Exhibit 10.53


 


FOCUS
ENHANCEMENTS, INC.

EXECUTIVE

RESTRICTED STOCK

AGREEMENT


 


We are pleased
to notify you that FOCUS ENHANCEMENTS, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”)
hereby grants to you a restricted stock award (“Award”) under the Focus Enhancements, Inc.
Amended and Restated 2000 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) to receive the
shares of the Common Stock of the Company (the “Award Shares”) as described in
your Notice of Award of Restricted Stock and this Restricted Stock Agreement.


 


EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY
SET FORTH IN THIS RESTRICTED STOCK AGREEMENT, THE AWARD IS SUBJECT TO AND MAY BE
EXECUTED ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PLAN. 
ONLY CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE PLAN ARE SUMMARIZED IN THIS RESTRICTED
STOCK AGREEMENT.  THE TERMS OF THE PLAN
ARE INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE.  IN
THE EVENT OF ANY CONFLICT BETWEEN THE PROVISIONS IN THIS RESTRICTED STOCK
AGREEMENT AND THE PLAN, THE PROVISIONS IN THE PLAN SHALL GOVERN.  A COPY OF THE PLAN IS ATTACHED AND IS
AVAILABLE FOR YOUR INFORMATION FROM THE COMPANY.


 


1.             Grant
of Award.  Subject to the terms of
this Restricted Stock Agreement and the Plan, the Company hereby grants to you
the Award for that number of shares of restricted stock set forth in the Notice
of Award of Restricted Stock.


 


2.             Nontransferability
of Award and Shares.  The Award shall
not be transferable (including by sale, assignment, pledge or hypothecation)
other than by will or the laws of intestate succession.  The designation of a beneficiary does not
constitute a transfer.  You shall not sell,
transfer, assign, pledge or otherwise encumber the shares subject to the Award
until all vesting requirements have been met.


 


3.             Shareholder
Rights.  Except as provided in Section 2,
you shall have all of the rights of a stockholder of the Company, including the
right to vote the shares and receive dividends and other distributions provided
that distributions in the form of stock shall be subject to the same
restrictions as the underlying restricted stock.


 


4.             Vesting
and Earning of Award.


 


(a)                                  If you continue to
serve the Company as an employee, officer, or director (such service is
described herein as maintaining or being involved in a “Service Relationship”
with the Company), then the Award shall vest in accordance with the Notice of
Award of Restricted Stock.


 


The foregoing
notwithstanding, this Award shall become immediately vested with respect to all
the Award Shares hereunder if while you continue to maintain a Service
Relationship with the Company a change of control as defined herein occurs.  For purposes of this Restricted Stock
Agreement a “change in control” shall mean: (i) any “person,” as such term
is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of


 


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the Exchange
Act (other than the Company or any trustee or other fiduciary holding
securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company), is or becomes the “beneficial
owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or
indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 50% or more of the
combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities; (ii) during
any period of two consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning of such
period constitute the Board of Directors, and any new director (other than a
director designated by a person who has entered into an agreement with the
Company to effect a transaction described in clause (i), (iii) or (iv) of
this definition) whose election by the Board of Directors or nomination for
election by the Company’s shareholders was approved by a vote of at least
two-thirds (2/3) of the directors then still in office who either were
directors at the beginning of the period or whose election or nomination for
election was previously so approved, cease for any reason to constitute at
least a majority thereof; (iii) the shareholders of the Company approve a
merger or consolidation of the Company with any other entity, other than (1) a
merger or consolidation which would result in the voting securities of the
Company outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to represent (either
by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the
surviving entity) more than 50% of the combined voting power of the voting
securities of the Company or such surviving entity outstanding immediately
after such merger or consolidation or (2) a merger or consolidation
effected to implement a recapitalization of the Company (or similar
transaction) in which no “person” (as hereinabove defined) acquires more than
50% of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities;
or (iv) the shareholders of the Company approve a plan of complete
liquidation of the Company or an agreement for the sale or disposition by the
Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets.


