant of an exclusive license (with the
right to enforce) under, the applicable XOMA Patent Rights by XOMA
and (ii) without limiting or expanding the provisions of
Section 9.2, shall be binding upon any permitted successors or
assigns of XOMA. XOMA agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts
to assist DYAX in recording in a form reasonably acceptable to XOMA
the covenant not to sue provided by this Section 2.3, as
permitted, with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The covenant
not to sue provided by this Section 2.3:
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shall not
extend to the use of the XOMA Expression Technology to make any
amount of a Licensed Immunoglobulin or Product other than Research
Quantities; provided, however, that this limitation shall
not preclude the manufacture, in commercial quantities, of a
Licensed Immunoglobulin discovered using the XOMA Expression
Technology in accordance with this Agreement when produced in a
production system other than a prokaryote;
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is personal to
DYAX, such Development Partner of DYAX and such DYAX Collaborator
and cannot be assigned or transferred;
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(c)
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does not
constitute a release or waiver of past, present or future
infringement of the XOMA Patent Rights or misappropriation of the
XOMA Know-How by DYAX or any Third Party, including, without
limitation, any DYAX Collaborator acting outside of the scope of
the written agreement with DYAX provided for in Section 2.5;
and
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shall become
void and without effect as to any entity or person who claims its
benefit but fails to materially discharge or comply with any term
of its written agreement with DYAX provided for in
Section 2.5.
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2.4 No Implied Rights . Only
the rights and licenses granted pursuant to the express terms of
this Agreement shall be of any legal force or effect. No license or
other rights shall be deemed to have been granted to DYAX, a
Development Partner of DYAX or a DYAX Collaborator other than as
expressly provided for in this Agreement. For the avoidance of
doubt, the grants of rights made pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.3
do not include, and expressly exclude, the following:
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any right or
license under the XOMA Patent Rights and the XOMA Know-How to
engage in any activities on behalf of or in collaboration with any
Third Party, other than a Development Partner of DYAX or a DYAX
Collaborator;
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(b)
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any right or
license under the XOMA Patent Rights and the XOMA Know-How to use
the XOMA Expression Technology to make or have made any amount of a
Licensed Immunoglobulin or Product other than Research Quantities
; provided, however, that DYAX or, as applicable, a DYAX
Collaborator shall be permitted to make or have made any Licensed
Immunoglobulin by any means of its selection other than those which
otherwise infringe a Valid Claim of the XOMA Patent Rights or
utilize the XOMA Know-How; and/or
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any right to
release any Third Party, including a Development Partner of DYAX or
a DYAX Collaborator, from any claim of infringement under the XOMA
Patent Rights.
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2.5 Transfer Restrictions
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(a) DYAX shall not undertake any
Antibody Phage Display activities on behalf of a Third Party or
Dispose of Licensed Antibody Phage Display Materials or the product
of the practice of any method within the scope of the XOMA Patents
(“ Transferred Materials ”) to any Third Party
until such time as such Third Party has entered into a written
agreement with DYAX pursuant to which such Third Party acknowledges
and expressly agrees:
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that the
“first sale” doctrine does not apply to any such
Disposition;
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(ii)
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to further
Dispose of Transferred Materials only to a Third Party who
otherwise meets the definition of a Development Partner or DYAX
Collaborator and who executes a written agreement in which its
undertakes all of the obligations applied to the transferring
party, provided , however , that this
Section 2.5(a)(ii) shall not apply to the Disposition of any
Licensed Immunoglobulin where such Third Party is not a Dyax
Development Partner and no royalty is or will otherwise be due
under Section 4.1;
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(iii)
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that the
covenant not to sue provided by Section 2.3 does not extend
use of the XOMA Expression Technology to make any amount of a
Licensed Immunoglobulin or Product other than Research
Quantities;
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that the
covenant not to sue provided by Section 2.3 does not
constitute a release or waiver of past, present or future
infringement of the XOMA Patent Rights or misappropriation of the
XOMA Know-How by such Third Party;
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that the
covenant not to sue provided by Section 2.3 shall be subject
to such Third Party’s compliance with
Section 8.4;
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that the
covenant not to sue provided by Section 2.3 is personal to
such Third Party (as a DYAX Collaborator or DYAX Development
Partner) and cannot be assigned or transferred;
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that the
covenant not to sue provided by Section 2.3 shall become void
and without effect as to any entity or person who claims its
benefit but fails to materially discharge or comply with the
foregoing provisions; and
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that XOMA shall
be an intended third party beneficiary with respect to the
foregoing provisions.
