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Title: RESEARCH AND LICENSE AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New Jersey     Date: 2/28/2008

RESEARCH AND LICENSE AGREEMENT, Parties: znomics  inc. , merck & co  inc
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* Certain portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment and those portions have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 
RESEARCH AND LICENSE AGREEMENT
 
by and between
 
MERCK & CO., INC.
 
And
 
ZNOMICS, INC.
 

* Certain portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment and those portions have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
1.DEFINITIONS
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2.RESEARCH
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  2.1 General
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  2.2 Conduct of Research
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  2.3 Use of Research Funding
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  2.4 Records and Reports
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  2.5 Research Information and Inventions
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  2.6 Research Term
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3. EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION; LICENSE;
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  3.1 *
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  3.2 Exercise of Option
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  3.3 Licenses
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  3.4 Rights of MERCK to an Exclusive License
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  3.5 No Implied Licenses
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  3.6 Bankruptcy
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4. CONFIDENTIALITY AND PUBUCATION
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  4.1 Nondisclosure Obligation
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  4.2 ZNOMICS Know-How
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  4.3 Publication
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  4.4 Publicity/Use of Names
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5. PAYMENTS; ROYALTIES AND REPORTS
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  5.1 Research Funding
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  5.2 *  
  5.3 *
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  5.3 Payments for MERCK Research Milestones
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6. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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  6.1 Representations and Warranties
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7. PATENT PROVISIONS
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  7.1 Filing, Prosecution and Maintenance of Patents
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  7.2 Option of MERCK to Prosecute and Maintain Patents
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  7.3 Interference, Opposition, Reexamination and Reissue
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  7.4 Enforcement and Defense
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  7.5 Patent Term Restoration
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8. TERM AND TERMINATION
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  8.1 Term and Expiration
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  8.2 Termination by MERCK
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  8.3 Termination for Cause
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  8.4 Effect of Expiration or Termination; Survival
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9. MISCELLANEOUS
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  9.1 Force Majeure
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  9.2 Assignment
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  9.3 Severability
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  9.4 Notices
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  9.5 Applicable Law
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  9.6 Dispute Resolution
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  9.7 Entire Agreement; Amendments
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  9.8 Headings
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  9.9 Independent Contractors
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  9.10 Waiver 23
  9.11 Cumulative Remedies
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  9.12Waiver of Rule of Construction
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  9.13Counterparts
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SCHEDULE 1.27 PATENT RIGHTS
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SCHEDULE 2.1   RESEARCH      
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RESEARCH AND LICENSE AGREEMENT
 
THIS AGREEMENT, effective as of November 15, 2005 (the "Effective Date"), by and between MERCK & CO., INC., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of New Jersey ("MERCK") and ZNOMICS, INC., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Delaware ("ZNOMICS").
 
RECITALS:
 
*
 
WHEREAS, MERCK and ZNOMICS desire to enter into an agreement to *;
 
WHEREAS, MERCK desires to obtain a license under the Patent Rights and ZNOMICS Know-How, upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and ZNOMICS desires to grant such a license;
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and the mutual covenants herein contained, the Parties hereby agree as follows:
 
1.           DEFINITIONS
 
Unless specifically set forth to the contrary herein, the following terms, whether used in the singular or plural, shall have the respective meanings set forth below:
 
1.1             "Act" shall mean, as applicable, the United States Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. §§ 301 et seq., and/or the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 262 et seq., as such may be amended from time to time.
 
1.2             "Affiliate" shall mean (i) any corporation or business entity of which fifty percent (50%) or more of the securities or other ownership interests representing the equity, the voting stock or general partnership interest are owned, controlled or held, directly or indirectly, by MERCK; or (ii) any corporation or business entity which, directly or indirectly, owns, controls or holds fifty percent (50%) (or the maximum ownership interest permitted by law) or more of the securities or other ownership interests representing the equity, the voting stock or, if applicable, the general partnership interest, of MERCK.
 
1.3             "Calendar Year" shall mean each successive period of twelve (12) months commencing on January 1 and ending on December 31.
 
