THE DECEMBER 20, 2012 AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT

OF THE

MARCH 12, 2012 ECOTALITY/USABB “BLINK LICENSE AGREEMENT”

 

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Effective December 20, 2012 (the “Amendment Effective Date”), ECOtality, Inc., a
Nevada corporation (“ECOtality”), ABB Inc., a Delaware corporation (“USABB”),
and ABB Technology Ltd., a Swiss entity (“CHTET”), mutually agree to amend and
restate the March 12, 2012 ECOtality/USABB “Blink License Agreement” (the
“Agreement”) as follows, via this amendment and restatement to the Agreement
(this “Amendment”) ,with CHTET substituted for USABB.

 

WHEREAS:

 

A. ECOtality and USABB entered into the Agreement on March 12, 2012 (the
“Effective Date”), but due to certain policies and practices of the ABB Group of
affiliated companies (“ABB”), of which both USABB and CHTET are members, USABB
now wishes to assign the Agreement to CHTET (the “Assignment”);

 

B. The Agreement’s Section 9.2 (MISCELLANEOUS; Assignment) requires ECOtality’s
prior consent for the Assignment;

 

C. ECOtality has no objections to the Assignment and hereby consents to the
Assignment;

 

D. CHTET accepts the Assignment from USABB and agrees to be fully bound under
the Agreement to ECOtality; and

 

E. Upon mutual execution of this Amendment, ECOtality and CHTET agree that the
text of the Agreement shall consist solely of the terms and conditions of this
Amendment.

 

THEREFORE: ECOtality, USABB, and CHTET mutually agree as follows.

 

1. ECOtality consents to the Assignment, without any reservation.

 

2. As part of the Assignment:

 

a. USABB assigns to CHTET all of USABB’s rights and obligations under the
Agreement, without any reservation; and

 

b. CHTET accepts all of USABB’s rights and obligations under the Agreement,
without any reservation.

 

3. Effective as of the Amendment Effective Date:

 

a. CHTET is substituted for USABB in the Agreement and CHTET becomes the sole
ABB counterparty to the Agreement; and

 

b. The Agreement’s terms and conditions consist exclusively and entirely of the
following terms and conditions, with ECOtality and CHTET referred to herein from
time to time individually as a “Party” and collectively as the “Parties.”
Affiliates of either Party shall be referred to herein as “Affiliates,” with
CHTET and its Affiliates referred to herein as the “ABB Group.”

 

 

 

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

RECITALS 4.34 – Protection of Intellectual Property 1 – LICENSE Rights 1.1 –
Grant 5 – INDEMNIFICATION A – The Blink API License 5.1 – Indemnification
Obligations B – The Licensed Patents’ License 5.2 – Procedure 1.2 – Restrictions
and Reservations 5.3 – Survival 1.3 – License Fee; No Royalties 6 –CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMATION A – One Time License Fee 7 – TERMINATION B – Royalty-Free 7.1 –
Termination by ECOtality 2 – TERM 7.2 – Effect of Termination 3 –
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; 8 – RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES DISCLAIMERS; AND
LIMITATIONS 9 – MISCELLANEOUS 3.1 – Representations, Warranties, and Covenants
9.1 – Entire Agreement of ECOtality 9.2 – Assignment 3.2 – Representations,
Warranties, and 9.3 – Severability Covenants 9.4 – Waiver 3.3 – Disclaimer of
Warranties 9.5 – Relationship of the Parties 3.4 – Limitation of Liability 9.6 –
Governing Law 4 – LICENSE COVENANTS 9.7 – Notices 4.1 – Reports 9.8 –
Counterparts 4.2 –Quality Standards and Controls for Use    of Marks EXHIBIT A –
THE LICENSED PATENTS

 

 

 

RECITALS

 

A. CHTET is a member of the ABB Group as is its affiliate, ABB Inc., a Delaware
corporation (“USABB”).

 

B. ECOtality and USABB are parties to:

 

(i) A Collaboration and Strategic Supplier Relationship Framework Agreement (the
“Framework Agreement”), and

 

(ii) A Collaboration and Strategic Supplier Relationship for NAM Agreement (the
“NAM Agreement” and, together with the Framework Agreement, the “Collaboration
Agreements”),

 

each dated January 10, 2011. ECOtality and USABB have an amended and restated
Framework Agreement that amends and restates both the Framework Agreement and
the NAM Agreement into one document, dated as of the Effective Date (the
“Restated Collaboration Agreement”), which was executed concurrently with the
Agreement.

 

C. The “Blink Functionality” is the networking functionality of ECOtality
associated with electric vehicle charging systems (“EV Charging Systems”)
including consumer-oriented networking functionality, and service and
maintenance monitoring functionality, which is embodied in ECOtality’s
associated intellectual property. The Blink Functionality can be modified or
changed, from time to time, by ECOtality, in its absolute sole discretion

 

 

 

 

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D. As part of the Blink Functionality, ECOtality has developed a proprietary
application programming interface and platform that enables software programs
(subject to hardware limitations and such other requirements and specifications
set forth therein) to provide some or all of the Blink Functionality (the “Blink
API”), which may facilitate information sharing, demand response, charging
reservations, home energy management, memberships, payments, load management,
mapping, and media communications.

 

D. ECOtality also owns or has rights to use certain (and in the future may own
or acquire rights to use additional) registered and unregistered trademarks,
service marks, logos and other such marks that ECOtality has associated with,
may elect to associate with or intends to associate with the Blink Functionality
and the Blink API(collectively, the “Marks”).

 

E. Under the Restated Collaboration Agreement, the ABB Group has certain rights
to market and sell components (“ABB Components”), assemblies (“ABB Assemblies”),
charging units (“ABB Charging Units”), and systems (the “ABB EV Charging
Systems”) for ECOtality’s EV Charging Systems. The ABB Components, the ABB
Assemblies, the ABB Charging Units, and the ABB EV Charging Systems are each an
“ABB Product,” and collectively “ABB Products.”

 

F. In conjunction with the Restated Collaboration Agreement, CHTET has requested
a license to the Blink API for CHTET, with the right for the CHTET to sublicense
the Blink API to its Affiliates, and the Sublicensees (as this term is defined
below in Section 1.1(a) (LICENSE, Grant, The Blink API License), (with the ABB
Group, and the Sublicensees’ collectively, the “Licensee Group”) to use in
connection with ABB Products so that such ABB Products can be activated by their
hosts or end users to utilize the Blink Functionality, and ECOtality is willing
to grant the requested license under the terms and conditions set forth below.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing recitals, the mutual covenants
contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the adequacy of
which is hereby acknowledged, the Parties hereby agree as follows:

 

1. License

 

1.1 Grant.

 

(a) The Blink API License

 

ECOtality hereby grants to CHTET, a non-exclusive, non-transferable right and
license (the “Blink API License”), except to CHTET’s Affiliates and
Sublicensees, as permitted by this Agreement, during the Term (as defined below)
and subject to the restrictions and reservations set forth in Section 1.2
(LICENSE; Restrictions and Reservations) below, as follows:

 

(i) At the sole discretion of the ABB Group, to use the Blink API to develop
software applications to be incorporated into the ABB Products, to be marketed
and sold in NAM, so that hosts and users of such ABB Products have the ability
to activate the Blink Functionality (with such ABB Products enabled with the
Blink API software referred to herein as the “Covered Products”);

 

(ii) To use the Marks in connection with the marketing and sale of the Covered
Products, to the extent that the Licensee Group markets and sells the Covered
Products;

 

(iii) For CHTET to grant sublicenses with respect to the rights granted under
(i) and

(ii) above to CHTET’s Affiliates; and

 

 

 

 

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(iv) With the prior written approval of ECOtality, for any member of the ABB
Group to grant sublicenses with respect to the rights granted under (i) and (ii)
above to third parties in NAM for the purpose of furthering the sale of the
Covered Products, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld (any third
party so approved as a sublicensee being referred to herein as a “Sublicensee”).

 

(b) The Licensed Patents’ License

 

Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, ECOtality
hereby grants to CHTET and all other members of the ABB Group, via CHTET’s
sublicensee to such members of the ABB Group, a limited, worldwide,
non-exclusive license (without the right to sublicense, and without the right to
assign), to the “Licensed Patents,” delineated in Exhibit A (THE LICENSED
PATENTS) attached hereto, to practice, make and use the inventions, ideas and
information embodied therein for any of the ABB Products solely in connection
with the businesses of the ABB Group. The Parties’ expressly and specifically
agree that the Licensed Patents granted herein are personal to CHTET, and shall
be limited to, shall not be used except as permitted by this Agreement.
Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary in this Agreement, the Licensed
Patents’ license is limited to the territory or jurisdiction in which such
registered patent has been issued, except in the China and Australia markets.

