Document:

Employment Agreement by and between the registrant and Jian Xie

 EXHIBIT 10.8 
  
 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT 
  

This Employment Agreement (“Agreement”) is entered into as of this 9th day of November, 1998 by and between Cogent Systems,
Inc. a California corporation (“Company”) and Mr. Jian Xie (“Employee”). 
  
 RECITALS 
  
 WHEREAS, the parties are entering into this Agreement for the purpose of setting forth the terms of employment by Company of Employee; and 
  
 WHEREAS, Company and Employee believe it is in their mutual best interests to enter into an employment arrangement pursuant to the terms
hereinafter set forth. 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, the parties
hereto hereby agree as follows: 
  
 1. ENGAGEMENT.
Company hereby engages Employee to render services as Principal R&D Engineer pursuant to the terms and conditions hereof, and Employee hereby accepts such engagement. 
  
 2. NATURE OF SERVICES. Employee shall perform jobs assigned and/or required in related fields.
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 In addition, Employee shall also render all services as may be reasonably required by
Company. Except for business trips in the ordinary course of business, Employee shall be employed in the Los Angeles area and may not be transferred outside of such area without Employee’s consent. Employee accepts this employment and agrees to
render his services in a competent and diligent manner subject to the direction of Company’s officers and management. 
  
 3. SCOPE OF SERVICES. Employee shall devote such time, attention and energy to the business of Company as is necessary for the conduct and
furtherance of Company’s business. During the term of this Agreement, Employee may engage in other outside investments and activities (“Outside Activities”); provided, however, that (i) Employee’s involvement in such Outside
Activities shall not in any way materially interfere with his obligations hereunder and (ii) such Outside Activities shall not involve any competition with the business of the Company. Any compensation payable to Employee by virtue of the
performance of an Outside Activity shall belong to him, and Company shall not be entitled to or have any claim or right to such compensation. 
  

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 4. TERM. The term of this Agreement (“Term”) shall commence on the date hereof
and shall thereafter be terminable at will by either Company or Employee. 
  
 5. COMPENSATION. 
  
 (a) Fixed Salary. As compensation for the services rendered by Employee pursuant hereto, and upon condition that Employee is substantially performing all of the services required hereunder and that Employee is
not in material default, Company will pay or will cause to be paid to Employee, a fixed base monthly salary (“Base Salary”) of Eight Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-three and 33/100 Dollars ($8333.33), subject to normal periodic
review for such increases as the Board of Directors of the Company shall determine taking into account Employee’s contribution to the business of the Company, the Company’s development and such other factors as the Board of Directors shall
deem appropriate. Employee’s Base Salary shall be payable no less frequently than monthly, subject to all applicable laws and requirements respecting withholding of federal, state, and/or local taxes. 
  
 (b) Employee Benefits. 
  
 i) Company shall reimburse Employee for all ordinary and
necessary business, entertainment and other expenses reasonably incurred by Employee in the performance of Employee’s duties and obligations under this Agreement, including reimbursement for all out-of-pocket expenses reasonably incurred by
Employee on behalf of Company. Company agrees to repay or reimburse Employee for such business expenses upon itemized statements of such business expenses on Company’s regular form used for such purposes, 
  
 ii) Annual Vacations. Employee shall be entitled to
take two (2) weeks vacation with pay during each calendar year during the Term hereof, prorated for any partial calendar years during the Term hereof. To the extent Employee does not use the full vacation period during any calendar year
during the Term hereof, the unused balance shall accrue and be carried over into subsequent years, provided that the maximum annual paid vacation to which Employee shall be entitled under any such circumstances shall be four (4) weeks.

  
 iii) Life Insurance, Health Insurance and
Other Employee Benefits. During the Term of this Agreement, Company Employee shall be entitled to participate in any pension, profit sharing, life insurance, medical and hospitalization insurance, disability coverage or other retirement or
employee benefits that the Company has adopted or may adopt in the future for the benefit of its employees. 
  
 6. REPRESENTATIONS OF COMPANY AND EMPLOYEE. Company and Employee each represent and warrant to the other that it or he, as applicable, has
all right, power, authority and capacity, and is free, to enter into this Agreement; that by doing so it or he, as applicable, will not violate or interfere with the rights of any other person or entity; and that it or he is not subject to any
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performance of this Agreement by it or him. Each party will indemnify and hold the other party harmless with respect to any losses, liabilities, demands,
claims, fees, expenses, damages and costs (including attorneys fees and court costs) resulting from or arising out of any claim or action based upon its or his entering into this Agreement. 
  
