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Exhibit 10.2
EXECUTION COPY
TRADEMARK AND TRADE NAME LICENSE AGREEMENT
This TRADEMARK AND TRADE NAME LICENSE AGREEMENT is dated as of October 10, 2008 (the “Agreement”), between Misys plc, a public limited company organized under the laws of England, having a principal place of business at One Kingdom Street, London W2 6BL, United Kingdom (“Licensor”), and Misys Healthcare Systems, LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company, having its principal place of business at 8529 Six Forks Road, Raleigh, North Carolina 27615 (“Licensee”). Licensor and Licensee are referred to herein collectively as “Parties” and each individually as a “Party”.
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, Licensor is the owner of the trade name “MISYS” (the “Licensed Name”) and certain trademarks and service marks consisting of or incorporating the designation “MISYS,” identified in the schedule attached hereto as Schedule A, and has applied for and registered such trademarks and service marks in the United States (the “Territory”) (such trademarks and service marks and such registrations and applications, together with any and all common law rights pertaining thereto, are referred to collectively as the “Licensed Marks”) for use in Licensor’s business;
WHEREAS, Licensor is the owner of the domain names listed on Schedule B hereto (the “Licensed Domain Names” and together with the Licensed Name and the Licensed Marks, the “Licensed Property”);
WHEREAS, at the Closing (as defined in the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 17, 2008, by and among Licensor, Licensee, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation, having its principal place of business at 222 Merchandise Mart, Suite 2024, Chicago, IL 60654 (“Allscripts”) and Patriot Merger Company, LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company (the “Merger Agreement”)), Licensor will own, directly or indirectly, 54.5% of the equity interests in Allscripts on a fully-diluted basis (as determined pursuant to the Merger Agreement);
WHEREAS, Licensor previously licensed Licensee the right to use the Licensed Marks in connection with Licensee’s healthcare information technology products and services, pursuant to the Trademark License Agreement, effective as of May 7, 2004 between Licensor and Licensee (the “Existing License”), and Patriot Merger Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Allscripts is merging as of the date hereof with and into Licensee with Licensee as the surviving company (the “Merger”);
WHEREAS, entering into this Agreement is a condition to effecting the Merger;
WHEREAS, in connection with the Merger, the Parties have decided to replace the Existing License with this Agreement to more clearly set forth the rights and obligations of each Party;
WHEREAS, Licensee desires to use, and Licensor is willing to license Licensee to use, the Licensed Marks in connection with Licensee’s healthcare information technology products and services and such other products and services as the Parties may agree (such products and services together with any permitted sublicensee’s healthcare information technology products and services, the “Products and Services”), to use the Licensed Name in connection with Licensee’s business of providing Licensee’s healthcare information technology products and services (the “Licensed Business”), and to use the Licensed Domain Names in connection with the Licensed Business under the terms and conditions set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:
1. Grant of License .
1.1. Grant of Trademark License . Subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, Licensor hereby grants to Licensee, and Licensee hereby accepts, a nonexclusive, nonassignable, royalty-free license to use the Licensed Marks in connection with the marketing, promotion, advertisement, distribution and sale of the Products and Services of Licensee in the Territory.
1.2. Grant of Trade Name License . Subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, Licensor hereby grants to Licensee, and Licensee hereby accepts, a nonexclusive, nonassignable, royalty-free license to use the Licensed Name in its corporate name and trade name solely in the form of “Allscripts Misys” with or without one or more additional words (e.g., “Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions”) and a corporate-form identifier such as “Inc.” or “LLC”, as applicable, in connection with the operation of the Licensed Business in the Territory.
1.3. Grant of License to Domain Names . Subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, Licensor hereby grants to Licensee a nonexclusive, nonassignable, royalty-free license to use the Licensed Domain Names in connection with the operation of the Licensed Business in the Territory. The Parties agree that the ability of a third party to access the websites operated under the Licensed Domain Names from outside of the Territory shall not be deemed a breach of this Agreement, provided such websites are not targeted to persons or entities outside of the Territory and to the extent that a person or entity is identified as being outside of the Territory, Licensee does not provide Products or Services and does not permit any Sublicensee to provide Products or Services outside of the Territory. In the event of any doubt as to where such person or entity is located, Licensee shall, and shall cause any Sublicensee to, obtain written confirmation from such person or entity that it is located and operating in the Territory. Licensor shall designate a person specified by Licensee as the “technical
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contact” for each Licensed Domain Name to the extent necessary to permit access to the associated website.
1.4. Restrictions on Use .
(a) Except for use of Allscripts’ color scheme of red, black and grey, which may be used for the Licensed Marks other than “Misys” used alone, “Misys” in combination with the “M” logo and the “M” logo, Licensee shall not change or modify the Licensed Property, or create any design variation of the Licensed Property, without the prior written consent of Licensor.
(b) Except for the word “Allscripts”, Licensee shall not join any name, mark or logo with the Licensed Property so as to form a composite trade name or mark, without obtaining the prior written consent of Licensor.
(c) Licensee shall not use any other name or mark that is confusingly similar to the Licensed Property, provided , however , that use of the word “Allscripts” with the secondary words in the Licensed Marks (e.g., Tiger), with or without the word “Misys”, will not be considered confusingly similar.
