UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-Q

 

[X]QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2020March 31, 2021

 

or

 

[  ]TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the Transition Period from _________ to _________

 

Commission file number: 000-21990

 

MATEON THERAPEUTICS, INC.Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware 13-3679168

(State or other jurisdiction of

of incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

29397 Agoura Road Suite 107

Agoura Hills, CA

 91301
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

 

(650) 635-7000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

N/AMateon Therapeutics, Inc.

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class Trading Symbol(s) Name of exchange on which registered
None MATNOTLC N/A

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes [X] No [  ]

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes [X] No [  ]

 

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

 

Large accelerated filer[  ]Accelerated filer[  ]
    
Non-accelerated filer[X]Smaller reporting company[X]
    
  Emerging growth company[  ]

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act: [  ]

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes [  ] No [X]

 

As of November 11, 2020,May 20, 2021, there were 89,601,912369,696,959 shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding.

 

 

 

 

MATEONONCOTELIC THERAPEUTICS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

(Formerly Mateon Therapeutics, Inc.)

FORM 10-Q

FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2020MARCH 31, 2021

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

  Page
   
PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
   
ITEM 1.Financial Statements (unaudited)3
   
 Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 and December 31, 201920203
   
 Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30,March 31, 2021 and 2020 and 20194
   
 Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30,March 31, 2021 and 2020 and 20195
   
 Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the NineThree Months Ended September 30,March 31, 2021 and 2020 and 20197
   
 Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements8
   
ITEM 2.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations3435
   
ITEM 3.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk4349
   
ITEM 4.Controls and Procedures4349
   
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION 
   
ITEM 1.Legal Proceedings4551
   
ITEM 1A.Risk Factors4551
   
ITEM 2.Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds4651
   
ITEM 3.Defaults Upon Senior Securities4651
   
ITEM 4.Mine Safety Disclosures4651
   
ITEM 5.Other Information4651
   
ITEM 6.Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules4652
   
SIGNATURES53

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PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Financial Statements

 

ONCOTELIC THERAPEUTICS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Unaudited)
       
  March 31,  December 31, 
  2021  2020 
       
ASSETS        
Current assets:        
Cash $830,719  $474,019 
Restricted cash 20,000  20,000 
Accounts receivable  19,748   19,748 
Prepaid & other current assets  84,707   101,869 
         
Total current assets  955,174   615,636 
         
Development equipment, net of depreciation of 73,823 and $101,810  7,610   10,148 
Intangibles, net of accumulated amortization of $98,449 and $136,974  860,365   873,206 
In process R&D, net of accumulated amortization of $275,440 and $275,440  

1,101,760

   1,101,760 
Goodwill  21,062,453   21,062,455 
Total assets $23,987,362  $23,663,205 
         
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY        
Current liabilities:        
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $3,594,260  $2,735,805 
Accounts payable to related party  365,323   391,631 
Contingent Consideration  2,625,000   2,625,000 
Derivative liability on Notes  1,168,784   777,024 
Convertible debt for clinical trial  2,030,356   2,000,000 
Convertible debt, net of costs  958,882   1,091,612 
Convertible debt, related party, net of costs  425,181   297,989 
Private placement convertible debt, net of costs  1,520,720   943,586 
Private placement convertible debt, related party, net of costs  85,664   67,992 
Payroll Protection Plan loan  252,349   251,733 
         
Total current liabilities  13,026,519   11,182,372 
         
Commitments and contingencies (Note 11)        
         
Stockholders’ equity:        
Convertible Preferred stock, $0.01 par value, 15,000,000 shares authorized;  0 and 278,188 shares issued and outstanding  -   2,782 
Common stock, $.01 par  value; 750,000,000 and 150,000,000 shares authorized; 369,446,959  and 90,601,912 issued and outstanding, respectively  3,694,469   906,019 
Additional paid-in capital  30,690,013   32,493,086 
Accumulated deficit  (24,433,088)  (21,630,008)
         
Total Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc. stockholders’ equity  

9,951,394

   11,771,879 
Non-controlling interests  1,009,449   708,954 
         
Total stockholders’ equity  10,960,843   12,480,833 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $23,987,362  $23,663,205 

The accompanying footnotes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

MATEONONCOTELIC THERAPEUTICS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS ASSTATEMENTS OF SEPTEMBER 30,OPERATIONS

For the Three MONTHS ended MARCH 31, 2021 and 2020 AND DECEMBER 31, 2019

(Unaudited)

 

  September 30,  December 31, 
  2020  2019 
       
ASSETS        
Current assets:        
Cash $1,362,188  $81,964 
Restricted cash  20,000   - 
Accounts receivable  

19,748

   149,748 
Prepaid & other current assets  88,010   41,288 
         
Total current assets  

1,489,946

   273,000 
         
Development equipment, net of depreciation of $83,152 and $64,404  19,477   47,554 
Intangibles, net of accumulated amortization of $124,133 and $85,608  886,047   924,572 
In process R&D, net of accumulated amortization of $206,580 and $0  1,170,620   1,377,200 
Goodwill  21,062,455   21,062,455 
Total assets $24,628,545  $23,684,781 
         
 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY        
Current liabilities:        
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $

2,731,620

  $2,054,983 
Accounts payable to related party  385,002   601,682 
Contingent consideration  2,625,000   2,625,000 
Derivative liability on Notes  776,470   540,517 
Convertible debt, net of costs  1,017,868   944,450 
Convertible debt, related party, net of costs  330,674   16,474 
Private placement convertible debt, net of costs  612,892   - 
Private placement convertible debt, related party, net of costs  33,274   - 
Payroll Protection Plan loan  251,104   - 
         
Total current liabilities  

8,763,904

   6,783,106 
        
Commitments and contingencies (Note 11)        
         
Stockholders’ equity:        
Convertible Preferred stock, $0.01 par value, 15,000,000 shares authorized; 278,188 and 278,188 shares issued and outstanding  2,782   2,782 
Common stock, $.01 par value; 150,000,000 shares authorized; 89,601,912 and 84,069,967 issued and outstanding, respectively  896,020   840,700 
Additional paid-in capital  32,176,064   28,185,599 
Accumulated deficit  (18,189,766)  (12,127,406)
Total Mateon Therapeutics, Inc stockholders’ equity  14,885,100   16,901,675 

Non-controlling interest

  

979,541

   - 
Total stockholders’ equity  

15,864,641

   

16,901,675

 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $24,628,545  $23,684,781 
  For the Three Months Ended March 31, 
  2021  2020 
       
Service Revenue $-  $340,855 
         
Operating expenses:        
Research and development  1,556,673   311,999 
General and administrative  481,209   2,677,503 
Total operating expenses  2,037,882   2,989,502 
         
Loss from operations  (2,037,882)  (2,648,647)
Other expense:        
Interest expense, net  (520,906)  (1,148,351)
Change in fair value of derivative on debt  (536,345)  (736,298)
Loss on debt conversion  (27,504)  (124,598)
Total other expense  (1,084,755)  (2,009,247) 
Net loss before non-controlling interests  (3,122,637)  (4,657,894)
Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests  (319,557)  - 
Net loss attributable to Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc. $(2,803,080) $(4,657,894)
         
Basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stock $(0.03) $(0.05)
Basic and diluted weighted average common stock outstanding  94,193,348   84,917,073 

 

The accompanying footnotes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

 

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Consolidated STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONSSTATEMENT of STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

For the Three AND NINEFOR THE THREE MONTHS ended SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 and 2019ENDED MARCH 31, 2021

(Unaudited)

 

  For the Three Months Ended September 30,  For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 
  2020  2019  2020  2019 
             
Service Revenue $-  $-  $1,740,855  $- 
                 
Operating expenses:                
Research and development  936,196   343,789   1,730,337   1,109,050 
General and administrative  680,077   586,924   4,263,265   1,958,731 
Total operating expenses  

1,616,273

   930,713   5,993,602   3,067,781 
                 
Loss from operations  (1,616,273)  (930,713)  (4,252,747)  (3,067,781)
Other expense:                
Interest expense, net  (331,459)  (60,413)  (1,615,233)  (88,518)
Change in fair value of derivative on debt  49,992   -   60,504   - 
Loss on debt conversion  (88,817)  -   (254,884)  - 
Total other expense  (370,284)  (60,413)  (1,809,612)  (88,518)
Net Loss $(1,986,557) $(991,126) $(6,062,360) $(3,156,299)
                 
Basic & diluted net loss per share attributable to common stock $(0.02) $(0.01) $(0.07) $(0.06)
Basic & diluted weighted average common stock outstanding  88,964,549   74,526,579   87,474,986   52,131,543 

  Preferred Stock  Common Stock  Additional
Paid-in
  Accumulated  Non-controlling  Stockholders’ 
  Shares  Amount  Shares  Amount  Capital  Deficit  Interests  Equity 
                         
Balance at January 1, 2021  278,188  $2,782   90,601,912  $906,019  $32,493,086  $(21,630,008) $708,954  $12,480,833 
                                 
Common shares issued upon conversion of Preferred Stock  (278,188)  (2,782)  278,187,847   2,781,878   (2,779,096)  -   -   - 
Common shares issued upon conversion of debt  -   -   657,200   6,572   203,729   -   -   210,301 
Beneficial Conversion Feature on convertible debt  -   -      -   605,719    -   -   605,719 
Warrants issued in connection with private placement  -   -   -   -   166,575    -   -   166,575 
Increase in non-controlling interest from issuance of additional Edgepoint stock  -   -   -   -         620,052   620,052 
Net loss  -   -   -   -      (2,803,080)  (319,557)  (3,122,637)
Balance at March 31, 2021  -  $-   369,446,959  $3,694,469  $30,690,013  $(24,433,088) $1,009,449  $10,960,843 

 

The accompanying footnotes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

 

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Consolidated STATEMENT of STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

FOR THE THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

(Unaudited)

              Additional     Non-    
  Preferred Stock  Common Stock  Paid-in  Accumulated  Controlling  Stockholders’ 
  Shares  Amount  Shares  Amount  Capital  Deficit  Interest  Equity 
                         
Balance at January 1, 2020  278,188  $2,782   84,069,967  $840,700  $28,185,599  $(12,127,406) $-  $16,901,675 
                                 
Stock-based compensation  -   -   -   -   2,147,591   -   -   2,147,591 
Common shares issued upon partial conversion of debt  -   -   3,962,145   39,621   681,443   -   -   721,064 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   -   (4,657,894)      (4,657,894)
Balance at March 31, 2020  278,188   2,782   88,032,112   880,321   31,014,633   (16,785,300)  -   15,112,436 
                                 
Common shares issued upon partial conversion of debt  -   -   569,800   5,699   97,741   -   -   103,440 
Net income  -   -   -   -   -   582,091   -   582,091 
Balance as of June 30, 2020  278,188   2,782   88,601,912   886,020   31,112,374   (16,203,209)  -   15,797,967 
                           -     
Common shares issued upon partial conversion of debt  -   -   1,000,000   10,000   66,065   -   -   76,065 
Beneficial conversion feature on convertible debt  -   -   -   -   632,194   -   -   632,194 
Warrants issued in connection with private placement  -   -   -   -   365,431   -   -   365,431 
Non-controlling interest in Edgepoint  -   -   -   -   -   -   979,541   979,541 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   -   (1,986,557)  -   (1,986,557)
Balance as of September 30, 2020  278,188  $2,782   89,601,912  $896,020  $32,176,064  

$

(18,189,766) $979,541  $15,864,641 

The accompanying footnotes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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MATEON THERAPEUTICS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

FOR THE THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

(Unaudited)MARCH 31, 2020

 

              Additional       
  Preferred Stock  Common Stock  Paid-in  Accumulated  Stockholders’ 
  Shares  Amount  Shares  Amount  Capital  Deficit  Equity 
                      
Balance at January 1, 2019  -  $-   6,843,802  $68,438  $7,886,598  $(5,490,277) $   2,464,759 
                             
Common shares issued for cash  -   -   20,750   208   82,792   -   83,000 
Common shares issued for services  -   -   91,844   918   417,218   -   418,136 
Stock-based compensation  -   -   -   -   268,259   -   268,259 
Common shares issued for settlement of accounts payable to related party  -   -   80,772   808   237,282   -   238,090 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   -   (976,063)  (976,063)
Balance at March 31, 2019  -   -   7,037,168   70,372   8,892,149   (6,466,340)  2,496,181 
                             
Recapitalization under reverse merger  193,713   1,937   75,232,798   752,328   2,972,606   881   3,727,752 
Stock-based compensation  -   -   -   -   72,415   -   72,415 
Beneficial Conversion Feature on convertible debt and restricted common shares  -   -   1,050,000   10,500   498,640   -   509,140 
Common shares issued in conversion of warrants  -   -   150,000   1,500   (1,380)  -   120 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   -   (1,189,110)  (1,189,110)
Balance as of June 30, 2019  193,713   1,937   83,469,966   834,700   12,434,430   (7,654,569)  5,616,498 
                             

Beneficial conversion feature on convertible debt

  -   -   -   -   175,000   -   175,000 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   -   (991,126)  (991,126)
Balance as of September 30, 2019  193,713  $1,937   83,469,966  $834,700  $12,609,430  $(8,645,695) $4,800,372 
       Additional       
  Preferred Stock  Common Stock  Paid-in  Accumulated  Stockholders’ 
  Shares  Amount  Shares  Amount  Capital  Deficit  Equity 
                      
Balance at January 1, 2020  278,188  $2,782   84,069,967  $840,700  $28,185,599  $(12,127,406) $  16,901,675 
                             
Stock-based compensation  -   -         2,147,591   -   2,147,591 
Common shares issued upon partial conversion of debt  -   -   3,962,145   39,621   681,443   -   721,064 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   -   (4,657,894)  (4,657,894)
Balance at March 31, 2020  278,188  $2,782   88,032,112  $880,321  $31,014,633  $(16,785,300) $15,112,436 

 

The accompanying footnotes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

 

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MATEONONCOTELIC THERAPEUTICS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

Consolidated STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

FOR THE NINETHREE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30,MARCH 31, 2021 AND 2020 AND 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 For the Nine Months Ended September 30,  For the Three Months Ended March 31, 
 2020  2019  2021 2020 
Cash flows from operating activities:             
Net loss $(6,062,360) $(3,156,299) $(3,122,637) $(4,657,894)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:        
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities:     
Amortization of debt discount and deferred finance costs  1,591,261   88,479  421,217 1,148,305 
Amortization of intangible assets  245,104   38,524  12,841 81,701 
Stock-based compensation  2,147,591   340,674  - 2,147,591 
Depreciation on development equipment  27,987   -  2,538 9,329 
Issuance of common stock in lieu of cash for services  -   418,136 
Change in fair value of derivative  (60,504)  -  536,345 736,298 
Loss on debt conversion  254,884   -  27,504 124,598 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:             
Prepaid expenses and other current assets  104,071   35,175  17,162 100,321 
Accounts payable and accrued expenses  

644,329

   329,760  879,838 179,880 
Accounts payable to related party  (216,680)  569,256   (26,308)  161,344 
Net cash used in operating activities  (1,324,317)  (1,336,295)
        
Cash flows from investing activities:        
        
Cash acquired in mergers  -   182,883 
Net cash provided by investing activities  -   182,883 
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities  (1,251,500)  31,473 
             
Cash flows from financing activities:             
Proceeds from sales of common stock, net of costs  -   83,120 
Proceeds from Payroll Protection Plan  250,000   - 
Proceeds from short term loan, related party  70,000   148,000 
     
Proceeds from private placement  2,304,541   -  1,613,200 - 
Proceeds from short term loan, other 120,000 - 
Repaid to note holder (50,000) - 
Repaid to others (75,000) - 
Net proceeds from convertible notes payable, related party    70,000 
Net cash provided by financing activities  2,624,541   1,167,120   1,608,200  70,000 
     
Net increase in cash and restricted cash  1,300,224   13,708  356,700 101,473 
             
Cash - beginning of period  81,964   2,498 
Cash and restricted cash- beginning of period  474,019  81,964 
             
Cash and restricted cash - end of period $1,382,188  $16,206  $830,719 $183,437 
             
Supplemental cash flow information:             
Cash paid for:     
Interest paid $65,754 $- 
Income taxes paid $- $- 
Non cash investing and financing activities:             
Common shares issued upon partial conversion of debt $900,569  $- $210,301 $721,064 
Recapitalization under reverse merger $-  $3,727,752 
Warrants issued in connection with private placement $166,575 $- 
Beneficial Conversion Feature on convertible debt and restricted common shares $-  $684,140  $605,719 $- 
Common stock issued for settlement of accounts payable $-  $238,090 

  

The accompanying footnotes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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MATEONONCOTELIC THERAPEUTICS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Unaudited)

 

NOTE 1 – DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

 

Description of Business

 

Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc. (also d/b/a Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. (f/k/a OXiGENE, Inc.) ( “(“MateonOncotelic”), was formed in the State of New York in 1988 as OXiGENE, Inc., was reincorporated in the State of Delaware in 1992, and changed its name to Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. in 2016. Mateon2016, and then Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc. in November 2020. Oncotelic conducts business activities through both MateonOncotelic and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Oncotelic, Inc. (“Oncotelic”), a Delaware corporation and(“Oncotelic, Inc.”), PointR Data, Inc. (“PointR”), a Delaware corporation, and EdgePoint AI, Inc. (“Edgepoint”), a Delaware Corporation for which there are non-controlling interests, (Mateon,(Oncotelic, Oncotelic Inc., PointR and Edgepoint are collectively called the “Company”). MateonThe Company is evaluating the further development of its product candidates OXi4503 as a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes and CA4P in combination with a checkpoint inhibitor for the treatment of advanced metastatic melanoma.

In February 2020, the Company formed a subsidiary, Edgepoint. Edgepoint is a start-up company that plans to develop technologies and IP related to various unmet issues within the pharma and medical device industries. The Company may spin off Edgepoint into a separate public company.

 

In April 2019, Mateon entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with Oncotelic (the “Merger Agreement”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing investigational drugs for the treatment of orphan oncology indications and the Mateon’s wholly-owned subsidiary Oncotelic Acquisition Corporation (the “Merger Sub”). Upon the terms of and subject to the satisfaction of the conditions described in the Merger Agreement, the Merger Sub was merged with and into Oncotelic (the “Merger”), with Oncotelic surviving the Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mateon. Also, in April 2019, Mateon completed the Merger and Oncotelic became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mateon. The Merger was treated as a recapitalization and reverse acquisition for financial accounting purposes. Oncotelic is considered the acquirer for accounting purposes, and Mateon’s historical financial statements before the Merger have been replaced with the historical financial statements of Oncotelic prior to the Merger in the financial statements and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Company is a cancer immunotherapy company dedicated to the development of first in class self-immunization protocol (SIP™(“SIP™”) candidates for difficult to treat cancers. The Company’s proprietary SIP™ candidates offer advantages over other immunotherapies because they do not require extraction of the tumor or isolation of the antigens, and they have the potential for broad-spectrum applicability for multiple cancer types. The Company’s proprietary product candidates have shown promising clinical activity in phase 2 trials for the treatment of gliomas and pancreatic cancers. The Company aims to translate its unique insights, which span more than three decades of original work using RNA therapeutics, into the deployment of antisense as a RNA therapeutic for diseases which are caused by TGF-betaTGF-β overexpression, starting with cancer and expanding to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)(“DMD”) and others. Oncotelic’sOncotelic Inc.’s lead product candidate, OT-101, is being developed as a broad-spectrum anti-cancer drug that can also be used in combination with other standard cancer therapies to establish an effective multi-modality treatment strategy for difficult-to-treat cancers. Together, the Company plans to initiate phase 3 clinical trials for OT-101 in both high-grade glioma and pancreatic cancer, and any other indications that may evolve.

The Company is developing OT-101 for the various epidemics and pandemics, similar to the current corona virus (“COVID-19”) pandemic. In this connection, Mateonthe Company entered into an agreement and supplemental agreement with Golden Mountain Partners (“GMP”) for a total of $1.2 million to render services and was paid for the development of OT-101. Such amountThe Company recorded $0.3 million as revenue during the 3 months ended March 31, 2020 and $0.9 million was recorded as revenue during the three months ended June 30, 2020, upon completion of all performance obligations under the agreement. Further, Inin June 2020, Mateonthe Company secured $2 million in debt financing evidenced by a one year convertible note (the “GMP Note”) from GMP to conduct a clinical trial evaluating OT-101 against COVID-19 bearing 2% annual interest, and is personally guaranteed by Dr. Vuong Trieu, the Chief Executive Officer of Mateon. The GMP Note liability commenced to accrue when GMP first began to pay for services related to the clinical trial to our third party clinical research organization, upto a maximum of $2 million. GMP paid an equivalent of approximately $0.5 million to the clinical trial organization in October 2020. The GMP Note is convertible into Mateon’s Common Stock upon the GMP Note’s maturity one year from the date of the GMP Note, at Mateon’s Common Stock price on the date of conversion with no discount. GMP does not have the option to convert prior to the GMP Note’s maturity at the end of one year. Such financing will be utilized solely to fund the clinical trial.

In addition, the Company was paid $0.5 million for the completion of a successful in-vivo study of OT-101 in combination with Interluken 2 from Autotelic BIO Co., LTD. (“ATB”), an unaffiliated South Korean Company with whom Oncotelic had entered into an agreement in 2018.

