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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 10-Q
(MARK ONE)
     
þ   QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended June 30, 2008
OR
     
o   TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from                      to                     
Commission file number 000-27969
 
IMMERSION CORPORATION
 
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware   94-3180138
     
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
801 Fox Lane, San Jose, California 95131
 
(Address of principal executive offices)(Zip Code)
(408) 467-1900
 
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
     Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes þ No o
     Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large accelerated filer oAccelerated filer þ Non-accelerated filer o
(Do not check if a smaller
reporting company)
Smaller reporting company o
     Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
Yes o   No þ
     Number of shares of common stock outstanding at August 1, 2008: 29,425,216
 
 

 


 

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 EXHIBIT 10.36
 EXHIBIT 10.37
 EXHIBIT 10.38
 EXHIBIT 10.39
 EXHIBIT 10.40
 EXHIBIT 10.41
 EXHIBIT 10.42
 EXHIBIT 10.43
 EXHIBIT 31.1
 EXHIBIT 31.2
 EXHIBIT 32.1
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
IMMERSION CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(Unaudited)
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2008     2007  
ASSETS
               
Current assets:
               
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 97,535     $ 86,493  
Short-term investments
    31,835       51,619  
Accounts receivable (net of allowances for doubtful accounts of: June 30, 2008 — $165 and December 31, 2007 — $85)
    5,315       5,494  
Inventories, net
    4,328       3,674  
Deferred income taxes
    3,857       3,351  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
    4,200       3,036  
 
           
Total current assets
    147,070       153,667  
Property and equipment, net
    2,636       2,112  
Deferred income tax assets, net
    3,999       4,031  
Intangibles, net and other assets
    9,560       8,558  
 
           
Total assets
  $ 163,265     $ 168,368  
 
           
 
               
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
               
Current liabilities:
               
Accounts payable
  $ 1,647     $ 1,657  
Accrued compensation
    2,900       1,828  
Other current liabilities
    2,479       2,629  
Deferred revenue and customer advances
    5,439       4,478  
 
           
Total current liabilities
    12,465       10,592  
Long-term deferred revenue, less current portion
    15,744       14,269  
Other long-term liabilities
    1,750       1,720  
 
           
Total liabilities
    29,959       26,581  
 
           
 
               
Contingencies (Note 14)
               
Stockholders’ equity:
               
Common stock and additional paid-in capital — $0.001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; shares issued: June 30, 2008 — 30,599,524 and December 31, 2007 — 30,389,850; shares outstanding: June 30, 2008 — 29,880,841 and December 31, 2007 — 30,389,850
    163,546       160,147  
Warrants
    1,731       1,731  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    88       137  
Accumulated deficit
    (25,904 )     (20,228 )
Treasury stock at cost: June 30, 2008 — 718,683 shares and December 31, 2007 — 0 shares
    (6,155 )      
 
           
Total stockholders’ equity
    133,306       141,787  
 
           
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
  $ 163,265     $ 168,368  
 
           
See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

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IMMERSION CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2008     2007     2008     2007  
                            (As restated,  
                            see Note 15)  
Revenues:
                               
Royalty and license
  $ 3,171     $ 2,747     $ 6,632     $ 4,958  
Product sales
    5,386       5,289       9,237       8,879  
Development contracts and other
    756       559       1,599       1,172  
 
                       
Total revenues
    9,313       8,595       17,468       15,009  
 
                       
 
                               
Costs and expenses:
                               
Cost of product sales (exclusive of amortization of intangibles shown separately below)
    2,570       2,427       4,656       3,970  
Sales and marketing
    4,258       3,030       7,700       5,733  
Research and development
    2,855       2,513       6,084       5,056  
General and administrative
    5,084       3,122       9,347       6,381  
Amortization of intangibles
    170       242       405       496  
Litigation conclusions and patent license
                      (134,900 )
 
                       
Total costs and expenses
    14,937       11,334       28,192       (113,264 )
 
                       
Operating income (loss)
    (5,624 )     (2,739 )     (10,724 )     128,273  
Interest and other income
    909       1,820       2,416       2,181  
Interest expense
          (407 )           (813 )
 
                       
 
                               
Income (loss) before benefit (provision) for income taxes
    (4,715 )     (1,326 )     (8,308 )     129,641  
Benefit (provision) for income taxes
    1,624       1,502       2,632       (13,627 )
 
                       
Net income (loss)
  $ (3,091 )   $ 176     $ (5,676 )   $ 116,014  
 
                       
Basic net income (loss) per share
  $ (0.10 )   $ 0.01     $ (0.19 )   $ 4.49  
 
                       
Shares used in calculating basic net income (loss) per share
    30,356       26,297       30,417       25,822  
 
                       
Diluted net income (loss) per share
  $ (0.10 )   $ 0.01     $ (0.19 )   $ 3.81  
 
                       
Shares used in calculating diluted net income (loss) per share
    30,356       28,619       30,417       30,566  
 
                       
See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

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IMMERSION CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
                 
    Six Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2008     2007  
            (As restated,  
            see Note 15)  
Cash flows from operating activities:
               
Net income (loss)
  $ (5,676 )   $ 116,014  
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:
               
Depreciation and amortization
    541       430  
Amortization of intangibles
    405       496  
Stock-based compensation
    1,929       1,243  
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation
    (176 )     (9,240 )
Realized gain on short-term investments
    (80 )      
Interest expense — accretion on 5% Convertible Debenture
          316  
Fair value adjustment of Put Option and Registration Rights
          (2 )
Loss on disposal of equipment
          6  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
               
Accounts receivable
    175       (1,520 )
Inventories
    (590 )     (425 )
Deferred income taxes
    (475 )     (5,668 )
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
    (1,164 )     269  
Other assets
    19        
Accounts payable
    290       (1,188 )
Accrued compensation and other current liabilities
    1,186       464  
Income taxes payable
    (319 )     13,515  
Deferred revenue and customer advances
    2,436       (28,877 )
Other long-term liabilities
    30       647  
 
           
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
    (1,469 )     86,480  
 
           
Cash flows provided by (used in) investing activities:
               
Purchases of short-term investments
    (32,144 )     (24,913 )
Maturities of short-term investments
    51,979        
Intangibles and other assets
    (1,555 )     (833 )
Purchases of property and equipment
    (1,065 )     (656 )
 
           
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
    17,215       (26,402 )
 
           
Cash flows provided by (used in) financing activities:
               
Issuance of common stock under employee stock purchase plan
    168       147  
Exercise of stock options and warrants
    1,121       8,322  
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation
    176       9,240  
Purchases of treasury stock
    (6,155 )      
 
           
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
    (4,690 )     17,709  
 
           
Effect of exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents
    (14 )     831  
 
           
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
    11,042       78,618  
Cash and cash equivalents:
               
Beginning of the period
    86,493       32,012  
 
           
End of the period
  $ 97,535     $ 110,630  
 
           
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:
               
Cash paid (received) for taxes
  $ (731 )   $ 5,032  
 
           
Cash paid for interest
  $     $ 500  
 
           
Non-cash investing and financing activities:
               
Amounts accrued for property and equipment and intangibles
  $ 701   $ 632  

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IMMERSION CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
June 30, 2008
(Unaudited)
1. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
     Description of Business
     Immersion Corporation (the “Company”) was incorporated in 1993 in California and reincorporated in Delaware in 1999 and develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of hardware and software technologies and products that enhance digital devices with touch interaction.
     Principles of Consolidation and Basis of Presentation
     The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Immersion Corporation and its majority-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts, transactions, and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.
     The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions for Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X and, therefore, do not include all information and footnotes necessary for a complete presentation of the financial position, results of operations, and cash flows, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. In the opinion of management, all adjustments consisting of only normal and recurring items necessary for the fair presentation of the financial position and results of operations for the interim period have been included.
     The results of operations for the interim periods ended June 30, 2008 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year.
     Short-term Investments
     The Company’s short-term investments consist primarily of highly liquid commercial paper and government agency securities purchased with an original or remaining maturity of greater than 90 days on the date of purchase. The Company classifies all debt securities with readily determinable market values as “available-for-sale” in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 115, “Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities” (“SFAS No. 115”). Even though the stated maturity dates of these debt securities may be one year or more beyond the balance sheet date, the Company has classified all debt securities as short-term investments in accordance with Accounting Research Bulletin No. 43, Chapter 3A, “Working Capital—Current Assets and Current Liabilities,” as they are reasonably expected to be realized in cash or sold during the normal operating cycle of the Company. These investments are carried at fair market value with unrealized gains and losses considered to be temporary in nature reported as a separate component of other comprehensive income (loss) within stockholders’ equity.
     The Company follows the guidance provided by Staff Position (“FSP”) 115-1/124-1 and Emerging Issues Task Force (“EITF”) No. 03-01, “The Meaning of Other-Than-Temporary Impairment and Its Application to Certain Investments” (“EITF No. 03-01), to assess whether the Company’s investments with unrealized loss positions are other than temporarily impaired. Realized gains and losses and declines in value judged to be other than temporary are determined based on the specific identification method and are reported in the condensed consolidated statement of operations. Factors considered in determining whether a loss is temporary include the length of time and extent to which fair value has been less than the cost basis, the financial condition and near-term prospects of the investee, and the Company’s intent and ability to hold the investment for a period of time sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in market value.
     Effective January 1, 2008, the Company adopted the provisions of SFAS No. 157 “Fair Value Measurements” (“SFAS No. 157”), which defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements required under other accounting pronouncements. SFAS No. 157 clarifies that fair value is an exit price, representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. SFAS No. 157 also requires that a fair value measurement reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability based on the best information available. Assumptions include the risks inherent in a particular valuation technique (such as a pricing model) and/or the risks inherent in the inputs to the model.

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     SFAS No. 157 establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (level 3 measurements). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy under SFAS No. 157 are described below:
     Level 1: Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets that are accessible at the measurement date for identical, unrestricted assets or liabilities;
     Level 2: Quoted prices in markets that are not active or financial instruments for which all significant inputs are observable, either directly or indirectly;
     Level 3: Prices or valuations that require inputs that are both significant to the fair value measurement and unobservable.
     A financial instrument’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of any input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
     In February 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued FSP No. 157-2 that delays the effective date of SFAS No. 157 for nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities, except for items that are recognized or disclosed at fair value in the financial statements on a recurring basis (at least annually) until fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2008. The delay is intended to allow the FASB and constituents additional time to consider the effect of various implementation issues that have arisen, or that may arise, from the application of SFAS No. 157. The Company continues to assess the impact that FSP 157-2 may have on our consolidated financial position and results of operations.
     Further information about the application of SFAS No. 157 may be found in Note 2 below.
     Revenue Recognition
     The Company recognizes revenues in accordance with applicable accounting standards, including Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 104, “Revenue Recognition” (“SAB No. 104”), EITF No. 00-21, “Accounting for Revenue Arrangements with Multiple Deliverables” (“EITF No. 00-21”), Statement of Position (“SOP”) 81-1 “Accounting for Performance for Construction-Type and Certain Production-Type contracts” (“SOP 81-1”), and SOP 97-2, “Software Revenue Recognition” (“SOP 97-2”), as amended. Revenue is recognized when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred or service has been rendered, the fee is fixed and determinable, and collectibility is probable. The Company derives its revenues from three principal sources: royalty and license fees, product sales, and development contracts.
          Royalty and license revenue — The Company recognizes royalty and license revenue based on royalty reports or related information received from the licensee as well as time-based licenses of its intellectual property portfolio. Up-front payments under license agreements are deferred and recognized as revenue either based on the royalty reports received or amortized over the license period depending on the nature of the agreement. Advance payments under license agreements that also require the Company to provide future services to the licensee are deferred and recognized over the service period when vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) related to the value of the services does not exist.
     The Company generally recognizes revenue from its licensees under one or a combination of the following models:
     
License revenue model   Revenue recognition
Perpetual license of intellectual property portfolio based on per unit royalties, no services contracted.
  Based on royalty reports received from licensees. No further obligations to licensee exist.
 
   
Time-based license of intellectual property portfolio with up-front payments and/or annual minimum royalty requirements, no services contracted. Licensees have certain rights to updates to the intellectual property portfolio during the contract period.
  Based on straight-line amortization of annual minimum/up-front payment recognized over contract period or annual minimum period.
 
   
Perpetual license of intellectual property portfolio or technology license along with contract for development work.
  Based on cost-to-cost percentage-of-completion accounting method over the service period or completed contract method. Obligation to licensee exists until development work is complete.
 
   
License of software or technology, no modification necessary, no services contracted.
  Up-front revenue recognition based on SOP 97-2 criteria or EITF No. 00-21, as applicable.

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     Individual contracts may have characteristics that do not fall within a specific license model or may have characteristics of a combination of license models. Under those circumstances, the Company recognizes revenue in accordance with SAB No. 104, EITF No. 00-21, SOP 81-1, and SOP 97-2, as amended, to guide the accounting treatment for each individual contract. See also the discussion regarding “Multiple element arrangements” below. If the information received from the Company’s licensees regarding royalties is incorrect or inaccurate, the Company’s revenues in future periods may be adversely affected. To date, none of the information the Company has received from its licensees has caused any material adjustment to period revenues.
     Product sales — The Company recognizes revenues from product sales when the product is shipped, provided the other revenue recognition criteria are met, including that collection is determined to be probable and no significant obligation remains. The Company sells the majority of its products with warranties ranging from three to sixty months. The Company records the estimated warranty costs during the quarter the revenue is recognized. Historically, warranty-related costs and related accruals have not been significant. The Company offers a general right of return on the MicroScribe® product line for 14 days after purchase. The Company recognizes revenue at the time of shipment of a MicroScribe digitizer and provides an accrual for potential returns based on historical experience. The Company offers no other general right of return on its products.
     Development contracts and other revenue — Development contracts and other revenue is comprised of professional services (consulting services and/or development contracts), customer support, and extended warranty contracts. Development contract revenues are recognized under the cost-to-cost percentage-of-completion accounting method based on physical completion of the work to be performed or completed contract method. Losses on contracts are recognized when determined. Revisions in estimates are reflected in the period in which the conditions become known. Customer support and extended warranty contract revenue is recognized ratably over the contractual period.
     Multiple element arrangements — The Company enters into revenue arrangements in which the customer purchases a combination of patent, technology, and/or software licenses, products, professional services, support, and extended warranties (multiple element arrangements). When VSOE of fair value exists for all elements, the Company allocates revenue to each element based on the relative fair value of each of the elements. The price charged when the element is sold separately generally determines the fair value or VSOE.
     The Company’s revenue recognition policies are significant because the Company’s revenues are a key component of its results of operations. In addition, the Company’s revenue recognition policies determine the timing of certain expenses, such as commissions and royalties.
     Recent Accounting Pronouncements
     In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, “The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities” (“SFAS No. 159”). The new Statement allows entities to choose, at specified election dates, to measure eligible financial assets and liabilities at fair value in situations in which they are not otherwise required to be measured at fair value. If a company elects the fair value option for an eligible item, changes in that item’s fair value in subsequent reporting periods must be recognized in current earnings. SFAS No. 159 also establishes presentation and disclosure requirements designed to draw comparison between entities that elect different measurement attributes for similar assets and liabilities. SFAS No. 159 is effective on January 1, 2008. The Company did not elect the fair value option for any of its financial instruments, therefore the adoption of SFAS No. 159 did not impact the condensed consolidated financial statements.
     In April 2008, the FASB issued FSP No. FAS 142-3, “Determination of the Useful Life of Intangible Assets” (“FSP No. FAS 142-3”). FSP No. FAS 142-3 amends the factors that should be considered in developing renewal or extension assumptions used to determine the useful life of a recognized intangible asset under Statement of SFAS No. 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets.” FSP No. FAS 142-3 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008. The Company is currently assessing the impact that FSP No. FAS 142-3 will have on its results of operations, financial position, or cash flows.

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2.   CASH EQUIVALENTS AND SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS
Short-term Investments
                                 
    June 30, 2008  
            Gross     Gross        
            Unrealized     Unrealized        
    Amortized     Holding     Holding     Fair  
    Cost     Gains     Losses     Value  
    (In thousands)  
Corporate commercial paper
  $ 14,936     $     $ (23 )   $ 14,913  
U.S. Government agency securities
    16,920       2             16,922  
 
                       
Total
  $ 31,856     $ 2     $ (23 )   $ 31,835  
 
                       
                                 
    December 31, 2007  
            Gross     Gross        
            Unrealized     Unrealized        
    Amortized     Holding     Holding     Fair  
    Cost     Gains     Losses     Value  
    (In thousands)  
Corporate commercial paper
  $ 41,740     $     $ (34 )   $ 41,706  
U.S. Government agency securities
    9,871       42             9,913  
 
                       
Total
  $ 51,611     $ 42     $ (34 )   $ 51,619  
 
                       
     The contractual maturities of the Company’s available-for-sale securities on June 30, 2008 and December 31, 2007 were all due in one year or less.
Cash Equivalents and Short-term Investments
     The financial assets of the Company measured at fair value on a recurring basis are cash equivalents and short-term investments. The Company’s cash equivalents and short-term investments are generally classified within Level 1 or Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy because they are valued using quoted market prices, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency.
     The types of instruments valued based on quoted market prices in active markets include most U.S. government and agency securities and most money market securities. Such instruments are generally classified within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.
     The types of instruments valued based on quoted prices in markets that are not active, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency include most investment-grade corporate commercial paper. Such instruments are generally classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.
     The following table sets forth the Company’s cash equivalents and short-term investments which are measured at fair value on a recurring basis by level within the fair value hierarchy as of June 30, 2008. As required by SFAS No. 157, these are classified based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
                                 
    Fair value measurement using     Assets at  
    Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     fair value  
            (In thousands)          
Corporate commercial paper
  $     $ 24,885     $     $ 24,885  
U.S. Government agency securities
    43,551                   43,551  
Money market accounts
    59,804                   59,804  
 
                       
Total
  $ 103,355     $ 24,885     $     $ 128,240  
 
                       

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3. INVENTORIES
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2008     2007  
    (In thousands)  
Raw materials and subassemblies
  $ 3,340     $ 2,843  
Work in process
    182       179  
Finished goods
    806       652  
 
           
Inventories, net
  $ 4,328     $ 3,674  
 
           
4. PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2008     2007  
    (In thousands)  
Computer equipment and purchased software
  $ 3,655     $ 3,195  
Machinery and equipment
    2,907       2,532  
Furniture and fixtures
    1,248       1,212  
Leasehold improvements
    1,239       1,267  
 
           
 
               
Total
    9,049       8,206  
Less accumulated depreciation
    (6,413 )     (6,094 )
 
           
 
               
Property and equipment, net
  $ 2,636     $ 2,112  
 
           
5. INTANGIBLES AND OTHER ASSETS
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2008     2007  
    (In thousands)  
Patents and technology
  $ 16,281     $ 15,105  
Accumulated amortization of patents and technology
    (7,119 )     (6,714 )
 
           
Intangibles, net
    9,162       8,391  
Other assets
    398       167  
 
           
 
Intangibles and other assets, net
  $ 9,560     $ 8,558  
 
           
     The estimated annual amortization expense for intangible assets as of June 30, 2008 is $705,000 in 2008, $850,000 in 2009, $1.1 million in 2010, $1 million in 2011, $980,000 in 2012, and $4.9 million in total for all years thereafter.

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6. COMPONENTS OF OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES AND DEFERRED REVENUE AND CUSTOMER ADVANCES
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2008     2007  
    (In thousands)  
Accrued legal
  $ 783     $ 417  
Income taxes payable
    33       534  
Other current liabilities
    1,663       1,678  
 
           
Total other current liabilities
  $ 2,479     $ 2,629  
 
           
 
               
Deferred revenue, current portion
  $ 5,348     $ 4,352  
Customer advances
    91       126  
 
           
Total current deferred revenue, and customer advances
  $ 5,439     $ 4,478  
 
           
7. LONG-TERM DEFERRED REVENUE
     On June 30, 2008, long-term deferred revenue was $15.7 million and included approximately $13.6 million of deferred revenue from Sony Computer Entertainment. On December 31, 2007, long-term deferred revenue was $14.3 million and included approximately $11.7 million from Sony Computer Entertainment. See Note 9 for further discussion.
8. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
     Stock Options and Awards
     The Company’s stock option program is a long-term retention program that is intended to attract, retain, and provide incentives for talented employees, officers, and directors, and to align stockholder and employee interests. Essentially all of the Company’s employees participate in this stock option program. Since inception, under the Company’s stock option plans, the Company may grant options to purchase up to 19,377,974 shares of its common stock to employees, directors, and consultants at prices not less than the fair market value on the date of grant for incentive stock options and not less than 85% of fair market value on the date of grant for nonstatutory stock options. These options generally vest over 4 years and expire 10 years from the date of grant. On June 30, 2008, options to purchase 2,168,010 shares of common stock were available for grant, and options to purchase 7,505,995 shares of common stock were outstanding.
     On June 6, 2007, the Company’s stockholders approved the Immersion Corporation 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2007 Plan”). The 2007 Plan replaced the Company’s 1997 Stock Option Plan (the “1997 Plan”). Effective June 6, 2007, the 1997 Plan was terminated. Under the 2007 Plan, the Company may grant stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance shares, performance units, and other stock-based or cash-based awards to employees and consultants. The 2007 Plan also authorizes the grant of awards of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, and restricted stock units to non-employee members of the Company’s Board of Directors and deferred compensation awards to officers, directors, and certain management or highly compensated employees. The 2007 Plan authorizes the issuance of 2,303,232 shares of the Company’s common stock, and up to an additional 1,000,000 shares subject to awards that remain outstanding under the 1997 Plan as of June 6, 2007 and which subsequently terminate without having been exercised or which are forfeited to the Company.
     On April 30, 2008, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the issuance of equity awards under the Immersion Corporation 2008 Employment Inducement Award Plan (the “2008 Plan”). Under the 2008 Plan, the Company may issue awards in the form of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock purchase rights, restricted stock bonuses, restricted stock units, performance shares, performance units, deferred compensation awards, and other cash and stock awards. Such awards may be granted to new employees who had not previously been a director, and former employees or directors whose period of service was followed by a bona-fide period of non-employment.
     Employee Stock Purchase Plan
     The Company has an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”). Under the ESPP, eligible employees may purchase common stock through payroll deductions at a purchase price of 85% of the lower of the fair market value of the Company’s stock at the beginning of the offering period or the purchase date. Participants may not purchase more than 2,000 shares in a six-month

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offering period or purchase stock having a value greater than $25,000 in any calendar year as measured at the beginning of the offering period. A total of 500,000 shares of common stock are reserved for the issuance under the ESPP plus an automatic annual increase on January 1, 2001 and on each January 1 thereafter through January 1, 2010 by an amount equal to the lesser of 500,000 shares per year or a number of shares determined by the Board of Directors. As of June 30, 2008, 370,825 shares had been purchased since the inception of the ESPP. Under SFAS No. 123R, “Share-Based Payment,” (“SFAS No. 123R”), the ESPP is considered a compensatory plan and the Company is required to recognize compensation cost related to the fair value of common stock purchased under the ESPP.
     The Company did not modify its ESPP in the six months ended June 30, 2008.
     General Stock Option Information
     The following table sets forth the summary of option activity under the Company’s stock option plans:
                                 
                    Weighted        
                    Average        
            Weighted     Remaining     Aggregate  
    Number     Average     Contractual     Intrinsic  
    of Shares     Exercise Price     Term     Value  
                    (In years)          
Outstanding at December 31, 2007 (3,774,245 exercisable at a weighted average price of $9.11 per share)
    6,014,370     $ 9.11                  
Granted (weighted average fair value of $5.10 per share)
    2,035,925       8.94                  
Exercised
    (189,504 )     5.91                  
Cancelled
    (354,796 )     9.60                  
 
                     
Outstanding at June 30, 2008
    7,505,995     $ 9.12       5.96     $2.88 million
 
                     
 
                               
Exercisable at June 30, 2008
    4,180,829     $ 9.06       3.88     $2.79 million
 
                     
     The expected to vest share balance as of June 30, 2008 is 6,250,503.
     The aggregate intrinsic value is calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the underlying awards and the quoted price of the Company’s common stock for the options that were in-the-money at June 30, 2008. The aggregate intrinsic value of options exercised under the Company’s stock option plans, determined as of the date of option exercise, was $647,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2008.
     Additional information regarding options outstanding as of June 30, 2008 is as follows:
                                         
    Options Outstanding   Options Exercisable
            Weighted                
            Average   Weighted           Weighted
Range of           Remaining   Average           Average
Exercise   Number   Contractual   Exercise   Number   Exercise
Prices   Outstanding   Life (Years)   Price   Exercisable   Price
$1.20 - $6.03
    839,975       4.29     $ 3.61       806,397     $ 3.53  
6.07 - 6.95
    1,052,097       6.51       6.69       670,585       6.64  
6.96 - 7.02
    763,089       5.63       6.99       669,117       6.99  
7.03 - 8.34
    564,804       5.80       7.71       268,787       7.90  
8.61 - 8.61
    757,837       9.33       8.61          
8.67 - 9.01
    795,106       3.44       8.98       576,318       8.97  
9.04 - 9.04
    754,102       6.89       9.04       262,205       9.04  
9.11 - 9.81
    938,500       7.79       9.67       207,144       9.24  
10.00 -17.15
    751,051       4.96       13.41       449,592       12.42  
 17.27 -43.25
    289,434       2.32       31.34       270,684       32.32  
 
                                       
$1.20-$43.25
    7,505,995       5.96     $ 9.12       4,180,829     $ 9.06  
 
                                       

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Stock-based Compensation
     Valuation and amortization method — The Company uses the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model (“Black-Scholes model”), single-option approach to determine the fair value of stock options and ESPP shares. All share-based payment awards are amortized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service periods of the awards, which are generally the vesting periods. The determination of the fair value of stock-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option-pricing model is affected by the Company’s stock price as well as assumptions regarding a number of complex and subjective variables. These variables include actual and projected employee stock option exercise behaviors, the Company’s expected stock price volatility over the term of the awards, risk-free interest rate, and expected dividends.
     Expected term — The Company estimates the expected term of options granted by calculating the average term from the Company’s historical stock option exercise experience. The expected term of ESPP shares is the length of the offering period. The Company used the simplified method as prescribed by SAB No. 107 for options granted prior to December 31, 2007.
     Expected volatility — The Company estimates the volatility of its common stock taking into consideration its historical stock price movement, the volatility of stock prices of companies of similar size with similar businesses, if any, and its expected future stock price trends based on known or anticipated events.
     Risk-free interest rate — The Company bases the risk-free interest rate that it uses in the option pricing model on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with remaining terms similar to the expected term on the options.
     Expected dividend — The Company does not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future and therefore uses an expected dividend yield of zero in the option-pricing model.
     Forfeitures — The Company is required to estimate future forfeitures at the time of grant and revise those estimates in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. The Company uses historical data to estimate pre-vesting option forfeitures and records stock-based compensation expense only for those awards that are expected to vest.
     The assumptions used to value option grants and shares under the ESPP are as follows:
                                 
    Three Months Ended   Six Months Ended
    June 30,   June 30,
Options   2008   2007   2008   2007
Expected term (in years)
    5.5       6.25       5.5       6.25  
Volatility
    63 %     59 %     62 %     60 %
Interest rate
    3.4 %     5.0 %     2.9 %     4.6 %
Dividend yield
                       
                                 
    Three Months Ended   Six Months Ended
    June 30,   June 30,
Employee Stock PurchasePlan   2008   2007   2008   2007
Expected term (in years)
    0.5       0.5       0.5       0.5  
Volatility
    73 %     45 %     73 %     45 %
Interest rate
    2.2 %     5.2 %     2.2 %     5.2 %
Dividend yield
                       

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    Total stock-based compensation recognized in the consolidated statements of operations is as follows:
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2008     2007     2008     2007  
Income Statement Classifications   (In thousands)     (In thousands)  
Cost of product sales
  $ 52     $ 26     $ 75     $ 46  
Sales and marketing
    326       217       580       377  
Research and development
    183       128       465       314  
General and administrative
    404       238       809       506  
 
                       
 
Total
  $ 965     $ 609     $ 1,929     $ 1,243  
 
                       
     SFAS No. 123R requires the benefits of tax deductions in excess of recognized compensation expense to be reported as a financing cash flow, rather than as an operating cash flow. For the three months and six months ended June 30, 2008, the Company recorded $69,000 and $176,000, respectively, of excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation. For the three months and six months ended June 30, 2007, the Company recorded $760,000 and $9.2 million, respectively, of excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation.
     The Company has calculated an additional paid-in capital (“APIC”) pool pursuant to the provisions of SFAS No. 123R. The APIC pool represents the excess tax benefits related to stock-based compensation that are available to absorb future tax deficiencies. The Company includes only those excess tax benefits that have been realized in accordance with SFAS No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes.” If the amount of future tax deficiencies is greater than the available APIC pool, the Company will record the excess as income tax expense in its condensed consolidated statements of operations.
     As of June 30, 2008, there was $11.6 million of unrecognized compensation cost, adjusted for estimated forfeitures, related to non-vested stock options granted to the Company’s employees and directors. This cost will be recognized over an estimated weighted-average period of approximately 3.07 years. Total unrecognized compensation cost will be adjusted for future changes in estimated forfeitures.
     Warrants
     On December 23, 2004, in conjunction with 5% Convertible Debentures, the Company issued an aggregate of 426,951 warrants to purchase shares of its common stock at an exercise price of $7.0265. The warrants may be exercised at any time prior to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, on December 23, 2009. Any warrants not exercised prior to such time will expire.
     Stock Repurchase Program
     On November 1, 2007, the Company announced its Board of Directors’ authorized the repurchase of up to $50 million of the Company’s common stock. The Company may repurchase its stock for cash in the open market in accordance with applicable securities laws. The timing of and amount of any stock repurchase will depend on share price, corporate and regulatory requirements, economic and market conditions, and other factors. The stock repurchase authorization has no expiration date, does not require the Company to repurchase a specific number of shares, and may be modified, suspended, or discontinued at any time. During the quarter ended June 30, 2008, the Company repurchased 718,683 shares for $6.2 million at an average cost of $8.56 through open market repurchases. This amount is classified as treasury stock on our condensed consolidated balance sheet.
9. LITIGATION CONCLUSIONS AND PATENT LICENSE
     In March 2007, the Company’s patent infringement litigation with Sony Computer Entertainment concluded. Sony Computer Entertainment satisfied the judgment against it from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, which included damages, pre-judgment interest, costs and interest totaling $97.3 million, along with compulsory license fees already paid to the Company of $30.6 million and interest earned on these fees of $1.8 million. As of March 19, 2007, the Company and Sony Computer Entertainment entered into an agreement whereby the Company granted Sony Computer Entertainment and certain of its affiliates a worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive license under the Company’s patents that have issued, may issue, or claim a priority date before March 2017 for the going forward use, development, manufacture, sale, lease, importation, and distribution of Sony Computer Entertainment’s current and past PlayStation and related products. The

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license does not cover adult, foundry, medical, automotive, industrial, mobility, or gambling products. Subject to the terms of the agreement, the Company also granted Sony Computer Entertainment and certain of its affiliates certain other licenses (relating to PlayStation games, backward compatibility of future consoles, and the use of their licensed products with certain third party products), an option to obtain licenses in the future with respect to future gaming products and certain releases and covenants not to sue. Sony Computer Entertainment granted the Company certain covenants not to sue and agreed to pay the Company twelve quarterly installments of $1.875 million (for a total of $22.5 million) beginning on March 31, 2007 and ending on December 31, 2009, and may pay the Company certain other fees and royalty amounts. In total, the Company will receive a minimum of $152.2 million through the conclusion of the litigation and the business agreement. In accordance with the guidance from EITF No. 00-21, the Company has allocated the present value of the total payments, equal to $149.9 million, between each element based on their relative fair values. Under this allocation, the Company recorded $119.9 million as litigation conclusions and patent license income, and the remaining $30.0 million is allocated to deferred license revenue to the extent payment is received in advance of revenue recognition. Such deferred revenue was $16.6 million at June 30, 2008. The Company recorded $749,000 and $1.5 million as revenue for the three-month and six-month periods ended June 30, 2008, respectively. The Company recorded $749,000 and $856,000 as revenue for the three-month and six-month periods ended June 30, 2007, respectively. On June 30, 2008, the Company had recorded $3.9 million of the $30.0 million as revenue and will record the remaining $26.1 million as revenue, on a straight-line basis, over the remaining capture period of the patents licensed, ending March 19, 2017. The Company has accounted for future payments in accordance with Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 21 (“ABP No. 21”). Under APB No. 21, the Company determined the present value of the $22.5 million future payments to equal $20.2 million. The Company is accounting for the difference of $2.3 million as interest income as each $1.875 million quarterly payment installment becomes due.
     In 2003, the Company executed a series of agreements with Microsoft that provided for settlement of its lawsuit against Microsoft as well as various licensing, sublicensing, and equity and financing arrangements. Under the terms of these agreements, in the event that the Company elects to settle the action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entitled Immersion Corporation v. Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Inc., Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Microsoft Corporation, Case No. C02-00710 CW (WDB), as such action pertains to Sony Computer Entertainment, and grant certain rights, the Company would be obligated to pay Microsoft a minimum of $15.0 million for amounts up to $100.0 million received from Sony Computer Entertainment, plus 25% of amounts over $100.0 million up to $150.0 million, and 17.5% of amounts over $150.0 million. The Company determined that the conclusion of its litigation with Sony Computer Entertainment does not trigger any payment obligations under its Microsoft agreements. Accordingly, the liability of $15.0 million that was in the financial statements at December 31, 2006 was extinguished, and the Company accounted for this sum during 2007 as litigation conclusions and patent license income. However, in a letter sent to the Company dated May 1, 2007, Microsoft disputed the Company’s position and stated that it believes the Company owes Microsoft at least $27.5 million, which it increased to $35.6 million at a court ordered mediation meeting on December 11, 2007. On June 18, 2007, Microsoft filed a complaint against the Company in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging one claim for breach of a contract. The Company disputes Microsoft’s allegations and intends to vigorously defend itself. See Contingencies Note 14. The results of any litigation are inherently uncertain, and there can be no assurance that the Company’s position will prevail.
10. INCOME TAXES
     For the three months and six months ended June 30, 2008, the Company recorded income tax benefits of $1.6 million and $2.6 million on income (loss) before taxes of $(4.7) million and $(8.3) million yielding effective tax rates of 34.4% and 31.7%, respectively. For the three months and six months ended June 30, 2007, the Company recorded income tax benefits (provisions) for income taxes of $1.5 million and $(13.6) million, on income (loss) before taxes of $(1.3) million and $129.6 million, yielding effective tax rates of 113.3% and 10.5%. The effective tax rate for 2008 differs from the statutory rate primarily due to certain permanent items and foreign withholding taxes. The income tax benefit and provision for the three months and six months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007, respectively, are as a result of applying the estimated annual effective tax rate to income (loss) before taxes, adjusted for certain discrete items which are fully recognized in the period they occur.
     The Company adopted FIN 48, regarding accounting for uncertain tax benefits, on January 1, 2007. As of June 30, 2008, the Company has unrecognized tax benefits of approximately $640,000, including interest of $13,000 which, if recognized, would result in a reduction of the Company’s effective tax rate. Future changes in the unrecognized tax benefit will have an impact on the effective tax rate. There were no material changes in the amount of unrecognized tax benefits during the quarter ended June 30, 2008. The Company does not expect any material changes to its liability for unrecognized tax benefits during the next twelve months. The Company’s policy is to account for interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions as a component of income tax provision.
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The Company’s foreign operations in Canada are open to audit under statute of limitation for the years ending December 31, 1998 through 2007. During June 2008, the Internal Revenue Service concluded the examination of calendar year 2004 with no changes.
     Net deferred tax assets were approximately $7.9 million as of June 30, 2008 and are primarily timing differences between amounts recorded for financial reporting purposes and amounts used for income tax purposes. During the quarter ended June 30, 2008, the Company evaluated ownership changes from 2004 to 2008 and determined that there were no limitations on the Company’s net operating loss carryforwards.
     The Company’s income taxes payable for federal and state purposes have been reduced by the tax benefits from employee stock options. The net tax benefits from employee stock option transactions were approximately $75,000 and $182,000 during the three months and six months ended June 30, 2008, respectively and are reflected as an increase to additional paid-in capital. The net tax benefits from employee stock options for the three months and six months ended June 30, 2007 were approximately $1.3 million and $11.8 million, respectively. The Company includes only the direct tax effects of employee stock incentive plans in calculating this increase to additional paid-in capital.
11.   NET INCOME (LOSS) PER SHARE
      The following is a reconciliation of the numerators and denominators used in computing basic and diluted net income (loss) per share (in thousands, except per share amounts):
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2008     2007     2008     2007  
                            (restated)  
Numerator:
                               
Net income (loss) used in computing basic net income (loss) per share
  $ (3,091 )   $ 176     $ (5,676 )   $ 116,014  
Interest on 5% Convertible Debentures
                      304  
 
                       
Net income (loss) used in computing diluted net income (loss) per share
  $ (3,091 )   $ 176     $ (5,676 )   $ 116,318  
 
                       
 
                               
Denominator:
                               
Shares used in computation of basic net income (loss) per share
                               
(weighted average common shares outstanding)
    30,356       26,297       30,417       25,822  
Dilutive potential common shares:
                               
Stock options
          1,933             1,553  
Warrants
          389             345  
5% Convertible Debentures
                      2,846  
 
                       
Shares used in computation of diluted net income (loss) per share
    30,356       28,619       30,417       30,566  
 
                       
Basic net income (loss) per share
  $ (0.10 )   $ 0.01     $ (0.19 )   $ 4.49  
 
                       
Diluted net income (loss) per share
  $ (0.10 )   $ 0.01     $ (0.19 )   $ 3.81  
 
                       
     As of June 30, 2008, the Company had securities outstanding that could potentially dilute basic earnings per share in the future, but were excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share in the periods presented since their effect would have been anti-dilutive. These outstanding securities consisted of the following:
         
    June 30,
    2008
Outstanding stock options
    7,505,995  
Warrants
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     For the three months and six months ended June 30, 2007, options and warrants to purchase approximately 534,578 and 918,988 shares of common stock, respectively, with exercise prices greater than the average fair market value of the Company’s stock of $11.27 and $9.50 respectively were not included in the calculation because the effect would have been anti-dilutive. Additionally for the three months ended June 30, 2007, securities representing the conversion of the 5% Convertible Debentures of 2,846,363 were excluded from the calculation because the effect would have been anti-dilutive.
12. COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
     The following table sets forth the components of comprehensive income (loss):
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2008     2007     2008     2007  
    (In thousands)     (In thousands)  
                            (restated)  
Net income (loss)
  $ (3,091 )   $ 176     $ (5,676 )   $ 116,014  
Change in unrealized losses on short-term investments
    (21 )     (25 )     (29 )     (25 )
Foreign currency translation adjustment
    (8 )     32       (20 )     32  
 
                       
Total comprehensive income (loss)
  $ (3,120 )   $ 183     $ (5,725 )   $ 116,021  
 
                       
13. SEGMENT REPORTING, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION, AND SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMERS
     The Company develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of hardware and software technologies that more fully engage users’ sense of touch when operating digital devices. The Company focuses on the following target application areas: automotive, consumer electronics, entertainment, gaming, and commercial and industrial controls; medical simulation; mobile communications; and three-dimensional design and interaction. The Company manages these application areas under two operating and reportable segments: 1) Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial, and 2) Immersion Medical. The Company determines its reportable segments in accordance with criteria outlined in SFAS No. 131, “Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information.”
     The Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) is the Chief Executive Officer. The CODM allocates resources to and assesses the performance of each operating segment using information about its revenue and operating profit before interest and taxes. A description of the types of products and services provided by each operating segment is as follows:
     Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial develops and markets touch feedback technologies that enable software and hardware developers to enhance realism and usability in their computing, entertainment, and industrial applications. Immersion Medical develops, manufactures, and markets medical training simulators that recreate realistic healthcare environments.

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     The following tables display information about the Company’s reportable segments:
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2008     2007     2008     2007  
    (In thousands)     (In thousands)  
                            (restated)  
Revenues:
                               
 
                               
Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial
  $ 5,012     $ 4,474     $ 10,200     $ 8,232  
Immersion Medical
    4,301       4,147       7,309       6,804  
Intersegment eliminations
          (26 )     (41 )     (27 )
 
                       
Total
  $ 9,313     $ 8,595     $ 17,468     $ 15,009  
 
                       
 
                               
Net Income (Loss):
                               
Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial
  $ (2,647 )   $ 152     $ (4,056 )   $ 116,847  
Immersion Medical
    (456 )     23       (1,615 )     (839 )
Intersegment eliminations
    12       1       (5 )     6  
 
                       
Total
  $ (3,091 )   $ 176     $ (5,676 )   $ 116,014  
 
                       
                 
    June 30     December 31  
    2008     2007  
    (In thousands)  
Total Assets:
               
 
               
Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial
  $ 177,222     $ 181,860  
Immersion Medical
    7,668       6,552  
Intersegment eliminations
    (21,625 )     (20,044 )
 
           
Total
  $ 163,265     $ 168,368  
 
           
     Intersegment eliminations represent eliminations for intercompany sales and cost of sales and intercompany receivables and payables between Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial and Immersion Medical segments.
     The Company operates primarily in the United States and in Canada where it operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Immersion Canada, Inc. Segment assets and expenses relating to the Company’s corporate operations are not allocated but are included in Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial as that is how they are considered for management evaluation purposes. As a result, the segment information may not be indicative of the financial position or results of operations that would have been achieved had these segments operated as unaffiliated entities. Management measures the performance of each segment based on several metrics, including net income (loss). These results are used, in part, to evaluate the performance of, and allocate resources to, each of the segments.

