SECURITY AGREEMENT
Exhibit 10.3
This SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of April [___], 2011, is made by and
among the grantors listed on the signature pages hereof (collectively, jointly and severally, the
“Grantors” and each, individually, a “Grantor”), and the secured parties listed on the signature
pages hereof (collectively, the “Secured Parties” and each, individually, a “Secured Party”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, pursuant to that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2011 (as
may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, including all
schedules thereto, collectively, the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), by and among Converted
Organics Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and each of the Secured Parties, Parent has
agreed to sell, and each of the Secured Parties have each agreed to purchase, severally and not
jointly, certain Notes and Warrants; and
WHEREAS, each Grantor other than Parent is a direct or indirect wholly-owned Subsidiary (as
defined below) of Parent and will receive direct and substantial benefits from the purchase by each
of the Secured Parties of the Notes and Warrants; and
WHEREAS, in order to induce the Secured Parties to purchase, severally and not jointly, the
Notes and Warrants as provided for in the Securities Purchase Agreement, Grantors have agreed to
grant a continuing security interest in and to the Collateral in order to secure the prompt and
complete payment, observance and performance of the Secured Obligations.
AGREEMENTS
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the recitals made above and other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt, sufficiency and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the
parties hereto agree as follows:
1. Defined Terms. All capitalized terms used herein (including in the preamble and
recitals hereof) without definition shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Notes. Any
terms used in this Agreement that are defined in the Code shall be construed and defined as set
forth in the Code unless otherwise defined herein or in the Notes; provided, however, if the Code
is used to define any term used herein and if such term is defined differently in different
Articles of the Code, the definition of such term contained in Article 9 of the Code shall govern.
In addition to those terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, as used in this Agreement, the
following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) “Account” means an account (as that term is defined in the Code).
(b) “Account Debtor” means an account debtor (as that term is defined in the Code).
(c) “Bankruptcy Code” means title 11 of the United States Code, as in effect from time
to time.
(d) “Books” means books and records (including, without limitation, each Grantor’s
Records) indicating, summarizing, or evidencing each Grantor’s assets (including the
Collateral) or liabilities, each Grantor’s Records relating to its business operations
(including, without limitation, stock ledgers) or financial condition, and each Grantor’s
goods or General Intangibles related to such information.
(e) “Chattel Paper” means chattel paper (as that term is defined in the Code) and
includes tangible chattel paper and electronic chattel paper.
(f) “Code” means the New York Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from time to time;
provided, however, in the event that, by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or all
of the attachment, perfection, priority, or remedies with respect to any Secured Party’s
Lien on any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted and in effect
in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “Code” shall mean the Uniform
Commercial Code as enacted and in effect in such other jurisdiction solely for purposes of
the provisions thereof relating to such attachment, perfection, priority, or remedies.
(g) “Collateral” has the meaning specified therefor in Section 2.
(h) “Commencement Notice” means a written notice, given by any Secured Party to the
other Secured Parties in accordance with the notice provisions set forth in the Securities
Purchase Agreement, pursuant to which such Secured Party notifies the other Secured Parties
of the existence of one or more Events of Default and of such Secured Party’s intent to
commence the exercise of one or more of the remedies provided for under this Agreement with
respect to all or any portion of the Collateral as a consequence thereof, which notice shall
incorporate a reasonably detailed description of each Event of Default then existing and of
the remedial action proposed to be taken.
(i) “Commercial Tort Claims” means commercial tort claims (as that term is defined in
the Code), and includes those commercial tort claims listed on Schedule 1 attached
hereto.
(j) “Control Agreement” means a control agreement, in form and substance satisfactory
to Secured Parties, executed and delivered by a Grantor, one or more Secured Parties, and
the applicable securities intermediary (with respect to a Securities Account) or bank (with
respect to a Deposit Account), as may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise
modified from time to time.
(k) “Copyrights” means all copyrights and copyright registrations, and also includes
(i) the copyright registrations and recordings thereof and all applications in connection
therewith listed on Schedule 2 attached hereto and made a part hereof, (ii) all
reissues, continuations, extensions or renewals thereof, (iii) all income, royalties,
damages and payments now and hereafter due or payable under and with respect thereto,
including payments under all licenses entered into in connection therewith and damages and
payments for past or future infringements or dilutions thereof, (iv) the right to xxx for
past, present and future infringements and dilutions thereof, (v) the goodwill of each
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Grantor’s business symbolized by the foregoing or connected therewith, and (vi) all of
each Grantor’s rights corresponding thereto throughout the world.
(l) “Copyright Security Agreement” means each Copyright Security Agreement among
Grantors, or any of them, and Secured Parties, in substantially the form of Exhibit
A attached hereto, pursuant to which Grantors have granted to each Secured Party a
security interest in all their respective Copyrights, as may be amended, restated,
supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time.
(m) “Deposit Account” means a deposit account (as that term is defined in the Code).
(n) “Equipment” means all equipment (as that term is defined in the Code) in all of its
forms of the applicable Grantor, wherever located, and including, without limitation, all
machinery, apparatus, installation facilities and other tangible personal property, and all
parts thereof and all accessions, additions, attachments, improvements, substitutions,
replacements and proceeds thereto and therefor.
(o) “Event of Default” has the meaning specified therefor in the Notes.
(p) “General Intangibles” means general intangibles (as that term is defined in the
Code) and, in any event, includes payment intangibles, contract rights, rights to payment,
rights arising under common law, statutes, or regulations, choses or things in action,
goodwill (including the goodwill associated with any Trademark, Patent, or Copyright),
Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, URLs and domain names, industrial designs, other industrial
or Intellectual Property or rights therein or applications therefor, whether under license
or otherwise, programs, programming materials, blueprints, drawings, purchase orders,
customer lists, monies due or recoverable from pension funds, route lists, rights to payment
and other rights under any royalty or licensing agreements, including Intellectual Property
Licenses, infringement claims, computer programs, information contained on computer disks or
tapes, software, literature, reports, catalogs, pension plan refunds, pension plan refund
claims, insurance premium rebates, tax refunds, and tax refund claims, interests in a
partnership or limited liability company which do not constitute a security under Article 8
of the Code, and any other personal property other than Commercial Tort Claims, money,
Accounts, Chattel Paper, Deposit Accounts, goods, Investment Related Property, Negotiable
Collateral, and oil, gas, or other minerals before extraction.
(q) “Governmental Authority” means any domestic or foreign federal, state, local, or
other governmental or administrative body, instrumentality, board, department, or agency or
any court, tribunal, administrative hearing body, arbitration panel, commission, or other
similar dispute-resolving panel or body.
(r) “Guaranty” means each Guaranty, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D,
executed by each Guarantor in favor of any or all of the Secured Parties, together with any
other guaranty or similar agreement now or hereafter executed by a Guarantor in favor of any
or all of the Secured Parties in connection with the Notes or any of the other
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Transaction Documents, as may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified
from time to time, and all of the foregoing are collectively referred to herein as the
“Guaranties.”
(s) “Guarantor” means each Grantor, other than Parent, and each other Person that now
or hereafter executes a Guaranty.
(t) “Insolvency Proceeding” means any proceeding commenced by or against any Person
under any provision of the Bankruptcy Code or under any other state or federal bankruptcy or
insolvency law or any equivalent laws in any other jurisdiction, assignments for the benefit
of creditors, formal or informal moratoria, compositions, extensions generally with
creditors, or proceedings seeking reorganization, arrangement, or other similar relief.
(u) “Intellectual Property” means Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, the goodwill
associated with such Trademarks, trade secrets and customer lists, and Intellectual Property
Licenses.
(v) “Intellectual Property Licenses” means rights under or interests in any patent,
trademark, copyright or other intellectual property, including software license agreements
with any other party, whether the applicable Grantor is a licensee or licensor under any
such license agreement, including the license agreements listed on Schedule 3
attached hereto and made a part hereof, as may be amended, restated, supplemented, or
otherwise modified from time to time.
(w) “Inventory” means all inventory (as that term is defined in the Code) in all of its
forms of the applicable Grantor, wherever located, including, without limitation, (i) all
goods in which the applicable Grantor has an interest in mass or a joint or other interest
or right of any kind (including goods in which the applicable Grantor has an interest or
right as consignee), and (ii) all goods which are returned to or repossessed by the
applicable Grantor, and all accessions thereto, products thereof and documents therefor.
(x) “Investment Related Property” means (i) investment property (as that term is
defined in the Code), and (ii) all of the following (regardless of whether classified as
investment property under the Code): all Pledged Interests, Pledged Operating Agreements,
and Pledged Partnership Agreements.
(y) “Lien” has the meaning specified therefor in the Notes.
(z) “Negotiable Collateral” means letters of credit, letter-of-credit rights,
instruments, promissory notes, drafts, and documents.
(aa) “New Subsidiary” has the meaning specified therefor in the Notes.
(bb) “Notes” has the meaning specified therefor in the Securities Purchase Agreement.
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(cc) “Patents” means all patents and patent applications, and also includes (i) the
patents and patent applications listed on Schedule 4 attached hereto and made a part
hereof, (ii) all renewals thereof, (iii) all income, royalties, damages and payments now and
hereafter due or payable under and with respect thereto, including payments under all
licenses entered into in connection therewith and damages and payments for past or future
infringements or dilutions thereof, (iv) the right to xxx for past, present and future
infringements and dilutions thereof, and (v) all of each Grantor’s rights corresponding
thereto throughout the world.
(dd) “Patent Security Agreement” means each Patent Security Agreement among Grantors
and Secured Parties in substantially the form of Exhibit B attached hereto, pursuant
to which Grantors have granted to each Secured Party a security interest in all their
respective Patents, as may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from
time to time.
(ee) “Permitted Liens” has the meaning specified therefor in the Notes.
(ff) “Permitted Secured Party” means, with respect to the exercise of any remedy
provided for under this Agreement, any Secured Party that has delivered a Commencement
Notice with respect to the exercise of such remedy to the other Secured Parties and has not
received a Veto Notice with respect thereto within the Veto Period; provided, however, there
shall only be a single Permitted Secured Party that may exercise any specific remedy at any
one time (it being agreed that if a Commencement Notice is delivered by more than one
Secured Party with respect to any remedy provided for under this Agreement, then the first
Secured Party to deliver a Commencement Notice and not receive a Veto Notice within the Veto
Period shall be the only Secured Party that may exercise such remedy).
(gg) “Person” has the meaning specified therefor in the Securities Purchase Agreement.
(hh) “Pledged Companies” means, each Person listed on Schedule 5 hereto as a
“Pledged Company,” together with each other Person all or a portion of whose Stock is
acquired or otherwise owned by a Grantor after the date hereof.
(ii) “Pledged Interests” means all of each Grantor’s right, title and interest in and
to all of the Stock now or hereafter owned by such Grantor, regardless of class or
designation, including all substitutions therefor and replacements thereof, all proceeds
thereof and all rights relating thereto, also including any certificates representing the
Stock, the right to receive any certificates representing any of the Stock, all warrants,
options, share appreciation rights and other rights, contractual or otherwise, in respect
thereof, and the right to receive dividends, distributions of income, profits, surplus, or
other compensation by way of income or liquidating distributions, in cash or in kind, and
cash, instruments, and other property from time to time received, receivable, or otherwise
distributed in respect of or in addition to, in substitution of, on account of, or in
exchange for any or all of the foregoing.
