Exhibit 10.10
EXECUTION COPY
CROSS LICENSE
AGREEMENT
This CROSS LICENSE AGREEMENT (this
“ Agreement ”), dated as of April
, 2006 (the “ Effective
Date ”), is entered into by and between Texas Instruments
Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (“ Seller
”), and Sensata Technologies B.V., a Dutch limited liability
company, formerly known as Potazia Holding B.V., assignee of
S&C Purchase Corp. (“ Buyer ”) (each a
“ Party ” and collectively, the “
Parties ”).
Terms that are not defined in this
Agreement shall have the meaning set forth in the Purchase
Agreement (as defined below).
W I T N E S S E T H
:
WHEREAS, pursuant to an Asset and
Stock Purchase Agreement dated as of January 8, 2006 (the
“ Purchase Agreement ”), Buyer is acquiring from
Seller and its Subsidiaries the Shares and the Purchased Assets
including ownership of certain Intellectual Property
Rights;
WHEREAS, Seller and its Subsidiaries
are retaining ownership of certain Intellectual Property
Rights;
WHEREAS, the Purchase Agreement
contemplates that each Party shall grant the other Party a license
to use certain technology used in connection with such other
Party’s business; and
WHEREAS, each Party is willing to
grant the licenses contemplated in the Purchase Agreement upon the
terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this
Agreement;
NOW THEREFORE, the Parties agree as
follows:
ARTICLE 1
D EFINITIONS
Section 1.01 .
Definitions. (a) The following terms, as used herein,
have the following meanings:
“ Announcement Date
” means January 8, 2006.
“ Buyer Activities
” means the design, development, use and distribution of
(i) design, automation, application or other software embodied
in or operating on or in any way relating to the manufacture, or
use of, any Buyer Product and (ii) services, application
notes, reference designs, and marketing materials directly relating
to the sales, marketing or use of any Buyer Product.
“ Buyer Core Business
Technology ” means (i) ceramic capacitive sensing,
(ii) microfused silicon strain gauges, (iii) monometal
and bimetal snap acting actuators, (iv) low level arc
detection, (v) metal oxide silicon sensor, and (vi) a
self-regulating heater or current limiter that (A) is an
electromechanical product, (B) incorporates positive
temperature coefficient materials based on doped barium titanate
chemistry, and (C) responds to temperature with increased
resistance, or when energized with current generates heat at a
self-regulating point.
“ Buyer Information
” means the know-how and trade secrets owned or licensable by
any Buyer Party that any Seller Party has in its possession as of
the Effective Date (so long as such know-how and trade secrets have
been used by any Seller Party other than in connection with the
Business prior to the Effective Date), excluding any Exclusive
Buyer Information.
“ Buyer License ”
means the rights granted by Seller to Buyer pursuant to
Section 2.01.
“ Buyer Party ”
means Buyer and/or any of its Permitted Subsidiaries.
“ Buyer Patents ”
means all Patents now or hereafter owned or licensable by any Buyer
Party with a Priority Date prior to the Effective Date.
“ Buyer Product ”
means any (i) Sensor Product, (ii) Control Product,
(iii) Core Business Technology Product, and (iv) any
software marketed by Buyer for use in conjunction with any of the
foregoing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Buyer Product does not
include any Semiconductor Product, except (A) any
Semiconductor Product that incorporates arc fault circuits as a
functionally and commercially significant part thereof and/or
(B) any Semiconductor Product that is a functionally and
commercially significant part of a Sensor Product, a Control
Product, or a Core Business Technology Product, provided that such
Core Business Technology Product also includes at least one
functionally and commercially significant component which is not a
Semiconductor Product.
“ Confidential
Information ” means all Seller Information and Buyer
Information (and all other trade secrets of the Retained Business
or the Business that the receiving Party has in its possession as
of the Effective Date that are not licensed hereunder) without the
need for any further notice or marking, together with any
confidential or proprietary information exchanged between the
Parties after the Effective Date pursuant to this Agreement (it
being understood that if any such confidential or proprietary
information exchanged after the Effective Date is disclosed
pursuant to a non-disclosure agreement, then the terms of such
non-disclosure agreement shall govern the disclosure of such
information), excluding any information that: (i) the
receiving Party independently develops (in the case of Seller,
within any of the Retained Businesses and in the case of Buyer,
within the Business) without reference to the disclosed
information; (ii) the receiving Party independently receives
(in the case of Seller, other than from the Business and in the
case of Buyer, other than from any of the Retained Businesses) on a
non-confidential basis; (iii) becomes public knowledge through
no fault of the receiving Party or any of its Affiliates; or
(iv) is in the public domain at the time the receiving Party
receives the disclosed information.
