Patents, Licenses, Franchises and Formulas The Borrower and its Subsidiaries own or have valid licenses to use all material patents, trademarks, permits, service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses, franchises and formulas, or rights with respect to the foregoing, and have obtained assignments of all leases and other rights of whatever nature, reasonably necessary for the present conduct of their business, without any known conflict with the rights of others except for such failures and conflicts which have not had, and could not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
No Creation of a Partnership or Exclusive Purchase Right Nothing contained in this Agreement, and no action taken pursuant hereto shall be deemed to constitute the relationship created hereby between the Note Holders as a partnership, association, joint venture or other entity. No Note Holder shall have any obligation whatsoever to offer to any other Note Holder the opportunity to purchase a participation interest in any future loans originated by such Note Holder or its Affiliates and if any Note Holder chooses to offer to any other Note Holder the opportunity to purchase a participation interest in any future mortgage loans originated by such Note Holder or its Affiliates, such offer shall be at such purchase price and interest rate as such Note Holder chooses, in its sole and absolute discretion. No Note Holder shall have any obligation whatsoever to purchase from any other Note Holder a participation interest in any future loans originated by such Note Holder or its Affiliates.
Tax Status of Option This Option is intended to have the tax status designated in the Grant Notice.
Benefits of Agreement; No Third-Party Rights None of the provisions of this Agreement shall be for the benefit of or enforceable by any creditor of the Company or by any creditor of the Member. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to create any right in any Person (other than Covered Persons) not a party hereto, and this Agreement shall not be construed in any respect to be a contract in whole or in part for the benefit of any third Person.
Status of Plans Corporation has never maintained and does not now maintain or contribute to any Employee Benefit Plan subject to ERISA which is not in substantial compliance with ERISA, or which has incurred any accumulated funding deficiency within the meaning of either Section 412 or 418B of ERISA, or which has applied for or obtained a waiver from the Internal Revenue Service of any minimum funding requirement under Section 412 of the Code or which is subject to Title IV of ERISA. Corporation has not incurred any liability to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ("PBGC") in connection with any Employee Benefit Plan covering any employees of that Corporation or ceased operations at any facility or withdrawn from any such Plan in a manner which could subject it to liability under Section 4062(f), 4063 or 4064 of ERISA, and knows of no facts or circumstances which might give rise to any liability of Corporation to the PBGC under Title IV of ERISA which could reasonably be anticipated to result in any claims being made against the Surviving Corporation by the PBGC. Corporation has not incurred any withdrawal liability (including any contingent or secondary withdrawal liability) within the meaning of Sections 4201 and 4202 of ERISA, to any Employee Benefit Plan which is a Multiemployer Plan (as defined in Section 4001 of ERISA), and no event has occurred, and there exists no condition or set of circumstances, which represent a material risk of the occurrence of any withdrawal from or the partition, termination, reorganization or insolvency of any Multiemployer Plan which would result in any liability to a Multiemployer Plan.
Status of Proprietary Assets For purpose of this Agreement, (i) “Proprietary Assets” shall mean all patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, domain names, copyrights, copyright registrations and applications and all other rights corresponding thereto, inventions, databases and all rights therein, all computer software including all source code, object code, firmware, development tools, files, records and data, including all media on which any of the foregoing is stored, formulas, designs, trade secrets, confidential and proprietary information, proprietary rights, know-how and processes of a company, and all documentation related to any of the foregoing; and (ii) “Registered Intellectual Property” means all Proprietary Assets of any Group Company, wherever located, that is the subject of an application, certificate, filing, registration or other document issued by, filed with or recorded by any government authority. Each Group Company (i) has independently developed and owns free and clear of all claims, security interests, liens or other encumbrances, or (ii) has a valid right or license to use all Proprietary Assets, including Registered Intellectual Property, necessary and appropriate for its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted and, to the knowledge of the Company, the Subsidiaries and the Founders, without any conflict with or infringement of the rights of others. Section 3.8 of the Disclosure Schedule contains a complete list of Proprietary Assets, including all Registered Intellectual Property but excluding know-how, of each Group Company. There are no outstanding options, licenses, agreements or rights of any kind granted by any Group Company or any other party relating to any Group Company’s Proprietary Assets, nor is any Group Company bound by or a party to any options, licenses, agreements or rights of any kind with respect to the Proprietary Assets of any other person or entity, except, in either case, for standard end-user agreements with respect to commercially readily available intellectual property such as “off the shelf” computer software. No Group Company