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• Exclusive Negotiations The State will not bargain collectively or meet with any employee organization other than MSEA-SEIU with reference to terms and conditions of employment of employees covered by this Agreement. If any such organizations request meetings they will be advised by the State to transmit their requests concerning terms and conditions of employment to MSEA-SEIU.

• Prosecution and Maintenance of Patent Rights (a) At the initiative of ProPhase or Licensor, the Parties shall consult in good faith with each other regarding the filing, prosecution, and maintenance of all Licensed Patents. The Licensed Patents shall be diligently filed, prosecuted and maintained by Licensor using reputable counsel. Licensor shall keep ProPhase reasonably informed with regard to the preparation, filing, prosecution, and maintenance of the Licensed Patents, including by providing ProPhase (or its designee) copies of office actions issued from patent offices, proposed responses to such office actions, and any other patent related filings, to be made to such patent authority in the Territory sufficiently in advance of submitting such filings or responses so as to allow for a reasonable opportunity for ProPhase to review and comment thereon. Licensor shall consider in good faith any such comments for incorporation into such draft. Licensor represents that during the Term that (a) all Licensed Patents will be diligently prosecuted in the respective patent offices in the Territory in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, (b) all Licensed Patents will be filed and maintained properly and correctly, (c) Licensor will pay all applicable fees on or before the due date for payment, and (d) all Licensed Patents will identify each and every inventor of the claims thereof as determined in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which such Patent is filed. Prophase shall reimburse Global BioLife for reasonable attorney fees and patent office costs associated with the prosecution and maintenance of the Licensed Patents on a quarterly basis commencing on September 30, 2022. (b) If, at any time during the Term, the Parties may mutually agree that it is undesirable, as to one or more countries, to file, prosecute or maintain any Licensed Patent, then Global BioLife shall have discretion to refrain from filing, prosecuting and/or maintaining any Licensed Patent or permitting the Licensed Patent to lapse. (c) The Parties shall cooperate with each other and discuss, in good faith, the Patent Rights within the Licensed Patents Covering the Licensed Compound and Licensed Products to enable Prophase to make filings with Regulatory Authorities, as required or allowed in connection with (A) in the United States, the FDA’s Orange Book and (B) outside the United States, under the national implementations of Article 10.l(a)(iii) of Directive 2001/EC/83 or other international equivalents thereof. Global BioLife shall cooperate with Prophase’s reasonable requests in connection therewith, including meeting any submission deadlines, in each case, to the extent required or permitted by applicable law. (d) The Parties shall cooperate in obtaining Patent Term Extensions pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 156 and foreign counterparts and equivalents thereof, including supplementary protection certificates, to the extent such extensions are available with respect to the applicable Patent Rights (“Extension Activities”).

• Licensed Technology (a) LICENSOR is not aware of any interference, infringement, misappropriation, or other conflict with any intellectual property rights of third parties, and LICENSOR has never received any charge, complaint, claim, demand, or notice alleging any such interference, infringement, misappropriation, or violation (including any claim that LICENSOR must license or refrain from using any intellectual property rights of any third party). To the knowledge of LICENSOR, no third party has interfered with, infringed upon, misappropriated, or otherwise come into conflict with any of the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY. (b) Exhibit A identifies each patent or registration which has been issued to LICENSOR with respect to any of the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY and identifies each pending patent application or application for registration which LICENSOR has made with respect to any of the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY. LICENSEE acknowledges that LICENSOR has previously made available to LICENSEE correct and complete copies of all such patents, registrations and applications (as amended to-date) in LICENSOR’s possession and has made available to LICENSEE correct and complete copies of all other written documentation in LICENSOR’s possession evidencing ownership and prosecution (if applicable) of each such item. (c) Exhibit A identifies each item of LICENSED TECHNOLOGY that is assigned to LICENSOR or that LICENSOR uses pursuant to license, sublicense, agreement, or permission. LICENSOR has made available to LICENSEE correct and complete copies of all such licenses, sublicenses, agreements, patent prosecution files and permissions (as amended to-date) in LICENSOR’s possession. With respect to each item of LICENSED TECHNOLOGY required to be identified in Exhibit A and to the knowledge of LICENSOR: (i) the license, sublicense, agreement, or permission covering the item is legal, valid, binding, enforceable, and in full force and effect; (ii) the license, sublicense, agreement, or permission will continue to be legal, valid, binding, enforceable, and in full force and effect on identical terms following the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby; (iii) no Party to the license, sublicense, agreement, or permission is in breach or default, and no event has occurred which with notice or lapse of time would constitute a breach or default or permit termination, modification, or acceleration thereunder; (iv) no party to the license, sublicense, agreement, or permission has repudiated any provision thereof; (v) the underlying item of LICENSED TECHNOLOGY is not subject to any outstanding lien or encumbrance, injunction, judgment, order, decree, ruling, or charge; (vi) no action, suit, proceeding, hearing, investigation, charge, complaint, claim, or demand is pending or is threatened which challenges the legality, validity, or enforceability of the underlying item of LICENSED TECHNOLOGY; and (vii) except as provided in Exhibit A, LICENSOR has not granted any license or similar right to the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY within the GENERAL FIELD or PARTHENOGENESIS FIELD.