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(jj) “Pledged Operating Agreements” means all of each Grantor’s rights, powers, and
remedies under the limited liability company operating agreements of each of the Pledged
Companies that are limited liability companies, as may be amended, restated, supplemented,
or otherwise modified from time to time.
(kk) “Pledged Partnership Agreements” means all of each Grantor’s rights, powers, and
remedies under the partnership agreements of each of the Pledged Companies that are
partnerships, as may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to
time.
(ll) “Proceeds” has the meaning specified therefor in Section 2.
(mm) “PPSA” means the Personal Property Security Act (British Columbia), as in effect
from time to time.
(nn) “Real Property” means any estates or interests in real property now owned or
hereafter acquired by any Grantor and the improvements thereto.
(oo) “Records” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or which is
stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
(pp) “Secured Obligations” mean all of the present and future payment and performance
obligations of Grantors arising under this Agreement, the Notes, the Guaranties, and the
other Transaction Documents, including, without duplication, reasonable attorneys’ fees and
expenses and any interest, fees, or expenses that accrue after the filing of an Insolvency
Proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in whole or in part as a claim in any
Insolvency Proceeding.
(qq) “Securities Account” means a securities account (as that term is defined in the
Code).
(rr) “Security Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, each Copyright Security
Agreement, each Patent Security Agreement, each Trademark Security Agreement, each Control
Agreement, and each other security agreement, pledge agreement, assignment, mortgage,
security deed, deed of trust, and other agreement or document executed and delivered by a
Grantor as security for any of the Secured Obligations, as may be amended, restated,
supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time.
(ss) “Security Interest” and “Security Interests” have the meanings specified therefor
in Section 2.
(tt) “Significant Secured Party” means, on any date of determination, any Secured Party
holding twenty five percent (25%) or more of the aggregate principal amount of Notes
outstanding on such date.
(uu) “Stock” means all shares, options, warrants, interests (including, without
limitation, membership and partnership interests), participations, or other equivalents
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(regardless of how designated) of or in a Person, whether voting or nonvoting,
including common stock, preferred stock, or any other “equity security” (as such term is
defined in Rule 3a11-1 of the General Rules and Regulations promulgated by the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission and any successor thereto under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as in effect from time to time).
(vv) “Subsidiaries” and “Subsidiary” each have the meanings specified therefor in the
Notes.
(ww) “Supporting Obligations” means supporting obligations (as such term is defined in
the Code).
(xx) “Trademarks” means all trademarks, trade names, trademark applications, service
marks, service xxxx applications, and also includes (i) the trade names, trademarks,
trademark applications, service marks, and service xxxx applications listed on Schedule
6 attached hereto and made a part hereof, and (ii) all renewals thereof, (iii) all
income, royalties, damages and payments now and hereafter due or payable under and with
respect thereto, including payments under all licenses entered into in connection therewith
and damages and payments for past or future infringements or dilutions thereof, (iv) the
right to xxx for past, present and future infringements and dilutions thereof, (v) the
goodwill of each Grantor’s business symbolized by the foregoing or connected therewith, and
(vi) all of each Grantor’s rights corresponding thereto throughout the world.
(yy) “Trademark Security Agreement” means each Trademark Security Agreement among
Grantors and Secured Parties in substantially the form of Exhibit C attached hereto,
pursuant to which Grantors have granted to each Secured Party a security interest in all
their respective Trademarks.
(zz) “Transaction Documents” has the meaning specified therefor in the Securities
Purchase Agreement.
(aaa) “URL” means “uniform resource locator,” an internet web address.
(bbb) “Veto Notice” means, with respect to any Commencement Notice, a written notice
given by any Significant Secured Party to the other Secured Parties in accordance with the
notice provisions set forth in the Securities Purchase Agreement pursuant to which such
Significant Secured Party notifies the other Secured Parties of its objection to the
commencement of the remedial action specified in such Commencement Notice and certifies
that, to the best of its knowledge, it is a Significant Secured Party.
(ccc) “Veto Period” means, with respect to any Commencement Notice (other than a
Commencement Notice given by a Significant Secured Party at a time when such Significant
Secured Party is the only the Significant Secured Party), the period of ten (10) consecutive
calendar days following the delivery of such Commencement Notice to the Secured Parties.
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2. Grant of Security. Each Grantor hereby unconditionally grants, assigns, and pledges
to each Secured Party a separate, continuing security interest (each, a “Security Interest” and,
collectively, the “Security Interests”) in all assets of such Grantor (other than Real Property)
whether now owned or hereafter acquired or arising and wherever located (collectively, the
“Collateral”), including, without limitation, such Grantor’s right, title, and interest in and to
the following, whether now owned or hereafter acquired or arising and wherever located:
(a) all of such Grantor’s Accounts;
(b) all of such Grantor’s Books;
(c) all of such Grantor’s Chattel Paper;
(d) all of such Grantor’s Deposit Accounts;
(e) all of such Grantor’s Equipment and fixtures;
(f) all of such Grantor’s General Intangibles;
(g) all of such Grantor’s Inventory;
(h) all of such Grantor’s Investment Related Property;
(i) all of such Grantor’s Negotiable Collateral;
(j) all of such Grantor’s rights in respect of Supporting Obligations;
(k) all of such Grantor’s Commercial Tort Claims;
(l) all of such Grantor’s money, cash, cash equivalents, or other assets of each such
Grantor that now or hereafter come into the possession, custody, or control of any Secured
Party;
(m) all of the proceeds and products, whether tangible or intangible, of any of the
foregoing, including proceeds of insurance or Commercial Tort Claims covering or relating to
any or all of the foregoing, and any and all Accounts, Books, Chattel Paper, Deposit
Accounts, Equipment, General Intangibles, Inventory, Investment Related Property, Negotiable
Collateral, Supporting Obligations, money, or other tangible or intangible property
resulting from the sale, lease, license, exchange, collection, or other disposition of any
of the foregoing, the proceeds of any award in condemnation with respect to any of the
foregoing, any rebates or refunds, whether for taxes or otherwise, and all proceeds of any
such proceeds, or any portion thereof or interest therein, and the proceeds thereof, and all
proceeds of any loss of, damage to, or destruction of the above, whether insured or not
insured, and, to the extent not otherwise included, any indemnity, warranty, or guaranty
payable by reason of loss or damage to, or otherwise with respect to any of the foregoing
(the “Proceeds”). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Proceeds”
includes whatever is receivable or received when Investment Related
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Property or proceeds are sold, exchanged, collected, or otherwise disposed of, whether
such disposition is voluntary or involuntary, and includes proceeds of any indemnity or
guaranty payable to any Grantor or any Secured Party from time to time with respect to any
of the Investment Related Property.
3. Security for Obligations. This Agreement and the Security Interests created hereby
secure the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations, whether now existing or arising
hereafter. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this Agreement secures the payment of
all amounts which constitute part of the Secured Obligations and would be owed by Grantors, or any
of them, to Secured Parties, or any of them, but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not
allowable due to the existence of an Insolvency Proceeding involving any Grantor.
4. Grantors Remain Liable. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (a) each
of the Grantors shall remain liable under the contracts and agreements included in the Collateral,
including the Pledged Operating Agreements and the Pledged Partnership Agreements, to perform all
of the duties and obligations thereunder to the same extent as if this Agreement had not been
executed, (b) the exercise by Secured Parties, or any of them, of any of the rights hereunder shall
not release any Grantor from any of its duties or obligations under such contracts and agreements
included in the Collateral, and (c) no Secured Party shall have any obligation or liability under
such contracts and agreements included in the Collateral by reason of this Agreement, nor shall any
Secured Party be obligated to perform any of the obligations or duties of any Grantor thereunder or
to take any action to collect or enforce any claim for payment assigned hereunder. Until an Event
of Default shall occur and be continuing, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or any
other Transaction Document, Grantors shall have the right to possession and enjoyment of the
Collateral for the purpose of conducting the ordinary course of their respective businesses,
subject to and upon the terms hereof and the other Transaction Documents. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, it is the intention of the parties hereto that record and beneficial
ownership of the Pledged Interests, including all voting, consensual, and dividend rights, shall
remain in the applicable Grantor until the occurrence of an Event of Default and until any Secured
Party shall notify the applicable Grantor of such Secured Party’s exercise of voting, consensual,
or dividend rights with respect to the Pledged Interests pursuant to Section 15 hereof.
5. Representations and Warranties. Each Grantor hereby represents and warrants as
follows:
(a) The exact legal name of each of the Grantors is set forth on the signature pages of
this Agreement.
(b) Schedule 7 attached hereto sets forth (i) all Real Property owned or leased
by Grantors, together with all other locations of Collateral, as of the date hereof, and
(ii) the chief executive office of each Grantor as of the date hereof.
(c) As of the date hereof, no Grantor has any interest in, or title to, any Copyrights,
Intellectual Property Licenses, Patents, or Trademarks except as set forth on Schedules
2, 3, 4 and 6, respectively, attached hereto. This Agreement is effective to
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create a valid and continuing Lien on such Copyrights, Intellectual Property Licenses,
Patents and Trademarks and, upon filing of the Copyright Security Agreement with the United
States Copyright Office and filing of the Patent Security Agreement and the Trademark
Security Agreement with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the filing of
appropriate financing statements in the jurisdictions listed on Schedule 8 hereto,
all action necessary or desirable to protect and perfect the Security Interests in and to
each Grantor’s Patents, Trademarks, or Copyrights has been taken and such perfected Security
Interests are enforceable as such as against any and all creditors of and purchasers from
any Grantor. No Grantor has any interest in any Copyright that is necessary in connection
with the operation of such Grantor’s business, except for those Copyrights identified on
Schedule 2 attached hereto which have been registered with the United States
Copyright Office.
(d) This Agreement creates a valid security interest in all of the Collateral of each
Grantor, to the extent a security interest therein can be created under the Code or the PPSA
(as applicable), securing the payment of the Secured Obligations. Except to the extent a
security interest in the Collateral cannot be perfected by the filing of a financing
statement under the Code or the PPSA, all filings and other actions necessary or desirable
to perfect and protect such security interest have been duly taken or will have been taken
upon the filing of financing statements listing each applicable Grantor, as a debtor, and
Secured Parties, as secured parties, in the jurisdictions listed next to such Grantor’s name
on Schedule 8 attached hereto. Upon the making of such filings, Secured Parties
shall each have a first priority perfected security interest in all of the Collateral of
each Grantor to the extent such security interest can be perfected by the filing of a
financing statement. All action by any Grantor necessary to protect and perfect such
security interest on each item of Collateral has been duly taken.
