form10q032009ex10_3.htm


    
      
        EXHIBIT
10.3

         

        [IPASS
LETTERHEAD]

         

      

    

    March 16,
2009

    


    Jayendra
(Jay) Patel

    10480
Serra Street

    Cupertino,
CA  94014

    


    Dear
Jay:

    


    I am
pleased to offer you employment in the position of Senior Vice President,
Product Development at iPass Inc. (“iPass” or the “Company”), reporting to me,
under the terms set forth in this letter.  Your initial base salary
will be $9,166.67 paid semi-monthly, plus benefits, including the option of
participating in our 401(k) Plan.  If annualized, this base salary
amount equals $220,000.  As an exempt employee, you will not be
eligible for overtime compensation.

    


    In
addition, you will be eligible to earn a target annual bonus of $80,000 paid on
a quarterly basis consistent with the management bonus plan.  Bonuses
are only considered earned if the participant is an employee of iPass in good
standing on the last day of the fiscal quarter and has successfully completed
the quarterly objectives.  If you leave the Company for any reason
during the quarter, no pro-rata bonus shall be earned.  The Company
shall have the sole discretion to determine if you have met all of the
requirements for earning a bonus (including completion of the applicable
objectives) and, if so, the amount of the bonus payment.  If earned,
the bonus payments generally will be paid within forty-five (45) days following
the end of the Company’s fiscal quarter to allow the Company time to determine
bonus calculations.  Any bonus provided to you will be subject to
standard deductions and withholdings.

    


    Further,
subject to the approval of the
Board of Directors of iPass (the "Board"), you will be granted an
option to purchase 195,000 shares of iPass’ common stock, subject
to a four-year vesting schedule, at a purchase price equal to the
fair market value of the stock as of the date of grant (as determined by the
Board) under the iPass 2003 Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plan").  The
option will be governed by the terms of the Plan and your stock option
agreement.

    


    iPass
offers its employees health, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and short term and
long term disability insurance, and you will be eligible to participate in these
benefit plans in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plan
documents.  The health and dental plans provide you with several
options regarding your care.  Please read the enclosed information
about the health and dental plan options available to you.  You may
call Mike Badgis with any questions about health insurance or any other iPass
benefits at (650) 232-4130.  iPass may modify your position, duties,
reporting relationship, office location, and compensation and benefits from time
to time in its discretion.

    


    In
addition, in the position of Senior Vice President, Product Development, you
will be eligible to become a "Participant" under the Company's Executive
Corporate Transaction and Severance Benefit Plan (the "Executive Severance
Plan"), which provides specified severance benefits to certain eligible
executive employees of the Company in the event of qualifying employment
terminations, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Executive Severance
Plan.  In order to become a Participant, you will need to sign and
return the Executive Severance Plan Participation Notice which will be
provided to you after you commence employment.

     

    This
offer is contingent upon the successful results of background and reference
checks, your execution of and compliance with the enclosed Proprietary
Information and Inventions Agreement and satisfactory proof of your right to
work in the United States.  You agree to assist as needed and to complete
any documentation at the Company’s request to meet these
conditions.  In addition, as a condition of your employment, you will
be required to abide by the Company’s policies and procedures, including but not
limited to the policies set forth in the Company’s Employee Handbook, as may be
in effect from time to time.  Employment with iPass is at the will of
each party, is not for a specific term and can be terminated by you or by the
Company at any time, with or without cause and with or without advance
notice.

     

    


    This
letter, along with your Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement, is the
entire agreement between you and iPass concerning your employment terms, and it
supersedes any other agreements or promises made to you by anyone, whether
written or oral.  The terms of this letter cannot be changed (except
with respect to those changes expressly reserved to the Company’s discretion
herein) unless such changes are in writing and signed by an authorized
representative of iPass.  This offer is valid until Tuesday, March
17th at
5:00 pm, at which time it will expire if you have not returned this fully signed
letter to the Company.

    


    Please
signify your acceptance of employment with the Company under the terms provided
in this letter by signing and dating below and returning this offer letter to
Mike Badgis at fax number (650) 232-0232.

      

    Jay, your
acceptance of our offer represents a unique opportunity for us both to grow and
succeed.  We all want to thank you in advance for your faith in us,
and for the commitment you have made to our common vision.  Finally,
we all look forward to working and building iPass with you!

