Company: DARE
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001401914-25-000014
Chunk: 72

Company: Dare Bioscience, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 72
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; provided further , however, that no officer shall be authorized to grant such Awards to any “executive officer” of the Company (as defined by Rule 3b-7 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”)) or to any “officer” of the Company (as defined by Rule 16a-1 under the Exchange Act). The Board may not delegate authority under this Section 3(c) to grant Restricted Stock, unless Delaware law then permits such delegation.

| 4. |     | Stock Available for Awards |

(a) Number of Shares; Share Counting .

(1) Authorized Number of Shares . Subject to adjustment under Section 9, Awards may be made under the Plan (any or all of which Awards may be in the form of Incentive Stock Options, as defined in Section 5(b)) for up to such number of shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, of the Company (the “ Common Stock ”) as is equal to the sum of:

(A) 783,333 shares of Common Stock; plus

(B) such additional number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of shares of Common Stock subject to awards granted under either the Company’s Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Incentive Plan (“ Prior Plan ”) or the Company’s 2007 Stock Incentive Plan (collectively, “ Prior Plan Awards ”) that on or after the Effective Date expire, terminate or are otherwise surrendered, canceled, forfeited or repurchased by the Company at their original issuance price pursuant to a contractual repurchase right (subject, however, in the case of Incentive Stock Options to any limitations of the Code); plus

(C) the number of unissued shares of Common Stock that were available for issuance under the Prior Plan as of the end of the day on the date before the Effective Date; provided, that the aggregate number of shares that may be subject to Awards pursuant to this paragraph (C) and paragraph (B), above, shall not exceed 576,621.

Shares issued under the Plan may consist in whole or in part of authorized but unissued shares or treasury shares.

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(2) Share Counting . For purposes of counting the number of shares available for the grant of Awards under the Plan:

(A) all shares of Common Stock covered by SARs shall be counted against the number of shares available for the grant of Awards under the