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• Sales Milestone Payments Artiva shall make the following one-time, non-refundable and non-creditable sales milestone payments to GCLC when the aggregate annual Net Sales of Products in the Territory first reach the thresholds specified below. Artiva shall notify GCLC promptly of the achievement of each such sales threshold. Each sales milestone payment shall be made by Artiva within [***] days after the end of the calendar quarter in which such sales threshold is achieved. To the extent more than one sales threshold is reached in any given calendar year, then the applicable milestone payment for each such achievement shall be due and owing with respect to such calendar year. For clarification, the total milestone payments payable hereunder if all milestone events are achieved is [***].

• License Fees and Royalties Consistent with the applicable U.S. DOT Common Rules, the Recipient agrees that license fees and royalties for patents, patent applications, and inventions produced with federal assistance provided through the Underlying Agreement are program income, and must be used in compliance with federal applicable requirements.

• Milestone Payments In the event that any Sellers believe that any Additional Milestone has been achieved during the Post-Closing Milestone Period, the Sellers’ Representative shall provide notice of such achievement to Purchaser. If Purchaser determines in its sole and reasonable discretion that such Additional Milestone has been achieved during the Post-Closing Milestone Period, then within thirty (30) days of such notice from Sellers’ Representative or, if earlier, within thirty (30) days of Purchaser’s determination that such Additional Milestone has been achieved, Purchaser shall notify Sellers’ Representative of its determination and pay to Sellers the Additional Milestone Payment payable in respect of such Additional Milestone. If Sellers’ Representative delivers such a notice and Purchaser determines, in its sole and reasonable discretion, that the applicable Additional Milestone has not been achieved, then, within thirty (30) days of Sellers’ Representative’s notice Purchaser shall notify Sellers’ Representative of such determination. If Sellers’ Representative believes that Sellers are entitled to payment of all or any portion of an Additional Milestone Payment hereunder which they have not received within thirty (30) days following the achievement of the Additional Milestone for which payment is due, Sellers’ Representative may, not later than twelve (12) months following the achievement of such Additional Milestone, deliver to Purchaser a notice setting forth Sellers’ Representative’s determination that all or a portion of such Additional Milestone Payment is due under this Agreement (the “Post-Closing Assessment Notice”). If Sellers’ Representative does not deliver to Purchaser a Post-Closing Assessment *** Portions of this page have been omitted pursuant to a request for Confidential Treatment filed separately with the Commission. Notice within such twelve (12) month period, then Sellers shall have been deemed to agree that the Additional Milestone has not been met and no payment with respect to such Additional Milestone is due to Sellers hereunder and Sellers shall have no further rights to such Milestone Payment or any portion thereof. Such Post-Closing Assessment Notice may be delivered before or after the expiration of the Post-Closing Milestone Period without affecting Sellers’ rights to the applicable Milestone Payment, provided that that applicable Additional Milestone was actually achieved prior to the expiration of such Post-Closing Milestone Period. If Purchaser shall object to Sellers’ determination that a Additional Milestone has been achieved as set forth in the Post-Closing Assessment Notice, then Purchaser shall deliver a dispute notice (a “Post-Closing Milestone Dispute Notice”) to Sellers’ Representative within fifteen (15) days following Sellers’ Representative’s delivery of the Post-Closing Assessment Notice. A representative of Purchaser, on the one hand, and the Sellers’ Representative, on the other, shall attempt in good faith to resolve any such objections within fifteen (15) days of the receipt by Sellers of the Post-Closing Milestone Dispute Notice. If no Post-Closing Milestone Dispute Notice is delivered within the fifteen (15) day time period, then Sellers’ determination that the Additional Milestone has been achieved, and that the amount of the Milestone Payment specified in the Post-Closing Milestone Dispute Notice is due hereunder, shall be deemed to be accepted and Purchaser shall pay to Sellers those amounts set forth in the Post-Closing Assessment Notice no later than five (5) days after the expiration of such fifteen (15) day time period.