“ Core Business Technology
Product ” means any product incorporating Buyer Core
Business Technology as a functionally and commercially significant
part thereof (other than a Sensor Product or Control
Product).
“ DLP System ”
means a Deformable Device and/or DMD System. For the purposes of
the foregoing, “ Deformable Device ” means a
semiconductor device wherein addressable and movable
electromagnetic radiation reflecting members comprise a substantial
portion of the device, including, by way of illustration,
electrostatically controllable, deformable or deflectable mirrors
and “ DMD System ” means any instrumentality or
aggregate of instrumentalities which incorporate one or more
Deformable Devices as a functionally and commercially significant
part thereof.
“ Exclusive Buyer
Information ” means know-how and trade secrets
constituting or directly relating to the Buyer Core Business
Technology.
“ Exclusive Seller
Information ” means know-how and trade secrets
constituting or directly relating to any Semiconductor Process
and/or DLP System.
“ Licensed Party
” means the Party to whom the applicable license set forth in
Article 2 has been granted.
“ Licensing Party
” means the Party granting the other Party the applicable
license set forth in Article 2.
“ MEMS License ”
means the rights granted by each Party to the other Party pursuant
to Section 2.03.
“ Net Sales ”
means (A) the total amount billed to any unrelated third party
by the MEMS Licensee in connection with the sale of Licensed MEMS
Products, or (B) the Fair Market Value of any Licensed MEMS
Products sold as a Combination Product or sold to a related third
party (other than a MEMS Licensee); in each case less
(i) sales taxes, excise taxes, import duties and other similar
taxes (it being understood that taxes based on the MEMS
Licensee’s overall income are excluded) levied by a
Governmental Authority in respect to such sales,
(ii) reasonable and customary returned sales, sales allowances
(adjustments for quality and/or yield) and/or retroactive price
adjustments or credits, in each case consistent with the MEMS
Licensee’s practices with respect to similar products,
(iii) reasonable and customary trade, cash or quantity
discounts, in each case consistent with the MEMS Licensee’s
practices with respect to similar products, (iv) unreimbursed
transportation costs, and (v) unreimbursed transportation
insurance costs (but only if they are expressly documented); in any
case where such sales, incorporation into a system, or the
manufacture of such Licensed MEMS Products occurs in a country
where the Infringed MEMS Patent is issued. “ Fair Market
Value ” of the Licensed MEMS Products, as used above,
shall mean such commercially reasonable price for which the
Licensed MEMS Products could have been sold to an unrelated third
party, as standalone products, at the time that such Licensed MEMS
Products were sold to such unrelated third party as a Combination
Product or to a related third party (other than a MEMS Licensee).
In determining what is a commercially reasonable price, sales to an
unrelated third party by such MEMS Licensee of the same or similar
products as a standalone product at any time within six months of
the sale of such Combination Product or sale to such related third
party (other than a MEMS Licensee) (as applicable), shall be deemed
to establish the commercially reasonable per unit price.
“ Combination Product ” means a Licensed MEMS
Product sold to an unrelated third party that is not sold on a
standalone basis.
