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EXHIBIT 10.1
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
TECHNOLOGY LICENSE AGREEMENT
This Second Amended and Restated Technology License
Agreement (the “Agreement”) is made and entered into as
of July 17, 2007, by and between TERRA INSIGHT CORPORATION, a
Delaware corporation (“TIC”), and THE INSTITUTE OF
GEOINFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE EARTH, a Liechtenstein
establishment (the “INSTITUTE”). This Agreement further
amends and restates the terms of the Technology License Agreement
dated as of January 7, 2005 between the parties, as amended by the
Amended and Restated Technology License Agreement dated as of May
19, 2005 between the parties (collectively, the “Original
Agreement”).
WHEREAS, the INSTITUTE is in the business of
developing, using, and licensing others to use, and is the
developer and owner of certain technology and know-how used in the
surveying, mapping, detection, and reporting of natural resources
of the Earth (the “Mapping Technology”);
WHEREAS, TIC is in the business of providing
services and products in connection with the identification,
location, exploration and recovery of deposits of natural resources
(“TIC Services”); and
WHEREAS, the INSTITUTE desires to continue to
license its commercial Mapping Technology to TIC, and to continue
to provide related commercial services in the use of the Mapping
Technology, which are subject to a separate the Second Amended and
Restated Services Agreement, as may be subsequently amended or
modified (the “Services Agreement”), between the
parties;
WHEREAS, TIC desires to license the Mapping
Technology and obtain services from the INSTITUTE for use in
conjunction with the TIC Services;
NOW THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration
and on the promises and premises set forth below, the parties agree
as follows:
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1.1
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CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION:
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a. INSTITUTE
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: Confidential and/or proprietary
information relating to the Mapping Technology, research,
development, products, processes, trade secrets, business plans,
customers, finances, and personnel data related to the business of
the INSTITUTE. The INSTITUTE Confidential Information does not
include any information (i) which TIC knew before the INSTITUTE
disclosed it to TIC; (ii) which has become publicly known through
no wrongful act of TIC; (iii) which TIC developed independently, as
evidenced by appropriate documentation, including Derivatives; (iv)
which is disclosed to TIC by a third party without restriction of
confidentiality; or (v) the disclosure of which is required by
law.
b. TIC
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: Confidential and/or proprietary
information and Derivatives thereof relating to the research,
development, products, processes, trade secrets, business plans,
customers, finances, personnel data and Project Work Product
related to the business of TIC. TIC Confidential Information does
not include any information (i) which the INSTITUTE knew before TIC
disclosed it to the INSTITUTE; (ii) which has become publicly known
through no wrongful act of the INSTITUTE; (iii) which the INSTITUTE
developed independently, as evidenced by appropriate documentation;
(iv) which is disclosed to the INSTITUTE by a third party without
restriction of confidentiality; or (v) the disclosure of which is
required by law.
1.2 DERIVATIVES:
Any or all translation (including translation into other human or
computer languages), portation, modification, correction, addition,
extension, upgrade, update, enhancement, revision, new version,
improvement, compilation, abridgement, or other form in which the
Intellectual Property Rights may be recast, transformed, or
adapted, including any products, systems or other items which
provide comparable or enhanced functionality whether or not
specifically based on or derived from such Intellectual Property
Rights.
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1.3 INSTITUTE
DOCUMENTATION: Any and all manuals, user guides, product
specifications and other documentation, owned by or licensed to the
INSTITUTE, relating or referring to the Mapping
Technology.
1.4 INSTITUTE
RIGHTS: Any and all Intellectual Property Rights of the INSTITUTE
in and to the INSTITUTE mathematical apparatus, formulae, Neuro-net
based software, knowledge database and know-how related thereto,
Copyrights, the INSTITUTE Documentation, the INSTITUTE Marks, the
INSTITUTE Patents, and Mapping Technology.
1.5 MAPPING
TECHNOLOGY: The INSTITUTE’s proprietary Neuro-net based
software, including, but not limited to, all English, Russian and
other foreign language, all commercial and non-commercial, and all
present and future versions thereof, and all required and/or
relevant the INSTITUTE Documentation, Intellectual Property Rights
and other proprietary rights therein, that is required and/or
relevant to TIC’s development of current and future versions
of TIC Services.
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1.6
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FIELDS OF USE (“FOU”): All commercial
markets and industries worldwide.
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1.7 INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS: Any and all proprietary, common law, and/or
statutory intellectual property rights, including but not limited
to, patentable materials and patent rights, copyrightable materials
and copyrights, moral rights, trade secret rights, trademark
rights, service mark rights, and/or any and all other proprietary
rights, including all Derivatives.
1.8 PROJECT
WORK PRODUCT: Any report, map, layout, matrix, diagram, data,
analysis, profile modeling, photograph, image, reproduction,
simulation, forecast, study, interpretation, assessment, plan,
determination, recommendation or report generated in any way for or
related to a request by or agreement with TIC or any customer
introduced by TIC to the INSTITUTE or by the INSTITUTE to
TIC.
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1.9
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TIC CLIENT: A customer or client of TIC in the FOU
and Territory.
