CERTAIN CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT, MARKED BY [***], HAS BEEN OMITTED BECAUSE IT IS BOTH (I) NOT MATERIAL AND (II) WOULD BE COMPETITIVELY HARMFUL IF PUBLICLY DISCLOSED AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO PATENTS SUB-LICENSE AGREEMENT
Exhibit 10.1
CERTAIN CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT, MARKED BY [***], HAS BEEN OMITTED BECAUSE IT IS BOTH (I) NOT MATERIAL AND (II) WOULD BE COMPETITIVELY HARMFUL IF PUBLICLY DISCLOSED
AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO PATENTS SUB-LICENSE AGREEMENT
This Amendment No. 3 to Patents Sub-License Agreement (“Amendment No. 3”), effective as of 31 July 2023 (“Amendment No. 3 Effective Date”), is entered into by and between LA SOCIETE PULSALYS, a company organized under French Law, having its registered office at [***] (French company registration number) [***], Code [***] (French principal activity code) [***] (“Pulsalys”) and Sana Biotechnology, Inc. a Delaware corporation having offices at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xx., Xxxxxxx XX, 00000 (“Sana”).
WHEREAS, Pulsalys and Cobalt Biomedicine, Inc. a Delaware corporation having offices at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xx., Xxxxxxx XX, 00000 (“Cobalt”), an Affiliate of Sana and predecessor in interest to Xxxx, entered into that certain Patents Sub-License Agreement dated August 16, 2018 (the “Original Agreement”);
WHEREAS, Pulsalys and Cobalt had previously entered into that certain Materials Transfer Agreement dated as of 13 July 2018 (the “MTA”) pursuant to which Pulsalys transferred to Cobalt certain biological or chemical materials as set forth in the MTA for use in an Evaluation (as defined in the MTA) by Cobalt;
WHEREAS, Xxxx acquired Cobalt effective as of February 14, 2019 pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger by and between, inter alia, the Sana and Cobalt dated December 20, 2018, as amended, and Cobalt is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sana;
WHEREAS, Cobalt assigned the Agreement, and all rights, obligations, and interest therein, to Sana, Pulsalys consented to such assignment, and Pulsalys and Sana amended the Agreement, pursuant to that certain Amendment No. 1 to Patents Sub-License Agreement dated as of 26 May 2020 (“Amendment No. 1”);
WHEREAS, Pulsalys and Xxxx further amended the Agreement, pursuant to that certain Amendment No. 2 to Patents Sub-License Agreement, nunc pro tunc, dated as of 16 August 2018 to set forth and clarify Cobalt’s and Xxxx’s rights to continue to use the materials originally transferred by Pulsalys to Cobalt under the MTA (“Amendment No. 2”).
WHEREAS, Pulsalys and Xxxx now wish to further amend the Agreement, effective as of the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date, to set forth and amend Cobalt’s and Sana’s Diligence Milestones.
WHEREAS, the parties wish to otherwise amend the Agreement as set forth herein.
In consideration of the covenants and conditions contained herein, the parties hereby agree to the following:
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Except as expressly set forth herein, the terms and conditions of the Original Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. In the event of any conflict between the terms and conditions of this Amendment No. 3 and the Original Agreement, the terms and conditions set forth in this Amendment No. 3 shall control with respect to the subject matter hereof.
No provision of this Amendment No. 3 may be amended or otherwise modified except by a writing signed by the parties to this Amendment No. 3. The parties may execute this Amendment No. 3 by electronic signature in counterparts, each of which will be deemed an original, but all of which together constitute one and the same agreement. This Amendment No. 3 may be delivered by facsimile transmission or electronic mail, and such copies of executed signature pages will be binding as originals.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties by their duly authorized representatives have executed this Amendment No. 3 as of the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date.
SANA BIOTECHNOLOGY, INC. LA SOCIETE PULSALYS
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxx By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxx Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: VP, Gene Therapy Technologies Title: Présidente
Date: September 13, 2023 Date: 06-oct.-23
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