LICENSE AGREEMENT
This License Agreement
(“Agreement”) is made effective on the 3rd day of
April, 2008 (hereinafter the “Commencement Date”), by
and between:
Parties
1) “Licensor” Edward H.
Hall, Sr., a citizen of the state of Utah, whose address is 2025
Dimple Dell Road, Sandy, Utah 84092-4705; and
2) “Licensee” Uplift
Nutrition, Inc. a Nevada corporation having its principal place of
business at 252 West Cottage Avenue, Sandy UT
84070.
Recitals
Whereas Licensor has financed, paid for,
overseen, designed and developed a process for formulating
nutritional supplements based on the genetic make-up of an
individual or a population as well as related nutritional
supplement compositions and owns certain Patent Rights, as
specified hereinafter, related thereto; and
Whereas Licensee develops, manufactures,
markets and sells nutritional products and supplements and desires
to develop, manufacture, market, or sell nutritional products
formulated based on the genetic make-up of an individual or
population using the process or compositions covered by the Patent
Rights;
Now, therefore, in consideration of
mutual promises and covenants set forth herein, and other good and
valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which is
hereby acknowledged, the parties hereby agree as
follows:
1. Definitions
In this Agreement, except where the
context otherwise requires, the following words and expressions
shall have the following meanings:
1.1
“Licensed Technology” shall
mean any and all technology disclosed in and/or subject of the
patent rights or other intellectual property rights of any kind
resulting from, or involving, United States Provisional Patent
Application Serial No. 61/114,281 filed by Licensor on November 13,
2008 and entitled “Nutritional Supplements and their Methods
of Making” and any subsequent patents or patent applications
filed in the United States which claim priority directly or
indirectly to such patent application including all
non-provisional, divisional, continuation, continuation-in-part,
renewal or substitute applications.
1.2
“Licensed Product” shall mean
any product which incorporates, uses or is covered by the Licensed
Technology.
1.3.
:”Patent Rights” shall mean
those very rights subject of the definition of “Licensed
Technology” above and which are owned by Licensor or are
subject to various applications applied, by Licensor, in his name,
with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or any state corollary
intellectual property authority.
1.4
“Territory” shall mean the
United States of America.
1.5
“Net Sales” shall mean the
gross dollar amount collected by Licensee from its customers,
whether such customer is a distributor, wholesaler, retailer,
end-user, or any other third party, for Licensed Products sold,
leased, or otherwise commercially transferred by Licensee, less: 1)
any discounts or rebates actually applied; 2) any tax or
governmental charge included in such gross dollar amount, which is
imposed directly on, or measured by, the sale, lease or transfer,
transportation, delivery or use of the Licensed Product, other than
any taxes or charges on the seller’s net income, unless it is
actually reimbursed; 3) actual allowances for returned Licensed
Products.
2. Grant of
rights
2.1
Licensor grants to Licensee a royalty
bearing non-exclusive right and license to the Patent Rights in the
United States. In this regard, the word “license” as
used herein means the unfettered right or other ability to exploit,
in any lawful way, the commercial viability of the Licensed
Technology.
2.2
Licensee shall not grant or purport to
grant to any person any sublicense or subcontract of its rights or
obligations under this Agreement without the express written
consent of Licensor.
2.3
Licensee hereby agrees not to challenge
the validity of any issued patent under the Patent Rights or cause
a third party to challenge the validity of any such patent.
Licensor shall have the right to immediately terminate this
Agreement, as set forth in Section 7 below titled
“Termination”, if Licensee challenges the validity of
or opposes any patent issuing under the Patent Rights or causes a
third party to do so.
2.4
In no event shall this Agreement be
construed to be an assignment of any actual ownership interest in
or to the Patent Rights other than what is necessary or consistent
with the licensing thereof and Licensee’s license rights
hereunder.
3. Royalties
3.1
Licensee shall pay Licensor a royalty on
Net Sales of all Licensed Products sold by or for Licensee.
This royalty is, in part, based on the fact that Licensor has
advanced Licensee several hundred thousand dollars over the last 2
or 3 years and is indirectly a major stockholder of Licensee and
therefore, the royalty set forth herein represents an opportunity
for the Licensor to obtain return of some of the substantial
funding that he has generously advanced Licensee. This is not
to ignore that this License Agreement may substantially benefit
Licensee in the long
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run, something that remains to be seen.
In the opinion of Licensee’s disinterested directors,
the royalty rate set forth herein is believed to be standard in the
industry, is not believed to be excessive or unreasonable under the
circumstances, and is otherwise believed to be fair and in the best
interests of the Licensee, particularly when Licensee has no Net
Sales at this time as defined herein and it is not known if it ever
will. To the extent that the royalty is challenged as unfair,
the Parties are agreeable to obtaining a fairness opinion from a
neutral third party and modifying this Agreement accordingly.
In entering into this Agreement, the Parties believe that
they have complied with NRS 78.140 titled "Restrictions on
transactions involving interested directors or officers;
compensation of directors."
3.2
The royalty rate for the duration of the
Agreement shall be calculated in accordance with the following
table:
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Cumulative Net Sales over Duration of Agreement
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Applicable Royalty Rate
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$0
– 1,000,000 (US)
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5%
of Net Sales
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More
than 1,000,000 (US)
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3%
of Net Sales
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3.3
The royalty on Net Sales shall accrue on
the date when Licensee receives payment for sales of its Licensed
Product and shall be payable to Licensor no less than annually
within 60 days of the end of each calendar year.
3.4
Licensor shall have the option to defer
payment of some or all accrued royalties upon demonstration by
Licensee of financial hardship. Since Licensor has spent
considerable funds already financing Licensee, Licensor shall have
the right determine or decide whether Licensee is the subject of
“financial hardship.” This paragraph shall in no
way restrict the Parties from declaring or determining that said
accrued royalties are not a good and valid debt of Licensee.
3.4
All royalties, if any, sha