 

1.2 Restrictions and Reservations

 

(a) No member of the Licensee Group shall have any right to modify, adapt, or
change:

 

(1) The Blink API,

 

(2) The Marks, or

 

(3) The Licensed Patents

 

in any way whatsoever, except to incorporate the software based on the Blink API
in the Covered Products or, in connection with the Licensed Patents, to
otherwise use them as set forth in this Agreement. Except for these permitted
uses, the Licensee Group shall not reverse assemble, reverse compile or reverse
engineer any portion of the Blink Functionality, including the Blink API, or the
Licensed Patents whatsoever.

 

(b) The activation of any Blink Functionality in any Covered Product by a host
or user of such Covered Products shall be subject to such terms and conditions
(“Blink Contracts”) as ECOtality, in its sole discretion, may impose generally
on hosts or users of these Covered Products. In no event, however, shall the
Licensee Group be required to have its customers for the Covered Products
subject to a mandatory activation with ECOtality of the Blink Functionality,
either via a Blink Contract or otherwise. No member of the Licensee Group shall
have any independent right to activate (or permit the activation of the Blink
Functionality within the Covered Products, and no member of the Licensee Group
shall have any right or interest, financial or otherwise, in the relationship
between ECOtality and any hosts or users of the Covered Products’ Blink
Functionality. For the avoidance of doubt, the Blink API License granted
hereunder is solely to permit the Licensee Group to enable the hosts and users
of the Covered Products to activate and utilize the Blink Functionality (via a
Blink Contract), so that such hosts and users may obtain the benefits of the
Blink Functionality, including by way of example, but without limitation and/or
obligation, demand response, charging reservations, home energy management, and
media communications. Control and ownership of, and access to, any and all data,
information, and communications generated by the Covered Products, due to the
associated host or user’s usage of the Blink Functionality, via the Covered
Products, shall be governed entirely by the terms and conditions of the Blink
Contracts, and no member of the Licensee Group shall have any rights, under this
Agreement, to any of that data, information or communications.

 

 

 

 

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(d) The license granted hereunder is non-exclusive. ECOtality expressly reserves
the unfettered right and discretion to use, and to authorize others to use, any
portion of the Blink Functionality, the Blink API, the Licensed Patents and the
Marks anywhere and in any way.

 

(e) All rights not granted herein are expressly reserved to ECOtality. Nothing
in this Agreement shall be deemed to constitute the grant of any license or
other right to, or to use, the Blink API, Blink Functionality or the Licensed
Patent, except as expressly set forth herein.

 

(f) Neither ECOtality nor any of its affiliates is required to file any patent
application, or to secure any patent or patent rights, or to maintain any
Licensed Patents in force. Payment of maintenance fees and the taking of any
other appropriate maintenance action for the Licensed Patents shall be at the
sole discretion of, and is the financial responsibility of, ECOtality; provided,
however, that ECOtality agrees that if ECOtality elects not to pay maintenance
fees and/or take any and all other appropriate maintenance action for the
Licensed Patents, ECOtality will give CHTET written notice of such decision at
least three (3) months prior to the date that appropriate maintenance action
must be taken, in which case, if ECOtality decides not to maintain such patent
application, CHTET will have the option of assuming the ownership of such
Licensed Patents and maintaining the application or registration to such
Licensed Patents and ECOtality shall forthwith execute any necessary documents
or instruments for transferring and assigning all right, title and interest that
ECOtality has in such Licensed Patents to CHTET at CHTET’s cost and expense. If
CHTET does not take such maintenance action before the deadline for taking such
action, then such Licensed Patents will be permitted to lapse.

 

1.3 License Fee; No Royalties

 

(a) One-Time License Fee.

 

As full consideration for the rights granted by the Agreement and this
Amendment, ECOtality has received from USABB, as of the Effective Date, a
one-time, single license fee, the non-refundable sum of FIVE MILLION U.S.
DOLLARS ($5,000,000) (the “License Fee”).

 

(b) Royalty-Free.

