WAIVER, CONSENT AND RELEASE AGREEMENT
This WAIVER, CONSENT
AND RELEASE AGREEMENT (this "Agreement") is made
and entered into as of June 1, 2005, by and between PATRIOT SCIENTIFIC
CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, (the
"COMPANY"), and SWARTZ PRIVATE EQUITY,
LLC, a Georgia limited liability company
(the "Rights Holder").
RECITALS
A. WHEREAS, the Rights
Holder holds warrants to purchase shares of the
common stock, $0.0000l par value per share,
of the COMPANY (the "Warrants"), as
well as a debenture convertible into shares of the common stock of
the COMPANY
(the "Debenture") purchased pursuant to certain
Securities Purchase Agreements,
by and between the COMPANY and the RIGHTS
HOLDER (collectively,
the "Securities
Purchase Agreements").
B. WHEREAS,
the COMPANY desires to enter into the transactions
contemplated by that certain Master
Agreement dated as of the date hereof,
by
and among the COMPANY, Technology Properties Limited, Inc., a California
corporation ("TPL") and Charles H. Moore (such
transactions referred
to herein
as the "Proposed Transactions").
C. WHEREAS, the Proposed Transactions will result in the creation
of an
entity ("NEWCO") which will hold and manage
the subject intellectual property of
the COMPANY. As a part of the Proposed
Transactions,
the COMPANY will
receive
stock of NEWCO (the "NEWCO Stock") and will be entitled to receive an income
stream from NEWCO (the "NEWCO Income") as
specified in the Master Agreement.
D. WHEREAS, the
Securities Purchase
Agreements, the
Warrants and the
Debenture include provisions which may be implicated by the Proposed
Transactions, and which may give the Rights
Holder certain rights
with respect
to the Proposed Transactions.
E. WHEREAS,
the Proposed
Transactions
and any and all
actions taken
before, as of, or after the date hereof by
the COMPANY (and any
person acting
for or on behalf of the COMPANY) or NEWCO
that are specifically
authorized
by
the Master Agreement shall be referred to
herein as the "Approved Actions."
F. WHEREAS, the
COMPANY and the Rights Holder desire to facilitate the
Proposed Transactions by entering into this
Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE,
in consideration of the respective promises,
representations, warranties, covenants and conditions contained in this
Agreement, the parties hereby agree as
follows:
1. Consent. Effective upon the receipt by
the Rights Holder of the consideration
described in Section 7 of this Agreement,
the Rights Holder
hereby consents to,
approves and ratifies the Proposed
Transactions and the
Approved Actions,
each
subject to Section 9 below.
2. Conveyance of Warrants.
Effective upon the receipt by the Rights
Holder of
the consideration described in Section 7 of this
Agreement, the Rights
Holder
hereby sells, transfers and conveys to the COMPANY,
free and clear of any
and
all liens or other adverse claims
thereto, Nine Million (9,000,000) Warrants
described on Exhibit A hereto. The Rights
Holder agrees to execute any documents
and take any other action that may be required to
effect and memorialize
such
transfer of the Warrants to the COMPANY
pursuant to this Section 2.
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3. Warrant Price Reset. Effective upon receipt by the Rights Holder of the
consideration pursuant to Section 7 of this
Agreement, the exercise price of the
Thirteen Million, Three Hundred Seventy Four
Thousand, One Hundred Twenty Eight
(13,374,128) Warrants described on Exhibit B hereto will be reset to 0.015
dollars per share.
4. Waiver of Right of First Refusal, Limitation of Sale or Disposition of
Intellectual Property and Redemption Upon
Major Transaction.
Effective upon the
receipt by the Rights Holder of the
consideration described in Section 7 of this
Agreement, the Rights Holder hereby waives any right of first refusal
or any
right to limit the sale or disposition of
the COMPANY's
intellectual
property,
including but not limited to those rights
set forth in Sections 4(l) and 4(m) of
the Securities Purchase Agreements, and waives its right to redemption
upon a
Major Transaction as set forth in Section 4(o) of the Securities Purchase
Agreements, in each case to the extent necessary to allow the Proposed
Transactions and the Approved Actions to occur, or any future transaction in
which the Company may engage, all subject
to Section 9 below.
5. Waiver of Redemption Right. Effective upon the receipt by the
Rights Holder
of the consideration pursuant to Section 7
of this Agreement, the
Rights Holder
waives any right to require any warrant redemption as a consequence of the
Proposed Transactions or any future
transaction in which the Company may engage,
subject to Section 9 below.
6. Release of Lien. Effective upon the receipt by the Rights Holder of the
consideration pursuant to Section 7 of this
Agreement, the Rights
Holder hereby
releases its liens with regard to the
COMPANY's intellectual property portfolio,
including without limitation the MSD Patents, and agrees to take any and all
action necessary to cause all UCC financing
statements, USPTO
filings and other
filings or documents evidencing such lien to be terminated,
provided that the
debts underlying such liens shall remain
intact.
7. Payment to Rights Holder. In consideration of the covenants,
promises, and
agreements set forth in this Agreement, the
Rights Holder shall be paid $896,346
pursuant to the Escrow Agreement upon the
closing of the Proposed Transactions.
The Rights Holder hereby acknowledges that
such consideration
constitutes good,
valid and sufficient consideration in
exchange for the covenants, promises, and
agreements of the Rights Holder set forth
in this Agreement..
8. Amendment of Securities Purchase
Agreements.
Effective as of the
receipt of
consideration pursuant to Section 7 of this
Agreement, the
Securities Purchase
Agreements shall be amended to remove Sections 4(1), 4(m) and 4(o) in their
entirety, and such sections shall be of no
further force or effect, all subject
to Section 9 below. The COMPANY and the Rights
Holder hereby
acknowledge
and
agree that this Agreement meets all of the requirements for amendment of the
Securities Purchase Agreements provided in
Section 8(e) thereof.
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9.
Redemption.
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, in the
event that any one or more of the following occur (each, a "Redemption
Trigger"), the Rights Holder, at its
option, may require the COMPANY to effect a
Warrant Redemption (as defined below) of any or all (at the
Rights Holders'
option) of the Rights Holders' Warrants (as
defined below):
A.
The COMPANY
merges into or is bought out by another
company,
or becomes a private
company that does not have publicly traded common
stock, or sells all or substantially all of the COMPANY's assets,
or
B.
Common stock of the
COMPANY is tendered, purchased or exchanged
pursuant to a tender offer, purchase offer or exchange offer,
or
C.
There is a Change of Control (as defined below) of the
COMPANY's
board of
directors, and one or more of the following occurs:
(1) COMPANY sells,
conveys, disposes of, spins off or
assigns
any or all of its NEWCO Stock, or any or all of its rights to
receive the
NEWCO Income, to any third party, in eac