UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT

TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported) December 30, 2004

 

Interleukin Genetics, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

Delaware

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

 

000-23413

 

94-3123681

(Commission File Number)

 

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

 

 

135 Beaver Street Waltham, MA

 

02452

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

(781) 398-0700

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 

 

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

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Item 1.01 Entry into a Definitive Material Agreement.

 

On December 30, 2004, the Registrant entered into a Director Indemnity Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Mr. William J. Viveen, Jr. pursuant to which the Registrant shall indemnify the director to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law in the event that the director is involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, or any inquiry or investigation, whether brought by or in the right of the Registrant or by any other party and whether of a civil, criminal, administrative or investigative nature, by reason of the fact that the director is or was a director of the Registrant, or is or was serving at the request of the Registrant as a director, officer, employee, agent or fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against all expenses, judgments, fines and penalties, provided that the director shall not have been finally adjudged to have engaged in willful misconduct or to have acted in a manner which was knowingly fraudulent or deliberately dishonest, or had reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful..

 

A copy of the Agreement is included as Exhibit 99.1, which is incorporated in this Item 1.01 by reference.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(c) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

99.1

 

Director Indemnity Agreement, dated December 30, 2004, by and between the Registrant and Mr. William J. Viveen, Jr. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.13 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 5, 2003).

 

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SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

Interleukin Genetics, Inc.

 

 

(Registrant)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date: December 30, 2004

/s/ Philip R. Reilly

 

 

Philip R. Reilly

 

Chairman of the Board and

 

Chief Executive Officer

 

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