-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, B/an5cFYoZaJ/pci4UOwmSWISKEAUNs7itoFDWdanxirE7uyevpMbnH3enBtLgre 6saztrPpwv5HO94uEzFIhw== 0001360865-08-000020.txt : 20080326 0001360865-08-000020.hdr.sgml : 20080326 20080326104321 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001360865-08-000020 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: DEFA14A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20080326 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080326 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20080326 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000102198 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PATENT OWNERS & LESSORS [6794] IRS NUMBER: 362664428 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: DEFA14A SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-08696 FILM NUMBER: 08710965 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 777 COMMERCE DRIVE STREET 2: SUITE 100 CITY: FAIRFIELD STATE: CT ZIP: 06825 BUSINESS PHONE: (203) 368-6044 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 777 COMMERCE DRIVE STREET 2: SUITE 100 CITY: FAIRFIELD STATE: CT ZIP: 06825 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: UNIVERSITY PATENTS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 DEFA14A 1 ctt14amarch2008addlmaterials.txt COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES INC., ADDITIONAL PROXY MATERIALS FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD IN APRIL, 2008 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 SCHEDULE 14A PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(A) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Filed by the Registrant [X] Filed by a Party other than the Registrant [ ] Check the appropriate box: [ ] Preliminary Proxy Statement [ ] CONFIDENTIAL, FOR USE OF THE COMMISSION ONLY (AS PERMITTED BY RULE 14A-6(E)(2)) [ ] Definitive Proxy Statement [X] Definitive Additional Materials [ ] Soliciting Material Pursuant to 240.14a-12 COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER) (NAME OF PERSON(S) FILING PROXY STATEMENT, IF OTHER THAN THE REGISTRANT) Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box): [X] No fee required. [ ] Fee computed on table below per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(4) and 0-11. (1) Title of each class of securities to which transaction applies: (2) Aggregate number of securities to which transaction applies: (3) Per unit price or other underlying value of transaction computed pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 0-11 (set forth the amount on which the filing fee is calculated and state how it was determined): (4) Proposed maximum aggregate value of transaction: (5) Total fee paid: [ ] Fee paid previously with preliminary materials. [ ] Check box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by Exchange Act Rule 0-11(a)(2) and identify the filing for which the offsetting fee was paid previously. Identify the previous filing by registration statement number, or the Form or Schedule and the date of its filing. (1) Amount Previously Paid: (2) Form, Schedule or Registration Statement No.: (3) Filing Party: (4) Date Filed: * VOTE BY INTERNET - WWW.PROXYVOTE.COM Use the ***** Internet to transmit your voting instructions and **-----** for electronic delivery of information up until **----- 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time the day before the cut-off ****---- date or meeting date. Have your proxy card in hand **===== when you access the web site and follow the **=====** instructions to obtain your records and to create ***** an electronic voting instruction form. * (R) ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF FUTURE SHAREHOLDER COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES COMMUNICATIONS If you would like to reduce the Unlocking the Potential costs incurred by Competitive Technologies, Inc. of Innovation in mailing proxy materials, you can consent to receiving all future proxy statements, proxy cards 777 Commerce Drive and annual reports electronically via e-mail or Suite 100 the Internet. To sign up for electronic delivery, Fairfield, CT 06825 please follow the instructions above to vote using the Internet and, when prompted, indicate that you agree to receive or access shareholder communications electronically in future years. VOTE BY PHONE - 1-800-690-6903 Use any touch- tone telephone to transmit your voting instructions up until 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time the day before the cut-off date or meeting date. Have your proxy card in hand when you call and then follow the instructions. VOTE BY MAIL Mark, sign and date your proxy card and return it in the postagepaid envelope we have provided or return it to Competitive Technologies, Inc., c/o Broadridge, 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717. TO VOTE, MARK BLOCKS BELOW IN KEEP THIS PORTION BLUE OR BLACK INK AS FOLLOWS: COTEC1 FOR YOUR RECORDS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THIS PROXY CARD IS VALID DETACH AND RETURN ONLY WHEN SIGNED AND DATED. THIS PORTION ONLY - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR all of the Director Nominees listed below. 1. Election of Directors Nominees: 01) Joel M. Evans, M.D. 04) John B. Nano 02) Richard D. Hornidge, Jr. 05) William L. Reali 03) Rustin Howard 06) Ralph S. Torello For Withold For All To withhold authority to vote for any individual All All Except nominee(s), mark "For All Except" and write the number(s) of the nominee(s) on the line below. [ ] [ ] [ ] ------------------------------------------------ The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR Item 2. For Against Abstain 2. RATIFICATION OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTING [ ] [ ] [ ] FIRM Mahoney Cohen & Company,CPA, P.C. A majority of the members of said Proxy Committee who shall be present in person or by substitute at said meeting, or in case but one shall be present, then that one, shall have and exercise all of the powers of said Proxy Committee. This Proxy will be voted as directed, but if no direction is indicated, it will be voted FOR election of the nominees in proposal one, and FOR the ratification of the independent public accounting firm in proposal two. On other matters that may come before said meeting, this proxy will be voted in the discretion of the afore-named Proxy Committee indicated on the reverse side. NOTE: Please sign exactly as your name or names appear(s) on this Proxy. When shares are held jointly, each holder should sign. When signing as executor, administrator, attorney, trustee or guardian, please give full title as such. If the signer is a corporation, please sign full corporate name by duly authorized officer, giving full title as such. If signer is a partnership, please sign in partnership name by authorized person. -------------------------------------- --------------------------------- | | | | | | -------------------------------------- --------------------------------- Signature [PLEASE SIGN WITHIN BOX] Date Signature (Joint Owners) Date - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. APRIL 18, 2008 PLEASE DATE, SIGN AND MAIL YOUR PROXY CARD IN THE ENVELOPE PROVIDED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. | | V Please detach along perforated line and mail in the envelope provided. V - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS, APRIL 18, 2008 The undersigned shareholder of COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. hereby appoints Donna J. Mays and John P. Rafferty (the "Proxy Committee"), each with full power of substitution, as attorneys and proxies to vote all the shares of stock of said Company which the undersigned is entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of said Company to be held on Friday, April 18, 2008, at 11:00 a.m. local time at the American Stock Exchange, 86 Trinity Place, New York, New York 10006, or at any adjournments thereof, with all powers the undersigned would possess if personally present, as indicated on the reverse side, and for transacting of such other business as may properly come before said meeting or any adjournment thereof, all as set forth in the March 19, 2008 Proxy Statement. (Continued and to be signed on the reverse side) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----