Exhibit
10.2
EXECUTION
COPY
FROZEN SHOULDER LICENSE
AGREEMENT
This FROZEN
SHOULDER LICENSE AGREEMENT (the “ Agreement ”),
effective as of November 21, 2006 (the “ Effective
Date ”), is entered into by and between BioSpecifics
Technologies Corp., a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of Delaware (“ BTC ”), and the Research
Foundation of the State University of New York for and on behalf of
Stony Brook University, a nonprofit, educational corporation
organized and existing under the laws of New York (the “
Research Foundation ”). BTC and the Research
Foundation shall sometimes be referred to herein individually as a
“ Party ” and collectively as “
Parties .”
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WHEREAS, the Research Foundation now wishes to
license the University Know-How and the University Patents in
respect of Frozen Shoulder to BTC, and BTC wishes to license the
University Know-How and the University Patents in respect of Frozen
Shoulder from the Research Foundation, on the terms and conditions
set forth in this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE,
in consideration of the mutual promises, covenants and agreements
set forth below, the Parties agree as follows:
ARTICLE
I.
DEFINITIONS
For the
purposes of this Agreement, the following capitalized words and
phrases, whether used in the singular or plural, shall have the
following meanings:
1.1 “
Affiliate ” means any corporation or other business
entity controlled by, controlling, or under common control with
another entity, with “control” meaning direct or
indirect beneficial ownership of more than 50% (or such lesser
percent provided that ownership is accompanied by the power to
direct the management or policies of the entity) of (a) the voting
stock in the case of a corporation, or (b) the profits interest or
decision-making authority in the case of an unincorporated business
entity.
1.2 “
Auxilium ” means Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of
Delaware.
1.3 “
Auxilium License Agreement ” means the agreement dated
as of June 3, 2004 by and between BTC and Auxilium, as amended on
May 6, 2005 and as may be subsequently amended from time to time,
by which BTC granted to Auxilium certain licenses, as defined
therein.
1.4 “
Combination Product ” means any product containing
both an agent or ingredient which constitutes a Licensed Product
and one or more other active agents or ingredients which do not
constitute Licensed Products.
1.5 “
Development Program ” means the clinical studies
previously performed by B&W with injectable collagenase
pertaining to Frozen Shoulder, as described more fully in Article
II hereof.
1.6 “
EMEA ” means the European Medicines Evaluation Agency,
which coordinates the scientific review of human pharmaceutical
products under the centralized licensing procedure of the European
Community, and includes any successor agency.
1.7 “
Enzyme ” means an enzyme constituted of collagenase
obtained by fermentation of Clostridium histolyticum,
purified by chromatography, lyophilized and substantially free from
other proteinases, and any variants or derivatives
thereof.
1.8 “
European Union “ or “EU” means the
countries of the European Union (or its successor) as constituted
on the Effective Date and future members of the
European Union
upon their admission for full membership with commercial rights and
privileges.
1.9 “ FDA
” has the meaning set forth above in the recitals.
1.10 “ Field ” means the
prevention or treatment of Frozen Shoulder.
1.11 “ First Commercial Sale ”
means the first commercial sale of a Licensed Product by BTC under
the terms of a Supply Agreement or by a Sublicensee to a Third
Party.
1.12 “ Frozen Shoulder ” means the
condition or syndrome of shoulder adhesive capsulitis or other
conditions or syndromes of the shoulder.
1.13 “ Indication ” shall mean a
pharmaceutical application of injectable collagenase.
1.14 “ Information ” means (a)
techniques, technology, practices, methods, procedures, inventions,
discoveries, knowledge, know-how, trade secrets, skill, experience,
gene or protein sequences, technical data, test data, analytical
and quality control data, formulas or software programs, and (b)
all compounds, compositions of matter, cells, cell lines, assays,
and all other biological or chemical materials and
samples.
1.15 “ Joint Inventions ” means
any inventions in the Field, whether patentable or not, which are
jointly conceived, discovered, developed or otherwise made, during
the Development Program by at least one BTC employee or person
contractually required to assign or license the intellectual
property rights covering such inventions to BTC and at least one
Stony Brook employee or person contractually required by virtue of
New York state law to assign or license the intellectual property
rights covering such inventions to the Research
Foundation.
