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8-K - QUANTUMSPHERE, INC.form8-k.htm

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT

 

 

This Intellectual Property Security Agreement (“IP Security Agreement”), is entered into this 8th day of June, 2016 (the “IP Security Agreement”) by and between QUANTUMSPHERE, INC., a Nevada corporation with its address at 2905 Tech Center Dr., Santa Ana, CA 92705 (the “Borrower”) and FIRSTFIRE GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, with its address at 1040 First Avenue, Suite 190, New York, NY 10022 (“Collateral Agent”), on behalf of each of the secured parties listed on the signature page hereto (collectively, the “Secured Parties”).

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, this IP Security Agreement is a supplement to that certain Security Agreement and Intercreditor and Collateral Agent Agreement, dated as of even date herewith, by and between the Borrower and the Secured Parties (collectively, the “Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, all capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the definitions ascribed to them in the Agreement, and are incorporated herein by reference. If there is a conflict between the definitions, terms or provisions of this IP Security Agreement and the Agreement, the definitions, terms or provisions of the Agreement shall control; and

 

WHEREAS, this IP Security Agreement is executed for the purpose of filing a short form security agreement in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”), which sets forth the Borrower’s pledge of its intellectual property as security for the indebtedness, represented by the Secured Promissory Notes (collectively, “Notes”), issued by Borrower in favor of the Secured Parties.

 

1.GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST

 

The Borrower hereby grants to the Lender a security interest in and lien on all of the intellectual property assets owned by the Borrower, including without limitation all patents and trademarks set forth in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, wherever located and whether now owned or hereafter acquired, all goodwill of the business of the Borrower connected with the use of, or otherwise symbolized by, such intellectual property, all rights to sue for infringement of such intellectual property, and all parts, replacements, substitutions, profits, products, amendments, updates and cash and non-cash proceeds of any of the foregoing (including insurance proceeds, of any kind, including those payable by reason of loss or damage thereto) in any form and wherever located, and all written or electronically recorded books and records relating to any such assets and other rights relating thereto, wherever located and whether now owned or hereafter acquired (collectively the “IP Collateral”).

 

2.REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, COVENANTS AND MISCELLANEOUS

 

All other terms, conditions, agreements, obligations, representations, warranties, covenants, definitions, exhibits and miscellaneous terms, conditions, agreements and obligations set forth in the Agreement are restated and incorporated herein by reference.

 

[Signatures appear on the following page]

 

 
 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Intellectual Property Security Agreement to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

QUANTUMSPHERE, INC. (BORROWER)  
     
By:    
  Kevin Maloney  
  Chief Executive Officer & President  
     
FIRSTFIRE GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES  
FUND, LLC (COLLATERAL AGENT),  
on behalf of the Secured Parties listed below  
     
By:    
Name:    
Title:    
     
SECURED PARTIES  
     
FIRSTFIRE GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND, LLC  
     
By:    
Name:    
Title:    
     
PURITAN PARTNERS, LLC  
     
By:    
Name:    
Title:    
     
ROCKWELL CAPITAL PARTNERS, INC.  
     
By:    
Name:    
Title:    
     
     
By: TOMER COHEN  
   
     
By: FRANCIS POLI  

 

 
 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

QUANTUMSPHERE, INC. - IP PORTFOLIO

 

IP   Case No.   Title of Invention   Document No.   Document Date   Inventors   Status
                         
PATENT   QSINC.002A   METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING NANO-PARTICLES   App. No. 10/840409
Patent No. 7,282,167
  Filed: 5/06/04
Patented: 10/16/07
  Carpenter   Issued
PATENT   QSINC.003A   NANO-MATERIAL CATALYST DEVICE   App. No. 10/983993 Patent No. 7,897,294   Filed: 11/8/2004 Patented: 3/1/2011   Carpenter   Issued
PATENT   QSINC.007A   METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING NANO-PARTICLES   App. No. 11/591787 Patent No. 7,803,295   Filed: 11/2/2006 Patented: 9/28/2010   Carpenter   Issued
PATENT   QSINC.007C1     App. No. 12/924136 Patent No. 8,500,427   Filed: 09/21/2010 Patented: 08/06/13   Carpenter   Issued
PATENT   QSINC.011CP1   COMPOSITIONS OF NANOMETAL PARTICLES CONTAINING A METAL OR ALLOY AND PLATINUM PARTICLES FOR USE IN FUEL CELLS   App. No. 11/781909 Patent No. 7,955,755   Filed: 07/23/2007 Patented:06/07/2011   McGrath, Carpenter   Issued
PATENT   QSINC.011CP1C1     App. No. 13/110841 Patent No. 8,211,594   Filed: 05/18/2011 Patented: 07/3/2012   McGrath, Carpenter   Issued
PATENT   QSINC.013A   APPARATUS FOR UNIFORM FEEDING OF POWDERS   App. No. 11/254627 Patent No. 7,713,043   Filed: 10/20/2005 Patented:05/11/2010   Dopp, Nettleton   Issued
PATENT   QSINC.018A   ELECTRO-CATALYTIC RECHARGING COMPOSITION   App. No. 11/745957 Patent No. 7,709,127   Filed: 5/8/2007 Patented: 5/4/2010   Maloney, Dopp   Issued
PATENT   QSINC.024P2C4   SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AMMONIA SYNTHESIS   App. No. 14/085,500 Patent No. 9,272,920   Filed: 11/20/2013 Patented:03/01/2016   Carpenter, Maloney   Issued
PATENT   QSINC.036A   A METAL HYDRIDE FUEL CELL CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROLYZER ELECTRODE   App. No. 12/624,864 Patent No. 7,700,214   Filed: 11/24/2009 Patented:04/20/2010   Iyer, Canuso   Issued
PATENT   QSINC.044PR   IMPROVED CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS USING HIGHLY REACTIVE, NANO-SIZED, CATALYTIC MATERIALS   App. No. 62343749   Filed: 05/31/2016   Maloney, Griffith, Rodriguez   Pending
TRADEMARK   QSINC.003T   QSI-NANO   App. No. 78/476053 Reg. No. 3160151  

Filed: 8/30/2004 Registered:

10/17/2006

  N/A   Registered
TRADEMARK   QSINC.004T   QUANTUMSPHERE   App. No. 78/476063 Reg. No. 3072883   Filed: 8/30/2004 Registered: 3/28/2006   N/A   Registered
TRADEMARK   QSINC.005T  

QUANTUMSPHERE

(stylized C3with design)

  App. No. 78/476060 Reg. No. 3072882   Filed: 8/30/2004 Registered: 3/28/06   N/A   Registered
TRADEMARK   QSINC.041T   METAIR   App. No. 85/659,672 Reg. No. 4,429,611   Filed: 06/22/2012 Registered: 11/05/2013   N/A   Registered