Indemnity Insurance AND REPRESENTATIONS
15.1 LICENSEE agrees to indemnify, hold harmless and defend LICENSORS, their officers, employees, and agents, against any and all claims, suits, losses, damages, costs, fees, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, asserted by third parties, both government and non-government, resulting from or arising out of LICENSEE’s exercise of the rights granted under this AGREEMENT. LICENSEE shall not be responsible for the intentional wrongdoing of LICENSORS.
15.2 LICENSORS agree to indemnify, hold harmless and defend LICENSEE, its officers, employees, and agents, against any and all claims, suits, losses, damages, costs, fees, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, asserted by third parties, both government and non-government, resulting from or arising out of LICENSORS’s exercise of their rights and obligations under this AGREEMENT. LICENSORS shall not be responsible for the intentional wrongdoing of LICENSEE.
15.3 The PARTIES shall maintain in force at their sole cost and expense general liability insurance coverage in an amount reasonably sufficient to protect against liability under this Article 15. LICENSEE also shall maintain in force at its sole cost and expense product liability insurance coverage in an amount reasonably sufficient to protect against liability under this Article 15. Each PARTY shall have the right to request and to receive copies of the appropriate certificates of insurance from the other PARTIES for the purpose of ascertaining the sufficiency and currency of such coverage.
15.4 Except as provided in Section 15.8, nothing in this AGREEMENT shall be deemed to be a representation or warranty by LICENSORS of the validity of any of the patents or the accuracy, safety, efficacy, or usefulness, for any purpose, of any TECHNOLOGY.
15.5 LICENSORS shall have no obligation, expressed or implied, to supervise, monitor, review or otherwise assume responsibility for the production, manufacture, testing, clinical trials, marketing or sale of any LICENSED PRODUCTS, and LICENSORS shall have no liability whatsoever to LICENSEE, its officers, employees or agents for or on account of any injury, loss, or damage, of any kind or nature, sustained by, or any damage assessed or asserted against, or any other liability incurred by or imposed upon LICENSEE, its officers, employees or agents or any other person or entity, arising out of or in connection with or resulting from LICENSEE’s:
(a) production, use, or sale of any LICENSED PRODUCTS;
(b) use of any TECHNOLOGY; or
(c) advertising or other promotional activities with respect to any of the foregoing.
15.6 MVP hereby represents and warrants to BTG and DUKE that MVP has the right to grant the licenses set forth herein under PATENT RIGHTS and MVP TECHNOLOGY, including the license to the technical know-how summarized in Exhibit B, and to the use of the trademark, PURICASETM.
15.7 DUKE hereby represents and warrants to BTG and MVP that DUKE has the right to grant the licenses set forth herein under PATENT RIGHTS and DUKE TECHNOLOGY, including the license to the technical know-how and materials summarized in Exhibit A.
15.8 Each of the LICENSORS hereby separately represents and warrants to BTG that:
(a) it has no actual knowledge, as of the EFFECTIVE DATE, that the use of TECHNOLOGY for the manufacture, use or sale of LICENSED PRODUCTS will infringe any patent or other intellectual property right of any third party in any country in the world, and that, if at any time during the TERM of this AGREEMENT, it becomes aware of any such information, it will promptly disclose such to BTG;
(b) it has no actual knowledge, as of the EFFECTIVE DATE, of any prior art that would raise any issue concerning the validity of any patents issued or to issue on any applications which are included in PATENT RIGHTS, and that, if at any time during the TERM of this AGREEMENT, it becomes aware of any such information, it will promptly disclose such to BTG;
(c) it is not aware of any other agreements, amendments or licenses that affect its authority or ability to enter into this AGREEMENT;
(d) prior to the execution of this AGREEMENT, it has not assigned, encumbered, pledged, mortgaged, used as collateral, granted a security interest or lien in or otherwise engaged in any action that affects its ability to grant LICENSEE the rights granted pursuant to the terms of this AGREEMENT; and
(e) during the TERM of this AGREEMENT, it will not engage in any action that could reasonably be anticipated to adversely affect its ability to grant LICENSEE the rights to manufacture, use and sell LICENSED PRODUCTS anywhere in the world pursuant to the terms of this AGREEMENT.