“ Other Seller Product
” means (i) any product intended for incorporation in a
DLP System; (ii) any products intended for applications
addressed by products currently or previously marketed or under
development by the Educational and Productivity Solutions business
unit of Seller (e.g., calculators); (iii) board-level products
for use in telecommunications products (e.g.,
Bluetooth, GPS and WLAN boards);
(iv) board-level products for use in Broadband or networking
products (e.g., DSL boards); (v) High Volume Analog Logic
(HVAL) module or board-level products (other than any product that
is a Restricted Buyer Product); (vi) power modules or boards
(e.g. Powertrends power board) (other than any product that is a
Sensor Product or a Control Product; provided that for these
purposes the phrase “or under development” in clause
(iii) of the definition of Control Product and in clause
(ii) of the definition of Sensor Product shall be
disregarded); (vii) modems, residential-gateways and routers;
(viii) Tire Pressure Sensor Products; (ix) any other products
that any Seller Party manufactured, marketed, sold, offered for
sale, distributed or otherwise transferred prior to the Effective
Date or with respect to which any Seller Party has substantially
completed its development efforts, and any extension, modification,
derivative, replacement or successor products referred to in clause
(ix) (in each case, other than Semiconductor Products and
products included in the Business); and (x) board-level
and systems products (such as a Tagit and Tagit reader) for use in
RFID systems.
“ Permitted Subsidiary
” means, with respect to any Party, (i) any Subsidiary
of such Party as of the Effective Date and (ii) any Subsidiary
acquired, directly or indirectly, after the Effective Date by such
Party, whether by stock purchase, merger, asset acquisition or
otherwise, which has been granted a sublicense pursuant to
Section 2.04(b).
“ Priority Date ”
means the first effective filing date of an issued Patent or any
application therefor.
“ Restricted Buyer
Product ” means (i) any Sensor Product and/or
Control Product (provided that for these purposes the phrase
“or under development” in clause (iii) of the
definition of Control Product and in clause (ii) of the
definition of Sensor Product shall be disregarded) and
(ii) any other product that incorporates a Restricted Core
Business Technology Product as a functionally and commercially
significant part thereof.
“ Restricted Core Business
Technology Product ” means any (i) ceramic
capacitive sensor, (ii) microfused silicon strain gauge,
(iii) monometal and bimetal snap acting actuator,
(iv) metal oxide silicon sensor and (v) a self-regulating
heater or current limiter that (A) is an electromechanical
product, (B) incorporates positive temperature coefficient
materials based on doped barium titanate chemistry, and
(C) responds to temperature with increased resistance, or when
energized with current generates heat at a self-regulating
point.
“ S&C Field ”
means the field of Sensor Products and/or Control
Products.
“ Seller Activities
” means the design, development, use and distribution of
(i) design, automation, application or other software embodied
in or operating on or in any way relating to the manufacture, or
use of, any Seller Product and (ii) services, application
notes, reference designs, emulators, evaluation modules (EVMs), and
marketing materials directly relating to the sales, marketing or
use of any Seller Product.
“ Seller Information
” means the know-how and trade secrets owned or licensable by
any Seller Party that any Buyer Party has in its possession as of
the Effective Date (so long as such know-how and trade secrets have
been used in the Business prior to the Effective Date) and not
assigned to Buyer under the Purchase Agreement, excluding any
Exclusive Seller Information.
“ Seller License
” means the rights granted by Buyer to Seller pursuant to
Section 2.02.
“ Seller Party ”
means Seller and/or any of its Permitted Subsidiaries.
“ Seller Patents
” means all Patents now or hereafter owned or licensable by
any Seller Party with a Priority Date prior to the Effective Date
and not assigned to Buyer under the Purchase Agreement.
“ Seller Product
” means any (i) Semiconductor Product, (ii) Other
Seller Product and (iii) any software marketed by Seller for
use in conjunction with any of the foregoing.
“ Semiconductor Part
” means any semiconductor device or other device made using a
Semiconductor Process and implemented on and/or as part of a common
semiconductor substrate, such as a discrete or integrated circuit,
and further including a MEMS Product or radio frequency
identification product.
“ Semiconductor Product
” means any Semiconductor Part, and/or any combination of two
or more Semiconductor Parts that may be used, sold, assembled or
otherwise aggregated together in a chipset, board-level product, or
in any assembly or system; provided, however, that the portions of
such chipset, board-level product, assembly or system that do not
constitute a Semiconductor Part shall not be included as a
“Semiconductor Product” (it being understood that
Semiconductor Product shall include electrical connections between
Semiconductor Parts, decoupling capacitors, power supply
connections and any other circuitry directly enabling the
Semiconductor Parts to function together). Semiconductor Product
also includes any software which is incorporated in, or specific to
any of the foregoing which are Semiconductor Products.