(e) (i) Except for the Security Interests created hereby, such Grantor is and will at
all times be the sole holder of record and the legal and beneficial owner, free and clear of
all Liens other than Permitted Liens, of the Pledged Interests indicated on Schedule
5 as being owned by such Grantor and, when acquired by such Grantor, any Pledged
Interests acquired after the date hereof; (ii) all of the Pledged Interests are duly
authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and the Pledged Interests
constitute or will constitute the percentage of the issued and outstanding Stock of the
Pledged Companies of such Grantor identified on Schedule 5 hereto; (iii) such
Grantor has the right and requisite authority to pledge all Investment Related Property
pledged by such Grantor to each Secured Party as provided herein; (iv) all actions necessary
or desirable to perfect, establish the first priority of, or otherwise protect, Secured
Parties’ respective Liens in the Investment Related Property pledged hereunder, and the
proceeds thereof, have been duly taken, (A) upon the execution and delivery of this
Agreement; (B) upon the taking of possession by any Secured Party of any certificates
constituting the Pledged Interests, to the extent such Pledged Interests are represented by
certificates, together with undated powers endorsed in blank by the applicable Grantor; (C)
upon the filing of financing statements in the applicable jurisdiction set forth on
Schedule 8 attached hereto for such Grantor with respect to the Pledged Interests of
such Grantor that are not represented by certificates, and (D) with respect to any
Securities Accounts, upon the delivery of Control Agreements with respect thereto; and (v)
each Grantor has
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delivered to and deposited with any Secured Party (or, with respect to any Pledged
Interests created or obtained after the date hereof, will deliver and deposit in accordance
with Sections 6(a) and 8 hereof) all certificates representing the Pledged Interests now or
hereafter owned by such Grantor to the extent such Pledged Interests are represented by
certificates, and undated powers endorsed in blank with respect to such certificates. None
of the Pledged Interests owned or held by such Grantor has been issued or transferred in
violation of any securities registration, securities disclosure, or similar laws of any
jurisdiction to which such issuance or transfer may be subject.
(f) No consent, approval, authorization, or other order or other action by, and no
notice to or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is required (i) for
the grant of a Security Interest by such Grantor in and to the Collateral pursuant to this
Agreement or for the execution, delivery, or performance of this Agreement by such Grantor,
or (ii) for the exercise by any Secured Party of the voting or other rights provided in this
Agreement with respect to Investment Related Property pledged hereunder or the remedies in
respect of the Collateral pursuant to this Agreement, except (A) as may be required in
connection with such disposition of Investment Related Property by laws affecting the
offering and sale of securities generally and (B) for any consent that may be required for
the assignment of any Intellectual Property License that expressly provides that such
Intellectual Property License is not assignable (or is not assignable without the consent of
the other party to such Intellectual Property License).
(g) Schedule 9 contains a complete and accurate list of all of each Grantor’s
Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts, including, without limitation, with respect to
each bank or securities intermediary (a) the name and address of such Person and (b) the
account numbers of such accounts maintained with such Person.
6. Covenants. Each Grantor, jointly and severally, covenants and agrees with each
Secured Party that from and after the date of this Agreement and until the date of termination of
this Agreement in accordance with Section 24 hereof (but only to the extent the particular assets
described in this Section 6 constitute Collateral hereunder):
(a) Possession of Collateral. In the event that any Collateral, including
proceeds, is evidenced by or consists of Negotiable Collateral, Investment Related Property,
or Chattel Paper, and if and to the extent that perfection or priority of Secured Parties’
respective Security Interests is dependent on or enhanced by possession, the applicable
Grantor, immediately upon the request of any Secured Party, shall execute such other
documents and instruments as shall be requested by such Secured Party or, if applicable,
endorse and deliver physical possession of such Negotiable Collateral, Investment Related
Property, or Chattel Paper to such Secured Party, together with such undated powers endorsed
in blank as shall be requested by such Secured Party.
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(b) Chattel Paper.
(i) Each Grantor shall take all steps reasonably necessary to grant
each Secured Party control of all Chattel Paper in accordance with the Code and the
PPSA and all “transferable records” as that term is defined in Section 16 of the
Uniform Electronic Purchase Act and Section 201 of the federal Electronic Signatures
in Global and National Commerce Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction; and
(ii) If any Grantor retains possession of any Chattel Paper or
instruments (which retention of possession shall be subject to the extent permitted
hereby and by the Securities Purchase Agreement), promptly upon the request of any
Secured Party, such Chattel Paper and instruments shall be marked with the following
legend: “This writing and the obligations evidenced or secured hereby are subject to
the Security Interests of [names of Secured Parties].”
(c) Control Agreements. No Grantor shall establish or maintain any Deposit
Account or Securities Account (or any other similar account) unless (i) the Grantors shall
have provided each Secured Party with ten (10) days’ advance written notice of each such
account or (ii) the Secured Parties shall have received a Control Agreement in respect of
such account concurrently with the opening thereof or on the Closing Date (as applicable).
Each Grantor shall ensure that all of its Account Debtors forward payment of the amounts
owed by them directly to a Deposit Account that is subject to a Control Agreement and
deposit or cause to be deposited promptly, and in any event no later than the first Business
Day after the date of receipt thereof, all of their collections (including those sent
directly by their Account Debtors to a Grantor) into a Deposit Account subject to a Control
Agreement.
(d) Letter-of-Credit Rights. Each Grantor that is or becomes the beneficiary
of a letter of credit shall promptly (and in any event within 2 Business Days after becoming
a beneficiary) notify Secured Parties thereof and, upon the request by any Secured Party,
enter into a multi-party agreement with Secured Parties and the issuing or confirming bank
with respect to letter-of-credit rights assigning such letter-of-credit rights to Secured
Parties and directing all payments thereunder to Secured Parties, all in form and substance
satisfactory to Secured Parties.
(e) Commercial Tort Claims. Each Grantor shall promptly (and in any event
within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof) notify Secured Parties in writing upon
incurring or otherwise obtaining a Commercial Tort Claim after the date hereof and, upon
request of any Secured Party, promptly amend Schedule 1 to this Agreement to
describe such after-acquired Commercial Tort Claim in a manner that reasonably identifies
such Commercial Tort Claim, and hereby authorizes the filing of additional financing
statements or amendments to existing financing statements describing such Commercial Tort
Claims, and agrees to do such other acts or things deemed necessary or desirable by any
Secured Party to give Secured Parties a first priority, perfected security interest in any
such Commercial Tort Claim.
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(f) Government Contracts. If any Account or Chattel Paper arises out of a
contract or contracts with the United States of America, the federal or any provincial
government of Canada or any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, Grantors shall
promptly (and in any event within 2 Business Days of the creation thereof) notify Secured
Parties thereof in writing and execute any instruments or take any steps reasonably required
by any Secured Party in order that all moneys due or to become due under such contract or
contracts shall be assigned to Secured Parties, and shall provide written notice thereof and
take all other appropriate actions under the Assignment of Claims Act or other applicable
law to provide each Secured Party a first-priority perfected security interest in such
contract.
(g) Intellectual Property.
(i) Upon request of any Secured Party, in order to facilitate filings
with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright
Office or any other applicable Governmental Authority, each Grantor shall execute and
deliver to Secured Parties one or more Copyright Security Agreements, Trademark
Security Agreements, or Patent Security Agreements to further evidence Secured
Parties’ respective Liens on such Grantor’s Copyrights, Trademarks or Patents.
(ii) Each Grantor shall have the duty (A) to promptly xxx for
infringement, misappropriation, or dilution with respect to its rights in
Intellectual Property to the extent such Intellectual Property is material to the
business of such Grantor, and to recover any and all damages for such infringement,
misappropriation, or dilution, (B) to prosecute diligently any trademark application
or service xxxx application that is part of the Trademarks pending as of the date
hereof or hereafter until the termination of this Agreement, (C) to prosecute
diligently any patent application that is material to the business of such Grantor
that is part of the Patents pending as of the date hereof or hereafter until the
termination of this Agreement, and (D) to take all reasonable and necessary action to
preserve and maintain all of each Grantor’s Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights,
Intellectual Property Licenses, and its rights therein, including the filing of
applications for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of noncontestability and
opposition and interference and cancellation proceedings. Each Grantor shall
promptly file an application with the United States Copyright Office for any
Copyright that is material to the business of such Grantor and that has not been
registered with the United States Copyright Office. Each Grantor shall promptly file
an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for any Patent or
Trademark that is material to the business of such Grantor and that has not been
registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Any expenses incurred
in connection with the foregoing shall be borne by Grantors. Each Grantor further
agrees not to abandon any Trademark, Patent, Copyright, or Intellectual Property
License that is material to the business of such Grantor.
(iii) Grantors acknowledge and agree that Secured Parties shall have
no duties with respect to the Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights, or Intellectual
Property
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Licenses. Without limiting the generality of this Section 6(g), Grantors
acknowledge and agree that no Secured Party shall be under any obligation to take any
steps necessary to preserve rights in the Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights, or
Intellectual Property Licenses against any other Person, but any Secured Party may do
so at its option from and after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event
of Default, and all expenses incurred in connection therewith (including fees and
expenses of attorneys and other professionals) shall be for the sole account of the
Grantors and shall be deemed to be Secured Obligations.
(h) Investment Related Property.
(i) If any Grantor shall receive or become entitled to receive any
Pledged Interests after the date hereof, it shall promptly (and in any event within 2
Business Days of receipt thereof) identify such Pledged Interests in a written notice
to Secured Parties;
(ii) All sums of money and property paid or distributed in respect of
the Investment Related Property pledged hereunder which are received by any Grantor
shall be held by the Grantors in trust for the benefit of Secured Parties in a
Deposit Account subject to a Control Agreement;
(iii) Each Grantor shall promptly deliver to Secured Parties a copy of
each notice or other communication received by it in respect of any Pledged
Interests;
(iv) No Grantor shall make or consent to any material amendment or
other modification or waiver with respect to any Pledged Interests, Pledged Operating
Agreement, or Pledged Partnership Agreement, or enter into any agreement or permit to
exist any restriction with respect to any Pledged Interests;
(v) Each Grantor agrees that it will cooperate with Secured Parties in
obtaining all necessary approvals and making all necessary filings under federal,
state, local, or foreign law in connection with the Security Interests on the
Investment Related Property pledged hereunder or any sale or transfer thereof; and
(vi) As to all limited liability company or partnership interests
issued under any Pledged Operating Agreement or Pledged Partnership Agreement, each
Grantor hereby represents, warrants and covenants that the Pledged Interests issued
pursuant to such agreement (A) are not and shall not be dealt in or traded on
securities exchanges or in securities markets, (B) do not and will not constitute
investment company securities, and (C) are not and will not be held by such Grantor
in a securities account. In addition, none of the Pledged Operating Agreements, the
Pledged Partnership Agreements, or any other agreements governing any of the Pledged
Interests issued under any Pledged Operating Agreement or Pledged Partnership
Agreement, provide or shall provide that such Pledged Interests are securities
governed by Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any relevant
jurisdiction.
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(i) Transfers and Other Liens. Grantors shall not (i) sell, lease, license,
assign (by operation of law or otherwise), transfer or otherwise dispose of, or grant any
option with respect to, any of the Collateral, except as expressly permitted by this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, or (ii) create or permit to exist any Lien
upon or with respect to any of the Collateral of any of Grantors, except for Permitted
Liens. The inclusion of Proceeds in the Collateral shall not be deemed to constitute
consent by any Secured Party to any sale or other disposition of any of the Collateral
except as expressly permitted in this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents.
