Exhibit 10.1
ASSET SALE & LICENSE
AGREEMENT
This Asset Sale & License
Agreement (the “Agreement”) is effective as of
January 4, 2007, (“Effective Date”) by and between
ST. BERNARD SOFTWARE, INC. , a Delaware corporation, located
at 15015 Avenue of Science, San Diego, California 92128
(“SBS”) and SHAVLIK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC.
(“Shavlik”), a Delaware LLC located at 2665 Long Lake
Road, Suite 400, Roseville, MN 55113 (each a “Party”
and collectively the “Parties”).
RECITALS
A. SBS and Shavlik are developers of
software application update and patch installation tools and
utilities. SBS has developed and is the owner of the Product, as
defined in this Agreement.
B. SBS desires to assign and sell
and Shavlik desires to assume and purchase all of SBS’
rights, title and interest to the Product.
C. SBS further desires to assign,
and, subject to the terms of this Agreement, Shavlik is willing to
assume, certain SBS’ post closing obligations and rights with
regard to all end user licenses granted by SBS to its customers to
use the Product (each a “Customer” and collectively the
“Customers” or the “Customer Base”), and
SBS’ channel partners listed on Schedule 2.2, such that
Shavlik shall be responsible for servicing and supporting
SBS’ Customer Base for the Product after January 31,
2007 (the “Closing Date”).
D. SBS further desires to obtain,
royalty-free, the right, for a period of twelve (12) months
from the Closing Date to grant a sublicense to use the Product in
its current form to Hitachisoft, subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein.
NOW THEREFORE, the Parties agree as
follows:
ARTICLE 1.
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Product.
“Product” means SBS’ UpdateEXPERT and
UpdateEXPERT Premium software applications, together with any
application programming interfaces for UpdateEXPERT and
UpdateEXPERT Premium software (including but limited to the SBS
SecurityEXPERT), the compiler used in connection with UpdateEXPERT
and UpdateEXPERT Premium software, and all other software,
programs, applications, modules and components thereof, in all
forms, including the Source Code, object code, all related
documentation, all prior and current versions, improvements,
enhancements, upgrades, corrections, additions, modifications,
replacements, and new applications to any of the foregoing; and all
Intellectual Property Rights in any of the foregoing, together with
SBS’ rights in any third party materials listed in Schedule
7.2.13. In no event shall “Product” include SBS’
on-demand service, iPrism, ePrism and/or Open File Manager
products, nor any open source materials or software included in or
used with the Product other than SBS’ rights in any third
party materials listed in Schedule 7.2.13. To the extent that
the Product contains code that is also included in other SBS
products relating to non-core functionality, such as for license
key generation and other administrative functions associated with
use of the Product, notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement
to the contrary, SBS retains all Intellectual Property Rights to
such code and grants to Shavlik a perpetual, non-exclusive,
irrevocable license to continue to use, distribute, and make
derivative copies of such code as part of the Product.
1.2 Intellectual Property
Rights . “Intellectual Property Rights” means
all of the following in any jurisdiction throughout the world,
whether or not filed, perfected, registered or recorded and whether
now or hereafter existing, filed, issued or acquired:
(i) trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress,
logos, (and all translations, adaptations, derivations and
combinations of the foregoing), Internet domain names, together
with all goodwill associated with each of the foregoing;
(ii) copyrights, rights of authorship; (iii) inventions,
moral rights, patents, and rights of inventorship, (iv) all
applications, registrations and renewals in connection with any of
the above in (i)-(iii); know-how, trade secrets, and all other
intellectual property rights related thereto.
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1.3 SBS Materials .