 

As the License Fee was paid on the Effective Date and there is no additional fee
required by ECOtality for this Amendment, CHTET shall not be required to pay any
royalties, other fees, or other such payments for the rights granted hereunder.
Nothing herein shall be deemed to restrict ECOtality’s ability to charge fees or
otherwise collect royalties or any other amounts from hosts or users of the
Blink Functionality or in connection with the Blink Contracts.

 

2. Term.

 

(a) The term of this Agreement (the “Term”) is from the Effective Date and shall
continue indefinitely unless earlier terminated as provided in Section 8
(TERMINATION), or by mutual agreement of the Parties.

 

 

 

 

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(b) Regardless of any such termination, however, all Covered Products sold by
the Licensee Group prior to the termination date shall be permitted to continue
to be enabled for activation by the hosts or users of such Covered Products for
access to or use of the Blink Functionality as contemplated in this Agreement,
in perpetuity, subject to the terms of the Blink Contracts with respect to such
access or use.

 

3. Representations and Warranties; Disclaimers; and Limitations.

 

3.1 Representations, Warranties, and Covenants of ECOtality.

 

ECOtality represents, warrants and covenants to CHTET that:

 

(a) ECOtality owns all right title and interest in the Blink API, the Licensed
Patents, and the Marks;

 

(b) ECOtality has the full right, power, and authority to enter into this
Agreement and grant the rights contained herein;

 

(c) The execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement by ECOtality has
been duly and properly authorized by all necessary entity actions on the part of
ECOtality;

 

(d) This Agreement constitutes the valid and binding obligation of ECOtality,
enforceable in accordance with its terms;

 

(e) Neither the execution, delivery nor performance of this Agreement by
ECOtality shall conflict with any license or other rights granted by ECOtality
to any other party;

 

(f) The person signing this Agreement on behalf of ECOtality has been authorized
to execute this Agreement for and on behalf of ECOtality and has full authority
to so bind ECOtality; and

 

(g) ECOtality shall comply with all applicable laws in connection with this
Agreement.

 

3.2 Representations, Warranties, and Covenants of CHTET.

 

CHTET represents, warrants and covenants to ECOtality that:

 

(a) CHTET has the full right, power, and authority to enter into this Agreement;

 

(b) The execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement by the CHTET has
been duly and properly authorized by all necessary entity actions on the part of
CHTET;

 

(c) This Agreement constitutes the valid and binding obligation of CHTET,
enforceable in accordance with its terms;

 

(d) Neither the execution, delivery nor performance of this Agreement by CHTET
shall conflict with any obligation of CHTET under any other agreement to which
CHTET is a party;

 

 

 

  

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(e) CHTET confirms that it does not have any rights, titles or interests in any
to Blink Functionality, the Licensed Patents, the Marks or Blink API except the
rights, titles and interests specifically provided for under this Agreement;

 

(f) The person signing this Agreement on behalf of CHTET has been authorized to
execute this Agreement for and on behalf of CHTET and has full authority to so
bind CHTET; and

 

(g) CHTET shall ensure that all other members of the Licensee Group shall comply
with the terms of this Agreement and all applicable laws in connection with the
exercise of the rights granted under this Agreement, including with respect to
the manufacture, marketing, and sale of Covered Products.

 

3.3 Disclaimer of Warranties.

 

(i) ECOTALITY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE
BLINK API, THE LICENSED PATENTS, AND THE BLINK FUNCTIONALITY, OR ANY USE
THEREOF, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY AS TO NON-INFRINGEMENT,
MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

 

(ii) Although ECOtality offers no warranty with regard to the non-infringement
of the Blink API, the Licensed Patents, and the Blink Functionality, ECOtality
shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Licensee Group and their
respective directors, officers, agents, employees, members, shareholders, and
insurers from any and all direct losses, claims, damages, costs and expenses
(including reasonable attorney’s fees), causes of action, suits, damages or
demands whatsoever, by any third party, arising out of the infringement of such
third party’s intellectual property rights by the Blink Functionality, the Blink
API, the Licensed Patents, and the Marks, with the total amount of all such
indemnification available to the Licensee Group capped at an amount equal to the
License Fee.

 

(iii) ECOtality shall in no event be responsible for indirect, consequential,
incidental, or special losses of any kind resulting from the rights granted
under this Agreement, including, without limitation, any liability for business
expenses, lost profits or other damages caused to the Licensee Group or the
hosts or end users of Covered Products.