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, Permitted Liens shall
not be permitted with respect to any Pledged Interests.
(j) Preservation of Existence. Each Grantor shall maintain and preserve its
existence, rights and privileges, and become or remain duly qualified and in good standing
in each jurisdiction in which the character of the properties owned or leased by it or in
which the transaction of its business makes such qualification necessary.
(k) Maintenance of Properties. Each Grantor shall maintain and preserve all of
its properties which are necessary or useful in the proper conduct of its business in good
working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and comply at all times with
the provisions of all leases to which it is a party as lessee or under which it occupies
property, so as to prevent any loss or forfeiture thereof or thereunder.
(l) Maintenance of Insurance. Each Grantor shall maintain insurance with
responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations (including, without
limitation, comprehensive general liability, property, hazard, rent and business
interruption insurance) with respect to all of its assets and properties (including, without
limitation, all real properties leased or owned by it and any and all Inventory and
Equipment) and business, in such amounts and covering such risks as is required by any
governmental authority having jurisdiction with respect thereto or as is carried generally
in accordance with sound business practice by companies in similar businesses similarly
situated, in each case, acceptable to the Secured Parties.
(m) Other Actions as to Any and All Collateral. Each Grantor shall promptly
(and in any event within ten (10) Business Days of acquiring or obtaining such Collateral)
notify Secured Parties in writing upon (i) acquiring or otherwise obtaining any Collateral
after the date hereof consisting of Trademarks, Patents, registered Copyrights, Intellectual
Property Licenses, Investment Related Property, Chattel Paper (electronic, tangible or
otherwise), documents (as defined in Article 9 of the Code), promissory notes (as defined in
the Code, or instruments (as defined in the Code) or (ii) any amount payable under or in
connection with any of the Collateral being or becoming evidenced after the date hereof by
any Chattel Paper, documents, promissory notes, or instruments and, in each such case upon
the request of any Secured Party, promptly execute such other documents, or if applicable,
deliver such Chattel Paper, other documents or certificates evidencing any Investment
Related Property and do such other acts or things deemed necessary or desirable by any
Secured Party to protect Secured Parties’ respective Security Interests therein.
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7. Relation to Other Transaction Documents. The provisions of this Agreement shall be
read and construed with the Transaction Documents referred to below in the manner so indicated.
(a) Securities Purchase Agreement and Notes. In the event of any conflict
between any provision in this Agreement and any provision in the Securities Purchase
Agreement or Notes, such provision of the Securities Purchase Agreement or Notes shall
control, except to the extent the applicable provision in this Agreement is more restrictive
with respect to the rights of Grantors or imposes more burdensome or additional obligations
on Grantors, in which event the applicable provision in this Agreement shall control.
(b) Patent, Trademark, Copyright Security Agreements. The provisions of the
Copyright Security Agreements, Trademark Security Agreements, and Patent Security Agreements
are supplemental to the provisions of this Agreement, and nothing contained in the Copyright
Security Agreements, Trademark Security Agreements or the Patent Security Agreements shall
limit any of the rights or remedies of any Secured Party hereunder.
8. Further Assurances.
(a) Each Grantor agrees that from time to time, at its own expense, such Grantor will
promptly execute and deliver all further instruments and documents, and take all further
action, that may be necessary or that any Secured Party may reasonably request, in order to
perfect and protect the Security Interests granted or purported to be granted hereby or to
enable any Secured Party to exercise and enforce its rights and remedies hereunder with
respect to any of the Collateral.
(b) Each Grantor authorizes the filing by any Secured Party of financing or
continuation statements, or amendments thereto, and such Grantor will execute and deliver to
such Secured Party such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or as such Secured
Party may reasonably request, in order to perfect and preserve the Security Interests
granted or purported to be granted hereby.
(c) Each Grantor authorizes any Secured Party at any time and from time to time to
file, transmit, or communicate, as applicable, financing statements and amendments (i)
describing the Collateral as “all personal property of debtor” or “all assets of debtor” or
words of similar effect, (ii) describing the Collateral as being of equal or lesser scope or
with greater detail, or (iii) that contain any information required by part 5 of Article 9
of the Code for the sufficiency or filing office acceptance. Each Grantor also hereby
ratifies any and all financing statements or amendments previously filed by any Secured
Party in any jurisdiction.
(d) Each Grantor acknowledges that it is not authorized to file any financing statement
or amendment or termination statement with respect to any financing statement filed in
connection with this Agreement without the prior written consent of each Secured
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Party affected thereby, subject to such Grantor’s rights under Section 9-509(d)(2) of
the Code.
(e) Each Grantor shall permit each Secured Party or its employees, accountants,
attorneys or agents, to examine and inspect any Collateral or any other property of such
Grantor at any time during ordinary business hours upon reasonable notice.
9. Secured Parties’ Right to Perform Contracts, Exercise Rights, etc. Upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, any Secured Party (a) may proceed to
perform any and all of the obligations of any Grantor contained in any contract, lease, or other
agreement and exercise any and all rights of any Grantor therein contained as fully as such Grantor
itself could, (b) shall have the right to use any Grantor’s rights under Intellectual Property
Licenses in connection with the enforcement of the Secured Party’s rights hereunder, including the
right to prepare for sale and sell any and all Inventory and Equipment now or hereafter owned by
any Grantor and now or hereafter covered by such licenses, and (c) shall have the right to request
that any Stock that is pledged hereunder be registered in the name of such Secured Party or any of
its nominees.
10. Secured Parties Appointed Attorney-in-Fact. Each Grantor, on behalf of itself and
each New Subsidiary of such Grantor, hereby irrevocably appoints each Secured Party as the
attorney-in-fact of such Grantor and each such New Subsidiary solely for the purposes set forth in
this section. In the event any Grantor or any New Subsidiary fails to execute or deliver in a
timely manner any Transaction Document or other agreement, document, certificate or instrument
which such Grantor or New Subsidiary now or at any time hereafter is required to execute or deliver
pursuant to the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement or any other Transaction Document, each
Secured Party shall have full authority in the place and stead of such Grantor or New Subsidiary,
and in the name of such Grantor, such New Subsidiary or otherwise, to execute and deliver each of
the foregoing. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Secured Party shall have full authority in
the place and stead of each Grantor and each New Subsidiary, and in the name of any such Grantor,
any such New Subsidiary or otherwise, at such time as an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, to take any action and to execute any instrument which such Secured Party may
reasonably deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, including,
without limitation:
(a) to ask, demand, collect, xxx for, recover, compromise, receive and give acquittance
and receipts for moneys due and to become due under or in connection with any Collateral of
such Grantor or New Subsidiary;
(b) to receive and open all mail addressed to such Grantor or New Subsidiary and to
notify postal authorities to change the address for the delivery of mail to such Grantor or
New Subsidiary to that of such Secured Party;
(c) to receive, indorse, and collect any drafts or other instruments, documents,
Negotiable Collateral or Chattel Paper;
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(d) to file any claims or take any action or institute any proceedings which such
Secured Party may deem necessary or desirable for the collection of any of the Collateral of
such Grantor or New Subsidiary or otherwise to enforce the rights of any Secured Party with
respect to any of the Collateral;
(e) to repair, alter, or supply goods, if any, necessary to fulfill in whole or in part
the purchase order of any Person obligated to such Grantor or New Subsidiary in respect of
any Account of such Grantor or New Subsidiary;
(f) to use any labels, Patents, Trademarks, trade names, URLs, domain names, industrial
designs, Copyrights, customer lists, advertising matter or other industrial or intellectual
property rights, in advertising for sale and selling Inventory and other Collateral and to
collect any amounts due under Accounts, contracts or Negotiable Collateral of such Grantor
or New Subsidiary; and
(g) such Secured Party shall have the right, but shall not be obligated, to bring suit
in its own name to enforce the Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights and Intellectual Property
Licenses and, if such Secured Party shall commence any such suit, the appropriate Grantor or
New Subsidiary shall, at the request of such Secured Party, do any and all lawful acts and
execute any and all proper documents reasonably required by such Secured Party in aid of
such enforcement.
To the extent permitted by law, each Grantor hereby ratifies, for itself and each of its New
Subsidiaries, all that such attorney-in-fact shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof. Such power-of-attorney granted pursuant to this Section 10 is coupled with an interest and
shall be irrevocable until this Agreement is terminated.
11. Secured Parties May Perform. If any Grantor fails to perform any agreement
contained herein, any Secured Party may itself perform, or cause performance of, such agreement,
and the reasonable expenses of such Secured Party incurred in connection therewith shall be
payable, jointly and severally, by Grantors.
12. Secured Parties’ Duties; Bailee for Perfection. The powers conferred on Secured
Parties hereunder are solely to protect the Secured Parties’ respective interests in the Collateral
and shall not impose any duty upon any Secured Party in favor of any Grantor or any other Secured
Party to exercise any such powers. Except for the safe custody of any Collateral in its actual
possession and the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder, no Secured Party shall
have any duty to any Grantor or any other Secured Party as to any Collateral or as to the taking of
any necessary steps to preserve rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining to any
Collateral. A Secured Party shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody and
preservation of any Collateral in its actual possession if such Collateral is accorded treatment
substantially equal to that which such Secured Party accords its own property. Each Secured Party
agrees that, with respect to any Collateral at any time or times in its possession and in which any
other Secured Party has a Lien, the Secured Party in possession of any such Collateral shall be the
bailee of each other Secured Party solely for purposes of perfecting (to the extent not otherwise
perfected) each other Secured Party’s Lien in such Collateral, provided that no Secured Party shall
be obligated to obtain or retain possession of any
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such Collateral. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Secured Parties and
Grantors hereby agree that any Secured Party that is in possession of any Collateral at such time
as the Secured Obligations owing to such Secured Party have been paid in full may re-deliver such
Collateral to the applicable Grantor or, if requested by any Secured Party prior to such
re-delivery, may deliver such Collateral (unless otherwise restricted by applicable law or court
order and subject in all events to the receipt of an indemnification of all liabilities arising
from such delivery) to the requesting Secured Party, without recourse to or representation or
warranty by the Secured Party in such possession.
13. Collection of Accounts, General Intangibles and Negotiable Collateral. At any
time upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, any Secured Party may
(a) notify Account Debtors of any Grantor that the Accounts, General Intangibles, Chattel Paper or
Negotiable Collateral have been assigned to such Secured Party or that such Secured Party has a
security interest therein, and (b) collect the Accounts, General Intangibles and Negotiable
Collateral directly, and any collection costs and expenses shall constitute part of the Secured
Obligations.
