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Intellectual Property. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries owns, possesses, or can acquire on reasonable terms, all Intellectual Property (as defined below) necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses as now conducted or as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus to be conducted. Except as would not result in a Material Adverse Effect, # there are no rights of third parties to any such Intellectual Property owned by the Company; # to the knowledge of the Company, there is no infringement, misappropriation or violation by third parties of any such Intellectual Property; # there is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s rights in or to any such Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; # the Intellectual Property owned by the Company and

Intellectual Property The Company and its subsidiary owns, possesses, or can acquire on reasonable terms, all Intellectual Property (as defined below) necessary for the conduct of the Company’s and it subsidiary’s business as now conducted or as described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement to be conducted, except as such failure to own, possess, or acquire such rights would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. Furthermore, except as described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, # to the Company’s knowledge, there is no infringement, misappropriation or violation by third parties of any such Intellectual Property, except as such infringement, misappropriation or violation would not result in a Material Adverse Effect; # there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened, action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s or its subsidiary’s rights in or to any such Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any objective facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; # the Intellectual Property owned by the Company and its subsidiary, and to the Company’s knowledge of the Company, the Intellectual Property licensed to the Company and its subsidiary, has not been adjudged invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, and there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any such Intellectual Property; # there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company or its subsidiary infringes, misappropriates or otherwise violates any Intellectual Property or other proprietary rights of others, and neither the Company nor its subsidiary has received any written notice of such claim; and # to the Company’s knowledge, no employee of the Company or its subsidiary is in or has ever been in violation of any term of any employment contract, patent disclosure agreement, invention assignment agreement, non-competition agreement, non-solicitation agreement, nondisclosure agreement or any restrictive covenant to or with a former employer where the basis of such violation relates to such employee’s employment with the Company or its subsidiary or actions undertaken by the employee while employed with the Company or its subsidiary, except as such violation would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. “Intellectual Property” shall mean all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks, service mark registrations, trade names, copyrights, copyright registrations, licenses, inventions, trade secrets, Internet domain names, Internet domain name registrations, technology, registrations, trade secret rights, know-how and other intellectual property.

Intellectual Property. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries own, possess, or can acquire on reasonable terms, all Intellectual Property necessary for the conduct of its business as now conducted or as described in the SEC Reports to be conducted in all material respects, except as such failure to own, possess, or acquire such rights would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, # to the knowledge of the Company and its Subsidiaries, there is no infringement, misappropriation or violation by third parties of any such Intellectual Property, except as such infringement, misappropriation or violation would not have a Material Adverse Effect; # there is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s rights in or to any such Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any material facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; # the Intellectual Property owned by the Company, and to the knowledge of the Company, the Intellectual Property licensed to the Company, have not been adjudged invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, and there is no pending or threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any such Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any material facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; # to the Company’s knowledge, there is no pending or threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company infringes, misappropriates or otherwise violates any Intellectual Property or other proprietary rights of others, the Company has not received any written notice of such claim and the Company is unaware of any other material fact which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; and # to the Company’s knowledge, no Company employee is obligated under any contract (including licenses, covenants or commitments of any nature) or other agreement, or subject to any judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative agency, that would interfere with the use of such employee’s best efforts to promote the interest of the Company or that would conflict with the Company’s business; none of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the carrying on of the Company’s business by the employees of the Company, and the conduct of the Company’s business as proposed, will conflict with or result in a breach of terms, conditions, or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any contract, covenant or instrument under which any such employee is now obligated; and it is not and will not be necessary to use any inventions, trade secrets or proprietary information of any of its consultants, or its employees (or Persons it currently intends to hire) made prior to their employment by the Company, except for technology that is licensed to or owned by the Company.

