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Exhibit 10.7
Confidential Materials omitted and filed separately with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Asterisks denote
omissions.
HDR INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT LICENSE AGREEMENT
This HDR Infrastructure Equipment License Agreement (the
"Agreement") is entered
into on September 18, 2000 by and between QUALCOMM Incorporated,
a Delaware
Corporation, and Airvana, Inc., a Delaware corporation, with
respect to the
following facts:
RECITALS
WHEREAS, QUALCOMM has developed certain proprietary Code
Division Multiple
Access technology which may be useful in providing greater
capacity and improved
quality and reliability compared to other Wireless internet
technologies;
WHEREAS, LICENSEE desires to obtain a license of QUALCOMM's
Intellectual
Property to manufacture and sell the Licensed HDR Products, and
QUALCOMM desires
to grant such license in accordance with the terms and
conditions set forth in
this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, QUALCOMM desires to obtain a license of LICENSEE's
Intellectual
Property to manufacture and sell the Licensed HDR Products and
Components and
LICENSEE desires to grant such license in accordance with the
terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement.
AGREEMENT
NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows:
1. HEADINGS AND DEFINITIONS.
All headings used in this Agreement are inserted for convenience
only and
are not intended to affect the meaning or interpretation of this
Agreement or
any clause. Reference to "third party or third parties" shall
not mean either
Party. For the purpose of this Agreement, the following
definitions apply:
"Affiliates" means, as to a Party, any present or future Parent
of the Party and
any present or future Subsidiary of the Party and/or its Parent,
but only for so
long as the Parent remains the Parent of the Party and the
Subsidiary remains a
Subsidiary of the Party and/or its Parent. The term "Parent"
means any
corporation or other legal entity that owns, directly or
indirectly (i) more
than 50% of the shares or other securities of the Party entitled
to vote for
election of directors (or other managing authority) of the Party
or (ii) if such
Party does not have outstanding shares or securities, more than
50% of the
equity interest in such Party, but only for so long as such
ownership or control
exists in (i) or (ii) above. The term "Subsidiary" of a Party
means any
corporation or other legal
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entity (i) the majority (more than 50%) of whose shares or other
securities
entitled to vote for election of directors (or other managing
authority) is now
or hereafter owned or controlled by such Party either directly
or indirectly or
(ii) which does not have outstanding shares or security but the
majority (more
than 50%) of the equity interest in which is now or hereafter
owned or
controlled by such Party either directly or indirectly, but only
for so long as
such ownership or control exists in (i) or (ii) above.
"CDMA" means code division multiple access technology.
"CDMA Applications" means all communication applications
(regardless of the
transmission medium) which operate using code division multiple
access ("CDMA")
technology, whether or not based on IS-95, cdma2000 or W-CDMA,
and irrespective
of frequency band.
"CDMA ASICs" means QUALCOMM's cell site modem (CSM) CDMA
application specific
integrated circuit, and any revision, generation, modifications
or integration
to or of the CSM, purchased from QUALCOMM.
"Commercially Necessary IPR" means those Intellectual Property
Rights which (i)
the Party or its Affiliates has the right to license to the
other Party without
payment of royalties or any other consideration to any third
party, (ii) are not
essential to the manufacture, use or sale of Licensed HDR
Products and/or HDR
Components which comply with the specifications of the HAI and
(iii) provide
Licensed HDR Products and/or Components with a competitive
advantage (e.g.,
cost, lead-time or quality advantages) or which add to Licensed
HDR Products or
Components a feature or other characteristic which may be
reasonably required by
the market place; but the term Commercially Necessary IPR does
not include any
trade name, trademark, service mark, or similar symbols,
abbreviation,
contractions or simulations identifying the Party and its
Affiliates (except as
set forth in Section 7, if the Party is QUALCOMM).
"Components" means application specific integrated circuits
(ASICs), electronic
devices, integrated circuits, including firmware thereon, and/or
families of
devices for use in products for CDMA Applications.
"Costs" means the actual labor, material and other direct costs,
expenses and
associated indirect expenses, including overheads and general
and administrative
expenses consistently applied in accordance with the U.S.
generally accepted
accounting principles.
"Distributed Antenna" means a multi-node antenna system and
related circuitry
that is designed to make use of delays in CDMA signal
transmission and/or
reception so that rake receiver functionality can be
utilized.
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"Effective Date" means the date first set forth above.
"[**]" means [**], a [**] corporation and any of its
subsidiaries in which it
owns or controls fifty percent (50%) or more of the voting
power.
"Functions" means any or all of the following which incorporates
any or all of
QUALCOMM's Intellectual Property: (i) handoff, (ii) CDMA
waveform modulation
and/or demodulation, (iii) power control, (iv) rate control, (v)
call packet
connection and/or routing, (vi) paging, (vii) data services,
(viii) fax
services, (ix) system initialization and configuration, (x)
diagnostic
monitoring or maintenance of any of the foregoing functions
and/or (xi) any
other function.
"Future Commercially Necessary IPR" means all claims of any
patents (foreign and
domestic) which fall within the definition of Commercially
Necessary IPR, but
which do not fall within the definition of Included Commercially
Necessary IPR.
"Have Made" means the right of LICENSEE under [**] Patents to
have a third party
make a Licensed HDR Product for CDMA Applications for the use
and benefit of
LICENSEE, provided that:
(i) LICENSEE owns and supplies the designs, or specifications,
or working
drawings to such third party;
(ii) such designs, specifications, and working drawings are in
sufficient
detail that no substantial additional design by such third party
is
required;
(iii) such third party is not allowed to sell such Licensed HDR
Product to
other third parties; and
(iv) each such Licensed HDR Product sold by LICENSEE shall bear
the
trademarks, trade names, or other commercial indicia of
LICENSEE,
although such Licensed HDR Products may be co-branded with
the
trademarks, trade names, or other commercial indicia of the
reseller
or distributor of such Licensed HDR Products. The requirements
of this
subparagraph (iv) shall not apply where a customer requires that
the
Licensed HDR Product bear only such customer's trademarks,
trade
names, or other commercial indicia.
"HDR Air Interface" or "HAI" means the technical description of
QUALCOMM's
proposed High Data Rate ("HDR") specification for data
communication between
cell sites or other base station transceivers and user data
terminals to the
extent adopted as an industry standard by recognized
international standards
bodies and other CDMA-based standards which specify the same
physical layer as
the HDR specification if approved by QUALCOMM
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(i.e. QUALCOMM voted in favor of adopting such standard) and
adopted by other
international standards bodies throughout the world.