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In August 2019, Mateon entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “PointR Merger Agreement”) with PointR. PointR survived the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “PointR Merger”). The PointR Merger was intended to create a publicly-traded artificial intelligence (“AI”) driven immuno-oncology company with a robust pipeline of first in class TGF-β immunotherapies for late stage cancers such as gliomas, pancreatic cancer and melanoma. In November 2019, Mateon entered into Amendment No. 1 (the “Amendment”) to the PointR Merger Agreement with PointR. The Amendment revised certain terms of the PointR Merger Agreement to provide that holders of PointR Common Stock would receive shares of the Mateon’s Series A Preferred Stock in lieu of shares of Mateon’s Common Stock in connection with the PointR Merger, as originally contemplated by the PointR Merger Agreement. The Amendment also revised the terms of the milestones for earn-out payment. Also in November 2019, pursuant to the terms of the PointR Merger Agreement, Mateon completed the PointR Merger.

In February 2020, Mateon formed a subsidiary, Edgepoint. Edgepoint is a start-up company that plans to develop technologies and IP related to various unmet issues within the pharma and medical device industries.COVID-19.

  

In addition, the Company is developing artemisinin.Artemisinin. Artemisinin, purified from a plant Artemisia annua, is able to inhibit TGF-β activity and is able to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). It hasThe Company’s test results during an in vitro study at Utah State University showed Artemisinin having an EC50 of 0.45 ug/ml, (In an in vitro study Mateon’s test result at Utah State University), and a Safety Index of 140. Artemisinin can target multiple viral threats including COVID-19 by suppressing both viral replication and clinical symptoms that arise from viral infection. Viral replication cannot occur without TGF-β. Artemisinin also has been reported to have antiviral activities against hepatitis B and C viruses, human herpes viruses, HIV-1, influenza virus A, and bovine viral diarrhea virus in the low micromolar range. TGF-β surge and cytokine storm cannot occur without TGF-β. Clinical consequences related to the TGF-β surge, including ARDS and cytokine storm, are suppressed by targeting TGF-β with Artemisinin. This iswas a global study, with India to contribute at least 120 ptspatients to the total aggregate of 3000 pts.patients. ARTI-19 in India is beingwas conducted by Windlas Biotech Private Limited, business partner in India, as part of Mateon’sthe plan for the Company’s global effort at deploying ArtiShieldPulmohealTM across India, Africa, and Latin America. We continue to evaluate to seek approval, and subsequently launch PulmohealTM, with or without local partners, in various countries within the regions planned. PulmohealTM is a combination of ARTIVedaTM, our artificial intelligence (“AI”) cough application and our AI post marketing survey (“PMS”).

 

Recent Developments

GMP Note

In June 2020, Mateon secured $2 millionJanuary 2021 and subsequently in debt financing, evidenced by a one year convertible note (the “GMP Note”) from GMP, to conduct a clinical trial evaluating OT-101February 2021, the Company announced preliminary results for ARTIVeda, or PulmoHeal, which is the Company’s lead Ayurvedic drug against COVID-19 bearing 2% annual interest,in India and is personally guaranteed by Dr. Vuong Trieu, the Chief Executive Officer of Mateon.  The GMP Note is convertible into Mateon’s Common Stock upon the GMP Note’s maturity one year from the date of the GMP Note, at Mateon’s Common Stock price on the date of conversion with no discount. GMP does not have the option to convert prior to the GMP Note’s maturity at the end of one year. Such financing will be utilized solely to fund the clinical trial.

The Company’s liability under GMP Note commenced to accrue when GMP first began to pay for services related to the clinical trial to our third-party clinical research organization, up to a maximum of $2 million.  In October 2020, the GMP paid approximately $0.5 million to the clinical trial organization, which accrued as a liability to the Company under the terms of the GMP Note.

JH Darbie & Co., Inc. Private Placement

During the three months ended September 30, 2020, the Company raised net proceeds of approximately $2.3 million, between July and September 2020, through JH Darbie & Co., Inc. (“JH Darbie”) through the sale of units (“Units”), with each Unit consisting of (i) 25,000 shares of Edgepoint common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Edgepoint Common Stock”), for a price of $1.00 per share of Edgepoint Common Stock; (ii) one convertible promissory note issuedbeing developed by the Company (the “Unit Note”), convertible into up to 25,000 sharesin partnership with Windlas. These interim results were based on 120 randomized patients across 3 sites in India. The ARTI-19 India trial completed enrollment of EdgePoint Common Stock at a conversion price of $1.00 per share, or up to 138,889 shares120 randomized individuals, we reported positive topline results in April 2021 and we expect final data available 6-8 weeks thereafter. Upon completion of the trial results, it is the Company’s Common Stock, at a conversion price of $0.18 per share; and (iii) 100,000 warrants (the “Warrants”), consisting of (a) 50,000 warrantsobjective to purchase an equivalent number of shares of EdgePoint Common Stock at $1.00 per sharefile for Emergency Use Authorization (“Edgepoint Warrant”), and (b) 50,000 warrants to purchase an equivalent number of shares of Company Common Stock at $0.20 per share (“Mateon WarrantEUA”) (the “JH Darbie Financing”).

The Company incurred $0.4 millionwith regulatory authorities around the world, including India, the United States, the United Kingdom, countries in Africa and Latin America; discussions regarding EUA with several of costs associated with the JH Darbie Financing, of which $0.3 million was paid as direct placement fees to JH Darbie, pursuant to that certain Placement Agent Agreement, dated February 25, 2020 (the “Darbie Placement Agreement”). Under the Darbie Placement Agreement, JH Darbie has the right to sell a minimum of 40 Units, as described in Note 6 below, and a maximum of 100 Units on a best-efforts basis. The issuance and sale of the 53 Units in July, August and September 2020 represented the first three tranches of the JH Darbie Financing. JH Darbie also earned the right to 5.3 Units as their fees. For more information on the financing, see Note 6 below.these authorities have commenced.

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Consent Solicitation

 

On June 25, 2020, the Company commenced a solicitation of shareholder consents (the “Consent Solicitation”), pursuant to a consent solicitation statement (the “Consent Solicitation Statement”), to the holders (the “Stockholders”) of its Common Stock and Preferred Stock, to approve the following actions:

 

(1) changing the name of the Company to “Oncotelic, Inc.” and to changing the Company’s ticker symbol (the “Name Change”);

 

(2) amending the Company’s Amended and Restated 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2015 Plan”) to increase the number of shares of Common Stock available for issuance from 7.25 million shares to 27.25 million shares, and increasing the maximum number of stock awards that may be issued in any fiscal year from 500,000 to 1,000,000 shares (the “Plan Amendment”);

 

(3) increasing the authorized number of shares of Common Stock from 150,000,000 to 750,000,000 (the “Capital Increase”); and

 

(4) amending and restating the certificate of incorporation for the Company (the “Amended and Restated Certificate”) to give effect to the Name Change, Capital Increase and forum selection provision.

 

The Stockholders approved the Name Change, the Plan Amendment, the Capital Increase, and the Amended and Restated Certificate. OnIn November 5, 2020, the Company filed an amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State for the State of Delaware changing its name from “Mateon Therapeutics, Inc.” to “Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc.” Further, in February 2021, the Company filed an amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of Common Stock from 150,000,000 shares to 750,000,000 shares. The Company has converted its 278,188 preferred stock to 278,187,847 common stock effective March 31, 2021.

The Company registered an additional total of 20,000,000 shares of its common stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Common Stock”), which may be issued pursuant to the Registrant’s Amended and Restated 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) filed with the SEC along with our form S-8 on April 19, 2021. Such additional shares were approved by the shareholders of the Company on August 10, 2020 and reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) vide a Current Report on Form 8-K on August 14, 2020.

A notice of corporate action hashad been filed with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)(“FINRA”), requesting approval to change its name and ticker symbol. TheOn March 29, 2021, the Company is still awaiting FINRA’sreceived approval from FINRA on its notice of corporate action, and upon receipt of acceptance,effective March 30, 2021, the Company’s ticker symbol will behas changed from “MATN” to reflect the Company’s name change.“OTLC”.

 

Entry into MOU and Agreement with Windlas

 

OnIn August 19, 2020, the Company executed a memorandum of understanding (the “MOU”) with Windlas Biotech Private Limited (“Windlas”) for the development and commercialization of Artemisinin as a therapeutic pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and herbal supplement against COVID-19. The development of Artemisinin against COVID-19 is dependent on the successful completion of ARTI-19 clinical trial “Artemisinin Intervention trial against COVID-19”, which is being initiated globally in Africa, India, and South America. Windlas will be our manufacturing partner for the clinical trial batches as well as commercial batches.

OnIn September 1, 2020, the Company executed the final MOU with Windlas regarding the development and commercialization of Artemisinin as therapeutic pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and herbal supplement against COVID-19.

 

The ARTI-19 trial has beenwas cleared by India regulatory authorities for initiation. The trial is nowinitiation, and registered under CTRI, and three sites havehad been selected, their IRB approval obtained, their staffs have been trained into the protocol/EDC. Additional sites will be added as theselected. The trial progressed. Enrollment of patients has already commenced for the trial.was fully enrolled in December 2020.

 

The Company and Windlas entered into a License, Development and Commercialization Agreement, dated November 10, 2020 (the “Commercialization Agreement”), which formalized the terms set forth in the MOU. Pursuant to the Commercialization Agreement, Windlas shall be responsible for developing, manufacturing, and supplying Artemisinin within India and eventually expanding worldwide, excluding China, and its territories and the Americas. Windlas will also be responsible to market Artemisinin and its variants in India. Under the terms of the Commercialization Agreement, Windlas and the Company will evenly split all profits derived from commercialization of Artemisinin within India. For all other territories, which excludes China and its territories and the Americas, the profit-split ratio is to be determined and negotiated on a country-by-country basis.

Please review Note 12 – Subsequent events for more information on updates since September 30, 2020.

 

Principles of Consolidation

 

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Mateon andOncotelic, its wholly owned subsidiaries, Oncotelic Inc. and PointR;PointR, and Edgepoint for which there are non-controlling interests.our non-controlled interest entity. Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

 

Basis of Presentation

 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared by the Company pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission including Form 10-Q and Regulation S-X. The information furnished herein reflects all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals and adjustments) which are, in the opinion of management, necessary to fairly state the operating results for the respective periods. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally present in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US GAAP”) have been omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations.

 

Liquidity and Going Concern

 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. The Company has incurred net accumulated losses of approximately $18.2$24.4 million since inception of Oncotelic Inc., as Mateon’sthe Company’s historical financial statements before the Merger have been replaced with the historical financial statements of Oncotelic prior to the Merger in the financial statements and filings.Inc. The Company also has a negative working capital of $7.3$12.1 million at September 30, 2020,March 31, 2021, of which approximately $1.3 million is attributable to assumed negative working capital of Mateon and $2.6 million contingent liability of issuance of common shares of Mateonthe Company to PointR shareholders upon achievement of certain milestones in accordance with the PointR Merger Agreement. The Company continues to havehas negative cash flows from operations throughfor the ninethree months ended September 30, 2020.March 31, 2021 of $1.3 million. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of one year from the date of this filing. Management expects to incur additional losses in the foreseeable future and recognizes the need to raise capital to remain viable. The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.

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The Company’s long-term plans include continued development of its current pipeline of products to generate sufficient revenues, to cover its anticipated expenses, through either technology transfer or product sales, as well as develop AI technologies either directly or throughto cover its subsidiaries.anticipated expenses. Until the Company is able to generate sufficient revenues from its current pipeline, the Company plans on funding its operations through the sale of equity and/or the issuance of debt, combined with or without warrants or other equity instruments.

 

Between April 2019July 2020 and December 2019, the Company entered into various securities purchase agreements (each individually, a “SPA”, and collectively, the “SPAs”) and notes payable (each individual, a “Note”, and collectively, the “Notes”), including a SPA and two notes payable with the Company’s CEO. In total, the Company raised a gross total of $2 million through such SPAs and Notes. For more details on the SPAs and the Notes, see Note 5 below.

In July 2019, the Company entered into a convertible note purchase agreement with PointR. Such convertible note was converted into shares of Mateon upon the completion of the PointR Merger.

During the three months ended September 30, 2020,March 2021, the Company raised gross proceeds of $2.65$5 million, between July and September 2020, through JH Darbie & Co., Inc. (“JH Darbie”).Darbie. The Company incurred $0.4$0.7 million of costs associated with the raise, of which $0.3$0.65 million was paid as direct placement fees to JH Darbie. JH Darbie and the Company are parties to a placement agent agreement, dated February 25, 2020 pursuant to which DHJH Darbie has the right to sell a minimum of 40 units, as described in Note 6 below,Units and a maximum of 100 unitsUnits on a best-efforts basis. The issuance andConcurrently with the sale of the 53 Units, in July, August and September 2020 representedJH Darbie was granted, a warrant, exercisable over a five-year period, to purchase 10% of the first three tranchesnumber of Units sold in the JH Darbie Financing. As such, the Company granted 10 Units to JH Darbie also earnedpursuant to the right to 5.3 Units as their fees. For more information on the financing, see Note 6 below.JH Darbie Placement Agreement.

 

During the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2020, the Company recorded a total of approximately $1.7$0.3 million in service revenues from GMP and ATB.GMP. No similar revenues were recorded during the similar period in 2021. There are no assurances that the Company would be able to generate revenues for services and/or outlicensingout-licensing fees in the near future.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company’s CEO provided short term funding of $70,000 to the Company.

 

Although no assurances can be given as to the Company’s ability to deliver on its revenue plans, or that unforeseen expenses may arise, management believes that the potential equity and debt financing or other potential financing will provide the necessary funding for the Company to continue as a going concern. Also, management cannot guarantee any potential debt or equity financing will be available on favorable terms or at all. As such, management does not believe the Company has sufficient cash for 12 months from the date of this report. If adequate funds are not available on acceptable terms, or at all, the Company will need to curtail operations, or cease operations completely.

 

NOTE 2 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with US GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, equity-based transactions and disclosure of contingent liabilities at the date of the financial statements and revenues and expense during the reporting period. Actual results could materially differ from those estimates.

 

The Company believes the following critical accounting policies affect its more significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of the financial statements. Significant estimates include the valuation of goodwill and intangible assets for impairment, deferred tax asset and valuation allowance, and fair value of financial instruments.

 

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Cash

 

As of September 30, 2020,March 31, 2021, and December 31, 2019,2020 the Company held all its cash in banks in the United States of America.banks. The Company considers investments in highly liquid instruments with a maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents. The Company did not have any cash equivalents as of September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2019.2020, respectively. Restricted cash consists of certificates of deposits held at banks as collateral for various purposes.

Investment in Equity Securities

Prior to the Merger, Oncotelic received Series E Preferred Shares of Adhera Therapeutics, Inc. (“Adhera”) in consideration for the issuance of Oncotelic’s Common Stock under various Securities Purchase Agreements. The Company records its investments in equity securities initially at cost in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 321, Investments –Equity Securities (“ASC 321”). The Company subsequently marks the investments to market at each reporting period and, in accordance with Accounting Standard Update (“ASU”) 2016-01, Financial Instruments – (Overall), records the unrealized gains or losses in the Consolidated Statement of Operations. During the three months ended December 31, 2019, the Company evaluated the fair value of the investment based on filings by Adhera, in which Adhera describes their current financial condition including the potential to file for bankruptcy, the Company believed that the long term investment in Adhera was impaired and therefore, determined to write off the entire investment.

Debt issuance Costs and Debt discount

Issuance costs are specific incremental costs that are (1) paid to third parties and (2) directly attributable to the issuance of a debt or equity instrument. The issuance costs attributable to the initial sale of the instrument should be offset against the associated proceeds in the determination of the instrument’s initial net carrying amount.

Debt issuance costs and debt discounts are being amortized over the lives of the related financings on a basis that approximates the effective interest method. Costs and discounts are presented as a reduction of the related debt in the accompanying condensed balance sheets if related to the issuance of debt or presented as a reduction of Additional Paid in capital if related to the issuance of an equity instrument.

The Company applied the relative fair value to allocate the issuance costs among freestanding instruments that form part of the same transaction.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

 

The carrying value of cash, accounts payable and accrued expense approximate their fair values based on the short-term maturity of these instruments. As defined in ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures,” fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (exit price). The Company utilizes market data or assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability, including assumptions about risk and the risks inherent in the inputs to the valuation technique. These inputs can be readily observable, market corroborated, or generally unobservable. ASC 820 establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1 measurement) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (level 3 measurement). This fair value measurement framework applies at both initial and subsequent measurement.

 

The three levels of the fair value hierarchy defined by ASC 820 are as follows:

 

Level 1 – Quoted prices are available in active markets for identical assets or liabilities as of the reporting date. Active markets are those in which transactions for the asset or liability occur in sufficient frequency and volume to provide pricing information on an ongoing basis. Level 1 primarily consists of financial instruments such as exchange-traded derivatives, marketable securities and listed equities.
  
Level 2 – Pricing inputs are other than quoted prices in active markets included in Level 1, which are either directly or indirectly observable as of the reported date. Level 2 includes those financial instruments that are valued using models or other valuation methodologies. These models are primarily industry-standard models that consider various assumptions, including quoted forward prices for commodities, time value, volatility factors and current market and contractual prices for the underlying instruments, as well as other relevant economic measures. Substantially all of these assumptions are observable in the marketplace throughout the full term of the instrument, can be derived from observable data or are supported by observable levels at which transactions are executed in the marketplace. Instruments in this category generally include non-exchange-traded derivatives such as commodity swaps, interest rate swaps, options and collars.
  
Level 3 – Pricing inputs include significant inputs that are generally less observable from objective sources. These inputs may be used with internally developed methodologies that result in management’s best estimate of fair value.

 

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Other than the restricted cash of $20,000, theThe Company did not have any Level 1 or Level 2 assets and liabilities at September 30,March 31, 2020.

 Carrying  Fair Value Measurement Using 
At September 30, 2020 Value  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3  Total 
                
Restricted Cash – CDs at Bank $20,000  $20,000  $-  $-  $20,000 
  $20,000  $-  $-  $-  $20,000 

The derivative liabilities associated with its 2019 convertible note debt /financingbridge financing Convertible Notes (see Note 5), consisted of conversion feature derivatives at September 30, 2020 henceMarch 31, 2021, are classified as Level 3 fair value measurements.

The table below sets forth a summary of the changes in the fair value of the Company’s derivative liabilities classified as Level 3 as of September 30,March 31, 2021 and 2020:

 

  Conversion Feature 
Balance at December 31, 2019 $540,517 
New derivative liability  870,268 
Reclassification to additional paid in capital from conversion of debt to common stock  (573,811)
Change in fair value  (60,504)
     
Balance at September 30, 2020 $776,470 

  March 31, 2021
Conversion Feature
  March 31, 2020
Conversion Feature
 
Balance at January 1, 2021 and 2020 $777,024  $540,517 
New derivative liability  -   870,268 
Reclassification to additional paid in capital from conversion of debt to common stock  (144,585)  (368,811)
Change in fair value  536,345   736,298 
         
Balance at March 31, 2021 and 2020 $1,168,784  $1,778,272 

As of September 30,March 31, 2021, and March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019, the Company estimated the fair value of the conversion feature derivatives embedded in the convertible debentures based on assumptions used in the Black-Scholes valuation model. The key valuation assumptions used consists, in part, of the price of the Company’s Common Stock, a risk freerisk-free interest rate based on the yield of a Treasury note and expected volatility of the Company’s Common Stock all as of the measurement dates. The Company used the following assumptions to estimate fair value of the derivatives as of September 30,March 31, 2021 and 2020:

 

 September 30, 2020
Key Assumptions
for fair value of conversions
  March 31, 2021 Key Assumptions for fair value of conversions March 31, 2020 Key Assumptions for fair value of conversions 
Risk free interest  0.13%  0.07% to 0.12%  0.23% to 2.26%
Market price of share $0.18  $0.36  $0.17 
Life of instrument in years  1.56 – 1.85   1.06 – 1.35   2.06 - 2.35 
Volatility  150.77%  148.79%  150.65%
Dividend yield  0%  0%  0%

 

When the Company changes its valuation inputs for measuring financial liabilities at fair value, either due to changes in current market conditions or other factors, it may need to transfer those liabilities to another level in the hierarchy based on the new inputs used. The Company recognizes these transfers at the end of the reporting period that the transfers occur. For the periodperiods ended September 30,March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020, there were no transfers of financial assets or financial liabilities between the hierarchy levels.

 

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Other Fair Value Measurements

As of the closing of the Company’s first three rounds of offering under a private placement memorandum with JH Darbie, the estimated grant date fair value of approximately $0.2 per share associated with the warrants to purchase up to 2,915,000 shares of common stock issued in this offering, or a total of approximately $0.4 million, was recorded to additional paid-in capital on a relative fair value basis. All warrants sold in this offering had an exercise price of $0.20 per share of the Company stock or $1.00 per share of Edge Point, subject to adjustment, are exercisable immediately and expire three years from the date of issuance. The fair value of the warrants was estimated using a Black Scholes valuation model using the following input values

Expected Term1.5 years
Expected volatility184.7%-191.9%
Risk-free interest rates0.13%-0.15%
Dividend yields0.00%

Net Income (Loss)Loss Per Share

 

Basic net income (loss)loss per common share is computed by dividing the net income (loss)loss by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net income (loss)loss per share includes the effect of Common Stock equivalents (notes convertible into Common Stock, stock options and warrants) when, under either the treasury or if-converted method, such inclusion in the computation would be dilutive. The following number of shares have been excluded from diluted loss since such inclusion would be anti-dilutive:

 

 

Three and Nine Months

Ended September 30,

  Three Months Ended March 31, 
 2020  2019  2021 2020 
          
Convertible notes  20,237,084   10,000,000   35,388,901   12,084,300 
Stock options  6,130,004   6,145,044  3,941,301 6,135,284 
Warrants  18,152,500   19,515,787   20,737,500  15,237,500 
Potentially dilutive securities  44,519,588   35,660,831   60,067,702  33,457,084 

 

Stock-Based Compensation

 

The Company applies the provisions of ASC 718, Compensation—Stock Compensation (“ASC 718”), which requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for all stock-based awards made to employees, including employee stock options, in the statements of operations.

 

For stock options issued to employees and members of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) for their services, the Company estimates the grant date fair value of each option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The use of the Black-Scholes option pricing model requires management to make assumptions with respect to the expected term of the option, the expected volatility of the Common Stock consistent with the expected life of the option, risk-free interest rates and expected dividend yields of the Common Stock. For awards subject to service-based vesting conditions, including those with a graded vesting schedule, the Company recognizes stock-based compensation expense equal to the grant date fair value of stock options on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting term. Forfeitures are recorded as they are incurred as opposed to being estimated at the time of grant and revised.

 

Pursuant to ASU 2018-07 Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting, the Company accounts for stock options issued to non-employees for their services in accordance with ASC 718. The Company uses valuation methods and assumptions to value the stock options that are in line with the process for valuing employee stock options noted above.

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For warrants issued in connection with fund raising activities, the Company estimates the grant date fair value of each warrant using the Black-Scholes pricing model. The use of the Black-Scholes option pricing model requires management to make assumptions with respect to the expected term of the warrant, the expected volatility of the Common Stock consistent with the expected life of the warrant, risk-free interest rates and expected dividend yields of the Common Stock. If the warrants are issued upon termination or cancellation of prior issued warrants, then the Company estimates the grant date fair value of the new warrants using the Black-Scholes pricing model and evaluates whether the new warrants are deemed as equity instruments or liability instruments. If the warrants are deemed to be equity instruments, the Company records stock compensation expense and an addition to additional paid in capital. If however, the warrants are deemed to be liability instruments, then the fair value is treated as a deemed dividend and credited to additional paid in capital.

 

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

 

The Company reviews long-lived assets, including definite-lived intangible assets, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable. Recoverability of these assets is determined by comparing the forecasted undiscounted net cash flows of the operation to which the assets relate to the carrying amount. If the operation is determined to be unable to recover the carrying amount of its assets, then these assets are written down first, followed by other long-lived assets of the operation to fair value. Fair value is determined based on discounted cash flows or appraised values, depending on the nature of the assets. For the ninethree months ended September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 and year ended December 31, 2019,2020, there were no impairment losses recognized for long-lived assets.

 

Intangible Assets

 

The Company records its intangible assets at cost in accordance with ASC 350, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other. The Company reviews the intangible assets for impairment on an annual basis or if events or changes in circumstances indicate it is more likely than not that they are impaired. These events could include a significant change in the business climate, legal factors, a decline in operating performance, competition, sale or disposition of a significant portion of the business, or other factors. If the review indicates the impairment, an impairment loss would be recorded for the difference of the value recorded and the new value. For the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2021 and 2020, and 2019, there were no impairment losses recognized for intangible assets.

 

Goodwill

 

Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price of acquired business over the estimated fair value of the identifiable net assets acquired. Goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment at least once annually, at the reporting unit level or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate that the asset might be impaired. The goodwill impairment test is applied by performing a qualitative assessment before calculating the fair value of the reporting unit. If, on the basis of qualitative factors, it is considered not more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than the carrying amount, further testing of goodwill for impairment would not be required. Otherwise, goodwill impairment is tested using a two-step approach.

 

The first step involves comparing the fair value of the reporting unit to its carrying amount. If the fair value of the reporting unit is determined to be greater than its carrying amount, there is no impairment. If the reporting unit’s carrying amount is determined to be greater than the fair value, the second step must be completed to measure the amount of impairment, if any. The second step involves calculating the implied fair value of goodwill by deducting the fair value of all tangible and intangible assets, excluding goodwill, of the reporting unit from the fair value of the reporting unit as determined in step one. The implied fair value of the goodwill in this step is compared to the carrying value of goodwill. If the implied fair value of the goodwill is less than the carrying value of the goodwill, an impairment loss equivalent to the difference is recorded. For the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2021 and 2020, and 2019, there were no impairment losses recognized for Goodwill.

Derivative Financial Instruments Indexed to the Company’s Common Stock

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We have generally issued derivative financial instruments, such as warrants, in connection with our equity offerings. We evaluate the terms of these derivative financial instruments in order to determine their accounting treatment in our financial statements. Key considerations include whether the financial instruments are freestanding and whether they contain conditional obligations. If the warrants are freestanding, do not contain conditional obligations and meet other classification criteria, we account for the warrants as an equity instrument. However, if the warrants contain conditional obligations, then we account for the warrants as a liability until the conditional obligations are met or are no longer relevant. Because no established market prices exist for the warrants that we issue in connection with our equity offerings, we must estimate the fair value of the warrants, which is as inherently subjective as it is for stock options, and for similar reasons as noted in the stock-based compensation section above. For financial instruments which are accounted for as a liability, we report any changes in their estimated fair values as gains or losses in our Consolidated Statement of Income.

Convertible Instruments

 

The Company evaluates and accounts for conversion options embedded in its convertible instruments in accordance with ASC 815 “Derivatives and Hedging”.

 

ASC 815 generally provides three criteria that, if met, require companies to bifurcate conversion options from their host instruments and account for them as free standing derivative financial instruments. These three criteria include circumstances in which (a) the economic characteristics and risks of the embedded derivative instrument are not clearly and closely related to the economic characteristics and risks of the host contract, (b) the hybrid instrument that embodies both the embedded derivative instrument and the host contract is not re-measured at fair value under otherwise applicable generally accepted accounting principles with changes in fair value reported in earnings as they occur, and (c) a separate instrument with the same terms as the embedded derivative instrument would be considered a derivative instrument. Professional standards also provide an exception to this rule when the host instrument is deemed to be conventional as defined under professional standards as “The Meaning of Conventional Convertible Debt Instrument.”

 

The Company accounts for convertible instruments (when it has determined that the embedded conversion options should not be bifurcated from their host instruments) in accordance with ASC 470-20 “Debt – Debt with Conversion and Other Options.” Accordingly, the Company records, when necessary, discounts to convertible notes for the intrinsic value of conversion options embedded in debt instruments based upon the differences between the fair value of the underlying Common Stock at the commitment date of the note transaction and the effective conversion price embedded in the note. Original issue discounts (“OID”) under these arrangements are amortized over the term of the related debt to their earliest date of redemption. The Company also records when necessary deemed dividends for the intrinsic value of conversion options embedded in preferred shares based upon the differences between the fair value of the underlying Common Stock at the commitment date of the note transaction and the effective conversion price embedded in the note.

 

ASC 815-40 “Derivatives and Hedging – Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity” provides that, among other things, generally, if an event occurs that is not within the entity’s control could or would require net cash settlement, then the contract shall be classified as an asset or a liability.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606).

 

Under ASU 2014-9, the Company recognizes revenue when its customers obtain control of the promised good or services, in an amount that reflects the consideration which the Company expects to receive in exchange for those goods or services. The Company applies the following five-step process:five-step: (i) identify the contract(s) with a customer; (ii) identify the performance obligation(s) in the contract; (iii) determine the transaction price; (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligation(s) in the contract; and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the Company satisfies a performance obligation.

At contract inception, once the contract is determined to be within the scope of ASU 2014-09, the Company identifies the performance obligation(s) in the contract by assessing whether the goods or services promised within each contract are distinct. The Company then recognizes revenue for the amount of the transaction price that is allocated to the respective performance obligation when (or as) the performance obligation is satisfied.

 

The Company anticipates generating revenues from rendering services to other third party customers for the development of certain drug products and/or in connection with certain out-licensing agreements. In the case of services rendered for development of the drugs, revenue is recognized upon the achievement of the performance obligations or over time on a straight-line basis over the extended service period. In the case of out-licensing contracts, the Company records revenues either (i) upon achievement of certain pre-defined milestones, when there is no obligation of the Company achieve any performance obligations in connection with the said pre-defined milestones, or (ii) upon achievement of the performance obligations if the milestones require the Company to provide the performance obligations.

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The Company occasionally collects advance payments from customers toward commitments to provide services or performance obligations, in which case the advance payment is recorded as a liability until the obligations are fulfilled and revenue is recognized.

 

Research Service Agreement between GMP and Mateon Therapeutics Inc./Oncotelic /Oncotelic Inc. (“MateonOncotelic Entities”).

 

In February 2020, Oncotelic Inc. and GMP entered into a research and services agreement (the “Agreement”) memorializing their collaborative efforts to develop and test COVID-19 antisense therapeutics. In March 2020, the Company reported the positive anti-viral activity results of OT-101 (the “Product”) in an in vitro antiviral testing performed by an independent laboratory to GMP, at which time, the MateonOncotelic Entities and GMP entered into a supplement to the Agreement (the “Supplement”) to confirm the inclusion of the Product within the scope of the Agreement, pending positive confirmatory testing against COVID-19. In consideration for the financial support provided by GMP for the research, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement (as amended by the Supplement) GMP was entitled to obtain certain exclusive rights to the use of the Product in the COVID field on a global basis, and an economic interest in the use of the Product in the COVID field including 50/50 profit sharing. GMP paid the Company fees of $0.3 million duringfor the three months ended March 31, 2020Agreement and $0.9 million during the three months ended June 30, 2020 for the services rendered under the Agreement and Supplement, respectively. The Company also recorded approximately $40 thousand for reimbursement of actual costs incurred. The Company received the cash for the services rendered during the nine months September 30, 2020.

 

Agreement with Autotelic BIO (“ATB”)

 

Oncotelic Inc. had entered into a license agreement in February 2018 (the “ATB Agreement”) with ATB. The ATB Agreement licensed the use of OT-101 in combination with Interleukin-2 (the “Combined Product”), and granted to ATB an exclusive license under the Oncotelic Inc. technology to develop, make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import and export the Combined Product, and the Combination Product only, in the field, throughout the entire world (excluding the United States of America and Canada) as the territory, on the terms and subject to the conditions of the ATB Agreement. The ATB Agreement requires ATB to be responsible for the development of the Combination Product. Oncotelic Inc. was responsible to provide to ATB the technical know-how and other pertinent information on the development of the Combination Product. ATB paid Oncotelic Inc. a non-refundable milestone payment in consideration for the rights and licenses granted to ATB under the ATB Agreement, and ATB was to pay Oncotelic Inc. $500,000 within sixty days from the successful completion of the in vivo efficacy studies. This payment was made in June 2020 after the successful completion of the in-vivo study and, as such, the Company recorded the revenue during the three months ended June 30, 2020.revenue. In addition, ATB is to pay Oncotelic:Oncotelic Inc.: (i) $500,000 upon Oncotelic’sOncotelic Inc.’s completion of the technology know how and Oncotelic’sOncotelic Inc.’s technical assistance and regulatory consultation to ATB, as determined by the preparation of a Current Good Regulation Practices audit or certification by the Food and Drug Administration, with a mutual goal to obtain marketing approval of the Combined Product developed by ATB in the aforementioned territory; (ii) $1,000,000 upon receiving marketing approval of the Combined Product in Japan, China, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, or Korea; and (iii) $2,000,000 from receiving marketing approval of the Combined Product in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, or the United Kingdom. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020, theThe Company recorded $500,000 as revenue under the ATB Agreement for the successful completion of the in-vivo study.study during the three months ended March 31, 2020.

Research & Development Costs

 

In accordance with ASC 730-10-25 “Research and Development”, research and development costs are charged to expense as and when incurred.

Prior Period Reclassifications

Certain amounts in prior periods may have been reclassified to conform with current period presentation.

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

In January 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU No. 2017-04, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment. The new guidance requires only a one-step quantitative impairment test, whereby a goodwill impairment loss will be measured as the excess of a reporting period unit’s carrying amount over its fair value (not to exceed the total goodwill allocated to that reporting unit). It eliminates Step 2 of the current two-step goodwill impairment test, under which a goodwill impairment loss is measured by comparing the implied fair value of a reporting unit’s goodwill with the carrying amount of that goodwill. ASU 2017-04 is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted for interim or annual goodwill impairment tests performed on testing dates after January 1, 2017. The adoption of ASU 2017-04 had no material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

 

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In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-14, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Deferral of the Effective Date, which defers the effective date of ASU 2014-09 for all entities by one year. ASU 2014-09 became effective on January 1, 2018. The ASU also requires expanded disclosures relating to the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers. Additionally, qualitative and quantitative disclosures are required about customer contracts, significant judgments and changes in judgments, and assets recognized from the costs to obtain or fulfill a contract. The Company adopted ASU 2015-14 during the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2020 as till then, no revenue was earned by the Company.

 

In August 2020, the FASB issued “ASU 2020-06, Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging—Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40)” which simplifies the accounting for convertible instruments. The guidance removes certain accounting models which separate the embedded conversion features from the host contract for convertible instruments. Either a modified retrospective method of transition or a fully retrospective method of transition is permissible for the adoption of this standard. Update No. 2020-06 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted no earlier than the fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2020. The Company is currently evaluating the potential impact of the Update on its financial statements

 

All other newly issued but not yet effective accounting pronouncements have been deemed to be not applicable or immaterial to the Company.

  

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NOTE 3 – GOODWILL AND- INTANGIBLE ASSETS AND GOODWILL

 

MateonThe Company completed thea Merger with Oncotelic, which gave rise to Goodwill of $4,879,999. Further, Mateonwe added goodwill of $16,182,456 upon the completion of the Merger with PointR. In general, the goodwill is tested on an annual impairment date of December 31. However, since both mergers were completed in 2019 and both assets are currently being developed for various cancer and COVID-19 therapies, the Company does not believe the there are any factors or indications that the goodwill is impaired.

 

Assignment and Assumption Agreement with Autotelic, Inc.

 

In April 2018, Oncotelic Inc. entered into an Assignment and Assumption Agreement (the “Assignment Agreement”) with Autotelic Inc., an affiliate company, and Autotelic LLC, an affiliate company, pursuant to which Oncotelic acquired the rights to all intellectual property (“IP”) related to a patented product. As consideration for the Assignment Agreement, Oncotelic Inc. issued 204,798 shares of its Common Stock for a value of $819,191. The Assignment Agreement also provides that Oncotelic Inc. shall be responsible for all costs related to the IP, including development and maintenance, going forward.

 

Intangible Asset Summary

 

The following table summarizes the balances as of September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2019,2020, of the intangible assets acquired, their useful life, and annual amortization:

 

 September 30, 2020  

Remaining

Estimated Useful Life (Years)

  March 31, 2021  

Remaining

Estimated
Useful Life
(Years)

 
Intangible asset – Intellectual Property $819,191   18.26  $819,191   16.75 
Intangible asset – Capitalization of license cost  190,989   18.26   190,989   16.75 
  1,010,180       1,010,180     
Less Accumulated Amortization  (124,133)      (149,815)    
Total $886,047      $860,365     

 

  December 31, 2019  

Remaining

Estimated Useful Life (Years)

 
Intangible asset – Intellectual Property $819,191   18.68 
Intangible asset – Capitalization of license cost  190,989   18.68 
   1,010,180     
Less Accumulated Amortization  (85,608)    
Total $924,572     

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  December 31, 2020  

Remaining

Estimated
Useful Life (Years)

 
Intangible asset – Intellectual Property $819,191   18.00 
Intangible asset – Capitalization of license cost  190,989   18.00 
   1,010,180     
Less Accumulated Amortization  (136,974)    
Total $873,206     

 

Amortization of identifiable intangible assets for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2021 and 2020 and 2019 was $12,841 and $12,841, respectively. Amortization of identifiable intangible assets for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 was $38,524 and $38,524, respectively.

The future yearly amortization expense over the next five years and thereafter are as follows:

 

For the years ended December 31,For the years ended December 31,For the years ended December 31,
     
Remainder of 2020 $12,841 
2021 51,365  $38,524 
2022 51,365   51,365 
2023 51,365   51,365 
2024 51,365   51,365 
2025  51,365 
Thereafter  667,746   616,381 
 $886,047  $860,365 

 

In-Process Research & Development (IPR&D) Summary

 

The following table summarizes the balances as of September 30, 2020 of the IPR&D assets were acquired in the PointR acquisition during the three monthsyear ended December 31, 2019. TheSince January 2021, the Company has determined that the IPR&D should be reported as an indefinitely lived asset and therefore will evaluate, on an annual basis, for any impairment on the IPR&D and will record an impairment if identified. No similar balances were present in 2019:

  September 30, 2020  

Remaining

Estimated Useful Life (Years)

 
Intangible asset – Intellectual Property $1,377,200   4.25 
   1,377,200     
Less Accumulated Amortization  (206,580)    
Total $1,170,620     

AmortizationThe balance of identifiable intangible assets for the three months ended September 30,IPR&D as of March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 and 2019 was $68,860 and $0, respectively. Amortization of identifiable intangible assets for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 was $206,580 and $0, respectively.$1,106,760.

 

The future yearly amortization expense over the next five years and thereafter are as follows:

For the years ended December 31,
    
Remainder of 2020 $68,860 
2021  275,440 
2022  275,440 
2023  275,440 
2024  275,440 
  $1,170,620 

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NOTE 4 – ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND ACCRUED EXPENSES

 

Accounts payable and accrued expense consists of the following amounts:

 

 September 30, 2020  December 31, 2019  March 31, 2021  December 31, 2020 
          
Accounts payable $2,024,261  $1,793,033  $2,782,013  $1,937,419 
Accrued expense  

707,359

   261,950   812,247   798,386 
 $

2,731,620

  $2,054,983  $3,594,260  $2,735,805 

 

  September 30, 2020  December 31, 2019 
         
Accounts payable – related party $385,002  $601,682 

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  March 31, 2021 December 31, 2020
         
Accounts payable – related party $365,323  $391,631 

 

NOTE 5 – CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES.DEBENTURES, NOTES AND OTHER DEBT

 

As of September 30,March 31, 2021, special purchase agreements (SPAs) with convertible debentures and notes, net of debt discount and including accrued interest, if any, consist of the following amounts:

  March 31, 2021
Convertible debentures    
10% Convertible note payable, due April 23, 2022 – Related Party  18,323 
10% Convertible note payable, due April 23, 2022 – Bridge Investor  87,906 
10% Convertible note payable, due August 6, 2022 – Bridge Investor  173,364 
   279,593 
Fall 2019 Notes    
5% Convertible note payable – Stephen Boesch  165,130 
5% Convertible note payable – Related Party  266,858 
5% Convertible note payable – Dr. Sanjay Jha (Through his family trust)  266,378 
5% Convertible note payable – CEO, CTO & CFO  87,282 
5% Convertible note payable – Bridge Investors  178,822 
   964,470 
Other Debt    
Short term debt from CEO  20,000 
Other short term debt  120,000 
   140,000 
Total of debentures, notes and other debt $1,384,063 

As of December 31, 2020, SPAs with convertible debentures and notes, net of debt discount, consist of the following amounts:

 

 September 30, 2020  December 31, 2020
Convertible debentures        
10% Convertible note payable, due June 12, 2022 – Peak One $11,183  $- 
10% Convertible note payable, due April 23, 2022 - TFK  33,823   39,065 
10% Convertible note payable, due April 23, 2022 – Related Party  10,197   14,256 
10% Convertible note payable, due April 23, 2022 – Bridge Investor  51,817   69,848 
10% Convertible note payable, due August 6, 2022 – Bridge Investor  163,485   168,421 
  270,505   291,590 
Fall 2019 Notes        
5% Convertible note payable – Stephen Boesch  250,648   213,046 
5% Convertible note payable – Related Party  250,477   263,733 
5% Convertible note payable – Dr. Sanjay Jha (Through his family trust)  249,997   263,253 
5% Convertible note payable – CEO, CTO & CFO  84,268   86,257 
5% Convertible note payable – Bridge Investors  172,647   176,722 
  1,008,037   1,003,011 
Other Debt        
Short term debt from CFO  25,000 
Short term debt from CEO  70,000   20,000 
Other short term debt – Bridge Investor  50,000 
      95,000 
Total of debentures, notes and other debt $1,348,542  $1,389,601 

As of December 31, 2019, convertible debentures and notes, net of debt discount, consist of the following amounts:

  December 31, 2019 
    
10% Convertible note payable, due April 23, 2022 – Peak One $115,623 
10% Convertible note payable, due June 12, 2022 – Peak One  (81,735)
10% Convertible note payable, due April 23, 2022 - TFK  115,623 
10% Convertible note payable, due April 23, 2022 – Related Party  (12,663)
10% Convertible note payable, due April 23, 2022 – Bridge Investor  (2,748)
10% Convertible note payable, due August 6, 2022 – Bridge Investor  26,824 
  160,924 

Fall 2019 Notes   
5% Convertible note payable – Stephen Boesch  187,785 
5% Convertible note payable – Vuong Trieu*  187,785 
5% Convertible note payable – Sanjay Jha (Through his family trust)  187,785 
5% Convertible note payable – CEO, CTO & CFO  77,620 
5% Convertible note payable – Bridge Investors  159,025 
  800,000 
Total of notes and other debt $960,924 

The gross principal balances on the convertible debentures listed above totaled $1,000,000 and originally included an initial debt discounts totaling $800,140, resulting from the recording of the original issue discount, the related financing costs, the beneficial conversion feature (“BCF”) for the intrinsic value of the non-bifurcated conversion option and the restricted shares issued contemporaneously with the convertible notes.

 

Total amortization expense related to these debt discounts related to the convertible debentures was $611,681$ 54,572 and $88,479$359,971 for the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2021 and 2020, and 2019, respectively. In addition, during the nine monthsyear ended September 30, 2020,March 31, 2021 we recorded additional and accelerated amortization of debt discounts, which was created from the bifurcation of the conversion option related the host hybrid instruments, of $262,556$24,491 and $163,855, respectively upon the partial and/or full conversion of debt by Peak One and TFK to shares of the Company’s common stock. The total unamortized debt discount at September 30,March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 was approximately $321,290.$120,000 and $200,000, respectively.

 

All the above notes issued to Peak One, TFK, our CEO and the bridge investors reached the 180 days prior to the end of the three months ended MarchDecember 31, 2020. As such, all the note holders had the ability to convert that debt into equity at the variable conversion price of 65% of the Company’s lowest traded price after the first 180 days or at the lower of the Fixed Price or 55% of the Company’s traded stock price under certain circumstances. This gave rise to a derivative feature within the debt instrument.

As of December 31, 2019,2020, we had a derivative liability of approximately $541,000.$777,000. The Company recorded additional derivative liability from the change in fair value of $536,346 during the three months ended March 31, 2021. The Company also extinguished $144,585 of derivative liability following the conversion of certain notes to the Company’s common stock in the three months ended March 31, 2021.

The Company had recorded an additional derivative liability of approximately $870,000 during the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2020 since the conversion option attached to certain notes became convertible into a variable number of shares of our common stock. The Company also extinguished approximately $574,000$369,000 of derivative liability following the conversion of certain notes to the Company’s common stock in the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2020.

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Following the recognition as derivative liability of the embedded conversion options, the Company fully amortized the remaining unamortized beneficial conversion feature for approximately $232,000, recorded an initial $258,070 from the initial recognition of the debt discount following the bifurcation of the embedded conversion option. As of September 30, 2020, the Company had a derivative liability of approximately $776,000 and a change in fair value of approximately $60,500.

 

Bridge Financing

 

Peak One Financing

 

On April 17, 2019, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Peak One Opportunity Fund, L.P. (the “Buyer”, “Peak One”), for a commitment to purchase convertible notes in the aggregate amount of $400,000, pursuant to which, for an aggregate purchase price of $400,000, the Buyer purchased (a) Tranche #1 in the form of a Convertible Promissory Note in the principal amount of $200,000 (the “Convertible Note”) and (b) 350,000 restricted shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Shares”) (the “Purchase and Sale Transaction”). The Company used the net proceeds from the Purchase and Sale Transaction for working capital and general corporate purposes.

 

The Convertible Note has a principal balance of $200,000, including a 10%$ OID of $20,000 and $5,000 in debt issuance costs, receiving net proceeds of $175,000, with a maturity date of April 23, 2022. Upon the occurrence of certain events of default, the Buyer, amongst other remedies, has the right to charge a penalty in a range of 18% to 40% dependent on the specific default event. Amounts due under the Convertible Note may also be converted into shares (the “Tranche #1 Conversion Shares”) of the Company’s Common Stock at any time, at the option of the holder, at (i) a conversion price, during the first 180 days, of $0.10 per share (the “Fixed Price”), and then (2) at the lower of the Fixed Price or 65% of the Company’s lowest traded price after the first 180 days or at the lower of the Fixed Price or 55% of the Company’s traded stock price under certain circumstances. The Company has agreed to at all times, reserve and keep available out of its authorized Common Stock a number of shares equal to at least two times the full number of the Tranche #1 Conversion Shares. The Company may redeem the Convertible Note at rates of 110% to 140% over the principal balance dependent on certain events and redeem the value with accrued interest thereon, if any.

The issuance of the Convertible Note resulted in a discount from the beneficial conversion feature totaling $84,570, including $52,285 related to the beneficial conversion feature and a discount from the issuance of restricted stock of 350,000 shares for $32,285. Total amortization of these OID and debt issuance cost discounts totaled $84,376$0 for the nine3 months ended September 30, 2020.March 31, 2021. Total unamortized discount on this note was $0 as of September 30, 2020.and $0 at March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.

 

On June 12, 2019, the Company entered into an amendment of the Purchase Agreement (“Amendment #1”) in connection with the draw-down of the second tranche, and to provide for additional borrowing capacity under that agreement. Amendment #1 increased the borrowing amount up to $600,000, adding the ability to borrow an additional $200,000 in a third tranche.

 

On June 12, 2019, the Buyer purchased Convertible Note Tranche #2 (“Tranche #2”) totaling $200,000, including a 10% OID of $20,000 and a $1,000 debt issuance cost, receiving net proceeds of $179,000 against the April 17, 2019, Purchase Agreement with Peak One, with a maturity date of June 12, 2022. Amounts due under Tranche #2 are convertible at the same terms as Tranche #1 above.

 

The issuance of Tranche #2 resulted in a discount from the beneficial conversion feature totaling $180,000, including $132,091 related to the conversion feature and a discount from the issuance of restricted stock of 350,000 shares for $47,909. Total amortization of these OID and debt issuance cost discounts totaled $36,187$0 for the nine3 months ended September 30, 2020.March 31, 2021. Total unamortized discount on this note was $127,768$0 as of September 30, 2020.March 31, 2021.

 

On November 5, 2019, the Company and Peak One amended the Convertible Note under Tranche #1 to extend the date of conversion of the Convertible Note into Common Stock of the Company at 65% of the traded price of the Company’s Common Stock until January 8, 2020. This amendment put a temporary hold on Peak One to convert the debt under Tranche 1. This restriction did not apply if Peak One opted to convert the Convertible Note at $0.10. The Company compensated Peak One 300,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock for delaying the conversion until January 18, 2020. Such shares were issued to Peak One on November 14, 2019. Non-cash compensation expense of $60,000 was recorded for such issuance.

 

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Peak One converted $200,000 of Tranche 1#1 out of their total debt into 2,581,945 shares of Mateonthe Company during the nine monthsyear ended September 30,December 31, 2020.

Further, Peak One converted $100,000$200,000 of Tranche 2#2 of their total debt into 1,000,0002,000,000 shares of Mateonthe Company during the nine monthsyear ended September 30,December 31, 2020. As such, the total outstanding debt for Peak One was $100,000$0 as of September 30, 2020.March 31, 2021.

 

TFK Financing

 

On April 23, 2019, the Company, entered into a Convertible Note (the “TFK Note”) with TFK Investments, LLC (“TFK”). The TFK Note has a principal balance of $200,000, including a 10% OID of $20,000 and $5,000 in debt issuance costs, receiving net proceeds of $175,000, with a maturity date of April 23, 2022. Upon the occurrence of certain events of default, the Buyer, amongst other remedies, has the right to charge a penalty in a range of 18% to 40% dependent on the specific default event. Amounts due under the Convertible Note may also be converted into shares (the “TFK Conversion Shares”) of the Company’s Common Stock at any time, at (i) a conversion price, during the first 180 days, of $0.10 per share (the “Fixed Price”), and then (2) at the lower of the Fixed Price or 65% of the Company’s lowest traded price after the first 180 days or at the lower of the Fixed Price or 55% of the Company’s traded stock price under certain circumstances. The Company has agreed to at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized Common Stock a number of shares equal to at least two times the full number of the TFK Conversion Shares. The Company may redeem the Convertible Note at rates of 110% to 140% rates over the principal balance dependent on certain events and redeem the value with accrued interest thereon, if any.

The issuance of the TFK Note resulted in a discount from the beneficial conversion feature totaling $84,570, including $52,285 related to the beneficial conversion feature and a discount from the issuance of restricted, stock of 350,000 shares for $32,285. Total amortization of these OID and debt issuance cost discounts totaled $80,788$3,015 for the ninethree months ended September 30, 2020.March 31, 2021. Total unamortized discount on this note was $3,589$0 as of September 30, 2020.March 31, 2021.

 

On November 5, 2019, the Company and TFK amended the TFK Convertible Note to extend the date of conversion of the Convertible Note into Common Stock of the Company at 65% of the traded price of the Company’s Common Stock until January 8, 2020. This restriction did not apply if TFK wished to convert the Convertible Note at $0.10 per share. The Company compensated TFK 300,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock for delaying the conversion until January 8, 2020. Such shares were issued to TFK on November 14, 2019. Non-cash compensation expense of $60,000 was recorded for such issuance.

 

TFK converted $133,430 of their total debt into 1,950,000 shares of Mateoncommon stock of the Company during the nine monthsyear ended September 30,December 31, 2020. As such, the total gross outstanding debt for TFK was $66,570approximately $67,000 as of September 30,December 31, 2020. TFK had a balance of approximately $109,000 related to the derivative liability as of December 31, 2020. The Company recorded approximately $38,000 as an increase in fair value for the derivative liability, and hence the TFK had a balance of approximately $145,000 of derivative liability as of March 31, 2021. The Company extinguished the $145,000 of derivative liability and the $65,000 of the value of the debt, totaling approximately $210,000 following the conversion of the notes to the Company’s common stock during the three months ended March 31, 2021for a total of 657,200 shares of common stock of the Company and recorded a loss on the conversion of approximately $2,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2021. As such, TFKs debt as of March 31, 2021 was $0.

 

Notes with Officer and Bridge Investor

 

On April 17, 2019, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Bridge SPA”) with our CEO and the Bridge Investor with a commitment to purchase convertible notes in the aggregate of $400,000.

 

On April 23, 2019, the Company entered into a convertible note with our Chief Executive Officer, Vuong Trieu, Ph. D. (the “Trieu Note”). The Trieu Note has a principal balance of $164,444, including a 10% OID of $16,444, resulting in net proceeds of $148,000, with a maturity date of April 23, 2022. Upon the occurrence of certain events of default, the Buyer, amongst other remedies, has the right to charge a penalty in a range of 18% to 40% dependent on the specific default event. Amounts due under the Convertible Note may also be converted into shares (the “Trieu Conversion Shares”) of the Company’s Common Stock at any time, at the option of the holder, at a conversion price of $0.10 per share (the “Fixed Price”), at the lower of the Fixed Price or 65% of the Company’s lowest traded price after the 180th day or at the lower of the Fixed Price or 55% of the Company’s traded stock price under certain circumstances. The Company has agreed to at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized Common Stock a number of shares equal to at least two times the full number of Conversion Shares. The Company may redeem the Convertible Note at rates of 110% to 140% rates over the principal balance dependent on certain events and redeem the value with accrued interest thereon, if any.

 

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The issuance of the Trieu Note resulted in a discount from the beneficial conversion feature totaling $131,555 related to the conversion feature. Total amortization of the 10% OID and the discount and beneficial conversion feature totaled $4,095$18,058 for the nine3 months ended September 30, 2020.March 31, 2021. Total unamortized discount on this note was $8,568$76,538 as of September 30, 2020.March 31, 2021.

 

On April 23, 2019, pursuant to the Bridge SPA the Company entered into Convertible Note Tranche #1 (“Tranche #1”) with the Bridge Investor. Tranche #1 has a principal balance of $35,556, an OID of $3,556, resulting in net proceeds of $32,000, with a maturity date of April 23, 2022. Upon the occurrence of certain events of default, the Buyer, among other remedies, has the right to charge a penalty in a range of 18% to 40% dependent on the specific default event. Amounts due under Tranche #1 may also be converted into shares (the “Bridge SPA Conversion Shares”) of the Company’s Common Stock at any time, at (i) a conversion price, during the first 180 days, of $0.10 per share (the “Fixed Price”), and then (2) at the lower of the Fixed Price or 65% of the Company’s lowest traded price after the first 180 days or at the lower of the Fixed Price or 55% of the Company’s traded stock price under certain circumstances. The Company may redeem the Convertible Note at rates of 110% to 140% rates over the principal balance dependent on certain events and redeem the value with accrued interest thereon, if any.

 

The issuance of the note resulted in a discount from the beneficial conversion feature totaling $28,445. Total amortization of the OID and discount totaled $888 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019.$4,066 at March 31, 2021. Total unamortized discount on this note was $1,849$17,233 as of September 30, 2020.

March 31, 2021.

On August 6, 2019, pursuant to the Bridge SPA the Company entered into Convertible Note Tranche #2 (“Tranche #2”) with the Bridge Investor. Tranche #2 has a principal balance of $200,000, an OID of $20,000 and debt issuance costs of $5,000, resulting in net proceeds of $175,000, with a maturity date of August 6, 2022. Upon the occurrence of certain events of default, the Buyer, among other remedies, has the right to charge a penalty in a range of 18% to 40% dependent on the specific default event. Amounts due under Tranche #1 may also be converted into Bridge Conversion Shares of the Company’s Common Stock at any time, at the option of the holder, at a conversion price equal to the Fixed Price, at the lower of the Fixed Price or 65% of the Company’s lowest traded price after the 180th day or at the lower of the Fixed Price or 55% of the Company’s traded stock price under certain circumstances. The Company may redeem the Convertible Note at rates of 110% to 140% rates over the principal balance dependent on certain events and redeem the value with accrued interest thereon, if any.

 

The issuance of the note resulted in a discount from the beneficial conversion feature totaling $175,000. Total amortization of the OID and discount totaled $157,779 for the nine months ended September 30, 2020.$4,943 at March 31, 2021. Total unamortized discount on this note was $15,396$26,636 as of September 30, 2020.March 31, 2021.

 

All the above notes issued to Peak One, TFK, our CEO and the bridge investors reached the 180 days prior to the end of the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2020. As such, all the note holders had the ability to convert that debt into equity at the variable conversion price of 65% % of the Company’s lowest traded price after the first 180 days or at the lower of the Fixed Price or 55% of the Company’s traded stock price under certain circumstances. This gave rise to a derivative feature within the debt instrument.

 

As of December 31, 2019, we had a derivative liability of approximately $541,000. Following the initial bifurcation of the conversion features related to certain hybrid convertible notes instruments, the Company recorded an initial fair value of such derivative of $870,268. Following conversion of certain notes to the Company’s common stock, the Company reversed such derivative liability by approximately $573,800. This resulted in a change in fair value of $60,504. As of September 30, 2020, the derivative liability had a fair value of approximately $776,000. During the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company fully amortized for $232,054 the remaining unamortized beneficial conversion feature since the conversion feature of certain hybrid instruments were separated and accounted for as derivative liability. The Company recorded an initial debt discount of $258,070 resulting from the bifurcation of the conversion feature representing the net carrying amount of the underlying notes since the fair value of the initial derivative liability exceeds the net carrying amount of the underlying notes.

Convertible Note with PointR Data, Inc.

In July 2019, the Company entered into a Note Purchase Agreement with PointR (the “PointR Note Purchase Agreement”). Pursuant to the PointR Note Purchase Agreement, Mateon issued a Convertible Promissory Note to PointR in the principal amount of $200,000 (the “PointR Convertible Note”). The PointR Convertible Note bore interest at a rate of 8% per annum. Interest payments were due monthly on the 15th day of each calendar month (or the next business day thereafter), and were payable, at the option of PointR, either in cash or in shares of Mateon’s Common Stock, valued at the closing price of the Common Stock on the principal market on which the Common Stock is either traded or quoted at such time. The PointR Convertible Note was due and payable on demand by PointR (a) at any time after January 1, 2020 or (b) upon the occurrence of an Event of Default (as defined in the PointR Convertible Note and the PointR Note Purchase Agreement). All amounts outstanding under the PointR Convertible Note would be automatically converted into the Company’s securities issued in next equity financing raising gross proceeds of $10,000,000 or more (a “Qualified Financing”) at the price per share paid by investors in the Qualified Financing. As the conversion feature is contingent upon a future event, the conversion feature will be evaluated under ASC 470-20 and ASC 815 when and if the Qualified Financing occurred.

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In November 2019, the PointR Convertible Note, with accrued interest of $4,603 thereon, was converted into Company’s Series A Preferred Stock and is a part of the total consideration of 84,475 shares of Mateon’s Series A Preferred Stock issued to the PointR shareholders upon the completion of the PointR Merger. Since the conversion occurred prior to the Qualified Financing, the Company did not have to evaluate the conversion feature under ASC 470-20 and ASC 815.

Fall 2019 Debt Financing

 

In December 2019, Mateonthe Company closed its Fall 2019 Debt Financing raising an additional $500,000 bringing thefor gross proceeds of all debt financings under the Fall 2019 Debt Financing to $1,000,000.$1.0 million. The Company entered into those certain Note Purchase Agreements (the “Fall 2019 Note Purchase Agreements”) with certain accredited investors and the officers of the Company for the sale of convertible promissory notes (the “Fall 2019 Notes”). MateonThe Company completed the initial closing under the Fall 2019 Note Purchase Agreements inon November 2019. Mateon issued23, 2019, issuing a $250,000 principal amount Fall 2019 Notes in the principal amount of $250,000Note to each of Dr. Vuong Trieu, the Mateon’sCompany’s Chief Executive Officer, and Stephen Boesch, in exchange for gross proceeds of $500,000. In connection with the second and final closing of the Fall 2019 Debt Financing, MateonCompany issued the Fall 2019 Notes to additional investors including $250,000 to Dr. Sanjay Jha, through his family trust, the former CEO of Motorola and COO/President of Qualcomm. The Company also offset certain amounts due to Dr. Vuong Trieu, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chulho Park, the Company’s Chief Technology Officer, and Amit Shah, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and converted such amounts due into the Fall 2019 Notes. $35,000 due to Dr. Vuong Trieu, $27,000 due to Chulho Park and $20,000 due to Amit Shah werewas converted into debt. The Company also issued the Fall 2019 Notes of $168,000 to two unaffiliated accredited investors.

 

All the Fall 2019 Notes provide for interest at the rate of 5% per annum and are unsecured. All amounts outstanding under the Fall 2019 Notes become due and payable upon the approval of the holders of a majority of the principal amount of outstanding Fall 2019 Notes (the “Majority Holders”) on or after (a) November 23, 2020 or (b) the occurrence of an event of default (either, the “Maturity Date”). The Company may prepay the Fall 2019 Notes at any time. Events of default under the Fall 2019 Notes include failure to make payments under the Fall 2019 Notes within thirty (30) days of the date due, failure to observe of the Fall 2019 Note Purchase Agreement or Fall 2019 Notes which is not cured within thirty (30) days of notice of the breach, bankruptcy, or a change in control of the Company (as defined in the Fall 2019 Note Purchase Agreement).

 

The Majority Holders have the right, at any time not more than five (5) days following the Maturity Date, to elect to convert all, and not less than all, of the outstanding accrued and unpaid interest and principal on the Fall 2019 Notes. The Fall 2019 Notes may be converted, at the election of the Majority Holders, either (a) into shares of the Company’s Common Stock at a conversion price of $0.18 per share, or (b) into shares of common stock of the Edgepoint, at a conversion price of $5.00 (based on a $5.0 million pre-money valuation) of Edgepoint and 1,000,000 shares outstanding.

 

The issuance of the Fall 2019 Notesnotes resulted in a discount from the beneficial conversion feature totaling $222,222 related to the conversion feature. Total amortization of the discount totaled $111,112$0 and $0 for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively; and $55,556 and $0 for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2021 and 2020, and 2019, respectively. As of September 30, 2020, the totalTotal unamortized discount on these notesthis note was $88,888.

$0 as of March 31, 2021.

Further, the Company recorded interest expense of $12,500 and $37,500 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020,$11,458 on these Fall 2019 Notes.Notes for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The total amount outstanding under the Fall 2019 Notes, including accrued interest thereon, and net of discounts, as of September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 was $964,470 and at December 31, 20192020 was $1,008,037 and $1,003,870, respectively.$1,003,011.

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Paycheck Protection Program

 

In April 2020, the Company entered into a Paycheck Protection Program Promissory Note (the “PPP Note”) with respect to areceived loan proceeds in the amount of $250,000 (the “PPP Loan”) from Silicon Valley Bank (the “Lender”). The PPP Loan was obtained pursuant tounder the Paycheck Protection Program (the “(“PPP”) ofwhich was established under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the “(“CARES Act”) Act and is administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”). The PPP Loprovides loans to qualifying businesses in amounts up to 2.5 times the average monthly payroll expenses and was designed to provide direct financial incentive to qualifying businesses to keep their workforce employed during the Coronavirus crisis. PPP Loans are uncollateralized and guaranteed by the SBA and are forgivable after a “covered period” (8 weeks or 24 weeks) as long as the borrower maintains its payroll levels and uses the loan proceeds for eligible expenses, including payroll, benefits, mortgage interest, rent and utilities. The forgiveness amount will be reduced if the borrower terminates employees or reduces salaries and wages more than 25% during the covered period. Any unforgiven portion is payable over 2 years if issued before, or 5 years if issued after, June 5, 2020 at an interest rate of 1% with payments deferred until the SBA remits the borrowers loan forgiveness amount to the lender, or if the borrower does not apply for forgiveness, 10 months after the covered period. PPP loans provide for customary events of default, including payment defaults, breach of representations and warranties, and insolvency events and may be accelerated upon occurrence of one or more of these events of default. Additionally, the PPP Loans do not include prepayment penalties.

 

The PPP Loan matures on April 21, 2022 and bears interest at a rateCompany believes it met the PPP’s loan forgiveness requirements but has not yet applied for forgiveness. When legal release is received from the SBA or lender, the Company will record the amount forgiven as forgiveness income within the other income section of 1.00% per annum. The PPP Loan is payable in 17 equal monthly payments commencing November 21, 2020. The PPP Loan may be prepaid atits statement of operations. If any time prior to maturity with no prepayment penalties.