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     Revenue by Product Lines — Information regarding revenue from external customers by product lines is as follows:
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2008     2007     2008     2007  
    (In thousands)     (In thousands)  
Revenues:
                               
 
                               
Consumer, Computing, and Entertainment
  $ 2,913     $ 1,716     $ 5,964     $ 3,490  
3D
    1,092       1,097       2,318       2,088  
Touch Interface Products
    1,007       1,635       1,877       2,627  
 
                               
 
                       
Subtotal Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial
    5,012       4,448       10,159       8,205  
Immersion Medical
    4,301       4,147       7,309       6,804  
 
                       
 
                               
Total
  $ 9,313     $ 8,595     $ 17,468     $ 15,009  
 
                       
     Revenue by Region — The following is a summary of revenues by geographic areas. Revenues are broken out geographically by the ship-to location of the customer. Geographic revenue as a percentage of total revenue was as follows:
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2008     2007     2008     2007  
North America
    59 %     60 %     59 %     63 %
Europe
    18 %     18 %     20 %     17 %
Far East
    18 %     17 %     16 %     16 %
Rest of the world
    5 %     5 %     5 %     4 %
 
                       
Total
    100 %     100 %     100 %     100 %
 
                       
     The Company derived approximately 51% and 58% of its total revenues from the United States of America for the three months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007, respectively. The Company derived 11% of its total revenues from Japan for the three months ended June 30, 2007. The Company derived 10% of its total revenues from Germany for the three months ended June 30, 2007. The Company derived 54% and 62% of its total revenues from the United States of America for the six months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007, respectively. The Company derived 11% of its total revenues from Japan for the six months ended June 30, 2007. Revenues from other countries represented less than 10% individually for the periods presented.
     The majority of the Company’s long-lived assets are located in the United States of America. Long-lived assets include net property and equipment and long-term investments and other assets. Long-lived assets that were outside the United States of America constituted less than 10% of the total on June 30, 2008 and December 31, 2007.
     Significant Customers — Customers comprising 10% or greater of the Company’s net revenues are summarized as follows:
                                 
    Three Months Ended   Six Months Ended
    June 30,   June 30,
    2008   2007   2008   2007
Customer A
    13 %     12 %     12 %     12 %
Customer B
    * %     11 %     * %     * %
 
                               
Total
    13 %     23 %     12 %     12 %
 
                               
 
*   Revenue derived from customer represented less than 10% for the period.

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     Customer A accounted for 20% of the Company’s accounts receivable on June 30, 2008. Customer B accounted for 24% of the Company’s accounts receivable on December 31, 2007. No other customer accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s accounts receivable on June 30, 2008 or on December 31, 2007.
14. CONTINGENCIES
     In re Immersion Corporation
     The Company is involved in legal proceedings relating to a class action lawsuit filed on November 9, 2001 in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, In re Immersion Corporation Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, No. Civ. 01-9975 (S.D.N.Y.), related to In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, No. 21 MC 92 (S.D.N.Y.). The named defendants are the Company and three of its current or former officers or directors (the “Immersion Defendants”), and certain underwriters of its November 12, 1999 initial public offering (“IPO”). Subsequently, two of the individual defendants stipulated to a dismissal without prejudice.
     The operative amended complaint is brought on purported behalf of all persons who purchased the Company’s common stock from the date of the Company’s IPO through December 6, 2000. It alleges liability under Sections 11 and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, on the grounds that the registration statement for the IPO did not disclose that: (1) the underwriters agreed to allow certain customers to purchase shares in the IPO in exchange for excess commissions to be paid to the underwriters; and (2) the underwriters arranged for certain customers to purchase additional shares in the aftermarket at predetermined prices. The complaint also appears to allege that false or misleading analyst reports were issued. The complaint does not claim any specific amount of damages.
     Similar allegations were made in other lawsuits challenging over 300 other initial public offerings and follow-on offerings conducted in 1999 and 2000. The cases were consolidated for pretrial purposes. On February 19, 2003, the District Court ruled on all defendants’ motions to dismiss. The motion was denied as to claims under the Securities Act of 1933 in the case involving Immersion as well as in all other cases (except for 10 cases). The motion was denied as to the claim under Section 10(b) as to the Company, on the basis that the complaint alleged that the Company had made acquisition(s) following the IPO. The motion was granted as to the claim under Section 10(b), but denied as to the claim under Section 20(a), as to the remaining individual defendant.
     The Company and most of the issuer defendants had settled with the plaintiffs. In this settlement, plaintiffs would have dismissed and released all claims against the Immersion Defendants in exchange for a contingent payment by the insurance companies collectively responsible for insuring the issuers in all of the IPO cases, and for the assignment or surrender of certain claims the Company may have against the underwriters. The Immersion Defendants would not have been required to make any cash payments in the settlement, unless the pro rata amount paid by the insurers in the settlement exceeded the amount of the insurance coverage, a circumstance that the Company believed was remote. In September 2005, the District Court granted preliminary approval of the settlement. The District Court held a hearing to consider final approval of the settlement on April 24, 2006, and took the matter under submission. Subsequently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the class certification of plaintiffs’ claims against the underwriters in six cases designated as focus or test cases. Miles v. Merrill Lynch & Co. (In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation), 471 F.3d 24 (2d Cir. 2006). Thereafter, the District Court ordered a stay of all proceedings in all of the lawsuits pending the outcome of plaintiffs’ petition to the Second Circuit for rehearing en banc and resolution of the class certification issue. On April 6, 2007, the Second Circuit denied plaintiffs’ petition for rehearing, but clarified that the plaintiffs may seek to certify a more limited class in the District Court. Accordingly, the parties withdrew the prior settlement, and plaintiffs filed an amended complaint in attempt to comply with the Second Circuit’s ruling. On March 26, 2008, the District Court denied in part and granted in part the motions to dismiss the focus cases on substantially the same grounds as set forth in its prior opinion. There is no guarantee that an amended or renegotiated settlement will be reached, and if reached, approved. The Company has not accrued for any loss on this matter, and believes the possibility of loss to be remote.
          Internet Services LLC Litigation
     On October 20, 2004, Internet Services LLC (“ISLLC”) filed claims against the Company in its lawsuit against Sony Computer Entertainment in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that the Company breached a contract with ISLLC by suing Sony Computer Entertainment for patent infringement relating to haptically-enabled software whose topics or images are allegedly age-restricted, for judicial apportionment of damages between ISLLC and the Company of the damages awarded by the jury, and for a judicial declaration with respect to ISLLC’s rights and duties under agreements with the Company. On December 29, 2004, the District Court issued an order dismissing ISLLC’s claims against Sony Computer Entertainment with prejudice and dismissing ISLLC’s claims against the Company without prejudice to ISLLC filing a new complaint “if it can do so in good faith without contradicting, or repeating the deficiency of, its complaint.”
     On January 12, 2005, ISLLC filed Amended Cross-Claims and Counterclaims against the Company that contained similar claims. ISLLC also realleged counterclaims against Sony Computer Entertainment. On January 28, 2005, the Company filed a motion to dismiss ISLLC’s Amended Cross-Claims and a motion to strike ISLLC’s Counterclaims against Sony Computer Entertainment. On March 24, 2005 the District Court issued an order dismissing ISLLC’s claims with prejudice as to ISLLC’s claim seeking a declaratory judgment that it is an exclusive licensee under the ‘213 and ‘333 patents and as to ISLLC’s claim seeking “judicial apportionment” of the damages verdict in the Sony Computer Entertainment case. The District Court’s order further dismissed ISLLC’s claims without prejudice as to ISLLC’s breach of contract and unjust enrichment claims.
     ISLLC filed a notice of appeal of the District Court orders with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on April 18, 2005. On April 4, 2007, the Federal Circuit issued its opinion, affirming the District Court orders.
     On February 8, 2006, ISLLC filed a lawsuit against the Company in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County. ISLLC’s complaint sought a share of the damages awarded to the Company in the March 24, 2005 Judgment and of the Microsoft settlement proceeds, and generally restated the claims already adjudicated by the District Court. On March 16, 2006, the Company answered the complaint, cross claimed for declaratory relief, breach of contract by ISLLC, and for rescission of the contract, and removed the lawsuit to federal court. The case was assigned to Judge Wilken in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California as a case related to the previous proceedings involving Sony Computer Entertainment and ISLLC. ISLLC filed its answer to the Company’s cross claims on April 27, 2006. ISLLC also moved to remand the case to Superior Court. On July 10, 2006, Judge Wilken issued an order denying ISLLC’s motion to remand. On September 5, 2006, Judge Wilken granted the stipulated request by the parties to stay discovery and other proceedings in the case pending the disposition of ISLLC’s appeal from the District Court’s previous orders. The case was stayed from December 1, 2006 pending the Federal Circuit’s disposition on the appeal. As noted above, the Federal Circuit issued its opinion on April 4, 2007 and entered a judgment affirming the District Court’s previous orders.
     On May 10, 2007, ISLLC filed a motion in the District Court to remand its latest action to the Superior Court or in the alternative for leave to file an amended complaint to remove the declaratory relief claim. The Company opposed ISLLC’s motion, and cross-moved for judgment on the pleadings on the grounds that ISLLC’s claims are barred by res judicata and collateral estoppel. On June 26, 2007, the District Court ruled on the motions, denying ISLLC’s motion to remand or for leave to file an amended complaint, and granting in part the Company’s motion for judgment on the pleadings. The District Court dismissed ISLLC’s claim for declaratory relief. ISLLC’s claims for breach of contract, promissory fraud, and constructive trust, to the extent not inconsistent with the District Court’s previous rulings, remained. On February 20, 2008, ISLLC filed a motion to extend all dates in the matter by ninety (90) days due to circumstances relating to ISLLC’s dealings with a third party, and the possibility that ISLLC’s counsel (Keker & Van Nest) may withdraw in the case. On March 18, 2008, the District Court entered an order denying ISLLC’s request to extend dates.
     On March 24, 2008, ISLLC’s counsel filed a motion to withdraw as counsel. On May 1, 2008, the District Court denied ISLLC’s counsel’s motion to withdraw without prejudice. On May 28, 2008, ISLLC’s counsel renewed its motion to withdraw as ISLLC’s counsel of record. On June 19, 2008, the District Court granted the renewed motion.
     On April 10, 2008, Immersion filed a motion for summary judgment on ISLLC’s remaining claims for breach of contract, promissory fraud, and constructive trust, as well as Immersion’s counterclaim for declaratory relief that ISLLC was not entitled to a share of any of court-ordered compulsory license payments Immersion received from Sony Computer Entertainment. On May 16, 2008, the District Court entered an order granting Immersion’s motion for summary judgment on all of ISLLC’s claims, as well as Immersion’s counterclaim for declaratory relief. As a result, the only claims remaining in the action are Immersion’s counterclaims against ISLLC.
     On July 15, 2008, the Company filed a Motion For Default Judgment Or, In The Alternative, For Order To Show Cause Re Default based on ISLLC’s failure to retain new counsel, and also its failure to comply with certain pretrial orders of the District Court and provide certain discovery. On July 16, 2008 the District Court granted the Company’s motion in part and ordered ISLLC to show cause within ten days from the date of the District Court’s order why default judgment should not be entered against ISLLC. After receiving briefing from both parties on July 28, 2008, the District Court discharged the order to show cause. On ISLLC’s motion to continue the trial, the District Court ordered that the jury trial will begin on September 15, 2008.
     The Company has participated in court-ordered mediation proceedings, which to date have not been successful. The Company intends to vigorously prosecute its counterclaims against ISLLC.
     Microsoft Corporation v. Immersion Corporation
     On June 18, 2007, Microsoft filed a complaint against the Company in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging one claim for breach of a contract. Microsoft alleges that the Company breached a “Sublicense Agreement” executed in connection with the parties’ settlement in 2003 of the Company’s claims of patent infringement against Microsoft in Immersion Corporation v. Microsoft Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc., United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Case No. 02-0710-CW (see discussion above). The complaint alleges that Microsoft is entitled to payments that Microsoft contends are due under the Sublicense Agreement as a result of Sony Computer Entertainment’s satisfaction of the judgment in the Company’s lawsuit against Sony Computer

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Entertainment and payment of other sums to the Company. In a letter sent to the Company dated May 1, 2007, Microsoft stated that it believes the Company owes Microsoft at least $27.5 million, which it increased to $35.6 million at a court ordered mediation meeting on December 11, 2007. The Company was served with the complaint on July 6, 2007. On September 4, 2007, the Company filed its Answer, Affirmative Defenses, and Counterclaims alleging that Microsoft breached its confidentiality obligations by publicly disclosing previously confidential the terms of the Company’s business agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment. The parties participated in a court-ordered mediation on December 11, 2007, but were unsuccessful in resolving the matter. On January 10, 2008, Microsoft filed a motion to disqualify the Company’s counsel, Irell & Manella LLP on the grounds that one or more attorneys might be witnesses in the proceeding. On March 7, 2008, the District Court issued an Order denying Microsoft’s motion.
     On April 17, 2008, Microsoft filed a motion for partial summary judgment on the Company’s counterclaim for breach of the confidentiality agreement between the Company and Microsoft based on Microsoft’s publication of the March 2007 Sony-Immersion Agreement. On May 6, 2008, the Company filed its opposition brief, and on May 9, 2008, Microsoft filed its reply brief. On June 10, 2008, the District Court deferred ruling on Microsoft’s motion and requested the Company present additional information regarding its breach of contract counterclaim, which the Company did on June 27, 2008. On August 1, 2008, the District Court denied Microsoft’s motion for summary judgment on this matter.
     On June 26, 2008, Microsoft filed a motion for partial summary judgment on Microsoft’s claim for breach of contract. On June 27, 2008 Microsoft filed another motion for partial summary judgment on the Company’s affirmative defenses. The Company filed its opposition to the breach of contract motion on July 17, 2008, and the opposition to the affirmative defense related motion on July 21, 2008. Microsoft’s filed its reply papers on July 25, 2008. In addition to opposing Microsoft’s motions, on July 17, 2008, the Company filed a motion for partial summary judgment on Microsoft’s allegation that the Company breached the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing in the 2003 Microsoft-Immersion Sublicense Agreement in connection with the Company’s 2007 agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment. Microsoft filed its opposition to this motion on August 4, 2008, and the Company’s reply is due August 8, 2008. The District Court has requested oral arguments on all three motions for partial summary judgment. The District Court has not yet ruled on these motions.
     The Company has not accrued any loss related to these allegations. The range of reasonable possible loss is from zero to $35.6 million. The Company disputes Microsoft’s allegations and intends to vigorously defend itself.
     Other Contingencies
     From time to time, the Company receives claims from third parties asserting that the Company’s technologies, or those of its licensees, infringe on the other parties’ intellectual property rights. Management believes that these claims are without merit. Additionally, periodically, the Company is involved in routine legal matters and contractual disputes incidental to its normal operations. In management’s opinion, the resolution of such matters will not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial condition, results of operations, or liquidity.
     In the normal course of business, the Company provides indemnifications of varying scope to customers against claims of intellectual property infringement made by third parties arising from the use of the Company’s intellectual property, technology, or products. Historically, costs related to these guarantees have not been significant, and the Company is unable to estimate the maximum potential impact of these guarantees on its future results of operations.
     As permitted under Delaware law, the Company has agreements whereby it indemnifies its officers and directors for certain events or occurrences while the officer or director is, or was, serving at its request in such capacity. The term of the indemnification period is for the officer’s or director’s lifetime. The maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could be required to make under these indemnification agreements is unlimited; however, the Company currently has director and officer insurance coverage that limits its exposure and enables it to recover a portion of any future amounts paid. Management believes the estimated fair value of these indemnification agreements in excess of applicable insurance coverage is indeterminable.
15. RESTATEMENT OF PREVIOUSLY ISSUED QUARTERLY RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (UNAUDITED)
     Subsequent to the filing of Form 10-Q for the six months ended June 30, 2007, the Company determined that there were errors in its accounting for income taxes for the release of deferred income tax valuation allowance related to stock option deductions for prior years and the utilization of an incorrect effective state tax rate. The Company restated its previously reported provision for income taxes of $7.0 million to $13.6 million and previously reported net income of $122.6 million to $116.0

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million. The impact on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and condensed consolidated cash flows is presented below:
                         
    Six Months Ended  
    June 30, 2007  
    As Previously             As  
    Reported     Adjustments     Restated  
    (In thousands  
    except per share amounts)  
Total revenues
  $ 15,009     $     $ 15,009  
 
                 
 
                       
Income before provision for income taxes
  $ 129,641     $     $ 129,641  
Provision for income taxes
    (7,032 )     (6,595 )     (13,627 )
 
                 
Net income
  $ 122,609     $ (6,595 )   $ 116,014  
 
                 
 
                       
Basic net income per share
  $ 4.75     $ (0.26 )   $ 4.49  
Shares used in calculating basic net income per share
    25,822             25,822  
 
                       
Diluted net income per share
  $ 4.03     $ (0.22 )   $ 3.81  
Shares used in calculating diluted net income per share
    30,530       36       30,566  
 
                       
Changes to cash flows from operating activities:
                       
Net income
  $ 122,609     $ (6,595 )   $ 116,014  
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation
    (1,876 )     (7,364 )     (9,240 )
Deferred income taxes
    (5,409 )     (259 )     (5,668 )
Income taxes payable
    7,288       6,227       13,515  
Other long-term liabilities
    20       627       647  
Net cash provided by operating activities
    93,844       (7,364 )     86,480  
 
                       
Changes to cash flows from financing activities:
                       
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation
  $ 1,876     $ 7,364     $ 9,240  
Net cash provided by financing activities
    10,345       7,364       17,709  
 
                       
ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
     This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are identified by words such as “anticipates,” “believes,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” and other similar expressions. However, these words are not the only way we identify forward-looking statements. In addition, any statements, which refer to expectations, projections, or other characterizations of future events, or circumstances, are forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those set forth below in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and Risk Factors, those described elsewhere in this report, and those described in our other reports filed with the SEC. We caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this report, and we undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements after the filing of this report. You are urged to review carefully and consider our various disclosures in this report and in our other reports publicly disclosed or filed with the SEC that attempt to advise you of the risks and factors that may affect our business.

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OVERVIEW
     We are a leading provider of haptic technologies that allow people to use their sense of touch more fully when operating a wide variety of digital devices. To achieve this heightened interactivity, we develop and manufacture or license a wide range of hardware and software technologies and products. While we believe that our technologies are broadly applicable, we are currently focusing our marketing and business development activities on the following target application areas: automotive, consumer electronics, entertainment, gaming, and commercial and industrial controls; medical simulation; mobile communications; and three-dimensional design and interaction. We manage these application areas under two operating and reportable segments: 1) Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial and 2) Immersion Medical.
     In some markets, such as video console gaming, mobile phones, and automotive controls, we license our technologies to manufacturers who use them in products sold under their own brand names. In other markets, such as medical simulation and 3D design and interaction, we sell products manufactured under our own brand name through direct sales to end users, distributors, OEMs, or value-added resellers. From time to time, we also engage in development projects for third parties.
     Our objective is to drive adoption of our touch technologies across markets and applications to improve the user experience with digital devices and systems. We and our wholly owned subsidiaries hold more than 700 issued or pending patents in the U.S. and other countries, covering various aspects of hardware and software technologies.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES
     Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our condensed consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of these condensed consolidated financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates and assumptions, including those related to revenue recognition, stock-based compensation, bad debts, inventory reserves, short-term investments, warranty obligations, patents and intangible assets, contingencies, and litigation. We base our estimates and assumptions on historical experience and on various other factors that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates and assumptions.
     We believe the following are our most critical accounting policies as they require our significant judgments and estimates in the preparation of our condensed consolidated financial statements:
     Revenue Recognition
     We recognize revenues in accordance with applicable accounting standards, including SAB No. 104, “Revenue Recognition,” EITF No. 00-21, “Accounting for Revenue Arrangements with Multiple Deliverables,” AICPA SOP 81-1 “Accounting for Performance for Construction-Type and Certain Production-Type contracts,” and AICPA SOP 97-2, “Software Revenue Recognition,” as amended. Revenue is recognized when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred or service has been rendered, the fee is fixed and determinable, and collectibility is probable. We derive our revenues from three principal sources: royalty and license fees, product sales, and development contracts.
     Royalty and license revenue — We recognize royalty and license revenue based on royalty reports or related information received from the licensee as well as time-based licenses of our intellectual property portfolio. Up-front payments under license agreements are deferred and recognized as revenue either based on the royalty reports received or amortized over the license period depending on the nature of the agreement. Advance payments under license agreements that also require us to provide future services to the licensee are deferred and recognized over the service period when VSOE related to the value of the services does not exist.
     We generally recognize revenue from our licensees under one or a combination of the following license models:
     
License revenue model   Revenue recognition
Perpetual license of intellectual property portfolio based on per unit royalties, no services contracted.
  Based on royalty reports received from licensees. No further obligations to licensee exist.
 
   
Time-based license of intellectual property portfolio with up-front payments and/or annual minimum royalty requirements, no services contracted. Licensees have certain rights to updates to the intellectual property portfolio during the contract period.
  Based on straight-line amortization of annual minimum/up-front payment recognized over contract period or annual minimum period.
 
   
Perpetual license of intellectual property portfolio or technology license along with contract for development work.
  Based on cost-to-cost percentage-of-completion accounting method over the service period or completed contract method. Obligation to licensee exists until development work is complete.
 
   
License of software or technology, no modification necessary, no services contracted.
  Up-front revenue recognition based on SOP 97-2 criteria or EITF No. 00-21, as applicable.

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     Individual contracts may have characteristics that do not fall within a specific license model or may have characteristics of a combination of license models. Under those circumstances, we recognize revenue in accordance with SAB No. 104, EITF No. 00-21, SOP 81-1, and SOP 97-2, as amended, to guide the accounting treatment for each individual contract. See also the discussions regarding “Multiple element arrangements” below. If the information received from our licensees regarding royalties is incorrect or inaccurate, our revenues in future periods may be adversely affected. To date, none of the information we have received from our licensees has caused any material reduction in future period revenues.
          Product sales — We recognize revenues from product sales when the product is shipped, provided the other revenue recognition criteria are met, including that collection is determined to be probable and no significant obligation remains. We sell our products with warranties ranging from three to sixty months. We record the estimated warranty costs during the quarter the revenue is recognized. Historically, warranty-related costs and related accruals have not been significant. We offer a general right of return on the MicroScribe product line for 14 days after purchase. We recognize revenue at the time of shipment of a MicroScribe digitizer and provide an accrual for potential returns based on historical experience. We offer no other general right of return on our products.
          Development contracts and other revenue — Development contracts and other revenue is comprised of professional services (consulting services and/or development contracts), customer support, and extended warranty contracts. Development contract revenues are recognized under the cost-to-cost percentage-of-completion accounting method based on physical completion of the work to be performed or completed contract method. Losses on contracts are recognized when determined. Revisions in estimates are reflected in the period in which the conditions become known. Customer support and extended warranty contract revenue is recognized ratably over the contractual period.
          Multiple element arrangements — We enter into revenue arrangements in which the customer purchases a combination of patent, technology, and/or software licenses, products, professional services, support, and extended warranties (multiple element arrangements). When VSOE of fair value exists for all elements, we allocate revenue to each element based on the relative fair value of each of the elements. If vendor specific objective evidence does not exist, the revenue is generally recorded over the term of the contract.
     Our revenue recognition policies are significant because our revenues are a key component of our results of operations. In addition, our revenue recognition determines the timing of certain expenses, such as commissions and royalties. Revenue results are difficult to predict, and any shortfall in revenue or delay in recognizing revenue could cause our operating results to vary significantly from quarter to quarter and could result in greater or future operating losses.
     Stock-based Compensation
     We account for stock-based compensation in accordance with SFAS No. 123R. We elected the modified-prospective method, under which prior periods are not revised for comparative purposes. Under the fair value recognition provisions of this statement, stock-based compensation cost is measured at the grant date based on the fair value of the award and is recognized as expense on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, which is the vesting period.
          Valuation and amortization method — We use the Black-Scholes model, single-option approach to determine the fair value of stock options and ESPP shares. All share-based payment awards are amortized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service periods of the awards, which are generally the vesting periods. The determination of the fair value of stock-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option-pricing model is affected by our stock price as well as assumptions regarding a number of complex and subjective variables. These variables include actual and projected employee stock option exercise behaviors, our expected stock price volatility over the term of the awards, risk-free interest rate, and expected dividends.
          Expected term — We estimate the expected term of options granted by calculating the average term from our historical stock option exercise experience. We used the simplified method as prescribed by SAB No. 107 for options granted prior to December 31, 2007.

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          Expected volatility — We estimate the volatility of our common stock taking into consideration our historical stock price movement, the volatility of stock prices of companies of similar size with similar businesses, if any, and our expected future stock price trends based on known or anticipated events.
          Risk-free interest rate — We base the risk-free interest rate that we use in the option pricing model on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with remaining terms similar to the expected term on the options.
          Expected dividend — We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future and therefore use an expected dividend yield of zero in the option pricing model.
          Forfeitures — We are required to estimate future forfeitures at the time of grant and revise those estimates in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. We use historical data to estimate pre-vesting option forfeitures and record stock-based compensation expense only for those awards that are expected to vest. Changes in estimated forfeitures will be recognized through a cumulative catch-up adjustment in the period of change and will also impact the amount of compensation expense to be recognized in future periods.
     If factors change and we employ different assumptions for estimating stock-based compensation expense in future periods, or if we decide to use a different valuation model, the future periods may differ significantly from what we have recorded in the current period and could materially affect our operating results.
     The Black-Scholes model was developed for use in estimating the fair value of traded options that have no vesting restrictions and are fully transferable, characteristics not present in our option grants and ESPP shares. Existing valuation models, including the Black-Scholes and lattice binomial models, may not provide reliable measures of the fair values of our stock-based compensation. Consequently, there is a risk that our estimates of the fair values of our stock-based compensation awards on the grant dates may bear little resemblance to the actual values realized upon the exercise, expiration, early termination, or forfeiture of those stock-based payments in the future. Certain stock-based payments, such as employee stock options, may expire and be worthless or otherwise result in zero intrinsic value as compared to the fair values originally estimated on the grant date and reported in our financial statements. Alternatively, value may be realized from these instruments that are significantly higher than the fair values originally estimated on the grant date and reported in our financial statements. There currently is no market-based mechanism or other practical application to verify the reliability and accuracy of the estimates stemming from these valuation models, nor is there a means to compare and adjust the estimates to actual values.
     See Note 8 to the condensed consolidated financial statements for further information regarding the SFAS No. 123R disclosures.
     Accounting for Income Taxes
     We use the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes. Under this method, income tax expense is recognized for the amount of taxes payable or refundable for the current year. In addition, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities, and for operating losses and tax credit carryforwards. Management must make assumptions, judgments, and estimates to determine our current provision for income taxes and also our deferred tax assets and liabilities and any valuation allowance to be recorded against a deferred tax asset.
     Our judgments, assumptions, and estimates relative to the current provision for income tax take into account current tax laws, our interpretation of current tax laws, and possible outcomes of current and future audits conducted by foreign and domestic tax authorities. We have established reserves for income taxes to address potential exposures involving tax positions that could be challenged by tax authorities. Although we believe our judgments, assumptions, and estimates are reasonable, changes in tax laws or our interpretation of tax laws and any future tax audits could significantly impact the amounts provided for income taxes in our consolidated financial statements.
     Our assumptions, judgments, and estimates relative to the value of a deferred tax asset take into account predictions of the amount and category of future taxable income, such as income from operations or capital gains income. Actual operating results and the underlying amount and category of income in future years could render inaccurate our current assumptions, judgments, and estimates of recoverable net deferred taxes. Any of the assumptions, judgments, and estimates mentioned above could cause our actual income tax obligations to differ from our estimates, thus materially impacting our financial position and results of operations.
     Litigation Conclusions and Patent License
     In March 2007, we announced the conclusion of our patent infringement litigation against Sony Computer Entertainment at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Sony Computer Entertainment satisfied the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California judgment against it. As of March 19, 2007, we entered into a new business agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment. We determined that the conclusion of our litigation with Sony Computer Entertainment did not trigger any payment obligations under our Microsoft agreements. However, on June 18, 2007, Microsoft filed a complaint against us in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging breach of our “Sublicense Agreement” dated July 25,

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2003 and seeks damages, specific performance, declaratory judgment, and attorneys’ fees and costs. At a court ordered mediation meeting on December 11, 2007, Microsoft indicated they believe the amount owed to be $35.6 million. We believe that we are not obligated under the “Sublicense Agreement” with Microsoft to make any payment to Microsoft relating to the conclusion of our litigation with Sony Computer Entertainment. We intend to defend this lawsuit vigorously. The results of any litigation are inherently uncertain, and there can be no assurance that our position will prevail.
     Our judgments and assessments related to the accounting of these liabilities could differ from actual results.
     Short-term Investments
     Our short-term investments consist primarily of highly liquid commercial paper and government agency securities purchased with an original or remaining maturity of greater than 90 days on the date of purchase. We classify all debt securities with readily determinable market values as “available-for-sale” in accordance with SFAS No. 115. Even though the stated maturity dates of these debt securities may be one year or more beyond the balance sheet date, we have classified all debt securities as short-term investments in accordance with Accounting Research Bulletin No. 43, Chapter 3A, “Working Capital—Current Assets and Current Liabilities,” as they are reasonably expected to be realized in cash or sold during our normal operating cycle. These investments are carried at fair market value with unrealized gains and losses considered to be temporary in nature reported as a separate component of other comprehensive income (loss) within stockholders’ equity.
     We follow the guidance provided by FSP 115-1/124-1 and EITF No. 03-01 to assess whether our investments with unrealized loss positions are other than temporarily impaired. Realized gains and losses and declines in value judged to be other than temporary are determined based on the specific identification method and are reported in the condensed consolidated statement of operations. Factors considered in determining whether a loss is temporary include the length of time and extent to which fair value has been less than the cost basis, the financial condition and near-term prospects of the investee, and our intent and ability to hold the investment for a period of time sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in market value.
     Effective January 1, 2008, we adopted the provisions of SFAS No. 157, which defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements required under other accounting pronouncements. SFAS No. 157 clarifies that fair value is an exit price, representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. SFAS No. 157 also requires that a fair value measurement reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability based on the best information available. Assumptions include the risks inherent in a particular valuation technique (such as a pricing model) and/or the risks inherent in the inputs to the model.
     SFAS No. 157 establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (level 3 measurements). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy under SFAS No. 157 are described below:
     Level 1: Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets that are accessible at the measurement date for identical, unrestricted assets or liabilities;
     Level 2: Quoted prices in markets that are not active or financial instruments for which all significant inputs are observable, either directly or indirectly;
     Level 3: Prices or valuations that require inputs that are both significant to the fair value measurement and unobservable.
     A financial instrument’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of any input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
     In February 2008, the Financial FASB issued FSP No. 157-2 that delays the effective date of SFAS No. 157 for nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities, except for items that are recognized or disclosed at fair value in the financial statements on a recurring basis (at least annually) until fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2008. The delay is intended to allow the FASB and constituents additional time to consider the effect of various implementation issues that have arisen, or that may arise, from the application of SFAS No. 157. The Company continues to assess the impact that FSP 157-2 may have on our consolidated financial position and results of operations.
     Further information about the application of SFAS No. 157 may be found in Note 2 to the condensed consolidated financial statements.
     Recovery of Accounts Receivable
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resulting in an impairment of their ability to make payments, additional allowances might be required. To date such estimated losses have been within our expectations.
     Inventory Reserves
     We reduce our inventory value for estimated obsolete and slow moving inventory in an amount equal to the difference between the cost of inventory and the net realizable value based upon assumptions about future demand and market conditions. If actual future demand and market conditions are less favorable than those projected by management, additional inventory write-downs may be required.
     Product Return and Warranty Reserves
     We provide for estimated costs of future anticipated product returns and warranty obligations based on historical experience when related revenues are recognized, and we defer warranty-related revenue over the related warranty term.
     Intangible Assets
     We have acquired patents and other intangibles. In addition, we capitalize the external legal and filing fees associated with patents and trademarks. We assess the recoverability of our intangible assets, and we must make assumptions regarding estimated future cash flows and other factors to determine the fair value of the respective assets that affect our condensed consolidated financial statements. If these estimates or related assumptions change in the future, we may be required to record impairment charges for these assets. We amortize our intangible assets related to patents and trademarks, once they issue, over their estimated useful lives, generally 10 years. Future changes in the estimated useful life could affect the amount of future period amortization expense that we will incur. During the three months and six months ended June 30, 2008, we capitalized costs associated with patents and trademarks of $673,000 and $1.2 million, respectively. Our total amortization expense for the same periods for all intangible assets was $170,000, and $405,000, respectively.
     The above listing is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all of our accounting policies. In many cases, the accounting treatment of a particular transaction is specifically dictated by GAAP, with no need for management’s judgment in their application. There are also areas in which management’s judgment in selecting any available alternative would not produce a materially different result.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS FOR THE THREE MONTHS AND SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2008 AND 2007
     The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis gives effect to the restatement discussed in Note 15 to the condensed consolidated financial statements.
Overview
     We achieved an 8% increase in revenues during the three months ended June 30, 2008 as compared to the three months ended June 30, 2007. The second quarter revenue growth was primarily due to a 15% increase in royalty and license revenues mainly from increased mobility royalty and license fees, a 2% increase in product sales primarily from touch interface products, and a 35% increase in development contract revenues primarily from increased development contracts within our medical business. We achieved a 16% increase in revenues during the six months ended June 30, 2008 as compared to the six months ended June 30, 2007. The first six months revenue growth was primarily due to a 34% increase in royalty and license revenues mainly from increased mobility royalty and license fees, a 4% increase in product sales primarily from 3D and touch interface products, and a 36% increase in development contract revenues primarily from increased development contracts within our medical business. Our net loss was $3.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2008 compared to net income of $176,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2007. Our net loss was $5.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2008 compared to net income of $116.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2007. In the second quarter of 2008 and throughout the first six months of 2008, we continued to invest in research, development, sales, and marketing across all our key business segments. In March 2007, we concluded our patent infringement litigation against Sony Computer Entertainment and recognized a gain of $119.9 million of litigation conclusions and patent license in the first six months of 2007.
     For the remainder of 2008, we expect to continue to focus on the execution of sales and marketing plans in our established businesses to increase revenue and make selected investments in product and technology development and sales and marketing for longer-term growth areas. Our success could be limited by several factors, including the timely release of our new products or our licensees’ products, continued market acceptance of our products and technology, the introduction of new products by existing or new competitors, and the cost of ongoing litigation. For a further discussion of these and other risk factors, see Part II, Item 1A — “Risk Factors.”

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    June 30,     Change  
REVENUES   2008     2007          
    ($ In thousands)          
Three months ended:
                       
Royalty and license
  $ 3,171     $ 2,747       15 %
Product sales
    5,386       5,289       2 %
Development contracts and other
    756       559       35 %
 
                 
Total Revenue
  $ 9,313     $ 8,595       8 %
 
                 
 
                       
Six months ended:
                       
Royalty and license
  $ 6,632     $ 4,958       34 %
Product sales
    9,237       8,879       4 %
Development contracts and other
    1,599       1,172       36 %
 
                 
Total Revenue
  $ 17,468     $ 15,009       16 %
 
                 
Three Months Ended June 30, 2008 Compared to Three Months Ended June 30, 2007
     Total Revenue — Our total revenue for the second quarter of 2008 increased by $718,000 or 8% from the second quarter of 2007.
     Royalty and license revenue — Royalty and license revenue is comprised of royalties earned on sales by our VibeTonz and TouchSense licensees and license fees charged for our intellectual property portfolio. Royalty and license revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2008 was $3.2 million, an increase of $424,000 or 15% from the three months ended June 30, 2007. The increase in royalty and license revenue was due to an increase in mobile device license and royalty revenue of $813,000 and an increase in gaming royalties of $247,000, partially offset by a decrease in touch interface product royalties of $636,000.
     Mobile device license and royalty revenue increased due to the shipment of additional VibeTonz enabled phones by LG Electronics, which began in the second quarter of 2007, and the signing of a new license contract with mobile device manufacturer Nokia at the end of the second quarter of 2007. Touch interface product royalties decreased due to the recognition of certain automotive royalty payments in the second quarter of 2007 that did not recur, partially offset by increased licensee revenue from additional products licensed in the automotive market.
     The increase in gaming royalties for the second quarter of 2008 compared to the similar period in 2007 was mainly due to the increase in sales of new products for the PS3 such as Logitech’s steering wheel. Although the revenue from our third-party peripheral licensees has generally continued to decline primarily due to i) the reduced sales of past generation video console systems due to the launches of the next-generation console models from Microsoft (Xbox 360), Sony (PlayStation 3), and Nintendo (Wii), and ii) the decline in third-party market share of aftermarket game console controllers due to the launch of next-generation peripherals by manufacturers of console systems, we are seeing the decline begin to stabilize.
     Sony announced on May 8, 2006 that the vibration feature that is currently available on PlayStation (PS1) and PlayStation 2 (PS2) console systems would be removed from the new PlayStation 3 (PS3) console system. The PS3 console system was launched in late 2006 in the United States and Japan without native vibration or any force feedback capability of any kind. In the first quarter of 2007, Sony released an update to the PS3 console system that offered limited vibration and force feedback support for some older PS1 and PS2 games and controllers. In September 2007, Sony announced that it would fully restore vibration feedback features for the PS3 console system. The new PS3 DualShock 3 controllers with vibration feedback were released in Japan in November 2007 as standalone products sold separately from the PS3 console system. Sony released the PS3 DualShock 3 controller in April 2008 in the U.S. and released a version in Europe in July of 2008. While a very limited number of third party PS3 vibration and force feedback products have been announced recently, we do not know to what extent Sony will foster the market for other third-party PS3 gaming peripherals with vibration feedback. To the extent Sony discourages or impedes third-party controller makers from making more PS3 controllers with vibration feedback, our licensing revenue from third-party PS3 peripherals will continue to be severely limited.

