GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time
to time, including without limitation, those set forth in the Accounting Standards Codification of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the
accounting profession.
Governmental Authority means the government of the United States or any other nation, or of any political subdivision
thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining
to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).
Indebtedness means, with respect
to any Person at any date and without duplication, any indebtedness in respect of borrowed money or that is evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments.
Intellectual Property means, collectively, with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries, all rights, priorities and privileges relating to
owned intellectual property, whether arising under United States, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise, including (a) copyrights, patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, know-how and all rights thereunder or in respect thereof, (b) all income, royalties, damages and payments now or hereafter due and/or payable under any of the foregoing or with respect to any of the foregoing,
including, without limitation, damages or payments for past, present and future infringements of any of the foregoing and (c) all rights corresponding to any of the foregoing, excluding in each case of clauses (a), (b) and (c), any such rights,
priorities or privileges arising from licenses of intellectual property to or from the Company to its Subsidiaries.
Lien means a mortgage,
security interest, pledge, lien, charge or other encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement and any agreement to give any security interest), other than any operating leases.
Permitted Reinvested Attributable Debt means any Attributable Debt arising from a sale and lease-back transaction with respect to which the net
proceeds from the sale are applied in accordance with the first paragraph under Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions.
Person means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental
Authority or other entity.
Principal Property means the land, improvements, buildings, fixtures and equipment (including any leasehold
interest therein) owned by us or a Restricted Subsidiary located in the United States that constitutes our principal corporate office, any manufacturing plant or any manufacturing facility and that has a gross book value (including related land,
machinery and equipment without deduction of any depreciation reserves) of not less than 1.00% of our Consolidated Net Tangible Assets as of the determination date. Principal Property does not include any Property that our board of directors or any
committee thereof has determined in good faith not to be of material importance to the business conducted by us and our subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
Property means any property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible, including shares of capital stock.
Restricted Subsidiary means any Subsidiary that owns any Principal Property other than:
(1) |
any Subsidiary primarily engaged in financing receivables or in the finance business; |
(2) |
any of our less than 80%-owned subsidiaries if the common stock of such Subsidiary is traded on any national
securities exchange or quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market or on the over-the-counter markets. |
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