Diligence Obligations in Third Party Contractual Obligations. With the goal of minimizing contractual encumbrances on Alnylam Patent Rights with respect to Gene Targets in the absence of a reasonable intent to discover and develop products that modulate such Gene Targets by Third Parties with which Alnylam enters into such contractual obligations, Alnylam intends to seek reasonable diligence obligations from Third Parties in negotiating contracts between Alnylam and such Third Parties that would constitute contractual obligations of Alnylam that would preclude Alnylam from granting licenses to Isis under Section 6.2 with respect to Proposed Reserved DS-Targets; or that would prevent Alnylam from granting Isis licenses with respect to Proposed Reserved DS-Targets; provided that Isis hereby acknowledges that such diligence obligations are often heavily negotiated in biotechnology license and collaboration agreements and that this Section 6.4(h) shall not prevent Alnylam from entering into contracts between Alnylam and Third Parties in accordance with Alnylam’s reasonable business judgment.
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Samples: Strategic Collaboration and License Agreement (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Strategic Collaboration and License Agreement (Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc)
Diligence Obligations in Third Party Contractual Obligations. With the goal of minimizing contractual encumbrances on Alnylam Patent Rights with respect to Gene RNA Targets in the absence of a reasonable intent to discover and develop products that modulate such Gene RNA Targets by Third Parties with which Alnylam enters into such contractual obligations, Alnylam intends to seek reasonable diligence obligations from Third Parties in negotiating contracts between Alnylam and such Third Parties that would constitute contractual obligations of Alnylam that would preclude Alnylam from granting licenses to Isis under Section 6.2 with respect to Proposed Reserved DS-Targets; or that would prevent Alnylam from granting Isis licenses with respect to Proposed Reserved DS-Targets; provided that Isis hereby acknowledges that such diligence obligations are often heavily negotiated in biotechnology license and collaboration agreements and that this Section 6.4(h) shall not prevent Alnylam from entering into contracts between Alnylam and Third Parties in accordance with Alnylam’s reasonable business judgment.
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Samples: Strategic Collaboration and License Agreement (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Strategic Collaboration and License Agreement (Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc)
Diligence Obligations in Third Party Contractual Obligations. With the goal of minimizing contractual encumbrances on Alnylam Patent Rights with respect to Gene Targets in the absence of a reasonable intent to discover and develop products that modulate such Gene Targets by Third Parties with which Alnylam enters into such contractual obligations, Alnylam intends to seek reasonable diligence obligations from Third Parties in negotiating contracts between Alnylam and such Third Parties that would constitute contractual obligations of Alnylam that would preclude Alnylam from granting licenses to Isis under Section 6.2 with respect to Proposed Reserved DS-Targets; Targets or that would prevent Alnylam from granting Isis exclusive licenses with respect to Proposed Reserved DS-Redesignated Targets; provided that Isis hereby acknowledges that such diligence obligations are often heavily negotiated in biotechnology license and collaboration agreements and that this Section 6.4(h) shall not prevent Alnylam from entering into contracts between Alnylam and Third Parties in accordance with Alnylam’s 's reasonable business judgment.
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Samples: Strategic Collaboration and License Agreement (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc)