EX-10.21 9 w09871a2exv10w21.htm EX-10.21 MOREOVER TECHNOLOGIES RESELLER AGREEMENT
MOREOVER TECHNOLOGIES RESELLER AGREEMENT
This Reseller Agreement (the “Agreement”) is entered into as of July 30, 2004 (“Effective Date”) by and between Moreover Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation with offices at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000 (“Moreover”) and Vocus, Inc., a Delaware corporation, with offices at 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000 (“Reseller”).
1.1 “CI-Metabase” means an aggregation of online content and Moreover-generated metadata rendered in an XML format. Please see Exhibit D attached hereto for a description of the CI-Metabase XML schema.
1.2 “Confidential Information” shall have the meaning specified therefore in Section 11.1 below.
1.3 “End User” shall mean a customer of Reseller who has access to the CI-Metabase through the Integrated Product.
1.4 “Integrated Product” shall mean the CI-Metabase integrated with Reseller’s software product as described in Exhibit A.
1.5 “Update” to the CI-Metabase shall mean any correction, update, upgrade or other modification or addition thereto provided by Moreover to Reseller that Moreover generally makes available to its customers.
2.3 Both parties acknowledge and agree that the terms set forth in this Section 2 (License Grant) supercede any inconsistent distribution limitations set forth in Section 2.2 (Limitations) of an executed MOREOVER TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT LICENSE AGREEMENT (“Development Agreement”). Otherwise the terms of the Development Agreement, including, without limitation, any restrictions on reverse engineering, decompilation, or removal of any proprietary notices, labels, trademarks, trade names or service marks, shall remain in effect, with the terms of this Agreement controlling in the event of any conflict or inconsistency with the Development Agreement.
3. Use of Moreover Trademarks.
(a) By Reseller. Reseller will market the CI-Metabase solely under its own trademarks, trade names, service marks, service names and logos (“Marks”) and shall not identify Moreover as the source of the CI-Metabase.
4.1 Calculation. Fees payable to Moreover shall be in accordance with Exhibit B.
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Integrated Product. Reseller shall pay to Moreover interest on overdue payments at a rate of 1.5% per month, or, if lower, the maximum rate permitted by law.
5.1 Responsibilities. Moreover will be responsible to Reseller for support and maintenance of the CI-Metabase, as well as second-tier support to be provided to designated Reseller contact people for End User issues not resolved via the first-tier support provided by Reseller directly to End Users. Moreover agrees to provide reasonable second-tier End User support during its normal business hours, with such support to be at a level and of a quality at least consistent with industry standards.
(a) If either party defaults in the performance of any of its material obligations hereunder and if any such default is not corrected within thirty (30) days after it shall have been called to the attention of the defaulting party, in writing, by the other party, then the other party, at its option, may, in addition to any other remedies it may have, thereupon terminate this Agreement by giving written notice of termination to the other party.
(b) In the event of default by Reseller for reason of nonpayment only, in addition to Moreover’s right to terminate this Agreement Moreover shall be entitled, on written notice to Reseller, to require that Reseller immediately cease all use and distribution of the CI-Metabase until this default has been fully cured,
(c) Injunctive Relief. In view of the liability limitations set forth in Section 10 herein, and the time-sensitive nature of the business activities contemplated herein, the parties recognize that no remedy at law for damages may be adequate to compensate the injury to the other party as a result of a breach of the provisions of this Agreement and, therefore, each party agrees that the other party shall be entitled to seek temporary and permanent injunctive and equitable relief against the breaching party. Such relief shall not limit any other remedies, including a suit for money damages, that either party may have as a result of the other party’s breach.
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Moreover means: Factiva, Xxxx-Elsevier and related companies, Thomson Corporation and related companies, YellowBrix. Moreover may reasonably update the list of competitors by providing written notice thereof to Reseller.