 7. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION; NONCOMPETITION 
  
 (a) Confidential Information. The Company has and
will develop, compile and own or otherwise obtain rights in and to certain proprietary techniques and confidential information which have great value in its business (said techniques and information are referred to in this Agreement collectively as
Confidential Information). Confidential Information includes not only information disclosed by the Company to Employee in the course of employment, but also information developed or learned by Employee during the course of his employment with the
Company, such as Innovations (as defined in Paragraph 8(a) below). Confidential Information includes all information that has or could have commercial value or other utility in the business in which the Company is engaged or contemplates engaging.
Confidential Information also includes all information of which the unauthorized disclosure could be detrimental to the interests of the Company, whether or not such information is specifically identified as Confidential Information by the Company.
By example and without limitation, Confidential Information includes any and all information concerning techniques, processes, formulas, trade secrets, innovations, inventions, discoveries, improvements, research or development and test results,
specifications, data, know-how, formats, marketing plans, business plans, strategies, forecasts, unpublished financial information, budgets, projections, and customer and supplier identities, characteristics and Agreements. 
  
 (b) Protection of Confidential Information. Employee
agrees that at all times during and after the Term of his employment under this Agreement, he will hold in trust, keep confidential and not disclose to any third party or make any use of the Confidential Information of the Company except for the
benefit of the Company and in the course of his employment with the Company. Employee acknowledges that he is aware that the unauthorized disclosure of Confidential Information of the Company may be highly prejudicial to its interests. 

 
 (c) Non-competition During Employment. Subject to
Paragraph 3 above, Employee agrees that he will not, during the Term of his employment with the Company: (i) engage in any employment or activity other than for the Company in any business in which the Company is engaged or contemplates engaging;
(ii) become financially interested in or associated with, directly or indirectly, any other person or entity engaged in any business in which the Company is engaged or contemplates engaging; provided that Employee may invest in the capital stock or
other securities of any corporation whose stock or other securities are publicly owned or are regularly traded on any securities exchange or in the over-the-counter market, so long as Employee’s ownership of such securities does not exceed 5%
of the issued and outstanding securities of such entity; or (iii) induce any other employee of or consultant to the Company to engage in any such employment or activity. 
  

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 (d) Delivery of Data and Documents and other Obligations on Termination of
Employment. In the event of termination (voluntary or otherwise) of Employee’s employment with the Company, Employee agrees that he will protect the value of the Confidential Information and Innovations of the Company and will prevent the
misappropriation or disclosure thereof. Employee will not disclose or use for his benefit (or the benefit of any third party) or to the detriment of the Company any Confidential Information or Innovation. Employee further agrees that for a period of
one year immediately following termination (voluntary or otherwise) of Employee’s employment with the Company, Employee shall not interfere with the business of the Company by inducing an employee to leave the Company’s employ or by
inducing a consultant to sever the consultant’s relationship with the Company. In the event of termination of Employee’s employment with the Company for any reason, Employee shall promptly deliver to the Company all documents and data
pertaining to his employment and the Confidential Information and Innovations of the Company whether prepared by Employee or otherwise coming into his possession or control. 
  
 8. ASSIGNMENT OF EMPLOYEE INVENTIONS. 
  
 (a) Disclosure. Employee will promptly disclose in writing to the Company all discoveries,
developments, designs, ideas, innovations, improvements, inventions, formulas, processes, techniques, know-how, and data (whether or not patentable or registerable under copyright or similar statutes) made, conceived, reduced to practice, or learned
by Employee (either alone or jointly with others) during the Term of his employment, that are related to or useful in the business of the Company, or which result from tasks assigned to Employee by the Company, or from the use of premises owned,
leased, or otherwise acquired by the Company (all of the foregoing being referred to in this Agreement as Innovations). 
  
 (b) Assignment of Innovations. Employee acknowledges and agrees that all Innovations belong to and shall be the sole property of
the Company and shall be Innovations of the Company subject to the provisions of this Agreement. Employee hereby assigns to the Company all right, title and interest Employee may have or may acquire in and to all Innovations. Employee agrees to sign
and deliver to the Company (either during or subsequent to his or her employment) such other documents as the Company considers desirable to evidence (i) the assignment of all rights of Employee, if any, in any Innovations to the Company and/or (ii)
the Company’s ownership of such innovations. Any provision in this Agreement requiring Employee to assign rights to an Innovation does not apply to any invention that qualifies under California Labor Section 2870, which Section is reproduced in
Paragraph 8(d) below. 
  