1.16 “ Licensed Products ” means
pharmaceutical products containing Enzyme as an active ingredient
and any reformulation, improvement, enhancement, combination,
refinement, or modification thereof, which are made, used and sold
in the Field and the development, manufacture, use or sale of which
would, in the absence of this Agreement, infringe one or more Valid
Claims; provided however, the Licensed Products shall specifically
exclude dermal formulations labeled for topical
administration.
1.17 “ MAA ” means a Marketing
Authorization Application filed with the EMEA.
1.18 “ NDA ” means a New Drug
Application, Biologics License Application or a Product License
Application filed with the FDA.
(a) with respect to sales of Licensed Products by
BTC or its Affiliates, the gross sales price actually received less
the following items to the extent they are paid and included in the
invoice price:
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customary trade
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packing,
freight, and insurance costs;
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sales, use,
value-added and excise taxes;
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import, export
and customs duties and taxes;
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credit for
returns, allowances or trades actually allowed; and
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government
mandated rebates, if any; and
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(b) with respect to sales of Licensed Products by a
Sublicensee (as defined below) where BTC has elected not to supply
the Licensed Product, the net sales price as required to be
reported to BTC by the Sublicensee pursuant to the written
sublicense agreement between them. For purposes of clarification,
if Auxilium acquires BTC, then notwithstanding any termination of
the Auxilium License Agreement, the Net Sales price shall be the
price that would have been reported by Auxilium to BTC under the
Auxilium License Agreement as if the Auxilium License Agreement had
remained in effect.
(c) with respect to sales of Licensed Products by a
Sublicensee (as defined below) where BTC has elected to supply the
Licensed Product, the net sales price as required to be reported to
BTC under the Supply Agreement entered into between
them.
In the case of
(a) and (b) above, sales by BTC, its Affiliates and Sublicensees to
resellers or others for further formulation, processing,
repackaging or relabeling shall be excluded, and only the
subsequent resale to independent customers shall be deemed Net
Sales.
In the case of
Combination Products for which the agent or ingredient constituting
a Licensed Product and each of the other active agents or
ingredients not constituting a Licensed Product have established
market prices when sold separately, Net Sales shall be determined
by multiplying the Net Sales for each such Combination Product by a
fraction, the numerator of which shall be the established market
price for the Licensed Products contained in the Combination
Product and the denominator of which shall be the sum of the
established market prices for the Licensed Products plus the other
active agents or ingredients contained in the Combination Product.
When separate market prices are not established, then the Parties
shall negotiate in good faith to determine a fair and equitable
method of calculating Net Sales for the Combination Product in
question, taking into account factors such as relative cost and
relative therapeutic or diagnostic contribution.
1.20 “ Patent ” means any patent
issued with respect to the Patent Applications, and any reissues or
extensions thereof.
1.21 “ Sublicensee ” means
Auxilium or any person or entity who receives in the future a
sublicense from BTC pursuant to Article III hereof.
1.22 “ Sublicense Income ” means
the upfront payments and milestone payments actually received by
BTC from (i) Auxilium and included within the definition of
Sublicense Income as defined in the Auxilium License Agreement, or
(ii) any other Sublicensee pursuant to Article III
hereof.
1.23 “ Supply Agreement ” shall
mean any commercial supply agreement related to the manufacturing
and/or supply of the Licensed Product between BTC and a Sublicensee
or any Third Party.
1.24 “ Territory ” means all
countries of the world.
1.25 “ Third Party ” shall mean
any person or other entity other than BTC or its
Affiliates.
1.26 “ University Know-How ” means
(i) any proprietary Information or materials related to the
manufacture, preparation, formulation, use or development of the
Enzyme and the Licensed Products and shall include formulations,
processes, techniques, formulas, biological, chemical, assay
control and manufacturing, technical, pre-clinical, clinical or
other data, methods, and know-how, and trade secrets; (ii) all
Information, not generally known, which is owned by the Research
Foundation or is rightfully held with right to sublicense as of the
Effective Date, or which was developed, discovered, conceived,
reduced to practice, or acquired by the Research Foundation or by
Stony Brook inventors and assigned by Stony Brook inventors to the
Research Foundation as a result of the Development Program and
which (a) relates to the Licensed Products or (b) relates to the
methods, processes or techniques for the manufacture or use of the
Licensed Products and (iii) any Joint Inventions.
1.27 “ University Patents ” means
the patent applications in respect of Frozen Shoulder that is
covered by the assignment agreement attached hereto as Exhibit
A , and any divisions, continuations and continuations-in-part
thereof, any foreign patent applications corresponding thereto, and
any patent issued with respect to such patent applications, and any
reissues or extensions thereof.