“SBS Materials” means (i) any application program
interface, assemblers, compilers and other authoring tools created
by SBS or owned by SBS and necessary to modify the Product as well
as any development tools created by SBS or owned by SBS and used in
the development of the Product, including all comments, in text and
machine readable form, (ii) documentation for the Product,
including user manuals, installation guides, marketing materials,
product awards, Customer references, competitive analyses, sales
training materials, white-papers, tech-notes, help files and
marketing collateral, architectural and design documentation, in
SBS’ possession and reasonably necessary or helpful in
connection with development, support, marketing or sales of the
Product, (iii) know-how related to the use and modification of
the Source Code as reflected in such materials, (iv) software
tools, data test scripts, test plans, automated test tools, designs
and results that SBS currently uses in connection with development
or support of the Product, (v) SBS’ interest in any
software licenses related to the Product, (vi) Source Code;
(vii) Customer Relations Materials; and (viii) Electronic
Materials.
1.4 Customer Relations
Materials . “Customer Relations Materials”
means any data (whether in physical or electronic format) regarding
past, existing, or potential customers for the Product, including
but not limited to information maintained in any lead generation or
customer relationship management systems of SBS.
1.5 Electronic
Materials . “Electronic Materials” means any
electronic data, databases, or content used in the promotion of the
Product or in distribution and optimization of the
Product.
1.6 Source Code .
“Source Code” means the human-readable source code,
source program, scripts and/or programming language for the
Product. Source Code includes all source code listings,
instructions (including compile instructions), programmer’s
notes, commentary and related technical information and
documentation, including all such information and documentation
owned and used by SBS for purposes of maintaining, repairing, or
making modifications or enhancements to the Product and the Source
Code. This includes but is not limited to the following:
(i) Master Agent and Leaf Agent programs;
(ii) backup/restore utilities for master agent;
(iii) User Interface Console; (iv) installer programs;
tools and utilities for discovering and integrating patch data into
the master patch database; (v) utility for patch distribution
through disconnected networks; (vi) tools used to target the
master database to previous product versions; (vii) customer
database and hosted patch distribution website; SE template
database server; (viii) tools and utilities for creating and
updating settings templates; (ix) integrated knowledge base;
(x) serialization software; and (xi) build scripts and
tools used in creating and packaging the software.
1.7 Knowledge .
“Knowledge” means the actual knowledge of persons
responsible for the relevant subject matter, or, in the case of any
person who is a management or executive position, the knowledge
such persons would have assuming due inquiry, given their
respective role, into the facts related to such matters.
ARTICLE 2.
ASSET SALE, ASSIGNMENT OF
CUSTOMER BASE & LICENSE
2.1 Asset Sale .
Effective as of the Closing Date, subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, including Shavlik’s payment of
the Purchase Price, SBS hereby assigns to Shavlik all of SBS’
right, title, and interest worldwide in and to the Product, the
Assumed Contracts (defined below), the SBS Materials, and all
Intellectual Property Rights therein (collectively the
“Purchased Assets”), provided that SBS retains the
right to collect for its own account all 1Q2007 (first calendar
quarter, 2007) Customer contract renewal fees invoiced prior to the
Closing Date. SBS shall execute and deliver the Copyright
Assignment attached as Exhibit A on the Closing Date. If any moral
rights in the Product cannot (as a matter of law) be assigned by
SBS to Shavlik as provided above, then SBS waives the enforcement
of such moral rights and all claims and causes of action of any
kind against Shavlik with respect to such
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moral rights. SBS shall deliver or make
available to Shavlik the SBS Materials promptly following the
Effective, and no event later than thirty (30) days following
the Closing Date. No ownership rights are granted with respect to
any SBS trademarks not related to the Product that may be embedded
in the Product or the SBS Materials, including trademarks relating
to SBS’ on-demand services, iPrism, ePrism and Open File
Manager products (“Non-product Marks”). SBS hereby
grants to Shavlik a perpetual, royalty free license to the
Non-product Marks solely to allow Shavlik to continue to use,
distribute, copy, sublicense, and produce the Product with the
Non-product Marks embedded.
