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2022  
Annual Report 

TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS: 

2022 was another year of growth and record financial results 
for the Company. We continued to build upon our global 
leadership position and our strong customer partnerships 
with the achievement of important R&D milestones as well 
as investments in our technology and manufacturing 
infrastructure.    

•  On the financial front, we delivered record results across 
the board. 2022 revenue was $617 million, operating 
income was $267 million and net income was $210 
million, or $4.40 per diluted share.  

•  On the customer front, we announced new long-term 

agreements for red and green materials with our partner 
of more than two decades, Samsung Display, and in 
early 2023, we announced an evaluation agreement 
with Seiko Epson for AR/VR display applications.  
•  On the global manufacturing front, with our foundry 
partner of 23 years, PPG, we brought online an initial 
phase of our new manufacturing site in Shannon, Ireland 
for the production of our energy-efficient, high-
performing UniversalPHOLED® materials. With the 
proliferation of OLEDs expected to broaden, we are 
increasing our OLED emitter production capacity to meet 
our customers’ future needs.  

As a pioneer and leader in the OLED ecosystem, UDC has a 
strong history of pushing technology to new heights. 
Imagination, innovation and determination are the driving 
forces that have propelled us forward from discovery 
through development to delivery. It was 2003 when our red 
phosphorescent emitters and technology were first adopted 
in a clamshell phone’s OLED sub-display. Over the next 
decade, we worked to develop the first green 
phosphorescent material system, which was adopted in 
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 in 2013. With an array of red and green 
emitters now in commercial use, our sights are now set on 
blue. We are targeting introduction of a blue phosphorescent 
emissive system into the commercial market in 2024. As 
market adoption has demonstrated, the benefits of our 
energy-efficient phosphorescent OLED materials are 
compelling. By adding blue, these benefits are anticipated to 
become even more compelling: added power savings, longer 
battery life, brighter displays, and lowered panel 
temperature. We believe that phosphorescent blue will 
enable new product designs and applications and support 
our customers’ sustainability initiatives, driving growth for 
UDC and the OLED industry.  

On the OVJP (organic vapor jet printing) front, we are making 
continued advances with our trailblazing manufacturing 
technology platform. In November, we reported the 
capability of printing two layers - the red, green and blue 
phosphorescent emissive layer and the prime layer or 
electron blocking layer - with comparable performance to 
that of OLED devices fabricated using traditional vacuum 
thermal evaporation. This represents a significant milestone 

in our OVJP roadmap toward a manufacturing platform for 
printing large-area OLED displays. 

Across a broad range of consumer electronic products, OLED 
momentum continues to advance. For example, foldable and 
rollable displays -- once just CGI created for movies -- are 
becoming a reality. Inherently conformable, bendable and 
rollable, OLEDs are substrate-agnostic and can be made on 
glass, metal foil or plastic. We believe that the amazing 
versatility and flexibility of OLEDs are energizing the 
consumer market with new ideas, designs and products. 

As we look ahead, the growth path for OLEDs is forecasted to 
be long and strong. We continue to believe that while macro 
headwinds may persist in the near-term, 2024 will be a 
pivotal year for the OLED industry and for us. A significant 
new phase of OLED proliferation, primarily for IT, e.g., tablets 
and notebooks, is expected to commence next year and fuel 
a multi-year upsurge in OLED capacity investments. This new 
wave of OLED adoption and capacity builds is expected to 
drive significant growth and momentum.  

2022 was another year of recognition for the Company. We 
were named to Forbes’ list of America’s Best Mid-Sized 
Companies, recognized by Newsweek for the third year in a 
row as one of America’s Most Responsible Companies. We 
were awarded a Silver rating for corporate social 
responsibility from EcoVadis, a leading provider of business 
sustainability ratings, for the second year. We were also 
recognized by The Forum of Executive Women as a 
Champion of Board Diversity for the third consecutive year 
and in January, we were included in Bloomberg’s list of 50 
Companies to Watch in 2023. 

It was also a year of loss as our visionary and founder, 
Sherwin Seligsohn, passed away in early December. Sherwin 
leaves an indelible mark on the display and wireless 
communication industries. With a unique strategic vision, 
Sherwin cultivated and nurtured UDC’s guiding principles of 
curiosity, respect, humility and determination. His constant 
“thinking outside the box” and courageous conviction have 
become embedded in the Company’s DNA and are key to 
UDC’s remarkable success. Sherwin’s incredible legacy will 
continue to drive UDC forward on its path of exploration, 
innovation and growth.  

In closing, I thank our exceptional global UDC team for their 
drive, desire, dedication and heart that elevate and shape 
Universal Display’s unending accomplishments and 
advancements. To our customers and partners, thank you for 
the collaborations that create bright, beautiful and brilliant 
products for displays and lighting. And to our shareholders, 
thank you for your continued support as we deliver on our 
vision of turning innovation into reality.  

Steven V. Abramson 
President & Chief Executive Officer 

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)
☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

OR
☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022

For the transition period from ____________ to ___________

Commission File Number 1-12031

UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Pennsylvania
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)

250 Phillips Boulevard, Ewing, New Jersey
(Address of principal executive offices)

23-2372688
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

08618
(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (609) 671-0980

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class
Common Stock, $0.01 par value

Trading Symbol(s)
OLED

Name of each exchange on which registered
The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.  Yes  ☒   No  ☐
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.  Yes  ☐   No  ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during 
the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 
90 days.  Yes  ☒   No  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation 

S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).  Yes  ☒   No  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging 
growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the 
Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filer

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Accelerated filer
Smaller reporting company

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Emerging growth company

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or 

revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over 

financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.  ☒

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing 

reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by 

any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).  Yes  ☐   No  ☒

The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant computed by reference to the closing sale price 
of the registrant’s common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as of June 30, 2022, was $4,384,120,131.  Solely for purposes of this calculation, all executive 
officers and directors of the registrant and all beneficial owners of more than 10% of the registrant’s common stock (and their affiliates) were considered affiliates.

As of February 21, 2023, the registrant had outstanding 47,254,292 shares of common stock.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the registrant’s Proxy Statement for the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which is to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission no 
later than May 1, 2023 (the first business day after the 120th day following the end of the registrant's fiscal year), are incorporated by reference into Part III of this report.

Auditor Firm Id:

185

Auditor Name: 

KPMG, LLP

Auditor Location:

 Philadelphia, PA, USA

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I

ITEM 1.
BUSINESS ...................................................................................................................................................................
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS ..........................................................................................................................................................
ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS.......................................................................................................................
PROPERTIES...............................................................................................................................................................
ITEM 2.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.............................................................................................................................................
ITEM 3.
MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES ................................................................................................................................
ITEM 4.

PART II

ITEM 5.

ITEM 6.
ITEM 7.

MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND 
ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES...................................................................................................
RESERVED..................................................................................................................................................................
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF 
OPERATIONS .............................................................................................................................................................
ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK ............................................
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA.............................................................................
ITEM 8.
CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL 
ITEM 9.
DISCLOSURE..............................................................................................................................................................
ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES ............................................................................................................................
ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION............................................................................................................................................
ITEM 9C. DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS ...........................

PART III

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ITEM 12.

ITEM 13.
ITEM 14.

DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.....................................................
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION ...............................................................................................................................
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED 
STOCKHOLDER MATTERS .....................................................................................................................................
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE..........
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES .............................................................................................

PART IV

ITEM 15.
ITEM 16.

EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES...................................................................................
FORM 10-K SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT
CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This report and the documents incorporated by reference in this report contain some “forward-looking statements” within the 
meaning  of  Section  27A  of  the  Securities  Act  of  1933  and  Section  21E  of  the  Securities  Exchange  Act  of  1934.  Forward-looking 
statements concern possible or assumed future events, results and business outcomes. These statements often include words such as 
“believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “estimate,” “seek,” “will,” “may,” “project” or similar expressions. These statements 
are based on assumptions that we have made in light of our experience in the industry, as well as our perceptions of historical trends, 
current conditions, expected future developments and other factors we believe are appropriate under the circumstances.

As  you  read  and  consider  this  report,  you  should  not  place  undue  reliance  on  any  forward-looking  statements.  You  should 
understand that these statements involve substantial risk and uncertainty and are not guarantees of future performance or results. They 
depend on many factors that are discussed further under Item 1A (Risk Factors) below, including:

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successful commercialization by organic light emitting diode (OLED) manufacturers of products incorporating our 
OLED technologies and materials and their continued willingness to utilize our OLED technologies and materials;

the adequacy of protections afforded to us by the patents that we own or license and the cost to us of maintaining, 
enforcing and defending those patents;

our ability to protect our patented and non-patented intellectual property;

our exposure to and ability to defend against third-party claims and challenges to our existing and future intellectual 
property rights;

our ability to maintain our competitive position following the expiration of our fundamental phosphorescent organic 
light-emitting diode (PHOLED) patents;

our ability to form and continue strategic relationships with manufacturers of OLED products;

the  payments  that  we  expect  to  receive  under  our  existing  contracts  with  OLED  manufacturers  and  the  terms  of 
contracts that we expect to enter into with OLED manufacturers in the future;

the potential commercial applications of and future demand for our OLED technologies and materials, and of OLED 
products in general;

impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy, consumer spending and global supply chains, as well as 
volatility in and disruption of financial markets;

our ability to offer and our customers’ willingness to continue to purchase our materials in the event of substantial 
increases in tariffs or restrictions resulting from international trade disputes;

our customers' development and use of more efficient manufacturing processes and material processing protocols that 
result in the more efficient utilization of our materials, and therefore reduce their requirements for our materials;

the comparative advantages and disadvantages of our OLED technologies and materials versus existing and future  
competing technologies and materials;

the outcomes of our ongoing and future research and development activities, and those of others, relating to OLED 
technologies and materials;

our ability to acquire and supply OLED materials and technologies at cost competitive pricing;

our ability to compete against third parties with resources greater than ours;

our ability to respond to and address malicious cybersecurity and IT infrastructure attacks;

our quarterly cash dividend policy;

our future OLED technology licensing and OLED material revenues and results of operations, including supply and 
demand for our OLED materials; and

general  economic  and  market  conditions,  including  impacts  resulting  from  pandemic  outbreaks  and  regional 
geopolitical hostilities.

Changes or developments in any of these areas could affect our financial results or results of operations and could cause actual 

results to differ materially from those contemplated by any forward-looking statements.

All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this report or the documents incorporated by reference, as the case 
may be. We do not undertake any duty to update, correct, modify, or supplement any of these forward-looking statements to reflect 
events or circumstances after the date of this report or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS

Our Company

PART I

We are a leader in the research, development and commercialization of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies and 
materials for use in display and solid-state lighting applications. OLEDs are thin, lightweight and power-efficient solid-state devices 
that emit light that can be manufactured on both flexible and rigid substrates, making them highly suitable for use in full-color displays 
and as lighting products. OLED displays are capturing a growing share of the display market, especially in the mobile phone, television, 
monitor, wearable, tablet, notebook and personal computer, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and automotive markets. We 
believe that this is because OLEDs offer potential advantages over competing display technologies with respect to power efficiency, 
contrast ratio, viewing angle, video response time, form factor and manufacturing cost. We also believe that OLED lighting products 
have the potential to replace many existing light sources in the future because of their high-power efficiency, excellent color rendering 
index, low operating temperature and novel form factor. Our technology leadership, our current intellectual property position, and our 
more than 20 years of experience working closely with leading OLED display manufacturers are some of the competitive advantages 
that should enable us to continue to share in the revenues from OLED displays and lighting products as they gain wider acceptance.

Our primary business strategy is to (1) develop new OLED materials and sell existing and new materials to product manufacturers 
for display applications, such as mobile phones, televisions, monitors, wearables, tablets, portable media devices, notebook computers, 
personal computers and automotive applications, and specialty and general lighting products; and (2) further develop and either license 
or otherwise commercialize our proprietary OLED material, device design and manufacturing technologies to those manufacturers. We 
have established a significant portfolio of proprietary OLED technologies and materials, primarily through our internal research and 
development efforts and acquisitions of patents and patent applications, as well as maintaining long-standing, and establishing new 
relationships with world-class universities, research institutions and strategic manufacturing partnerships. We currently own, exclusively 
license or have the sole right to sublicense more than 5,500 patents issued and pending worldwide.

We manufacture and sell our proprietary OLED materials to customers for evaluation and use in commercial OLED products. We 
also enter into agreements with manufacturers of OLED display and lighting products under which we grant them licenses to practice 
under our patents and to use our proprietary know-how. At the same time, we work with these and other companies that are evaluating 
our OLED material, device design and manufacturing technologies for possible use in commercial OLED display and lighting products.

Market Overview

The Display Panel Market

Thin, energy-efficient display panels that can be manufactured on glass or flexible substrates are essential for a wide variety of 
portable  consumer  electronics  products,  such  as  mobile  phones,  AR/VR  headsets,  digital  cameras,  wearables,  tablets  and  notebook 
computers. Due to their narrow profile and light weight, flat panel displays are the display of choice for larger product applications, such 
as computer monitors and televisions.

Liquid crystal displays, or LCDs, continue to dominate the flat panel display market. However, we believe that OLED displays 
are an attractive alternative to LCDs, and OLED displays are gaining market share, because they offer a number of potential advantages, 
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faster response times for video and gaming; and

lower cost manufacturing methods and materials.

Based  on  these  characteristics,  product  manufacturers  have  adopted  small-area  OLED  displays  for  use  in  a  wide  variety  of 
electronic  devices,  such  as  smartphones,  wearables  and  tablets.  Manufacturers  are  increasingly  commercializing  large-area  OLED 
displays for use in televisions and monitors. We believe that if these efforts are successful, they could result in sizeable markets for 
OLED displays.

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Organic  materials  make  technically  possible  the  development  of  flexible  displays  for  use  in  an  entirely  new  array  of  product 
applications. Such applications include display devices that fold in use, or conform to various shapes for wearable, rollable, industrial 
and ruggedized applications. In addition, due to the inherent transparency of the organic materials and transparent electrode technologies, 
OLEDs eventually may enable the production of transparent displays for use in products such as automotive windshields and windows 
with embedded displays. 

The Solid-State Lighting Market

Traditional incandescent light bulbs are inefficient because they convert only about 5% of the energy they consume into visible 
light, with the rest emerging as heat. Fluorescent lamps use excited gases, or plasmas, to achieve a higher energy conversion efficiency 
of about 20%. However, the color rendering index of most fluorescent lamps – in other words, the quality of their color compared to an 
ideal light source – is inferior to that of an incandescent bulb. Fluorescent lamps also pose environmental concerns because they typically 
contain mercury.

Solid-state lighting relies on the direct conversion of electricity to visible light using semiconductor materials. By avoiding the 
heat and plasma-producing processes of incandescent bulbs and fluorescent lamps, respectively, solid-state lighting products can have 
substantially higher energy conversion efficiencies.

There are currently two basic types of solid-state lighting devices: inorganic light emitting diodes, or LEDs, and OLEDs. Current 
LEDs are very small in size (about one square millimeter) and are extremely bright. Having been developed about 25 years before 
OLEDs,  LEDs  are  already  widely  employed  in  a  variety  of  lighting  products,  such  as  traffic  lights,  digital  signage  and  billboards, 
replacements for incandescent lighting, backlights for smartphones, computer monitors and televisions, and as border or accent lighting. 
However, most commercial LED offerings are characterized by high operating temperatures and intense brightness which may make 
them less desirable for many lighting applications.

OLEDs, on the other hand, can be designed to provide improved lighting characteristics because they can be larger in size and 
can be viewed directly, without using diffusers that are required to temper the intense brightness of LEDs. OLEDs can be fabricated 
onto any suitable surface, including glass, plastic or metal foil, and could be cost-effective to manufacture in high volume. Given these 
characteristics, product manufacturers are working on and have introduced limited product applications of OLEDs for diffuse specialty 
lighting applications and ultimately general illumination. If these efforts are successful, we believe that OLED lighting products could 
begin to be used for applications currently addressed by other existing lighting technologies, as well as for new applications that take 
advantage of the OLED form factor. In particular, the ability of OLED technology to produce uniform illumination over arbitrary shapes 
is making OLED lighting very attractive to the automobile industry as well as the digital signage industry.

Our Competitive Strengths

We  believe  that  we  currently  are  one  of  the  leading  technology  developers  in  the  OLED  industry  because  we  were  the  first 
company to develop and commercialize PHOLED emitter technology. Our experienced management and research teams have built an 
extensive intellectual property portfolio around our OLED technologies and materials, particularly with regard to PHOLED emitter 
materials,  which  we  continually  seek  to  enhance  and  grow.  We  work  diligently,  through  the  delivery  of  high-quality  commercial 
products, superior technical support and customer service, to enable our industry-leading customers, which primarily are large display 
manufacturers, to adopt our OLED technologies and materials through implementation of long-term commercial material supply and 
patent and know-how license agreements. Our key competitive strengths include:

Technology Leadership

We  are  a  recognized  technology  leader  in  the  OLED  industry.  We,  along  with  world-class  academic  partners,  pioneered  the 
development of our UniversalPHOLED® phosphorescent OLED technologies, which can be used to produce OLEDs that are up to four 
times more efficient than fluorescent OLEDs and significantly more efficient than current LCDs, which are illuminated using backlights. 
We believe that our PHOLED technologies and materials will continue to be well-suited for industry usage in the commercial production 
of OLED displays and lighting products. 

Through our internal, innovative research, which has produced the majority of our most critical commercial technologies, our 
relationships with supplier companies, such as PPG Industries, Inc. (PPG), and our existing and new academic partners, we believe that 
we can continue to advance the technology we have already developed and commercialized, and that we will continue to discover and 
develop other important OLED technologies, as well as novel OLED materials, that will facilitate further adoption of our various OLED 
technologies by product manufacturers. To this end, we operate two state-of-the-art laboratories, or Application Centers, near our larger 
customers in the Asia-Pacific region. These Application Centers have provided us and our customers with the ability to more quickly 
evaluate, develop and bring to market our newest OLED materials and technologies. We also are committing significant resources to 

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(OVJP).

Broad Portfolio of Intellectual Property

Generally, each of our commercial offerings is protected by multiple patents which can help us either to prevent or combat the 
introduction of counterfeit and/or knock-off products that could potentially impact the market demand for our OLED materials and 
technologies.  Our  strong  patent  and  non-patented  know-how  portfolios  in  the  areas  of  PHOLED  emitter  materials,  complementary 
PHOLED  materials,  OLED  device  designs,  and  OLED  manufacturing  technologies  are  reflective  of  our  continued  commitment  to 
innovate and invest. We believe that our extensive portfolio of patents and non-patented know-how provides us with a competitive 
advantage in the OLED industry. 

Through  our  internal  development  efforts,  acquisitions,  and  long-standing  relationships  with  academic  partners,  research 
institutions and product manufacturers, we own, exclusively license or have the sole right to sublicense more than 5,500 patents issued 
and pending worldwide. We continue to enhance and grow our OLED technology and materials patent portfolio organically through 
internal  research  and  development,  partnering  with  third  parties,  and  by  acquisition.  We  also  continue  to  accumulate  valuable  non-
patented technical know-how relating to our OLED technologies and materials.

Leading Supplier of UniversalPHOLED® Emitter Materials and Related Technology Licensing

We are the leading supplier of PHOLED emitter materials to OLED device manufacturers. The emitter material, which is designed 
to efficiently convert electrical energy to a desired wavelength of light, is the key component in an OLED device. Our manufacturing 
partner of over 20 years, PPG, continues to manufacture our materials for us, using proprietary manufacturing processes and know-how, 
which materials we then qualify to our exacting product specifications and resell on a just-in-time basis to OLED device manufacturers. 
We record revenues based on our sales of these materials to OLED device manufacturers. Our commercial supply agreements typically 
require our customers to purchase minimum quantities of our materials, which purchases can be in the form of annual minimum purchase 
undertakings or as a minimum percentage of their purchase requirements, or a combination of both. 

Our commercial supply arrangements allow us to maintain close technical and business relationships with these OLED device 
manufacturers purchasing our proprietary materials, and thereby further supports our technology licensing business. We do not directly 
manufacture or sell OLED display or lighting products. Instead, we enter into non-exclusive licensing arrangements with OLED device 
manufacturers, many of which also purchase our materials, that pay us fixed license fees and/or running royalties based on their sales 
of licensed commercial products using our proprietary technology and patents. We believe this business model allows us to concentrate 
on our core strengths of technology development and innovation, while at the same time provides significant operating leverage. We 
also believe that this approach may reduce potential competitive conflicts with our customers.

Long-Standing Customer Relationships 

We have long-standing customer relationships with OLED device manufacturers that are using, or are evaluating for use, our 
OLED materials in commercial OLED products. We have more than 20 years of experience in working closely with OLED device 
manufacturers  and  have  provided  support  to  them  in  their  commercialization  of  OLED  technology  by  delivering  customer-specific 
solutions for red, green, and yellow emitter materials, or dopants. 

We have a proven track record of delivering consistent, high-quality OLED material to our customers. We provide just-in-time 
supply  to  our  customers  and  serve  as  a  sole  source  to  them  for  many  of  our  critical  materials.  We  believe  that  our  unparalleled 
manufacturing  partners,  namely  PPG,  our  well-established  supply  chain,  our  multi-tier  quality  testing,  and  our  product  assurance 
protocols make us a preferred partner for our customers and for any large-scale OLED display manufacturer that wants to deliver to 
high-quality international end-customers.  

In 2022, our largest customers for our PHOLED materials included Samsung Display Co., Ltd. (SDC), LG Display Co., Ltd. (LG 
Display),  BOE  Technology  Group  Co.,  Ltd.  (BOE),  Tianma  Micro-electronics  Co.,  Ltd.  (Tianma),  Visionox  Technology,  Inc. 
(Visionox),  Wuhan  China  Star  Optoelectronics  Semiconductor  Display  Technology  Co.,  Ltd.  (CSOT),  Shenzhen  Royale  Display 
Technologies  Co.  Ltd.,  Japan  Display,  Inc.,  Sharp  Corporation,  and  AU  Optronics  Corporation  (AU  Optronics).  Other  licensed 
customers of our technology in 2022 included Kaneka Corporation, Pioneer Corporation, and OLEDWorks L.L.C.  

Complementary UniversalPHOLED® Host Material Business

In addition to our proprietary UniversalPHOLED® emitter materials, we continue to develop, supply and offer for sale certain of 
our  proprietary  phosphorescent  host  materials  to  OLED  device  manufacturers.  In  addition,  we  have  entered  into  a  number  of  host 

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material  strategic  partnerships  through  development  agreements  with  OLED  material  partners  that  are  focused  on  combining  our 
proprietary PHOLED emitters with hosts and other OLED materials of these companies in order to optimize the performance of our 
emitters  in  our  customers’  newest  product  designs.  We  do  not  believe  that  revenue  from  our  host  development  and  third-party 
collaboration  agreements  will  be  significant  compared  with  our  emitter  business.  However,  we  believe  that  development  and 
collaborative relationships such as these are important for ensuring the continued success of the OLED industry and the broader adoption 
of our PHOLED and other OLED technologies in the marketplace. 

Experienced Management and Scientific Advisory Team

Our management team has significant experience in developing business models focused on licensing disruptive technologies in 
high  growth  industries.  The  team  has  strong  relationships  with,  and  deep  understandings  of,  our  customers  and  their  needs,  the 
commercial  marketplace  and  the  OLED  industry  on  the  whole.  We  believe  our  management  team’s  experience  and  long-standing 
relationships are important to maintaining good and accommodating working relationships with our customers, particularly when we 
are confronted with challenging technical, regulatory and trade issues given our international reach. In addition, we employ and contract 
with some of the leading researchers in the industry, and we maintain a long-standing Scientific Advisory Board that includes industry 
pioneers,  namely  Professor  Stephen  R.  Forrest  of  the  University  of  Michigan  (Michigan)  and  Professor  Mark  E.  Thompson  of  the 
University of Southern California (USC).

Our Business Strategy

Our  current  business  strategy  is  to  continue  to  promote  and  expand  our  portfolio  of  OLED  technologies  and  materials  for 
widespread use in OLED displays and lighting products. We generate revenues primarily by selling our proprietary OLED materials 
and licensing our OLED technologies to display and lighting product manufacturers. We are presently focused on the following steps 
to implement our business strategy:

Expand Our Collaborative Relationships with Leading Product Manufacturers and Developers

We collaborate and partner with leading manufacturers of displays and lighting products who are commercial licensees of our 
OLED  technologies  and  purchasers  of  our  OLED  materials.  We  also  supply  our  proprietary  OLED  materials  to  manufacturers  and 
developers of OLED displays and lighting products for evaluation and for use in product development and for pre-commercial activities, 
and  we  provide  technical  assistance  and  support  to  these  manufacturers  and  developers  to  foster  ongoing  relationships  and  new 
commercial agreements. We concentrate on working closely with OLED device manufacturers and developers because we believe that 
the successful incorporation of our technologies and materials into commercial products is critical to their widespread adoption.

Enhance Our Existing Portfolio of PHOLED Technologies and Materials

We  believe  that  a  strong  portfolio  of  proprietary  OLED  technologies  and  materials  for  both  displays  and  lighting  products  is 
critical to our continued success, particularly as the utilization of PHOLED technologies and materials expands in the marketplace. 
Consequently,  we  are  continually  seeking  to  expand  this  portfolio  through  our  internal  development  efforts,  our  collaborative 
relationships with existing and new academic and other research partners, and other strategic opportunities, such as funding early-stage 
startup companies whose technology may be synergistic to ours. Since the acquisition of the early fundamental research developed by 
our initial academic partners in the late 1990’s, one of our primary goals has been and continues to be the development of new and 
improved PHOLED technologies and materials with increased efficiencies, enhanced color gamut and extended lifetimes, which are 
compatible with different manufacturing methods, so that they can be used by various manufacturers in a broad array of OLED display 
and lighting products. 

Develop Next-Generation Organic Technologies

We continue to conduct research and development activities relating to next-generation OLED technologies for both displays and 
lighting products, including next generation emissive layer technologies and dry printing technologies such as OVJP, which we discuss 
in more detail below. We also are funding research by existing and new academic partners and research institutions on the use of OLED 
related technologies in other applications. Our focus on next-generation technologies is designed to enable us to maintain our position 
as a leading provider of OLED and other organic electronics technologies and materials as new markets emerge.

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Business and Geographic Markets

We derive revenue from the following:

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sales of OLED materials for evaluation, development and commercial manufacturing;

intellectual property and technology licensing; 

technology development and support, including third-party collaboration efforts and providing support to third parties 
for commercialization of their OLED products; and

contract research services in the areas of chemical materials synthesis research, development and commercialization 
for non-OLED applications.

Most manufacturers of displays and lighting products who are or might potentially be interested in our OLED technologies and 
materials are currently located outside of the United States, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. To provide on-the-ground support to 
these  manufacturers,  we  have  established  wholly-owned  subsidiaries  in  Ireland,  Korea,  Japan,  China  and  Hong  Kong,  as  well  as  a 
representative office in Taiwan. In 2019, we also completed the construction of new Application Centers in Hong Kong and Pangyo, 
South Korea, which allow our Asia-based display manufacturers to evaluate our technology more quickly and incorporate the technology 
into their commercial designs. Our wholly-owned subsidiary formed under the laws of the Republic of Ireland, UDC Ireland Ltd. (UDC 
Ireland),  is  responsible  for  all  material  sales  worldwide  (excluding  the  United  States)  and  for  licensing  and  managing  intellectual 
property and undertaking certain other business transactions in all non-U.S. territories. 

In 2022, we received a majority of our revenue from three customers domiciled in the Asia-Pacific region, BOE, LG Display and 
SDC, from each of which we had revenue in excess of 10% of our consolidated revenue. Our business is heavily dependent on our 
relationships with these customers. Substantially all revenue derived from our customers is denominated in U.S. dollars.

We generally enter into long-term agreements with our customers, which may include (1) a commercial supply agreement for the 
purchase of specific OLED materials, and (2) patent and know-how license agreements that relate to the manufacture of display and 
lighting devices. Generally, our commercial material supply agreements provide for multi-year purchase commitments, typically on a 
price per gram basis, which entitle our customers to certain discounts, technical support on the use of our OLED materials in mass 
production  facilities,  and  access  to  certain  future  OLED  materials.  In  order  to  secure  preferential  pricing  and  technology  access,  a 
customer typically agrees to certain minimum purchase obligations which can be in the form of annual minimum purchase undertakings 
or a percentage of their purchase requirements, or a combination of both. If a customer does not meet its minimum purchase obligations, 
generally we would have the right to review pricing for future material sales and impose other financial penalties.

Our patent and know-how license agreements generally are made available to our customers for the manufacture of OLED devices. 
In  addition,  we  also  may  license  to  certain  material  company  partners  the  right  to  manufacture  certain  OLED  materials  that  are 
complementary to our phosphorescent emitter materials. These licenses have included licenses to make host products and certain other 
non-phosphorescent materials. We believe it is in our, and our customers’ best interests to facilitate the development of materials that 
are complementary to our offerings and which assist our customers to produce more efficient and manufacturable devices with our 
materials. These collaboration efforts are likely to generate additional licensing fees for us under our license agreements. Although our 
customers generally pay us fixed license fees and/or running royalties for OLED licensed products that they manufacture, our material 
partner licensees generally pay us a portion of their sales for materials that are developed under material collaboration agreements and 
subsequently commercialized. To date, these material collaboration arrangements have not generated significant revenues for us.

For more information on our revenues, costs and expenses associated with our business, as well as a breakdown of revenues from 
North America and foreign sources, please see our Consolidated Financial Statements and the notes thereto, as well as “Management’s 
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” included elsewhere in this report.

