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As of the date of the filing of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we are responding to the comment letter
received on February 5, 2009, and have not resolved the comment described above. We believe that we properly
account for the payments related to our distribution arrangements. We will continue to work to resolve this
comment with the SEC.
ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
We lease approximately 1.5 million square feet of office space and 51 acres of undeveloped land in our
headquarters in Mountain View, California. We also lease additional research and development, sales and support
offices in the United States in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Atlanta, Georgia, Austin, Texas, Birmingham, Michigan,
Boulder, Colorado, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chicago, Illinois, Coppell, Texas, Irvine,
California, Kirkland, Washington, Lexington, Massachusetts, Madison, Wisconsin, New York, New York, Overland
Park, Kansas, Palo Alto, California, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Reston, Virginia, San Bruno, California, San Francisco,
California, Santa Monica, California, Seattle, Washington, Thornton, Colorado and Washington, D.C.
We own land and buildings primarily near our headquarters in Mountain View, California. We own
approximately 2.5 million square feet of buildings and approximately 7 acres of developable land to accommodate
anticipated future growth.
We maintain leased facilities internationally in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan,
Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom.
We also operate and own data centers in the United States, the European Union and Asia pursuant to various
lease agreements and co-location arrangements.
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
From time to time, we are involved in a variety of claims, suits, investigations and proceedings arising from
the ordinary course of our business, including actions with respect to intellectual property claims, breach of
contract claims, labor and employment claims, tax and other matters. Although claims, suits, investigations and
proceedings are inherently uncertain and their results cannot be predicted with certainty, we believe that the
resolution of our current pending matters will not have a material adverse effect on our business, consolidated
financial position, results of operations or cash flow. Regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse
impact on us because of defense costs, diversion of management resources and other factors. In addition, it is
possible that an unfavorable resolution of one or more such proceedings could in the future materially and
adversely affect our financial position, results of operations or cash flows in a particular period. See the risk factors
“Our intellectual property rights are valuable, and any inability to protect them could reduce the value of our
products, services and brand” and “We are, and may in the future be, subject to intellectual property rights claims,
which are costly to defend, could require us to pay damages and could limit our ability to use certain technologies
in the future” in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
No matters were submitted to a vote of our security holders during the fourth quarter of 2008.
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