1.28 “ Valid Claim ” means a claim
of an issued and unexpired patent included within the University
Patents, which has not been held permanently revoked, unenforceable
or invalid by a decision of a governmental agency or court of
competent jurisdiction, unappealable or unappealed within the time
allowed for appeal, and which has not been admitted to be invalid
or unenforceable through reissue or disclaimer or
otherwise.
ARTICLE
II.
DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM
2.1 Frozen Shoulder
Development Program . Pursuant to certain protocols, B&W,
individually or collectively, together with other Stony Brook
employees, performed certain pre-clinical, clinical, regulatory,
process development and manufacturing work related to injectable
collagenase pertaining to Frozen Shoulder.
ARTICLE
III.
LICENSE
GRANT
3.1 License
Grant. The Research Foundation hereby grants to BTC and its
Affiliates a worldwide exclusive license for the University
Know-How in the Field and the University Patents in the Field. The
Research Foundation hereby reserves all rights to any University
Know How and University Patents outside of the Field. The Research
Foundation further grants to BTC a worldwide exclusive license to
use the University
Know-How and
the University Patents to develop, manufacture, use and sell in any
manner Licensed Products in the Field, except to the extent that
BTC, its Affiliates or Sublicensees enters into a material transfer
agreement, clinical trial agreement or any similar agreement that
allows the Research Foundation to do research or clinical
development. This grant is subject to the payment by BTC to
Research Foundation of any consideration required to be paid by
Article IV of this Agreement.
3.2 Government
Rights. BTC acknowledges that the license granted to it
hereunder are subject to a certain license granted to the United
States government by the Research Foundation, as described in a
letter dated as of October 6, 2006, a copy of which is attached
hereto as Exhibit C .
(a) BTC shall be entitled to grant sublicenses of
its rights hereunder, provided that any Net Sales of Licensed
Products by a BTC Sublicensee shall be deemed to be Net Sales of a
Sublicensee for purposes of royalty payments due hereunder, and BTC
shall remain obligated to pay all royalties due with respect to
Licensed Products sold by BTC and any Sublicensee. If BTC shall
grant any sublicenses in addition to the Auxilium License Agreement
under this Agreement, then it shall obtain the written commitment
of such additional Sublicensees to abide by all applicable terms
and conditions of this Agreement and BTC shall remain fully
responsible to the Research Foundation for the performance of all
such terms by such additional Sublicensees. Upon the termination of
this Agreement, each Sublicensee shall have the option to convert
its sublicense to a direct license with the Research Foundation on
the same terms as in the sublicense agreement.
(b) The Research Foundation hereby acknowledges and
consents to the sublicense that BTC has previously granted to
Auxilium pursuant to the Auxilium License Agreement in respect of
the Licensed Products.
3.4 Subagents.
It is agreed that BTC has the right to take the following actions,
none of which shall constitute a sublicense hereunder and none of
which shall be subject to Section 3.3 herein:
(a) appointing an agent or distributor to market,
sell or otherwise dispose of Licensed Products; and
(b) subcontracting the development, manufacture or
packaging of Licensed Products.
3.5 Term. The
term of said license will continue in effect for as long as the
Licensed Products are sold.
ARTICLE
IV.
ROYALTIES AND MILESTONE
PAYMENTS
4.1 Royalties.
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4.2 Royalty
Period. The royalty obligations of BTC shall commence on the
date of the First Commercial Sale and continue for the longer of
(i) the last to expire Valid Claim of a Patent covering the
Licensed Product or (ii) June 3, 2016.
4.3 Currency;
Conversion; Taxes. Royalty payments shall be paid in U.S.
Dollars at the address of the Research Foundation set forth in
Section 11.6 below, or such other place as the Research Foundation
may reasonably designate in writing, consistent with applicable
laws and regulations. Any taxes which BTC or its Affiliates or
Sublicensees shall be required by law to withhold or pay upon
remittance of the royalty payments shall be deducted from the
royalty payable to the Research Foundation and paid on its behalf
as required. BTC shall furnish the original of any official
receipts for such taxes. If any currency conversion shall be
required in connection with the payment of royalties hereunder,
such conversion shall be made by using the average of the daily
exchange rates for such currency quoted by the Wall Street
Journal’s (New York edition) foreign exchange desk for each
of the last three (3) banking days of each calendar quarter, or, in
the case of sales by Sublicensees, using the exchange rates
provided for in the written agreements between BTC and such
Sublicensees.