(a) Except as otherwise set forth herein, the parties rights and obligations pursuant to Sections 1, 2.4, 4, 6.5, 7.2, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
(b) If this Agreement is terminated or expires, then all of Reseller’s rights and licenses with respect to the CI-Metabase shall terminate. All rights granted to End Users shall continue for one (1) year from the date when Reseller entered into an agreement, or a renewal or extension of an agreement, or such shorter period as may agreed with an End User for the Integrated Product, and Moreover shall continue to provide necessary support in connection with such End Users, provided that Reseller shall continue to pay all necessary payments under Exhibit B. All copies of the CI-Metabase and related documentation in Reseller’s possession shall be, at Moreover’s option, promptly returned to Moreover or destroyed, and in the event of destruction, Reseller shall confirm such destruction in writing.
8.2 This Section 8 sets for Moreover’s entire liability for any third party claim of intellectual property infringement.
9. Warranty Disclaimer.
EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN SECTION 7, MOREOVER PROVIDES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WITH RESPECT TO THE CI-METABASE, WHICH IS PROVIDED “AS IS”.
10. Limitation of Liability.
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF EITHER PARTY’S INDEMNIFICATION OBLIGATIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 8 OR 12.3, IN NO EVENT SHALL EITHER PARTY’S LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT EXCEED $50,000 IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE
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AGREEMENT, $100,000 IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THE AGREEMENT AND $150,000 IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE AGREEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL EITHER PARTY BE LIABLE FOR COSTS OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF EITHER PARTY’S INDEMNIFICATION OBLIGATIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 8 OR 12.3, IN NO EVENT SHALL EITHER PARTY BE LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS OR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR INDIRECT DAMAGES, HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, EVEN IF WARNED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. RESELLER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE PRICE TO RESELLER IS BASED IN PART UPON THESE LIMITATIONS, AND FURTHER AGREES THAT THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY.
12.1 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without reference to its conflict of laws principles.
12.2 Forum Selection. All disputes arising out of this Agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state courts in San Francisco, California and federal courts in the Northern District of California, and the parties agree and submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction and venue of these courts.
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MOREOVER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | VOCUS, INC. | |
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx | By: /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx | |
Print Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Ph.D. | Print Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxx | |
Title: President & CEO | Title: CFO |
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EXHIBIT A
Integrated Product Description
Vocus on-demand software is a suite of products that provide media, government and grassroots contact management; electronic message distribution, news monitoring, reporting and analytics; document management; legislation tracking; online newsrooms and advocacy sites; and other functions for the management of public relations and government relations.
The Moreover CI-Metabase is a database of aggregated real-time news, business information and current awareness. Content is continually harvested from thousands of online sources, reviewed and ranked for quality by an editorial staff. Articles are categorized by topic and enriched with descriptive metadata fields. The CI-Metabase is available to Reseller via an API that can be accessed up to every five minutes. An updated list of Moreover source sites can be found at the following URL using the username “guest” and the password “gazzub8”: xxxx://x.xxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxxxxx/xxxx_xxxxxx_xxxx/xxxxx. html
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EXHIBIT B
Fees
Concurrent Licensees per End User | Annual Fees due to Moreover (US Dollars) | |||
1 | $ | 500 | ||
2 | $ | 1,500 | ||
5 | $ | 2,500 | ||
10 | $ | 3,500 | ||
15+ | $ | 5,000 |
• | Reseller will remit to Moreover at least US$10,000 per contract quarter during the term of the Agreement. | ||
• | Reseller will remit to Moreover or Moreover will credit Reseller, whichever is applicable, the total annual fees per End User at the end of the contract quarter in which Reseller entered into an agreement with End User for the Integrated Product. | ||
• | Additional Sources: At Resellers request, Moreover will add up to 35 additional source websites per year for the term of the Agreement at no additional cost to Reseller, Reseller may additionally request that further source websites be added to the CI-Metabase. Source additions will be purchased in groups at the following rates: |
US$5,000 for 50 source additions
US$7,000 for 100 source additions US$10,000 for 150 source additionsMoreover confidential
EXHIBIT C
Reseller Billing Contact Info
Company Name: | Vocus, Inc. | |
Billing Contact Name; | Xxx Xxxxxx | |
Address: | 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx, | |
Xxxxxx, XX 00000 | ||
Phone: | 000-000-0000 | |
Fax: | 000-000-0000 | |
Email: | xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx | |
Purchase Order (PO) Number (if required): | ||
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EXHIBIT D
CI-Metabase XML Schema
<moreovercontentdump> is the main tag. It contains <article> tags, each of which has a property ID consisting of a unique number, preceded by an underscore to accord with XML syntax on ID numbers. Each article contains the following tags:
<description> Contains <hitext_display>, <author> and <content> tags. Data within those tags is contained within ‘CDATA’ brackets, indicating to parsers it should not be interpreted as XML, This is to allow articles with different charsets to be delivered in the same metabase return, If required.