Our Technology and its Relation to OLED Technology and Structure

OLED  devices  are  solid-state  semiconductor  devices  made  from  thin  films  of  organic  material  that  emit  light  of  various 
wavelengths  when  electricity  is  selectively  applied  to  the  emissive  layer  of  the  device.  OLED  devices  are  typically  referred  to  as 
incorporating an “OLED stack.” OLED stacks vary in specific structure but those commonly used today may include a cathode, an 
electron injection layer, an electron transport layer, an emissive layer, a hole transport layer, a hole injection layer and an anode, all of 
which are placed on a substrate which may be made of a number of different materials, including glass, plastic and metal.

Our technology and materials are most commonly utilized in the emissive layer; the materials in the emissive layer are the light-
generating component of the OLED stack. Many of our key technologies relate primarily to phosphorescent emitter materials, which we 
believe are more energy efficient than fluorescent emitter materials that can also be used to generate light within the emissive layer of 

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the OLED device. We began selling emitter materials commercially in 2003. A manufacturer will use a small amount of emitter material 
for each device through a process called “doping” into a host material. The emitter material(s) and the host material(s) together form an 
emissive layer system. Depending on the nature of the OLED device, the emissive materials and emissive layer system may be designed 
to emit different colors. We have commercially produced and sold phosphorescent emitter materials that produce red, yellow, green and 
light-blue light, which are combined in various ways for the display and lighting markets.

Our current materials business, conducted outside the United States by UDC Ireland, is focused primarily on the delivery of such 
emissive materials. We have also developed host materials for the emissive layer and began selling them commercially in 2011. In 
addition to our materials, which are generally protected by patents covering various molecular structures, we also have system and 
process patents that cover various fundamentally important aspects of the OLED device, device architectures, use of materials in devices 
and OLED manufacturing processes. These patents are important to our licensing business because they enable us to provide our business 
partners important OLED related technologies.

Our PHOLED Technologies

PHOLED technologies utilize specialized materials and device structures that allow OLEDs to emit light through a process known 
as phosphorescence. Traditional fluorescent OLEDs emit light through an inherently less efficient process. Theory and experiment show 
that  PHOLEDs  exhibit  device  efficiencies  up  to  four  times  higher  than  those  exhibited  by  fluorescent  OLEDs.  Phosphorescence 
substantially reduces the power requirements of an OLED and is useful in displays for hand-held devices, such as smartphones, where 
battery power is often a limiting factor.

Phosphorescence  is  also  important  for  large-area  displays  such  as  televisions,  where  higher  device  efficiency  and  lower  heat 

generation may enable longer product lifetimes and increased energy efficiency.

We have a strong intellectual property portfolio surrounding our existing PHOLED technologies and materials for both displays 
and  lighting  products  which  we  market  under  the  UniversalPHOLED®  brand.  We  devote  a  substantial  portion  of  our  efforts  to 
developing new and improved proprietary PHOLED materials and device architectures for red, green, yellow, blue and white OLED 
devices. In 2022, we continued our commercial supply relationships with companies such as BOE, LG Display, SDC, Tianma, CSOT 
and Visionox to use our PHOLED materials to manufacture OLED displays. In addition, we have worked and continue to work closely 
with  customers  evaluating  and  qualifying  our  proprietary  PHOLED  materials  for  commercial  usage  in  both  displays  and  lighting 
products, and with other material suppliers to combine our PHOLED emitters with their phosphorescent hosts and other OLED materials.

Our Additional Proprietary OLED Technologies

Our intellectual property, research, development and commercialization efforts also encompass a number of other OLED device 

and manufacturing technologies, including, but not limited to, the following:

FOLED ™ Flexible OLEDs

We are working on a number of technologies required for the fabrication of OLEDs on flexible substrates. Most other flat panel 
displays are built on rigid glass substrates. In contrast, FOLEDs are OLEDs built on non-rigid substrates such as plastic or metal foil. 
This has the potential to enhance durability and enable conformation to certain shapes or repeated bending or flexing. Many OLED 
smartphone  displays  are  built  on  plastic  substrates  including  those  produced  by  SDC  and  LG  Display.  Several  of  our  customers 
demonstrated different foldable and rollable FOLED displays at recent Consumer Electronics Shows in Las Vegas, NV.  The commercial 
introduction of such FOLED product offerings demonstrates the viability of new display product applications, such as portable, roll-up 
communications  televisions,  tablets,  notebook  computers  and  smartphones,  as  well  as  enhances  the  usefulness  of  such  devices  in 
ruggedized,  industrial  and  wearable  computing  systems.  Manufacturers  also  may  be  able  to  produce  FOLEDs  using  more  efficient 
continuous, or roll-to-roll, processing methods in the future. Our internal research and development efforts are expected to enhance and 
promote the future adoption of consumer and industrial FOLED devices.

OVJP® Organic Vapor Jet Printing

OLEDs could be manufactured using other processes as well, including OVJP. As a direct printing technique, OVJP technology 
has  the  potential  to  offer  high  deposition  rates  for  large-area  OLEDs.  In  addition,  OVJP  technology  reduces  OLED  material  waste 
associated with use of a shadow mask (i.e., the waste of material that deposits on the shadow mask itself when fabricating an OLED). 
By comparison to inkjet printing, an OVJP process does not use liquid solvents and therefore the OLED materials utilized are not limited 
by their viscosity or solvent solubility. OVJP also avoids generation of solvent wastes and eliminates the additional step of removing 
residual solvent from the OLED device. In 2019, we installed a red-green-blue OVJP pilot tool at our Ewing, New Jersey facility, and 
we continue to collaborate on OVJP technology development with Professor Forrest of Michigan. In June 2020, we formed a wholly-

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owned subsidiary, OVJP Corporation (OVJP Corp), as a Delaware corporation. Based in California, OVJP Corp was founded to advance 
the commercialization of our proprietary OVJP technology. As of December 31, 2022, OVJP Corp employed a team of 22 research, 
mechanical,  electrical  and  software  engineers  and  laboratory  technicians.  We  believe  the  successful  implementation  of  the  OVJP 
technology has the potential to increase the addressable market for large-size OLED panels while also serving another potential growth 
market for our proprietary PHOLED materials and technologies. 

Our Strategic Relationships with Product Manufacturers

We have established early-stage evaluation programs, development and pre-commercial programs, and commercial arrangements 
with  a  substantial  number  of  manufacturers  or  potential  manufacturers  of  OLED  display  and  lighting  products.  Many  of  these 
relationships are directed towards tailoring our proprietary OLED technologies and materials for use by individual manufacturers. Our 
ultimate  objective  is  to  license  our  OLED  technologies  and  sell  our  OLED  materials  to  these  manufacturers  for  their  commercial 
production of OLED products. 

Relationships with OLED Display Manufacturers 

We  license  our  OLED  technologies  and  patents  to  display  manufacturers  for  use  in  commercial  products  and  supply  our 
proprietary OLED materials to these manufacturers for both commercial use and evaluative purposes. We have been collaborating with 
some of these display manufacturers for over 20 years.

We have been working with SDC and providing our PHOLED materials to SDC for evaluation since 2001. Under the terms of a 
patent license agreement, we license our patents and technologies to SDC for its manufacture and sale of AMOLED (active-matrix 
organic  light-emitting  diode)  display  products.  Under  the  terms  of  a  supplemental  purchase  agreement,  we  supply  our  proprietary 
PHOLED  materials  to  SDC  for  its  use  in  manufacturing  licensed  products.  We  also  continue  to  supply  SDC  with  our  proprietary 
UniversalPHOLED materials for use in its development efforts under a 2001 joint development agreement. 

Prior to the expiration of the then-current 2018 license and purchase agreements with SDC on December 31, 2022, we entered  
into, on December 2, 2022, new patent license and supplemental purchase agreements, both with an effective date of January 1, 2023. 
These agreements, which cover the manufacture and sale of specified OLED display materials, last through the end of 2027 with an 
additional two-year extension option for SDC. Under these agreements, we are being paid a license fee, which includes quarterly and 
annual payments over the agreement term of five years. These agreements convey to SDC the non-exclusive right to use certain of our 
intellectual  property  assets  for  a  limited  period  of  time  that  is  less  than  the  estimated  life  of  the  assets.  The  supplemental  purchase 
agreement provides for minimum annual purchase obligations of red and green phosphorescent emitter material from us for use in the 
manufacture of licensed products. The minimum commitment is subject to SDC's requirements for phosphorescent emitter materials 
and our ability to meet these requirements over the term of the supplemental agreement. SDC is currently the largest manufacturer of 
AMOLED displays for smartphones and other personal electronic devices and produces displays for a number of different smartphone 
and electronic device manufacturers.

We have been working with LG Display and its affiliates for over 15 years. In 2015, we entered into an OLED patent license 
agreement and an OLED commercial supply agreement with LG Display, which were effective as of January 1, 2015. The terms of 
these agreements were extended by a January 1, 2021 amendment through the end of 2025. The patent license agreement provides LG 
Display a non-exclusive, royalty bearing portfolio license to make and sell OLED displays under our patent portfolio. The patent license 
calls for license fees, prepaid royalties and running royalties on licensed products. The OLED commercial supply agreement provides 
for the sales of materials for use by LG Display, which may include phosphorescent emitters and host materials. The agreements provide 
for certain other minimum obligations relating to the volume of material sales anticipated over the life of the agreements as well as 
minimum  royalty  revenue.  LG  Display  is  currently  the  largest  manufacturer  of  AMOLED  displays  for  large-area  televisions  and 
produces display panels for a number of different television manufacturers.

In 2016, we entered into long-term, multi-year OLED patent license and material purchase agreements with Tianma. Under the 
license agreement, we have granted Tianma non-exclusive license rights under various patents owned or controlled by us to manufacture 
and  sell  OLED  display  products.  The  license  agreement  calls  for  license  fees  and  running  royalties  on  Tianma’s  sales  of  licensed 
products. Additionally, we supply phosphorescent OLED materials to Tianma for use in its licensed products. In 2021, we mutually 
agreed to extend the terms of both the patent license and material purchase agreements for an additional multi-year term. 

In  2017,  we  entered  into  long-term,  multi-year  agreements  with  BOE.  Under  these  agreements,  we  have  granted  BOE  non-
exclusive license rights under various patents owned or controlled by us to manufacture and sell OLED display products. We also supply 
phosphorescent OLED materials to BOE for use in its licensed products. 

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In 2018, we entered into long-term, multi-year OLED patent license and material purchase agreements with Visionox. Under the 
license  agreement,  we  have  granted  certain  of  Visionox’s  affiliates  non-exclusive  license  rights  under  various  patents  owned  or 
controlled by us to manufacture and sell OLED display products. The license agreement calls for license fees and running royalties on 
licensed products. Additionally, we supply phosphorescent OLED materials to Visionox for use in its licensed products. In 2021, we 
announced an extension of the Visionox agreement by entering into new five-year OLED material supply and  license agreements with 
a new affiliate of Visionox, Visionox Hefei Technology Co. Ltd.

In 2019, we entered into an evaluation and commercial supply relationship with CSOT. In 2020, we entered into long-term, multi-
year agreements with CSOT. Under these agreements, we have granted CSOT non-exclusive license rights under various patents owned 
or controlled by us to manufacture and sell OLED display products. We also supply phosphorescent OLED materials to CSOT for use 
in its licensed products.

We have been collaborating with AU Optronics since 2001, and we continue to provide our proprietary PHOLED materials to 

AU Optronics under a 2016 commercial supply agreement through which AU Optronics also has certain license rights.

We  also  continue  to  support  numerous  display  manufacturers  in  their  evaluation  of  our  technologies  and  proprietary  OLED 
materials, through evaluation arrangements in which we provide our proprietary OLED materials to such manufacturers for limited scale 
commercial production, evaluation and for purposes of development, manufacturing qualification and product testing. Many of these 
strategic relationships have been in place for longer than a decade, and we continue to establish new relationships.  

Relationships with OLED Lighting Manufacturers 

We  license  our  OLED  technologies  and  patents  to  lighting  manufacturers  for  use  in  commercial  products  and  supply  our 
proprietary  OLED  materials  to  these  manufacturers  for  both  commercial  use  and  evaluative  purposes.  Many  of  these  strategic 
relationships have also been in place for longer than a decade.  

Since 2004, we have been supporting Konica Minolta in its efforts to develop OLED lighting products. We continue to license 
our patents and technology to Konica Minolta under a 2008 OLED technology license agreement for its manufacture and sale of OLED 
lighting products that utilize our phosphorescent and other OLED technologies. We also continue to provide Konica Minolta with our 
proprietary PHOLED materials for its manufacture of commercial OLED lighting products under a 2011 commercial material supply 
agreement, and for evaluation purposes under a 2012 evaluation agreement.

We also continue to license our OLED patents to Sumitomo under a 2015 OLED patent portfolio license agreement in which we 
granted Sumitomo a non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty bearing license to make and sell OLED lighting panels using a solution-based 
manufacturing process. Under the license agreement, Sumitomo may also purchase certain of our phosphorescent materials.

We continue to license our OLED patents, and to provide our OLED materials, to OLEDWorks for use in OLED lighting products 
under patent license and commercial supply agreements signed in 2015. We have also extended the rights under these agreements to 
OLEDWorks GmbH, the German company and facility that OLEDWorks acquired in 2015 from Philips Technologie GmbH.

We continue to license our technologies and patents to Kaneka for the manufacture and sale of OLED lighting products, under 
the terms of a 2013 license agreement, and we continue to supply our materials to Kaneka under a 2014 commercial material supply 
agreement. We also have a license agreement for the manufacture and sale of OLED lighting products with Pioneer, among others.

Similar  to  our  arrangements  with  display  manufacturers,  we  continue  to  support  numerous  lighting  manufacturers  in  their 
evaluation of our technologies and proprietary OLED materials, typically through evaluation agreements under which we provide our 
proprietary OLED materials to such manufacturers for evaluation and potential commercial application. 

Relationships with Manufacturers for Other Commercial Products

In addition to our relationships with lighting and display manufacturers, we have agreements and arrangements with manufacturers 
or potential manufacturers to use our proprietary OLED technologies and materials in other commercial products, such as in automotive 
interiors and exteriors.

Our OLED Materials Manufacturing Business

We supply our proprietary UniversalPHOLED® materials to display manufacturers, lighting manufacturers and others. These 
materials are produced in batch quantities by PPG to our exacting product specifications using our manufacturing process and know-

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how. We qualify each batch of emitters at our device qualification facilities to ensure that they meet required specifications, and we 
store qualified product inventory for delivery to our customers. We believe that our inventory-carrying practices, along with the terms 
under  which  we  sell  our  OLED  materials  (including  payment  terms),  are  typical  for  the  markets  in  which  we  operate.  In  2022,  we 
completed successful Surveillance Audits on our ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems, our ISO 14001:2015 Environmental 
Management Systems, and our ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems.  In addition, the scope of our 
ISO 9001:2015 certification was expanded to include OLED fulfillment operations at our Shannon, Ireland and Pangyo, South Korea 
locations.

PPG

We have maintained a close working relationship with PPG since 2000. In 2011, we entered into an agreement with PPG, the term 
of which, by amendment in February 2021, continues through December 31, 2024, and thereafter is automatically renewed for additional 
one-year terms, unless terminated by us with prior notice of one year or terminated by PPG with prior notice of two years. Under that 
agreement, PPG is responsible, under our direction, for manufacturing scale-up of our proprietary OLED materials, and for supplying 
us with those materials. We use these materials for our own research and development as well as for resale to our customers, both for 
their evaluation and for use in commercial OLED products. Through our collaboration with PPG, key raw materials are sourced from 
multiple suppliers to ensure that we are able to meet the needs of our customers on a timely basis. We have not had any issues with 
obtaining access to adequate amounts of any key raw materials.

In  February  2021,  we  entered  into  an  amendment  to  the  PPG  agreement  extending  the  term  of  the  agreement  and  specifying 
operation  and  maintenance  services  that  will  be  provided  by  PPG  affiliate,  PPG  SCM  Ireland  Limited,  to  UDC  Ireland  at  our  new 
manufacturing  site  in  Shannon,  Ireland,  currently  being  leased  by  a  wholly-owned  subsidiary  of  UDC  Ireland,  OLED  Material 
Manufacturing Limited (OMM), for the production of OLED materials. When fully operational, the new facility is expected to double 
our production capacity and allow for the diversification of our manufacturing base for phosphorescent emitters. The first phase of 
facility improvements has been completed and operations commenced in June 2022. As with our initial agreement with PPG, under our 
2021 amendment we will compensate PPG on a cost-plus basis for the services provided at the Shannon manufacturing facility.

Collaborations with Other OLED Material Manufacturers

We continued our non-exclusive collaborative relationships with OLED material manufacturing customers during 2022. Most of 
these relationships are focused on combining our proprietary PHOLED emitters with hosts and other OLED materials of these companies 
in  an  effort  to  optimize  our  PHOLED  emitter  products  and  deliver  a  high-performance  system  to  the  end  customer.  Our  product 
manufacturing customers are not required to purchase host materials from us. As a result, we do not believe these collaboration efforts 
will generate significant revenue for us as compared to our emitter and licensing businesses. We believe, however, that collaborative 
relationships such as these are important for ensuring success of the OLED industry and broader adoption of our PHOLED and other 
OLED technologies.

Research and Development

Our research and development activities are focused on the advancement of our OLED technologies and materials for displays, 
lighting and other applications. We conduct this research and development primarily internally and also through various relationships 
with commercial business partners, academic partners, and research institutions. Our venture capital company, UDC Ventures LLC, 
continues to seek to invest in companies that we believe are developing synergistic or complementary technologies to ours. 

Internal Development Efforts

Ewing, New Jersey Facility

We conduct a substantial portion of our OLED development activities at our state-of-the-art development and testing facility in 
Ewing, New Jersey. At this expanded facility, which now exceeds 50,000 square feet, we perform technology development, including 
device and process optimization, prototype fabrication, manufacturing scale-up studies, process and product testing, characterization 
and reliability studies, and technology transfer with our business partners.

Our Ewing facility houses multiple OLED deposition systems, including a full-color flexible OLED system and an OVJP system. 
In addition, the facility contains equipment for substrate patterning, organic material deposition, display packaging, module assembly 
and extensive testing in Class 100 and 100,000 clean rooms and opto-electronic test laboratories. Our facility also includes state-of-the-
art synthetic and analytical chemistry laboratories in which we conduct OLED materials research and make small quantities of new 
materials that we then test in OLED devices.

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Application Centers

In addition to our laboratory facilities in Ewing, New Jersey, in 2019 we completed the construction of new, leased, Application 
Centers in Hong Kong and Pangyo, South Korea. These centers, which include state-of-the-art OLED laboratories, better assist our 
Asia-based customers in their timely evaluation and adoption of our proprietary PHOLED materials, know-how and technologies in 
their respective PHOLED designs. 

Our Contract Research Organization Business: Adesis, Inc. 

In 2016, we acquired Adesis, Inc. (Adesis), a contract research organization (CRO) that provides support services to the OLED, 
pharma, biotech, catalysis and other industries. Adesis currently operates in its headquarters facility, which it purchased in 2017 and 
consists of over 47,500 square feet in New Castle, Delaware, and in another, leased, over 40,000 square foot facility in Wilmington, 
Delaware. As of December 31, 2022, Adesis employed a team of 150 research scientists, chemists, engineers and laboratory technicians. 

Although we expect to continue to utilize the majority of its technology research capacity for the benefit of our OLED technology 

development, Adesis is expected to continue operating as a CRO in the above-mentioned industries. 

University-Sponsored Research

Original Academic Partners

We have long-standing relationships with Princeton University (Princeton) and USC for the conduct of research relating to our 
OLED and other organic thin-film technologies and materials for applications such as displays and lighting. This research, subject to an 
agreement entered into by the parties (as amended, the 1997 Amended License Agreement), generated many of the original fundamental 
PHOLED concepts and underlying patents that we commercialized, and had been performed at Princeton under the direction of Professor 
Forrest and at USC under the direction of Professor Thompson. In 2006, Professor Forrest transferred to Michigan, where we continue 
to fund his research.

Since 2006, in connection with Dr. Forrest’s transfer, we entered into a new sponsored research agreement with USC under which 
we are funding organic electronics research being conducted by Drs. Forrest and Thompson (the 2006 Research Agreement). Work by 
Professor Forrest is being funded through a subcontract between USC and Michigan.

The 2006 Research Agreement extends through April 2023 with an option to further extend for an additional two years. We make 
payments under the 2006 Research Agreement to USC on a quarterly basis as actual expenses are incurred. As of December 31, 2022, 
we were obligated to pay USC up to $2.0 million for work to be performed during the remaining extended term.

Other Academic Relationships 

We entered into a contract research agreement with the Chitose Institute of Science and Technology of Japan (CIST) in 2004. 
Under that agreement, we funded a research program headed by Professor Chihaya Adachi relating to high-efficiency OLED materials 
and devices. We were granted exclusive rights to all intellectual property developed under this program. Our relationship with CIST 
ended in 2006 when Professor Adachi transferred to Kyushu University. However, we have continued our relationship with Professor 
Adachi under a separate consulting arrangement.

In 2006 and 2007, we entered into one-year research agreements with Kyung Hee University to sponsor research programs on 
flexible, amorphous silicon thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane technology. The programs were directed by Professor Jin Jang. In 2008 
and 2009, we entered into contract research agreements with Silicon Display Technology, Ltd. (SDT), a company founded by Professor 
Jang, and in 2013, we entered into another one-year agreement with SDT. We continue to maintain a good working relationship with 
Professor Jang.

Over the years, we have also entered into research agreements with various universities and research institutions that have been 
able to provide tailored research capabilities and insights relating to our PHOLED technology. As the utilization of PHOLED technology 
continues to expand, we intend to further engage key researchers at other universities and research institutions to help identify additional 
fundamental technologies that could benefit PHOLED technology implementation. 

Intellectual Property

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Along with our personnel, our primary and most fundamental assets are patents and other intellectual property. This includes more 
than 5,500 U.S. and foreign patents and patent applications that we own, exclusively license or have the sole right to sublicense. It also 
includes a substantial body of non-patented technical know-how that we have accumulated over time.  

Our Patents

Our research and development activities, conducted both internally and through collaborative programs with third parties, have 
resulted in our filing of a substantial number of patent applications relating to our OLED technologies and materials. These patents that 
we own represent, among other things, innovations beyond the original fundamental PHOLED conceptual patents that we license from 
our university research partners, described below. Although many of these licensed fundamental conceptual patents have expired, our 
internal research efforts include essential innovations that have generated commercially viable implementations of the original PHOLED 
concepts and patents.

As of December 31, 2022, we owned more than 5,000 unexpired issued patents and pending patent applications around the world 

in addition to the hundreds of patents and patent applications we exclusively license from our research partners, as discussed below. 

Patents We License from Research Partners

We exclusively license patent rights from a number of university research partners. Generally, we sponsor scientific researchers 
at universities to undertake pre-defined research programs, and in exchange we receive license rights to patents that may be developed 
under  the  programs.  As  part  of  these  programs,  we  may  provide  compensation  in  the  form  of  support  for  research  program-related 
activities, reimbursement for patent related costs, as well as providing for some forms of licensing and/or sublicensing fees for licensed 
technology that is commercialized by us or our customers. We have expanded our sponsored research programs over the past 10 years 
to include additional scientific researchers at a number of different institutions that we believe can provide breakthroughs in promising 
new fields of research that may benefit the OLED marketplace. As of December 31, 2022, the patent rights we exclusively license from 
all our university research partners included more than 650 issued patents and pending patent applications in jurisdictions around the 
world.  Under  our  university  patent  license  agreements,  we  are  generally  free  to  sublicense  to  third  parties  all  or  any  portion  of  the 
licensed patent rights for the life of the licensed patents, though our rights are subject to termination for an uncured material breach or 
default by us, or if we become bankrupt or insolvent.

As  part  of  our  university  license  agreements,  we  may  be  required  to  compensate  the  universities  to  the  extent  we,  or  our 
sublicensees, utilize the licensed technology in commercial products. Under the 1997 Amended License Agreement we are required to 
pay Princeton royalties for licensed products sold by us or our sublicensees. These royalties amount to 3% of the net sales price for 
licensed products sold by us and 3% of the revenues we receive for licensed patents used by our sublicensees. We owed royalties under 
the 1997 Amended License Agreement of $853,000 for 2022. 

Acquired Patents and Other Intellectual Property

From time to time we acquire patents and other intellectual property that we believe provide strategic business opportunities, such 
as the patent and technology portfolio we acquired from Motorola Solutions, Inc. (f/k/a Motorola, Inc.) (Motorola) in 2011, and the 
following portfolios from Fujifilm Corporation and BASF: 

Patents We Acquired from Fujifilm Corporation

In 2012, we entered into a Patent Sale Agreement (the Fujifilm Agreement) with Fujifilm. Under the Fujifilm Agreement, Fujifilm 
sold more than 1,200 OLED-related patents and patent applications for a total cost of $109.5 million. The Fujifilm Agreement contains 
customary representations and warranties and covenants, including respective covenants not to sue by both parties thereto. The Fujifilm 
Agreement permitted us to assign all of our rights and obligations under the Fujifilm Agreement to our affiliates, and we assigned, prior 
to  the  consummation  of  the  transactions  contemplated  by  the  Fujifilm  Agreement,  our  rights  and  obligations  to  UDC  Ireland.  The 
transactions contemplated by the Fujifilm Agreement were consummated on July 26, 2012.

Patents We Acquired from BASF

In 2016, UDC Ireland entered into an IP Transfer Agreement (the BASF Agreement) with BASF. Under the BASF Agreement, 
BASF  sold  us  more  than  500  OLED-related  patents  and  patent  applications  for  a  total  cost  of  $96.0  million.  The  transactions 
contemplated by the BASF Agreement were consummated on June 28, 2016.

Non-patented Technical Know-How

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We have accumulated, and continue to accumulate, a substantial amount of non-patented technical know-how relating to OLED 
technologies and materials. Where practicable, we share portions of this information with display manufacturers and other business 
partners  on  a  confidential  basis.  We  also  employ  various  methods  to  protect  this  information  from  unauthorized  use  or  disclosure, 
although no such methods can afford complete protection. Moreover, because we derive some of this information and know-how from 
academic institutions, there is an increased potential for public disclosure. We also cannot prevent the actual independent development 
of the same or similar information and know-how by third parties.

Competition

The industry in which we operate is highly competitive. We compete against alternative display technologies, in particular LCDs, 
as well as other OLED technologies. We also compete in the lighting market against incumbent technologies, such as incandescent and 
fluorescent bulbs, and inorganic LEDs, and against emerging technologies, such as other OLED technologies.

Display Panel Industry Competitors

Numerous domestic and foreign companies have developed or are developing and improving LCD, which includes quantum dot 
LCDs (which are sometimes referred to as QLEDs), and other display technologies that compete with our OLED display technologies. 
We  believe  that  OLED  display  technologies  can  compete  with  LCDs,  QLEDs  and  other  display  technologies  for  many  product 
applications on the basis of lower power consumption, better contrast ratios, faster video rates, form factor and lower manufacturing 
cost. However, other companies may succeed in continuing to improve these competing display technologies, or in developing new 
display technologies, that are superior to OLED display technologies in various respects. We cannot predict the timing or extent to 
which such improvements or developments may occur.

Lighting Industry Competitors

Although  there  has  been  a  movement  to  phase  out  traditional  incandescent  bulbs  throughout  many  countries,  traditional 
incandescent bulbs and fluorescent lamps remain well-entrenched products in the lighting industry. In addition, compact fluorescent 
lamps and solid-state LEDs have been introduced into the market and would compete with OLED lighting products. LEDs have realized 
significant market adoption in the general lighting market. Having attributes different from fluorescent lamps and LEDs, OLEDs may 
compete directly with these products for certain lighting applications. However, manufacturers of LEDs and compact fluorescent lamps 
may  succeed  in  more  broadly  adapting  their  products  to  various  lighting  applications,  or  others  may  develop  competing  solid-state 
lighting technologies that are superior to OLEDs. Again, we cannot predict whether or when this might occur.

OLED Technologies and Materials Competitors

Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) developed and patented the original fluorescent OLED technology in 1987. Cambridge Display 
Technology,  Ltd.  (CDT),  which  was  acquired  by  Sumitomo  Chemical  Company  in  2007,  developed  and  patented  polymer  OLED 
technology  in  1989.  Display  and  lighting  manufacturers,  including  customers  of  ours,  are  engaged  in  their  own  OLED  research, 
development and commercialization activities, and have developed and may continue to develop proprietary OLED technologies that 
are necessary or useful for commercial OLED devices. In addition, other material manufacturers, such as Sumitomo, Idemitsu Kosan 
Co., Ltd. (Idemitsu Kosan), Merck KGaA and Kyulux Inc., are selling or sampling competing OLED materials to customers, including 
companies to which we sell our proprietary PHOLED materials.

Our licensing business is based on our control of a broad portfolio of OLED-related device patents and technologies. We believe 
this portfolio includes fundamental patents in the field of phosphorescent OLED materials and devices, as well as certain additional 
complementary OLED technologies. As discussed above, alternative technologies, such as fluorescent OLED emitter materials, exist 
and could be competitive to our phosphorescent OLED material solutions. However, fluorescent materials have characteristics that we 
believe  many  market  participants  consider  less  desirable  than  those  of  phosphorescent  materials.  Suppliers  of  fluorescent  emitter 
materials include Solus Advanced Materials Co., Ltd., Dow Chemical (previously Gracel Display), Idemitsu Kosan and SFC Co. Ltd. 
Fluorescent  materials  may  also  be  viewed  as  complementary  in  that  they  can  be  used  in  the  same  OLED  stack  as  phosphorescent 
materials.

The competitive landscape with respect to our host materials business is characterized by a larger number of established chemical 
material suppliers who have long-term relationships with many of our existing customers and licensees. We have elected to partner with 
certain of these companies to manufacture and deliver host solutions to our customers, as well as selling our host materials directly to 
device manufacturers. We believe our competitive advantage stems, in part, from our deep knowledge of our phosphorescent emitter 
materials, which are complementary with the host solutions. We believe that our understanding of phosphorescent emitter materials 
enables  us  to  create  host  material  solutions  that  are  especially  well  suited  for  use  with  a  certain  class  of  emitter  materials  that  are 
implemented  commercially  today.  However,  we  note  that  many  of  our  technology  partners  have  their  own  host  solutions  and  the 

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competitive landscape includes many well-established companies such as Solus Advanced Materials Co., Ltd., Dow Chemical, Duksan 
Neolux Co., Ltd., Idemitsu Kosan, Merck KGaA, NSCC and Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. These companies have significant resources, and 
some may aggressively pursue such business in the future.