1.4             "Control" 1 "Controls" or "Controlled by" - shall mean with respect to any item of
 
or right under Patent Rights or ZNOMICS Know-How or MERCK Know-How, the possession of (whether by ownership or license, other than pursuant to this Agreement),
 
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or the ability of a Party to grant access to, or a license or sublicense of, such item or right as provided for herein without violating the terms of any agreement or other arrangement with any Third Party existing at the time such Party would be required hereunder to grant the other Party such access or license or sublicense.
 
1.5             "Directed" shall mean that a compound or biological modulates the activity of the Target.
 
1.6           *
 
1.7             "Effective Date" shall mean the date of the last Party to sign this Agreement.
 
1.8             "Escrow Agent" shall mean a third party that is mutually agreed upon by the Parties and agrees, pursuant to a written agreement, to (a) abide by the confidentiality and non-use provisions of this Agreement; and (b) hold the list of Merck Pre-existing Programs, as updated from time to time, in escrow on behalf of the Parties.
 
1.9             "Final Report" shall mean the report as more fully described in Section 2.4.3.
 
1.10             "First Commercial Sale" shall mean, with respect to any Product, the first sale for end use or consumption of such Product in the Territory, excluding, however, any sale or other distribution for use in a Clinical Trial.
 
1.11             "Full Time Equivalent" or "FTE" shall mean the equivalent of a full-time scientist's work time over a twelve-month period (including normal vacations, sick days and holidays). The portion of an FTE year devoted by a scientist to the Research shall be determined by dividing the number of full days during any twelve-month period devoted by such employee to the Research by the total number of working days during such twelve­month period.
 
1.12             "Funded Patent Rights" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.1.1.
 
1.13             "Gene" shall mean a nucleotide sequence that *.
 
1.14             "Improvement" means any enhancement, whether or not patentable, made by ZNOMICS or others acting on behalf of ZNOMICS in the *.
 
1.15             "Information" shall mean any and all information and data, including without limitation all MERCK Know-How, ZNOMICS Know-How, and all other scientific, pre-clinical, clinical, regulatory, manufacturing, marketing, financial and commercial information or data, whether communicated in writing or orally or by any other method, which is provided by one Party to the other Party in connection with this Agreement.
 
1.16             "Initiates" shall mean, with respect to a Clinical Trial, the administration of the first dose to a patient in such Clinical Trial.
 
1.17             "Invention" shall mean any process, method, composition of matter, article of
 
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manufacture, discovery or finding that is conceived and/or reduced to practice as a result of the Research.
 
1.18             "Joint Information and Inventions" shall mean all protocols, formulas, data, Inventions, know-how and trade secrets, patentable or otherwise, resulting from the Research developed or invented jointly by employees of MERCK and ZNOMICS or others acting on behalf of MERCK and ZNOMICS.
 
1.19             "Library" shall mean *.
 
1.20             "Major Market Countries" shall mean the United States, Canada, Japan, and the following EP designated countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. Each individually, a "Major Market Country."
 
1.21             "MERCK Information and Inventions" shall mean all protocols, formulas, data, Inventions, know-how and trade secrets, patentable or otherwise, provided by MERCK to ZNOMICS or developed or invented solely by employees of MERCK or other persons not employed by ZNOMICS acting on behalf of MERCK, including but not limited to, all mammalian Druggable Genes identified in the Merck Pre-existing Program.
 
1.22             "MERCK Know-How" shall mean any information and materials, including but not limited to discoveries, improvements, processes, methods, protocols, formulas, data, inventions (including without limitation MERCK's Information and Inventions and MERCK's rights in Joint Information and Inventions), know-how and trade secrets, patentable or otherwise, which during the term of this Agreement, (i) are in MERCK's Control, (ii) are not generally known and (iii) are in MERCK's opinion necessary to ZNOMICS in the performance of its obligations under the Research.
 
1.23           *
 
1.24           *
 
1.25           *
 
1.26             "Party" shall mean MERCK and ZNOMICS, individually, and "Parties" shall mean MERCK and ZNOMICS, collectively.
 
1.27             "Patent Rights" shall mean any and all patents and patent applications in the Territory


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(which for the purposes of this Agreement shall be deemed to include certificates of invention and applications for certificates of invention) which are Controlled by ZNOMICS, including, but not limited to, those listed on Schedule 1.27, which: * ZNOMICS Information and Inventions, or Joint Information and Inventions *, and any Improvements related to the foregoing; or (ii) are divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, reissues, renewals, substitutions, registrations, re-examinations, revalidations, supplementary protection certificates, pediatric exclusivity periods, any other patent term extensions and exclusivity periods and the like of any such patents and patent applications, and any and all foreign equivalents of the foregoing.
 
