SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2016-11-03

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: right"><B>Exhibit 10.3</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">This Registration Rights
Agreement (this &ldquo;<U>Agreement</U>&rdquo;) is made and entered into as of November 2, 2016, between Applied DNA Sciences,
Inc. a Delaware corporation (the &ldquo;<U>Company</U>&rdquo;), and each of the several purchasers signatory hereto (each such
purchaser, a &ldquo;<U>Purchaser</U>&rdquo; and, collectively, the &ldquo;<U>Purchasers</U>&rdquo;).</P>

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pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Company and each Purchaser (the &ldquo;<U>Purchase
Agreement</U>&rdquo;).</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">The Company and each Purchaser
hereby agrees as follows:</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.4in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.6in; text-align: left">1.</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><U>Definitions</U>.</TD>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in"><B>Capitalized terms used
and not otherwise defined herein that are defined in the Purchase Agreement shall have the meanings given such terms in the Purchase
Agreement.</B> As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:</P>

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shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(d).</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 0 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in">&ldquo;<U>Affiliate</U>&rdquo; means
any Person that, directly or indirectly through one more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control
with a Person, as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 0 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in">&ldquo;<U>Common Stock</U>&rdquo;
means <FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">the common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 0 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">&ldquo;<U>Effectiveness
Date</U>&rdquo; means, with respect to the Initial Registration Statement required to be filed hereunder, January 6, 2017 (or,
in the event of a &ldquo;full review&rdquo; by the Commission, February 6, 2017) and with respect to any additional Registration
Statements which may be required pursuant to Section 2(c) or Section 3(c), the 60<SUP>th</SUP> calendar day following the date
on which an additional Registration Statement is required to be filed hereunder (or, in the event of a &ldquo;full review&rdquo;
by the Commission, the 90<SUP>th</SUP> calendar day following the date such additional Registration Statement is required to be
filed hereunder); <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that in the event the Company is notified by the Commission that one or more
of the above Registration Statements will not be reviewed or is no longer subject to further review and comments, the Effectiveness
Date as to such Registration Statement shall be the fifth Trading Day following the date on which the Company is so notified if
such date precedes the dates otherwise required above, provided, further, if such Effectiveness Date falls on a day that is not
a Trading Day, then the Effectiveness Date shall be the next succeeding Trading Day.</P>

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