All or a portion of the PPP Loanloan is not forgiven, the Company will be required to repay that portion, plus interest, through the maturity date.

The SBA reserves the right to audit any PPP loan, regardless of size. These audits may beoccur after the forgiveness has been granted. In accordance with the CARES Act, all borrowers are required to maintain their PPP loan documentation for six years after the loan was forgiven byor repaid in full and to provide that documentation to the SBA upon request.

The balance outstanding on PPP loan, inclusive of accrued interest, was $252,349 and the Lender upon application by the Company not later than$251,733 on March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, upon documentation of expenditures in accordance with the SBA requirements.respectively.

GMP Note

In June 2020, the Company secured $2 million in debt financing, evidenced by a one-year convertible note (the “GMP Note”) from GMP, to conduct a clinical trial evaluating OT-101 against COVID-19 bearing 2% annual interest, and is personally guaranteed by Dr. Vuong Trieu, the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The GMP Note is convertible into the Company’s Common Stock upon the GMP Note’s maturity one year from the date of the GMP Note, at the Company’s Common Stock price on the date of conversion with no discount. GMP does not have the option to convert prior to the GMP Note’s maturity at the end of one year. Such financing will be utilized solely to fund the clinical trial.

The Company’s liability under GMP Note commenced to accrue when GMP first began to pay for services related to the clinical trial to our third-party clinical research organization, up to a maximum of $2 million. GMP has been invoiced by the clinical research organization for the full $2 million as of December 31, 2020 and as such the Company has recognized the liability as a convertible debt.

The balance outstanding on the GMP Note, inclusive of accrued interest, was $2,030,356 and $2,000,000 on March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.

Other short-term loans

During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2020,March 31, 2021, Autotelic Inc. provided a short term funding of $120,000 to the Company, which was repaid after the three months ended March 31, 2021. In addition, the Company’s CEOCFO and the Bridge Investor provided additional fundingshort term loans of $70,000$25,000 and $50,000, respectively to the Company.Company during the fourth quarter of the year ended December 31, 2020. Such loans were repaid as of March 31, 2021.

 

NOTE 6 - PRIVATE PLACEMENT AND JH DARBIE FINANCING

During the three months ended September 30,period from July 2020 to March 31, 2021 the Company entered into subscription agreements with certain accredited investors pursuant to the JH Darbie Financing, whereby the Company issued and sold a total of 53100 Units, for total gross proceeds of approximately $2.65$5 million, or $2.31 million, net of fees paid to JH Darbie pursuant to the JH Darbie Placement Agreement, with each Unit consisting of:

 

 25,000 shares of Edgepoint Common Stock for a price of $1.00 per share of Edgepoint Common Stock.
 One convertible promissory note, convertible into up to 25,000 shares of Edgepoint Common Stock, at a conversion price of $1.00 per share or up to 138,889 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, at a conversion price of $0.18 per share.
 50,000 warrants to purchase an equivalent number of shares of Edgepoint Common Stock at $1.00 per share or an equivalent number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock at $0.20 per share with a three-year expiration date.

 

As of September 30, 2020,March 31, 2021 funds received under the JH Darbie Financing, net of debt discount, consist of the following amounts:

 

 September 30, 2020  March 31, 2021 
Convertible promissory notes        
Subscription agreements - accredited investors $612,892  $1,520,720 
Subscription agreements – related party  33,274   85,664 
Total convertible promissory notes $646,166  $1,606,384 

 

The Company incurred approximately $0.4$0.65 million of issuance costs, including legal costs of approximately $39,000, that are incremental costs directly related to the issuance of the various instruments bundled in the offering.

 

Concurrently with the sale of the Units, JH Darbie iswas granted for nominal consideration, a warrant, exercisable over a five-year period, to purchase such number of Units equal 10% of the number of Units sold in the JH Darbie Financing. TheAs such, the Company granted 5.310 Units to JH Darbie pursuant to the JH Darbie Placement Agreement.

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The terms of convertible notes are summarized as follows:

 

 Term: June 30, 2021.Through March 31, 2022.
 Coupon: 16%.
 Convertible at the option of the holder at any time in the Company’s Common Stock or Edgepoint Common Stock.
 The conversion price is initially set at $0.18 per share for the Company’s Common Stock or $1.00 for Edgepoint Common Stock, subject to adjustment.

 

The Company allocated the proceeds among the freestanding financial instruments that were issued in the single transaction using the relative fair value method, which affects the determination of each financial instrument initial carrying amount. The Company utilized the relative fair value method as none of the freestanding financial instruments issued as part of the single transaction are measured at fair value. Under the relative fair value method, the Company makesmade separate estimates of the fair value of each freestanding financial instrument and then allocatesallocated the proceeds in proportion to those fair value amounts. The Company recorded non-controlling interests of approximately $1 million in Edgepoint. Non-controlling interests represent the portion of net assets in consolidated entities that are not owned by the Company and are reported as a component of equity in the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets.

As of the multiple closings of the Company during the three months ended March 31, 2021, under the private placement memorandum with JH Darbie, the estimated grant date fair value of approximately $0.20 per share associated with the warrants to purchase up to 2,035,000 shares of common stock issued in this offering, or a total of approximately $ 0.7 million, was recorded to additional paid-in capital on a relative fair value basis. All warrants sold in this offering had an exercise price of $0.20 per share of the Company stock or $1.00 per share of Edge Point, subject to adjustment, are exercisable immediately and expire three years from the date of issuance. The fair value of the warrants was estimated using a Black Scholes valuation models using the following input values:

Expected Term1.5 years
Expected volatility152.3%-164.8%
Risk-free interest rates0.09%-0.11%
Dividend yields0.00%

As of the multiple closings of the Company through December 31, 2020, under the private placement memorandum with JH Darbie, the estimated grant date fair value of approximately $0.20 per share associated with the warrants to purchase up to 3,465,000 shares of common stock issued in this offering, or a total of approximately $0.4 million, was recorded to additional paid-in capital on a relative fair value basis. All warrants sold in this offering had an exercise price of $0.20 per share of the Company stock or $1.00 per share of Edge Point, subject to adjustment, are exercisable immediately and expire three years from the date of issuance. The fair value of the warrants was estimated using a Black Scholes valuation models using the following input values.

Expected Term1.5 years
Expected volatility168.5%-191.9%
Risk-free interest rates0.12%-0.15%
Dividend yields0.00%

 

The Company recorded an initial debt discount of approximately $0.6$0.7 million representing the intrinsic value of the conversion option embedded in the convertible debt instrument based upon the difference between the fair value of the underlying common stock at the commitment date of the note transaction and the effective conversion price embedded in the note.

 

The Company recognized amortization expense related to the debt discount and debt issuance costs of $162,267 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 respectively,$373,949 and $0 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019,March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020 respectively, which is included in interest expense in the condensed statements of operations.

 

NOTE 7 - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

Master Service Agreement with Autotelic Inc.

 

In October 2015, Oncotelic entered into a Master Service Agreement (the “MSA”) with Autotelic Inc., a related party that is partly ownedpartly-owned by Dr. Trieu.the Company’s CEO Vuong Trieu, Ph.D. Dr. Trieu, a related party, is a control person in Autotelic Inc. Autotelic Inc. currently owns less than 10% of Mateon.the Company. The MSA stated that Autotelic Inc. will provide business functions and services to the Company and allowed Autotelic Inc. to charge the Company for these expenses paid on its behalf. The MSA includes personnel costs allocated based on amount of time incurred and other services such as consultant fees, clinical studies, conferences and other operating expenses incurred on behalf of the Company. The MSA requires a 90-day written termination notice in the event either party requires to terminate such services.

Expenses related to the MSA were $6,011 and $291,887$77,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, respectively,March 31, 2021 as compared to $309,194 and $1,004,315$232,806 for the same periodsperiod of 2019

In January 2019, Oncotelic issued a total of 80,772 shares of its common stock with a fair value of $4.00 per share to Autotelic, Inc. in lieu of cash for the settlement of outstanding accounts payable.2020.

 

NotesNote Payable and Short-TermShort Term Loan – Related PartyParties

 

In April 2019, Mateonthe Company issued a convertible note to Dr. Trieu totaling $164,444, including OID of $16,444, receiving net proceeds of $148,000, which was used by the Company for working capital and general corporate purposes (See Note 5).purposes. The Company issued a Fall 2019 Note to Dr. Trieu in the principal amount of $250,000, which$250,000. Dr. Trieu also offset certain amounts due Dr. Trieuto him in the amount of $35,000 due to him and was converted into the Fall 2019 debt. During the nine monthsyear ended September 30,December 31, 2020, Dr. Trieu provided additional short-term funding of $70,000 to the Company.Company, of which the Company repaid $50,000 prior to December 31, 2020. During the three monthsyear ended September 30,December 31, 2020, Dr. Trieu purchased 3a total of 5 Units under the private placement for a gross total of $150,000.$250,000.

During the three months ended March 31, 2021, Autotelic Inc, provided a short-term loan of $120,000 to the Company. Such loan was repaid in April 2021.

 

Artius Consulting Agreement

 

On March 9, 2020, the Company and Artius Bioconsulting, LLC (“ArtiusArtius”), for which Mr. Steven King our Board and Committee member, is the Managing Member, entered into an amendment to that certainthe Consulting Agreement dated December 1, 2018, (the “Artius Agreement”), under which Artius agreed to serve as a consultant to the Company for services related to the Company’s business from time to time, effective December 1, 2019 (the Artius Agreement Effective Date“Effective Date”) (the “Artius Agreement”). In connection with the Artius Agreement, Mr. King also agreed to assist the Company with strategic advisory services with respect to transactional and operational contracts, budgetary input, among other matters in connection with the development EdgePoint AI’s Artificial Intelligenceformation of a new business unit to develop AI and Blockchain Driven Vision Systems (“EdgePoint AI”), for which Mr. King serves asis Chief Executive Officer.

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Under the terms of the Artius Agreement, the Company agreed to grant to Artius, subject to approval by the Mateon’sCompany’s Board of Directors and pursuant to the Company’s 2017 Equity Incentive Plan, 148,837 restricted shares of Mateon’s the Company’s common stock, par value $.01 per share (“Common Stock,Stock”), in addition to a 30% pre-financing ownership stake in EdgePoint AI. The Artius Agreement contemplates that Mr. King will generally provide his services at a rate of $237 per hour, not to exceed 44 hours per month and payable monthly, and to reimburse Mr. King for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by him or Artius in connection with providing services to the Company.

 

Either the Company or Artius may terminate the Artius Agreement at any time, for any reason following the Artius Agreement Effective Date. The Artius Agreement will automatically renew one year from the Artius Agreement Effective Date, unless the Parties agree to terminate the Artius Agreement at that time.

 

The CompanyNo expense was recorded $106,712 as expense during the ninethree months ended September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 related to this Agreement. No similar expense was recorded in 2019.

Maida Consulting Agreement

 

Effective May 5, 2020, the Company and Dr. Anthony Maida one of our Board and Committee members, entered into an independent consulting agreement, commencing April 1, 2020 (the Maida Agreement“Maida Agreement”), under which Dr. Maida will assist the Company in providing medical expertise and advice from time to time in the design, conduct and oversight of the Company’s existing and future clinical trials.

 

Pursuant to the terms of the Maida Agreement, the Company will grant to Dr. Maida 400,000 restricted shares or stock options of Mateon’sthe Company’s Common Stock corresponding to $80,000 at the stock value of $0.20 per share, to vest on May 5, 2021. The Company will also pay Dr. Maida $15,000 per month for a minimum of 20 hours per week, in in addition to reimbursement of reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by Dr. Maida in connection with his services to the Company.

 

Either the Company or Dr. Maida may terminate the Maida Agreement, for any reason, upon 30 days advance written notice.

Dr. Maida was appointed the Chief Clinical Director for Mateon effective July 7, 2020. As of the date of this Quarterly Report, Dr. Maida continues to provide his services under the consulting agreement.

The Company recorded $45,000 and $90,000 asan expense under the consulting agreementof $45,000 during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020.March 31, 2021 related to this Agreement. No similar expense was recorded during the same periods in 2019.

Reimbursement of expenses to Autotelic Inc.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company reimbursed to Autotelic Inc. $261,246 for healthcare insurance and 401K services at cost. No similar reimbursements were recorded during the same period in 2019.2020.

 

NOTE 8 - STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

The following transactions affected the Company’s Stockholders’ Equity:

Equity Transactions During the Period Prior to the Merger

 

Issuance of Common Stock

In January 2019, Oncotelic issued 11,250 shares of Common Stock with a fair value of $4.00 per share to an employee in lieu of cash for compensation.

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In January 2019, Oncotelic issued a total of 80,772 shares of Common Stock with a fair value of $4.00 per share to Autotelic, Inc. in lieu of cash for the settlement of outstanding accounts payable and services received.

In January 2019, Oncotelic issued a total of 20,750 shares of Common Stock with a fair value of $4.00 per share to two separates investors for $83,000 in cash.

In March 2019, Oncotelic issued 80,594 shares of Common Stock with a fair value of $4.00 per share to various employees in lieu of cash for accrued compensation.

In April 2019, Oncotelic issued a total of 150,000 shares of Common Stock to two investors as a result of the conversion of warrants for $120 in cash.

Equity Transactions During the Period Since the Merger

 

Issuance and conversion of Preferred Stock

 

In April 2019, pursuant to the Merger Mateonthe Company issued 193,713 shares of Series A Preferred Stock in exchange for 77,154 shares of Oncotelic Common Stock.

In Further, in November 2019 Mateonthe Company issued 84,475 shares of Series A Preferred Stock to PointR in exchange of 11,135,935 shares of PointR Common Stock upon the consummation of the PointR merger. In March 2021, 278,188 shares of the Company’s preferred stock converted to 278,187,847 shares of its common stock, effective March 31, 2021.

 

Issuance of Common Stock during the three and nine months ended September 30,March 31, 2021

In January 2021, the Company issued 657,200 shares of its common stock to TFK in connection with the part conversion of their convertible notes payable.

In March 2021, the Company converted 278,188 shares of our Series A Preferred Stock to 278,187,847 shares of its common stock.

Issuance of Common Stock during the three months ended March 31, 2020

 

In February 2020, Mateonthe Company issued 500,000 shares of its common stock to Peak One in connection with the part conversion of one of their convertible notes payable.

In March 2020, the Company issued 750,000 shares of its Common Stock to TFK in connection with the part conversion of their convertible notes payable.

In March 2020, the Company issued 500,000 shares of its Common Stock to Peak One in connection with the part conversion of one of their convertible notes payable. (See Note 5).

In March 2020, the Company issued 1,012,145 shares of its Common Stock to TFK in connection with the part conversion of their convertible notes payable.

 

In February 2020, Mateonthe Company issued 1,200,000 shares of its Common Stock to Peak One in connection with the part conversion of one of their convertible notes payable. (See Note 5)

In March 2020, Mateon issued 750,000 shares of its Common Stock to TFK in connection with the part conversion of the TFK Note. (See Note 5).

In March 2020, Mateon issued 500,000 shares of its Common Stock to Peak One in connection with the part conversion of one of their convertible notes payable. (See Note 5)

In March 2020, Mateon issued 1,012,145 shares of its Common Stock to TFK in connection with the part conversion of the TFK Note. (See Note 5).

In June 2020, Mateon issued 569,800 shares of its Common Stock to Peak One in connection with the full conversion of one of their convertible notes payable. (See Note 5)

In July 2020, Mateon issued 1,000,000 shares of its Common Stock to Peak One in connection with the partial conversion of Tranche 2 of their convertible notes payable. (See Note 5)

Issuance of Common Stock in 2019

In April, 2019, pursuant to the Merger, Mateon issued 41,000,033 shares of Common Stock in exchange for 10,318,746 shares of Oncotelic common stock. (See Note 3)

In April 2019, Mateon issued 700,000 restricted shares of its Common Stock with a fair value of $0.11 per share to two noteholders in connection with convertible notes payable. (See Note 5)

In June 2019, Mateon issued 350,000 restricted shares of its Common Stock with a fair value of $0.18 per share in connection with a convertible note payable. (See Note 5)

In June 2019, Mateon issued 300,000 restricted shares of its Common Stock to Peak One with a fair value of $0.20 to extend the date of conversion of the Peak One Tranche #1 Note into Common Stock of Mateon at 65% of the traded price of Mateon’s Common Stock until January 18, 2020. This restriction did not apply if Peak One wished to convert the Peak One Tranche #1 Note at $0.10. The Company recorded a cost of $60,000 in lieu of such issuance.

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In November 2019, Mateon issued 300,000 restricted shares of its Common Stock to TFK with a fair value of $0.20 to extend the date of conversion of the TFK Note into Common Stock of Mateon at 65% of the traded price of Mateon’s Common Stock until January 8, 2020. This restriction did not apply if TFK wished to convert the TFK Note at $0.10 per share. The Company recorded a cost of $60,000 in lieu of such issuance.

 

NOTE 9 – STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION

 

Options

 

Pursuant to the Merger, Mateon’sthe Company’s Common Stock and corresponding outstanding options survived. The below information details Mateon’sthe Company’s associated option activity pre and post merger.activity.

 

As of September 30, 2020,March 31, 2021, options to purchase Mateon’s Common Stock were outstanding under three stock option plans – the 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2017 Plan”), the 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2015 Plan”) and the 2005 Stock Plan (the “2005 Plan”). Under the 2017 Plan, up to 2,000,000 shares of Mateon’sthe Company’s Common Stock may be issued pursuant to awards granted in the form of nonqualified stock options, restricted and unrestricted stock awards, and other stock-based awards. Under the 2015 and 2005 Plans, taken together, up to 7,250,000 shares of Mateon’sthe Company’s Common Stock may be issued pursuant to awards granted in the form of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, restricted and unrestricted stock awards, and other stock-based awards.

Employees, consultants, and directors are eligible for awards granted under the 2017 and 2015 Plans. The Company registered an additional total of 20,000,000 shares of its common stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Common Stock”), which may be issued pursuant to the Registrant’s Amended and Restated 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). Such additional shares were approved by the shareholders of the Company on August 10, 2020 and as reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) vide a Current Report on Form 8-K on August 14, 2020. As such, the total number of shares of the Company’s common stock available for issuance under the 2015 plan is 27,250,000.

Since the adoption of the 2015 Plan, no further awards may be granted under the 2005 Plan, although options previously granted remain outstanding in accordance with their terms.

 

Compensation based stock option activity for qualified and unqualified stock options are summarized as follows:

 

     Weighted 
     Average 
  Shares  Exercise Price 
Outstanding at December 31, 2019  6,145,044  $0.75 
Expired or canceled  (15,040)  2.72 
Outstanding at September 30, 2020  6,130,004  $0.75 
     Weighted 
For the three months ended March 31, 2021    Average 
  Shares  Exercise Price 
Outstanding at January 1, 2021  3,941,301  $0.78 
Outstanding at March 31, 2021  3,941,301  $0.78 

For the year ended December 31, 2020

     Weighted 
     Average 
  Shares  Exercise Price 
Outstanding at January 1, 2020  6,145,044  $0.75 
Expired or canceled  (2,203,743)  0.70 
Outstanding at December 31, 2020  3,941,301  $0.78 

 

The following table summarizes information about options to purchase shares of Mateon’sthe Company’s Common Stock outstanding and exercisable at September 30, 2020:March 31, 2021:

 

      Weighted-  Weighted-    
      Average  Average    
   Outstanding  Remaining Life  Exercise  Number 
Exercise prices  Options  In Years  Price  Exercisable 
              
$0.22   2,524,513   7.73  $0.22   2,524,513 
 0.38   1,162,500   6.29   0.38   1,162,500 
 0.51   242,966   6.70   0.51   242,966 
 0.58   271,224   6.07   0.58   271,224 
 0.73   1,025,000   5.48   0.73   1,025,000 
 1.37   150,000   4.81   1.37   150,000 
 1.43   525,000   4.66   1.43   525,000 
 2.95   150,000   3.62   2.95   150,000 
 11.88   2,359   1.26   11.88   2,359 
 15.00   75,000   4.66   15.00   75,000 
 19.80   1,442   1.08   19.80   1,442 
     6,130,004   6.49  $0.75   6,130,004 

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        Weighted-    
      Weighted-  Average    
   Outstanding  Average  Exercise  Number 
Exercise prices  Options  Remaining Life  Price  Exercisable 
             
$0.22   1,750,000   7.22  $0.22   1,750,000 
 0.38   900,000   5.79   0.38   900,000 
 0.73   762,500   4.97   0.73   762,500 
 1.37   150,000   4.30   1.37   150,000 
 1.43   300,000   4.16   1.43   300,000 
 11.88   2,359   0.76   11.88   2,359 
 15.00   75,000   4.16   15.00   75,000 
 19.80   1,442   0.59   19.80   1,442 
     3,941,301   6.05  $0.78   3,941,301 

 

The compensation expense attributed to the issuance of the options is recognized as they are vested.

 

The employee stock option plan stock options are generally exercisable for ten years from the grant date and vest over various terms from the grant date to three years.

The aggregate intrinsic value totaled $0 and was based on Mateon’sthe Company’s closing stock price of $0.18$0.36 as of September 30,March 31, 2021, which would have been received by the option holders had all option holders exercised their options as of that date. Correspondingly, the aggregate intrinsic value totaled $0 and was based on the Company’s closing stock price of $0.22 as of December 31, 2020, which would have been received by the option holders had all option holders exercised their options as of that date.