 


(b)                                 The Committee has sole
authority to determine whether and to what degree the Award has vested and been
earned and is payable and to interpret the terms and conditions of this
Restricted Stock Agreement and the Plan.


 


5.             Termination
of Employment.  In the event that
your Service Relationship with the Company is terminated for any reason, other
than death or disability as set forth in Section 6, and you have not yet
earned all or part of the Award pursuant to Section 4, then the Award, to
the extent not earned as of your termination date, shall be forfeited
immediately upon such termination, and you shall have no further rights with
respect to the Award or the Award Shares underlying that portion of the Award
that have not yet been earned and vested. 
You expressly acknowledge and agree that the termination of your Service
Relationship with the Company shall result in forfeiture of the Award and the
Award Shares to the extent the Award has not been earned and vested as of the
date of his termination of service or employment.


 


6.             Death
or Permanent Disability.  In the
event of a participant’s retirement, death or disability prior to the end of
the Restriction Period for a participant who has satisfied the one year
employment requirement of Section 10(b)(2) of the Plan with respect
to an award prior to retirement, death or disability, or as otherwise
determined by the Committee, the participant, or the participant’s estate,
shall be entitled to receive that proportion (to the nearest whole share) of


 


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the number of shares subject to the award
granted as the number of months of the Restriction Period which have elapsed
since the award date to the date at which the participant’s retirement, death
or disability occurs, bears to the total number of months in the Restriction
Period.  The participant’s right to
receive any remaining shares shall be canceled and forfeited and the shares
will be deemed to be reacquired by the Company.


 


7.             Settlement
of Award.  The Company shall not be
obligated to deliver any shares hereunder for such period as may be required by
it in order to comply with applicable federal or state statutes, laws and
regulations.


 


8.             No
Acquired Rights.  You agree and
acknowledge that:


 


(a)                                  the Plan is
discretionary in nature and that the Company can amend, cancel, or terminate it
at any time;


 


(b)                                 the grant of this
Award under the Plan is voluntary and occasional and does not create any
contractual or other right to receive future grants of any Awards or benefits
in lieu of any Awards, even if Awards have been granted repeatedly in the past
and regardless of any reasonable notice period mandated under local law;


 


(c)                                  the value of this
Award is an extraordinary item of compensation which is outside the scope of
your employment contract, if any;


 


(d)                                 this Award is not part
of normal or expected compensation or salary for any purposes, including, but
not limited to, calculating termination, severance, resignation, redundancy,
end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension, retirement
benefits, or similar payments;


 


(e)                                  this Award shall
expire upon termination of your Service Relationship with the Company for any
reason except as may otherwise be explicitly provided in the Plan and this
Restricted Stock Agreement;


 


(f)                                    the future value of
the shares awarded under the Plan is unknown and cannot be predicted with
certainty;


 


(g)                                 no claim or
entitlement to compensation or damages arises from the termination of this
Award or diminution in value of this Award or Award Shares purchased under the
Plan and you irrevocably release the Company from any such claim; and


 


(h)                                 your participation in
the Plan shall not create a right to further employment with the Company and
shall not interfere with the ability of the Company to terminate your
employment relationship at any time, with or without cause.


 


9.             Tax
Withholding.  At the election of the
restricted stockholder, the withholding obligation may be satisfied: (a) through
payment in United States dollars in cash or check, (b) through the
restricted stockholder’s surrender of shares of Common Stock that the
restricted stockholder had owned for more than six (6) months prior to the
date of such transfer, (c)


 


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through the Company’s retention of shares of
Common Stock which would otherwise be issued as a result of the exercise of the
option or the award of the restricted stock.


