-----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, OeJcYp7KPuCj8NFjgq6tdnWcXlvuJgfEk7xfPlZh8XYgs7eprCZmq9dLyCXYrEZ0 pYnroXaZ5l/872B8jJfdFw== 0001181431-05-020892.txt : 20050405 0001181431-05-020892.hdr.sgml : 20050405 20050405182718 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001181431-05-020892 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20050401 FILED AS OF DATE: 20050405 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20050405 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CREDENCE SYSTEMS CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000893162 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: INSTRUMENTS FOR MEAS & TESTING OF ELECTRICITY & ELEC SIGNALS [3825] IRS NUMBER: 942878499 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1031 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 215 FOURIER AVE CITY: FREMONT STATE: CA ZIP: 94539 BUSINESS PHONE: 5106577400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 215 FOURIER AVE CITY: FREMONT STATE: CA ZIP: 94539 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: HOWARD WILLIAM G JR CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001193748 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-22366 FILM NUMBER: 05735444 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE POST ST CITY: SAN FRANCISCO STATE: CA ZIP: 94104 4 1 rrd74961.xml APRIL 1, 2005 OPTION GRANT X0202 4 2005-04-01 0 0000893162 CREDENCE SYSTEMS CORP CMOS 0001193748 HOWARD WILLIAM G JR C/O CREDENCE SYSTEMS CORPORATION 1421 CALIFORNIA CIRCLE MILPITAS CA 95035 1 0 0 0 Stock Option (Right to Buy) 7.91 2005-04-01 4 A 0 4000 0 A 2012-04-01 Common Stock 4000 155200 D Stock Options granted pursuant to the 2005 Stock Incentive Plan. The options vest, subject to continuous service, at the rate of 25% of the total shares granted on April 1 of the year following the date of grant and the remaining 75% of the total shares granted vest annually thereafter in three equal annual installments such that the options are fully vested on April 1, 2009. Byron Milstead for William G. Howard, Jr. 2005-04-05 EX-24. 2 rrd63882_71962.htm MARCH 31, 2005 POWER OF ATTORNEY rrd63882_71962.html 
POWER OF ATTORNEY


	KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints John C. Batty, Byron W. Milstead and Carol Rose and each of them, their true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

	1)  execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of Credence System Corporation (the "Company"), any and all Forms 3, 4 and 5 required to be filed by the undersigned 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 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 the attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned, 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 his discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, and 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 his 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 no such attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is hereby assuming, nor is the Company hereby assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in the 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 the 31st day of March, 2005.


/s/ William G. Howard, Jr.
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					Dr. William G. Howard, Jr.
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