    


    Welcome
aboard,                                                                      Understood
And Accepted

    


    


    /s/ Evan L.
Kaplan                                                                        /s/ Jayendra Patel    


    Evan L.
Kaplan                                                                     Jayendra (Jay)
Patel

    President
& CEO

    


                                        March 17,
2009                    ______________

                                                                                       
Date                              Start Date
03-18-09

     

    
      
        
        

      

      
        
        

        
          

        

      

      
        
        

      

    


    EMPLOYEE
CONFIDENTIALITY AND INVENTIONS ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT

    


     

    In
consideration of my employment or continued employment by iPass, Inc. (“Company”), and the
compensation now and hereafter paid to me, I hereby agree as
follows:

     

    1.           Confidentiality.

     

    1.1                      Nondisclosure; Recognition of
Company’s Rights.  At all
times during my employment and thereafter, I will hold in confidence and will
not disclose, use, lecture upon, or publish any of Company’s Confidential
Information (defined below), except as such use is required in connection with
my work for Company, or unless the Chief Executive Officer (the “CEO”) of Company expressly
authorizes in writing such disclosure or publication.  I will obtain
the CEO’s written approval before publishing or submitting for publication any
material (written, oral, or otherwise) that relates to my work at Company and/or
incorporates any Confidential Information.  I hereby assign to Company
any rights I have or acquire in any and all Confidential Information and
recognize that all Confidential Information shall be the sole and exclusive
property of Company and its assigns.

     

    1.2                      Confidential Information.  The term
“Confidential
Information” shall mean any and all confidential knowledge, data or
information related to Company’s business or its actual or demonstrably
anticipated research or development, including without limitation: (a) trade
secrets, inventions, ideas, processes, computer source and object code, data,
formulae, programs, other works of authorship, know-how, improvements,
discoveries, developments, designs, and techniques; (b) information regarding
products, plans for research and development, marketing and business plans,
budgets, financial statements, contracts, prices, suppliers, and customers; (c)
information regarding the skills and compensation of Company’s employees,
contractors, and any other service providers of Company; and (d) the existence
of any business discussions, negotiations, or agreements between Company and any
third party.

     

    1.3                      Third Party
Information.  I understand, in addition, that Company has
received and in the future will receive from third parties confidential or
proprietary information (“Third Party Information”) subject to a duty on
Company’s part to maintain the confidentiality of such information and to use it
only for certain limited purposes.  During the term of my employment
and thereafter, I will hold Third Party Information in strict confidence and
will not disclose to anyone (other than Company personnel who need to know such
information in connection with their work for Company) or use, except in
connection with my work for Company, Third Party Information, unless expressly
authorized by an officer of Company in writing.

     

    1.4                       No
Improper Use of Information of Prior

    Employers and
Others.  I represent that my employment by Company does not and
will not breach any agreement with any former employer, including any noncompete
agreement or any agreement to keep in confidence information acquired by me in
confidence or trust prior to my employment by Company.  I further
represent that I have not entered into, and will not enter into, any agreement,
either written or oral, in conflict herewith.  During my employment by
Company, I will not improperly use or disclose any confidential information or
trade secrets of any former employer or other third party to whom I have an
obligation of confidentiality, and I will not bring onto the premises of Company
or use any unpublished documents or any property belonging to any former
employer or other third party to whom I have an obligation of confidentiality,
unless consented to in writing by that former employer or person.  I
will use in the performance of my duties only information that is generally
known and used by persons with training and experience comparable to my own, is
common knowledge in the industry or otherwise legally in the public domain, or
is otherwise provided or developed by Company.

     

    2.           Inventions.

     

    2.1                      Inventions and Intellectual Property
Rights.  As used in this Agreement, the term “Invention” means any ideas, concepts,
information, materials, processes, data, programs, know-how, improvements,
discoveries, developments, designs, artwork, formulae, other copyrightable
works, and techniques and all Intellectual Property Rights
therein.  The term “Intellectual Property
Rights” means all
trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, mask work rights, patents and other
intellectual property rights recognized by the laws of any jurisdiction or
country.

     

    2.2                      Prior Inventions.  I
agree that I will not incorporate, or permit to be incorporated, Prior
Inventions (defined below) in any Company Inventions (defined below) without
Company’s prior written consent. In addition, I agree that I will not
incorporate into any Company software or otherwise deliver to Company any
software code licensed under the GNU GPL or LGPL or any other license that, by
its terms, requires or conditions the use or distribution of such code on the
disclosure, licensing, or distribution of any source code owned or licensed by
Company.  I have disclosed on Exhibit A a complete list of all
Inventions that I have, or I have caused to be, alone or jointly with others,
conceived, developed, or reduced to practice prior to the commencement of my
employment by Company, in which I have an ownership interest or which I have a
license to use, and that I wish to have excluded from the scope of this
Agreement (collectively referred to as “Prior
Inventions”).  If no Prior Inventions are listed in Exhibit A, I warrant that
there are no Prior Inventions.  If, in the course of my employment
with Company, I incorporate a Prior Invention into a Company process, machine or
other work, I hereby grant Company a non-exclusive, perpetual, fully-paid and
royalty-free, irrevocable and worldwide license, with rights to sublicense
through multiple levels of sublicensees, to reproduce, make derivative works of,
distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display in any form or medium,
whether now known or later developed, make, have made, use, sell, import, offer
for sale, and exercise any and all present or future rights in, such Prior
Invention.

