EX-10.2 3 exh10-2_16783.htm AMENDED AND RESTATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT exh10-2_16783.htm

EXHIBIT 10.2
 
EXECUTION COPY

AMENDED AND RESTATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT

This Intellectual Property Security Agreement (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of March 31, 2010 by and between SILICON VALLEY BANK (“Bank”) and BRIDGELINE SOFTWARE, INC., a Delaware corporation formerly known as Bridgeline Software, Inc. (“Grantor”).
 
RECITALS

A.           Bank has agreed to make certain advances of money and to extend certain financial accommodation to Grantor (the “Loans”) in the amounts and manner set forth in that certain Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement by and between Bank and Grantor dated as of the date hereof (as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “Loan Agreement”; capitalized terms used herein are used as defined in the Loan Agreement).  Bank is willing to make the Loans to Grantor, but only upon the condition, among others, that Grantor shall grant to Bank a security interest in certain Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, and Mask Works (as each term is described below) to secure the obligations of Grantor under the Loan Agreement.  This Agreement amends and restates in its entirety that certain Intellectual Property Security Agreement, dated as of December 29, 2008, by and between Grantor and Bank.

B.           Pursuant to the terms of the Loan Agreement, Grantor has granted to Bank a security interest in all of Grantor's right, title and interest, whether presently existing or hereafter acquired, in, to and under all of the Collateral.

NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound, as collateral security for the prompt and complete payment when due of its obligations under the Loan Agreement, Grantor hereby represents, warrants, covenants and agrees as follows:

AGREEMENT

To secure its obligations under the Loan Agreement, Grantor grants and pledges to Bank a security interest in all of Grantor’s right, title and interest in, to and under its intellectual property (all of which shall collectively be called the “Intellectual Property Collateral”), including, without limitation, the following:

1.   Any and all copyright rights, copyright applications, copyright registrations and like protections in each work or authorship and derivative work thereof, whether published or unpublished and whether or not the same also constitutes a trade secret, now or hereafter existing, created, acquired or held, including without limitation those set forth on Exhibit A attached hereto (collectively, the “Copyrights”);
 
2.   Any and all trade secrets, and any and all intellectual property rights in computer software and computer software products now or hereafter existing, created, acquired or held;
 
 
 

 
3.   Any and all design rights that may be available to Grantor now or hereafter existing, created, acquired or held;
 
4.   All patents, patent applications and like protections including, without limitation, improvements, divisions, continuations, renewals, reissues, extensions and continuations-in-part of the same, including without limitation the patents and patent applications set forth on Exhibit B attached hereto (collectively, the “Patents”);
 
5.   Any trademark and servicemark rights, whether registered or not, applications to register and registrations of the same and like protections, and the entire goodwill of the business of Grantor connected with and symbolized by such trademarks, including without limitation those set forth on Exhibit C attached hereto (collectively, the “Trademarks”);
 
6.   All mask works or similar rights available for the protection of semiconductor chips, now owned or hereafter acquired, including, without limitation those set forth on Exhibit D attached hereto (collectively, the  “Mask Works”);
 
7.   Any and all claims for damages by way of past, present and future infringements of any of the rights included above, with the right, but not the obligation, to sue for and collect such damages for said use or infringement of the intellectual property rights identified above;
 
8.   All licenses or other rights to use any of the Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, or Mask Works and all license fees and royalties arising from such use to the extent permitted by such license or rights;
 
9.   All amendments, extensions, renewals and extensions of any of the Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, or Mask Works; and
 
10.   All proceeds and products of the foregoing, including without limitation all payments under insurance or any indemnity or warranty payable in respect of any of the foregoing.
 
This security interest is granted in conjunction with the security interest granted to Bank under the Loan Agreement.  The rights and remedies of Bank with respect to the security interest granted hereby are in addition to those set forth in the Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and those which are now or hereafter available to Bank as a matter of law or equity.  Each right, power and remedy of Bank provided for herein or in the Loan Agreement or any of the Loan Documents, or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity shall be cumulative and concurrent and shall be in addition to every right, power or remedy provided for herein and the exercise by Bank of any one or more of the rights, powers or remedies provided for in this Intellectual Property Security Agreement, the Loan Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity, shall not preclude the simultaneous or later exercise by any person, including Bank, of any or all other rights, powers or remedies.
 

[Signature page follows.]

 
 

 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Intellectual Property Security Agreement to be duly executed as a sealed instrument under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by its officers thereunto duly authorized as of the first date written above.
 



