Software Sales Agreement
Exhibit 10.1
Sale, Transfer and Assignment: Digital Challenge hereby sells transfers and assigns to NME all of the "Rights" to the Software on the terms set forth herein. "Rights" means the IPRs and other rights to utilize the Software in conducting the Business in all areas of the world. Digital Challenge will provide one-year free technical support for this Software.
Annex B HD Authoring Tools
AGREEMENT
dated as of November 1st,
2006 by and between New Medium Enterprise Inc, (“NME”) having offices in 000 Xxx
Xxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx and Digital Challenge Holdings Limited having
offices in XX 000, 0/X, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, 00-00 Xxxxxxxx
Xxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxx
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS,
Digital
Challenge is engaged in the business of developing and marketing software
programs, services and related products and agrees to sell and transfer its
“HD
Authoring Tool and Encryption ” (the “Software”) being the sole owner of this
Software.
WHEREAS,
NME
agrees to purchase the Software named as “HD Authoring Tools” to use it and
conduct the business in the relevant field according to its needs and
requirements at any level.
WHEREAS,
Digital
Challenge wishes to sell, transfer and assign to NME all of its Rights to its
Technology (as defined below), to enable NME to conduct the Business, upon
the
terms and conditions set forth herein.
Now,
therefore, it is agreed as follows:
Definitions:
In this
Agreement the following definitions shall apply:
Software
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Means
HD Authoring Tools which defined at the Annex A with all patents, patent
applications, trademarks, trademark applications, Know-How (as defined below
in
Annex B ), related to “HD Authoring Tools”;
Intellectual
Property Rights (“IPRs”)
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all intellectual property rights of Digital Challenge in the Software, including
without limitation source codes, applications, patents, inventions, trademarks,
design rights, copyrights, database rights (whether or not any of these are
registered and including any application for registration of any such rights),
Know-How, confidential information and trade secrets and all rights or forms
for
the protection of a similar nature or having similar affect to any of these
which may exist anywhere in the world the Software mentioned above.
Know-How
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know-how, trade secrets or Experience whether patentable or not including but
not limited to all design or manufacturing techniques, operating instructions,
machinery designs, raw materials or products specifications, drawings,
blueprints and other any technical and commercial information relating to the
research, design, development, manufacture assembly use or sale belonging to
Digital Challenge.
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Sale, Transfer and Assignment: Digital Challenge hereby sells transfers and assigns to NME all of the "Rights" to the Software on the terms set forth herein. "Rights" means the IPRs and other rights to utilize the Software in conducting the Business in all areas of the world. Digital Challenge will provide one-year free technical support for this Software.
Purchase
Price:
The
purchase price for the sale, transfer and assignment of the rights hereunder
will be US$10,000, plus 10 million fully paid up restricted shares of NME as
per
the terms and conditions in ‘Sale and Disposal of Restricted Shares’ as per
Annex A
This
agreement will take
effect
after
NME pays the payment of USD$10,000 and issues within 7 days the 10 million
shares.
Completion
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complete transfer of the ownership of the ‘HD Authoring Tools’ to NME will take
effect when
1. |
NME
is satisfied with the Alpha
Version.
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2. |
NME
has received a fully commercial version of the HD Authoring Tools
by CES
show in January 2007.
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Governing-Law:
This
agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the Hong Kong
laws.
Amendment:
No
change, modification or amendment of this agreement shall be valid or binding
on
the parties unless such change or modification shall be in writing signed by
the
party or parties against whom the same is sought to be enforced.
Further
Assurances:
Each
party hereby covenants and agrees that it shall execute and deliver such deeds
and other documents as may be required to implement any of the provisions of
this agreement.
Digital
Challenge makes representation, covenant and warranty regarding:
the
Software will need third party software and licenses of MPEG2, Dolby AC-3 and
perhaps Beijing Eworld’s license which NME shall to apply separately. Digital
Challenge can not transfer those licenses to NME;
the
non-infringement of third party rights except mentioned at
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will
defense of NME against actions or suits of any nature brought by
third
parties except any suits related
to;
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the
scope, enforceability and validity of the
Software;
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will
deliver Alpha version to NME within 6 weeks after the initial
payment;
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will
not engage any work for any third parties by utilizing the Confidential
Information of the Software; and
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will
not sale the Software or any other version of this software to any
third
parties.
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Digital
Challenge shall keep in confidentiality of any following confidential relevant
technology, business process or methods, expertise, trade secret, business
and
financial information and relevant document, data, or other information of
the
Software, including document, technical specifications, data, chart, plan,
process, image, database, computer software, whether transferred as recorded
or
expressed in disc, tape, electronic document or any other form, or by means
of
oral description, demonstration or observation (“Confidential Information”),
and, without prior written consent of NME, shall not disclose to any third
party
the Confidential Information.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF,
the
parties hereto have executed this Agreement effective the date and year first
above written.
Digital
Challenge Holdings Limited
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By:
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New
Medium Enterprises, Inc.
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By:
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Annex
A Sale and Disposable of Shares
NME
will
grant 10 million fully paid up Rule 144 shares under the following terms and
conditions.
1. |
The
shares issued will immediately become ‘non forfeitable’ upon completion
and delivery of the following
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1.1. |
the
Alpha version of the ‘VMD HD Authoring tools’ in 6 weeks
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1.2. |
The
completion of the VMD authoring tools Commercial version in time
for CES -
January 2007.
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The
sale
and disposable of the shares will be as follows
Vesting
period
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minimum 12 months from the date of issuance of shares or 7 days from the
effective date of the contract irrespective of the Delivery schedule.
Sale
restrictions - Further to the vesting period the disposal of these shares will
be over the following period
1. |
Right
to dispose after 12 months however the sale will be only permitted
to up
to 10% of these shares in any given
month
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Forfeiture
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Should
Digital Challenge not meet the ‘Completion’ clause in this agreement by the
delivery schedules the Shares paid as per the Price condition could be forfeited
at the discretion of NME.
In
the
event of forfeiture of share NME will have no right to the HD Authoring tools
so
far developed or under development.
Change
of Control - Share holder
Should
the company have a change of control or be subject to a take over these shares
will become immediately vested with no selling restrictions at any time during
this contract.
IPO
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Should
the company initiate an IPO either on the existing exchange or on any new
exchange for the whole of the company then the shares will become vested on
the
date of the IPO.
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Annex B HD Authoring Tools
Digital
Challenge - HD content authoring tools with VMD support
Digital
Challenge are developed and constructed under Microsoft Visual C++ compiler
(6.0) environment.
Digital
Challenge provide the full functions of stream import, subtitle generation,
multiplexing, directory and files creation, disc image creation, encryption,
DDP
2.0 files generation and DLT tape written.
Digital
Challenge also creates graphic menus and highlight buttons based upon the
user-provided bitmaps. Menus and buttons in VMD contents play a roll of
navigating presentation sequences.
Authoring
feature highlight
Multiple
Video format within one disc.
Multiple
Audio Streams with multi-language.
Each
Audio Stream with up to 7 channels.
Multiple
Subtitle Streams: with multi-languages in different font, colours and
styles.
Multiple
Video Titles.
Multiple
playback chains.
Full
play
control with What You See Is What You Want
Multiple-end
supported.
Karaoke
supported.
Highlight
Buttons in Titles.
Unlimited
Menus.
Up
to 22
buttons within one Menu.
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