Royalty Report: Storage, Software, Tool – Collection: 118329

License Grant

Each party granted the other a royalty-based license to bundle or resell substantially all then-available products of both companies.  Under this arrangement, a percent of each royalty dollar received by the Company is to be set aside to fund future 'best efforts', non-recurring engineering services to be performed by the Company.

License Property

A full range of services that assist its customers in planning and implementing their storage management solutions. The storage management software products help to improve the levels of centralization, control, automation and manageability in computing environments, they allow information technology, or IT, managers to be more effective with constrained resources and limited budgets. Its products offer protection against data loss and file corruption, allow rapid recovery after disk or computer system failure, enable IT managers and end users to work efficiently with large numbers of files, and make it possible to manage data distributed on large networks of computer systems without harming productivity or interrupting users.

Field of Use

This agreement pertains to the software industry.

License Grant

The Company granted Licensee, a joint venture which the Company has a 50% interest, various licenses to sell its products to specified customers outside of Japan.

License Property

The products were thin-film media ('disks'), the primary storage medium for digital data used in computer hard disk drives.

Field of Use

The rights granted pertain to the computer industry relating to products that are made for the high-end desktop and  high-capacity/high-performance enterprise segments of the disk drive market and are used in products such as personal computers, disk arrays, network attached storage, network file servers and engineering workstations.

License Grant

Licensor hereby grants to Licensee an exclusive worldwide license, with the right to grant sublicenses, to use the Technology for the Exploitation of the Products for the Applications.

License Property

The term 'Technology,' as used in this Agreement, shall mean all proprietary and non-proprietary know-how, technical data, or other information of any kind regarding the design, manufacture, operation, use, or sale of the Products for the Applications based on the Intellectual Property, foreign counterparts of the Intellectual Property, or of the applications leading to such Intellectual Property, any other Intellectual Property now or hereafter owned or controlled by Licensor, and any modification or improvements thereto made by Licensor or Licensee, all as they may relate to the Applications.

The terms 'Product' and 'Products,' as used in this Agreement, shall mean reader/writers and high capacity data storage in a card format.

The term “Application(s)” shall mean health care, patient management, medical, dental and pharmaceutical records, medicare, medicaid or any other health application, including biometric identification. For avoidance of doubt, any other application, including, without limitation, for financial transactions or security and identification shall require the approval of Licensor.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
(1)  Serial Number 09/426,793-2355, PATENT 7,036,739. “Data Storage Device, Apparatus and Method for Using Same.” Filed
10/23/1999.

(2)  Serial Number 60/161/302, “Data Storage Device, Apparatus and method for Using Same.” Filed 10/23/1999.

(3)  Serial Number 09/693,271-7503. “Data Storage Device, Apparatus and Method for Using Same.” Filed 10/23/1999.

(4)  Serial Number 09/502.812-5712. ALLOWED PATENT, waiting for issuance. “Article Having An Embedded Accessible Storage Member, Apparatus and Method For Using Same.” Filed 2/9/2000.

(5)  Serial Number PCT/US00/41444. NATIONAL STAGE ENTERED. “Data Storage Device, Apparatus and Method For Using Same.” Filed 10/19/2000.

(6)  Serial Number 11256525. PATENT 7,201,324. Data Storage Device, Apparatus and Method For Using Same.” Filed 10/19/2000.

(7)  Serial Number 00986831.6. PENDING “Data Storage Device, Apparatus and Method For Using Same.” Filed 10/19/2000.

(8)  Serial Number 2001-534145. PENDING. “Data Storage Device, Apparatus and Method For Using Same.” Filed 10/19/2000.

(9)  Serial Number 12210064. PENDING. “Article Having An Embedded Accessible Storage Member, Apparatus And Method For Using Same.”  Filed 9/12/2008.

(10)  Serial Number 12210083. PENDING. “Article Having An Embedded Accessible Storage Member, Apparatus and Method For Using Same.”  Filed 9/12/2008.

(11)  Serial Number 09/410.679. PATENT 6,410,330 BI. “Data Storage Device, Apparatus and Method For Using Same. Filed 10/1/1999. UltraCard and Komag.

(12)  Serial Number 08/215,140. PATENT 5,521,774. “Memory Storage Module For Storing and Accessing.” Filed 3/18/1994.

(13)  Serial Number 08/606,359. PATENT 5,621,583. “Method and Device For Reading and Writing Magnetically Encoded Data On Linear Tracks.” Filed 2/23/1996.

(14)  Serial Number 08/606,170. PATENT 5,739,975. “Memory Storage Module For Storing and Accessing Magnetically Encoded Data On Linear Tracks.” Filed 2/23/1996.

(15)  Serial Number PCT/US99/14424. National Stage Entered. “Data System With Support Surfaces For Reciprocating Data Head.” Filed 6/24/1999.

(16)  Serial Number 07/342,217. PATENT 5,107,099. “Drive Apparatus For Data Storage Device.” Filed 4/24/1989.

(17)  Serial Number 07/871,447. “Drive Apparatus For Data Storage Device.” Filed 4/21/1992. Abandon.

(18)  Serial Number 09/113,783. PATENT 6,131,816. “Data System With Support Surfaces For Reciprocating Data Head.” Filed 7/10/1998.

(19)  Serial Number 09/663,658-2181. PATENT 6,871,787. “Data Storage Having A Glass Substrate And Data Surface Region And Method For Using Same.” Filed 9/15/2000.

(20)  Serial Number 09/654,542-6237. PATENT 6,875,569. “Data System.” Filed 9/1/2000.

(21)  Serial Number 09/654,542. PATENT 6,938,825. “Data System.” Filed 9/1/2000.

(22)  Serial Number 11/033,342-5932. PATENT 7,073,719. “Data System”, Filed 1/10/2005.

(23)  Serial Number PCT/US90/02225. National Stage Entered. Improved Magnetic Disk Drive Apparatus And Method.” Filed 4/24/1990.

(24)  Serial Number 29/152,431-8904. PATENT D494, 999 S. “Credit Card With Accessible Rotatable Storage Member.” Filed 12/14/2001.

(25)  Serial Number 29/152,432-8903. Continuation. “Credit Card With Internal Rotatable Storage Member Accessible From A Surface Of A Credit Card.” Continuation 1/27/2005.

(26)  Serial Number 29/222,379-6313. PATENT D510,595. “Credit Card With Internal Rotatable Storage Member Accessible From A Surface Of A Credit Card.” Filed 1/27/2005.

(27)  Serial Number 29/152,434-8902. PATENT D509,847. “Removable and Reinsertable Storage Member For A Credit Card’. Filed 12/14/2001.

(28)  Serial Number 60/341,662-9376. “Credit Card With Accessible Rotatable Storage Member, Data Processing System And Method For Using Same.” Filed 12/14/2001. Abandon.

(29)  Serial Number 09/663,832-4031. PATENT 6,969,006. “Rota table Portable Card Having A Data Storage Device, Apparatus and Method For Using Same.” Filed 9/15/2000.

(30)  Un-filed. “Data Card With Accessible Rotatable Storage Member, Data Processing System And Method For Using Same.” Opened 1/26/20048

(31)  There are twenty seven serial number files that have been consolidated into other broader filings and some others have been abandoned but will be transferred.

(32)  PATENTS 7,988,061, issued August 2, 2011; 7,988036, issued August 2, 2011; 7,487,908, issued February 10, 2009.