Tax Matters (a) The Company, each Company Subsidiary and CPS have timely filed with the appropriate taxing authorities all material Tax Returns required to be filed in accordance with all applicable Laws, taking into account any extensions of time within which to file such Tax Returns, and all such Tax Returns were complete and correct in all material respects. All material Taxes due and owing by the Company, each Company Subsidiary and CPS whether or not shown as due on such Tax Returns have been paid. (b) The federal income Tax Returns of the Company, each Company Subsidiary and CPS have been examined by the appropriate taxing authority or the period for assessment of the income Taxes in respect of which such federal income Tax Returns were required to be filed has expired. (c) There are no audits or other administrative proceedings or court proceedings presently pending with regard to any material Taxes of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or CPS and none of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or CPS has received a written notice of any audits or proceedings that are reasonably likely to result in material liability for additional Taxes. None of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or CPS has waived any statute of limitations with respect to material Taxes or agreed to any extension of time with respect to a Tax assessment or deficiency for any open tax year, which waiver or extension remains in effect. (d) There are no material Liens for Taxes other than Permitted Liens upon any assets of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or CPS. (e) The Company, each Company Subsidiary and CPS have withheld and paid all material Taxes required to have been withheld and paid in connection with amounts paid or owing to any employee, independent contractor, creditor, stockholder, or other third party. (f) None of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or CPS has any material liability for the Taxes of any other Person (other than Taxes of the Company, the Company Subsidiaries or CPS) under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6 (or any similar provision of state, local, or foreign law) pursuant to any Tax allocation agreement (except agreements solely with each other or agreements with third parties made in the ordinary course of business the primary subject matter of which is not tax), or as a transferee, by contract, or otherwise. (g) None of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or CPS has been a United States real property holding corporation within the meaning of Section 897(c)(2) of the Code during the applicable period specified in Section 897(c)(1)(A)(ii) of the Code. (h) None of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or CPS has participated in any “listed transaction” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.6011-4(b)(2). (i) Within the two-year period ending on the Closing Date, none of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or CPS has constituted either a “distributing corporation” or a “controlled corporation” as such terms are defined in Section 355 of the Code in a distribution qualifying or intended to qualify for tax-free treatment (in whole or in part) under Section 355(a) or 361 of the Code. (j) None of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or CPS is a party to or bound by any material tax sharing agreement or tax indemnity agreement, arrangement or practice (including any advance pricing agreement, closing agreement or other agreement relating to Taxes with any taxing authority), except agreements solely with each other or agreements with third parties made in the ordinary course of business the primary subject matter of which is not tax. (k) For federal income tax purposes, to the Knowledge of the Company, the acquisition of Applied Genomics, Inc., a Delaware corporation, in December 2009 qualified as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368 of the Code.