"HDR BTS" means the HDR base station transceiver subsystem,
which is wireless
access equipment that provides network transmit and/or receive
functionality in
accordance with the HAI to and from HDR Terminals for Wireless
Applications. The
HDR BTS is the link between the HDR Terminals and the internet.
Included in the
HDR BTS are the antennas, transmitters, receivers, power
amplifiers, controllers
and interface hardware to support the link to the internet. The
HDR BTS does not
support wireless communications that are not based upon and
compliant with the
HAI.
"HDR Channel Unit" or "HDR Infrastructure Modem Card" means any
complete field
replaceable HDR BTS module or complete HDR Modem Assembly used
to modulate or
demodulate the HDR waveform, process the data and/or perform
ancillary functions
related to one or more CDMA channels for communication between
an HDR BTS and
HDR Terminals. Examples of CDMA channels include, but are not
limited to
traffic, pilot and control channels. HDR Channel Units do not
support wireless
communications that are not based upon and compliant with the
HAI.
"HDR Components" means application specific integrated circuits
(ASICs),
electronic devices, integrated circuits, including firmware
thereon, and/or
families of devices for use in Licensed HDR Products for
Wireless Applications.
"HDR Enabling Infrastructure Equipment" means any product
(including all of the
components, hardware, firmware and/or software contained
therein) which performs
any or all of the Functions, irrespective of whether such
product was initially
Sold as part of (included within) an HDR BTS, as an addition to
existing HDR
BTS's, or for incorporation elsewhere within an HDR network. HDR
Enabling
Infrastructure Equipment does not mean HDR Terminals, HDR
Components (although
HDR Components may be incorporated into the HDR Enabling
Infrastructure
Equipment that is Sold by a Party) or any assembly or
subassembly that is not a
field replaceable unit. HDR Enabling Infrastructure Equipment
includes, as an
example and not by way of limitation, (i) the HDR controller,
(ii) the
Distributed Antenna, and (iii) any subsystem that includes
selectors that
support soft and/or hard handoff.
"HDR Modem Assembly" means a complete HDR modem assembly which
(i) incorporates
all or any part of QUALCOMM's Intellectual Property, (ii)
complies with the HAI,
and (iii) operates solely when incorporated within, mechanically
plugged into
and/or cabled to an HDR BTS. The HDR Modem Assembly must contain
at a minimum a
complete printed circuit board and all of the circuitry,
components and software
thereon, multiple integrated circuit devices, and all of
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the circuitry necessary for the HDR BTS to perform all of the
HDR reverse link
demodulation and HDR forward link modulation, and baseband
processing.
"HDR Terminals" means a user data terminal which can be used to
initiate and
receive Wireless CDMA data communications transmissions in
accordance with the
HAI.
"Included Commercially Necessary IPR" means (1) with respect to
the Intellectual
Property Rights being licensed by QUALCOMM, (a) all claims of
any patents
(foreign and domestic) which are now issued or which are applied
for on or
before [**] (or, in the case of foreign patents or patent
applications filed
after [**], have a priority date based on a domestically filed
patent
application filed on or before [**]) and which constitute
Commercially Necessary
IPR and (b) all copyright, trade secrets, know-how, technical
assistance and
other intellectual property rights which constitute Commercially
Necessary IPR
and which may be furnished by QUALCOMM to LICENSEE pursuant to
and during the
term of this Agreement and (2) with respect to the Intellectual
Property Rights
being licensed by Licensee, (a) all claims of any patents
(foreign and domestic)
which are now issued or which are applied for on or before [**]
(or, in the case
of foreign patents or patent applications filed after [**], have
a priority date
based on a domestically filed patent application filed on or
before [**]) and
which constitute Commercially Necessary IPR and (b) all
copyright, trade
secrets, know-how, technical assistance and other intellectual
property rights
which constitute Commercially Necessary IPR and which may be
furnished by
LICENSEE to QUALCOMM pursuant to and during the term of this
Agreement.
"Intellectual Property Rights" means patents, copyrights, trade
secrets,
know-how and other intellectual property rights.
"[**] Patents" means U.S. Patent Nos. [**] and any
continuation,
continuation-in-part and divisional application based on such
patents, and any
foreign counterparts of such patents, continuations,
continuations-in-part or
divisional applications.
"IS-95 Related Systems" means IS-95 and any single carrier
system with a
spreading bandwidth not greater than 1.25 MHz and based on or
derived from
IS-95.
"Licensed HDR Products" means only the HDR BTS, HDR Channel
Units, and HDR
Enabling Infrastructure Equipment.
"LICENSEE" means Airvana, Inc., a Delaware Corporation.
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"LICENSEE's Intellectual Property" means LICENSEE's and its
Affiliates'
Technically Necessary IPR and LICENSEE's and its Affiliates'
Included
Commercially Necessary IPR.
"Masks" and "Mask Sets" mean the mask sets for Components and/or
the computer
output data used to generate the mask sets for Components.
"Net Selling Price", with respect to each Licensed HDR Product
Sold by LICENSEE,
shall mean one of the following, whichever is applicable:
(a) When Sold by LICENSEE to a Purchaser (a "Purchaser" being a
person or
entity that does not control LICENSEE, is not controlled by
LICENSEE or is not
in common control with LICENSEE; and the term "control" for the
above purposes
shall mean the direct or indirect ownership or control of more
than a twenty
five percent interest), the Net Selling Price shall be [**];
(b) When Sold by LICENSEE to a person or entity that is not a
Purchaser (a
"Related Buyer"), the Net Selling price shall be [**] Related
Buyer [**] Related
Buyer of Licensed HDR Products to a Purchaser but in no event
less than [**].
(c) When retained by LICENSEE for its own use or lease, or when
Sold by
LICENSEE to a Related Buyer for the Related Buyer's own use or
lease, the Net
Selling Price shall be [**].
"Party" shall individually mean QUALCOMM or LICENSEE and the
term "Parties"
shall collectively mean QUALCOMM and LICENSEE.
"[**]" shall mean [**], a company existing under the laws of
[**].