The description tag has two attributes, ‘charset’ and ‘language’: Charset specifies the character set used for interpreting the data in the nested tags. For English and Western European languages this will normally take the value “IS0-8859-1”.
<hitext_dlsplay> The headline text of the news item.
<source> Name of the headline’s source publication.
<author> States the name of the author of the article, as assigned by Moreover categorization systems. Author names are only available for news items from source rank 1 sources (see below). May be without value if no author was detected.
<content> The article content, only for internal use in categorisation. <url> The URL that clicks through to the specified story. <source> Name of the publisher.
<source_category> Describes the type of news or information of a source or subsection of a source. There are 10 source categories:
• | ‘General’: News items from general news publications, e.g. Reuters, Asia Xxxxx Xxxxxx, MSNBC. | ||
• | ‘Industry’: News items from designated industry, profession or technology focused sources, e.g. Financial Review, McKinsey Quarterly, Oil and Gas Journal, | ||
• | ‘Consumer’: News items from consumer and magazine type publications, Includes consumer sections of main publications. E.g. Salon, Los Angeles Times, Elle. | ||
• | ‘Reports’: Reports and long, in-depth type articles from selected publications, e.g. The Brookings Institution, Financial Times reports, OECD. | ||
• | ‘Tutorials’: How-to type guides and features, e.g. Xxxxx.xxx Web Design, xxXXxxxx.xxx | ||
• | ‘USregional’: Regional and local US sources. Includes local news sections of main publications. E.g. The Alaska Star, Modesto Bee. | ||
• | ‘UKregional’: Regional and local UK sources. Includes local news sections of main publications. E.g. icNewscastle, Bath Chronicle. | ||
• | ‘Languages’: News items for non-English language sources, e.g, Die Zeit, CNN Japan, Le Monde. | ||
• | ‘Corporate’: Corporate website press release pages, e.g. McDonalds, Shell. |
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• | ‘Press release’: Designated press release and wire sources or subsections, e.g. Business Wire, Canada NewsWire. |
<media_type> Specifies the media type, usually “text”, may state “pdf”. <docurl> The domain URL of the source. <harvest_time> Date and time at which the news item was harvested by Moreover. <valid_time> Date after which the probability of the link no longer working (due to the publisher having removed the article) exceeds our reliability threshold (currently 0.03). It is recommended that all news items be purged from the client’s database at this time, <access_registration> The URL for the subscription or registration page of the publisher, if applicable. It will contain no value otherwise. <access_status> Takes the value “reg” if the site requires registration to view stories, “sub” if the site requires subscription, or “prem” for a premium content site, where you are offered a free abstract but are required to subscribe for access to the full article. <duplicate_group> If a new article closely matches an existing article in the ci-metabase, It will have a duplicate group value that is equal to the article ID of the first (oldest) article in the group. This enables the original ‘seed’ article to be located in client-side copy of the ci-metabase, since it is likely that the seed article was already retreived by the client before the seed article itself was attributed the duplicate group value. Note that it is possible the original seed article is no longer in your copy of the metabase, if it has passed its valid time and been purged in the interim. Articles that do not match any other articles have no duplicate group value. <rank> Contains <source_rank> and <web_rank> tags. The source rank tag is a source-based tag indicating Moreover’s editorial ranking of the publisher. There are five source ranks:
1: High quality international general and business news sources, e.g. New York Times, Bloomberg, The Economist.