 

3.4 Limitation of Liability.

 

Unless ECOtality expressly accepts such terms and conditions in writing, no
license or sale of Covered Products by any member of the Licensee Group shall
cause ECOtality to be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or
consequential damages associated with the incorporation into the Covered
Products of the Blink Functionality, or the ABB Group’s use of the Licensed
Patents.

 

4. CHTET Covenants.

 

CHTET covenants to ECOtality (for the benefit of ECOtality and its Affiliates,
and not for the benefit of any other third party unrelated to ECOtality) as
follows:

 

4.1 Reports.

 

Upon ECOtality’s request, but no more than once per calendar quarter, CHTET
shall provide a report detailing the license and sale of the Covered Products by
the Licensee Group for the immediately past calendar quarter, with the quantity
of units sold, and the names and contacts of the parties to whom the Covered
Products were sold or licensed.

 

 

 

 

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4.2 Quality Standards and Controls for Use of Marks.

 

The Licensee Group shall use the Marks only with Covered Products. The Licensee
Group shall cooperate with ECOtality in maintaining ECOtality’s control of the
nature and quality of the use of the Marks, to permit reasonable inspection of
the Licensee Group’s operations and records in connection with Licensee Group’s
use of the Marks, and to supply ECOtality with specimens of all uses of the
Marks upon request (including, without limitation, specimens of all packaging,
labeling, advertising and marketing materials which use the Marks). If ECOtality
determines, in its discretion, that the nature and quality of a Covered Product
is such that one or more of the Marks should not be associated with that Covered
Product, then, upon notice from ECOtality, any such member of the Licensee Group
shall immediately discontinue (or shall not commence) any use of the identified
Mark or Marks with that Covered Product unless and until a different
determination is made by ECOtality.

 

4.3 Protection of Intellectual Property Rights.

 

(a) In using any of the Blink Functionality or Blink API and/or any of the Marks
in connection with the promotion and sale of Covered Products, the Licensee
Group shall fully comply with the marking provisions of the applicable
trademark, patent, copyright and other intellectual property laws of all
applicable jurisdictions and shall include on the Covered Products, and/or their
related packaging materials, all appropriate legal notices required by law.

 

(b) The Licensee Group shall not do anything, or permit anything to be done, in
the use of any of the Blink Functionality, Blink API, the Licensed Patents,
and/or any of the Marks, which would or could jeopardize the validity of their
protection under applicable intellectual property laws.

 

(c) If any member of the Licensee Group becomes aware of any infringement of any
of ECOtality’s intellectual property rights to any of the Blink Functionality,
Blink API, the Licensed Patents or any of the Marks, it shall promptly notify
ECOtality of such infringement, providing ECOtality with all information known
to the Licensee Group regarding the infringement, and provide ECOtality with all
reasonable assistance requested by ECOtality with respect to any action
ECOtality may bring regarding such infringement, with any such member of the
Licensee Group reimbursed for all reasonable and documented expenses of such.

 

(d) If ECOtality becomes aware of any infringement of any of intellectual
property rights of the Licensee Group to any portion of the Covered Products, it
shall promptly notify CHTET of such infringement, providing CHTET with all
information known to the ECOtality and its Affiliates regarding the
infringement, and provide CHTET with all reasonable assistance requested by the
Licensee Group with respect to any action the Licensee Group may bring regarding
such infringement, with ECOtality and its Affiliates reimbursed for all
reasonable and documented expenses of such.

 

5. Indemnification.

 

5.1 Indemnification Obligations.

 

Unless expressly stated otherwise in this Agreement, each Party agrees to
indemnify, defend and hold harmless the other Party and its Affiliates, parent
companies and subsidiaries, and their respective directors, officers, agents,
employees, insurers, advisors, members and shareholders from any and all losses,
claims, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees),
causes of action, suits, damages or demands whatsoever by any third party
arising out of the promotion, sale or use of Covered Products (collectively,
“Claims”), which Claims are based on an alleged or actual breach of any of its
obligations under this Agreement.

 

 

 

 

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5.2 Procedure.

