EXHIBIT 4.11
Ericsson – Wavecom
Global Patent License Agreement
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Confidential Information
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the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
GLOBAL PATENT LICENSE
AGREEMENT
This
Global Patent License Agreement (the “Agreement”) is
entered into on July 1 st , 2004 (the “Effective
Date”) by and between TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON, a
public Swedish corporation (hereinafter “Ericsson”),
and WAVECOM S.A., a French corporation (hereinafter
“Wavecom”).
WHEREAS,
Ericsson owns patents that are essential or necessary to make, use
and sell products that comply with the standards based on GSM, GPRS
and EDGE;
WHEREAS,
Wavecom produces products that are compliant with such
standards;
WHEREAS,
Ericsson is offering licenses upon fair, reasonable and
non-discriminatory terms and conditions;
WHEREAS,
Wavecom desires to acquire a non-exclusive license to such patents
from Ericsson covering its sale and production of products under
fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and
conditions;
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants
contained herein, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, Ericsson
and Wavecom hereby agree as follows:
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For the purpose of this
Agreement, capitalized terms used in this Agreement, whether in
singular or in plural and not otherwise defined herein, shall have
the following meanings.
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1.1
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“Affiliate”
of a party shall mean a company or other legal entity which
controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such
party, but any such company or other legal entity shall be deemed
to be an Affiliate only as long as such control exists, and for the
purposes of this definition, “control” shall mean
direct or indirect ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of
the voting power, capital or other securities of controlled or
commonly controlled entity. For the avoidance of all doubts, for as
long as Ericsson controls at least fifty percent of the voting
power, capital or other securities of its joint venture Sony
Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, such company and its Affiliates
(hereinafter “Sony Ericsson”) shall be (jointly)
regarded as an Affiliate of Ericsson for the purpose of this
Agreement.
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1.2
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“Appendix 1”
shall mean the APPENDIX 1 as integrated as part of this Agreement
further specifying the royalty reporting.
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1.3
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“Appendix 2”
shall mean the APPENDIX 2 as integrated as part of this Agreement,
further specifying an exemplary list of Ericsson’s Licensed
Patents.
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“ASICs” shall
mean application specific integrated circuit chips and integrated
circuit chipsets (including the specifications thereof, hardware,
firmware and/or associated software that runs within the ASIC) that
are designed to perform a particular function or
functions.
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“CDMA
Applications” shall mean any mobile air interface standard
that is WCDMA FDD mode, WCDMA TDD mode, TD-SCDMA and/or CDMA2000.
For the purpose of this definition, standard shall mean the agreed
protocols by ETSI, TIA, ARIB, T1P1, CWTS and/or other relevant
telecommunications standards setting body that are applicable to
CDMA2000, WCDMA FDD mode, WCDMA TDD mode, TD-SCDMA, irrespective of
the transmission medium or frequency band, as agreed upon by such
standardization body.
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“End User
Terminal” shall mean a complete ready-to-use hand portable
device, such as a PDA, smart phone or cellular phone, which can be
directly used by an end user for wireless communications, i.e. to
receive and transmit information over the air by means of using any
or more of the Standards, and without the device having to be
physically connected to another device.
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“Ericsson
Products” shall mean ASICs and ASIC specifications, Modules,
Modems, End User Terminals, Infrastructure Equipment, all being
compliant with any or more of the Standards.
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“Have Made”
shall mean the right to have a third party make and test a product
(including customized components and sub-systems of a product) for
the use and benefit of the party exercising the have made right,
provided that:
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the party exercising the
have made right owns and supplies the designs and/or working
drawings to such third party;
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B).
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such designs and/or
working drawings are in sufficient detail that no substantial
additional design by such third party is required; and
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C).
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such third party is not
allowed to sell such product to other third parties.
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“Infrastructure
Equipment” shall mean all network equipment, including but
not limited to, equipment in the mobile switching center and cell
sites designed or adapted to effect, enable, manage or facilitate
the transfer of any form of information, intelligence, voice or
data between fixed and mobile locations by means of electromagnetic
waves in free space.
