EXHIBIT 10.1
TERMINATION AGREEMENT
This Termination Agreement (the
“Agreement”) is made and entered into as of April 27,
2009, by and between TERRA INSIGHT SERVICES, INC., a New York
corporation (“TIS”), TERRA ENERGY & RESOURCE
TECHNOLOGIES, INC., a Delaware corporation (“TERRA”),
TERRA INSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation
(“TITC”), and THE INSTITUTE OF GEOINFORMATIONAL
ANALYSIS OF THE EARTH, a Liechtenstein establishment (the
“INSTITUTE”) (hereinafter each of TIS, TERRA, TITC, and
the INSTITUTE are referred to individually as a “Party”
and jointly as the “Parties”).
WHEREAS, TERRA, through its
subsidiary, TIS, and previously through its subsidiary, TERRA
INSIGHT CORPORATION (“TIC”), is in the business of
providing services and products in connection with the
identification, location, exploration and recovery of deposits of
natural resources (“Terra Services”);
WHEREAS, the INSTITUTE is the owner,
inventor or developer, whether independently or in conjunction with
a third party, of certain proprietary technology herein referred to
as Institute Technology (as defined herein), or has licensed or
otherwise has rights or interests to the Institute
Technology;
WHEREAS, TERRA, through its
subsidiary, TIS, and previously through its subsidiary, TIC, has
licensed from the INSTITUTE the Institute Technology (certain
technology and know-how used in the surveying, mapping, detection,
and reporting of natural resources of the Earth), which have been
utilized as part of TERRA’ satellite-based sub-terrain
prospecting (“STeP”) technology services offering,
pursuant to that certain Technology License Agreement, dated as of
December 15, 2008, by and between the INSTITUTE and TIS (the
“TIS License Agreement”), and previously pursuant to
that certain Second Amended and Restated Technology License
Agreement of July 17, 2007, by and between the INSTITUTE and TIC,
as amended by that certain letter agreement dated December 19,
2007, which amended and restated the terms of the Amended and
Restated Technology License Agreement dated as of May 19, 2005,
which amended and restated the terms of the Technology License
Agreement dated as of January 7, 2005 (collectively, the “TIC
License Agreement”) (the TIS License Agreement and the TIC
License Agreement are collectively referred to herein as the
“License Agreements”);
WHEREAS, the INSTITUTE has provided
to TIS, and previously to TIC, certain commercial services in the
use of the Institute Technology, pursuant to that certain Services
Agreement, dated as of December 15, 2008, by and between the
INSTITUTE and TIS (the “TIS Services Agreement”), and
previously pursuant to that certain Second Amended and Restated
Services Agreement of July 17, 2007, by and between the INSTITUTE
and TIC, as amended by that certain letter agreement dated December
19, 2007, which amended and restated the terms of the Amended and
Restated Services Agreement dated as of May 19, 2005, which amended
and restated the terms of the Services Agreement dated as of
January 7, 2005 (collectively, the “TIC Services
Agreement”) (the TIS Services Agreement and the TIC Services
Agreement are collectively referred to herein as the
“Services Agreements”);
WHEREAS, TIS desires to terminate
the TIS License Agreement and TIS Services Agreement, TIS desires
to receive the Terra Work Product (as defined herein) in the
possession of the INSTITUTE, TITC desires to acquire certain rights
and interests in and to the Institute Technology from the
INSTITUTE, the INSTITUTE desires to sell, convey, transfer and
assign all of its rights and interests in and to the Institute
Technology to TITC, and the Parties desire to set forth the rights
and interests of the respective Parties and matters governing
post-termination events and matters;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises, covenants, and obligations of the Parties set forth
herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties
hereto covenant and agree as follows.
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As used herein, the terms set forth below shall
have the following meanings:
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“Institute Technology”
shall mean the technology and/or process relating to analytical and
computerized processing of satellite, cartographical,
topographical, geological and geophysical information used to
remotely assess natural resources content of an area, owned,
invented, or developed by the INSTITUTE, whether independently or
in conjunction with a third party, or for which the INSTITUTE has
licensed or otherwise has rights or interests thereto, including,
but not limited to, all know-how, proprietary information,
processes, technique,
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knowledge database, data, design, drawing,
apparatus (mathematical or otherwise), equipment, devices,
formulas, program, software, all past, present, and future versions
thereof, including all beta versions, and technology, whether
patented or unpatented, patentable or unpatentable, all patents,
patent applications, and trade secrets related thereto, all
proprietary, common law, and/or statutory intellectual property
rights, whether in oral, written, graphic, or electronic form, and
any and all other proprietary rights of any kind whatsoever related
thereto. The term Institute Technology, as used herein, is further
supplemented by the description and/or information set forth in the
Institute Technology Schedule.
“Institute
Documentation” shall mean any and all drawings, writings,
documents, blueprints, data, papers, reports, test results,
evaluations, plan, studies, instructions, manuals, user guides,
computer software, computer code, formulas and formulations
describing or regarding the Institute Technology or any part
thereof, or related to the ownership, licensing, utilization and/or
exploitation of the Institute Technology, created or developed or
caused to be created or developed by the INSTITUTE, or licensed by
the INSTITUTE, and all patents, patent applications, copyrights,
and copyright applications relating thereto.