1.5. Changes in Licensed Marks . Upon written notice to Licensee, Licensor may, from time to time in its sole discretion, elect to ( a ) discontinue any Licensed Marks or Licensed Domain Names and/or ( b ) replace any Licensed Marks or Licensed Domain Names with or use new or different trademarks or service marks or domain names (“New Marks”) with respect to the Products and Services or the Licensed Business. Upon such election, any such New Marks may be designated Licensed Property by Licensor and if designated as such shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement, and Schedule A shall be deemed amended automatically to include such New Marks. In the event Licensor discontinues any Licensed Property or introduces a New Mark, Licensee shall have a reasonable period of time, not to exceed six (6) months, to cease use of such discontinued Licensed Property or begin use of such New Mark.
1.6. Sublicenses .
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, Licensee may grant a sublicense of its rights hereunder to any Affiliate (defined as any entity that, at the time of determination, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, Licensee, whether by contract, possession (directly or indirectly) of power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such entity or the ownership (directly or indirectly) of securities or other interests in such entity) (each permitted sublicensee, a “Sublicensee”) as follows:
(i) Licensee may grant a sublicense to each Sublicensee to use the Licensed Marks in connection with such Sublicensee’s healthcare information technology products and services in the Territory;
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(ii) Licensee may grant to each Sublicensee a sublicense to use the Licensed Name solely in the form(s) set forth on Schedule C as Schedule C may be amended from time to time by mutual agreement of Licensor and Licensee and solely in connection with the operation of such Sublicensee’s healthcare information technology products and services business in the Territory (each, a “Sublicensee Business”);
(iii) Licensee may grant to each Sublicensee a sublicense to use the Licensed Domain Names in connection with its Sublicensee Business in the Territory.
(iv) The grant of any sublicense hereunder shall be conditioned on such Sublicensee having first executed a copy of the Sublicensee Acknowledgement set forth as Exhibit A.
(b) Any such sublicense shall be made on, and subject to, all applicable terms and conditions of this Agreement with respect to the Licensed Property, including but not limited to the following:
(i) Any such sublicense shall contain a provision that the sublicense will, at Licensor’s choice, either (A) be deemed automatically assigned by Licensee to Licensor or (B) terminate automatically upon any termination of this Agreement.
(ii) Licensee shall (A) notify Licensor promptly in writing upon becoming aware that any Sublicensee’s use of the Licensed Property deviates from the Quality Standards in any material respect, and (B) promptly undertake commercially reasonable efforts to cause such defective or nonconforming use to be cured or, if not curable, discontinued.
(iii) Licensor shall be a third-party beneficiary of such sublicense.
(iv) Licensor shall have the right to enforce the terms and conditions of, and terminate, such sublicense, whether as a party thereto or as a third-party beneficiary.
(c) In addition to the right to grant sublicenses pursuant to this Section 1.6, Licensee and each Sublicensee shall be permitted to allow any reseller or distributor of the Products and Services to use the Licensed Marks and Licensed Domain Names solely to the extent necessary to perform its obligations under the relevant agreement with Licensee or such Sublicensee. Each such agreement shall contain restrictions on the use of the Licensed Marks and Licensed Domain Names consistent with the restrictions contained herein, including but not limited to those in Section 1.6(b) (other than (b)(i) and (b)(iv)). A copy of each such agreement shall be provided to Licensor for review and approval prior to execution.
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(d) Notwithstanding the grant of any sublicense hereunder, Licensee shall remain liable for any breach or default of the applicable terms and conditions of this Agreement by any of its Sublicensees, resellers or distributors with respect to the Licensed Property.
(e) No such Sublicensee, reseller or distributor shall be permitted to sublicense to any other person or entity the rights granted to it with respect to the Licensed Property.
(f) A copy of each sublicense shall be provided to Licensor for review and approval prior to execution.
1.7. Covenant . So long as this Agreement is effect, ( i ) Licensor will not use the product marks included in the Licensed Marks (e.g., Misys Tiger) on healthcare information technology products and services within the scope of the Licensed Business in the Territory and ( ii ) other than with respect to activities of the Licensor’s open source division, Licensor will not use the “Misys” mark or the “M” logo on healthcare information technology products and services within the scope of the Licensed Business in the Territory. For the avoidance of doubt, Licensor’s open source division may use the “Misys” mark, the “M” logo and other marks not included in the Licensed Marks on healthcare information technology products and services within the scope of the Licensed Business in the Territory.
2. Quality Standards and Control .
2.1. Quality Control . At all times, Licensee shall use and shall cause each Sublicensee to use the Licensed Property only in accordance with such quality standards and specifications as may be established by Licensor and communicated to Licensee in writing from time to time (the “Quality Standards”), including but not limited to the Misys Trademark Guidelines attached hereto as Exhibit B. Without limiting the foregoing, the Products and Services shall always be manufactured or performed in a manner that reflects favorably on the Licensed Property and does not tarnish them or the reputation of Licensor. With respect to the name and mark “Misys” and the “M” logo, Licensor may establish additional Quality Standards that shall be communicated to Licensee in writing from time to time.
2.2. Use of the Licensed Marks . All use of the Licensed Marks made hereunder shall faithfully reproduce the design and appearance of the Licensed Marks as reflected on Schedule A.
2.3. Inspection and Approval . Licensor or its designated representative shall have the right at any time during normal business hours to inspect and approve, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, any and all uses of the Licensed Marks to confirm that such use is in conformance with the terms of this Agreement. From time to time, upon Licensor’s reasonable request in writing, Licensee shall, at Licensee’s expense, ( a ) provide Licensor with representative samples of the ways in which the Licensed Marks are then being used (or photographs depicting the same), and
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( b ) permit Licensor to inspect Licensee’s places of business where the Licensed Marks are used, in each case for Licensor’s inspection and approval of such uses.
2.4. Deficiencies . If Licensor reasonably believes that the Licen






