KRAIG BIOCRAFT LABORATORIES, INC. ADDENDUM TO THE FOUNDERS STOCK PURCHASE AND INTELECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFER AGREEMENT
Exhibit 10.6
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BIOCRAFT LABORATORIES, INC.
ADDENDUM
TO THE
FOUNDERS
STOCK PURCHASE AND INTELECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFER
AGREEMENT
THIS
ADDENDUM to the FOUNDERS STOCK PURCHASE AND INTLLECTUAL
PROPERTY
TRANSFER AGREEMENT ("Agreement") dated the April 26, 2006, between
Xxxxx
Biocraft Laboratories, Inc., a Wyoming corpotaion (the "Company") and
Xxx
Xxxxxxxx,
an individual ("Xx. Xxxxxxxx") is dated December 26, 2006.
The Board
ofDircetors of the Company (the "Board") and Executive each desires that the
FOUNDERS STOCK PURCHASE
AND INTELECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFER AGREEMENT be modified and amended by this
ADDENDUM as described below.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and undertakings contained in
this ADDENDUM , the adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, and intending to
be legal[y bound hereby, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Section
2, titled Royalties, shall be deleted, and no royalties shall be owed to Xx. Xxxxxxxx pursuant to
the FOUNDERS STOCK PURCHASE AND INTELEMAL PROPERTY TRANSFER AGREEMENT, All
references royalties in the agreement are rendered meaningless and void, and
such is the intention of the parties entering into this addendum.
Section
3, titled Exclusive license For Ikon
protective apparel, shall be deleted, and no exclusive license shall be
issued to Xx. Xxxxxxxx pursuant to section 3.
In
exchange for Xx. Xxxxxxxx'x entering into this addendum and surrendering the
rights contained in former
sections 2 and 3, the Company shall use its best reasonable efforts Lo
issue
to Xx. Xxxxxxxx, within 12 months from the cafe of this agreement,
200,000 shares of the Company's preferred stock, Said stock shall have no
preference for the payment of dividends, and may be issued without any right to
recieve any dividend. The preferred shares
will however have super voting rights equivalent to 100 votes of Class A
Common shares per share of preferred, such that the total issuance of
preferred shares to Xx. Xxxxxxxx shall have the voting power of 20,000,000 Class
A shares.
In the
event that the Company, through the use of its best reasonable efforts, is
unable to issue to Xx. Xxxxxxxx the preferred shares referenced above, the
Company will provide Xx. Xxxxxxxx with the alternative consideration of one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars S 120,000, payable on the one year
anniversary of this addendum.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Addendum under seal the
day and year above first written.
Executive
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On behalf of Xxxxx Biocraft Laboratories, Inc, |
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BIOCRAFT LABORATORIES, INC.
FOUNDER'S STOCK
PURCHASE
AND
INTELECTUAL
PROPERTY TRANSFER AGREEMENT
This
FOUNDER'S STOCK PURCHASE AND INTELECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFER AGREEMENT
("Agreement") is dated as of the first day of April 26, 2006, by and between
Xxxxx Biocraft Laboratories, Inc., a Wyoming corporation (the "Company" or the
'Corporatiorr) and Xxx Xxxxxxxx, an individual ("Mr, Xxxxxxxx").
The Board
of Directors of the Company (the "Board") and Xx. Xxxxxxxx each desires that Xx.
Xxxxxxxx acquire an equity interest in the Company as a founder of the company,
and on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Furthermore Company and
Xx. Xxxxxxxx each desires that the Company acquire an interest in certain
intellectual property, technology and trade secrets of Xx. Xxxxxxxx for the
purpose of commercializing the same. The parties enter into this agreement
setting forth the terms and conditions therewith.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and of the mutual promises and
undertakings contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, and
intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto agree as
follows;
WHEREAS, the
Corporation desires to issue, and Xx. Xxxxxxxx desires to acquire, stock of the
Corporation as herein described, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set
forth, and
WHEREAS, the
issuance of common stock, royalties and other benefits hereby is in
consideration for intellectual property and technology transfer advanced to the
Corporation by Xx. Xxxxxxxx, the adequacy and sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged by the Corporation_ and for other good and valuable consideration,
and
WHEREAS, the
issuance of common stock hereby is intended to comply with all provisions
promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), and is intended to comply with
regulation D. including sections 504, 505 and 506.