"[**] HDR Technically Necessary Patents" means claims of any
patents which [**]
(or any of its Affiliates) own or have the right to license that
are essential
or claimed by [**] or any of its Affiliates to be essential to
the manufacture,
use or sale of Licensed HDR Products (i.e., must necessarily be
infringed upon
in order to comply with the HAI). Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary
herein, the term "[**] HDR Technically Necessary Patents" at a
minimum includes
U.S. patent numbers: [**], and their foreign counterparts.
"QUALCOMM's Intellectual Property" means QUALCOMM's Technically
Necessary IPR
and QUALCOMM's Included Commercially Necessary IPR and [**]
Patents; provided
that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the term "QUALCOMM's
Intellectual Property"
shall not include any intellectual property, including but not
limited to
patents, owned by [**].
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"Qualifying Licensed HDR Product" means a Licensed HDR Product
which contains
and incorporates a CDMA ASIC purchased by LICENSEE from
QUALCOMM.
"Selling Price" means the gross selling price and/or value of
other
consideration charged by the LICENSEE or its final vendee
Related Buyer for each
Licensed HDR Product in the form in which it is Sold (whether or
not assembled
and without excluding therefrom any Components or subassemblies
thereof which
are included with such Licensed HDR Product) [**]. If Licensed
HDR Products are
Sold in combination with other separate and distinct products or
services (the
"Other Products"), the Selling Price for such Licensed HDR
Products (the
"Combined Licensed HDR Products") shall be the [**] which
LICENSEE charged to
Purchasers for Licensed HDR Products (of the same or
substantially the same
quality and quantity) that were Sold without being combined with
other products
or services in the [**] or in the most recent previous [**] in
which Sales were
made. If no such Licensed HDR Products have been Sold to a
Purchaser in the same
or any previous [**] to permit the fair determination of an
arm's length price
of the Combined Licensed HDR Product, then the Selling Price for
such Combined
Licensed HDR Product shall be the Selling Price charged by
LICENSEE for such
Combined Licensed HDR Products [**] of the Other Products that
LICENSEE can
clearly and convincingly prove were not part of the
consideration allocated to
the Sale of the Licensed HDR Product being combined with other
products or
services, [**] of the Licensed HDR Product. For the purpose of
this definition,
"Sold in combination with" shall mean that two or more separate
and distinct
products are sold together for a single price provided that such
separate and
distinct products are not physically integrated into a single
product.
"Sold," "Sale," "Sell" means put into use, sold, leased or
otherwise transferred
and a sale shall be deemed to have occurred upon putting into
use, shipment or
invoicing, whichever shall first occur.
"Technically Necessary IPR" means all claims of any patents
(foreign and
domestic) issued on, before or after the Effective Date which
(i) the Party or
its Affiliates has the right to license to the other Party
without payment of
royalties or any other consideration to any third party (except
for payments to
the Party or its Affiliates and payments to third persons for
the invention or
creation made by such third persons while employed by any of the
Party or its
Affiliates) and (ii) is essential to the manufacture, use or
sale of a usable
Licensed HDR Product which complies with the specifications of
the HAI (i.e.,
must be infringed upon in order to comply with the HAI) and/or
Components, but
the term Technically
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Necessary IPR does not include (a) manufacturing process, (b)
semiconductor
structure not specific to Components and (c) any trade name,
trademark, service
mark, or similar symbols, abbreviation, contractions or
simulations identifying
the Party and its Affiliates.
"Wireless" and "Wireless Applications" means terrestrial-based,
land mobile,
wireless data telecommunications applications, including but not
limited to
cellular, personal communications services (PCS), wireless local
loop and
wireless Wide Area Network (WAN) applications which are based
upon and compliant
with the HAI. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the terms
"Wireless" and/or
"Wireless Applications" shall not include (i) satellite
applications (defined as
any application which utilizes a direct connection between the
subscriber unit
and any satellite), and/or (ii) Cordless Telephone Applications
(defined as
applications not dependent on use of a switch, including but not
limited to a
PABX switch, for interface to the public network).
2. TERM OF AGREEMENT.
This Agreement shall commence upon the Effective Date and,
unless otherwise
terminated or canceled as provided herein, shall continue in
full force and
effect thereafter.
3. UP-FRONT LICENSE FEE TO QUALCOMM.
In partial consideration of the rights granted to LICENSEE under
this
Agreement, LICENSEE shall pay an up-front license fee to
QUALCOMM in the amount
of [**] dollars (US$[**]) (the "Up-Front License Fee"). LICENSEE
shall pay the
Up-Front License Fee no later than [**] days after the Effective
Date.
4. QUALCOMM LICENSE.
4.1 Grant of License From QUALCOMM. Subject to the terms and
conditions of
this Agreement, including but not limited to timely payment of
the license fees
and royalties set forth herein, QUALCOMM hereby grants to
LICENSEE a worldwide,
personal, nontransferable and non-exclusive license (without the
right to
sublicense, except to Affiliates of LICENSEE as permitted in
Section 4.3) to use
QUALCOMM's Intellectual Property solely for Wireless
Applications (a) to make
(and have made) and import, use, sell, lease or otherwise
dispose of Licensed
HDR Products and (b) to make (and have made) HDR Components that
have been
exclusively designed by or for LICENSEE (which design is owned
and used
exclusively by LICENSEE) and import, use, sell, lease or
otherwise dispose of
HDR Components; provided, however that such HDR Components may
only be used,
sold, leased or otherwise disposed of by LICENSEE if they are
included and used,
sold, leased or otherwise disposed
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of by LICENSEE as part of and within complete Licensed HDR
Products of LICENSEE
(or as replacement parts for Licensed HDR Products previously
sold by LICENSEE).
No other, further or different license is hereby granted or
implied.
4.1.1 [**] Patents. As part of QUALCOMM's Intellectual Property
being
licensed under Section 4.1 above, QUALCOMM is granting rights to
LICENSEE under
the [**] Patents. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in this
Agreement, the license to LICENSEE under the [**] Patents
granted in Section 4.1
may terminate in accordance with the provisions set forth
below:
4.1.1.1 If LICENSEE or its Affiliates initiates a CDMA
patent
infringement lawsuit against [**] or its affiliates (or their
customers)
asserting that any product manufactured and sold by [**] for use
in non-IS-95
based wireless applications infringes any of LICENSEE's (or its
Affiliates')
patents and LICENSEE (or its Affiliates) does not prevail in
such lawsuit, then
the license granted by QUALCOMM to LICENSEE under this Agreement
only with
respect to the [**] Patents shall immediately terminate.
4.1.1.2 Licensed HDR Products that Contain QUALCOMM's CDMA
ASICs.
Notwithstanding if the license under this Agreement as to the
[**] Patents
terminates under Section 4.1.1.1 above, Licensed HDR Products
manufactured by
LICENSEE for IS-95 based Wireless Applications, which Licensed
HDR Products
incorporate QUALCOMM's CDMA ASICs purchased from QUALCOMM, will
be free from
infringement from the [**] Patents.
4.2 Royalties. In partial consideration of the rights granted to
Licensee
under the License Agreement, Licensee shall pay to QUALCOMM, no
later than [**]
days after the end of each [**] during the term of the License
Agreement, an
amount equal to [**] percent ([**]%) of the Net Selling Price
for each HDR
Channel Unit or HDR Enabling Infrastructure Equipment that is
Sold during [**]
by Licensee and its Affiliates, whether such HDR Channel Unit or
HDR Enabling
Infrastructure Equipment is manufactured by Licensee or by third
parties.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to each HDR Channel
Unit or HDR
Enabling Infrastructure Equipment that is sold or delivered [**]
of the Net
Selling Price of [**] such HDR Channel Unit or HDR Enabling
Infrastructure
Equipment. LICENSEE shall not be required to pay royalties on
HDR Channel Units
or HDR Enabling Infrastructure Equipment provided at no charge
(or other
material consideration) to customers as demonstration or trial
units,
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provided that the total capacity of such demonstration or trial
units upon which
LICENSEE does not pay royalties shall not exceed [**] per
year.
4.2.1 Royalty Base Evaluation. Upon LICENSEE's written
request,
QUALCOMM agrees to hold good faith discussions with LICENSEE to
assist LICENSEE
in determining those items Sold by LICENSEE that fall within the
definition of
HDR Enabling Infrastructure Equipment.
4.3 Right To Sublicense Affiliates. LICENSEE shall have the
right to grant
sublicenses only to Affiliates of LICENSEE with respect to any
rights conferred
upon LICENSEE under this Agreement; provided, however, that any
such sublicense
shall be subject in all respects to the restrictions,
exceptions, royalty and
other payment obligations, reports, termination provisions, and
other provisions
contained in this Agreement; provided, however that no
additional up-front
license fee shall be required to be paid with respect to any
such sublicense.
LICENSEE shall also pay or cause its sublicensed Affiliates to
pay the same
royalties on all Licensed HDR Products Sold by its sublicensed
Affiliates as if
LICENSEE had Sold such Licensed HDR Products. LICENSEE shall
report to QUALCOMM
the Net Selling Price for all Licensed HDR Products Sold by each
such Affiliate.
LICENSEE shall be responsible and liable to QUALCOMM in the
event that any of
its sublicensed Affiliates fails under any such sublicense to
honor and comply
with all obligations of LICENSEE as though said obligations were
made expressly
applicable to the sublicensed Affiliate. Except as set forth
above, LICENSEE
shall have no right to sublicense any of QUALCOMM's Intellectual
Property. Any
sublicense by LICENSEE to an Affiliate of LICENSEE shall
terminate immediately
if such Affiliate ceases to be an Affiliate of LICENSEE.
4.4 Taxes. Any taxes, duties or imposts other than income or
profits taxes
assessed or imposed upon the sums due hereunder, shall be borne
and discharged
by LICENSEE and no part thereof shall be deducted from the
amounts payable to
QUALCOMM under any clause of this Agreement, said amounts to be
net to QUALCOMM,
free of any and all deductions. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
in the event sums
payable under this Agreement become subject to income or profits
taxes under the
tax laws of any country and applicable treaties between the
United States and
such country, LICENSEE may, if and to the extent required by
law, withhold from
each payment the amount of said income or profits taxes due and
required to be
withheld [**] of each payment. LICENSEE will furnish and make
available to
QUALCOMM relevant receipts regarding the payment of any country
taxes paid over
to any country's government on behalf of QUALCOMM. Such tax
receipts will
clearly indicate the amounts that have been withheld from the
gross amounts due
to QUALCOMM. Any and all other taxes, levies, charges or fees
will be paid by
LICENSEE for its own account.
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4.5 Conversion to U.S. Dollars. Royalties shall be paid in U.S.
dollars. To
the extent that the Net Selling Price for Licensed HDR Products
Sold by LICENSEE
outside of the United States is paid to LICENSEE other than in
U.S. dollars,
LICENSEE shall convert the portion of the royalty payable to
QUALCOMM from such
Net Selling Price into U.S. dollars at the official rate of
exchange of the
currency of the country from which the Net Selling Price was
paid, as quoted by
the U.S. Wall Street Journal (or the Chase Manhattan Bank or
another agreed-upon
source if not quoted in the Wall Street Journal) for the last
business day of
the calendar quarter in which such Licensed HDR Products were
Sold. If the
transfer of or the conversion into U.S. dollars is not lawful or
possible, the
payment of such part of the royalties as is necessary shall be
made by the
deposit thereof, in the currency of the country where the sale
was made on which
the royalty was based to the credit and account of QUALCOMM or
its nominee in
any commercial bank or trust company of QUALCOMM's choice
located in that
country, prompt notice of which shall be given by LICENSEE to
QUALCOMM.
4.6 [**] Covenant Not to Assert. QUALCOMM hereby represents and
warrants
that [**], on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, covenants
that [**] and its
Affiliates will not assert any of the [**] HDR Technically
Necessary Patents
against LICENSEE's (or, if sublicensed in accordance with
Section 4.3 of this
Agreement, LICENSEE's Affiliates') manufacture, use, sale, or
importation of
Qualifying Licensed HDR Products solely for Wireless
Applications; provided,
however, that [**] and/or its Affiliates may assert the [**]'
HDR Technically
Necessary Patents against LICENSEE if LICENSEE asserts any of
its patents
against [**] or its Affiliates and any of their telephone
products or if
LICENSEE initiates a declaratory judgment action, reexamination
proceedings or
opposition proceedings challenging the validity of any of the
[**] HDR
Technically Necessary Patents. Nothing in this Section 4.6 shall
prohibit, limit
or covenant against [**] rights to assert any of its patents
against LICENSEE or
its Affiliates for infringement relating to any time division
multiple access
(TDMA) equipment or system (including, without limitation,
[**]).
4.7 [**] Patents.
4.7.1 [**] Patents Sublicensed. The term "[**] Patents" means
all of
the following patents which are owned or sublicenseable by [**]
without payment
of any royalty or other consideration to a third party: (a) [**]
patents which,
but for the sublicenses granted under Section 4.7.2 below, would
be infringed by
the use of QUALCOMM's CDMA ASICs for their intended purposes
(the "[**] ASIC
Patents"), and (b) [**] Essential Patents which are, or are
claimed by [**] to
be, essential to IS-95 Rev A or Rev B, whether or not such
Essential Patents are
infringed by the use of QUALCOMM's CDMA ASICs (the
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"Other [**] Patents"). For example, by incorporating QUALCOMM's
existing (as of
the Effective Date) CDMA ASIC into a Licensed HDR Product Sold
by LICENSEE, the
[**] Patents sublicensed to LICENSEE would include, but not
necessarily be
limited to all of the following patents that [**] asserted
against QUALCOMM in
litigation: U.S. Patent Nos. [**], and their foreign
counterparts, reissuances,
divisionals, continuations and continuations in part.
The term "Essential Patents" means those patents (in any country
of the
world) as to which it is, or is claimed by the patent owner to
be, not possible
on technical (but not commercial) grounds, taking into account
normal technical
practice and the state of the art generally available at the
time of adoption or
publication of the relevant standard for CDMA Applications, to
make, sell,
lease, otherwise dispose of, repair, use or operate equipment or
methods which
comply with such standard without infringing such patent.
4.7.2 Sublicense Under [**] Patents. The following sublicense
is
granted subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement
(including but not
limited to the payment of royalties hereunder in accordance with
Section 4.2)
and Section 4.7.3 below: With respect only to those Licensed HDR
Products Sold
by LICENSEE and its Affiliates that contain QUALCOMM's CDMA
ASIC, QUALCOMM
hereby grants to LICENSEE a sublicense under all of the [**]
ASIC Patents solely
for CDMA Applications and under all of the Other [**] Patents
solely for IS-95
Related Systems to make (and Have Made), use, sell, offer for
sale, lease or
otherwise dispose of, and import Licensed HDR Products into
which QUALCOMM's
CDMA ASIC is incorporated. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no
right or sublicense
is being granted for or may be extended under patents that apply
to the portion
of any product that implements an air interface other than CDMA
or analog (e.g.,
no rights and sublicenses are granted for or may be extended
under patents that
apply to the GSM part of any product).
4.7.3 Non-Assertion Against [**]. The sublicense granted to
LICENSEE
under Section 4.7.2 above shall continue only so long as
LICENSEE and its
Affiliates do not assert, either in litigation or by a direct
communication, any
Essential Patents for CDMA Applications against [**] CDMA
subscriber,
infrastructure or test equipment products and LICENSEE does not
dismiss such
litigation or withdraw such assertion or offer a royalty-free
license under such
patents within [**] days after QUALCOMM's receipt of notice from
[**] of such
litigation or communication.
4.8 Option to Obtain Infrastructure Equipment License. No later
than [**]
months from the Effective Date, LICENSEE, at its option, may
elect to obtain
from QUALCOMM an infrastructure equipment license on terms and
conditions set
forth in the "Infrastructure Equipment License Agreement," a
copy of which is
attached hereto as Exhibit B and incorporated herein by
reference.
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4.9 [**] Royalty Rate. If LICENSEE exercises the option set
forth in
Section 4.8 of this Agreement, then beginning on the effective
date of such
exercise and subject to the limited exceptions set forth below,
if QUALCOMM
grants a license to a third party to manufacture and sell
Licensed HDR Products
[**] under the terms and conditions of Section 4.2, and, which
license will
permit such third party to manufacture and sell Licensed HDR
Products for use
within Wireless Applications, QUALCOMM shall (i) promptly notify
LICENSEE of the
[**], and (ii) extend to LICENSEE [**] and, at [**]. If LICENSEE
intends to
accept such [**] rates, LICENSEE shall have up to [**] days
after the date of
such notice to notify QUALCOMM that it accepts a license from
QUALCOMM on such
[**], provided that LICENSEE must also, at QUALCOMM's request,
accept and be
bound by all other material terms and conditions granted by
QUALCOMM [**].
The above paragraph shall not apply with respect to (i) [**] of
LICENSEE's
exercise of the option set forth in Section 4.8 of this
Agreement, (ii) any
license granted by QUALCOMM to its Affiliates or (iii) any
license granted by
QUALCOMM, [**] for which consists in whole or in part of patent
rights or other
rights of such substantial value as, in the reasonable judgment
of QUALCOMM, to
warrant (a) [**] provided in this Agreement, or (b) [**]. This
Section 4.9 shall
not apply retroactively, nor shall it be construed as entitling
LICENSEE to [**]
the grant of such third party license to such other
licensee.
5. LICENSE BY LICENSEE
5.1 Grant of License from LICENSEE. Subject to the terms and
conditions of
this Agreement, LICENSEE hereby grants to QUALCOMM a worldwide,
personal,
nontransferable, non-exclusive, fully-paid, irrevocable and
royalty free license
(without the right to sublicense, except to Affiliates of
QUALCOMM as permitted
in Section 5.2) to use LICENSEE's Intellectual Property (a) to
make (and have
made) and import, use, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of
Licensed HDR Products
solely for Wireless Applications and (b) to make (and have made)
Components that
have been exclusively designed by or for QUALCOMM (which design
is owned and
used exclusively for QUALCOMM) and import, use, sell, lease or
otherwise dispose
of Components. No other, further or different license is hereby
granted or
implied.
5.2 Right To Sublicense Affiliates. QUALCOMM shall have the
right to grant
sublicenses only to Affiliates of QUALCOMM with respect to any
rights conferred
upon QUALCOMM under this Agreement; provided, however, that any
such sublicense
shall be subject in all respects to the restrictions,
exceptions, termination
provisions, and other provisions contained in this Agreement.
QUALCOMM, in
addition to its sublicensed Affiliates, shall be responsible and
liable to
LICENSEE in the event that any of its sublicensed Affiliates
fails under any
such sublicense to honor and comply with all obligations of
QUALCOMM as
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though said obligations were made expressly applicable to the
sublicensed
Affiliate. Except as set forth above, QUALCOMM shall have no
right to sublicense
any of LICENSEE's Intellectual Property. Any sublicense by
QUALCOMM to an
Affiliate of QUALCOMM shall terminate immediately if such
Affiliate ceases to be
an Affiliate of QUALCOMM.
