EX-10.31 4 j8225_ex10d31.htm EX-10.31

Exhibit 10.31

 

License Reference No.  L004001

 

 

AMENDMENT (“Amendment”) dated as of November 14, 2002 to the Agreement with an Effective Date of December 15, 2000 (hereinafter referred to as the “Agreement”) by and between INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, a New York corporation (“IBM”), and IBIS TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, a Massachusetts corporation (“IBIS”).

 

WHEREAS IBIS and IBM are entering into an agreement dated November 14, 2002, defining the joint development by IBIS and IBM of an enhanced process for implanting silicon wafers with oxygen and annealing such wafers (“Joint Development Agreement”); and

 

WHEREAS IBIS and IBM are entering into an Amended and Restated License Agreement dated November 14, 2002, wherein IBM is licensing IBIS under certain know-how and other rights related to IBM’s proprietary process for implanting silicon wafers with oxygen as practiced at its East Fishkill, NY, location, and IBIS is granting certain rights to IBM; and

 

WHEREAS IBIS and IBM wish to amend the Agreement;

 

NOW THEREFORE IBIS and IBM agree to amend the Agreement as follows:

 

1)  Delete section 1.2 in its entirety and replace with the following:

 

—1.2 “Licensed Process” shall mean the process for implanting silicon wafers with oxygen and annealing, as practiced for commercial production in IBM’s East Fishkill, NY, facility on December 15, 2000, referred to within IBM as Routes 7N00, 7V00, 7A00 and 2V00; and shall further include the Enhanced Process as defined in the Joint Development Agreement.—

 

2)  In section 1.3, delete “Effective Date” and insert in its place — November 14, 2002—.

 

3)  In section 1.3, after “U.S. Patent 5,930,643” insert: —and further includes the issued patents and patents issuing on the patent applications listed in Exhibit A hereto—

 

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This Amendment shall be effective as of November 14, 2002.

 

Except as amended by this Amendment, all the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties under the Agreement shall otherwise remain in full force and effect as set out therein.

 

 

Agreed to:

 

Agreed to:

 

 

 

 

 

IBIS TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

 

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Martin J. Reid

 

 

By:

/s/ Gerald Rosenthal

 

 

 Martin J. Reid

 

 

 

  Gerald Rosenthal

 

 

 CEO

 

 

 

  Vice President

 

 

 

 

 

Date:

November 14, 2002

 

 

Date:

November 21, 2002

 

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

“IBM Licensed Patents” shall include the following issued patents and patents issuing on the following patent applications:

 

Patent Number

 

Issue Date

 

 

 

US 6,043,166

 

March 28, 2000

 

 

 

US 6,090,689

 

July 18, 2000

 

 

 

US 6,204,546

 

March 20, 2001

 

 

 

US 6,222,253

 

April 24, 2001

 

 

 

US 6,259,137

 

July 10, 2001

 

 

 

US Patent Application Serial No.

 

Filing Date

 

 

 

09/861593

 

May 21, 2001

 

 

 

10/185580

 

June 28, 2002

 

 

 

09/861596

 

May 21, 2001

 

 

 

09/861594

 

May 21, 2001

 

 

 

09/884670

 

June 19, 2001

 

 

 

10/055139

 

Jan. 23, 2002

 

 

 

10/122009

 

April 11, 2002

 

 

 

10/200822

 

July  22, 2002

 

END OF EXHIBIT A

 

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