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EXHIBIT
10.3
LICENSE
AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT is effective
as of the Effective Date, by and between TRUE GRAVITY ENTERPRISES,
INC., an Arizona corporation having an office at 4405 E. Baseline
Road, No. 120, Phoenix, AZ 85042, and AURIOS, INC., an Arizona
corporation having an office at 4405 E. Baseline Road, No. 120,
Phoenix, AZ 85042, .
WHEREAS, TGE owns and has
rights in various issued patents, pending applications for patents,
and trademarks, in various countries of the world as to which
AURIOS desires to acquire licenses as hereinafter provided;
and
AURIOS is in the business of
manufacturing and selling vibration isolation devices into the
audio-video market.
In consideration of the
mutual covenants and representations in this document, the parties
agree as follows:
1.1“Subsidiary(ies)” means
any corporation, company, affiliate, or other entity, whose
outstanding shares or securities representing the right to vote for
the election of directors or other managing authority are, now or
hereafter, owned or controlled, directly or indirectly by a Party
hereto, but such corporation, company, affiliate, or other entity
shall be deemed to be a Subsidiary only so long as such ownership
or control exists.
1.2“Licensed Patents” means
(i) patents or patent applications identified in Appendix A,
including all continuations, divisionals, continuations-in-part,
reissues, extensions, renewals, reexaminations, and substitutes
thereof, (ii) foreign patents or patent applications claiming
priority to or otherwise constituting a counterpart of such patents
or patent applications in part (i), and (iii) patents issuing
from applications in part (i) or (ii) in any
country.
1.3“Licensed Marks” means
the trademarks, service marks, and trade names identified in
Appendix B.
1.4“Licensed Intellectual
Property” means Licensed Patents and Licensed
Marks.
1.5“Licensed Materials”
means any advertising, promotional materials, or reference
materials using the Licensed Marks.
1.6“Licensed Products” means
the products identified in Appendix C.
1.7“New Products” means any
new product to be manufactured and sold by AURIOS under the
Licensed Intellectual Property, which may be added to Appendix C as
a Licensed Product by mutual agreement of the Parties.
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1.8 “Net Sales” means gross
revenue generated by AURIOS in any sales transaction of Licensed
Products with any third party as determined under an accrual method
by generally accepted accounting principles, less any taxes,
returns, discounts, uncollected receivables, write-offs,
adjustments, chargebacks, recalls, rebates, allowances, claims,
freight, insurance, and excise, import, and export duties, when the
same are actually paid or allowed.
1.9 “Confidential
Information” shall mean any confidential proprietary
information including non-public designs, specifications, drawings,
dimensions, processes, practices, communications, manufacturing,
economic, financial, sales, marketing, management, quality control
and other proprietary data, materials, know-how, or information
contained in presentations, emails, letters, memos, discussions,
notes, analysis, documents, practices, studies, reports, budgets,
forecasts, and other mediums of disclosure, which may have been
disclosed by either Party to the other Party during the term of the
Agreement in verbal, written, graphic, computer or machine
recognizable, and/or tangible form, and which is clearly
designated, labeled or marked as confidential proprietary, e.g.,
“CONFIDENTIAL PROPRIETARY,” or its equivalent, or
should be known by Recipient to be confidential in
nature.
1.10 “Territory” means any
and all countries of the world.
1.11 “Effective Date” means
the date of the last signature hereto.
1.12 “TGE” means TRUE
GRAVITY ENTERPRISES, INC. and its Subsidiaries.
1.13 “AURIOS” means AURIOS,
Inc. and its Subsidiaries.
1.14 “Party(ies)” means TGE
and/or AURIOS, as the case may be.
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PATENT LICENSE GRANTS |
2.1 Subject to and in consideration of
the terms and conditions of this Agreement, TGE hereby grants and
agrees to grant to AURIOS, and AURIOS accepts, for the term of this
Agreement, a non-exclusive, royalty-bearing right and license under
the Licensed Patents, without the right to sublicense, within the
Territory, to:
(a) make, have made, use,
sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise dispose of the Licensed
Products; and
(b) practice any process and
method or use any manufacturing apparatus within the Licensed
Products.
2.2 From time to time, the Parties may
develop or identifiy New Products which are covered by the Licensed
Intellectual Property. The New Products may be added to the
Licensed Products in Appendix C and subject to the royalties of
Section 4 by mutual agreement of the Parties.
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TRADEMARK LICENSE GRANTS |
3.1 Subject to and in consideration of
the terms and conditions of this Agreement, TGE grants and agrees
to grant to AURIOS, and AURIOS accepts, a non-exclusive, revocable,
royalty-bearing license, without the right to sublicense, to use,
copy, and reproduce the Licensed Marks solely in connection with
marketing, distribution, and sale of the Licensed Products within
the Territory. All other rights to the Licensed Marks not expressly
granted to AURIOS are reserved to TGE.
3.2 Nothing herein shall give AURIOS the
right to register or use any internet domain name or URL including
the Licensed Marks, or any variations thereof (including any
confusingly similar domain names or typographical variations), or
any other domain name containing the Licensed Marks, without TGE's
prior express written consent.
3.3 AURIOS recognizes TGE’s
ownership of and title to the Licensed Marks and acknowledges that
TGE may seek to protect the Licensed Marks in the Territory. AURIOS
will not acquire or claim any title to the Licensed Marks nor do
any act which may impair TGE’s right in and to the Licensed
Marks or to any registration thereof in any country. All use of the
Licensed Marks by AURIOS, anywhere and at any time, will inure to
TGE’s benefit. AURIOS will not by action or inaction
intentionally do anything likely to diminish or dilute the value or
reputation of the Licensed Marks or any associated goodwill. AURIOS
will provide, without cost, such information and materials
reasonably requested by TGE to facilitate registration or other
forms of protection adopted by TGE for the Licensed
Marks.