14. Disposition of Pledged Interests by Secured Party. None of the Pledged Interests
existing as of the date of this Agreement are, and none of the Pledged Interests hereafter acquired
on the date of acquisition thereof will be, registered or qualified under the various federal,
state or other securities laws of the United States or any other jurisdiction, and disposition
thereof after an Event of Default may be restricted to one or more private (instead of public)
sales in view of the lack of such registration. Each Grantor understands that in connection with
such disposition, any Secured Party may approach only a restricted number of potential purchasers
and further understands that a sale under such circumstances may yield a lower price for the
Pledged Interests than if the Pledged Interests were registered and qualified pursuant to federal,
state and other securities laws and sold on the open market. Each Grantor, therefore, agrees that:
(a) if a Secured Party shall, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, sell or cause the Pledged
Interests or any portion thereof to be sold at a private sale, such Secured Party shall have the
right to rely upon the advice and opinion of any nationally recognized brokerage or investment firm
(but shall not be obligated to seek such advice and the failure to do so shall not be considered in
determining the commercial reasonableness of such action) as to the best manner in which to offer
the Pledged Interest or any portion thereof for sale and as to the best price reasonably obtainable
at the private sale thereof; and (b) such reliance shall be conclusive evidence that such Secured
Party has handled the disposition in a commercially reasonable manner.
15. Voting Rights.
(a) Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, (i) any
Secured Party may, at its option, and with 2 Business Days prior notice to any Grantor, and
in addition to all rights and remedies available to Secured Parties under any other
agreement, at law, in equity, or otherwise, exercise all voting rights, and all other
ownership or consensual rights in respect of the Pledged Interests owned by such Grantor,
but under no circumstances is any Secured Party obligated by the terms of this Agreement to
exercise such rights, and (ii) if such Secured Party duly exercises its right to vote any of
such Pledged Interests, each Grantor hereby appoints such Secured Party as such
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Grantor’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and IRREVOCABLE PROXY to vote such Pledged
Interests in any manner that such Secured Party deems advisable for or against all matters
submitted or which may be submitted to a vote of shareholders, partners or members, as the
case may be. Such power-of-attorney granted pursuant to this Section 15 is coupled with an
interest and shall be irrevocable until this Agreement is terminated.
(b) For so long as any Grantor shall have the right to vote the Pledged Interests owned
by it, such Grantor covenants and agrees that it will not, without the prior written consent
of Secured Parties, vote or take any consensual action with respect to such Pledged
Interests which would materially or adversely affect the rights of Secured Parties
exercising the voting rights owned by such Grantor or the value of the Pledged Interests.
16. Remedies. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(a) Any Secured Party may exercise in respect of the Collateral, in addition to other
rights and remedies provided for herein, in the other Transaction Documents, or otherwise
available to it, all the rights and remedies of a secured party on default under the Code,
the PPSA or any other applicable law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each
Grantor expressly agrees that, in any such event, any Secured Party without any demand,
advertisement, or notice of any kind (except a notice specified below of time and place of
public or private sale) to or upon any Grantor or any other Person (all and each of which
demands, advertisements and notices are hereby expressly waived to the maximum extent
permitted by the Code or by any other applicable law), may take immediate possession of all
or any portion of the Collateral and (i) require Grantors to, and each Grantor hereby agrees
that it will at its own expense and upon request of such Secured Party forthwith, assemble
all or part of the Collateral as directed by such Secured Party and make it available to
such Secured Party at one or more locations where such Grantor regularly maintains
Inventory, and (ii) without notice except as specified below, sell the Collateral or any
part thereof in one or more parcels at public or private sale, at any of such Secured
Party’s offices or elsewhere, for cash, on credit, and upon such other terms as such Secured
Party may deem commercially reasonable. Each Grantor agrees that, to the extent notice of
sale shall be required by law, at least 10 days notice to any Grantor of the time and place
of any public sale or the time after which any private sale is to be made shall constitute
reasonable notification and specifically such notice shall constitute a reasonable
“authenticated notification of disposition” within the meaning of Section 9-611 of the Code.
No Secured Party shall be obligated to make any sale of Collateral regardless of notice of
sale having been given. Any Secured Party may adjourn any public or private sale from time
to time by announcement at the time and place fixed therefor, and such sale may, without
further notice, be made at the time and place to which it was so adjourned.
(b) Any Secured Party may seek the appointment of a receiver, receiver-manager or
keeper (a “Receiver”) under the laws of Canada or any province thereof to take possession of
all or any portion of the Collateral or to operate same and, to the maximum extent permitted
by law, may seek the appointment of such a Receiver without
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the requirement of prior notice or a hearing. Any such Receiver shall, so far as
concerns responsibility for his/her acts, be deemed agent of the applicable Grantor and not
any Secured Party, and no Secured Party shall be in any way responsible for any misconduct,
negligence or non-feasance on the part of any such Receiver, his/her servants or employees.
Subject to the provisions of the instrument appointing him/her, any such Receiver shall have
power to take possession of Collateral, to preserve Collateral or its value, to carry on or
concur in carrying on all or any part of the business of the applicable Grantor, and to
sell, lease, license or otherwise dispose of or concur in selling, leasing, licensing or
otherwise disposing of Collateral. To facilitate the foregoing powers, any such Receiver
may, to the exclusion of all others, including Grantors, enter upon, use and occupy all
premises owned or occupied by Grantors wherein Collateral may be situated, maintain
Collateral upon such premises, borrow money on a secured or unsecured basis, and use
Collateral directly in carrying on Grantors’ business or as security for loans or advances
to enable the Receiver to carry on Grantors’ business or otherwise, as such Receiver shall,
in its discretion, determine. Except as may be otherwise directed by a Secured Party, all
money received from time to time by such Receiver in carrying out his/her appointment shall
be received in trust for and paid over to Secured Parties. Every such Receiver may, in the
discretion of any Secured Party, be vested with all or any of the rights and powers of any
Secured Party. Any Secured Party may, either directly or through its nominees, exercise any
or all powers and rights given to a Receiver by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this
paragraph.
(c) Each Secured Party is hereby granted a license or other right to use, without
liability for royalties or any other charge, each Grantor’s labels, Patents, Copyrights,
rights of use of any name, trade secrets, trade names, Trademarks, service marks and
advertising matter, URLs, domain names, industrial designs, other industrial or intellectual
property or any property of a similar nature, whether owned by any Grantor or with respect
to which any Grantor has rights under license, sublicense, or other agreements (but only to
the extent (i) such license, sublicense or agreement does not prohibit such use by such
Secured Party and (ii) such Grantor will not be in default under such license, sublicense,
or other agreement as a result of such use by such Secured Party), as it pertains to the
Collateral, in preparing for sale, advertising for sale and selling any Collateral, and each
Grantor’s rights under all licenses and all franchise agreements shall inure to the benefit
of such Secured Party.
(d) Any cash held by any Secured Party as Collateral and all proceeds received by any
Secured Party in respect of any sale of, collection from, or other realization upon all or
any part of the Collateral shall be applied against the Secured Obligations in the order set
forth in Section 17 hereof. In the event the proceeds of Collateral are insufficient for the
Satisfaction in Full of the Secured Obligations (as defined below), each Grantor shall
remain jointly and severally liable for any such deficiency.
(e) Each Grantor hereby acknowledges that the Secured Obligations arose out of a
commercial transaction, and agrees that if an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing
any Secured Party shall have the right to an immediate writ of possession without notice of
a hearing. Without limiting any provision of Section 16(b) hereof, each
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Secured Party shall have the right to the appointment of a receiver for the properties
and assets of each Grantor, and each Grantor hereby consents to such rights and such
appointment and hereby waives any objection such Grantor may have thereto or the right to
have a bond or other security posted by any Secured Party.
(f) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, each Secured Party
agrees that it will not exercise any remedy provided for under this Agreement with respect
to all or any portion of the Collateral unless such Secured Party is a Permitted Secured
Party (provided that the foregoing shall not prevent any Secured Party from commencing or
participating in any Insolvency Proceeding or taking any action (other than with respect to
the Collateral) to enforce the payment or performance of any Grantors’ obligations under any
of the Notes, Guaranties or other Transaction Documents). This Section 16(f) is not intended
to confer any rights or benefits upon Grantors, or any of them, or any other Person except
Secured Parties, and no Person (including any or all Grantors) other than Secured Parties
shall have any right to enforce any of the provisions of this Section 16(f). As between
Grantors, or any of them, and any Secured Party, any action that such Secured Party may take
under this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized and approved by
the other Secured Parties.
(g) Each Secured Party may, in addition to other rights and remedies provided for
herein, in the other Transaction Documents, or otherwise available to it under applicable
law and without the requirement of notice to or upon any Grantor or any other Person (which
notice is hereby expressly waived to the maximum extent permitted by the Code or any other
applicable law), (i) with respect to any Grantor’s Deposit Accounts in which any such
Secured Party’s Liens are perfected by control under Section 9-104 of the Code, instruct the
bank maintaining such Deposit Account for the applicable Grantor to pay the balance of such
Deposit Account to or for the benefit of such Secured Party, and (ii) with respect to any
Grantor’s Securities Accounts in which such Secured Party’s Liens are perfected by control
under Section 9-106 of the Code, instruct the securities intermediary maintaining such
Securities Account for the applicable Grantor to (A) transfer any cash in such Securities
Account to or for the benefit of such Secured Party, or (B) liquidate any financial assets
in such Securities Account that are customarily sold on a recognized market and transfer the
cash proceeds thereof to or for the benefit of such Secured Party.
17. Priority of Liens; Application of Proceeds of Collateral. Each Secured Party
hereby acknowledges and agrees that, notwithstanding the time or order of the filing of any
financing statement or other registration or document with respect to the Collateral and the
Security Interests, or any provision of this Agreement, any other Security Document, the Code, the
PPSA or other applicable law, solely as amongst the Secured Parties, the separate Security
Interests of the Secured Parties shall have the same rank and priority; provided, that, the
foregoing shall not apply to any Security Interest of a Secured Party that is void or voidable as
a matter of law. In furtherance thereof, all proceeds of Collateral received by any Secured Party
shall be applied as follows:
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(a) first, ratably to pay any expenses due to any of the Secured Parties
(including, without limitation, the reasonable costs and expenses paid or incurred by any
Secured Party to correct any default under or enforce any provision of the Transaction
Documents, or after the occurrence of any Event of Default in gaining possession of,
maintaining, handling, preserving, storing, shipping, selling, preparing for sale, or
advertising to sell the Collateral, or any portion thereof, irrespective of whether a sale
is consummated) or indemnities then due to any of the Secured Parties under the Transaction
Documents, until paid in full;
(b) second, ratably to pay any fees or premiums then due to any of the Secured
Parties under the Transaction Documents, until paid in full;
(c) third, ratably to pay interest due in respect of the Secured Obligations
then due to any of the Secured Parties, until paid in full;
(d) fourth, ratably to pay the principal amount of all Secured Obligations then
due to any of the Secured Parties, until paid in full;
(e) fifth, ratably to pay any other Secured Obligations then due to any of the
Secured Parties; and
(f) sixth, to Grantors or such other Person entitled thereto under applicable
law.