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     Based on our litigation conclusion and new business agreement entered into with Sony Computer Entertainment in March 2007 (see Note 9 to the condensed consolidated financial statements for more discussion), we will recognize a minimum of $30.0 million as royalty and license revenue from March 2007 through March 2017, approximately $750,000 per quarter. For the Microsoft Xbox 360 video console system launched in November 2005, Microsoft has, to date, not broadly licensed third parties to produce game controllers. Because our gaming royalties come mainly from third-party manufacturers, unless Microsoft broadens its licenses to third-party controller makers, particularly with respect to wireless controllers for Xbox 360, our gaming royalty revenue may decline. Additionally, Microsoft is now making touch-enabled wheels covered by its royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to our worldwide portfolio of patents that could compete with our licensees’ current or future products for which we earn per unit royalties. For the Nintendo Wii video console system launched in December 2006, Nintendo has, to date, not yet broadly licensed third parties to produce game controllers for its Wii game console. Because our gaming royalties come mainly from third-party manufacturers, unless Nintendo broadens its licenses to third-party controller makers, our gaming royalty revenue may decline.
     Product sales — Product sales for the three months ended June 30, 2008 were $5.4 million, an increase of $97,000 or 2% as compared to the three months ended June 30, 2007. The increase in product sales was primarily due to an increase in product sales from touch interface products of $149,000 partially offset by a decrease in medical product sales of $37,000. Touch interface products include touchscreen and touch panel components, rotary modules, and commercial gaming products. Touch interface products increased primarily due to increased sales of touchscreen and touch panel components and increased sales of force feedback electronics for arcade gaming. Decreased medical product sales was mainly due to reduced sales of our endovascular and Virtual IV simulator platforms partially offset by increases in our endoscopy and laparoscopy simulators. This decrease in product sales was primarily a result of significant orders that was not expected to repeat of endovascular devices during the three months ending June 30, 2007. The sales increases of our endoscopy and laparoscopy simulators resulted mainly from an increased emphasis on the laparoscopy platform and modules along with continued expansion of international sales for both endoscopy and laparoscopy.
     Development contract and other revenue — Development contract and other revenue is comprised of revenue on commercial contracts and extended support and warranty contracts. Development contract and other revenue was $756,000 during the three months ended June 30, 2008, an increase of $197,000 or 35% as compared to the three months ended June 30, 2007. The increase was mainly attributable to an increase in medical contract revenue of $191,000 due to increased development contracts. In addition, there was increased revenue recognized on mobile device development contracts and support of $138,000, offset by decreased Touch Interface Product contract revenue of $142,000 mainly due to contracts being completed in 2007.
     We categorize our geographic information into four major regions: North America, Europe, Far East, and Rest of the World. In the second quarter of 2008, revenue generated in North America, Europe, Far East, and Rest of the World represented 59%, 18%, 18%, and 5%, respectively, compared to 60%, 18%, 17%, and 5%, respectively, for the second quarter of 2007. The shift in revenues among regions was mainly due to an increase in mobile device license and contract revenue and medical product revenue from the Far East and a decrease in Touch Interface Product development contract revenue in North America.
Six Months Ended June 30, 2008 Compared to Six Months Ended June 30, 2007
     Total Revenue — Our total revenue for the first six months of 2008 increased by $2.5 million or 16% from the first six months of 2007.
     Royalty and license revenue — Royalty and license revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2008 was $6.6 million, an increase of $1.7 million or 34% from the six months ended June 30, 2007. The increase in royalty and license revenue was primarily due to an increase in mobile device license and royalty revenue of $1.6 million and an increase in gaming royalties of $577,000 offset by a decrease in touch interface product royalties of $517,000.
     Mobile device license and royalty revenue increased due to the additional shipment of VibeTonz enabled phones by LG Electronics which began in the second quarter of 2007, and the signing of a new license contract with mobile device manufacturer Nokia at the end of the second quarter of 2007. The increase in gaming royalties was mainly due to an increase in royalty and license revenue from first-party gaming licensee Sony Computer Entertainment. In addition, there was increased royalty and license revenue from third-party peripheral gaming licensees. Touch interface product royalties decreased due to the recognition of certain automotive royalty payments in the second quarter of 2007 that did not recur, partially offset by increased licensee revenue from additional products licensed in the automotive market.
     Product sales — Product sales for the six months ended June 30, 2008 were $9.2 million, an increase of $358,000 or 4% as compared to the six months ended June 30, 2007. The increase in product sales was primarily due to increased 3D product sales of $211,000, mainly due to increased sales of our CyberForce®, CyberGlove®, CyberGrasp®, and MicroScribe products. In addition, there was an increase in product sales from touch interface products of $195,000 primarily due to increased sales of touchscreen and touch panel components and increased sales of force feedback electronics for arcade gaming. Medical product

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sales decreased by $48,000 mainly due to reduced sales of our endovascular and Virtual IV simulator platforms partially offset by increases in our endoscopy and laparoscopy simulators. This decrease in product sales was primarily a result of significant orders that were not expected to repeat of endovascular devices during the three months ending June 30, 2007. The sales increases of our endoscopy and laparoscopy simulators resulted mainly from an increased emphasis on the laparoscopy platform and modules along with continued expansion of international sales for both endoscopy and laparoscopy.
     Development contract and other revenue — Development contract and other revenue was $1.6 million during the six months ended June 30, 2008, an increase of $427,000 or 36% as compared to the six months ended June 30, 2007. The increase was mainly attributable to an increase in medical contract revenue of $554,000 due to increased development contracts. In addition, there was increased revenue recognized on mobile device development contracts and support of $283,000, offset by decreased touch interface product contract revenue of $429,000 mainly due to contracts being completed in 2007.
     In the first six months of 2008, revenue generated in North America, Europe, Far East, and Rest of the World represented 59%, 20%, 16%, and 5%, respectively, compared to 63%, 17%, 16%, and 4%, respectively, for the first six months of 2007. The shift in revenues among regions was mainly due to an increase in revenue from mobile device license and contract revenue and touch interface product royalty revenue from Europe without corresponding increases in North America. In the six months ended June 30, 2008, we added several sales and support personnel to help grow our international business.
                         
    June 30,   Change
COST OF PRODUCT SALES   2008   2007        
    ($ In thousands)        
Three months ended:
                       
 
                       
Cost of product sales
  $ 2,570     $ 2,427       6 %
% of total product revenue
    48 %     46 %        
 
                       
Six months ended:
                       
 
                       
Cost of product sales
  $ 4,656     $ 3,970       17 %
% of total product revenue
    50 %     45 %        
     Cost of Product Sales — Our cost of product sales consists primarily of materials, labor, and overhead. There is no cost of product sales associated with royalty revenue or development contract revenue. Cost of product sales was $2.6 million, an increase of $143,000 or 6% for the three months ended June 30, 2008 as compared to the three months ended June 30, 2007. The increase in cost of product sales was primarily due to an increase of overhead costs of $224,000 offset by decreased direct material costs of $81,000. Overhead costs increased, in part, as a result of increased salary expense primarily due to the costs of programs to improve quality processes within our manufacturing operations which we anticipate will continue throughout 2008. The decrease in direct material costs was mainly a result of an increase of certain medical products with lower costs in the product sales mix. Cost of product sales increased as a percentage of product revenue to 48% in the first three months of 2008 from 46% in the first three months of 2007. This increase is mainly due the increased overhead costs mentioned above as well as increased sales of our lower margin Touch Interface Products changing the sales mix.
     Cost of product sales was $4.7 million, an increase of $686,000 or 17% for the six months ended June 30, 2008 as compared to the six months ended June 30, 2007. The increase in cost of product sales was primarily due to an increase of overhead costs of $422,000, an increase in excess and obsolete inventory provisions of $157,000, and increased direct material costs of $54,000. Overhead costs increased, in part, as a result of increased salary expense primarily due to the costs of programs to improve quality processes within our manufacturing operations which we anticipate will continue throughout 2008. The increase in direct material costs was mainly a result of increased product sales. Cost of product sales increased as a percentage of product revenue to 50% in the first six months of 2008 from 45% in the first six months of 2007. This increase is mainly due the increased overhead costs mentioned above as well as increased sales of our lower margin Touch Interface Products changing the sales mix.

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    June 30,     Change
OPERATING EXPENSES AND OTHER   2008     2007          
    ($ In thousands)          
Three months ended:
                       
 
                       
Sales and marketing
  $ 4,258     $ 3,030       41 %
% of total revenue
    46 %     35 %        
 
                       
Research and development
  $ 2,855     $ 2,513       14 %
% of total revenue
    31 %     29 %        
 
                       
General and administrative
  $ 5,084     $ 3,122       63 %
% of total revenue
    55 %     36 %        
 
                       
Amortization of intangibles
  $ 170     $ 242       (30 )%
% of total revenue
    2 %     3 %        
 
                       
Six months ended:
                       
 
                       
Sales and marketing
  $ 7,700     $ 5,733       34 %
% of total revenue
    44 %     38 %        
 
                       
Research and development
  $ 6,084     $ 5,056       20 %
% of total revenue
    35 %     34 %        
 
                       
General and administrative
  $ 9,347     $ 6,381       46 %
% of total revenue
    54 %     43 %        
 
                       
Amortization of intangibles
  $ 405     $ 496       (18 )%
% of total revenue
    2 %     3 %        
 
                       
Litigation conclusions and patent license
  $     $ (134,900 )     * %
% of total revenue
    %     * %        
 
* - Not meaningful
     Sales and Marketing — Our sales and marketing expenses are comprised primarily of employee compensation and benefits costs, advertising, public relations, trade shows, brochures, market development funds, travel, and an allocation of facilities costs. Sales and marketing expenses were $4.3 million, an increase of $1.2 million or 41% in the second quarter of 2008 compared to the comparable period in 2007. The increase was primarily due to increased compensation, benefits, and overhead of $524,000, increased marketing, advertising, and public relations costs of $304,000, increased sales and marketing travel expense of $153,000, increased consulting costs of $119,000 to supplement our sales and marketing staff, and an increase in bad debt expense of $50,000. The increased compensation, benefits, and overhead expense were primarily due to an increase in sales and marketing headcount, increased compensation for sales and marketing personnel, and increased non-cash stock based compensation charges, partially offset by decreased variable compensation. We expect to continue to focus our sales and marketing efforts on medical, mobile device, and touchscreen market opportunities to build greater market acceptance for our touch technologies as well as continue to expand our sales and marketing presence internationally. We will continue to invest in sales and marketing in future periods to exploit market opportunities for our technology.

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     Sales and marketing expenses were $7.7 million, an increase of $2.0 million or 34% in the first six months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. The increase was primarily due to increased compensation, benefits, and overhead of $966,000, increased marketing, advertising, and public relations costs of $414,000, increased sales and marketing travel expense of $197,000, increased employee recruiting costs of $137,000, increased consulting costs of $92,000 to supplement our sales and marketing staff, and an increase in bad debt expense of $84,000. The increased compensation, benefits, and overhead expense and increased recruiting costs were primarily due to an increase in sales and marketing headcount, increased compensation for sales and marketing personnel, and increased non-cash stock based compensation charges, partially offset by decreased variable compensation.
     Research and Development — Our research and development expenses are comprised primarily of employee compensation and benefits costs, consulting fees, tooling and supplies, and an allocation of facilities costs. Research and development expenses were $2.9 million, an increase of $342,000 or 14% in the second quarter of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. The increase was primarily due to increased compensation, benefits, and overhead of $256,000 and an increase in professional consulting expense of $70,000 to supplement our engineering staff. The increased compensation, benefits, and overhead expense was primarily due to increased research and development headcount, increased compensation for research and development personnel, and increased non-cash stock based compensation charges. We believe that continued significant investment in research and development is critical to our future success, and we expect to make investments in areas of research and technology development to support future growth.
     Research and development expenses were $6.1 million, an increase of $1.0 million or 20% in the first six months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. The increase was primarily due to increased compensation, benefits, and overhead of $703,000, an increase in professional consulting expense of $200,000 to supplement our engineering staff, and an increase in prototyping expenses of $63,000. The increased compensation, benefits, and overhead expense was primarily due to increased research and development headcount, increased compensation for research and development personnel, and increased non-cash stock based compensation charges.
     General and Administrative — Our general and administrative expenses are comprised primarily of employee compensation and benefits, legal and professional fees, office supplies, travel, and an allocation of facilities costs. General and administrative expenses were $5.1 million, an increase of $2.0 million or 63% in the second quarter of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. The increase was primarily due to increased compensation, benefits, and overhead of $970,000 and increased legal, professional, and license fee expense of $895,000. The increased compensation, benefits, and overhead expense was primarily due to increased general and administrative headcount, increased compensation for general and administrative personnel, and increased non-cash stock based compensation charges. The increased legal, professional, and license fee expenses were primarily due to increased litigation costs offset in part by reduced audit, tax, and accounting fees mainly related to the accounting and valuation for Sony Computer Entertainment litigation conclusion and patent license that occurred in the second quarter of 2007. We expect that the dollar amount of general and administrative expenses to continue to be a significant component of our operating expenses. We will continue to incur costs related to litigation as we continue to protect and defend our intellectual property.
     General and administrative expenses were $9.3 million, an increase of $3.0 million or 46% in the first six months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. The increase was primarily due to increased compensation, benefits, and overhead of $1.6 million and increased legal, professional, and license fee expense of $1.2 million. The increased compensation, benefits, and overhead expense was primarily due to increased general and administrative headcount, increased compensation for general and administrative personnel, and increased non-cash stock based compensation charges. The increased legal, professional, and license fee expenses were primarily due increased litigation costs offset in part by reduced audit, tax, and accounting fees mainly related to the accounting and valuation for Sony Computer Entertainment litigation conclusion and patent license that occurred in 2007.
     Amortization of Intangibles — Our amortization of intangibles is comprised primarily of patent amortization and other intangible amortization. Amortization of intangibles decreased by $72,000 or 30% in the second quarter of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. Amortization of intangibles decreased by $91,000 or 18% in the first six months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007.The decrease was primarily attributable to some intangible assets reaching full amortization partially offset by an increase from the cost and number of new patents being amortized.
     Litigation Conclusions and Patent License — There were no litigation conclusions and patent license items for the second quarter of 2008 or 2007. There were no litigation conclusions and patent license items for the second six months of 2008. For the same period in 2007, the $134.9 million is comprised of $119.9 million related to Sony Computer Entertainment and $15.0 million related to the release of the Microsoft long-term customer advance.
     In March 2007, we concluded our patent infringement litigation against Sony Computer Entertainment at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In satisfaction of the Amended Judgment, we received funds totaling $97.3 million, inclusive of

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the award for past damages, pre-judgment interest and costs, and post-judgment interest. Additionally, we retained $32.4 million of compulsory license fees and interest thereon previously paid to us by Sony Computer Entertainment pursuant to court orders. As of March 19, 2007, both parties entered into an agreement whereby we granted Sony Computer Entertainment and certain of its affiliates a worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive license under our patents that have issued, may issue, or claim a priority date before March 2017 for the going forward use, development, manufacture, sale, lease, importation, and distribution of its current and past PlayStation and related products. The license does not cover adult, foundry, medical, automotive, industrial, mobility, or gambling products. Subject to the terms of the agreement, we also granted Sony Computer Entertainment and certain of its affiliates certain other licenses (relating to PlayStation games, backward compatibility of future consoles, and the use of their licensed products with certain third party products), an option to obtain licenses in the future with respect to future gaming products and certain releases and covenants not to sue. Sony Computer Entertainment granted us certain covenants not to sue and agreed to pay us twelve quarterly installments of $1.875 million (for a total of $22.5 million) beginning on March 31, 2007 and ending on December 31, 2009, and may pay us certain other fees and royalty amounts. In total, we will receive a minimum of $152.2 million through the conclusion of the litigation and the separate patent license. In accordance with the guidance from EITF No. 00-21, we allocated the present value of the total payments, equal to $149.9 million, between each element based on their relative fair values. Under this allocation, we recorded $119.9 million as litigation conclusions and patent license income and the remaining $30.0 million was allocated to deferred license revenue. We recorded $749,000 as revenue for each of the three months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007. We recorded $1.5 million and $856,000 as revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007, respectively. At June 30, 2008, we had recorded $3.9 million of the $30.0 million as revenue and will record the remaining $26.1 million as revenue, on a straight-line basis, over the remaining capture period of the patents licensed, ending March 19, 2017. We have accounted for future payments in accordance with APB No. 21. Under APB No. 21, we determined the present value of the $22.5 million future payments to equal $20.2 million. We are accounting for the difference of $2.3 million as interest income as each $1.875 million quarterly payment installment becomes due.
     Under the terms of a series of agreements that we entered into with Microsoft in 2003, in the event we had elected to settle the action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entitled Immersion Corporation v. Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Inc., Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Microsoft Corporation, Case No. C02-00710 CW (WDB), as such action pertains to Sony Computer Entertainment, and grant certain rights, we would be obligated to pay Microsoft a minimum of $15.0 million for amounts up to $100.0 million received from Sony Computer Entertainment, plus 25% of amounts over $100.0 million up to $150.0 million, and 17.5% of amounts over $150.0 million. The patent infringement litigation with Sony Computer Entertainment was concluded in March 2007 at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit without settlement. We determined that the conclusion of our litigation with Sony Computer Entertainment did not trigger any payment obligations under our Microsoft agreements. Accordingly, the liability of $15.0 million that was in the financial statements at December 31, 2006 was extinguished, and we accounted for this sum during 2007 as litigation conclusions and patent license income. However, in a letter sent to us dated May 1, 2007, Microsoft disputed our position and stated that it believes we owe Microsoft at least $27.5 million, which it increased to $35.6 million at a court ordered mediation meeting on December 11, 2007. On June 18, 2007, Microsoft filed a complaint against us in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging one claim for breach of a contract. We dispute Microsoft’s allegations and intend to vigorously defend ourselves. See Contingencies Note 14 to the condensed consolidated financial statements. The results of any litigation are inherently uncertain, and there can be no assurance that our position will prevail.
     Interest and Other Income — Interest and other income consist primarily of interest income and dividend income from cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments. Interest and other income decreased by $911,000 in the second quarter of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. This was primarily the result of decreased interest income due to reduced interest rates on cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments.
     Interest and other income increased by $235,000 in the first six months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. This improvement was primarily the result of additional interest income earned on increased cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments and gain on the sale of short-term investments, partially offset by reduced interest rates on interest earned on cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments.
     Interest Expense — Interest expense consisted primarily of interest and accretion expense on our 5% Convertible Debentures. Interest expense decreased by $407,000 in the second quarter of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007 due to the conversion and redemption of our 5% Convertible Debentures during the third quarter of 2007. Interest expense decreased by $813,000 in the first six months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007 due to the conversion and redemption of our 5% Convertible Debentures during the third quarter of 2007.
     Provision for Income Taxes — Based on the second quarter of 2008 pre-tax loss of $4.7 million and future projections, we recorded a benefit for income taxes for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 of $1.6 million, yielding an effective tax rate of 34.4%. For the three months ended June 30, 2007, we recorded a benefit for income taxes of $1.5 million on a pre-tax loss of $1.3 million, yielding an effective tax rate of 113.3%.

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     The income tax benefit for the three months ended June 30, 2008 and June 30, 2007 were arrived at as a result of applying the estimated annual effective tax rate to cumulative loss before taxes, adjusted for certain discrete items that are fully recognized in the period they occur.
     Based on the first six months of 2008 pre-tax loss of $8.3 million and future projections, we recorded a benefit for income taxes for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 of $2.6 million, yielding an effective tax rate of 31.7%. For the first six months of 2007, we recorded a provision for income taxes of $13.6 million on a pre-tax profit of $129.6 million, yielding an effective tax rate of 10.5 %.
     The income tax benefit for the six months ended June 30, 2008 is arrived at as a result of applying the estimated annual effective tax rate to cumulative loss before taxes, adjusted for certain discrete items that are fully recognized in the period they occur. The provision for income taxes for the six months ended June 30, 2007, which were previously fully reserved, is primarily reflective of federal and state tax expense as a result of our pre-tax income of $129.6 million mainly due to the litigation conclusions and patent license from Sony Computer Entertainment, see Note 9 to the condensed consolidated financial statements. For the six months ended June 30, 2007, the effective tax rate differs from the statutory rate primarily due to the significant reduction in our valuation allowance against deferred tax assets as we used the majority of our net operating loss carryforwards against taxable income.
SEGMENT RESULTS FOR THE THREE AND SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2008 AND 2007
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2008     2007     2008     2007  
    (In thousands)     (In thousands)  
Revenues:
                               
 
                               
Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial
  $ 5,012     $ 4,474     $ 10,200     $ 8,232  
Immersion Medical
    4,301       4,147       7,309       6,804  
Intersegment eliminations
          (26 )     (41 )     (27 )
 
                       
Total
  $ 9,313     $ 8,595     $ 17,468     $ 15,009  
 
                       
 
                               
Net Income (Loss):
                               
Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial
  $ (2,647 )   $ 152     $ (4,056 )   $ 116,847  
Immersion Medical
    (456 )     23       (1,615 )     (839 )
Intersegment eliminations
    12       1       (5 )     6  
 
                       
Total
  $ (3,091 )   $ 176     $ (5,676 )   $ 116,014  
 
                       
 
*   Segment assets and expenses relating to our corporate operations are not allocated but are included in Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial as that is how they are considered for management evaluation purposes. As a result the segment information may not be indicative of the financial position or results of operations that would have been achieved had these segments operated as unaffiliated entities.
     Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial segment — Revenues from the Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial segment were $5.0 million, an increase of $538,000 or 12% in the second quarter of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. Royalty and license revenues increased by $423,000 mainly due to the shipment of VibeTonz-enabled phones by LG Electronics that began in the second quarter of 2007; the signing of a new license contract with mobile device manufacturer Nokia that began after the end of the second quarter of 2007; additional royalty and license revenue from newer gaming licensees; and the increase in sales of new products from third-party gaming licensees. This increase in royalty and license revenue was partially offset by decreased touch interface product royalties from the recognition of certain automotive royalty payments in the second quarter of 2007 that did not recur. Product sales increased by $108,000 primarily due to additional touch interface products sales of touchscreen and touch panel components and force feedback electronics for arcade gaming. Net loss for the three months ended June 30, 2008 was $2.6 million, an increase of $2.8 million compared to the same period in 2007. The increase was primarily due to an increase in general and administrative expenses of $1.7 million, a decrease in interest and other income of $915,000 mainly due to reduced interest rates, an increase in sales and marketing expenses of $766,000, and an increase of research and development expenses of $294,000. The increases to the net loss were partially offset by a decrease in interest expense of $407,000 due to the conversion and redemption of our 5% Convertible Debentures, higher gross margin of

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$283,000 mainly from increased royalty and license revenue and product sales, and decreased provision for income taxes of $119,000.
     Revenues from the Immersion Computing, Entertainment, and Industrial segment were $10.2 million, an increase of $2.0 million or 24% in the first six months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. Royalty and license revenues increased by $1.7 million, mainly due to the shipment of VibeTonz-enabled phones by LG Electronics that began after the second quarter of 2007; the signing of a new license contract with mobile device manufacturer Nokia at the end of the second quarter of 2007; and new royalty and license revenue from Sony Computer Entertainment, partially offset by decreased touch interface product royalties from the recognition of certain automotive royalty payments in the second quarter of 2007 that did not recur. Product sales increased by $420,000 primarily due to increased 3D product sales mainly due to increased sales of our CyberForce, CyberGlove, CyberGrasp, and MicroScribe products and an increase in product sales from touch interface products primarily due to increased sales of touchscreen and touch panel components and increased sales of force feedback electronics for arcade gaming. Development contract revenue decreased by $126,000 primarily due to reduced touch interface product contract revenue, partially offset by increased revenue on mobile device development contracts and support. Net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2008 was $4.1 million, an increase of $120.9 million compared to the same period in 2007. The increase was primarily due to litigation conclusions and patent license income of $134.9 million ($119.9 million from Sony Computer Entertainment and $15.0 million related to the release of the Microsoft long-term customer advance) occurring in the first six months of 2007 not re-occurring in the first six months of 2008; an increase in general and administrative expenses of $2.6 million; an increase in sales and marketing expenses of $1.3 million; and an increase of research and development expenses of $701,000. The increase to the net loss were partially offset by decreased provision for income taxes of $16.2 million; increased gross margin of $1.3 million mainly from increased sales; and a decrease in interest expense of $814,000 due to the conversion and redemption of our 5% Convertible Debentures; and an increase in interest and other income of $150,000.
     Immersion Medical segment — Revenues from Immersion Medical were $4.3 million, an increase of $154,000 or 4%, for the second quarter of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. The increase was primarily due to an increase of $191,000 in medical development contract revenue offset by a decrease in product sales of $37,000. Net loss for the three months ended June 30, 2008 was $456,000, an increase of $479,000 compared to the same period in 2007. The increase was mainly due to increased sales and marketing expenses of $463,000 as the segment expands international sales and marketing efforts, and increased general and administrative expenses of $256,000. The increased operating expenses were offset in part by increased gross margin of $280,000 primarily due to the increased revenue from higher margin development contracts and an increase in the product sales mix of certain products with lower costs.
     Revenues from Immersion Medical were $7.3 million, an increase of $505,000 or 7%, for the first six months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. The increase was primarily due to an increase of $553,000 in medical development contract revenue offset by reduced product revenue of $49,000. Net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2008 was $1.6 million, an increase of $776,000 or 92% compared to the same period in 2007. The increase was mainly due to increased sales and marketing expenses of $632,000 as the segment expands international sales and marketing efforts, increased general and administrative expenses of $329,000 primarily due to increased litigation costs, and increased research and development expenses of $327,000. The increased operating expenses were offset in part by increased gross margin of $497,000 due to the increased revenue from higher margin development contracts.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
     Our cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments consist primarily of money market funds and highly liquid commercial paper and government agency securities. All of our short-term investments are classified as available-for-sale under the provisions of SFAS No. 115, “Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities.” The securities are stated at market value, with unrealized gains and losses reported as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income, within stockholders’ equity.
     On June 30, 2008, our cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments totaled $129.4 million, a decrease of $8.7 million from $138.1 million on December 31, 2007.
     In March 2007, we concluded our patent infringement litigation against Sony Computer Entertainment at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In satisfaction of the Amended Judgment, we received funds totaling $97.3 million, inclusive of the award for past damages, pre-judgment interest and costs, and post-judgment interest. Additionally, we retained $32.4 million of compulsory license fees and interest thereon previously paid to us by Sony Computer Entertainment pursuant to court orders. Furthermore, we entered into a new business agreement. Under the new business agreement, we are to receive twelve quarterly installments of $1.875 million for a total of $22.5 million beginning on March 31, 2007 and ending on December 31, 2009. As of June 30, 2008, we had received six of these installments.

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     We determined that the conclusion of our litigation with Sony Computer Entertainment did not trigger any payment obligations under our Microsoft agreements as noted in Note 9 to the condensed consolidated financial statements. Accordingly, the liability of $15.0 million that was in the financial statements at December 31, 2006 was extinguished, and we accounted for this sum during 2007 as litigation conclusions and patent license income. However, in a letter sent to us dated May 1, 2007, Microsoft disputed our position and stated that it believes we owe Microsoft at least $27.5 million, which it increased to $35.6 million at a court ordered mediation meeting on December 11, 2007. On June 18, 2007, Microsoft filed a complaint against us in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging one claim for breach of a contract. We dispute Microsoft’s allegations and intend to vigorously defend ourselves. See Contingencies Note 14 to the condensed consolidated financial statements. The results of any litigation are inherently uncertain, and there can be no assurance that our position will prevail.
     Net cash used in operating activities during the six months ended June 30, 2008 was $1.5 million, a change of $88.0 million from the $86.5 million provided during the six months ended June 30, 2007. Cash used in operations during the six months ended June 30, 2008 was primarily the result of a net loss of $5.7 million, a decrease of $1.2 million due to a change in prepaid expenses and other current assets, a decrease of $590,000 due to a change in inventories, a decrease of $475,000 due to a change in deferred income taxes, and a decrease of $319,000 due to a change in income taxes payable. These decreases were offset by a $2.4 million increase due to a change in deferred revenue and customer advances, an increase of $1.2 million due to a change in accrued compensation and other current liabilities, an increase of $290,000 due to a change in accounts payable, and an increase of $175,000 due to a change in accounts receivable. Cash provided by operations during the six months ended June 30, 2008 was also impacted by noncash charges and credits of $2.6 million, including $1.9 million of noncash stock-based compensation, $541,000 in depreciation and amortization, $405,000 in amortization of intangibles, partially offset by a credit of $176,000 from excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation, and an $80,000 realized gain on sales of short-term investments.
     Net cash provided from investing activities during the six months ended June 30, 2008 was $17.2 million, compared to the $26.4 million used in investing activities during the six months ended June 30, 2007, an increase of $43.6 million. Net cash provided by investing activities during the period consisted of an increase in maturities or sales of short-term investments of $52.0 million, partially offset by purchases of short-term investments of $32.1 million; a $1.6 million increase in intangibles and other assets, primarily due to capitalization of external patent filing and application costs; and $1.1 million used to purchase property and equipment.
     Net cash used in financing activities during the six months ended June 30, 2008 was $4.7 million compared to $17.7 million provided during the six months ended June 30, 2007, or a $22.4 million decrease from the prior year. Net cash used in financing activities for the period consisted primarily of purchases of treasury stock of $6.2 million, partially offset by issuances of common stock and exercises of stock options and warrants in the amount of $1.3 million, and an increase of $176,000 from excess tax benefits from tax deductible stock-based compensation.
     We believe that our cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to meet our working capital needs for at least the next twelve months. We have continuing litigation and we will continue to protect and defend our extensive intellectual property portfolio across all business segments which could require ongoing use of our working capital. We anticipate that capital expenditures for the year ended December 31, 2008 will total approximately $2.0 million in connection with anticipated maintenance and upgrades to operations and infrastructure. On November 1, 2007, we announced that our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $50 million of our common stock. During the quarter ended June 30, 2008, we repurchased 718,683 shares for $6.2 million at an average net cost of $8.56 through open market repurchases. Additionally, if we acquire one or more businesses, patents, or products, or invest in other companies, our cash or capital requirements could increase substantially. In the event of such an acquisition, or should any unanticipated circumstances arise that significantly increase our capital requirements, we may elect to raise additional capital through debt or equity financing. Any of these events could result in substantial dilution to our stockholders. Although we expect to be able to raise additional capital if necessary, there is no assurance that such additional capital will be available on terms acceptable to us, if at all.
SUMMARY DISCLOSURES ABOUT CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS AND COMMERCIAL COMMITMENTS
     The following table reflects a summary of our contractual cash obligations and other commercial commitments as of December 31, 2007:
                                 
                    2009 and   2011 and
Contractual Obligations   Total   2008   2010   2012
    (In thousands)
Operating leases
  $ 2,300     $ 1,100     $ 1,191     $ 9  
 
                 
     As discussed in Note 10 to the condensed consolidated financial statements, effective January 1, 2007, we adopted the provisions of FIN48. On June 30, 2008, we had a liability for unrecognized tax benefits totaling approximately $640,000,

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including interest of $13,000. Due to the uncertainties related to these tax matters, we are unable to make a reasonably reliable estimate when cash settlement with a taxing authority will occur. Settlement of such amounts could require the utilization of working capital.
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
     See Note 1 to the condensed consolidated financial statements for information regarding the effect of new accounting pronouncements on our financial statements.
ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
     We are exposed to financial market risks, including changes in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates. Changes in these factors may cause fluctuations in our earnings and cash flows. We evaluate and manage the exposure to these market risks as follows:
     Cash Equivalents and Short-term Investments — We have cash equivalents and short-term investments of $128.2 million as of June 30, 2008. These securities are subject to interest rate fluctuations. An increase in interest rates could adversely affect the market value of our cash equivalents and short-term investments. A hypothetical 100 basis point increase in interest rates would result in an approximate $172,000 decrease in the fair value of our cash equivalents and short-term investments as of June 30, 2008.
     We limit our exposure to interest rate and credit risk by establishing and monitoring clear policies and guidelines for our cash equivalents and short-term investment portfolios. The primary objective of our policies is to preserve principal while at the same time maximizing yields, without significantly increasing risk. Our investment policy limits the maximum weighted average duration of all invested funds to 12 months. Our policy’s guidelines also limit exposure to loss by limiting the sums we can invest in any individual security and restricting investment to securities that meet certain defined credit ratings. We do not use derivative financial instruments in our investment portfolio to manage interest rate risk.
     Foreign Currency Exchange Rates — A substantial majority of our revenue, expense, and capital purchasing activities are transacted in U.S. dollars. However, we do incur certain operating costs for our foreign operations in other currencies but these operations are limited in scope and thus we are not materially exposed to foreign currency fluctuations. Additionally we have some reliance on international and export sales that are subject to the risks of fluctuations in currency exchange rates. Because a substantial majority of our international and export revenues, as well as expenses, are typically denominated in U.S. dollars, a strengthening of the U.S. dollar could cause our products to become relatively more expensive to customers in a particular country, leading to a reduction in sales or profitability in that country. We have no foreign exchange contracts, option contracts, or other foreign currency hedging arrangements.
ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
EVALUATION OF DISCLOSURE CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
     Our management evaluated, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of June 30, 2008. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of June 30, 2008 due to a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting with respect to accounting for income taxes that was initially determined and disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended December 31, 2007.
     The material weakness we disclosed was in the area of accounting for income taxes. Our review and monitoring of the accuracy of the components of the deferred income tax valuation allowances and related stock option deductions, and the review and monitoring of the effective state income tax rate utilized in the determination of state income taxes were not effective in identifying errors in these calculations. This resulted in material adjustments to the previously reported quarterly unaudited financial results as of March 31, 2007 and the cumulative loss amounts for quarterly unaudited financial results as of June 30, 2007, and September 30, 2007. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
     In connection with our plan to remediate this material weakness, we have engaged in, and are continuing to engage in, substantial efforts to improve our internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures related to income tax matters including the following:

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     1. We initiated a search to hire appropriate personnel to enable us to properly account for and disclose income taxes; to design and implement controls to ensure that the rationale for positions taken on certain tax matters will be adequately documented and appropriately communicated to all internal and external members of our tax team; and design and implement controls over the adjustment of the income tax accounts based on the preparation and filing of income tax returns.
     2. We engaged outside consultants to advise us in complex tax accounting areas, to enhance our preparation and review of tax accounting and disclosure and to assist us in the design and implementation of controls over the accounting for income taxes and other tax related matters.
     We believe that these corrective steps, once fully implemented, will sufficiently remediate the material weaknesses described above.
     Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal controls will prevent all error and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any within Immersion, have been detected.
CHANGES IN INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING
     There were no changes to our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended June 30, 2008 that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect our internal control over financial reporting.
PART II
OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
     In re Immersion Corporation
     We are involved in legal proceedings relating to a class action lawsuit filed on November 9, 2001 in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, In re Immersion Corporation Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, No. Civ. 01-9975 (S.D.N.Y.), related to In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, No. 21 MC 92 (S.D.N.Y.). The named defendants are Immersion and three of our current or former officers or directors (the “Immersion Defendants”), and certain underwriters of our November 12, 1999 initial public offering (“IPO”). Subsequently, two of the individual defendants stipulated to a dismissal without prejudice.
     The operative amended complaint is brought on purported behalf of all persons who purchased our common stock from the date of our IPO through December 6, 2000. It alleges liability under Sections 11 and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, on the grounds that the registration statement for the IPO did not disclose that: (1) the underwriters agreed to allow certain customers to purchase shares in the IPO in exchange for excess commissions to be paid to the underwriters; and (2) the underwriters arranged for certain customers to purchase additional shares in the aftermarket at predetermined prices. The complaint also appears to allege that false or misleading analyst reports were issued. The complaint does not claim any specific amount of damages.
     Similar allegations were made in other lawsuits challenging over 300 other initial public offerings and follow-on offerings conducted in 1999 and 2000. The cases were consolidated for pretrial purposes. On February 19, 2003, the District Court ruled on all defendants’ motions to dismiss. The motion was denied as to claims under the Securities Act of 1933 in the case involving us as well as in all other cases (except for 10 cases). The motion was denied as to the claim under Section 10(b) as to us, on the basis that the complaint alleged that we had made acquisition(s) following the IPO. The motion was granted as to the claim under Section 10(b), but denied as to the claim under Section 20(a), as to the remaining individual defendant.
     We and most of the issuer defendants had settled with the plaintiffs. In this settlement, plaintiffs would have dismissed and released all claims against the Immersion Defendants in exchange for a contingent payment by the insurance companies collectively responsible for insuring the issuers in all of the IPO cases, and for the assignment or surrender of certain claims we may have against the underwriters. The Immersion Defendants would not have been required to make any cash payments in the settlement, unless the pro rata amount paid by the insurers in the settlement exceeded the amount of the insurance coverage, a circumstance that we believed was remote. In September 2005, the District Court granted preliminary approval of the settlement.

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The District Court held a hearing to consider final approval of the settlement on April 24, 2006 and took the matter under submission. Subsequently, the Second Circuit vacated the class certification of plaintiffs’ claims against the underwriters in six cases designated as focus or test cases. Miles v. Merrill Lynch & Co. (In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, 471 F.3d 24 (2d Cir. 2006). Thereafter, the District Court ordered a stay of all proceedings in all of the lawsuits pending the outcome of plaintiffs’ petition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for rehearing en banc and resolution of the class certification issue. On April 6, 2007, the Second Circuit denied plaintiffs’ petition for rehearing, but clarified that the plaintiffs may seek to certify a more limited class in the District Court. Accordingly, the parties withdrew the prior settlement, and plaintiffs filed an amended complaint in attempt to comply with the Second Circuit’s ruling. On March 26, 2008, the District Court denied in part and granted in part the motions to dismiss the focus cases on substantially the same grounds as set forth in its prior opinion. There is no guarantee that an amended or renegotiated settlement will be reached, and if reached approved.
     Internet Services LLC Litigation
     On October 20, 2004, ISLLC filed claims against us in its lawsuit against Sony Computer Entertainment in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that we breached a contract with ISLLC by suing Sony Computer Entertainment for patent infringement relating to haptically-enabled software whose topics or images are allegedly age-restricted, for judicial apportionment of damages between ISLLC and us of the damages awarded by the jury, and for a judicial declaration with respect to ISLLC’s rights and duties under agreements with us. On December 29, 2004, the District Court issued an order dismissing ISLLC’s claims against Sony Computer Entertainment with prejudice and dismissing ISLLC’s claims against us without prejudice to ISLLC filing a new complaint “if it can do so in good faith without contradicting, or repeating the deficiency of, its complaint.”
     On January 12, 2005, ISLLC filed Amended Cross-Claims and Counterclaims against us that contained similar claims. ISLLC also realleged counterclaims against Sony Computer Entertainment. On January 28, 2005, we filed a motion to dismiss ISLLC’s Amended Cross-Claims and a motion to strike ISLLC’s Counterclaims against Sony Computer Entertainment. On March 24, 2005 the District Court issued an order dismissing ISLLC’s claims with prejudice as to ISLLC’s claim seeking a declaratory judgment that it is an exclusive licensee under the ‘213 and ‘333 patents and as to ISLLC’s claim seeking “judicial apportionment” of the damages verdict in the Sony Computer Entertainment case. The District Court’s order further dismissed ISLLC’s claims without prejudice as to ISLLC’s breach of contract and unjust enrichment claims.
     ISLLC filed a notice of appeal of the District Court orders with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on April 18, 2005. On April 4, 2007, the Federal Circuit issued its opinion, affirming the District Court orders.
     On February 8, 2006, ISLLC filed a lawsuit against us in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County. ISLLC’s complaint sought a share of the damages awarded to us in the March 24, 2005 Judgment and of the Microsoft settlement proceeds, and generally restated the claims already adjudicated by the District Court. On March 16, 2006, we answered the complaint, cross claimed for declaratory relief, breach of contract by ISLLC, and for rescission of the contract, and removed the lawsuit to federal court. The case was assigned to Judge Wilken in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California as a case related to the previous proceedings involving Sony Computer Entertainment and ISLLC. ISLLC filed its answer to our cross claims on April 27, 2006. ISLLC also moved to remand the case to Superior Court. On July 10, 2006, Judge Wilken issued an order denying ISLLC’s motion to remand. On September 5, 2006, Judge Wilken granted the stipulated request by the parties to stay discovery and other proceedings in the case pending the disposition of ISLLC’s appeal from the District Court’s previous orders. The case was stayed from December 1, 2006 pending the Federal Circuit’s disposition on the appeal. As noted above, the Federal Circuit issued its opinion on April 4, 2007, and entered a judgment affirming the District Court’s previous orders.
     On May 10, 2007, ISLLC filed a motion in the District Court to remand its latest action to the Superior Court or in the alternative for leave to file an amended complaint to remove the declaratory relief claim. We opposed ISLLC’s motion, and cross-moved for judgment on the pleadings on the grounds that ISLLC’s claims are barred by res judicata and collateral estoppel. On June 26, 2007, the District Court ruled on the motions, denying ISLLC’s motion to remand or for leave to file an amended complaint, and granting in part our motion for judgment on the pleadings. The District Court dismissed ISLLC’s claim for declaratory relief. ISLLC’s claims for breach of contract, promissory fraud, and constructive trust, to the extent not inconsistent with the District Court’s previous rulings, remained. On February 20, 2008, ISLLC filed a motion to extend all dates in the matter by ninety (90) days due to circumstances relating to ISLLC’s dealings with a third party, and the possibility that ISLLC’s counsel (Keker & Van Nest) may withdraw in the case. On March 18, 2008, the District Court entered an order denying ISLLC’s request to extend dates.
     On March 24, 2008, ISLLC’s counsel filed a motion to withdraw as counsel. On May 1, 2008, the District Court denied ISLLC’s counsel’s motion to withdraw without prejudice. On May 28, 2008, ISLLC’s counsel renewed its motion to withdraw as ISLLC’s counsel of record. On June 19, 2008, the District Court granted the renewed motion.