 (c) Power of
Attorney. In the event the Company is unable to secure Employee’s signature on any document necessary to apply for, prosecute, obtain, or enforce any patent, copyright, or other right or protection relating to any Innovation, whether due to
mental or physical incapacity or any other cause, Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and each of its duly authorized officers and agents as his agent and attorney-in-fact, to act for and in his behalf and stead to
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the prosecution, issuance, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, or other right or protections with the same force and effect as if executed and delivered
by the Employee. 
  
 (d) Labor Code
Provisions. In accordance with California labor Code Section 2872, Employee is hereby notified that this Agreement does not require Employee to assign to the Company any invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility, or trade secret
information of the Company was used and which was developed entirely on Employee’s own time, and which does not relate to the business of the Company or to the Company’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or which
does not result from any work performed by Employee for the Company. California Labor Code Section 2870 provides as follows: 
  
 “Any provision in an employment Agreement which provides that an employee shall assign or offer to assign any of his or her rights in
an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility, or trade secret information of the employer was used and which was developed entirely on the employee’s own time, and (a) which does
not relate (1) to the business of the employer or (2) to the employer’s actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (b) which does not result from any work performed by the employee for the employer. Any provision which
purports to apply to such an invention is to that extent against the public policy of this state and is to that extent void and unenforceable.” 
  
 9. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF COMPANY. 
  
 (a) Announcement. Company and Employee together shall make all public announcements of the terms, provisions, or execution of this
Agreement. 
  
 (b) Use of Name, Likeness, and
Biography. Company shall have the right (but not the obligation) to use, publish and broadcast, and to authorize others to do so, the name, approved likeness and approved biographical material of Employee to advertise, publicize and promote the
business of Company, but not for the purposes of direct endorsement without Employee’s consent. An “approved likeness” and “approved biographical material” shall be, respectively, any photograph or other depiction of
Employee, or any biographical information or life story concerning the professional career of Employee, which has been submitted to and approved by Employee prior to its first use, publication or broadcast. 
  
 10. TERMINATION. This Agreement is terminable at will by either
Company or Employee with or without cause. 
  
 11.
GENERAL. 
  
 (a)
Assignment; Successors; Affiliates. Company may assign this Agreement (or the interest of Company herein) to any entity which is a party to a merger, reorganization, or consolidation with Company or to an entity or entities acquiring
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Employee is providing services (providing any such assignee assume Company’s obligations under the Agreement). Upon such assignment, acquisition,
merger, consolidation, or reorganization, the term “Company” as used herein shall be deemed to refer to such assignee or such successor entity. Employee shall not have the right to assign Employee’s interest in this Agreement nor
shall Employee (or Employee’s spouse, heirs, beneficiaries, administrators or executors) have the right to pledge, hypothecate or otherwise encumber Employee’s right to receive compensation hereunder without the consent of Company.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prohibit Employee from assigning Employee’s rights and interest hereunder to a loanout corporation contracted by Employee; provided Company’s rights are not thereby affected. 

 
 (b) Headings. The subject headings of the
paragraphs and subparagraphs of this Agreement are included for purposes of convenience only, and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of any of its provisions. 
  
 (c) Severability. If a court finds any provision of this Agreement invalid or unenforceable as
applied to any circumstance, the remainder of this Agreement and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall be interpreted so as best to effect the intent of the parties hereto. The parties further agree to replace any
such void or unenforceable provision of this Agreement with a valid and enforceable provision which will achieve, to the extent possible, the economic, business, and other purposes of the void or unenforceable provision. 
  
 (d) Entire Agreement. The parties hereto agree that
this Agreement supersedes all existing Agreements between Company and Employee, whether oral, expressed or implied, and contains the entire understanding and Agreement between the parties. This Agreement shall not be amended, modified, or
supplemented in any respect except by a subsequent written Agreement entered into by both parties hereto. 
  
 (e) Choice of Law. This Agreement and the performance hereunder shall be construed in accordance with and under and pursuant to the
internal substantive laws of the State of California applicable to Agreements fully executed and performed entirely in such state. 
  
 (f) Notices. All communications and notices hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given and delivered
personally if sent by United States registered or certified mail, postage prepaid: 
  

			
	 If to Company:
	  	 Cogent Systems, Inc.
 3001-A West Mission
Road
 Alhambra, CA 91803
 Attention: Mr. Archie
Yew

		
	 If to Employee:
	  	 Jian Xie
 1337 Via Del Rey
 So. Pasadena, CA 91030

  

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 or to such other addresses as may designated in writing by either of the parties. 
  
