-----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, TR2ArswnAhnfy9X1melaMbfO6D/Wa9oRFJwcH2cDFeZo/ainoCzj7iybvKLYM+n1 Gl8GAg0FRMlBwPDC9exkcw== 0001104659-10-064509.txt : 20110214 0001104659-10-064509.hdr.sgml : 20110214 20101229060135 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-10-064509 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20101229 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MERIT MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000856982 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SURGICAL & MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS & APPARATUS [3841] IRS NUMBER: 870447695 STATE OF INCORPORATION: UT FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1600 WEST MERIT PARK WAY CITY: SOUTH JORDAN STATE: UT ZIP: 84095 BUSINESS PHONE: 8012531600 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1600 WEST MERIT PARKWAY CITY: SOUTH JORDAN STATE: UT ZIP: 84095 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm

 

MERIT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
1600 West Merit Parkway
South Jordan, Utah 84095

 

December 28, 2010

 

EDGAR CORRESPONDENCE AND

FEDERAL EXPRESS

 

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Attn: Mary Beth Breslin

 

RE:          Merit Medical Systems, Inc.

Registration Statement on Form S-3

File No. 333-169012

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

In accordance with Rule 461 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (“Merit”), hereby requests that the effective date of the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-3, as amended, be accelerated so that it will become effective at 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on Thursday, December 30, 2010, or as soon thereafter as practicable.

 

Merit acknowledges that (1) should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; (2) the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve Merit from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and (3) Merit may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

/s/ Kent W. Stanger

 

Kent W. Stanger

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

Merit Medical Systems, Inc.

 

Enclosures

 

cc:

Gabriel Eckstein

 

 

Securities and Exchange Commission

 

 

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