Exhibit 10.55
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PC OPTICAL STORAGE TECHNOLOGY
PATENT LICENSE AGREEMEN T
This PC Optical Storage Technology
Patent License Agreement (“ Agreement ”),
executed as of January 25, 2006 (the “ Execution
Date ”), is made and entered into by and between, on the
one hand, Zoran Corporation, a Delaware corporation with its
principal place of business at 1390 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA,
94086, USA and its wholly owned subsidiary, Oak
Technology, Inc. (collectively, “ Zoran ”),
and, on the other hand, MediaTek, Inc., a Taiwanese
corporation with its with its principal place of business at
No. 1-2, Innovation Road 1, Science-Based Industrial Park,
Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan 300, R.O.C. (“ MediaTek
”). This Agreement shall be effective as of January 25,
2006 (the “ Effective Date ”).
RECITALS
A.
Zoran owns and controls, and has the
right to license, the Zoran Licensed Patents (as defined below);
and
B.
MediaTek desires to obtain a license
under the Zoran Licensed Patents during the term of this Agreement,
all as is more particularly described in this Agreement.
AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the mutual promises and covenants contained herein and of other
good and valuable consideration, the parties agree as
follows:
1.
DEFINITIONS
a.
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to a given entity, any
corporation or other entity which directly or indirectly is
controlled by the given entity for so long as such control exists.
Control means the direct or indirect ownership by the given entity
of more than fifty percent (50%) of the Voting Power or the power
to direct or cause the direction of the day-to-day management,
operations, business and policies of the controlled entity, whether
through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise.
b.
“After-Acquired
Subsidiary” means
any entity that becomes a Subsidiary of a party during the term of
this Agreement.
c.
“Assert”
means to bring an action of any
nature before any legal, judicial, arbitration, administrative,
executive or other type of body or tribunal that has or claims to
have authority to adjudicate such action in whole or in part.
Examples of such body or tribunal include, without limitation,
United States State and Federal Courts, the United States
International Trade Commission and any foreign counterparts of any
of the foregoing.
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d.
“Change of
Control” means a
transaction or series of related transactions in which either
(i) a party consolidates or merges with or into a third party,
or sells, assigns, conveys, transfers, leases or otherwise disposes
of all or substantially all of its assets directly or indirectly to
a third party, or any third party consolidates with, or merges with
or into, a party, in each case unless the direct and indirect
holders of the outstanding voting stock or of other voting rights
(referred to for convenience as the “voting power”)
entitled to elect directors or other managing authority for such
entity immediately prior to the transaction or series of
related transactions will hold, directly or indirectly, more than
fifty (50%) of the voting power of the surviving or transferee
third party immediately after the transaction or series of
related transactions; or (ii) a third party or
“group” (as such term is used in Rule 13d-5 under
the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934) is or becomes,
or has the right to become, the beneficial owner, directly or
indirectly, of more than 50% of the total voting power of a
party.
e.
“Economic
Interest” means
rights of a party to receive, directly or indirectly, a share of
the profits of a Subsidiary associated with securities or other
equity or ownership interest in such Subsidiary (including, for
example, rights to receive dividends and other profit
distributions), whether or not actually distributed.
f.
“Former
Subsidiary” means
any entity that ceases to be a Subsidiary of a party during the
term of this Agreement.
g.
[****].
h.
“Licensed
Product” means any
product that is a PC Optical Storage Device, the manufacturing,
using, selling, offering to sell, leasing, or importing of which in
any country would, in the absence of the license granted by this
Agreement, directly or indirectly infringe one or more claims of
the Zoran Licensed Patents.
i.
“Patents”
mean (i) any patent (including
any utility patent, design patent, patent of importation, patent of
addition, certificate of addition, certificate or model of utility)
granted by the United States or any other country, (ii) any
reissue, continuation, parent, division, extension, renewal, or
continuation-in-part of any of the foregoing, (iii) any
counterpart anywhere in the world of any of the foregoing,
(iv) any patent application in the United States or any other
country, and (v) any patent application that is a
continuation, continuing application, continuation-in-part or
division of any such application.
j.
“ PC Optical Storage
Business ” means [****].
k.
“ PC Optical Storage
Device ” means any data storage device [****].
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l.
“Zoran Licensed
Patents” mean
(i) the patents and patent applications listed in
Exhibit B ; (ii) any existing or future U.S. or
foreign patent or patent application from which any of the
foregoing claim priority; and (iii) any counterpart,
continuation, continuation-in-part, division, reissue or
re-examination of any of the foregoing, whether now existing or
filed after the Execution Date.
m.
“Voting
Power” means the
right to exercise voting power with respect to the election of
directors or similar managing authority of an entity (whether
through direct or indirect beneficial ownership of shares or
securities of such entity or otherwise).
n.
“Sold”
means any direct or indirect
disposition, by sale, lease, use or otherwise, of a Licensed
Product, whether or not for consideration.
2.
LICENSES
a.
Zoran’s License to
MediaTek .