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“Licensed
Patents” shall mean those Patents (in any country of the
world) over time as to which it is not possible, on technical
grounds taking into account normal technical practice and the state
of the art generally available at the time of adoption or
publication of the relevant Standards whether being mandatory or
optional to the Standard and whether being declared to ETSI and
other relevant standardization bodies or not, to make, sell, lease
or otherwise dispose of, repair, use or operate products, equipment
or methods which comply with the relevant Standards, without
infringing such Patent rights. An exemplary list of
Ericsson’s Licensed Patents is, for convenience, included in
the Appendix 2 of this Agreement.
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“License
Period” shall mean the period commencing on the Effective
Date and having a duration through the expiration of the last one
of the Licensed Patents.
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“Modem” shall
mean either (i) a device such as, but not limited to, a PCMCIA card
that when inserted in another device, gives said other device
wireless communications capabilities over the air using a Standard
or (ii) a standalone wireless communications device having an
interface to an external data and/or voice source that gives such
external source wireless communications capabilities over the air
using a Standard. The Modem may not be the immediate interface to
an individual consumer to transmit or receive wireless data and/or
voice transmissions (which shall fall under the definition of End
User Terminal). For the avoidance of doubt, Wavecom current (i.e.
at the Effective Date of this Agreement) Integra and Fastrack
product ranges shall be regarded as Modems.
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“Module”
shall mean a device, completely or partly assembled (i.e. including
kits of Modules sold disassembled), that when integrated into
another device gives said other device wireless communications
capabilities by means of using a Standard. The Module shall
comprise substantially all baseband and radio frequency software
and hardware for the applicable Standards, but may not be the
immediate interface to an end user to transmit or receive wireless
data and/or voice transmissions (which shall fall under the
definition of End User Terminal). The term “Module”
does not include standalone components or parts of a Module (other
than as Sold incorporated into the Module or sold as part of a kit
of Module).
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“Net Selling
Price” shall mean the greater of: (a) the selling price which
a seller would realize from an un-affiliated buyer in an
arm’s length sale of an identical product in the same
quantity and at the same time and place as such sale, or (b) the
selling price actually obtained for such product in the form in
which it is Sold, whether or not assembled and without excluding
therefrom any components or subassemblies thereof. In determining
the “selling price”, only the following shall be
excluded to the extent actually included in the price obtained for
such products: (i) […]
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“Non-Cellular
Devices” shall mean devices (such as, without limitation,
vending machines, wireless local loop systems or vehicles) that,
when incorporating a Module or used with a Modem, are capable of
wireless communication via a mobile air interface Standard.
Wireless communications can be made amongst them, or between remote
machines and a host server or a central station to provide for
example real-time monitoring, data reporting or remote control
without human intervention. For the avoidance of any doubt, the
term Non-Cellular Devices excludes End User Terminals and
Infrastructure Equipment (such terms shall for the purpose of this
definition be with the exclusion of wireless local loop
systems).
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1.16
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“Party/Parties”
shall mean Ericsson and Wavecom, as applicable.
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“Patents”
shall mean all patent claims (including claims of patent
applications) and like statutory rights (other than design
patents), which are owned or controlled by a Party and its
Affiliates, except that Sony Ericsson shall not be an Affiliate of
Ericsson for the purpose of this definition. Patents shall include
any patents and patents applications issued, applied for, granted
or which may claim a priority date on, before or after the
Effective Date of the Agreement.
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“Sell” or
“Sold” or any similar term shall mean the delivery of
Wavecom Products to any third party regardless of the basis for
compensation, if any, including lease, rent or similar transaction
and the putting into use of the Wavecom Product by Wavecom or its
Affiliates for any purpose other than routine testing and routine
demonstration thereof. Unless the Wavecom product is being put into
use by Wavecom (when the use is being considered as Sale), than the
Sale is being deemed to have occurred upon shipment or invoicing,
whichever shall first occur.
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“Standard(s)”
shall mean the agreed protocols by ETSI, TIA, ARIB, T1P1, CWTS
and/or other relevant telecommunications standards setting body
that are applicable to GSM, GPRS and EDGE, irrespective of the
transmission medium or frequency band, as agreed upon by such
standardization body at the time of the Effective Date as well as
any updates, modifications and extensions in respect of such
protocols (unless fundamentally altering the character
thereof).
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“Wavecom
Products” shall mean Modules and Modems all being; (i)
compliant with any or more of the Standards, and (ii) such product
is not compliant with any CDMA Application, and (iii) designed to
fit into or operate with End User Terminals or Non-Cellular
Devices.
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2.