 

As of September 30, 2020,March 31, 2021, there was no future compensation cost as all stock options vested asprior to December 31, 2019 and the compensation was fully expensed prior to the Merger and no new options have been granted since then.

In April 2019 and in conjunction with the close of the Merger, the Company recorded approximately $341,000 in compensation cost as a result of the acceleration of the vesting schedule of approximately 328,000 Oncotelic options. Pursuant to the Merger these options were converted into Common Stock and Series A Preferred Shares in the Company.

 

In August 2019, the Company entered into Employment Agreements and incentive compensation arrangements with each of its executive officers, including Dr. Vuong Trieu, the Chief Executive Officer; Dr. Fatih Uckun, the Chief Medical Officer; Dr. Chulho Park, its Chief Technology Officer; and Mr. Amit Shah, the Chief Financial Officer. Details of the agreements and the incentive compensation is described in detail in Note 11 – Commitments & Contingencies under “Employment Agreements”. The incentive stock options or the restricted stock awards granted to the Company’s executive officers have not been granted as of the date of this filing.

 

Warrants

 

Pursuant to the Merger, Mateon’sthe Company’s Common Stock and corresponding outstanding warrants survived. The below information represents Mateon’sthe Company’s associated warrant activity pre-merger and post-merger.activity.

During the three months ended March 31, 2021, 2,035,000 warrants were issued related to private placement. Fair value of these warrants on issue date amounted to $467,637 with an expected life of 1.5 years, as calculated using Black Scholes valuation model.

 

In February 2020, Mateonthe Company offered to cancel to all the prior warrants of the warrant holders from the 2018 debt financing and offered to reissue new warrants to such warrant holders. Out of all the warrant holders, holders of 13,750,000 warrants opted to participate in the reissuance. In addition,reissuance during the Company issued 2,915,000 newsame period in 2020. The company recognized stock-based compensation of $2.1 million as the fair value of the warrants to certain accredited investors in connection withusing a Black Scholes valuation model. No similar expense was recorded for the financing through JH Darbie (See note 6). three months ended March 31, 2021.

The issuance of warrants to purchase shares of Mateon’sthe Company’s Common Stock, including those attributed to debt issuances, as of September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 and December 31, 20192020 are summarized as follows:

 

     Weighted- 
     Average 
As of September 30, 2020 Shares  Exercise Price 
       
Outstanding at December 31, 2019  19,515,787  $0.60 
Issued during the nine months ended September 30, 2020  16,665,000   0.20 
Expired or cancelled  (18,028,287)  0.63 
Outstanding at September 30, 2020  18,152,500  $0.20 
     Weighted- 
     Average 
  Shares  Exercise Price 
Outstanding at January 1, 2021  18,702,500  $0.20 
Issued during three months ended March 31, 2021  2,035,000   0.20 
Outstanding at March 31, 2021  20,737,500  $0.20 

 

     Weighted- 
As of December 31, 2019    Average 
  Shares  Exercise Price 
       
Outstanding at December 31, 2018  24,380,893  $1.05 
Expired or cancelled  (4,865,106)  2.82 
Outstanding at December 31, 2019  19,515,787  $0.60 

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     Weighted- 
     Average 
For the year ended December 31, 2020 Shares  Exercise Price 
       
Outstanding at January 1, 2020  19,515,787  $0.60 
Issued during the year ended December 31, 2020  17,215,000   0.20 
Expired or cancelled  (18,028,287)  0.63 
Outstanding at December 31, 2020  18,702,500  $0.20 

The following table summarizes information about warrants outstanding and exercisable at September 30, 2020:March 31, 2021:

 

  Outstanding and exercisable   Outstanding and exercisable 
    Weighted- Weighted-        Weighted- Weighted-   
    Average Average        Average Average   
  Number Remaining Life Exercise Number   Number Remaining Life Exercise Number 
Exercise PriceExercise Price  Outstanding  in Years  Price  Exercisable Exercise Price Outstanding in Years Price Exercisable 
                   
$0.20   1,487,500   2.75  $0.20   1,487,500 0.20 1,487,500 2.08 $0.20 1,487,500 
0.20   2,915,000   3.00   0.20   - 0.20  19,250,000  2.15  0.20  19,250,000 
0.20   13,750,000   2.75   0.20   13,750,000    20,737,500  2.15 $0.20  20,737,500 
                  
    18,152,500   2.75  $0.20   15,237,500 

 

The expense attributed to the issuances of the warrants was recognized as they vested/earned. These warrants were exercisable for three to five years from the grant date. There were no warrants issued during the year ended December 31, 2019. 13,750,000 warrants were issued during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and Mateonwere as recorded stock-based compensation of $2,100,000$2.1 million as the fair value of the warrants using a Black Scholes valuation model using the following input values. The expense attributed to the issuances of the warrants was recognized as they vested/earned. These warrants are exercisable for three to five years from the grant date. All the warrants are currently exercisable.

 

Expected Term  3 years 
Expected volatility  140.5%
Risk-free interest rates  1.40%
Dividend yields  0.00%

 

As of the closing of the Company’s July through September private placement offering, the estimated grant date fair value of approximately $0.20 per share associated with the warrants to purchase up to 2,915,000 shares of common stock issued in this offering, or a total of approximately $0.4 million, was recorded to additional paid-in capital on a relative fair value basis. All warrants sold in this offering had an exercise price of $0.20 per share of the Company stock or $1.00 per share of Edge Point, subject to adjustment, are exercisable immediately and expire three years from the date of issuance. The fair value of the warrants was estimated using a Black Scholes valuation model using the following input values:

Expected Term1.5 years
Expected volatility184.7%-191.9%
Risk-free interest rates0.13%-0.15%
Dividend yields0.00%

The Company recorded an initial debt discount of approximately $0.6 million representing the intrinsic value of the conversion option embedded in the convertible debt instrument based upon the difference between the fair value of the underlying common stock at the commitment date of the note transaction and the effective conversion price embedded in the note. The Company recognized amortization expense related to the debt discount and debt issuance costs of $162,267 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 respectively, which is included in interest expense in the condensed statements of operations. No similar expense was recorded for the same periods in 2019.

NOTE 10 – INCOME TAXES

Significant components of the Company’s deferred tax assets and liabilities for federal and state income taxes as of March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 are as follows in thousands:

  March 31, 2021  December 31, 2020 
Deferred tax assets:        
Stock-based compensation $1,164  $1,164 
Assets  6,154   6,227 
Liability accruals  239   173 
R&D Credit  4,768   4,760 
Capital Loss  528   528 
Deferred state tax  (2,139)  (2,086)
Net operating loss carry forward  

55,542

   56,090 
Total gross deferred tax assets  

66,256

   66,856 
Less - valuation allowance  (66,256)  (66,856)
Net deferred tax assets $-  $- 

 

The Company had gross deferred tax assets of approximately $66,100,000$66.3 million and $65,000,000$66.9 million as of September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2019,2020, respectively, which primarily relate to net operating loss carryforwards. The increase during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 relates to the operations of the Company.

 

As of March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company had gross federal net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $232.3 million and $237.7 million, respectively, which are available to offset future taxable income, if any. The Company recordsrecorded a valuation allowance in the full amount of ourits net deferred tax assets since realization of such tax benefits has been determined by the Company’sour management to be less likely than not.

 

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At March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company had California state gross operating loss carry-forwards of approximately $72.6 million and $69.8 million which will expire in various amounts from 2028 through 2040. At December 31, 2020, the Company had federal research and development tax credits of approximately $3.3 million which will expire in 2021 and California state research and development tax credits of approximately $1.4 million which have no expiration date.

The Company has identified ourits federal and California state tax returns as “major” tax jurisdictions. Currently, theThe periods the Company’sout income tax returns are subject to examination for these jurisdictions are 20152016 through 2018, until such time the Company files the 2019 tax return. The Company believes its2019. We believe our income tax filing positions and deductions will be sustained on audit, and the Companywe do not anticipate any adjustments that would result in a material change to itsour financial position. Therefore, no liabilities for uncertain income tax positions have been recorded.

At September 30, 2020, the Company had available net operating loss carry forwards for federal income tax reporting purposes of approximately $251,700,000, including net operating losses of $3,700,000 recorded through the nine months ended September 30, 2020. At December 31, 2019, the Company had available net operating loss carry-forwards for federal income tax reporting purposes of approximately $248,000,000 which are available to offset future taxable income. Portions of these carry-forwards will expire through 2038 if not otherwise utilized. The Company has not performed a formal analysis, but the Company believes its ability to use such net operating losses and tax credit carry-forwards is subject to annual limitations due to change of control provisions under Sections 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code, which significantly impacts the Company’s ability to realize these deferred tax assets.

As of the date of this filing, the Company has not filed its 2019 and 2020 federal and state corporate income tax returns. The Company expects to file these documents as soon as practicable.practical.

Portions of these carryforwards will expire through 2038, if not otherwise utilized. The Company’s utilization of net operating loss carryforwards could be subject to an annual limitation. as a result of certain past or future events, such as stock sales or other equity events constituting a “change in ownership” under the provisions of Sections 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and similar state provisions. The annual limitations could result in the expiration of net operating loss carryforwards and tax credits before they can be utilized. We have not performed a formal analysis, but we believe our ability to use such net operating losses and tax credit carryforwards will be subject to annual limitations, due to change of ownership control provisions under Section 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code, which would significantly impact our ability to realize these deferred tax assets.

 

NOTE 11 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

Leases

 

Currently, the Company is leasing the office located at 29397 Agoura Road, Suite 107, Agoura Hills, CA 91301 on a month-to-month basis until such time a new office is identified. The Company believes the office is sufficient for its current operations.

 

Legal Claims

 

From time to time, the Company may become involved in legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. The Company is not presently a party to any legal proceedings that it currently believes, if determined adversely to the Company, would individually or taken together have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, operating results, financial condition or cash flows.

 

Employment Agreements

In August 2019, Mateon entered into Employment Agreements and incentive compensation arrangements with each of its then executive officers, including Dr. Vuong Trieu, the Chief Executive Officer; Dr. Fatih Uckun, the Chief Medical Officer; Dr. Chulho Park, the Chief Technology Officer; and Mr. Amit Shah, the Chief Financial Officer. In November 2019, upon review of the said employment agreement with Dr. Uckun, it was observed that the agreement submitted for Dr. Uckun was the incorrect document and the Company filed the correct document.

The Employment Agreements provide for annual base salaries for each year of the term, subject to review and adjustment by Mateon’s Board or the Compensation Committee of the Board (the “Compensation Committee”) from time to time. Each Employment Agreement provides that the executive shall be eligible for an annual discretionary cash bonus expressed as a percentage the executive’s base salary, subject to their achievement of performance targets and goals established by the Board or the Compensation Committee.

The Employment Agreements provide for equity awards to each executive under the terms of Mateon’s stock option plans. Each Employment Agreement provides that the executive will receive a restricted stock grant of the Mateon’s Common Stock. Mateon will compensate Messrs. Trieu, Park and Shah for the taxes actually incurred on grant of the restricted shares. The restricted stock will vest fully on the one-year anniversary of employment. As of December 31, 2019, the restricted shares have yet to be issued. The Employment Agreements also provide for grants of incentive stock options to purchase shares of Mateon’s Common Stock under the Stock Plans. Such options shall vest and become exercisable after one year of employment. As of December 31, 2019, these options had yet to be granted. Thereafter, each Employment Agreement contemplates that the executive will be eligible to receive a comparable annual grant of restricted shares or stock options as approved by the Board or Compensation Committee and which shall contain the customary terms and provisions of such grants generally to key executives under the 2017 Stock Plan.

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The initial restricted stock grants and stock option grants have been set for the executives as follows:

Executive Title Restricted Stock
(Shares)
  Stock Options
(Shares)
 
Vuong Trieu Chief Executive Officer  209,302   313,953 
Chulho Park Chief Technology Officer  162,791   244,186 
Amit Shah Chief Financial Officer  148,837   223,256 

The incentive stock options or the restricted stock awards granted to the Mateon’s officers have not been issued as of the date of this filing.

PointR Merger Contingent Consideration

 

The total purchase price of $17,831,427 represented the consideration transferred from Mateon in the PointR Merger and was calculated based on the number of shares of Common Stock plus the preferred shares outstanding but convertible into Common Stock outstanding at the date of the PointR Merger and includes $2,625,000 of contingent consideration of shares issuable to PointR shareholders upon achievement of certain milestones.

 

NOTE 12 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

Change in Name

On November 5, 2020, the Company filed an amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State for the State of Delaware changing its name from “Mateon Therapeutics, Inc.” to “Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc.” A notice of corporate action has been filed with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), requesting approval to change its name and ticker symbol. The Company is still awaiting FINRA’s approval on its notice of corporate action, and upon receipt of acceptance, the Company’s ticker symbol will be changed to reflect the Company’s name change.

GMP Note

Peak One Equity Purchase Agreement

In June 2020, Mateon secured $2 million in debt financing, evidenced by a one year convertible note (the “GMP Note”) from GMP, to conduct a clinical trial evaluating OT-101 against COVID-19 bearing 2% annual interest, and is personally guaranteed by Dr. Vuong Trieu, the Chief Executive Officer of Mateon.  The GMP Note is convertible into Mateon’s Common Stock upon the GMP Note’s maturity one year from the date of the GMP Note, at Mateon’s Common Stock price on the date of conversion with no discount. GMP does not have the option to convert prior to the GMP Note’s maturity at the end of one year. Such financing will be utilized solely to fund the clinical trial.

The Company’s liability under GMP Note commenced to accrue when GMP first began to pay for services related to the clinical trial to our third-party clinical research organization, up to a maximum of $2 million.  In October 2020, the GMP paid approximately $0.5 million to the clinical trial organization, which accrued as a liability to the Company under the terms of the GMP Note.

Consent Solicitation

 

On June 25, 2020,May 3, 2021, the Company commenced a solicitation of shareholder consentsentered into an Equity Purchase Agreement (the “Consent SolicitationAgreement”) and Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) with Peak One Opportunity Fund, L.P. (“Peak One”), pursuant to a consent solicitation statementwhich the Company shall have the right, but not the obligation, to direct Peak One, to purchase up to $10.0 million (the “Consent Solicitation StatementMaximum Commitment Amount”), in shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”). Under the Agreement and subject to the holders (the “Stockholders”)Maximum Commitment Amount, the Company has the right, but not the obligation, to submit Put Notices (as defined in the Agreement) to Peak One (i) in a minimum amount not less than $20,000.00 and (ii) in a maximum amount up to the lesser of its Common Stock and Preferred Stock, to approve the following actions:

(1) changing the name(a) $1.0 million or (b) 250% of the Company to “Oncotelic, Inc.” and to changingAverage Daily Trading Value (as defined in the Company’s ticker symbol (the “Name Change”);Agreement).

(2) amendingIn exchange for Peak One entering into the Company’s AmendedAgreement, the Company agreed, among other things, to (A) issue Peak One and Restated 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2015 Plan”) to increase the numberPeak One Investments, LLC, an aggregate of 250,000 shares of Common Stock, availableand (B) file a registration statement registering the Common Stock issued or issuable to Peak One under the Agreement for issuance from 7.25 million shares to 27.25 million shares, and increasing the maximum number of stock awards that may be issued in any fiscal year from 500,000 to 1,000,000 sharesresale (the “Plan Amendment”);

(3) increasing the authorized number of shares of Common Stock from 150,000,000 to 750,000,000 (the “Capital Increase”); and

(4) amending and restating the certificate of incorporation for the Company (the “Amended and Restated Certificate”) to give effect to the Name Change, Capital Increase and forum selection provision.

The Stockholders approved the Name Change, the Plan Amendment, the Capital Increase, and the Amended and Restated Certificate. The State of Delaware approved the name change on November 5, 2020.

Entry into MOU and Commercialization Agreement with Windlas

On August 19, 2020 the Company executed a memorandum of understanding (the “MOURegistration Statement”) with Windlas Biotech Private Limited (“Windlas”) for the developmentSecurities and commercializationExchange Commission within 60 calendar days of Artemisininthe Agreement, as a therapeutic pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and herbal supplement against COVID-19. The development of Artemisinin against COVID-19 is dependent onmore specifically set forth in the successful completion of ARTI-19 clinical trial “Artemisinin Intervention trial against COVID-19”, which is being initiated globally in Africa, India, and South America. Windlas will be our manufacturing partner for the clinical trial batches as well as commercial batches.Registration Rights Agreement.

On September 1, 2020 the Company executed the final MOU with Windlas regarding the development and commercialization of Artemisinin as therapeutic pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and herbal supplement against COVID-19. 

The ARTI-19 trial has been cleared by India regulatory authorities for initiation. The trial is now registered under CTRI and three sites have been selected, their IRB approval obtained, their staffs have been trained into the protocol/EDC. Additional sites will be added as the trial progressed. Enrollment of patients has already commenced for the trial.

 

The obligation of Peak One to purchase the Company’s Common Stock shall begin on the date of the Agreement, and ending on the earlier of (i) the date on which Peak One shall have purchased Common Stock pursuant to this Agreement equal to the Maximum Commitment Amount, (ii) twenty four (24) months after the initial effectiveness of the Registration Statement , (iii) written notice of termination by the Company and Windlas entered into a License, Development and Commercialization Agreement, dated November 10, 2020 (the “Commercialization Agreement”), which formalized the termsto Peak One (subject to certain restrictions set forth in the MOU. PursuantAgreement), (iv) the Registration Statement is no longer effective after the initial effective date of the Registration Statement, or (v) the date that the Company commences a voluntary case or any person commences a proceeding against the Company, a custodian is appointed for the Company or for all or substantially all of its property or the Company makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors (the “Commitment Period”).

During the Commitment Period, the purchase price to be paid by Peak One for the CommercializationCommon Stock under the Agreement Windlas shall be responsible for developing, manufacturing, and supplying Artemisinin within India and eventually expanding worldwide, excluding China and its territories and the Americas. Windlas will also be responsible to market Artemisinin and its variants in India. Under the terms91% of the Commercialization Agreement, Windlas andMarket Price, which is defined as the Company will evenly split all profits derived from commercializationlesser of Artemisinin within India. For allthe (i) closing bid price of the Common Stock on the trading day immediately preceding the respective Put Date (as defined in the Agreement), or (ii) lowest closing bid price of the Common Stock during the Valuation Period (as defined in the Agreement), in each case as reported by Bloomberg Finance L.P or other territories, which excludes China and its territories and the Americas, the profit-split ratio is to be determined and negotiated on a country-by-country basis.reputable source designated by Peak One.

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ITEM 2: MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

 

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (the “Quarterly Report” or “Report”) includes a number of forward-looking statements that reflect management’s current views with respect to future events and financial performance. Forward-looking statements are projections in respect of future events or our future financial performance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential” or “continue” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of us and members of our management team, as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based.

 

Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, or performance. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. Some of these risks are included in the section entitled “Risk Factors” set forth in this Quarterly Report and in other reports that we file with the SEC. The occurrence of any of these risks, or others of which we are currently unaware, may cause our company’s actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks include, by way of example and without limitation:

 

our ability to successfully commercialize our products and services on a large enough scale to generate profitable operations;
our ability to maintain and develop relationships with customers and suppliers;
our ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses or new products, or to realize anticipated synergies in connection with acquisitions of businesses or products;
expectations concerning our ability to raise additional funding and to continue as a going concern;
our ability to successfully implement our business plan; and
our ability to avoid, or to adequately address any intellectual property claims brought by third parties; and
the anticipated impact of any changes in industry regulation.

 

Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made by us in this report and in our other reports filed with the SEC, including our Form 10-K8-K/A filed with the SEC on May 14, 2020,July 8, 2019, which includes the audited financial statements for our subsidiary, Oncotelic, as of and for the years ended December 31, 2018.2018 and 2017. We undertake no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes in the future operating results over time except as required by law. We believe that our assumptions are based upon reasonable data derived from and known about our business and operations. No assurances are made that actual results of operations or the results of our future activities will not differ materially from our assumptions.

 

Corporate History

 

Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc. (also d/b/a Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. (f/k/a OXiGENE, Inc.) ( “(“MateonOncotelic”), was formed in the State of New York in 1988 as OXiGENE, Inc., was reincorporated in the State of Delaware in 1992, and changed its name to Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. in 2016. Mateon2016, and then Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc. in November 2020. Oncotelic conducts business activities through both MateonOncotelic and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Oncotelic, Inc. (“Oncotelic”), a Delaware corporation, and PointR Data, Inc. (“PointR”), a Delaware corporation, and EdgePoint AI, Inc. (“Edgepoint”), a Delaware Corporation for which we havethere are non-controlling interests, (Mateon,(Oncotelic, Oncotelic Inc., PointR and Edgepoint are collectively called the “Company”). MateonThe Company is evaluating the further development of its product candidates OXi4503 as a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes and CA4P in combination with a checkpoint inhibitor for the treatment of advanced metastatic melanoma.

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Amendments to Certificate of Incorporation

Merger Agreement

In November 2020 the Company filed an amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation with Oncotelic,the Secretary of State for the State of Delaware changing its name from “Mateon Therapeutics, Inc.” to “Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc.” A notice of corporate action had been filed with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), requesting confirmation to change its name and approval for a new ticker symbol. On March 29, 2021, the Company received approval from FINRA on its notice of corporate action, and effective March 30, 2021, the Company’s ticker symbol has changed from “MATN” to “OTLC”.

 

In April 2019, MateonJanuary 2021, the Company filed an additional amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Charter Amendment”), with the Secretary of State for the State of Delaware, which Charter Amendment went effective immediately upon acceptance by the Secretary of State for the State of Delaware. As approved by the Company’s stockholders by written consent on August 10, 2020, the Charter Amendment increased the number of authorized shares of Common Stock from 150,000,000 shares to 750,000,000 shares.