(i)
Subject to the limitations on the
scope of license grant described in Section 2(d) below,
Zoran, on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries, hereby grants to
MediaTek and its Licensed Subsidiaries, for the term of this
Agreement only, a non-exclusive, non-transferable and
non-assignable (except as set forth in Section 7) license,
without the right to sublicense, under the Zoran Licensed Patents
only, to make, have made (subject to Section 2(d) below),
use, import, lease, offer to sell, sell (directly or indirectly)
and otherwise transfer Licensed Products and to practice any method
or process in the PC Optical Storage Business.
(ii)
No implied licenses are granted
hereunder. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall expressly or
by implication or by estoppel or otherwise give MediaTek any right
to license Zoran Licensed Patents to any third party.
b.
[Intentionally
Omitted]
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c.
Customers . The sale or lease of a Licensed Product by
MediaTek or its Licensed Subsidiary to a direct or indirect
customer under the license granted in
Section 2(a) conveys the right for such customer to use,
sell (directly or indirectly), offer to sell and import such
Licensed Products as sold by MediaTek or its Licensed Subsidiary
(including as part of a larger combination through the
incorporation of the Licensed Products into other products to the
extent necessary for the use of such Licensed Products as
part of PC Optical Storage Devices).
d.
Limitations on Scope of License
Grant .
(i)
[****].
(ii)
[****].
3.
PAYMENTS BY
MEDIATEK
a.
License Fee
. As a license fee under this
Agreement, MediaTek shall pay to Zoran the sum of fifty five
million United States dollars (US $55,000,000) (the “
License Fee ”) on or before February 7, 2006, as
further provided for in this Section 3. The parties agree that
the payment of the License Fee to Zoran is (i) not refundable,
and (ii) unrelated to the volume of sales by MediaTek, and
(iii) not subject to any deductions, offsets or withholdings,
other than withholdings for purposes of Taiwan tax law for purposes
of Section 3(d) below.
b.
Royalties . In consideration for the license granted
hereunder, for the first thirty (30) months after the Effective
Date, MediaTek shall pay to Zoran a monthly royalty of one million
United States dollars (US $1,000,000) for each month during which
at least [****] units of Licensed Products are Sold, whether by
MediaTek or any of its Subsidiaries (“ Royalty
”). [****]. In no event shall the total royalties payable
under this Section 3(b) exceed a total of thirty million
United States dollars (US $30,000,000). No royalties shall accrue
after such thirty (30) month period. Such royalties will be due and
payable within thirty (30) days after the end of the calendar
quarter in which such royalties accrue. MediaTek shall not be
required to provide any reports regarding the volume of Licensed
Products sold by MediaTek.
c.
Payment . The payment of the License Fee and Royalties
shall be made to Zoran Corporation in United States currency by
wire transfer to the following account:
Bank Address:
[****].
ABA Number:
[****]
Account Name:
[****]
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Account Number:
[****]
Beneficiary:
[****]
d.
Withholding Taxes
.
(i)
Because of the possibility that
Taiwan tax authorities may require withholding with respect to
the payments under this Agreement, MediaTek shall withhold amounts
from the payments made to Zoran pursuant to this Agreement at the
applicable withholding tax rate and pay such amounts to the
appropriate Taiwan tax authorities (the “Pre-Gross-Up Tax
Withholding”). The parties shall cooperate with each other
and use all reasonable efforts to reduce or eliminate such
withholding tax liability as further described below.
(ii)
MediaTek will prepare and promptly
file an application on Zoran’s behalf with the Taiwan tax
authorities for exemption from Taiwan’s withholding taxes
with respect to such payments. The parties shall cooperate and work
together with respect to such application and use reasonable
efforts to obtain such exemption. To the extent that a complete
exemption is not available, the parties shall cooperate and work
together to reduce such withholding taxes to the maximum extent
possible. MediaTek and Zoran each agree to provide all documents
reasonably requested by the other party in connection with such
application.
(iii)
[****].
(iv)
[****].
(v)
[****].
e.
Late Payment
. Any payment under this
Article 3 that is not made when due shall bear interest at the
lesser of the prime rate plus two percent (2%), as reported by
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, New York, or the maximum
rate permitted by law, from the date that such amounts were payable
under this Section 3 until the date upon which such payment is
made. In any action to collect past due amounts which have not been
paid in accordance with this Section 3, the prevailing party
shall be entitled to receive its costs and reasonable
attorneys’ fees incurred in such action as set forth in
Section 9 below.
f.
Other . The above payments will remain due from
MediaTek to Zoran even if the Licensed Patents are held invalid or
unenforceable in a suit or other proceeding with a third party. The
parties acknowledge that the payments under this Section 3 are
not evidence of what a reasonable royalty would be as determined in
a suit for infringement of any of the patents covered by this
Agreement and are specifically
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based upon various other
considerations taken into account in the negotiation of this
Agreement.
4.
TERM
The term of this Agreement shall
commence on the Effective Date and continue until the expiration of
the last to expire of the Zo