1.28             "Phase I Clinical Trial" shall mean a human clinical trial in any country that would satisfy the requirements of 21 CFR 312.21(a).
 
1.29           *
 
1.30           *
 
1.31             "Regulatory Authority" shall mean any applicable government regulatory authority involved in granting approvals for the manufacturing, marketing. reimbursement and/or pricing of a Product in the Territory, inclUding. in the United States, the United States Food and Drug Administration and any successor governmental authority having substantially the same function.
 
1.32             "Related Party" shall mean each of MERCK, its Affiliates, and their respective sublicensees (which term does not include distributors), as applicable.
 
1.33             "Research" shall mean the activities undertaken by ZNOMICS * for and on behalf of MERCK as set forth in Article 2 and Schedule 2.1.
 
1.34           *
 
1.35             "Research Term" shall mean the duration of the Research and "Extended Research Term" shall mean any period of the Research as it may be extended by mutual agreement of the Parties, as described more fully in Section 2.6.
 
1.36           *
 
1.37             "Territory" shall mean all of the countries in the world, and their territories and possessions.


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1.38             "Third Party" shall mean an entity other than MERCK and its Related Parties, and ZNOMICS.
 
1.39             "Valid Patent Claim" shall mean a claim of an issued and unexpired patent included within the Patent Rights which claims a Product as a composition of matter, which claim has not been revoked or held unenforceable or invalid by a decision of a court or other governmental agency of competent jurisdiction (which decision is not appealable or has not been appealed within the time allowed for appeal), and which claim has not been disclaimed, denied or admitted to be invalid or unenforceable through reissue, re­examination or disclaimer or otherwise.
 
1.40             "ZNOMICS Information and Inventions" shall mean all protocols, formulas, data, Inventions, know-how and trade secrets, patentable or otherwise, resulting from the Research developed or invented solely by employees of ZNOMICS or other persons not employed by MERCK acting on behalf of ZNOMICS.
 
1.41             "ZNOMICS Know-How" shall mean all information and materials, including but not limited to discoveries, improvements, processes, methods, protocols, formulas, data, inventions (including without limitation ZNOMICS Information and Inventions and ZNOMICS rights in Joint Information and Inventions), know-how and trade secrets, patentable or otherwise. which during the term of this Agreement (i) are in the Control of ZNOMICS, (ii) are not generally known and (iii) are necessary or useful to MERCK in connection with the Research, and the research, development, manufacture, use or sale of Products in the Territory; excluding, however, any MERCK Know-How and the Final Report.
 
2.           RESEARCH
 
2.1            General
 
ZNOMICS and MERCK shall engage in the Research upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. The activities to be undertaken in the course of the Research are set forth in Schedule 2.1, which may be amended from time to time upon mutual written agreement by authorized representatives of the Parties.
 
2.2            Conduct of Research
 
ZNOMICS shall proceed diligently with the work set out in the Research by using good faith efforts to allocate sufficient time, effort, equipment and facilities to the Research and * with sufficient skills and experience as are required to accomplish the Research in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and Schedule 2.1 .
 
ZNOMICS shall conduct the Research in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. In addition, if animals are used in research hereunder, ZNOMICS will comply with the Animal Welfare Act or any other applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations relating to the care and use of laboratory animals. MERCK encourages ZNOMICS to use the highest standards, such as those set forth in the Guide for the Care and Use of
 
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Laboratory Animals (NRC, 1996), for the humane handling, care and treatment of such research animals. Any animals which are used in the course of the Research, or products derived from those animals, such as eggs or milk, will not be used for food purposes, nor will these animals be used for commercial breeding purposes; provided, however, that these restrictions do not apply to any Library that is not utilized for the Research. ZNOMICS shall notify MERCK in writing of any deviations from applicable regulatory or legal requirements. ZNOMICS hereby certifies that it has not employed or otherwise used in any capacity, and will not employ or otherwise use in any capacity, the services of any person debarred under United States law, including but not limited to Section 21 USC 335a, in performing any portion of the Research. ZNOMICS shall not use human tissue in the performance of the Research.
 