2: Prominent news sources in their region, e.g. South China Morning Post, Scotsman Online, and leading industry sector magazines and journals, e.g. MIT Technology Review, Pharmaceutical Journal.
3: Covers a broad range of news sources of reasonable editorial quality. Includes the following types of news sources:
- Industry specific news sources such as PC Magazine, World of Concrete
- Country specific news sources, e.g. New York Daily News, Canadian Press
- Government department press releases, e.g. US Treasury, 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
- International organizations, e.g. OECD, NATO
- Dedicated sports news sources, e.g. XXXX.xxx, Sports Network
4: Covers a broad range of news sources of intermediate and low editorial quality and sources with a local focus. Includes the following types of news sources:
- Regional US news sources, e.g. Kansas City Star, Long Beach Herald
- Regional UK news sources, Falkirk Today, This is Bristol
- Corporate website press pages, e.g. Oracle, EasyJet
- Wire news services, e.g. Business Wire, PR Newswire via Yahoo
- Political party (affiliated) websites, e.g. The White House, The Labour Party
- Xxxxx.xxx topic sites, e.g. Xxxxx.xxx TV, Xxxxx.xxx Golf
5: Covers non-news sources and data. Includes the following types of material:
- Data such as SEC filings
- Message boards, e.g. Raging Bull, XxxxxXxxxxxxx.xxx
- Jokes, e.g. Xxxxx.xxx
- Miscellaneous sources, such as train delays, e.g. xxxx.xxx
The web rank tag is a source-based tag indicating search engine popularity. Values run from 1 to 6, 1 being the most popular. May be without value. <location> Contains <region>, <country>, <state>, <zip_area> and <zip_code> tags. These are source based tags indicating the location of the publisher. For possible values of the region and country tags please refer to the ‘region/country’ source list.
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The state, zip area and zip code tags only apply to US and UK regional and local publications. The state tag indicates the state (US sources) or county (UK sources) of the publisher. The zip area denotes the postal locale of the source as determined by its zip or post code. The zip code tag states the zip code (US sources) or postal code (UK sources) of the location of the source.
<cluster> Contains <channel> and <category> tags. These are topical categories assigned to the story by Moreover categorization systems. Channel tags group categories tags by topic. There are 16 different channels, for possible channel and category values please refer to the category list in moreover manager. There are currently 381 possible category values, an item may be tagged with more than one category, or none if the item did not match the editorial profile of any of the categories. There are two different types of category:
1) General industry and news topic categories. These are broad, encompassing news categories, in lower case and suffixed by ‘:general’, e.g. ‘financial: general’. There are 40 general categories, for a list please refer to the general category list link in moreover manager.
2) Pre-built categories. There are 341 news categories, which are more specific than the ‘general’ categories and cover a diverse range of news topics. For a list of these categories please refer to the pre-built category list link in moreover manager.
<keywords_public> Contains <keyword> tags. Each source or section of a source is tagged with an appropriate industry sector or consumer keyword. Industry keywords are based on Standard & Poor industry classifications. An item may be tagged with more than one keyword. If a source does not fit into any keyword definition it is tagged with keyword Miscellaneous. <keywords_code> Contains <code> tags. Articles tagged with industry based keywords are also tagged with corresponding Standard & Poor numeric sector codes. May contain no tags if an item’s keyword is non-industry based. <stock_ticker> Contains <company>, <name> and <symbol> tags, assigned to a news item by Moreover categorisation systems. Currently includes all listed companies on NYSE, AMEX (including Emerging), and NASDAQ (including national market). May contain no tags if a story is not related to a listed company or if the article does not fulfill Moreover’s categorisation criteria. Example ci-metabase article
<article id=“_91396977”> <description charset=“ISO-8859-l” language=“English”> <hltext_display> <![CDATA[ Shopping tags New technology will allow stores to track all your purchases ]]> </hltext_display> <author>Xxxxxxx Xxxxx</author> <content><![CDATA[New technology will allow stores to track everything we buy — in store or out.
