Exhibit 10.1
Exclusive Patent, Trademark
and Tradename License
Agreement
by and between
John Michael Coombs dba
EASY GOLF
and
Bio-Thrust, Inc., a Utah
corporation
John Michael Coombs dba EASY GOLF Bio-Thrust,
Inc. Agreement
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Index
ARTICLE I
Recitals
(pages 3-4)
ARTICLE II
Definitions
(pages 4-5)
ARTICLE III
Ownership of
Intellectual Property and Exclusive License
Grants
(pages 5-6)
ARTICLE IV
Sublicenses
(page 7)
ARTICLE V
Compensation,
Payments and Reports (pages 7-9)
ARTICLE VI
Payment of
Patent Prosecution Costs, Other Patent Office
Fees
and Related Attorney's/Agent's Fees (page 9)
ARTICLE VII
Representations,
Warranties, and Limitations (pages 9-10)
ARTICLE VIII
Non-Confidential and
Technical Information (page 10)
ARTICLE IX
Transferability
of Rights and Obligations (page 10)
ARTICLE X
Legal
Proceedings (pages 10-11)
ARTICLE XI
Arbitration
(page 11)
ARTICLE XII Term
and Termination (pages 11-13)
ARTICLE XIII General
Provisions (pages 13)
ARTICLE XIV
Disclaimer and Hold
Harmless Provision (pages 13-14)
ARTICLE XV
Notice (page
14)
ARTICLE XVI
Integration (page
14)
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EXCLUSIVE PATENT, TRADEMARK
AND TRADENAME
LICENSE AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into on
this 10th day of March, 2005, by and between John Michael Coombs
dba EASY GOLF, an individual currently residing at 2435 Scenic
Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84109-1481 (hereinafter referred to as
"INVENTOR" or "LICENSOR") and BIO-THRUST, INC., a Utah corporation
in good standing with the State of Utah, Division of Corporations
and Commercial Code (hereinafter "LICENSEE") whose principal place
of business is 3098 South Highland Drive, Suite 323, Salt Lake
City, Utah 84106-6001, phone no. 801-467-2021, fax no.
801-467-3256.
WITNESSETH:
ARTICLE I
1.01 WHEREAS, INVENTOR/LICENSOR has invented
a device, invention or product that purportedly enables or assists
a person to hit a golf ball straight, an invention that
INVENTOR/LICENSOR calls or has termed "The 'Swing- Channel' Golf
Mat";
1.02 WHEREAS INVENTOR/LICENSOR is the owner
of two U.S. trademark and trade name applications on file with the
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, one of which was applied for on
September 8, 2004, Serial Number 78480447, and the other of which
was applied for on March 1, 2005, Serial Number 78577944, the names
of which are "Easy Golf" and "Swing-Channel," respectively, both of
which have been applied for by INVENTOR/LICENSOR for use with
respect to the sport of golf;
1.03 WHEREAS INVENTOR/LICENSOR is the owner
of the Utah trademark "Easy Golf," Registration No. 5758081-0190,
the registration for which was issued on November 4, 2004;
1.04 WHEREAS INVENTOR/LICENSOR registered, on
October 4, 2004, with the Utah Department of Commerce and
Commercial Code, the name "Easy Golf" as "dba" of himself in the
State of Utah, Entity No. 5743928-0151;
1.05 WHEREAS INVENTOR/LICENSOR has retained
patent counsel to prepare and apply for a utility patent, or,
alternatively, a design patent, on "The 'Swing-Channel' Golf Mat,"
for which he has recently paid such counsel $4,000, and is thus in
the process of so applying for United States letters patent (as
specified in Section 2.01 hereinafter);
1.06 WHEREAS INVENTOR/LICENSOR has drafted
and copyrighted, or will officially copyright, in his own name, a
form of colored brochure or instruction manual (which will explain
how to use "The 'Swing-Channel' Golf Mat") to be included in the
box in which a customer will receive delivery of "The
'Swing-Channel' Golf Mat";
1.07 WHEREAS INVENTOR/LICENSOR has retained
and paid a website designer who is in the process of developing and
designing an Easy Golf website to be exclusively licensed to and
used by LICENSEE for the commercial purposes set forth hereunder, a
website that will have a fully operational "Shopping Cart" and
through which credit card charges can be made for the purchase of
"The 'Swing-Channel' Golf Mat";
1.08 WHEREAS INVENTOR/LICENSOR owns and has
reserved the following website domain names for at least the next
year, www.easygolf.biz, www.easyswinggolf.com,
www.easyswinginggolf.com, www.straightswinginggolf.com,
www.easyhittinggolf.com, and www.straighthittinggolf.com, all of
which LICENSOR is further willing to license to LICENSEE for the
purposes set forth herein;
1.09 WHEREAS, LICENSEE, is interested in
acquiring, and LICENSOR is interested in licensing, or conveying by
way of license, all substantial rights in and to LICENSOR's U.S.