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     On April 10, 2008, we filed a motion for summary judgment on ISLLC’s remaining claims for breach of contract, promissory fraud, and constructive trust, as well as our counterclaim for declaratory relief that ISLLC was not entitled to a share of any of court-ordered compulsory license payments we received from Sony Computer Entertainment. On May 16, 2008, the District Court entered an order granting our motion for summary judgment on all of ISLLC’s claims, as well as our counterclaim for declaratory relief. As a result, the only claims remaining in the action are our counterclaims against ISLLC.
     On July 15, 2008, we filed a Motion For Default Judgment Or, In The Alternative, For Order To Show Cause Re Default based on ISLLC’s failure to retain new counsel, and also its failure to comply with certain pretrial orders of the District Court and provide certain discovery. On July 16, 2008 the District Court granted our motion in part and ordered ISLLC to show cause within ten days from the date of the District Court’s order why default judgment should not be entered against ISLLC. After receiving briefing from both parties on July 28, 2008, the District Court discharged the order to show cause. On ISLLC’s motion to continue the trial, the District Court ordered that the jury trial will begin on September 15, 2008.
     We have participated in court-ordered mediation proceedings, which to date have not been successful. We intend to vigorously prosecute our counterclaims against ISLLC.
     Microsoft Corporation v. Immersion Corporation
     On June 18, 2007, Microsoft filed a complaint against us in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging one claim for breach of a contract. Microsoft alleges that we breached a “Sublicense Agreement” executed in connection with the parties’ settlement in 2003 of our claims of patent infringement against Microsoft in Immersion Corporation v. Microsoft Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc., United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Case No. 02-0710-CW). The complaint alleges that Microsoft is entitled to payments that Microsoft contends are due under the Sublicense Agreement as a result of Sony Computer Entertainment’s satisfaction of the judgment in our lawsuit against Sony Computer Entertainment and payment of other sums to us. In a letter sent to us dated May 1, 2007, Microsoft stated that it believes we owe Microsoft at least $27.5 million, which it increased to $35.6 million at a court ordered mediation meeting on December 11, 2007. We were served with the complaint on July 6, 2007. On September 4, 2007, we filed our Answer, Affirmative Defenses and Counterclaims alleging that Microsoft breached its confidentiality obligations by publicly disclosing previously confidential the terms of our business agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment. The parties participated in a court-ordered mediation on December 11, 2007, but were unsuccessful in resolving the matter. On January 10, 2008, Microsoft filed a motion to disqualify our counsel, Irell & Manella LLP on the grounds that one or more attorneys might be witnesses in the proceeding. On March 7, 2008, the District Court issued an Order denying Microsoft’s motion.
     On April 17, 2008, Microsoft filed a motion for partial summary judgment on our counterclaim for breach of the confidentiality agreement between us and Microsoft based on Microsoft’s publication of the March 2007 Sony-Immersion Agreement. On May 6, 2008, we filed our opposition brief, and on May 9, 2008, Microsoft filed its reply brief. On June 10, 2008, the District Court deferred ruling on Microsoft’s motion and requested we present additional information regarding our breach of contract counterclaim, which we did on June 27, 2008. On August 1, 2008, the District Court denied Microsoft’s motion for summary judgment on this matter.
     On June 26, 2008, Microsoft filed a motion for partial summary judgment on Microsoft’s claim for breach of contract. On June 27, 2008 Microsoft filed another motion for partial summary judgment on our affirmative defenses. We filed our opposition to the breach of contract motion on July 17, 2008, and the opposition to the affirmative defense related motion on July 21, 2008. Microsoft’s filed its reply papers on July 25, 2008. In addition to opposing Microsoft’s motions, on July 17, 2008, we filed a motion for partial summary judgment on Microsoft’s allegation that we breached the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing in the 2003 Microsoft-Immersion Sublicense Agreement in connection with our 2007 agreement with Sony. Microsoft filed its opposition to this motion on August 4, 2008, and our reply is due August 8, 2008. The District Court has requested oral arguments on all three motions for partial summary judgment. The District Court has not yet ruled on these motions.
     We dispute Microsoft’s allegations and intend to vigorously defend ourselves.
Immersion Corporation v. Mentice AB, Mentice SA, Simbionix USA Corp., and Simbionix Ltd.
     On April 16, 2008, we announced that our wholly owned subsidiary, Immersion Medical, Inc., filed lawsuits for patent infringement in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Mentice AB, Mentice SA, Simbionix USA Corp., and Simbionix Ltd (collectively the “Defendants”). On July 11, 2008, Mentice AB and Mentice SA (collectively, “Mentice”) answered the complaint by denying the material allegations and alleging counterclaims seeking a judicial declaration

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that the asserted patents were invalid, unenforceable, or not infringed. On July 11, 2008, Simbionix USA Corp. and Simbionix Ltd, (collectively, “Simbionix”) filed a motion to stay or dismiss the lawsuit, and in the alternative, a motion to transfer venue for convenience to Ohio. On August 7, 2008, we filed our opposition to both motions filed by Simbionix.
     We intend to vigorously prosecute this lawsuit.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Company Risks
WE HAD AN ACCUMULATED DEFICIT OF $26 MILLION AS OF JUNE 30, 2008, HAVE A HISTORY OF LOSSES, MAY EXPERIENCE LOSSES IN THE FUTURE, AND MAY NOT ACHIEVE OR MAINTAIN PROFITABILITY IN THE FUTURE.
     Since 1997, we have incurred losses in all but four recent quarters. We need to generate significant ongoing revenue to maintain profitability. We anticipate that our expenses will increase in the foreseeable future as we:
  continue to develop our technologies;
 
  increase our sales and marketing efforts;
 
  attempt to expand the market for touch-enabled technologies and products;
 
  protect and enforce our intellectual property;
 
  pursue strategic relationships;
 
  acquire intellectual property or other assets from third-parties;
 
  invest in systems and processes to manage our business; and
 
  expand international facilities.
     If our revenues grow more slowly than we anticipate or if our operating expenses exceed our expectations, we may not achieve or maintain profitability.
MICROSOFT CORPORATION (“MICROSOFT”) DISPUTES OUR ASSESSMENT THAT WE ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO MAKE ANY PAYMENT UNDER OUR AGREEMENT WITH THEM RELATING TO THE CONCLUSION OF OUR LITIGATION WITH SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT. DEFENDING OUR POSITION MAY BE EXPENSIVE, DISRUPTIVE, AND TIME CONSUMING, AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE ARE SUCCESSFUL, COULD ADVERSELY AFFECT OUR BUSINESS.
     In 2003, we executed a series of agreements with Microsoft as described in Note 9 to the condensed consolidated financial statements that provided for settlement of our lawsuit against Microsoft as well as various licensing, sublicensing, and equity and financing arrangements under the Microsoft agreements. In accordance with the sublicense agreement, in the event that we elected to settle the action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, entitled Immersion Corporation v. Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Inc., Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Microsoft Corporation, Case No. C02-00710 CW (WDB), as such action pertains to Sony Computer Entertainment, and grant certain rights, we would be obligated to pay Microsoft a minimum of $15.0 million for amounts up to $100.0 million received from Sony Computer Entertainment, plus 25% of amounts over $100.0 million up to $150.0 million, and 17.5% of amounts over $150.0 million. In March 2007, we announced the conclusion of our patent infringement litigation against Sony Computer Entertainment at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Sony Computer Entertainment satisfied the District Court judgment against it. As of March 19, 2007, we and Sony Computer Entertainment entered into a new business agreement. We determined that we are not obligated under our agreements with Microsoft to make any payment to it relating to the conclusion of our litigation with Sony Computer Entertainment. However, in a letter sent to us dated May 1, 2007, Microsoft disputed our position and stated that it believes we owe Microsoft at least $27.5 million, which it increased to $35.6 million at a court ordered mediation meeting on December 11, 2007. Further, on June 18, 2007, Microsoft filed a complaint against us in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging we are in breach of our contract with Microsoft, and that it is entitled to a share of the judgment monies and other sums we received from Sony Computer Entertainment. We dispute Microsoft’s allegations and intend to

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vigorously defend ourselves in the lawsuit. The results of any litigation are inherently uncertain, and there can be no assurance that our position will prevail. The Company has not accrued any loss related to these allegations. The range of reasonable possible loss is from zero to $35.6 million.
OUR CURRENT LITIGATION UNDERTAKINGS ARE EXPENSIVE, DISRUPTIVE, AND TIME CONSUMING, AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE, UNTIL RESOLVED, AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE ARE ULTIMATELY SUCCESSFUL, COULD ADVERSELY AFFECT OUR BUSINESS.
     We are involved in litigation with Internet Services, LLC (ISLLC) involving claims for breach of contract and rescission against ISLLC in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
     We are also involved in litigation against Microsoft, as noted above.
     We are involved in legal proceedings relating to a class action lawsuit filed on November 9, 2001, related to In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation. The named defendants are Immersion and three of our current or former officers or directors and certain underwriters of our November 12, 1999 IPO. Subsequently, two of the individual defendants stipulated to a dismissal without prejudice. We and most of the issuer defendants had settled with the plaintiffs. However, the settlement offer has subsequently been withdrawn.
     Our wholly owned subsidiary, Immersion Medical, Inc., filed lawsuits for patent infringement against Mentice AB, Mentice SA, Simbionix USA Corp., and Simbionix Ltd in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
     Due to the inherent uncertainties of litigation, we cannot accurately predict how these cases will ultimately be resolved. We anticipate that the litigation will continue to be costly, and there can be no assurance that we will be successful or able to recover the costs we incur in connection with the litigation. We expense litigation costs as incurred, and only accrue for costs that have been incurred but not paid to the vendor as of the financial statement date. Litigation has diverted, and is likely to continue to divert, the efforts and attention of some of our key management and personnel. As a result, until such time as it is resolved, litigation could adversely affect our business. Further, any unfavorable outcome could adversely affect our business. For additional background on litigation, please see Note 14 to the condensed consolidated financial statements and the section titled Item 1. “Legal Proceedings.”
LITIGATION REGARDING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS COULD BE EXPENSIVE, DISRUPTIVE, AND TIME CONSUMING; COULD RESULT IN THE IMPAIRMENT OR LOSS OF PORTIONS OF OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; AND COULD ADVERSELY AFFECT OUR BUSINESS.
     Intellectual property litigation, whether brought by us or by others against us, has caused us to expend, and may cause us to expend in future periods, significant financial resources as well as divert management’s time and efforts. From time to time, we initiate claims against third parties that we believe infringe our intellectual property rights. We intend to enforce our intellectual property rights vigorously and may initiate litigation against parties that we believe are infringing our intellectual property rights if we are unable to resolve matters satisfactorily through negotiation. Litigation brought to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights could be costly, time-consuming, and distracting to management and could result in the impairment or loss of portions of our intellectual property. In addition, any litigation in which we are accused of infringement may cause product shipment delays, require us to develop non-infringing technologies, or require us to enter into royalty or license agreements even before the issue of infringement has been decided on the merits. If any litigation were not resolved in our favor, we could become subject to substantial damage claims from third parties and indemnification claims from our licensees. We could be enjoined from the continued use of the technologies at issue without a royalty or license agreement. Royalty or license agreements, if required, might not be available on acceptable terms, or at all. If a third party claiming infringement against us prevailed, and we may not be able to develop non-infringing technologies or license the infringed or similar technologies on a timely and cost-effective basis, our expenses could increase and our revenues could decrease.
     We attempt to avoid infringing known proprietary rights of third parties. However, third parties may hold, or may in the future be issued, patents that could be infringed by our products or technologies. Any of these third parties might make a claim of infringement against us with respect to the products that we manufacture and the technologies that we license. From time to time, we have received letters from companies, several of which have significantly greater financial resources than we do, asserting that some of our technologies, or those of our licensees, infringe their intellectual property rights. Certain of our licensees may receive similar letters from these or other companies from time to time. Such letters or subsequent litigation may influence our licensees’ decisions whether to ship products incorporating our technologies. In addition, such letters may cause a dispute between our licensees and us over indemnification for the infringement claim. Any of these notices, or additional notices that we or our licensees could receive in the future from these or other companies, could lead to litigation against us, either regarding the infringement claim or the indemnification claim.
     We have acquired patents from third parties and also license some technologies from third parties. We must rely upon the owners of the patents or the technologies for information on the origin and ownership of the acquired or licensed technologies. As a result, our exposure to infringement claims may increase. We generally obtain representations as to the origin and ownership of acquired or licensed technologies and indemnification to cover any breach of these representations. However, representations may not be accurate and indemnification may not provide adequate compensation for breach of the representations. Intellectual property claims against our licensees, or us, whether or not they have merit, could be time-consuming to defend, cause product

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shipment delays, require us to pay damages, harm existing license arrangements, or require us or our licensees to cease utilizing the technologies unless we can enter into licensing agreements. Licensing agreements might not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all. Furthermore, claims by third parties against our licensees could also result in claims by our licensees against us for indemnification.
     The legal principles applicable to patents and patent licenses continue to change and evolve. Legislation and judicial decisions that make it easier for patent licensees to challenge the validity, enforceability, or infringement of patents, or make it more difficult for patent licensors to obtain a permanent injunction, obtain enhanced damages for willful infringement, or to obtain or enforce patents, may adversely affect our business and the value of our patent portfolio. Furthermore, our prospects for future revenue growth through our royalty and licensing based businesses could be diminished.
WE ARE SUBJECT TO THE RISK OF ADDITIONAL LITIGATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE RESTATEMENT OF OUR CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND THE POTENTIAL LIABILITY FROM ANY SUCH LITIGATION COULD MATERIALLY AND ADVERSELY AFFECT OUR BUSINESS.
     We announced that we restated our condensed consolidated financial statements for the quarterly periods ended March 31, 2007, June 30, 2007, and September 30, 2007. We have restated the condensed consolidated financial statements for the six months ended June 30, 2007 in this report. See Note 15 to the condensed consolidated statements. We plan to restate the 2007 third quarter condensed consolidated financial statements prospectively when we file our 2008 third quarter condensed consolidated financial statements on Form 10-Q. As a result of the restatement of our condensed consolidated financial statements, we could become subject to purported class action, derivative, or other securities litigation. As of the date hereof, we are not aware of any such litigation having been commenced against us related to these matters, but we cannot predict whether any such litigation will be commenced or, if it is, the outcome of any such litigation. The initiation of any such securities litigation may harm our business and financial condition.
THE TERMS IN OUR AGREEMENTS MAY BE CONSTRUED BY OUR LICENSEES IN A MANNER THAT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE RIGHTS THAT WE HAVE GRANTED TO OTHER LICENSEES, OR IN A MANNER THAT MAY REQUIRE US TO INCUR SUBSTANTIAL COSTS TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS OVER LICENSE TERMS.
     We have entered into, and we expect to continue to enter into, agreements pursuant to which our licensees are granted rights under our technology and intellectual property. These rights may be granted in certain fields of use, or with respect to certain market sectors or product categories, and may include exclusive rights or sublicensing rights. We refer to the license terms and restrictions in our agreements, including, but not limited to, field of use definitions, market sector, and product category definitions, collectively as “License Provisions.”
     Due to the continuing evolution of market sectors, product categories, and licensee business models, and to the compromises inherent in the drafting and negotiation of License Provisions, our licensees may, at some time during the term of their agreements with us, interpret License Provisions in their agreements in a way that is different from our interpretation of such License Provisions, or in a way that is in conflict with the rights that we have granted to other licensees. Such interpretations by our licensees may lead to claims that we have granted rights to one licensee which are inconsistent with the rights that we have granted to another licensee.
     In addition, after we enter into an agreement, it is possible that markets and/or products, or legal and/or regulatory environments, will evolve in a manner that we did not foresee or was not foreseeable at the time we entered into the agreement. As a result, in any agreement, we may have granted rights that will preclude or restrict our exploitation of new opportunities that arise after the execution of the agreement.
PRODUCT LIABILITY CLAIMS COULD BE TIME-CONSUMING AND COSTLY TO DEFEND AND COULD EXPOSE US TO LOSS.
     Our products or our licensees’ products may have flaws or other defects that may lead to personal or other injury claims. If products that we or our licensees sell cause personal injury, property injury, financial loss, or other injury to our or our licensees’ customers, the customers or our licensees may seek damages or other recovery from us. Any claims against us would be time-consuming, expensive to defend, and distracting to management, and could result in damages and injure our reputation, the reputation of our technology and services, and/or the reputation of our products, or the reputation of our licensees or their products. This damage could limit the market for our and our licensees’ products and harm our results of operations.
     In the past, manufacturers of peripheral products including certain gaming products such as joysticks, wheels, or gamepads, have been subject to claims alleging that use of their products has caused or contributed to various types of repetitive stress injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome. We have not experienced any product liability claims to date. Although our license agreements typically contain provisions designed to limit our exposure to product liability claims, existing or future laws or unfavorable judicial decisions could limit or invalidate the provisions.

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IF OUR FACILITIES WERE TO EXPERIENCE CATASTROPHIC LOSS, OUR OPERATIONS WOULD BE SERIOUSLY HARMED.
     Our facilities could be subject to a catastrophic loss such as fire, flood, earthquake, power outage, or terrorist activity. A substantial portion of our research and development activities, manufacturing, our corporate headquarters, and other critical business operations are located near major earthquake faults in San Jose, California, an area with a history of seismic events. An earthquake at or near our facilities could disrupt our operations, delay production and shipments of our products or technologies, and result in large expenses to repair and replace the facility. While we believe that we maintain insurance sufficient to cover most long-term potential losses at our facilities, our existing insurance may not be adequate for all possible losses. In addition, California has experienced problems with its power supply in recent years. As a result, we have experienced utility cost increases and may experience unexpected interruptions in our power supply that could have a material adverse effect on our sales, results of operations, and financial condition.
Industry and Technology Risks
WE HAVE LITTLE OR NO CONTROL OR INFLUENCE ON OUR LICENSEES’ DESIGN, MANUFACTURING, PROMOTION, DISTRIBUTION, OR PRICING OF THEIR PRODUCTS INCORPORATING OUR TOUCH-ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES, UPON WHICH WE GENERATE ROYALTY REVENUE.
     A key part of our business strategy is to license our intellectual property to companies that manufacture and sell products incorporating our touch-enabling technologies. Sales of those products generate royalty and license revenue for us. For the three months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007, 34% and 32%, respectively, of our total revenues were royalty and license revenues. For the six months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007, 38% and 33%, respectively, of our total revenues were royalty and license revenues. However, we do not control or influence the design, manufacture, quality control, promotion, distribution, or pricing of products that are manufactured and sold by our licensees, nor can we control consolidation within an industry which could either reduce the number of licensing products available or reduce royalty rates for the combined licensees. In addition, we generally do not have commitments from our licensees that they will continue to use our technologies in current or future products. As a result, products incorporating our technologies may not be brought to market, meet quality control standards, achieve commercial acceptance, or generate meaningful royalty revenue for us. For us to generate royalty revenue, licensees that pay us per-unit royalties must manufacture and distribute products incorporating our touch-enabling technologies in a timely fashion and generate consumer demand through marketing and other promotional activities. Products incorporating our touch-enabling technologies are generally more difficult to design and manufacture, which may cause product introduction delays or quality control problems. If our licensees fail to stimulate and capitalize upon market demand for products that generate royalties for us, or if products are recalled because of quality control problems, our revenues will not grow and could decline. Alternatively, if a product that incorporates our touch-enabling technologies achieves widespread market acceptance, the product manufacturer may elect to stop paying us, attempt to design around our intellectual property, challenge our intellectual property, or stop making it rather than pay us royalties based on sales of the product.
     Peak demand for products that incorporate our technologies, especially in the video console gaming and computer gaming peripherals market, typically occurs in the fourth calendar quarter as a result of increased demand during the year-end holiday season. If our licensees do not ship products incorporating our touch-enabling technologies in a timely fashion or fail to achieve strong sales in the fourth quarter of the calendar year, we may not receive related royalty and license revenue.
     A significant portion of our gaming royalty revenues come from third-party peripheral makers who make licensed gaming products designed for use with popular video game console systems from Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. Video game console systems are closed, proprietary systems, and video game console system makers typically impose certain requirements or restrictions on third-party peripheral makers who wish to make peripherals that will be compatible with a particular video game console system. These requirements and restrictions could be in the form of hardware technical specifications, software technical specifications, security specifications or other security mechanisms, component vendor specifications, licensing fees and/or terms and conditions, or other forms. If third-party peripheral makers cannot or are not allowed to obtain or satisfy these requirements or restrictions, our gaming royalty revenues could be significantly reduced. Furthermore, should a significant video game console maker choose to omit touch-enabling capabilities from its console system or somehow restrict or impede the ability of third parties to make touch-enabling peripherals, it may very well lead our gaming licensees to stop making products with touch-enabling capabilities, thereby significantly reducing our gaming royalty revenues.
     Under the terms of our agreement with Sony, Sony receives a royalty-free license to our worldwide portfolio of patents. This license permits Sony to make, use, and sell hardware, software, and services covered by our patents in its PS1, PS2, and PS3 systems for a fixed license payment. The PS3 console system was launched in late 2006 in the United States and Japan without force feedback capability. Sony has since released new PS3 controllers with vibration feedback. We do not know to what extent Sony will allow third-party peripheral makers to make licensed PS3 gaming products with vibration feedback to interface with the PS3 console. To the extent Sony does not license market-leading third-party controller makers to make PS3 controllers with vibration feedback, our licensing revenue from third-party PS3 peripherals will continue to be severely limited. Sony continues to sell the PS2, and our third party licensees continue to sell licensed PS2 peripherals. However, sales of PS2 peripherals continue

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to decline as more consumers switch to the PS3 console system and other next-generation console systems like the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360.
     Both the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii include touch-enabling capabilities. For the Microsoft Xbox 360 video console system launched in November 2005, Microsoft has, to date, not yet broadly licensed third parties to produce peripherals for its Xbox 360 game console. To the extent Microsoft does not fully license third parties, Microsoft’s share of all aftermarket Xbox 360 game controller sales will likely remain high or increase, which we expect will limit our gaming royalty revenue. Additionally, Microsoft is now making touch-enabled steering wheel products covered by their royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to our worldwide portfolio of patents that could compete with our licensees’ current products for which we earn per unit royalties.
BECAUSE WE HAVE A FIXED PAYMENT LICENSE WITH MICROSOFT, OUR ROYALTY REVENUE FROM LICENSING IN THE GAMING MARKET AND OTHER CONSUMER MARKETS HAS DECLINED AND MAY FURTHER DO SO IF MICROSOFT INCREASES ITS VOLUME OF SALES OF TOUCH-ENABLED GAMING PRODUCTS AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR OTHER LICENSEES.
     Under the terms of our present agreement with Microsoft, Microsoft receives a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to our worldwide portfolio of patents. This license permits Microsoft to make, use, and sell hardware, software, and services, excluding specified products, covered by our patents. We will not receive any further revenues or royalties from Microsoft under our current agreement with Microsoft. Microsoft has a significant share of the market for touch-enabled console gaming computer peripherals and is pursuing other consumer markets such as mobile phones, PDAs, and portable music players. Microsoft has significantly greater financial, sales, and marketing resources, as well as greater name recognition and a larger customer base than some of our other licensees. In the event that Microsoft increases its share of these markets, our royalty revenue from other licensees in these market segments might decline.
WE GENERATE REVENUES FROM TOUCH-ENABLING COMPONENTS THAT ARE SOLD AND INCORPORATED INTO THIRD-PARTY PRODUCTS. WE HAVE LITTLE OR NO CONTROL OR INFLUENCE OVER THE DESIGN, MANUFACTURE, PROMOTION, DISTRIBUTION, OR PRICING OF THOSE THIRD-PARTY PRODUCTS.
     Part of our business strategy is to sell components that provide touch feedback capability in products that other companies design, manufacture, and sell. Sales of these components generate product revenue. However, we do not control or influence the design, manufacture, quality control, promotion, distribution, or pricing of products that are manufactured and sold by those customers that buy these components. In addition, we generally do not have commitments from customers that they will continue to use our components in current or future products. As a result, products incorporating our components may not be brought to market, meet quality control standards, or achieve commercial acceptance. If the customers fail to stimulate and capitalize upon market demand for their products that include our components, or if products are recalled because of quality control problems, our revenues will not grow and could decline.
LAERDAL MEDICAL CORPORATION (“LAERDAL”) ACCOUNTS FOR A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF OUR REVENUES AND A REDUCTION IN SALES TO LAERDAL MAY REDUCE OUR TOTAL REVENUE.
     Laerdal accounts for a significant portion of our revenue. For the three months ended June 30, 2008, and 2007, 13% and 12%, respectively, of our total revenues were derived from Laerdal. For the six months ended June 30, 2008, and 2007, 12% and 12%, respectively, of our total revenues were derived from Laerdal. If our product sales to Laerdal decline, then our total revenue may decline.
MEDTRONIC ACCOUNTS FOR A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF OUR REVENUES AND A REDUCTION IN SALES TO MEDTRONIC, OR A REDUCTION IN DEVELOPMENT WORK FOR MEDTRONIC, MAY REDUCE OUR TOTAL REVENUE.
     Medtronic accounts for a significant portion of our revenue. For the three months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007, 8% and 11%, respectively, of our total revenues were derived from Medtronic. For the six months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007 9% and 9%, respectively, of our total revenues were derived from Medtronic. If our product sales to Medtronic decline, and/or Medtronic reduces the development activities we perform, then our total revenue may decline.
TOUCH INTERFACE PRODUCT ROYALTIES WILL BE REDUCED IF BMW WERE TO ABANDON ITS IDRIVE SYSTEM OR REMOVE OUR TECHNOLOGY FROM ITS DRIVER CONTROL SYSTEMS.
     Our largest royalty stream from touch interface products is currently from BMW for its iDrive controller and driver control systems. Press reviews of this controller have been largely negative and critical of the controller’s complex user interface and while we designed the touch-enabled controller, we did not design the complex graphical user interface. Nevertheless, this negative press may cause BMW to abandon the iDrive controller or to redesign it and/or remove our technology from it at any time. If our technology is not incorporated in BMW vehicles our business may suffer.

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WE DEPEND ON THIRD-PARTY SUPPLIERS, AND OUR REVENUE AND/OR RESULTS OF OPERATIONS COULD SUFFER IF WE FAIL TO MANAGE SUPPLIER ISSUES PROPERLY.
     Our operations depend on our ability to anticipate our needs for components and products for a wide variety of systems, products, and services, and on our suppliers’ ability to deliver sufficient quantities of quality components, products, and services at reasonable prices in time for us to meet critical schedules. We may experience a shortage of, or a delay in receiving, certain supplies as a result of strong demand, capacity constraints, supplier financial weaknesses, disputes with suppliers, political instability, other problems experienced by suppliers, or problems faced during the transition to new suppliers. If shortages or delays persist, the price of these supplies may increase, we may be exposed to quality issues, or the supplies may not be available at all. We may not be able to secure enough supplies at reasonable prices or of acceptable quality to build products or provide services in a timely manner in the quantities or according to the specifications needed. We could lose time-sensitive sales, incur additional freight costs, or be unable to pass on price increases to our customers. If we cannot adequately address supply issues, we might have to reengineer some products or service offerings, resulting in further costs and delays. We purchase certain products from a limited source in China. If the supply of these products is delayed or constrained, or is of insufficient quality, our ability to ship these products could be delayed, which could harm our business, financial condition, and operating results.
     Additionally, our use of single source suppliers for certain components could exacerbate our supplier issues. We obtain a significant number of components from single sources due to technology, availability, price, quality, or other considerations. In addition, new products that we introduce may use custom components obtained from only one source initially, until we have evaluated whether there is a need for additional suppliers. The performance of such single source suppliers may affect the quality, quantity, and price of supplies to us. Accordingly, our revenue and/or results of operations could be adversely impacted by such events.
COMPLIANCE WITH NEW DIRECTIVES THAT RESTRICT THE USE OF CERTAIN MATERIALS MAY INCREASE OUR COSTS AND LIMIT OUR REVENUE OPPORTUNITIES.
     On July 1, 2006, the European Union’s RoHS Directive became effective. This Directive eliminates most uses of lead, cadmium, hexavalent-chromium, mercury, and certain fire retardants in electronics placed on the market after the effective date. Since the introduction of the European Union’s RoHS Directive, other regions of the world have announced or implemented similar regulations. In order to sell products into regions that adopt these or similar regulations, we have to assess each product and determine whether they comply with the requirements of the regulations or whether they are exempt from meeting the requirements of the regulations. If we determine that a product is not exempt and does not comply with adopted regulations, we will have to make changes to the product or its documentation if we want to sell that product into the region once the regulations become effective. Making such changes may be costly to perform and may have a negative impact on our results of operations. In addition, there can be no assurance that the national enforcement bodies of the regions adopting such regulations will agree with our assessment that certain of our products and documentation comply with or are exempt from the regulations. If products are determined not to be compliant or exempt, we will not be able to ship them in the region that adopts such regulations until such time that they are compliant, and this may have a negative impact on our revenue and results of operations.
     In addition, our products or packaging may not meet all safety, electrical, labeling, marking, or other requirements of all countries into which we ship products or our resellers sell our products. We attempt to comply with all known laws and regulations governing product sales into the countries we ship products. However, if products are determined not to be compliant or exempt, we will not be able to ship them in the region that has such regulations until such time that they are compliant, and this may have a negative impact on our revenue and results of operations. There is also the possibility of fines and legal costs as well as costs associated with a product recall if products or packaging are found not to meet the requirements.
BECAUSE PERSONAL COMPUTER PERIPHERAL PRODUCTS THAT INCORPORATE OUR TOUCH-ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES CURRENTLY WORK WITH MICROSOFT’S OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE, OUR COSTS COULD INCREASE AND OUR REVENUES COULD DECLINE IF MICROSOFT MODIFIES ITS OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE.
     Our hardware and software technologies for personal computer peripheral products that incorporate our touch-enabling technologies are currently compatible with Microsoft’s Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, and Windows Vista operating systems, including DirectX, Microsoft’s entertainment API. Modifications and new versions of Microsoft’s operating system and APIs (including DirectX and Windows 7) may require that we and/or our licensees modify the touch-enabling technologies to be compatible with Microsoft’s modifications or new versions, and this could cause delays in the release of products by our licensees. If Microsoft modifies its software products in ways that limit the use of our other licensees’ products, our costs could increase and our revenues could decline.
     In addition, Microsoft announced that its new product, Windows 7 will feature a new multi-touch input function, allowing users to use multiple fingers simultaneously to interact with touch surfaces. Enabling multi-location touch-feedback will require us to innovate on the hardware and software sides, enable Windows 7 API’s with multi-touch output support, and work with our licensees and third parties to integrate such features. There are feasibility risks both on the hardware and software sides, and may be potential delays in the revenue growth of haptically-enabled multi touch surfaces.

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IF WE ARE UNABLE TO DEVELOP OPEN SOURCE COMPLIANT PRODUCTS, OUR ABILITY TO LICENSE OUR TECHNOLOGIES AND GENERATE REVENUES WOULD BE IMPAIRED.
     We have seen, and believe that we will continue to see, an increase in customers requesting that we develop products that will operate in an “open source” environment. Developing open source compliant products, without imperiling the intellectual property rights upon which our licensing business depends, may prove difficult under certain circumstances, thereby placing us at a competitive disadvantage for new product designs. As a result, our revenues may not grow and could decline.
REDUCED SPENDING BY CORPORATE OR UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENTS MAY ADVERSELY AFFECT SALES OF OUR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRODUCTS.
     Any economic downturn could lead to a reduction in corporate or university budgets for research and development in sectors, including the automotive and aerospace sectors, which use our three-dimensional and professional products. Sales of our three-dimensional and professional products, including our CyberGlove line of whole-hand sensing products and our MicroScribe line of digitizers, could be adversely affected by cuts in corporate research and development budgets.
COMPETITION BETWEEN OUR PRODUCTS AND OUR LICENSEES’ PRODUCTS MAY REDUCE OUR REVENUE.
     Rapid technological change, short product life cycles, cyclical market patterns, declining average selling prices, and increasing foreign and domestic competition characterize the markets in which we and our licensees compete. We believe that competition in these markets will continue to be intense and that competitive pressures will drive the price of our products and our licensees’ products downward. These price reductions, if not offset by increases in unit sales or productivity, will cause our revenues to decline.
     We face competition from unlicensed products as well. Our licensees or other third parties may seek to develop products using our intellectual property or develop alternative designs that attempt to circumvent our intellectual property or that they believe do not require a license under our intellectual property. These potential competitors may have significantly greater financial, technical, and marketing resources than we do, and the costs associated with asserting our intellectual property rights against such products and such potential competitors could be significant. Moreover, if such alternative designs were determined by a court not to require a license under our intellectual property rights, competition from such unlicensed products could limit or reduce our revenues.
THE MARKET FOR CERTAIN TOUCH-ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES AND TOUCH-ENABLED PRODUCTS IS AT AN EARLY STAGE AND IF MARKET DEMAND DOES NOT DEVELOP, WE MAY NOT ACHIEVE OR SUSTAIN REVENUE GROWTH.
     The market for certain of our touch-enabling technologies and certain of our licensees’ touch-enabled products is at an early stage. If we and our licensees are unable to develop demand for touch-enabling technologies and touch-enabled products, we may not achieve or sustain revenue growth. We cannot accurately predict the growth of the markets for these technologies and products, the timing of product introductions, or the timing of commercial acceptance of these products.
     Even if our touch-enabling technologies and our licensees’ touch-enabled products are ultimately widely adopted, widespread adoption may take a long time to occur. The timing and amount of royalties and product sales that we receive will depend on whether the products marketed achieve widespread adoption and, if so, how rapidly that adoption occurs.
     We expect that we will need to pursue extensive and expensive marketing and sales efforts to educate prospective licensees, component customers, and end users about the uses and benefits of our technologies and to persuade software developers to create software that utilizes our technologies. Negative product reviews or publicity about our company, our products, our licensees’ products, haptic features, or haptic technology in general could have a negative impact on market adoption, our revenue, and/or our ability to license our technologies in the future.
IF WE FAIL TO INCREASE SALES OF OUR MEDICAL SIMULATION DEVICES, OUR FINANCIAL CONDITION AND OPERATIONS MAY SUFFER.
     Many medical institutions do not budget for simulation devices. To increase sales of our simulation devices, we must, in addition to convincing medical institution personnel of the usefulness of the devices, persuade them to include a significant expenditure for the devices in their budgets. If these medical institutions are unwilling to budget for simulation devices or reduce their budgets as a result of cost-containment pressures or other factors, we may not be able to increase or maintain sales of medical simulators at a satisfactory rate. A decrease in sales or any failure to increase sales of our medical simulation products will harm our business.
IF WE ARE UNABLE TO ENTER INTO NEW LICENSING ARRANGEMENTS WITH OUR EXISTING LICENSEES AND WITH ADDITIONAL THIRD-PARTY MANUFACTURERS FOR OUR TOUCH-ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES, OUR ROYALTY REVENUE MAY NOT GROW.
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licenses on terms consistent with our business objectives and in maintaining, expanding, and supporting our relationships with our current licensees. These risks include:
  the lengthy and expensive process of building a relationship with potential licensees;
 
  the competition we may face with the internal design teams of existing and potential licensees;
 
  difficulties in persuading product manufacturers to work with us, to rely on us for critical technology, and to disclose to us proprietary product development and other strategies;
 
  difficulties with persuading potential licensees who may have developed their own intellectual property or licensed intellectual property from other parties in areas related to ours to license our technology versus continuing to develop their own or license from other parties;
 
  challenges in demonstrating the compelling value of our technologies in new applications like mobile phones, portable devices, and touchscreens;
 
  difficulties in persuading existing and potential licensees to bear the development costs and risks necessary to incorporate our technologies into their products;
 
  difficulties in obtaining new automotive licensees for yet-to-be commercialized technology because their suppliers may not be ready to meet stringent quality and parts availability requirements;
 
  inability to sign new gaming licenses if the video console makers choose not to license third parties to make peripherals for their new consoles; and
 
  reluctance of content developers, mobile phone manufacturers, and service providers to sign license agreements without a critical mass of other such inter-dependent supporters of the mobile phone industry also having a license, or without enough phones in the market that incorporate our technologies.
IF WE FAIL TO PROTECT AND ENFORCE OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, OUR ABILITY TO LICENSE OUR TECHNOLOGIES AND GENERATE REVENUES WOULD BE IMPAIRED.
     Our business depends on generating revenues by licensing our intellectual property rights and by selling products that incorporate our technologies. We rely on our significant patent portfolio to protect our proprietary rights. If we are not able to protect and enforce those rights, our ability to obtain future licenses or maintain current licenses and royalty revenue could be impaired. In addition, if a court or the patent

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office were to limit the scope, declare unenforceable, or invalidate any of our patents, current licensees may refuse to make royalty payments, or they may choose to challenge one or more of our patents. It is also possible that:
  our pending patent applications may not result in the issuance of patents;
 
  our patents may not be broad enough to protect our proprietary rights; and
 
  effective patent protection may not be available in every country in which we or our licensees do business.
We also rely on licenses, confidentiality agreements, other contractual agreements, and copyright, trademark, and trade secret laws to establish and protect our proprietary rights. It is possible that:
  laws and contractual restrictions may not be sufficient to prevent misappropriation of our technologies or deter others from developing similar technologies; and
 
  policing unauthorized use of our patented technologies, trademarks, and other proprietary rights would be difficult, expensive, and time-consuming, within and particularly outside of the United States of America.
CERTAIN TERMS OR RIGHTS GRANTED IN OUR LICENSE AGREEMENTS OR OUR DEVELOPMENT CONTRACTS MAY LIMIT OUR FUTURE REVENUE OPPORTUNITIES.
     While it is not our general practice to sign license agreements that provide exclusive rights for a period of time with respect to a technology, field of use, and/or geography, or to accept similar limitations in product development contracts, we have entered into such agreements and may in the future. Although additional compensation or other benefits may be part of the agreement, the compensation or benefits may not adequately compensate us for the limitations or restrictions we have agreed to as that particular market develops. Over the life of the exclusivity period, especially in markets that grow larger or faster than anticipated, our revenue may be limited and less than what we could have achieved in the market with several licensees or additional products available to sell to a specific set of customers.
IF WE ARE UNABLE TO CONTINUALLY IMPROVE AND REDUCE THE COST OF OUR TECHNOLOGIES, COMPANIES MAY NOT INCORPORATE OUR TECHNOLOGIES INTO THEIR PRODUCTS, WHICH COULD IMPAIR OUR REVENUE GROWTH.
     Our ability to achieve revenue growth depends on our continuing ability to improve and reduce the cost of our technologies and to introduce these technologies to the marketplace in a timely manner. If our development efforts are not successful or are significantly delayed, companies may not incorporate our technologies into their products and our revenue growth may be impaired.
IF WE FAIL TO DEVELOP NEW OR ENHANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR NEW APPLICATIONS AND PLATFORMS, WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CREATE A MARKET FOR OUR TECHNOLOGIES OR OUR TECHNOLOGIES MAY BECOME OBSOLETE, AND OUR ABILITY TO GROW AND OUR RESULTS OF OPERATIONS MIGHT BE HARMED.
     Our initiatives to develop new and enhanced technologies and to commercialize these technologies for new applications and new platforms may not be successful or timely. Any new or enhanced technologies may not be favorably received by consumers and could damage our reputation or our brand. Expanding our technologies could also require significant additional expenses and strain our management, financial, and operational resources. Moreover, technology products generally have relatively short product life cycles and our current products may become obsolete in the future. Additionally, as haptic technology gains market momentum, more research by universities and/or corporations or other parties may be performed potentially leading to strong intellectual property positions by third parties in certain areas of haptics or the launch of haptics products before we commercialize our own technology. Our ability to generate revenues will be harmed if:
  we fail to develop new technologies or products;
 
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  our new technologies fail to gain market acceptance; or
 
  our current products become obsolete or no longer meet new regulatory requirements.
WE HAVE LIMITED ENGINEERING, CUSTOMER SERVICE, QUALITY ASSURANCE AND MANUFACTURING RESOURCES TO DESIGN AND FULFILL FAVORABLE PRODUCT DELIVERY SCHEDULES AND SUFFICIENT LEVELS OF QUALITY IN SUPPORT OF OUR DIFFERENT PRODUCT AREAS. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES MAY NOT BE DELIVERED IN A TIMELY WAY, WITH SUFFICIENT LEVELS OF QUALITY, OR AT ALL, WHICH MAY REDUCE OUR REVENUE.
     Engineering, customer service, quality assurance, and manufacturing resources are deployed against a variety of different projects and programs to provide sufficient levels of quality necessary for channels and customers. Success in various markets may depend on timely deliveries and overall levels of sustained quality and customer service. Failure to provide favorable product and program deliverables and quality and customer service levels, or provide them at all, may disrupt channels and customers and reduce our revenues.
THE HIGHER COST OF PRODUCTS INCORPORATING OUR TOUCH-ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES MAY INHIBIT OR PREVENT THEIR WIDESPREAD ADOPTION.
     Personal computer and console gaming peripherals, mobile devices, touchscreens, and automotive and industrial controls incorporating our touch-enabling technologies can be more expensive than similar competitive products that are not touch-enabled. Although major manufacturers, such as ALPS Electric Co., BMW, LG Electronics, Logitech, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony have licensed our technologies, the greater expense of development and production of products containing our touch-enabling technologies may be a significant barrier to their widespread adoption and sale.
THIRD-PARTY VALIDATION STUDIES MAY NOT DEMONSTRATE ALL THE BENEFITS OF OUR MEDICAL TRAINING SIMULATORS, WHICH COULD AFFECT CUSTOMER MOTIVATION TO BUY.
     In medical training, validation studies are generally used to confirm the usefulness of new techniques, devices, and training methods. For medical training simulators, several levels of validation are generally tested: content, concurrent, construct, and predictive. A validation study performed by a third party, such as a hospital, a teaching institution, or even an individual healthcare professional, could result in showing little or no benefit for one or more types of validation for our medical training simulators. Such validation study results published in medical journals could impact the willingness of customers to buy our training simulators, especially new simulators that have not previously been validated. Due to the time generally required to complete and publish additional validation studies (usually more than a year), the negative impact on sales revenue could be significant.
MEDICAL LICENSING AND CERTIFICATION AUTHORITIES MAY NOT RECOMMEND OR REQUIRE USE OF OUR TECHNOLOGIES FOR TRAINING AND/OR TESTING PURPOSES, SIGNIFICANTLY SLOWING OR INHIBITING THE MARKET PENETRATION OF OUR MEDICAL SIMULATION TECHNOLOGIES.
     Several key medical certification bodies, including the American Board of Internal Medicine (“ABIM”) and the American College of Cardiology (“ACC”), have great influence in recommending particular medical methodologies, including medical training and testing methodologies, for use by medical professionals. In the event that the ABIM and the ACC, as well as other, similar bodies, do not endorse medical simulation products in general, or our products in particular, as a training and/or testing tool, market penetration for our products could be significantly and adversely affected.
WE HAVE LIMITED DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS AND RESOURCES TO MARKET AND SELL OUR MEDICAL SIMULATORS, TOUCH INTERFACE PRODUCTS, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATION AND DIGITIZING PRODUCTS, AND IF WE ARE UNSUCCESSFUL IN MARKETING AND SELLING THESE PRODUCTS, WE MAY NOT ACHIEVE OR SUSTAIN PRODUCT REVENUE GROWTH.
     We have limited resources for marketing and selling medical simulation, touch interface, or three-dimensional simulation and digitizing products, either directly or through distributors. To achieve our business objectives, we must build a balanced mixture of sales through a direct sales channel and through qualified distribution channels. The success of our efforts to sell medical simulation, touch interface, and three-dimensional simulation products will depend upon our ability to retain and develop a qualified sales force and effective distribution channels. We may not be successful in attracting and retaining the personnel necessary to sell and market our products. A number of our distributors represent small, specialized companies and may not have

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sufficient capital or human resources to support the complexities of selling and supporting our products. There can be no assurance that our direct selling efforts will be effective, distributors or OEMs will market our products successfully or, if our relationships with distributors or OEMs terminate, that we will be able to establish relationships with other distributors or OEMs on satisfactory terms, if at all. Any disruption in the distribution, sales, or marketing network for our products could have a material adverse effect on our product revenues.
COMPETITION IN THE MEDICAL MARKET MAY REDUCE OUR REVENUE.
     If the medical simulation market develops as we anticipate, we believe that we will have increased competition. As in many developing markets, acquisitions, or consolidations may occur that could lead to larger competitors with more resources or broader market penetration. This increased competition may result in the decline of our revenue and may cause us to reduce our selling prices.
COMPETITION IN THE MOBILITY OR TOUCHSCREEN MARKETS MAY INCREASE OUR COSTS AND REDUCE OUR REVENUE.
     If the mobility or touchscreen markets develop as we anticipate, we believe that we will face a greater number of competitors, possibly including the internal design teams of existing and potential OEM customers. These potential competitors may have significantly greater financial and technical resources than we do, and the costs associated with competing with such potential competitors could be significant. Additionally, increased competition may result in the reduction of our market share and/or cause us to reduce our prices, which may result in a decline in our revenue.
AUTOMOBILES INCORPORATING OUR TOUCH-ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES ARE SUBJECT TO LENGTHY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PERIODS, MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO PREDICT WHEN AND WHETHER WE WILL RECEIVE AUTOMOTIVE ROYALTIES.
     The product development process for automobiles is very lengthy, sometimes longer than four years. We may not earn royalty revenue on our automotive technologies unless and until automobiles featuring our technologies are shipped to customers, which may not occur until several years after we enter into an agreement with an automobile manufacturer or a supplier to an automobile manufacturer. Throughout the product development process, we face the risk that an automobile manufacturer or supplier may delay the incorporation of, or choose not to incorporate, our technologies into its automobiles, making it difficult for us to predict the automotive royalties we may receive, if any. After the product launches, our royalties still depend on market acceptance of the vehicle or the option packages if our technology is an option (for example, a navigation unit), which is likely to be determined by many factors beyond our control.
WE HAVE EXPERIENCED SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN OUR BUSINESS, AND OUR FAILURE TO MANAGE THE COMPLEXITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CHANGING ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY LANDSCAPE COULD HARM OUR BUSINESS.
     Any future periods of rapid economic and technological change may place significant strains on our managerial, financial, engineering, or other resources. Further economic weakness, in combination with our complex technologies, may demand an unusually high level of managerial effectiveness in anticipating, planning, coordinating, and meeting our operational needs as well as the needs of our licensees. Our failure to effectively manage these resources during periods of rapid economic or technological change may harm our business.
WE MIGHT BE UNABLE TO RETAIN OR RECRUIT NECESSARY PERSONNEL, WHICH COULD SLOW THE DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF OUR TECHNOLOGIES.
     Our ability to develop and deploy our technologies and to sustain our revenue growth depends upon the continued service of our management and other key personnel, many of whom would be difficult to replace. Management and other key employees may voluntarily terminate their employment with us at any time upon short notice. The loss of management or key personnel could delay product development cycles or otherwise harm our business.
     We believe that our future success will also depend largely on our ability to attract, integrate, and retain sales, support, marketing, and research and development personnel. Competition for such personnel is intense, and we may not be successful in attracting, integrating, and retaining such personnel. Given the protracted nature of if, how, and when we collect royalties on new design contracts, it may be difficult to craft compensation plans that will attract and retain the level of salesmanship needed to secure these contracts. Our stock option program is a long-term retention program that is intended to attract, retain, and provide incentives for talented employees, officers and directors, and to align stockholder and employee interests. Additionally some of our executive officers and key employees hold stock options with exercise prices above the current market price of our common stock. Each of these factors may impair our ability to retain the services of our executive officers and key employees. Our technologies are complex and we rely upon the continued service of our existing personnel to support licensees, enhance existing technologies, and develop new technologies.

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Investment Risks
OUR QUARTERLY REVENUES AND OPERATING RESULTS ARE VOLATILE, AND IF OUR FUTURE RESULTS ARE BELOW THE EXPECTATIONS OF PUBLIC MARKET ANALYSTS OR INVESTORS, THE PRICE OF OUR COMMON STOCK IS LIKELY TO DECLINE.
     Our revenues and operating results are likely to vary significantly from quarter to quarter due to a number of factors, many of which are outside of our control and any of which could cause the price of our common stock to decline.
     These factors include:
  the establishment or loss of licensing relationships;
 
  the timing and recognition of payments under fixed and/or up-front license agreements;
 
  the timing of work performed under development agreements;
 
  the timing of our expenses, including costs related to litigation, stock-based awards, acquisitions of technologies, or businesses;
 
  litigation or claims regarding our restatement, internal controls, or other matters;
 
  the timing of introductions and market acceptance of new products and product enhancements by us, our licensees, our competitors, or their competitors;
 
  our ability to develop and improve our technologies;
 
  our ability to attract, integrate, and retain qualified personnel;
 
  seasonality in the demand for our products or our licensees’ products; and
 
  our ability to build or ship products on a timely basis.
ISSUANCE OF THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK UPON EXERCISE OF STOCK OPTIONS AND EXERCISE OF WARRANTS WILL DILUTE THE OWNERSHIP INTEREST OF EXISTING STOCKHOLDERS AND COULD ADVERSELY AFFECT THE MARKET PRICE OF OUR COMMON STOCK.
     The issuance of shares of common stock in the following circumstances will dilute the ownership interest of existing stockholders: (i) upon exercise of some or all of the stock options, and (ii) upon exercise of some or all of the warrants. Any sales in the public market of the common stock issuable upon such exercises could adversely affect prevailing market prices of our common stock. In addition, the existence of these stock options and warrants may encourage short selling by market participants.

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OUR STOCK PRICE MAY FLUCTUATE REGARDLESS OF OUR PERFORMANCE.
     The stock market has experienced extreme volatility that often has been unrelated or disproportionate to the performance of particular companies. These market fluctuations may cause our stock price to decline regardless of our performance. The market price of our common stock has been, and in the future could be, significantly affected by factors such as: actual or anticipated fluctuations in operating results; announcements of technical innovations; announcements regarding litigation in which we are involved; changes by game console manufacturers to not include touch-enabling capabilities in their products; new products or new contracts; sales or the perception in the market of possible sales of large number of shares of our common stock by insiders or others; the timing and magnitude of purchases of our common stock pursuant to our stock repurchase program and any cessation of the program; changes in securities analysts’ recommendations; changing circumstances regarding competitors or their customers; governmental regulatory action; developments with respect to patents or proprietary rights; inclusion in or exclusion from various stock indices; and general market conditions. In the past, following periods of volatility in the market price of a company’s securities, securities class action litigation has been initiated against that company, such as the suit currently pending against us.
OUR STOCK REPURCHASE PROGRAM COULD AFFECT OUR STOCK PRICE AND ADD VOLATILITY.
     Any repurchases pursuant to our stock repurchase program could affect our stock price and add volatility. The repurchase program is at our discretion, and thus there can be no assurance that any repurchases will actually be made under the program, nor is there any assurance that a sufficient number of shares of our common stock will be repurchased to satisfy the market’s expectations. Furthermore, there can be no assurance that any repurchases conducted under the plan will be made at the best possible price. The existence of a stock repurchase program could also cause our stock price to be higher than it would be in the absence of such a program and could potentially reduce the market liquidity for our stock. Additionally, we are permitted to and could discontinue our stock repurchase program at any time and any such discontinuation could cause the market price of our stock to decline.
OUR MAJOR STOCKHOLDERS RETAIN SIGNIFICANT CONTROL OVER US, WHICH MAY LEAD TO CONFLICTS WITH OTHER STOCKHOLDERS OVER CORPORATE GOVERNANCE MATTERS AND COULD ALSO AFFECT THE VOLATILITY OF OUR STOCK PRICE.
     We currently have, have had in the past, and may have in the future, stockholders who retain greater than 10% of our outstanding stock. Acting together, these stockholders would be able to exercise significant influence over matters that our stockholders vote upon, including the election of directors and mergers or other business combinations, which could have the effect of delaying or preventing a third party from acquiring control over or merging with us. Further, if any individuals in this group elect to sell a significant portion or all of their holdings of our common stock, the trading price of our common stock could experience volatility.
PROVISIONS IN OUR CHARTER DOCUMENTS AND DELAWARE LAW COULD PREVENT OR DELAY A CHANGE IN CONTROL, WHICH COULD REDUCE THE MARKET PRICE OF OUR COMMON STOCK.
     Provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control or changes in our management. In addition, certain provisions of Delaware law may discourage, delay, or prevent someone from acquiring or merging with us. These provisions could limit the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares.
WE MAY ENGAGE IN ACQUISITIONS THAT COULD DILUTE STOCKHOLDERS’ INTERESTS, DIVERT MANAGEMENT ATTENTION, OR CAUSE INTEGRATION PROBLEMS.
     As part of our business strategy, we have in the past and may in the future, acquire businesses or intellectual property that we feel could complement our business, enhance our technical capabilities, or increase our intellectual property portfolio. If we consummate acquisitions through cash and/or an exchange of our securities, our stockholders could suffer significant dilution. Acquisitions could also create risks for us, including:
    unanticipated costs associated with the acquisitions;
 
    use of substantial portions of our available cash to consummate the acquisitions;
 
    diversion of management’s attention from other business concerns;

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    difficulties in assimilation of acquired personnel or operations;
 
    failure to realize the anticipated benefits of acquired intellectual property or other assets;
 
    charges for write-down of assets associated with unsuccessful acquisitions; and
 
    potential intellectual property infringement claims related to newly acquired product lines.
     Any acquisitions, even if successfully completed, might not generate significant additional revenue or provide any benefit to our business. In addition to acquisitions, we may also consider making strategic divestitures. With any divestiture, there are risks that future operating results could be unfavorably impacted.
FAILURE TO MAINTAIN EFFECTIVE INTERNAL CONTROLS IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 404 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT COULD HAVE A MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT ON OUR BUSINESS AND STOCK PRICE.
     If we fail to maintain the adequacy of our internal controls, as standards are modified, supplemented, or amended from time to time, we may not be able to ensure that we can conclude on an ongoing basis that we have effective internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Failure to maintain an effective internal control environment could have a material adverse effect on our business and stock price.
WE HAVE DETERMINED THAT OUR INTERNAL CONTROLS RELATING TO INCOME TAXES ARE CURRENTLY INEFFECTIVE.
     As discussed in Part I, Item 4, Controls and Procedures, our management team, under the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Financial Officer and former Chief Executive Officer, conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our internal controls as of December 31, 2007. They concluded that our internal controls over financial reporting as they relate to income taxes were ineffective as of that date. We have subsequently initiated actions that are intended to improve our accounting for income taxes and the related internal controls. Any material weakness in our internal controls over the accounting for income taxes could impair our ability to report our financial position and results of operations accurately and in a timely manner.
WE HAVE IDENTIFIED A MATERIAL WEAKNESS IN OUR INTERNAL CONTROLS RELATED TO THE ACCOUNTING FOR INCOME TAXES AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2007 THAT, IF NOT PROPERLY REMEDIATED, COULD RESULT IN MATERIAL MISSTATEMENTS IN OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IN FUTURE PERIODS.
     Based on an evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2007, due to the existence of a deficiency in the operation of our internal controls related to the accounting for income taxes, which constituted a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, our management has concluded that such disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of such date. A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. The identified deficiency pertained to controls which were not adequately designed to ensure proper accounting and disclosure of income taxes. These inadequate controls resulted in adjustments to our previously reported quarterly unaudited financial results as of March 31, 2007 and the cumulative loss amounts for quarterly unaudited financial results as of June 30, 2007 and September 30, 2007.
     Because of this material weakness, there is risk that a material misstatement of our annual or quarterly financial statements will not be prevented or detected. We are currently in the process of implementing control procedures to remediate the material weakness. We cannot guarantee, however, that such remediation efforts will correct the material weakness such that our internal control over financial reporting will be effective. In the event that we do not adequately remedy this material weakness, or if we fail to maintain effective internal controls in future periods, our operating results, financial position and stock price could be adversely affected.

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AS OUR BUSINESS GROWS, SUCH GROWTH MAY PLACE A SIGNIFICANT STRAIN ON OUR MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS AND, AS A RESULT, OUR BUSINESS MAY SUFFER.
     We plan to continue expanding our business, and our expected growth could place a significant strain on our management systems, infrastructure and other resources. To manage the expected growth of our operations and increases in the number of our personnel, we will need to invest the necessary capital to upgrade and improve our operational, financial and management reporting systems. Accordingly, we are currently transitioning the preparation of all of our internal reporting to new or upgraded management information systems, which are expected to be implemented near the end of 2008. If we encounter problems with the implementation of these systems, we may have difficulties preparing or tracking internal information, which could adversely affect our financial results. If our management fails to respond effectively to changes in our business, our business may suffer.
ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
     Below is a summary of stock repurchases for the quarter ending June 30, 2008. See Note 8 of our condensed consolidated financial statements for information regarding our stock repurchase program.
                         
                    Approximate Dollar  
            Average     Value that May  
    Shares     Price Per     Yet Be Purchased  
Program/Period (1)   Repurchased (2)     Share     Under the Program  
Beginning approximate dollar value available to be repurchased as of March 31, 2008
                  $ 50,000,000  
May 1 - May 31, 2008
    298,683     $ 9.46          
June 1 - June 30, 2008
    420,000     $ 7.93          
 
                     
Total shares repurchased
    718,683     $ 8.56       6,154,903  
 
                   
Ending approximate dollar value that may be repurchased under the Program as of June 30, 2008
                  $ 43,845,097  
 
                     
 
(1)   On November 1, 2007, our Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program of up to $50,000,000. This share repurchase authorization has no expiration date and does not require us to repurchase a specific number of shares. The timing and amount of any share repurchase will depend on the share price, corporate and regulatory requirements, economic and market conditions, and other factors. The repurchase authorization may be modified, suspended, or discontinued at any time.
 
(2)   All shares were repurchased on the open market as part of the plan publicly announced on November 1, 2007. The repurchases were effected by a single broker in market transactions at prevailing market prices pursuant to a trading plan designed to satisfy the conditions of Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
     We held our annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) on June 4, 2008, to consider and vote on the following proposals to: (i) elect two members of the Board of Directors to serve for a three-year term as Class III Directors (Proposal 1); and (ii) ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008 (Proposal 2).
     Proposal 1: The stockholders elected the two nominees for Class III directors to our Board of Directors. The votes were as follows:
                 
    Number of   Withheld
Nominees   Votes For   Authority
John Hodgman
    22,607,255       1,670,937  
Emily Liggett
    22,926,268       1,351,924  

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     Mr. Hodgman’s and Ms. Liggett’s terms will expire at the 2011 annual meeting. Other directors’ terms of office continue as follows: Anne DeGheest, Jack Saltich, and Victor Viegas (Class I term expires at the 2009 annual meeting) and Clent Richardson and Robert Van Naarden (Class II term expires at the 2010 annual meeting).
     Proposal 2: The ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008:
                     
Number of   Number of   Number of
Votes For   Votes Against   Votes Abstained
23,949,357
  183,798     145,037  
ITEM 6. EXHIBITS
     The following exhibits are filed herewith:
     
Exhibit    
Number   Description
10.36
  Executive Incentive Plan dated April 21, 2008 by and between Immersion Corporation and Stephen Ambler.
 
   
10.37
  Executive Incentive Plan dated April 21, 2008 by and between Immersion Corporation and Victor Viegas.
 
   
10.38
  The Immersion Corporation 2008 Employment Inducement Award Plan dated April 30, 2008.
 
   
10.39
  Form of Stock Option Agreement for Immersion Corporation 2008 Employment Inducement Award Plan dated April 30, 2008.
 
   
10.40
  Resignation agreement and general release of claims dated April 28, 2008 by and between Immersion Corporation and Victor Viegas.
 
   
10.41
  Retention and ownership change event agreement dated April 17, 2008 by and between Immersion Corporation and Clent Richardson.
 
   
10.42
  Restated Offer of Employment with Immersion Corporation effective April 28, 2008 by and between Immersion Corporation and Clent Richardson.
 
   
10.43
  Executive Incentive Plan dated May 23, 2008 by and between Immersion Corporation and Richard Vogel.
 
   
31.1
  Certification of Clent Richardson, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 
   
31.2
  Certification of Stephen Ambler, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 
   
32.1
  Certification of Clent Richardson, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director, pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 
   
32.2
  Certification of Stephen Ambler, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance, pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

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SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
Date: August 8, 2008
         
  IMMERSION CORPORATION
 
 
  By         /s/ Stephen Ambler    
    Stephen Ambler   
    Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance   

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EXHIBIT INDEX
     
Exhibit    
Number   Description .
10.36
  Executive Incentive Plan dated April 21, 2008 by and between Immersion Corporation and Stephen Ambler.
 
   
10.37
  Executive Incentive Plan dated April 21, 2008 by and between Immersion Corporation and Victor Viegas.
 
   
10.38
  The Immersion Corporation 2008 Employment Inducement Award Plan dated April 30, 2008.
 
   
10.39
  Form of Stock Option Agreement for Immersion Corporation 2008 Employment Inducement Award Plan dated April 30, 2008.
 
   
10.40
  Resignation agreement and general release of claims dated April 28, 2008 by and between Immersion Corporation and Victor Viegas.
 
   
10.41
  Retention and ownership change event agreement dated April 17, 2008 by and between Immersion Corporation and Clent Richardson.
 
   
10.42
  Restated Offer of Employment with Immersion Corporation effective April 28, 2008 by and between Immersion Corporation and Clent Richardson.
 
   
10.43
  Executive Incentive Plan dated May 23, 2008 by and between Immersion Corporation and Richard Vogel.
 
   
31.1
  Certification of Clent Richardson, President and Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 
   
31.2
  Certification of Stephen Ambler, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 
   
32.1
  Certification of Clent Richardson, President and Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 
   
32.2
  Certification of Stephen Ambler, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance, pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

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EX-10.36 2 f42365exv10w36.htm EXHIBIT 10.36 exv10w36
Exhibit 10.36
(IMMERSION LOGO)
FY2008
Executive Incentive Plan
Stephen Ambler

 


 

OBJECTIVES
The specific aim of the 2008 Executive Incentive Plan is to focus Immersion’s executive management on Immersion’s revenue, operating profit, gross margin goals and business objectives, and to reward achievement of those goals.
ELIGIBILITY
In addition to your base salary, you are eligible to earn an incentive payment under Immersion’s 2008 Executive Incentive Plan as set out in this Plan and the attached document titled Attachment A. In order to be eligible to receive any payment under this Plan, you must sign and date a copy of the Plan on the space provided below and return it to Human Resources. An executive’s eligibility to participate in this Plan will be subject to the review and approval of the CEO and CFO of the Company, and any payments under this Plan will be subject to the review and approval of the Company’s CEO, which approval may be withheld in his/her sole discretion. This Plan supersedes all prior executive bonus, incentive, and/or variable compensation plans of the Company, which are of no further force or effect.
Employees hired after January 1, and during the Plan Period who are permitted to participate in the Plan shall be eligible to participate on a pro-rata basis, based upon their start date and contingent upon continued active employment through the date when the Bonus Plan payout occurs. The proration will be based on the number of work days during the plan year.
PLAN ADMINISTRATION
This Plan is effective for the Company’s 2008 fiscal year. The Company may cancel, suspend, amend, or revise all or any part of the Plan for any reason at any time.
To the extent earned, payments hereunder will be wages and will be subject to withholding of federal and state income and employment taxes. Earned payments under this Plan will be paid on the next regular payroll date following the later of (a) 45 days after the end of the fiscal year, (b) the date on which the Company’s Income Statement for the year has been finalized, or (c) the date on which the Company’s earnings for the year have been publicly disclosed (the “Payment Date”).
Nothing in this Plan shall in any way alter the at-will employment relationship between the Company and its executives. All employees of the company are employed on an “at-will” basis, which means that either the employee or the Company may terminate the relationship at any time, with or without cause or notice.
For purposes of this Plan, a participant’s employment with Immersion terminates on the last day on which work duties are actually performed by the participant. Periods of pay in lieu of notice, severance, or any other post-termination benefits or compensation period shall not be deemed periods of employment for purposes of this Plan. In order to earn any payment under the Plan, a participant must have been continuously employed by Immersion from January 1, 2008 through the Payment Date. A participant who resigns from his employment with Immersion prior to the Payment Date, or whose employment is terminated prior to the Payment Date, will not earn any payment under this Plan.
Provided they meet the other eligibility requirements described in this Plan, participants who are on an approved leave of absence at any time during the 2008 fiscal year will earn a pro rated payment under this Plan based upon the portion of the year that they are actively employed and not on leave status. To the extent that a participant is on an approved leave of absence on the Payment Date, he/she will not earn any payment under this Plan unless he/she returns to active employment with Immersion, at which time he/she will receive his/her Plan payment.

 


 

PLAN DEFINITIONS
Revenue is revenue that is recognized by Immersion for the applicable period in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and as reported in the Company’s audited financial statements.
Cost of Goods Sold is the direct and allocated indirect production costs of producing goods and services.
Gross Margin (GM) is determined by subtracting the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) from the actual sale price of the product. The net result is the GM. GM excludes non cash stock compensation expense for the purposes of this Executive Incentive Plan.
Operating Profit (Loss) is Business Unit Operating Profit (Loss) less corporate support costs, litigation expenses, and intangible amortization. Operating Profit (Loss) excludes non cash stock compensation expense for the purposes of this Executive Incentive Plan.
Business Unit Operating Profit (Loss) is the revenue less departmental cost of goods sold and direct operating expenses for a business unit. Direct operating expenses are the expenses directly charged to a business unit including all variable compensation accruals and all allocated departmental expenses. Business Unit Operating Profit (Loss) excludes non cash stock compensation expense for the purposes of this Executive Incentive Plan.
Target Incentive is a percentage determined by management of the participant’s annual base salary as of February 4, 2008. The actual bonus amount will vary depending on the extent to which Company performance targets, Business Unit targets, and milestones are met as determined by the Company at its sole discretion.
MBO’s are specific business milestones which must be completed, in strict accordance with the stated terms and conditions associated with each MBO, to the satisfaction of the CFO and CEO.
     
/s/ S M Ambler
  April 21, 2008
 
   
Executive
  Date
 
   
/s/ Janice Passarello
  April 16, 2008
 
   
VP of Human Resources
  Date
 
   
/s/ S M Ambler
  March 31, 2008
 
   
CFO
  Date
 
   
/s/ Victor Viegas
  April 3, 2008
 
   
CEO
  Date

 


 

Attachment A
EXECUTIVE INCENTIVE PLAN STATEMENT OF GOALS FOR YEAR 2008
Stephen Ambler
Percent of Base Salary Payment at Plan: 50%
The following is a statement of financial, strategic and tactical objectives for 2008 that will serve as a basis for overall performance evaluation and determination of year-end executive incentive award.
CEO Discretionary Multiplier: The CEO will determine a performance “weighting” to be applied to the Executive’s initial incentive payment calculation (as determined based on the goals and objectives below),which weighting will be based on the Executive’s overall annual performance as determined solely by the CEO. The weighting factor will typically range from 0.80 to 1.20, which factor is then multiplied by the executive’s initial incentive payment calculation to determine the executive’s incentive payment.
Plan Components: The Plan has two independent Company financial performance components: Corporate Metrics and Business Unit Metrics. Within each financial component you will be measured against specific goals.
A. 80% of your target bonus will be based on Corporate performance as follows.
    (50%) Achieve GAAP Revenue of $42.900M. Achieve GAAP Operating Profit (Loss) of $(16.100)M. Operating Profit (Loss) includes non cash stock compensation expense. Operating Profit (Loss) amounts are stated prior to taking account of Executive Incentive Plan payment amounts. Payment amounts are not pro-rated between matrix levels.
                                         
Revenue / Operating Profit (Loss) Targets   $38.600M   $40.750M   $42.900M   $45.900M   $48.900M
$(12.900)M
    100 %     110 %     120 %     150 %     200 %
$(14.000)M
    90 %     100 %     110 %     120 %     150 %
$(16.100)M
    50 %     80 %     100 %     110 %     120 %
$(16.900)M
    0 %     50 %     80 %     90 %     90 %
$(17.700)M
    0 %     0 %     50 %     80 %     80 %
    (50%) Corporate Initiatives
  1.   M&A Activity: During FY2008 identify, conduct due diligence, close, and assimilate at least one acquisition for the corporation that is greater than $10M in Revenue or greater than $5M in Operating Income.
 
  2.   Oracle Implementation: Implement a company-wide ERP system by upgrading to Oracle 11i in FY2008 from current version. A company-wide system will help to integrate the majority of the data and processes of the organization into a unified system and aid in the company attaining an overarching goal of integrating the businesses more completely for operational and strategic efficiencies.
 
  3.   Increase International presence across all businesses: FY2008 International Revenue is equal to or greater than 45% or $19M of total revenue.
 
  4.   During 2008 generate at least 20 non financial or administrative press releases.
B. 20% of your target bonus will be based on your department’s performance as follows.
    Business Unit Initiatives as agreed upon with CEO.

 

EX-10.37 3 f42365exv10w37.htm EXHIBIT 10.37 exv10w37
Exhibit 10.37
(IMMERSION LOGO)
FY2008
Executive Incentive Plan
Victor Viegas

 


 

OBJECTIVES
The specific aim of the 2008 Executive Incentive Plan is to focus Immersion’s executive management on Immersion’s revenue, operating profit, gross margin goals and business objectives, and to reward achievement of those goals.
ELIGIBILITY
In addition to your base salary, you are eligible to earn an incentive payment under Immersion’s 2008 Executive Incentive Plan as set out in this Plan and the attached document titled Attachment A. In order to be eligible to receive any payment under this Plan, you must sign and date a copy of the Plan on the space provided below and return it to Human Resources. An executive’s eligibility to participate in this Plan will be subject to the review and approval of the CEO and CFO of the Company, and any payments under this Plan will be subject to the review and approval of the Company’s CEO, which approval may be withheld in his/her sole discretion. This Plan supersedes all prior executive bonus, incentive, and/or variable compensation plans of the Company, which are of no further force or effect.
Employees hired after January 1, and during the Plan Period who are permitted to participate in the Plan shall be eligible to participate on a pro-rata basis, based upon their start date and contingent upon continued active employment through the date when the Bonus Plan payout occurs. The proration will be based on the number of work days during the plan year.
PLAN ADMINISTRATION
This Plan is effective for the Company’s 2008 fiscal year. The Company may cancel, suspend, amend, or revise all or any part of the Plan for any reason at any time.
To the extent earned, payments hereunder will be wages and will be subject to withholding of federal and state income and employment taxes. Earned payments under this Plan will be paid on the next regular payroll date following the later of (a) 45 days after the end of the fiscal year, (b) the date on which the Company’s Income Statement for the year has been finalized, or (c) the date on which the Company’s earnings for the year have been publicly disclosed (the “Payment Date”).
Nothing in this Plan shall in any way alter the at-will employment relationship between the Company and its executives. All employees of the company are employed on an “at-will” basis, which means that either the employee or the Company may terminate the relationship at any time, with or without cause or notice.
For purposes of this Plan, a participant’s employment with Immersion terminates on the last day on which work duties are actually performed by the participant. Periods of pay in lieu of notice, severance, or any other post-termination benefits or compensation period shall not be deemed periods of employment for purposes of this Plan. In order to earn any payment under the Plan, a participant must have been continuously employed by Immersion from January 1, 2008 through the Payment Date. A participant who resigns from his employment with Immersion prior to the Payment Date, or whose employment is terminated prior to the Payment Date, will not earn any payment under this Plan.
Provided they meet the other eligibility requirements described in this Plan, participants who are on an approved leave of absence at any time during the 2008 fiscal year will earn a pro rated payment under this Plan based upon the portion of the year that they are actively employed and not on leave status. To the extent that a participant is on an approved leave of absence on the Payment Date, he/she will not earn any payment under this Plan unless he/she returns to active employment with Immersion, at which time he/she will receive his/her Plan payment.

 


 

PLAN DEFINITIONS
Revenue is revenue that is recognized by Immersion for the applicable period in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and as reported in the Company’s audited financial statements.
Cost of Goods Sold is the direct and allocated indirect production costs of producing goods and services.
Gross Margin (GM) is determined by subtracting the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) from the actual sale price of the product. The net result is the GM. GM excludes non cash stock compensation expense for the purposes of this Executive Incentive Plan.
Operating Profit (Loss) is Business Unit Operating Profit (Loss) less corporate support costs, litigation expenses, and intangible amortization. Operating Profit (Loss) excludes non cash stock compensation expense for the purposes of this Executive Incentive Plan.
Business Unit Operating Profit (Loss) is the revenue less departmental cost of goods sold and direct operating expenses for a business unit. Direct operating expenses are the expenses directly charged to a business unit including all variable compensation accruals and all allocated departmental expenses. Business Unit Operating Profit (Loss) excludes non cash stock compensation expense for the purposes of this Executive Incentive Plan.
Target Incentive is a percentage determined by management of the participant’s annual base salary as of February 4, 2008. The actual bonus amount will vary depending on the extent to which Company performance targets, Business Unit targets, and milestones are met as determined by the Company at its sole discretion.
MBO’s are specific business milestones which must be completed, in strict accordance with the stated terms and conditions associated with each MBO, to the satisfaction of the CFO and CEO.
     
/s/ Victor Viegas
  March 27, 2008
 
   
Executive
  Date
 
   
/s/ Janice Passarello
  April 16, 2008
 
   
VP of Human Resources
  Date
 
   
/s/ S M Ambler
  April 7, 2008
 
   
CFO
  Date
 
   
/s/ Jack L Saltich
  April 21, 2008
 
   
Lead Director
  Date

 


 

Attachment A
EXECUTIVE INCENTIVE PLAN STATEMENT OF GOALS FOR YEAR 2008
Victor Viegas
Percent of Base Salary Payment at Plan: 100%
The following is a statement of financial, strategic and tactical objectives for 2008 that will serve as a basis for overall performance evaluation and determination of year-end executive incentive award.
Board of Directors Discretionary Multiplier: The Board of Directors will determine a performance “weighting” to be applied to the Executive’s initial incentive payment calculation (as determined based on the goals and objectives below),which weighting will be based on the Executive’s overall annual performance as determined solely by the Board. The weighting factor will typically range from 0.80 to 1.20, which factor is then multiplied by the executive’s initial incentive payment calculation to determine the executive’s incentive payment.
Plan Components: The Plan has one Corporate financial performance component. Within the Corporate component you will be measured against specific goals.
A. 100% of your target bonus will be based on Corporate performance as follows.
    (40%) Achieve GAAP Revenue of $42.900M. Achieve GAAP Operating Profit (Loss) of $(16.100)M. Operating Profit (Loss) includes non cash stock compensation expense. Operating Profit (Loss) amounts are stated prior to taking account of Executive Incentive Plan payment amounts. Payment amounts are not pro-rated between matrix levels.
                                         
Revenue / Operating Profit (Loss) Targets   $38.600M   $40.750M   $42.900M   $45.900M   $48.900M
$(12.900)M
    100 %     110 %     120 %     150 %     200 %
$(14.000)M
    90 %     100 %     110 %     120 %     150 %
$(16.100)M
    50 %     80 %     100 %     110 %     120 %
$(16.900)M
    0 %     50 %     80 %     90 %     90 %
$(17.700)M
    0 %     0 %     50 %     80 %     80 %
    (40%) Corporate Initiatives
  1.   M&A Activity: During FY2008 identify, conduct due diligence, close, and assimilate at least one acquisition for the corporation that is greater than $10M in Revenue or greater than $5M in Operating Income.
 
  2.   Oracle Implementation: Implement a company-wide ERP system by upgrading to Oracle 11i in FY2008 from current version. A company-wide system will help to integrate the majority of the data and processes of the organization into a unified system and aid in the company attaining an overarching goal of integrating the businesses more completely for operational and strategic efficiencies.
 
  3.   Increase International presence across all businesses: FY2008 International Revenue is equal to or greater than 45% or $19M of total revenue.
 
  4.   During 2008 generate at least 20 non financial or administrative press releases.
    (20%) MBO’s — to be agreed upon with Board of Directors.

 

EX-10.38 4 f42365exv10w38.htm EXHIBIT 10.38 exv10w38
Exhibit 10.38
Immersion Corporation
2008 Employment Inducement Award Plan

 


 

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1.   Establishment, Purpose and Term of Plan     1  
 
  1.1   Establishment     1  
 
  1.2   Purpose     1  
 
  1.3   Term of Plan     1  
 
               
2.   Definitions and Construction     1  
 
  2.1   Definitions     1  
 
  2.2   Construction     9  
 
               
3.   Administration     9  
 
  3.1   Administration by the Committee     9  
 
  3.2   Authority of Officers     10  
 
  3.3   Administration with Respect to Insiders     10  
 
  3.4   Committee Complying with Section 162(m)     10  
 
  3.5   Powers of the Committee     10  
 
  3.6   Option or SAR Repricing     11  
 
  3.7   Indemnification     11  
 
               
4.   Shares Subject to Plan     12  
 
  4.1   Maximum Number of Shares Issuable     12  
 
  4.2   Share Counting     12  
 
  4.3   Adjustments for Changes in Capital Structure     12  
 
               
5.   Eligibility, Participation and Award Limitations     13  
 
  5.1   Persons Eligible for Awards     13  
 
  5.2   Participation in the Plan     13  
 
  5.3   Award Limitations     13  
 
               
6.   Stock Options     14  
 
  6.1   Exercise Price     14  
 
  6.2   Exercisability and Term of Options     14  
 
  6.3   Payment of Exercise Price     14  
 
  6.4   Effect of Termination of Service     15  
 
  6.5   Transferability of Options     16  
 
               
7.   Stock Appreciation Rights     16  
 
  7.1   Types of SARs Authorized     16  
 
  7.2   Exercise Price     16  

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  7.3   Exercisability and Term of SARs     16  
 
  7.4   Exercise of SARs     17  
 
  7.5   Deemed Exercise of SARs     17  
 
  7.6   Effect of Termination of Service     17  
 
  7.7   Transferability of SARs     18  
 
               
8.   Restricted Stock Awards     18  
 
  8.1   Types of Restricted Stock Awards Authorized     18  
 
  8.2   Purchase Price     18  
 
  8.3   Purchase Period     18  
 
  8.4   Payment of Purchase Price     19  
 
  8.5   Vesting and Restrictions on Transfer     19  
 
  8.6   Voting Rights; Dividends and Distributions     19  
 
  8.7   Effect of Termination of Service     19  
 
  8.8   Nontransferability of Restricted Stock Award Rights     20  
 
               
9.   Restricted Stock Unit Awards     20  
 
  9.1   Grant of Restricted Stock Unit Awards     20  
 
  9.2   Purchase Price     20  
 
  9.3   Vesting     20  
 
  9.4   Voting Rights, Dividend Equivalent Rights and Distributions     21  
 
  9.5   Effect of Termination of Service     21  
 
  9.6   Settlement of Restricted Stock Unit Awards     21  
 
  9.7   Nontransferability of Restricted Stock Unit Awards     22  
 
               
10.   Performance Awards     22  
 
  10.1   Types of Performance Awards Authorized     22  
 
  10.2   Initial Value of Performance Shares and Performance Units     22  
 
  10.3   Establishment of Performance Period, Performance Goals and Performance Award Formula     22  
 
  10.4   Measurement of Performance Goals     23  
 
  10.5   Settlement of Performance Awards     24  
 
  10.6   Voting Rights; Dividend Equivalent Rights and Distributions     25  
 
  10.7   Effect of Termination of Service     26  
 
  10.8   Nontransferability of Performance Awards     26  
 
               
11.   Deferred Compensation Awards     27  
 
  11.1   Establishment of Deferred Compensation Award Programs     27  
 
  11.2   Terms and Conditions of Deferred Compensation Awards     27  

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12.   Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards     28  
 
  12.1   Grant of Cash-Based Awards     28  
 
  12.2   Grant of Other Stock-Based Awards     28  
 
  12.3   Value of Cash-Based and Other Stock-Based Awards     29  
 
  12.4   Payment or Settlement of Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards     29  
 
  12.5   Voting Rights; Dividend Equivalent Rights and Distributions     29  
 
  12.6   Effect of Termination of Service     29  
 
  12.7   Nontransferability of Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards     29  
 
               
13.   Standard Forms of Award Agreement     30  
 
  13.1   Award Agreements     30  
 
  13.2   Authority to Vary Terms     30  
 
               
14.   Change in Control     30  
 
  14.1   Effect of Change in Control on Awards     30  
 
  14.2   Federal Excise Tax Under Section 4999 of the Code     32  
 
               
15.   Compliance with Securities Law     32  
 
               
16.   Compliance with Section 409A     33  
 
  16.1   Awards Subject to Section 409A     33  
 
  16.2   Deferral and/or Distribution Elections     33  
 
  16.3   Subsequent Elections     34  
 
  16.4   Distributions Pursuant to Deferral Elections     34  
 
  16.5   Unforeseeable Emergency     35  
 
  16.6   Disabled     35  
 
  16.7   Death     36  
 
  16.8   No Acceleration of Distributions     36  
 
               
17.   Tax Withholding     36  
 
  17.1   Tax Withholding in General     36  
 
  17.2   Withholding in Shares     36  
 
               
18.   Amendment or Termination of Plan     36  
 
               
19.   Miscellaneous Provisions     36  
 
  19.1   Repurchase Rights     37  
 
  19.2   Forfeiture Events     37  

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  19.3   Provision of Information     37  
 
  19.4   Rights as Employee     37  
 
  19.5   Rights as a Stockholder     37  
 
  19.6   Delivery of Title to Shares     38  
 
  19.7   Fractional Shares     38  
 
  19.8   Retirement and Welfare Plans     38  
 
  19.9   Beneficiary Designation     38  
 
  19.10   Severability     38  
 
  19.11   No Constraint on Corporate Action     38  
 
  19.12   Unfunded Obligation     39  
 
  19.13   Choice of Law     39  

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Immersion Corporation
2008 Employment Inducement Award Plan
     1. Establishment, Purpose and Term of Plan.
          1.1 Establishment. The Immersion Corporation 2008 Employment Inducement Award Plan (the Plan) is hereby established effective as of April 30, 2008 (the Effective Date).
          1.2 Purpose. The purpose of the Plan is to advance the interests of the Participating Company Group and its stockholders by providing an incentive to attract, retain and reward persons performing services for the Participating Company Group and by motivating such persons to contribute to the growth and profitability of the Participating Company Group. The Plan seeks to achieve this purpose by providing for Awards in the form of Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Restricted Stock Purchase Rights, Restricted Stock Bonuses, Restricted Stock Units, Performance Shares, Performance Units, Deferred Compensation Awards, Cash-Based and Other Stock-Based Awards. The Company intends that Awards granted pursuant to the Plan be exempt from or comply with Section 409A of the Code (including any amendments or replacements of such section), and the Plan shall be so construed.
          1.3 Term of Plan. The Plan shall continue in effect until its termination by the Committee or until such time as the securities issuable pursuant to the Plan cease to be exempt issuer securities within the meaning of Section 25100(o) of the California Securities Law of 1968; provided, however, that all Awards shall be granted, if at all, within ten (10) years from the Effective Date.
     2. Definitions and Construction.
          2.1 Definitions. Whenever used herein, the following terms shall have their respective meanings set forth below:
               (a) Affiliatemeans (i) an entity, other than a Parent Corporation, that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediary entities, controls the Company or (ii) an entity, other than a Subsidiary Corporation, that is controlled by the Company directly or indirectly through one or more intermediary entities. For this purpose, the term “control” (including the term “controlled by”) means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of the relevant entity, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; or shall have such other meaning assigned such term for the purposes of registration on Form S-8 under the Securities Act.
               (b) Awardmeans any Option, Stock Appreciation Right, Restricted Stock Purchase Right, Restricted Stock Bonus, Restricted Stock Unit, Performance Share, Performance Unit, Deferred Compensation Award, Cash-Based Award, Other Stock-Based Award granted under the Plan.

