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EXHIBIT 10.4
INFLUENCE, INC.
000 XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXX 000
XXX XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX 00000
July 1, 1996
Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxxx
Dear Xx. Xxxxxxxxx:
This letter (the "Letter" or "Agreement") establishes certain points of
agreement between you and Influence, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), regarding your relationship with the Company and its subsidiary.
1. Confidentiality. You acknowledge that you will not, directly or
indirectly, without the specific prior written consent of the Company, at any
time after the date hereof, divulge to any business, enterprise, person, firm,
corporation, partnership, association or other entity, or use for your own
benefit, (i) any confidential information concerning the businesses, affairs,
customers, suppliers or clients of the Company, its subsidiaries or their
affiliates (including, but not limited to, trade secrets, know-how, proprietary
information regarding the Company's Products (as such term is defined below),
inventions, formulae, manufacturing methods, processes, specifications,
laboratory protocols, business plans or strategy and non-public lists of clients
and suppliers), or (ii) any non-public data or statistical information of the
Company, its subsidiaries or their affiliates, whether created or developed by
the Company, its subsidiaries or their affiliates or on their behalf or with
respect to which you may have knowledge or access (including without limitation
any of the foregoing created or developed by you), it being the intent of the
Company and you to restrict you from disseminating or using any data or
information which is at the time of such use or dissemination unpublished and
not readily available or generally known to persons involved or engaged in
businesses of the type engaged in from time to time by the Company or its
subsidiaries.
2. Non-Competition. From and after the date hereof until the second
anniversary of the date on which you cease to serve as an employee or consultant
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of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, you will not either alone or through
or in any capacity with another legal entity, directly or indirectly, (a) render
consulting, or advisory services to or financially support in any manner, or be
a proprietor, a director, an officer, an employee, an agent, a partner, a
shareholder (other than ownership of less than two (2%) percent of the
outstanding voting securities of any entity whose voting securities are traded
on a national securities exchange (including NASDAQ); provided that any of the
other restrictions contained in this sentence are not applicable) or a lender
to, or otherwise promote, any business, enterprise, person, firm, corporation,
partnership, association or other entity that competes directly or indirectly
anywhere in the world with the Company or any of its subsidiaries in the
business of the manufacture, distribution, design or sale of such products of
the type that the Company (including its predecessors) or its subsidiaries
manufacture, distribute, design or sell during the term of your service to the
Company or which the Company (including its predecessors) or any of its
subsidiaries is planning during the term of your service to the Company
hereunder the possible manufacture, distribution, design or sale (the "Company's
Products", except that such definition shall not include stents and stent
delivery systems); (b) interfere with, disrupt or attempt to disrupt existing or
any then existing relationship, contractual or otherwise, between the Company or
its subsidiaries and any of their customers, suppliers, clients, executives,
employees or other persons with whom the Company or its subsidiaries deal; or
(c) employ, solicit for employment, attempt to employ or assist any other entity
in employing or soliciting for employment any employee or executive who is at
that time employed by the Company or its subsidiaries.
3. Release. You hereby remise, release, convey and relinquish unto the
Company, its successors and assigns, forever all the right, title and interest
which you or your affiliates (including entities you control or in which you
have a controlling interest) may have, if any, in, to or arising out of any
inventions (whether patentable or unpatentable, whether or not reduced to
practice, and including trade secrets), any improvements thereto, and any
patents, patent applications and patent disclosures, together with any re-
issuances, continuations, continuations in part, divisionals, revisions,
extensions and re-
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examinations thereof, whether in the United States or abroad, relating to the
Company's Products, including any right to any remuneration (other than any
remuneration actually paid to you or your affiliates prior to the date hereof)
in respect of the foregoing or otherwise in respect of prior services you have
rendered to the Company or its subsidiaries. You agree to make prompt written
disclosure to the Company of, to hold in trust for the sole right and benefit of
the Company, and will and hereby do assign to the Company all right, title and
interest in and to any ideas, inventions, developments, improvements or trade
secrets related to the Company's Products which you may solely or jointly
conceive or reduce to practice, or cause to be conceived or reduced to practice
during the period contemplated by section 4 hereof. You agree to take such
other actions, provide such other assurances and execute such other instruments
and assignments that the Company may reasonably request in order to give effect
to this Section 3.
4. Compensation. Effective July 1, 1996 and so long as you shall be an
officer of the Company or its subsidiary or performing substantial services to
the Company or its subsidiaries, the Company will cause its subsidiary,
Influence Medical Technologies, Ltd. ("IMT") to pay to you a salary or fee of
$150,000 per annum, payable in equal monthly installments in accordance with the
IMT's payroll practices, payable in New Israeli Shekels and subject to any
withholdings required to be made by applicable law. You agree to devote to the
Company and to its subsidiaries such of your business time as is necessary for
the management of the business and affairs of the Company and its subsidiaries.
5. Remedies. The Company shall have the right to enforce this Agreement
and any of its provisions by injunction, specific performance or other equitable
relief, without bond. The foregoing rights of the Company are in addition to
and shall not derogate from any other rights the Company may have for a breach
of this Agreement.
6. Severability and Enforcement. In the event that any provision in this
Agreement is held unenforceable in a court of law, it shall not be deemed to
void this Agreement as a whole and the remaining provisions shall be unaffected
thereby.
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7. Delay, Omission or Waiver. No delay or Omission of the Company to
exercise any right, power or remedy accruing to the Company under this Agreement
shall impair any such right, power or remedy, nor shall it be construed to be a
waiver of any breach or default; nor shall any waiver by the Company of any
single breach or default on your behalf be deemed a waiver of any other breach
or default on your behalf theretofore or thereafter occurring.
8. Governing Law. This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the
State of New York, without giving effect to the conflict of law rules thereof.
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This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and the Company
and supersedes all prior understandings or agreements with respect to the
subject matter hereof. This Agreement may not be assigned by the parties
hereto, except that the rights and benefits inuring to the Company hereunder
shall also inure to the benefit of the Company's subsidiaries and their
successors and assigns.
You represent that this agreement does not in any way conflict with any
other agreement or commitment undertaken by you at this time which could
prohibit or impair the performance of your obligations hereunder.
Kindly acknowledge your agreement with the terms of this letter by signing
in the space provided below and returning this letter to me.
Sincerely,
INFLUENCE, INC.
By:/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: President
AGREED AND ACCEPTED
as of this 1st day of
July, 1996
/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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