[LOGO] NUMBER SHARESAS COMMON STOCK AETHER HOLDINGS, INC. CUSIPPAR VALUE $0.01 SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAINDEFINITIONS INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE THIS CERTIFICATE IS TRANSFERABLE IN BOSTON, MA OR NEW YORK, NY

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Exhibit 4.1

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NUMBER
      SHARES
AS
       
COMMON STOCK
  AETHER HOLDINGS, INC.   CUSIP
PAR VALUE $0.01
      SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN
DEFINITIONS
       

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
THIS CERTIFICATE IS TRANSFERABLE IN BOSTON, MA OR NEW YORK, NY

This Certifies that _____________________________________________________________________________
is the owner of

FULLY PAID AND NONASSESSABLE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK,
PAR VALUE $0.01 PER SHARE, OF
AETHER HOLDINGS, INC.

(the “Corporation”), a Delaware corporation. The Shares represented by this certificate are transferable only on the stock transfer books of the Corporation by the holder of record hereof, or by his duly authorized attorney or legal representative, upon the surrender of this certificate properly endorsed. This certificate is not valid until countersigned and registered by the Corporation’s transfer agent and registrar.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this certificate to be executed by the facsimile signature of its duly authorized officers and has caused a facsimile of its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed.

Dated:

           
 
[SIG]
  [SEAL]   [SIG]
 
Secretary
      Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Countersigned and Registered:
           
 
  BANKBOSTON, N.A.
 
     
By
[SIG]   Transfer Agent and Registrar,
 
  Authorized Signature  

AETHER HOLDINGS, INC.

THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION (THE “CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION”) OF THE CORPORATION CONTAINS RESTRICTIONS PROHIBITING THE TRANSFER (AS DEFINED IN THE CORPORATION’S CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION) OF ANY STOCK OF THE CORPORATION (INCLUDING THE CREATION OR GRANT OF CERTAIN OPTIONS) WITHOUT THE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CORPORATION (THE “BOARD OF DIRECTORS”) IF SUCH TRANSFER AFFECTS THE PERCENTAGE OF STOCK OF THE CORPORATION (WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 382 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”) AND THE TREASURY REGULATIONS PROMULGATED THEREUNDER), THAT IS TREATED AS OWNED BY A FIVE PERCENT STOCKHOLDER UNDER THE CODE AND SUCH REGULATIONS. IF THE TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS ARE VIOLATED, THEN THE TRANSFER WILL BE VOID AB INITIO AND THE PURPORTED TRANSFEREE OF THE STOCK WILL BE REQUIRED TO TRANSFER EXCESS SECURITIES (AS DEFINED IN THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION) TO THE CORPORATION’S AGENT. IN THE EVENT OF A TRANSFER WHICH DOES NOT INVOLVE SECURITIES OF THE CORPORATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF DELAWARE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW (“SECURITIES”) BUT WHICH WOULD VIOLATE THE TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS, THE PURPORTED TRANSFEREE (OR THE RECORD OWNER) OF THE SECURITIES WILL BE REQUIRED TO TRANSFER SUFFICIENT SECURITIES PURSUANT TO THE TERMS PROVIDED FOR IN THE CORPORATION’S CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION TO CAUSE THE FIVE PERCENT STOCKHOLDER TO NO LONGER BE IN VIOLATION OF THE TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS. THE CORPORATION WILL FURNISH WITHOUT CHARGE TO THE HOLDER OF RECORD OF THIS CERTIFICATE A COPY OF THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION, CONTAINING THE ABOVE-REFERENCED TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS, UPON WRITTEN REQUEST TO THE CORPORATION AT ITS PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS.

 


 

     The Corporation will furnish to any stockholder upon request and without charge a full statement of the powers, designations, limitations and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of the shares of each class authorized to be issued, the qualifications, limitations and restrictions of such preferences and rights, the variations in the relative rights and preferences between shares of any series of any authorized preferred class so far as they have been fixed and determined, and the authority of the Board of Directors to fix and determine the relative rights and preferences of subsequent series of any such preferred class.

     The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

           
 
TENN COM — as tenants in common
    UNIF GIFT MIN ACT—......CUSTODIAN.  
 
TEN ENT — as tenants by the entireties
    (Cust) (Minor)  
 
JT TEN — as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common
    under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act ___(State)  
 

     Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

For value received,_________________________________hereby sell, assign and transfer
Unto______________________________________________________________________

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER
IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS INCLUDING ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE)
______________________________________________________________________shares of Common Stock represented by the within
Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint______________________________________________________
Attorney to transfer the said shares on the books to the within-named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

DATED
_________________________________

_____________________________________
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment
must correspond with the name as written
upon the face of the Certificate, in every
particular, without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatever.