Common use of Rights Prior to Exercise Clause in Contracts

Rights Prior to Exercise. The Option will during the Employee’s lifetime be exercisable only by the Employee, and neither the Option nor any right thereunder will be assignable or transferable by the Employee by voluntary or involuntary act, operation of law, or otherwise, other than by testamentary bequest or devise or the laws of descent and distribution. Any effort to assign or transfer a right, except as provided for herein, will be ineffective and may result in the Company terminating the Option. Neither the Employee nor any other person entitled to exercise the Option will have any of the rights of a stockholder with respect to the shares subject to the Option, except to the extent that Common Stock will have been issued upon the exercise of the Option.