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accession: "0001104659-25-030932"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AAOI"
cik: "0001158114"
company_name: "APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-04-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T23:12:31.175836+00:00"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Applied Optoelectronics reduces quorum for special stockholder meetings to 33.33% of voting power

## Summary
- Board approved Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated By-laws on April 2, 2025.
- New quorum for special meetings set at one-third (33.33%) of issued and outstanding voting stock.
- Change applies to any special meeting of stockholders held after the amendment.
- Full text filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Form 8-K.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-030932
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AAOI
- cik: 0001158114
- company_name: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-04-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000110465925030932/0001104659-25-030932-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000110465925030932/tm2511114d1_8k.htm

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