Exhibit 10.5

 

Addendum to Executive Employment Agreement of David Sherris

 

This agreement shall serve as an Addendum to the Executive Employment Agreement
(attached hereto as Exhibit A) entered into by David Sherris and RestorGenex
Corporation, on or about March 31, 2014, as part of the merger of Paloma
Pharmaceuticals and RestorGenex Corporation. The Addendum shall be effective as
of July 2, 2014 and forms part of the March 31, 2014, Executive Employment
Agreement. David Sherris and RestorGenex Corporation hereby agree to the
following changes to the Executive Employment Agreement:

 

Page 1, second paragraph shall be replaced in its entirety with the following:

 

WHEREAS, Executive desires to be employed by the Company as Chief Scientific
Officer (the “Position”) and the Company wishes to employ Executive in such
capacity;

 

Page 1, section 1, “Employment and Duties,” first paragraph only shall be
replaced in its entirety with the following:

 

1.                                      Employment and Duties.  The Company
agrees to employ and Executive agrees to serve in the Position.  The duties and
responsibilities of Executive shall include the duties and responsibilities as
the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) or Chief Executive Officer
may from time to time assign to Executive comparable with the duties and
responsibilities of a Chief Scientific Officer. Executive shall report to the
Chief Executive Officer of Company.

 

Section 14, “Inventions,” shall be replaced in its entirety with the following:

 

14.                               Inventions.  The Executive agrees that all
Inventions (as defined in paragraph (e) of this Section 14 below) conceived
and/or reduced to practice by the Executive during the period of the Executive’s
employment with the Company (and for a period of six (6) months thereafter
provided such Inventions relate to the subject matter of the Executive’s
employment with the Company during the six months immediately preceding the
termination of the Executive’s employment with the Company), whether made during
the working hours of the Company or on the Executive’s own time, will be the
sole and exclusive property of the Company.  The Executive agrees that the
Executive will, with respect to any Invention:  (i) keep current, accurate, and
complete written records, which will belong to the Company and be kept and
stored on the Company’s premises; (ii) promptly and fully disclose the existence
and describe the nature of the Invention to the Company in writing (and without
request); (iii) assign (and the Executive does hereby assign) to the Company all
of the Executive’s right, title and interest in and to (1) all intellectual
property conceived, improved, developed, discovered or written by Executive,
alone or in collaboration with others, during the period of employment with the
Company; (2) all Inventions; and (3) any applications the Company  makes for
patents or

 

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copyrights in any country, and any patents or copyrights granted to the Company
in any country; and (iv) acknowledge and deliver promptly to the Company any
written instruments requested by the Company to be executed by the Executive,
and perform any other acts desirable or necessary in the Company’s sole
discretion to preserve property rights in the Invention against forfeiture,
abandonment or loss and to obtain and maintain letters patent and/or copyrights
on the Invention and to vest the entire right and title to the Invention in the
Company, whether during or after Executive’s employment with the Company,
provided that the Company will bear the expense associated with such actions.

 

(a) If the Company is unable to secure the Executive’s signature on any document
or instrument necessary to obtain or maintain any patent, copyright, trademark
or other proprietary rights, whether due to the Executive’s mental or physical
capacity or any other cause, the Executive hereby irrevocably designates and
appoints the Company and its duly authorized officers and agents as the
Executive’s agents and attorneys-in-fact to execute and file such documents and
instruments and do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the prosecution,
issuance and enforcement of patents, copyrights and other proprietary rights
with the same force and effect as if executed by Executive.

 

(b) The Executive represents that, except as disclosed below, as of the date of
this Agreement, the Executive has no rights under and will make no claims
against the Company with respect to any inventions, discoveries, improvements,
ideas or works of authorship which would be Inventions if made, conceived,
authored or acquired by the Executive during the term of this Agreement.  All
inventions which the Executive has already conceived or reduced to practice and
which the Executive claims to be excluded from the scope of this Agreement are
listed below (if none, write “none”):

 

None

 

(c) To the extent that any Invention qualifies as “work made for hire” as
defined in 17 U.S.C. § 101 (1976), as amended, such Invention will constitute
“work made for hire” and, as such, will be the exclusive property of the
Company.

 

(d) For purposes of this Agreement, “Invention” means any invention, process,
discovery, improvement or idea, whether or not in writing or reduced to practice
and whether or not patentable or copyrightable, made, authored or conceived by
the Executive, whether alone or jointly with others, and that either (i) relates
in any way to Employer’s business, products or processes, past, present,
anticipated or under development, or (ii) results in any way from the
Executive’s employment by Employer.

 

(e) This Section 14 will survive any expiration or termination of this
Agreement.

 

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NOTICE:  Pursuant to applicable law, please be advised that the assignment of
Inventions provision this Section does not apply to any invention which
qualifies for exclusion under the provisions of Section 2870 of the California
Labor Code, Illinois Revised Statutes, Chapter 140, §§ 301-303 or any other
applicable statute for which no equipment, supplies, facility, or trade secret
information of the Company was used and which was developed entirely on the
Executive’s own time, and which does not relate directly to any business of the
Company or any of the Company’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or
development, or which does not result from any work the Executive performs for
the Company.

 

Section 16,  “Miscellaneous” subpart “(h)” shall be replaced in its entirety
with the following:

 

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
internal laws of the State of Delaware without reference to principles of
conflicts of laws and each of the parties hereto irrevocably consents to the
jurisdiction and venue of the federal and state courts located in Cook
County, Illinois.

 

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Notwithstanding the above, it is understood and agreed that all other remaining
sections of the Executive Employment Agreement that are not referenced herein
shall remain in full force and effect, and shall not be obviated by the content
of this Addendum.

 

RestorGenex Corporation

 

By:

/s/ Stephen M. Simes

 

 

Name: Stephen M. Simes

 

 

Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

 

I have read the foregoing and I have been given the opportunity to discuss it
with counsel of my choice and to raise any questions that I might have
concerning its content.  I understand this Addendum and sign of my own free
will.

 

ACCEPTED AND AGREED:

 

By:

/s/ David Sherris

 

 

Name: David Sherris

 

 

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