LICENSE AGREEMENT
This License Agreement (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of this 29th day of October, 2014 (the “Effective Date”), by and between, on the one hand, President and Fellows of Harvard College, an educational and charitable corporation existing under the laws and the constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, having a place of business at Smith Campus Center, Suite 727, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (“Harvard”) and the Broad Institute, Inc., a non-profit Massachusetts corporation, with a principal office at 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 (“Broad,” together with Harvard, the “Institutions” and each individually, an “Institution”) and, on the other hand, Editas Medicine, Inc., a Delaware corporation, with a principal office at 300 Third Street, First Floor, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 (“Company”). Company and Institutions are each referred to herein as a “Party” and together, the “Parties.”
WHEREAS, the technology claimed in the Patent Rights (as defined below) was discovered by researchers at the Institutions;
WHEREAS, one or more of such researchers is an employee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (“HHMI”) and HHMI has assigned to Harvard its rights in those Patent Rights on which an HHMI employee is an inventor, subject to certain rights retained by HHMI as specifically described below;
WHEREAS, Harvard is a sole owner of certain of the Patent Rights, identified as “Harvard-Controlled Patents” on the attached Exhibit 1.104;
WHEREAS, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (hereinafter “MIT,” a not-for-profit Massachusetts Corporation with a principal place of business at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139) and Broad are co-owners of certain of the Patent Rights (the “MIT/Broad Co-Owned Patent Rights”);
WHEREAS, Harvard, MIT and Broad are co-owners of certain of the Patent Rights (the “Harvard/MIT/Broad Co-Owned Patent Rights,” identified together with the MIT/Broad Co-Owned Patent Rights as “Broad-Controlled Patents” on the attached Exhibit 1.104);
WHEREAS, pursuant to that certain Operating Agreement by and among Broad, MIT and Harvard dated July 1, 2009, MIT and Harvard have authorized Broad to act as their sole and exclusive agent for the purposes of licensing, as applicable, the MIT/Broad Co-Owned Patent Rights and the Harvard/MIT/Broad Co-Owned Patent Rights, and MIT and Harvard have authorized Broad to enter into this Agreement on their behalf with respect to such Patent Rights;
WHEREAS, Company wishes to obtain a license under the Patent Rights;
WHEREAS, Institutions and MIT desire to have products based on the inventions described in the Patent Rights developed and commercialized to benefit the public; and
WHEREAS, Company has represented to Institutions, in order to induce Institutions to enter into this Agreement, that Company shall commit itself to the development and commercialization of such products so that public utilization shall result.