(b) Each of the following terms is
defined in the Section set forth opposite such term:
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2.04(b)
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Affiliate
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Purchase
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Agreement
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Preamble
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Applicable Law
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Purchase
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Business
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Purchase
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Buyer
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Closing
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Purchase
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Control Products
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Purchase
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Effective Date
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Governmental Authority
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2.03(a)
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Section 1.02 . Other
Definitional And Interpretative Provisions. The words
“hereof”, “herein” and
“hereunder” and words of like import used in this
Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular provision of this Agreement. The captions herein are
included for convenience of reference only and shall be ignored in
the construction or interpretation hereof. References to Articles,
Sections, Exhibits and Schedules are to Articles, Sections,
Exhibits and Schedules of this Agreement unless otherwise
specified. All Schedules annexed hereto or referred to herein are
hereby incorporated in and made a part of this Agreement as if set
forth in full herein. Any capitalized terms used in any Exhibit or
Schedule but not otherwise defined therein, shall have the meaning
as defined in this Agreement. Any singular term in this Agreement
shall be deemed to include the plural, and any plural term the
singular. Whenever the words “include”,
“includes” or “including” are used in this
Agreement, they shall be deemed to be followed by the words
“without limitation”, whether or not they are in fact
followed by those words or words of like import. When the words
“not to be unreasonably withheld” are used in this
Agreement, they shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase
“, conditioned or delayed”, whether or not they
are in fact followed by that phrase or a phrase of like import.
“Writing”, “written” and comparable terms
refer to printing, typing and other means of reproducing words
(including electronic media) in a visible form. References to any
agreement or contract are to that agreement or contract as amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the
terms hereof and thereof. References to any Person include the
successors and permitted assigns of that Person. References from or
through any date mean, unless otherwise specified, from and
including or through and including, respectively. References to
“law” or “laws” shall be deemed to include
any and all Applicable Law.
ARTICLE 2
G RANT O F
R IGHTS
Section 2.01 . From Seller
To Buyer. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, each Seller Party hereby grants to each Buyer Party a
perpetual, worldwide, nonexclusive, irrevocable, nontransferable
(except as set forth herein), royalty-free (except as set forth in
Section 2.03), fully paid-up license under the Seller Patents
and Seller Information (i) to make, have made, use, sell,
offer for sale and import, reproduce, perform, display or
distribute any Buyer Product (other than a MEMS Product in the
S&C Field, which is licensed only pursuant to
Section 2.03) and (ii) to engage in Buyer
Activities.
(b) Effective upon the Effective
Date, each Seller Party hereby irrevocably releases each Buyer
Party and their respective customers, mediate and immediate, from
any and all claims of infringement of any Seller Patent, with
respect to any act performed or product made, used or sold by a
Buyer Party prior to the Effective Date.
(c) Each Seller Party hereby agrees
not to initiate any infringement action, or otherwise assert any
claim, demand, cause of action or request for damages or other
relief, either alone or in cooperation with any other Person,
against any Buyer Party or any of their customers on or before
April 30, 2007 under any Seller Patent and/or the Seller
Information with respect to (i) any Buyer Product of the type
manufactured and sold to such customers (including any Buyer
Product of the type with respect to which such customer has entered
into a contract or otherwise placed an order with a Buyer Party)
within the one (1) year period immediately prior to the
Announcement Date for any product of an immediate customer of a
Buyer Party and/or (ii) any product of an immediate customer
which infringes or has infringed upon such Seller Patent claims and
in which such Buyer Product is or has been incorporated within the
one (1) year period immediately prior to the Announcement Date
(including any such customer products which are modifications,
derivations, replacements or successor products of any of the
foregoing) (a “ Permitted Buyer Customer Product
”); provided that the foregoing shall not apply with respect
to any product of an immediate customer which is only under
development as of the Announcement Date. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that the
foregoing covenant with respect to a Permitted Buyer Customer
Product shall apply to all downstream customers, sellers,
distributors, and the like, as in the case of patent exhaustion.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, as to any particular Seller Patent
claim, the covenant set forth in this Section 2.01(c) shall
only apply to any changes made to such Buyer Products and/or
customer products after the Announcement Date if such changes do
not result in such products infringing such Seller Patent claim in
a manner that is materially different from such Buyer Product
and/or customer product as each existed within the one
(1) year period immediately prior to the Announcement Date.