Our existing business relationships with SDC and other product manufacturers suggest that our OLED technologies and materials, 
particularly our PHOLED technologies and materials, may achieve a significant level of market penetration in the display and lighting 
industries.  However,  others,  such  as  those  working  to  develop  thermally  activated  delayed  fluorescence  (TADF)  and  microLED 
alternative technologies, may succeed in developing new OLED technologies, materials and alternative solutions that may supplement 
or be utilized in place of ours. We cannot be sure of the extent to which product manufacturers will adopt and continue to utilize our 
OLED technologies and materials for the production of commercial displays and lighting products.

Our Venture Capital Business: UDC Ventures LLC

We  formed  a  wholly-owned  subsidiary,  UDC  Ventures  LLC,  in  March  2019,  as  a  corporate  venture  capital  entity  that  funds 
companies we believe are developing innovative products and technologies that may be synergistic or complementary to our business 
and/or business strategies or which may otherwise provide favorable investment opportunities.

Human Capital

As of December 31, 2022, we had 443 active full-time employees and two part-time employees, none of whom are unionized.  Of 
these employees, 318 are research scientists, engineers and laboratory technicians at our domestic and international facilities. This team 
includes  chemists,  physicists,  engineers  and  technicians  with  physics,  electrical  engineering,  mechanical  engineering  and 
organic/inorganic  chemistry  backgrounds,  and  highly-trained  theoreticians  and  experimentalists.  We  believe  that  relations  with  our 
employees are good.

Our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive company. Guided by our values, we are committed to creating a company where everyone 
is included and respected, and where we support each other in reaching our full potential. We are committed to diverse representation 
across all levels of our workforce to reflect the vibrant and thriving diversity of the communities in which we live and work. Women 
represent 40% of our executive management team, 15% of our leadership (Director level and above) and 23% of our total workforce, as 
well as 38% of our Board of Directors. We have employees from over 25 countries in our workforce, and we believe that a diverse 
workforce made up of people with different ideas, strengths, interests and cultural backgrounds drives employee and business success. 
In 2022 our voluntary turnover rate was 13%, and we had overall employee growth rate of 8%. Additional data, including historical 
turnover and diversity information, as well as our corporate policies relating to our employee engagement and human capital, are updated 
on our website www.oled.com, and included in our annual Corporate Responsibility Report.

Our Company History

Our corporation was organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1985. Our business was commenced in 
1994 by a company then known as Universal Display Corporation, which had been incorporated under the laws of the State of New 
Jersey. In 1995, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours merged into this New Jersey corporation. The surviving corporation in this merger 
became a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours and changed its name to UDC, Inc. Simultaneously with the consummation of this merger, 
we  changed  our  name  to  Universal  Display  Corporation.  UDC,  Inc.  functions  as  an  operating  subsidiary  of  ours  and  has  certain 
overlapping  officers  and  directors.  We  have  also  formed  or  acquired  other  wholly-owned  subsidiaries,  including  Universal  Display 
Corporation Hong Kong, Limited (2008), Universal Display Corporation Korea, Y.H. (2010), Universal Display Corporation Japan GK 
(2011),  UDC  Ireland  Limited  (2012),  Universal  Display  Corporation  China,  Ltd.  (2016),  Adesis,  Inc.  (2016),  UDC  Ventures  LLC 
(2019), OLED Material Manufacturing Limited (2020), and OVJP Corporation (2020), and we established a representative office in 
Taiwan (2011).

Our Compliance with Environmental Protection Laws

We are not aware of any material effects that compliance with Federal, state or local environmental protection laws or regulations 
will have on our business. We have not incurred substantial costs to comply with any environmental protection laws or regulations, and 
we do not anticipate having to do so in the foreseeable future.

Our Internet Site

Our Internet address is www.oled.com. We make available through our Internet website, free of charge, our annual reports on 
Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant 
to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as soon as reasonably practicable after we file such material with the 

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U.S.  Securities  and  Exchange  Commission  (the  SEC).  The  SEC  maintains  a  website  that  contains  these  reports  as  well  as  proxy 
statements and information regarding issuers who file electronically, with the address www.sec.gov. In addition, we have made available 
on our Internet website under the heading “Corporate Governance” the charter for the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors, the 
charter for the Human Capital Committee of our Board of Directors, the charter for the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee 
of our Board of Directors, our Code of Ethics & Business Conduct for Employees, our Code of Conduct for Directors, and our Corporate 
Governance Guidelines. We intend to make available on our Internet website any future amendments or waivers to our Code of Ethics 
& Business Conduct for Employees and our Code of Conduct for Directors. The information on our Internet website is not part of this 
report.

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

The following table sets forth certain information with respect to our executive officers as of February 23, 2023:

Name
Steven V. Abramson
Julia J. Brown
Janice K. Mahon

Mauro Premutico

Age

71
61
65

57

Position
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer
Senior Vice President of Technology Commercialization and General Manager, 
Commercial Sales Business
Senior Vice President, Planning and General Manager, Patents and Licensing, and 
Secretary

Brian Millard

40 Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer

Our Board of Directors has appointed these executive officers to hold office until their successors are duly appointed.

Steven V. Abramson is our President and Chief Executive Officer, and has been a member of our Board of Directors since May 
1996. Mr. Abramson served as our President and Chief Operating Officer from May 1996 through December 2007. From March 1992 
to  May  1996,  Mr.  Abramson  was  Vice  President,  General  Counsel,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  Roy  F.  Weston,  Inc.,  a  worldwide 
environmental  consulting  and  engineering  firm.  From  December  1982  to  December  1991,  Mr.  Abramson  held  various  positions  at 
InterDigital Communications, Inc., formerly International Mobile Machines Corporation, including General Counsel, Executive Vice 
President and General Manager of the Technology Licensing Division. 

Julia J. Brown, Ph.D. became our Executive Vice President in April 2021, prior to which she served as a Senior Vice President 
since  June  2008.  She  has  been  our  Chief  Technical  Officer  since  June  2002  and  joined  us  in  June  1998  as  our  Vice  President  of 
Technology Development. From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Brown was a Research Department Manager at Hughes Research Laboratories where 
she directed the pilot line production of high-speed Indium Phosphide-based integrated circuits for insertion into advanced airborne 
radar and satellite communication systems. Dr. Brown received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering/Electrophysics at USC and 
a B.S.E.E. from Cornell University. Dr. Brown holds a number of distinguished elected awards including Fellow of the Institute of 
Electrical  and  Electronics  Engineers  (IEEE),  Fellow  of  the  Society  of  Information  Display  (SID),  and  the  National  Academy  of 
Engineers (NAE).

Janice K. Mahon became our Senior Vice President, Technology Commercialization and General Manager, Commercial Sales 
Business in April 2021, and previously served as our Vice President of Technology Commercialization since January 1997, and General 
Manager of our PHOLED Material Sales Business since January 2007. From 1992 to 1996, Ms. Mahon was Vice President of SAGE 
Electrochromics, Inc., a thin-film electrochromic technology company, where she oversaw a variety of business development, marketing 
and  finance  and  administrative  activities.  From  1984  to  1989,  Ms.  Mahon  was  a  Vice  President  and  General  Manager  for  Chronar 
Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of amorphous silicon photovoltaic (PV) panels. Prior to that, Ms. Mahon worked as 
Senior Engineer for the Industrial Chemicals Division of FMC Corporation. Ms. Mahon received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering 
from  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute  in  1979,  and  an  M.B.A.  from  Harvard  University  in  1984.  Ms.  Mahon  was  a  member  of  the 
Technical Council of the FlexTech Alliance from 1997 through 2010, and a member of its Governing Board from 2008 through 2010. 
Ms. Mahon was a member of the Board of Directors and Marketing Committee Chairperson of the OLED Association from 2009-2014.

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Mauro Premutico became our Senior Vice President, Planning and General Manager, Patents and Licensing in April 2021. He 
previously served as our Vice President of Legal and General Manager of Patents and Licensing since April 2012. He has also been our 
Secretary since September 2022. Prior to joining us, Mr. Premutico was the Managing Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel for The 
Walt Disney Company from 2009 to 2012, and Vice President of Intellectual Property and Associate General Counsel for Lenovo Group 
Ltd. from 2005 to 2009. Mr. Premutico received a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, an M.B.A. from Yale University and a 
B.S.E.E. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Brian Millard is our Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Millard joined us in September 2022 with more 
than 15 years of financial, operational and strategic experience across several industries. Prior to joining us, Mr. Millard served as Senior 
Vice  President,  Finance  and  Corporate  Controller  at  Emergent  BioSolutions  from  January  2020  to  September  2022  and  as  Vice 
President,  Corporate  Controller  from  October  2017  to  January  2020.  Previously,  Mr.  Millard  served  as  Vice  President,  Corporate 
Controller at Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., from August 2015 to October 2017 and Assistant Corporate Controller from March 2014 to 
August 2015. Mr. Millard also served in financial reporting leadership roles at Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc. Mr. Millard began his 
career at Deloitte & Touche LLP. He received his M.S. and B.B.A. degrees in accounting from James Madison University.

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

You should carefully consider the following risks and uncertainties when reading this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The following 
factors, as well as other factors affecting our operating results and financial condition, could cause our actual future results and financial 
condition to differ materially from those projected.

Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property

If  we  cannot  obtain  and  maintain  appropriate  patent  and  other  intellectual  property  protection  for  our  OLED  technologies  and 
materials, our business will suffer.

The value of our OLED technologies and materials is dependent on our ability to secure and maintain appropriate patent and other 
intellectual property rights protection. Although we own or license many patents respecting our OLED technologies and materials that 
have already been issued, there can be no assurance that additional patents applied for will be obtained, or that any of these patents, once 
issued, will afford commercially significant protection for our OLED technologies and materials, or will be found valid if challenged. 
Also, there is no assurance that we will be successful in defending the validity of our current or future patents in pending and future 
patent oppositions, invalidation trials, interferences, reexaminations, reissues, or other administrative or court proceedings. Moreover, 
we  have  not  obtained  patent  protection  for  some  of  our  OLED  technologies  and  materials  in  all  foreign  countries  in  which  OLED 
products or materials might be manufactured or sold.

We  believe  that  the  strength  of  our  current  intellectual  property  position  results  primarily  from  the  essential  nature  of  our 
fundamental patents covering phosphorescent OLED devices and certain materials utilized in these devices. Certain of our existing 
fundamental phosphorescent OLED patents expired in the United States in 2017 and 2019; and expired in other countries of the world 
in 2018 and 2020. While we hold a wide range of additional patents and patent applications relating to our commercial OLED materials 
and technologies whose expiration dates extend (and in the case of patent applications, will extend) beyond 2022, many of which are 
also of importance in the OLED industry, none may be of an equally essential nature as our original fundamental patents, and therefore 
our competitive position may be less certain as a result of the expiration of these patents.

We have more than 5,500 issued and pending patents relating to our OLED technologies. There is no assurance that these patents 
and applications will not be challenged prior to their respective expirations in any of the jurisdictions in which they are utilized, or that 
if challenged, we will be able to secure sufficient breadth of protection, and monetary and injunctive relief for the violation of our rights 
to make up for the business harm resulting from such activities. Moreover, there can be no assurance that competitors will not develop 
or  produce  competing  PHOLED  material  designs  that  may  be  outside  of  our  existing  patents.  There  may  also  be  fundamental  new 
advancements in the field of OLED technology that could enable the commercial use of older and unpatented PHOLED materials or the 
adoption  of  new  OLED  materials  that  do  not  require  the  utilization  of  our  proprietary  PHOLED  materials  to  achieve  superior 
performance characteristics.

We may become engaged in litigation to protect or enforce our patent and other intellectual property rights, or in International 
Trade Commission proceedings to abate the importation of goods that would compete unfairly with those of our licensees. In addition, 
we are participating in or have participated in, and in the future will likely have to participate in, interference, reissue, or reexamination 
proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and opposition, nullity or other proceedings before foreign patent offices, 
with respect to some of our patents or patent applications. All of these actions place our patents and other intellectual property rights at 
risk and may result in substantial costs to us as well as a diversion of management attention from our business and operations. Moreover, 
if successful, these actions could result in the loss of patent or other intellectual property rights protection for the key OLED technologies 
and materials on which our business depends.

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We rely, in part, on several non-patented proprietary technologies to operate our business. Others may independently develop the 
same or similar technologies or otherwise obtain access to our unpatented technologies. Furthermore, these parties may obtain patent 
protection for such technology, inhibiting or preventing us from practicing the technology. To protect our trade secrets, know-how and 
other non-patented proprietary information, we require employees, consultants, financial advisors and strategic partners to enter into 
confidentiality agreements. These agreements may not ultimately provide meaningful protection for our trade secrets, know-how or 
other non-patented proprietary information. In particular, we may not be able to fully or adequately protect our proprietary information 
as we conduct discussions with potential strategic partners. 

Additionally, although we take many measures and implement safeguards to prevent unauthorized use, including by theft and 
misuse,  of  our  intellectual  property  and  proprietary  information,  third  parties  may  attempt  to  obtain,  copy,  reverse-engineer,  use  or 
disclose, illegally or otherwise, such intellectual property and proprietary information. We also may face attempts by others to gain 
unauthorized access through the Internet to our information technology systems or to our intellectual property, which might be the result 
of industrial or other espionage or actions by hackers seeking to harm our company or its products. If we are unable to protect the 
proprietary nature of our intellectual property and proprietary information, it will harm our business.

We or our customers may incur substantial costs or lose important rights as a result of litigation or other proceedings relating to our 
patent and other intellectual property rights or with respect to our OLED materials business.

There are a number of other companies and organizations that have been issued patents and are filing patent applications relating 
to OLED technologies and materials, including, without limitation, Kodak (substantially all of whose OLED assets were sold to a group 
of LG companies in 2009), CDT (acquired by Sumitomo in 2007), Canon, Inc., Semiconductor Energy Laboratories Co., Idemitsu Kosan 
and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. In addition, some of our customers such as SDC and LG Display have been issued patents and 
are filing patent applications relating to OLED technologies and materials. As a result, there may be issued patents or pending patent 
applications of third parties that would be infringed by the use of our OLED technologies or materials, thus subjecting our customers to 
possible suits for patent infringement in the future. Such lawsuits could result in our customers being liable for damages or require our 
customers to obtain additional licenses that could increase the cost of their products. This, in turn, could have an adverse effect on our 
customers’ sales and thus our royalties or material sales revenues, or cause our customers to seek to renegotiate our royalty rates or 
pricing. In addition, we have agreed to indemnify customers purchasing our OLED materials for commercial usage against certain claims 
of patent infringement by third parties, as a result of which we may incur substantial legal costs in connection with defending these 
customers from such claims.

Our licensees may also seek to avoid paying future royalties by attempting to have our patents declared invalid and unenforceable 
by a court. Our licensees may be more likely to file such declaratory actions in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in MedImmune, 
Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. (2007), in which the Court found that a licensee need not refuse to pay royalties and commit material breach of 
the license agreement before bringing an action to declare a licensed U. S. patent invalid and unenforceable.

In  addition,  we  may  be  required,  from  time-to-time,  to  assert  our  intellectual  property  rights  by  instituting  legal  proceedings 
against others. We cannot be assured that we will be successful in enforcing our patents in any lawsuits we may commence. Defendants 
in any litigation we may commence to enforce our patents may attempt to establish that our patents are invalid or are unenforceable. 
Thus, any patent litigation we commence could lead to a determination that one or more of our patents are invalid or unenforceable. If 
a third party succeeds in invalidating one or more of our patents, that party and others could compete more effectively against us. Our 
ability to derive licensing revenues from products or technologies covered by these patents would also be adversely affected.

Whether our customers are defending the assertion of third-party intellectual property rights against their businesses arising as a 
result of the use of our technology, or we are asserting our own intellectual property rights against others, such litigation can be complex, 
costly,  protracted  and  highly  disruptive  to  our  or  our  customers’  business  operations  by  diverting  the  attention  and  energies  of 
management and key technical personnel. As a result, the pendency or adverse outcome of any intellectual property litigation to which 
we  or  our  customers  are  subject  could  disrupt  business  operations,  require  the  incurrence  of  substantial  costs  and  subject  us  or  our 
customers to significant liabilities, each of which could severely harm our business. Costs associated with these actions are likely to 
increase  as  AMOLED  products  using  our  PHOLED  and  other  OLED  technologies  and  materials  continue  to  enter  the  consumer 
marketplace.

Plaintiffs  in  intellectual  property  cases  often  seek  injunctive  relief  in  addition  to  money  damages.  Any  intellectual  property 
litigation  commenced  against  our  customers  may  force  them  to  take  actions  that  could  be  harmful  to  their  businesses  and  thus  to 
revenues, including the halting of sales of products that incorporate or otherwise use our technology or materials.

Furthermore, the measure of damages in intellectual property litigation can be complex and is often subjective or uncertain. If our 
customers were to be found liable for infringement of proprietary rights of a third party, the amount of damages they might have to pay 
could be substantial and is difficult to predict. Decreased sales of our customers’ products incorporating our technology or materials 
would have an adverse effect on our royalty revenues under existing licenses and material sales under our existing sales agreements. 

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Were this to occur, it would likely harm our ability to (i) obtain new licensees which would have an adverse effect on the terms of the 
royalty arrangements we could enter into with any new licensees, and (ii) sell our UniversalPHOLED® materials to existing and new 
customers. Moreover, to the extent any third party claims are directed specifically to materials supplied by us to our customers, we may 
be required to incur significant costs associated with the defense of such claims and potential damages associated with such claims that 
may be awarded against our customers.

As  is  commonplace  in  technology  companies,  we  employ  individuals  who  were  previously  employed  at  other  technology 
companies. To the extent our employees are involved in research areas that are similar to those areas in which they were involved at 
their former employers, we may be subject to claims that such employees or we have, inadvertently or otherwise, used or disclosed the 
alleged  trade  secrets  or  other  proprietary  information  of  the  former  employers.  Litigation  may  be  necessary  to  defend  against  such 
claims. The costs associated with these actions or the loss of rights critical to our or our customers’ businesses could negatively impact 
our revenues or cause our business to fail.

Recent court decisions in various patent cases may make it more difficult for us to obtain future patents, enforce our patents against 
third parties or obtain favorable judgments in cases where the patents are enforced.

Recent case law may make it more difficult for patent holders to secure future patents and/or enforce existing patents. For example, 
in  KSR  International  Co.  vs.  Teleflex,  Inc.  (2007),  the  U.S.  Supreme  Court  mandated  a  more  expansive  and  flexible  approach  to 
determine whether a patent is obvious and invalid. As a result of the less rigid approach to assessing obviousness, defending the validity 
of or obtaining patents may be more difficult.

Recent court decisions may also impact the enforcement of our patents. For example, we may not be able to enjoin certain third 
party uses of products or methods covered by our patents following the initial authorized sale, even where those uses are expressly 
proscribed in an agreement with the buyer. Also,  we may face  increased difficulty  enjoining infringement of our  patents. The U.S. 
Supreme  Court  has  held  that  an  injunction  should  not  automatically  issue  based  on  a  finding  of  patent  infringement,  but  should  be 
determined based on a test balancing considerations of the patentee’s interest, the infringer’s interest, and the public’s interest. Obtaining 
enhanced damages for willful infringement of our patents may also be more difficult even in those cases where we successfully prove a 
third party has infringed our patents, as a recent case set a more stringent standard for proving willful infringement.

Therefore, as a result of such rulings, it may be more difficult for us to defend our currently issued patents, obtain additional 
patents in the future or achieve the desired competitive effect even when our patents are enforced. If we are unable to so defend our 
currently issued patents, or to obtain new patents for any reason, our business would suffer.

Risks Related to Our Business and Operations

If we cannot form and maintain lasting business relationships with OLED product manufacturers, our business strategy will fail.

Our business strategy ultimately depends upon our development and maintenance of commercial licensing and material supply 
relationships with high-volume manufacturers of OLED products. We have entered into a limited number of such relationships from 
which most of our material sales and licensing revenue are generated. Our other relationships with product manufacturers currently are 
limited to technology development and the evaluation of our OLED technologies and materials for possible use in commercial products. 
Some or all of these relationships may not succeed or, even if they are successful, may not result in the product manufacturers entering 
into commercial licensing and material supply relationships with us.

Many of our agreements with product manufacturers last for only limited periods of time, such that our relationships with these 
manufacturers will expire unless they are renewed. These product manufacturers may not agree to renew their relationships with us on 
a continuing basis or may agree to do so on terms that are less favorable to us. In addition, we regularly continue working with product 
manufacturers after our existing agreements with them have expired while we are attempting to negotiate contract extensions or new 
agreements with them. Should our relationships with the various product manufacturers not continue or be renewed on less favorable 
terms, or if we are not able to identify other product manufacturers and enter into contracts with them, our business may materially 
suffer.

Our  ability  to  enter  into  additional  commercial  licensing  and  material  supply  relationships,  or  to  maintain  our  existing 
relationships, may depend on our ability to make certain financial or other commitments. We might not be able, for financial or other 
reasons, to enter into or continue these relationships on commercially acceptable terms, or at all. Failure to do so may cause our business 
strategy to fail.

If we fail to continue to make advances in our OLED research and development activities, we might not succeed in continuing to 
commercialize our OLED technologies and materials.

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Further advances in our OLED technologies and materials depend, in part, on the success of the research and development work 
we conduct, both alone and with our research partners. We cannot be certain that this work will yield additional advances in the research 
and development of these technologies and materials.

Our research and development efforts remain subject to all of the risks associated with the development of new products based on 
emerging  and  innovative  technologies,  including,  without  limitation,  unanticipated  technical  or  other  problems  and  the  possible 
insufficiency of funds for completing development of these products. Technical problems may result in delays and cause us to incur 
additional expenses that would increase our losses. If we cannot complete research and development of our OLED technologies and 
materials successfully, or if we experience delays in completing research and development of our OLED technologies and materials for 
use in potential commercial applications, particularly after incurring significant expenditures, our business may fail.

Conflicts  or  other  problems  may  arise  with  our  customers  or  joint  development  partners,  resulting  in  renegotiation,  breach  or 
termination of, or litigation related to, our agreements with them. This would adversely affect our revenues.

Conflicts or other problems could arise between us and our customers or joint development partners, some of which we have made 
strategic  investments  in,  as  to  royalty  rates,  milestone  payments  or  other  commercial  terms.  Similarly,  we  may  disagree  with  our 
customers or joint development partners as to which party owns or has the right to commercialize intellectual property that is developed 
during the course of the relationship or as to other non-commercial terms. If such a conflict were to arise, a customer or joint development 
partner might attempt to compel renegotiation of certain terms of their agreement or terminate their agreement entirely, and we might 
lose the royalty revenues, material sales revenues and other benefits of the agreement. Either we or the customer or joint development 
partner might initiate litigation to determine commercial obligations, establish intellectual property rights or resolve other disputes under 
the agreement. Such litigation could be costly to us and require substantial attention of management. If we were unsuccessful in such 
litigation,  we  could  lose  the  commercial  benefits  of  the  agreement,  be  liable  for  financial  damages  and  suffer  losses  of  intellectual 
property or other rights that are the subject of dispute.

If our OLED technologies and materials are not feasible for broad-based product applications, we may not be able to continue to 
generate revenues sufficient to support ongoing operations.

Our main business strategy is to sell our OLED materials and license our OLED technologies to manufacturers for incorporation 
into the display and lighting products that they sell. Consequently, our success depends on the ability and willingness of manufacturers 
to continue to develop, manufacture and sell commercial products integrating our technologies and materials.

Before product manufacturers will agree to expand the use of our OLED technologies and materials for wider scale commercial 
production, they will likely require us to demonstrate to their satisfaction that our OLED technologies and materials are feasible for 
broad-based product applications beyond current commercial application, such as smartphones, wearables and television displays. This, 
in turn, may require additional advances in our technologies and materials, as well as those of others, for applications in a number of 
areas, including, without limitation, advances with respect to the development of:

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OLED materials with improved lifetimes, efficiencies and color coordinates for larger area full-color OLED displays 
and general lighting products;

more robust OLED materials for use in more demanding large-scale manufacturing environments; and

scalable  and  cost-effective  methods  and  technologies  for  the  fabrication  of  large  volume  OLED  materials  and 
products.

We cannot be certain that these advances will occur, and hence our OLED technologies and materials may not be feasible for 

additional broad-based product applications and expansion.

Even if our OLED materials and technologies are technically feasible, they may not be further adopted by product manufacturers 
for broad-based product applications.

The potential size, timing and viability of market opportunities targeted by us remain uncertain. Market acceptance of our OLED 
materials  and  technologies  beyond  current  product  offerings  and  sales  volumes  will  depend,  in  part,  upon  these  materials  and 
technologies  providing  benefits  comparable  or  superior  to  competing  display  and  lighting  technologies  at  an  advantageous  cost  to 
manufacturers, and the adoption of products incorporating these technologies by consumers. Many current and potential customers for 
our OLED technologies utilize and have invested significant resources in competing technologies, and may, therefore, be reluctant to 
redesign their products or manufacturing processes to incorporate our OLED technologies.

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During the entire product development process for a new product, we face the risk that our materials or technologies will fail to 
meet  the  manufacturer’s  technical,  performance  or  cost  requirements  or  will  be  replaced  by  a  competing  product  or  alternative 
technology. Even if we offer materials and technologies that are satisfactory to a product manufacturer, the manufacturer may choose 
to delay or terminate its product development efforts for reasons unrelated to our materials or technologies. In addition, our agreements 
with  our  customers  do  not  require  them  to  purchase  our  host  materials  to  utilize  our  phosphorescent  emitter  materials,  and  those 
customers may elect not to purchase our host materials.

Mass  production  of  new  mass  market  OLED  products  will  require  the  availability  of  suitable  manufacturing  equipment, 
components and materials, many of which are available only from a limited number of suppliers. In addition, there may be a number of 
other technologies that manufacturers need to utilize in conjunction with our OLED technologies in order to bring these new OLED 
products to the market. Thus, even if our OLED technologies are a viable alternative to competing approaches, if product manufacturers 
are unable to obtain access to this equipment and these components, materials and other technologies, they may not utilize our OLED 
technologies.

There are numerous potential alternatives to OLEDs, which may limit our ability to commercialize our OLED technologies and 
materials.

The  display  market  remains  dominated  by  displays  based  on  LCD  technology.  Numerous  companies  are  making  substantial 
investments in, and conducting research to improve characteristics of, LCDs; additionally, other competing display technologies have 
been, or are being, developed, like microLED. A similar situation exists in the solid-state lighting market, which is currently dominated 
by LED products. Advances in any of these various technologies may overcome their current limitations and permit them to become the 
leading technologies in their field, either of which could limit the potential market for products utilizing our OLED technologies and 
materials. This, in turn, would cause product manufacturers to avoid entering into commercial relationships with us, or to terminate or 
not renew their existing relationships with us.

Other  OLED  technologies  may  be  more  successful  or  cost-effective  than  ours,  which  may  limit  the  commercial  adoption  of  our 
OLED technologies and materials.

Our  competitors  have  developed  and  continue  to  develop  OLED  technologies  that  differ  from  or  compete  with  our  OLED 
technologies. In particular, competing fluorescent and thermally activated delayed fluorescence OLED technology may become a viable 
alternative to our phosphorescent OLED technology. Moreover, our competitors may succeed in developing new OLED technologies 
that may become more cost-effective or have fewer limitations than our OLED technologies. If our OLED technologies, and particularly 
our phosphorescent OLED technology, are unable to continue to capture a substantial portion of the OLED product market, our business 
strategy may fail.

The  consumer  electronics  industry  experiences  significant  downturns  from  time  to  time,  any  of  which  may  adversely  affect  the 
demand for and pricing of our OLED technologies and materials.

Our success depends upon the ability and continuing willingness of our customers to manufacture and sell products utilizing our 
technologies and materials, specifically our phosphorescent emitters and host materials, and the widespread acceptance of our customers’ 
products in the consumer marketplace. Any slowdown in the demand for our customers’ products or a decrease in our customers’ use 
of or demand for our materials would adversely affect our material sales and royalty revenues and thus our business. Our customers’ 
decrease in the use of or demand for our materials may depend on several factors, including pricing, availability, continued technical 
improvements  and  competitive  product  offerings.  The  markets  for  flat  panel  displays  and  lighting  products  are  highly  competitive. 
Success in the market for end-user products that may integrate our OLED technologies and materials also depends on factors beyond 
the control of our customers and us, including the cyclical and seasonal nature of the end-user markets that our customers serve, as well 
as industry and general economic conditions.

The markets that we hope to penetrate have experienced significant periodic downturns, often in connection with, or in anticipation 
of,  declines  in  general  economic  conditions.  These  downturns  have  been  characterized  by  lower  product  demand,  production 
overcapacity and erosion of average selling prices. Our business strategy is dependent on manufacturers building and selling products 
that incorporate our OLED technologies and materials. Industry-wide fluctuations and downturns in the demand for displays and solid-
state lighting products could cause significant harm to our business.

Our customers may develop new or more efficient manufacturing processes, which may adversely affect demand for our OLED 
materials.

By developing enhanced material processing methods and more efficient manufacturing techniques, our customers who purchase 
our phosphorescent emitter and host materials could become more efficient in the utilization of our materials by developing designs that 

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require  less  materials  on  a  per  square  meter  basis,  or  by  modifying  their  manufacturing  process  to  make  more  efficient  use  of  our 
materials, which could limit or reduce the amount of materials they purchase from us. Thus, demand for our materials may not expand 
in  proportion  to  the  number  of  OLED  related  products  manufactured  by  our  customers,  and  may  result  in  reduced  demand  for  our 
materials and technologies relative to our customers' manufacture and sale of products made with such materials.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had, and we expect it to continue to have, a material adverse effect on our operations and business, 
and similar future epidemics, pandemics, disease outbreaks and other public health crises could also have a similar effect.

