-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, GojmQsQNkXCtBMZNk//gGRLeRrX9s1U42m33Dn4MbCzBa109FAkaGugJf5uYgHXe 4ZsXITsFJjXKEBV4n0v/LQ== 0001193125-10-266502.txt : 20101122 0001193125-10-266502.hdr.sgml : 20101122 20101122171634 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-10-266502 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20101117 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers FILED AS OF DATE: 20101122 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20101122 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TESSERA TECHNOLOGIES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001261694 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SEMICONDUCTORS & RELATED DEVICES [3674] IRS NUMBER: 161620029 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-50460 FILM NUMBER: 101209560 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3025 ORCHARD PARKWAY CITY: SAN JOSE STATE: CA ZIP: 95134 BUSINESS PHONE: 4083216000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3025 ORCHARD PARKWAY CITY: SAN JOSE STATE: CA ZIP: 95134 8-K 1 d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): November 17, 2010

 

 

Tessera Technologies, Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   000-50460   16-1620029

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

  

(Commission

File Number)

  

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

3025 Orchard Parkway

San Jose, California 95134

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(408) 321-6000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 

Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(e) On November 17, 2010, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of Tessera Technologies, Inc. (“Tessera”) approved the annual base salary levels of executive officers of Tessera effective January 1, 2011. The Compensation Committee also approved incentive cash bonus targets equal to a percentage of each executive officer’s base salary under Tessera’s 2007 Performance Bonus Program pursuant to which Tessera’s executive officers would be eligible to be paid incentive compensation for 2011. The annual base salary levels and target percentages are set forth below:

 

Name

  

Title

  

Annual Base Salary

  

Target Percentage

Henry R. Nothhaft   Chairman and Chief Executive Officer   $528,000   100%
Michael Anthofer   Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer   $329,600   60%
Bernard J. Cassidy   Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary   $315,000   60%
John Keating   Interim Executive Vice President, Imaging and Optics   $298,700   50%

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 hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: November 22, 2010      TESSERA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
     By:   

/S/    MICHAEL ANTHOFER        

     Name:    Michael Anthofer
     Title:   

Executive Vice President and

Chief Financial Officer

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