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Title: SECURITY AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 7/7/2009
Industry: Software and Programming     Sector: Technology

SECURITY AGREEMENT, Parties: flint telecom group inc.
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SECURITY AGREEMENT

 

THIS SECURITY AGREEMENT (the “ Agreement ”) is made as of June__, 2009 by and among Flint Telecom Group Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “ Company ”), and the subscribers identified on the signature pages hereto and their respective endorsees, transferees and assigns (each a “ Secured Party ” and, collectively, the “ Secured Parties ”).

 

WHEREAS , pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, dated of even date herewith, the Company issued to the Secured Parties a certain 10% Subordinated Secured Promissory Note (the “Note”).

 

                       NOW, THEREFORE , in consideration of the agreements herein contained and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

 

1.   Certain Definitions .  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.  Terms used but not otherwise defined in this Agreement that are defined in Article 9 of the UCC (such as “general intangibles” and “proceeds”) shall have the respective meanings given such terms in Article 9 of the UCC.  All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Subscription Agreement.

 

a.   Collateral ” means the collateral in which the Secured Parties are granted a security interest by this Agreement and which shall include the following, whether presently owned or existing or hereafter acquired or coming into existence, and all additions and accessions thereto and all substitutions and replacements thereof, and all proceeds, products and accounts thereof, including, without limitation, all proceeds from the sale or transfer of the Collateral and of insurance covering the same and of any tort claims in connection therewith:

 

i.   All goods, including, without limitation, all machinery, equipment, computers, motor vehicles, trucks, tanks, boats, ships, appliances, furniture, special and general tools, fixtures, test and quality control devices and other equipment of every kind and nature and wherever situated, together with all documents of title and documents representing the same, all additions and accessions thereto, replacements therefor, all parts therefor, and all substitutes for any of the foregoing and all other items, owned by the Company and used in connection with the Company’s businesses and all improvements thereto; and

 

ii.   All inventory of the Company; and

 

iii.   All of the Company’s contract rights and general intangibles, including, without limitation, all partnership interests, stock or other securities, licenses, distribution and other agreements, computer software development rights, employee non-compete, non-disclosure and assignment of rights agreements, leases, franchises, customer lists, quality control procedures, grants and rights, goodwill, deposit accounts, and income tax refunds; and

 

iv.   All receivables of the Company including, without limitation, all insurance proceeds, and rights to refunds or indemnification whatsoever owing, together with all instruments, all documents of title representing any of the foregoing, all rights in any merchandising, goods, equipment, motor vehicles and trucks which any of the same may represent, and all right, title, security and guaranties with respect to each receivable, including any right of stoppage in transit; and

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

v.   All of the Company’s Intellectual Property; and

 

vi.   All of Company’s equity interest in its Subsidiaries (as defined in the Subordinated Secured Note) and certificates evidencing such equity interest, and any shares of stock (including, without limitation, a distribution in connection with any reclassification, increase or reduction of capital or in connection with any reorganization), or any option or right to acquire shares of stock, in substitution of, or in exchange for, any of such equity interest, or any stock dividend or split with respect to such equity interest, and any distributions, whether dividend or liquidating or otherwise, of any cash or property with respect to such equity interest; and

 

vii.   All of the Company’s documents, instruments and chattel paper, files, records, books of account, business papers, computer programs and the products and proceeds of all of the foregoing Collateral set forth in paragraphs (i) through (vi), inclusive, above.

 

b.   Copyrights ” shall mean all of the following in which the Company now holds or hereafter acquires any interest (i) all copyrights, whether registered or unregistered, held pursuant to the laws of the United States, any State thereof or any other country; (ii) registrations, applications and recordings in the United States Copyright Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any State thereof or any other country; (iii) any continuations, renewals or extensions thereof; (iv) any registrations to be issued in any pending applications; (v) prior versions of works covered by copyright and all works based upon, derived from or incorporating such works; (vi) income, royalties, damages, claims and payments now and hereafter due and/or payable with respect to copyrights, including, without limitation, damages, claims and recoveries for past, present or future infringement; (vii) rights to sue for past, present and future infringements of any copyright; (viii) any rights in any material which is copyrightable or which is protected by common law, United States copyright laws or similar laws, or any law of any State, and (ix) any other rights corresponding to any of the foregoing rights throughout the world.

 

c.   Copyright License ” shall mean any agreement, written or oral, in which the Company now holds or hereafter acquires any interest, granting any right in or to any Copyright or Copyright registration (whether the Company is the licensee or the licensor thereunder) including, without limitation, licenses pursuant to which the Company has obtained the exclusive right to use a copyright owned by a third party.

 

d.   Intellectual Property ” shall mean, collectively, the Software Intellectual Property, Copyrights, Copyright Licenses, Patents, Patent Licenses, Trademarks, Trademark Licenses and Trade Secrets.