• Sublicense Rights Licensee shall not have the right to grant sublicenses under the licenses granted to it under Section 2.1(a) (Development and Commercialization License to Licensee) and Section 6.3(d) (Use of Coherus Trademark), without the prior written consent of Coherus, which consent may be withheld [***], except with respect to [***], in which case [***]. For the avoidance of doubt, it shall be [***] with respect to [***]. If Coherus consents in writing to allow Licensee to grant a sublicense, then Licensee may grant such sublicense, through [***], subject to the following: (a) each Sublicensee shall agree to be bound by all of the applicable terms and conditions of this Agreement; (b) the terms of each sublicense granted by Licensee shall provide that the Sublicensee shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement; (c) Licensee’s grant of any sublicense shall not relieve Licensee from any of its obligations under this Agreement; (d) Licensee shall be liable for any breach of a sublicense by a Sublicensee to the extent that such breach would constitute a breach of this Agreement, and any breach of the sublicense by such Sublicensee shall be deemed a breach of this Agreement by Licensee to the extent that such breach would constitute a breach of this Agreement as if Licensee had committed such breach; provided, however, that in each instance of any breach, Licensee and/or Sublicensee shall have the right to cure any such breach pursuant to the terms of this Agreement; and (e) Licensee will notify Coherus of the identity of any Sublicensee, and the territory in which it has granted such sublicense, promptly after entering into any sublicense. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, for clarity, Licensee shall not have the right to grant sublicenses under Section 2.1 (License Grants) to any Third Party to Manufacture Products or to conduct Process Development.

• Sublicense SONY shall be permitted to sublicense the rights ---------- granted in Section 2.1 only to: (a) wholly-owned subsidiaries of SONY; provided that SONY shall promptly notify LEXAR in writing of sublicenses granted to subsidiaries and SONY shall acknowledge responsibility for such subsidiary's compliance with the terms of this Lexar Technology License Agreement; and (b) any parties for the manufacture, use, offer for sale, import and sale of Host Devices and any components of Host Devices, provided that such third parties shall only be sublicensed under LEXAR Intellectual Property Rights for that portion of a Host Device or of any component of a Host Device that communicates directly with a Licensed Memory Stick. SONY's sublicense rights under this Section 2.2(b) shall be contingent upon SONY entering into a written agreement with each sublicensee in the form of Exhibit C. SONY will provide LEXAR with a copy of each such --------- sublicense agreement immediately after execution thereof. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as permitting SONY to reveal LEXAR Confidential Information, as such term is defined in Section 6, to sublicensees under this Section 2.2(b). In the event that SONY determines that the Memory Stick Specification contains LEXAR Confidential Information, LEXAR and SONY agree to negotiate in good faith additional specific provisions to the form sublicensee agreement to sufficiently protect LEXAR's Confidential Information. LEXAR and SONY acknowledge that in the course of these negotiations, the parties' mutual interest in making the Host Device manufacturing license available as broadly as possible should be weighed against the importance of protecting LEXAR's Confidential Information. Sublicensees under this Section 2.2 shall not have the right to sublicense the rights granted under this agreement. * Material has been omitted and filed separately with the Commission.

• ROYALTIES AND PATENTS The Contractor shall pay all royalties and license fees. The Contractor shall defend all suits or claims for infringement of any patent rights and shall save the State harmless from loss on account thereof, except that the State shall be responsible for all such loss when a particular design, process or the product of a particular manufacturer or manufacturers is specified, but if the Contractor has reason to believe that the design, process or product specified is an infringement of a patent, The Contractor shall be responsible for such loss unless he promptly gives such information to the Architect.

• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS - INVENTION AND PATENT RIGHTS A. General 1. NASA has determined that 51 U.S.C. § 20135(b) does not apply to this Agreement. Therefore, title to inventions made (conceived or first actually reduced to practice) under this Agreement remain with the respective inventing party(ies). No invention or patent rights are exchanged or granted under this Agreement, except as provided herein.

• Sublicense Grant Licensee will be entitled to grant Sublicenses to third parties under the license granted pursuant to Section 2.1 subject to the terms of this Section 2.3. Any such Sublicense shall be on terms and conditions in compliance with and not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement. The grant of a Sublicense shall not in any way diminish or alter Licensee’s obligations under this Agreement.