ZNOMICS shall be entitled to utilize the services of Third Parties to perform its Research activities only upon MERCK's prior written consent or as specifically set forth in Schedule 2.1" Notwithstanding any such consent, ZNOMICS shall remain at all times fully liable for its respective responsibilities under the Research.
 
2.3            Use of Research Funding
 
ZNOMICS shall apply the research funding it receives from MERCK under this Agreement solely to carry out its Research activities in accordance with Schedule 2.1 and the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
 
2.4            Records and Reports
 
2.4.1             Records. ZNOMICS shall maintain records, in sufficient detail and in good scientific manner appropriate for patent and regulatory purposes, which shall fully and properly reflect all work done and results achieved in the performance of the Research by ZNOMICS.
 
2.4.2             Copies and Inspection of Records. MERCK shall have the right, during normal business hours and upon reasonable notice, to inspect and copy all such records of ZNOMICS referred to in Section 2.4.1. MERCK shall maintain such records and the information disclosed therein in confidence in accordance with Section 4.1. MERCK shall have the right to arrange for its employees and/or consultants involved in the activities contemplated hereunder to visit the offices and laboratories of ZNOMICS and any of its Third Party contractors as permitted under Section 2.2 during normal business hours and upon reasonable notice, and to discuss the Research work and its results in detail with the technical personnel and consultants of ZNOMICS. Upon request, ZNOMICS shall provide copies of the records described in Section 2.4.1 above.
 
2.4.3             Final Report. Within thirty (30) days following the end of the Research Term, ZNOMICS shall provide a written Final Report to MERCK. MERCK and its Affiliates shall be permitted to use information contained in such Final Report which use by MERCK shall be solely for the purpose of internal research, discovery and development, unless MERCK exercises the Non-Exclusive Option or Exclusive Option in accordance with Section 3.2. Such Final Report shall include the *
 
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2.5            Research Information and Inventions
 
The entire right, title and interest in:
 
(a)           ZNOMICS Information and Inventions shall be owned solely by ZNOMICS;
 
(b)           MERCK Information and Inventions shall be owned solely by MERCK; and
 
 
(c)
Joint Information and Inventions shall be owned jointly by ZNOMICS and MERCK. Inventorship will be determined in accordance with United States patent laws.
 
ZNOMICS shall promptly disclose to MERCK in writing the development, making, conception or reduction to practice of ZNOMICS Information and Inventions and Joint Information and Inventions.
 
2.6            Research Term
 
Except as otherwise provided herein, the term of the Research shall commence on the Effective Date and continue for *. The Parties may extend the term of the Research Term by mutual written agreement of the authorized representative of the Parties, and shall, in such case, amend Schedule 2.1 as applicable.
 
3.           EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION; LICENSE
 
3.1           *
 
3.2            Exercise of Option .
 
MERCK shall have the exclusive right to obtain an exclusive or non-exclusive license pursuant to Section 3.3 for * by exercising an Exclusive Option or Non-Exclusive Option for * pursuant to procedures set forth in this Section 3.2. MERCK may, at any time following receipt of * pursuant to Section 3.1, submit to ZNOMICS a written notification of MERCK's intent to obtain a license pursuant
 
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to Section 3.3.1 (an "Exclusive Option") or Section 3.3.2 (a "Non-Exclusive Option"). The Exclusive Option and Non-Exclusive Option are exclusive to Merck for the *. The determination of whether MERCK shall exercise an Exclusive Option or Non­-Exclusive Option shall be at MERCK's sale discretion. In providing such written notice to ZNOMICS, MERCK shall supply to ZNOMICS written information sufficient to *. The Exclusive Option or Non-Exclusive Option for a *, as applicable, shall be deemed to be exercised upon MERCK providing such written notice to ZNOMICS.
 
3.3            Licenses
 
3.3.1 Exclusive License Grant . Upon exercise by MERCK of an Exclusive Option pursuant to Section 3.2 for *, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Section 3.3, ZNOMICS hereby grants to MERCK, an exclusive (even as to ZNOMICS) sublicenseable for the duration of the MERCK license, license to * in the Territory under the Patent Rights and ZNOMICS Know-how for any and all uses, including but not limited to, MERCK's activities in the research, discovery and development of biological and pharmaceutical products to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell or import any *.
 
