---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001553350-21-000949"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NNUP"
cik: "0000888981"
company_name: "NOCOPI TECHNOLOGIES INC/MD/"
filed_at: "2021-10-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T16:26:46.498136+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nocopi adopts classified board, supermajority removal, board-controlled vacancies under Maryland law

## Summary
- Board classified into three classes with staggered three-year terms; directors previously elected annually.
- Stockholder removal of directors requires 2/3 supermajority vote and must be for cause.
- Board alone may fix the number of directors; stockholders previously could amend articles or bylaws.
- Board vacancies filled only by remaining directors; stockholders lose fill-in authority.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001553350-21-000949
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NNUP
- cik: 0000888981
- company_name: NOCOPI TECHNOLOGIES INC/MD/
- filed_at: 2021-10-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/888981/000155335021000949/0001553350-21-000949-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/888981/000155335021000949/nnup_8k.htm

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