“Form S-4” means the registration statement onForm S-4 (or any other suitable forms under the Securities Act for registering Parent Common Stock and submitting the Parent Stockholder Matters for a vote by the holders of Parent Common Stock agreed by the Parties) to be filed with the SEC by Parent, including (a) a prospectus registering the public offering and sale of Parent Common Stock to holders of Company Capital Stock in the Merger in exchange for their respective shares of Company Capital Stock in the Merger, (b) the Proxy Statement to be sent to Parent’s stockholders soliciting proxies for the approval by Parent stockholders of the Parent Stockholder Matters at the Parent Stockholders’ Meeting, and to be sent to the Company’s stockholders to solicit the Company Stockholder Written Consent; together with any amendments and supplements to such registration statement, prospectus (including free writing prospectus), or Proxy Statement, includingpre- and post-effective amendments, all exhibits thereto, and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein.
“GovernmentalAuthorization” means any permit, license, certificate, franchise, permission, variance, exception, order, clearance, registration, qualification or authorization issued, granted, given or otherwise made available by or under the authority of any Governmental Body or pursuant to any Law.
“GovernmentalBody” means any: (a) nation, state, commonwealth, province, territory, county, municipality, district or other jurisdiction of any nature; (b) federal, state, local, municipal, foreign or other government; (c) governmental or quasi-governmental authority of any nature (including any governmental division, branch, division, department, agency, commission, bureau, instrumentality, official, ministry, fund, foundation, center, organization, unit, body or Entity and any court or other tribunal, and for the avoidance of doubt, any taxing authority); or (d) self-regulatory organization (including Nasdaq) or any quasi-governmental or private body exercising any regulatory, taxing or any other governmental or quasi-governmental authority.
“HazardousMaterials” means any pollutant, chemical, substance and any toxic, infectious, carcinogenic, reactive, corrosive, ignitable or flammable chemical, or chemical compound, or hazardous substance, material or waste, whether solid, liquid or gas, that is subject to regulation, control or remediation under any Environmental Law, including crude oil or any fraction thereof and petroleum products orby-products.
“Independent Director” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Rule 5605(a)(2) of the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules.
“IntellectualProperty” means (a) United States, foreign and international patents, patent applications, including provisional applications, statutory invention registrations, invention disclosures, and all divisionals, continuations, continuations in part, substitutions, renewals, extensions, reexaminations and reissues of the foregoing, (b) trademarks, service marks, trade names, domain names, URLs, trade dress, logos and other source identifiers, including registrations and applications for registration thereof, together with the goodwill associated therewith, (c) copyrights and works of authorship, including registrations and applications for registration thereof, and (d) software, formulae, customer lists, inventions, trade secrets,know-how, confidential information and other proprietary rights and intellectual property, whether patentable or not.
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