Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001104659-25-013053
Chunk: 983

Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 983
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 Company in its businesses as currently conducted. The Company IP and the Intellectual Property Rights licensed to the Company pursuant to a Company In-bound License (the “

#### Company In-Licensed IP
”) are all the Intellectual Property Rights necessary to operate the business of the Company as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted as of the date of this Agreement. No Company Associate owns or has any claim, right (whether or not currently exercisable) or interest to or in any Company IP, and each Company Associate involved in the creation or development of any material Company IP, pursuant to such Company Associate’s activities on behalf of the Company, has signed or has the obligation to sign a valid, enforceable written agreement containing a present assignment of all of such Company Associate’s rights in such Company IP to the Company (without further payment being owed to any such Company Associate and without any restrictions or obligations on the Company’s ownership

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or use thereof (except for the obligation to pay service fee pursuant to the terms of the applicable service agreements that is not based on the revenues or profits of the Company)) and confidentiality provisions protecting the Company IP, which, to the Company’s Knowledge, has not been breached by such Company Associate. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company has taken commercially reasonable steps to protect, maintain and enforce all Company IP and Company In-Licensed IP, including the secrecy, confidentiality and value of trade secrets and other confidential information therein, and to the Company’s Knowledge there have been no authorized disclosures of any Company IP or Company In-Licensed IP. Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will conflict with, alter or impair any of the Company’s or, following the Closing, Parent’s, rights in or to any Company IP or Company In-Licensed IP or cause any payments of any kind to be due or payable to any Person.

(c) To the Company’s Knowledge, no funding, facilities or personnel of any Governmental Body or any university, college, research institute or other educational or academic institution has been used, in whole or in part, to create any Company IP or any Company In-Licensed IP, except for any such funding or use of facilities or personnel that does not result in such Governmental Body or institution obtaining ownership or other rights (including any “march in” rights or a right to direct the location of manufacturing of products) to such Company IP or Company In-Licensed IP or the right to receive