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1.10 TIC
SERVICES: Any and all natural resource or other matter
identification, mapping, reports, recommendations for exploration
and/or recovery services that use, integrate, refer to or contain
analysis, mapping/survey or recommendations for exploration and/or
recovery thereof, made, distributed, and/or sold by TIC.
1.11 TIC
RIGHTS: Any and all Confidential Information and Intellectual
Property Rights of TIC in and to the TIC Services, exclusive of the
INSTITUTE Rights.
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1.12
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TERRITORY: Worldwide.
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1.13 THIRD
PARTY RIGHTS: Any and all of the proprietary third party patents,
copyrights, and trade secrets licensed to the INSTITUTE and
included in the INSTITUTE Intellectual Property Rights relating or
referring to the Mapping Technology.
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
this Agreement, the INSTITUTE hereby grants to TIC during the
License Term and in the Territory, and TIC hereby accepts, an
exclusive license to use the INSTITUTE Technology in the FOU.
During the License Term, the INSTITUTE will not use, or authorize,
license or permit any person other than TIC to use the INSTITUTE
Technology to develop or offer any mapping or survey services or
products for commercial use or other similar products or services
which would, in any manner, compete with TIC in the FOU. TIC is
specifically permitted to use, reproduce, distribute, and prepare
derivative works of the INSTITUTE Technology, and to sublicense
such portion of its rights to affiliated entities of TIC that are
reasonably anticipated or calculated to enhance TIC’s market
value or to further its business plan, without further compensation
to the INSTITUTE, provided such entities acknowledge, in writing,
and agree to comply with, such material provisions hereof as are
designed to protect the ownership rights of the INSTITUTE, and the
confidentiality of the confidential and/or proprietary information
of the INSTITUTE. Without limitation, TIC’s rights shall
include the rights:
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(i)
To use the Mapping Technology internally for testing,
demonstration, training, support and promotional purposes by its
personnel;
(ii) To
demonstrate the INSTITUTE Technology to potential TIC
Clients;
(iii) To
provide training and technical support to employees, and TIC
Clients;
(iv)
To use the INSTITUTE Documentation in support of TIC Services
and/or TIC’s authorized use of Mapping Technology;
and
(v) To
own the Project Work Product as to any TIC Services.
The foregoing license grants are expressly
conditioned upon TIC’s compliance with the following
requirements:
3.1 TIC
acknowledges that the INSTITUTE Rights and the INSTITUTE
Confidential Information are proprietary to the INSTITUTE and that
the INSTITUTE retains all right, title, and interest therein and
thereto, including without limitation all Intellectual Property
Rights therein and therefor, and that TIC has no rights therein
other than as set forth in this Agreement.
3.2 Notwithstanding
anything contrary herein, TIC is specifically permitted to develop
derivative works based upon the INSTITUTE Technology. Such
derivative works shall be the property of TIC.
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4.
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OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES.
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4.1
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INSTITUTE OBLIGATIONS. During the License Term, the
INSTITUTE agrees to:
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a. Provide
the expertise of sufficient personnel, with appropriate expertise
and competence (“INSTITUTE Key Personnel”), to provide
technical information and support to TIC Key Personnel in the
development, use and sale of TIC Services. The INSTITUTE will
determine the identity of the INSTITUTE Key Personnel. The
INSTITUTE will also determine the level of effort of these the
INSTITUTE Key Personnel, but it will be reasonable and sufficient
to meet the INSTITUTE’s obligations under this Agreement. TIC
Key Personnel must sign appropriate individual non-disclosure
agreements prior to receiving confidential information from the
INSTITUTE. TIC has the right, with prior written permission from
the INSTITUTE, to add individuals to the list of TIC Key
Personnel;
b. Provide
relevant Mapping Technology to TIC in accordance with the terms and
conditions of this Agreement;
c. Provide
TIC Key Personnel with access to the relevant Mapping Technology,
including participation in the INSTITUTE’s testing of
relevant Mapping Technology;
d. Provide
sufficient and appropriate training to TIC personnel to enable TIC
to understand the developing Mapping Technology including, but not
limited to:
(i) The
INSTITUTE will provide appropriate training, at TIC’s sole
cost and expense, to TIC in the marketing, use and installation of
the Mapping Technology at the INSTITUTE’s Corporate
Headquarters;
(ii) At
TIC’s option, the INSTITUTE will provide TIC with training on
the INSTITUTE’s standard technical support procedures at
TIC’s sole expense;
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(iii) The
INSTITUTE will provide all other reasonable and necessary training,
support and maintenance to TIC, and TIC shall be responsible for
providing such training, support and maintenance to TIC at
TIC’s sole expense.
e. Refrain
from developing, marketing, licensing, selling or otherwise
distributing, directly or indirectly (including activities through
or in cooperation with any third party), any language models in the
FOU.
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4.2
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TIC OBLIGATIONS. During the License Term, TIC agrees
to:
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a. Engage
in and utilize appropriate marketing and promotional efforts in the
FOU in the manner and methods to be mutually agreed between the
parties in writing.
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b.
