**Exhibit 4.8**

 

**PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT**

 

This **PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT**, dated as of February 27, 2014 (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “Agreement”), is made by the entities identified as grantors on the signature pages hereto (collectively, the “Grantors”) in favor of **DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH**, as collateral agent for the Secured Parties (in such capacity, together with its successors and permitted assigns, the “Collateral Agent”).

 

**WHEREAS**, the Grantors are party to a Pledge and Security Agreement dated as of February 27, 2014 (the “Pledge and Security Agreement”) between each of the Grantors and the other grantors party thereto and the Collateral Agent pursuant to which the Grantors granted a security interest to the Collateral Agent in the Patent Collateral (as defined below) and are required to execute and deliver this Agreement.

 

**NOW, THEREFORE,** in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Grantors hereby agree with the Collateral Agent as follows:

 

**SECTION. 1.  Defined Terms**

 

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Pledge and Security Agreement and used herein have the meaning given to them in the Pledge and Security Agreement.

 

**SECTION 2.  Grant of Security Interest**

 

Each Grantor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in and continuing lien on all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in, to and under the following, in each case whether now owned or existing or hereafter acquired, developed, created or arising and wherever located (collectively, the “Patent Collateral”):

 

all United States and foreign patents and certificates of invention, or similar industrial property rights, and applications for any of the foregoing, including, but not limited to: (i) each patent and patent application listed or required to be listed in Schedule A attached hereto, (ii) all reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part, extensions, renewals, and reexaminations thereof, (iii) all patentable inventions and improvements thereto, (iv) all rights to sue or otherwise recover for any past, present and future infringement or other violation thereof, (v) all Proceeds of the foregoing, including, without limitation, license fees, royalties, income, payments, claims, damages, and proceeds of suit now or hereafter due and/or payable with respect thereto, and (vi) all other rights of any kind accruing thereunder or pertaining thereto throughout the world.

 

**SECTION 3.****                        ****Security Agreement**

 

The security interest granted pursuant to this Agreement is granted in conjunction with the security interest granted to the Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties pursuant to the Pledge and Security Agreement, and the Grantors hereby acknowledge and affirm that the rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent with respect to the security interest in the Patent Collateral made and granted hereby are more fully set forth in the Pledge and Security Agreement, the terms and provisions of which are incorporated by reference herein as if fully set forth herein.  In the event that any provision of this Agreement is deemed to conflict with the Pledge and Security Agreement, the provisions of the Pledge and Security Agreement shall control.

 

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**SECTION 4.****                        ****Governing Law**

 

THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER AND ALL CLAIMS AND CONTROVERSIES ARISING OUT OF THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT LAW, TORT LAW OR OTHERWISE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAW PROVISIONS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF ANY LAW OTHER THAN THE STATE OF NEW YORK (OTHER THAN ANY MANDATORY PROVISIONS OF LAW RELATING TO THE LAW GOVERNING PERFECTION AND THE EFFECT OF PERFECTION OF THE SECURITY INTEREST).

 

**SECTION 5.****                        ****Counterparts**

 

This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

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**IN WITNESS WHEREOF,** each Grantor and the Collateral Agent have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the date first written above.

 
|   | **GRIFOLS INC.**                       |
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|   |                                   |
|   | By:                                    | /s/ David Bell |
|   |                                   | Name: | David Bell |
|   |                                   | Title: | Corporate   Vice President |
|   |                                   |
|   |                                   |
|   | **GRIFOLS THERAPEUTICS INC.**          |
|   |                                   |
|   | By:                                    | /s/ David Bell |
|   |                                   | Name: | David Bell |
|   |                                   | Title: | Corporate   Vice President |
|   |                                   |
|   |                                   |
|   | **GRIFOLS-CHIRON   DIAGNOSTICS CORP.** |
|   |                                   |
|   | By:                                    | /s/ David Bell |
|   |                                   | Name: | David Bell |
|   |                                   | Title: | Authorized   Signatory |

 

[Grifols – Patent Security Agreement]

 

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| Accepted and Agreed:                    |                 |
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| **DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW   YORK BRANCH,** | ** **           |
| as Collateral Agent                     |                 |
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| By:                                     | /s/ Michael Winters  |   |
|                                    | Name:                | Michael Winters |   |
|                                    | Title:               | Vice   President |   |
|                                    |                 |
| By:                                     | /s/ Kirk L. Tashjian |   |
|                                    | Name:                | Kirk L. Tashjian |   |
|                                    | Title:               | Vice   President |   |

 

[Grifols – Patent Security Agreement]

 

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