Company: PACB
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001299130-25-000063
Chunk: 3

Company: PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: S-8
Chunk 3
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 by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such reports and documents; provided, however, that documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with the rules of the Commission shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

## Item 4. Description of Securities.
Not applicable.

## Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not applicable.

## Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a corporation’s board of directors to grant, and authorizes a court to award, indemnity to officers, directors and other corporate agents.

The Registrant’s certificate of incorporation contains provisions that limit the liability of its directors and certain of its officers for monetary damages to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. Consequently, the Registrant’s directors and certain of its officers will not be personally liable to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as directors or officers, except liability for the following:

• any breach of their duty of loyalty to us or our stockholders;

• any act or omission not in good faith or that involves intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;

• with respect to a director, unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions as provided in Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law;

• any transaction from which they derived an improper personal benefit; or

• with respect to an officer, any action by or in the right of the corporation.

Under Delaware law, these officers include the president, chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, chief legal officer, controller, treasurer, chief accounting officer, any officer identified in the Registrant’s

public filings with the Commission as a named executive officer, and any other officer who has consented to being identified as an officer for purposes of service of process in Delaware.

Any repeal, amendment or elimination of these provisions by our stockholders or by changes in