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LICENSE GRANT BY
ERICSSON
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2.1
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License Grant.
Ericsson
hereby, as of January 1 st 2004, grants to Wavecom a
world-wide, non-transferable and non-exclusive license under
Ericsson’s Licensed Patentsto make, Have Made, use, import,
Sell, offer for sale, lease or otherwise dispose of and repair
Wavecom Products.
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The license granted
hereunder further includes the right to make (solely by Wavecom),
import and use (and subcontract the right to use for the benefit of
Wavecom) – but not to Sell, lease or otherwise dispose of to
third parties – machines, tools, materials, equipments,
methods, processes or other instrumentalities for the development,
installation, test, repair and manufacture of Wavecom
Products.
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Right to
Sublicense. Wavecom shall have the
right to grant sublicenses of the rights set forth in Article 2.1
above only to Affiliates of Wavecom . Any sublicensed
Affiliate shall agree to be bound in all respects to all of the
obligations contained in this Agreement, including, but not limited
to, the payment and reporting obligations as set forth in Article
7, for which Wavecom is ultimately responsible. Notwithstanding
this, Wavecom shall be the party directly effecting the payment of
the royalties as set forth in Article 7.1 A (ii) on behalf of its
sublicensed Affiliates. Any sublicense granted hereunder shall
terminate if an Affiliate ceases to be an Affiliate of
Wavecom.
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No Implied
License. All rights not expressly
granted by Ericsson are hereby expressly reserved. Nothing in this
Agreement shall be construed as a right to use or sell Wavecom
Products in a manner which conveys or purports to convey whether
explicitly, by principles of implied license, or otherwise, any
rights to any third party user or purchaser of the Wavecom
Products, under any patent of Ericsson or of its Affiliates
covering or relating to any combination of the Wavecom Products
with any other product (not licensed hereunder) where the right
applies specifically and exclusively to the combination and not to
the Wavecom Product itself.
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For the avoidance of all
doubts, the license under this Agreement includes a right to
distribute the Wavecom Products on a worldwide basis and any
customer of Wavecom may under the doctrine of patent exhaustion
use, integrate such Wavecom Products and further distribute such
Wavecom Product whether or not integrated into its own
products.
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Non-Assertion.
Ericsson
hereby covenants not to assert nor have asserted (including ensures
that its Affiliates do not assert or have not asserted) any of
Ericsson Licensed Patents against Wavecom and its Affiliates
regarding its/their licensing of an internal design to make End
User Terminals, Modems and Non-Cellular Devices (technology
licensing).
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3.1
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License Grant.
For the
purpose of reciprocity, Wavecom hereby, as of January 1
st 2004, grants to Ericsson a world-wide,
non-transferable and non-exclusive license under Wavecom’s
Licensed Patentsto make, Have Made, use, import, sell, offer for
sale, lease or otherwise dispose of and repair Ericsson
Products.
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The license granted
hereunder further includes the right to make (solely by Ericsson)
import and use (and subcontract the right to use for the benefit of
Ericsson) – but not to Sell, lease or otherwise dispose of to
third parties – machines, tools, materials, equipments,
methods, processes or other instrumentalities for the development,
installation, test, repair and manufacture of Ericsson
Products.
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Right to
Sublicense. Ericsson shall have the
right to grant sublicenses of the rights set forth in Article 3.1
above only to Affiliates of Ericsson . Any sublicensed
Affiliate shall agree to be bound in all respects to all of the
obligations contained in this Agreement. Any sublicense granted
hereunder shall terminate if an Affiliate ceases to be an Affiliate
of Ericsson.
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Right to Terminate
Sublicense. […]
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No Implied
License. All rights not expressly
granted by Wavecom are hereby expressly reserved. Nothing in this
Agreement shall be construed as a right to use or sell Ericsson
Products in a manner which conveys or purports to convey whether
explicitly, by principles of implied license, or otherwise, any
rights to any third party user or purchaser of the Ericsson
Products, under any patent of Wavecom or of its Affiliates covering
or relating to any combination of the Ericsson Products with any
other product (not licensed hereunder) where the right applies
specifically and exclusively to the combination and not to the
Ericsson Product itself.
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For the avoidance of all
doubts, the license under this Agreement includes a right to
distribute the Ericsson Products on a worldwide basis and any
customer of Ericsson may under the doctrine of patent exhaustion
use, integrate such Ericsson Products and further distribute such
Ericsson Product whether or not integrated into its own
products.
