“Registered Intellectual Property” means all applications, registrations and filings for Intellectual Property Rights that have been registered, filed, certified or otherwise perfected or recorded with or by any state, government or other public or quasi-public legal authority anywhere in the world, including the USPTO or United States Copyright Office, including issued Patents and Patent applications, registered Trademarks and Trademark applications, registered Copyrights and Copyright applications, and domain name registrations and applications.
“Representatives” means, when used with respect to any Person, the directors, officers, employees, consultants, financial advisors, accountants, legal counsel, investment bankers and other agents, advisors and representatives of such Person and its Subsidiaries.
“SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Significant Subsidiary” means any “significant subsidiary” (other than any such subsidiary which is not more than 50% owned by the Company) of the Company within the meaning of Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X of the SEC.
“Software” means any and all computer programs, including any and all software implementations of algorithms, models and methodologies, whether in Source Code, object code or other form.
“Source Code” means computer Software, in form other than object code or machine readable form, including related programmer comments and annotations, help text, data and data structures, instructions and procedural, object-oriented and other code comprising such Software, in each case, which may be printed out or displayed in human readable form.
“Subsidiary” means with respect to any Person, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership or other organization, whether incorporated or unincorporated, of which (a) at least a majority of the outstanding shares of capital stock of, or other equity interests, having by their terms ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or others performing similar functions with respect to such corporation, limited liability company, partnership or other organization is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such Person or by any one or more of its Subsidiaries, or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, or (b) with respect to a partnership, such Person or any other Subsidiary of such Person is a general partner of such partnership.
“Superior Proposal” means a bona fide, written Acquisition Proposal (with references in the definition thereof to 20% and 80% being deemed to be replaced with references to 70% and 30% respectively) by a third party, which the Company Board of Directors determines in good faith after consultation with the Company’s outside legal and financial advisors to be more favorable to the Company Stockholders from a financial point of view than the Transactions, taking into account all relevant factors (including all the terms and conditions of such proposal or offer (including the transaction consideration, conditionality, timing, certainty of financing and regulatory approvals and likelihood of consummation) and this Agreement (and any changes to the terms of this Agreement proposed by Parent pursuant to Section 6.3)); provided that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, any Acquisition Proposal by the Persons executing the Voting Agreements (or their affiliates) shall not constitute a “Superior Proposal.”
“Supplemental Tax Opinion” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Tax Matters Agreement.
“Supplemental Transaction Tax Opinion” shall mean a Supplemental Tax Opinion confirming that the Transactions will not result in Distribution Taxes (as defined in the Tax Matters Agreement).
“Takeover Statute” means any “business combination,” “control share acquisition,” “fair price,” “moratorium” or other takeover or anti-takeover statute or similar Law, including Section 203 of the DGCL.
“Tax” or “Taxes” means any and all U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. taxes, customs, assessments, levies, duties, tariffs, imposts and other similar charges and fees imposed by any Governmental Entity, including, without limitation, any income (whether on or based upon net income, gross income, earnings or profits, or otherwise), franchise, excess, windfall or other profits, inventory, gross receipts, capital gains, net proceeds, property, sales, use, business, net worth, goods and services, capital stock, wealth, welfare, license, fuel, natural resources, production, payroll, employment, social security, workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, excise, occupancy, severance, gift, estate, recording, non-resident or other withholding, ad valorem, turnover, lease, user, stamp, transfer, value-added, occupation, premium, environmental, disability, real property, personal property, registration, alternative or add-on minimum, base erosion minimum, or estimated tax, including any interest, penalty, additions to tax and any additional amounts imposed with respect thereto, whether disputed or not.
“Tax Matters Agreement” means the Tax Matters Agreement, dated as of April 14, 2021, by and among Dell Technologies Inc. (“Dell”), a Delaware corporation, each Dell Affiliate (as defined therein), the Company and each VMware Affiliate (as defined therein).
“Tax Return” means any report, return, certificate, claim for refund, election, estimated Tax filing or declaration filed or required to be filed with any Governmental Entity with respect to Taxes, including any schedule or attachment thereto, and including any amendments thereof.
“Technology” means all (a) published and unpublished works of authorship, including audiovisual works, collective works, designs, Software, compilations, databases, derivative works, literary works, logos, marks, maskworks, and sound recordings; (b) inventions and discoveries, including articles of manufacture, business methods, compositions of matter, improvements, machines, methods, and processes and new uses for any of the preceding items (whether or not patentable); (c) information and materials that are not generally known, whether tangible or intangible, including algorithms, application program interfaces, business or technical information, concepts, customer lists, data
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