3.4 AURIOS will not acquire nor claim
any right, title or interest in or to the Licensed Marks or any
other intellectual property of TGE anywhere in the world as a
result of (i) the license granted under this Agreement or
(ii) the use of the Licensed Marks in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement. AURIOS will not adopt or use any mark
which is confusingly similar to the Licensed Marks, either during
the term of this Agreement or at anytime thereafter. Neither
AURIOS, nor any party on behalf of AURIOS, will file any copyright,
trademark, or other similar application anywhere in the world to
register, in whole or in part, any of the Licensed Marks, any mark
confusingly similar thereto, or any mark derived from or
incorporating the Licensed Marks.
3.5 AURIOS agrees that the nature and
quality of all services rendered by AURIOS and all Licensed
Products sold or otherwise distributed by AURIOS under the Licensed
Marks will be in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and
regulations, and shall be of similar or better quality than those
services and products offered by TGE. TGE shall have the right to
and shall control the nature and quality of the use of the Licensed
Marks.
3.6 Prior to any use or distribution of
any Licensed Materials and including any modification of previously
approved Licensed Materials or upon request by TGE, AURIOS, at its
expense, will submit to TGE all Licensed Materials including,
without limitation, products, packaging, labeling, point of sale
materials, trade show displays, sales materials and advertising
bearing the
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Licensed Marks. TGE will within fifteen
(15) days provide written notice to AURIOS of any rejection of
such Licensed Products, and, upon such notice, AURIOS will not use,
sell or otherwise distribute any rejected Licensed Products. If
AURIOS does not receive such notice within fifteen (15) days,
the materials in their submitted form will be deemed
accepted.
3.7 AURIOS will use proper trademark and
copyright notices as TGE shall direct.
3.8 No licenses are granted, by
implication, estoppel or otherwise, under this Agreement other than
as expressly set forth in Sections 2 and 3.
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ACCRUALS, ROYALTIES PAYMENTS, AUDITING,
REPORTING |
4.1 In consideration for the license
grant and the other terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement, and for the period beginning on the Effective Date and
continuing for the term of this Agreement, AURIOS shall pay TGE a
royalty of five percent (5.0%) of world-wide Net Sales of the
Licensed Products.
4.2 Royalties shall be earned and accrue
upon recognition of such revenue by AURIOS. Royalties shall not
accrue for intracompany transactions within AURIOS.
4.3 The parties acknowledge the
difficulty of identifying all geographic regions in which Licensed
Products may be sold. Therefore, royalties shall be computed on
world wide Net Sales of Licensed Products as set forth in
Section 4.1. Royalty rates have been set based on the global
computation of royalties for the convenience of the parties and
taking into account differing geographic and temporal limitations
of various Licensed Intellectual Property, among other
things.
4.4 On April 15
th
, July 15
th
, October 15
th
, and January 15
th
of each calendar year, and
for the three-month period ending on the last day of the
immediately preceding month, AURIOS will provide TGE a report
showing the royalties due under section 4.1 for the applicable
period and will submit the applicable royalty payments in United
States dollars (USD) with the report. TGE shall bear all taxes and
duties and make all payments in any country imposed upon it with
respect to royalty payments made by AURIOS under this Agreement. If
so required by local law, AURIOS shall withhold the amount of taxes
levied by local government on payments made by AURIOS pursuant to
this Agreement and shall make payments of the withheld amount to
the local tax authorities and shall provide to TGE official tax
receipts to enable TGE to support a claim for tax credit with
respect to such withheld taxes so paid by AURIOS. Notice of
payments shall be sent by AURIOS to TGE's address in
Section 9.11.
4.5 AURIOS shall pay royalties and other
sums of money due hereunder to TGE by wire transfer in USD
to:
MidFirst Bank, 3030 E.
Camelback Rd., Suite 100, Phoenix, AZ 85018
Routing Number:
303087995
Account Number:
2013002953
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or to other institution or account as
TGE may from time to time direct in writing.
4.6 AURIOS shall maintain complete and
accurate records of Licensed Products in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles. AURIOS shall not be required to
retain records for more than five (5) years after close of any
calendar quarter-year. TGE may, at any time during the term of this
Agreement, initiate an independent audit of such records upon ten
(10) prior business days written notice to AURIOS, in order to
confirm the accuracy of AURIOS’ records and conformance with
the terms and conditions of this Agreement; provided, that no more
than one (1) such audit is conducted during any twelve
(12) month period. The selection of an independent certified
auditor shall be mutually agreeable to both Parties. Any such audit
shall be performed at TGE’s expense during AURIOS’
normal business hours. If an audit reveals that AURIOS has
underpaid royalty fees and/or charges to TGE, in excess of five
percent (5%) pursuant to any report under section 4.4, then
AURIOS will pay TGE’s reasonable costs of conducting the
audit, in addition to any underpaid amounts, together with interest
thereon in USD at a rate of one percent (1.0%) per month
compounded monthly on any overdue payment commencing on the date
such payment was due.
5.1 The term of this Agreement shall
become effective upon the Effective Date and shall automatically
renew every two years as long as total royalty payments for all
Licensed Products exceed $2,500.00 USD each year, unless terminated
in accordance with this Section 5 or in the termination
provisions provided elsewhere in this Agreement.
5.2 Either Party (&
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