THIS LICENCE AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is dated this 29th day of May 2017
BETWEEN:
(1) The Chinese University of Hong Kong, a university established by legislation in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“Hong Kong SAR”) located in Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR acting in its capacity as the owner of the Invention as defined herein (“University”); and
(2) Cirina Limited, a limited liability company incorporated and existing under the laws of Hong Kong SAR having its registered office at 21st Floor, Edinburgh Tower, The Landmark, 15 Queen’s Road, Central, Hong Kong SAR (“Licensee”);
who together in this Agreement are referred to as the “Parties” and individually as the “Party”.
WHEREAS:
(A) University and Licensee have signed a Collaborative Research Agreement (No.TC1611052) made as of 31 July 2016 to perform certain research work. The Invention (as defined below) within University Docket No. 16/MED/740 was then invented by Professor Yuk Ming Dennis Lo of the Department of Chemical Pathology of University and his research team and Licensee’s research team.
(B) Pursuant to the terms of the Collaborative Research Agreement, University and Licensee co-own the Invention and the underlying Proprietary IPR (as defined below) therein.
(C) University and Licensee now agree to enter into this definitive agreement with regard to Licensee’s exclusive licence to use University’s share of the Invention and the Proprietary IPR therein in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:
1 Definitions
In this Agreement, unless the context clearly otherwise requires, the following words and expressions shall have the following meanings and all defined terms shall apply to their singular and plural forms, as applicable: “Including” means ‘including without limitation’. “H/herein,” “hereof”, “hereunder” or similar expressions refer to this Agreement. “Clause” means the referenced clause in this Agreement.
1.1 “Affiliate” means any legal entity of which Licensee owns, directly or indirectly, 10% or more shareholdings.
1.2 “Commencement Date” means the date of commencement of the licence as referred to in Clause 3.1.
1.3 “Effective Date” means the date first written above of which this Agreement becomes effective.
1.4 “Expenses” means all costs and expenses incurred for processing, defending from invalidation attacks or maintaining any of the Prospective Patent (as defined below) in a designated Patent Jurisdiction (as defined below) and includes those costs and expenses referred to in Clause 8 as payable by Licensee.
1.5 “Information” means information relating to the Invention and any other technical information of University and any technical or business information of Licensee.
1.6 “Intellectual Property Rights” or “IPR” means any rights including but not limited to patents, know-how, confidential information, trade secret, industrial design, copyrights,
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