12.Any and all fees, costs and expenses, of whatever kind or nature, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred by the Agent in connection with the preparation of this Agreement and all other documents relating hereto and the consummation of this transaction, the filing or recording of any documents (including all taxes in connection therewith) in public offices, the payment or discharge of any taxes, counsel fees, maintenance fees, encumbrances, the protection, maintenance or preservation of the Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, or the defense or prosecution of any actions or proceedings arising out of or related to the Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, shall be borne and paid by Pledgors.
13.Pledgors shall have the duty, if commercially reasonable, to prosecute any applications for registration of the Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights pending as of the date of this Agreement or thereafter until the Secured Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full, to make application on unpatented but patentable inventions (whenever it is commercially reasonable in the reasonable judgment of such Pledgor to do so) and to preserve and maintain all
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rights in applications for patents and trademarks and patents of the Patents and registrations of the Trademarks, including without limitation the payment of all maintenance fees (whenever it is commercially reasonable in the reasonable judgment of such Pledgor to do so). Any expenses incurred in connection with such an application or maintenance of an issued Patent or registered Trademark shall be borne by Pledgors. Unless it is commercially reasonable to do so, no Pledgor shall abandon any Patent, Trademark or Copyright without the consent of the Agent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld.
14.Unless there shall occur and be continuing any Event of Default, each Pledgor shall have the right but in no way be obligated to commence and prosecute in its own name, as the party in interest, for its own benefit, and to join the Agent, if necessary, as a party to such suit so long as the Agent is satisfied that such joinder will not subject it to any risk of liability, to enforce the Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights and any licenses thereunder, and at the sole cost and expense of such Pledgor, such applications for protection of the Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights and suits, proceedings or other actions to prevent the infringement, counterfeiting, unfair competition, dilution, diminution in value or other damage as are necessary to protect the Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Agent shall have the right but shall in no way be obligated to file applications for protection of the Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights and/or bring suit in the name of any Pledgor, the Agent or Buyers to enforce the Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights and any Intellectual Property License thereunder. In the event of such suit, each Pledgor shall, at the reasonable request of the Agent, do any and all lawful acts and execute any and all documents requested by the Agent in aid of such enforcement. In the event that the Agent shall elect not to bring suit to enforce any Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights that are material to the business of a Pledgor (as reasonably determined by such Pledgor), each Pledgor agrees, at the reasonable request of the Agent, to take commercially reasonable actions, as reasonably determined by such Pledgor, which may include suit, proceeding or other action, to prevent the infringement, counterfeiting, unfair competition, dilution, diminution in value of or other damage to any of the Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights by any person.
25.All notices, requests, demands, directions and other communications (collectively, “notices”) given to or made upon any party hereto under the provisions of this Agreement shall be as set forth in Section 17 of the Pledge and Security Agreement.
26.Each Pledgor acknowledges and agrees that, in addition to the other rights of the Agent hereunder and under the other Security Documents and Transaction Documents, because the Agent’s remedies at law for failure of such Pledgor to comply with the provisions hereof
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relating to the Agent’s rights (i) to inspect the books and records related to the Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, (ii) to receive the various notifications such Pledgor is required to deliver hereunder, (iii) to obtain copies of agreements and documents as provided herein with respect to the Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, (iv) to enforce the provisions hereof pursuant to which the such Pledgor has appointed the Agent its attorney-in-fact, and (v) to enforce the Agent’s remedies hereunder, would be inadequate and that any such failure would not be adequately compensable in damages, such Pledgor agrees that each such provision hereof may be specifically enforced.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective officers or agents thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.