Notwithstanding the terms of this Section 2.01(c), in the
event that any customer of a Buyer Party initiates a patent
infringement action against a Seller Party after the Effective Date
and such action does not arise out of or relate to a patent
infringement dispute initiated by a Seller Party, then such Seller
Party shall be permitted to respond to such patent infringement
action and assert any Seller Patent claim that such Seller Party
would otherwise be precluded from asserting under this
Section 2.01(c) against such customer; provided that the
assertion of any such Seller Patent claim (A) is not in
respect of a customer product which incorporates a Buyer Product
that directly infringes such Seller Patent claim and (B) is
not otherwise prevented by any of the other licenses and covenants
of this
Article 2. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no
event shall Seller be permitted to recover any damages or obtain
any other relief resulting from any infringement of any Seller
Patent and/or Seller Information that occurred on or before
April 30, 2007 with respect to any Buyer Product and/or any
Permitted Buyer Customer Product to the extent that the above
covenant applies.
(d) Notwithstanding anything in this
Agreement to the contrary, the Seller Patents and Seller
Information shall only be deemed to be licensable if any Seller
Party has the power to sublicense such Seller Patents and Seller
Information to Buyer at no additional cost to, and such sublicense
will not result in any further obligations being imposed on, any
Seller Party; provided, however, if Buyer agrees to assume and
directly pay such additional cost to the applicable third party and
such direct payment is permitted, such Seller Patents and Seller
Information (as applicable) shall be licensable
hereunder.
Section 2.02 . From Buyer To
Seller. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, each Buyer Party hereby grants to each Seller Party a
perpetual, worldwide, nonexclusive, irrevocable, nontransferable
(except as set forth herein), royalty-free (except as set forth in
Section 2.03), fully paid-up license under the Buyer Patents
and Buyer Information to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale
and import, reproduce, perform, display or distribute any Seller
Product (other than a MEMS Product in the S&C Field, which is
licensed only pursuant to Section 2.03) and (ii) to
engage in any Seller Activities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Seller Parties shall be prohibited from exercising the license
rights granted in this Section 2.02 in any manner which
contravenes the terms of Section 5.03 of the Purchase
Agreement.
(b) Effective upon the Effective
Date, each Buyer Party hereby irrevocably releases each Seller
Party and their respective customers, mediate and immediate, from
any and all claims of infringement of any Buyer Patent, with
respect to any act performed or product made, used or sold by a
Seller Party prior to the Effective Date.
(c) Each Buyer Party hereby agrees
not to initiate any infringement action, or otherwise assert any
claim, demand, cause of action or request for damages or other
relief, either alone or in cooperation with any other Person,
against any Seller Party or any of their customers on or before
April 30, 2007 under any Buyer Patent and/or the Buyer
Information with respect to (i) any Seller Product of the type
manufactured and sold to such customers (including any Seller
Product of the type with respect to which such customer has entered
into a contract or otherwise placed an order with a Seller Party)
within the one (1) year period immediately prior to the
Announcement Date for any product of an immediate customer of a
Seller Party and/or (ii) any product of an immediate customer
which infringes or has infringed upon such Buyer Patent claims and
in which such Seller Product is or has been incorporated within the
one (1) year period immediately prior to the Announcement Date
(including any such customer products which are modifications,
derivations, replacements or successor products of any of the
foregoing) (a “ Permitted Seller Customer Product
”); provided that the foregoing shall not apply with respect
to any product of an immediate customer which is only under
development as of the Announcement Date. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that the
foregoing covenant with respect to a Permitted Seller Customer
Product shall apply to all downstream customers, sellers,
distributors, and the like, as in the case of patent exhaustion.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, as to any particular Buyer Patent
claim, the covenant
set forth in this Section 2.02(c) shall
only apply to any changes made to such Seller Products and/or
customer products after the Announcement Date if such changes do
not result in such products infringing such Buyer Patent claim in a
manner that is materially different from such Seller Product and/or
customer product as each existed within the one (1) year
period immediately prior to the Announcement Date. Notwithstanding
the terms of this Section 2.02(c), in the event that any
customer of a Seller Party initiates a patent infringe