letters patent applications and any subsequently issued letters
patent (including any future foreign letters patent and any foreign
letters patent applications) via an Exclusive License, on terms
wherein, among other things, payment of the purchase price is, in
part, related to sales of "The 'Swing-Channel' Golf Mat" covered by
said applications for letters patent and any subsequently issued
letters patent;
1.10 WHEREAS, LICENSEE is also interested in
obtaining the exclusive right to use LICENSOR's other proprietary
intellectual property and other common law rights associated with,
connected to, or related to the invention known as "The
'Swing-Channel' Golf Mat," including but not limited to LICENSOR'S
various federal and state trademarks, tradenames, "dba's", and
website domain names; and
1.11 WHEREAS, LICENSEE represents that it has
the financial resources, the ability, the required manpower and the
willingness to engage in and promote the manufacture, use and sale
of "The 'Swing-Channel' Golf Mat" through the website it is
acquiring the right to use hereunder, through golf magazine
advertising,
through potential cable or other television advertising, and also
through advertising through golf shops, golf stores and other
retail stores or outlets around the country,
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the
mutual promises herein contained, the issuance to LICENSOR of
thirty five million (35,000,000) "restricted" shares of $0.0001 par
value common capital shares of Bio-Thrust of which there are
currently a total of 7,210,410 shares issued and outstanding, the
agreement to pay LICENSOR a royalty of five percent (5%) of net
sales prices or net proceeds from sales (as further defined below)
and good and other valuable consideration paid by LICENSEE to
LICENSOR, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto agree and do hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE II
Definitions
2.01 "LICENSED PATENTS" shall mean and
include:
(a) All applications for U.S. letters patent
(and any future foreign applications for letters patent) which are
in the process of being made and applied for by LICENSOR through
his patent counsel, any or all of which shall be subsequently
identified and attached hereto and made a part of this Agreement,
and any reissues and/or extensions thereof which shall be based on
any such letters patent;
(b) Any divisional, continuation-in-while or
in-part patent application, foreign or domestic, which shall be
based on any patent application contemplated in the previous
paragraph; and
(c) Any letters patent, both foreign and
U.S., which ultimately issue on any of the patent applications
described or contemplated in Paragraphs (a) and (b) above and any
reissues and/or extensions thereof.
2.02 "ROYALTY BEARING PRODUCT" shall mean or
apply exclusively to sales of the "The 'Swing-Channel' Golf Mat"
and all materials included with it, such as any instruction manual
or operating brochure.
2.03 "LICENSED PRODUCTS" shall mean all of
the intellectual properties, including the Easy Golf
website-related properties subject of this Agreement, and which
LICENSOR, by virtue of this Agreement, is allowing LICENSEE to take
and use, in any lawful manner, for commercial exploitation
purposes. In particular, this term refers to the invention and
product known as "The 'Swing-Channel' Golf Mat" and all
intellectual property associated therewith, not the least of which
is the trademark "Easy Golf ." !
2.04 "MONIES" shall mean and include all
contractual front-end payments, minimum royalties, advance
royalties, earned royalties and the like, without any deduction
whatsoever, but shall exclude all per diems, consulting fees,
reimbursement of travel expenses and the like, as, for example,
provided for in Article VIII hereafter.
