UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-A/A

 

FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES

PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

DIGIMARC CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Digimarc

 

94-3342784

(State of incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

 

 

9405 SW Gemini Drive, Beaverton Oregon

 

97008

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip code)

 

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(c), check the following box.  o

 

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(d), check the following box.  x

 

Securities Act registration statement file number to which this form relates:  Not applicable

 

Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

 

 

Name of Each Exchange on Which

Title of Each Class to be so Registered

 

Each Class is to be Registered

 

 

 

Series A Preferred Stock, par value $.001 per share

 

The Nasdaq Global Market

Purchase Rights

 

 

 

Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:  None

 

 



 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 1.                           Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered

 

Digimarc Corporation (the “Company”) entered into a Second Amendment to Rights Agreement, effective as of June 29, 2008 (the “Rights Amendment”), with Computershare Trust Company N.A. (formerly EquiServe Trust Company, N.A.) to amend the Rights Agreement dated as of November 17, 2004, as amended by a First Amendment of Rights Agreement effective as of March 23, 2008 (as amended, the “Rights Agreement”).  The Rights Amendment renders the preferred stock purchase rights (the “Rights”) inapplicable to the Offer, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 29, 2008, by and among L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc., Dolomite Acquisition Co. and the Company (the “Merger Agreement”). The foregoing description of the Rights Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Rights Amendment, a copy of which is filed herewith as Exhibit 1 and incorporated herein by this reference.  Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Merger Agreement.

 

Item 2.                           Exhibits

 

Exhibit Number

 

Exhibit Title

1

 

Second Amendment to Rights Agreement, effective as of June 29, 2008 between the Company and Computershare Trust Company N.A. (formerly EquiServe Trust Company, N.A.) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated and filed July 3, 2008).

 

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SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized.

 

 

 

DIGIMARC CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

 

By:  

/s/ Robert Chamness

 

Name:

Robert Chamness

 

Title:

Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

 

 

Dated:  July 3, 2008

 

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Number

 

Exhibit Title

1

 

Second Amendment to Rights Agreement, effective as of June 29, 2008 between the Company and Computershare Trust Company N.A. (formerly EquiServe Trust Company, N.A.) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated and filed July 3, 2008).

 

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