IMMERSION CORP

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Our consolidated subsidiary, Barnes & Noble Education, is a public company which may expose us to additional costs, and our management may be required to devote substantial time to compliance initiatives.

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On June 10, 2024, we acquired ownership of approximately 42.0% of the common stock of Barnes & Noble Education and as a public company, with a consolidated subsidiary that is also a public company, we incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses to comply with the requirements applicable to public companies. Many of our personnel and other resources are devoted to ensuring we, and Barnes & Noble Education, comply with requirements applicable to public companies. These further exhausts management and other personnel resources that could be used for other revenue-generating activities.

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***Changes in Barnes & Noble Education’s relationships with significant clients and suppliers, including the loss or reduction in business fromone or more of them, could have a material adverse impact on its ***business.

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The products that Barnes & Noble Education sells originate from a wide variety of domestic and international vendors. During fiscal 2024, Barnes & Noble Education’sfour largest retail suppliers, excluding its wholesale business which fulfills orders for all its physical and virtual bookstores, accounted for approximately 28% of its merchandise purchased, with the largest supplier accounting for approximately 7% of its merchandise purchased. Barnes & Noble Education’s wholesale business sources over 95% of its inventory fromtwo primary channels, approximately 55% from third-party suppliers and approximately 40% from retail bookstores (including its retail bookstores). Suppliers may modify the terms of these relationships due to general economic conditions or otherwise or, especially with respect to wholesale inventory, publishers could terminate distribution to wholesalers, including Barnes & Noble Education’s wholesale business.

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Barnes & Noble Education does not have long-term arrangements with most of its suppliers to guarantee availability of merchandise, content or services, particular payment terms or the extension of credit limits. If Barnes & Noble Education’s current suppliers were to stop selling merchandise, content or services to it on acceptable terms, including as a result ofone or more supplier bankruptcies due to poor economic conditions or refusal by such suppliers to ship products to us due to delayed or extended payment windows as a result of Barnes & Noble Education’s own liquidity constraints, Barnes & Noble Education may be unable to procure the same merchandise, content or services from other suppliers in a timely and efficient manner and on acceptable terms, or at all. Additionally, delayed or incomplete publisher shipments of physical textbook orders, or delays in receiving digital courseware access codes, could have an adverse impact on sales, including Barnes & Noble Education’s BNC First Day Complete equitable access program, which relies upon timely receipt of inventory in advance of class start dates each academic term.

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Furthermore, certain of Barnes & Noble Education’s merchandise is sourced indirectly from outside the United States. Political or financial instability, merchandise quality issues, product safety concerns, trade restrictions, work stoppages, tariffs, foreign currency exchange rates, transportation capacity and costs, inflation, civil unrest, natural disasters, public health crises, epidemics, and pandemics, and other factors relating to foreign trade are beyond its control and could disrupt its supply of foreign-sourced merchandise.

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Recently announced changes to U.S. trade policy, including recently announced tariffs, could adversely affect Barnes & Noble Education's business.

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Recently, the United States announced tariffs on products manufactured in several jurisdictions, including Canada, China, and Mexico, and has made announcements regarding the potential imposition of tariffs on products from other jurisdictions, such as the European Union. The President of the United States has also directed various federal officials to evaluate other aspects of United States trade policy. While the United States has temporarily paused the imposition of tariffs on Canadian and Mexican products, the pause may be lifted in whole or in part. The United States may take other action to impose, reimpose or increase tariffs, and countries subject to such tariffs may impose reciprocal tariffs or other restrictive trade measures in response to the imposition of tariffs by the United States.

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Certain of Barnes & Noble Education's merchandise is sourced indirectly from outside the United States. Political or financial instability, merchandise quality issues, product safety concerns, trade restrictions, work stoppages, tariffs, foreign currency exchange rates, transportation capacity and costs, inflation, civil unrest, natural disasters, public health crises, epidemics, and pandemics, and other factors relating to foreign trade are beyond Barnes & Noble Education'scontrol and could disrupt Barnes & Noble Education'ssupply of foreign-sourced merchandise.

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Barnes & Noble Education is monitoring and evaluating any potential impacts that increased tariffs and other trade restrictions may have on Barnes & Noble Education's business, and considering ways in which Barnes & Noble Education may offset these impacts. There is no assurance, however, that Barnes & Noble Education will be successful in mitigating the effects on Barnes & Noble Education of increased trade regulation in the current environment.

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Stock Repurchase Program

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On December 29, 2022, our Board approved a stock repurchase program of up to $50.0 million of our common stock for a period of up totwelve months (the “December 2022 Stock Repurchase Program”), which terminated and superseded the stock repurchase program that had been approved by the Board on February 23, 2022. Any stock repurchases may be made through open market and privately negotiated transactions, at such times and in such amounts as management deems appropriate, including pursuant toone or more Rule 10 b 5-1 trading plans adopted in accordance with Rule 10 b 5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Additionally, the Board authorized the use of any derivative or similar instrument to effect stock repurchase transactions, including without limitation, accelerated share repurchase contracts, equity forward transactions, equity option transactions, equity swap transactions, cap transactions, collar transactions, naked put options, floor transactions or other similar transactions or any combination of the foregoing transactions. The December 2022 Stock Repurchase Program was implemented as a method to return value to our stockholders. The timing, pricing and sizes of any repurchases will depend on a number of factors, including the market price of our common stock and general market and economic conditions. The December 2022 Stock Repurchase Program does not obligate us to repurchase any dollar amount or number of shares, and the program may be suspended or discontinued at any time. On August 8, 2023, the Board approved an amendment to extend the expiration date of the December 2022 Stock Repurchase Program that was set to expire on December 29, 2023, to December 29, 2024. On August 27, 2024, the Board approved an amendment to extend the expiration date of the December 2022 Stock Repurchase Program that was set to expire on December 29, 2024, to December 29, 2025.

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During 2023, we repurchased 1,217,774 shares of our common stock for $8.3 million at an average purchase price of $6.77 per share. During thenine months ended January 31, 2025, we repurchased 136,668 shares of our common stock for $1.2 million at an average purchase price of $8.55 per share. As of January 31, 2025, we had $40.6 million available for repurchase under the December 2022 Stock Repurchase Program.

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(1) The amounts represent the amount available to repurchase shares under the authorized repurchase program as of January 31, 2025. Our stock repurchase program does not obligate the Company to acquire any specific number of shares.