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Exhibit 3.1
 
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT TO
THE AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
DISCOVERY LABORATORIES, INC.

(Pursuant to Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware)
 
Discovery Laboratories, Inc. a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "General Corporation Law"),
 
DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:
 
1.           That the name of this corporation is Discovery Laboratories, Inc. (the “Corporation”), and that the Corporation was originally incorporated pursuant to the General Corporation Law on November 6, 1992 under the name Ansan, Inc.
 
2.           That thereafter, the Stockholders duly approved the following amendment to the Corporation's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as previously amended and the amendment set forth below shall become effective upon the filing and effectiveness pursuant to the General Corporation Law of this of Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation:
 
The first paragraph of Article FOURTH of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation is amended and restated to read as follows:
 
“The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 105,000,000, consisting of 100,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), and 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $.001 per share (the “Preferred Stock”).”
 
3.           Except as set forth in this Certificate of Amendment, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as previously amended, remains in full force and effect.
 
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Certificate of Amendment has been executed by a duly authorized officer of the Corporation on this 3rd day of October, 2011.

 
By: 
/s/ W. Thomas Amick
    Name:  W. Thomas Amick
    Title:    Chairman of the Board and
   
 Chief Executive Officer
 
 
 

 
     
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT TO
THE AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
DISCOVERY LABORATORIES, INC.

(Pursuant to Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware)

Discovery Laboratories, Inc. a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "General Corporation Law"),

DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

1.   That the name of this corporation is Discovery Laboratories, Inc. (the “Corporation”), and that the Corporation was originally incorporated pursuant to the General Corporation Law on November 6, 1992 under the name Ansan, Inc.

2.  That at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, resolutions were duly adopted setting forth proposed amendments to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, declaring said amendments to be advisable and calling a meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation for consideration thereof.

3.   That such amendments were duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law by the Board of Directors and stockholders of the Corporation, and that such amendments are set forth in this Certificate of Amendment.

4.   That upon the effectiveness of this Certificate of Amendment as set forth in paragraph 5 below, Article FOURTH of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation is amended and restated to read as follows:

The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is 55,000,000 consisting of 50,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), and 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Preferred Stock”).

On December 28, 2010, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time (the “Effective Time”), each fifteen (15) shares of the Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall automatically be combined into one (1) validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable share of Common Stock without any further action by the Corporation or the holder thereof, subject to the treatment of fractional share interests as described below (the “Reverse Stock Split”).  No fractional shares will be issued as a result of the Reverse Stock Split.  Instead, stockholders who otherwise would be entitled to receive a fractional share of Common Stock as a consequence of the Reverse Stock Split will be entitled to receive cash in an amount equal to the product obtained by multiplying (i) the closing sale price of our Common Stock on the business day immediately preceding the effective date of the Reverse Stock Split as reported on the The Nasdaq Capital Market®  by (ii) the number of shares of our Common Stock held by the stockholder that would otherwise have been exchanged for the fractional share interest.  Each certificate that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented shares of Common Stock ("Old Certificates"), shall thereafter represent that number of shares of Common Stock into which the shares of Common Stock represented by the Old Certificate shall have been combined, subject to the elimination of fractional share interests as described above.
 
 
 

 
 
5.   This Certificate of Amendment shall become effective on December 28, 2010 at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time.

6.  Except as set forth in this Certificate of Amendment, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as previously amended, remains in full force and effect.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Certificate of Amendment has been executed by a duly authorized officer of the Corporation on this 27th day of December 2010.
 
 
By:
/s/ W. Thomas Amick
 
 
 
Name:  W. Thomas Amick
 
 
 
Title:    Chairman of the Board and
 
 
 
 Chief Executive Officer
 
 
 
 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

DISCOVERY LABORATORIES, INC.

(Pursuant to Sections 228, 242, and 245 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware)

The Corporation was originally incorporated on November 6, 1992, under the name “Ansan, Inc.”

ARTICLE ONE

The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the “Corporation”) is Discovery Laboratories, Inc.

ARTICLE TWO

The address, including street, number, city, and county, of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, City of Wilmington, County of New Castle; and the name of the registered agent of the Corporation in the State of Delaware at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

ARTICLE THREE

The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

ARTICLE FOUR

Authorization. The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 385,000,000 consisting of 380,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), and 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $.001 per share (the “Preferred Stock”).

The Board of Directors may divide the Preferred Stock into any number of series, fix the designation and number of shares of each such series, and determine or change the designation, relative rights, preferences, and limitations of any series of Preferred Stock.  The Board of Directors (within the limits and restrictions of any resolutions adopted by it originally fixing the number of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock) may increase or decrease the number of shares initially fixed for any series, but no such decrease shall reduce the number below the number of shares then outstanding and shares duly reserved for issuance.

ARTICLE FIVE

In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors shall have the power, both before and after receipt of any payment for any of the Corporation's capital stock, to adopt, amend, repeal or otherwise alter the Bylaws of the Corporation without any action on the part of the stockholders; provided, however, that the grant of such power to the Board of Directors shall not divest the stockholders of nor limit their power to adopt, amend, repeal, or otherwise alter the Bylaws.

 
 

 
 
ARTICLE SIX

Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide.

ARTICLE SEVEN

The Corporation reserves the rights to adopt, repeal, rescind or amend in any respect any provisions contained in this Certificate of Incorporation in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by applicable law, and all rights conferred on stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

ARTICLE EIGHT

A director of the Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as it now exists or as it may hereafter be amended, not be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director.  Neither any amendment nor repeal of this Article EIGHT, nor the adoption of any provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article EIGHT, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article EIGHT in respect of any matter occurring or any cause of action, suit or claim that, but for this Article EIGHT, would accrue or arise prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.

ARTICLE NINE

This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Discovery Laboratories, Inc., has caused this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by its duly authorized officer this 9th day of December 2009.
 
 
 
DISCOVERY LABORATORIES, INC.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
By: 
/s/ W. Thomas Amick
 
 
 
Name: W. Thomas Amick
 
 
 
Title:   Chairman of the Board and interim
   
Chief Executive Officer