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               (c) Award Agreementmeans a written or electronic agreement between the Company and a Participant setting forth the terms, conditions and restrictions of the Award granted to the Participant.
               (d) Boardmeans the Board of Directors of the Company.
               (e) “Cash-Based Award” means an Award denominated in cash and granted pursuant to Section 12.
               (f) Causemeans, unless such term or an equivalent term is otherwise defined with respect to an Award by the Participant’s Award Agreement or by a written contract of employment or service, any of the following: (i) the Participant’s theft, dishonesty, willful misconduct, breach of fiduciary duty for personal profit, or falsification of any Participating Company documents or records; (ii) the Participant’s material failure to abide by a Participating Company’s code of conduct or other policies (including, without limitation, policies relating to confidentiality and reasonable workplace conduct); (iii) the Participant’s unauthorized use, misappropriation, destruction or diversion of any tangible or intangible asset or corporate opportunity of a Participating Company (including, without limitation, the Participant’s improper use or disclosure of a Participating Company’s confidential or proprietary information); (iv) any intentional act by the Participant which has a material detrimental effect on a Participating Company’s reputation or business; (v) the Participant’s repeated failure or inability to perform any reasonable assigned duties after written notice from a Participating Company of, and a reasonable opportunity to cure, such failure or inability; (vi) any material breach by the Participant of any employment, service, non-disclosure, non-competition, non-solicitation or other similar agreement between the Participant and a Participating Company, which breach is not cured pursuant to the terms of such agreement; or (vii) the Participant’s conviction (including any plea of guilty or nolo contendere) of any criminal act involving fraud, dishonesty, misappropriation or moral turpitude, or which impairs the Participant’s ability to perform his or her duties with a Participating Company.
               (g) Change in Controlmeans, unless such term or an equivalent term is otherwise defined with respect to an Award by the Participant’s Award Agreement or by a written contract of employment or service, the occurrence of any of the following:
                    (i) any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the total combined voting power of the Company’s then-outstanding securities entitled to vote generally in the election of Directors; provided, however, that the following acquisitions shall not constitute a Change in Control: (1) an acquisition by any such person who on the Effective Date is the beneficial owner of more than fifty percent (50%) of such voting power, (2) any acquisition directly from the Company, including, without limitation, a public offering of securities, (3) any acquisition by the Company, (4) any acquisition by a trustee or other fiduciary under an employee benefit plan of a Participating Company or (5) any acquisition by an entity owned directly or indirectly by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the voting securities of the Company; or

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                    (ii) an Ownership Change Event or series of related Ownership Change Events (collectively, a Transaction) in which the stockholders of the Company immediately before the Transaction do not retain immediately after the Transaction direct or indirect beneficial ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the total combined voting power of the outstanding securities entitled to vote generally in the election of Directors or, in the case of an Ownership Change Event described in Section 2.1(bb)(iii), the entity to which the assets of the Company were transferred (the Transferee), as the case may be; or
                    (iii) a liquidation or dissolution of the Company; provided, however, that a Change in Control shall be deemed not to include a transaction described in subsections (i) or (ii) of this Section 2.1(g) in which a majority of the members of the board of directors of the continuing, surviving or successor entity, or parent thereof, immediately after such transaction is comprised of Incumbent Directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that any amount constituting Section 409A Deferred Compensation would become payable under this Plan by reason of a Change in Control, such amount shall become payable only if the event constituting a Change in Control would also constitute a change in ownership or effective control of the Company or a change in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of the Company within the meaning of Section 409A.
     For purposes of the preceding sentence, indirect beneficial ownership shall include, without limitation, an interest resulting from ownership of the voting securities of one or more corporations or other business entities which own the Company or the Transferee, as the case may be, either directly or through one or more subsidiary corporations or other business entities. The Committee shall have the right to determine whether multiple sales or exchanges of the voting securities of the Company or multiple Ownership Change Events are related, and its determination shall be final, binding and conclusive.
               (h) Codemeans the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any applicable regulations or administrative guidelines promulgated thereunder.
               (i) Committeemeans the Compensation Committee and such other committee of the Board comprised of a majority of Independent Directors, if any, duly appointed to administer the Plan and having such powers in each instance as shall be specified by the Board.
               (j) Companymeans Immersion Corporation, a Delaware corporation, or any successor corporation thereto.
               (k) Deferred Compensation Awardmeans an award granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 11.
               (l) Directormeans a member of the Board.
               (m) Disabilitymeans the permanent and total disability of the Participant, within the meaning of Section 22(e)(3) of the Code.

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               (n) Dividend Equivalent Rightmeans the right of a Participant, granted at the discretion of the Committee or as otherwise provided by the Plan, to receive a credit for the account of such Participant in an amount equal to the cash dividends paid on one share of Stock for each share of Stock represented by an Award held by such Participant.
               (o) Employeemeans any person treated as an employee (including an Officer or a member of the Board who is also treated as an employee) in the records of a Participating Company; provided, however, that neither service as a member of the Board nor payment of a director’s fee shall be sufficient to constitute employment for purposes of the Plan. The Company shall determine in good faith and in the exercise of its discretion whether an individual has become or has ceased to be an Employee and the effective date of such individual’s employment or termination of employment, as the case may be. For purposes of an individual’s rights, if any, under the terms of the Plan as of the time of the Company’s determination of whether or not the individual is an Employee, all such determinations by the Company shall be final, binding and conclusive as to such rights, if any, notwithstanding that the Company or any court of law or governmental agency subsequently makes a contrary determination as to such individual’s status as an Employee.
               (p) Exchange Actmeans the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
               (q) Fair Market Valuemeans, as of any date, the value of a share of Stock or other property as determined by the Committee, in its discretion, or by the Company, in its discretion, if such determination is expressly allocated to the Company herein, subject to the following:
                    (i) Except as otherwise determined by the Committee, if, on such date, the Stock is listed on a national or regional securities exchange or market system, the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock shall be the closing price of a share of Stock (or the mean of the closing bid and asked prices of a share of Stock if the Stock is so quoted instead) as quoted on the national or regional securities exchange or market system constituting the primary market for the Stock, as reported in The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Company deems reliable. If the relevant date does not fall on a day on which the Stock has traded on such securities exchange or market system, the date on which the Fair Market Value shall be established shall be the last day on which the Stock was so traded prior to the relevant date, or such other appropriate day as shall be determined by the Committee, in its discretion.
                    (ii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee may, in its discretion, determine the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the basis of the opening, closing, or average of the high and low sale prices of a share of Stock on such date or the preceding trading day, the actual sale price of a share of Stock received by a Participant, any other reasonable basis using actual transactions in the Stock as reported on a national or regional securities exchange or market system and consistently applied, or on any other basis consistent with the requirements of Section 409A. The Committee may also determine the Fair Market Value upon the average selling price of the Stock during a specified period that is within thirty (30) days before or thirty (30) days after such date, provided that, with respect to the grant of an Option or SAR, the commitment to grant such Award based on such valuation method must be

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irrevocable before the beginning of the specified period and such valuation method must be used consistently for grants of Options and SARs under the same and substantially similar programs. The Committee may vary its method of determination of the Fair Market Value as provided in this Section for different purposes under the Plan to the extent consistent with the requirements of Section 409A.
                    (iii) If, on such date, the Stock is not listed on a national or regional securities exchange or market system, the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock shall be as determined by the Committee in good faith, without regard to any restriction other than a restriction which, by its terms, will never lapse, and in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 409A.
               (r) Full Value Awardmeans any Award settled in Stock, other than (i) an Option, (ii) a Stock Appreciation Right, or (iii) a Restricted Stock Purchase Right or an Other Stock-Based Award under which the Company will receive monetary consideration equal to the Fair Market Value (determined as of the date of grant) of the shares subject to such Award.
               (s) Incumbent Directormeans a director who either (i) is a member of the Board as of the Effective Date or (ii) is elected, or nominated for election, to the Board with the affirmative votes of at least a majority of the Incumbent Directors at the time of such election or nomination, but who was not elected or nominated in connection with an actual or threatened proxy contest relating to the election of directors of the Company.
               (t) “Independent Director” means a person other than an executive officer or Employee or any other individual having a relationship which, in the opinion of the Board, would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a Director. The following persons shall not be considered independent:
               (A) a Director who is, or at any time during the past three years was, employed by the Company;
               (B) a Director who accepted or who has a family member who accepted any compensation from the company in excess of $100,000 during any period of twelve (12) consecutive months within the three (3) years preceding the determination of independence, other than the following:
                    (i) compensation for Board or Committee service;
                    (ii) compensation paid to a family member who is an Employee (other than an Officer) of the Company; or
                    (iii) benefits under a tax-qualified retirement plan, or non-discretionary compensation.
               Provided, however, that in addition to the requirements contained in this paragraph (B), audit committee members are also subject to additional, more stringent requirements under Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4350(d).

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               (C) a Director who is a family member of an individual who is, or at any time during the past three (3) years was, employed by the Company as an Officer;
               (D) a Director who is, or has a family member who is, a partner in, or a controlling shareholder or an Officer of, any organization to which the Company made, or from which the Company received, payments for property or services in the current or any of the past three (3) fiscal years that exceed 5% of the recipient’s consolidated gross revenues for that year, or $200,000, whichever is more, other than the following:
                    (i) payments arising solely from investments in the company’s securities; or
                    (ii) payments under non-discretionary charitable contribution matching programs.
               (E) a Director who is, or has a family member who is, employed as an Officer of another entity where at any time during the past three (3) years any of the Officers serve on the compensation committee of such other entity; or
               (F) a Director who is, or has a family member who is, a current partner of the Company’s outside auditor, or was a partner or employee of the Company’s outside auditor who worked on the Company’s audit at any time during any of the past three (3) years.
               (G) in the case of an investment company, in lieu of paragraphs (A)—(F), a Director who is an “interested person” of the Company as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, other than in his or her capacity as a member of the Board or any Committee.
               (u) Insidermeans an Officer, Director or any other person whose transactions in Stock are subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act.
               (v) Insider Trading Policymeans the written policy of the Company pertaining to the purchase, sale, transfer or other disposition of the Company’s equity securities by Directors, Officers, Employees or other service providers who may possess material, nonpublic information regarding the Company or its securities.
               (w) “Net-Exercise” means a procedure by which the Participant will be issued a number of whole shares of Stock upon the exercise of an Option determined in accordance with the following formula:
N = X(A-B)/A, where
“N” = the number of shares of Stock to be issued to the Participant upon exercise of the Option;

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“X” = the total number of shares with respect to which the Participant has elected to exercise the Option;
“A” = the Fair Market Value of one (1) share of Stock determined on the exercise date; and
“B” = the exercise price per share (as defined in the Participant’s Award Agreement)
               (x) Nonstatutory Stock Optionmeans an Option not intended to be (as set forth in the Award Agreement) an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422(b) of the Code.
               (y) Officermeans any person designated by the Board as an officer of the Company.
               (z) Optionmeans a Nonstatutory Stock Option granted pursuant to Section 6.
               (aa) “Other Stock-Based Award” means an Award denominated in shares of Stock granted pursuant to Section 12.
               (bb) Ownership Change Eventmeans the occurrence of any of the following with respect to the Company: (i) the direct or indirect sale or exchange in a single or series of related transactions by the stockholders of the Company of more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting stock of the Company; (ii) a merger or consolidation in which the Company is a party; or (iii) the sale, exchange, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (other than a sale, exchange or transfer to one or more subsidiaries of the Company).
               (cc) Parent Corporationmeans any present or future “parent corporation” of the Company, as defined in Section 424(e) of the Code.
               (dd) Participantmeans any eligible person who has been granted one or more Awards.
               (ee) Participating Companymeans the Company or any Parent Corporation, Subsidiary Corporation or Affiliate.
               (ff) Participating Company Groupmeans, at any point in time, all entities collectively which are then Participating Companies.
               (gg) Performance Awardmeans an Award of Performance Shares or Performance Units.
               (hh) Performance Award Formulameans, for any Performance Award, a formula or table established by the Committee pursuant to Section 10.3 which provides the basis for computing the value of a Performance Award at one or more threshold levels of

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attainment of the applicable Performance Goal(s) measured as of the end of the applicable Performance Period.
               (ii) Performance Goalmeans a performance goal established by the Committee pursuant to Section 10.3.
               (jj) Performance Periodmeans a period established by the Committee pursuant to Section 10.3 at the end of which one or more Performance Goals are to be measured.
               (kk) Performance Sharemeans a right granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 10 to receive a payment equal to the value of a Performance Share, as determined by the Committee, based on performance.
               (ll) Performance Unitmeans a right granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 10 to receive a payment equal to the value of a Performance Unit, as determined by the Committee, based upon performance.
               (mm) Restricted Stock Awardmeans an Award of a Restricted Stock Bonus or a Restricted Stock Purchase Right.
               (nn) Restricted Stock Bonusmeans Stock granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 8.
               (oo) Restricted Stock Purchase Rightmeans a right to purchase Stock granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 8.
               (pp) Restricted Stock Unit” or Stock Unitmeans a right granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 9 to receive a share of Stock on a date determined in accordance with the provisions of such Section, as applicable, and the Participant’s Award Agreement.
               (qq) Rule 16b-3means Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act, as amended from time to time, or any successor rule or regulation.
               (rr) SARor Stock Appreciation Rightmeans a right granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 7 to receive payment, for each share of Stock subject to such SAR, of an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the date of exercise of the SAR over the exercise price.
               (ss) Section 409Ameans Section 409A of the Code.
               (tt) Section 409A Deferred Compensationmeans compensation provided pursuant to the Plan that constitutes deferred compensation subject to and not exempted from the requirements of Section 409A.
               (uu) Securities Actmeans the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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               (vv) Servicemeans a Participant’s employment or service with the Participating Company Group. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee, a Participant’s Service shall not be deemed to have terminated merely because of a change in the capacity in which the Participant renders such Service or a change in the Participating Company for which the Participant renders such Service, provided that there is no interruption or termination of the Participant’s Service. Furthermore, a Participant’s Service shall not be deemed to have terminated if the Participant takes any military leave, sick leave, or other bona fide leave of absence approved by the Company. However, unless otherwise provided by the Committee, if any such leave taken by a Participant exceeds ninety (90) days, then on the ninety-first (91st) day following the commencement of such leave the Participant’s Service shall be deemed to have terminated, unless the Participant’s right to return to Service is guaranteed by statute or contract. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless otherwise designated by the Company or required by law, an unpaid leave of absence shall not be treated as Service for purposes of determining vesting under the Participant’s Award Agreement. A Participant’s Service shall be deemed to have terminated either upon an actual termination of Service or upon the entity for which the Participant performs Service ceasing to be a Participating Company. Subject to the foregoing, the Company, in its discretion, shall determine whether the Participant’s Service has terminated and the effective date of such termination.
               (ww) Stockmeans the common stock of the Company, as adjusted from time to time in accordance with Section 4.3.
               (xx) Subsidiary Corporationmeans any present or future “subsidiary corporation” of the Company, as defined in Section 424(f) of the Code.
               (yy) Vesting Conditionsmean those conditions established in accordance with the Plan prior to the satisfaction of which shares subject to an Award remain subject to forfeiture or a repurchase option in favor of the Company exercisable for the Participant’s monetary purchase price, if any, for such shares upon the Participant’s termination of Service.
          2.2 Construction. Captions and titles contained herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation of any provision of the Plan. Except when otherwise indicated by the context, the singular shall include the plural and the plural shall include the singular. Use of the term “or” is not intended to be exclusive, unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
     3. Administration.
          3.1 Administration by the Committee. The Plan shall be administered by the Committee. All questions of interpretation of the Plan, of any Award Agreement or of any other form of agreement or other document employed by the Company in the administration of the Plan or of any Award shall be determined by the Committee, and such determinations shall be final, binding and conclusive upon all persons having an interest in the Plan or such Award, unless fraudulent or made in bad faith. Any and all actions, decisions and determinations taken or made by the Committee in the exercise of its discretion pursuant to the Plan or Award Agreement or other agreement thereunder (other than determining questions of interpretation

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pursuant to the preceding sentence) shall be final, binding and conclusive upon all persons having an interest therein.
          3.2 Authority of Officers. Any Officer shall have the authority to act on behalf of the Company with respect to any matter, right, obligation, determination or election which is the responsibility of or which is allocated to the Company herein, provided the Officer has apparent authority with respect to such matter, right, obligation, determination or election.
          3.3 Administration with Respect to Insiders. With respect to participation by Insiders in the Plan, at any time that any class of equity security of the Company is registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act, the Plan shall be administered in compliance with the requirements, if any, of Rule 16b-3.
          3.4 Powers of the Committee. In addition to any other powers set forth in the Plan and subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee shall have the full and final power and authority, in its discretion:
               (a) to determine the persons to whom, and the time or times at which, Awards shall be granted and the number of shares of Stock, units or monetary value to be subject to each Award;
               (b) to determine the type of Award granted;
               (c) to determine the Fair Market Value of shares of Stock or other property;
               (d) to determine the terms, conditions and restrictions applicable to each Award (which need not be identical) and any shares acquired pursuant thereto, including, without limitation, (i) the exercise or purchase price of shares pursuant to any Award, (ii) the method of payment for shares purchased pursuant to any Award, (iii) the method for satisfaction of any tax withholding obligation arising in connection with Award, including by the withholding or delivery of shares of Stock, (iv) the timing, terms and conditions of the exercisability or vesting of any Award or any shares acquired pursuant thereto, (v) the Performance Measures, Performance Period, Performance Award Formula and Performance Goals applicable to any Award and the extent to which such Performance Goals have been attained, (vi) the time of the expiration of any Award, (vii) the effect of the Participant’s termination of Service on any of the foregoing, and (viii) all other terms, conditions and restrictions applicable to any Award or shares acquired pursuant thereto not inconsistent with the terms of the Plan;
               (e) to determine whether an Award will be settled in shares of Stock, cash, or in any combination thereof;
               (f) to approve one or more forms of Award Agreement;
               (g) to amend, modify, extend, cancel or renew any Award or to waive any restrictions or conditions applicable to any Award or any shares acquired pursuant thereto;

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               (h) to accelerate, continue, extend or defer the exercisability or vesting of any Award or any shares acquired pursuant thereto, including with respect to the period following a Participant’s termination of Service;
               (i) to prescribe, amend or rescind rules, guidelines and policies relating to the Plan, or to adopt sub-plans or supplements to, or alternative versions of, the Plan, including, without limitation, as the Committee deems necessary or desirable to comply with the laws or regulations of or to accommodate the tax policy, accounting principles or custom of, foreign jurisdictions whose citizens may be granted Awards; and
               (j) to correct any defect, supply any omission or reconcile any inconsistency in the Plan or any Award Agreement and to make all other determinations and take such other actions with respect to the Plan or any Award as the Committee may deem advisable to the extent not inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan or applicable law.
          3.5 Option or SAR Repricing. Without the affirmative vote of holders of a majority of the shares of Stock cast in person or by proxy at a meeting of the stockholders of the Company at which a quorum representing a majority of all outstanding shares of Stock is present or represented by proxy, the Board shall not approve (a) the cancellation of outstanding Options or SARs and the grant in substitution therefore of new Options or SARs having a lower exercise price, (b) the amendment of outstanding Options or SARs to reduce the exercise price thereof, or (c) the cancellation of outstanding Options or SARs having exercise prices per share greater than the then current Fair Market Value of a share of Stock and the grant in substitution therefore of Full Value Awards. This paragraph shall not be construed to apply to “issuing or assuming a stock option in a transaction to which section 424(a) applies,” within the meaning of Section 424 of the Code.
          3.6 Indemnification. In addition to such other rights of indemnification as they may have as members of the Board or the Committee or as officers or employees of the Participating Company Group, members of the Board or the Committee and any officers or employees of the Participating Company Group to whom authority to act for the Board, the Committee or the Company is delegated shall be indemnified by the Company against all reasonable expenses, including attorneys’ fees, actually and necessarily incurred in connection with the defense of any action, suit or proceeding, or in connection with any appeal therein, to which they or any of them may be a party by reason of any action taken or failure to act under or in connection with the Plan, or any right granted hereunder, and against all amounts paid by them in settlement thereof (provided such settlement is approved by independent legal counsel selected by the Company) or paid by them in satisfaction of a judgment in any such action, suit or proceeding, except in relation to matters as to which it shall be adjudged in such action, suit or proceeding that such person is liable for gross negligence, bad faith or intentional misconduct in duties; provided, however, that within sixty (60) days after the institution of such action, suit or proceeding, such person shall offer to the Company, in writing, the opportunity at its own expense to handle and defend the same.

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     4. Shares Subject to Plan.
          4.1 Maximum Number of Shares Issuable. Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 4.3, the maximum aggregate number of shares of Stock that may be issued under the Plan shall be equal to one million eight hundred thousand (1,800,000) shares, and shall consist of authorized but unissued or reacquired shares of Stock or any combination thereof.
          4.2 Share Counting. If an outstanding Award for any reason expires or is terminated or canceled without having been exercised or settled in full, or if shares of Stock acquired pursuant to an Award subject to forfeiture or repurchase are forfeited or repurchased by the Company for an amount not greater than the Participant’s purchase price, the shares of Stock allocable to the terminated portion of such Award or such forfeited or repurchased shares of Stock shall again be available for issuance under the Plan. Shares of Stock shall not be deemed to have been issued pursuant to the Plan with respect to any portion of an Award that is settled in cash. Upon payment in shares of Stock pursuant to the exercise of an SAR, the number of shares available for issuance under the Plan shall be reduced by the gross number of shares for which the SAR is exercised. If the exercise price of an Option is paid by tender to the Company, or attestation to the ownership, of shares of Stock owned by the Participant, or by means of a Net-Exercise, the number of shares available for issuance under the Plan shall be reduced by the gross number of shares for which the Option is exercised. If Options, SARs or Performance Awards are settled in the form of Stock Units issued pursuant to a stock issuance deferral award described in Section 11.1(b), the number of shares available for issuance under the Plan shall be reduced by the number of shares subject to such Stock Units, but shall not be further reduced by the number of shares of Stock originally subject to such Options, SARs or Performance Awards settled in such manner. Shares withheld or reacquired by the Company in satisfaction of tax withholding obligations pursuant to Section 17.2 shall not again be available for issuance under the Plan.
          4.3 Adjustments for Changes in Capital Structure. Subject to any required action by the stockholders of the Company, in the event of any change in the Stock effected without receipt of consideration by the Company, whether through merger, consolidation, reorganization, reincorporation, recapitalization, reclassification, stock dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, split-up, split-off, spin-off, combination of shares, exchange of shares, or similar change in the capital structure of the Company, or in the event of payment of a dividend or distribution to the stockholders of the Company in a form other than Stock (excepting normal cash dividends) that has a material effect on the Fair Market Value of shares of Stock, appropriate and proportionate adjustments shall be made in the number and kind of shares subject to the Plan and to any outstanding Awards, in the Award limits set forth in Section 5.3 and in the exercise or purchase price per share under any outstanding Award in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of Participants’ rights under the Plan. For purposes of the foregoing, conversion of any convertible securities of the Company shall not be treated as “effected without receipt of consideration by the Company.” If a majority of the shares which are of the same class as the shares that are subject to outstanding Awards are exchanged for, converted into, or otherwise become (whether or not pursuant to an Ownership Change Event) shares of another corporation (the New Shares), the Committee may unilaterally amend the outstanding Awards to provide that such Awards are for New Shares. In the event of any such amendment, the number of shares subject to, and the exercise or purchase price per share of, the outstanding

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Awards shall be adjusted in a fair and equitable manner as determined by the Committee, in its discretion. Any fractional share resulting from an adjustment pursuant to this Section 4.3 shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number, and in no event may the exercise or purchase price under any Award be decreased to an amount less than the par value, if any, of the stock subject to such Award. The Committee in its sole discretion, may also make such adjustments in the terms of any Award to reflect, or related to, such changes in the capital structure of the Company or distributions as it deems appropriate. The adjustments determined by the Committee pursuant to this Section shall be final, binding and conclusive.
     The Committee may, without affecting the number of Shares reserved or available hereunder, authorize the issuance or assumption of benefits under this Plan in connection with any merger, consolidation, acquisition of property or stock, or reorganization upon such terms and conditions as it may deem appropriate, subject to compliance with Section 409A and any other applicable provisions of the Code and related guidance issued by the U.S. Treasury Department.
     5. Eligibility, Participation and Award Limitations.
          5.1 Persons Eligible for Awards. Awards may be granted only to Employees who, prior to the offer of an Award as an inducement to become an Employee, were (i) neither Employees nor Directors or (ii) former Employees or Directors whose period of Service was followed by a bona-fide period of non-employment. Deferred Compensation Awards may be granted only to individuals who are among a select group of management or highly compensated Employees.
          5.2 Participation in the Plan. Awards are granted solely at the discretion of the Committee. Eligible persons may be granted more than one Award. However, eligibility in accordance with this Section shall not entitle any person to be granted an Award, or, having been granted an Award, to be granted an additional Award.
          5.3 Award Limitations.
               (a) Aggregate Limit on Full Value Awards. In no event shall more than forty percent (40%) of the maximum aggregate number of shares of Stock that may be issued under the Plan, determined in accordance with Sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3, be issued pursuant to Full Value Awards.
               (b) Limit on Full Value Awards without Minimum Vesting. Except with respect to a maximum of five percent (5%) of the maximum aggregate number of shares of Stock that may be issued under the Plan, determined in accordance with Sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3, Full Value Awards which vest on the basis of the Participant’s continued Service shall provide for vesting over a period of not less than three (3) years, and Full Value Awards which vest on the basis of the attainment of performance goals shall provide for a performance period of not less than twelve (12) months. The foregoing limitations shall not preclude the acceleration of vesting of any such Award upon the death, disability, retirement or involuntary termination of Service of the Participant or upon or following a Change in Control, as determined by the Committee in its discretion.

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     6. Stock Options.
          Options shall be evidenced by Award Agreements specifying the number of shares of Stock covered thereby, in such form as the Committee shall from time to time establish. Award Agreements evidencing Options may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and shall comply with and be subject to the following terms and conditions:
          6.1 Exercise Price. The exercise price for each Option shall be established in the discretion of the Committee; provided, however, that the exercise price per share shall be not less than the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the effective date of grant of the Option. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Option may be granted with an exercise price lower than the minimum exercise price set forth above if such Option is granted pursuant to an assumption or substitution for another option in a manner qualifying under the provisions of Section 424(a) of the Code.
          6.2 Exercisability and Term of Options. Options shall be exercisable at such time or times, or upon such event or events, and subject to such terms, conditions, performance criteria and restrictions as shall be determined by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Option; provided, however, that no Option shall be exercisable after the expiration of ten (10) years after the effective date of grant of such Option. Subject to the foregoing, unless otherwise specified by the Committee in the grant of an Option, each Option shall terminate ten (10) years after the effective date of grant of the Option, unless earlier terminated in accordance with its provisions.
          6.3 Payment of Exercise Price.
               (a) Forms of Consideration Authorized. Except as otherwise provided below, payment of the exercise price for the number of shares of Stock being purchased pursuant to any Option shall be made (i) in cash or by check or cash equivalent, (ii) by tender to the Company, or attestation to the ownership, of shares of Stock owned by the Participant having a Fair Market Value not less than the exercise price, (iii) by delivery of a properly executed notice of exercise together with irrevocable instructions to a broker providing for the assignment to the Company of the proceeds of a sale or loan with respect to some or all of the shares being acquired upon the exercise of the Option (including, without limitation, through an exercise complying with the provisions of Regulation T as promulgated from time to time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) (a Cashless Exercise), (iv) by delivery of a properly executed notice electing a Net-Exercise, (v) by such other consideration as may be approved by the Committee from time to time to the extent permitted by applicable law, or (vi) by any combination thereof. The Committee may at any time or from time to time grant Options which do not permit all of the foregoing forms of consideration to be used in payment of the exercise price or which otherwise restrict one or more forms of consideration.
               (b) Limitations on Forms of Consideration.
                    (i) Tender of Stock. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Option may not be exercised by tender to the Company, or attestation to the ownership, of shares of Stock to the extent such tender or attestation would constitute a violation of the provisions of

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any law, regulation or agreement restricting the redemption of the Company’s stock. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee, an Option may not be exercised by tender to the Company, or attestation to the ownership, of shares of Stock unless such shares either have been owned by the Participant for more than six (6) months (or such other period, if any, as the Committee may permit) and not used for another Option exercise by attestation during such period, or were not acquired, directly or indirectly, from the Company.
                    (ii) Cashless Exercise. The Company reserves, at any and all times, the right, in the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, to establish, decline to approve or terminate any program or procedures for the exercise of Options by means of a Cashless Exercise, including with respect to one or more Participants specified by the Company notwithstanding that such program or procedures may be available to other Participants.
          6.4 Effect of Termination of Service.
               (a) Option Exercisability. Subject to earlier termination of the Option as otherwise provided herein and unless otherwise provided by the Committee, an Option shall terminate immediately upon the Participant’s termination of Service to the extent that it is then unvested and shall be exercisable after the Participant’s termination of Service to the extent it is then vested only during the applicable time period determined in accordance with this Section and thereafter shall terminate:
                    (i) Disability. If the Participant’s Service terminates because of the Disability of the Participant, the Option, to the extent unexercised and exercisable for vested shares on the date on which the Participant’s Service terminated, may be exercised by the Participant (or the Participant’s guardian or legal representative) at any time prior to the expiration of twelve (12) months after the date on which the Participant’s Service terminated, but in any event no later than the date of expiration of the Option’s term as set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Option (the Option Expiration Date).
                    (ii) Death. If the Participant’s Service terminates because of the death of the Participant, then the Option, to the extent unexercised and exercisable for vested shares on the date on which the Participant’s Service terminated, may be exercised by the Participant’s legal representative or other person who acquired the right to exercise the Option by reason of the Participant’s death at any time prior to the expiration of twelve (12) months after the date on which the Participant’s Service terminated, but in any event no later than the Option Expiration Date. The Participant’s Service shall be deemed to have terminated on account of death if the Participant dies within three (3) months after the Participant’s termination of Service.
                    (iii) Termination for Cause. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, if the Participant’s Service is terminated for Cause or if, following the Participant’s termination of Service and during any period in which the Option otherwise would remain exercisable, the Participant engages in any act that would constitute Cause, the Option shall terminate in its entirety and cease to be exercisable immediately upon such termination of Service or act.

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                    (iv) Other Termination of Service. If the Participant’s Service terminates for any reason, except Disability, death or Cause, the Option, to the extent unexercised and exercisable for vested shares on the date on which the Participant’s Service terminated, may be exercised by the Participant at any time prior to the expiration of three (3) months after the date on which the Participant’s Service terminated, but in any event no later than the Option Expiration Date.
               (b) Extension if Exercise Prevented by Law or Insider Trading Policy. Notwithstanding the foregoing, other than termination of Service for Cause, if the exercise of an Option within the applicable time periods set forth in Section 6.4(a) is prevented by the provisions of Section 15 below or a sale of shares pursuant to a Cashless Exercise of the Option would violate the provisions of the Insider Trading Policy, the Option shall remain exercisable until thirty (30) days after the date such exercise or sale, as the case may be, first would no longer be prevented by such provisions, but in any event no later than the Option Expiration Date.
          6.5 Transferability of Options. During the lifetime of the Participant, an Option shall be exercisable only by the Participant or the Participant’s guardian or legal representative. An Option shall not be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, exchange, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary, except transfer by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent permitted by the Committee, in its discretion, and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Option, a Nonstatutory Stock Option shall be assignable or transferable subject to the applicable limitations, if any, described in the General Instructions to Form S-8 under the Securities Act.
     7. Stock Appreciation Rights.
          Stock Appreciation Rights shall be evidenced by Award Agreements specifying the number of shares of Stock subject to the Award, in such form as the Committee shall from time to time establish. Award Agreements evidencing SARs may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and shall comply with and be subject to the following terms and conditions:
          7.1 Types of SARs Authorized. SARs may be granted in tandem with all or any portion of a related Option (a Tandem SAR) or may be granted independently of any Option (a Freestanding SAR). A Tandem SAR may only be granted concurrently with the grant of the related Option.
          7.2 Exercise Price. The exercise price for each SAR shall be established in the discretion of the Committee; provided, however, that (a) the exercise price per share subject to a Tandem SAR shall be the exercise price per share under the related Option and (b) the exercise price per share subject to a Freestanding SAR shall be not less than the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the effective date of grant of the SAR.
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               (a) Tandem SARs. Tandem SARs shall be exercisable only at the time and to the extent, and only to the extent, that the related Option is exercisable, subject to such provisions as the Committee may specify where the Tandem SAR is granted with respect to less than the full number of shares of Stock subject to the related Option. The Committee may, in its discretion, provide in any Award Agreement evidencing a Tandem SAR that such SAR may not be exercised without the advance approval of the Company and, if such approval is not given, then the Option shall nevertheless remain exercisable in accordance with its terms. A Tandem SAR shall terminate and cease to be exercisable no later than the date on which the related Option expires or is terminated or canceled. Upon the exercise of a Tandem SAR with respect to some or all of the shares subject to such SAR, the related Option shall be canceled automatically as to the number of shares with respect to which the Tandem SAR was exercised. Upon the exercise of an Option related to a Tandem SAR as to some or all of the shares subject to such Option, the related Tandem SAR shall be canceled automatically as to the number of shares with respect to which the related Option was exercised.
               (b) Freestanding SARs. Freestanding SARs shall be exercisable at such time or times, or upon such event or events, and subject to such terms, conditions, performance criteria and restrictions as shall be determined by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such SAR; provided, however, that no Freestanding SAR shall be exercisable after the expiration of ten (10) years after the effective date of grant of such SAR.
          7.4 Exercise of SARs. Upon the exercise (or deemed exercise pursuant to Section 7.5) of an SAR, the Participant (or the Participant’s legal representative or other person who acquired the right to exercise the SAR by reason of the Participant’s death) shall be entitled to receive payment of an amount for each share with respect to which the SAR is exercised equal to the excess, if any, of the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the date of exercise of the SAR over the exercise price. Payment of such amount shall be made (a) in the case of a Tandem SAR, solely in whole shares of Stock in a lump sum as soon as practicable following the date of exercise of the SAR and (b) in the case of a Freestanding SAR, in cash, whole shares of Stock, or any combination thereof as determined by the Committee, in a lump sum as soon as practicable following the date of exercise of the SAR. When payment is to be made in shares of Stock, the number of shares to be issued shall be determined on the basis of the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the date of exercise of the SAR. For purposes of Section 7, an SAR shall be deemed exercised on the date on which the Company receives notice of exercise from the Participant or as otherwise provided in Section 7.5.
          7.5 Deemed Exercise of SARs. If, on the date on which an SAR would otherwise terminate or expire, the SAR by its terms remains exercisable immediately prior to such termination or expiration and, if so exercised, would result in a payment to the holder of such SAR, then any portion of such SAR which has not previously been exercised shall automatically be deemed to be exercised as of such date with respect to such portion.
          7.6 Effect of Termination of Service. Subject to earlier termination of the SAR as otherwise provided herein and unless otherwise provided by the Committee in the grant of an SAR and set forth in the Award Agreement, an SAR shall be exercisable after a Participant’s termination of Service only to the extent and during the applicable time period

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determined in accordance with Section 6.4 (treating the SAR as if it were an Option) and thereafter shall terminate.
          7.7 Transferability of SARs. During the lifetime of the Participant, an SAR shall be exercisable only by the Participant or the Participant’s guardian or legal representative. An SAR shall not be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, exchange, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary, except transfer by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent permitted by the Committee, in its discretion, and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Award, a Tandem SAR related to a Nonstatutory Stock Option or a Freestanding SAR shall be assignable or transferable subject to the applicable limitations, if any, described in the General Instructions to Form S-8 under the Securities Act.
     8. Restricted Stock Awards.
          Restricted Stock Awards shall be evidenced by Award Agreements specifying whether the Award is a Restricted Stock Bonus or a Restricted Stock Purchase Right and the number of shares of Stock subject to the Award, in such form as the Committee shall from time to time establish. Award Agreements evidencing Restricted Stock Awards may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and shall comply with and be subject to the following terms and conditions:
          8.1 Types of Restricted Stock Awards Authorized. Restricted Stock Awards may be granted in the form of either a Restricted Stock Bonus or a Restricted Stock Purchase Right. Restricted Stock Awards may be granted upon such conditions as the Committee shall determine, including, without limitation, upon the attainment of one or more Performance Goals described in Section 10.4. If either the grant of or satisfaction of Vesting Conditions applicable to a Restricted Stock Award is to be contingent upon the attainment of one or more Performance Goals, the Committee shall follow procedures substantially equivalent to those set forth in Sections 10.3 through 10.5(a).
          8.2 Purchase Price. The purchase price for shares of Stock issuable under each Restricted Stock Purchase Right shall be established by the Committee in its discretion. No monetary payment (other than applicable tax withholding) shall be required as a condition of receiving shares of Stock pursuant to a Restricted Stock Bonus, the consideration for which shall be services actually rendered to a Participating Company or for its benefit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if required by applicable state corporate law, the Participant shall furnish consideration in the form of cash or past services rendered to a Participating Company or for its benefit having a value not less than the par value of the shares of Stock subject to a Restricted Stock Award.
          8.3 Purchase Period. A Restricted Stock Purchase Right shall be exercisable within a period established by the Committee, which shall in no event exceed thirty (30) days from the effective date of the grant of the Restricted Stock Purchase Right.