The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the global economy, disrupted consumer spending and global supply chains, 
and created significant volatility and disruption of financial markets, which in turn has had a material adverse effect on our operations 
and business. We expect the COVID-19 pandemic to continue to have an adverse impact on our business and financial performance. 
The extent of the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and financial performance, including our ability to 
execute our near-term and long-term business strategies and initiatives in the expected time frame, will depend on future developments, 
including the duration and severity of the pandemic, which are uncertain and cannot be predicted.

In addition, consumer spending generally may also be negatively impacted by general macroeconomic conditions and consumer 
confidence, including the impact of any recession, resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This may negatively continue to 
impact sales for our customers and may also have an impact on their development of new products. 

Should there be in the future any epidemics, pandemics, disease outbreaks and other public health crises, such as the COVID-19 
pandemic,  that  harm  the  global  economy  in  general,  our  business,  financial  condition  and  results  of  operations  could  be  adversely 
affected.  We  may  also  experience  impacts  to  certain  of  our  customers  as  a  result  of  public  health  crises  occurring  in  one  or  more 
locations, which in turn may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.  

Any downturn in U.S. or global economic conditions may have a significant adverse effect on our business.

There have been significant and sustained economic downturns in the U.S. and globally in the past. These downturns have placed 
pressure on consumer demand, and the resulting impact on consumer spending has had a material adverse effect on the demand for 
consumer electronic products. Similar downturns in the future may have a significant adverse effect on one or more of our licensees as 
an  enterprise,  which  could  result  in  those  licensees  reducing  their  efforts  to  commercialize  products  that  incorporate  our  OLED 
technologies and materials. Consumer demand and the condition of the display and lighting industries may also be impacted by other 
external  factors  such  as  war,  terrorism,  geopolitical  uncertainties,  epidemics  and  other  business  interruptions.  The  impact  of  these 
external factors is difficult to predict, and one or more of these factors could adversely impact the demand for our customers’ products, 
and thus our business.

Heightened levels of inflation and the potential worsening of macro-economic conditions, including slower growth or recession, 
changes to fiscal and monetary policy, tighter credit, higher interest rates and currency fluctuations, present a risk for us, our suppliers 
and the display and lighting industries in general. If inflation remains at current levels for an extended period, or increases, and we are 
unable to successfully mitigate the impact, our costs are likely to increase, resulting in pressure on our profits, margins and cash flows, 
particularly for existing fixed-price contracts. In addition, our business could be adversely impacted if our customers experience budget, 
inflationary or other pressures, such as increases in the cost of borrowing from rising interest rates.

Many of our competitors have greater resources, which may make it difficult for us to compete successfully against them.

The display and solid-state lighting industries are characterized by intense competition. Many of our competitors have better name 
recognition and greater financial, technical, marketing, personnel and research capabilities than we do. Because of these differences, we 
may never be able to compete successfully in these markets or maintain any competitive advantages we are able to achieve over time.

If we cannot keep our key employees or hire other talented persons as we grow, our business might not succeed.

Our  performance  is  substantially  dependent  on  the  continued  services  of  our  executive  officers  and  other  key  technical  and 
managerial personnel, and on our ability to offer competitive salaries and benefits to these and our other employees. We do not have 
employment agreements with any of our executive officers or other key technical or managerial personnel that require them to continue 
to  work  for  us  for  any  specified  period  and,  therefore,  they  could  terminate  their  employment  with  us  at  any  time.  Additionally, 
competition for highly skilled technical and managerial personnel is intense. We might not be able to attract, hire, train, retain and 
motivate the highly skilled employees we need to be successful. If we fail to attract and retain the necessary technical and managerial 
personnel, our business will suffer and might fail.

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We rely solely on PPG to manufacture the OLED materials we use and sell to product manufacturers.

Our business prospects depend significantly on our ability to obtain proprietary OLED materials for our own use and for sale to 
product  manufacturers.  Our  agreement  with  PPG  provides  us  with  a  source  for  these  materials  for  development,  evaluation  and 
commercial purposes. Our agreement with PPG currently runs through the end of 2024 and shall be automatically renewed for additional 
one-year terms, unless terminated by us with prior notice of one year or terminated by PPG with prior notice of two years. Our inability 
to continue obtaining these OLED materials from PPG or another source at cost-competitive prices and to continue obtaining these 
OLED materials in sufficient quantities to meet our product manufacturers' current and future demands and timetables would have a 
material adverse effect on our revenues and cost of goods sold relating to sales of these materials to OLED product manufacturers, as 
well as on our ability to perform future development work.

Additionally, PPG manufactures our materials at facilities based in the United States and Ireland. As a result, such materials may 
be subject to tariffs or other barriers from or to countries where some of our product manufacturer customers have operations and to 
where we would need to ship product. 

Inflationary pressures and persistently high prices and uncertain availability of raw materials or other inputs used by us and our 
suppliers, or instability in logistics and related costs, could negatively impact our profitability.

Increases in prices, including as a result of inflation and rising interest rates, for raw materials or other inputs that we and our 
suppliers use in manufacturing our OLED materials, or increases in logistics and related costs, have led and may continue to lead to 
higher production costs for our materials. In addition, any increase in the cost or reduced availability of critical materials for our OLED 
materials could lead to higher production costs. Further, uncertain supply of such materials could disrupt our or our suppliers’ ability to 
obtain such materials in a timely manner and/or could lead to increased costs. Geopolitical risks and crises, fluctuations in supply and 
demand, fluctuations in interest rates, any weakening of the U.S. dollar, and other economic and political factors have created and may 
continue to create pricing pressure for raw materials and other inputs. These inflationary pressures could, in turn, negatively impact our 
profitability because we may not be able to pass these costs on to our customers or require our suppliers to absorb such costs.

We strive to maintain sufficient levels of inventory to accommodate our manufacturing customers. Inventory management relating 
to our material sales is complex, and excess inventory may harm our business and cause it to suffer.

Inventory  management  remains  an  area  of  focus  as  we  balance  the  need  to  maintain  strategic  inventory  levels  of  our  OLED 
materials  to  ensure  competitive  lead  times  against  the  risk  of  inventory  obsolescence  because  of  rapidly  changing  technology  and 
customer  requirements.  As  a  just-in-time  supplier  to  our  customers,  we  carry  sufficient  inventory  to  accommodate  their  capacity 
requirements, sometimes without firm purchase commitments. Our dependence on third-party manufacturers to provide our materials 
to us exposes us to longer lead times than if we were a direct manufacturer, increasing our risk of inventory obsolescence comparatively. 
Our customers may increase orders during periods of product shortages, cancel orders if their inventory is too high, or delay orders in 
anticipation of new products. They also may adjust their orders in response to the supply and demand of their products by end-users, or 
the supply and demand of our products and the products of our competitors that are available to them.

Inventory management risks are heightened when our largest customers launch new products and retire existing products. At such 
times, these customers tend to change product designs and may introduce some of our new materials into new designs. The production 
of  these  materials  requires  us  to  purchase  essential  raw  material  and  commence  manufacturing  well  in  advance  of  receiving  firm 
customer orders for such materials. Accordingly, we are subject to the risk of unanticipated changes in our customers’ manufacturing 
plans and designs. Unanticipated product cessation and product introduction delays or cancellation may cause us to order or produce 
excess or insufficient inventory. Excess inventory of our OLED materials is subject to the risk of inventory obsolescence. In the event 
that a substantial portion of our inventory becomes obsolete, it could have a material adverse effect on earnings due to the resulting costs 
associated with the inventory impairment charges and inventory write-downs.

We are the sole source supplier for certain critical components used in OLED technologies, which subjects customers to risk if we 
are unable to meet the demand for such components.

Our customers depend on us as the sole source for certain proprietary PHOLED materials used in manufacturing OLED products, 
which makes them susceptible to supply shortages if we are unable to meet their demand for such components. A potential customer 
could be hesitant to adopt OLED technology given the risks inherent in depending on a sole source for critical components and the 
inability to establish alternate supply relationships. If we are unable to supply the components needed by our existing customers in a 

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timely manner, or if potential customers do not utilize OLED technology because of concerns about our ability to meet supply demands, 
our business may materially suffer.

Because the vast majority of OLED product manufacturers are located in the Asia-Pacific region, we are subject to international 
operational, financial, legal and political risks which may negatively impact our operations.

Many of our customers and prospective customers have a majority of their operations in countries other than the United States, 
particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, and revenue outside the United States represents a majority of our total net revenue. We also 
have offices in various countries located outside of the United States. Risks associated with our doing business outside of the United 
States include, without limitation:

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compliance with a wide variety of U.S. and foreign laws and regulations, including foreign anti-corruption laws and 
certain registration requirements for the OLED materials we sell;

legal uncertainties regarding taxes, tariffs, quotas, export controls, export licenses and other trade barriers;

economic instability in the countries of our customers, causing delays or reductions in orders for their products and 
therefore our royalties;

political instability in the countries in which we and/or our customers operate, particularly in South Korea relating to 
its disputes with and proximity to North Korea, in Hong Kong relating to anti-government protests and in Taiwan 
relating to its disputes with China;

third  party  theft  or  compromise  of  our  products,  technology,  data  or  intellectual  property,  including  by  means  of 
counterfeiting or reverse-engineering; 

difficulties in collecting accounts receivable and longer accounts receivable payment cycles;

fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates for any revenues or expenses not denominated in U.S. dollars; 

potentially adverse tax and tariff consequences; and

trade conflicts between and among various geopolitical factions that could result in trade restrictions being placed on 
our business.

Any of these factors could impair our ability to license our OLED technologies and sell our OLED materials, thereby harming our 
business. Compliance with changing laws and regulations may involve significant costs or require changes in business practice that 
could result in reduced profitability.

We rely on information technology systems to operate various elements of our business and a cyber-attack or other breach of our 
systems, or those of third parties on whom we may rely, could subject us to liability or interrupt the operation of our business.

We  are  dependent  on  information  technology  systems  to  operate  various  elements  of  our  business.  A  breakdown,  invasion, 
corruption, destruction or interruption of critical information technology systems by employees, others with authorized access to our 
systems or unauthorized persons could negatively impact operations. In the ordinary course of business, we collect, store and transmit 
important  data  and  it  is  critical  that  we  do  so  in  a  secure  manner  to  maintain  the  confidentiality  and  integrity  of  such  information. 
Additionally, we outsource certain elements of our information technology systems to third parties. As a result of this outsourcing, our 
third-party vendors may or could have access to our confidential information making such systems vulnerable. Data breaches of our 
information technology systems, or those of our third-party vendors, may pose a risk that sensitive data may be exposed to unauthorized 
persons  or  to  the  public.  While  we  believe  that  we  have  taken  appropriate  security  measures  to  protect  our  data  and  information 
technology systems, and have been informed by our third-party vendors that they have as well, there can be no assurance that our efforts 
will prevent breakdowns or breaches in our systems, or those of our third-party vendors, that could adversely affect our business.

Natural disasters or other unforeseen catastrophic events could unfavorably affect our business.

Natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tsunamis, or earthquakes, particularly in Asia-Pacific region, where many of our customers 
are located, or the occurrence of other unforeseen catastrophic events, such a fire or flood, could unfavorably affect our business and 
financial performance. Such events could unfavorably affect our customers in many ways, such as causing physical damage to one or 
more of their properties, the temporary or permanent closure of one or more plants, the disruption or cessation of manufacturing of 
product lines, and the temporary or long-term disruption in the supply or demand for their products. A resulting by-product of such 
natural disasters or other unforeseen catastrophic events could be a temporary or long-term disruption in the supply of or demand for 
our products.

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Risks Related to Legal, Regulatory and Tax Matters

We may be subject to environmental laws and regulations, including without limitation those associated with the effects of climate 
change, that impose additional compliance costs and that could negatively impact our business.  

Changes in environmental laws or regulations of our products could result in higher operating and compliance expenses and limit 
the markets in which we can manufacture and to which we can export our products. Changes in environmental laws or regulations, 
including laws relating to manufacturing operations and export restrictions, also could lead to new or additional investment in product 
designs and an increase in raw materials costs, and could increase our environmental compliance expenditures. Some of these laws and 
regulations  may  be  changed  or  augmented  as  governments  and  regulatory  bodies  seek  to  address  the  effects  of  climate  change.  If 
environmental  laws  or  regulations  are  either  changed  or  adopted  and  impose  additional  operational  restrictions  and  compliance 
requirements upon us or our products, they could negatively impact our business, capital expenditures, results of operations and financial 
condition.

Our effective tax rate may increase or decrease.

We are subject to income taxes in the U.S. and numerous foreign jurisdictions. Significant judgment is required in determining 
our worldwide provision for income taxes. In the ordinary course of our business, there are many transactions and calculations where 
the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. We are subject to audit by tax authorities where we do business. Although we believe that 
our tax estimates and tax positions are reasonable, they could be materially affected by many factors including the final outcome of tax 
audits and related litigation, the introduction of new tax accounting standards, legislation, regulations, and related interpretations, our 
global mix of earnings and the realizability of deferred tax assets. An increase or decrease in our effective tax rate could have a material 
adverse impact on our financial condition and results of operations.

In addition, at any time, U.S. federal tax laws or the administrative interpretations of those laws may be changed. We also cannot 
predict whether, when or to what extent other new U.S. federal tax laws, regulations, interpretations or rulings will be issued. As a result, 
changes in U.S. federal tax laws could negatively impact our operating results, financial condition and business operations, and adversely 
impact our shareholders.

Occasionally, changes in state and local tax laws or regulations are enacted that may result in an increase in our tax liability. 
Shortfalls in tax revenues for states and municipalities in recent years may lead to an increase in the frequency and size of such changes. 
If such changes occur, we may be required to pay additional taxes on our assets or income.

Risks Related to Our Stock and Capitalization

We may require additional funding in the future in order to continue our business.

Our capital requirements have been and will continue to be significant. We may require additional funding in the future for the 
research,  development  and  commercialization  of  our  OLED  technologies  and  materials,  to  obtain  and  maintain  patents  and  other 
intellectual property rights in these technologies and materials, and for working capital and other purposes, the timing and amount of 
which are difficult to ascertain. Our cash on hand may not be sufficient to meet all our future needs. When we need additional funds, 
such funds may not be available on commercially reasonable terms or at all. If we cannot obtain more money when needed, our business 
might  fail.  Additionally,  if  we  attempt  to  raise  money  in  an  offering  of  shares  of  our  common  stock,  preferred  stock,  warrants  or 
depositary shares, or if we engage in acquisitions involving the issuance of such securities, the issuance of these shares will dilute our 
then-existing shareholders.

The market price of our common stock may be highly volatile.

The market price of our common stock may be highly volatile, as has been the case with our common stock in the past as well as 
the  securities  of  many  companies,  particularly  other  emerging-growth  companies  in  the  technology  industry.  Factors  such  as  the 
following may have a significant impact on the market price of our common stock in the future:

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our revenues, expenses and operating results;

announcements by us, by our licensors, customers, or our competitors of technological developments, new product 
applications or contractual arrangements; 

announcements relating to dividends and share repurchases; and

other factors affecting the display and solid-state lighting industries in general.

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Our  operating  results  may  have  significant  period-to-period  fluctuations,  which  would  make  it  difficult  to  predict  our  future 
performance.

Due to the current stage of commercialization of our OLED technologies and materials, current geopolitical risks, the limited 
number  of  commercially  successful  consumer  products  utilizing  our  OLED  technologies  that  customers  have  introduced  in  the 
marketplace,  the  relatively  short  product  lifetimes  of  these  consumer  products,  and  the  significant  development  and  manufacturing 
objectives that we and our customers must achieve for the widespread inclusion of our OLED technologies in consumer products such 
as mobile phones, tablets, television displays and lighting products, our quarterly operating results are difficult to predict and may vary 
significantly from quarter to quarter.

We believe that period-to-period comparisons of our operating results are not a reliable indicator of our future performance at this 
time. Among other factors affecting our period-to-period results, our license and technology development fees often consist of large 
one-time,  annual,  semi-annual  or  quarterly  payments,  which  may  result  in  significant  fluctuations  in  our  revenues.  In  addition,  our 
reliance on a relatively small number of licensees with large volumes of consumer product sales makes our quarterly operating results 
subject to our licensees’ specific plans and the success of their specific product offerings.

With respect to material sales, our sales are primarily dependent on purchases made by a relatively small number of customers. 
In  addition  to  the  other  factors  described  above  relating  to  our  customers’  sales  opportunities,  our  quarter-to-quarter  sales  may  be 
materially  impacted  by  our  customers’  inventory  management  plans,  which  may  vary  substantially  based  on  financial  management 
considerations, changes in their product mix plans, modified material processing techniques and manufacturing line modifications.

If, in some future period, our operating results or business outlook fall below the expectations of securities analysts or investors, 
our stock price would be likely to decline and investors in our common stock may not be able to resell their shares at or above their 
purchase price. Broad market, industry and global economic factors may also materially reduce the market price of our common stock, 
regardless of our operating performance.

The issuance of additional shares of our common stock could drive down the price of our stock.

The price of our common stock could decrease if:

•

•

shares of our common stock that are currently subject to restriction on sale become freely salable, whether through 
an effective registration statement or based on Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or

we issue additional shares of our common stock that might be or become freely salable, including shares that would 
be issued upon conversion of our preferred stock or the exercise of outstanding stock options.

We can issue shares of preferred stock that may adversely affect the rights of shareholders of our common stock.

Our  Articles  of  Incorporation  authorize  us  to  issue  up  to  5,000,000  shares  of  preferred  stock  with  designations,  rights  and 
preferences  determined  from  time-to-time  by  our  Board  of  Directors.  Accordingly,  our  Board  of  Directors  is  empowered,  without 
shareholder  approval,  to  issue  preferred  stock  with  dividend,  liquidation,  conversion,  voting  or  other  rights  superior  to  those  of 
shareholders of our common stock. For example, an issuance of shares of preferred stock could:

•

•

•

•

adversely affect the voting power of the shareholders of our common stock;

make it more difficult for a third party to gain control of us;

discourage bids for our common stock at a premium; or

otherwise adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

As of February 23, 2023, we have issued and outstanding 200,000 shares of Series A Nonconvertible Preferred Stock, all of which 
are held by an entity controlled by members of the family of Sherwin I. Seligsohn, our late founder and former Chairman of the Board 
of Directors. Our Board of Directors has authorized and issued other shares of preferred stock in the past, none of which are currently 
outstanding, and may do so again at any time in the future.

Any decisions to reduce or discontinue paying cash dividends to our shareholders could cause the market price for our common 
stock to decline.

In 2017, our Board of Directors began declaring quarterly cash dividends on our common stock, which we have consistently paid 
since then and we intend to continue to pay in the future. However, payment of future cash dividends will be at the discretion of our 
Board of Directors and will depend upon our results of operations, earnings, capital requirements, contractual restrictions and other 

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factors deemed relevant by our Board of Directors. As such, we may modify, suspend or cancel our cash dividend policy in any manner 
and at any time. Any reduction or discontinuance by us of the payment of quarterly cash dividends could cause the market price of our 
common stock to decline. Moreover, in the event our payment of quarterly cash dividends are reduced or discontinued, our failure or 
inability to resume paying cash dividends at historical levels could cause the market price of our common stock to decline. There is no 
guarantee  that  our  common  stock  will  appreciate  in  value  or  even  maintain  the  price  at  which  current  shareholders  purchased  their 
shares.

ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

None.

ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

As of December 31, 2022, we operated facilities at the following locations:

Location
375 Phillips Blvd. Ewing, New Jersey

Description of Use

Corporate Offices and Research & Development 
Laboratories
Corporate Offices and Manufacturing Logistics
Corporate and Collaboration Offices

United States 2019
250 Phillips Blvd. Ewing, New Jersey (1)
United States 2019
300 Phillips Blvd. Ewing, New Jersey (1)
27 McCullough Drive New Castle, Delaware Corporate Offices and Manufacturing Laboratories United States 2017
2021*
Manufacturing Facility
Shannon Industrial Estate, Shannon, County 
Clare (2)
* Leased property; represents lease commencement date

Ireland

Acquisition 
Year
Country
United States 2004

(1) Approximately 88,000 square feet for the expansion of research and development activities, collaboration, manufacturing 

logistics and other corporate functions. 

(2)

Leased, with an option to purchase, for production by PPG of our PHOLED materials. 

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Patent Related Challenges and Oppositions

Each major jurisdiction in the world that issues patents provides both third parties and applicants an opportunity to seek a further 
review of an issued patent. The process for requesting and considering such reviews is specific to the jurisdiction that issued the patent 
in  question,  and  generally  does  not  provide  for  claims  of  monetary  damages  or  a  review  of  specific  claims  of  infringement.  The 
conclusions made by the reviewing administrative bodies tend to be appealable and generally are limited in scope and applicability to 
the specific claims and jurisdiction in question.

We believe that opposition proceedings are frequently commenced in the ordinary course of business by third parties who may 
believe that one or more claims in a patent do not comply with the technical or legal requirements of the specific jurisdiction in which 
the patent was issued. We view these proceedings as reflective of its goal of obtaining the broadest legally permissible patent coverage 
permitted in each jurisdiction. Once a proceeding is initiated, as a general matter, the issued patent continues to be presumed valid until 
the jurisdiction’s applicable administrative body issues a final non-appealable decision. Depending on the jurisdiction, the outcome of 
these proceedings could include affirmation, denial or modification of some or all of the originally issued claims. We believe that as 
OLED technology becomes more established and its patent portfolio increases in size, so will the number of these proceedings.

Below is a summary of an active proceeding that has been commenced against an issued patent that is exclusively licensed to us. 
We do not believe that the confirmation, loss or modification of our rights in any individual claim or set of claims that are the subject 
of  the  following legal proceeding would  have  a material  impact  on our  material  sales  or licensing business or  on our  Consolidated 
Financial Statements, including our Consolidated Statements of Income, as a whole. In certain circumstances, when permitted, we may 
also utilize a proceeding to request modification of the claims to better distinguish the patented invention from any newly identified 
prior art and/or improve the claim scope of the patent relative to commercially important categories of the invention.   

Opposition to European Patent No. 1390962

In September 2022, the Opposition Division made a final determination that the patent, which was described in prior filings and 
has now expired in accordance with its original term, was valid based on amended claims submitted by us to the Opposition Division in 
2016.

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not applicable.

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PART II

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER 
PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Our Common Stock

Our common stock is quoted on the NASDAQ Global Select Market website under the symbol “OLED.” As of February 23, 2023, 

there were approximately 275 holders of record of our common stock.

During 2020, 2021 and 2022, we declared and paid cash dividends on our common stock. While we intend to pay regular quarterly 
dividends in the future, payment of future cash dividends will be at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will depend upon our 
results of operations, earnings, capital requirements, contractual restrictions and other factors deemed relevant by our Board of Directors. 
As such, we may modify, suspend or cancel our cash dividend policy in any manner and at any time. 

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Performance Graph

The performance graph below compares the change in the cumulative shareholder return of our common stock from December 
31, 2017 to December 31, 2022, with the percentage change in the cumulative total return over the same period on (i) the Russell 2000 
Index, and (ii) the Nasdaq Electronics Components Index. This performance graph assumes an initial investment of $100 on December 
31, 2017 in each of our common stock, the Russell 2000 Index and the Nasdaq Electronics Components Index.

Universal Display Corp.
Russell 2000
NASDAQ Electronic Components

12/17
$ 100.00
100.00
100.00

$

12/18

54.32
88.99
86.61

Cumulative Total Return

12/19
$ 119.89
111.70
129.69

12/20
$ 134.20
134.00
185.86

$

12/21

96.77
153.85
275.79

$

12/22

64.00
122.41
177.31

 Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans

The information required by this item with respect to our equity compensation plans will be set forth in our definitive Proxy 

Statement for the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, and herein by reference.

ITEM 6. [RESERVED]

None.

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the 
section entitled “Selected Financial Data” in this report and our Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes to this report. 
This  discussion  and  analysis  contains  forward-looking  statements  based  on  our  current  expectations,  assumptions,  estimates  and 
projections. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those 
indicated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, as more fully discussed in Item 1A of this report, entitled 
“Risk Factors.”

OVERVIEW

We are a leader in the research, development and commercialization of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies and 
materials  for  use  in  display  applications,  such  as  mobile  phones,  televisions,  monitors,  wearables,  tablets,  portable  media  devices, 
notebook computers, personal computers and automotive applications, as well as specialty and general lighting products. Since 1994, 
we have been engaged and expect to continue to be primarily engaged, in funding and performing research and development activities 
relating to OLED technologies and materials, and commercializing these technologies and materials. We derive our revenue primarily 
from the following:

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•

•

•

sales of OLED materials for evaluation, development and commercial manufacturing;

intellectual property and technology licensing;

technology development and support, including third-party collaboration efforts and providing support to third parties
for commercialization of their OLED products; and

contract research services in the areas of chemical materials synthesis research, development and commercialization
for non-OLED applications.

Material sales relate to our sale of OLED materials for incorporation into our customers’ commercial OLED products or for their 
OLED development and evaluation activities. Material sales are generally recognized at the time title passes, which is typically at the 
time of shipment or at the time of delivery, depending upon the contractual agreement between the parties.

We receive license and royalty payments under certain commercial, development and technology evaluation agreements, some of 
which are non-refundable advances. These payments may include royalty and license fees made pursuant to license agreements and also 
license fees included as part of certain commercial supply agreements. These payments are included in the estimate of total contract 
consideration by customer and recognized as revenue over the contract term based on material units sold at the estimated per unit fee 
over the life of the contract.

On December 2, 2022, we entered into a commercial patent license agreement with Samsung Display Co., Ltd. (SDC), replacing 
a previous license agreement that had been in place since 2018. This agreement, which covers the manufacture and sale of specified 
OLED display materials, was effective as of January 1, 2023 and lasts through the end of 2027 with an additional two-year extension 
option for SDC. Under this agreement, we are being paid a license fee, which includes quarterly and annual payments over the agreement 
term of five years. The agreement conveys to SDC the non-exclusive right to use certain of our intellectual property assets for a limited 
period of time that is less than the estimated life of the assets. 

At the same time that we entered into the current commercial license agreement with SDC, we also entered into a material purchase 
agreement with SDC, which lasts for the same term as the license agreement and is subject to the same extension option. This new 
material purchase agreement replaced a previous purchase agreement that had been in place since 2018. Under the material purchase 
agreement,  SDC  agrees  to  purchase  from  us  a  minimum  amount  of  red  and  green  phosphorescent  emitter  materials  for  use  in  the 
manufacture of licensed products. This minimum commitment is subject to SDC’s requirements for phosphorescent emitter materials 
and our ability to meet these requirements over the term of the supplemental agreement.

In 2015, we entered into an OLED patent license agreement and an OLED commercial supply agreement with LG Display Co., 
Ltd. (LG Display), which were effective as of January 1, 2015. The terms of these agreements were extended by a January 1, 2021 
amendment  through  the  end  of  2025.  The  patent  license  agreement  provides  LG  Display  a  non-exclusive,  royalty  bearing  portfolio 
license to make and sell OLED displays under our patent portfolio. The patent license calls for license fees, prepaid royalties and running 
royalties on licensed products. The OLED commercial supply agreement provides for the sales of materials for use by LG Display, 
which may include phosphorescent emitters and host materials. The agreements provide for certain other minimum obligations relating 
to the volume of material sales anticipated over the life of the agreements as well as minimum royalty revenue.

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In  2016,  we  entered  into  long-term,  multi-year  OLED  patent  license  and  material  purchase  agreements  with  Tianma  Micro-
electronics Co., Ltd. (Tianma). Under the license agreement, we have granted Tianma non-exclusive license rights under various patents 
owned or controlled by us to manufacture and sell OLED display products. The license agreement calls for license fees and running 
royalties on Tianma’s sales of licensed products. Additionally, we supply phosphorescent OLED materials to Tianma for use in its 
licensed products. In 2021, we mutually agreed to extend the terms of both the patent license and material purchase agreements for an 
additional multi-year term.

In 2017, we entered into long-term, multi-year agreements with BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. (BOE). Under these agreements, 
we have granted BOE non-exclusive license rights under various patents owned or controlled by us to manufacture and sell OLED 
display products. We also supply phosphorescent OLED materials to BOE for use in its licensed products.

In 2018, we entered into long-term, multi-year OLED patent license and material purchase agreements with Visionox Technology, 
Inc. (Visionox). Under the license agreement, we have granted certain of Visionox’s affiliates non-exclusive license rights under various 
patents owned or controlled by us to manufacture and sell OLED display products. The license agreement calls for license fees and 
running royalties on licensed products. Additionally, we supply phosphorescent OLED materials to Visionox for use in its licensed 
products. In 2021, we announced an extension of the Visionox agreement by entering into new five-year OLED material supply and 
license agreements with a new affiliate of Visionox, Visionox Hefei Technology Co. Ltd. 

In 2019, we entered into an evaluation and commercial supply relationship with Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor 
Display Technology Co., Ltd. (CSOT). In 2020, we entered into long-term, multi-year agreements with CSOT. Under these agreements, 
we have granted CSOT non-exclusive license rights under various patents owned or controlled by us to manufacture and sell OLED 
display products. We also supply phosphorescent OLED materials to CSOT for use in its licensed products.

In 2016, we acquired Adesis, Inc. (Adesis) which has operations in New Castle and Wilmington, Delaware. Adesis is a contract 
research  organization  (CRO)  that  provides  support  services  to  the  OLED,  pharma,  biotech,  catalysis  and  other  industries.  As  of 
December 31, 2022, Adesis employed a team of 150 research scientists, chemists, engineers and laboratory technicians. Prior to our 
acquisition  of  Adesis,  we  utilized  more  than  50%  of  Adesis’  technology  service  and  production  output.  We  continue  to  utilize  a 
significant  portion  of  its  technology  research  capacity  for  the  benefit  of  our  OLED  technology  development,  and  Adesis  uses  the 
remaining  capacity  to  operate  as  a  CRO  in  the  above-mentioned  industries  by  providing  contract  research  services  for  non-OLED 
applications  to  those  third-party  customers.  Contract  research  services  revenue  is  earned  by  providing  chemical  materials  synthesis 
research, development and commercialization for non-OLED applications on a contractual basis for those third-party customers.  