2.2 Liabilities . Shavlik
will not assume, agree to pay, perform or discharge or in any way
be responsible for any debts (including interest and/or penalties
thereon), liabilities or obligations of SBS of any kind or nature
whatsoever, whether fixed or unfixed, known or unknown, absolute or
contingent, asserted or unasserted, choate or inchoate, liquidated
or unliquidated, or secured or unsecured (the “Excluded
Liabilities”), except that Shavlik will assume and agrees to
pay, perform and discharge the following from and after the Closing
Date (the “Assumed Liabilities”): obligations and
liabilities relating to or arising under the Assumed Contracts
after the Closing Date, other than (i) any liability or
obligation to the extent relating to or arising from any breach, or
event, circumstance or condition that with notice, lapse of time or
both would constitute or result in a breach, by SBS prior to the
Closing Date of any of its obligations thereunder, (ii) any
warranty claims of customers relating to sales of the Product prior
to the Closing Date, and (iii) any obligation to indemnify
customers relating to the Inquiry (defined in Section 7.2.5).
For the purposes of this Agreement, “Assumed Contracts”
shall mean (a) any customer or end user license agreements
that SBS has entered into for the Product that are listed on
Schedule 2.2 or otherwise created in the ordinary course of
business in connection with SBS’ acceptance and fulfillment
of orders for the Product (standard end user license agreements
listed on Schedule 2.2 which are created via shrink wrap or
click wrap customer acknowledgment mechanisms relating to
acceptance or installation and use of the Product); (b) any
customer or end user license agreements that are not listed on
Schedule 2.2 that Shavlik, in its sole discretion, assumes
after the Closing Date; (c) contracts and agreements with
Channel Partners that are listed on Schedule 2.2; and
(d) contracts and agreements with Channel Partners that are
not listed on Schedule 2.2 that Shavlik, in its sole
discretion, assumes after the Closing Date. A list of all present
customers comprising the Customer Base, all present Channel
Partners, and all known potential customers (“Leads”)
as of December 31, 2006 will be delivered to Shavlik within
three (3) business days of the Effective Date, and an updated
list of all known Leads as of the Closing Date will be delivered to
Shavlik within three (3) business days of the Closing Date.
Copies of any documents or records relating to such Customer and
Channel Relationships (along with originals of contracts, if
available) will be delivered to Shavlik within three
(3) business days of the Effective Date, and updated copies
will be delivered to Shavlik within three (3) business days of
the Closing Date. SBS shall further deliver to Shavlik all data
about the Customer Base that SBS maintains in its customer
relationship database within three (3) business days of the
Effective Date, and an updated copy of such data within three
(3) business days of the Closing Date. While SBS represents
that this information is the same information that it has
accumulated and maintained in the ordinary course of its business
in connection with development, distribution and support of the
Product, SBS makes no warranty as to the completeness or accuracy
of such information or data except as expressly set forth
herein.
ARTICLE 3
LICENSES.
3.1 Right to Grant License to
Hitachisoft . As of the Closing Date, Shavlik grants SBS an
exclusive, non-assignable royalty-free source code license (which
license shall expire one year from the Closing Date) to the Product
solely to grant to Hitachisoft a perpetual sublicense to localize
and use the Product for Hitachisoft’s internal purposes only
(supporting Hitachisoft’s customers in connection with
provisioning them with updates and patches for its software
products). SBS shall retain any sublicense fees paid by Hitachisoft
under any such sublicense. SBS shall have no right to make, use or
distribute the Product or derivative works based on the Product
independent of what my be required under such sublicense with
Hitachisoft or as otherwise provided herein.
3.2 Right to Use HFNetChkPro
Plus . As of the Closing Date, Shavlik grants to SBS a
royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual license to use
Shavlik’s HFNetChkPro Plus software application for up
to
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1,000 users for SBS internal purposes only
pursuant to the terms of Shavlik’s standard End User License
Agreement. SBS shall be entitled to receive three (3) years of
maintenance and data access services from Shavlik under the terms
of Shavlik’s standard Support Services Agreement. Thereafter,
SBS may renew its Support Services Agreement with Shavlik under
terms set forth therein at Shavlik’s standard published rates
for comparably sized licenses. SBS will provide to Shavlik a public
endorsement in form reasonably acceptable to SBS indicating that
SBS uses HFNetChkPro Plus for its internal “Active
Vulnerability Management” needs.
