Terms and Conditions of this Agreement:
1. (a) The Material, which is the subject of one or more agreements with Cellective Therapeutics, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware and having a place of business in Durham, North Carolina (“Licensee”), is and remains the property of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (“DFCI”) (subject to certain rights granted to Licensee) and is to be used by Recipient Institution solely for anon-commercial Research Purpose.
(b) Except as is mutually agreed upon in writing in advance by DFCI, Duke and Recipient Institution, the Material is to be used by Recipient Institution at Recipient Institution’s institutional facilities only, and only under the direction of Recipient Institution’s Scientist.
(c) Except as set forth in Paragraph 4 and as claimed in [***] and [***], [***], and [***] owned by DFCI, neither DFCI nor Duke claims ownership of substances and Modifications produced as a result of Recipient Institution’s research with the Material that are not included in the definition of Material above.
(d) Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, no rights are provided to Recipient Institution under any patent applications, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights of DFCI and/or Duke. In particular, no rights are provided to use the Material or Modifications for profit-making or commercial purposes, such as sale; use in manufacturing; use in drug screening, evaluation, or design programs; or provision of a commercial service based upon the Material or Modifications.
(e) If Recipient Institution desires to use the Material or Modifications for such profit-making or commercial purposes, Recipient Institution agrees that it must first negotiate a license or other appropriate agreement with DFCI and/or Duke and/or Licensee, as the case may be, and it is further understood by Recipient Institution that neither DFCI nor Duke shall have any obligation to enter into such a license or agreement and in fact may grant exclusive ornon-exclusive commercial licenses to others.
(f) Recipient Institution represents that research with the Material and/or Modifications will not be subject to the terms of any consultant, option, license, or sponsored research agreement in which a third party (other than the government) gains rights to the research results and/or the intellectual property arising from research with the Material and/or Modifications without the express, prior written approval of DFCI, Duke or Licensee.
2. Recipient Institution’s Scientist agrees not to transfer the Material or Modifications to anyone who does not work under his or her direct supervision at Recipient Institution without the express, prior written consent of DFCI and Duke. To the extent supplies are available, DFCI and/or Duke will make the Material available under a material transfer agreement substantially similar to this Agreement upon request from appropriate scientists atnon-profit or governmental institutions for the purpose of replicating Recipient Institution’s Scientist’s research.
3. Recipient Institution agrees to hold confidential all Information except as such Information: (a) can be demonstrated was known by the Recipient Institution at the time of disclosure; (b) becomes part of the public domain, except by breach of this Agreement by Recipient Institution; (c) is rightfully received by Recipient Institution from a third party without an obligation of confidence to DFCI, Duke or Licensee; or (d) is independently developed by Recipient Institution’s personnel who have not had access to Information, Material or Modifications as demonstrated by competent written proof. Recipient Institution’s obligations of nondisclosure of Information shall terminate [***] ([***]) [***] from the date that this Agreement is signed by Duke.
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[*] = CERTAIN CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT, MARKED BY BRACKETS, HAS BEEN OMITTED BECAUSE THE INFORMATION (I) IS NOT MATERIAL AND (II) WOULD BE COMPETITIVELY HARMFUL IF PUBLICLY DISCLOSED.