3.3.2 Non-Exclusive License Grant.   Upon exercise by MERCK of a Non-Exclusive Option pursuant to Section 3.2 for *, and Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Section 3.3, ZNOMICS hereby grants to MERCK, a non­exclusive license, sublicenseable to Affiliates of MERCK for the duration of the MERCK license, * in the Territory under the Patent Rights and ZNOMICS Know-how for any and all uses, including but not limited to MERCK's activities in the research, discovery and development of biological and pharmaceutical products to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell or import any *. Such non-exclusive license shall be further sublicenseable by MERCK and its Affiliates to entities performing research for and on behalf of MERCK or its Affiliates.
 
3.4            Rights of MERCK to an Exclusive License .
 
ZNOMICS hereby grants MERCK the right of first refusal for MERCK to obtain an exclusive license for *, regardless of whether MERCK has exercised a Non-Exclusive Option for *. Such right of first refusal shall be exercisable by MERCK for * following MERCK's receipt * from ZNOMICS for * that is not already exclusively licensed to MERCK. ZNOMICS shall provide written notice to MERCK prior to entering into discussions with a Third Party with regard to granting any license or other rights to a Third Party to *. Thereafter, MERCK shall have sixty (60) days to provide written notice to ZNOMICS that it is exercising an Exclusive Option to *. Such Exclusive Option shall be exercised by MERCK pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 3.2.
 
3.5            No Implied Licenses .
 
Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, neither Party shall acquire any license or other intellectual property interest, by implication or otherwise, in any Information disclosed to
 
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it under this Agreement or under any patents or patent applications owned or controlled by the other Party or its Affiliates.
 
3.6            Bankruptcy
 
All licenses and rights to licenses granted under or pursuant to this Agreement by ZNOMICS to MERCK are, and shall otherwise be deemed to be, for purposes of Section 365(n) of the' United States Bankruptcy Code, licenses of rights to "intellectual property" as defined under Section 101 (35A) of the Code. The Parties agree that MERCK. as a licensee of such rights under this Agreement, shall retain and may fully exercise all of its rights and elections under the Code, and that upon commencement of a bankruptcy proceeding by or against ZNOMICS under the Code, MERCK shall be entitled to a complete duplicate of, or complete access to (as MERCK deems appropriate), any such intellectual property and all embodiments of such intellectual property_ Such intellectual property and all embodiments thereof shall be promptly delivered to MERCK (i) upon any such commencement of a bankruptcy proceeding upon written request therefor by MERCK, unless ZNOMICS elects to continue to perform all of its obligations under this Agreement or (ii) if not delivered under (i) above, upon the rejection of this Agreement by or on behalf of ZNOMICS upon written request therefor by MERCK.
 
The foregoing provisions of this Section 3.6 are without prejudice to any rights MERCK may have arising under the Code or other applicable law.
 
4.           CONFIDENTIALITY AND PUBLICATION
 
4.1            Nondisclosure Obligation
 
All Information disclosed by one Party to the other Party hereunder shall be maintained in confidence by the receiving Party and shall not be disclosed to any Third Party or used for any purpose except as set forth herein without the prior written consent of the disclosing Party, except to the extent that such Information:
 
 
(a)
is known by the receiving Party at the time of its receipt. and not through a prior disclosure by the disclosing Party, as documented by the receiving Party's business records;
 
 
(b)
is in the public domain by use and/or publication before its receipt from the disclosing Party, or thereafter enters the public domain through no fault of the receiving Party;
 
 
(c)
is subsequently disclosed to the receiving Party by a Third Party who may lawfully do so and is not under an obligation of confidentiality to the disclosing Party;
 
 
(d)
is developed by the receiving Party independently of Information received from the disclosing Party, as documented by the receiving Party's business records;
 
 
(e)
is disclosed to governmental or other regulatory agencies in order to obtain patents or to gain or maintain approval to conduct clinical trials or to market Product, but such disclosure may be only to the extent reasonably necessary to obtain patents or authorizations;
 

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(f)
is deemed necessary by MERCK to be disclosed to Related Par

 
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