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Make payment to the INSTITUTE, as provided in
Section 8.
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a. Each
party agrees not to disclose any Confidential Information of the
other party and to maintain such Confidential Information in
strictest confidence, to take all reasonable precautions to prevent
its unauthorized dissemination and to refrain from sharing any or
all of the information with any third party for any reason
whatsoever except as required by court order, both during and after
the termination of this Agreement. Without limiting the scope of
this duty, each party agrees to limit its internal distribution of
the Confidential Information of the other party only on a
“need to know” basis and solely in connection with the
performance of this Agreement, and to take steps to ensure that the
dissemination is so limited.
b. Each
party agrees not to use the Confidential Information of the other
party for its own benefit or for the benefit of anyone other than
the providing party, or other than in accordance with the terms and
conditions of this Agreement.
c. All
TIC Confidential Information remains the property of TIC and all
the INSTITUTE Confidential Information remains the property of the
INSTITUTE, and other than as expressly provided by this
Agreement.
d. Upon
written request of the providing party, or upon the expiration or
other termination of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever, the
receiving party agrees to return to the providing party all such
provided Confidential Information, including but not limited to all
copies thereof.
e. TIC
agrees to limit access to the INSTITUTE Technology, and any
tangible embodiments thereof (including without limitation
documentation, descriptions, notes, memoranda and other materials
defining, describing or containing the INSTITUTE Technology) shall
be made available only to those individuals identified as TIC Key
Personnel, and such other employees of TIC whom the INSTITUTE may
have approved in writing and who require access to the INSTITUTE
Technology and such tangible embodiments in connection with
TIC’s activities under the licenses granted herein. Copies of
such the INSTITUTE Technology shall be subject to appropriate
physical and electronic protection to prevent access by
unauthorized personnel.
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f.
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The provisions of this Section shall survive the
expiration or other termination of this Agreement.
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6.
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OWNERSHIP, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS,
AND
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NON-DISCLOSURE.
a. The
INSTITUTE shall retain all rights, title and interest (including
all intellectual property rights) of the Mapping Technology and the
INSTITUTE Documentation, and any copies thereof.
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b. TIC
shall not alter or remove any copyright, trade secret, patent,
proprietary and/or other legal notices contained on or in copies of
the Mapping Technology and the INSTITUTE Documentation. TIC shall
reproduce and include any the INSTITUTE trademark, copyright, trade
secret or proprietary information notices and other legends on
every copy, in whole or in part, of the Mapping Technology in any
form.
c. TIC
shall render to the INSTITUTE commercially reasonable assistance in
connection with the INSTITUTE’s enforcement of its rights in
and to the Mapping Technology and the INSTITUTE Documentation,
including without limitation using efforts to prevent TIC’s
customers and clients from copying or using the Mapping Technology
and the INSTITUTE Documentation outside the scope of this
Agreement.
d. Certain
data or portions thereof which may be supplied by the INSTITUTE
relating to the Mapping Technology are confidential and proprietary
to the INSTITUTE and will be so marked. TIC shall abide its
obligations under Section 4.2 as applicable to such
data.
6.2 TIC
RIGHTS: TIC is, and as to the INSTITUTE, shall be, the owner of all
worldwide right, title and interest, including any and all
Intellectual Property Rights, and Derivatives in and to the TIC
Confidential Information and the TIC Rights, and owner of the
Project Work Product as to any project for which TIC retains the
services of the INSTITUTE.
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6.3
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MAPPING TECHNOLOGY; OPTION TO PURCHASE.
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(a) During
the License Term, with respect to the Mapping Technology, the
Institute shall not sell, transfer, encumber or otherwise dispose
of any key technology, license or otherwise transfer the rights to
technology key to its operations, except with the prior written
consent of TIC. This provision is not intended to restrict the
INSTITUTE from selling or transferring technology of the INSTITUTE
that is unrelated to the Mapping Technology.
(b) TIC
is hereby granted an exclusive option to purchase from the
Institute the Mapping Technology. This option terminates on the
first to occur of (i) June 30, 2012 or (ii) the termination of this
Agreement. The purchase price for the Mapping Technology (the
“Technology Purchase Price”) shall be the lesser of (i)
$20 million, or the (ii) then-current market value of the Mapping
Technology as determined by independent appraisers. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the parties may negotiate in good faith a different
purchase price. One-half of all Internal Project Payments and
one-half of all Service Success Fee Payments (as defined below)
received by the INSTITUTE pursuant to Section 8.4 of this Agreement
shall be credited against the Technology Purchase Price.
The license granted under this Agreement commenced
on January 7, 2005 and shall terminate at the expiration of
thirty-two years from such date (the “Initial License
Term”). This Agreement shall automatically renew for another
thirty-two year period (the “Renewed License Term”)
unless terminated by either party in writing within ninety (90)
days before the end of the Initial License Term unless sooner
terminated in accordance with the provisions of Section 14 below.
The term “License Term” as used in this Agreement
refers to each of the Initial License Term and the Renewed License
Term.
8.1 The
INSTITUTE shall be entitled to an annual license fee of $600,000
(the “Annual License Fee”).
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