Except as described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, the Company and its Subsidiaries own, possess, license or have other rights to use, on reasonable terms, all patents, patent applications, trade and service marks, trade and service mark registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, trade secrets, technology, know-how and other intellectual property (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”) necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses in all material respects. Except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, # there are no rights of third parties to any such Intellectual Property, including no liens, security interests, or other encumbrances; # to the knowledge of the Company, no third party has any ownership right in or to any Intellectual Property that is owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than any co-owner of any patent constituting Intellectual Property who is listed on the records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and any co-owner of any patent application constituting Intellectual Property who is named in such patent application; # to the Company’s knowledge, there is no material infringement or misappropriation by third parties of any such Intellectual Property; # there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s rights in or to any such Intellectual Property, and the Company is aware of no factual basis for any such claim; # such Intellectual Property has not been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any such Intellectual Property, including interferences, oppositions, reexaminations, or government proceedings, and the Company is aware of no factual basis for any such claim; # there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of others, and the Company is aware of no factual basis for any such claim; # neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received notice of any claim of infringement, misappropriation or conflict with any asserted rights of others with respect to any of the Company’s products, proposed products, processes or Intellectual Property; # to the knowledge of the Company, neither the development nor sale nor any currently proposed use of any of the Company’s product candidates or processes referred to in the Prospectus, in the current conduct of the business of the Company in the manner and to the extent described in the Prospectus, do currently, or will upon commercialization, to the knowledge of the Company, infringe any proprietary right or valid patent claim of any third party; # the Company is not obligated to pay a material royalty, grant a license, or provide other material consideration to any third party in connection with the Intellectual Property; # to the Company’s knowledge, no employee of the Company is in or has been in violation of any term of any employment contract, patent disclosure agreement, invention assignment agreement, non-competition agreement, non-solicitation agreement, nondisclosure agreement or any restrictive covenant to or with a former employer where the basis of such violation relates to such employee’s employment with the Company; # to the Company’s knowledge, there is no patent or published patent application in the United States or other jurisdiction which contains claims that dominate or may dominate any Intellectual Property described in the Prospectus as being owned by or licensed to the Company or that interferes with the issued or pending claims of any such Intellectual Property; # to the Company’s knowledge, there is no prior art that may render any patent held by the Company invalid or any patent application held by the Company unpatentable; and # all prior art of which the Company is aware that may be material to the validity of a U.S. patent or to the patentability of a U.S. patent application has been disclosed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and all such prior art has been disclosed to the patent office of other jurisdictions where required; and # the Company has taken all reasonable measures to protect its confidential information and trade secrets and to maintain and safeguard the Intellectual Property, including the execution of appropriate nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements. All licenses and material agreements to which the Company is a party relating to the Intellectual Property are in full force and effect and the Company is not in violation of any term of such license.

Intellectual Property. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any SEC Report, the Company and its Subsidiaries own, possess, license or have other rights to use all foreign and domestic patents, patent applications, trade and service marks, trade and service mark registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, trade secrets, technology, Internet domain names, know-how and other intellectual property (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”), necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses as now conducted except to the extent that the failure to own, possess, license or otherwise hold adequate rights to use such Intellectual Property would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any SEC Report, # there are no rights of third parties to any such Intellectual Property owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries; # to the Company’s knowledge, there is no infringement by third parties of any such Intellectual Property; # there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ rights in or to any such Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which could form a reasonable basis for any such action, suit, proceeding or claim; # there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any such Intellectual Property; # there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company and its Subsidiaries infringe or otherwise violate any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of others; # to the Company’s knowledge, there is no third-party U.S. patent or published U.S. patent application which contains claims for which an Interference Proceeding (as defined in 35 U.S.C. § 135) has been commenced against any patent or patent application described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as being owned by or licensed to the Company; and # the Company and its Subsidiaries have complied with the terms of each agreement pursuant to which Intellectual Property has been licensed to the Company or such Subsidiary, and all such agreements are in full force and effect, except, in the case of any of [clauses (i)-(vii) above], for any such infringement by third parties or any such pending or threatened suit, action, proceeding or claim as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Possession of Intellectual Property. Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, # the Company and its subsidiaries own all right, title and interest in or otherwise has the right to use all patents, inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks, trade names, including applications for any of the foregoing, and other intellectual property rights (collectively, "Intellectual Property") that is necessary for, used or held for use in, or otherwise exploited in connection with, the conduct of the business now operated by them ("Company Intellectual Property"), and # to the Company’s knowledge, the Company is not infringing, misappropriating, diluting or otherwise violating the Intellectual Property of any third party. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, # no action, suit, claim, or other proceeding is pending, or to the Company’s knowledge, is threatened, alleging that the Company is infringing, misappropriating, diluting, or otherwise violating the Intellectual Property of any third party in any respect, # to the Company’s knowledge, no third party is infringing, misappropriating, diluting, or otherwise violating the Company Intellectual Property in any respect, # no action, suit, claim, or other proceeding is pending, or to the Company’s knowledge, threatened, challenging the validity, enforceability, scope, registration, ownership or use of any Company Intellectual Property that is necessary to its business (with the exception of office actions in connection with applications for the registration or issuance of such Intellectual Property), # to the Company’s knowledge, the Company is in compliance with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s duty of candor and disclosure for patent applications within the Company Intellectual Property filed in the United States and have made no material misrepresentation in connection with such patent applications, and # the Company and its subsidiaries have taken reasonable measures to protect, maintain and safeguard the Company Intellectual Property, including the execution of appropriate nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements.