New technology will allow stores to track everything we buy — in store or out. Purchases could be tracked out of store Remember the acronym, RFID: you’ll hear a lot more about it. Radio Frequency Identification is a means of identifying goods — or people — that will make the barcode look as dated as a xxxxx paper label on a piece of string. RFID is a chip, the size of a grain of sand, which emits a radio signal. Each chip is unique so any item that’s tagged with it can then be tracked individually, all the time and almost anywhere. Where barcodes only identify a type of good, for example a particular brand of biscuits, RFID identifies every single pack, each of which, in a warehouse or shop, can be tracked simultaneously. There’s no doubt the technology is a dream for big retailers. Wal-Mart is beginning to Introduce tags on its products Wal-Mart has told its hundred biggest suppliers that it wants them to put RFID chips on their products by 2005. And when Wal-Mart tells its suppliers to jump, they jump high and fast. Stolen goods can be tracked; stocks can be monitored quickly; a sensor could be placed on shelves which would then register when goods moved. It’s reckoned that the average store has 8% of its goods out-of-stock at any one moment — so cutting that proportion means more goods sold and so higher profits. In the clumsy jargon of the business, the chips give ‘Instant supplyMoreover Confidential
chain visibility’. But just as RFID is a retailer’s dream, so it’s a libertarian’s nightmare. Their fear is that chips on garments, say, could be used to track people: you buy a suit in a store and everywhere the suit goes so does the chip, emitting its radio waves and disclosing your location. Already, they talk of Big Brother and a ‘spy chip’ ]]>
</content> </description> <url>xxxx://x.xxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxxx/xxxx.xx?x00000000&xx000000</url> <source>BBC</source> <source_category>General</source_category> <media_type>text</media_type> <docurl>xxxx://xxxx.xxx.xx.xx</docurl> <harvest_time>Sep 24 2003 9:30AM</harvest_time> <valid_time>May 26 2004 9:30AM</valid_time> <access_registration /> <access_status /> <duplicate_group /> <rank> <source_rank>1</source_rank> <web_rank>2</web_rank> </rank> <location> <region>EUROPE</region> <country> UNITED KINGDOM</country> <state /> <zip_area /> <zip_code /> </location <cluster> <channel name=“Business General”> <category>Marketing news</category> <channel name=“Technology”> <category> Semiconductor industry news</category> <channel name=“Industry”> <category>Retail sector news</category> <channel name=“General”> <category>business: general</category> <category>advertising and marketing: general</category> </channel> </cluster> <keywords_public> < keyword > Business</ keyword> <keyword>InformationTechnology</keyword> </keywords_public> <keywords_code /> <keywords_code>SP45</keywords_code> </keywords_code /> <stock_ticker> <company> <name>Wal-Mart Stores Inc.</name> <symbol>WMT</symbol> </company> </stock_ticker> </article>
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Examples of the location tag:
for source <source> Atlanta Journal And Constitution</source>
<location> <region>AMERICAS</region> <country>UNITED STATES</country> <state>GEORGIA</state> < zip_area> Atlanta </zip_area> <zip_code>30303</zip_code> </location>
for source <source > Nottingham Evening Post</source>
<location> <region>EUROPE</region> <country>UNITED KINGDOM</country> <state>Nottinghamshire</state> <zip_area>Nottingham</zip_area> <zip_code>NG1 7GU</zip_code> </location>
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