 
 
 
Address of Grantor: 
 
GRANTOR:

BRIDGELINE DIGITAL, INC., f/k/a
Bridgeline Software, Inc.
 
 
Bridgeline Digital, Inc.
10 Sixth Road
Woburn, Massachusetts  01801
Attn: Ronald M. Levenson, CFO
Fax: (781) 376-5033
Email: rlevenson@blinedigital.com
 
By:     /s/Ronald M. Levenson

Name: Ronald M. Levenson

Title:  Executive Vice President and CFO

     



 
 
Address of Bank: 
 
BANK:
 
SILICON VALLEY BANK 
 
 
One Newton Executive Park, Suite 200
2221 Washington Street
Newton, Massachusetts 02462
Attn: Mr. Mike Foley
Fax: (617) 527-0177
E-mail: mfoley@svb.com
 
By:     /s/Mark Sperling

Name: Mark Sperling
Title: Relationship Manager
     

 
 

 

EXHIBIT A

Copyrights


Description
 
Registration/
Application
Number
 
Registration/
Application
Date
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
 

 
EXHIBIT B

Patents


Description
 
Registration/
Application
Number
 
Registration/
Application
Date
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
 

 
EXHIBIT C

Trademarks


Description
 
Registration/
Application
Number
 
Registration/
Application
Date
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
 

 
 
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Trademark List (by Trademark)
Page: 1 of 2
 
Trademark
Case Number
Sub
Case
Application No.
Publication No.
Registration No.
Status
 
Country
Case
Type
Filing Date Publication Date
Registration Date
Next Renewal
               
BRIDGELINE
BRIDGETM01
 
ORD
76/444885
 
2,740,059
Registered
 
United States of America
 
28-Aug-2002
29-Apr-2003
22-Jul-2003
22-Jul-2013
Classes: 09 Int., 42 Int.
             
Owner: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Attorneys:
  TFD        
Client: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Client Reference:
         
Agent: Assistant Comm'r for Trademarks
Agent Reference:
         
               
BRIDGELINE DIGITAL
BRIDGETM09
 
ORD
      Unfiled
 
United States of America
         
Classes: 42 Int.
             
Owner: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Attorneys:
  TFD        
Client: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Client Reference:
         
Agent: Assistant Comm'r for Trademarks
Agent Reference:
         
               
IAPPS
BRIDGETM04
  ORD
75/019685
 
2,015,430
Registered
 
United States of America
 
09-Nov-1995
20-Sep-1996
20-Nov-1996
20-Aug-2006
Classes: 42 Int.
             
Owner: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Attorneys:
  TFD        
Client: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Client Reference:
         
Agent: Assistant Comm'r for Trademarks
Agent Reference:
         
               
IAPPS
BRIDGETM08
 
ORD
      Unfiled
 
United States of America
         
Classes: 42 Int.
             
Owner: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Attorneys:
  TFD        
Client: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Client Reference:
         
Agent: Assistant Comm'r for Trademarks
Agent Reference:
         
 
 
 

 
 
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Trademark List (by Trademark)
Page: 2 of 2

Trademark
Case Number
Sub
Case
Application No.
Publication No.
Registration No.
Status
 
Country
Case
Type
Filing Date
Publication Date
Registration Date
Next Renewal
               
ORGITECTURE
BRIDGETM05
 
ORD
78/919987  
3,237,248
Registered
 
United States of America
 
29-Jun-2006
1 3-Feb-2007
01 -May-2007
01-May-2017
Classes: 42 Int.
 
Attorneys:
  TFD        
Owner: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Client Reference:
         
Client: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Agent Reference:
         
Agent: Assistant Comm'r for Trademarks
           
               
POWERSHOP
BRIDGETM06
 
ORD
77/441715    
Allowed
 
United States of America
 
07-Apr-2008
26-Aug-2008
   
Classes: 09 Int.
             
Owner: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Attorneys:
  TFD        
Client: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Client Reference:
         
Agent: Assistant Comm'r for Trademarks
Agent Reference:
         
               
POWERSHOP
BRIDGETM07
 
ORD
77/441 721    
Allowed
 
United States of America
 
07-Apr-2008
26-Aug-2008
   
Classes: 42 Int.
             
Owner: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Attorneys:
  TFD        
Client: Bridgeline Digitial, Inc.
 
Client Reference:
         
Agent: Assistant Comm'r for Trademarks
Agent Reference:
         

 
 
 

 
EXHIBIT D

Mask Works


Description
 
Registration/
Application
Number
 
Registration/
Application
Date