1991 STOCK PLAN
OF INCYTE GENOMICS, INC.
(As Amended and Restated on February 15, 2001)
SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE.
The Plan was adopted on November 7, 1991, and most recently amended and restated on February 15, 2001. The purpose of the Plan is to offer selected employees and consultants an opportunity to acquire a proprietary interest in the success of the Company, or to increase such interest, by purchasing Shares of the Company's Stock. The Plan provides both for the direct award or sale of Shares and for the grant of Options to purchase Shares. Options granted under the Plan may include Non statutory Options as well as ISOs intended to qualify under section 422 of the Code.
The Plan is intended to comply in all respects with Rule 16 b-3 (or its successor) under the Exchange Act and shall be construed accordingly.
SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS.
(a) "Board of Directors" shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company, as constituted from time to time.
(b) "Change in Control" shall mean the occurrence of either of the following events:
(i) A change in the composition of the Board of Directors, as a result of which fewer than one-half of the incumbent directors are directors who either:
(A) Had been directors of the Company 24 months prior to such change; or
(B) Were elected, or nominated for election, to the Board of Directors with the affirmative votes of at least a majority of the directors who had been directors of the Company 24 months prior to such change and who were still in office at the time of the election or nomination; or
(ii) Any "person" (as such term is used in sections 13 (d) and 14 (d) of the Exchange Act) by the acquisition or aggregation of securities is or becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 50 percent or more of the combined voting power of the Company's then outstanding securities ordinarily (and apart from rights accruing under special circumstances) having the right to vote at elections of directors (the "Base Capital Stock"); except that any change in the relative beneficial ownership of the Company's securities by any person resulting solely from a reduction in the aggregate number of outstanding shares of Base Capital Stock, and any decrease thereafter in such person's ownership of securities, shall be disregarded until such person increases in any manner, directly or indirectly, such person's beneficial ownership of any securities of the Company.
(c) "Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(d) "Committee" shall mean a committee of the Board of Directors, as described in Section 3 (a).
(e) "Company" shall mean Incyte Genomics, Inc. (formerly Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), a Delaware corporation.
(f) "Employee" shall mean (i) any individual who is a common-law employee of the Company or of a Subsidiary or (ii) an independent contractor who performs services for the Company or a Subsidiary and who is not a member of the Board of Directors. Service as an independent contractor shall be considered employment for all purposes of the Plan except the second sentence of Section 4 (a).
(g) "Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(h) "Exercise Price" shall mean the amount for which one Share maybe purchased upon exercise of an Option, as specified by the Committee in the applicable Stock Option Agreement.
(i) "Fair Market Value," with respect to a Share, shall mean the market price of one Share of Stock, determined by the Committee as follows:
(i) If the Stock was traded over-the-counter on the date in question but was not traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market, then the Fair Market Value shall be equal to the last-transaction price quoted for such date by the OTC Bulletin Board or, if not so quoted, shall be equal to the mean between the last reported representative bid and asked prices quoted for such date by the principal automated inter-dealer quotation system on which the Stock is quoted or, if the Stock is not quoted on any such system, by the "Pink Sheets" published by the National Quotation Bureau, Inc.;
(ii) If the Stock was traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market, then the Fair Market Value shall be equal to the last reported sale price quoted for such date by The Nasdaq Stock Market;
(iii) If the Stock was traded on a United States stock exchange on the date in question, then the Fair Market Value shall be equal to the closing price reported for such date by the applicable composite- transactions report; and
(iv) If none of the foregoing provisions is applicable, then the Fair Market Value shall be determined by the Committee in good faith on such basis as it deems appropriate.
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