Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-173098
Chunk: 117

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 117
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 service marks, trade names, logos, slogans, trade dress, design rights, domain names and other similar designations of source or origin, whether or not registered and applications and
registrations for, and all goodwill associated with, the foregoing (“”), (iii) copyrights and applications and registrations for the foregoing (“”), and (iv) Trade Secrets, including
confidential and proprietary know-how, inventions, processes, formulae, models, methodologies, specifications, including manufacturing information and processes, assays, engineering and other manuals and
drawings, standard operating procedures, regulatory, chemical, pharmacological, toxicological, pharmaceutical, physical and analytical, safety, quality assurance, quality control and clinical data and similar data and information, and
(v) rights in software, database rights and industrial property rights.

Insurance Policies.“” is defined in of the Agreement.

Intervening Event. “” shall mean any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect that materially affects the business, assets, operations, financial condition or results of operations of the Acquired Corporations, taken as a whole (other than any
event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect primarily resulting from or arising out of a breach of this Agreement by the Company) occurring or arising after the date of this Agreement that was neither known to the Board of Directors nor
reasonably foreseeable as of the date of this Agreement, which event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect becomes known to the Board of Directors prior to the Effective Time, other than (i) changes in the Share price, in and of itself,
(ii) the announcement or pendency of this Agreement or the Transactions, (iii) any Acquisition Proposal or (iv) the fact that, in and of itself, the Company exceeds any internal or published projections, estimates or expectations of
the Company’s revenue, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations for any period; provided, however, that the underlying reasons for such events described in and may constitute an
Intervening Event).

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IRS. “” shall mean the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

Key Employee. “” shall mean an employee of any Acquired Corporation at a level of vice president or above.

knowledge. “” with respect to an Entity shall mean with respect to any matter in question the actual
knowledge, after reasonable inquiry of their direct reports, of such Entity’s executive officers (or where such Entity is the Company, the executive officers set forth on Section A of the Company Disclosure Schedule).

Labor Organization. “” shall