Exhibit 10.9

 

LICR REF LUD2240

 

8 June 2011

 

Attention: Mr David Pritchard KALOBIOS PHARMACEUTICALS INC a Delaware
corporation, having an address at 260 East Grand Avenue, South San Francisco, CA
94040, USA (KaloBios)

 

FAX: 1 650 343 3260

 

 

Attention: Mr Edward McDermott, copy to Dr Jonathan Skipper LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR
CANCER RESEARCH LIMITED a Swiss not-for-profit corporation with its registered
office at Stadelhoferstrasse 22, 801 Zürich, Switzerland and having an office at
666 Third Avenue, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10017, USA (LICR)

 

FAX: 1 212 450 1535

 

RE:                          Addition of Patent 5 to License Agreement Between
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and KaloBios (LICR Ref: LUD2240)

 

The parties wish to formally incorporate new Joint Program Patent that has
resulted from the Joint Program Research carried out under the Collaborative
Research Agreement (LUD2259.2) to the Exhibit A of the License Agreement
(LUD2240) between Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Ltd and KaloBios
Pharmaceuticals Inc (“the Agreement”).

 

Addition - Exhibit A should have inserted the following:

 

Patent 5

 

(a)                                 Provisional patent application US61/356.522
filed on 18 June 2010 and entitled “Detection of EphA3 as a Marker of the
Presence of a Solid Tumor”;

(b)                                 all patent applications (including foreign
applications) that are filed or may later be filed based on or corresponding to
the application in (a);

(c)                                  all divisional and continuations, in whole
or in part, applications, and reissue applications based on any of the foregoing
patent applications;

(d)                                 all issued and unexpired patents resulting
from any application in (a), (b), or (c) above;

(e)                                  all issued and unexpired reissue,
re-examination, renewal or extension patents that may be based on any such
patents; and

(f)                                   any invention or discovery; manner, method
or process of manufacture; method or principle of construction; chemical
composition or formulation; biological material; or scientific, technical or
engineering information or document which is encompassed or taught in the
patents or patent applications referred to in paragraphs (a) to (e).

 

To indicate the parties’ agreement to this addition of Joint Program Patent
please sign and date the acknowledgement at the end of this letter (“the Letter
Agreement”) and send one copy by facsimile to the other party as indicated
above.

 

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Unless defined expressly in this Letter Agreement, capitalised letters in this
Letter Agreement have the meanings given to them in the Agreement.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

KALOBIOS PHARMACEUTICALS INC

 

LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH

[SEAL]

 

 

 

/s/ David W Pritchard

 

/s/ Edward A McDermott, Jnr

 

David W Pritchard

 

Edward A McDermott, Jnr

 

Chief Executive Officer

 

President

 

 

 

 

 

Witness:

/s/ Consuela Alatoure

 

Witness:

/s/ Karen Hyland

 

 

 

 

 

Karen Hyland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Jonathan Skipper, PhD

 

 

 

Jonathan Skipper, PhD

 

 

 

Executive Director of Technology Development

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Witness:

/s/ Nadette Bulgin

 

 

 

 

 

Nadette Bulgin

 

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