0000874015-13-000119.txt : 20131230 0000874015-13-000119.hdr.sgml : 20131230 20131230182958 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000874015-13-000119 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20131226 FILED AS OF DATE: 20131230 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20131230 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000874015 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 330336973 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2855 GAZELLE COURT CITY: CARLSBAD STATE: CA ZIP: 92010 BUSINESS PHONE: 7609319200 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2855 GAZELLE COURT CITY: CARLSBAD STATE: CA ZIP: 92010 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PARSHALL B LYNNE CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001073385 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-19125 FILM NUMBER: 131303920 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2855 GAZELLE COURT CITY: CARLSBAD STATE: CA ZIP: 92010 4 1 edgar.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0306 4 2013-12-26 0000874015 ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC ISIS 0001073385 PARSHALL B LYNNE C/O ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. 2855 GAZELLE COURT CARLSBAD CA 92010 1 1 0 0 COO Common Stock 2013-12-26 2013-12-26 4 M 0 37811 11.27 A 38767 D Common Stock 2013-12-26 2013-12-26 4 S 0 37811 40.908 D 956 D Employee Stock Option (right to buy) 11.27 2013-12-26 2013-12-26 4 M 0 37811 0 D 2014-01-04 2017-01-03 Common Stock 37811 3972 D The purchase and sale reported on this Form 4 was effective pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plan adopted by the reporting person on 11/22/13. /s/B. Lynne Parshall 2013-12-30 EX-24 2 parshallpoa.htm

POWER OF ATTORNEY



Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Stanley T. Crooke and B. Lynne Parshall, signing individually, the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in fact and agents to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, an officer, director or holder of 10% or more of a registered class of securities of Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Isis), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act) and the rules thereunder;

(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned that may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute such Form 3, 4 or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such forms or amendments with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3) take any other action of any nature whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, will lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is Isis assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the earliest to occur of (a) the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by Isis, (b) revocation by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact or (c) as to any attorney-in-fact individually, until such attorney-in-fact will no longer be employed by Isis.



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has cause this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 11th day of November, 2002.







/s/B. Lynne Parshall