In June 2020, a wholly-owned subsidiary, OVJP Corporation (OVJP Corp), was formed as a Delaware corporation. Based in 
California, OVJP Corp was founded to advance the commercialization of our proprietary Organic Vapor Jet Printing (OVJP) technology. 
As of December 31, 2022, OVJP Corp employed a team of 22 research, mechanical, electrical and software engineers and laboratory 
technicians. As a direct printing technique, OVJP technology has the potential to offer high deposition rates for large-area OLEDs. In 
addition, OVJP technology reduces OLED material waste associated with use of a shadow mask (i.e., the waste of material that deposits 
on the shadow mask itself when fabricating an OLED). By comparison to inkjet printing, an OVJP process does not use liquid solvents 
and therefore the OLED materials utilized are not limited by their viscosity or solvent solubility. OVJP also avoids generation of solvent 
wastes and eliminates the additional step of removing residual solvent from the OLED device. We believe the successful implementation 
of the OVJP technology has the potential to increase the addressable market for large-size OLED panels while also serving another 
potential growth market for our proprietary PHOLED materials and technologies.

In February 2021, we announced the establishment of a new manufacturing site in Shannon, Ireland and an agreement between 
UDC Ireland Limited and PPG for the production of our OLED materials. We currently lease the Shannon site and have a contractual 
option to purchase the facility. When fully operational, the new facility is expected to double our production capacity and allow for the 
diversification of our manufacturing base for phosphorescent emitters. The first phase of facility improvements has been completed and 
operations commenced in June 2022. 

We also generate technology development and support revenue earned from development and technology evaluation agreements 

and commercialization assistance fees.

We anticipate fluctuations in our annual and quarterly results of operations due to uncertainty regarding, among other factors:

•

•

the timing, cost and volume of sales of our OLED materials;

the  timing  of  our  receipt  of  license  fees  and  royalties,  as  well  as  fees  for  future  technology  development  and
evaluation;

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•

•

the timing and magnitude of expenditures we may incur in connection with our ongoing research and development
and patent-related activities; and

the timing and financial consequences of our formation of new business relationships and alliances.

Further, we continue to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on our business. Our global operations, and the global nature of our 
customer base and their respective customers, expose us to risks associated with public health crises, such as pandemics, epidemics and 
disease outbreaks. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic had a substantial impact on our operations and financial results during the year 
ended December 31, 2020 and continued to have a gradually lesser impact during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022. We 
expect  that  as  the  pandemic  continues  to  evolve,  there  is  the  potential  for  continued  impact  on  the  results  of  our  operations  due  to 
uncertainties involving the continued disruption of the global economy, uncertainties associated with consumer demand for finished 
OLED goods, and the potential resulting impact on our customers and their demand for our phosphorescent emitters.  

At this time, the crisis has not had a significant impact on our ability to fulfill shipments of commercial materials as required by 

our customers. 

We continue to actively monitor the COVID-19 situation and may take further actions that we determine are in the best interests 
of our employees, customers, partners, suppliers, and stakeholders, or as required by federal, state, or local authorities. It is not clear 
what effects any such potential actions could have on our business, including on our customers, employees, and financial results.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our Consolidated Financial Statements, 
which  have  been  prepared  in  accordance  with  U.S.  generally  accepted  accounting  principles.  The  preparation  of  these  financial 
statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect our reported assets and liabilities, revenues and expenses, and other 
financial information. Actual results may differ significantly from our estimates under other assumptions and conditions.

We believe that our accounting policies related to revenue recognition and deferred revenue and income taxes, as described below, 
are our “critical accounting policies” as contemplated by the SEC. These policies, which have been reviewed with our Audit Committee, 
are discussed in greater detail below.

Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue

Material sales relate to the sale of our OLED materials for incorporation into our customers’ commercial OLED products or for 
their  OLED  development  and  evaluation  activities.  Revenue  associated  with  material  sales  is  generally  recognized  at  the  time  title 
passes, which is typically at the time of shipment or at the time of delivery, depending upon the contractual agreement between the 
parties. Revenue may be recognized after control of the material passes in the event the transaction price includes variable consideration. 
For example, a customer may be provided an extended opportunity to stock materials prior to use in mass production and given a general 
right of return not conditioned on breaches of warranties associated with the specific product. In such circumstances, revenue will be 
recognized at the earlier of the expiration of the customer’s general right of return or once it becomes unlikely that the customer will 
exercise its right of return.

The  rights  and  benefits  to  our  OLED  technologies  are  conveyed  to  the  customer  through  technology  license  agreements  and 
material supply agreements. We believe that the licenses and materials sold under these combined agreements are not distinct from each 
other for financial reporting purposes and as such, are accounted for as a single performance obligation. Accordingly, total contract 
consideration is estimated and recognized over the contract term based on material units sold at the estimated per unit fee over the life 
of the contract. Total contract consideration is allocated to material sales and royalty and licensing fees on the Consolidated Statements 
of Income based on contract pricing.

Various estimates are relied upon to recognize revenue. We estimate total material units to be purchased by our customers over 
the  contract  term  based  on  historical  trends,  industry  estimates  and  our  forecast  process.  Our  management  uses  the  expected  value 
method to estimate the material per unit fee. Additionally, our management estimates the sales-based portion of royalty revenue based 
on the estimated net sales revenue of our customers over the contract term.

Accounting for Income Taxes

We are subject to income taxes in both the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions. Significant judgments and estimates are required in 
evaluating our tax positions for future realization and determining our provision for income taxes. Our income tax expense, deferred tax 
assets and liabilities, and reserves for unrecognized tax benefits reflect management's best assessment of estimated future taxes to be 
paid.

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In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, we consider whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of our 
deferred tax assets will not be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent on our ability to generate future 
taxable income to obtain benefit from the reversal of temporary differences, net operating loss carryforwards and tax credits. As part of 
our  assessment,  we  consider  the  scheduled  reversal  of  deferred  tax  assets  and  liabilities,  projected  future  taxable  income,  and  tax 
planning strategies.  

During the year ended December 31, 2022, based on our previous earnings history, a current evaluation of expected future taxable 
income and other evidence, we determined to retain the valuation allowance that relates to New Jersey research and development credits 
and unrealized loss on investments. Actual results could differ from our assessments if adequate taxable income is generated in future 
periods. To the extent we establish a new valuation allowance or change a previously established valuation allowance in a future period, 
income tax expense will be impacted. 

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

For a discussion of our results of operations comparison for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, refer to our Annual 

Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 filed on February 23, 2022.

Comparison of the Years Ended December 31, 2022 and 2021

REVENUE:

Material sales
Royalty and license fees
Contract research services

Total revenue
COST OF SALES
Gross margin

OPERATING EXPENSES:

Research and development
Selling, general and administrative
Amortization of acquired technology and other intangible assets
Patent costs
Royalty and license expense
Total operating expenses

OPERATING INCOME
Interest income, net
Other (loss) income, net

Interest and other income, net
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES
INCOME TAX EXPENSE
NET INCOME

Revenue

Year Ended December 31,
2021
2022

(Decrease) Increase

$

$

331,081
267,115
18,423
616,619
127,896
488,723

117,062
77,886
17,459
8,329
877
221,613
267,110
7,811
(6,691)
1,120
268,230
(58,169)
210,061

$

$

318,623
219,032
15,870
553,525
114,991
438,534

99,673
80,372
21,994
8,160
691
210,890
227,644
505
98
603
228,247
(44,034)
184,213

$

$

12,458
48,083
2,553
63,094
12,905
50,189

17,389
(2,486)
(4,535)
169
186
10,723
39,466
7,306
(6,789)
517
39,983
(14,135)
25,848

Our total material sales were $331.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared to $318.6 million for the year 

ended December 31, 2021, an increase of 4% with a commensurate increase in unit material volume of 4%. 

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•

Green emitter sales for the year ended December 31, 2022, which include our yellow-green emitters, were $251.6
million as compared to $242.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, with unit material volumes increasing
by 3%.

Red emitter sales for the year ended December 31, 2022, were $79.0 million as compared to $75.2 million for the
year ended December 31, 2021, with unit material volumes increasing by 8%.

Revenue from royalty and license fees was $267.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to $219.0 million 
for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of 22%. This increase was primarily the result of a favorable cumulative catch-up 
adjustment arising from changes in estimates of transaction price and higher unit material volume.

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The cumulative catch-up adjustment arising from changes in estimates of transaction price, net was $30.3 million for the year 
ended December 31, 2022 resulted from an increase in the average price per gram that was primarily due to the decrease in anticipated 
demand by several of our customers over the remaining lives of their contracts, resulting from the continued deterioration in the global 
market economy as evidenced by weakness in consumer demand caused by higher interest rates and inflationary pricing pressures. At 
this time, substantial uncertainty exists as to the projected duration and intensity of this global market deterioration and the extent to 
which it will negatively impact such customers' near-term production requirements.   

Contract research services revenue was $18.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to $15.9 million for the 
year  ended  December  31,  2021,  an  increase  of  16%.  Revenue  from  contract  research  services  consists  of  revenue  earned  by  our 
subsidiary, Adesis, which provides support services to the pharma, biotech, catalysis and other industries on a contractual basis for those 
third-party customers.

Cost of Sales

Cost of sales for the year ended December 31, 2022 increased by $12.9 million as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021, 
primarily due to an increase in the level of material sales with an associated increase in manufacturing costs, underutilization of the 
manufacturing facility in Shannon, Ireland and higher per unit material costs. The underutilization charges related to the Shannon facility 
were $7.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. Shannon facility charges began to be recorded as cost of sales in June 2022 
when the facility was first used for production activities. Shannon facility costs prior to June 2022 were recorded in selling, general and 
administrative expenses. We anticipate that the Shannon facility will continue to be underutilized in the near-term as we have begun to 
bring this additional capacity online in preparation for anticipated growth in the years ahead. Included in the cost of sales for both fiscal 
years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 was an increase in inventory reserve of $3.6 million due to excess inventory levels in certain 
products.  As  a  result  of  the  increase  in  revenue  from  royalty  and  license  fees  and  material  sales,  gross  margin  for  the  year  ended 
December 31, 2022 increased by $50.2 million as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021, with gross margin as a percentage 
of revenue remaining consistent at 79%.

Research and development

Research and development expenses increased to $117.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared to $99.7 
million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The increase in research and development expenses was primarily due to increased 
contract research and PPG development activity, higher employee-related compensation expenses and operating costs, including those 
associated with OVJP technology development. 

Selling, general and administrative

Selling, general and administrative expenses decreased to $77.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared to 
$80.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily due to 
lower stock-based compensation, partially offset by increased pre-production costs associated with the Shannon facility, an increase in 
depreciation expense resulting from corporate expansion, as well as an increase in overall general office expenses.

Amortization of acquired technology and other intangible assets

Amortization of acquired technology and other intangible assets was $17.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as 
compared to $22.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The decrease was due to the Fujifilm patents becoming fully amortized 
during the year ended December 31, 2022. See Note 7 in Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion.

Patent costs 

Patent costs increased to $8.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared to $8.2 million for the year ended 

December 31, 2021. 

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Royalty and license expense

Royalty and license expense increased to $877,000 for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared to $691,000 for the year 

ended December 31, 2021. 

Interest and other (loss) income, net

Interest  income,  net  was  $7.8  million  for  the  year  ended  December  31,  2022,  as  compared  to  $505,000  for  the  year  ended 
December 31, 2021. The increase in interest income, net was primarily due to an increase in bond yields on available-for-sale investments 
held during the year ended December 31, 2022 compared to the prior year as well as higher available-for-sale investment balances. 
Other (loss) income, net primarily consisted of impairment of minority investments of $7.0 million during the year ended December 31, 
2022, net exchange gains and losses on foreign currency transactions and rental income. We recorded other loss, net of $6.7 million for 
the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to other income, net of $98,000 for the year ended December 31, 2021.

Income tax expense

We are subject to income taxes in both the United States and foreign jurisdictions. The effective income tax rate was an expense 
of 21.7% and 19.3% for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and we recorded income tax expense of $58.2 
million and $44.0 million, respectively, for those periods. The effective income tax rate increased due to a change in U.S. tax legislation 
associated with the ability to credit Chinese withholding taxes, as well as the impact to the global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) 
arising from a change in the capitalization rules for research and development expenses.  

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our principal sources of liquidity are our cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments. As of December 31, 2022, we 
had  cash  and  cash  equivalents  of  $93.4  million,  short-term  investments  of  $484.3  million,  and  long-term  corporate  bond  and  U.S. 
Government bond investments of $247.9 million for a total of $825.6 million. This compares to cash and cash equivalents of $312.0 
million, short-term investments of $351.2 million, and long-term U.S. Government bond investments of $159.6 million for a total of 
$822.8 million as of December 31, 2021. 

Cash provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $126.8 million resulting from $210.1 million of 
net income and an increase of $51.0 million due to non-cash items including stock-based compensation, depreciation, amortization of 
intangibles and deferred income taxes, partially offset by a $134.3 million reduction due to changes in our operating assets and liabilities. 
Changes in our operating assets and liabilities related to a decrease in deferred revenue of $93.2 million, an increase in inventory of 
$49.1 million and a decrease in other liabilities of $11.4 million, partially offset by a decrease in accounts receivable of $15.0 million, 
an increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses of $3.3 million and a decrease in other assets of $1.1 million.

Cash provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $191.1 million resulting from $184.2 million of 
net income and an increase of $88.5 million due to non-cash items including stock-based compensation, amortization of intangibles and 
depreciation, partially offset by a $81.6 million reduction due to changes in our operating assets and liabilities. Changes in our operating 
assets and liabilities related to an increase in inventory of $42.6 million, an increase in other assets of $32.6 million, an increase in 
accounts receivable of $25.4 million and a decrease in deferred revenue of $5.2 million, partially offset by an increase in other liabilities 
of $22.3 million and an increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses of $1.9 million.

Cash used in investing activities was $280.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared to $457.8 million for the 
year ended December 31, 2021. The decrease was due to the timing of maturities and purchases of investments resulting in net purchases 
of $233.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared to $414.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, partially 
offset by an increase in purchases of intangibles and property, plant and equipment of $3.6 million for the year ended December 31, 
2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021. The increase in intangible purchases during the year ended December 31, 2022 
was primarily due to a patent purchase. The increase in property, plant and equipment purchases during the year ended December 31, 
2022 was primarily due to the manufacturing facility in Shannon, Ireland and improvements to our facilities in Ewing, New Jersey.

Cash used in financing activities was $64.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared to $51.4 million for the 
year ended December 31, 2021. The increase was due to an increase in the cash payment of dividends in the current year of $19.0 
million, partially offset by a decrease in the payment of withholding taxes related to stock-based compensation to employees of $5.7 
million and an increase in the proceeds from issuance of common stock of $63,000.

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Working capital was $763.8 million as of December 31, 2022, as compared to $738.0 million as of December 31, 2021. The 
increase was primarily due to an increase in short-term investments, a decrease in deferred revenue and an increase in inventory, partially 
offset by decreases in cash and cash equivalents.

Several significant contractual obligations are anticipated to be incurred in future periods and include payments for retirement 
benefit  plan  obligations,  lease  obligations  and  PPG  inventory  commitments.  Payments  towards  the  retirement  plan  obligations  will 
commence during fiscal year 2023 in the amount of $2.0 million and are expected to total $93.1 million over the life of the plan. Existing 
lease obligations are $4.6 million for fiscal year 2023, $9.3 million in total for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 and $21.6 million thereafter. 
Existing PPG inventory commitments are $31.9 million and will fluctuate based on PPG production needs to fulfill to our demand for 
commercial emitter material.

We anticipate, based on our internal forecasts and assumptions relating to our operations (including, among others, assumptions 
regarding our working capital requirements, the progress of our research and development efforts, the availability of sources of funding 
for  our  research  and  development  work,  and  the  timing  and  costs  associated  with  the  preparation,  filing,  prosecution,  maintenance, 
defense  and  enforcement  of  our  patents  and  patent  applications),  that  we  have  sufficient  cash,  cash  equivalents  and  short-term 
investments to meet our obligations for at least the next twelve months. However, the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic and our 
precautionary measures in response thereto may impact our business and thus our liquidity will depend on future developments, which 
are highly uncertain and cannot be precisely estimated at this time.

We believe that potential additional financing sources for us include long-term and short-term borrowings and public and private 
sales of our equity and debt securities. It should be noted, however, that additional funding may be required in the future for research, 
development and commercialization of our OLED technologies and materials, to obtain, maintain and enforce patents respecting these 
technologies and materials, and for working capital and other purposes, the timing and amount of which are difficult to ascertain. There 
can be no assurance that additional funds will be available to us when needed, on commercially reasonable terms or at all, particularly 
in the current economic environment.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

Recently issued accounting pronouncements are addressed in Note 2 in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

We  do  not  utilize  financial  instruments  for  trading  purposes  and  hold  no  derivative  financial  instruments,  other  financial 
instruments or derivative commodity instruments that could expose us to significant market risk other than our investments disclosed in 
“Fair Value Measurements” in Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included herein. We generally invest in investment 
grade financial instruments to reduce our exposure related to investments. Our primary market risk exposure with regard to such financial 
instruments  is  to  changes  in  interest  rates,  which  would  impact  interest  income  earned  on  investments.  However,  based  upon  the 
conservative nature of our investment portfolio and current experience, we do not believe a decrease in investment yields would have a 
material negative effect on our interest income.

Substantially all our revenue is derived from outside of North America. All revenue is primarily denominated in U.S. dollars and 

therefore we bear no significant foreign exchange risk.

ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

Our Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes to those statements are attached to this report beginning on page F-

1.

ITEM  9.  CHANGES  IN  AND  DISAGREEMENTS  WITH  ACCOUNTANTS  ON  ACCOUNTING  AND  FINANCIAL 
DISCLOSURE

None.

ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness 
of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2022. Based on that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief 
Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report, are effective 

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to provide reasonable assurance that the information required to be disclosed by us in reports filed or submitted under the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is (i) recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s 
rules and forms, and (ii) accumulated and communicated to our management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial 
Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding disclosure. However, a controls system, no matter how well designed and 
operated, cannot provide absolute assurance that the objectives of the controls system are met, and no evaluation of controls can provide 
absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within a company have been detected.

Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting 
Firm on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

The report of management on our internal control over financial reporting and the associated attestation report of our independent 

registered public accounting firm are set forth in Item 8 of this report.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended December 31, 2022 that have 

materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION

On February 21, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors, upon the recommendation of its Human Capital Committee, authorized 
the  issuance  of  19,265  shares  of  the  Company’s  common  stock  to  Mr.  Sidney  Rosenblatt,  the  Company’s  former  EVP  and  Chief 
Financial Officer who retired on December 31, 2022, and a current member of the Board. The number of shares issued to Mr. Rosenblatt 
equals the number of shares he would have received, but for his retirement, during the first quarter of 2023, upon the vesting of one-
third of each of the time-based restricted share unit grants made in 2020, 2021 and 2022. In addition, the Board of Directors authorized 
the issuance to Mr. Rosenblatt of the number of shares of common stock that would have been issued to him, with respect to the three-
year performance period from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2022, upon the vesting of the performance-based portion of the grant 
made to him in 2020 under the Company’s long-term incentive equity compensation plan.  Such number of shares shall be determined 
in March 2023 when the determinations of performance with respect to the 2020 - 2022 performance period are made by the Human 
Capital Committee.

Also on February 21, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the amendment and restatement of the Universal Display 
Corporation Annual Incentive Plan (the “AIP”), originally established and in effect since 2013.  The AIP is a bonus plan pursuant to 
which eligible senior executive employees of the Company may earn a bonus based on the achievement of performance objectives, and 
is administered by the Human Capital Committee.  All senior executives of the Company and its subsidiaries are eligible to participate 
in the AIP. Annual bonus awards are awarded to eligible participants on an annual basis, if the performance goals established by the 
Committee  are  met.  At  the  beginning  of  each  fiscal  year,  the  Human  Capital  Committee  establishes  each  participant's  target  and 
maximum  bonus  award,  the  performance  goals  applicable  to  the  bonus  award,  and  such  other  conditions  as  the  Committee  deems 
appropriate. The performance goals may provide for differing amounts to be paid (e.g., threshold, target, and maximum amounts) based 
on differing levels of performance. The performance goals may relate to the financial performance of the Company and its subsidiaries 
or one or more business units, and, where appropriate, they may relate to a participant's personal performance.  The foregoing description 
of the AIP is a summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the AIP, which is attached to this Annual Report 
on Form 10-K as Exhibit 10.14 and incorporated by reference herein.

ITEM 9C. DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS

None.

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PART III

ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Information with respect to this item is set forth in our definitive Proxy Statement for the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, 
which is to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission no later than May 1, 2023 (the first business day after the 120th
day following the end of our fiscal year) (our Proxy Statement), and which is incorporated herein by reference. Information regarding 
our executive officers is included at the end of Item 1 in Part I of this report.

ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

Information with respect to this item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement, and is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM  12.  SECURITY  OWNERSHIP  OF  CERTAIN  BENEFICIAL  OWNERS  AND  MANAGEMENT  AND  RELATED 
STOCKHOLDER MATTERS 

Information with respect to this item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement, and is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

Information with respect to this item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement, and is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

Information with respect to this item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement, and is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

(a) The following documents are filed as part of this report:

(1) Financial Statements:

PART IV

Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting.............................................................................................
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm ..........................................................................................................
Consolidated Balance Sheets ...........................................................................................................................................................
Consolidated Statements of Income.................................................................................................................................................
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income.......................................................................................................................
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity...........................................................................................................................
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows ..........................................................................................................................................
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements....................................................................................................................................

F-2
F-3
F-6
F-7
F-8
F-9
F-10
F-11

(2) Financial Statement Schedules:

None.

(3) Exhibits:

The following is a list of the exhibits filed as part of this report. Where so indicated by footnote, exhibits that were previously
filed are incorporated by reference. For exhibits incorporated by reference, the location of the exhibit in the previous filing is indicated 
parenthetically, together with a reference to the filing indicated by footnote.

Exhibit
Number 

3.1

3.2

4

10.1#

10.2#

10.3#

10.4#

10.5#

10.6#

10.7

10.8

10.9

10.10+

10.11+

 Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the registrant (1)

 Amended and Restated Bylaws of the registrant (2)

 Description of Securities (3)

Description

Amended  and  Restated  Change  in  Control  Agreement  between  the  registrant  and  Steven  V.  Abramson,  dated  as  of 
November 4, 2008 (4)

Amended and Restated Change in Control Agreement between the registrant and Julia J. Brown, dated as of November 4, 
2008 (4)

Amended and Restated Change in Control Agreement between the registrant and Janice K. Mahon, dated as of November 
4, 2008 (4)

Amended and Restated Change in Control Agreement between the registrant and Mauro Premutico, dated April 16, 2012 
(5)

 Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, dated as of April 1, 2010 (6)

 Amended and Restated Equity Compensation Plan, effective as of March 7, 2013 (7)

1997  Amended  License  Agreement  among  the  registrant,  The  Trustees  of  Princeton  University  and  the  University  of 
Southern California, dated as of October 9, 1997 (8)

Amendment #1 to the Amended License Agreement among the registrant, the Trustees of Princeton University and the 
University of Southern California, dated as of August 7, 2003 (9)

Amendment  #2  to  the  Amended  License  Agreement  among  the  registrant,  the  Trustees  of  Princeton  University,  the 
University of Southern California and the Regents of the University of Michigan, dated as of January 1, 2006 (10)

Termination, Amendment and License Agreement by and among the registrant, PD-LD, Inc., Dr. Vladimir S. Ban, and The 
Trustees of Princeton University, dated as of July 19, 2000 (11)

Amended and Restated OLED Materials Supply and Service Agreement between the registrant and PPG Industries, Inc., 
dated as of October 1, 2011 (12)

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10.12+

Amendment, dated February 23, 2021, to Amended and Restated OLED Materials Supply and Service Agreement, dated as 
of October 1, 2011, between the Registrant and PPG Industries, Inc. (13)

10.13+

 Patent Sale Agreement, dated as of July 23, 2012 by and between FUJIFILM Corporation and the Company  (14)

10.14#*

 Universal Display Corporation Annual Incentive Plan

10.15#*

 Form Agreement - Restricted Stock Unit Grant Letter

10.16#*

 Form Agreement - Performance Stock Unit Grant Letter

10.17#

10.18#

10.19+

10.20#

10.21#

10.22#

10.23#*

 Universal Display Corporation Equity Compensation Plan (15)

 Amendment 2015-1, dated March 3, 2015, to Universal Display Corporation Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (16)

IP Transfer Agreement, dated June 28, 2016 by and between UDC Ireland Limited and BASF SE (17)

Equity Grant Agreement between the registrant and Julia J. Brown, dated as of December 12, 2019 (3)

Equity Grant Agreement between the registrant and Mauro Premutico, dated as of December 12, 2019 (3)

Equity Grant Agreement between the registrant and Janice K. Mahon, dated as of December 12, 2019 (3)

Amended and Restated Change in Control Agreement between the registrant and Brian Millard, dated as of September 6, 
2022

10.24#*

Restricted Stock Grant Unit Agreement between the registrant and Brian Millard, dated as of September 6, 2022

10.25*+

10.26*+

21*

23.1*

31.1*

31.2*

32.1**

32.2**

OLED Patent License Agreement between UDC Ireland Limited and Samsung Display Co., Ltd., dated as of December 2, 
2022

Supplemental OLED Material Purchase Agreement between UDC Ireland Limited and Samsung Display Co., Ltd., dated 
as of December 2, 2022

 Subsidiaries of the registrant

 Consent of KPMG LLP

 Certifications of Steven V. Abramson, Chief Executive Officer, as required by Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a)

 Certifications of Brian Millard, Chief Financial Officer, as required by Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a)

Certifications of Steven V. Abramson, Chief Executive Officer, as required by Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b), and by 
18 U.S.C. Section 1350. (This exhibit shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange 
Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section. Further, this exhibit shall not be deemed to be 
incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 
1934, as amended.)

Certifications of Brian Millard, Chief Financial Officer, as required by Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b), and by 18 U.S.C. 
Section 1350. (This exhibit shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 
as amended, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section. Further, this exhibit shall not be deemed to be incorporated 
by  reference  into  any  filing  under  the  Securities  Act  of  1933,  as  amended,  or  the  Securities  Exchange  Act  of  1934,  as 
amended.)

101.INS*

Inline XBRL Instance Document – the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL 
tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document

101.SCH*  Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document

101.CAL*  Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document

101.DEF*  Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document

101.LAB*  Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document

101.PRE*  Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document

104

The cover page of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, formatted in Inline XBRL 
(included in Item 101.INS)

Explanation of footnotes to listing of exhibits:

* Filed herewith.

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** Furnished herewith.

# Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.

+ Either (1) confidential treatment has been accorded to certain portions of this exhibit pursuant to Rule 406 under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, or Rule 24b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or (2) portions of this exhibit have been 
omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(10)(iv) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

Filed as an Exhibit to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2018, filed with the SEC on August 9,
2018.

Filed as an Exhibit to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, filed with the SEC on March 1,
2004.

Filed as an Exhibit to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed with the SEC on February
20, 2020.

Filed as an Exhibit to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, filed with the SEC on March 12,
2009.

Filed as an Exhibit to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2012, filed with the SEC on August 8,
2012.

Filed as an Exhibit to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, filed with the SEC on May 10,
2010.

Filed as an Exhibit to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, filed with the SEC on May 9,
2013.

Filed as an Exhibit to the Annual Report on Form 10K-SB for the year ended December 31, 1997, filed with the SEC on March
31, 1998.

Filed  as  an  Exhibit  to  the  Quarterly  Report  on  Form  10-Q  for  the  quarter  ended  September  30,  2003,  filed  with  the  SEC  on
November 10, 2003.

(10) Filed as an Exhibit to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2006, filed with the SEC on August 9,

2006.

(11) Filed as an Exhibit to the amended Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2000, filed with the SEC

on November 20, 2001.

(12) Filed  as  an  Exhibit  to  the  Quarterly  Report  on  Form  10-Q  for  the  quarter  ended  September  30,  2011,  filed  with  the  SEC  on

November 8, 2011.

(13) Filed as an Exhibit to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on May 6,

2021.

(14) Filed as an Exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on July 27, 2012.

(15) Filed as Exhibit A to the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement for the 2014 Annual Meeting filed with the SEC on April 25,

2014.

(16) Filed as an exhibit to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on March 9, 2015.

(17) Filed as an Exhibit to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2016, filed with the SEC on August 4,

2016.

Note: Any of the exhibits listed in the foregoing index not included with this report may be obtained, without charge, by writing

to Mauro Premutico, Corporate Secretary, Universal Display Corporation, 250 Phillips Boulevard, Ewing, New Jersey 08618.

(b) The exhibits required to be filed by us with this report are listed above.

(c) The Consolidated Financial Statement schedules required to be filed by us with this report are listed above.

ITEM 16. FORM 10-K SUMMARY

None.