Conversion of Series A Preferred Stock to Common Stock

Subsequent to obtaining the approval from FINRA on March 29, 2021 related to the various corporate actions, the Company converted 278,188 Series A Preferred Stock into 278,187,847 shares of common stock of the Company. After such conversion and as of May 7, 2021, the total number of shares of common stock outstanding is 369,696,959.

Recent Events

Peak One Equity Purchase Agreement

On May 3, 2021, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with Oncotelic (the “Merger Agreement”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of cancer using TGF-b RNA, and Oncotelic Acquisition Corporation (the “Merger Sub”, a newly formed wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company). Meteon and Oncotelic entered into the Merger Agreement in order to create a publicly traded company with a pipeline of immunotherapies that target several cancer markets which currently lack adequate treatment options. Following the satisfaction of closing conditions contained in the MergerEquity Purchase Agreement (the “MergerAgreement”) and Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) with Peak One Opportunity Fund, L.P. (“Peak One”), pursuant to which the Merger Sub was merged with and into Oncotelic, with Oncotelic survivingCompany shall have the Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiaryright, but not the obligation, to direct Peak One, to purchase up to $10.0 million (the “Maximum Commitment Amount”) in shares of the Company.

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Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“MergerCommon Stock”). Under the Agreement with PointR Data, Inc.and subject to the Maximum Commitment Amount, the Company has the right, but not the obligation, to submit Put Notices (as defined in the Agreement) to Peak One (i) in a minimum amount not less than $20,000.00 and (ii) in a maximum amount up to the lesser of (a) $1.0 million or (b) 250% of the Average Daily Trading Value (as defined in the Agreement).

 

In August 2019, Mateon enteredexchange for Peak One entering into the Agreement, the Company agreed, among other things, to (A) issue Peak One and Peak One Investments, LLC, an aggregate of 250,000 shares of Common Stock, and (B) file a registration statement registering the Common Stock issued or issuable to Peak One under the Agreement and Plan of Mergerfor resale (the “PointR Merger AgreementRegistration Statement”) with PointRthe Securities and Exchange Commission within 60 calendar days of the Agreement, as more specifically set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement.

The obligation of Peak One to purchase the Company’s Common Stock shall begin on the date of the Agreement, and ending on the earlier of (i) the date on which Peak One shall have purchased Common Stock pursuant to this Agreement equal to the Maximum Commitment Amount, (ii) twenty four (24) months after the initial effectiveness of the Registration Statement , (iii) written notice of termination by the Company to Peak One (subject to certain restrictions set forth in the Agreement), (iv) the Registration Statement is no longer effective after the initial effective date of the Registration Statement, or (v) the date that the Company commences a voluntary case or any person commences a proceeding against the Company, a custodian is appointed for the Company or for all or substantially all of its property or the Company makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors (the “PointR MergerCommitment Period”).

During the Commitment Period, the purchase price to be paid by Peak One for the Common Stock under the Agreement shall be 91% of the Market Price, which is defined as the lesser of the (i) closing bid price of the Common Stock on the trading day immediately preceding the respective Put Date (as defined in the Agreement), or (ii) lowest closing bid price of the Common Stock during the Valuation Period (as defined in the Agreement), in each case as reported by Bloomberg Finance L.P or other reputable source designated by Peak One.

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Consent Solicitation and Amendments to Certificate of Incorporation

On June 25, 2020, the Company commenced a privately-held developersolicitation of high-performance cluster computer and AI applications. The PointR Merger Agreement provided, that subjectshareholder consents (the “Consent Solicitation”), pursuant to a consent solicitation statement (the “Consent Solicitation Statement”), to the satisfactionholders (the “Stockholders”) of certain conditions, PointR would be merged withits Common Stock and into a newly formed subsidiarySeries A Convertible Preferred Stock. The deadline for Stockholders to respond to the Consent Solicitation Statement was August 10, 2020. Pursuant to the Consent Solicitation Statement, the following actions were approved by the written consent of the requisite number of Stockholders:

(1)changing the name of the Company and changing the Company’s ticker symbol (the “Name Change”);
(2)amending the Company’s Amended and Restated 2015 Equity Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares of Common Stock available for issuance from 7.25 million shares to 27.25 million shares, and increasing the maximum number of stock awards that may be issued in any fiscal year from 500,000 to 1,000,000 shares (the “Plan Amendment”);

(3)increasing the authorized number of shares of Common Stock from 150,000,000 to 750,000,000 (the “Capital Increase”); and
(4)amending and restating the certificate of incorporation for the Company to give effect to the Name Change, Capital Increase and forum selection provision.

The Company filed the Current Report on Form 8-K with PointR surviving the PointR Merger asSEC to declare the voting results on August 14, 2020. In November 2020, the Company filed an amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State for the State of Delaware changing its name from “Mateon Therapeutics, Inc.” to “Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc.” A notice of corporate action had been filed with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), requesting confirmation to change its name and approval for a wholly-owned subsidiarynew ticker symbol. On March 29, 2021, the Company received approval from FINRA on its notice of corporate action, and effective March 30, 2021, the Company.Company’s ticker symbol changed from “MATN” to “OTLC”.

 

In November 2019,January 2021, the Company entered into Amendment No. 1filed an additional amendment to the PointR Merger Agreementits Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Charter Amendment”), with PointR and consummated the PointR Merger. The PointR Merger is intendedSecretary of State for the State of Delaware, which Charter Amendment went effective immediately upon acceptance by the Secretary of State for the State of Delaware. As approved by the Company’s stockholders by written consent on August 10, 2020, the Charter Amendment increased the number of authorized shares of Common Stock from 150,000,000 shares to create a publicly traded AI driven immuno-oncology company with a robust pipeline of first in class TGF-β immunotherapies for late stage cancers such as gliomas, pancreatic cancer and melanoma.750,000,000 shares.

 

The Company registered an additional total of 20,000,000 shares of its common stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Common Stock”), which may be issued pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). Such additional shares were approved by the shareholders of the Company on August 10, 2020 and reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on a Current Report on Form 8-K on August 14, 2020. As such, the total number of shares of the Company’s common stock available for issuance under the 2015 plan are 27,250,000.

In March 2021, the Company converted 278,188 shares of the Company’s Series A Preferred Stock to 278,187,847 shares of its common stock pursuant to the terms of the 2 mergers.

Mergers

The company had completed two plans of merger, one with Oncotelic Inc. and the second with PointR Data Inc. in 2019. For additional information on both mergers, refer to our Annual Report on formForm 10-K filed with the SEC on May 14, 2020.April 15, 2021.

 

Company Overview

 

We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing drugs for the treatment of cancer. Our goal is to advance our drug candidates into late stage pivotal clinical trials and either sell marketing rights to a larger pharmaceutical company or seek FDA approval ourselves.

 

Oncotelic’sThe Company’s lead product candidate, OT-101, is being developed as a broad-spectrum anti-cancer drug that can also be used in combination with other standard cancer therapies to establish an effective multi-modality treatment strategy for difficult-to-treat cancers. Together, we plan to initiate phase 3 clinical trials for OT-101 in both high-grade glioma and pancreatic cancer. During phasePhase 2 clinical trials in pancreatic cancer, melanoma, and colorectal cancers (Study P001)(“Study P001”) and in high-grade gliomas (Study G004)(“Study G004”), meaningful clinical benefits were observed and OT-101 exhibited a favorable safety profile. These clinical benefits included long-term survival and meaningful tumor reduction. Both partial and complete responses have been observed in the Study G004 Phase 2 clinical trial of OT-101 as a single agent in patients with aggressive brain tumors.

 

Oncotelic’sThe Company’s self-immunization protocol (SIP™(“SIP™) is based on novel and proprietary sequential treatment of cancers with OT-101 (an antisense against TGF-ß2) and chemotherapies. This sequential treatment strategy is aimed at achieving effective self-immunization against a patients’ own cancer, resulting in robust therapeutic immune response and consequently better control of the cancer and improved survival. Prolonged states of being cancer-free have been observed in some patients with the most aggressive forms of cancer, raising a renewed hope for a potential cure. The use of OT-101 lifts the suppression of the patient’s immune cells around the cancer tissue, providing the foundation for an effective initial priming, which is critical for a successful immune response. The subsequent chemotherapy results in the release of neoantigens that result in a robust boost of the immune response. We believe that a rational combination of the Oncoteliccompany’s SIP™ platform with immune-modulatory drugs like interleukin 2 (IL-2)(“IL-2”) and/or immune checkpoint inhibitors has the potential to help achieve sustained and robust immune responses in patients with the most difficult-to-treat forms of cancer.

OncotelicThe Company is also working on developing OT-101 as a possible drug candidate that can be deployed in various epidemic and pandemic diseases, such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (“SARS”) and specifically for the current COVID-19. As of the date of this report, the Company has filed an INDInvestigational New Drug Application (“IND”) with the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) to permit the Company to conduct clinical trials to prove the efficacy of OT-101 against COVID-19. The Company has initiated clinical trials in Latin America to evaluate the efficacy of OT-101 against COVID-19 and expects preliminary results in Q2,the second quarter of the fiscal year 2021. The Company plans to initiate the Company’s Phase 2 clinical trial of OT-101, a TGF-β antisense, for the treatment of patients with mild to severe COVID-19 infection. Argentina now has the fifth highest tally of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, with the latest additions taking it past Colombia in a global ranking compiled by John Hopkins University. This multi-center, double blind, randomized, placebo-control study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of OT-101 in combination with standard of care on two (2) patient cohortsgroups1)(1) mild or moderate disease, and 2)(2) severe disease requiring mechanical ventilation or intubation. The study will enroll approximately 24 patients in Argentina with an aggregate total of 72 ptspatients study wide.

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In addition, the Company is developing artemisinin.Artemisinin as an Ayurvedic therapeutic under the product names ARTIVedaTM (when marketed within India), and ArtiShieldTM (when marketed outside of India) (ARTIVedaTM and ArtiShieldTM are collectively referred to herein as “ARTIVedaTM”). Artemisinin, purified from a plant Artemisia annuaAnnua, is ablehas exhibited an ability to inhibit TGF-β activity and is able to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). It hasCOVID-19. The Company’s test results during an in vitro study at Utah State University showed Artemisinin having an EC50 of 0.45 ug/ml, (In an in vitro study Mateon’s test result at Utah State University), and a Safety Index of 140. Artemisinin can target multiple viral threats including COVID-19 by suppressing both viral replication and clinical symptoms that arise from viral infection. Viral replication cannot occur without TGF-β. Artemisinin also has been reported to have antiviral activities against hepatitis B and C viruses, human herpes viruses, HIV-1, influenza virus A, and bovine viral diarrhea virus in the low micromolar range. TGF-β surge and cytokine storm cannot occur without TGF-β. ClinicalIn a clinical study undertaken in India, clinical consequences related to the TGF-β surge, including ARDS and cytokine storm, arewere suppressed by targeting TGF-β with Artemisinin. This isThe clinical study (“ARTI-19”) showing these results was a global study, with India to contributeenrolling at least 120 pts topatients. The number of patients enrolled in the ARTI-19 trial increases the total aggregate number of 3000 pts.patients using ARTIVedaTM to 3,000. The ARTI-19 trials were conducted by Windlas Biotech Private Limited (“Windlas”), the Company’s business partner in India, as part of the Company’s global effort at deploying ARTIVedaTM across India, Africa, and Latin America. The Windlas study evaluates the safety and efficacy of Artemisia absinthiumAbsinthium Powder 500mg capsule (ArtiShieldof ARTIVedaTM ) in the treatment of adults with COVID-19. Top-line dataData from ARTI-19 is expected by end of 4Q20.the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2021. The ARTI-19 trial was recently cleared by Indian regulatory authorities and is registered under the Clinical Trials Registry India (CTRI)(“CTRI”) with three active sites and additional sites to be added as the trial progresses and expands. ARTI-19 in India is beingwas conducted bywith Windlas Biotech Private Limited, as part of Mateon’sthe plan for the Company’s global effort at deploying ArtiShieldPulmohealTM, a product package of ARTIVedaTM, our artificial intelligence (“AI”) cough application (“ArtiHealth”), and our AI post marketing survey (“PMS”), across India, Africa, and Latin America. We continue to evaluate to seek approval, and subsequently launch PulmoHealTM, with or without local partners, in various countries within the regions planned.

 

In January 2021 and subsequently in February 2021, the Company announced preliminary results for ARTI-19 trials for ARTIVeda. The interim results announced were, as previously disclosed above, based on 120 randomized patients across 3 sites in India. We reported positive topline results in April 2021, and we expect final data available 6-8 weeks thereafter. Upon completion of the trial results, it is the Company’s objective to file for Emergency Use Authorization (“EUA”) with regulatory authorities around the world, including India, the United States, the United Kingdom, countries in Africa and Latin America; discussions regarding EUA with several of these authorities have commenced.

No adverse events were reported that required discontinuation of treatment. When ARTIVeda was added to the standard of care (“SOC”), more patients recovered faster than SOC alone. Of the 39 patients, 31 patients (79.5%) being treated with ARTIVeda became asymptomatic after 5-day of therapy. In comparison, only 12 of the 21 control patients (57.1%) treated with SOC alone became asymptomatic on day 5 (P=0.028, Fisher’s exact test). For the sicklier patients (WHO scale 4), the median time to becoming asymptomatic was only 5 days for the ARTIVeda + SOC group (N=18), as compared to 14 days for the SOC alone group (N=10) (P=0.004, Log-rank test).These data sets provide clinical support that targeting the TGF-β pathway with ARTIVedamay contribute to a faster recovery of patients with mild to moderate COVID-19. The trend was more pronounced with higher initial disease status. Log rank statistics: WHO-scale 2,3,4: p= 0.0369 /RR = 1.476 (0.8957-2.433), WHO-scale 3,4: p= 0.026/ RR = 1.581 (0.9094-2.747), WHO-scale 4: p= 0.0043/ RR = 2.038 (0.9961-4.168). RR = rate ratio for recovery. The Company has published the results of the trial in certain renowned publications.

In addition to ARTIVeda, the Company has also developed and launched ArtiHealth and the PMS, and when packaged with ARTIVedaTM , are packaged as a product offering under the name PulmoHeal. PulmoHealis a full evaluation package of drug and assessment platforms for COVID-19, and other respiratory disease patients. Windlas has launched ArtiHealth on Amazon.in, Flipkart, and 1mg.com. The platform has been powered by the Company’s AI supercomputing and AI platform in conjunction with IBM. Initially, the cough assessment will be powered by Salcit Pvt. Ltd.’s (“Salcit”) AI module. Per Salcit, their AI module has overall accuracy in predicting the pattern of the disease at 91.97%, sensitivity at 87.2%, and specificity at 93.69%.

Our artificial intelligence subsidiary, PointR, develops and deploys high performance cluster computers and AI technologies as a supercomputing grid that can be layered in and interconnected to create an all-point mesh to harvest operational data within manufacturing plant,plants, hospitals, clinics, and phase I units. These grids provide real-time, localized decision-making, harvesting complex data from structured and unstructured sources. The deployment of this supercomputing grid enables data capture and insight extraction in real time in blocks which are chained into blockchain ledger records serving as immutable transactions for stakeholders such as regulatory agencies, caretakers, insurers, payers, and manufacturers. The PointR grid can integrate and fuse data from any type of sensors or collection devices. For example, the Vision platform is a network of activity detection cameras functionalized with AI algorithms to monitor, evaluate, and archive real time visual data as a series of metadata entries in a Blockchain ledger. In the pharmaceutical industry, PointR’s AI combined with Blockchain will be used in the entire life cycle of a drug: discovery, clinical trials and manufacturing. Leveraging its deep partnership with IBM, the PointR team will combine its own AI Vision technology with industry standard Blockchain to transform drug manufacturing and real-world evidence monitoring for clinical trials. The combined system has the potential to automatically record individual key steps in cGMPCurrent Good Manufacturing Practice regulations enforced by the FDA (“CGMP”) for manufacturing operations including the flow of people, raw materials and operations in trusted perpetual blockchain ledgers that are indisputable. This has the potential to create much more efficient GMPCGMP manufacturing operations while simultaneously improving reliability and data security. The Company is also developing AI driven telehealth and other applications, that would be used in health monitoring and supporting the Company’s various clinical programs. The PointR technology is planned to be transferred into Edgepoint. Edgepoint also plans to redeploy TrustPoint, a tested technology for GMPCGMP drug manufacturing relieving human errors in supply chain and increasing compliance with warehouse operating procedures. For example, the warehouse module of TrustPoint will automatically create a shopping list from standard templates and alert supply chain personnel to collect and deliver a list of raw materials to manufacturing. To support the anti-viral drug program, Edgepoint is developing an AI app to remotely monitor patients’ respiratory status just using a mobile phone.ArtiHealth. Protected by patents and partnership with IBM Watson Health Research the appEdgepoint App allows patients to cough and speak into a mobile phone appthe Edgepoint App that can be operated either by a nurse or by the end-user patient at home. The appEdgepoint App is part of the company’s Telehealth platform to remotely monitor patient’s progression of disease. Mateon’sThe Company’s clinical trials of the anti-viral agent ARTI-Shield ARTIVedaTM will deploy the AI appEdgepoint App to COVIDCOVID-19 patients in the study to collect and score data by medical professionals. The data will be used by the AI to predict and diagnose patients as a de-novo software as a medical device. After regulatory approvals, the appEdgepoint App will be bundled with ARTI-Shield™ARTIVedaTM to be prescribed by physicians. Patients will be able to self-monitor progression of their respiratory condition with the AI appEdgepoint App as much as they check their temperature with a thermometer. The appEdgepoint App virtualizes and expands the use of spirometers in the form of a software app.

 

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For the past year and a half,Since April 2019, we have been operating under significant capital constraints, which has curtailed our ability to achieve meaningful progress in either of the Company’s two clinical programs – one of which is developing OXi4503 as a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes and the other of which is developing CA4P in combination with a checkpoint inhibitor for the treatment of advanced metastatic melanoma. We believe that the merger of Oncotelic and MateonOncotelic Inc. creates a combined company that has potential to generate shareholder value through a promising pipeline of next generation immunotherapies targeting several significant cancer markets where there is a lack of therapeutic options and lack of an effective immunotherapy protocol.protocol

 

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Research Service Agreement between Golden Mountain Partners LLC (GMP)(“GMP”) and the Company.

 

When COVID-19 emerged in China, the Company and GMP contemplated a collaboration to develop drug candidates for COVID-19. Oncotelic Inc. and GMP entered into a research and services agreement (the “GMP Research Agreement”) on February 3, 2020 memorializing their collaborative efforts to develop and test COVID-19 antisense therapeutics (the “GMP Agreement Product”). On March 18, 2020, the Company reported the anti-viral activity of OT-101 – its lead drug candidate currently in phase 3 testing in pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma. In an in vitro antiviral testing performed by an independent laboratory, OT-101 has an 50% effective concentration (EC50)(“EC50”) of 7.6 µg/mL and is not toxic at the highest dose of 1000 µg/mL giving a safety index (SI)(“SI”) value of >130, which is considered highly active. On March 23, 2020, the Company and GMP entered into a supplement to the GMP Research Agreement (the “GMP Research Supplement”) to confirm the inclusion of OT-101 within the scope of the GMP Research Agreement as a GMP Agreement Product, pending positive confirmatory testing against COVID-19. In consideration for the financial support provided by GMP for the research, pursuant to the terms of the GMP Research Agreement (as amended by the GMP Research Supplement) GMP is entitled to obtain certain exclusive rights to the use of the GMP Agreement Product in the COVID Field on a global basis, and an economic interest in the use of the GMP Agreement Product in the COVID Field including 50/50 profit sharing. As described in the GMP Research Supplement, the Company intends to license or assign intellectual property rights, including the 2020 Patent Application and any other intellectual property rights owned or controlled by the Company relating to the GMP Agreement Product, OXi4503 and CA4P, to a joint venture company (the “Joint Venture TransactionCompany”) to be established jointly between Oncotelic Inc. and GMP (or its designee), as well as providing management services and other expertise to the joint venture company.Joint Venture Company. GMP intends that it (or its designee, as the case may be) shall provide funding to the joint venture companyJoint Venture Company to support its development and commercial activities in the joint venture company’sJoint Venture Company’s territories, and in each case, on terms to be agreed by the parties. GMP shall be entitled to use its governmental relations and local expertise in Greater China to assist with coordinating the research, development and commercialization of (i) the GMP Agreement Products in the COVID Field, (ii) the GMP Agreement Products in the OT101 Oncology Field, (iii) OXi4503; and (iv) CA4P, in each case in Greater China.

 

The joint venture companyJoint Venture Company is intended to be owned 50% by Oncotelic Inc. and 50% by GMP (or its designee), and its principal activities shall be to research, develop, bring to market and commercialize: (i) the GMP Agreement Products in the COVID Field on a global basis, (ii) the GMP Agreement Products in the OT101 Oncology Field, in the territory set forth above, (iii) OXi4503 in the territory set forth above;OXi4503; and (iv) CA4P, in the territory set forth above.each case in Greater China. On April 6, 2020, the Company announced that it had delivered the requisite testing results to GMP confirming the applicability and potential use of OT-101 for the treatment of COVID-19. OT-101 exhibited potent activity against both COVID-19 and SARS with a robust safety index of >500. Also, the Company has submitted a Pre-Investigational New Drug application package to the Food and Drug Administration.FDA. GMP paid the Company fees of $300,000 during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and $900,000 during the three months ended June 30, 2020 for the services rendered under the agreement. The Company also recorded approximately $40,000 for reimbursement of actual costs incurred. The Company has received the total fees from GMP as of the date of this report.