18. Remedies Cumulative. Each right, power, and remedy of any Secured Party as
provided for in this Agreement or in any other Transaction Document or now or hereafter existing at
law or in equity or by statute or otherwise shall be cumulative and concurrent and shall be in
addition to every other right, power, or remedy provided for in this Agreement or in the other
Transaction Documents or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or by statute or otherwise,
and the exercise or beginning of the exercise by any Secured Party, of any one or more of such
rights, powers, or remedies shall not preclude the simultaneous or later exercise by such Secured
Party of any or all such other rights, powers, or remedies. Each Grantor acknowledges that a breach
by it of its obligations hereunder will cause irreparable harm to each Secured Party and that the
remedy at law for any such breach may be inadequate. Each Grantor therefore agrees that, in the
event of any breach or any threatened breach, each Secured Party shall be entitled, in addition to
all other available remedies, to an injunction restraining any such breach or any such threatened
breach, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being
required.
19. Marshaling. No Secured Party shall be required to marshal any present or future
collateral security (including but not limited to the Collateral) for, or other assurances of
payment of, the Secured Obligations or any of them or to resort to such collateral security or
other assurances of payment in any particular order, and all of its rights and remedies hereunder
and in respect of such collateral security and other assurances of payment shall be cumulative and
in addition to all other rights and remedies, however existing or arising. To the extent that it
lawfully may, each Grantor hereby agrees that it will not invoke any law relating to the marshaling
of collateral which might cause delay in or impede the enforcement of any Secured
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Party’s rights and remedies under this Agreement or under any other instrument creating or
evidencing any of the Secured Obligations or under which any of the Secured Obligations is
outstanding or by which any of the Secured Obligations is secured or payment thereof is otherwise
assured, and, to the extent that it lawfully may, each Grantor hereby irrevocably waives the
benefits of all such laws.
20. Acknowledgment.
(a) Each Secured Party hereby agrees and acknowledges that no other Secured Party has
agreed to act for it as an administrative or collateral agent, and each Secured Party is and
shall remain solely responsible for the attachment, perfection and priority of all Liens
created by this Agreement or any other Security Document in favor of such Secured Party. No
Secured Party shall have by reason of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document an
agency or fiduciary relationship with any other Secured Party. No Secured Party (which
term, as used in this sentence, shall include reference to each Secured Party’s officers,
directors, employees, attorneys, agents and affiliates and to the officers, directors,
employees, attorneys and agents of such Secured Party’s affiliates) shall: (i) have any
duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth in this Agreement and the other
Security Documents or (ii) be required to take, initiate or conduct any enforcement action
(including any litigation, foreclosure or collection proceedings hereunder or under any of
the other Security Documents). Without limiting the foregoing, no Secured Party shall have
any right of action whatsoever against any other Secured Party as a result of such Secured
Party acting or refraining from acting hereunder or under any of the Security Documents
except as a result and to the extent of losses caused by such Secured Party’s actual gross
negligence or willful misconduct (it being understood and agreed by each Secured Party that
the delivery by any Significant Secured Party of one or more Veto Notices shall not be
deemed to be or construed as gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the
Secured Party delivering any such Veto Notice). No Secured Party assumes any responsibility
for any failure or delay in performance or breach by any Grantor or any Secured Party of its
obligations under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document. No Secured Party makes
to any other Secured Party any express or implied warranty, representation or guarantee with
respect to any Secured Obligations, Collateral, Transaction Document or Grantor. No Secured
Party nor any of its officers, directors, employees, attorneys or agents shall be
responsible to any other Secured Party or any of its officers, directors, employees,
attorneys or agents for: (i) any recitals, statements, information, representations or
warranties contained in any of the Transaction Documents or in any certificate or other
document furnished pursuant to the terms hereof; (ii) the execution, validity, genuineness,
effectiveness or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents; (iii) the validity,
genuineness, enforceability, collectability, value, sufficiency or existence of any
Collateral, or the attachment, perfection or priority of any Lien therein; or (iv) the
assets, liabilities, financial condition, results of operations, business, creditworthiness
or legal status of any Grantor or any Account Debtor. No Secured Party nor any of its
officers, directors, employees, attorneys or agents shall have any obligation to any other
Secured Party to ascertain or inquire into the existence of any default or Event of Default,
the observance or performance by any Grantor of any of the duties or agreements of such
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Grantor under any of the Transaction Documents or the satisfaction of any conditions
precedent contained in any of the Transaction Documents.
(b) Each Secured Party hereby acknowledges and represents that it has, independently
and without reliance upon any other Secured Party, and based upon such documents,
information and analyses as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis of each
Grantor and its own decision to enter into the Transaction Documents and to purchase the
Notes and Warrants, and each Secured Party has made such inquiries concerning the
Transaction Documents, the Collateral and each Grantor as such Secured Party feels necessary
and appropriate, and has taken such care on its own behalf as would have been the case had
it entered into the Transaction Documents without any other Secured Party. Each Secured
Party hereby further acknowledges and represents that the other Secured Parties have not
made any representations or warranties to it concerning any Grantor, any of the Collateral
or the legality, validity, sufficiency or enforceability of any of the Transaction
Documents. Each Secured Party also hereby acknowledges that it will, independently and
without reliance upon the other Secured Parties, and based upon such financial statements,
documents and information as it deems appropriate at the time, continue to make and rely
upon its own credit decisions in taking or refraining to take any other action under this
Agreement or the Transaction Documents. No Secured Party shall have any duty or
responsibility to provide any other Secured Party with any notices, reports or certificates
furnished to such Secured Party by any Grantor or any credit or other information concerning
the affairs, financial condition, business or assets of any Grantor (or any of its
affiliates) which may come into possession of such Secured Party.
21. Indemnity and Expenses.
(a) Without limiting any obligations of Parent under the Securities Purchase Agreement,
each Grantor agrees to indemnify all Secured Parties from and against all claims, lawsuits
and liabilities (including attorneys’ fees) arising out of or resulting from this Agreement
(including enforcement of this Agreement) or any other Transaction Document, except claims,
losses or liabilities resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party
seeking indemnification as determined by a final non-appealable order of a court of
competent jurisdiction. This provision shall survive the termination of this Agreement and
the Transaction Documents and the Satisfaction in Full of the Secured Obligations.
(b) Grantors, jointly and severally, shall, upon demand, pay to each Secured Party all
of the costs and expenses which such Secured Party may incur in connection with (i) the
administration of this Agreement, (ii) the custody, preservation, use or operation of, or,
upon an Event of Default, the sale of, collection from, or other realization upon, any of
the Collateral in accordance with this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, (iii)
the exercise or enforcement of any of the rights of such Secured Party hereunder or (iv) the
failure by any Grantor to perform or observe any of the provisions hereof.
22. Merger, Amendments; Etc. THIS AGREEMENT, TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER TRANSACTION
DOCUMENTS, REPRESENTS THE FINAL AGREEMENT
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BETWEEN THE PARTIES SOLELY WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF AND THEREOF AND MAY NOT
BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES.
THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES. No provision of this Agreement may be
amended other than by an instrument in writing signed by each Grantor and each Significant Secured
Party, and any amendment to any provision of this Agreement made in conformity with the provisions
of this Section 22 shall be binding on all Secured Parties, provided that no such amendment shall
be effective to the extent that it (1) applies to less than all of the Secured Parties or (2)
imposes any obligation or liability on any Secured Party without such Secured Party’s prior written
consent (which may be granted or withheld in such Secured Party’s sole discretion). No waiver shall
be effective unless it is in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving
party, provided that all of the Significant Secured Parties (in a writing signed by all of the
Significant Secured Parties) may waive any provision of this Agreement, and any waiver of any
provision of this Agreement made in conformity with the provisions of this Section 22 shall be
binding on all Secured Parties, provided that no such waiver shall be effective to the extent that
it (1) applies to less than all the Secured Parties (unless a party gives a waiver as to itself
only) or (2) imposes any obligation or liability on any Secured Party without such Secured Party’s
prior written consent (which may be granted or withheld in such Secured Party’s sole discretion).
23. Addresses for Notices. All notices and other communications provided for hereunder
(a) shall be given in the form and manner set forth in the Securities Purchase Agreement and (b)
shall be delivered, (i) in the case of notice to any Grantor, by delivery of such notice to Parent
at Parent’s address specified in the Securities Purchase Agreement or at such other address as
shall be designated by Parent in a written notice to each of the Secured Parties in accordance with
the provisions thereof, and (ii) in the case of notice to any Secured Party, by delivery of such
notice to such Secured Party at its address specified in the Securities Purchase Agreement or at
such other address as shall be designated by such Secured Party in a written notice to Parent and
each other Secured Party in accordance with the provisions thereof.
24. Separate, Continuing Security Interests; Assignments under Transaction Documents.
This Agreement shall create a separate, continuing security interest in the Collateral in favor of
each Secured Party and shall (a) remain in full force and effect until Satisfaction in Full of the
Secured Obligations, (b) be binding upon each of Grantors, and their respective permitted
successors and permitted assigns, and (c) inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, the
Secured Parties and their respective successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing clause (c), any Secured Party may, in accordance with the provisions of
the Transaction Documents, assign or otherwise transfer all or any portion of its rights and
obligations under the Transaction Documents to any other Person, and such other Person shall
thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to such Secured Party
herein or otherwise. Upon Satisfaction in Full of the Secured Obligations, the Security Interests
granted hereby shall terminate and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to Grantors or any
other Person entitled thereto. At such time, each Secured Party will authorize the filing of
appropriate termination statements to terminate such Security Interests. No transfer or renewal,
extension, assignment, or termination of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or any
other instrument or document executed and delivered by any Grantor to any Secured Party nor any
additional loans made by any Secured Party to any Grantor, nor the taking of further security, nor
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the retaking or re-delivery of the Collateral to Grantors, or any of them, by any Secured
Party, nor any other act of Secured Parties, or any of them, shall release any of Grantors from any
obligation, except a release or discharge executed in writing by all Secured Parties. No Secured
Party shall by any act, delay, omission or otherwise, be deemed to have waived any of its rights or
remedies hereunder, unless such waiver is in writing and signed by such Secured Party and then only
to the extent therein set forth. A waiver by any Secured Party of any right or remedy on any
occasion shall not be construed as a bar to the exercise of any such right or remedy which such
Secured Party would otherwise have had on any other occasion.
25. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Service of Process; Jury Trial. All questions
concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be
governed by the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law
or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions)
that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State of New York.
Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts
sitting in The City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, for the adjudication of any dispute
hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed
herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding,
any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit,
action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or
proceeding is improper; provided, however, any suit seeking enforcement against any Collateral or
other property may be brought, at any Secured Party’s option, in the courts of any jurisdiction
where such Secured Party elects to bring such action or where such Collateral or other property may
be found. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process
being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof to such party at the
address for such notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute
good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Without limitation of the foregoing,
each Grantor other than Parent hereby irrevocably appoints Parent as such Grantor’s agent for
purposes of receiving and accepting any service of process hereunder or under any of the other
Security Documents. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to
serve process in any manner permitted by law. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY
HAVE TO, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR
IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
26. Miscellaneous.
(a) This Agreement may be executed in two or more identical counterparts, all of which
shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts
have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party. In the event that any
signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by an e-mail which contains a portable
document format (.pdf) file of an executed signature page, such signature page shall create
a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is
executed) with the same force and effect as if such signature page were an original thereof.