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Non-Assertion.
Wavecom
hereby covenants not to assert nor have asserted (including ensures
that its Affiliates do not assert or have not asserted) any of
Wavecom’s Licensed Patents against Ericsson and its
Affiliates regarding its/their licensing of an internal design to
make End User Terminals, Modems and Infrastructure Equipment
(technology licensing).
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4.
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LIMITATIONS ON LICENSE
GRANTS
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4.1
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Jointly Owned
Patents. With respect to Patents
licensed herein which are owned by a Party or its Affiliates
jointly with others, the Parties recognize that there are countries
which require the express consent of all inventors or their
assignees to the grant of licenses or rights under patents issued
in such countries for such jointly owned inventions. Each Party
hereby expressly gives such consent from its Affiliates and shall
use all reasonable efforts to obtain such consent from its
employees and its Affiliates’ employees, and from other third
parties, as required to make full and effective any such licenses
and rights granted to the grantee hereunder by such Party and by
another licensor of such grantee.
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If, in spite of such
efforts, a Party is unable to obtain such consents from any such
employees or third parties, the resulting inability of such Party
to make full and
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effective its purported
grant of such licenses and rights shall not be considered to be a
breach of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, in such a
case, the licenses and rights shall be considered granted by each
Party to the maximum extent possible, and, consequently, if such
Party acquires a corresponding license from the employee or third
party, the other Party shall be deemed licensed under the patent.
To Ericsson’s reasonable knowledge, there exist no such
jointly owned Licensed Patents of Ericsson at the time of the
Effective Date.
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Obligations to Third
Parties. In the event the exercise
of a license hereunder exposes the grantor or any of its Affiliates
to any obligation to make a payment to a third party (other than
payments between a Party and its Affiliates and its or their
employees), or if the license to the grantor imposes additional
obligations on the grantor, the grantor shall promptly inform the
grantee of such in writing and the Parties shall, at the request of
the grantor, in good faith negotiate a compensation to the grantor
for such payment. If no agreement is found within a reasonable
period of time agreed upon the Parties, the grantee shall refrain
from exercising the license without undue delay after such
negotiation fails. Each Party represents that there is, at the date
of this Agreement, no such obligation to make payments with respect
to any property licensed hereunder.
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No Rights Against
Infringers. There may be countries
in which a Party hereto may have, as a consequence of this
Agreement, rights against infringers of the other Party’s
Patents licensed hereunder. Each Party hereby waives any such right
it may have by reason of any third party’s infringement of
any such Patents.
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Each Party hereby, for
itself and its present Affiliates, releases the other Party and the
other Party’s present and sublicensed Affiliates and all
customers of such other Party and such other Party’s present
and sublicensed Affiliates who have purchased or used products
herein licensed to the other Party, from all claims, demands and
rights of action which the first mentioned Party or any of its
present Affiliates may have on account of any act of infringement
or alleged infringement of any Licensed Patent prior to January 1
st , 2004, provided such act would be licensed under
this Agreement if it had occurred subsequent to the Effective
Date.
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Should Wavecom not
fulfill its payment obligations in accordance with Article 7.1 A
(i) of this Agreement, then this granted release by Ericsson to
Wavecom shall, in addition to any possible consequences in
accordance with Article 8.2, be of no effect and shall be
considered void and null as if never been entered into. The release
granted by Wavecom to Ericsson shall remain in full force and shall
survive any termination of this Agreement.
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KNOW-HOW AND TRADE
SECRETS
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No license or other right
is granted herein to either Party, directly or by implication,
estoppel or otherwise, with respect to any trade secrets or
know-how, and no such license or other right shall arise from the
consummation of this Agreement or from any acts, statements or
dealings leading to such consummation. Except as specifically
provided herein, neither Party is required hereunder to furnish or
disclose to the other Party any technical or other
information.
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PAYMENTS, REPORTS AND
AUDIT
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7.1
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Royalties.
In
consideration of the license and the release granted
herein,
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Wavecom hereby agrees to
pay Ericsson:
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(i)
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A release payment for
Sales of Wavecom Products made up until December 31 st
2003, which equals […] and which is payable as set
forth:
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a)
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[…] to be paid at
the latest on […]; and
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