This Agreement
is made by and between Temple University — Of The
Commonwealth System of Higher Education (hereinafter referred to as
“TEMPLE”), a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, having a principal
place of business at Broad Street and Montgomery Avenue,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Save the World Air, Inc.
(hereinafter referred to as “COMPANY”), a corporation
organised and existing under the laws of the State of Nevada,
having a principal place of business at 5125 Lankershim Boulevard,
North Hollywood, California 91601.
WHEREAS, TEMPLE
is the owner of the entire right and interest in the United States
patent applications and patents listed in Exhibit A, attached
hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and technical
information pertaining to the effect of electrical fields on crude
oil viscosity; and
WHEREAS,
COMPANY desires to obtain an exclusive worldwide license under
patent applications and patents for the aforementioned intellectual
property;
NOW, THEREFORE,
in consideration of the premises and of the covenants and
obligations hereinafter set forth, and intending to be legally
bound, the parties hereby agree as follows:
The following
definitions shall apply throughout this Agreement:
1.1.
“AFFILIATE” shall mean each and every business entity
controlling, controlled by or under common control with COMPANY for
the purposes of manufacture, use or sale of LICENSED PRODUCT. For
purposes of this definition “control” shall mean
ownership, directly or indirectly, of at least fifty percent (50%)
of the voting stock.
1.2.
“CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” shall mean any information
disclosed or tangible property supplied by one party to the other
pursuant to this Agreement provided that information disclosed in
writing shall be deemed CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION only if marked
“Confidential” and information disclosed orally shall
be deemed CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION only if reduced to writing and a
copy marked “Confidential” is provided to the receiving
party within thirty (30) days of the date of oral disclosure.
However, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION shall not include information
that: (i) was known to the receiving party prior to the date
of disclosure by the disclosing party or is developed independently
of information received from the disclosing party by those who have
not had access to this information; or (ii) is lawfully
received in good faith at any time by the receiving party from
others lawfully in possession of the same and having the right to
disclose the same: or (iii) is, as of the date of receipt, in
the public domain or subsequently enters the public domain other
than by reason of acts or omissions of the receiving party; or
(iv) is required to be disclosed by law, rule of court or
regulation; or (v) is independently developed by the receiving
party, as evidenced by written records.
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1.3.
“EFFECTIVE DATE” shall mean the date this Agreement is
signed by the last to sign of the parties.
1.4.
“INVENTOR” shall mean, singly or collectively,
Dr. Rongjia Tao and others of TEMPLE.
1.5.
“LICENSED PRODUCT” shall mean any product the use,
SALE, offer for SALE, manufacture, or importation of which, if
unlicensed, would infringe one or more VALID CLAIMS of: (i) a
patent application within PATENT RIGHTS if such patent application
were issued as a patent or (ii) a patent within PATENT RIGHTS.
A product which is a LICENSED PRODUCT by virtue of its use, offer
for SALE, manufacture, or importation under at least one VALID
CLAIM within PATENT RIGHTS shall remain a LICENSED PRODUCT for all
purposes of this Agreement including but not limited to calculation
of NET SALES, notwithstanding such product’s subsequent
exportation to another country where its further disposition is not
covered by any VALID CLAIM within PATENT RIGHTS.
1.6.
“LICENSEE” shall mean COMPANY and its
AFFILIATES.
1.7. “NET
SALES” shall mean the gross receipts from the SALE, in any
country, of LICENSED PRODUCT by LICENSEE or by its SUBLICENSEES
less deductions for: (i) transportation and insurance charges;
(ii) sales and excise taxes, and any other governmental
charges or duties paid; (ii) normal and customary trade,
quantity and cash discounts allowed; (iii) sales commissions;
and (iv) allowances on account of rejection or return by
customers. However, except where the SUBLICENSEE is the end-user of
LICENSED PRODUCT, any SALE to a SUBLICENSEE shall be excluded from
the computation of NET SALES, but any subsequent SALE by the
SUBLICENSEE shall be included in the computation of NET
SALES.
1.8.
“PATENT RIGHTS” shall mean the patent applications and
patents listed in Exhibit A and any foreign counterparts
thereof, or any continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions,
re-issues, additions, renewals or extensions thereof, and any
patents issuing therefrom.
1.9.
“SALE” shall mean any transaction for which
consideration is received for the sale, lease, license, transfer or
other disposition of LICENSED PRODUCT by LICENSEE or by its
SUBLICENSEES.
1.10.
“SUBLICENSEE” shall mean a third party which is granted
a sublicense under any of the rights granted by TEMPLE to LICENSEE
under this Agreement, including but not limited to any sublicensee
of LICENSEE, any sublicensee of a sublicensee of LICENSEE, and so
on.
1.11.
“TECHNICAL INFORMATION” shall mean any CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMATION of a technical nature relating to LICENSED PRODUCT,
which is in the possession of TEMPLE as of the EFFECTIVE DATE, and
which is necessary or useful to LICENSEE in furtherance of the
development, manufacture or marketing of LICENSED
PRODUCT.
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1.12.
“VALID CLAIM” shall mean a claim of a patent
application or patent, which claim has not expired and has not been
held unenforceable, unpatentable or invalid by unappealable
decision of a court or other governmental agency of competent
jurisdiction.
ARTICLE 2.
CONFIDENTIALITY
2.1. The
receiving party shall hold all CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION in strict
confidence for a period of five (5) years from the disclosure
date; not use said CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION except as provided in
this Agreement; and not disclose, directly or indirectly, said
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION to others except with the prior written
consent of the disclosing party. The receiving party shall use at
least the same degree of care to maintain CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
secret as the receiving party uses in maintaining secret its own
confidential information, but always at least a reasonable degree
of care. The receiving party shall restrict disclosure of
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION solely to those of its employees and
consultants having a need to know such CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION in
order to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement. The receiving
party shall also advise its employees and consultants, before they
have access to CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION, of the obligations of the
receiving party under this Agreement, and require such employees
and consultants to maintain those obligations.
2.2.
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Paragraph 2.1,
LICENSEE shall be entitled, without TEMPLE’S prior written
approval, to disclose any CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION of TEMPLE:
(i) to the EPA or any other environmental authority in the
world, but only to the extent required by law or regulation to
obtain approval to test or market LICENSED PRODUCT and (ii) to
agents, consultants or independent contractors of LICENSEE for the
sole purpose of assisting LICENSEE in accomplishing the purposes of
this Agreement provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the
recipient shall be bound by written confidentiality obligations
that are at least as strict as those of LICENSEE under this
Agreement.
2.3. The
receiving party shall, upon written request by the disclosing
party, promptly return all written materials or samples of tangible
property received hereunder, with the exception that one copy of
said written materials may be retained by the receiving party
solely for archival purposes. In the alternative, the receiving
party shall destroy all materials and confirm such destruction in
writing.
2.4.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, it is
recognized by LICENSEE that TEMPLE, through the INVENTOR, shall
have the right to publish or present publicly the results of any
research concerning LICENSED PRODUCT. However, TEMPLE and the
INVENTOR agree to notify LICENSEE in writing of any such proposed
publication or presentation thirty (30) days before
submission. Should LICENSEE, within thirty (30) days of such
notification, advise TEMPLE and the INVENTOR in writing that it
wishes to file one or more patent applications pertaining to
information contained in the proposed publication or presentation,
TEMPLE shall delay submission until after LICENSEE has made such
filing. LICENSEE may also request deletion of sensitive information
from the proposed publication, and TEMPLE agrees to give good faith
consideration to such a request.
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ARTICLE 3. GRANT
OF LICENSE RIGHTS
3.1. TEMPLE
hereby grants to LICENSEE, until the date on which this Agreement
is terminated, a world-wide exclusive license under PATENT RIGHTS
and TECHNICAL INFORMATION, with the right to grant sublicenses, to
make, have made, use, sell, offer for SALE and import LICENSED
PRODUCT.
3.2.
Notwithstanding the preceding license grant, TEMPLE shall retain
rights to make, have made, use and import LICENSED PRODUCT
royalty-free for non-commercial educational and research purposes
only, and shall be free to grant these rights to other non-profit
educational and research institutions.
3.3. The
parties acknowledge that inventions in PATENT RIGHTS may have
resulted from United States Government funding, and agree that
their rights and obligations under this Agreement shall be subject
to TEMPLE’S obligations to the United States Government, if
any, which arise out of the receipt by TEMPLE of research funding
from the United States Government, in which case LICENSEE agrees
that LICENSED PRODUCT sold in the United States under this
Agreement shall be manufactured substantially in the United
States.
