U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 3
INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
Cotugno Stephen
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(Last) (First) (Middle)
c/o Professional Detailing, Inc.
10 Mountainview Road
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(Street)
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458
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(City) (State) (Zip)
09/01/2000
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2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
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3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an entity (Voluntary)
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4. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Professional Detailing, Inc. Nasdaq National Market: "PDII"
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5. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
|_| Director |_| 10% Owner
|X| Officer (give title below) |_| Other (specify below)
Executive Vice President
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6. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Day/Year)
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7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line)
|X| Form filed by One Reporting Person
|_| Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
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Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
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3. Ownership Form:
2. Amount of Securities Direct (D) or
1. Title of Security Beneficially Owned Indirect (I) 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 4) (Instr. 4) (Instr. 5) (Instr. 5)
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<S> <C> <C> <C>
Common Stock, par value $.01 per share 851 D
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* If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person see instruction
5(b)(v).
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially
owned directly or indirectly.
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FORM 3 (continued)
Table II -- Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
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5. Owner-
3. Title and Amount of Securities ship
Underlying Derivative Security Form of
2. Date Exercisable (Instr. 4) Derivative
and Expiration Date --------------------------------- 4. Conver- Security:
(Month/Day/Year) Amount sion or Direct 6. Nature of
---------------------- or Exercise (D) or Indirect
Date Expira- Number Price of Indirect Beneficial
1. Title of Derivative Exer- tion of Derivative (I) Ownership
Security (Instr. 4) cisable Date Title Shares Security (Instr. 5) (Instr. 5)
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<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Options to acquire common *1 May 19, Common Stock, par 20,000 $16.00 D
stock, par value $.01 per 2008 value $.01 per share
share
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Options to acquire common *2 October Common Stock, par 15,000 $27.1875 D
stock, par value $.01 per 28, 2009 value $.01 per share
share
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Explanation of Responses: *1: Currently exercisable with respect to 13,334
shares, and the remaining 6,666 shares shall be exercisable on 05/19/01; and
*2: The option granted 10/28/99 is exercisable as follows: 5,000 shares on each
of 10/28/00, 10/28/01 and 10/28/02.
/s/ Stephen Cotugno 09/11/00
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** Signature of Reporting Person Date
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal
Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
If space provided is insufficient, See Instruction 6 for procedure.
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