WRONG!...ask the company to be a little more straight forward with the substance of the BTI Licensing Agreement...
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"We however, retain the rights to sell our tobacco to anyone so the BTI is not really a big deal. Ask the company. The are very straight forward about the matter."
is totally inaccurate, and I doubt the company said that to you, unless you just assumed it. According to the 8K British American Tobacco (BTI) would have an EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO SELL. The only carve-out is that XXII could sell its own brand, but could not licensed to any other Big Tobacco company.
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XXII news 8K:
On October 1, 2013, 22nd Century Limited, LLC (the “Company”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of 22nd Century Group, Inc. (the “Registrant”), entered into a Research License and Commercial Option Agreement (the “Research Agreement”) with British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited (“BAT”), a subsidiary of British American Tobacco plc. The Registrant executed the Research Agreement for the sole purpose of guaranteeing the obligations of the Company under the Research Agreement.
Under the terms of the Research Agreement, BAT receives an exclusive worldwide license to certain patent rights (subject to worldwide rights retained by the Company for use in its own brands) and licensed intellectual property rights (as such terms are defined in the Research Agreement) of the Company within the field of use as defined in the Research Agreement) for a period of up to four (4) years. During the four (4) year term of the Research Agreement, BAT also has an option to obtain an exclusive worldwide license (subject to worldwide rights retained by the Company for use in its own brands) to commercialize certain products derived from utilizing the patent rights and licensed intellectual property rights under the terms of a Commercial License Agreement (the “Commercial Agreement”), the form of which is attached to the Research Agreement. BAT and the Company also agreed to collaborate with each other as each party engages in its own independent research during the term of the Research Agreement.
BAT also granted to the Company a worldwide license to any and all registered research results (as such term is defined in the Research Agreement) developed and owned by BAT which results or arises from any research, development or other activities of BAT under the Research Agreement, with the terms of such license from BAT to the Company (i) to be on commercially reasonable terms to be negotiated in good faith between the parties, but in any event on terms which are no more onerous than the terms of the Commercial Agreement, if any, and (ii) to be dependent on what, if any, research results the Company elects to license.
Simultaneous with the signing of the Research Agreement, BAT paid the Company Seven Million United States Dollars ($7,000,000.00). Further, the Company may receive payment from BAT of up to an additional Seven Million United States Dollars ($7,000,000.00) during the term of the Research Agreement in the event certain milestones are met by BAT with respect to its research and development of the patent rights and licensed intellectual property rights licensed by the Company to BAT. BAT may terminate the Research Agreement at any time, subject to the requirements for certain payments to the Company by BAT upon termination as set forth therein. The Company may also terminate the Research Agreement in the event of certain uncured breaches of the Research Agreement as set forth therein.
In the event BAT exercises its option to enter into a Commercial Agreement with the Company, BAT would become obligated to pay the Company certain license fees and annual royalties for each year that the Commercial Agreement remains in effect.
The foregoing description of the Research Agreement does not purport to be a complete summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Research Agreement, which document will be filed with the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2013.
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