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Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this 

report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

SIGNATURES

UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION

By:    /s/ Brian Millard
Brian Millard
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Date: February 23, 2023

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons 

on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Name

Title

Date

/s/ Steven V. Abramson 
Steven V. Abramson

President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (principal executive officer)

February 23, 2023

/s/ Brian Millard
Brian Millard

Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer 
(principal financial and accounting officer)

/s/ Elizabeth H. Gemmill
Elizabeth H. Gemmill

/s/ Cynthia J. Comparin
Cynthia J. Comparin

/s/ Richard C. Elias
Richard C. Elias

/s/ C. Keith Hartley
C. Keith Hartley

/s/ Celia M. Joseph
Celia M. Joseph

/s/ Lawrence Lacerte
Lawrence Lacerte

/s/ Sidney D. Rosenblatt
Sidney D. Rosenblatt

Chair of the Board of Directors

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

February 23, 2023

February 23, 2023

February 23, 2023

February 23, 2023

February 23, 2023

February 23, 2023

February 23, 2023

February 23, 2023

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UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES   

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  

Consolidated Financial Statements:

Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting.................................................................................  
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm ..............................................................................................  
Consolidated Balance Sheets ...............................................................................................................................................  
Consolidated Statements of Income.....................................................................................................................................  
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income...........................................................................................................  
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity ...............................................................................................................  
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows ..............................................................................................................................  
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements........................................................................................................................  

F-2
F-3
F-6
F-7
F-8
F-9
F-10
F-11

F-1

   
MANAGEMENT’S REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING  

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting for Universal 
Display  Corporation  and  its  subsidiaries  (the  Company).  Internal  control  over  financial  reporting  is  a  process  designed  to  provide 
reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of Consolidated Financial Statements for external 
purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Our system of internal control over financial reporting includes 
those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the 
transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary 
to  permit  preparation  of  financial  statements  in  accordance  with  generally  accepted  accounting  principles,  and  that  receipts  and 
expenditures of the Company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the Company; and 
(iii)  provide  reasonable  assurance  regarding  prevention  or  timely  detection  of  unauthorized  acquisition,  use  or  disposition  of  the 
Company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because  of  its  inherent  limitations,  internal  control  over  financial  reporting  may  not  prevent  or  detect  misstatements.  Also, 
projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of 
changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Management performed an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 
2022 based upon criteria in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of 
the  Treadway  Commission  (COSO).  Based  on  this  assessment,  management  determined  that  the  Company’s  internal  control  over 
financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2022, based on the criteria in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued 
by COSO.

The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022, has been attested to by KPMG LLP, 

an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in its report which appears on the following page.

Steven V. Abramson
President and Chief Executive Officer

Brian Millard
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

February 23, 2023

F-2

 
 
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and Board of Directors
Universal Display Corporation:

Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

We have audited Universal Display Corporation and subsidiaries' (the Company) internal control over financial reporting as of 
December 31, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of 
Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective 
internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated 
Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) 
(PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the related consolidated statements of 
income, comprehensive income, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 
31, 2022, and the related notes (collectively, the consolidated financial statements), and our report dated February 23, 2023 expressed 
an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements.

Basis for Opinion

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of 
the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management's Report on Internal Control 
over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based 
on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the 
Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange 
Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit 
to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. 
Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, 
assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control 
based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. 
We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting  

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of 
financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting 
principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the 
maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the 
company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in 
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in 
accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding 
prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect 
on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections 
of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in 
conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 23, 2023

F-3

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and Board of Directors
Universal Display Corporation:

Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Universal Display Corporation and subsidiaries (the Company) as 
of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, shareholders’ equity, and cash 
flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2022, and the related notes (collectively, the consolidated 
financial statements). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position 
of the Company as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the 
three-year period ended December 31, 2022, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) 
(PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal 
Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, and our 
report dated February 23, 2023 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial 
reporting.

Basis for Opinion

These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an 
opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB 
and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable 
rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit 
to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to 
error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial 
statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, 
on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included 
evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall 
presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements 
that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are 
material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The 
communication of a critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a 
whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or 
on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Estimated per unit fee for long-term OLED contracts

As discussed in Notes 2 and 21 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company recognizes revenue for organic light 
emitting diode (OLED) sales to customers with long-term contracts (i.e., over 1 year in length) using certain estimates. Revenue 
is determined by estimating total contract consideration expected to be received over the term of the contract and recognized 
based on material units sold during the period at their estimated per unit fee. The estimated per unit fee includes fixed amounts 
designated in contracts with customers as license fees, as well as estimates of material units to be sold and royalties to be earned. 
The Company uses internal and external data to estimate material units to be sold and royalty consideration to be received over 
the contract terms.

We identified the assessment of the estimated per unit fee for long-term OLED contracts as a critical audit matter. The estimated 
per unit fee was dependent upon the estimates of total material units to be sold. Significant auditor judgment was required in 
evaluating the forecasted material unit sales, as changes in the estimates could significantly affect the estimated per unit fee.

F-4

The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We evaluated the design and tested 
the operating effectiveness of certain internal controls related to the critical audit matter. This included controls related to the 
Company’s revenue recognition process, including the Company’s review and approval of forecasted quantities of material unit 
sales of OLED products. We assessed the Company’s forecasting policies and procedures and the inputs used in making the 
estimates by considering other reasonably likely outcomes when evaluating potential management bias. Additionally, we 
inspected the forecast calculations for a selection of OLED contracts and compared the per-material unit prices and royalty rates 
used against the respective contract terms. We compared the OLED material unit sales forecast to internal operating and 
production budgets, and we compared the forecasted OLED material unit sales to the results of inquiries of Company personnel, 
publicly available market data, and analyst reports. We assessed the Company’s ability to accurately forecast OLED material 
unit sales by comparing recent historical forecasts to actual results and evaluating the Company’s conclusions regarding the 
reasons for changes in the current year’s estimates as compared to prior estimates.

/s/   KPMG LLP

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2002.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 23, 2023

F-5

UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

ASSETS

December 31, 2022

December 31, 2021

CURRENT ASSETS:

Cash and cash equivalents
Short-term investments
Accounts receivable
Inventory
Other current assets

Total current assets

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, net of accumulated depreciation of $117,118 and $92,461
ACQUIRED TECHNOLOGY, net of accumulated amortization of $189,671 and $173,635
OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS, net of accumulated amortization of $8,989 and $7,565
GOODWILL
INVESTMENTS
DEFERRED INCOME TAXES
OTHER ASSETS
TOTAL ASSETS

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

CURRENT LIABILITIES:

Accounts payable
Accrued expenses
Deferred revenue
Other current liabilities

Total current liabilities

DEFERRED REVENUE
RETIREMENT PLAN BENEFIT LIABILITY
OTHER LIABILITIES
Total liabilities

COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (Note 18)
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY:

Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share, 5,000,000 shares authorized, 200,000 
   shares of Series A Nonconvertible Preferred Stock issued and outstanding 
   (liquidation value of $7.50 per share or $1,500)
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, 200,000,000 shares authorized, 49,136,030
   and 49,065,924 shares issued, and 47,770,382 and 47,700,276 shares outstanding at 
   December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively
Additional paid-in capital
Retained earnings
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
Treasury stock, at cost (1,365,648 shares at December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021)

Total shareholders’ equity

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

93,430
484,345
92,664
183,220
45,791
899,450
143,445
38,382
8,247
15,535
259,861
58,161
109,739
1,532,820

9,519
51,002
45,599
29,577
135,697
18,279
59,790
43,685
257,451

311,993
351,194
107,639
134,160
20,948
925,934
128,832
49,668
9,711
15,535
168,076
33,453
135,710
1,466,919

14,955
45,474
120,864
6,645
187,938
36,217
66,773
76,077
367,005

2

2

491
681,335
653,277
(18,452)
(41,284)
1,275,369
1,532,820

$

491
658,728
500,212
(18,235)
(41,284)
1,099,914
1,466,919

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.

F-6

 
UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

REVENUE:

Material sales
Royalty and license fees
Contract research services

Total revenue
COST OF SALES
Gross margin

OPERATING EXPENSES:

Research and development
Selling, general and administrative
Amortization of acquired technology and other intangible assets
Patent costs
Royalty and license expense
Total operating expenses

OPERATING INCOME
Interest income, net
Other (loss) income, net

Interest and other income, net
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES
INCOME TAX EXPENSE
NET INCOME
NET INCOME PER COMMON SHARE:

BASIC
DILUTED

WEIGHTED AVERAGE SHARES USED IN COMPUTING NET 
   INCOME PER COMMON SHARE:

BASIC
DILUTED

CASH DIVIDEND DECLARED PER COMMON SHARE

2022

Year Ended December 31,
2021

2020

$

$

$
$

$

331,081
267,115
18,423
616,619
127,896
488,723

117,062
77,886
17,459
8,329
877
221,613
267,110
7,811
(6,691)
1,120
268,230
(58,169)
210,061

4.41
4.40

47,390,352
47,468,507
1.20

$

$

$
$

$

318,623
219,032
15,870
553,525
114,991
438,534

99,673
80,372
21,994
8,160
691
210,890
227,644
505
98
603
228,247
(44,034)
184,213

3.87
3.87

47,296,447
47,365,435
0.80

$

$

$
$

$

229,749
185,054
14,064
428,867
85,478
343,389

83,894
61,346
21,969
7,529
11,125
185,863
157,526
5,139
864
6,003
163,529
(30,157)
133,372

2.80
2.80

47,198,982
47,236,994
0.60

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.

F-7

 
 
 
UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

(in thousands)

NET INCOME
OTHER COMPREHENSIVE (LOSS) INCOME, NET OF TAX:

Unrealized loss on available-for-sale securities, net of tax
   of none, $65 and $28, respectively
Employee benefit plan:

Actuarial gain (loss) on retirement plan, net of tax of ($1,667), ($1,336)
   and $3,569, respectively
Plan amendment cost, net of tax of none, $79 and none, respectively
Amortization of prior service cost and actuarial loss for 
   retirement plan included in net periodic pension costs, 
   net of tax of ($569), ($1,316) and ($723), respectively
Net change in employee benefit plan

Change in cumulative foreign currency translation adjustment

TOTAL OTHER COMPREHENSIVE (LOSS) INCOME
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

2022

Year Ended December 31,
2021

2020

$

210,061

$

184,213

$

133,372

(7,745)

(233)

(100)

5,971
—

13,620
(283)

(21,464)
—

2,037
8,008
(480)
(217)
209,844

$

4,719
18,056
(39)
17,784
201,997

$

2,556
(18,908)
(14)
(19,022)
114,350

$

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.

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UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(in thousands)

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net income
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

Depreciation
Amortization of intangibles
Amortization of premium and discount on investments, net
Impairment of minority investments
Stock-based compensation to employees
Stock-based compensation to Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board
Deferred income tax (benefit) expense
Retirement plan expense
Decrease (increase) in assets:

Accounts receivable
Inventory
Other current assets
Other assets

Increase (decrease) in liabilities:

Accounts payable and accrued expenses
Other current liabilities
Deferred revenue
Other liabilities

Net cash provided by operating activities
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

Purchases of property and equipment
Purchase of intangibles
Purchases of investments
Proceeds from sale and maturity of investments

Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

Proceeds from issuance of common stock
Payment of withholding taxes related to stock-based compensation to employees
Cash dividends paid

Net cash used in financing activities

(DECREASE) INCREASE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, BEGINNING OF YEAR
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF YEAR
The following non-cash activities occurred:
Unrealized loss on available-for-sale securities
Common stock issued to Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board 
   that was earned and accrued for in a previous period
Net change in accounts payable and accrued expenses related to purchases 
   of property and equipment
Cash paid for income tax

$

$

2022

Year Ended December 31,
2021

2020

$

210,061

$

184,213

$

133,372

24,815
17,459
(6,461)
6,962
28,380
1,566
(26,946)
5,276

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(49,060)
(24,843)
25,971

3,338
20,917
(93,203)
(32,392)
126,815

(42,497)
(4,709)
(701,993)
468,456
(280,743)

1,570
(9,209)
(56,996)
(64,635)
(218,563)
311,993
93,430

(8,100)

300

3,069
72,347

$

$

19,968
21,994
(373)
—
34,871
1,404
1,748
8,875

(25,378)
(42,569)
(202)
(32,369)

1,902
2,105
(5,220)
20,136
191,105

(43,161)
(394)
(642,180)
227,984
(457,751)

1,507
(14,949)
(37,931)
(51,373)
(318,019)
630,012
311,993

(295)

300

(3,526)
52,650

$

$

15,217
21,969
(4,960)
—
26,631
1,647
(4,446)
5,656

(21,809)
(27,638)
1,200
(17,251)

(8,305)
2,683
17,439
7,387
148,792

(27,991)
(60)
(604,153)
1,023,460
391,256

1,176
(14,394)
(28,445)
(41,663)
498,385
131,627
630,012

(118)

300

(1,468)
36,269

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.

F-10

UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1.

BUSINESS:

Universal Display Corporation and its subsidiaries (the Company) is a leader in the research, development and commercialization 
of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies and materials for use in display and solid-state lighting applications. OLEDs are 
thin, lightweight and power-efficient solid-state devices that emit light and can be manufactured on both flexible and rigid substrates, 
making them highly suitable for use in full-color displays and as lighting products. OLED displays are capturing a growing share of the 
display market, especially in the mobile phone, television, monitor, wearable, tablet, notebook and personal computer, augmented reality 
(AR),  virtual  reality  (VR)  and  automotive  markets.  The  Company  believes  this  is  because  OLEDs  offer  potential  advantages  over 
competing display technologies with respect to power efficiency, contrast ratio, viewing angle, video response time, form factor and 
manufacturing cost. The Company also believes that OLED lighting products have the potential to replace many existing light sources 
in the future because of their high-power efficiency, excellent color rendering index, low operating temperature and novel form factor. 
The Company’s technology leadership, intellectual property position, and more than 20 years of experience working closely with leading 
OLED  display  manufacturers  are  some  of  the  competitive  advantages  that  should  enable  the  Company  to  continue  to  share  in  the 
revenues from OLED displays and lighting products as they gain wider acceptance.

The Company’s primary business strategy is to (1) develop new OLED materials and sell existing and new materials to product 
manufacturers of products for display applications, such as mobile phones, televisions, monitors, wearables, tablets, portable media 
devices, notebook computers, personal computers and automotive applications, and specialty and general lighting products; and (2) 
further  develop  and  either  license  or  otherwise  commercialize  the  Company’s  proprietary  OLED  material,  device  design  and 
manufacturing  technologies  to  those  manufacturers.  The  Company  has  established  a  significant  portfolio  of  proprietary  OLED 
technologies  and  materials,  primarily  through  internal  research  and  development  efforts  and  acquisitions  of  patents  and  patent 
applications, as well as maintaining long-standing, and establishing new relationships with world-class universities, research institutions 
and strategic manufacturing partnerships. The Company currently owns, exclusively licenses or has the sole right to sublicense more 
than 5,500 patents issued and pending worldwide.

The Company manufactures and sells its proprietary OLED materials to customers for evaluation and use in commercial OLED 
products. The Company also enters into agreements with manufacturers of OLED display and lighting products under which it grants 
them licenses to practice under the Company’s patents and to use the Company's proprietary know-how. At the same time, the Company 
works with these and other companies that are evaluating the Company's OLED material, device design and manufacturing technologies 
for possible use in commercial OLED display and lighting products.

2.

SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES:

Principles of Consolidation

The Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of Universal Display Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries, 
UDC, Inc., UDC Ireland Limited (UDC Ireland), Universal Display Corporation Hong Kong, Limited, Universal Display Corporation 
Korea, Y.H. (UDC Korea), Universal Display Corporation Japan GK, Universal Display Corporation China, Ltd., Adesis, Inc. (Adesis), 
UDC  Ventures  LLC,  OVJP  Corporation  (OVJP  Corp)  and  OLED  Material  Manufacturing  Limited  (OMM).  All  intercompany 
transactions and accounts have been eliminated.

Reclassification of Prior Year Presentation

Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.

Management’s Use of Estimates

The  preparation  of  financial  statements  in  conformity  with  U.S.  generally  accepted  accounting  principles  (GAAP)  requires 
management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent 
assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting 
period. The estimates made are principally in the areas of revenue recognition including estimates of material unit sales and royalties, 
the  useful  life  of  acquired  intangibles,  lease  liabilities,  right-of-use  assets,  the  use  and  recoverability  of  inventories,  intangibles, 
investments  and  income  taxes  including  realization  of  deferred  tax  assets,  stock-based  compensation  and  retirement  benefit  plan 
liabilities. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

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The Company considers all highly liquid debt instruments purchased with an original maturity (maturity at the purchase date) of 
three months or less to be cash equivalents. The Company classifies its remaining investments as available-for-sale. These securities are 
carried at fair market value, with unrealized gains and losses reported in shareholders’ equity. Gains or losses on securities sold are 
based on the specific identification method.

Trade Accounts Receivable

Trade  accounts  receivable  are  stated  at  the  amount  the  Company  expects  to  collect  and  do  not  bear  interest.  The  Company 
considers  the  following  factors  when  determining  the  collectability  of  specific  customer  accounts:  customer  credit-worthiness,  past 
transaction  history  with  the  customer,  current  economic  industry  trends,  and  changes  in  customer  payment  terms.  The  Company’s 
accounts receivable balance is a result of chemical sales, royalties and license fees. These receivables have historically been paid timely. 
Due  to  the  nature  of  the  accounts  receivable  balance,  the  Company  believes  there  is  no  significant  collection  risk.  If  the  financial 
condition of the Company’s customers were to deteriorate, adversely affecting their ability to make payments, allowances for credit 
losses would be required. The allowance for credit losses was $279,000 at both December 31, 2022 and 2021.

Inventories

Inventories consist of raw materials, work-in-process and finished goods, and are stated at the lower of cost, determined on a first-
in,  first-out  basis,  or  net  realizable  value.  Inventory  valuation  and  firm  committed  purchase  order  assessments  are  performed  on  a 
quarterly basis and those items that are identified to be obsolete or in excess of forecasted usage are written down to their estimated 
realizable value. Estimates of realizable value are based upon management’s analyses and assumptions, including, but not limited to, 
forecasted sales levels by product, expected product lifecycle, product development plans and future demand requirements. A 12-month 
rolling  forecast  based  on  factors,  including,  but  not  limited  to,  production  cycles,  anticipated  product  orders,  marketing  forecasts, 
backlog, and shipment activities is used in the inventory analysis. If market conditions are less favorable than forecasts or actual demand 
from  customers  is  lower  than  estimates,  additional  inventory  write-downs  may  be  required.  If  demand  is  higher  than  expected, 
inventories that had previously been written down may be sold.

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are stated at cost and depreciated on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life of 30 years for 
buildings, 15 years for building improvements, and three to seven years for office and lab equipment and furniture and fixtures. Repair 
and maintenance costs are charged to expense as incurred. Additions and betterments are capitalized.

Major  renewals  and  improvements  are  capitalized  and  minor  replacements,  maintenance,  and  repairs  are  charged  to  current 
operations  as  incurred.  Upon  retirement  or  disposal  of  assets,  the  cost  and  related  accumulated  depreciation  are  removed  from  the 
Consolidated Balance Sheets and any gain or loss is reflected in other operating expenses. 

Certain costs of computer software obtained for internal use are capitalized and amortized on a straight-line basis over three years. 
Costs for maintenance and training, as well as the cost of software that does not add functionality to an existing system, are expensed as 
incurred. 

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

Company  management  continually  evaluates  whether  events  or  changes  in  circumstances  might  indicate  that  the  remaining 
estimated useful life of long-lived assets may warrant revision, or that the remaining balance may not be recoverable. When factors 
indicate that long-lived assets should be evaluated for possible impairment, the Company uses an estimate of the related undiscounted 
cash flows in measuring whether the long-lived asset should be written down to fair value. Measurement of the amount of impairment 
would  be  based  on  generally  accepted  valuation  methodologies,  as  deemed  appropriate.  As  of  December  31,  2022,  Company 
management believed that no revision to the remaining useful lives or write-down of the Company’s long-lived assets was required, and 
similarly, no such revisions were required for the years ended December 31, 2021 or 2020.

Goodwill and Purchased Intangible Assets

Goodwill  is  tested  for  impairment  in  the  fourth  fiscal  quarter  and,  when  specific  circumstances  dictate,  between  annual  tests.  
Company management first assesses qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting 
unit is less than its carrying amount as a basis for determining whether a quantitative goodwill impairment test is necessary. If it is 
concluded it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount, then a quantitative impairment 
assessment is not necessary. If it is determined that goodwill has been impaired, then its carrying value is written down to fair value. 
The goodwill impairment test involves a two-step process. The first step, identifying a potential impairment, compares the fair value of 

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a reporting unit with its carrying amount, including goodwill. If the carrying value of the reporting unit exceeds its fair value, the second 
step would need to be conducted; otherwise, no further steps are necessary as no potential impairment exists. If necessary, the second 
step to measure the impairment loss would be to compare the implied fair value of the reporting unit goodwill with the carrying amount 
of that goodwill. Any excess of the reporting unit goodwill carrying value over the respective implied fair value is recognized as an 
impairment loss. The Company performed its annual impairment assessment as of December 31, 2022 utilizing a qualitative evaluation 
and concluded that it was more likely than not that the fair value of Adesis is greater than its carrying value.  Future impairment tests 
will continue to be performed annually in the fiscal fourth quarter, or sooner if a triggering event occurs. As of December 31, 2022, no 
indications of impairment existed.

Purchased intangible assets with finite lives are carried at cost, less accumulated amortization. Amortization is computed over the 

estimated useful lives of the respective assets.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The carrying values of accounts receivable, other current assets, accounts payable and other current liabilities approximate fair 
value in the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements due to the short-term nature of those instruments. The Company’s other 
financial instruments, which include cash equivalents, investments, retirement plan benefit liability and other liabilities are carried at 
fair value.

Fair Value Measurements 

Fair value is defined as an exit price, representing the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in 
an orderly transaction between market participants based on the highest and best use of the asset or liability. The Company uses valuation 
techniques to measure fair value that maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. Observable 
inputs are inputs that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability and are based on market data obtained from sources 
independent of the Company. Unobservable inputs reflect assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability 
based on the best information available in the circumstances.

Minority Equity Investments 

The Company accounts for minority equity investments in companies that are not accounted for under the equity method as equity 
securities without readily determinable fair values. The fair value of these securities is based on original cost less impairments, if any, 
plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for the identical or similar investment of the same 
issuer. Under this method, the share of income or loss of such companies is not included in the Consolidated Statements of Income. The 
carrying value of these investments is included in investments on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.  

The Company’s policy is to recognize an impairment in the value of its minority equity investments when clear evidence of an 
impairment  exists.  Factors  considered  in  the  assessment  include  a  significant  adverse  change  in  the  regulatory,  economic,  or 
technological environment, the completion of new equity financing that may indicate a decrease in value, the failure to complete new 
equity financing arrangements after seeking to raise additional funds, or the commencement of proceedings under which the assets of 
the business may be placed in receivership or liquidated to satisfy the claims of debt and equity stakeholders. The impairment in the 
value of minority equity investments is included in the other (loss) income, net line item on the Consolidated Statements of Income. 

Leases 

The Company is a lessee in operating leases primarily incurred to facilitate manufacturing, research and development, and selling, 
general and administrative activities. At contract inception, the Company determines if an arrangement is or contains a lease, and if so 
recognizes a right-of-use asset and lease liability at the lease commencement date. For operating leases, the lease liability is measured 
at the present value of the unpaid lease payments at the lease commencement date, whereas for finance leases, the lease liability is 
initially measured at the present value of the unpaid lease payments and subsequently measured at amortized cost using the interest 
method. Operating lease right-of-use assets are included in other assets on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The short-term portion of 
operating lease liabilities is included in other current liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets and the long-term portion is included 
in other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of December 31, 2022, the Company had no leases that qualified as financing 
arrangements.

Key estimates and judgments include how the Company determines the discount rate used to discount the unpaid lease payments 
to  present  value  and  the  lease  term.  The  Company  monitors  for  events  or  changes  in  circumstances  that  could  potentially  require 
recognizing an impairment loss.

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Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue

Material sales relate to the Company’s sale of its OLED materials for incorporation into its customers’ commercial OLED products 
or for their OLED development and evaluation activities. Revenue associated with material sales is generally recognized at the time title 
passes, which is typically at the time of shipment or at the time of delivery, depending upon the contractual agreement between the 
parties. Revenue may be recognized after control of the material passes in the event the transaction price includes variable consideration. 
For example, a customer may be provided an extended opportunity to stock materials prior to use in mass production and given a general 
right of return not conditioned on breaches of warranties associated with the specific product. In such circumstances, revenue will be 
recognized at the earlier of the expiration of the customer’s general right of return or once it becomes unlikely that the customer will 
exercise its right of return.

The  rights  and  benefits  to  the  Company’s  OLED  technologies  are  conveyed  to  the  customer  through  technology  license 
agreements  and  material  supply  agreements.  The  Company  believes  that  the  licenses  and  materials  sold  under  these  combined 
agreements are not distinct from each other for financial reporting purposes and as such, they are accounted for as a single performance 
obligation. Accordingly, total contract consideration is estimated and recognized over the contract term based on material units sold at 
the estimated per unit fee over the life of the contract. Total contract consideration is allocated to material sales and royalty and licensing 
fees on the Consolidated Statements of Income based on contract pricing.

Various  estimates  are  relied  upon  to  recognize  revenue.  The  Company  estimates  total  material  units  to  be  purchased  by  its 
customers over the contract term based on historical trends, industry estimates and its forecast process. Management uses the expected 
value method to estimate the material per unit fee. Additionally, management estimates the sales-based portion of royalty revenue based 
on the estimated net sales revenue of its customers over the contract term.

Contract research services revenue is revenue earned by Adesis by providing chemical materials synthesis research, development 
and commercialization for non-OLED applications on a contractual basis. These services range from intermediates for structure-activity 
relationship  studies,  reference  agents  and  building  blocks  for  combinatorial  synthesis,  re-synthesis  of  key  intermediates,  specialty 
organic chemistry needs, and selective toll manufacturing. These services are provided to third-party pharmaceutical and life sciences 
firms  and  other  technology  firms  at  fixed  costs  or  predetermined  rates  on  a  contract  basis.  Revenue  is  recognized  as  services  are 
performed with billing schedules and payment terms negotiated on a contract-by-contract basis. Payments received in excess of revenue 
recognized are recorded as deferred revenue. In other cases, services may be provided and revenue is recognized before the customer is 
invoiced. In these cases, revenue recognized will exceed amounts billed and the difference, representing amounts which are currently 
unbillable to the customer pursuant to contractual terms, is recorded as an unbilled receivable. 

Technology development and support revenue is revenue earned from development and technology evaluation agreements and 
commercialization  assistance  fees.  Technology  development  and  support  revenue  is  included  in  contract  research  services  on  the 
Consolidated Statements of Income.

On December 2, 2022, the Company entered into a commercial patent license agreement with Samsung Display Co., Ltd. (SDC), 
replacing a previous license agreement that had been in place since 2018. This agreement, which covers the manufacture and sale of 
specified OLED display materials, was effective as of January 1, 2023 and lasts through the end of 2027 with an additional two-year 
extension option for SDC. Under this agreement, the Company is being paid a license fee, which includes quarterly and annual payments 
over the agreement term of five years. The agreement conveys to SDC the non-exclusive right to use certain of the Company's intellectual 
property assets for a limited period of time that is less than the estimated life of the assets.

At the same time the Company entered into the current commercial license agreement with SDC, the Company also entered into 
a new supplemental material purchase agreement with SDC, which lasts for the same term as the license agreement and is subject to the 
same extension option. This new material purchase agreement replaced a previous purchase agreement that had been in place since 
2018. Under the supplemental material purchase agreement, SDC agrees to purchase red and green phosphorescent emitter materials 
from  the  Company  for  use  in  the  manufacture  of  licensed  products.  This  amount  purchased  is  subject  to  SDC’s  requirements  for 
phosphorescent emitter materials and the Company’s ability to meet these requirements over the term of the supplemental agreement.

In 2015, the Company entered into an OLED patent license agreement and an OLED commercial supply agreement with LG 
Display Co., Ltd. (LG Display), which were effective as of January 1, 2015. The terms of these agreements were extended by a January 
1,  2021  amendment  through  the  end  of  2025.  The  patent  license  agreement  provides  LG  Display  a  non-exclusive,  royalty  bearing 
portfolio license to make and sell OLED displays under the Company's patent portfolio. The patent license calls for license fees, prepaid 
royalties and running royalties on licensed products. The OLED commercial supply agreement provides for the sale of materials for use 
by LG Display, which may include phosphorescent emitters and host materials. The agreements provide for certain other minimum 
obligations relating to the volume of material sales anticipated over the lives of the agreements as well as minimum royalty revenue. 

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In 2016, the Company entered into long-term, multi-year OLED patent license and material purchase agreements with Tianma 
Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. (Tianma). Under the license agreement, the Company has granted Tianma non-exclusive license rights under 
various patents owned or controlled by the Company to manufacture and sell OLED display products. The license agreement calls for 
license fees and running royalties on licensed products. Additionally, the Company supplies phosphorescent OLED materials to Tianma 
for use in its licensed products. In 2021, the parties extended the terms of both the patent license and material purchase agreements for 
an additional multi-year-term. 

In 2017, the Company entered into long-term, multi-year agreements with BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. (BOE). Under these 
agreements, the Company has granted BOE non-exclusive license rights under various patents owned or controlled by the Company to 
manufacture and sell OLED display products. The Company supplies phosphorescent OLED materials to BOE for use in its licensed 
products.  

In 2018, the Company entered into long-term, multi-year OLED patent license and material purchase agreements with Visionox 
Technology, Inc. (Visionox). Under the license agreement, the Company granted certain of Visionox’s affiliates non-exclusive license 
rights under various patents owned or controlled by the Company to manufacture and sell OLED display products. The license agreement 
calls for license fees and running royalties on licensed products. Additionally, the Company supplies phosphorescent OLED materials 
to Visionox for use in its licensed products. In 2021, the Company announced that it had extended the Visionox agreement by entering 
into new five-year OLED material supply and license agreements with a new affiliate of Visionox, Visionox Hefei Technology Co. Ltd.

