As to Intellectual Property Collateral (a) With respect to each item of its Intellectual Property Collateral, each Grantor agrees to take, at its expense, all commercially reasonable steps, including, without limitation, in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office and any other governmental authority, to (i) maintain the validity and enforceability of such Intellectual Property Collateral and maintain such Intellectual Property Collateral in full force and effect, and (ii) pursue the registration and maintenance of each Patent, Trademark, and Copyright registration and application for registration, now or hereafter included in such Intellectual Property Collateral of such Grantor, including, without limitation, the payment of required fees and taxes, the filing of responses to office actions issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office or other governmental authorities, the filing of applications for renewal or extension, the filing of affidavits under Sections 8 and 15 of the U.S. Trademark Act, the filing of divisional, continuation, continuation-in-part, reissue and renewal applications or extensions, the payment of maintenance fees and the participation in interference, reexamination, opposition, cancellation, infringement and misappropriation proceedings, except to the extent such Grantor determines in its reasonable business judgment that (x) such Intellectual Property Collateral is not commercially reasonable to maintain under the circumstances and (y) the failure to act could not reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the business of any Grantor. (b) Each Grantor shall notify the Collateral Agent promptly if it knows or has reason to know that any application or registration relating to any Patent, Trademark or Copyright material to the business of such Grantor may become abandoned or dedicated, or of any adverse determination or development (including the institution of, or any such determination or development in, any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any court but excluding ordinary course rejections and other ordinary course communications from Intellectual Property registries in connection with the prosecution of Intellectual Property applications) regarding such Grantor’s ownership of any Patent, Trademark or Copyright material to the business of such Grantor, its right to register the same, or to keep and maintain the same, except with respect to any Intellectual Property Collateral that Grantor is not required to maintain or pursue pursuant to Sections 10(a) or 10(c). (c) Except to the extent such Grantor determines in its reasonable business judgment that (i) such Intellectual Property Collateral is not commercially reasonable to maintain under the circumstances and (ii) such actions (including permitting the actions of others) and omissions could not reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the business of any Grantor, no Grantor shall do or permit any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby any of its Intellectual Property Collateral may lapse or become invalid or unenforceable or placed in the public domain. (d) Except to the extent such Grantor determines in its reasonable business judgment that (i) such Intellectual Property Collateral is not commercially reasonable to maintain under the circumstances and (ii) the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the business of any Grantor, each Grantor shall take all commercially reasonable steps to preserve each item of its Intellectual Property Collateral, including, without limitation, maintaining the quality of any and all products or services used or provided in connection with any of the Trademarks, consistent with the quality of the products and services as of the date hereof, and taking all steps necessary to ensure that all licensed users of any of the Trademarks use such consistent standards of quality. (e) Each Grantor shall, unless it reasonably determines that such item of Intellectual Property Collateral is not material to the conduct of its business or operations, promptly take such actions as it deems reasonable under the circumstances to protect each item of its Intellectual Property Collateral, which actions may include suing for infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation and recovering any and all damages for such infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation, and upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default shall take such other actions as the Collateral Agent deems appropriate under the circumstances to protect the Intellectual Property Collateral. (f) With respect to its Intellectual Property Collateral, each Grantor agrees to execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent or otherwise authenticate one or more agreements, in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto or otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent (an “Intellectual Property Security Agreement”), for recording the security interest granted hereunder to the Collateral Agent in such Intellectual Property Collateral with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office and any other governmental authorities necessary to perfect the security interest hereunder in such Intellectual Property Collateral. (g) Each Grantor agrees that (i) should it obtain an ownership interest in any item of the type set forth in Section 1(p) that is not on the date hereof a part of the Intellectual Property Collateral, (ii) should it obtain an exclusive license to use any registered Copyrights that are not on the date hereof a part of the Intellectual Property Collateral, or (iii) should it file a Statement of Use or an Amendment to Allege Use with respect to any intent-to-use Trademark application that is not on the date hereof a part of the Intellectual Property Collateral (collectively, the “After-Acquired Intellectual Property”) (x) the provisions of this Agreement shall automatically apply thereto, and (y) any such After-Acquired Intellectual Property and, in the case of Trademarks, the goodwill symbolized thereby, shall automatically become part of the Intellectual Property Collateral subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement with respect thereto. Each Grantor shall, concurrently with the delivery of financial statements under Section 6.01(b) of the Credit Agreement, execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent, or otherwise authenticate, one or more agreements substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto or otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent (each, an “Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplement”) covering such After-Acquired Intellectual Property which Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplement(s) shall be recorded with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office and any other governmental authorities necessary to perfect the security interest hereunder in such After-Acquired Intellectual Property.