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(b) Without expanding or limiting
the scope of the licenses and covenants not to sue granted by this
Agreement, the provisions of Section 2.5(a) requiring a
written agreement prior to any Disposition of any Transferred
Materials shall not apply to a transfer of (i) a Licensed
Immunoglobulin discovered by Dyax to a Third Party who is not a
Dyax Development Partner where the making, selling, offering for
sale, importing or exporting of such Licensed Immunoglobulin will
occur under conditions which will not give rise to any obligation
to pay XOMA any royalties under Section 4.1, or (ii) a
Licensed Immunoglobulin discovered exclusively by Dyax to any Third
Party where such Disposition is made pursuant to a bona fide
material transfer agreement that confers no commercial rights to
such Third Party for the sole purpose of permitting such Third
Party to evaluate the transferred Licensed Immunoglobulin;
provided , howeve r, that upon the execution of any
subsequent agreement relating to such Licensed Immunoglobulin, as
applicable, the provisions of Section 2.5(a) shall be
incorporated therein.
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2.6 Reports, Records and
Audits.
(a) Thirty (30) days after the
end of each calendar quarter, commencing with the first calendar
quarter commencing after the Effective Date of the Original
Agreement, DYAX shall deliver to XOMA a written report which shall
specify the name, address and contact person for each and every
DYAX Collaborator and any person or entity receiving Licensed
Antibody Phage Display Materials or a Licensed Immunoglobulin. The
reports delivered by DYAX to XOMA pursuant to this
Section 2.6(a) shall be Confidential Information of
DYAX.
(b) Not later than thirty
(30) days after the end of each calendar year, commencing with
the first calendar year to commence after the Effective Date of the
Original Agreement, as and to the extent publicly disclosed by DYAX
(whether in press releases, government filings or otherwise), DYAX
shall deliver to XOMA written materials pertaining to the current
status of activities or compositions of matter as to which DYAX
claims the right of license hereunder.
(c) DYAX shall maintain records
fully and properly reflecting those activities to be reported to
XOMA pursuant to Sections 2.6(a) and (b) (the “
Records” ), in sufficient detail and in good
scientific manner appropriate for patent, regulatory and
manufacturing purposes for at least three (3) years. Upon the
written request of XOMA and not more than once in each calendar
year, DYAX shall permit an independent consultant appointed by
XOMA, at XOMA’s expense, to have access during normal
business hours to such of the records of DYAX as may be reasonably
necessary to verify compliance with the terms of this Agreement, as
well as the accuracy of the reports hereunder. DYAX shall certify
any statements by DYAX personnel as to their accuracy and
correctness. The consultant shall not be permitted to see or
receive any specific information concerning targets or antibodies
of either DYAX or any of its collaborators and shall disclose to
XOMA only the results and conclusions of its review and the
specific details concerning any discrepancies. No other information
shall be shared by the consultant without the prior consent of DYAX
unless disclosure is required by law, regulation or judicial
order.
2.7 Ownership; Enforcement .
At all times XOMA will retain ownership of the XOMA Patent Rights
and may use and commercialize such XOMA Patent Rights itself or
with any Third Party. XOMA retains the right, at its sole
discretion, to enforce, maintain and otherwise protect the XOMA
Know-How and the XOMA Patent Rights. In addition to the
requirements of Section 2.6, DYAX shall give XOMA prompt
notice of any infringement of any of the XOMA Patent Rights by a
Third Party engaging in a Commercial Antibody Phage Display
Business which comes to DYAX’s attention during the term of
this Agreement. DYAX will reasonably cooperate with XOMA with
respect to any actions XOMA may choose to take related to the
enforcement, maintenance or protection of the XOMA Patent
Rights.
2.8 Oppositions and/or Appeals to
Oppositions . DYAX hereby agrees not to enter into any
opposition to and/or appeal from any decision by the patent
authorities of any country on the XOMA Patent Rights and shall not
assist or otherwise cooperate with another party in any such
opposition or appeal.
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