 (g) No Joint Venture. Nothing herein contained shall
constitute a partnership between or joint venture by the parties hereto or appoint any party the agent of any other party. No party shall hold itself out contrary to the terms of this paragraph and, except as otherwise specifically provided herein,
no party shall become liable for the representation, act or omission of any other party. This Agreement is not for the benefit of any third party who is not referred to herein and shall not be deemed to give any right or remedy to any such third
party. 
  
 (h) Contractual Nomenclature.
All references herein to “Dollars” or “$” shall mean Dollars of the United States of America, its legal tender for all debts public and private. Wherever used herein and to the extent appropriate, the masculine, feminine or
neuter gender shall include the other two genders, the singular shall include the plural, and the plural shall include the singular. 
  
 (i) Injunctive Relief. Because Employee’s breach of the provisions of Paragraphs 7 and 8 of this Agreement may cause the
Company irreparable harm for which money is inadequate compensation, Employee agrees that the Company will be entitled to injunctive relief to enforce those provisions of this Agreement, in addition to damages and other available remedies.

  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Company and Employee have executed
this Agreement as of the date first written above. 
  

			
	 COGENT SYSTEMS, INC.
 a California corporation

		
	 By
	 	/s/ Illegible
	 	 	

		
	 Title
	 	Illegible
		
	 Date
	 	Illegible

  

			
	EMPLOYEE
		
	Legal Name	 	Jian Xie
		
	 Signature
	 	/s/ Jian Xie
	 	 	

		
	 Date
	 	11/29/98

  

 7Tax Matters Agreement

 EXHIBIT 10.10 
  
 TAX MATTERS AGREEMENT 
  
 This Tax Matters Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into effective as of May 12, 2004 (“Effective Date”), by and among
Cogent, Inc., a Delaware corporation, formerly Cogent Systems, Incorporated, a California corporation (the “Company”), Ming Hsieh, Fang Liu Hsieh, Trustee of the Fang Liu Hsieh Annuity Trust No. 1 dated May 12, 2004, and Ming Hsieh,
Trustee of the Ming Hsieh Annuity Trust No. 1 dated May 12, 2004 (collectively, the “Stockholders”). The Company and the Stockholders are hereinafter referred to individually as a “party” and collectively as the
“parties.” 
  
 WHEREAS, the Stockholders own all the
issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company; 
  
 WHEREAS,
the Company is and has been an “S corporation” (within the meaning of Section 1361 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)) since January 1, 1992; 
  
 WHEREAS, the Company contemplates an initial public offering (the
“Offering”) of its common stock; 
  
 WHEREAS, the
Company intends to make a distribution to the Stockholders as provided for herein; 
  
 WHEREAS, the Company and the Stockholders have entered into this Agreement as a condition to the foregoing distribution and the contemplated Offering; 
  
 WHEREAS, from its inception through December 31, 1991, the Company was taxed as a “C corporation” (as defined in
the Code), and the Company became an S corporation effective as of January 1, 1992 and will continue to be an S corporation through the Termination Date (defined below), after which it will be taxed as a C corporation; 
  
 WHEREAS, it is anticipated that the Company’s election to be an S
corporation will terminate as provided in Section 1.4 below; and 
  
 WHEREAS, in connection with the Offering, the Company and the Stockholders wish to provide for the treatment of certain tax matters and for indemnification as provided in this Agreement. 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows: 
  
 1. Tax Returns and Reporting. 
  
 1.1 Consistent Reporting by the Company. For all
taxable years in which the Company is taxed as an S corporation, the Company shall not (except as required by law), without the consent of the Stockholders (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), file any amended income tax return or
change any election or accounting method with respect to the Company, if such filing or change would increase any federal, state, local (including but not limited to city or county) or foreign income tax liability (including interest and penalties,
if any) 

 (collectively “Tax Liability”) of the Stockholders for any period. The limitation of liability contained in
Section 2.1.5 below does not apply in the event the Company breaches the prohibition contained in this Section 1.1. 
  
 1.2 Responsibility for Tax Returns. The Company shall file all tax returns required to be filed by it with respect to all periods for which returns
shall become due after the closing of the Company’s Offering, including all returns for the short taxable year which concludes upon the termination of the Company’s S election. 
  