     

    2.3                      Assignment of Company
Inventions. Subject to the section titled “Government or Third Party” and
except for Inventions that I can prove qualify fully under the provisions of
California Labor Code section 2870 and I have set forth in Exhibit A, I hereby assign and
agree to assign in the future (when any such Inventions or Intellectual Property
Rights are first reduced to practice or first fixed in a tangible medium, as
applicable) to Company all my right, title, and interest in and to any and all
Inventions (and all Intellectual Property Rights with respect thereto) made,
conceived, reduced to practice, or learned by me, either alone or with others,
during the period of my employment by Company.  Inventions assigned to
Company or to a third party as directed by Company pursuant to the section
titled “Government or Third Party” are referred to in this Agreement as “Company Inventions.”

     

    2.4                      Obligation to Keep Company
Informed.  During the period of my employment and for one (1)
year thereafter, I will promptly and fully disclose to Company in writing (a)
all Inventions authored, conceived, or reduced to practice by me, either alone
or with others, including any that might be covered under California Labor Code
section 2870, and (b) all patent applications filed by me or in which I am named
as an inventor or co-inventor.

     

    2.5                      Government or Third
Party.  I also agree to assign all my right, title, and
interest in and to any particular Company Invention to a third party, including
without limitation the United States, as directed by Company.

     

    2.6                      Enforcement of Intellectual Property
Rights and Assistance.  During the period of my employment and
thereafter, I will assist Company in every proper way to obtain and enforce
United States and foreign Intellectual Property Rights relating to Company
Inventions in all countries.  In the event Company is unable to secure
my signature on any document needed in connection with such purposes, I hereby
irrevocably designate and appoint Company and its duly authorized officers and
agents as my agent and attorney in fact, which appointment is coupled with an
interest, to act on my behalf to execute and file any such documents and to do
all other lawfully permitted acts to further such purposes with the same legal
force and effect as if executed by me.

     

    3.           Records.  I agree to
keep and maintain adequate and current records (in the form of notes, sketches,
drawings and in any other form that is required by Company) of all Inventions
made by me during the period of my employment by Company, which records shall be
available to, and remain the sole property of, Company at all
times.

     

    4.           Additional
Activities.  I agree that (a) during the term of my employment
by Company, I will not, without Company’s express written consent, engage in any
employment or business activity that is competitive with, or would otherwise
conflict with my employment by, Company, and (b) for the period of my employment
by Company and for one (l) year thereafter, I will not, either directly or
indirectly, solicit or attempt to solicit any employee, independent contractor,
or consultant of Company to terminate his, her or its relationship with Company
in order to become an employee, consultant, or independent contractor to or for
any other person or entity.

     

    5.           Return Of Company Property.
Upon termination of my employment or upon Company’s request at any other
time, I will deliver to Company all of Company’s property, equipment, and
documents, together with all copies thereof, and any other material containing
or disclosing any Inventions, Third Party Information or Confidential
Information of Company and certify in writing that I have fully complied with
the foregoing obligation.  I agree that I will not copy, delete, or
alter any information contained upon my Company computer before I return it to
Company.  I further agree that any property situated on Company’s
premises and owned by Company is subject to inspection by Company personnel at
any time with or without notice.  Prior to leaving, I will cooperate
with Company in attending an exit interview and completing and signing Company’s
termination statement.

     

    6.           Notification Of New
Employer.  In the event that I leave the employ of Company, I
hereby consent to the notification of my new employer of my rights and
obligations under this Agreement, by Company’s providing a copy of this
Agreement or otherwise.

     

    7.           General
Provisions.

     

    7.1                      Governing Law and
Venue.  This Agreement and any action related thereto will be
governed, controlled, interpreted, and defined by and under the laws of the
State of California, without giving effect to any conflicts of laws principles
that require the application of the law of a different state. I hereby
expressly consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue in the state and
federal courts for the county in which Company’s principal place of business is
located for any lawsuit filed there against me by Company arising from or
related to this Agreement.

     

    7.2                      Severability.  If
any provision of this Agreement is, for any reason, held to be invalid or
unenforceable, the other provisions of this Agreement will be unimpaired and the
invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed modified so that it is valid
and enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law.