 

e.   Obligations ” means all of the Company’s obligations under this Agreement, the Subscription Agreement and the Note, in each case, whether now or hereafter existing, voluntary or involuntary, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, whether or not jointly owed with others, and whether or not from time to time decreased or extinguished and later decreased, created or incurred, and all or any portion of such obligations or liabilities that are paid, to the extent all or any part of such payment is avoided or recovered directly or indirectly from the Secured Parties as a preference, fraudulent transfer or otherwise as such obligations may be amended, supplemented, converted, extended or modified from time to time.

 

f.   Patents ” shall mean all of the following in which the Company now

 

 

 

 


 

 

 holds or hereafter acquires any interest: (i) all patents of the United States or any other country, all registrations and recordings thereof and all applications for patents of the United States or any other country, including, without limitation, registrations, recordings and applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any State thereof or any other country; (ii) all reissues, divisions, continuations, renewals, continuations in part or extensions thereof; (iii) all patents to issue in any such applications; (iv) income, royalties, damages, claims and payments now and hereafter due and/or payable with respect to patents, including, without limitation, damages, claims and recoveries for past, present or future infringement; and (v) rights to sue for past, present and future infringements of any patent.

 

g.   Patent License ” shall mean any agreement, whether written or oral, in which the Company now holds or hereafter acquires any interest, granting any right with respect to any Patent (whether the Company is the licensee or the licensor thereunder).

 

h.   Software Intellectual Property ” shall mean (i) all software programs (including, without limitation, all source code, object code and all related applications and data files), whether now owned, upgraded, enhanced, licensed or leased or hereafter acquired by the Company; (ii) all computers and electronic data processing hardware and firmware associated therewith; (iii) all documentation (including, without limitation, flow charts, logic diagrams, manuals, guides and specifications) with respect to such software, hardware and firmware described in the preceding subclauses (i) and (ii); and (iv) all rights with respect to all of the foregoing, including, without limitation, any and all upgrades, modifications, copyrights, licenses, options, warranties, service contracts, program services, test rights, maintenance rights, support rights, improvement rights, renewal rights and indemnifications and substitutions, replacements, additions, or model conversions of any of the foregoing.

 

i.   Trademarks ” shall mean any of the following in which the Company now holds or hereafter acquires any interest: (i) any trademarks, tradenames, corporate names, company names, business names, trade styles, service marks, logos, other source or business identifiers, prints and labels on which any of the foregoing have appeared or appear, designs and general intangibles of like nature, now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations and recordings thereof and any applications in connection therewith, including, without limitation, registrations, recordings and applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any State thereof or any other country (collectively, the “ Marks ”); (ii) any reissues, extensions or renewals thereof, (iii) the goodwill of the business symbolized by or associated with the Marks, (iv) income, royalties, damages, claims and payments now and hereafter due and/or payable with respect to the Marks, including, without limitation, damages, claims and recoveries for past, present or future infringement and (v) rights to sue for past, present and future infringements of the Marks.

 

j.   Trademark License ” shall mean any agreement, written or oral, in which the Company now holds or hereafter acquires any interest, granting any right in and to any Trademark or Trademark registration (whether the Company is the licensee or the licensor thereunder).

 

k.   Trade Secrets ” shall mean common law and statutory trade secrets and all other confidential or proprietary or useful information and all know-how obtained by or used in or contemplated at any time for use in the business of the Company (all of the foregoing being collectively called a “ Trade Secret ”), whether or not such Trade Secret has been reduced to a writing or other tangible form, including, without limitation, all documents and things embodying, incorporating or referring in

 

 

 

 


 

 

 any way to such Trade Secret, all Trade Secret Licenses, and including, without limitation, the right to sue for and to enjoin and to collect damages for the actual or threatened misappropriation of any Trade Secret and for the breach or enforcement of any such Trade Secret license.

 

l.   UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code, as the same may, from time to time, be in effect in the State of New York; provided , however , in the event that, by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or all of the attachment, perfection or priority of the Secured Parties’ security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “ UCC ” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such attachment, perfection of priority and for purposes of definitions related to such provisions.

 

2.   Grant of Security Interest .  As a further inducement for the Secured Parties to enter into the Subordinated Secured Promissory Note and to secure the complete and timely payment, performance and discharge in full, as the case may be, of all of the Obligations, the Company hereby, unconditionally and irrevocably, pledges, grants and hypothecates to the Secured Parties, a continuing subordinated security interest in, a continuing third lien upon, a right to possession and disposition of, and a right of set-off against, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by law, all of the Company’s right, title and interest of whatsoever kind and nature in and to the Collateral (the “ Security Interest ”).

 

3.   Representations, Warranties, Covenants and Agreements of the Company .  Except as set forth on Schedule A attached hereto, the Company represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with, the Secured Parties as follows:

 

a.   The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into this Agreement and otherwise carry out its obligations thereunder.  The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the filings contemplated therein have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by the Company.  This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditor’s rights generally.