Intellectual Property. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries own or possess the valid right to use all # patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks, service mark registrations, Internet domain name registrations, copyrights, copyright registrations, licenses, trade secret rights (“Intellectual Property Rights”) and # inventions, software, works of authorships, trade names, databases, formulae, know how, Internet domain names and other intellectual property (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary confidential information, systems, or procedures), in each case reasonably necessary to conduct their respective businesses as now conducted, except for those rights as such failure to own, possess, license, or acquire such rights would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change (collectively, "Intellectual Property Assets"). The Company and its subsidiaries have not received written notice of any challenge, which is, to their knowledge, still pending, by any other person to the rights of the Company and its subsidiaries with respect to any Intellectual Property Rights or Intellectual Property Assets owned or used by the Company or its subsidiaries. Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, to the knowledge of the Company, # the Company and its subsidiaries’ respective businesses as now conducted do not give rise to any infringement of, any misappropriation of, or other violation of, any valid and enforceable Intellectual Property Rights of any other person, # all licenses for the use of material Intellectual Property Rights described in the Prospectus are valid, binding upon, and enforceable by or against the parties thereto in accordance to its terms, # the Company has complied in all material respects with, and is not in breach, nor has received any written asserted or threatened claim of breach, of any such Intellectual Property license, and the Company has no knowledge of any breach or anticipated breach by any other person to any Intellectual Property license. Except as described in the Prospectus, to the Company’s knowledge, no claim has been made against the Company alleging the infringement by the Company of any patent, trademark, service mark, trade name, copyright, trade secret, license in or other intellectual property right or franchise right of any person. The Company has taken all reasonable steps to protect, maintain and safeguard its Intellectual Property Rights, including the execution of appropriate nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not result in the loss or impairment of or payment of any additional amounts with respect to, nor require the consent of any other person in respect of, the Company's right to own, use, or hold for use any of the Intellectual Property Rights as owned, used or held for use in the conduct of the business as currently conducted.

Intellectual Property. The Company and the Subsidiaries own, or possess the right to use all trademarks, trade names, patent rights, copyrights, domain names, licenses, approvals, trade secrets, inventions, technology, know-how and other intellectual property and similar rights, including registrations and applications for registration thereof (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”) necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses, except for such as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, and the Company is not aware of any claim to the contrary or any challenge by any other Person to the rights of the Company and the Subsidiaries with respect to the foregoing. Except as described in the SEC Reports, # to the Company’s Knowledge, the Company’s business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted does not and will not infringe or conflict with any Intellectual Property Rights or franchise right of any Person and # no claim has been made against the Company alleging the infringement by the Company or any of its licensees or other third parties of any Intellectual Property Rights or franchise right of any Person, except for such as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Each employee of and consultant to the Company and its Subsidiaries has entered into a confidentiality and invention assignment agreement in favor of the Company or its applicable Subsidiary as a condition of the employment or retention of services of such employee or consultant, except where failure to enter into such an agreement would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Except for matters relating to third parties expressly identified and named in the SEC Reports: # to the Company’s Knowledge, there are no rights of third parties to any Intellectual Property Rights owned by or licensed to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries that conflict with the rights of the Company or the Subsidiaries related to such Intellectual Property Rights, except for any such rights that would not have or reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; # to the Company’s Knowledge, there is no infringement by third parties of any Intellectual Property Rights owned by or licensed to the Company or the Subsidiaries that would not have or reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; # other than in connection with assertions or inquiries made by patent office examiners in the ordinary course of the prosecution of the patent applications of the Company or the Subsidiaries, there is no pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or other claim by others challenging the rights of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries in or to, or alleging the violation of any of the terms of, or challenging the validity, enforceability or scope of, any Intellectual Property Rights owned by or licensed to the Company or the Subsidiaries, except for any such claims that would not have or reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and, to the Company’s Knowledge, there are no facts that would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; # there is no pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or other claim by others that the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, or any of their respective licensees, infringes or otherwise violates, or would infringe or otherwise violate upon commercialization of its products and product candidates, any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of others, and to the Company’s Knowledge, there are no facts that would form a reasonable basis for any such claim by others that the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, or any of their respective licensees, infringes or otherwise violates, or would infringe or otherwise violate upon commercialization of its products and product candidates, any Intellectual Property Rights of others, except, in each case in this clause (D), for any such claims that would not have or reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; # to the Company’s Knowledge, there is no patent or patent application that contains claims that conflict with any Intellectual Property Rights necessary for the conduct of the businesses of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries as currently or contemplated to be conducted, except for such as would not have or reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, and # to the Company’s Knowledge, none of the Intellectual Property Rights used by the Company or the Subsidiaries in their businesses has been obtained or is being used by the Company or the Subsidiaries in violation of any contractual obligation binding on the Company, any of the Subsidiaries in violation of the rights of any Persons, except for such as would not have or reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