• Development Milestone Payments (i) In addition to the Closing Date Merger Consideration (less the Remaining Option Consideration and Rights Proceeds Amount, if any) and any Net TNF Sales Payments (as defined below), upon the attainment of the development ** Portions of the Exhibit have been omitted and have been filed separately pursuant to an application for confidential treatment filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 24b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. milestones set forth below (each, a “Development Milestone”), Parent shall, or shall cause the Surviving Corporation to, [**] after the occurrence of each Development Milestone, deliver to the Paying Agent (for further payment to the holders of Stock Certificates and Stock Agreements outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time), via wire transfer of immediately available funds, the respective amounts set forth below minus, in each case, the applicable Contingent Consideration Distribution Fee associated therewith and any amount designated by the Stockholders’ Representatives to be placed in the Administrative Expense Account (each, a “Development Milestone Payment” and collectively, the “Development Milestone Payments”): (A) Upon FDA approval of Reslizumab for the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis, a cash payment of [**]; (B) Upon marketing authorization of Reslizumab for the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis being granted by the European Commission in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 726/2004, a cash payment of [**]; (C) If Res 5-0010 Asthma Study Completion has not occurred on or prior to the Closing Date, then upon the occurrence of the Res 5-0010 Asthma Study Completion, a cash payment of $50,000,000 (fifty million dollars) (the “Res 5-0010 Asthma Payment”); (D) Upon FDA approval of Reslizumab for any asthma indication, a cash payment of [**]; (E) Upon marketing authorization of Reslizumab for the treatment of any asthma indication being granted by the European Commission in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 726/2004, a cash payment of [**]; and (F) Upon FDA approval of an Oral Anti-TNF Product, a cash payment of [**].

• Earned Royalties In partial consideration of the License and subject to Sections 3.7 and 3.8, Company will pay to Penn: (i) a graduated royalty as set forth in the table below based upon worldwide annual Net Sales made by Company and its Affiliates (but not sublicensees) of any Designated Compound Sold for use in the Field of Use while covered in the country of Sale of expected use by a Valid Claim of the Assigned BMS Patents that is licensed to Company under the License (but no other Licensed Product): <$500 million [CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED] /*/% >$500 million but <$750 million [CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED] /*/% >$750 million but <$1 billion [CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED] /*/% >$1 billion [CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED] /*/% [CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED] /*/ PATENT LICENSE AGREEMENT (ii) a royalty of [CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED] /*/ percent ([CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED] /*/%) of Net Sales made by Company and its Affiliates (but not sublicensees) for all Licensed Products that qualify as “Licensed Products” hereunder based on clause (b) of that definition and Sold while covered in the country of Sale of expected use by a Valid Claim of the Penn Existing Patents or Penn New Patents; provided that, notwithstanding any credits provided for in Section 3.7 but subject in all events to Section 3.8, royalties payable by Company for such Net Sales for such Licensed Products shall not be less than [CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED] /*/ percent ([CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED] /*/%). Only one royalty shall be due hereunder on the Sale of the same unit of Licensed Product. If a royalty accrues to a Sale of a Licensed Product under both clause (i) and (ii) above, then the higher rate of clause (i) shall apply. Only one royalty shall be due hereunder on the Sale of a Licensed Product even if the manufacture, use, sale, offer for sale or importation of such Licensed Product infringes more than one Valid Claim of the Penn Patent Rights.

• Payment of Royalties To the best of Seller’s knowledge, all royalties and in-lieu royalties with respect to the Assets which accrued or are attributable to the period prior to the Effective Time have been properly and fully paid, or are included within the suspense amounts being conveyed to Buyer pursuant to Section 11.4.

• Minimum Royalties If royalties paid to Licensor do not reach the minimum royalty amounts stated in Section 3.3 of the Patent & Technology License Agreement for the specified periods, Licensee will pay Licensor on or before the Quarterly Payment Deadline for the last Contract Quarter in the stated period an additional amount equal to the difference between the stated minimum royalty amount and the actual royalties paid to Licensor.

• Sales Milestones (a) As to each Therapeutic Product, SANOFI-AVENTIS shall pay MERRIMACK up to a total of Sixty Million Dollars (US$60,000,000) upon the first achievement of the following Net Sales milestones, on a Therapeutic Product-by-Therapeutic Product basis: (i) Total Worldwide Net Sales for such Therapeutic Product exceed $[**] in any four (4) consecutive calendar quarters $ [**] (ii) Total Worldwide Net Sales for such Therapeutic Product exceed $[**] in any four (4) consecutive calendar quarters $ [**] (iii) Total Worldwide Net Sales for Therapeutic Product exceed $[**] in any four (4) consecutive calendar quarters $ [**] (b) Each milestone payment set forth in Section 8.4(a) shall be payable by SANOFI-AVENTIS upon the achievement of the related milestone event by SANOFI-AVENTIS and its Affiliates or sublicensees, and SANOFI-AVENTIS shall provide notice to MERRIMACK promptly upon achievement of such milestone event. SANOFI-AVENTIS shall pay MERRIMACK each such milestone payment within [**] days of such achievement of the related milestone event. (c) For purposes of clarity, more than one of the Net Sales milestones set forth above may be earned in the same four (4) consecutive calendar quarter period with respect to a Therapeutic Product. For example, if total worldwide Net Sales with respect to a given Therapeutic Product have not achieved any of the lower sales milestone thresholds set forth in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 8.3(a) above in any previous four (4) consecutive calendar quarter period, but total worldwide Net Sales with respect to such Therapeutic Product exceed $[**] in a subsequent four (4) consecutive calendar quarter period, then all three milestone payments, totaling $60 Million, payable upon achievement of the sales milestone thresholds set forth in clause (i), (ii) and (iii) of Section 8.3(a) above shall become payable to MERRIMACK hereunder.

