EXHIBIT
10.19
AMENDED AND RESTATED LICENSE
AGREEMENT
This Amended and Restated License Agreement (the
“ Agreement ”) is made as of April 6, 2007
between George J. Coates and Gregory Coates, as licensors
(separately and together, “ Licensors ”) and
Coates International, Ltd., a Delaware corporation (“
Licensee ”).
RECITALS:
1.
Licensors and Licensee signed a
license agreement on October 23, 2006 (the “ Original
License Agreements ”); and
2.
Licensee and Licensors wish to
amend the terms of the Original License Agreement;
NOW THEREFORE, for this and other valuable consideration, the
receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, and intending to be
legally bound, the parties agree as follows:
“Cause” - with respect to each Licensor shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in such Licensor’s employment
agreement as it may be amended from time to time.
“CSRV” means the spherical rotary valve system invented
and developed by Licensors as it may be improved or modified from
time to time.
“CSRV
Engine” shall mean
an internal combustion engine which incorporates the
CSRV.
“Field of Use”
shall mean the development,
manufacturing, sale and/or distribution of CSRV Engines.
“Good
Reason” - with
respect to each Licensor shall have the meaning ascribed to such
term in such Licensor’s employment agreement as may be
amended from time to time.
“Intellectual Property
Rights” means
patent rights, copyright rights (including, but not limited to,
moral rights), Know-how, license rights, and any other intellectual
property rights (other than trademarks) recognized by the law of
any applicable jurisdiction.
“Know-How” means trade secrets (including trade secrets as
defined in the United States Uniform Trade Secrets Act and under
corresponding foreign statutory law and common law), concepts,
knowledge, technical information, and data including, but not
limited to, algorithms, engineering, scientific and practical
information and formulae, equipment designs, information or
materials and commercial sources thereof, technical information
recorded in reports, on drawings, in specifications and in other
writings, irrespective of the form of expression or media upon or
in which it is recorded, or transmitted.
“Letter Agreement”
shall mean a certain letter
agreement dated July 7, 2006 by and between Licensee and
WWE.
“Licensed Intellectual Property
Rights” shall mean
(a) all patents and patent applications currently owned or
controlled by one or both Licensors, or as to which one or both
Licensors has the right to license or sublicense, that directly
relate to the CSRV, (b) any patents that shall issue on any of such
patent and patent applications, (c) any patents derived from
continuation, continuation-in-part, divisional, reissue
or reexamination applications based on the patents and patent
applications referred to in clauses (a) or (b) above to the extent
related to the same subject matter, and (d) any other Intellectual
Property Rights currently owned by one or both Licensors or as to
which a Licensor currently has the right to license or sublicense
that directly relate to the CSRV or are an improvement to any of
the foregoing. Licensed Intellectual Property Rights shall also
include any Intellectual Property Rights directly relating to the
CSRV or are an improvement to any of the foregoing invented or
developed by one or both Licensors or as to which a Licensor
acquires the right to license or sublicense during the period of
time that the applicable Licensor is employed by, or a consultant
to, the Licensee. To clarify, this only applies to the territory of
the Western Hemisphere, as hereinafter defined.
“Territory” shall mean the countries comprising North
America, Central America and South America and their respective
territories and possessions (the “Western
Hemisphere”).
“WWE” shall mean Well to Wire Energy Inc., a
Canada-based corporation.
2.1
Licensors hereby grant to Licensee
a sole and exclusive, fully paid-up and royalty-free, perpetual and
irrevocable (subject to the termination of this Agreement) license
in the Territory, with the right to sublicense, under the Licensed
Intellectual Property Rights, solely in the Field of Use, to
develop, make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, lease and
import products and to develop and perform processes that use any
of the Licensed Intellectual Property Rights.
2.2
Licensors hereby grant to Licensee
during the term of this Agreement an exclusive license to use and
display trademarks owned by Licensors (the “ Marks
”) as necessary or appropriate to conduct its business in the
Field of Use within the Territory; provided that Licensors may
require Licensee to cease or suspend use of particular Mark(s) for
good cause (for example, because of Licensor’s business
decision to modify or abandon a Mark). Each use or display of Marks
by Licensee will be in conformance with any trademark usage
guidelines that Licensors may communicate to Licensee from time to
time, will be subject to Licensor’s prior written approval,
and will be accompanied by the appropriate service mark symbol
(either “tm” or “sm”) and a legend
specifying that such Marks are trademarks or service marks of
Licensors. Licensee will provide Licensors with a copy of any
materials it has created or uses bearing any of Licensors’
Marks. If Licensee’s use of any Marks, or if any material
bearing such Marks, is deficient in quality, as reasonably
determined by Licensors, Licensee will promptly remedy such
deficiencies upon receipt of written notice of such deficiencies
from Licensors. Nothing herein will grant to Licensee any right,
title or interest in the Marks. All goodwill resulting from
Licensee’s use of the Marks will inure solely to Licensors.
Licensee will not, at any time during or after the term of this
Agreement, register, attempt to register, claim any interest in,
contest the use of, or otherwise adversely affect the validity of
any of the Marks (including, without limitation any act or
assistance to any act, which may infringe or lead to the
infringement of any such Marks).
2.3
The Licensors confirm that WWE is
entitled to a right of first refusal from the Licensee to acquire a
license, use, sell, lease and market the Coates electrical
generation systems worldwide, and agree that, in the event WWE
exercises such right anywhere outside of the Territory, Licensors,
as applicable, hereby grant Licensee any additional Intellectual
Property Rights, for the sole purpose of sublicensing them to WWE,
necessary for WWE to market the Coates electrical generation
systems anywhere it has acquired such marketing rights from
Licensee.
Each of the
Licensors undertakes and covenants that he shall not sell,
assign, grant any license, lien or pledge with respect to the
Intellectual Property Rights that are inconsistent with the rights
of the Licensee under this Agreement or that would preclude the
grant of any rights to which the Licensee may be entitled under
this Agreement. In the event that any of the provisions of this
Section 3 are inconsistent with the provisions of Section 2, then
the provision most favorable to the Licensee shall
control.
The term of
this Agreement shall commence as of the date hereof (the “
Effective Date ”) and shall remain in effect
perpetually, unless terminated in accordance with the provisions of
this Agreement.
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PATENT
PROTECTION AND INFRINGEMENT:
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5.1
Licensee, during the term of this
Agreement, is responsible for the filin
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