Exhibit
10.01
CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL APPEARING
IN THIS DOCUMENT WAS OMITTED AND FILED SEPARATELY WITH THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 24b-2,
PROMULGATED UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED,
OMITTED INFORMATION WAS REPLACED WITH ASTERISKS.
TECHNOLOGY AND PATENT LICENSE
AGREEMENT
This Technology and Patent License
Agreement (“Agreement”) is entered into by and between
Tele Atlas North America, Inc. (“TANA”) and Cobra
Electronics Corporation (“Licensee”) as of this 31 day
of March 2006 (“Effective Date”).
BACKGROUND
TANA owns certain technology
relating to building a mapping database and accessing the resulting
database and certain patents relating to navigation devices.
Licensee develops and manufactures navigation devices that utilize
mapping data and wishes to obtain a license to certain TANA
technology and patents on the terms and conditions of this
Agreement.
AGREEMENT
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1. “Affiliate” with respect to a party
means any entity controlling, controlled by, or in common control
with such party.
1.2. “Component Upgrades” means
improvements to the *** Software made by TANA after the Effective
Date and commercially deployed as part of an application developer
program.
1.3. “*** Software” means the software
components, libraries and *** listed on Exhibit A.
1.4. “Field of Use” ***.
1.5. “*** Technology” means the ***
Software in source code form, the related engineering documentation
delivered to Licensee, the *** Format Technology and the know-how
and technical information related to the foregoing owned by TANA as
of the Effective Date and the Component Upgrades delivered to
Licensee after the Effective Date.
1.6. “*** Format Technology” means the
TANA proprietary technology enabling the conversion of raw map data
to the TANA *** format.
1.7. “Patent Licensed Unit” means any
product which, but for the license granted herein, would infringe a
claim in the Patent Rights.
1.8. “Patent Rights” means the patents
and patent applications listed on Exhibit B, all divisions and
substitutions thereof; including any extensions, reissues, and
re-examinations, and all foreign counterparts owned by TANA and
with respect to which TANA has the right to grant licenses of the
scope granted herein.
1.9. “Royalties” means royalties payable
in respect of Technology Licensed Units and Patent Licensed
Units.
1.10. “***” means the *** Technology or
derivatives thereof in human readable form.
1.11. “TANA Competitor” means an entity
identified on Exhibit D as updated from time to time by TANA in its
reasonable discretion and Affiliates of such entities.
1.12. “Technology Licensed Unit” means any
product that utilizes, incorporates, is based on or was derived
using any *** Technology or derivative thereof.
1.13. “Technology Royalty Term” means that
period beginning on the date the first royalty payment in respect
of a Technology Licensed Unit accrues and ending *** from that
date.
2. LICENSE GRANT
2.1. Technology License . Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, TANA hereby grants to Licensee a *** license, ***, to
the *** Technology for internal use to develop software
applications for use and distribution solely in object code form
and, during the Technology Royalty Term, solely for use in the
Field of Use. ***. For clarification, Licensee may not provide
derivative works to third parties in ***. Licensee shall not
provide any derivative works to a TANA Competitor. In the event
that Licensee desires to expand the Field of Use to include
products developed and promoted for commercial use the parties will
negotiate in good faith to agree on terms applicable to such use.
The *** data deliverables identified on Exhibit A (“***
Data”) are provided solely for internal development and
testing purposes, may not be commercialized or distributed in any
manner and shall be returned to TANA (or destroyed at TANA’s
request) after *** from the Effective Date.
2.2. Restrictions . Licensee may not distribute or sublicense the
*** Software. ***.
2.3. Patent License . Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, TANA hereby grants to Licensee a *** license, ***, under
the Patent Rights to make, have made, import, use, offer for sale
and sell Patent Licensed Units in the Field of Use.
2.4. Reservation of Rights . All rights not expressly granted herein are
reserved to TANA and no other rights shall be created by
implication, estoppel or otherwise. Nothing will restrict
TANA’s rights with respect to the Patent Rights or rights to
use or sublicense the *** Software or *** Technology in whole or
part.
2.5. Covenant Not to Sue . In partial consideration for the rights and
obligations contained herein, Licensee agrees not to enforce
against TANA or its Affiliates any patent right owned or controlled
by Licensee which TANA or its Affiliates may infringe in practicing
any invention claimed in the Patent Rights.
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3. DELIVERY AND ENGINEERING
SUPPORT.
3.1. Technology Transfer . Promptly after the Effective Date, TANA will
deliver to Licensee the tangible embodiments of the *** Technology.
TANA will provide a total of *** man-weeks of engineering support
to transfer the *** Technology to Licensee without charge as
follows: *** engineering man-week will be provided to Licensee
after the delivery of all *** Software components and
documentation; *** engineering man-weeks will be provided to
Licensee beginning one month after the delivery of all identified
components and may be spread out over the succeeding four months.