5.3 License Of Future Commercially Necessary IPR. Each Party
agrees that,
to the extent it makes licenses of Future Commercially Necessary
IPR generally
available to third parties, it will, if requested by the other
Party, offer such
licenses to the other Party on commercially reasonable terms and
conditions.
5.4 No LICENSEE Deliverables. Except as expressly provided for
in this
Agreement, LICENSEE shall have no obligation to disclose any
LICENSEE
Intellectual Property, know-how, trade secrets or other
technology to QUALCOMM,
to Affiliates of QUALCOMM or to any third party.
6. COMMITMENT BY LICENSEE
6.1 Covenant Not to Assert. LICENSEE hereby covenants that
neither it nor
its Affiliates will assert any of LICENSEE's Technically
Necessary IPR against
any of QUALCOMM's other HDR infrastructure equipment licensees
and their
Affiliates (collectively, the "Authorized Licensees") with
respect to such
Authorized Licensee's use of any of LICENSEE's Technically
Necessary IPR to
make, use and sell HDR infrastructure equipment and/or HDR
Components solely for
Wireless Applications, provided that such Authorized Licensee
has agreed with
QUALCOMM to an equivalent undertaking not to assert claims
against LICENSEE and
its Affiliates. LICENSEE does not by this Section 6.1 agree, on
behalf of itself
or its Affiliates, to waive its rights to assert any of
LICENSEE's Commercially
Necessary IPR against any Authorized Licensee with respect to
such Authorized
Licensee's use of any of LICENSEE's Commercially Necessary IPR.
Any Authorized
Licensee that has agreed with QUALCOMM to an equivalent
undertaking not to
assert claims shall be regarded as a third party beneficiary of
this Section
6.1. QUALCOMM will promptly notify LICENSEE of any Authorized
Licensees that
have agreed to such an equivalent undertaking.
6.2 License to Third Parties. The parties agree that it is in
the interest
of each of the Parties and of the Wireless industry to obtain
the widest
possible acceptance of the final HAI. Accordingly, LICENSEE
agrees to negotiate
in good faith to promptly grant to Authorized Licensees which do
not meet the
requirements of Section 6.1 a license to use all of LICENSEE's
Technically
Necessary IPR to make, use and sell HDR infrastructure equipment
and HDR
Components for Wireless Applications. Each such license shall be
granted at
reasonable rates and otherwise on reasonable terms and
conditions consistent
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with LICENSEE's licensing policies, which may include that such
third party
grant a cross-license to LICENSEE of technically necessary
intellectual property
rights owned by such third party.
6.3 Commercial Efforts. LICENSEE shall use commercially
reasonable efforts
to market, promote and sell Licensed HDR Products throughout the
world.
7. MARKING
LICENSEE agrees to affix to the exterior or the interior of all
Licensed
HDR Products incorporating any of QUALCOMM's Intellectual
Property a legible
notice reading: "Licensed by QUALCOMM Incorporated under one or
more of the
following Patents," followed by a list of applicable patent
numbers taken from
the list of QUALCOMM's patents or as may otherwise be instructed
by QUALCOMM.
8. QUALITY CONTROL
8.1 General Quality of Licensed HDR Products. Throughout the
term of this
Agreement, LICENSEE shall maintain, for the Licensed HDR
Products manufactured
or Sold by it, at least the same manufacturing, servicing and
quality standards
currently utilized by LICENSEE in connection with its similar
analog and, if
applicable, other digital products.
8.2 Standards Compliance Testing. LICENSEE represents and
warrants that the
Licensed HDR Products and HDR Components that it makes or has
made will adhere
with and conform to, in all respects, the specifications
contained in the HAI
and that LICENSEE shall comply with the rules, regulations or
other requirements
set by such authorized standards body. LICENSEE shall, at
QUALCOMM's reasonable
written request, permit QUALCOMM or entities designated by
QUALCOMM and accepted
by LICENSEE, which acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld
or delayed, to
perform tests of Licensed HDR Products being marketed by
LICENSEE to ensure
compliance and conformity with the HAI. If such tests indicate
material
noncompliance or nonconformity therewith, such tests shall be at
LICENSEE's cost
and LICENSEE shall reimburse QUALCOMM for any such reasonable
tests performed by
QUALCOMM at [**]. If such test does not indicate material
noncompliance or
nonconformity, the test shall be at [**]. Nonconforming Licensed
HDR Products,
if any, shall not be sold or marketed by LICENSEE until the
non-conformity is
corrected.
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9. INFORMATION
9.1 Restrictions on Disclosure and Use. All documentation and
technical and
business information and intellectual property in whatever form
recorded that a
Party does not wish to disclose without restriction
("Information") shall remain
the property of the furnishing Party and may be used by the
receiving Party only
as follows. Such Information (a) shall not be reproduced or
copied, in whole or
part, except for use as expressly authorized in this Agreement;
and (b) shall,
together with any full or partial copies thereof, be returned or
destroyed when
no longer needed or upon any termination of this Agreement, and
(c) shall be
disclosed only to employees or agents of a Party with a need to
know. Moreover,
such Information shall be used by the receiving Party only for
the purpose of
performing under this Agreement or in the exercise of its rights
it may receive
under the provisions of this Agreement. Unless the furnishing
Party consents in
this Agreement or otherwise in writing, such Information shall
be held in strict
confidence by the receiving Party. The receiving Party may
disclose such
Information to other persons, upon the furnishing Party's prior
written
authorization, but solely to perform acts which this clause
expressly authorizes
the receiving Party to perform itself and further provided such
other person
agrees in writing (a copy of which writing will be provided to
the furnishing
Party at its request) to the same conditions respecting use of
Information
contained in this clause and to any other reasonable conditions
requested by the
furnishing Party. These restrictions on the use or disclosure of
Information
shall not apply to any Information: (i) which can be proven to
be or have been
independently developed by the receiving Party or lawfully
received free of
restriction from another source having the right to so furnish
such Information;
or (ii) after it has become generally available to the public
without breach of
this Agreement by the receiving Party; or (iii) which at the
time of disclosure
to the receiving Party was known to such Party free of
restriction and clearly
evidenced by documentation in such Party's possession; or (iv)
which the
disclosing Party agrees in writing is free of such
restrictions.