NOW,
THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED between the parties as follows:
1. Stock.
Xx. Xxxxxxxx hereby purchases from the Corporation, and the
Corporation
hereby sells to Xx. Xxxxxxxx, thirty three million two hundred and twenty nine
thousand two hundred (33,229,200) shares of the Common Class A Stock of the
Corporation (the "Stock") at nil par value, in exchange for
Intellectual
Property and Technology transferred to the Corporation, listed in Exhibit A
(hereafter ''the Transferred Intellectual Property").
2. Royalties.
The Corporation further agrees that Xx. Xxxxxxxx shall receive from
the Corporation, its licensees, subsidiaries, successors and assigns, royalties
on all products employing certain aspects
of the Technology, Specifically Corporation grants and guarantees Xx. Xxxxxxxx
the following royalty payments:
a. A 1.65
% royalty on al/ use or gross solos of products that are composed of a protein
fiber where one or more protein constituents of the fiber are endogenous to
2ornbyx, and one or more are
exogenous to Bombyx, or
where two or more proteins which are not found together in silk fibers in
nature, are expressed in Bombyx to create a new silk fiber. With the
exception
that no royalty under this provision shall be owing in the event that said silk
fiber is composed entirely of synthetic proteins that do not occur in nature.
Said royalty is payable within 60 days of each financial quarter.
b. A 1.65 %
royalty on alt use or
gross sales of products that are composed of a protein fiber where one or more
protein constituents of the fiber are exogenous to Bombyx, and where erre or
more of said exogenous protein(s) is not a synthetic protein that is not found
in nature, or is not a protein(s) that is found in spiders. Said
royalty is payable within 60 days of each financial quarter.
c. A 0.85 %
royalty on all use or gross sales of products that are composed of a protein
fiber which is produced in or from the silk glands of 8ornbyx, through the use
of genetic engineering or DNA manipulation, or RNA manipulation, or induced
mutation, or the interdiction of genetic sequences which are foreign to Bombyx.
Said royalty is payable within 60 days of each financial quarter.
For
purposes of this section it is understood that silk is a protein fiber.
The
maximum total royalty due under this Section 2 shall be 1 .75%.
In the
event of Xx. Xxxxxxxx'x death, the royalty payments will continue to
Xx. Xxxxxxxx'x designee, as he may hereafter appoint. The Company's obligation
to pay royalties to Ivir. Xxxxxxxx or his designee on each of the products shall
be in force from the date of this agreement and shall remain in effect on each
of the product as described above until the longer of (I) expiration of the
last-to-expire patent, held or
licensed by the Company on such a product or its method of creation or on the
transgenic organism which expresses the product or its protein component(s) or
(ii) eighteen years from the date of the first commercial sale of such a product
which is covered by this
Agreement. In no event shall royalties be owed under this paragraph after twenty
seven years from the xxxx of this agreement.
3. Exclusive
license for non protective apparel. The Corporation further agrees that
Xx. Xxxxxxxx shalt receive from the Corporation an exclusive license on all
non-protective apparel applications of the company's products and technology.
Pursuant to said license, Xx. Xxxxxxxx will have exclusive rights to sea, make,
or
have made, non-protective apparel which uses the Company's technology or
products worldwide. Non-protective apparel, as used herein, refers to articles
of clothing or decoration which are sold primarily to markets and customers who
are not purchasing the products primarily for protective purposes. Use of the
Company's technology to make shirts, pants, kimonos, undergarments, dresses,
business suits, and curtains are all examples of non-protective apparel.
Sporting goods and sporting protective apparel are excluded from the definition
of non-protective apparel. Shirts with moisture wicking
properties sold to runners is for example excluded, but shirts sold with
a sports brand logo, but
used primarily as an article of casual apparel is included as non-protective
apparel within the meaning of this article.
The
party's anticipate that Xx. Xxxxxxxx will assign these rights
to a corporation to be formed and referred to herein as "New Company" The
Company will receive 24% of the founder's equity in "New Company, and Xx.
Xxxxxxxx will receive 76% of the founder's equity.' "New Company" will be
responsible to pay any royalties an its sales that Company would otherwise be
obligated to pay. In the event that Xx. Xxxxxxxx so elects, he
may exclude the Company from equity participation in New Company and otherwise
retains the rights described in this provision, provided that he will pay the
Company a 4% royalty on all of his use or gross sales of the products described
in this numbered paragraph 3. Otherwise, Xx. Xxxxxxxx may elect to relinquish all such
rights to the Corporation, in exchange for a 7% royalty on all use or gross sales of the products
described in this numbered paragraph 3, or 45% of the net proceeds thereof,
whichever is greater.