For clarification purposes a “man-week” shall mean
forty (40) working hours. Licensee will identify a team
responsible for accepting the technology transfer and the parties
will agree on times, locations and scheduling. Any additional
engineering support beyond the *** engineering man-weeks must be
agreed upon in writing, set forth in a statement of work and will
be billable to Licensee at a rate of $*** per hour.
3.2. Component Upgrades . TANA may at its discretion provide Component
Upgrades to Licensee from time to time in executable form and
source code form during the Technology Royalty Term,
***.
3.3. Optional Custom Engineering Services
. TANA has proposed to provide
professional services to Licensee to complete the software
development projects described on Exhibit C. If Licensee elects to
engage TANA for such services, or for other services related to the
*** Technology, the parties will be obligated to proceed only
pursuant to one or more mutually agreed upon statements of work to
be executed by both parties, referencing this Agreement and setting
forth in reasonable detail the terms and conditions with respect to
such services. If no specific terms are set forth in the applicable
statement of work with respect to the ownership of deliverable
items under such statement of work, then such deliverable items
shall be deemed to be included within the definition of ***
Technology and will be delivered in ***.
4. FEES AND
PAYMENT
4.1. *** License Fee . In consideration of the rights granted herein,
Licensee shall pay to TANA a *** license fee of $ *** to be
invoiced in March 2006 and payable as follows:
Payment of $ *** to be paid
within 30 days from the invoice date
Payment of $ *** to be paid
within 90 days from the invoice date
4.2. Technology Royalties . In consideration of the rights granted in
Section 2.1, during the Technology Royalty Term, Licensee
shall pay to TANA a *** each Technology Royalty Unit leased, sold,
licensed, distributed or otherwise transferred or deployed for
commercial use by Licensee. ***. For clarification,”Year
1”, “Year 2” etc., refers to each 12-month period
succeeding the date on which the first Technology Unit Royalty
payment accrues.
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4.3. Patent Royalty . In consideration of the rights granted in
Section 2.3, Licensee will pay *** for each Patent Licensed
Unit leased, sold, licensed, distributed or otherwise transferred
or deployed for commercial use by Licensee. The foregoing royalties
are payable until ***. For clarification, to the extent that a
particular unit is both a Technology Licensed Unit and a Patent
Licensed Unit, both Royalties will be due for such unit.
4.4. Payment . ***. Royalties are payable quarterly within 30
days from the end of each calendar quarter. Royalties accrue at the
time the Patent Licensed Unit or Technology Licensed Unit is
shipped or transferred or deployed for commercial use, as
applicable, or at the time the transaction is booked in accordance
with GAAP, if earlier. Royalty payments otherwise due may be offset
to account for units for which a Royalty has previously been paid
but which are returned to Licensee and for which Licensee has paid
a refund to the purchaser.
4.5. Taxes . All Royalties required to be paid to TANA
pursuant to this Agreement are to be paid without deduction on
account of any taxes of any kind including withholding taxes. Any
taxes applicable to the transactions contemplated herein shall be
the sole responsibility of Licensee, other than US taxes due on the
net income of TANA.
4.6. Reports . Within thirty (30) days after the end of
each calendar quarter Licensee shall provide TANA with a report in
reasonable detail stating in each such report, by country, the
number and description of each Technology Royalty Unit and Patent
Licensed Unit leased, sold, licensed, distributed or otherwise
transferred or deployed for commercial use or booked, as
applicable, during such quarter, units returned for refunds, and
the calculation of amounts due to TANA. Concurrently with the
making of such reports, Licensee shall pay TANA the Royalties
due.
4.7. Records; Inspection . Licensee shall keep complete, true and
accurate books of account and records for the purpose of
determining the Royalty amounts payable under this Agreement. Such
books and records shall be kept at the principal place of business
of Licensee for at least three (3) years following the end of
the calendar quarter to which they pertain and will be open for
inspection during such period by a representative of TANA for the
purpose of verifying the royalty reports and payments. Such
inspections shall be made during ordinary business hours. The
representative may be obliged to execute a reasonable
confidentiality agreement prior to commencing any such inspection.
Inspections conducted under this Section shall be at the expense of
TANA, unless an underpayment exceeding *** of the amount stated for
any period covered by the inspection is identified, in which case
all costs relating to the inspection and any unpaid amounts will be
paid by Licensee, with interest from the date such amounts were
due. Any and all information gathered during such inspections shall
be deemed to be Confidential Information as defined in
Section 8 of this Agreement whether or not so designated at
the time of the inspection.
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5. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
5.1. Representations and Warranties
. TANA represents and warrants that:
(i) it is the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title and
interest in the Patent Rights; (ii) except with respect to the
items identified on Exhibit A as open source, it has independently
developed the *** Technology; (iii) except with respect to
claims identified on Exhibit E, use of the items identified on
Exhibit A as comprising the commercially distributed version of the
*** Software in accordance with the user manuals applicable to such
software does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any
third party.
5.2. Disclaimer . Nothing in this Agreement is or shall be
construed as:
a) A warranty or representation by
TANA as to the validity or scope of any claim or patent within the
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