Hypercom Corporation Annual Report - CiteSeer

Proprietary Rights
We rely upon patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secret laws to establish and maintain our proprietary rights in our
technology and products. We currently hold U.S. and international patents relating to POS terminal products. We also have a number
of pending patent applications relating to our POS terminal products and networking products.
We currently hold trademark registrations in the U.S. and numerous other countries for the “Hypercom” mark and logo. In
addition, we have a number of other U.S. and foreign trademark registrations, and pending trademark applications, relating to our
products and services.
We embed copyright notices in our software products advising all users that we own the rights to the software. We also place
copyright notices on documentation related to these products. We routinely rely on contractual arrangements to protect our proprietary
software programs, including written contracts prior to product distribution or through the use of click-through license agreements.
We typically do not obtain federal copyright registrations for our software.
Employees
As of December 31, 2009, we employed approximately 1,365 people on a full-time basis, 246 of which are located in the U.S.,
with the remaining 1,119 located internationally, as set forth in the following table:
U.S. International Total
Sales, Marketing and Operations 64 165 229
Development 66 275 341
Service Operations 15 517 532
Manufacturing 42 51 93
Finance and Administration 59 101 160
Total Employees 246 1,119 1,365
Employees by business segment, as of December 31, 2009, are as follows: the Americas (410); NEMEA (136); SEMEA (277);
Asia-Pacific (199); and Shared Cost Centers (343).
We believe that we have an excellent relationship with our employees. We believe we have been successful in our efforts to
recruit qualified employees, but we cannot guarantee that we will continue to be as successful in the future. Certain of our employees
globally are subject to collective bargaining agreements, or are members of unions or other organized labor associations.
Available Information
Our principal executive offices are located at 8888 East Raintree Drive, Suite 300, Scottsdale, Arizona 85260, and our telephone
number is (480) 642-5000. Our website is located at www.hypercom.com. We make available free of charge, through our website, our
Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports, as
soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file or furnish such material to the Securities and Exchange Commission
(“SEC”). The information found on our website is not part of this or any other report we file or furnish to the SEC.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
The risks set forth below may adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results and cause actual results to
differ materially from the results contemplated by the forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K or
elsewhere in our SEC filings. In addition to the risks set forth below, and the factors affecting specific business operations identified
elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, there may also be risks of which we are currently unaware, or that we currently regard
as immaterial based on the information available to us, that later may prove to be material .
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