Priorities and Agreements With Respect to Shared Collateral Section 2.01.
Intellectual Property Collateral (a) No Grantor shall, unless such Grantor shall either (i) reasonably and in good faith determine (and notice of such determination shall have been delivered to the Administrative Agent) that any of the Patent Collateral is of negligible economic value to such Grantor or (ii) have a valid business purpose (exercised in the ordinary course of business that is consistent with past practice) to do otherwise, do any act, or omit to do any act, whereby any of the Patent Collateral may lapse or become abandoned or dedicated to the public or unenforceable. (b) No Grantor shall, and no Grantor shall permit any of its licensees to, unless such Grantor shall either (i) reasonably and in good faith determine (and notice of such determination shall have been delivered to the Administrative Agent) that any of the Trademark Collateral is of negligible economic value to such Grantor or (ii) have a valid business purpose (exercised in the ordinary course of business that is consistent with past practice) to do otherwise: (A) fail to continue to use any of the Trademark Collateral in order to maintain all of the Trademark Collateral in full force free from any claim of abandonment for non-use; (B) fail to maintain as in the past the quality of products and services offered under all of the Trademark Collateral; (C) fail to employ all of the Trademark Collateral registered with any Federal or state or foreign authority with an appropriate notice of such registration; or (D) do or permit any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby any of the Trademark Collateral may lapse or become invalid or unenforceable. (c) No Grantor shall, unless such Grantor shall either reasonably and in good faith determine (and notice of such determination shall have been delivered to the Administrative Agent) that any of the Copyright Collateral or any of the Trade Secrets Collateral is of negligible economic value to such Grantor or have a valid business purpose (exercised in the ordinary course of business that is consistent with past practice) to do otherwise, do or permit any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby any of the Copyright Collateral or any of the Trade Secrets Collateral may lapse or become invalid or unenforceable or placed in the public domain except upon expiration of the end of an unrenewable term of a registration thereof. (d) Each Grantor shall notify the Administrative Agent immediately if it knows that any application or registration relating to any material item of the Intellectual Property Collateral may become abandoned or dedicated to the public or placed in the public domain or invalid or unenforceable, or of any adverse determination or development (including the institution of, or any such determination or development in, any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any foreign counterpart thereof or any court) regarding such Grantor’s ownership of any of the Intellectual Property Collateral, its right to register the same or to keep and maintain and enforce the same. (e) In no event shall any Grantor or any of its agents, employees, designees or licensees file an application for the registration of any Intellectual Property Collateral with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any similar office or agency in any other country or any political subdivision thereof, unless it gives prior notice thereof to the Administrative Agent and, if requested by the Administrative Agent, executes and delivers any and all agreements, instruments, documents and papers as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to evidence the Administrative Agent first priority security interest in such Intellectual Property Collateral. (f) Each Grantor shall take all necessary steps, including in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any similar office or agency in any other country or any political subdivision thereof, to maintain and pursue any application (and to obtain the relevant registration) filed with respect to, and to maintain any registration of, the Intellectual Property Collateral, including the filing of applications for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of incontestability and opposition, interference and cancellation proceedings and the payment of fees and taxes (except to the extent that dedication, abandonment or invalidation is permitted under the foregoing clauses (a), (b) and (c)).
Rights with respect to Collateral Each Secured Party agrees with all other Secured Parties and the Agent (i) that it shall not, and shall not attempt to, exercise any rights with respect to its security interest in the Collateral, whether pursuant to any other agreement or otherwise (other than pursuant to this Agreement), or take or institute any action against the Agent or any of the other Secured Parties in respect of the Collateral or its rights hereunder (other than any such action arising from the breach of this Agreement) and (ii) that such Secured Party has no other rights with respect to the Collateral other than as set forth in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent, such successor Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Agreement. After any retiring Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder as Agent, the provisions of the Agreement including this Annex B shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Agent.