In 2019, the Company entered into an evaluation and commercial supply relationship with Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics 
Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd. (CSOT). In 2020, the Company entered into long-term, multi-year agreements with CSOT. 
Under these agreements, the Company has granted CSOT non-exclusive license rights under various patents owned or controlled by the 
Company to manufacture and sell OLED display products. The Company also supplies phosphorescent OLED materials to CSOT for 
use in its licensed products.

All material sales transactions that are not variable consideration transactions are billed and due within 90 days and substantially 

all are transacted in U.S. dollars.

Cost of Sales

Cost  of  sales  consists  of  labor  and  material  costs  associated  with  the  production  of  materials  processed  at  the  Company's 
manufacturing partner's, and at the Company's internal, manufacturing processing facilities. The Company’s portion of cost of sales also 
includes depreciation of manufacturing equipment, as well as manufacturing overhead costs and inventory adjustments for excess and 
obsolete inventory.

Research and Development

Expenditures for research and development are charged to operations as incurred.

Patent Costs 

Costs associated with patent applications, patent prosecution, patent defense and the maintenance of patents are charged to expense 
as incurred. Costs to successfully defend a challenge to a patent are capitalized to the extent of an evident increase in the value of the 
patent. Costs that relate to an unsuccessful outcome are charged to expense.  

Amortization of Acquired Technology

Amortization costs primarily relate to technology acquired from BASF and Fujifilm. These acquisitions were completed in the 
years ended December 31, 2016 and 2012, respectively. Acquisition costs are being amortized over a period of 10 years for the BASF 
patents. The Fujifilm acquired technology was fully amortized over a period of 10 years that ended in July 2022.  

Amortization of Other Intangible Assets

Other intangible assets from the Adesis acquisition are being amortized over a period of 10 to 15 years. See Note 7 for further 

discussion.

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Translation of Foreign Currency Financial Statements and Foreign Currency Transactions

The Company’s reporting currency is the U.S. dollar. The functional currency for the UDC Ireland and UDC Korea subsidiaries 
are also the U.S. dollar and the functional currency for the OMM subsidiary and each of the Company's other Asia-Pacific foreign 
subsidiaries is its local currency. The Company translates the amounts included in the Consolidated Statements of Income from OMM 
and  its  Asia-Pacific  foreign  subsidiaries  into  U.S.  dollars  at  weighted-average  exchange  rates,  which  the  Company  believes  are 
representative of the actual exchange rates on the dates of the transactions. The Company's OMM subsidiary and each of the Company's 
other Asia-Pacific foreign subsidiaries' assets and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars from the local currency at the actual exchange 
rates  as  of  the  end  of  each  reporting  date,  and  the  Company  records  the  resulting  foreign  exchange  translation  adjustments  in  the 
Consolidated Balance Sheets as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss. The overall effect of the translation of foreign 
currency and foreign currency transactions to date has been insignificant.

Income Taxes

Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future 
tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their 
respective tax bases and operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax 
rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The 
effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. 
The  Company  recognizes  the  effect  of  income  tax  positions  only  if  those  positions  are  more  likely  than  not  of  being  sustained. 
Recognized income tax positions are measured at the largest amount of which the likelihood of realization is greater than 50%. Changes 
in recognition or measurement are reflected in the period in which the change in judgment occurs. The Company records interest and 
penalties, if any, related to unrecognized tax benefits as a component of tax expense.

Share-Based Payment Awards

The Company recognizes in the Consolidated Statements of Income the grant-date fair value of equity-based awards such as shares 
issued  under  employee  stock  purchase  plans,  restricted  stock  awards,  restricted  stock  units  and  performance  unit  awards  issued  to 
employees and directors.

The grant-date fair value of stock awards is based on the closing price of the stock on the date of grant. The fair value of share-
based awards is recognized as compensation expense on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, net of forfeitures. The 
Company issues new shares upon the respective grant, exercise or vesting of the share-based payment awards, as applicable.

Performance unit awards are subject to either a performance-based or market-based vesting requirement. For performance-based 
vesting, the grant-date fair value of the award, based on fair value of the Company's common stock, is recognized over the service period 
based  on  an  assessment  of  the  likelihood  that  the  applicable  performance  goals  will  be  achieved,  and  compensation  expense  is 
periodically adjusted based on actual and expected performance. Compensation expense for performance unit awards with market-based 
vesting is calculated based on the estimated fair value as of the grant date utilizing a Monte Carlo simulation model and is recognized 
over the service period on a straight-line basis.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Accounting Standards Issued But Not Yet Adopted

In September 2022, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2022-
04, Liabilities—Supplier Finance Programs (Subtopic 450-50): Disclosure of Supplier Finance Program Obligations, which require 
disclosures about a buyer's supplier finance program. The adoption of ASU 2022-04, beginning on January 1, 2023, will not have a 
significant impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

In June 2022, the FASB issued ASU No. 2022-03, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Fair Value Measurement of Equity 
Securities Subject to Contractual Sale Restrictions. Under this standard, a contractual restriction on the sale of an equity security is not 
considered in measuring the security's fair value. The standard also requires certain disclosures for equity securities that are subject to 
contractual restrictions. ASU 2022-03 becomes effective January 1, 2024, and the Company is evaluating the potential impact of this 
standard on its investments.

3.

CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND INVESTMENTS:

The Company’s portfolio of marketable fixed income securities consists of term bank certificates of deposit, U.S. Government 
bonds and corporate bonds. The Company considers all highly liquid debt instruments purchased with an original maturity (maturity at 
the purchase date) of three months or less to be cash equivalents. The Company classifies its remaining debt security investments as 

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available-for-sale.  These  debt  securities  are  carried  at  fair  market  value,  with  unrealized  gains  and  losses  reported  in  shareholders’ 
equity. Gains or losses on securities sold are based on the specific identification method.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The following table provides details regarding the Company’s portfolio of cash and cash equivalents (in thousands):

Cash and Cash Equivalents Classification

December 31, 2022

Cash accounts in banking institutions
Money market accounts

December 31, 2021

Cash accounts in banking institutions
Money market accounts

 Short-term Investments

Amortized
Cost

Unrealized

Gains

(Losses)

Aggregate Fair
Market Value

$

$

$

$

86,268
7,162
93,430

256,878
55,115
311,993

$

$

$

$

— $
—
— $

— $
—
— $

— $
—
— $

— $
—
— $

86,268
7,162
93,430

256,878
55,115
311,993

The following table provides details regarding the Company’s portfolio of short-term investments (in thousands):

Short-term Investments Classification

Amortized
Cost

Unrealized

Gains

(Losses)

Aggregate Fair
Market Value

December 31, 2022
Corporate bonds
U.S. Government bonds

December 31, 2021

Certificates of deposit
Corporate bonds
U.S. Government bonds

150,698
339,472
490,170

240
226,448
124,611
351,299

$

$

$

$

$

$

—
32
32

$

— $
3
—
3

$

(910)
(4,947)
(5,857) $

— $
(97)
(11)
(108) $

149,788
334,557
484,345

240
226,354
124,600
351,194

Long-term Corporate Bonds and U.S. Government Bonds Investments

The following table provides details regarding the Company’s portfolio of long-term investments (in thousands):

Long-term Investments Classification

Amortized
Cost

Unrealized

Gains

(Losses)

Aggregate Fair
Market Value

December 31, 2022
Corporate bonds
U.S. Government bonds

December 31, 2021

U.S. Government bonds

Long-term Minority Investments

$

$

$
$

2,479
247,464
249,943

159,692
159,692

$

$

$
$

— $
52
52

$

10
10

$
$

(28) $

(2,152)
(2,180) $

(134) $
(134) $

2,451
245,364
247,815

159,568
159,568

The Company’s portfolio of minority investments consists of investments in privately held early-stage companies primarily 

motivated to gain early access to new technology and are passive in nature in that the Company typically does not seek to obtain 
representation on the boards of directors of the companies in which it invests. Minority investments, which include convertible notes, 
are included in investments on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of December 31, 2022, the Company had four minority 
investments with a total carrying value of $12.0 million accounted for as equity securities without readily determinable fair values as 
compared to two minority investments with a total carrying value of $8.5 million as of December 31, 2021. 

During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company recognized an impairment in the value of two of its minority 
investments, an impairment of  an equity security investment in the amount of $3.0 million and an impairment of a long-term 

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convertible note investment of $4.0 million which had been acquired in the current year. The impairment in the value of these 
minority investments are included in the other (loss) income, net line item on the Consolidated Statements of Income. 

4.

FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS:

The following table provides the assets and liabilities carried at fair value measured on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2022 

(in thousands):

Total Carrying Value
as of December 31,
 2022

Quoted Prices in 
Active Markets 
(Level 1)

Significant Other
Observable Inputs
(Level 2)

Significant Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)

Fair Value Measurements, Using

Cash equivalents
Short-term investments
Long-term corporate and U.S. Government 
bonds investments

$

7,162
484,345

$

7,162
484,345

$

247,815

247,815

— $
—

—

—
—

—

The following table provides the assets and liabilities carried at fair value measured on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2021 

(in thousands):

Total Carrying Value
as of December 31,
 2021

Quoted Prices in
Active Markets 
(Level 1)

Significant Other
Observable Inputs
(Level 2)

Significant Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)

Fair Value Measurements, Using

Cash equivalents
Short-term investments
Long-term U.S. Government bonds 
investments

$

55,115
351,194

$

55,115
351,194

$

159,568

159,568

— $
—

—

—
—

—

Level 1 inputs are quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 inputs are quoted prices 
for  similar  assets  and  liabilities  in  active  markets  or  inputs  that  are  observable  for  the  asset  or  liability,  either  directly  or  indirectly 
through market corroboration, for substantially the full term of the financial instrument. Level 3 inputs are unobservable inputs based 
on management’s own assumptions used to measure assets and liabilities at fair value. A financial asset’s or liability’s classification is 
determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement.

Changes in fair value of the debt investments are recorded as unrealized gains and losses in accumulated other comprehensive 
loss on the Consolidated Balance Sheets and any credit losses on debt investments are recorded as an allowance for credit losses with 
an offset recognized in other income, net on the Consolidated Statements of Income. There were no credit losses on debt investments as 
of December 31, 2022 or December 31, 2021. 

5.

INVENTORY:

Inventory consisted of the following (in thousands):

Raw materials
Work-in-process
Finished goods
Inventory

December 31,

2022

2021

115,448
7,626
60,146
183,220

$

$

75,227
16,065
42,868
134,160

$

$

The  Company  recorded  an  increase  in  inventory  reserve  of  $3.6  million,  $3.6  million  and  $1.1  million  for  the  years  ended 

December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively, due to excess inventory levels in certain products. 

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6.

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT:

Property and equipment, net consist of the following (in thousands):

Land
Building and improvements
Office and lab equipment
Furniture, fixtures and computer related assets
Construction-in-progress

Less: Accumulated depreciation
Property and equipment, net

December 31,

2022

2021

$

$

2,642
99,586
129,697
18,071
10,567
260,563
(117,118)
143,445

$

$

2,642
76,600
107,168
16,221
18,662
221,293
(92,461)
128,832

Depreciation expense was $24.8 million, $20.0 million and $15.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, 

respectively.

7.

GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS:

The  Company  monitors  the  recoverability  of  goodwill  annually  or  whenever  events  or  changes  in  circumstances  indicate  the 
carrying value may not be recoverable. Purchased intangible assets subject to amortization consist of acquired technology and other 
intangible assets that include trade names, customer relationships and developed intellectual property (IP) processes.

Acquired Technology

Acquired technology primarily consists of acquired license rights for patents and know-how obtained from PD-LD, Inc., Motorola, 

BASF SE (BASF) and Fujifilm. These intangible assets consist of the following (in thousands):

PD-LD, Inc.
Motorola
BASF
Fujifilm
Other

Less: Accumulated amortization
Acquired technology, net

December 31,

2022

2021

1,481
15,909
95,989
109,462
5,212
228,053
(189,671)
38,382

$

$

1,481
15,909
95,989
109,462
462
223,303
(173,635)
49,668

$

$

Amortization  expense  related  to  acquired  technology  was  $16.0  million,  $20.6  million  and  $20.6  million  for  the  years  ended 
December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Amortization expense is included in amortization of acquired technology and other 
intangible assets expense line item on the Consolidated Statements of Income and is expected to be $10.1 million in each of the years 
ending December 31, 2023, 2024, and 2025, $5.3 million in the year ending December 31, 2026, $521,000 in the year ending December 
31, 2027 and $2.3 million in total thereafter. 

Fujifilm Patent Acquisition

On July 23, 2012, the Company entered into a Patent Sale Agreement with Fujifilm. Under the agreement, Fujifilm sold more 
than 1,200 OLED-related patents and patent applications in exchange for a cash payment of $105.0 million, plus $4.5 million in costs 
incurred in connection with the purchase. The agreement contains customary representations and warranties and covenants, including 
respective covenants not to sue by both parties thereto. The agreement permitted the Company to assign all of its rights and obligations 
under the agreement to its affiliates, and the Company assigned, prior to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the 
agreement, its rights and obligations to UDC Ireland. The transactions contemplated by the agreement were consummated on July 26, 
2012. The Company recorded the $105.0 million plus $4.5 million of purchase costs as acquired technology, which was amortized over 
a period of 10 years ending in July 2022.

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BASF Patent Acquisition

On June 28, 2016, UDC Ireland entered into and consummated an IP Transfer Agreement with BASF. Under the IP Transfer 
Agreement, BASF sold to UDC Ireland all of its rights, title and interest to certain of its owned and co-owned intellectual property rights 
relating  to  the  composition,  development,  manufacture  and  use  of  OLED  materials,  including  OLED  lighting  and  display  stack 
technology, as well as certain tangible assets. The intellectual property includes knowhow and more than 500 issued and pending patents 
in the area of phosphorescent materials and technologies. These assets were acquired in exchange for a cash payment of €86.8 million 
($95.8  million).  In  addition,  UDC  Ireland  also  took  on  certain  rights  and  obligations  under  three  joint  research  and  development 
agreements to which BASF was a party. The IP Transfer Agreement also contains customary representations, warranties and covenants 
of the parties. UDC Ireland recorded the payment of €86.8 million ($95.8 million) and acquisition costs incurred of $217,000 as acquired 
technology, which is being amortized over a period of 10 years.

Other Intangible Assets

As a result of the Adesis acquisition in June 2016, the Company recorded $16.8 million of other intangible assets, including $10.5 
million assigned to customer relationships with a weighted average life of 11.5 years, $4.8 million to internally developed IP, processes 
and recipes with a weighted average life of 15 years, and $1.5 million to trade name and trademarks with a weighted average life of 10 
years.

At December 31, 2022, these other intangible assets consist of the following (in thousands):

Customer relationships
Developed IP, processes and recipes
Trade name/Trademarks
Other
Total identifiable other intangible assets

Gross Carrying
Amount

December 31, 2022
Accumulated
Amortization

Net Carrying
Amount

$

$

10,520
4,820
1,500
396
17,236

$

$

(5,887) $
(2,068)
(968)
(66)
(8,989) $

4,633
2,752
532
330
8,247

Amortization expense related to other intangible assets was $1.4 million for each of the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, 
and 2020. Amortization expense is included in amortization of acquired technology and other intangible assets expense line item on the 
Consolidated Statements of Income and is expected to be $1.4 million for each of the next four fiscal years (2023 - 2026), $1.3 million 
for the year ending December 31, 2027 and $1.3 million in total thereafter.

Goodwill 

As  a  result  of  the  Adesis  acquisition,  the  Company  recorded  $15.5  million  of  goodwill.  The  Company  performs  its  annual 
assessment of goodwill during the fourth quarter of the fiscal year unless events suggest an impairment may have been incurred in an 
interim  period  using  Adesis’  standalone  financial  operating  performance  information.  Application  of  the  goodwill  impairment  test 
requires the exercise of judgment, including the determination of the fair value of each reporting unit, as Adesis is considered to be the 
reporting unit. As part of the annual assessment of goodwill completed during the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022, there were 
no significant indicators to conclude that an impairment of the goodwill associated with the acquisition of Adesis had occurred.

8.

OTHER ASSETS:

Other assets consist of the following (in thousands):

Long-term taxes receivable
Right-of-use assets
Long-term contract assets
Other long-term assets
Other assets

December 31,

2022

2021

63,915
31,486
11,651
2,687
109,739

$

$

103,260
30,614
—
1,836
135,710

$

$

See Notes 9 and 20 for further explanation on right-of-use assets and non-current taxes receivable, respectively.

9.

LEASES:

The Company has entered into operating leases to facilitate the expansion of its manufacturing, research and development, and 
selling, general and administrative activities. For purposes of calculating operating lease liabilities, lease terms may be deemed to include 

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options to extend or terminate the lease when those events are reasonably certain to occur. The interest rate implicit in lease contracts is 
typically  not  readily  determinable  and  as  such  the  Company  uses  the  appropriate  incremental  borrowing  rate  based  on  information 
available at the lease commencement date in determining the present value of the lease payments. Current lease agreements do not 
contain any residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants. As of December 31, 2022, the Company did not have any finance 
leases and no additional operating leases that have not yet commenced.

The following table presents the Company’s operating lease cost and supplemental cash flow information related to the Company’s 

operating leases (in thousands):

Operating lease cost
Non-cash activity:

Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations

2022

Year Ended December 31,
2021

2020

$

$

4,436

4,750

$

$

3,637

26,174

$

$

The following table presents the Company’s operating lease right-of-use assets and liabilities (in thousands):

Right-of-use assets
Short-term lease liabilities
Long-term lease liabilities

December 31,

2022

2021

$

$

31,486
3,737
29,039

2,091

1,948

30,614
3,351
27,263

The  following  table  presents  weighted  average  assumptions  used  to  compute  the  Company’s  right-of-use  assets  and  lease 

liabilities:

Weighted average remaining lease term (in years)
Weighted average discount rate

December 31, 2022

7.7
3.4%

As of December 31, 2022, current operating leases had remaining terms between one and nine years with options to extend the 

lease terms.

Undiscounted future minimum lease payments as of December 31, 2022, by year and in the aggregate, having non-cancelable 

lease terms in excess of one year were as follows (in thousands):

2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
Thereafter
Total lease payments
Less: imputed interest
Present value of lease payments

Maturities of
Operating Lease Liabilities

4,616
4,643
4,696
4,722
4,624
12,211
35,512
(4,026)
31,486

$

$

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10. ACCRUED EXPENSES:

Accrued expenses consist of the following (in thousands):

Compensation
PPG Industries, Inc. agreement
Consulting
Professional fees
Royalties
Research and development agreements
Other
Accrued expenses

December 31,

2022

2021

$

$

31,751
9,864
910
906
877
662
6,032
51,002

$

$

27,686
8,853
1,314
1,000
691
1,469
4,461
45,474

11. RESEARCH AND LICENSE AGREEMENTS WITH ACADEMIC PARTNERS:

The Company has long-standing relationships with a number of academic institutions that undertake funded research projects, 

including Princeton University (Princeton) and the University of Southern California (USC).

Under  the  current  license  agreement  among  the  Company,  Princeton  and  USC,  the  universities  have  granted  the  Company 
worldwide,  exclusive  license  rights,  with  rights  to  sublicense,  to  make,  have  made,  use,  lease  and/or  sell  products  and  to  practice 
processes based on patent applications and issued patents arising out of research performed by the universities for the Company. The 
Company recorded royalty expense in connection with this agreement of $853,000, $691,000 and $11.1 million for the years ended 
December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. 

The Company also makes payments under the current research agreement with USC on a quarterly basis as actual expenses are 
incurred. As of December 31, 2022, the Company was obligated to pay USC up to $2.0 million for work to be performed during the 
remaining extended term. The Company recorded research and development expense in connection with work performed under the 
agreement of $905,000, $1.3 million and $1.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. 

12. OTHER LIABILITIES:

Other liabilities consist of the following (in thousands):

Long-term lease liabilities
Long-term taxes payable
Other long-term liabilities
Other liabilities

December 31,

2022

2021

$

$

29,039
14,592
54
43,685

$

$

27,263
47,791
1,023
76,077

See Notes 9 and 20 for further explanation on long-term lease liabilities and long-term taxes payable, respectively.

13. EQUITY AND CASH COMPENSATION UNDER THE PPG AGREEMENTS:

On September 22, 2011, the Company entered into an Amended and Restated OLED Materials Supply and Service Agreement 
with PPG Industries, Inc. (PPG) (the New OLED Materials Agreement), which, effective as of October 1, 2011, replaced the original 
OLED Materials Agreement with PPG. The term of the New OLED Materials Agreement, by amendment in February 2021, runs through 
December  31,  2024,  and  thereafter  is  automatically  renewed  for  additional  one-year  terms,  unless  terminated  by  the  Company  by 
providing prior notice of one year or terminated by PPG by providing prior notice of two years. The New OLED Materials Agreement 
contains provisions that are substantially similar to those of the original OLED Materials Agreement. Under the New OLED Materials 
Agreement, PPG continues to assist the Company in developing its proprietary OLED materials and supplying the Company with those 
materials for evaluation purposes and for resale to its customers.

Under the New OLED Materials Agreement, the Company compensates PPG on a cost-plus basis for the services provided during 
each calendar quarter. The Company is required to pay for some of these services in all cash. Up to 50% of the remaining services are 
payable, at the Company’s sole discretion, in cash or shares of the Company’s common stock, with the balance payable in cash. The 
actual number of shares of common stock issuable to PPG is determined based on the average closing price for the Company’s common 
stock during a specified number of days prior to the end of each calendar half-year period ending on March 31 and September 30. If, 

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however, this average closing price is less than $20.00, the Company is required to compensate PPG in cash. No shares have been issued 
for services rendered by PPG since the inception of the contract.

The Company is also required to reimburse PPG for raw materials used for research and development. The Company records the 

purchases of these raw materials as a current asset until such materials are used for research and development efforts.

In February 2021, the Company entered into an amendment to the New OLED Materials Agreement extending the term of the 
agreement and specifying operation and maintenance services that will be provided by PPG affiliate, PPG SCM Ireland Limited, to 
UDC Ireland, at the Company’s new manufacturing site in Shannon, Ireland, currently being leased by UDC Ireland’s wholly-owned 
subsidiary, OMM, for the production of OLED materials. Facility improvements have been completed and operations commenced in 
June 2022. As with the initial New OLED Materials Agreement, the Company will compensate PPG on a cost-plus basis for the services 
provided at the Shannon manufacturing facility.

The Company recorded research and development expense of $7.3 million, $3.6 million and $2.8 million for the years ended 
December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively, in relation to the cash portion of the reimbursement of expenses and work performed 
by PPG, excluding amounts paid for commercial OLED chemicals.

14.

SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY:

Preferred Stock

The Company’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation authorize it to issue up to 5,000,000 shares of $0.01 par value 
preferred  stock  with  designations,  rights  and  preferences  determined  from  time-to-time  by  the  Company’s  Board  of  Directors. 
Accordingly, the Company’s Board of Directors is empowered, without shareholder approval, to issue preferred stock with dividend, 
liquidation, conversion, voting or other rights superior to those of shareholders of the Company’s common stock.

In 1995, the Company issued 200,000 shares of Series A Nonconvertible Preferred Stock (Series A) to American Biomimetics 
Corporation (ABC) pursuant to a certain Technology Transfer Agreement between the Company and ABC. The Series A shares have a 
liquidation value of $7.50 per share. Series A shareholders, as a single class, have the right to elect two members of the Company’s 
Board of Directors. This right has never been exercised. Holders of the Series A shares are entitled to one vote per share on matters 
which shareholders are generally entitled to vote. The Series A shareholders are not entitled to any dividends. 

As of December 31, 2022, the Company had issued 200,000 shares of preferred stock, all of which were outstanding.

Common Stock

The Company’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation authorize it to issue up to 200,000,000 shares of $0.01 par value 
common stock. Each share of the Company’s common stock entitles the holder to one vote on all matters to be voted upon by the 
shareholders.

As of December 31, 2022, the Company had issued 49,136,030 shares of common stock, of which 47,770,382 were outstanding. 

During the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company repurchased no shares of common stock. 

Dividends

During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company declared and paid cash dividends of $1.20 per common share, or $57.0 

million, on the Company’s outstanding common stock.

On February 21, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a first quarter dividend of $0.35 per share to be paid on March 
31,  2023  to  all  shareholders  of  record  of  the  Company's  common  stock  as  of  the  close  of  business  on  March  17,  2023.  All  future 
dividends will be subject to the approval of the Company’s Board of Directors. 

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15. ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS:

Amounts related to the changes in accumulated other comprehensive loss were as follows (in thousands):

Unrealized
Gain (Loss) on
Available-for-
Sale-Securities

Net Unrealized
Gain (Loss) on 
Retirement Plan (2)

Change in Cumulative
Foreign Currency
Translation Adjustment

Total

Affected Line items in the 
Consolidated Statements of 
Income

Balance January 1, 2020, net 
of tax
Other comprehensive loss
   before reclassification

$

191 $

(17,167) $

(21) $

(16,997)

(100)

(21,464)

(14)

(21,578)

Reclassification to net income 
(1)

Change during period

Balance December 31, 2020, 
net of tax
Other comprehensive (loss) 
gain 
   before reclassification
Plan amendment cost

Reclassification to net income 
(1)

Change during period

Balance December 31, 2021, 
net of tax
Other comprehensive (loss) 
gain 
   before reclassification
Plan amendment cost

Reclassification to net income 
(1)

Change during period

Balance December 31, 2022, 
net of tax

—
(100)

91

(233)
—

—
(233)

(142)

2,556
(18,908)

(36,075)

13,620
(283)

4,719
18,056

(18,019)

—
(14)

(35)

(39)
—

—
(39)

(74)

2,556
(19,022)

(36,019)

13,348
(283)

4,719
17,784

(18,235)

(7,745)
—

5,971
—

(480)
—

(2,254)
—

—
(7,745)

2,037
8,008

—
(480)

2,037
(217)

$

(7,887) $

(10,011) $

(554) $

(18,452)

Selling, general 
and administrative,
research and 
development and
cost of sales

Selling, general 
and administrative,
research and 
development and
cost of sales

Selling, general 
and administrative,
research and 
development and
cost of sales

(1)

(2)

The Company reclassified amortization of prior service cost, actuarial loss and plan amendment cost for its retirement plan from accumulated 
other comprehensive loss to net income of $2.0 million, $4.7 million and $2.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, 
respectively. 
Refer to Note 17: Employee Retirement Plans 

16.

STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION:

Equity Compensation Plan

The Equity Compensation Plan provides for the granting of incentive and nonqualified stock options, shares of common stock, 
stock appreciation rights and performance units to employees, directors and consultants of the Company. Stock options are exercisable 
over periods determined by the Company’s Human Capital Committee, but for no longer than 10 years from the grant date. Through 
December 31, 2022, the Company’s shareholders have approved increases in the number of shares reserved for issuance under the Equity 

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Compensation Plan to 10,500,000, and have extended the term of the plan through 2024. As of December 31, 2022, there were 1,619,694 
shares that remained available to be granted under the Equity Compensation Plan.

Restricted Stock Award and Units

The Company has issued restricted stock awards and units to employees and non-employees with vesting terms of one to five 
years. The fair value is equal to the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant for awards granted to employees 
and equal to the market price at the end of the reporting period for unvested non-employee awards or upon the date of vesting for vested 
non-employee awards. Expense for restricted stock awards and units is amortized ratably over the vesting period for the awards issued 
to employees and using a graded vesting method for the awards issued to non-employees.

The following table summarizes the activity related to restricted stock unit (RSU) share based payment awards:

Unvested, January 1, 2022

Granted
Vested
Forfeited

Unvested, December 31, 2022

Number of
Shares

226,984
124,772
(101,909)
(19,624)
230,223

$

$

Weighted-
Average
Grant-Date
Fair Value

184.93
140.37
176.84
175.29
165.10

The weighted average grant-date fair value per unit of RSU awards granted was $140.37, $208.67 and $162.32 during the years 
ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The grant date fair value of RSUs that vested during the year was $18.0 million 
for  the  year  ended  December  31,  2022,  $12.5  million  for  the  year  ended  December  31,  2021  and  $6.5  million  for  the  year  ended 
December 31, 2020. The fair value of RSUs as of their respective vesting dates was $15.3 million for the year ended December 31, 
2022, $15.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 and $7.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. 

The following table summarizes the activity related to restricted stock award (RSA) share based payment awards:

Unvested, January 1, 2022

Granted
Vested

Unvested, December 31, 2022

Number of
Shares

Weighted-
Average
Grant-Date
Fair Value

75,327
2,024
(43,714)
33,637

$

$

185.86
148.35
189.88
178.37

The weighted average grant-date fair value per award of RSA awards granted was $148.35, $172.95 and $155.85 during the years 
ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The grant date fair value of RSAs that vested during the year was $8.3 million 
for the year ended December 31, 2022, $9.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 and $8.7 million for the year ended December 
31, 2020. The fair value of RSAs as of their respective vesting dates was $6.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, $20.0 
million for the year ended December 31, 2021 and $24.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. 

For the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, the Company recorded, as compensation charges related to restricted 
stock awards and units issued to employees and non-employees, selling, general and administrative expense of $14.3 million, $15.4 
million  and  $13.9  million,  respectively,  cost  of  sales  of  $2.2  million,  $2.5  million  and  $1.9  million,  respectively,  and  research  and 
development expense of $6.1 million, $5.2 million and $4.3 million, respectively.

In connection with the vesting of restricted stock awards and units during the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, 
54,856, 69,798 and 86,442 shares, respectively, with aggregate fair values of $8.4 million, $14.1 million and $12.5 million, respectively, 
were withheld in satisfaction of tax withholding obligations and are reflected as a financing activity within the Consolidated Statements 
of Cash Flows.

For the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, the Company recorded as compensation charges related to all restricted 
stock units to non-employee members of the Scientific Advisory Board, whose unvested shares are marked-to-market each reporting 
period, research and development expense of $234,000, $220,000 and $380,000, respectively. 