• Manufacturing Technology Transfer Upon AbbVie’s written request with respect to a given Collaboration CAR-T Product and Licensed Product, Caribou shall effect a full transfer to AbbVie or its designee (which designee may be an Affiliate or a Third Party Provider) of all Materials and Know-How Controlled by Caribou relating to the then-current process for the Manufacture of such Collaboration CAR-T Product and any corresponding Licensed Products (each, a “Manufacturing Process”). Caribou shall provide, shall cause its Affiliates to provide, and shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to assist AbbVie in causing all Third Party Providers to provide, all reasonable assistance requested by AbbVie to enable AbbVie (or its Affiliate or designated Third Party Provider, as applicable) to implement each Manufacturing Process at the facilities designated by AbbVie. If requested by AbbVie, such assistance shall include facilitating the entering into of agreements with applicable Third Party suppliers relating to such Collaboration CAR-T Product and any corresponding Licensed Products. Without limitation of the foregoing, in connection with the Manufacturing Process and related transfer: (a) Caribou shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to, make available to AbbVie (or its Affiliate or designated Third Party Provider, as applicable), and shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to assist AbbVie in causing all Third Party Providers to make available to AbbVie, from time to time as AbbVie may request, all Materials and Manufacturing-related Know-How Controlled by Caribou relating to each Manufacturing Process, including methods, reagents and processes and testing/characterization Know-How, and all documentation constituting material support, performance advice, shop practice, standard operating procedures, specifications as to Materials to be used, and control methods, that are necessary or reasonably useful to enable AbbVie (or its Affiliate or designated Third Party manufacturer, as applicable) to use and practice such Manufacturing Process; (b) Caribou shall cause all appropriate employees and representatives of Caribou and its Affiliates, and shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to assist AbbVie in causing all appropriate employees and representatives of Third Party Providers, to meet with employees or representatives of AbbVie (or its Affiliate or designated Third Party Provider, as applicable) at the applicable manufacturing facility at mutually convenient times to assist with the working up and use of each Manufacturing Process and with the training of the personnel of AbbVie (or its Affiliate or designated Third Party Provider, as applicable) to the extent necessary or reasonably useful to enable AbbVie (or its Affiliate or designated Third Party Provider, as applicable) to use and practice such Manufacturing Process; (c) Without limiting the generality of this Section 4.4.2, Caribou shall cause all appropriate analytical and quality control laboratory employees and representatives of Caribou and its Affiliates, and shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to assist AbbVie in causing all appropriate analytical and quality control laboratory employees and representatives of Third Party Providers, to meet with employees or representatives of AbbVie (or its Affiliate or designated Third Party Provider, as applicable) at the applicable manufacturing facility and make available all necessary equipment, at mutually convenient times, to support and execute the provision of all applicable analytical methods and the validation thereof (including all applicable Know-How, Information and Materials Controlled by Caribou, and sufficient supplies of all primary and other reference standards); (d) Caribou shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to, take such steps, and shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to assist AbbVie in causing Third Party Providers take such steps, as are necessary or reasonably useful to assist AbbVie (or its Affiliate or designated Third Party Provider, as applicable) in obtaining any necessary licenses, permits or approvals from Regulatory Authorities with respect to the Manufacture of the applicable Collaboration CAR-T Products and corresponding Licensed Products at the applicable facilities; and (e) Caribou shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to, provide, and shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to assist AbbVie in causing Third Party Providers to provide, such other assistance as AbbVie (or its Affiliate or designated Third Party Provider, as applicable) may reasonably request to enable AbbVie (or its Affiliate or designated Third Party Provider, as applicable) to use and practice each Manufacturing Process and otherwise to Manufacture the applicable Collaboration CAR-T Products and corresponding Licensed Products.

• Sublicensing Rights (a) The license(s) granted to Intellia in Section 2.1 and to Caribou in Section 2.2 may be sublicensed, in full or in part, by Intellia and Caribou, respectively, (each, the “Sublicensing Party”) by a written agreement to its Affiliates and Third Parties (with the further right to sublicense [***] provided that the following shall likewise apply with respect to sublicenses granted by a Sublicensee), provided, that: (i) the Sublicensing Party will provide to the other Party a copy of any sublicense agreement with a Sublicensee within [***] days of execution thereof, which sublicense agreement may be redacted as necessary to protect commercially sensitive information to the extent such information is not reasonably necessary to determine compliance with this Agreement or to determine the rights granted under any of the Caribou IP or Intellia IP, as applicable (together with an accurate English translation of such sublicense, if applicable) provided that if such agreement is with a Related Party the Sublicensing Party shall provide an unredacted copy thereof; (ii) the Sublicensing Party will be responsible for any and all obligations of such Sublicensee as if such Sublicensee were “Intellia” or “Caribou”, as applicable, hereunder; (iii) any such Sublicensee will agree in writing to be bound by identical obligations as the Sublicensing Party hereunder with respect to the activities of such Sublicensee hereunder; (iv) to the extent that the Sublicensing Party or any Sublicensee grants a sublicense under any intellectual property subject to a Caribou In-License or Intellia Included In-License, as applicable, such sublicense (and such further sublicensee) will be subject to the terms of such Caribou In-License or Intellia Included In-License, including such sublicensee’s compliance with the Required In-License Provisions [***].