3.4.LICENSEE
shall at all times own all LICENSED PRODUCT as tangible
property.
4.1. In
consideration of the license granted to LICENSEE under the terms of
this Agreement, LICENSEE shall pay to TEMPLE a quarterly basis
commencing on the first day of each March, June, September and
December during the term of this Agreement a royalty on account of
NET SALES in the prior calendar quarter. Royalties shall be payable
at the following rates: (i) on the first $20,000,000 of NET
SALES during a calendar year of the term of this Agreement, seven
percent (7%) of NET SALES; (ii) on NET SALES during a calendar
year of the term of this Agreement in excess of $20,000,000 and
less than or equal to $40,000,000, six percent (6%) of NET SALES;
(iii),on NET SALES during a calendar year of the term of this
Agreement in excess of $40,000,000, five percent (5%) of NET
SALES.
4.2.In further
consideration of the license granted to LICENSE under the terms of
this Agreement, LICENSEE shall pay to TEMPLE a non-refundable
license fee of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) within
thirty (30) days of the EFFECTIVE DATE. In the event that
within thirty (30) days of the EFFECTIVE DATE the parties
enter into a written agreement to further develop LICENSED PRODUCT
at TEMPLE under the direction of the INVENTOR, which agreement (the
“R&D Agreement”) pays TEMPLE five hundred thousand
dollars ($500,000) for two years, LICENSEE shall be entitled to pay
the license fee in three (3) installments, as follows:
(i) forty percent (40%) within thirty (30) days of the
EFECTIVE DATE and (ii) thirty percent (30%) on or before each
of the first and second anniversaries of the EFFECTIVE DATE.
However, if either this Agreement or the R&D Agreement is
terminated
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before the
second anniversary of the EFFECTIVE DATE, the entire unpaid balance
of the license fee is due immediately prior to
termination.
4.3 In further
consideration of the license granted to LICENSEE under the terms of
this Agreement, LICENSEE shall pay to TEMPLE, on the first day of
January, 2008 and annually thereafter, a non-refundable license
maintenance fee of seventy five thousand dollars ($50,000)
regardless of or irrespective of actual NET SALES. The license
maintenance fee payment due in any calendar year pursuant to this
Paragraph 4.3 shall be offset and reduced by payments actually
made to TEMPLE in the prior calendar year pursuant to
Paragraph 4.1 and Paragraph 4.4.
4.4 In further
consideration of the license granted to LICENSEE under the terms of
this Agreement, LICENSEE shall pay to TEMPLE twenty-five percent
(25%) of all consideration, whether in the form of cash or equity,
which LICENSEE receives from its SUBLICENSEES to secure or maintain
the sublicense or option thereto, including but not limited to
option or sublicense fees, option or sublicense maintenance fees,
milestone payments and minimum royalties. However, the following
types of consideration are excluded from the calculation under this
Paragraph 4.4: (i) research and development funding and
(ii) royalties on account of NET SALES by
SUBLICENSEE.
4.5 Royalty
payments for sales in each country shall commence with the first
unit of each LICENSED PRODUCT sold by LICENSEE or by its
sublicenses in such country and will end coincident with the
expiration date of the last-to-cxpirc issued patent within PATENT
RIGHTS in such country covering such LICENSED PRODUCT.
ARTICLE 5. DUE
DILIGENCE AND REPORTING
5.1. LICENSEE
shall use reasonable efforts to advance the development of LICENSED
PRODUCT and to effect its commercialization as soon as practicable,
consistent with prevailing sound business practices relating to the
commercialization of similar products; thereafter, during the term
of this Agreement, LICENSEE shall endeavor to keep LICENSED PRODUCT
reasonably available to the public.
5.2. On or
before March 31 of each year during the term of this
Agreement, LICENSEE shall provide to TEMPLE a written report
detailing LICENSEE’S efforts during the previous year and
plans for the current year, relating to the development, regulatory
approval, manufacturing and marketing of LICENSED
PRODUCT.
ARTICLE 6.
STATEMENTS AND REMITTANCES
6.1. LICENSEE
shall keep and maintain complete books and records containing an
accurate accounting in sufficient detail of all data required to
enable verification of earned royalties and other payments due
hereunder.
6.2. Within
sixty (60) days after the end of each calendar quarter,
LICENSEE shall remit to TEMPLE a statement of NET SALES by
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