GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. | Non-binding Recitals. The Parties are entering into a series of related agreements pursuant to which, among other things, Salesforce Ventures is making an equity investment in ServiceMax. |
In connection with these agreements, Salesforce and ServiceMax are also entering into this Agreement, under which the Parties intend to collaborate on strategic commercial initiatives.
The General Terms and Conditions of this Agreement define overall goals and a process to support the Parties in achieving such goals, and set forth certain terms that apply to each individual Initiative Addendum (as defined below) except as may be otherwise specified in an individual Initiative Addendum.
2. | Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth below: |
“Addendum Effective Date” means the effective date of an Initiative, as specified in the applicable Initiative Addendum.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any legal entity, any other entity that directly or indirectly Controls, is Controlled by, or is under common Control with such entity, but only for so long as such control exists. “Control,” as used in this definition, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of an entity, whether through the ownership of voting shares or other voting interests, by contract, or otherwise.
“Dependencies” means actions of a Party as set forth in an Initiative Addendum that are prerequisites for the GA of a Solution.
“Executive Sponsor” means each of the senior executives appointed by a Party to provide strategic direction for and oversight of an Initiative. The Executive Sponsors for each Initiative will be listed in the applicable Initiative Addendum.
“General Availability” or “GA” means the date of the first public availability of the commercial ready version of a Property and/or Solution, as applicable, described in an Initiative Addendum, as distinguished from any earlier internal or external pilot or beta version.
“Initiative” means a specific initiative under this Agreement, as further described in Section 3.2.
“Initiative Addendum” means a document substantially in the form of Exhibit A setting forth terms for an Initiative that has been executed by an authorized representative of each Party and references this Agreement, which document may be amended upon mutual written agreement signed by the Parties. Each Initiative Addendum is incorporated by reference into this Agreement.
“Initiative Lead” means the individual appointed by each Party to serve as that Party’s point of contact for purposes of carrying out a particular Initiative. The Initiative Lead will be specified in the corresponding Initiative Addendum.
“Intellectual Property Rights” means any patent rights, copyright, trade secret rights, trademark rights (including rights in trade names, trade dress, service marks, URLs, domain names or other source of business identifiers), rights in industrial property and industrial designs, moral rights and all other intellectual property or proprietary rights arising under the laws of any jurisdiction worldwide, including all rights or causes of action for infringement or misappropriation of any of the foregoing, and all rights in any registrations, applications, renewals, extensions, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions or reissues for any of the foregoing.
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