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Registration Statement on Form S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 28, 2010

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE

SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

VERMILLION, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware		33-059-5156
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

47350 Fremont Boulevard Fremont, CA (510) 226-2800		94536
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

Vermillion, Inc. 2010 Stock Incentive Plan, 2000 Stock Plan and 1999 Stock Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Gail S. Page

Chief Executive and Chair of the Board

47350 Fremont Boulevard,

Fremont, CA

(Name and address of agent for service)

(510) 226-2800

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

Robert Claassen,

Esq. Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

1117 S. California Avenue

Palo Alto, CA 94304

(650) 320-1800

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE



Title of Securities to be Registered	Amount to be Registered	Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share (1)	Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price(1)	Amount of Registration Fee (2)
2010 Stock Incentive Plan, par value $0.001 per share	1,322,983 shares	$19.13	$25,308,665	$1,805
2000 Stock Plan, par value $0.001 per share (currently outstanding options)	676,581 shares	$19.13	$12,942,995	$923
1993 Stock Plan, par value $0.001 per share (currently outstanding options)	1,720 shares	$19.13	$32,904	$2

(1)

Calculated in accordance with Rule 457(h) and (c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee. The computation is based upon the average of the high and low price of the Common Stock as reported on the “Pink Sheets” on May 25, 2010, equal to $19.13 per share.

(2)

Amount of the Registration Fee was calculated pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and was determined by multiplying the aggregate offering amount by 0.0000713. This Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of Registrant’s Common Stock that become issuable under the Vermillion, Inc. 2010 Stock Incentive Plan by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any other similar transaction effected without the Registrant’s receipt of consideration that results in an increase in the number of the Registrant’s outstanding shares of Common Stock.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or given to participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act. These document(s) and the documents incorporated by reference herein pursuant to Item 3 of Part II hereof, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.

Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

(a)

The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 filed with the Commission on May 20, 2010;

(b)

All other reports field by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) (other than information contained in Current Reports on Form 8-K that is deemed furnished and not filed), since the fiscal year covered by the annual report referred to in (a) above;

(c)

The description of the Common Stock of the Registrant that is contained in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) on September 22, 2000, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All other reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part of this Registration Statement from the date of the filing of such reports and documents, except as to any portion of any future annual or quarterly report to stockholders or document or current report furnished under current Items 2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K that is not deemed filed under such provisions.

Item 4.

Description of Securities.

Not Applicable.

Item 5.

Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Not Applicable.

Item 6.

Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

The Registrant’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Certificate”), limits, to the maximum extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (“Delaware Law”), as the same exists or may hereafter be amended, the personal liability of directors for monetary damages for their conduct as a director. The Registrant’s Bylaws (the “Bylaws”) provide that the Registrant shall indemnify its officers and directors and may indemnify its employees and other agents to the fullest extent permitted by law against expenses, including attorneys fees, judgments, fines, settlements, and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any proceeding arising out of their status as our agent. The Bylaws also allow us to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was one of our directors, officers, employees or agents against any liability arising out of the person’s status as such, whether or not we would have the power to indemnify the person under Delaware Law.

Section 145 of the Delaware Law provides that a corporation may indemnify a director, officer, employee or agent made a party to an action by reason of the fact that he was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation or was serving at the request of the corporation against expenses actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation and with respect to any criminal action, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.

Delaware Law does not permit a corporation to eliminate a director’s duty of care, and the provisions of the Certificate have no effect on the availability of equitable remedies such as injunction or rescission, based upon a director’s breach of the duty of care. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Registrant has been informed that in the opinion of the staff of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

Item 7.

Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not Applicable.

Item 8.

Exhibits.

The Exhibits listed on the accompanying Index to Exhibits are filed as part hereof, or incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. (See Exhibit Index below.)

Item 9.

Undertakings.

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

(1)

To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

(i)

To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

(ii)

To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of the securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of a prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective Registration Statement;

(iii)

To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement;

Provided, however, that paragraphs (A)(1)(i) and (A)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

(2)

That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3)

To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes, that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a)) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at the time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission, such indemnification as against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Fremont, State of California on May 28, 2010.


VERMILLION, INC.

By:		/s/ GAIL S. PAGE
		Gail S. Page
		Chief Executive and Chair of the Board

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Gail S. Page and Sandra A. Gardiner, or any of them, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution and revocation, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file or cause to be filed the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the foregoing, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.


Signatures	Title	Date

/s/ GAIL S. PAGE Gail S. Page	Chief Executive and Chair of the Board (Principal Executive Officer)	May 28, 2010

/s/ SANDRA A. GARDINER Sandra A. Gardiner	Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)	May 28, 2010

/s/ JAMES S. BURNS James S. Burns	Director	May 28, 2010

/s/ JOHN F. HAMILTON John F. Hamilton	Director	May 28, 2010

/s/ WILLIAM C. WALLEN William C. Wallen	Director	May 28, 2010

/s/ PETER S. RODDY Peter S. Roddy	Director	May 28, 2010

/s/ CARL SEVERINGHAUS Carl Severinghaus	Director	May 28, 2010

INDEX TO EXHIBITS


Exhibit Number		Exhibit Document

5.1		Opinion of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, as to the legality of securities being registered.

10.1		2010 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 12, 2010).

10.2		2000 Stock Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 of the Registrant’s Form S-1/A, File No. 333-32812, filed with the Commission on August 24, 2000).

10.3		1993 Stock Option Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the Registrant’s Form S-1, File No. 333-32812, filed with the Commission on March 20, 2000).

23.1		Consent of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1 hereto).

23.2		Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

24.1		Power of Attorney. Reference is made to the signature page of this Registration Statement on Form S-8.