“Confidential
Information” shall mean, collectively, the Institute
Technology, including Derivatives and Improvements, and the
Institute Documentation.
“Derivatives” shall mean
any or all translation (including translation into other human or
computer languages), portation, modification, correction, addition,
extension, upgrade, update, enhancement, revision, new version,
improvement, compilation, abridgement, or other form in which the
Institute Technology may be recast, transformed, or adapted,
including any products, systems or other items which provide
comparable or enhanced functionality whether or not specifically
based on or derived from Institute Technology.
“Improvement” shall mean
any and all improvements, changes, or modifications in the
Institute Technology or the Institute Documentation, or any
improvement, change or modification in the mode of using the
Institute Technology or the Institute Documentation.
“Terra Work Product”
shall mean any and all reports, maps, layouts, matrixes, diagrams,
data, analysis, profile modeling, photographs, images,
reproductions, simulations, forecasts, studies, interpretations,
assessments, plans, determinations, recommendations, and/or reports
generated, prepared, assembled, compiled, or otherwise obtained in
any way or manner in connection with or related to a service
performed by the INSTITUTE for, or on behalf of, TIS, TIC, or TERRA
or any of its or their related entities, or requested by TIS, TIC,
or TERRA or any of its or their related entities, or any customer
introduced by TIS, TIC, or TERRA or any of its or their related
entities to the INSTITUTE or by the INSTITUTE to TIS, TIC, or TERRA
or any of its or their related entities. The Terra Work Product is
and has been at all times the exclusive property of TIS, TIC and/or
TERRA. The Terra Work Product is confidential and proprietary
property of TIS, TIC and/or TERRA, and are “TIS Confidential
Information” and “TIC Confidential Information”
as such terms are utilized in the License Agreements.
“Third Party Rights”
shall mean all rights or interests to the Institute Technology that
are owned by a third party for which the INSTITUTE has licensed or
otherwise has rights or interests thereto.
2. Subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, the TIS License Agreement
and the TIS Services Agreement shall be hereby terminated, except
for any provisions relating to confidential treatment of
proprietary information and enforcement thereof which provisions
shall survive.
3. The
INSTITUTE represents, warrants and covenants to TIS, TERRA, and
TITC that, as of the date of this Agreement and during the relevant
license terms of the License Agreements: (a) the INSTITUTE is, and
has been, the owner of all worldwide right, title and interest in
and to any and all aspects of the Institute Technology, which it
licensed to TIS and/or TIC pursuant to the License Agreements; (b)
the INSTITUTE is the sole inventor or developer of the Institute
Technology; (c) the Institute Technology does not infringe any
existing patent, copyright, trademark, service mark, trade name,
trade secret, patent, or other intellectual property right of any
third person, firm, corporation or other entity; (d) the Institute
Technology is free and clear of any and all encumbrances and/or
liens of any nature whatsoever; (e) the Institute Technology and
the Institute Documentation are secret and have not been published
or revealed to anyone; (f) the INSTITUTE is the owner of the
Institute Technology with the right and power to enter into this
Agreement and the right and power to grant, sell, assign and
transfer the Institute
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Technology; (g) the INSTITUTE’s
performance of this Agreement does not conflict with any other
agreement to which the INSTITUTE is bound; (h) the INSTITUTE has
not sold, granted, assigned or transferred to any third person,
firm, corporation or other entity any right, license or privilege
related to the Institute Technology and/or the Institute
Documentation; (i) the INSTITUTE’s performance of the License
Agreements and Services Agreements did not conflict with any other
agreement to which the INSTITUTE is or was bound and, while
performing the License Agreements and Services Agreements, the
INSTITUTE did not knowingly enter into any agreements with third
parties that are or were in conflict with License Agreements and
Services Agreements or which would impair the ability of the
INSTITUTE to perform the License Agreements and Services
Agreements; and (j) the INSTITUTE has not filed or caused to be
filed applications for letters patent or copyrights or obtained in
its name, or caused to be obtained in the name of others, any
patents or copyrights in the United States or elsewhere in respect
of the Institute Technology and the Institute Documentation, or any
process, material or apparatus in any way similar
thereto.
4. TIS
hereby acquires, and the INSTITUTE hereby provides, conveys,
transfers, and assigns to TIS all Terra Work Product, which the
Parties acknowledge is and has been the property of TIS and/or TIC
(collectively hereinafter referred to as the “Work Product
Rights”), and, in connection with the Terra Work Product,
TITC hereby acquires, and the INSTITUTE hereby provides, conveys,
transfers, and assigns to TITC all of the Institute Technology
related to the Terra Work Product, including all Derivatives and
Improvements, and Institute Documentation, as has been utilized in
connection with services rendered pursuant to the Services
Agreement, and including any and all Third Party Rights to the
extent that the INSTITUTE has any rights thereto (collectively
hereinafter referred to as the “TITC Rights”)
(collectively hereinafter the Work Product Rights and the TITC
Rights are referred to as the “Terra Rights”). Upon the
execution of this Agreement, other than as specified herein to
fulfill its obligations under this Agreement, the INSTITUTE will
retain no right or interest to t