4. All
certificates representing any shares of Stock of the Corporation subject to the
provisions of this Agreement shall have endorsed thereon legends in substantially the following
form:
"The
securities represented by this Certificate have not been registered under the
Securities Act of 1933, They may not be sold, offered for sale, pledged or
hypothecated in the absence of an effective registration statement as to the
securities under said Act or an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Company
that such registration is not reouired."
5. Allocation of public offering. The Company
grants Xx. Xxxxxxxx such right to participate in public offerings of the
company's stock as may be determined by the board of directors, by allowing him
to sell the Company's stock in his possession up to a maximum of 20% of the
total public offering. This provision is subject to the reasoned discretion of
the board of directors, and the rights of any other person or entity, if any,
which have contractual rights to similarly participate in such a public
offering. In that event, then the total allocation of privately held shares to
be sold in the Company's public offing shall be apportioned between Xx. Xxxxxxxx
and any such other persons or entities in the same purport ion as the amount of
founders stock held between Xx. Xxxxxxxx and such other persons or
entities.
6. Xx.
Xxxxxxxx shall be granted such "piggy-back" registration rights on registrations
of the Corporation as may be determined by the board of directors,
7. Xx.
Xxxxxxxx shall exercise all rights and privileges of a shareholder of the
Corporation with respect to the Stock.
8. The
parties agree to execute such further instruments and to take such further
action as may reasonably be necessary to carry out the intent of this
Agreement.
9. This
Agreement shall be binding and inure to the benefit of the successors and
assigns of the Corporation and be binding and inure to the benefit of Xx.
Xxxxxxxx'x heirs, successors, and assigns.
10. The
parties agree to take all such further action(s) as may reasonably be necessary
to carry out and consummate this Agreement as soon as practicable, and to take
whatever steps may be necessary to obtain any governmental approval in
connection with or otherwise qualify the issuance of the securities that are the
subject of this Agreement.
11.
LIMITED
WARRANTY. THE TRANSFERRED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
FROM XX. XXXXXXXX TO COMPANY IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR ANY OTHER WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. XX. XXXXXXXX MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR
WARRANTY THAT THE TRANSFERRED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR METHODS WILL NOT INFRINGE
ANY PATENT OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHT.
IN NO EVENT
WILL XX. XXXXXXXX BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
RESULTING FROM EXERCISE OF THE TRANSFERRED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR MANUFACTURE,
SALE, OR USE OF THE INVENTION OR LICENSED PRODUCTS OR
LICENSED METHODS.
THE
COMPANY AGREES THAT IT WILL USE OR EMPLOY THE TRANSFERRED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
SOLELY AT ITS OWN RISK.
NOTHING
IN THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED AS:
(A)
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WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION BY XX. XXXXXXXX AS TO
THE VALIDITY OR SCOPE OF THE TRANSFERRED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR OF XX.
XXXXXXXX PATENT RIGHTS, IF ANY:
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WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT THE TRANSFERRED
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, OR ANYTHING MADE, USED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED
OF UNDER ANY LICENSE GRANTED IN THIS AGREEMENT IS OR WILL BE FREE FROM
INFRINGEMENT OF PATENTS OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR BIOLOGICAL
MATERIALS OF THIRD PARTIES;
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OBLIGATION TO BRING OR PROSECUTE ACTIONS OR SUITS AGAINST THIRD PARTIES;
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CONFERRING BY IMPLICATION,
ESTOPPEL OR OTHERWISE ANY LICENSE OR RIGHTS UNDER ANY
PATENTS OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF XX.
XXXXXXXX OTHER THAN THE TRANSFERRED INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY AS DEFINED ABOVE, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH
PATENTS ARE DOMINANT
OR SUBORDINATE TO THE TRANSFERRED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ; OR
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WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT THE TRANSFERRED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS
WORKABLE, VIABLE OR COMMERCIALY
PRACTICAL
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12. This Agreement constitutes the entire
agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. This
Agreement may not be amended, modified or revoked, in whole or in part, except
by an agreement in writing signed by each of the parties hereto.
13. CHOICE OF LAW, It is
the intention of the parties to this Agreement that this Agreement and the
performance under this Agreement, and all suits and special proceedings under
this Agreement, be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of
Michigan, and that the laws of that state shall govern any dispute that is
presented to arbitration as hereinafter provided.
