1.             Organization and Business

Kips Bay Medical, Inc. (“we”, “us” or “our”) was incorporated in the state of Delaware on May 1, 2007. We are a medical device company focused on manufacturing and commercializing our external saphenous vein support technology, or eSVS Mesh, for use in coronary artery bypass grafting (“CABG”) surgery. Our eSVS Mesh is a nitinol mesh sleeve that, when placed over a saphenous vein graft during CABG surgery, is designed to improve the structural characteristics and long-term performance of the saphenous vein graft. In CABG procedures, surgeons harvest blood vessels, including the internal mammary artery from the chest and the saphenous vein from the leg, and attach the harvested vessels to bypass, or provide blood flow around, blocked coronary arteries.

Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

In 2012 we adopted the amended provisions of the Comprehensive Income topic of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Codification. The amended provisions were issued to enhance comparability between entities that report under GAAP and IFRS and to provide a more consistent method of presenting non-owner transactions that affect an entity’s equity. This topic eliminates the option to report other comprehensive income and its components in the statement of changes in stockholders’ equity and requires an entity to present the total of comprehensive income, the components of net income and the components of other comprehensive income either in a single continuous statement or in two separate but consecutive statements. The adoption of this amendment did not have a material effect on our Financial Statements as the amendment only impacts presentation.