2.05 "NET SALES PRICE" shall be the total
amount actually billed to the customer for each ROYALTY BEARING
PRODUCT sold, less customary trade and quantity discounts, less
allowance for returns (other than trade-ins), less value added or
other sales taxes directly resulting from the sales of the ROYALTY
BEARING PRODUCT which have been actually paid to LICENSEE, less any
packing, shipping, handling, transportation or installation
charges, if included in the invoice price and actually paid or
allowed.
2.06 "CONTRACT YEAR" shall mean any 12-month
period starting from the EFFECTIVE DATE and annually thereafter at
the anniversary date of the EFFECTIVE DATE and comprising four (4)
"QUARTER CONTRACT YEAR" periods of three (3) months each.
ARTICLE III
Ownership of Intellectual
Property and Exclusive License Grants
3.01 LICENSOR hereby grants to LICENSEE,
subject to the terms and conditions herein, an exclusive
right and license
to manufacture, use, sell and/or otherwise commercially exploit, in
any lawful manner, the LICENSED PRODUCTS during the term of this
Agreement.
3.02 LICENSOR also specifically hereby grants
to LICENSEE, subject to the terms and conditions herein, a license
to take and use the applied-for federal trademarks "Easy Golf" and
"Swing-Channel," both of which have been designated to be used in
or with the sport of golf.
3.03 LICENSEE acknowledges the validity of
the applied-for federal trademarks "Easy Golf" and "Swing-Channel"
and shall always use, in conjunction with either mark, such notices
indicative of the application or subsequent registration and
ownership thereof as LICENSOR may, from time to time, require.
3.04 LICENSEE further acknowledges LICENSOR's
intent to file a utility patent (or alternatively, a design
patent), with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, on "The
'Swing-Channel' Golf Mat," the progress upon which LICENSOR agrees
to continuously report to LICENSEE; in this regard, LICENSEE shall
always use, in conjunction with any patent application or issued
patent thereon, such notices indicative of the application or
subsequent issuance, and the ownership thereof, as LICENSOR may,
from time to time, require.
3.05 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein expressed or implied, LICENSOR is and shall be and remain
the owner of the intellectual property subject of this Agreement
for all purposes, subject only to the license granted under the
terms hereof to LICENSEE, and so long as LICENSEE abides by,
performs and continues to perform and observe the conditions and
covenants of this Agreement. LICENSOR and LICENSEE agree that the
relationship between them is of independent contractors and not as
principal and agent or employer and employee, and that neither
party shall have the right to bind the other by contract or
otherwise, except to the extent that the parties have bound
themselves by the terms hereof. In like manner, neither party shall
be liable for the debts or obligations of the other party, and each
party shall indemnify and hold the other party harmless from and
against any of the other's debts or liabilities, including any
attorney's fees and costs incurred in defending against any claim
of debts or obligations that may be asserted by a third party
against the other party.
3.06 In the event that LICENSEE makes any
improvements to the LICENSED PRODUCTS, all such improvements shall
be owned by LICENSOR and in the event of termination of this
Agreement, the ownership of, and the right to own any such
improvements, just as the rights licensed hereby, shall revert to
and become the sole and exclusive property of LICENSOR.
ARTICLE IV
Sublicenses
4.01 LICENSOR does NOT hereby grant or
convey, to LICENSEE, directly, indirectly, or in any other manner
or capacity, the power or other ability to sublicense any of the
LICENSED PATENTS or LICENSED PRODUCTS in any manner without the
prior written consent of LICENSOR.
ARTICLE V
Compensation, Payments and
Reports
5.01 LICENSEE agrees to pay LICENSOR a five
percent (5%) royalty on all NET SALES PRICE proceeds as defined in
Article 2.05 above. In this regard, LICENSEE shall use its best
efforts in assisting LICENSOR to collect all royalties and other
payments due from it. LICENSEE shall promptly report any payment
defaults; such reports shall include a showing of LICENSEE's
diligent efforts to collect the amounts due, and all measures
contemplated to collect at LICENSEE's expense any overdue funds;
additionally, such report shall include an offer by LICENSEE to
assign to the LICENSOR any cause of action to collect the defaulted
payment and LICENSOR shall have the right to initiate and/or
continue such action, as