Any party delivering an executed counterpart of this Agreement by facsimile or other
electronic method of transmission also shall deliver
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an original executed counterpart of this Agreement but the failure to deliver an
original executed counterpart shall not affect the validity, enforceability, and binding
effect of this Agreement. The foregoing shall apply to each other Security Document mutatis
mutandis.
(b) Any provision of this Agreement which is prohibited or unenforceable shall be
ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the
remaining provisions hereof in that jurisdiction or affecting the validity or enforceability
of such provision in any other jurisdiction.
(c) Headings used in this Agreement are for convenience only and shall not be used in
connection with the interpretation of any provision hereof.
(d) The pronouns used herein shall include, when appropriate, either gender and both
singular and plural, and the grammatical construction of sentences shall conform thereto.
(e) The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the
parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied
against any party. For clarification purposes, the Recitals are part of this Agreement.
Notwithstanding any references to “Secured Parties” herein, Iroquois Master Fund Ltd.
(“Iroquois”) and the Company acknowledge and agree that Iroquois is the only Secured Party
that is a party hereto as of the date of this Agreement.
(f) Unless the context of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document clearly
requires otherwise, references to the plural include the singular, references to the
singular include the plural, the terms “includes” and “including” are not limiting, and the
term “or” has, except where otherwise indicated, the inclusive meaning represented by the
phrase “and/or.” The words “hereof,” “herein,” “hereby,” “hereunder,” and similar terms in
this Agreement or any other Transaction Document refer to this Agreement or such other
Transaction Document, as the case may be, as a whole and not to any particular provision of
this Agreement or such other Transaction Document, as the case may be. Section, subsection,
clause, schedule, and exhibit references herein are to this Agreement unless otherwise
specified. Any reference in this Agreement or in any other Transaction Document to any
agreement, instrument, or document shall include all alterations, amendments, changes,
extensions, modifications, renewals, replacements, substitutions, joinders, and supplements,
thereto and thereof, as applicable (subject to any restrictions on such alterations,
amendments, changes, extensions, modifications, renewals, replacements, substitutions,
joinders, and supplements set forth herein). “Satisfaction in Full of the Secured
Obligations” shall mean the indefeasible payment in full in cash and discharge, or other
satisfaction in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents and discharge, of all
Secured Obligations in full. Any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to
include such Person’s permitted successors and permitted assigns. Any requirement of a
writing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document shall be satisfied by the
transmission of a Record and any Record so transmitted shall constitute a representation and
warranty as to the accuracy and completeness of the information contained therein.
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(g) All dollar amounts referred to in this Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents are in United States Dollars (“U.S. Dollars”), and all amounts owing under this
Agreement and all other Transaction Documents shall be paid in U.S. Dollars. All amounts
denominated in other currencies shall be converted into the U.S. Dollar equivalent amount in
accordance with the Exchange Rate on the date of calculation. “Exchange Rate” means, in
relation to any amount of currency to be converted into U.S. Dollars pursuant to this
Agreement, the U.S. Dollar exchange rate as published in the Wall Street Journal on the
relevant date of calculation.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned parties hereto have executed this Agreement by and through
their duly authorized officers, as of the day and year first above written.
GRANTORS: | CONVERTED ORGANICS INC., a Delaware corporation | |||||
By: Name: |
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Title: | ||||||
[SUBSIDIARIES] |
SECURITY AGREEMENT
SECURED PARTIES: | IROQUOIS MASTER FUND LTD. | |||||
By: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Authorized Signatory |
SECURITY AGREEMENT
SCHEDULE 1
COMMERCIAL TORT CLAIMS
SCHEDULE 2
COPYRIGHTS
SCHEDULE 3
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSES
SCHEDULE 4
PATENTS
SCHEDULE 5
PLEDGED COMPANIES
Percentage of Class | ||||
Name of Pledgor | Name of Pledged Company | Owned | ||
SCHEDULE 6
TRADEMARKS
SCHEDULE 7
REAL PROPERTY
Owned Real Property
Leased Real Property
SCHEDULE 8
LIST OF UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE FILING JURISDICTIONS
Grantor | Jurisdictions | |
SCHEDULE 9
DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS AND SECURITIES ACCOUNTS
Deposit Accounts
Securities Accounts
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EXHIBIT A
COPYRIGHT SECURITY AGREEMENT
This COPYRIGHT SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “Copyright Security Agreement”) is made this [___] day
of April 2011, by the Grantors listed on the signature pages hereof (collectively, jointly and
severally, “Grantors” and each individually “Grantor”), in favor of the Secured Parties under and
as defined in the below-described Security Agreement.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, pursuant to that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2011 (as
may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, including all
schedules thereto, collectively, the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), by and among Converted
Organics Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and each of the Secured Parties, Parent has
agreed to sell, and each of the Secured Parties have each agreed to purchase, severally and not
jointly, certain Notes and Warrants; and
WHEREAS, in order to induce each of the Secured Parties to purchase, severally and not
jointly, the Notes and Warrants as provided for in the Securities Purchase Agreement, Grantors have
executed and delivered to each of the Secured Parties that certain Security Agreement of even date
herewith (including all annexes, exhibits or schedules thereto, as from time to time amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “Security Agreement”); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Security Agreement, Grantors are required to execute and deliver to
each of the Secured Parties this Copyright Security Agreement.
AGREEMENTS
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants herein contained and for
other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, Grantors hereby agree as follows:
1. DEFINED TERMS. All capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have
the meanings given to them in the Security Agreement.
2. GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST IN COPYRIGHT COLLATERAL. Each Grantor hereby grants to
each Secured Party a continuing first priority security interest in all of such Grantor’s right,
title and interest in, to and under the following, whether presently existing or hereafter created
or acquired (collectively, the “Copyright Collateral”):
(a) all of each Grantor’s Copyrights and Copyright Intellectual Property Licenses to which it
is a party including those referred to on Schedule I hereto;
(b) all reissues, continuations or extensions of the foregoing; and
(c) all products and proceeds of the foregoing, including any claim by such Grantor against
third parties for past, present or future infringement or dilution of any Copyright or any
Copyright licensed under any Intellectual Property License.
3. SECURITY FOR OBLIGATIONS. This Copyright Security Agreement and the Security
Interests created hereby secures the payment and performance of all the Secured Obligations,
whether now existing or arising hereafter. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this
Copyright Security Agreement secures the payment of all amounts which constitute part of the
Secured Obligations and would be owed by Grantors, or any of them, to Secured Parties, or any of
them, whether or not they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of an Insolvency
Proceeding involving any Grantor.
4. SECURITY AGREEMENT. The security interests granted pursuant to this Copyright
Security Agreement are granted in conjunction with the security interests granted to Secured
Parties pursuant to the Security Agreement. Each Grantor hereby acknowledges and affirms that the
rights and remedies of Secured Parties with respect to their respective security interests in the
Copyright Collateral made and granted hereby are more fully set forth in the Security Agreement,
the terms and provisions of which are incorporated by reference herein as if fully set forth
herein.
5. AUTHORIZATION TO SUPPLEMENT. To the extent required under the Security Agreement,
Grantors shall give Secured Parties prompt notice in writing of any additional copyright
registrations or applications therefor after the date hereof. Grantors hereby authorize Secured
Parties unilaterally to modify this Agreement by amending Schedule I to include any future
registered copyrights or applications therefor of Grantors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no
failure to so modify this Copyright Security Agreement or amend Schedule I shall in any way
affect, invalidate or detract from any Secured Party’s continuing security interest in all
Collateral, whether or not listed on Schedule I.
6. COUNTERPARTS. This Copyright Security Agreement may be executed in two or more
identical counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall
become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party.
In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by an e-mail which
contains a portable document format (.pdf) file of an executed signature page, such signature page
shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such
signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such signature page were an original
thereof. In proving this Copyright Security Agreement or any other Transaction Document in any
judicial proceedings, it shall not be necessary to produce or account for more than one such
counterpart signed by the party against whom such enforcement is sought.
7. CONSTRUCTION. Unless the context of this Copyright Security Agreement or any other
Transaction Document clearly requires otherwise, references to the plural include the singular,
references to the singular include the plural, the terms “includes” and “including” are not
limiting, and the term “or” has, except where otherwise indicated, the inclusive meaning
represented by the phrase “and/or.” The words “hereof,” “herein,” “hereby,” “hereunder,” and
similar terms in this Copyright Security Agreement or any other Transaction Document refer to this
Copyright Security Agreement or such other Transaction Document, as the case may be, as a
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whole and not to any particular provision of this Copyright Security Agreement or such other
Transaction Document, as the case may be. Section, subsection, clause, schedule, and exhibit
references herein are to this Copyright Security Agreement unless otherwise specified. Any
reference in this Copyright Security Agreement or in any other Transaction Document to any
agreement, instrument, or document shall include all alterations, amendments, changes, extensions,
modifications, renewals, replacements, substitutions, joinders, and supplements, thereto and
thereof, as applicable (subject to any restrictions on such alterations, amendments, changes,
extensions, modifications, renewals, replacements, substitutions, joinders, and supplements set
forth herein). Any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s
permitted successors and permitted assigns. Any requirement of a writing contained herein or in
any other Transaction Document shall be satisfied by the transmission of a Record and any Record so
transmitted shall constitute a representation and warranty as to the accuracy and completeness of
the information contained therein. The language used in this Copyright Security Agreement will be
deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of
strict construction will be applied against any party. For clarification purposes, the Recitals
are part of this Copyright Security Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this Copyright Security Agreement to be executed
and delivered by its duly authorized officer as of the date first set forth above.
GRANTORS: | CONVERTED ORGANICS INC., a Delaware corporation | |||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: | ||||||
[SUBSIDIARIES] |
COPYRIGHT SECURITY AGREEMENT
SCHEDULE I
to
COPYRIGHT SECURITY AGREEMENT
to
COPYRIGHT SECURITY AGREEMENT
Copyright Registrations
Registration | ||||||||
Grantor | Country | Copyright | Registration No. | Date | ||||
Copyright Licenses
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EXHIBIT B
PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT
This PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “Patent Security Agreement”) is made this [___] day of
April 2011, by the Grantors listed on the signature pages hereof (collectively, jointly and
severally, “Grantors” and each individually “Grantor”), in favor of the Secured Parties under and
as defined in the below-described Security Agreement.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, pursuant to that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2011 (as
may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, including all
schedules thereto, collectively, the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), by and among Converted
Organics Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and each of the Secured Parties, Parent has
agreed to sell, and each of the Secured Parties have each agreed to purchase, severally and not
jointly, certain Notes and Warrants; and
WHEREAS, in order to induce each of the Secured Parties to purchase, severally and not
jointly, the Notes and Warrants as provided for in the Securities Purchase Agreement, Grantors have
executed and delivered to each of the Secured Parties that certain Security Agreement of even date
herewith (including all annexes, exhibits or schedules thereto, as from time to time amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “Security Agreement”); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Security Agreement, Grantors are required to execute and deliver to
each of the Secured Parties this Patent Security Agreement.