9.2 Scope of Information. Information is subject to this Section
9 whether
delivered orally or in tangible form and without regard to
whether it has been
identified or marked as confidential or otherwise subject to
this Section 9.
Each Party agrees to use its best efforts to mark or otherwise
identify
proprietary all Information they desire to be subject to the
terms of this
clause before furnishing it to the other Party. And, upon
request, a Party shall
promptly identify whether specified information must be held by
the requesting
Party subject to this clause. Information which is delivered
orally may be
summarized in writing by the disclosing Party and delivered to
the receiving
Party within [**] days after disclosure thereof.
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9.3 Furnishing Information to Third Parties. Nothing herein
shall be deemed
to bar disclosure of Information by a receiving Party to third
party
subcontractors, prospective customers or Affiliates of the
receiving Party with
a need to know, without the written consent of the furnishing
Party, if such
disclosure is reasonably necessary for enjoyment of the
receiving Party's rights
to use Intellectual Property Rights licensed under this
Agreement, and provided
that each such third party agrees in writing to protect the
Information under
terms and conditions comparable, in all material respects, to
the terms
contained in this Section 9 and Section 17 with respect to
survivability.
10. WARRANTY/ DISCLAIMER/ LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
10.1 QUALCOMM Warranty. QUALCOMM represents and warrants that it
has the
right to enter into this Agreement with LICENSEE and that it has
the right to
grant the licenses granted hereunder.
10.2 Disclaimer. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS
AGREEMENT, NEITHER
PARTY MAKES ANY WARRANTIES IN THIS AGREEMENT AS TO PRODUCTS,
TECHNOLOGY,
MATERIALS, SERVICES, INFORMATION OR OTHER ITEMS IT FURNISHES TO
THE OTHER PARTY,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR THAT SUCH ITEMS ARE
FREE FROM THE
RIGHTFUL CLAIM OF ANY THIRD PARTY, BY WAY OF INFRINGEMENT OR THE
LIKE.
10.3 Limitation of Liability. EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF A BREACH OF
SECTION 9
OF THIS AGREEMENT, NEITHER PARTY SHALL BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER
PARTY FOR ANY
INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR ANY OTHER INDIRECT LOSS OR DAMAGE
ARISING OUT OF
THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY RESULTING OBLIGATION OR THE USE OF ANY
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RECEIVED HEREUNDER, WHETHER IN AN ACTION FOR OR ARISING
OUT OF BREACH
OF CONTRACT, FOR TORT, OR ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION. EACH PARTY
SHALL BE
PERMITTED TO ENJOIN THE UNAUTHORIZED USE BY THE OTHER PARTY OR
ITS AFFILIATES OF
ANY OF THE PARTY'S INFORMATION.
10.4 Negation of Representation and Warranties. Nothing
contained in this
Agreement shall be construed as (a) requiring the filing of any
patent
application, the securing of any patent or the maintaining of
any patent in
force; (b) a warranty or representation by either Party as to
the validity or
scope of any patent, copyright or other intellectual property
right; (c) a
warranty or representation that any manufacture, sale, lease,
use or importation
will be free from infringement of patents, copyrights or other
intellectual
property rights of others, and it shall be the sole
responsibility of LICENSEE
to make such
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determination as is necessary with respect to the acquisition of
licenses under
patents and other intellectual property of third parties; (d) an
agreement to
bring or prosecute actions or suits against third parties for
infringement; (e)
an obligation to furnish any manufacturing assistance; or (f)
conferring any
right to use, in advertising, publicity or otherwise, any name,
trade name or
trademark, or any contraction, abbreviation or simulation
thereof (other than as
set forth in Section 7).
11. INDEMNITY FOR DAMAGE TO PERSONS, PROPERTY OR BUSINESS
11.1 Indemnification by LICENSEE. LICENSEE shall indemnify,
defend and hold
QUALCOMM harmless from, any and all claims, judgments,
liabilities, costs and
expenses (including attorneys' fees) arising out of or related,
directly or
indirectly, to any injury, loss or damage to persons, property
or business
arising from, relating to, or in any way connected with, any
Licensed HDR
Products or Components which LICENSEE or its Affiliates
manufactures or has
manufactured and sells to a third party or its Affiliate.
LICENSEE agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless QUALCOMM against all liability or
responsibility of
LICENSEE or of others for any failure attributable to LICENSEE
in production,
design, operation or otherwise of products manufactured by or on
behalf of
LICENSEE and Sold to third parties, except if such liability or
responsibility
is due to infringement claims with respect to QUALCOMM's
Intellectual Property.
11.2 Indemnification by QUALCOMM. QUALCOMM shall indemnify,
defend and hold
LICENSEE harmless from, any and all claims, judgments,
liabilities, costs and
expenses (including attorneys' fees) arising out of or related,
directly or
indirectly, to any injury, loss or damage to persons, property
or business
arising from, relating to, or in any way connected with, any
Licensed HDR
Products or Components which QUALCOMM or its Affiliates
manufactures or has
manufactured and sells to a third party or its Affiliate.
QUALCOMM agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless LICENSEE against all liability or
responsibility of
QUALCOMM or of others for any failure attributable to QUALCOMM
in production,
design, operation or otherwise of products manufactured by or on
behalf of
QUALCOMM and Sold to third parties, except if such liability or
responsibility
is due to infringement claims with respect to LICENSEE's
Intellectual Property.
11.3 Notice, Defense and Cooperation. The party seeking
indemnification
under Section 11.1 or 11.2 above shall provide the indemnifying
party with
prompt notice of any claim within such provisions, shall give
the indemnifying
party the full right to defend any such claim and shall
cooperate fully in such
defense.
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12. TERMINATION
12.1 Termination Without Cause by LICENSEE. LICENSEE may for any
reason, at
any time when it is not using any of QUALCOMM's Intellectual
Property, terminate
this Agreement upon ninety (90) days' prior written notice to
QUALCOMM; provided
that all license fees and royalties which have accrued under the
terms of the
Agreement shall be due and owing and all such amounts and all
previous amounts
paid are and shall remain non-refundable. In the event of any
such termination,
the license granted by LICENSEE to QUALCOMM in Section 5.1 and
5.2 shall
survive.