 

b.   The Company represents and warrants that it has no place of business or offices where its respective books of account and records are kept (other than temporarily at the offices of its attorneys or accountants) or places where the Collateral is stored or located;

 

c.   Except for the first security interest granted to Thermo Credit LLC and a second security interest to China Voice Holding Corp., the Company is the sole owner of the Collateral (except for non-exclusive licenses granted by the Company in the ordinary course of business), free and clear of any liens, security interests, encumbrances, rights or claims, and is fully authorized to grant the Security Interest in and to pledge the Collateral.  There is not on file in any governmental or regulatory authority, agency or recording office an effective financing statement, security agreement, license or transfer or any notice of any of the foregoing (other than those that have been filed in favor of Thermo Credit LLC or the Secured Parties pursuant to this Agreement) covering or affecting any of the Collateral.  So long as this Agreement shall be in effect, without the prior consent of the Secured Parties, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, the Company shall not execute and shall not knowingly permit to be on file in any such office or agency any such financing statement or other document or instrument (except to the extent filed or recorded in favor of Thermo Credit LLC or the Secured Parties pursuant to the terms of this Agreement).

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

d.   No part of the Collateral or rights in connection therewith has been judged, by any governmental body with proper jurisdiction, to be invalid or unenforceable.  No written claim has been received alleging the Company’s use of any Collateral violates the rights of any third party. There has been no adverse decision to the Company’s claim of ownership rights in or exclusive rights to use the Collateral in any jurisdiction or to the Company’s right to keep and maintain such Collateral in full force and effect, and there is no proceeding involving said rights pending or threatened before any court, judicial body, administrative or regulatory agency, arbitrator or other governmental authority.

 

e.   The Company shall at all times maintain its books of account and records relating to the Collateral at its principal place of business and its Collateral at the locations set forth on Schedule A attached hereto.

 

f.   This Agreement creates in favor of the Secured Parties a valid security interest in the Collateral securing the payment and performance of the Obligations and, upon making the filings described in the immediately following sentence, a perfected third priority security interest in such Collateral and, to the extent that it can be perfected through such filings, the Intellectual Property.  Except for the filing of financing statements on Form-1 under the UCC with the jurisdictions indicated on Schedule A , attached hereto, no authorization or approval of or filing with or notice to any governmental authority or regulatory body is required either (i) for the grant by the Company of, or the effectiveness of, the Security Interest granted hereby or for the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company or (ii) for the perfection of, or exercise by the Secured Parties of, their rights and remedies hereunder.

 

g.   Prior to or promptly after the closing of the Subordinated Secured Note, the Secured Parties shall file or cause to be filed one or more executed UCC financing statements on Form-1 with respect to the Security Interest with the appropriate jurisdictions.  Furthermore, upon request of the Secured Parties, the Company shall execute and deliver any and all agreements, instruments, documents, and papers as the Secured Parties may reasonably request to evidence the Secured Parties’ security interest in the Intellectual Property and the goodwill and general intangibles of the Company relating thereto or represented thereby.

 

h.   The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement does not conflict with or cause a material breach or default, or an event that with or without the passage of time or notice, shall constitute a material breach or default, under any agreement to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound.  No consent (including, without limitation, from stockholders or creditors of the Company) is required for the Company to enter into and perform its obligations hereunder.

 

i.   The Company shall at all times safeguard, protect and maintain the Collateral for the account of the Secured Parties until this Agreement and the Security Interest hereunder shall terminate pursuant to Section 12. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company shall pay all governmental fees and taxes necessary to maintain the Collateral and the Security Interest hereunder, and the Company shall obtain and furnish to the Secured Parties from time to time, upon demand, such releases and/or subordinations of claims and liens which may be required to maintain the priority of the Security Interest hereunder.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

j.   The Company will not transfer, pledge, hypothecate, encumber, license, sell or otherwise dispose of any of the Collateral without the prior written consent of the Secured Parties.

 

k.   The Company shall, within ten (10) days of obtaining knowledge thereof, advise the Secured Parties promptly, in sufficient detail, of the occurrence of any event which would have a material adverse effect on the value of the Collateral or on the Secured Parties’ security interest therein.

 

l.   The Company shall promptly execute and deliver to the Secured Parties such further deeds, mortgages, assignments, security agreements, financing statements or other instruments, documents, certificates and assurances and take such further action as the Secured Parties may from time to time request and may in its sole discretion deem necessary to perfect, protect or enforce the Security Interest.

 

m.   The Company shall permit the Secured Parties and its representatives and agents to inspect the Collateral at any time and to make copies of records pertaining to the Collateral as may be requested by the Secured Parties from time to time.

 

n.   The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to diligently pursue and seek to preserve, enforce and collect any rights, claims, causes of acti


 
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