14. INDEMNIFICATION,
Company shall indemnify Xx. Xxxxxxxx against any and all expenses,
including amounts paid upon judgments, counsel fees, environmental penalties and
fines, and amounts paid in settlement (before or after suit is commenced),
incurred by
Xx. Xxxxxxxx in connection with [his or her] defense or settlement of any
claim, action, suit or proceeding in which [he or she] is made a party or which
may be asserted against [him or her] by reason of [his or her] this Agreement or
the issuance of royalties or securities pursuant hereto, Such indemnification
Shall be in addition to any other rights to which those indemnified may be
entitled under any law, bylaw agreement, or otherwise. This provision shall survive the
expiration or
termination of this agreement for any reason.
15. Notices. All notices, requests, demands and
other communications provided for by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall
deemed to have been
given at the time when mailed at any office of the United States Postal
Service enclosed in a certified postage-paid envelope addressed to the
respective party at the addresses set forth below (together with an electronic
copy to the designated e-mail addresses listed below if notice is being served
on Xx. Xxxxxxxx) or to such changed address as such party may have fixed by
notice to the other party, provided, however, that any notice or change of address
shall be affected only upon receipt and further provided that any notice may be
personally delivered to the respective party by the party giving notice in lieu
of being mailed.
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If to Xx. Xxxxxxxx: | Xx. Xxx X. Xxxxxxxx |
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With
an electronic copy in either PDF or
MS
Word compatible format to:
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16. Binding Effect.
This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and shall be binding upon the Company, its successors
and assigns, and any
corporation which may acquire all or substantially all of the Company's assets
or into which the Company may be consolidated or merged, and shall inure to the
benefit of Xx. Xxxxxxxx'x
personal or legal representatives, executors, administrators, successors, heirs,
distributees, devisees and legatees. Upon Xx. Xxxxxxxx'x death, all amounts,
warrants, and other compensation, to which he is entitled hereunder, unless
otherwise provided herein, shall be paid in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement to Xx. Xxxxxxxx'x designee, or, if there be no such designee, to Xx.
Xxxxxxxx'x estate,
17. Effect of Prior Agreements. This agreement does not supersede, nor shall
it be interpreted as conflicting with, the employment agreement between
the parties and dated April 26, 2006.
18. Settlement by Arbitration. Any
claim or controversy that arises out of or relates to this agreement, or the
breach of it, shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the
rules of JAMS. Said arbitration shall be before a single arbitrator whose
decision shall be binding and final, Unless the parties agree otherwise, the
arbitration shall be held in the JAMS offices in Chicago, Illinois, Judgment upon
the award rendered may be entered in any court with jurisdiction. In the event
that the dispute involves the
withholding by the Company or the refusal to pay or issue, by the Company, of
any payment, compensation or security due under the provisions or this agreement
to Xx. Xxxxxxxx, his spouse, family or
designee, and such spouse, family or designee are the prevailing or
substantially prevailing parties, the Arbitrator shall award pre judgment
interest on any such compensation at the annual rate of 14%, or the maximum
amount allowable under the law if less than 14%.
19. Execution in Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto signing the same instrument, or by each pally hereto signing a
separate counterpart or
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but
all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument The
parties agree that documents executed by facsimile shall be acceptable in this transaction, and the signatures
thereof shall have the serrie force and
effect as original signatures.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have
executed this Agreement under seal the day and year above first
written.
Xx.
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On behalf of Xxxxx Biocraft Laboratories, Inc, |
EXHIBIT
A: Intellectual Property and Technology transferred to the
Corporation.
An ATTACHMENT
to: XXXXX BTOCRAFT LABORATORIES, INC., FOUNDER'S
STOCK PURCHASE
AND INTELECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFER AGREEMENT.
EXHIBIT
A: Intellectual Property and Technology transferred to the
Corporation.
An ATTACHMENT
to: XXXXX BTOCRAFT LABORATORIES, INC., FOUNDER'S
STOCK PURCHASE
AND INTELECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFER AGREEMENT.
Description
of Intellectual
Property and Technology.
A
provisional patent application, and
the Lechnology and inventions described therein, filed with the US Paten[ arid
Trademark office on or about
January 28, 2006, and titled:
Transgenic expression system for the
commercial production of exogenous proteins and protein composite silks,
targeting the silk glands of the silkworm (Bomhyx mori), and the creation and
production of unique silks made from new combinations of silk protein.
Inventor:
Xxx
K, Chompson