12.2 Termination For Cause by QUALCOMM. QUALCOMM may terminate
this
Agreement, by written notice to LICENSEE, if LICENSEE shall at
any time default
in the payment hereunder or the making of any report hereunder,
or shall commit
any material breach of any covenant, representation, warranty or
agreement
herein contained, or shall make any false report to QUALCOMM;
provided, however,
that in the case of any such breach which is capable of being
cured, QUALCOMM
shall not have a right to terminate this Agreement for cause
unless and until
LICENSEE shall have failed to remedy any such default, breach or
report within
[**] days after written notice thereof by QUALCOMM. LICENSEE
shall be able to
effectuate such cure with respect to a default in the payment of
any royalty
hereunder no more than three times during the term of this
Agreement. Upon
termination of this Agreement for cause, LICENSEE shall duly
account to QUALCOMM
for all royalties and other payments within ten days of such
termination.
12.3 Termination for Cause by LICENSEE. LICENSEE may terminate
this
Agreement, by written notice to QUALCOMM, if QUALCOMM shall at
any time commit
any material breach of any material covenant, representation,
warranty or
agreement herein contained; provided, however, that in the case
of any such
breach which is capable of being cured, LICENSEE shall not have
a right to
terminate this Agreement for cause unless and until QUALCOMM
shall have failed
to remedy any such material breach within [**] days after
receipt by QUALCOMM of
written notice thereof by LICENSEE.
12.4 Bankruptcy, Dissolution or Liquidation. Either Party shall
also have
the right to terminate this Agreement with immediate effect by
giving written
notice of termination to the other Party at any time upon or
before sixty (60)
days after the occurrence of any of the following events with
respect to such
other Party (unless such event ceases within such period): (a)
insolvency,
bankruptcy or liquidation or filing of any application therefor,
or other
commitment of an affirmative act of insolvency; (b) attachment,
execution or
seizure of substantially all of the assets or filing of any
application
therefor; (c) assignment or transfer of that portion of the
business to which
this Agreement
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pertains to a trustee for the benefit of creditors; (d)
disposition, by sale or
assignment of all of its rights, of that portion of the business
or the material
assets to which this Agreement pertains in violation of Section
14 of this
Agreement; or (e) termination of its business or
dissolution.
12.5 Termination of Agreement in the Event of Litigation. The
license from
QUALCOMM to Licensee shall terminate in the event that LICENSEE
initiates any
litigation against QUALCOMM or its Affiliates which includes any
claim for
intellectual property infringement and LICENSEE does not prevail
on all such
intellectual property infringement claims.
12.6 Rights Upon Termination. Upon any expiration or termination
of this
Agreement, whether for cause or not, all licenses granted
hereunder shall also
terminate (except as expressly stated in Section 12.1), and each
Party shall
immediately (i) cease using any of the other Party's
Intellectual Property
Rights and (ii) return or destroy all information and
documentation furnished by
the other Party to such Party. Any termination or expiration of
this Agreement
under this Section 12 shall not relieve LICENSEE from its
obligation under
Section 13 hereof to make a report or from its liability for
payment of
royalties on Licensed HDR Products Sold on or prior to the date
of such
termination or expiration and shall not prejudice the right to
recover any
royalties or other sums due or accrued at the time of such
termination or
expiration and shall not prejudice any cause of action or claim
accrued or to
accrue on account of any breach or default. Furthermore, any
termination or
expiration of this Agreement under this Section shall not
prejudice the right of
QUALCOMM to conduct a final audit of the records of the LICENSEE
in accordance
with the provisions of Section 13 hereof. No termination
hereunder shall limit
the rights of a Party to sell those Licensed HDR Products in
inventory or in
process at the time of termination, subject to payment of the
royalty applicable
to the sale of such Licensed HDR Products and continued
compliance with the
other provisions of this Agreement.
13. RECORDS AND AUDITS.
13.1 Records. LICENSEE shall keep accurate and complete books
and records
concerning any Licensed HDR Products it may sell under this
Agreement. As
applicable, such books and records shall include the date of
transaction
involving sales of Licensed HDR Products, including the number
of items Sold.
LICENSEE shall require in its agreements with sublicensees that
each sublicensee
agree to record keeping and audits substantially the same as
described in this
Section 13. LICENSEE hereby agrees to cause its sublicensees to
provide to
LICENSEE the records and supporting information sufficient to
evidence the
accuracy of the royalty report to be submitted to QUALCOMM. Such
records
(together with all supporting information) shall be included in
the
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records described herein and subject to audit by QUALCOMM as
provided in this
Section. LICENSEE's agreements with its sublicensees shall
expressly state that
QUALCOMM shall be able to enforce rights under Section 13.2
below directly
against any such sublicensee. LICENSEE shall furnish QUALCOMM
within [**] days
after the end of each [**] a certificate, in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit
A, signed by a responsible official of LICENSEE showing the
transactions and
corresponding amounts during said [**] and any other information
as may be
reasonably requested by QUALCOMM.
13.2 Audits. QUALCOMM may, no more than once each calendar year,
cause its
independent public accounting firm to conduct an audit on
reasonable notice of
LICENSEE's applicable books and records and sublicensee's
records and its
supporting information obtained under Section 13.1 above to
confirm the royalty
paid or to be paid to QUALCOMM in accordance with the terms and
conditions set
forth in Section 4.2 above. The cost of such audit shall be
borne by QUALCOMM,
unless such audit determines that the LICENSEE has underpaid the
royalties due
hereunder by the lesser of (a) more than five percent (5%) or
(b) [**]; in which
case, LICENSEE shall, in addition to paying the deficiency plus
late payment
charges, pay the cost of such audit. LICENSEE shall preserve and
maintain all
such books and records required for audit for a period of [**]
years after the
[**] for which the books and records apply (but not more than
[**] years after
any termination of this Agreement). All information acquired by
QUALCOMM from
such audit shall be considered Information subject to the terms
and conditions
of Section 9.
14. ASSIGNMENT.
Except as provided in this clause, LICENSEE shall not assign
this Agreement
or any right or interest under this Agreement, nor delegate any
obligation to be
performed under this Agreement (an "assignment"), without
QUALCOMM's prior
written consent, which consent shall be at QUALCOMM's sole
discretion, provided,
however, that such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld in
the case that
such assignment or delegation is to a pa
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