4.4 Currency
Transfer Restrictions. If in any country in the Territory the
payment or transfer of royalties on Net Sales in such country is
prohibited by law or regulation, BTC shall notify the Research
Foundation of the conditions preventing such transfer, and shall
deposit the blocked payments in local currency in a recognized
banking institution in the relevant country for the credit of the
Research Foundation.
4.5 Payments by
Others. With respect to any sales of Licensed Products by BTC,
its Affiliates or Sublicensees, BTC shall have the right to cause
any Affiliate, Sublicensee or other designee to make direct payment
to the Research Foundation of the royalties otherwise due for such
sales. The Research Foundation shall accept such payments and the
amount of royalties to be paid by BTC shall be reduced by the
amount of such payments actually received by Research
Foundation.
4.6 Offsets for
Third Party Licenses. If the Parties agree in writing that BTC,
its Affiliates or Sublicensees must obtain a license from an
independent Third Party in order for BTC to manufacture, use or
sell a Licensed Product and if BTC and the Research Foundation
agree on the terms of such license (a “ Third Party
License ”), then the Parties shall share the cost of that
license as defined herein. Such cost includes license fees,
royalties and other fixed costs associated with the Third Party
License minus the costs apportioned to any Sublicensee.
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ARTICLE
V.
REPORTS, PAYMENTS AND
ACCOUNTING
5.1 Royalty Reports
and Payments. BTC agrees to make written reports and royalty
payments to the Research Foundation within ninety (90) days after
the close of each calendar quarter during the term of this
Agreement, beginning with the quarter in which the First Commercial
Sale occurs. These reports shall show for the calendar quarter in
question all Net Sales of Licensed Products and the royalty due
thereon, together with the same information for Licensed Products
sold by Affiliates and Sublicensees (if applicable). With respect
to sales of Licensed Products by Sublicensees, reports need only
include information reflected in the reports required by Section
5.4 below which are actually received during the calendar quarter
in question. Concurrently with the making of each report, BTC shall
remit any royalty payment due for the period covered by the report.
BTC will make a good faith attempt, using commercially reasonable
biotech industry practices, to differentiate between Net Sales of
Licensed Products and sales of similar products outside of the
Field in calculating the amount of the royalty due hereunder to the
Research Foundation. Absent manifest error, BTC’s good faith
differentiation shall be binding and conclusive on the
Parties.
5.2 Termination
Report. Within ninety (90) days after the date on which BTC and
its Affiliates and Sublicensees last sell any Licensed Products,
BTC shall make a final termination report containing the same
quarterly information required above.
5.3 Accounting.
BTC agrees to keep written or digitally stored records for a period
of three (3) years from the end of each reporting period in
sufficient detail to enable the royalties payable to be determined,
and further agrees to permit its books and records to be examined
during normal business hours by an independent accounting firm,
selected by the Research Foundation and reasonably satisfactory to
BTC, from time-to-time on reasonable notice, but not more often
than once per year. Such examination must be made confidentially
and the auditing firm shall be required to enter into reasonable
confidentiality agreements. The expense of such examination shall
be borne by the Research Foundation except that in the event the
results of the audit reveal a discrepancy in the Research
Foundation’s favor of 10% or more, then reasonable
out-of-pocket audit fees shall be paid by BTC. Any discrepancy will
be promptly corrected by a payment or refund, as
appropriate.
5.4 Third Party
Reports. BTC agrees to require, as a term of any sublicense
agreement, that the Sublicensee shall render written reports to BTC
of Net Sales of Licensed Products no less frequently than twice per
year and in sufficient detail to enable the royalties payable by
BTC hereunder to be determined (“ Third Party Reports
”). BTC shall also require Sublicensees to keep records
concerning Net Sales for a period of at least three (3) years, and
to permit reasonable examination of such records by an independent
accounting firm selected by BTC. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as enlarging, or
requiring BTC to modify,
Auxilium’s, its Affiliate’s or its
Sublicensee’s existing reporting and record keeping
obligations pursuant to the Auxilium License Agreement.
5.5 Confidentiality
of Reports. The Research Foundation agrees that the information
set forth in (a) the reports required by Sections 5.