 

If any claim or action shall be brought against either Party in respect to which
indemnity may be sought from the other Party pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 5 (INDEMNIFICATION), the indemnified Party shall promptly notify the
indemnifying Party in writing, specifying the nature of the claim or action and
the total monetary amount sought or other such relief as is sought therein. The
indemnified Party shall cooperate with the indemnifying Party in all reasonable
respects in connection with the defense of any such claim or action. The
indemnifying Party may, upon written notice thereof to the indemnified Party,
undertake to conduct all proceedings or negotiations in connection therewith,
assume the defense thereof and, if it so undertakes, also undertake all other
required steps or proceedings to settle or defend any such action, including the
employment of counsel and payment of all expenses; provided that, the
indemnifying Party shall keep the indemnified Party informed in a timely manner,
and, without the indemnified Party’s prior approval (which shall not be
unreasonably withheld), the indemnifying Party shall not enter into, or
undertake or agree to enter into, any settlement other than a settlement that
provides for a full release of all claims against the indemnified Party and
requires no admission, undertaking or payment from the indemnified Party. The
indemnified Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel and
participate in the defense thereof solely at its expense. The indemnifying Party
shall reimburse the indemnified Party on demand for any documented payments made
or loss suffered by the indemnified Party based upon the final and
non-appealable judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction or pursuant to a
bona fide and final compromise or settlement of claims, demands or actions, with
respect to any damages to which the foregoing relates.

 

5.3 Survival.

 

The indemnification provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of
this Agreement.

 

6. Confidential Information.

 

During the Term, the Parties shall exchange certain information relating to
their respective business and operations that each Party considers its
proprietary and confidential information (“Confidential Information”). Each
Party shall protect the other Party’s Confidential Information in a manner
equivalent to that by which it protects its own Confidential Information, and
shall not, without the prior express written consent of the other party or as
may be required by law, regulation or judicial order, disclose, reveal, or use
any such Confidential Information except as permitted by this Agreement, or
unless such Confidential Information is public information through no fault of
this Party, was developed independently by this Party, or was received from a
third party and this Party had no reasonable basis for knowing such was
Confidential Information of the other Party. The provisions of this Section 6
(CONFIDENTIALITY) shall survive termination of this Agreement.

 

7. Termination.

 

7.1 Termination by ECOtality.

 

 

 

 

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ECOtality shall have the right to terminate this Agreement and the license
rights of CHTET granted hereunder upon:

 

(a) CHTET’s material breach of this Agreement, or

 

(b) CHTET’s failure to perform any material obligation under this Agreement,

 

unless CHTET formulates and implements a remedial plan acceptable to ECOtality
(whose approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, based upon standards of
commercial reasonableness and timeliness) within thirty (30) days after
ECOtality’s notification of such to CHTET.

 

7.2 Effect of Termination.

 

Upon the termination of this Agreement, all rights granted under this Agreement
to CHTET shall terminate and immediately revert to ECOtality, and CHTET shall
immediately discontinue all further use of any and all of the Blink API,
Licensed Patents and the Marks, except as permitted above in Section 2(b)
(TERM).

 

8. Resolution of Disputes

 

In the event of any dispute under this Agreement, the Parties shall first
attempt to resolve their dispute by good faith negotiation, and if they do not
reach such solution within a period of 30 days, then the Parties shall submit
the dispute for mediation to such mediator as the Parties may agree upon,
failing which a mediator shall be appointed by the Judicial Arbitration and
Mediation Services (“JAMS”). The mediation shall be held under the rules of JAMS
and shall be conducted in San Francisco, California. If JAMS is no longer in
existence, the American Arbitration Association and its rules and procedures
shall be substituted for JAMS and its rules and procedures for all purposes
under this Section 8 (RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES). The Parties shall participate in
the mediation process in good faith, and shall have a representative in
attendance throughout the mediation with authority to settle the dispute.
Statements made during the mediation process shall be considered to be made in
the context of settlement discussions, and shall not be admissible in any
subsequent judicial proceeding. The mutually agreed result of any such mediation
shall be legally binding upon the Parties and enforceable by judicial
proceedings. Subject to the foregoing, the Parties reserve any and all rights
they may have to subsequently resort to such other judicial venues as shall be
available to them in resolving disputes.

 

9. Miscellaneous

 

9.1 Entire Agreement.

 

The agreement contained in this Amendment constitutes the entire understanding
of the Parties relating to the Agreement, including the license granted herein,
revokes and supersedes all prior agreements between ECOtality, CHTET, and USABB
relating to such license, and is intended as a final expression of their
agreement relating to the Agreement, including the license. It may not be
modified or amended except in a writing signed by both Parties and specifically
referring to this Amendment.

