-----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, DMwyYOIS8NKHpJ/lxbbozKUqj3OBLNrltB+vg4maz6fTRj37KPNrtDgYF9jT7FXA 23NnwbGekxFsaZl7xlQ4ow== 0000950103-06-001399.txt : 20060524 0000950103-06-001399.hdr.sgml : 20060524 20060524214237 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950103-06-001399 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20060522 FILED AS OF DATE: 20060524 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20060524 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MERCURY INTERACTIVE CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000867058 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372] IRS NUMBER: 770224776 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 379 N. WHISMAN ROAD CITY: MOUNTAIN VIEW STATE: CA ZIP: 94043-3969 BUSINESS PHONE: 6506035300 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 379 N. WHISMAN ROAD CITY: MOUNTAIN VIEW STATE: CA ZIP: 94043-3969 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MERCURY INTERACTIVE CORPORATION DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19930910 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Larson James CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001312814 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-22350 FILM NUMBER: 06865568 BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 650-603-5200 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O MERCURY INTERACTIVE CORPORATION STREET 2: 379 N. WHISMAN ROAD CITY: MOUNTAIN VIEW STATE: CA ZIP: 94043 4 1 dp02630_4-larsonex.xml X0202 4 2006-05-22 0 0000867058 MERCURY INTERACTIVE CORP MERQ 0001312814 Larson James C/O MERCURY INTERACTIVE CORPORATION 379 N. WHISMAN ROAD MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043 0 1 0 0 SVP of Global Field Operations Common Stock 4275 D Employee Stock Option (right to buy) 33.80 2006-05-22 4 A 0 100000 0 A 2016-05-22 Common Stock 100000 796813 D Includes 910 shares acquired under the issuer's employee stock purchase plan since the reporting person's last Form 4. 25% of the total number of shares subject to the option vest one year from the grant date and the remaining 75% vest thereafter on a monthly basis over 36 months. /s/ James Larson 2006-05-24 EX-24 2 ex24-schrady.htm

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Sandra M. Escher, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as attorney- in-fact for each of James Larson, Brian A. Stein, Brad Boston and David Murphy (collectively, the “Section 16 Persons”), each an officer and/or director of Mercury Interactive Corporation (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;
 
(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5 on behalf of the Section 16 Persons and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
 
(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned or the Section 16 Persons, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned or Section 16 Persons pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact’s discretion.

     The undersigned hereby grants to the attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s or Section 16 Person’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

     This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the Section 16 Persons are no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to their holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 1st day of March, 2006.

/s/ Cheryl D. Schrady
Signature                                
 

 

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