AGREEMENTS
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants herein contained and for
other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, Grantors hereby agree as follows:
1. DEFINED TERMS. All capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have
the meanings given to them in the Security Agreement.
2. GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENT COLLATERAL. Each Grantor hereby grants to each
Secured Party a continuing first priority security interest in all of such Grantor’s right, title
and interest in, to and under the following, whether presently existing or hereafter created or
acquired (collectively, the “Patent Collateral”):
(a) all of its Patents and Patent Intellectual Property Licenses to which it
is a party including those referred to on Schedule I hereto;
(b) all reissues, continuations or extensions of the foregoing; and
(c) all products and proceeds of the foregoing, including any claim by such
Grantor against third parties for past, present or future infringement or dilution of any
Patent or any Patent licensed under any Intellectual Property License.
3. SECURITY FOR OBLIGATIONS. This Patent Security Agreement and the Security
Interests created hereby secures the payment and performance of all the Secured Obligations,
whether now existing or arising hereafter. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this
Patent Security Agreement secures the payment of all amounts which constitute part of the Secured
Obligations and would be owed by Grantors, or any of them, to Secured Parties, or any of them,
whether or not they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of an Insolvency
Proceeding involving any Grantor.
4. SECURITY AGREEMENT. The security interests granted pursuant to this Patent Security
Agreement are granted in conjunction with the security interests granted to Secured Parties
pursuant to the Security Agreement. Each Grantor hereby acknowledges and affirms that the rights
and remedies of Secured Parties with respect to their respective security interests in the Patent
Collateral made and granted hereby are more fully set forth in the Security Agreement, the terms
and provisions of which are incorporated by reference herein as if fully set forth herein.
5. AUTHORIZATION TO SUPPLEMENT. If any Grantor shall obtain rights to any new
patentable inventions or become entitled to the benefit of any patent application or patent for any
reissue, division, or continuation, of any patent, the provisions of this Patent Security Agreement
shall automatically apply thereto. To the extent required under the Security Agreement, Grantors
shall give prompt notice in writing to Secured Parties with respect to any such new patent rights.
Without limiting each Grantor’s obligations under this Section 5, Grantors hereby authorize Secured
Parties unilaterally to modify this Agreement by amending Schedule I to include any such
new patent rights of Grantors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no failure to so modify this Patent
Security Agreement or amend Schedule I shall in any way affect, invalidate or detract from
any Secured Party’s continuing security interest in all Collateral, whether or not listed on
Schedule I.
6. COUNTERPARTS. This Patent Security Agreement may be executed in two or more
identical counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall
become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party.
In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by an e-mail which
contains a portable document format (.pdf) file of an executed signature page, such signature page
shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such
signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such signature page were an original
thereof. In proving this Patent Security Agreement or any other Transaction Document in any
judicial proceedings, it shall not be necessary to produce or account for more than one such
counterpart signed by the party against whom such enforcement is sought.
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7. CONSTRUCTION. Unless the context of this Patent Security Agreement or any other
Transaction Document clearly requires otherwise, references to the plural include the singular,
references to the singular include the plural, the terms “includes” and “including” are not
limiting, and the term “or” has, except where otherwise indicated, the inclusive meaning
represented by the phrase “and/or.” The words “hereof,” “herein,” “hereby,” “hereunder,” and
similar terms in this Patent Security Agreement or any other Transaction Document refer to this
Patent Security Agreement or such other Transaction Document, as the case may be, as a whole and
not to any particular provision of this Patent Security Agreement or such other Transaction
Document, as the case may be. Section, subsection, clause, schedule, and exhibit references herein
are to this Patent Security Agreement unless otherwise specified. Any reference in this Patent
Security Agreement or in any other Transaction Document to any agreement, instrument, or document
shall include all alterations, amendments, changes, extensions, modifications, renewals,
replacements, substitutions, joinders, and supplements, thereto and thereof, as applicable (subject
to any restrictions on such alterations, amendments, changes, extensions, modifications, renewals,
replacements, substitutions, joinders, and supplements set forth herein). Any reference herein to
any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s permitted successors and permitted assigns.
Any requirement of a writing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document shall be
satisfied by the transmission of a Record and any Record so transmitted shall constitute a
representation and warranty as to the accuracy and completeness of the information contained
therein. The language used in this Patent Security Agreement will be deemed to be the language
chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be
applied against any party. For clarification purposes, the Recitals are part of this Patent
Security Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this Patent Security Agreement to be executed and
delivered by its duly authorized officer as of the date first set forth above.
GRANTORS: | CONVERTED ORGANICS INC., a Delaware corporation | |||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: | ||||||
[SUBSIDIARIES] |
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EXHIBIT C
TRADEMARK SECURITY AGREEMENT
This TRADEMARK SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “Trademark Security Agreement”) is made this [___] day
of April 2011, by the Grantors listed on the signature pages hereof (collectively, jointly and
severally, “Grantors” and each individually “Grantor”), in favor of the Secured Parties under and
as defined in the below-described Security Agreement.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, pursuant to that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2011 (as
may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, including all
schedules thereto, collectively, the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), by and among Converted
Organics Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and each of the Secured Parties, Parent has
agreed to sell, and each of the Secured Parties have each agreed to purchase, severally and not
jointly, certain Notes and Warrants; and
WHEREAS, in order to induce each of the Secured Parties to purchase, severally and not
jointly, the Notes and Warrants as provided for in the Securities Purchase Agreement, Grantors have
executed and delivered to each of the Secured Parties that certain Security Agreement of even date
herewith (including all annexes, exhibits or schedules thereto, as from time to time amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “Security Agreement”); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Security Agreement, Grantors are required to execute and deliver to
each of the Secured Parties this Trademark Security Agreement.
AGREEMENTS
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants herein contained and for
other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, Grantors hereby agree as follows:
1. DEFINED TERMS. All capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings given to them in the Security Agreement.
2. GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST IN TRADEMARK COLLATERAL. Each Grantor hereby grants to
each Secured Party a continuing first priority security interest in all of such Grantor’s right,
title and interest in, to and under the following, whether presently existing or hereafter created
or acquired (collectively, the “Trademark Collateral”):
(a) all of its Trademarks and Trademark Intellectual Property Licenses to which it is a
party including those referred to on Schedule I hereto;
(b) all goodwill, trade secrets, proprietary or confidential information, technical
information, procedures, formulae, quality control standards, designs, operating and
training manuals, customer lists, and other General Intangibles with respect to the
foregoing;
(c) all reissues, continuations or extensions of the foregoing;
(d) all goodwill of the business connected with the use of, and symbolized by, each
Trademark and each Trademark Intellectual Property License; and
(e) all products and proceeds of the foregoing, including any claim by such Grantor
against third parties for past, present or future (i) infringement or dilution of any
Trademark or any Trademark licensed under any Intellectual Property License or (ii) injury
to the goodwill associated with any Trademark or any Trademark licensed under any
Intellectual Property License.
3. SECURITY FOR OBLIGATIONS. This Trademark Security Agreement and the Security
Interests created hereby secures the payment and performance of all the Secured Obligations,
whether now existing or arising hereafter. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this
Trademark Security Agreement secures the payment of all amounts which constitute part of the
Secured Obligations and would be owed by Grantors, or any of them, to Secured Parties, or any of
them, whether or not they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of an Insolvency
Proceeding involving any Grantor.
4. SECURITY AGREEMENT. The security interests granted pursuant to this Trademark
Security Agreement are granted in conjunction with the security interests granted to Secured
Parties pursuant to the Security Agreement. Each Grantor hereby acknowledges and affirms that the
rights and remedies of Secured Parties with respect to their respective security interests in the
Trademark Collateral made and granted hereby are more fully set forth in the Security Agreement,
the terms and provisions of which are incorporated by reference herein as if fully set forth
herein.
5. AUTHORIZATION TO SUPPLEMENT. If any Grantor shall obtain rights to any new
trademarks, the provisions of this Trademark Security Agreement shall automatically apply thereto.
To the extent required under the Security Agreement, Grantors shall give prompt notice in writing
to Secured Parties with respect to any such new trademarks or renewal or extension of any trademark
registration. Without limiting each Grantor’s obligations under this Section 5, Grantors hereby
authorize Secured Parties unilaterally to modify this Agreement by amending Schedule I to
include any such new trademark rights of Grantors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no failure to so
modify this Trademark Security Agreement or amend Schedule I shall in any way affect,
invalidate or detract from any Secured Party’s continuing security interest in all Collateral,
whether or not listed on Schedule I.
6. COUNTERPARTS. This Trademark Security Agreement may be executed in two or more
identical counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall
become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party.
In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by an e-mail which
contains a portable document format (.pdf) file of an executed signature page, such
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signature page shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose
behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such signature page were an
original thereof. In proving this Trademark Security Agreement or any other Transaction Document in
any judicial proceedings, it shall not be necessary to produce or account for more than one such
counterpart signed by the party against whom such enforcement is sought.
7. CONSTRUCTION. Unless the context of this Trademark Security Agreement or any other
Transaction Document clearly requires otherwise, references to the plural include the singular,
references to the singular include the plural, the terms “includes” and “including” are not
limiting, and the term “or” has, except where otherwise indicated, the inclusive meaning
represented by the phrase “and/or.” The words “hereof,” “herein,” “hereby,” “hereunder,” and
similar terms in this Trademark Security Agreement or any other Transaction Document refer to this
Trademark Security Agreement or such other Transaction Document, as the case may be, as a whole and
not to any particular provision of this Trademark Security Agreement or such other Transaction
Document, as the case may be. Section, subsection, clause, schedule, and exhibit references herein
are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified. Any reference in this Trademark Security
Agreement or in any other Transaction Document to any agreement, instrument, or document shall
include all alterations, amendments, changes, extensions, modifications, renewals, replacements,
substitutions, joinders, and supplements, thereto and thereof, as applicable (subject to any
restrictions on such alterations, amendments, changes, extensions, modifications, renewals,
replacements, substitutions, joinders, and supplements set forth herein). Any reference herein to
any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s permitted successors and permitted assigns.
Any requirement of a writing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document shall be
satisfied by the transmission of a Record and any Record so transmitted shall constitute a
representation and warranty as to the accuracy and completeness of the information contained
therein. The language used in this Trademark Security Agreement will be deemed to be the language
chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be
applied against any party. For clarification purposes, the Recitals are part of this Trademark
Security Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this Trademark Security Agreement to be executed
and delivered by its duly authorized officer as of the date first set forth above.
GRANTORS: | CONVERTED ORGANICS INC., a Delaware corporation | |||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: | ||||||
[SUBSIDIARIES] |
SCHEDULE I
to
TRADEMARK SECURITY AGREEMENT
to
TRADEMARK SECURITY AGREEMENT
Trademark Registrations/Applications
Application/ | ||||||||
Grantor | Country | Xxxx | Registration No. | App/Reg Date | ||||
Trade Names
Common Law Trademarks
Trademarks Not Currently In Use
Trademark Licenses
EXHIBIT D
FORM OF GUARANTY
See attached.