 

9.2 Assignment.

 

Neither Party may assign or transfer the Agreement or any of its rights or
obligations, without the prior consent of the other Party. Further, CHTET may
not grant to any third party any sublicense with respect to any of the license
rights of the Agreement, except as permitted by the Agreement, or with the
approval of ECOtality.

 

 

 

 

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9.3 Severability.

 

If any term, clause, or provision of the Agreement, including this Amendment, is
held invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such
invalidity shall not affect the validity or operation of any other term, clause
or provision, and such invalid term, clause or provision shall be deemed to be
severed from the Agreement or this Amendment, as may be applicable.

 

9.4 Waiver.

 

No failure of either Party to exercise any power reserved to it by the
Agreement, as restated in this Amendment, or to insist upon strict compliance by
the other Party with any obligation or condition hereunder, and no custom or
practice of the Parties at variance with the terms of this Amendment or the
Agreement, shall constitute a waiver of such Party’s right to demand exact
compliance with any of the terms herein. Waiver by a Party of any particular
default by the other Party shall not affect or impair the non-defaulting Party’s
rights with respect to such default or any subsequent default of the same,
similar or a different nature.

 

9.5 Relationship of the Parties.

 

Nothing in this Amendment or the Agreement shall be deemed or construed by the
Parties or by any third party as creating a partnership or joint venture between
the Parties, it being understood and agreed that no provision contained herein,
and no act of the Parties, shall be deemed to create any relationship between
the Parties other than the relationship of ECOtality and licensee.

 

9.5 Governing Law.

 

This Amendment and the Agreement and the license granted hereby shall be
governed by and in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without
regard to conflict of laws principles, except where the federal laws of the
United States are applicable and have precedence.

 

9.6 Notices.

 

Notices or other communications required to be given by either Party pursuant to
the Agreement shall be written in English and may be delivered personally, or
sent by registered airmail (postage prepaid) or by a recognized courier service,
or sent by facsimile transmission, in each case to the address or facsimile
number of the recipient set forth on the signature page hereof, or such other
address or facsimile number as may be designated by a Party by written notice to
the other Party given in accordance with the terms hereof. The dates on which
notices shall be deemed to have been effectively given shall be determined as
follows:

 

(a) Notices given by personal delivery shall be deemed effectively given on the
date of personal delivery (as indicated by certification of the delivery
personnel);

 

(b) Notices given by registered airmail (postage prepaid) shall be deemed
effectively given on the seventh (7th) day after the date on which they were
mailed (as indicated by the postmark);

 

(c) Notices given by air courier shall be deemed effectively given on the date
of delivery (as indicated by the airway bill); and

 

 

 

 

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(d) Notices given by facsimile transmission shall be deemed effectively given on
the first business day following the date of transmission; provided that the
notice is also sent to the recipient by registered airmail (postage prepaid) on
the same day that the notice is sent by facsimile.

 

9.7 Counterparts.

 

This Amendment may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to
be an original of this Amendment and all of which, when taken together, shall be
deemed to constitute one and the same agreement of this Amendment for the
Agreement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, CHTET, USABB, and ECOtality have executed this Amendment as
of the Amendment Effective Date.

 

ECOTALITY, INC. (“ECOTALITY”),
a Nevada corporation

 

 

By: _______________________

Name: _______________________

Title: _______________________

 

Notice Address:

 

Post Montgomery Center

One Montgomery Street – Suite 2525

San Francisco, CA  94104

U.S.A.

 

ABB TECHNOLOGY LTD. (“CHTET”),

a Swiss entity

 

 

By: _______________________

Name: _______________________

Title: _______________________

 

By: _______________________

Name: _______________________

Title: _______________________

 

Notice Address:

 

Affolternstrasse 44

8050 Zurich

SWITZERLAND

Attention: General Counsel

 

ABB INC. (“USABB”),

a Delaware corporation

 

 

By: _______________________

Name: _______________________

Title: _______________________

 

By: _______________________

Name: _______________________

Title: _______________________

 

Notice Address:

 

12040 Regency Parkway

Cary, NC 27518

U.S.A.

 

 

 

 

 

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EXHIBIT A - THE LICENSED PATENTS

 

ECOtality’s Multiport patents.

 

1.      WO 96/01518, also known as US08/275,878, also known as PCT/CA95/00401;
and

 

2.      WO 96/32768, also known as US08/419,188, also known as PCT/CA96/00177