Intellectual Property. To the Company’s knowledge, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries own or possess the valid right to use all # valid and enforceable patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks, service mark registrations, Internet domain name registrations, copyrights, copyright registrations, licenses and trade secret rights (“Intellectual Property Rights”) and # inventions, software, works of authorships, trademarks, service marks, trade names, databases, formulae, know how, Internet domain names and other intellectual property (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary confidential information, systems, or procedures) (collectively, “Intellectual Property Assets”) necessary to conduct their respective businesses as currently conducted, except to the extent that the failure to own, possess, license or have other rights to use such Intellectual Property Rights or Intellectual Property Assets would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. The Company and its subsidiaries have not received any opinion from their legal counsel concluding that any activities of their respective businesses infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate, valid and enforceable Intellectual Property Rights of any other person, and have not received written notice of any challenge, which is to their knowledge still pending, by any other person to the rights of the Company and its subsidiaries with respect to any Intellectual Property Rights or Intellectual Property Assets owned or used by the Company or its subsidiaries. To the knowledge of the Company, the Company and its subsidiaries’ respective businesses as now conducted do not constitute infringement of, misappropriation of, or other violation of, any valid and enforceable Intellectual Property Rights of any other person. All licenses for the use of the Intellectual Property Rights described in the Prospectus to which the Company is a party are, to the Company’s knowledge, valid, binding upon, and enforceable by or against the parties thereto in accordance with their terms. The Company has complied in all material respects with, and is not in material breach nor has received any written notice of any asserted or threatened claim of breach of, any license agreement pursuant to which Intellectual Property Rights have been licensed to or by the Company (the “Intellectual Property Licensed Agreements”), and the Company has no knowledge of any material breach by any other person to any Intellectual Property License Agreement. Except as described in the Prospectus, no claim has been made in writing against the Company alleging the infringement by the Company of any patent, trademark, service mark, trade name, copyright, trade secret, license in or other intellectual property right or franchise right of any person. The Company has taken reasonable steps to protect, maintain and safeguard its Intellectual Property Rights, including the execution of appropriate nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not result in the loss or impairment of or payment of any additional amounts with respect to, nor require the consent of any other person in respect of, the Company's right to own, use, or hold for use any of the Intellectual Property Rights as owned, used or held by the Company for use in the conduct of the business as currently conducted.

Intellectual Property. Except as described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, the Company or its subsidiaries own or possess the lawful right to use all # valid and enforceable patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks, service mark registrations, Internet domain name registrations, copyrights, copyright registrations, licenses, trade secret rights (“Intellectual Property Rights”) and # inventions, software, works of authorships, trademarks, service marks, trade names, databases, formulae, know how, Internet domain names and other intellectual property (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary confidential information, systems, or procedures) (collectively, “Intellectual Property Assets”) necessary to conduct their respective businesses as currently conducted, and as proposed to be conducted and described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus. The Company and its subsidiaries have not received any opinion from their legal counsel concluding that any activities of their respective businesses infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate, valid and enforceable Intellectual Property Rights of any other person, and have not received written notice of any challenge, which is to their Knowledge still pending, by any other person to the rights of the Company and its subsidiaries with respect to any Intellectual Property Rights or Intellectual Property Assets owned or used by the Company or its subsidiaries. To the Company’s Knowledge, the Company and its subsidiaries’ respective businesses as now conducted do not give rise to any infringement of, any misappropriation of, or other violation of, any valid and enforceable Intellectual Property Rights of any other person. All licenses for the use of the Intellectual Property Rights described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus are valid, binding upon, and enforceable by or against the parties thereto in accordance to its terms. The Company has complied in all material respects with, and is not in breach nor has received any asserted or threatened claim of breach of any Intellectual Property license, and the Company has no knowledge of any breach or anticipated breach by any other person to any Intellectual Property license. Except as described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, no claim has been made against the Company alleging the infringement by the Company of any patent, trademark, service mark, trade name, copyright, trade secret, license in or other intellectual property right or franchise right of any person. The Company has taken all reasonable steps to protect, maintain and safeguard its Intellectual Property Rights, including the execution of appropriate nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Terms Agreement will not result in the loss or impairment of or payment of any additional amounts with respect to, nor require the consent of any other person in respect of, the Company's right to own, use, or hold for use any of the Intellectual Property Rights as owned, used or held for use in the conduct of the business as currently conducted.

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