     

    7.3                      Survival.  This
Agreement shall survive the termination of my employment and the assignment of
this Agreement by Company to any successor-in-interest or other assignee and be
binding upon my heirs and legal representatives.

     

    7.4                      At-Will Employment. I agree
and understand that nothing in this Agreement shall confer any right with
respect to continuation of employment by Company, nor shall it interfere in any
way with my right or Company’s right to terminate my employment at any time,
with or without cause and with or without advance notice.

     

    7.5                      Notices. Each party must
deliver all notices or other communications required or permitted under this
Agreement in writing to the other party at the address listed on the signature
page, by courier, by certified or registered mail (postage prepaid and return
receipt requested), or by a nationally-recognized express mail
service.  Notice will be effective upon receipt or refusal of
delivery.  If delivered by certified or registered mail, any such
notice will be considered to have been given five (5) business days after it was
mailed, as evidenced by the postmark.  If delivered by courier or
express mail service, any such notice shall be considered to have been
given on the delivery date reflected by the courier or express mail service
receipt. Each party may change its address for receipt of notice by giving
notice of such change to the other party.

     

    


    7.6                      Injunctive Relief. I
acknowledge that, because my services are personal and unique and because I will
have access to the Confidential Information of Company, any breach of this
Agreement by me would cause irreparable injury to Company for which monetary
damages would not be an adequate remedy and, therefore, will entitle Company to
injunctive relief (including specific performance).  The rights and
remedies provided to each party in this Agreement are cumulative and in addition
to any other rights and remedies available to such party at law or in
equity.

     

    7.7                      Waiver. Any waiver or failure
to enforce any provision of this Agreement on one occasion will not be deemed a
waiver of any other provision or of such provision on any other
occasion.

     

    7.8                      Export. I agree not to export,
directly or indirectly, any U.S. technical data acquired from Company or any
products utilizing such data, to countries outside the United States, because
such export could be in violation of the United States export laws or
regulations.

     

    7.9                      Entire
Agreement.  The obligations pursuant to sections of this
Agreement titled “Confidentiality” and “Inventions” shall apply to any time
during which I was previously employed, or am in the future employed, by Company
as an independent contractor if no other agreement governs nondisclosure and
assignment of inventions during such period.  This Agreement is the
final, complete and exclusive agreement of the parties with respect to the
subject matters hereof and supersedes and merges all prior communications
between us with respect to such matters.  No modification of or
amendment to this Agreement, or any waiver of any rights under this Agreement,
will be effective unless in writing and signed by me and the CEO of
Company.  Any subsequent change or changes in my duties, salary or
compensation will not affect the validity or scope of this
Agreement.

     

    This
Agreement shall be effective as of the first day of my employment with
Company.

     

    
      	
              EMPLOYEE:

              I
      acknowledge that I have read and understand this agreement and have been
      given the opportunity to discuss it with independent legal
      counsel.

               

              /s/
      Jayendra Patel

              (Signature)

               

              By: 
      Jayendra
      Patel                                                                           
      

              Title:
       SVP, Product
      Development                                                  

              Date: 
      March 17,
      2009                                                                       
      

              Address:                                                                                       
                               
        

            	
              COMPANY:

              Accepted
      and agreed:

               

              /s/ Tiffany
      Synder

              
                (Signature)

                 

                By:            Tiffany
      Synder                                                                           
      

              

              Title:        
      Director
      HR                                                                                 
      

              Date:         March 20,
      2009                                                                           
      

              Address:
      3800 Bridge Parkway

                                Redwood Shores, CA 
      94065                                   
                     
      

            


    

     

    
      
        
                                                             
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    EXHIBIT
A

     

    INVENTIONS

     

    1.           Prior Inventions
Disclosure.  The following is a complete list of all Prior
Inventions:

     

    o    None

     

    o    See
immediately below:

     

    


     

    


     

    


     

    2.           Limited
Exclusion Notification.

     

    This is to notify you in
accordance with Section 2872 of the California Labor Code that the foregoing
Agreement between you and Company does not require you to assign or offer to
assign to Company any Invention that you develop entirely on your own time
without using Company’s equipment, supplies, facilities or trade secret
information, except for those Inventions that either:

     

    a.           Relate
at the time of conception or reduction to practice to Company’s business, or
actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development; or

     

    b.           Result
from any work performed by you for Company.

     

    To the
extent a provision in the foregoing Agreement purports to require you to assign
an Invention otherwise excluded from the preceding paragraph, the provision is
against the public policy of this state and is unenforceable.

     

    This
limited exclusion does not apply to any patent or Invention covered by a
contract between Company and the United States or any of its agencies requiring
full title to such patent or Invention to be in the United
States.