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          8.4 Payment of Purchase Price. Except as otherwise provided below, payment of the purchase price for the number of shares of Stock being purchased pursuant to any Restricted Stock Purchase Right shall be made (a) in cash or by check or cash equivalent, (b) by such other consideration as may be approved by the Committee from time to time to the extent permitted by applicable law, or (c) by any combination thereof.
          8.5 Vesting and Restrictions on Transfer. Subject to Section 5.3(b), Shares issued pursuant to any Restricted Stock Award may (but need not) be made subject to Vesting Conditions based upon the satisfaction of such Service requirements, conditions, restrictions or performance criteria, including, without limitation, Performance Goals as described in Section 10.4, as shall be established by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Award. During any period in which shares acquired pursuant to a Restricted Stock Award remain subject to Vesting Conditions, such shares may not be sold, exchanged, transferred, pledged, assigned or otherwise disposed of other than pursuant to an Ownership Change Event or as provided in Section 8.8. The Committee, in its discretion, may provide in any Award Agreement evidencing a Restricted Stock Award that, if the satisfaction of Vesting Conditions with respect to any shares subject to such Restricted Stock Award would otherwise occur on a day on which the sale of such shares would violate the provisions of the Insider Trading Policy, then satisfaction of the Vesting Conditions automatically shall be determined on the next trading day on which the sale of such shares would not violate the Insider Trading Policy. Upon request by the Company, each Participant shall execute any agreement evidencing such transfer restrictions prior to the receipt of shares of Stock hereunder and shall promptly present to the Company any and all certificates representing shares of Stock acquired hereunder for the placement on such certificates of appropriate legends evidencing any such transfer restrictions.
          8.6 Voting Rights; Dividends and Distributions. Except as provided in this Section, Section 8.5 and any Award Agreement, during any period in which shares acquired pursuant to a Restricted Stock Award remain subject to Vesting Conditions, the Participant shall have all of the rights of a stockholder of the Company holding shares of Stock, including the right to vote such shares and to receive all dividends and other distributions paid with respect to such shares. However, in the event of a dividend or distribution paid in shares of Stock or other property or any other adjustment made upon a change in the capital structure of the Company as described in Section 4.3, any and all new, substituted or additional securities or other property (other than normal cash dividends) to which the Participant is entitled by reason of the Participant’s Restricted Stock Award shall be immediately subject to the same Vesting Conditions as the shares subject to the Restricted Stock Award with respect to which such dividends or distributions were paid or adjustments were made.
          8.7 Effect of Termination of Service. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee in the Award Agreement evidencing a Restricted Stock Award, if a Participant’s Service terminates for any reason, whether voluntary or involuntary (including the Participant’s death or disability), then (a) the Company shall have the option to repurchase for the purchase price paid by the Participant any shares acquired by the Participant pursuant to a Restricted Stock Purchase Right which remain subject to Vesting Conditions as of the date of the Participant’s termination of Service and (b) the Participant shall forfeit to the Company any shares acquired by the Participant pursuant to a Restricted Stock Bonus which remain subject to Vesting Conditions as of the date of the Participant’s termination of Service. The Company shall have

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the right to assign at any time any repurchase right it may have, whether or not such right is then exercisable, to one or more persons as may be selected by the Company.
          8.8 Nontransferability of Restricted Stock Award Rights. Rights to acquire shares of Stock pursuant to a Restricted Stock Award shall not be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, exchange, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary, except transfer by will or the laws of descent and distribution. All rights with respect to a Restricted Stock Award granted to a Participant hereunder shall be exercisable during his or her lifetime only by such Participant or the Participant’s guardian or legal representative.
      9. Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
          Restricted Stock Unit Awards shall be evidenced by Award Agreements specifying the number of Restricted Stock Units subject to the Award, in such form as the Committee shall from time to time establish. Award Agreements evidencing Restricted Stock Units may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and shall comply with and be subject to the following terms and conditions:
          9.1 Grant of Restricted Stock Unit Awards. Restricted Stock Unit Awards may be granted upon such conditions as the Committee shall determine, including, without limitation, upon the attainment of one or more Performance Goals described in Section 10.4. If either the grant of a Restricted Stock Unit Award or the Vesting Conditions with respect to such Award is to be contingent upon the attainment of one or more Performance Goals, the Committee shall follow procedures substantially equivalent to those set forth in Sections 10.3 through 10.5(a).
          9.2 Purchase Price. No monetary payment (other than applicable tax withholding, if any) shall be required as a condition of receiving a Restricted Stock Unit Award, the consideration for which shall be services actually rendered to a Participating Company or for its benefit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if required by applicable state corporate law, the Participant shall furnish consideration in the form of cash or past services rendered to a Participating Company or for its benefit having a value not less than the par value of the shares of Stock issued upon settlement of the Restricted Stock Unit Award.
          9.3 Vesting. Subject to Section 5.3(b), Restricted Stock Unit Awards may (but need not) be made subject to Vesting Conditions based upon the satisfaction of such Service requirements, conditions, restrictions or performance criteria, including, without limitation, Performance Goals as described in Section 10.4, as shall be established by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Award. The Committee, in its discretion, may provide in any Award Agreement evidencing a Restricted Stock Unit Award that, if the satisfaction of Vesting Conditions with respect to any shares subject to the Award would otherwise occur on a day on which the sale of such shares would violate the provisions of the Insider Trading Policy, then satisfaction of the Vesting Conditions automatically shall be determined on the first to occur of (a) the next trading day on which the sale of such shares would not violate the Insider Trading Policy or (b) the later of (i) the last day of the calendar year

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in which the original vesting date occurred or (ii) the last day of the Company’s taxable year in which the original vesting date occurred.
          9.4 Voting Rights, Dividend Equivalent Rights and Distributions. Participants shall have no voting rights with respect to shares of Stock represented by Restricted Stock Units until the date of the issuance of such shares (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company). However, the Committee, in its discretion, may provide in the Award Agreement evidencing any Restricted Stock Unit Award that the Participant shall be entitled to Dividend Equivalent Rights with respect to the payment of cash dividends on Stock during the period beginning on the date such Award is granted and ending, with respect to each share subject to the Award, on the earlier of the date the Award is settled or the date on which it is terminated. Such Dividend Equivalent Rights, if any, shall be paid by crediting the Participant with additional whole Restricted Stock Units as of the date of payment of such cash dividends on Stock. The number of additional Restricted Stock Units (rounded to the nearest whole number) to be so credited shall be determined by dividing (a) the amount of cash dividends paid on such date with respect to the number of shares of Stock represented by the Restricted Stock Units previously credited to the Participant by (b) the Fair Market Value per share of Stock on such date. Such additional Restricted Stock Units shall be subject to the same terms and conditions and shall be settled in the same manner and at the same time as the Restricted Stock Units originally subject to the Restricted Stock Unit Award. In the event of a dividend or distribution paid in shares of Stock or other property or any other adjustment made upon a change in the capital structure of the Company as described in Section 4.3, appropriate adjustments shall be made in the Participant’s Restricted Stock Unit Award so that it represents the right to receive upon settlement any and all new, substituted or additional securities or other property (other than normal cash dividends) to which the Participant would be entitled by reason of the shares of Stock issuable upon settlement of the Award, and all such new, substituted or additional securities or other property shall be immediately subject to the same Vesting Conditions as are applicable to the Award.
          9.5 Effect of Termination of Service. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing a Restricted Stock Unit Award, if a Participant’s Service terminates for any reason, whether voluntary or involuntary (including the Participant’s death or disability), then the Participant shall forfeit to the Company any Restricted Stock Units pursuant to the Award which remain subject to Vesting Conditions as of the date of the Participant’s termination of Service.
          9.6 Settlement of Restricted Stock Unit Awards. The Company shall issue to a Participant on the date on which Restricted Stock Units subject to the Participant’s Restricted Stock Unit Award vest or on such other date determined by the Committee, in its discretion, and set forth in the Award Agreement one (1) share of Stock (and/or any other new, substituted or additional securities or other property pursuant to an adjustment described in Section 9.4) for each Restricted Stock Unit then becoming vested or otherwise to be settled on such date, subject to the withholding of applicable taxes, if any. If permitted by the Committee, the Participant may elect, consistent with the requirements of Section 409A, to defer receipt of all or any portion of the shares of Stock or other property otherwise issuable to the Participant pursuant to this Section, and such deferred issuance date(s) and amount(s) elected by the Participant shall be set forth in the Award Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the

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Committee, in its discretion, may provide in any Award Agreement for settlement of any Restricted Stock Unit Award by payment to the Participant in cash of an amount equal to the Fair Market Value on the payment date of the shares of Stock or other property otherwise issuable to the Participant pursuant to this Section.
          9.7 Nontransferability of Restricted Stock Unit Awards. The right to receive shares pursuant to a Restricted Stock Unit Award shall not be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, exchange, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary, except transfer by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. All rights with respect to a Restricted Stock Unit Award granted to a Participant hereunder shall be exercisable during his or her lifetime only by such Participant or the Participant’s guardian or legal representative.
      10. Performance Awards.
          Performance Awards shall be evidenced by Award Agreements in such form as the Committee shall from time to time establish. Award Agreements evidencing Performance Awards may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and shall comply with and be subject to the following terms and conditions:
          10.1 Types of Performance Awards Authorized. Performance Awards may be granted in the form of either Performance Shares or Performance Units. Each Award Agreement evidencing a Performance Award shall specify the number of Performance Shares or Performance Units subject thereto, the Performance Award Formula, the Performance Goal(s) and Performance Period applicable to the Award, and the other terms, conditions and restrictions of the Award.
          10.2 Initial Value of Performance Shares and Performance Units. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee in granting a Performance Award, each Performance Share shall have an initial monetary value equal to the Fair Market Value of one (1) share of Stock, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 4.3, on the effective date of grant of the Performance Share, and each Performance Unit shall have an initial monetary value established by the Committee at the time of grant. The final value payable to the Participant in settlement of a Performance Award determined on the basis of the applicable Performance Award Formula will depend on the extent to which Performance Goals established by the Committee are attained within the applicable Performance Period established by the Committee.
          10.3 Establishment of Performance Period, Performance Goals and Performance Award Formula. In granting each Performance Award, the Committee shall establish in writing the applicable Performance Period (subject to Section 5.3(b)), Performance Award Formula and one or more Performance Goals which, when measured at the end of the Performance Period, shall determine on the basis of the Performance Award Formula the final value of the Performance Award to be paid to the Participant. The Committee shall establish the Performance Goal(s) and Performance Award Formula applicable to each Performance Award no later than the earlier of (a) the date ninety (90) days after the commencement of the applicable Performance Period or (b) the date on which 25% of the Performance Period has elapsed, and, in any event, at a time when the outcome of the Performance Goals remains substantially uncertain.

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Once established, the Performance Goals and Performance Award Formula applicable to a Covered Employee shall not be changed during the Performance Period. The Company shall notify each Participant granted a Performance Award of the terms of such Award, including the Performance Period, Performance Goal(s) and Performance Award Formula.
          10.4 Measurement of Performance Goals. Performance Goals shall be established by the Committee on the basis of targets to be attained (Performance Targets) with respect to one or more measures of business or financial performance (each, a Performance Measure), subject to the following:
               (a) Performance Measures. Performance Measures shall have the same meanings as used in the Company’s financial statements, or, if such terms are not used in the Company’s financial statements, they shall have the meaning applied pursuant to generally accepted accounting principles, or as used generally in the Company’s industry. Performance Measures shall be calculated with respect to the Company and each Subsidiary Corporation consolidated therewith for financial reporting purposes or such division or other business unit as may be selected by the Committee. For purposes of the Plan, the Performance Measures applicable to a Performance Award shall be calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, if applicable, but prior to the accrual or payment of any Performance Award for the same Performance Period and excluding the effect (whether positive or negative) of any change in accounting standards or any extraordinary, unusual or nonrecurring item, as determined by the Committee, occurring after the establishment of the Performance Goals applicable to the Performance Award. Each such adjustment, if any, shall be made solely for the purpose of providing a consistent basis from period to period for the calculation of Performance Measures in order to prevent the dilution or enlargement of the Participant’s rights with respect to a Performance Award. Performance Measures may be one or more of the following, as determined by the Committee:
                    (i) revenue;
                    (ii) sales;
                    (iii) expenses;
                    (iv) operating income;
                    (v) gross margin;
                    (vi) operating margin;
                    (vii) earnings before any one or more of: stock-based compensation expense, interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization;
                    (viii) pre-tax profit;
                    (ix) net operating income;
                    (x) net income;

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                    (xi) economic value added;
                    (xii) free cash flow;
                    (xiii) operating cash flow;
                    (xiv) balance of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities;
                    (xv) stock price;
                    (xvi) earnings per share;
                    (xvii) return on stockholder equity;
                    (xviii) return on capital;
                    (xix) return on assets;
                    (xx) return on investment;
                    (xxi) employee satisfaction;
                    (xxii) employee retention;
                    (xxiii) market share;
                    (xxiv) customer satisfaction;
                    (xxv) product development;
                    (xxvi) research and development expenses;
                    (xxvii) completion of an identified special project; and
                    (xxviii) completion of a joint venture or other corporate transaction.
               (b) Performance Targets. Performance Targets may include a minimum, maximum, target level and intermediate levels of performance, with the final value of a Performance Award determined under the applicable Performance Award Formula by the level attained during the applicable Performance Period. A Performance Target may be stated as an absolute value or as a value determined relative to an index, budget or other standard selected by the Committee.
          10.5 Settlement of Performance Awards.
               (a) Determination of Final Value. As soon as practicable following the completion of the Performance Period applicable to a Performance Award, the Committee

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shall certify in writing the extent to which the applicable Performance Goals have been attained and the resulting final value of the Award earned by the Participant and to be paid upon its settlement in accordance with the applicable Performance Award Formula.
               (b) Effect of Leaves of Absence. Unless otherwise required by law or a Participant’s Award Agreement, payment of the final value, if any, of a Performance Award held by a Participant who has taken in excess of thirty (30) days in unpaid leaves of absence during a Performance Period shall be prorated on the basis of the number of days of the Participant’s Service during the Performance Period during which the Participant was not on a leave of absence.
               (c) Notice to Participants. As soon as practicable following the Committee’s determination and certification in accordance with Sections 10.5(a), the Company shall notify each Participant of the determination of the Committee.
               (d) Payment in Settlement of Performance Awards. As soon as practicable following the Committee’s determination and certification in accordance with Sections 10.5(a), but in any event within the Short-Term Deferral Period described in Section 16.1 (except as otherwise provided below or consistent with the requirements of Section 409A), payment shall be made to each eligible Participant (or such Participant’s legal representative or other person who acquired the right to receive such payment by reason of the Participant’s death) of the final value of the Participant’s Performance Award. Payment of such amount shall be made in cash, shares of Stock, or a combination thereof as determined by the Committee. Unless otherwise provided in the Award Agreement evidencing a Performance Award, payment shall be made in a lump sum. If permitted by the Committee, the Participant may elect, consistent with the requirements of Section 409A, to defer receipt of all or any portion of the payment to be made to the Participant pursuant to this Section, and such deferred payment date(s) elected by the Participant shall be set forth in the Award Agreement. If any payment is to be made on a deferred basis, the Committee may, but shall not be obligated to, provide for the payment during the deferral period of Dividend Equivalent Rights or interest.
               (e) Provisions Applicable to Payment in Shares. If payment is to be made in shares of Stock, the number of such shares shall be determined by dividing the final value of the Performance Award by the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock determined by the method specified in the Award Agreement. Shares of Stock issued in payment of any Performance Award may be fully vested and freely transferable shares or may be shares of Stock subject to Vesting Conditions as provided in Section 8.5. Any shares subject to Vesting Conditions shall be evidenced by an appropriate Award Agreement and shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 8.5 through 8.8 above.
          10.6 Voting Rights; Dividend Equivalent Rights and Distributions. Participants shall have no voting rights with respect to shares of Stock represented by Performance Share Awards until the date of the issuance of such shares, if any (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company). However, the Committee, in its discretion, may provide in the Award Agreement evidencing any Performance Share Award that the Participant shall be entitled to Dividend Equivalent Rights with respect to the payment of cash dividends on Stock during the period

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beginning on the date the Award is granted and ending, with respect to each share subject to the Award, on the earlier of the date on which the Performance Shares are settled or the date on which they are forfeited. Such Dividend Equivalent Rights, if any, shall be credited to the Participant in the form of additional whole Performance Shares as of the date of payment of such cash dividends on Stock. The number of additional Performance Shares (rounded to the nearest whole number) to be so credited shall be determined by dividing (a) the amount of cash dividends paid on the dividend payment date with respect to the number of shares of Stock represented by the Performance Shares previously credited to the Participant by (b) the Fair Market Value per share of Stock on such date. Dividend Equivalent Rights may be paid currently or may be accumulated and paid to the extent that Performance Shares become nonforfeitable, as determined by the Committee. Settlement of Dividend Equivalent Rights may be made in cash, shares of Stock, or a combination thereof as determined by the Committee, and may be paid on the same basis as settlement of the related Performance Share as provided in Section 10.5. Dividend Equivalent Rights shall not be paid with respect to Performance Units. In the event of a dividend or distribution paid in shares of Stock or other property or any other adjustment made upon a change in the capital structure of the Company as described in Section 4.3, appropriate adjustments shall be made in the Participant’s Performance Share Award so that it represents the right to receive upon settlement any and all new, substituted or additional securities or other property (other than normal cash dividends) to which the Participant would be entitled by reason of the shares of Stock issuable upon settlement of the Performance Share Award, and all such new, substituted or additional securities or other property shall be immediately subject to the same Performance Goals as are applicable to the Award.
          10.7 Effect of Termination of Service. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing a Performance Award, the effect of a Participant’s termination of Service on the Performance Award shall be as follows:
               (a) Death or Disability. If the Participant’s Service terminates because of the death or Disability of the Participant before the completion of the Performance Period applicable to the Performance Award, the final value of the Participant’s Performance Award shall be determined by the extent to which the applicable Performance Goals have been attained with respect to the entire Performance Period and shall be prorated based on the number of months of the Participant’s Service during the Performance Period. Payment shall be made following the end of the Performance Period in any manner permitted by Section 10.5.
               (b) Other Termination of Service. If the Participant’s Service terminates for any reason except death or Disability before the completion of the Performance Period applicable to the Performance Award, such Award shall be forfeited in its entirety; provided, however, that in the event of an involuntary termination of the Participant’s Service, the Committee, in its sole discretion, may waive the automatic forfeiture of all or any portion of any such Award.
          10.8 Nontransferability of Performance Awards. Prior to settlement in accordance with the provisions of the Plan, no Performance Award shall be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, exchange, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary, except transfer by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. All rights with respect to a Performance Award

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granted to a Participant hereunder shall be exercisable during his or her lifetime only by such Participant or the Participant’s guardian or legal representative.
      11. Deferred Compensation Awards.
          11.1 Establishment of Deferred Compensation Award Programs. This Section 11 shall not be effective unless and until the Committee determines to establish a program pursuant to this Section. The Committee, in its discretion and upon such terms and conditions as it may determine, consistent with the requirements of Section 409A, may establish one or more programs pursuant to the Plan under which:
               (a) Elective Cash Compensation Reduction Awards. Participants designated by the Committee who are among a select group of management or highly compensated Employees may irrevocably elect, prior to a date specified by the Committee in compliance with Section 409A, to reduce such Participant’s compensation otherwise payable in cash (subject to any minimum or maximum reductions imposed by the Committee) and to be granted automatically at such time or times as specified by the Committee one or more Awards of Stock Units with respect to such numbers of shares of Stock as determined in accordance with the rules of the program established by the Committee and having such other terms and conditions as established by the Committee.
               (b) Stock Issuance Deferral Awards. Participants designated by the Committee who are among a select group of management or highly compensated Employees may irrevocably elect, prior to a date specified by the Committee in compliance with Section 409A, to be granted automatically an Award of Stock Units with respect to such number of shares of Stock and upon such other terms and conditions as established by the Committee in lieu of:
                    (i) shares of Stock otherwise issuable to such Participant upon the exercise of an Option; or
                    (ii) cash or shares of Stock otherwise issuable to such Participant upon the exercise of an SAR; or
                    (iii) cash or shares of Stock otherwise issuable to such Participant upon the settlement of a Performance Award.
          11.2 Terms and Conditions of Deferred Compensation Awards. Deferred Compensation Awards granted pursuant to this Section 11 shall be evidenced by Award Agreements in such form as the Committee shall from time to time establish. Award Agreements evidencing Deferred Compensation Awards may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and, except as provided below, shall comply with and be subject to the terms and conditions of Section 9.
               (a) Voting Rights; Dividend Equivalent Rights and Distributions. Participants shall have no voting rights with respect to shares of Stock represented by Stock Units until the date of the issuance of such shares (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company). However, a

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Participant shall be entitled to Dividend Equivalent Rights with respect to the payment of cash dividends on Stock during the period beginning on the date the Stock Units are granted automatically to the Participant and ending on the earlier of the date on which such Stock Units are settled or the date on which they are forfeited. Such Dividend Equivalent Rights shall be paid by crediting the Participant with additional whole Stock Units as of the date of payment of such cash dividends on Stock. The number of additional Stock Units (rounded to the nearest whole number) to be so credited shall be determined by dividing (A) the amount of cash dividends paid on the dividend payment date with respect to the number of shares of Stock represented by the Stock Units previously credited to the Participant by (B) the Fair Market Value per share of Stock on such date. Such additional Stock Units shall be subject to the same terms and conditions and shall be settled in the same manner and at the same time as the Stock Units originally subject to the Stock Unit Award. In the event of a dividend or distribution paid in shares of Stock or other property or any other adjustment made upon a change in the capital structure of the Company as described in Section 4.3, appropriate adjustments shall be made in the Participant’s Stock Unit Award so that it represents the right to receive upon settlement any and all new, substituted or additional securities or other property (other than normal cash dividends) to which the Participant would be entitled by reason of the shares of Stock issuable upon settlement of the Award.
               (b) Settlement of Deferred Compensation Awards. A Participant electing to receive an Award of Stock Units pursuant to this Section 11 shall specify at the time of such election a settlement date with respect to such Award in compliance with the requirements of Section 409A. The Company shall issue to the Participant on the settlement date elected by the Participant, or as soon thereafter as practicable, a number of whole shares of Stock equal to the number of vested Stock Units subject to the Stock Unit Award. Such shares of Stock shall be fully vested, and the Participant shall not be required to pay any additional consideration (other than applicable tax withholding) to acquire such shares.
      12. Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards.
          Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards shall be evidenced by Award Agreements in such form as the Committee shall from time to time establish. Award Agreements evidencing Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and shall comply with and be subject to the following terms and conditions:
          12.1 Grant of Cash-Based Awards. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee, at any time and from time to time, may grant Cash-Based Awards to Participants in such amounts and upon such terms and conditions, including the achievement of performance criteria, as the Committee may determine.
          12.2 Grant of Other Stock-Based Awards. The Committee may grant other types of equity-based or equity-related Awards not otherwise described by the terms of this Plan (including the grant or offer for sale of unrestricted securities, stock-equivalent units, stock appreciation units, securities or debentures convertible into common stock or other forms determined by the Committee) in such amounts and subject to such terms and conditions as the Committee shall determine. Such Awards may involve the transfer of actual shares of Stock to

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Participants, or payment in cash or otherwise of amounts based on the value of Stock and may include, without limitation, Awards designed to comply with or take advantage of the applicable local laws of jurisdictions other than the United States.
          12.3 Value of Cash-Based and Other Stock-Based Awards. Each Cash-Based Award shall specify a monetary payment amount or payment range as determined by the Committee. Each Other Stock-Based Award shall be expressed in terms of shares of Stock or units based on such shares of Stock, as determined by the Committee. Subject to Section 5.3(b), the Committee may require the satisfaction of such Service requirements, conditions, restrictions or performance criteria, including, without limitation, Performance Goals as described in Section 10.4, as shall be established by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Award. If the Committee exercises its discretion to establish performance criteria, the final value of Cash-Based Awards or Other Stock-Based Awards that will be paid to the Participant will depend on the extent to which the performance criteria are met.
          12.4 Payment or Settlement of Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards. Payment or settlement, if any, with respect to a Cash-Based Award or an Other Stock-Based Award shall be made in accordance with the terms of the Award, in cash, shares of Stock or other securities or any combination thereof as the Committee determines. To the extent applicable, payment or settlement with respect to each Cash-Based Award and Other Stock-Based Award shall be made in compliance with the requirements of Section 409A.
          12.5 Voting Rights; Dividend Equivalent Rights and Distributions. Participants shall have no voting rights with respect to shares of Stock represented by Other Stock-Based Awards until the date of the issuance of such shares of Stock (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company), if any, in settlement of such Award. However, the Committee, in its discretion, may provide in the Award Agreement evidencing any Other Stock-Based Award that the Participant shall be entitled to Dividend Equivalent Rights with respect to the payment of cash dividends on Stock during the period beginning on the date such Award is granted and ending, with respect to each share subject to the Award, on the earlier of the date the Award is settled or the date on which it is terminated. Such Dividend Equivalent Rights, if any, shall be paid in accordance with the provisions set forth in Section 9.4. Dividend Equivalent Rights shall not be granted with respect to Cash-Based Awards.
          12.6 Effect of Termination of Service. Each Award Agreement evidencing a Cash-Based Award or Other Stock-Based Award shall set forth the extent to which the Participant shall have the right to retain such Award following termination of the Participant’s Service. Such provisions shall be determined in the sole discretion of the Committee, need not be uniform among all Cash-Based Awards or Other Stock-Based Awards, and may reflect distinctions based on the reasons for termination.
          12.7 Nontransferability of Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards. Prior to the payment or settlement of a Cash-Based Award or Other Stock-Based Award, the Award shall not be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, exchange, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary, except transfer by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. The

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Committee may impose such additional restrictions on any shares of Stock issued in settlement of Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards as it may deem advisable, including, without limitation, minimum holding period requirements, restrictions under applicable federal securities laws, under the requirements of any stock exchange or market upon which such shares of Stock are then listed and/or traded, or under any state securities laws applicable to such shares of Stock.
      13. Standard Forms of Award Agreement.
          13.1 Award Agreements. Each Award shall comply with and be subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the appropriate form of Award Agreement approved by the Committee and as amended from time to time. No Award or purported Award shall be a valid and binding obligation of the Company unless evidenced by a fully executed Award Agreement. Any Award Agreement may consist of an appropriate form of Notice of Grant and a form of Agreement incorporated therein by reference, or such other form or forms, including electronic media, as the Committee may approve from time to time.
          13.2 Authority to Vary Terms. The Committee shall have the authority from time to time to vary the terms of any standard form of Award Agreement either in connection with the grant or amendment of an individual Award or in connection with the authorization of a new standard form or forms; provided, however, that the terms and conditions of any such new, revised or amended standard form or forms of Award Agreement are not inconsistent with the terms of the Plan.
      14. Change in Control.
          14.1 Effect of Change in Control on Awards. Subject to the requirements and limitations of Section 409A if applicable, the Committee may provide for any one or more of the following:
               (a) Accelerated Vesting. The Committee may, in its discretion, provide in any Award Agreement or, in the event of a Change in Control, may take such actions as it deems appropriate to provide for the acceleration of the exercisability, vesting and/or settlement in connection with such Change in Control of each or any outstanding Award or portion thereof and shares acquired pursuant thereto upon such conditions, including termination of the Participant’s Service prior to, upon, or following such Change in Control, to such extent as the Committee shall determine.
               (b) Assumption, Continuation or Substitution. In the event of a Change in Control, the surviving, continuing, successor, or purchasing corporation or other business entity or parent thereof, as the case may be (the Acquiror), may, without the consent of any Participant, either assume or continue the Company’s rights and obligations under each or any Award or portion thereof outstanding immediately prior to the Change in Control or substitute for each or any such outstanding Award or portion thereof a substantially equivalent award with respect to the Acquiror’s stock, as applicable. For purposes of this Section, if so determined by the Committee, in its discretion, an Award denominated in shares of Stock shall be deemed assumed if, following the Change in Control, the Award confers the right to receive,

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subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan and the applicable Award Agreement, for each share of Stock subject to the Award immediately prior to the Change in Control, the consideration (whether stock, cash, other securities or property or a combination thereof) to which a holder of a share of Stock on the effective date of the Change in Control was entitled; provided, however, that if such consideration is not solely common stock of the Acquiror, the Committee may, with the consent of the Acquiror, provide for the consideration to be received upon the exercise or settlement of the Award, for each share of Stock subject to the Award, to consist solely of common stock of the Acquiror equal in Fair Market Value to the per share consideration received by holders of Stock pursuant to the Change in Control. If any portion of such consideration may be received by holders of Stock pursuant to the Change in Control on a contingent or delayed basis, the Committee may, in its sole discretion, determine such Fair Market Value per share as of the time of the Change in Control on the basis of the Committee’s good faith estimate of the present value of the probable future payment of such consideration. Any Award or portion thereof which is neither assumed or continued by the Acquiror in connection with the Change in Control nor exercised or settled as of the time of consummation of the Change in Control shall terminate and cease to be outstanding effective as of the time of consummation of the Change in Control.
               (c) Cash-Out of Outstanding Stock-Based Awards. The Committee may, in its discretion and without the consent of any Participant, determine that, upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, each or any Award denominated in shares of Stock or portion thereof outstanding immediately prior to the Change in Control and not previously exercised or settled shall be canceled in exchange for a payment with respect to each vested share (and each unvested share, if so determined by the Committee) of Stock subject to such canceled Award in (i) cash, (ii) stock of the Company or of a corporation or other business entity a party to the Change in Control, or (iii) other property which, in any such case, shall be in an amount having a Fair Market Value equal to the Fair Market Value of the consideration to be paid per share of Stock in the Change in Control, reduced by the exercise or purchase price per share, if any, under such Award. If any portion of such consideration may be received by holders of Stock pursuant to the Change in Control on a contingent or delayed basis, the Committee may, in its sole discretion, determine such Fair Market Value per share as of the time of the Change in Control on the basis of the Committee’s good faith estimate of the present value of the probable future payment of such consideration. In the event such determination is made by the Committee, the amount of such payment (reduced by applicable withholding taxes, if any) shall be paid to Participants in respect of the vested portions of their canceled Awards as soon as practicable following the date of the Change in Control and in respect of the unvested portions of their canceled Awards in accordance with the vesting schedules applicable to such Awards.

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          14.2 Federal Excise Tax Under Section 4999 of the Code.
               (a) Excess Parachute Payment. In the event that any acceleration of vesting pursuant to an Award and any other payment or benefit received or to be received by a Participant would subject the Participant to any excise tax pursuant to Section 4999 of the Code due to the characterization of such acceleration of vesting, payment or benefit as an “excess parachute payment” under Section 280G of the Code, the Participant may elect, in his or her sole discretion, to reduce the amount of any acceleration of vesting called for under the Award in order to avoid such characterization.
               (b) Determination by Independent Accountants. To aid the Participant in making any election called for under Section 14.2(a), no later than the date of the occurrence of any event that might reasonably be anticipated to result in an “excess parachute payment” to the Participant as described in Section 14.2(a), the Company shall request a determination in writing by independent public accountants selected by the Company (the Accountants). As soon as practicable thereafter, the Accountants shall determine and report to the Company and the Participant the amount of such acceleration of vesting, payments and benefits which would produce the greatest after-tax benefit to the Participant. For the purposes of such determination, the Accountants may rely on reasonable, good faith interpretations concerning the application of Sections 280G and 4999 of the Code. The Company and the Participant shall furnish to the Accountants such information and documents as the Accountants may reasonably request in order to make their required determination. The Company shall bear all fees and expenses the Accountants may reasonably charge in connection with their services contemplated by this Section.
      15. Compliance with Securities Law.
          The grant of Awards and the issuance of shares of Stock pursuant to any Award shall be subject to compliance with all applicable requirements of federal, state and foreign law with respect to such securities and the requirements of any stock exchange or market system upon which the Stock may then be listed. In addition, no Award may be exercised or shares issued pursuant to an Award unless (a) a registration statement under the Securities Act shall at the time of such exercise or issuance be in effect with respect to the shares issuable pursuant to the Award or (b) in the opinion of legal counsel to the Company, the shares issuable pursuant to the Award may be issued in accordance with the terms of an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. The inability of the Company to obtain from any regulatory body having jurisdiction the authority, if any, deemed by the Company’s legal counsel to be necessary to the lawful issuance and sale of any shares hereunder shall relieve the Company of any liability in respect of the failure to issue or sell such shares as to which such requisite authority shall not have been obtained. As a condition to issuance of any Stock, the Company may require the Participant to satisfy any qualifications that may be necessary or appropriate, to evidence compliance with any applicable law or regulation and to make any representation or warranty with respect thereto as may be requested by the Company.

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      16. Compliance with Section 409A.
          16.1 Awards Subject to Section 409A. The provisions of this Section 16 shall apply to any Award or portion thereof that is or becomes subject to Section 409A, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in the Plan or the Award Agreement applicable to such Award. Awards subject to Section 409A include, without limitation:
               (a) Any Nonstatutory Stock Option or SAR that permits the deferral of compensation other than the deferral of recognition of income until the exercise of the Award.
               (b) Each Deferred Compensation Award.
               (c) Any Restricted Stock Unit Award, Cash-Based Award or Other Stock-Based Award if either (i) the Award provides by its terms for settlement of all or any portion of the Award on one or more dates following the Short-Term Deferral Period (as defined below) or (ii) the Committee permits or requires the Participant to elect one or more dates on which the Award will be settled.
     Subject to any applicable U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 409A or other applicable guidance, the term “Short-Term Deferral Periodmeans the period ending on the later of (i) the 15th day of the third month following the end of the Company’s fiscal year in which the applicable portion of the Award is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture or (ii) the 15th day of the third month following the end of the Participant’s taxable year in which the applicable portion of the Award is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture. For this purpose, the term “substantial risk of forfeiture” shall have the meaning set forth in any applicable U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 409A or other applicable guidance.
          16.2 Deferral and/or Distribution Elections. Except as otherwise permitted or required by Section 409A or any applicable U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 409A or other applicable guidance, the following rules shall apply to any deferral and/or distribution elections (each, an “Election”) that may be permitted or required by the Committee pursuant to an Award subject to Section 409A:
               (a) All Elections must be in writing and specify the amount of the distribution in settlement of an Award being deferred, as well as the time and form of distribution as permitted by this Plan.
               (b) All Elections shall be made by the end of the Participant’s taxable year prior to the year in which services commence for which an Award may be granted to such Participant; provided, however, that if the Award qualifies as “performance-based compensation” for purposes of Section 409A and is based on services performed over a period of at least twelve (12) months, then the Election may be made no later than six (6) months prior to the end of such period.
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change such Election must be made prior to the last day for making an Election determined in accordance with paragraph (b) above or as permitted by Section 16.3.
          16.3 Subsequent Elections. Except as otherwise permitted or required by Section 409A or any applicable U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 409A or other applicable guidance, any Award subject to Section 409A which permits a subsequent Election to delay the distribution or change the form of distribution in settlement of such Award shall comply with the following requirements:
               (a) No subsequent Election may take effect until at least twelve (12) months after the date on which the subsequent Election is made;
               (b) Each subsequent Election related to a distribution in settlement of an Award not described in Section 16.4(b), 16.4(c) or 16.4(f) must result in a delay of the distribution for a period of not less than five (5) years from the date such distribution would otherwise have been made; and
               (c) No subsequent Election related to a distribution pursuant to Section 16.4(d) shall be made less than twelve (12) months prior to the date of the first scheduled payment under such distribution.
          16.4 Distributions Pursuant to Deferral Elections. Except as otherwise permitted or required by Section 409A or any applicable U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 409A or other applicable guidance, no distribution in settlement of an Award subject to Section 409A may commence earlier than:
               (a) Separation from service (as determined by the Secretary of the United States Treasury);
               (b) The date the Participant becomes Disabled (as defined below);
               (c) Death;
               (d) A specified time (or pursuant to a fixed schedule) that is either (i) specified by the Committee upon the grant of an Award and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Award or (ii) specified by the Participant in an Election complying with the requirements of Section 16.2 and/or 16.3, as applicable;
               (e) To the extent provided by the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, a change in the ownership or effective control of the Company or in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of the Company; or
               (f) The occurrence of an Unforeseeable Emergency (as defined by applicable U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 409A).
     Notwithstanding anything else herein to the contrary, to the extent that a Participant is a “Specified Employee” (as defined in Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Code) of the Company, no distribution pursuant to Section 16.4(a) in settlement of an Award subject to Section 409A may

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be made before the date (the Delayed Payment Date) which is six (6) months after such Participant’s date of separation from service, or, if earlier, the date of the Participant’s death. All such amounts that would, but for this paragraph, become payable prior to the Delayed Payment Date shall be accumulated and paid on the Delayed Payment Date.
          16.5 Unforeseeable Emergency. The Committee shall have the authority to provide in the Award Agreement evidencing any Award subject to Section 409A for distribution in settlement of all or a portion of such Award in the event that a Participant establishes, to the satisfaction of the Committee, the occurrence of an Unforeseeable Emergency. In such event, the amount(s) distributed with respect to such Unforeseeable Emergency cannot exceed the amounts necessary to satisfy such Unforeseeable Emergency plus amounts necessary to pay taxes reasonably anticipated as a result of such distribution(s), after taking into account the extent to which such hardship is or may be relieved through reimbursement or compensation by insurance or otherwise, by liquidation of the Participant’s assets (to the extent the liquidation of such assets would not itself cause severe financial hardship) or by cessation of deferrals under the Award. All distributions with respect to an Unforeseeable Emergency shall be made in a lump sum as soon as practicable following the Committee’s determination that an Unforeseeable Emergency has occurred.
     The occurrence of an Unforeseeable Emergency shall be judged and determined by the Committee. The Committee’s decision with respect to whether an Unforeseeable Emergency has occurred and the manner in which, if at all, the distribution in settlement of an Award shall be altered or modified, shall be final, conclusive, and not subject to approval or appeal.
          16.6 Disabled. The Committee shall have the authority to provide in any Award subject to Section 409A for distribution in settlement of such Award in the event that the Participant becomes Disabled. A Participant shall be considered “Disabled” if either:
               (a) the Participant is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve (12) months, or
               (b) the Participant is, by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve (12) months, receiving income replacement benefits for a period of not less than three (3) months under an accident and health plan covering employees of the Participant’s employer.
     All distributions payable by reason of a Participant becoming Disabled shall be paid in a lump sum or in periodic installments as established by the Participant’s Election, commencing as soon as practicable following the date the Participant becomes Disabled. If the Participant has made no Election with respect to distributions upon becoming Disabled, all such distributions shall be paid in a lump sum as soon as practicable following the date the Participant becomes Disabled.

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          16.7 Death. If a Participant dies before complete distribution of amounts payable upon settlement of an Award subject to Section 409A, such undistributed amounts shall be distributed to his or her beneficiary under the distribution method for death established by the Participant’s Election as soon as administratively possible following receipt by the Committee of satisfactory notice and confirmation of the Participant’s death. If the Participant has made no Election with respect to distributions upon death, all such distributions shall be paid in a lump sum as soon as practicable following the date of the Participant’s death.
          16.8 No Acceleration of Distributions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, this Plan does not permit the acceleration of the time or schedule of any distribution under an Award subject to Section 409A, except as provided by Section 409A and/or the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.
      17. Tax Withholding.
          17.1 Tax Withholding in General. The Company shall have the right to deduct from any and all payments made under the Plan, or to require the Participant, through payroll withholding, cash payment or otherwise, to make adequate provision for, the federal, state, local and foreign taxes, if any, required by law to be withheld by the Participating Company Group with respect to an Award or the shares acquired pursuant thereto. The Company shall have no obligation to deliver shares of Stock, to release shares of Stock from an escrow established pursuant to an Award Agreement, or to make any payment in cash under the Plan until the Participating Company Group’s tax withholding obligations have been satisfied by the Participant.
          17.2 Withholding in Shares. The Company shall have the right, but not the obligation, to deduct from the shares of Stock issuable to a Participant upon the exercise or settlement of an Award, or to accept from the Participant the tender of, a number of whole shares of Stock having a Fair Market Value, as determined by the Company, equal to all or any part of the tax withholding obligations of the Participating Company Group. The Fair Market Value of any shares of Stock withheld or tendered to satisfy any such tax withholding obligations shall not exceed the amount determined by the applicable minimum statutory withholding rates.
      18. Amendment or Termination of Plan.
          The Committee may amend, suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. No amendment, suspension or termination of the Plan shall affect any then outstanding Award unless expressly provided by the Committee. Except as provided by the next sentence, no amendment, suspension or termination of the Plan may adversely affect any then outstanding Award without the consent of the Participant. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, the Committee may, in its sole and absolute discretion and without the consent of any Participant, amend the Plan or any Award Agreement, to take effect retroactively or otherwise, as it deems necessary or advisable for the purpose of conforming the Plan or such Award Agreement to any present or future law, regulation or rule applicable to the Plan, including, but not limited to, Section 409A.
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          19.1 Repurchase Rights. Shares issued under the Plan may be subject to one or more repurchase options, or other conditions and restrictions as determined by the Committee in its discretion at the time the Award is granted. The Company shall have the right to assign at any time any repurchase right it may have, whether or not such right is then exercisable, to one or more persons as may be selected by the Company. Upon request by the Company, each Participant shall execute any agreement evidencing such transfer restrictions prior to the receipt of shares of Stock hereunder and shall promptly present to the Company any and all certificates representing shares of Stock acquired hereunder for the placement on such certificates of appropriate legends evidencing any such transfer restrictions.
          19.2 Forfeiture Events.
               (a) The Committee may specify in an Award Agreement that the Participant’s rights, payments, and benefits with respect to an Award shall be subject to reduction, cancellation, forfeiture, or recoupment upon the occurrence of specified events, in addition to any otherwise applicable vesting or performance conditions of an Award. Such events may include, but shall not be limited to, termination of Service for Cause or any act by a Participant, whether before or after termination of Service, that would constitute Cause for termination of Service.
               (b) If the Company is required to prepare an accounting restatement due to the material noncompliance of the Company, as a result of misconduct, with any financial reporting requirement under the securities laws, any Participant who knowingly or through gross negligence engaged in the misconduct, or who knowingly or through gross negligence failed to prevent the misconduct, and any Participant who is one of the individuals subject to automatic forfeiture under Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, shall reimburse the Company the amount of any payment in settlement of an Award earned or accrued during the twelve- (12-) month period following the first public issuance or filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (whichever first occurred) of the financial document embodying such financial reporting requirement.
          19.3 Provision of Information. Each Participant shall be given access to information concerning the Company equivalent to that information generally made available to the Company’s common stockholders.
          19.4 Rights as Employee. No person, even though eligible pursuant to Section 5, shall have a right to be selected as a Participant, or, having been so selected, to be selected again as a Participant. Nothing in the Plan or any Award granted under the Plan shall confer on any Participant a right to remain an Employee or interfere with or limit in any way any right of a Participating Company to terminate the Participant’s Service at any time. To the extent that an Employee of a Participating Company other than the Company receives an Award under the Plan, that Award shall in no event be understood or interpreted to mean that the Company is the Employee’s employer or that the Employee has an employment relationship with the Company.
          19.5 Rights as a Stockholder. A Participant shall have no rights as a stockholder with respect to any shares covered by an Award until the date of the issuance of such

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shares (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company). No adjustment shall be made for dividends, distributions or other rights for which the record date is prior to the date such shares are issued, except as provided in Section 4.3 or another provision of the Plan.
          19.6 Delivery of Title to Shares. Subject to any governing rules or regulations, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued the shares of Stock acquired pursuant to an Award and shall deliver such shares to or for the benefit of the Participant by means of one or more of the following: (a) by delivering to the Participant evidence of book entry shares of Stock credited to the account of the Participant, (b) by depositing such shares of Stock for the benefit of the Participant with any broker with which the Participant has an account relationship, or (c) by delivering such shares of Stock to the Participant in certificate form.
          19.7 Fractional Shares. The Company shall not be required to issue fractional shares upon the exercise or settlement of any Award.
          19.8 Retirement and Welfare Plans. Neither Awards made under this Plan nor shares of Stock or cash paid pursuant to such Awards may be included as “compensation” for purposes of computing the benefits payable to any Participant under any Participating Company’s retirement plans (both qualified and non-qualified) or welfare benefit plans unless such other plan expressly provides that such compensation shall be taken into account in computing a Participant’s benefit.
          19.9 Beneficiary Designation. Subject to local laws and procedures, each Participant may file with the Company a written designation of a beneficiary who is to receive any benefit under the Plan to which the Participant is entitled in the event of such Participant’s death before he or she receives any or all of such benefit. Each designation will revoke all prior designations by the same Participant, shall be in a form prescribed by the Company, and will be effective only when filed by the Participant in writing with the Company during the Participant’s lifetime. If a married Participant designates a beneficiary other than the Participant’s spouse, the effectiveness of such designation may be subject to the consent of the Participant’s spouse. If a Participant dies without an effective designation of a beneficiary who is living at the time of the Participant’s death, the Company will pay any remaining unpaid benefits to the Participant’s legal representative.
          19.10 Severability. If any one or more of the provisions (or any part thereof) of this Plan shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such provision shall be modified so as to make it valid, legal and enforceable, and the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions (or any part thereof) of the Plan shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
          19.11 No Constraint on Corporate Action. Nothing in this Plan shall be construed to: (a) limit, impair, or otherwise affect the Company’s or another Participating Company’s right or power to make adjustments, reclassifications, reorganizations, or changes of its capital or business structure, or to merge or consolidate, or dissolve, liquidate, sell, or transfer all or any part of its business or assets; or (b) limit the right or power of the Company or another

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Participating Company to take any action which such entity deems to be necessary or appropriate.
          19.12 Unfunded Obligation. Participants shall have the status of general unsecured creditors of the Company. Any amounts payable to Participants pursuant to the Plan shall be unfunded and unsecured obligations for all purposes, including, without limitation, Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. No Participating Company shall be required to segregate any monies from its general funds, or to create any trusts, or establish any special accounts with respect to such obligations. The Company shall retain at all times beneficial ownership of any investments, including trust investments, which the Company may make to fulfill its payment obligations hereunder. Any investments or the creation or maintenance of any trust or any Participant account shall not create or constitute a trust or fiduciary relationship between the Committee or any Participating Company and a Participant, or otherwise create any vested or beneficial interest in any Participant or the Participant’s creditors in any assets of any Participating Company. The Participants shall have no claim against any Participating Company for any changes in the value of any assets which may be invested or reinvested by the Company with respect to the Plan.
          19.13 Choice of Law. Except to the extent governed by applicable federal law, the validity, interpretation, construction and performance of the Plan and each Award Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of law rules.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Secretary of the Company certifies that the foregoing sets forth the Immersion Corporation 2008 Employment Inducement Award Plan as duly adopted by the Board on April 30, 2008.
         