Covenants as to the Collateral So long as any of the Obligations shall remain outstanding, unless the Collateral Agent shall otherwise consent in writing:
Intellectual Property Covenants (i) Other than to the extent not prohibited herein or in the Credit Agreement, or with respect to registrations and applications no longer used by or useful to Grantors in the applicable Grantor’s business operations, or except to the extent failure to act would not, as deemed by the applicable Grantor in its reasonable business judgment, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, with respect to each registration or pending application of each item of its Intellectual Property for which such Grantor has standing to do so, each Grantor agrees to take, at its expense, all reasonable steps, including, without limitation, in the USPTO, the USCO and any other governmental authority located in the United States, to pursue the registration and maintenance of each Patent, Trademark, or Copyright registration or application now or hereafter included in the Collateral owned by such Grantor that are not Excluded Assets. (ii) Other than to the extent not prohibited herein or in the Credit Agreement, or with respect to registrations and applications no longer used by or useful to Grantors in the applicable Grantor’s business operations, or except as would not, as deemed by the applicable Grantor in its reasonable business judgment, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, no Grantor shall do or permit any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby any Intellectual Property owned by such Grantor, excluding Excluded Assets, may lapse, be terminated, become invalid or unenforceable or placed in the public domain (or in the case of a trade secret, become publicly known). (iii) Other than as excluded or as not prohibited herein or in the Credit Agreement, or with respect to Patents, Copyrights or Trademarks which are no longer used by or useful to Grantors in the applicable Grantor’s business operations, or except where failure to do so would not, as deemed by the applicable Grantor in its reasonable business judgment, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Grantor shall take all reasonable steps to preserve and protect each item of Intellectual Property owned by such Grantor, including, without limitation, maintaining the quality of any and all products or services used or provided in connection with any of the Trademarks owned by such Grantor, consistent with the quality of the products and services as of the Closing Date, and taking reasonable steps necessary to ensure that all licensed users of any of the Trademarks abide by the applicable license’s terms with respect to standards of quality. (iv) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document prevents or shall be deemed to prevent any Grantor from disposing of, discontinuing the use or maintenance of, failing to pursue, or otherwise allowing to lapse, terminate or be put into the public domain, any of its Intellectual Property to the extent permitted by the Credit Agreement if such Grantor determines in its reasonable business judgment that such disposition of, discontinuance, failure to pursue, or other allowance to lapse, termination, or placement in the public domain is desirable in the conduct of its business. (v) Within the same delivery period as required for the delivery of the financial statements required to be delivered under Section 6.01(a) and (b) of the Credit Agreement, the Borrower shall provide a list of any Registered Intellectual Property Collateral owned by all Grantors not listed in any Intellectual Property Security Agreement previously delivered to the Administrative Agent, together with supplemental Intellectual Property Security Agreements covering all such Registered Intellectual Property Collateral duly executed by such Grantors and in proper form for recording, and shall promptly file and record such supplemental Intellectual Property Security Agreements with the USPTO or the USCO, as applicable.
Intellectual Property Matters A. Definitions
Personal Property Collateral The Administrative Agent shall have received, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent: (i) (A) searches of UCC filings in the jurisdiction of incorporation or formation, as applicable, of each Loan Party and each jurisdiction where any Collateral is located or where a filing would need to be made in order to perfect the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, copies of the financing statements on file in such jurisdictions and evidence that no Liens exist other than Permitted Liens and (B) tax lien, judgment and bankruptcy searches; (ii) searches of ownership of Intellectual Property in the appropriate governmental offices and such patent/trademark/copyright filings as requested by the Administrative Agent in order to perfect the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Intellectual Property (and certain of which searches may be provided after the Closing Date as determined by the Administrative Agent); (iii) completed UCC financing statements for each appropriate jurisdiction as is necessary, in the Collateral Agent’s sole discretion, to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Collateral; (iv) stock or membership certificates, if any, evidencing the Pledged Collateral and undated stock or transfer powers duly executed in blank; in each case to the extent such Pledged Collateral is certificated; (v) in the case of any personal property Collateral located at premises leased by a Loan Party and set forth on Schedule 5.21(g), such estoppel letters, consents and waivers from the landlords of such real property to the extent required to be delivered in connection with Section 6.14 (such letters, consents and waivers shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, it being acknowledged and agreed that any Landlord Waiver is satisfactory to the Administrative Agent); (vi) to the extent required to be delivered, filed, registered or recorded pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Collateral Documents, all instruments, documents and chattel paper in the possession of any of the Loan Parties, together with allonges or assignments as may be necessary or appropriate to create and perfect the Administrative Agent’s and the Lenders’ security interest in the Collateral; and (vii) Qualifying Control Agreements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent to the extent required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.14.