 1.3 Responsibility for Taxes. The Stockholders shall file all required tax returns reporting their allocable share of
the Company’s taxable income for all years prior to the termination of the S election in Section 1.4, subject only to the indemnities set forth in Section 2 below. For all taxable years prior to the termination of the S election in Section 1.4,
the Stockholders shall not (except as required by law), without the consent of the Company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), file an amended income tax return or change any election or accounting method with respect to the Company,
if such filing or change would increase any Tax Liability to the Company after the Termination Date or the date of the Offering. 
  
 1.4 Termination of S Status. The parties intend to terminate the Company’s status as an S corporation by electing to do so under Section
1362(d)(1) of the Code. The Stockholders shall consent to the revocation of the S corporation election by filing an election to be effective no later than one day before the closing of the Offering (such effective date the “Termination
Date”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the parties alternatively may agree to terminate the Company’s status as an S corporation under Section 1362(d)(2) of the Code by issuing shares of the Company’s common stock in the Offering, in
which case the date of the Offering shall be the Termination Date. 
  
 1.5 Allocation of Income. Pursuant to Section 1362(e)(1) of the Code, the S termination year of the Company shall be divided into two short taxable years: an S short year and a C short year. The S short year of the Company shall be
that portion of the Company’s S termination year beginning on January 1, 2004 and ending on the day immediately preceding the Termination Date. The C short year of the Company shall be that portion of the Company’s S termination year
beginning on the Termination Date and ending on December 31, 2004. Further, the Company shall allocate tax items between its two short taxable years ending and beginning, respectively, on the day immediately preceding the Termination Date and the
Termination Date. The Company intends to allocate tax items to its S short year and C short year pursuant to the method contained in Section 1362(e)(2) of the Code, except to the extent the Company is required to use the “normal tax accounting
rules” (i.e., the closing of the books method), pursuant to Code Section 1362(e)(6)(D), in which case tax items shall be allocated to the S short year as if the tax year of the Company ended on the day before the Termination Date and shall be
allocated to the C short year as if the Company’s tax year commenced on the Termination Date. 
  
 2. Indemnification. 
  
 2.1 Indemnification of Stockholders. 
  
 2.1.1 Indemnification for Tax Liability. The Company hereby agrees to indemnify and hold the Stockholders harmless from, against
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incurred by them resulting from a final judicial or administrative adjustment (by reason of an amended return, claim for refund, audit or otherwise) to the
Company’s taxable income which is the result of an increase or change in character of the Company’s income during the period it was treated as an S corporation. 
  
 2.1.2 Tax Adjustment. In the event that an indemnification payment pursuant to Section 2.1.1 exceeds
the amount of the increase in the Company’s accumulated adjustments account (as defined in Code Section 1368(e)(1)) resulting from the adjustment (or to the extent such payment to the Stockholders does not qualify as a distribution during the
post-termination transition period as defined in Code Section 1377(b)) such amount shall be increased by an amount calculated pursuant to Section 2.1.4 below. 
  

2.1.3 Fees and Costs. The Company hereby agrees to reimburse the Stockholders for such professional fees or other costs as are
reasonably necessary to defend the Stockholders in the event of an audit or review of the Stockholders’ income tax returns during a year in which the Stockholders were reporting corporate income by virtue of the S corporation election. Such
reimbursement shall be limited to professional fees and costs proximately related to an audit of the Company’s taxable income. 
  
 2.1.4 Gross Up for Additional Tax. In all events, and to the extent not otherwise reimbursed, the Company hereby agrees that if any
payment pursuant to this Section 2.1 is deemed to be taxable income to the Stockholders, the amount of such payment to the Stockholders shall be increased by an amount necessary to equal the Stockholders’ additional Tax Liability related to
such amount (including, without limitation, any taxes on such additional amounts) so that the net amount received and retained by the Stockholders after payment by the Stockholders of all taxes associated with the payment is equal to the payment
otherwise required to be made. 
  
 2.1.5
Indemnification Limited to Tax Benefit. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company’s obligation to indemnify pursuant to Section 2.1 of this Agreement shall be limited to the amount of the Company’s
actual tax savings, if any, attributable to the circumstances giving rise to the increase in the Tax Liability of the Stockholders. 
  