nor Founder has received any communications alleging that it has violated or, by conducting its business as proposed, would violate any Proprietary Assets of any other person or entity, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, the Subsidiaries and the Founders, is there any reasonable basis therefor. None of the Founders nor, to the knowledge of the Company, each Founder and each Subsidiary, any of the current or former officers, employees or consultants of any Group Company (at the time of their employment or engagement by a Group Company) has been or 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 his, her or its best efforts to promote the interests of such Group Company or that would conflict with the business of such Group Company as proposed to be conducted or that would prevent such officers, employees or consultants from assigning to such Group Company inventions conceived or reduced to practice in connection with services rendered to such Group Company. Neither the execution nor delivery of this Agreement, the Shareholders Agreement and any Ancillary Agreement, nor the carrying on of the business of any Group Company by its employees, nor the conduct of the business of any Group Company as proposed, will, to the knowledge of the Company, each Subsidiary and each Founder, conflict with or result in, in any material respect, a breach of the terms, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any contract, covenant or instrument under which any of such employees is now obligated, including without limitation any non-compete, invention assignment or confidentiality obligations under any agreement between any Founder and any former employer of such Founder. Each Group Company and Founder believes that it will not be necessary to utilize any inventions of any of the Group Companies’ employees (or people the Group Companies currently intend to hire) made prior to or outside the scope of their employment by the relevant Group Company. No government funding, facilities of any educational institution or research center or funding from third parties has been used in the development of any Proprietary Assets of any Group Company.
Status of the Stock Option This Stock Option is intended to qualify as an “incentive stock option” under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), but the Company does not represent or warrant that this Stock Option qualifies as such. The Optionee should consult with his or her own tax advisors regarding the tax effects of this Stock Option and the requirements necessary to obtain favorable income tax treatment under Section 422 of the Code, including, but not limited to, holding period requirements. To the extent any portion of this Stock Option does not so qualify as an “incentive stock option,” such portion shall be deemed to be a non-qualified stock option. If the Optionee intends to dispose or does dispose (whether by sale, gift, transfer or otherwise) of any Option Shares within the one-year period beginning on the date after the transfer of such shares to him or her, or within the two-year period beginning on the day after the grant of this Stock Option, he or she will so notify the Company within 30 days after such disposition.
Status of Stock The Employee agrees that the Restricted Shares issued under this Agreement will not be sold or otherwise disposed of in any manner which would constitute a violation of any applicable federal or state securities laws. The Employee also agrees that (i) the certificates representing the Restricted Shares may bear such legend or legends as the Committee deems appropriate in order to reflect the Forfeiture Restrictions and to assure compliance with applicable securities laws, (ii) the Company may refuse to register the transfer of the Restricted Shares on the stock transfer records of the Company if such proposed transfer would constitute a violation of the Forfeiture Restrictions or, in the opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Company, of any applicable securities law, and (iii) the Company may give related instructions to its transfer agent, if any, to stop registration of the transfer of the Restricted Shares.
Trademarks, Franchises, and Licenses The Borrower and its Subsidiaries own, possess, or have the right to use all necessary patents, licenses, franchises, trademarks, trade names, trade styles, copyrights, trade secrets, know how, and confidential commercial and proprietary information to conduct their businesses as now conducted, without known conflict with any patent, license, franchise, trademark, trade name, trade style, copyright or other proprietary right of any other Person.
Status of Shares and Limitation of Personal Liability Shares shall be deemed to be personal property giving only the rights provided in this instrument and the By-Laws of the Trust. Every Shareholder by virtue of having become a Shareholder shall be held to have expressly assented and agreed to the terms hereof. The death of a Shareholder during the existence of the Trust shall not operate to terminate the Trust, nor entitle the representative of any deceased Shareholder to an accounting or to take any action in court or elsewhere against the Trust or the Trustees, but shall entitle such representative only to the rights of said deceased Shareholder under this Declaration of Trust. Ownership of Shares shall not entitle a Shareholder to any title in or to the whole or any part of the Trust Property or right to call for a partition or division of the same or for an accounting, nor shall the ownership of Shares constitute the Shareholders as partners or joint venturers. Neither the Trust nor the Trustees, nor any officer, employee or agent of the Trust shall have any power to bind personally any Shareholder, or to call upon any Shareholder for the payment of any sum of money or assessment whatsoever other than such as the Shareholder may at any time agree to pay.
