COMMON INTEREST AGREEMENT
This Common Interest Agreement (the “Agreement”), effective as of March 21, 2018 (the “Effective Date”), is entered into by and among Werewolf Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation having its principal office and place of business at c/o MPM Capital, 601 Gateway Boulevard, Suite 350, South San Francisco, CA 94080 (“Werewolf”), and Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation having its principal office and place of business at 4000 Shoreline Court, Suite 250, South San Francisco, CA 94080 (“Harpoon”), and MPM Asset Management LLC, a Delaware limited liability company having its principal office and place of business at 450 Kendall Street, 5th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142 (“MPM”). Werewolf, Harpoon and MPM are sometimes referred to herein individually as a “Party” and collectively as the “Parti.es.”
WHEREAS, Werewolf and Harpoon have entered into an Assignment and License Agreement of even date herewith (the “Assignment and License Agreement”), under which Werewolf and Harpoon have granted each other rights with respect to certain patent rights (the “Patents”);
WHEREAS, one or more affiliates of MPM is an investor in both Werewolf and Harpoon;
WHEREAS, the Parties believe that, in order to effectuate the transactions contemplated by the Assignment and License Agreement (collectively, the “Transaction”) smoothly and to enable Werewolf and Harpoon to conduct their respective businesses going forward following the Transaction it will be necessary for the Parties to share and assess information relating to the Patents;
WHEREAS, the Parties have ongoing andpre-existing legal interests in common relating to the Patents which began prior to the Effective Date;
WHEREAS, such common legal interests and the information produced in reviewing and considering the Patents would inevitably include information that is subject to the protections of the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine, the “work product immunity,” the “joint defense privilege,” the “self-evaluation privilege” and all other applicable privileges, immunities, doctrines and protections pursuant to the terms hereunder (“Common Interest Materials”); and
WHEREAS, the Parties would like to cooperate in reviewing and considering the Patents and sharing with each other any Common Interest Materials obtained thereby.
IT IS THEREFORE AGREED:
1. The Parties agree that they shared a common legal interest prior to the Effective Date, that is, as of the Effective Date, in regard to the Patents. The Parties further acknowledge that they had agreed to exchange Common Interest Materials with the intent to further their common legal interest prior to the Effective Date and that this Agreement should be interpreted to retroactively cover any previous exchanges which would properly fall within the subject matter of this Agreement.
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