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Table of Contents
Proprietary Rights
Our EarthLink, EarthLink Business, EarthLink Carrier and PeoplePC trademarks are valuable assets to our business, and are registered
trademarks in the United States. In particular, we believe the strength of these brands among existing and potential customers is important to the
success of our business. Additionally, our EarthLink, EarthLink Business, EarthLink Carrier and PeoplePC service marks, proprietary
technologies, domain names and similar intellectual property are also important to the success of our business. We principally rely upon
trademark law as well as contractual restrictions to establish and protect our technology and proprietary rights and information. We require
employees and consultants and, when possible, suppliers and distributors to sign confidentiality agreements, and we generally control access to,
and distribution of, our technologies, documentation and other proprietary information. We will continue to assess appropriate occasions for
seeking trademark and other intellectual property protections for those aspects of our business and technology that we believe constitute
innovations providing us with a competitive advantage. From time to time, third parties have alleged that certain of our technologies infringe on
their intellectual property rights. To date, none of these claims has had an adverse effect on our ability to market and sell our services.
Employees
As of January 31, 2013, we had 3,034 employees. None of our employees are represented by a labor union, and we have no collective
bargaining agreements. We consider our relationship with our employees to be good and have not experienced interruptions of operations due to
labor disagreements.
Available Information
We file annual reports, quarterly reports, current reports, proxy statements and other documents with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The public may read and copy any materials that we file with
the SEC at the SEC's Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation
of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at (202) 942-
8090. Also, the SEC maintains an Internet web site that contains reports, proxy
and information statements, and other information regarding issuers, including EarthLink, that file electronically with the SEC. The public can
obtain any documents that we file with the SEC at http://www.sec.gov.
We also make available free of charge on or through our Internet web site (http://www.earthlink.net) our Annual Report on Form 10-
K,
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-
K, and, if applicable, amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to
Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as well as Section 16 reports filed on Forms 3, 4 and 5, as soon as reasonably
practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. Our Internet web site is not meant to be incorporated by
reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
We also provide a copy of our Annual Report on Form 10-
K via mail, at no cost, upon receipt of a written request to the following
address:
Investor Relations
EarthLink, Inc.
1375 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309
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