As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 10, 2001
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
OnCourse Technologies, Inc
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Nevada 91-1922441
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(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
3106 South 166th Street, New Berlin, WI 53151
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(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
OnCourse Technologies, Inc. Stock Option Plan
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(Full title of the plan)
Bernard A. Woods, III, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
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3106 South 166th Street, New Berlin, WI 53151
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(Name and address of agent for service)
(262) 860-0565
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(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
COPIES TO:
Charles B. Jarrett, Esquire
Griffith, McCague & Fernsler, P.C.
The Gulf Tower, Suite 3626
707 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
(412) 803-3690
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed
Title of each Proposed maximum
class of maximum aggregate Amount of
securities Amount to be offering price offering registration
to be registered registered per share price (1) fee
Common Stock
Par Value
$0.001 1,000,000 $0.65 $650,000 $162.50
(1) Estimated solely for the purposes of calculating the filing fee
pursuant to Rules 457(h) and 457(c)
PART I
Information required in the Section 10(a) Prospectus
Items 1 and 2. PLAN INFORMATION; REGISTRANT INFORMATION AND EMPLOYEE PLAN
ANNUAL INFORMATION
The documents containing the information specified in the instructions to
Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or given to holders of options registered
hereby, as specified by Rule 428(b)(1): In addition, the statement required to
be made pursuant to Item 2 of Part I of Form S-8 shall be contained in the
Section 10(a) prospectus
PART II
Information required in the Registration Statement
Item 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
The following documents filed by OnCourse Technologies, Inc., a Nevada
corporation, (the "Company"), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") are incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference:
1. Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2000.
2. Company's Registration Statement on Form 10-SBA as filed with the
Commission on April 4, 2001, File No. 0-31813
3. Description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the
Company's Registration Statement on Form 10-SB, Registration No.
0-31813.
All documents filed subsequent to the filing date of this Registration
Statement with the Commission by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c),
14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange
Act"), prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that
all securities offered by this Registration Statement have been sold or which
de-registers all such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof
from the date of the filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a
document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated herein by reference shall be
deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement
to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequent filed
document which also is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by reference herein
modifies or supersedes such prior statement. Any statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
constitute a part of this Registration Statement, except as indicated herein.
Item 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
Not applicable.
Item 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
Not applicable.
Item 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
The Articles of the Company waive the personal liability of a director
or officer for damages for breach of fiduciary duty except for (i) acts or
omissions which involve intentional misconduct, fraud or a knowing violation of
law or (ii) the payment of distributions in violation of Section 78.300 of the
Nevada General Corporation Law, which concerns the unlawful payment of
distributions to stockholders.
While the Articles provide directors and officers with protection from
awards for monetary damages for breaches of their duty of care, they do not
eliminate such duty. Accordingly, the Articles will have no effect on the
availability of equitable remedies such as an injunction or rescission based on
a director or officer's breach of his or her duty of care.
The Bylaws provide for indemnification of the directors and officers of the
company to the fullest extent permitted by applicable state law, as then in
effect. The indemnification rights conferred by the Bylaws are not exclusive of
any other right to which a person seeking indemnification may otherwise be
entitled. The Company will also provide liability insurance for the directors
and officers for certain losses arising from claims or changes made against them
while acting in their capacities as directors or officers and will enter into an
indemnification agreement with each of its directors. Under its form of
indemnification agreement, the Company agrees to indemnify its directors against
all expenses, liability or losses incurred by the directors in their capacity as
such: (i) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law; (ii) as provided in
the Bylaws as in effect on the date of such agreement; and (iii) in the event
the company does not maintain the aforementioned insurance or comparable
coverage, to the full extent provided in the applicable policies as in effect on
the date of such agreement (the Company's obligations described in (ii) and
(iii) being subject to certain exceptions). Contractual rights under such
indemnification agreements are believed to provide the directors more protection
than the Bylaws, which are subject to change.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 1933 Act may
be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the small
business issuer (the Company) pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or
otherwise, the small business issuer (the Company) has been advised that in the
opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in
the 1933 Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.
Item 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
Not applicable.
Item 8. EXHIBITS.
4.1 Stock Option Plan Effective January 1, 2001.
4.2 Form of Stock Option Agreement.
5.1 Opinion of Griffith, McCague & Fernsler, P.C., counsel to the Company,
as to the legality of the Common Stock being registered.
23.1 Consent of Independent Accountants
23.2 Consent of Griffith, McCague & Fernsler, P.C. (included as part of
Exhibit 5.1).
24.1 Power of Attorney (included on signature page).
Item 9. UNDERTAKINGS.
1. The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(a) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3)
of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act");
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
after the effective date of this Registration Statement
(or the most recent post-effective amendment hereof)
which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a
fundamental change in the information set forth in this
Registration Statement; and.
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the
plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this
Registration Statement or any material change to such
information in this Registration Statement;
provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(a)(i) and (1)(a)(ii) will not apply if
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the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant to
Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by
reference in this Registration Statement.
(b) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.
(c) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.
2. The undersigned registrant hereby further undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of
the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement
shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
3. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions described under Item 6
above, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of New Berlin, State of Wisconsin, on the 9th day of
May, 2001.
ONCOURSE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
By:
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Bernard A. Woods, III, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears
below does hereby constitute and appoint Bernard A. Woods, III and Charles W.
Beyer, and each or any of them, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his
name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
(including, without limitation, post-effective amendments and documents in
connection therewith) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact
and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes
as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorney-in-fact and agent or either of them, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
NAME COMPANY CAPACITY DATE
/s/Bernard A. Woods, III Chairman, Chief Executive and Director May 9, 2001
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(Bernard A. Woods, III)
/s/Charles W. Beyer President, Chief Operating May 9, 2001
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(Charles W. Beyer)
/s/William C. Brown Chief Financial Officer and Principal May 9, 2001
------------------------ Financial and Accounting Officer
(William C. Brown)
/s/Gary L. Fulton Director May 9, 2001
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(Gary L. Fulton)
/s/Kevin L. Bork Director May 9, 2001
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(Kevin L. Bork)
/s/Sky Carver Director May 9, 2001
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(Sky Carver)
EXHIBIT INDEX
No. Document Page
4.1 Stock Option Plan Effective January 1, 2001. 7
4.2 Form of Stock Option Agreement. 13
5.1 Opinion of Griffith, McCague & Fernsler, P.C., counsel to the 17
Company, as to the legality of the Common Stock being
registered.
23.1 Consent of Independent Accountants 18
23.2 Consent of Griffith, McCague & Fernsler, P.C. (included as 17
part of Exhibit 5.1).
24.1 Power of Attorney (included on signature page) 5