Real Property Collateral Within ninety (90) days of the Closing Date or within one hundred twenty (120) days of the acquisition of any such Mortgaged Property, the Administrative Agent shall have received, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders: (a) fully executed and notarized Mortgage Instruments encumbering the Mortgaged Properties listed in Schedule 3.19(d) as to properties owned by the Credit Parties and, to the extent required by the Administrative Agent, the leasehold interest in the Mortgaged Properties listed in Schedule 3.19(d) as to properties that are warehouses, plants or other real properties material to the conduct of the Credit Parties’ business and are leased by the Credit Parties; (b) a title report in respect of each of the Mortgaged Properties; (c) with respect to each Mortgaged Property listed in Schedule 3.19(d), a Mortgage Policy assuring the Administrative Agent that the Mortgage Instrument with respect to such Mortgaged Property creates a valid and enforceable mortgage lien on such Mortgaged Property, free and clear of all defects and encumbrances except Permitted Liens, which Mortgage Policy shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and shall provide for affirmative insurance and such reinsurance as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, all of the foregoing in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; (d) evidence as to (i) whether any Mortgaged Property listed in Schedule 3.19(d) is a Flood Hazard Property and (ii) if any Mortgaged Property is a Flood Hazard Property, (x) whether the community in which such Mortgaged Property is located is participating in the National Flood Insurance Program, (y) the applicable Credit Party’s written acknowledgment of receipt of written notification from the Administrative Agent (I) as to the fact that such Mortgaged Property is a Flood Hazard Property and (II) as to whether the community in which each such Flood Hazard Property is located is participating in the National Flood Insurance Program and (z) copies of insurance policies or certificates of insurance of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries evidencing flood insurance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and naming the Administrative Agent as loss payee on behalf of the Lenders; (e) maps or plats of an as-built survey (or aerial survey to the extent permitted by the Administrative Agent) of the sites of the Mortgaged Properties listed in Schedule 3.19(d) certified to the Administrative Agent and the Title Insurance Company in a manner reasonably satisfactory to them, dated a date satisfactory to each of the Administrative Agent and the Title Insurance Company by an independent professional licensed land surveyor reasonably satisfactory to each of the Administrative Agent and the Title Insurance Company, which maps or plats and the surveys on which they are based shall be sufficient to delete any standard printed survey exception contained in the applicable title policy and be made in accordance with the Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for Land Title Surveys jointly established and adopted by the American Land Title Association and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping in 1992, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, there shall be surveyed and shown on such maps, plats or surveys the following (to the extent applicable): (i) the locations on such sites of all the buildings, structures and other improvements and the established building setback lines; (ii) the lines of streets abutting the sites and width thereof; (iii) all access and other easements appurtenant to the sites necessary to use the sites; (iv) all roadways, paths, driveways, easements, encroachments and overhanging projections and similar encumbrances affecting the site, whether recorded, apparent from a physical inspection of the sites or otherwise known to the surveyor; (v) any encroachments on any adjoining property by the building structures and improvements on the sites; and (vi) if the site is described as being on a filed map, a legend relating the survey to said map; (f) satisfactory environmental reviews of all owned Mortgaged Properties listed in Schedule 3.19(d) and, to the extent requested by the Administrative Agent, all leased Mortgaged Properties listed in Schedule 3.19(d), including but not limited to Phase I environmental assessments, together with reliance letters in favor of the Lenders; (g) opinions of counsel to the Credit Parties for each jurisdiction in which the Mortgaged Properties are located; (h) to the extent available, zoning letters from each municipality or other Governmental Authority for each jurisdiction in which the Mortgaged Properties listed in Schedule 3.19(d) are located; (i) an appraisal of each owned Mortgaged Property, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; and (j) to the extent requested by the Administrative Agent, with respect to each leased Mortgaged Property, (i) a survey certified to the Administrative Agent by a firm of surveyors reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (ii) a landlord lien waiver in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
Suits to Protect the Collateral Subject to the provisions of Article 6 hereof, the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion and without the consent of the Holders, on behalf of the Holders, may take all actions it deems necessary or appropriate in order to: (a) enforce any of the terms of the Security Documents; and (b) collect and receive any and all amounts payable in respect of the Secured Obligations of the Issuer hereunder. Subject to the provisions of the Security Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall have power (but not the obligation) to institute and to maintain such suits and proceedings as it may deem expedient to prevent any impairment of the Collateral by any acts which may be unlawful or in violation of any of the Security Documents or this Indenture, and such suits and proceedings as the Indenture Trustee, in its sole discretion, may deem expedient to preserve or protect its interests and the interests of the Holders in the Collateral (including power to institute and maintain suits or proceedings to restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative or other governmental enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid if the enforcement of, or compliance with, such enactment, rule or order would impair the Lien on the Collateral or be prejudicial to the interests of the Holders or the Indenture Trustee).