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The Company has granted restricted stock units to non-employee members of the Board of Directors with quarterly vesting over 
a period of approximately one year. The fair value is equal to the market price of the Company's common stock on the date of grant. 
The restricted stock units are issued and expense is recognized ratably over the vesting period. For the years ended December 31, 2022, 
2021 and 2020, the Company recorded compensation charges for services performed, related to all restricted stock units granted to non-
employee members of the Board of Directors, selling, general and administrative expense of $1.3 million, $1.2 million and $1.3 million, 
respectively. In connection with the vesting of the restricted stock, the Company issued to non-employee members of the Board of 
Directors 8,784, 5,412 and 6,456 shares during the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

As of December 31, 2022, the total unrecognized expense related to all restricted stock awards and units was $27.9 million, which 

the Company expects to recognize over a weighted average period of 1.91 years.

Performance Unit Awards

Each performance unit award is subject to both a performance-vesting requirement (either performance-based or market-based) 
and  a  service-vesting  requirement.  The  performance-based  vesting  requirement  is  tied  to  EBITDA  and  cash  flow  achievement,  as 
measured over a specific performance period. The market-based vesting requirement is tied to the Company's total shareholder return 
(TSR)  relative  to  the  TSR  of  companies  comprising  the  Nasdaq  Electronics  Components  Index,  as  measured  over  a  three-year 
performance period. The maximum number of performance units that may vest based on performance is three times the shares granted. 
Further, if the Company's performance falls below certain thresholds, the performance units will not vest at all.

The following table summarizes the activity related to performance unit awards (PSU) share based payment awards:

Unvested, January 1, 2022

Granted
Vested
Forfeited

Unvested, December 31, 2022

Number of
Shares

182,954
101,889
(11,364)
(45,613)
227,866

$

$

Weighted-
Average
Grant-Date
Fair Value

189.24
186.66
163.23
199.77
185.57

During the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, the Company granted 100,621, 77,086 and 95,772 performance units, 
respectively, of which 75,465, 42,291 and 47,885 units, respectively, are subject to performance-based vesting requirements and 25,156, 
34,795 and 47,887 units, respectively, are subject to market-based vesting requirements, and which will vest over the terms described 
above. During the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, there were 1,268, none, and 15,638 incremental performance-based 
shares, respectively, that vested resulting from an increased vesting factor based on Company performance. The weighted average grant 
date fair value per unit of the performance unit awards granted was $186.66, $214.70 and $167.74 during the years ended December 31, 
2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively, as determined by the Company’s common stock on date of grant for the units with performance-
based vesting and a Monte-Carlo simulation for the units with market-based vesting. The grant date fair value of PSUs that vested during 
the year was $1.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, $1.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 and $3.3 million 
for the year ended December 31, 2020. The fair value of PSUs as of their respective vesting dates was $1.8 million for the year ended 
December 31, 2022, $2.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 and $4.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. 

For  the  years  ended  December  31,  2022,  2021  and  2020,  the  Company  recorded,  as  compensation  charges  related  to  all 
performance stock units, selling, general and administrative expense of $2.8 million, $8.0 million and $4.3 million, respectively, cost of 
sales of $940,000, $1.3 million and $670,000, respectively, and research and development expense of $1.5 million, $2.1 million and 
$1.1 million, respectively. 

In connection with the vesting of performance units during the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, 5,082, 3,881 and 
12,877  shares,  respectively,  with  aggregate  fair  values  of  $826,000,  $875,000  and  $1.9  million,  respectively,  were  withheld  in 
satisfaction of tax withholding obligations and are reflected as a financing activity within the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.

As of December 31, 2022, the total unrecognized compensation expense related to performance unit awards was $13.7 million, 

which the Company expects to recognize over a weighted average period of 1.87 years. 

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Employee Stock Purchase Plan

On April 7, 2009, the Board of Directors of the Company adopted an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). The ESPP was 
approved  by  the  Company’s  shareholders  and  became  effective  on  June  25,  2009.  The  Company  has  reserved  1,000,000  shares  of 
common stock for issuance under the ESPP. Unless terminated by the Board of Directors, the ESPP will expire when all reserved shares 
have been issued.

Eligible  employees  may  elect  to  contribute  to  the  ESPP  through  payroll  deductions  during  consecutive  three-month  purchase 
periods, the first of which began on July 1, 2009. Each employee who elects to participate will be deemed to have been granted an option 
to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock on the first day of the purchase period. Unless the employee opts out during the 
purchase  period,  the  option  will  automatically  be  exercised  on  the  last  day  of  the  period,  which  is  the  purchase  date,  based  on  the 
employee’s accumulated contributions to the ESPP. The purchase price will equal 85% of the lesser of the closing price per share of 
common stock on the first day of the period or the last business day of the period.

Employees may allocate up to 10% of their base compensation to purchase shares of common stock under the ESPP; however, 
each employee may purchase no more than 12,500 shares on a given purchase date, and no employee may purchase more than $25,000 
of common stock under the ESPP during a given calendar year.

For the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, the Company issued 17,057, 9,156 and 9,668 shares, respectively, of its 
common stock under the ESPP, resulting in proceeds of $1.6 million, $1.5 million and $1.2 million, respectively. For the years ended 
December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, the Company recorded charges of $107,000, $93,000 and $96,000, respectively, to selling, general 
and  administrative  expense,  $141,000,  $119,000,  $111,000,  respectively,  to  cost  of  sales  and  $224,000,  $188,000  and  $139,000, 
respectively, to research and development expense, related to the ESPP equal to the amount of the discount and the value of the look-
back feature.

Scientific Advisory Board Awards

During the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company granted a total of 2,024 and 1,400 shares, respectively, of 
fully  vested  common  stock  to  non-employee  members  of  the  Scientific  Advisory  Board  for  services  performed  in  2021  and  2020, 
respectively.  The  fair  value  of  the  shares  issued  to  members  of  the  Scientific  Advisory  Board  was  $300,000  for  both  years  ended 
December 31, 2022 and 2021.  

17. EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT PLANS:

Defined Contribution Plan

The Company maintains the Universal Display Corporation 401(k) Plan (the Plan) in accordance with the provisions of Section 
401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code). The Plan covers substantially all full-time employees of the Company. Participants 
may contribute up to 90% of their total compensation to the Plan, not to exceed the limit as defined in the Code. Once an employee is 
eligible to participate in the Plan, the Company will make a non-elective contribution equal to 3% of the employee’s total compensation. 
For  the  years  ended  December  31,  2022,  2021  and  2020,  the  Company  contributed  $1.4  million,  $1.3  million  and  $1.1  million, 
respectively, to the Plan.

Defined Benefit Plan

On  March  18,  2010,  the  Human  Capital  Committee  and  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Company  approved  and  adopted  the 
Universal Display Corporation Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (SERP), effective as of April 1, 2010. On March 3, 2015, the 
Human Capital Committee and the Board of Directors amended the SERP to include salary and bonus as part of the plan. Prior to this 
amendment, the SERP benefit did not take into account any bonuses. The purpose of the SERP, which is unfunded, is to provide certain 
of the Company’s key employees with supplemental pension benefits following a cessation of their employment and to encourage their 
continued employment with the Company. As of December 31, 2022 there were eight participants in the SERP.

The SERP benefit is based on a percentage of the participant’s annual base salary and in certain cases, the participant's average 
annual bonus for the most recent three fiscal years ending prior to the participant's date of termination of employment with the Company 
for the life of the participant. For this purpose, annual base salary means 12 times the average monthly base salary paid or payable to 
the participant during the 24-month period immediately preceding the participant’s date of termination of employment, or, if required, 
the date of a change in control of the Company.

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Under the SERP, if a participant resigns or is terminated without cause at or after age 65 and with at least 20 years of service, he 
or she will be eligible to receive a SERP benefit. The benefit is based on a percentage of the participant’s annual base salary and bonus 
for the life of the participant. This percentage is 50%, 25% or 15%, depending on the participant’s benefit class.

If a participant resigns at or after age 65 and with at least 15 years of service, he or she will be eligible to receive a prorated SERP 
benefit. If a participant is terminated without cause or on account of a disability after at least 15 years of service, he or she will be eligible 
to receive a prorated SERP benefit regardless of age. The prorated benefit in either case would be based on the participant’s number of 
years of service (up to 20), divided by 20. In the event a participant is terminated for cause, his or her SERP benefit and any future 
benefit payments are subject to immediate forfeiture.

The SERP benefit is payable in installments over 10 years, beginning at the later of age 65 or the date of the participant’s separation 
from service. Payments are based on a present value calculation of the benefit amount for the actuarial remaining life expectancy of the 
participant. This calculation is made as of the date benefit payments are to begin (later of age 65 or separation from service). If the 
participant dies after reaching age 65, any future or remaining benefit payments are made to the participant’s beneficiary or estate. If the 
participant dies before reaching age 65, the benefit is forfeited.

In the event of a change in control of the Company, each participant will become immediately vested in his or her SERP benefit. 
Unless the participant’s benefit has already fully vested, if the participant has less than 20 years of service at the time of the change in 
control, he or she will receive a prorated benefit based on his or her number of years of service (up to 20), divided by 20. If the change 
in control qualifies as a “change in control event” for purposes of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code, then each participant 
(including former employees who are entitled to SERP benefits) will receive a lump sum cash payment equal to the present value of the 
benefit immediately upon the change in control.

Certain of the Company’s executive officers are designated as special participants under the SERP. If these participants resign or 
are terminated without cause after 20 years of service, or at or after age 65 and with at least 15 years of service, they will be eligible to 
receive a SERP benefit. If they are terminated without cause or on account of a disability, they will be eligible to receive a prorated 
SERP benefit regardless of age. The prorated benefit would be based on the participant’s number of years of service (up to 20), divided 
by 20.

The SERP benefit for special participants is based on 50% of their annual base salary and bonus for their life and the life of their 
surviving  spouse,  if  any.  Payments  are  based  on  a  present  value  calculation  of  the  benefit  amount  for  the  actuarial  remaining  life 
expectancies of the participant and their surviving spouse, if any. If they die before reaching age 65, the benefit is not forfeited if the 
surviving spouse, if any, lives until the participant would have reached age 65. If their spouse also dies before the participant would 
have reached age 65, the benefit is forfeited.

The  Company  records  amounts  relating  to  the  SERP  based  on  calculations  that  incorporate  various  actuarial  and  other 
assumptions, including discount rates, rate of compensation increases, retirement dates, and life expectancies. The net periodic costs are 
recognized as employees render the services necessary to earn the SERP benefits.

In connection with the initiation and subsequent amendments of the SERP, the Company recorded cost related to prior service of 
$12.5  million  as  accumulated  other  comprehensive  loss  as  of  December  31,  2022.  The  prior  service  cost  is  being  amortized  as  a 
component of net periodic pension cost over the average of the remaining service period of the employees expected to receive benefits 
under the plan. The prior service cost expected to be amortized for the year ending December 31, 2023 is $1.3 million.

Information relating to the Company’s plan is as follows (in thousands):

Change in benefit obligation:

Benefit obligation, beginning of year
Service cost
Interest cost
Actuarial (gain) loss
Plan amendment
Benefit obligation, end of year

Fair value of plan assets
Unfunded status of the plan, end of year
Current liability
Non-current liability

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Year Ended December 31,

2022

2021

66,773
1,287
1,383
(7,639)
—
61,804
—
61,804
2,014
59,790

$

$
$
$

78,527
1,675
1,165
(14,956)
362
66,773
—
66,773
—
66,773

$

$
$
$

The  accumulated  benefit  obligation  for  the  plan  was  $59.5  million  and  $63.3  million  as  of  December  31,  2022  and  2021, 
respectively. The actuarial gain of $7.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily due to an increase in the discount 
rate. The actuarial gain of $15.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily due to a reduction in the three-year average 
cash bonus paid to participants.

The components of net periodic pension cost were as follows (in thousands):

Service cost
Interest cost
Amortization of prior service cost
Amortization of loss
Total net periodic benefit cost

2022

Year Ended December 31,
2021

2020

1,287
1,383
1,119
1,487
5,276

$

$

1,675
1,165
1,099
4,936
8,875

$

$

1,092
1,285
1,098
2,181
5,656

$

$

The measurement date is the Company’s fiscal year end. The net periodic pension cost is based on assumptions determined at the 

prior year end measurement date.

Assumptions used to determine the year end benefit obligation were as follows:

Discount rate
Rate of compensation increases

Assumptions used to determine the net periodic pension cost were as follows:

Discount rate
Rate of compensation increases

Year Ended December 31,

2022

2021

4.94%
3.50%

2.16%
3.50%

2022

Year Ended December 31,
2021

2020

2.16%
3.50%

1.54%
3.50%

2.64%
3.50%

Actuarial gains and losses are amortized from accumulated other comprehensive loss into net periodic pension cost over future 
years based upon the average remaining service period of active plan participants, when the accumulation of such gains or losses exceeds 
10% of the year end benefit obligation. The cost or benefit of plan changes that increase or decrease benefits for prior employee service 
(prior service cost or credit) is included in the Company’s results of income on a straight-line basis over the average remaining service 
period of active plan participants.

The estimated amounts to be amortized from accumulated other comprehensive loss into the net periodic pension cost in 2023 are 

as follows (in thousands):

Amortization of prior service cost
Amortization of loss
Total

$

$

815
480
1,295

Benefit payments, which reflect estimated future service, are currently expected to be paid as follows (in thousands):

2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028-2032
Thereafter

Year

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$

Projected 
Benefits

2,014
5,785
5,785
7,101
7,539
41,093
23,737

18. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES:

Commitments

Under the current research agreement with USC, the Company is obligated to make certain payments to USC based on work 
performed by it under that agreement, and by the University of Michigan (Michigan) under a subcontractor agreement that Michigan 
has with USC. 

Under the terms of the current license agreement among the Company, Princeton and USC, the Company makes royalty payments 

to Princeton. See Note 11 for further explanation.

The Company has agreements with six executive officers and 12 senior level employees which provide for certain cash and other 
benefits upon termination of employment of the officer or employee in connection with a change in control of the Company. If a covered 
person’s employment is terminated in connection with the change in control, the person is entitled to a lump-sum cash payment equal 
to two times (in the case of the executive officers) or either one or two times (in the case of the senior level employees) the sum of the 
average annual base salary and bonus of the person and immediate vesting of all stock options and other equity awards that may be 
outstanding at the date of the change in control, among other items. 

In order to manage manufacturing lead times and help ensure adequate material supply, the Company entered into the New OLED 
Materials Agreement (see Note 13) that allows PPG to procure and produce inventory based upon criteria as defined by the Company. 
These purchase commitments consist of firm, noncancelable and unconditional commitments. In certain instances, this agreement allows 
the Company the option to reschedule and adjust the Company’s requirements based on its business needs prior to firm orders being 
placed. As of December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, the Company had purchase commitments for inventory of $31.9 million, $25.7 million 
and $13.7 million, respectively.

Patent Related Challenges and Oppositions

Each major jurisdiction in the world that issues patents provides both third parties and applicants an opportunity to seek a further 
review of an issued patent. The process for requesting and considering such reviews is specific to the jurisdiction that issued the patent 
in  question,  and  generally  does  not  provide  for  claims  of  monetary  damages  or  a  review  of  specific  claims  of  infringement.  The 
conclusions made by the reviewing administrative bodies tend to be appealable and generally are limited in scope and applicability to 
the specific claims and jurisdiction in question.

The Company believes that opposition proceedings are frequently commenced in the ordinary course of business by third parties 
who may believe that one or more claims in a patent do not comply with the technical or legal requirements of the specific jurisdiction 
in  which  the  patent  was  issued.  The  Company  views  these  proceedings  as  reflective  of  its  goal  of  obtaining  the  broadest  legally 
permissible patent coverage permitted in each jurisdiction. Once a proceeding is initiated, as a general matter, the issued patent continues 
to be presumed valid until the jurisdiction’s applicable administrative body issues a final non-appealable decision. Depending on the 
jurisdiction, the outcome of these proceedings could include affirmation, denial or modification of some or all of the originally issued 
claims. The Company believes that as OLED technology becomes more established and its patent portfolio increases in size, so will the 
number of these proceedings.

Below is a summary of an active proceeding that has been commenced against an issued patent that is exclusively licensed to the 
Company. The Company does not believe that the confirmation, loss or modification of the Company’s rights in any individual claim 
or set of claims that are the subject of the following legal proceeding would have a material impact on the Company’s material sales or 
licensing business or on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements, including its Consolidated Statements of Income, as a whole. 
In certain circumstances, when permitted, the Company may also utilize a proceeding to request modification of the claims to better 
distinguish  the  patented  invention  from  any  newly  identified  prior  art  and/or  improve  the  claim  scope  of  the  patent  relative  to 
commercially important categories of the invention. 

Opposition to European Patent No. 1390962

In September 2022, the Opposition Division made a final determination that the patent, which was described in prior filings and 
has now expired in accordance with its original term, was valid based on amended claims submitted by the Company to the Opposition 
Division in 2016. 

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19. CONCENTRATION OF RISK:

Revenues and accounts receivable from the Company's largest customers for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020 

were as follows (in thousands):

Customer
A
B
C

2022

$

% of Total 
Revenue
41%
25%
16%

Accounts 
Receivable

11,425
24,440
22,291

2021

$

% of Total 
Revenue
44%
26%
14%

Accounts 
Receivable

10,850
45,867
18,557

2020

$

% of Total 
Revenue
41%
30%
13%

Accounts 
Receivable

20,476
26,776
2,757

Revenues from outside of North America represented approximately 97% of consolidated revenue for each of the years ended 

December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020. Revenues by geographic area are as follows (in thousands):

Country

South Korea
China
Japan
Other non-U.S. locations
Total non-U.S. locations
United States
Total revenue

2022

Year Ended December 31,
2021

2020

$

$

360,640
230,582
5,579
3,829
600,630
15,989
616,619

$

$

334,835
192,079
7,358
3,137
537,409
16,116
553,525

$

$

263,079
142,076
7,405
1,728
414,288
14,579
428,867

The Company attributes revenue to different geographic areas on the basis of the location of the customer.

Long-lived assets (net), by geographic area are as follows (in thousands):

Country

United States
Ireland
Other
Total long-lived assets

December 31,

2022

2021

$

$

117,255
20,270
5,920
143,445

$

$

115,004
7,000
6,828
128,832

 Substantially all chemical materials were purchased from one supplier. See Note 13.

20.

INCOME TAXES:

The components of income before income taxes are as follows (in thousands):

United States
Foreign
Income before income taxes

2022

Year ended December 31,
2021

77,205
191,025
268,230

$

$

60,066
168,181
228,247

$

$

$

$

2020

38,839
124,690
163,529

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The components of the income tax expense are as follows (in thousands):

Current income tax (expense) benefit:

Federal
State
Foreign

Deferred income tax (expense) benefit:

Federal
State
Foreign

Income tax expense

2022

Year ended December 31,
2021

2020

$

$

(51,980) $
(1,833)
(31,302)
(85,115)

25,916
1,216
(186)
26,946
(58,169) $

(16,433) $
(641)
(25,212)
(42,286)

(844)
(734)
(170)
(1,748)
(44,034) $

(14,773)
(568)
(19,262)
(34,603)

4,883
(34)
(403)
4,446
(30,157)

Reconciliation of the statutory U.S. federal tax rate to the Company's effective tax rate is as follows:

Statutory U.S. federal income tax rate
State income taxes, net of federal benefit
Effect of foreign operations
Accruals and reserves
Nondeductible employee compensation
Research tax credits
Stock based compensation
U.S. International Tax (Sub F, GILTI, FDII)
Other
Effective tax rate

2022

Year ended December 31,
2021

2020

21.0%
0.1
(4.9)
—
1.9
(1.9)
0.2
4.2
1.1
21.7%

21.0%
0.2
(5.0)
(0.8)
3.0
(1.4)
(0.3)
2.1
0.5
19.3%

21.0%
0.2
(5.2)
(1.0)
2.6
(1.8)
(0.9)
3.5
—
18.4%

The  following  table  summarizes  Company  tax  credit  carry  forwards  for  tax  return  purposes  as  of  December  31,  2022  (in 

thousands):

Tax credit carry forwards:
State research tax credits
Total credit carry forwards

Tax Benefit

Expiration Date

$
$

8,100
8,100

2029-2037

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Significant components of the Company's net deferred tax assets and liabilities are as follows (in thousands):

Deferred tax asset:

Capitalized research expenditures
Retirement plan
Tax credit carry forwards
Lease Liabilities
Accruals and reserves
Deferred revenue
Stock-based compensation
Other

Valuation allowance

Deferred tax assets
Deferred tax liability:

Accruals and reserves

Deferred tax liabilities
Net deferred tax assets

December 31,

2022

2021

$

$

38,485
13,495
8,100
7,230
6,944
2,077
1,454
3,400
81,185
(11,087)
70,098

(11,937)
(11,937)
58,161

$

$

3,150
14,560
6,156
5,360
4,733
11,361
1,110
1,020
47,450
(5,911)
41,539

(8,086)
(8,086)
33,453

In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or 
all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent on the Company's ability 
to generate future taxable income to obtain benefit from the reversal of temporary differences, net operating loss carryforwards and tax 
credits.  As  part  of  its  assessment,  management  considers  the  scheduled  reversal  of  deferred  tax  liabilities,  projected  future  taxable 
income, and tax planning strategies. At this time there is no evidence to release the valuation allowance that has been recorded for the 
New Jersey research and development credit and unrealized loss on investments.

The U.S.-Korean Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) for the years ended December 31, 2010 to December 31, 2017 was closed 
in September 2022, resulting in a refund of the Korean withholding taxes previously withheld. The Company will amend the U.S. federal 
tax returns to reflect the refund and to redetermine the foreign tax credit amount. In November 2022, the Company prepaid $18.8 million 
to the IRS under Rev. Proc. 2005-18 to offset the tax payable amount. As a result, the Company has recorded a long-term asset of $3.0 
million and $36.9 million and a long-term payable of none and $16.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and December 31, 
2021, respectively, for the estimated amounts due to the U.S. federal government. The Company also recorded a reduction of deferred 
tax assets for foreign tax credits and research and development credits of $20.7 million on the December 31, 2022 and December 31, 
2021 Consolidated Balance Sheets.

On December 27, 2018, regarding the withholding taxes for the years 2018 to 2022, the Korean Supreme Court, citing prior cases, 
held  that  only  royalties  paid  with  respect  to  Korean  registered  patents  are  considered  Korean  source  income  and  subject  to  Korean 
withholding  tax  under  the  applicable  law  and  interpretation  of  the  Korea-U.S.  Tax  Treaty.  The  Company  has  incurred  Korean 
withholding tax of $14.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2018 to December 31, 2022. Based on the Korean Supreme Court 
decision, a tax refund request on behalf of the Company was filed during October 2021 with the Korean National Tax Service (KNTS) 
for over-withheld taxes from January 1, 2018 to the second quarter of 2021. The Company has since been advised by a prominent Korean 
law firm that there is a more-likely-than-not chance of success. The Company has also filed an administrative hearing request with the 
Korean Tax Tribunal in order to expedite the refund process and the case remains pending. The Company plans to file a refund request 
for over-withheld taxes from the third quarter of 2021 to December 31, 2022. 

The Company will also amend U.S. federal tax returns for the 2018 to 2020 years when the anticipated refund from KNTS is 
received to offset the additional tax liability and to redetermine the research and development credit utilization. In November 2022, the 
Company prepaid $16.0 million to the IRS under Rev. Proc. 2005-18 that relates to the anticipated tax payable. As a result, the Company 
has recorded a long-term asset of $60.9 million and $53.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, 
respectively. Also, as of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the Company recorded a long-term liability of $14.6 million and 
$31.6 million, respectively, for the estimated amounts due to the U.S. federal government based on the amendment of the Company's 
U.S. tax returns indicating that lower withholding amounts were required. 

On October 30, 2018, the KNTS concluded a tax audit with LG Display that pertained to the licensing and royalty payments made 
to UDC Ireland during the years 2015 through 2017. The KNTS questioned whether UDC Ireland was the beneficial owner of these 
payments and assessed UDC Ireland a charge of $13.2 million for withholding taxes and interest for the three-year period. UDC Ireland 
engaged a prominent Korean law firm which believed it was more-likely-than-not that UDC Ireland had beneficial ownership of the 

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underlying intellectual property. Based on this authority, UDC Ireland paid the assessment which was recorded as a long-term asset as 
of December 31, 2021. In September 2020, the Korean District Court ruled in favor of UDC Ireland on the beneficial ownership issue 
and the ruling was affirmed by the Korean High Court in August 2021, upon which the KNTS appealed the ruling to the Korean Supreme 
Court. On January 13, 2022, the Korean Supreme Court dismissed the appeal from the KNTS which resulted in UDC Ireland recovering 
the charge of $13.2 million for withholding taxes plus interest for the three-year period in February 2022. 

The Company is not subject to examinations by the U.S. federal tax authority for the years prior to 2010. The Company's state 
and foreign tax returns are open for a period of generally three to four years. The Company is currently under a California state tax audit 
for the years 2019 and 2020, which is in the information-collecting stage.

The above estimates may change in the future and upon settlement.

21. REVENUE RECOGNITION:

The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with ASC Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). The 
standard establishes the principles that an entity shall apply to report useful information to users of financial statements about the nature, 
amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows from a contract with a customer.  

For each of the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, the Company recorded 97% of its revenue from OLED related 

sales and 3% from the providing of services through Adesis, respectively.

Contract Balances

The following table provides information about assets and liabilities associated with the Company's contracts from customers (in 

thousands):

Accounts receivable
Short-term unbilled receivables
Short-term contract assets
Long-term contract assets
Short-term deferred revenue
Long-term deferred revenue

$

As of December 31, 2022

92,664
24,073
2,733
11,651
45,599
18,279

Short-term  and  long-term  unbilled  receivables  and  contract  assets  are  classified  as  other  current  assets  and  other  assets, 
respectively, on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Contract assets represent consideration related to the renewal of customer contracts 
which is recognized over the contract term based on material units sold. The deferred revenue balance as of December 31, 2022 will be 
recognized as materials are shipped to customers over the remaining contract periods. As of December 31, 2022, the Company had 
$21.9 million of backlog associated with committed purchase orders from its customers for phosphorescent emitter material. These 
orders are anticipated to be fulfilled within the next 90 days.

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Significant changes in the assets and liabilities balances associated with the Company's contracts from customers for the years 

ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, are as follows (in thousands):

Balance at December 31, 2021
Revenue recognized that was previously included in deferred revenue, net
Increases due to cash received
Cumulative catch-up adjustment arising from changes in estimates of
   transaction price, net
Unbilled receivables recorded, net
Contract assets recorded, net
Net change
Balance at December 31, 2022

Balance at December 31, 2020
Revenue recognized that was previously included in deferred revenue, net
Increases due to cash received
Cumulative catch-up adjustment arising from changes in estimates of
   transaction price, net
Unbilled receivables recorded, net
Transferred to receivables from unbilled receivables
Net change
Balance at December 31, 2021

Year Ended December 31, 2022

Assets

Liabilities

8,127
—
—

—
15,946
14,384
30,330
38,457

$

$

(157,081)
239,608
(176,667)

30,262
—
—
93,203
(63,878)

Year Ended December 31, 2021

Assets

Liabilities

10,429
—
—

—
32,720
(35,022)
(2,302)
8,127

$

$

(162,301)
192,778
(201,484)

13,926
—
—
5,220
(157,081)

$

$

$

$

The cumulative catch-up adjustment arising from changes in estimates of transaction price, net for the year ended December 31, 
2022 increased by $16.3 million as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021. The increase in the cumulative catch-up adjustment 
arising from changes in estimates of transaction price, net was primarily due to a decrease in anticipated customer demand over their 
remaining contract lives. 

22. NET INCOME PER COMMON SHARE:

The Company computes earnings per share in accordance with ASC Topic 260, Earnings per Share, which requires earnings per 
share (EPS) for each class of stock to be calculated using the two-class method. The two-class method is an allocation of income between 
the holders of common stock and the Company's participating security holders. Under the two-class method, income for the reporting 
period  is  allocated  between  common  shareholders  and  other  security  holders  based  on  their  respective  participation  rights  in 
undistributed income. Unvested share-based payment awards that contain non-forfeitable rights to dividends or dividend equivalents are 
participating securities and, therefore, are included in computing earnings per share pursuant to the two-class method.

Basic net income per common share is computed by dividing net income allocated to common shareholders by the weighted-
average number of shares of common stock outstanding for the period excluding unvested restricted stock units and performance units. 
Net  income  allocated  to  the  holders  of  the  Company's  unvested  restricted  stock  awards  is  calculated  based  on  the  shareholders 
proportionate share of weighted average shares of common stock outstanding on an if-converted basis. 

For purposes of determining diluted net income per common share, basic net income per share is further adjusted to include the 
effect of potential dilutive common shares outstanding, including stock options, restricted stock units and performance units, and the 
impact of shares to be issued under the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

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The following table is a reconciliation of net income and the shares used in calculating basic and diluted net income per common 

share for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020 (in thousands, except share and per share data):

Numerator:

Net income
Adjustment for Basic EPS:
Earnings allocated to unvested shareholders
Adjusted net income

Denominator:

Weighted average common shares outstanding – Basic
Effect of dilutive shares:
Common stock equivalents arising from stock options and ESPP
Restricted stock awards and units and performance units
Weighted average common shares outstanding – Diluted

Net income per common share:

Basic
Diluted

2022

Year Ended December 31,
2021

2020

210,061

$

184,213

$

133,372

(1,215)
208,846

$

(1,137)
183,076

$

(1,001)
132,371

47,390,352

47,296,447

47,198,982

2,340
75,815
47,468,507

1,010
67,978
47,365,435

1,566
36,446
47,236,994

4.41
4.40

$
$

3.87
3.87

$
$

2.80
2.80

$

$

$
$

 For the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, the combined effects of unvested restricted stock awards, restricted 

stock units, performance unit awards and stock options of 122,843, none and none, respectively, were excluded from the calculation of 
diluted EPS as their impact would have been antidilutive.

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