 2.2 Indemnification of the Company. 
  
 2.2.1 Indemnification for Failure to Qualify as an S Corporation. The Stockholders agree to indemnify and hold the Company harmless
from, against, and in respect of any U.S. federal or state income tax liability (including interest and penalties), if any, resulting from the Company failing to qualify as an S corporation under Section 1361(a)(1) of the Code (as enacted and in
effect prior to the date of termination), pursuant to a final determination by an applicable taxing authority, for any taxable year on or before the Termination Date as to which the Company filed or files tax returns claiming status as an S
corporation. 
  
 2.2.2 Indemnification for Tax
Liability. In addition to the indemnification obligation provided in Section 2.2.1, the Stockholders hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company against any increase in the Company’s Tax Liability, and costs relating thereto,
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decrease in the Tax Liability of the Stockholders for any period prior to the termination of the Company’s status as an S corporation. 
  
 2.2.3 Payment. Any payment required to be made
pursuant to this Agreement shall be made within thirty (30) calendar days after receipt of written notice from the indemnified person that a payment is due hereunder. 
  
 2.2.4 Gross Up For Additional Tax. In all events, and to the extent not otherwise reimbursed, the
Stockholders hereby agree that if any payment pursuant to Section 2.2.2 is deemed to be taxable income to the Company, the amount of such payment shall be increased by an amount necessary to equal the Company’s additional Tax Liability related
to such amount (including, without limitation, any taxes on such additional amounts) so that the net amount received and retained by the Company after payment by the Company of all taxes associated with the payment is equal to the payment otherwise
required to be made. 
  
 2.2.5 Indemnification
Limited to Tax Benefit. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Stockholders’ obligation to indemnify pursuant to Sections 2.2.2 and 2.2.4 of this Agreement shall be limited to the amount of the Stockholders’
actual tax savings, if any, attributable to the circumstances giving rise to the increase in the Tax Liability of the Company. 
  
 3. Distribution to Stockholder. Prior to the completion of the Offering, the Company shall make a distribution (subject to the prior approval of
the board of directors of the Company) to the Stockholder in an amount equal to the Company’s estimate of the Company’s accumulated adjustment account (as defined in Code Section 1368(e)(1)) as computed immediately prior to the Offering,
provided, however, (i) the amount of the distribution shall be increased for income (and related expenses) which is exempt from tax as described in Code Section 1368(e)(1); and (ii) in no event shall such distribution exceed $45,000,000. 

 
 4. Waiver of Invalid Election or Termination of S Status. If the
Internal Revenue Service determines that the Company failed validly to elect to be an S corporation or that the Company’s status as an S corporation was terminated inadvertently, and if the Company wishes to obtain a ruling pursuant to Section
1362(f) of the Code, the Stockholders agree to make any adjustments required pursuant to Section 1362(f)(4) of the Code and approved by the Company’s board of directors. 
  
 5. Termination of Agreement. This Agreement shall terminate without force or effect if the Offering is not completed
on or before October 31, 2004. 
  
 6. Miscellaneous.

  
 6.1 Counterpart Execution. This
Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which counterparts collectively shall constitute one and the same instrument representing the Agreement between the parties hereto. 

 
 6.2 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed
by California law, without regard to choice of law rules applied by California courts. 
  
 6.3 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding on and shall inure to the benefit of successors and assigns of the
parties. 
  
 6.4 Section Headings. Section
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 6.5 Entire Agreement. This Agreement embodies the entire agreement of the parties
with respect to the subject matter contained herein. 
  
 6.6 Further Assurances. The parties hereto agree to take all further actions necessary to effect the agreements contained herein. 
  
 6.7 Notices. All notices under this Agreement shall be in writing and delivered personally or mailed by certified mail, postage
prepaid, addressed to the parties at their last known address. 
  
 6.8 Amendment and Modification. This Agreement may be amended, modified or supplemented only by a written agreement executed by all of the parties hereto. 
  
 WHEREFORE this Agreement is entered into as of the Effective Date.

  

			
	COMPANY:
	
	COGENT, INC.
		
	By:	 	/s/    Paul Kim
	 	 	

		
	Its:	 	Chief Financial Officer
	 	 	

	
	STOCKHOLDERS:
	
	/s/    Ming Hsieh
	

	Ming Hsieh
	
	/s/    Ming Hsieh
	

	 Ming Hsieh, Trustee of the Ming Hsieh
 Annuity Trust No. 1 dated May 12, 2004

	
	/s/    Fang Liu Hsieh
	

	 Fang Liu Hsieh, Trustee of the Fang Liu Hsieh
 Annuity Trust No. 1 dated May 12, 2004

  

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