• Payments and Royalties 3.1 As an initial non-refundable payment for the licenses and rights herein granted to SHENZHEN HIGH POWER under this Agreement, SHENZHEN HIGH POWER shall pay to OBC the up-front fees, without subtraction or deduction of Chinese withholding taxes, if any, pursuant to the schedule set forth in Appendix II attached hereto. 3.2 In addition to the lump sum payment under Article 3.1 above, SHENZHEN HIGH POWER shall pay to OBC non-refundable running royalties, also pursuant to the schedule set forth in Appendix II hereto, of the Net Selling Price of the Licensed Consumer Hydride Batteries sold or Otherwise Disposed Of by SHENZHEN HIGH POWER and its Affiliates (either directly or through sales representatives or agents) in any country of the world during the period commencing on the Effective Date of this Agreement and ending upon the expiration of the last to expire of the Licensed Patents. 3.3 Notwithstanding that a Licensed Consumer Hydride Battery may be covered by (i) the claims of one or more of the Licensed Patents or (ii) the claims of one or more of the Licensed Patents in one or more countries throughout the world, SHENZHEN HIGH POWER, in connection with the manufacture or sale of the Licensed Consumer Hydride Batteries by SHENZHEN HIGH POWER, its successors or assigns shall be obliged to pay a single royalty hereunder and only on the first sale of such Licensed Consumer Hydride Batteries and not on any subsequent sale or resale thereof and all end-users, distributors, customers, dealers, or suppliers of SHENZHEN HIGH POWER, its successors or assigns of such Licensed Consumer Hydride Batteries shall be licensed to use and/or sell the same. 3.4 All statements submitted and all payments made pursuant to Article 3.1 and Article 3.2 herein shall be stated and made in U.S. legal tender at the selling rate of authorized foreign exchange bankers in various individual countries under the license for transfers to New York in U.S. dollars on the date on which payments are made as required hereunder.

• Running Royalties Company shall pay to JHU a running royalty as set forth in Exhibit A, for each LICENSED PRODUCT(S) sold, and for each LICENSED SERVICE(S) provided, by Company or AFFILIATED COMPANIES, based on NET SALES and NET SERVICE REVENUES for the term of this Agreement. Such payments shall be made quarterly. All non-US taxes related to LICENSED PRODUCT(S) or LICENSED SERVICE(S) sold under this Agreement shall be paid by Company and shall not be deducted from royalty or other payments due to JHU. In order to insure JHU the full royalty payments contemplated hereunder, Company agrees that in the event any LICENSED PRODUCT(S) shall be sold to an AFFILIATED COMPANY or SUBLICENSEE(S) or to a corporation, firm or association with which Company shall have any agreement, understanding or arrangement with respect to consideration (such as, among other things, an option to purchase stock or actual stock ownership, or an arrangement involving division of profits or special rebates or allowances) the royalties to be paid hereunder for such LICENSED PRODUCT(S) shall be based upon the greater of: 1) the net selling price (per NET SALES) at which the purchaser of LICENSED PRODUCT(S) resells such product to the end user, 2) the NET SERVICE REVENUES received from using the LICENSED PRODUCT(S) in providing a service, or 3) the net selling price (per NET SALES) of LICENSED PRODUCT(S) paid by the purchaser. No multiple royalties shall be due or payable because any LICENSED PRODUCT(S) or LICENSED SERVICE(S) is covered by more than one claim of the PATENT RIGHTS or by claims of both the PATENT RIGHTS under this Agreement and “PATENT RIGHTS” under any other license agreement between Company and JHU. The royalty shall not be cumulative based on the number of patents or claims covering a product or service, but rather shall be capped at the rate set forth in Exhibit A.