 


10.           Fractional
Award Shares.  In the event that the Award is settled in shares as set
forth in Section 7 and in the event that you are vested in a fractional
portion of an Award Share (a “Fractional Portion”), such Fractional Portion
shall not be converted into a share or issued to you.  Instead, the
Fractional Portion shall remain unconverted until the final vesting date for
the Award Shares; provided, however,
if a subsequent Fractional Portion is received by you prior
to the final vesting date for the Award Shares, it may be added to an existing Fractional
Portion accrued by you  under this Award such that the
resulting sum would be equal to or greater than a whole Share,
then such Fractional Portions shall be converted into one share; provided, further, that following such
conversion, any remaining Fractional Portion shall remain unconverted.  Upon the final vesting date, the value of any
remaining Fractional Portion(s) shall be paid in cash to you at the same time
as the conversion of the remaining Award Shares.


 


11.           Certificates.
As soon as practicable after the Notice of Award of Restricted Stock, the
Company shall issue stock certificates or request its transfer agent to hold
the shares in restricted book entry format with respect to the Award Shares
which will be registered in your name, and shall bear whatever legend or
restriction the Committee shall determine. Such Award Shares shall be held by
the Company or its transfer agent pending vesting. To the extent the Award
Shares become vested, the Company shall promptly provide you (or in the case of
your death, your designated beneficiary) the certificates for the appropriate
number of shares of Common Stock.


 


12.           Administration.  The authority to construe and interpret this
Restricted Stock Agreement and the Plan, and to administer all aspects of the
Plan, shall be vested in the Committee (as such term is defined in the Plan),
and the Committee shall have all powers with respect to this Restricted Stock
Agreement as are provided in the Plan. 
Any interpretation of the Restricted Stock Agreement by the Committee
and any decision made by it with respect to the Restricted Stock Agreement is
final and binding.


 


13.           Adjustments
Upon Changes in Capitalization.  In
the event of any change in the outstanding Common Stock of the Company by
reason of stock dividends, recapitalization, mergers, consolidations, split-up,
combinations or exchanges of shares and the like, the aggregate number or class
of shares subject to this Award immediately prior to such event shall be
appropriately adjusted by the Board of Directors in accordance with the terms of
the Plan, and such adjustment shall be conclusive.


 


14.           Superseding
Agreement; Binding Effect.  This
Restricted Stock Agreement supersedes any statements, representations or
agreements of the Company with respect to the grant of the Award or any related
rights, and you hereby waive any rights or claims related to any such
statements, representations or agreements. 
This Restricted Stock Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to
the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective executors, administrators,
next-of-kin, successors and assigns.


 


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15.           Governing
Law.  Except as otherwise provided in
the Plan or herein, this Restricted Stock Agreement shall be construed and
enforced according to the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to the
conflict of laws provisions of any state.


 


16.           Amendment
and Termination; Waiver.  Subject to
the terms of the Plan, this Restricted Stock Agreement may be modified or
amended only by the written agreement of the parties hereto.  The waiver by the Company of a breach of any
provision of the Restricted Stock Agreement by you shall not operate or be
construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach by you.


 


17.           Notices.  Except as may be otherwise provided by the
Plan, any written notices provided for in this Restricted Stock Agreement or
the Plan shall be in writing and shall be deemed sufficiently given if either
hand delivered or if sent by fax or overnight courier, or by postage paid first
class mail.  Notices sent by mail shall
be deemed received three business days after mailed but in no event later than
the date of actual receipt.  Notice may
also be provided by electronic submission, if and to the extent permitted by the
Committee.  Notices shall be directed, if
to you, at your address indicated by the Company’s records, or if to the
Company, at the Company’s principal office, attention Secretary.


 


18.           Severability.  The provisions of this Restricted Stock
Agreement are severable and if any one or more provisions may be determined to
be illegal or otherwise unenforceable, in whole or in part, the remaining
provisions shall nevertheless be binding and enforceable.


 


19.           Counterparts;
Further Instruments. This Restricted Stock Agreement may be executed in two
or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of
which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.  The parties hereto agree to execute such
further instruments and to take such further action as may be reasonably necessary
to carry out the purposes and intent of this Restricted Stock Agreement.


 


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In signing
below, you hereby agree to the terms of this Restricted Stock Agreement and the
Plan and acknowledge receipt of a copy of the Plan.


 


	
   

  	
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