3.3 US Bankruptcy Code
. The licenses hereunder are and will be deemed to be, for purposes
of Section 365(n) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, licenses of
rights to “intellectual property” as defined under
Section 101 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Notwithstanding any
contrary provision in this Agreement, the parties agree that SBS,
as a licensee of such rights under this Agreement, will retain and
may fully exercise all of its rights and elections under the U.S.
Bankruptcy Code, however, nothing herein will be deemed to
constitute a present exercise of such rights and
elections.
ARTICLE 4.
SUPPORT AND
TRAINING
4.1 Support . SBS is
responsible for supporting the Product and the Customer Base from
the Effective Date through the Closing Date at no cost to Shavlik .
SBS shall continue to operate the business related to the Product
and Customer Base, and to support the Product and Customer Base, in
the same manner that it provided such support in the year prior to
the Effective Date; provided, however, that SBS shall not offer to
any new customers a maintenance contract with a term of over two
(2) years from the period from the Effective Date to the
Closing Date (without limiting SBS’ ability to renew existing
maintenance contracts with terms in excess of two (2) years).
Shavlik shall undertake, at its expense (except as provided below)
all Product support activities and obligations, Effective upon the
Closing Date, provided that:
4.1.1 SBS agrees not to
involuntarily terminate the employment of at least one employee who
has been involved in data base development and one employee who has
been involved in technical support (the “Retained
Employees”) from the Closing Date through March 31, 2007
(the “Transition Period”). SBS shall use its best
efforts to make the Retained Employees, (or in the event of a
voluntary termination of any Retained Employee, a replacement
development or tech support staff member), available to assist
Shavlik and training Shavlik personnel with regard to supporting
the Product and the Customer Base during the Transition Period.
Shavlik will be responsible for travel related expenses relating to
any training at Shavlik’s facilities. SBS shall be
responsible for all other expenses related to such employment,
including any retention bonuses or other costs of employment of the
Retained Employees.
4.1.2 SBS agrees not to
involuntarily terminate the employment of its employees other than
the Retained Employees who have been involved in technical support
and data base development for the Product (“Other Technical
Support Employees”) through February 16, 2007. SBS shall
use its best efforts to make the Other Technical Support Employees
available to assist Shavlik through February 16,
2007.
4.1.3 After the Closing Date, SBS
shall provide links to Shavlik’s website for the Product on
SBS’ website through 1Q2008. As of the Effective Date, SBS
shall refer (via a communication mechanism to be mutually agreed
upon) all Product inquiries to Shavlik. SBS shall further terminate
any Product marketing efforts as of the Effective Date, to the
extent terminable, or shall implement procedures for referring
Product specific leads received by SBS after such date to
Shavlik.
4.1.4 SBS shall be responsible for
invoicing for license renewals during the Transition Period. Prior
to the Closing Date, SBS shall invoice for renewals on SBS form
invoices. From the Closing Date through the Transition Period, SBS
shall invoice for renewals on Shavlik form invoices. SBS shall
collect and be entitled to retain all renewal fees for all renewal
invoices sent prior to the Closing Date (for 1Q2007 renewals). Each
party will establish procedures for identifying and timely
remitting to the other any renewal payments received that should
have been paid to the other party.
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4.1.5 SBS will continue to maintain
and host the Product patch database and download for a reasonable
period following the Closing Date to allow a smooth transition of
the hosting of such database and download information to
Shavlik.
4.2 Training . SBS
shall provide, at no additional charge, up to 5 full days (8 hours
per day) of training regarding sales and marketing, development,
and technical support for the Product.
ARTICLE 5 .
CONSIDERATION
5.1 Purchase Price .
In consideration of assignment of the Product, Customer Base and
Channel Relationships, and the transition services to be provided
by SBS: Shavlik shall assume the Assumed Liabilities and pay to SBS
the following (the “Purchase Price”):
5.1.1 $100,000 as earnest money (the
“Earnest Money”) on the Effective Da