     
     
     
     

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PLAN HISTORY AND NOTES TO COMPANY
     
April 30, 2008
  Board adopts Plan with a share reserve equal to 1,800,000 shares.
 
   
IMPORTANT NOTE: Implementation of Section 11—Deferred Compensation Awards or deferral of settlement of any Award
  Upon establishment of a provision for deferral of settlement of any Award, determine whether such program will constitute a “top-hat” pension plan under ERISA. If so, file notice with Dept. of Labor under ERISA Reg. 2520.104-23 within 120 days of adoption of resolutions by the Committee to establish the program to obtain exemption from reporting and disclosure requirements of ERISA. Include claims procedure in award agreements evidencing such awards.

 

EX-10.39 5 f42365exv10w39.htm EXHIBIT 10.39 exv10w39
Exhibit 10.39
     
(IMMERSION LOGO)
  IMMERSION CORPORATION
NOTICE OF GRANT OF STOCK OPTION
The Participant has been granted an option (the Option) to purchase certain shares of Stock of Immersion Corporation pursuant to the Immersion Corporation 2008 Employment Inducement Award Plan (the Plan), as follows:
             
Participant:
  Employee ID:        
 
           
Date of Grant:
           
 
           
Option Number:
           
 
           
Number of Option Shares:
           
 
           
Exercise Price Per Share:
           
 
           
Vesting Commencement Date:
           
 
           
Option Expiration Date:
           
 
           
Tax Status of Option:
  Nonstatutory Stock Option.        
 
           
Vested Shares:   Except as provided in the Stock Option Agreement and provided the Participant’s Service has not terminated prior to the applicable date, the number of Vested Shares (disregarding any resulting fractional share) as of any date is determined by multiplying the Number of Option Shares by the “Vested Ratio” determined as of such date as follows:
 
           
 
      Vested Ratio
 
           
 
  Prior to first anniversary of Vesting Commencement Date     0  
 
           
 
  On first anniversary of Vesting Commencement Date (the Initial Vesting Date)     1/4  
 
           
 
  Plus        
 
  For each additional full month of the Participant’s continuous Service from Initial Vesting Date until the Vested Ratio equals 1/1, an additional     1/48  
 
           
Local Law:   The laws, rules and regulations of [United States], of which the Participant is a resident.
By their signatures below or by electronic acceptance or authentication in a form authorized by the Company, the Company and the Participant agree that the Option is governed by this Grant Notice and by the provisions of the Plan and the Stock Option Agreement, both of which are made a part of this document. The Participant acknowledges that copies of the Plan, the Stock Option Agreement and the prospectus for the Plan are available on the Company’s internal web site and may be viewed and printed by the Participant for attachment to the Participant’s copy of this Grant Notice. The Participant represents that the Participant has read and is familiar with the provisions of the Plan and the Stock Option Agreement, and hereby accepts the Option subject to all of their terms and conditions.
                 
IMMERSION CORPORATION       PARTICIPANT    
 
               
By:
               
 
 
 
     
 
   
 
          Signature    
Date:
               
 
               
 
          Date    
Address:
  801 Fox Lane       Address:    
 
  San Jose, California 95131            
     
ATTACHMENTS:
  2008 Employment Inducement Award Plan, as amended to the Date of Grant; Stock
Option Agreement, Exercise Notice and Plan Prospectus

EX-10.40 6 f42365exv10w40.htm EXHIBIT 10.40 exv10w40
     Exhibit 10.40
RESIGNATION AGREEMENT
AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS
1. Victor Viegas (“Executive”) is employed by Immersion Corporation (the “Company”) as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Executive and the Company are parties to an Amended and Restated Employment Agreement of December 1, 2007 (the “Employment Agreement”). Executive has now decided to resign from his employment with the Company. It is the Company’s desire to provide Executive with certain benefits that he would not otherwise be entitled to receive upon his resignation and to resolve any claims that Executive has or may have against the Company. Accordingly, Executive and the Company agree as set forth below. This Agreement will become effective on the eighth day after it is signed by Executive (the “Effective Date”), provided that Executive has not revoked this Agreement (by email notice to LPeter@immersion.com) prior to that date.
2. (a) Except as provided in the second sentence of this Paragraph, Executive hereby resigns from his employment, and from any positions that he holds as an officer or manager, with the Company and any positions that he holds as an officer, manager or director with respect to any of its subsidiaries, with all such resignations effective as of April 28, 2008 (the “Resignation Date”). Executive and the Company agree that following the Resignation Date, Executive shall remain the Chairman and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”). (b) Upon the Company’s request, Executive shall execute any documents reasonably required to give effect to any of the resignations described in the first sentence of this Paragraph.
3. During the period between the Resignation Date and May 30, 2008, Executive will make himself available to assist the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer in any manner requested by the Company or the new Chief Executive Officer, including, the orderly transition of Executive’s duties, the transfer of information relevant to the Company’s business and/or customers, and attendance at Company or customer meetings.
4. The Company will provide Executive with the following after the Effective Date:
          (a) Subject to Executive’s compliance with Sections 2(b), 3, 8, 9 and 10 of this Agreement, during the period between the Resignation Date and May 30, 2009, the Company will continue to pay Executive his base salary at his final base salary rate as of the Resignation Date; such salary continuation payments will be made in equal monthly installments on or about the 15th day of each month, and will be subject to applicable withholding;
          (b) Subject to Executive’s compliance with Sections 2(b), 3, 8, 9 and 10 of this Agreement, in the event that Executive elects to obtain continued group health insurance coverage in accordance with federal law (COBRA) following the Resignation Date, the Company will pay the premiums for such coverage through the earlier of May 30, 2009, or the date on which Executive first obtains other group health insurance coverage; thereafter, Executive may elect to purchase continued group health insurance coverage at his own expense in accordance with COBRA;
          (c) during the period in which he continues to serve as a member of the Board, Executive will be allowed to retain and/or continue to use, so long as such use is reasonable and

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appropriate, (i) the laptop personal computer previously provided to Executive by the Company, (ii) Executive’s Company email address, and (iii) Executive’s Company telephone extension;
          (d) during the period in which he continues to serve as a member of the Board, Executive will be entitled to receive the accelerated stock option vesting described in Section 7(a) of the Employment Agreement upon a “Change of Control” (as that term is defined in Section 8 of the Employment Agreement);
          (e) with respect to any unvested stock options previously granted to Executive by the Company, all such options will continue vesting during the period in which Executive continues to serve as a member of the Board; Executive’s unvested stock options will stop vesting on the date that he ceases to serve as a member of the Board, and Executive shall have a period of six months following the date on which he ceases to serve as a member of the Board (but in no event beyond the term of the applicable option) in which to exercise his right to purchase any of his vested stock options; except as modified by this subparagraph and subparagraph (d), Executive’s Company stock options shall continue to be subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable stock option plans and agreements, which agreements, as amended herein, shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any other term of this Agreement to the contrary; and
          (f) to the extent that other Company executives earn incentive payments under such plans for FY 2008, Executive will be paid a prorated incentive payment under his FY 2008 Executive Incentive Plan (the “Plan”); such incentive payment will be calculated in accordance with the terms of the Plan, will be prorated based upon the number of days Executive is employed by the Company during FY 2008, and will be paid to Executive at the same time that such incentive payments are paid to other Company executives.
Upon receipt by Executive of his regular pay check for the pay period ending on the Resignation Date together with payment for                 vacation time, Executive acknowledges that he has been paid all wages and accrued, unused vacation/paid time off that Executive earned during his employment with the Company except for that under Section 4(f) above. Executive understands and acknowledges that he shall not be entitled to any payments or benefits from the Company other than those expressly set forth in this Paragraph 4. So long as Executive continues to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors, beginning on July 1, 2009, Executive shall be entitled to receive all compensation benefits provided to non-employee members of the Board of Directors.
5. Executive and his successors release the Company, its parents, divisions, subsidiaries, and affiliated entities, and each of their respective current and former shareholders, investors, directors, officers, employees, agents, attorneys, insurers, legal successors and assigns of and from any and all claims, actions and causes of action, whether now known or unknown, which Executive now has, or at any other time had, or shall or may have against those released parties based upon or arising out of any matter, cause, fact, thing, act or omission whatsoever occurring or existing at any time up to and including the date on which Executive signs this Agreement, including, but not limited to, any claims of breach of contract, wrongful termination, retaliation, fraud, defamation, infliction of emotional distress or national origin, race, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or other discrimination or harassment under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination In Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Employment and Housing Act or any other applicable law.

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6. The release of claims contained in Paragraph 5 will not apply to any rights or claims that cannot be released by Executive as a matter of law, and it shall not in any way affect or impair Executive’s right to be indemnified by the Company to the fullest extent permitted by any statute, law, or the Indemnity Agreement of January 14, 2004 between the Company and Executive which remains in full force and effect and covers Executive’s ongoing services as a member of the Board (including but not limited to indemnification with respect to that certain litigation: In re Immersion Corporation Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, No. Civ. 01-9975 (S.D.N.Y.), related to In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, No. 21 MC 92 (S.D.N.Y.)).
7. Executive acknowledges that he has read section 1542 of the Civil Code of the State of California, which states in full:
A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him or her must have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor.
Executive waives any rights that he has or may have under section 1542 (or any similar provision of the laws of any other jurisdiction) to the full extent that he may lawfully waive such rights pertaining to this general release of claims, and affirms that he is releasing all known and unknown claims that he has or may have against the parties listed above.
8. Executive acknowledges and agrees that he shall continue to be bound by and comply with the terms of any proprietary rights, assignment of inventions and/or confidentiality agreements between the Company and Executive. Promptly following the Resignation Date, except as provided in Paragraph 4(c), Executive will return to the Company, in good working condition, all Company property and equipment that is in Executive’s possession or control, including, but not limited to, any files, records, computers, computer equipment, cell phones, credit cards, keys, programs, manuals, business plans, financial records, and all documents (and any copies thereof) that Executive prepared or received in the course of his employment with the Company.
9. Executive agrees that he will not, at any time in the future, make any critical or disparaging statements about the Company, its products or its employees, unless such statements are made truthfully in response to a subpoena or other legal process.
10. Executive agrees that for a period of two years following the Resignation Date, he will not, on behalf of himself or any other person or entity, directly or indirectly solicit any employee of the Company to terminate his/her employment with the Company.
11. In the event of any legal action relating to or arising out of this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover from the losing party its attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in that action.
12. If any provision of this Agreement is deemed invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision will be modified so as to make it valid, legal, and enforceable, or if it cannot be so modified, it will be stricken from this Agreement, and the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remainder of the Agreement shall not in any way be affected.

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13. Notwithstanding anything under this Agreement to the contrary, no amount payable pursuant to this Agreement on account of Executive’s termination of employment with the Company which constitutes a “deferral of compensation” within the meaning of the Treasury Regulations issued pursuant to Section 409A of the Code (the “Section 409A Regulations”) shall be paid unless and until Executive has incurred a “separation from service” within the meaning of the Section 409A Regulations. Furthermore, to the extent that Executive is a “specified employee” within the meaning of the Section 409A Regulations as of the date of Executive’s separation from service, no amount that constitutes a deferral of compensation which is payable on account of Executive’s separation from service shall paid to Executive before the date (the “Delayed Payment Date”) which is first day of the seventh month after the date of Executive’s separation from service or, if earlier, the date of Executive’s death following such separation from service. All such amounts that would, but for this Section, become payable prior to the Delayed Payment Date will be accumulated and paid on the Delayed Payment Date.
14. The Company intends that income provided to Executive pursuant to this Agreement will not be subject to taxation under Section 409A of the Code. The provisions of this Agreement shall be interpreted and construed in favor of satisfying any applicable requirements of Section 409A of the Code. However, the Company does not guarantee any particular tax effect for income provided to Executive pursuant to this Agreement. In any event, except for the Company’s responsibility to withhold applicable income and employment taxes from compensation paid or provided to Executive, the Company shall not be responsible for the payment of any applicable taxes incurred by Executive on compensation paid or provided to Executive pursuant to this Agreement.
15. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior negotiations and agreements, whether written or oral, with the exception of the Plan, any stock option agreements between the parties, any agreements described in Paragraphs 6 or 8, and any agreements concerning insider trading or other Company securities issues, all of which agreements shall remain in full force and effect. Except as expressly provided herein, the Employment Agreement is hereby terminated and of no further force or effect. This Agreement may not be modified or amended except by a document signed by an authorized officer of the Company and Executive.
EXECUTIVE UNDERSTANDS THAT HE SHOULD CONSULT WITH AN ATTORNEY PRIOR TO SIGNING THIS AGREEMENT AND THAT HE IS GIVING UP ANY LEGAL CLAIMS HE HAS AGAINST THE PARTIES RELEASED ABOVE BY SIGNING THIS AGREEMENT. EXECUTIVE FURTHER UNDERSTANDS THAT HE MAY HAVE UP TO 21 DAYS TO CONSIDER THIS AGREEMENT, THAT HE MAY REVOKE IT AT ANY TIME DURING THE 7 DAYS AFTER HE SIGNS IT, AND THAT IT SHALL NOT BECOME EFFECTIVE UNTIL THAT 7-DAY PERIOD HAS PASSED. EXECUTIVE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HE IS SIGNING THIS AGREEMENT KNOWINGLY, WILLINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY IN EXCHANGE FOR THE BENEFITS DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH 4.

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 Dated: April 24, 2008

/s/ Victor Viegas
 
Victor Viegas
 
   
 
       
 Dated: April      , 2008 
IMMERSION CORPORATION
 
     
BY:  /s/ Jack L Saltich  
 
     

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EX-10.41 7 f42365exv10w41.htm EXHIBIT 10.41 exv10w41
Exhibit 10.41
RETENTION AND OWNERSHIP CHANGE EVENT AGREEMENT
     This Retention and Ownership Change Event Agreement (“Agreement”) is made effective as of the date(s) set forth below by and between Immersion Corporation (the “Company”) and Clent Richardson (“Executive”).
RECITALS
     In order to make available compensation pursuant to this Agreement that will not be subject to taxation under Section 409A (as defined below), Executive and the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) have determined that it is in the best interests of the Company and Executive to enter into this Retention and Ownership Change Event Agreement. The Company intends that income provided to Executive pursuant to this Agreement will not be subject to taxation under Section 409A, and the provisions of this Agreement shall be interpreted and construed in favor of satisfying any applicable requirements of Section 409A. However, the Company does not guarantee any particular tax effect for income provided to Executive pursuant to this Agreement. In any event, except for the Company’s responsibility to withhold applicable income and employment taxes from compensation paid or provided to Executive, the Company shall not be responsible for the payment of any applicable taxes on compensation paid or provided to Executive pursuant to this Agreement.
     The Board has determined that it is in the best interests of the Company to assure that the Company will have the continued dedication and service of the Executive, notwithstanding the possibility or occurrence of a Change in Control (as defined below) of the Company.
     1. Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement:
          (a) An “Ownership Change Event” shall be deemed to have occurred if any of the following occurs with respect to the Company:
               (i) the direct or indirect sale or exchange in a single or series of related transactions by the stockholders of the Company of more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting stock of the Company;
               (ii) a merger or consolidation in which the Company is not the controlling party;
               (iii) the sale, exchange, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or
               (iv) a liquidation or dissolution of the Company.

 


 

          (b) “Good Reason” means any of the following conditions, which condition(s) remain(s) in effect 30 days after written notice to the Board or the Company’s Chief Executive Officer from Executive of such condition(s):
               (i) a material decrease in Executive’s base salary, other than a material decrease that applies generally to other executives of the Company at Executive’s level;
               (ii) responsibilities, or duties; a material, adverse change in the Executive’s title, authority,
               (iii) the relocation of the Executive’s work place for the Company to a location that is more than 40 miles distant from Executive’s present work location for the Company; or
               (iv) the failure of any successor to the Company to confirm in writing its assumption of the Company’s obligations under this Agreement.
          (c) a termination for “Cause” means Executive’s termination based upon (1) Executive’s theft, dishonesty, misconduct, breach of fiduciary duty, or falsification of any Company documents or records; (2) Executive’s material failure to abide by the Company’s code of conduct or other policies (including, without limitation, policies relating to confidentiality and reasonable workplace conduct); (3) Executive’s unauthorized use, misappropriation, destruction or diversion of any tangible or intangible asset or corporate opportunity of the Company (including, without limitation, Executive’s improper use or disclosure of the Company’s confidential or proprietary information); (4) any intentional act by the Executive that has a material detrimental effect on the Company’s reputation or business; (5) Executive’s repeated failure or inability to perform any reasonable assigned duties after written notice from the Company of, and a reasonable opportunity to cure, such failure or inability; (6) Executive’s conviction (including any plea of guilty or nolo contendere) for any criminal act that impairs Executive’s ability to perform his duties for the Company.
     2. Termination Without Cause. In the event that Executive is terminated without Cause more than three months prior to, or more than one year after, an Ownership Change Event, and if at that time Executive signs (and does not revoke) a general release of known and unknown claims in a form satisfactory to the Company, Executive will receive the following:
          (a) a lump sum severance payment equivalent to twelve (12) months’ base salary at Executive’s final base salary rate, payable within ten (10) business days following the effective date of the aforementioned general release of claims; such severance payment will be subject to applicable withholding; and
          (b) payment of the premiums necessary to continue Executive’s group health insurance coverage under COBRA until the earlier of (i) twelve (12) months following Executive’s termination date, or (ii) the date on which Executive first becomes eligible to obtain other group health insurance coverage; thereafter, Executive may elect to purchase continued group health insurance coverage at his own expense in accordance with COBRA.
     3. Termination Without Cause or Resignation for Good Reason Due to an Ownership Change Event. In the event that Executive is terminated without Cause or resigns for Good Reason within three months of, or within 1 year following, an Ownership Change Event,

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and if at that time Executive signs (and does not revoke) a general release of known and unknown claims in a form satisfactory to the Company, Executive will receive the following:
          (a) a lump sum severance payment equivalent to twelve (12) months’ base salary at Executive’s final base salary rate, payable within ten (10) business days following the effective date of the aforementioned general release of claims; such severance payment will be subject to applicable withholding; and
          (b) payment of the premiums necessary to continue Executive’s group health insurance coverage under COBRA until the earlier of (i) twelve (12) months following Executive’s termination date, or (ii) the date on which Executive first becomes eligible to obtain other group health insurance coverage; thereafter, Executive may elect to purchase continued group health insurance coverage at his own expense in accordance with COBRA.
          (c) immediate vesting in one hundred percent (100%) of his then unvested Company stock and Company stock options.
All Company stock options, to the extent unexercised and exercisable by the Executive on the date on which the Executive’s employment is terminated pursuant to this Section 3, may be exercised by the Executive within six (6) months (or such other longer period of time as determined by the Board, in its sole discretion) after the date on which the Executive’s employment terminated, but in any event no later than the option expiration date.
     4. Voluntary Termination. In the event that Executive resigns from his employment with the Company at any time (other than a resignation for Good Reason), or in the event that Executive’s employment terminates at any time as a result of his death or disability (meaning Executive is unable to perform his duties for any consecutive six (6) month period, with or without reasonable accommodation, as a result of a physical and/or mental impairment), Executive will be entitled to no compensation or benefits from the Company other than those earned through the date of Executive’s termination. Executive agrees that if he resigns from his employment with the Company, he will provide the Company with 20 calendar days’ written notice of such resignation. The Company may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive all or any part of such notice period and accept the Executive’s resignation at an earlier date.
All Company stock options, to the extent unexercised and exercisable by the Executive on the date on which the Executive’s resigns or his employment is terminated pursuant to this Section 4, may be exercised by the Executive within three (3) months (or such other longer period of time as determined by the Board, in its sole discretion) after the date on which the Executive’s employment terminated, but in any event no later than the option expiration date.
     5. Termination for Cause. If Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company at any time for Cause as defined above in paragraph 1, Executive will be entitled to no compensation or benefits from the Company other than those earned through the date of his termination for Cause.
     6. Modification To Comply With Section 409A. The parties intend that the payments and benefits provided to Executive pursuant to this Agreement be paid in compliance with Section 409A of the Code so that no excise tax is incurred under Section 409A. The parties agree to modify this Agreement, the timing (but not the amount(s)) of the payments or benefits provided herein, or both, to the extent necessary to comply with Section 409A.
     7. At-Will Employment. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement, the parties acknowledge and agree that Executive’s employment with the Company is and shall continue to be “at-will.”

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     8. Dispute Resolution. In the event of any dispute or claim between the parties, including any claims relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the termination of Executive’s employment with the Company for any reason, Executive and the Company agree that all such disputes shall be fully resolved by binding arbitration conducted by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) in Santa Clara County, under the AAA’s National Rules for the Resolution of Employment Disputes then in effect, which are available online at the AAA’s website at www.adr.org. Executive and the Company each acknowledge and agree that they are waiving their respective rights to have any such disputes or claims tried by a judge or jury.
     9. Notices. Notices and all other communications contemplated by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when personally delivered or when received if mailed by U.S. registered or certified mail, return receipt requested and postage prepaid. In the case of the Executive, mailed notices shall be addressed to the Executive at the home address which the Executive most recently communicated to the Company in writing. In the case of the Company, mailed notices shall be addressed to its corporate headquarters, and all notices shall be directed to the attention of its Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel.
     10. Successors.
          (a) Company’s Successors. Any successor to the Company (whether direct or indirect and whether by purchase, lease, merger, consolidation, liquidation or purchase of all or substantially all of the Company’s business and/or assets) shall assume the Company’s obligations under this Agreement in writing and agree expressly to perform the Company’s obligations under this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that the Company would be required to perform such obligations in the absence of a succession. For all purposes under this Agreement, the term “Company” shall include any successor to the Company’s business and/or assets which executes and delivers the assumption agreement described in this subsection (a) or which becomes bound by the terms of this Agreement by operation of law.
          (b) Executive’s Successors. Without the written consent of the Company, the Executive shall not assign or transfer this Agreement or any right or obligation under this Agreement to any other person or entity. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the terms of this Agreement and all rights of the Executive hereunder shall inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, the Executive’s personal or legal representatives, executors, administrators, successors, heirs, distributees, devisees and legatees.
     11. Miscellaneous Provisions.
          (a) No Duty to Mitigate. The Executive shall not be required to mitigate the amount of any payment contemplated by this Agreement, nor shall any such payment be reduced by any earnings that the Executive may receive from any other source.
          (b) Modification/Waiver. No provision of this Agreement may be amended, modified, waived or discharged unless the amendment, modification, waiver or discharge is agreed to in writing and signed by the Executive and by an authorized officer of the Company (other than Executive). No waiver by either party of any breach of, or of compliance with, any condition or provision of this Agreement by the other party shall be considered a waiver of any other condition or provision or of the same condition or provision at another time.

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          (c) Integration. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between the parties regarding Executive’s retention and severance benefits, and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements, whether written or oral, regarding that subject matter.
          (d) Choice of Law. The validity, interpretation, construction and performance of this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California.
          (e) Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision or provisions of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof, which shall remain in full force and effect.
          (f) Employment Taxes. All payments made pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to withholding of applicable income and employment taxes.
          (g) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together will constitute one and the same instrument.
THE PARTIES SIGNING BELOW HAVE READ THE FOREGOING AGREEMENT AND FULLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO EACH AND EVERY PROVISION CONTAINED HEREIN.
         
Dated: April 14, 2008 
     
/s/ Clent Richardson      
Clent Richardson     
     
 
     
Dated: April 17, 2008  By:   /s/ Victor Viegas    
       
Immersion Corporation    Its: CEO    
 
EX-10.42 8 f42365exv10w42.htm EXHIBIT 10.42 exv10w42
Exhibit 10.42
30 July 2008
RE: Restated Offer of Employment with Immersion Corporation
Dear Clent:
     This offer letter supersedes your offer dated March 26, 2008 and all amendments thereto. The effective date of this Restated Offer of Employment with Immersion Corporation is April 28, 2008.
     Immersion Corporation (the “Company” or “Immersion”) is pleased to present this offer for the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, on the terms set forth in this agreement, effective upon your acceptance by execution of a counterpart copy of this letter where indicated below.
     Reporting Duties and Responsibilities. In this position, you will report to the Company’s Board of Directors.
     Salary and Benefits. Your initial base salary will be $315,000.00 annually, payable in accordance with the Company’s customary payroll practice, which is bi-weekly. This offer is for a full-time, salaried, exempt position. Further, upon approval by the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), you will be eligible for a bonus in accordance with the Company’s 2008 Executive Incentive Plan of up to 100% of your salary, and (i) 40% of which is based upon the Company’s performance, and (ii) 40% of which is based upon Corporate Initiatives, and (iii) 20% is based on individual performance criteria (MBO performance). Your participation in the plan will be prorated based on your start date.
Additionally, the Company will advance you an amount of up to $75,000.00. This payment will be deducted from your earnings under the 2008 Executive Incentive Plan. You will also be provided with a Commute package of up to $4200.00 per month for reasonable expenses related to the lease of your local apartment and travel expenses to and from Portland, Oregon. The Commute package will be in effect for up to 2 years at which time we will re-evaluate the terms.
     Sign-on Bonus. The Company will also provide you with a sign-on bonus in the amount of $40,000.00 to be paid within your first week of employment. Should you leave voluntarily within your first year of employment with Immersion, the sign-on bonus will be required to be repaid on a prorata basis.
     Background Investigation. This offer is contingent upon the completion of a satisfactory investigation concerning your background and references. This agreement may be revoked in the event the results of the investigation do not meet Immersion’s requirements.
     Stock Options. Subject to the approval of the Board, the Company will grant you an option to purchase 675,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock pursuant to the Company’s 2008 Employment Inducement Award Plan anticipated to be approved by the Board and related form of stock option agreement in effect at that time. All shares of stock subject to your option will have an exercise price equal to the fair market value of the Company’s Common Stock at the date of grant. So long as you remain employed by the Company, your option will become exercisable over a four-year period with 25% of the shares vesting at the end of your first twelve months of service, and an additional 2.083% vesting at the end of each month thereafter.
     Change of Control Benefits. Subject to the approval of the Compensation Committee of the Board, the Company will enter into the Retention and Ownership Change Event Agreement, enclosed.

 


 

     Confidential Information. As an employee of the Company, you will have access to certain Company confidential information and you may during the course of your employment, develop certain information or inventions that will be the property of the Company. To protect the interest of the Company, you will need to sign the Company’s standard “Employee Inventions and Confidentiality Agreement” as a condition of your employment. A copy of the agreement is attached for your review. We wish to impress upon you that we do not wish you to bring with you any confidential or proprietary material of any former employer or to violate any other obligation to your former employers.
     At-Will Employment. While we look forward to a long and profitable relationship, should you decide to accept our offer, you will be an at-will employee of the Company, which means the employment relationship can be terminated by either of us for any reason at any time. Any statements or representations to the contrary (and indeed, any statements contradicting any provision in this letter) are ineffective. Further, your participation in any stock option or benefit program is not an assurance of continued employment for any particular period of time.
     Authorization to Work. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 requires you, within three business days of hire, to present documentation demonstrating that you have authorization to work in the United States. Acceptable documentation is shown on the enclosed form titled Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). Please bring this form, along with the appropriate documentation, to the new employee orientation on your first day of employment. If you have questions about this requirement, which applies to U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens alike, please contact our Human Resources department.
     Term of Offer. This offer will remain open until close of business on March 28, 2008. If you decide to accept our offer, and we hope that you will, please sign the enclosed copy of this letter in the space indicated and return it to me. Upon your signature below, this agreement and the other agreements referenced herein will become our binding agreement with respect to the subject matter of this letter (although the Retention and Ownership Change Event Agreement and eligibility for the Company’s Executive Incentive Plan will only become effective as described above), superseding in their entirety all other or prior agreements by you with the Company as to the specific subjects addressed in this letter. This agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of our respective successors and assigns, and heirs, administrators and executors, will be governed by California law, and may only be amended in a writing signed by you and an authorized officer of the Company.
     Start Date. This offer is made with the understanding that you will start employment with Immersion on April 28, 2008. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “start date” shall mean the day on which you commence employment with the Company.
     We are excited and pleased to have you join the Immersion team in this exciting role and we look forward to a mutually beneficial working relationship.
Sincerely,
         
     
  /s/ Victor Viegas    
  Victor Viegas   
  Chairman of the Board, President and CEO   
 
Agreed and Accepted
         
/s/ Clent Richardson
  30 July 2008    
 
       
Clent Richardson
  Date    

 

EX-10.43 9 f42365exv10w43.htm EXHIBIT 10.43 exv10w43
Exhibit 10.43
(IMMERSION LOGO)
FY2008
Executive Incentive Plan
Richard Vogel

 


 

OBJECTIVES
The specific aim of the 2008 Executive Incentive Plan is to focus Immersion’s executive management on Immersion’s revenue, operating profit, gross margin goals and business objectives, and to reward achievement of those goals.
ELIGIBILITY
In addition to your base salary, you are eligible to earn an incentive payment under Immersion’s 2008 Executive Incentive Plan as set out in this Plan and the attached document titled Attachment A. In order to be eligible to receive any payment under this Plan, you must sign and date a copy of the Plan on the space provided below and return it to Human Resources. An executive’s eligibility to participate in this Plan will be subject to the review and approval of the CEO and CFO of the Company, and any payments under this Plan will be subject to the review and approval of the Company’s CEO, which approval may be withheld in his/her sole discretion. This Plan supersedes all prior executive bonus, incentive, and/or variable compensation plans of the Company, which are of no further force or effect.
Employees hired after January 1, and during the Plan Period who are permitted to participate in the Plan shall be eligible to participate on a pro-rata basis, based upon their start date and contingent upon continued active employment through the date when the Bonus Plan payout occurs. The proration will be based on the number of work days during the plan year.
PLAN ADMINISTRATION
This Plan is effective for the Company’s 2008 fiscal year. The Company may cancel, suspend, amend, or revise all or any part of the Plan for any reason at any time.
To the extent earned, payments hereunder will be wages and will be subject to withholding of federal and state income and employment taxes. Earned payments under this Plan will be paid on the next regular payroll date following the later of (a) 45 days after the end of the fiscal year, (b) the date on which the Company’s Income Statement for the year has been finalized, or (c) the date on which the Company’s earnings for the year have been publicly disclosed (the “Payment Date”).
Nothing in this Plan shall in any way alter the at-will employment relationship between the Company and its executives. All employees of the company are employed on an “at-will” basis, which means that either the employee or the Company may terminate the relationship at any time, with or without cause or notice.
For purposes of this Plan, a participant’s employment with Immersion terminates on the last day on which work duties are actually performed by the participant. Periods of pay in lieu of notice, severance, or any other post-termination benefits or compensation period shall not be deemed periods of employment for purposes of this Plan. In order to earn any payment under the Plan, a participant must have been continuously employed by Immersion from January 1, 2008 through the Payment Date. A participant who resigns from his employment with Immersion prior to the Payment Date, or whose employment is terminated prior to the Payment Date, will not earn any payment under this Plan.
Provided they meet the other eligibility requirements described in this Plan, participants who are on an approved leave of absence at any time during the 2008 fiscal year will earn a pro rated payment under this Plan based upon the portion of the year that they are actively employed and not on leave status. To the extent that a participant is on an approved leave of absence on the Payment Date, he/she will not earn any payment under this Plan unless he/she returns to active employment with Immersion, at which time he/she will receive his/her Plan payment.

 


 

PLAN DEFINITIONS
Revenue is revenue that is recognized by Immersion for the applicable period in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and as reported in the Company’s audited financial statements.
Cost of Goods Sold is the direct and allocated indirect production costs of producing goods and services.
Gross Margin (GM) is determined by subtracting the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) from the actual sale price of the product. The net result is the GM. GM excludes non cash stock compensation expense for the purposes of this Executive Incentive Plan.
Operating Profit (Loss) is Business Unit Operating Profit (Loss) less corporate support costs, litigation expenses, and intangible amortization. Operating Profit (Loss) excludes non cash stock compensation expense for the purposes of this Executive Incentive Plan.
Business Unit Operating Profit (Loss) is the revenue less departmental cost of goods sold and direct operating expenses for a business unit. Direct operating expenses are the expenses directly charged to a business unit including all variable compensation accruals and all allocated departmental expenses. Business Unit Operating Profit (Loss) excludes non cash stock compensation expense for the purposes of this Executive Incentive Plan.
Target Incentive is a percentage determined by management of the participant’s annual base salary as of February 4, 2008. The actual bonus amount will vary depending on the extent to which Company performance targets, Business Unit targets, and milestones are met as determined by the Company at its sole discretion.
MBO’s are specific business milestones which must be completed, in strict accordance with the stated terms and conditions associated with each MBO, to the satisfaction of the CFO and CEO.
             
/s/ Richard Vogel
      May 21, 2008    
             
Executive
      Date    
 
           
/s/ J Passarello
      May 23, 2008    
             
VP of Human Resources
      Date    
 
           
/s/ S M Ambler
      May 23, 2008    
             
CFO
      Date    
 
           
/s/ Clent Richardson
      May 23, 2008    
             
CEO
      Date    

 


 

Attachment A
EXECUTIVE INCENTIVE PLAN STATEMENT OF GOALS FOR YEAR 2008
Richard Vogel
Percent of Base Salary Payment at Plan: 60%
The following is a statement of financial, strategic and tactical objectives for 2008 that will serve as a basis for overall performance evaluation and determination of year-end executive incentive award.
CEO Discretionary Multiplier: The CEO will determine a performance “weighting” to be applied to the Executive’s initial incentive payment calculation (as determined based on the goals and objectives below),which weighting will be based on the Executive’s overall annual performance as determined solely by the CEO. The weighting factor will typically range from 0.80 to 1.20, which factor is then multiplied by the executive’s initial incentive payment calculation to determine the executive’s incentive payment.
Plan Components: The Plan has two independent Company financial performance components: Corporate Metrics and Business Unit Metrics. Within each financial component you will be measured against specific goals.
A.   30% of your target bonus will be based on Corporate performance as follows.
    (50%) Achieve GAAP Revenue of $42.900M. Achieve GAAP Operating Profit (Loss) of ($16.100)M. Operating Profit (Loss) includes non cash stock compensation expense. Operating Profit (Loss) amounts are stated prior to taking account of Executive Incentive Plan payment amounts. Payment amounts are not pro-rated between matrix levels.
                                         
Revenue /                    
Operating                    
Profit (Loss)                    
Targets   $38.600M   $40.750M   $42.900M   $45.900M   $48.900M
$(12.900)M
    100 %     110 %     120 %     150 %     200 %
$(14.000)M
    90 %     100 %     110 %     120 %     150 %
$(16.100)M
    50 %     80 %     100 %     110 %     120 %
$(16.900)M
    0 %     50 %     80 %     90 %     90 %
$(17.700)M
    0 %     0 %     50 %     80 %     80 %
    (50%) Corporate Initiatives
  1.   M&A Activity:  During FY2008 identify, conduct due diligence, close, and assimilate at least one acquisition for the corporation that is greater than $10M in Revenue or greater than $5M in Operating Income.
 
  2.   Oracle Implementation: Implement a company-wide ERP system by upgrading to Oracle 11i in FY2008 from current version.  A company-wide system will help to integrate the majority of the data and processes of the organization into a unified system and aid in the company attaining an overarching goal of integrating the businesses more completely for operational and strategic efficiencies.
 
  3.   Increase International presence across all businesses: FY2008 International Revenue is equal to or greater than 45% or $19M of total revenue.
 
  4.   During 2008 generate at least 20 non financial or administrative press releases.
B.   70% of your target bonus will be based on Business Unit performance as follows.
    (75%) Achieve GAAP Revenue of $20.100M. Achieve GAAP Operating Profit (Loss) of ($6.700)M. Operating Profit (Loss) includes non cash stock compensation expense. Operating

 


 

      Profit (Loss) amounts are stated prior to taking account of Executive Incentive Plan payment amounts. Payment amounts are not pro-rated between matrix levels.
                                         
Revenue /                    
Operating                    
Profit (Loss)                    
Targets   $18.100M   $19.100M   $20.100M   $21.500M   $22.900M
$(5.350)M
    100 %     110 %     120 %     150 %     200 %
$(6.025)M
    90 %     100 %     110 %     120 %     150 %
$(6.700)M
    50 %     80 %     100 %     110 %     120 %
$(7.050)M
    0 %     50 %     80 %     90 %     90 %
$(7.400)M
    0 %     0 %     50 %     80 %     80 %
    (25%) Business Unit Initiatives as agreed upon with CEO.

 

EX-31.1 10 f42365exv31w1.htm EXHIBIT 31.1 exv31w1
Exhibit 31.1
CERTIFICATIONS
I, Clent Richardson, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Immersion Corporation;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
  a)   Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
 
  b)   Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
 
  c)   Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
 
  d)   Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
  a)   All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial information; and
 
  b)   Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Date: August 8, 2008
         
/s/ Clent Richardson
 
       
Clent Richardson
       
President and Chief Executive Officer
       

 

EX-31.2 11 f42365exv31w2.htm EXHIBIT 31.2 exv31w2
Exhibit 31.2
CERTIFICATIONS
I, Stephen Ambler, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Immersion Corporation;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
  a)   Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
 
  b)   Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
 
  c)   Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
 
  d)   Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
  a)   All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial information; and
 
  b)   Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Date: August 8, 2008
         
/s/ Stephen Ambler
 
       
Stephen Ambler
       
Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance
       

 

EX-32.1 12 f42365exv32w1.htm EXHIBIT 32.1 exv32w1
Exhibit 32.1
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
     In connection with the Quarterly Report of Immersion Corporation (the “Company”) on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2008 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Clent Richardson, President and Chief Executive Officer and certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that based on my knowledge:
          (1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78o(d)); and
          (2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Company.
         
/s/ Clent Richardson
       
 
       
Clent Richardson
       
President and Chief Executive Officer
       
 
       
August 8, 2008
       

 

EX-32.2 13 f42365exv32w2.htm EXHIBIT 32.2 exv32w2
Exhibit 32.2
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
     In connection with the Quarterly Report of Immersion Corporation (the “Company”) on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2008 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Stephen Ambler, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that based on my knowledge:
          (1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78o(d)); and
          (2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Company.
         
/s/ Stephen Ambler
       
 
       
Stephen Ambler
       
Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance
       
 
       
August 8, 2008
       

 

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