 

In June 2020, Mateonthe Company secured $2 million in debt financing, evidenced by a one yearone-year convertible note (the “GMP Note”GMP Note) from GMP or its affiliate, to conduct a clinical trial evaluating OT-101 against COVID-19 bearing 2% annual interest, and is personally guaranteed by Dr. Vuong Trieu, the Chief Executive Officer of Mateon.the Company. The GMP Note is convertible into Mateon’sthe Company’s Common Stock upon the GMP Note’s maturity one year from the date of the GMP Note, at Mateon’sthe Company’s Common Stock price on the date of conversion with no discount. GMP does not have the option to convert prior to the GMP Note’s maturity at the end of one year. Such financing will be utilized solely to fund the clinical trial.

 

The Company’s liability under GMP Note commenced to accrue when GMP first began to pay for services related to the clinical trial to our third-party clinical research organization, up to a maximum of $2 million. In October 2020, the GMP paid approximately $0.5 million toAs of March 31, 2021, the clinical trialresearch organization whichhas invoiced GMP’s affiliate for the entire $2 million, and the Company has accrued the $2 million as a liability to the Companyconvertible debt, including accrued interest thereon, under the terms of the GMP Note.

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Entry into MOU and Agreement with Windlas

 

OnIn August 19, 2020, the Company executed a memorandum of understanding (the “MOU”) with Windlas Biotech Private Limited (“Windlas”) for the development and commercialization of Artemisinin as a therapeutic pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and herbal supplement against COVID-19. The development of Artemisinin against COVID-19 is dependent on the successful completion of ARTI-19 clinical trial “Artemisinin Intervention trial against COVID-19”, which is being initiated globally in Africa, India, and South America. Windlas will be our manufacturing partner for the clinical trial batches as well as commercial batches.

On In September 1, 2020, the Company executed the final MOU with Windlas regarding the development and commercialization of Artemisinin as therapeutic pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and herbal supplement against COVID-19.

 

The ARTI-19 trial has been cleared by India regulatory authorities for initiation. The trial is nowand registered under CTRI and threeCTRI. Three sites havehad been selected their IRBfor the ARTI-19 trial, the approval of the requisite Institutional Review Boards has been obtained, their staffs haveand the respective staff has been trained into the protocol/EDC.protocol and electronic data capture systems. Additional sites will be added as the trial progressed.progresses. Enrollment of 120 patients has already commencedwas completed during the year ended December 31, 2020. In January 2021 and subsequently in February 2021, the Company announced preliminary results for ARTIVedaTM, and final topline results in April 2021. As described above, ARTIVedaTM is the trial.

The Company and Windlas entered into a License, Development and Commercialization Agreement, dated November 10, 2020 (the “Commercialization Agreement”), which formalized the terms set forthCompany’s lead Ayurvedic drug against COVID-19 in the MOU. Pursuant to the Commercialization Agreement, Windlas shall be responsible for developing, manufacturing, and supplying Artemisinin within India and eventually expanding worldwide, excluding China and its territoriesbeing developed by the Company in partnership with Windlas. We expect final data available 6-8 weeks thereafter. Upon completion of the trial results, it is the Company’s objective to file for Emergency Use Authorization (“EUA”) with regulatory authorities around the world, including India, the United States, and the Americas. Windlas will also be responsible to market Artemisinin and its variants in India. Under the termsUnited Kingdom; discussions regarding EUA with several of the Commercialization Agreement, Windlas and thethese authorities have commenced. For more information, please see above under Company will evenly split all profits derived from commercialization of Artemisinin within India. For all other territories, which excludes China and its territories and the Americas, the profit-split ratio is to be determined and negotiated on a country-by-country basis.Overview.

 

Agreement with Autotelic BIO

 

Oncotelic Inc. had entered into a license agreement in February 2018 (the “ATB Agreement”) with Autotelic BIO (“ATB”), a non-affiliated Korean Company. The ATB Agreement licensed the use of OT-101, in combination with Interleukin-2 (the “Combined Product”), and granted to ATB an exclusive license under the Oncotelic Inc. technology to develop, make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import and export the Combined Product, and the Combined Product only, in the COVID-19 field, throughout the entire world (excluding the United States of America and Canada) as the territory, on the terms and subject to the conditions of the ATB Agreement. The ATB Agreement requires ATB to be responsible for the development of the Combined Product. Oncotelic Inc. was responsible to provide to ATB the technical know-how and other pertinent information on the development of the Combined Product. ATB paid Oncotelic Inc. a non-refundable milestone payment in consideration for the rights and licenses granted to ATB under the ATB Agreement, and ATB was to pay Oncotelic Inc. $500,000 within sixty days from the successful completion of the in vivo efficacy studies. This payment was made in June 2020 after the successful completion of the in-vivo study and the Company recorded the revenue during the three months ended June 30, 2020. In addition, ATB is to pay Oncotelic:Oncotelic Inc.: (i) $500,000 upon Oncotelic’sOncotelic Inc.’s completion of the technology know how and Oncotelic’s technical assistance and regulatory consultation to ATB, as determined by the preparation of a Current Good Regulation Practices audit or certification by the Food and Drug Administration, with a mutual goal to obtain marketing approval of the Combined Product in the aforementioned territory; (ii) $1,000,000 upon receiving marketing approval of the Combined Product in Japan, China, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, or Korea; and (iii) $2,000,000 from receiving marketing approval of the Combined Product in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, or the United Kingdom. ATB paid the Company fees of $0.5 million during the three months ended June 30, 2020 for the successful completion of the in-vivo efficacy studies.

 

Private Placement through JH Darbie & Co., Inc.

 

Beginning Between July 2020 and March 2021, the Company offered and sold certain units (“Units”) in a private placement through JH Darbie & Co., Inc. (“JH Darbie”), with each unit consisting of: (i) 25,000 shares of Edgepoint common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Edgepoint Common Stock”), for a price of $1.00 per share of Edgepoint Common Stock; (ii) one convertible promissory note issued by the Company (the “Unit Note”), convertible into up to 25,000 shares of EdgePoint Common Stock at a conversion price of $1.00 per share, or up to 138,889 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, at a conversion price of $0.18 per share; and (iii) 100,000 warrants (the “Warrants”), consisting of (a) 50,000 warrants to purchase an equivalent number of shares of EdgePoint Common Stock at $1.00 per share (“Edgepoint Warrant”), and (b) 50,000 warrants to purchase an equivalent number of shares of Company Common Stock at $0.20 per share (“Mateon Warrant”) (the “JH Darbie Financing”). In total, as of December 31, 2020, the Company hashad issued and sold a total of 5363 Units. In addition, 5.3 units6.3 Units were issued to JH Darbie as fees.

Thus far, Subsequent to December 31, 2020 and through the date of this report, the Company sold the rest of the 37 Units and JH Darbie has earned additional 3.7 Units as fees.

The JH Darbie Financing has resulted in gross proceeds of $2,650,000$5 million to the Company. Placement agent fees of $339,200$0.65 million were paid to JH Darbie pursuant to that certain Placement Agent Agreement, dated February 25, 2020 between the Company and JH Darbie (the “Darbie Placement Agreement”). In addition, the Company paid approximately $39,000 as legal costs for the transaction. Under the Darbie Placement Agreement, JH Darbie hashad the right to sell a minimum of 40 Units and a maximum of 100 Units on a best-efforts basis. The Company has had threenine tranches under the JH Darbie Financing; first tranche was inFinancing between July and March 31, 2021. Subsequent to December 31, 2020, the second tranche wasCompany received gross funds of $1.85 million through 4 tranches under the JH Darbie Financing. Placement fees of $0.2 million were paid to JH Darbie in August 2020 and the third tranche in September 2020.connection with such financing.

Paycheck Protection Program

 

OnIn April 21, 2020, the Company entered into a Paycheck Protection Program Promissory Note (the “PPP Note”) with respect to areceived loan proceeds in the amount of $250,000 (the “PPP Loan”) from Silicon Valley Bank (the “Lender”). The PPP Loan was obtained pursuant tounder the Paycheck Protection Program (the “(“PPP”) ofwhich was established under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the “(“CARES Act”) Act and is administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”). The PPP Loan matures on April 21, 2022provides loans to qualifying businesses in amounts up to 2.5 times the average monthly payroll expenses and bearswas designed to provide direct financial incentive to qualifying businesses to keep their workforce employed during the Coronavirus crisis. PPP Loans are uncollateralized and guaranteed by the SBA and are forgivable after a “covered period” (8 weeks or 24 weeks) as long as the borrower maintains its payroll levels and uses the loan proceeds for eligible expenses, including payroll, benefits, mortgage interest, rent and utilities. The forgiveness amount will be reduced if the borrower terminates employees or reduces salaries and wages more than 25% during the covered period. Any unforgiven portion is payable over 2 years if issued before, or 5 years if issued after, June 5, 2020 at aan interest rate of 1.00% per annum. The1% with payments deferred until the SBA remits the borrowers loan forgiveness amount to the lender, or if the borrower does not apply for forgiveness, 10 months after the covered period. PPP Loan is payable in 17 equal monthly payments commencing November 21, 2020. The PPP Loanloans provide for customary events of default, including payment defaults, breach of representations and warranties, and insolvency events and may be prepaid at any time prior to maturity with noaccelerated upon occurrence of one or more of these events of default. Additionally, the PPP Loans do not include prepayment penalties.

 

AllThe Company believes it met the PPP’s loan forgiveness requirements but has not yet applied for forgiveness. When legal release is received from the SBA or alender, the Company will record the amount forgiven as forgiveness income within the other income section of its statement of operations. If any portion of the PPP Loanloan is not forgiven, the Company will be required to repay that portion, plus interest, through the maturity date.

The SBA reserves the right to audit any PPP loan, regardless of size. These audits may beoccur after the forgiveness has been granted. In accordance with the CARES Act, all borrowers are required to maintain their PPP loan documentation for six years after the loan was forgiven byor repaid in full and to provide that documentation to the SBA upon request.

The balance outstanding on PPP loan inclusive of interest accrued was $252,349 and the Lender upon application by the Company not later than$251,733 on March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, upon documentationrespectively.

Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Estimates

The preparation of expendituresfinancial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the SBA requirements.reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, as well as the reported revenues and expense during the reporting periods. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances at the time we make such estimates. Actual results and outcomes may differ materially from our estimates, judgments and assumptions. We periodically review our estimates in light of changes in circumstances, facts and experience. The effects of material revisions in estimates are reflected in the financial statements prospectively from the date of the change in estimate. Our significant accounting policies are more fully described in Note 2 to our Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report.

Consent SolicitationWe define our critical accounting policies as those accounting principles that require us to make subjective estimates and judgments about matters that are uncertain and are likely to have a material impact on our financial condition and results of operations, as well as the specific manner in which we apply those principles. We believe the critical accounting policies used in the preparation of our financial statements that require significant estimates and judgments are the following:

 

On June 25, 2020, the Company commenced a solicitationImpairment of shareholder consents (the “Consent SolicitationLong-Lived Assets”), pursuant to a consent solicitation statement (the “Consent Solicitation Statement”), to the holders (the “Stockholders”) of its Common Stock and Series A Convertible Preferred Stock. The deadline for Stockholders to respond to the Consent Solicitation Statement was August 10, 2020 at 5:00 PM. Pursuant to the Consent Solicitation Statement, the following actions were approved by the written consent of the requisite number of Stockholders:

(1)changing the name of the Company to “Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc.” and to changing the Company’s ticker symbol (the “Name Change”);
(2)amending the Company’s Amended and Restated 2015 Equity Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares of Common Stock available for issuance from 7.25 million shares to 27.25 million shares, and increasing the maximum number of stock awards that may be issued in any fiscal year from 500,000 to 1,000,000 shares (the “Plan Amendment”);
(3)increasing the authorized number of shares of Common Stock from 150,000,000 to 750,000,000 (the “Capital Increase”); and
(4)amending and restating the certificate of incorporation for the Company to give effect to the Name Change, Capital Increase and forum selection provision.

 

The Company filedreviews long-lived assets, including definite-lived intangible assets, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the Current Reportcarrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable. Recoverability of these assets is determined by comparing the forecasted undiscounted net cash flows of the operation to which the assets relate to the carrying amount. If the operation is determined to be unable to recover the carrying amount of its assets, then these assets are written down first, followed by other long-lived assets of the operation to fair value. Fair value is determined based on Form 8-Kdiscounted cash flows or appraised values, depending on the nature of the assets. For the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, there were no impairment losses recognized for long-lived assets.

Intangible Assets

The Company records its intangible assets at cost in accordance with ASC 350, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other. The Company reviews the intangible assets for impairment on an annual basis or if events or changes in circumstances indicate it is more likely than not that they are impaired. These events could include a significant change in the business climate, legal factors, a decline in operating performance, competition, sale or disposition of a significant portion of the business, or other factors.

Goodwill

Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price of acquired business over the estimated fair value of the identifiable net assets acquired. Goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment at least once annually, at the reporting unit level or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate that the asset might be impaired. The goodwill impairment test is applied by performing a qualitative assessment before calculating the fair value of the reporting unit. If, on the basis of qualitative factors, it is considered not more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than the carrying amount, further testing of goodwill for impairment would not be required. Otherwise, goodwill impairment is tested using a two-step approach.

The first step involves comparing the fair value of the reporting unit to its carrying amount. If the fair value of the reporting unit is determined to be greater than its carrying amount, there is no impairment. If the reporting unit’s carrying amount is determined to be greater than the fair value, the second step must be completed to measure the amount of impairment, if any. The second step involves calculating the implied fair value of goodwill by deducting the fair value of all tangible and intangible assets, excluding goodwill, of the reporting unit from the fair value of the reporting unit as determined in step one. The implied fair value of the goodwill in this step is compared to the carrying value of goodwill. If the implied fair value of the goodwill is less than the carrying value of the goodwill, an impairment loss equivalent to the difference is recorded.

Convertible Instruments

The Company evaluates and accounts for conversion options embedded in its convertible instruments in accordance with ASC 815 “Derivatives and Hedging”.

ASC 815 generally provides three criteria that, if met, require companies to bifurcate conversion options from their host instruments and account for them as free standing derivative financial instruments. These three criteria include circumstances in which (a) the economic characteristics and risks of the embedded derivative instrument are not clearly and closely related to the economic characteristics and risks of the host contract, (b) the hybrid instrument that embodies both the embedded derivative instrument and the host contract is not re-measured at fair value under otherwise applicable generally accepted accounting principles with changes in fair value reported in earnings as they occur, and (c) a separate instrument with the SECsame terms as the embedded derivative instrument would be considered a derivative instrument. Professional standards also provide an exception to declarethis rule when the voting results on August 14, 2020. Ashost instrument is deemed to be conventional as defined under professional standards.

The Company accounts for convertible instruments (when it has determined that the embedded conversion options should not be bifurcated from their host instruments) in accordance with ASC 470-20 “Debt – Debt with Conversion and Other Options.” Accordingly, the Company records, when necessary, discounts to convertible notes for the intrinsic value of November 5, 2020,conversion options embedded in debt instruments based upon the state of Delaware has approveddifferences between the name changefair value of the Companyunderlying common stock at the commitment date of the note transaction and the effective conversion price embedded in the note. Original issue discounts under these arrangements are amortized over the term of the related debt to Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc.their earliest date of redemption. The Company is awaiting confirmationalso records when necessary deemed dividends for the intrinsic value of conversion options embedded in preferred shares based upon the differences between the fair value of the same,underlying common stock at the commitment date of the note transaction and the effective conversion price embedded in the note.

ASC 815-40 “Derivatives and Hedging – Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity” provides that, among other things, generally, if an event is not within the entity’s control could or require net cash settlement, then the contract shall be classified as wellan asset or a liability.

Derivative Financial Instruments Indexed to the Company’s Common Stock

We have generally issued derivative financial instruments, such as allwarrants, in connection with our equity offerings. We evaluate the terms of these derivative financial instruments in order to determine their accounting treatment in our financial statements. Key considerations include whether the financial instruments are freestanding and whether they contain conditional obligations. If the warrants are freestanding, do not contain conditional obligations and meet other actions,classification criteria, we account for the warrants as an equity instrument. However, if the warrants contain conditional obligations, then we account for the warrants as a liability until the conditional obligations are met or are no longer relevant. Because no established market prices exist for the warrants that we issue in connection with our equity offerings, we must estimate the fair value of the warrants, which is as inherently subjective as it is for stock options, and for similar reasons as noted in the stock-based compensation section above. For financial instruments which are accounted for as a liability, we report any changes in their estimated fair values as gains or losses in our Consolidated Statement of Income.

Research and Development Expense

Research and development expense consist of costs we incur for the development of our investigational drugs and, to a lesser extent, for preclinical research activities. Research and development costs are expensed as incurred. Research and development expense include clinical trial costs, salaries and benefits of employees, including associated stock-based compensation, payments to clinical investigators, drug manufacturing costs, laboratory supplies and facility costs. Clinical trial costs are a significant component of our research and development expense, and these can be difficult to accurately estimate. Included in clinical trial costs are fees paid to other entities that conduct certain research and development activities on our behalf, such as clinical research organizations, or CROs. We estimate clinical trial expense based on the services performed pursuant to contracts with research institutions such as CROs and the actual clinical investigators. These estimates are based on actual time and expenses incurred by the State of DelawareCRO and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.clinical investigators. Also included in clinical trial expense are costs based on the level of patient enrollment into the clinical trial and the actual services performed under the related clinical trial agreement. Changes in clinical trial assumptions, such as the length of time estimated to enroll all patients, rate of screening failures, patient drop-out rates, number and nature of adverse event reports and the total number of patients enrolled can impact the average and expected cost per patient and the overall cost of the clinical trial. Based on patient enrollment reports and services provided, we may periodically adjust estimates for the clinical trial costs. If we do not identify costs that we have begun to incur or if we underestimate or overestimate the level of services performed, the length of time for these services or the costs of these services, our actual expenses could differ from our estimates.

Share-Based Compensation

We record the estimated fair value of all share-based payments issued to employees and other service providers. Our share-based payments consist primarily of stock options. The valuation of stock options is an inherently subjective process, since market values are not available for any stock options in our equity securities. Market values are also not available on long-term, non-transferable stock options in other equity securities. With no market values on options to trade in our common stock and no comparable market values on any long-term non-transferable stock options, the process of valuing our stock options is even more uncertain and subjective. Accordingly, we use a Black-Scholes option pricing model to derive an estimated fair value of the stock options which we issue. The Black-Scholes option pricing model requires certain input assumptions, including the expected term of the options and the expected volatility of our common stock. Changes in these assumptions could have a material impact on the estimated fair value that we record for share-based payments that we issue. We determine the term of the options based on the simplified method, which averages the vesting period and the contractual life of the stock option. We determine the expected volatility based on the historical volatility of our common stock over a period commensurate with the option’s expected term. The Black-Scholes option pricing model also requires assumptions for risk-free interest rates and the expected dividend yield of our common stock, but we feel that these values are more objective and note that changes in these values do not have a significant impact on the estimated value of the options when compared to the volatility and term assumptions.

We are also required to estimate the level of award forfeitures expected to occur and record compensation expense only for those awards that are ultimately expected to vest. Accordingly, we perform a historical analysis of option awards that are forfeited prior to vesting, and record total stock option expense that reflects this estimated forfeiture rate.

 

Results of Operations

 

The Merger was treated as a “reverse merger” for accounting purposes. In accordance with the reporting requirements, the Company will be reporting historical financial data of Oncotelic for all periods prior to the dateComparison of the Merger, andResults of Operations for the combined company for all periods after the date of the Merger. Accordingly, the following management discussion and analysis should be read together with the audited financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on May 14, 2020.

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Comparison of the Three Months Ended September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 to the Three Months Ended September 30, 2019March 31, 2020

 

A comparison of the Company’s operating results for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2021 and 2020, and 2019, respectively, is as follows.

 

 March 31, 2021 March 31, 2020 Variance 
Revenue $-  $340,855  $(340,855)
 2020  2019  Variance        
Operating expense:                   
Research and development  936,196   343,789   592,407  1,556,673 311,999 1,244,674 
General and administrative  

680,077

   586,924   93,153   481,209  2,677,503  (2,196,294)
Total operating expense  1,616,273   930,713   685,560   2,037,882  2,989,502  (951,620)
Loss from operations  (1,616,273)  (930,713)  (685,560) (2,037,882) (2,648,647) 610,765 
Loss on conversion of debt  (88,817)  -   (88,817) (27,504) (124,598) 97,094 
Change in the value of derivatives on debt  49,992   -   49,992  (536,345) (736,298) 199,953 
Interest expense, net  (331,459)  (60,413)  (271,046)  (520,906)  (1,148,351)  627,445 
Net Loss $(1,986,557)  (991,126)  (995,431)
Net loss $(3,122,637) $(4,657,894) $(1,537,257)

  

Three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019:Net Loss

 

We recorded a net loss of approximately $2.0$3.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020,March 31, 2021, compared to a net loss of approximately $1.0 million for the same period of 2019. The increased loss of approximately $1.0$4.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020March 31, 2020. The reduced loss of approximately $1.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021 as compared to the same period of 20192020 was primarily due to higher operationallower operating expenses of $0.7approximately $1.0 million, higherreduced interest expense, including acceleration of $0.3 million, primarily related to interest expenseamortization of debt issuance costs related to the debt raised by the company in the second and third quarters of 2019, and loss on conversion of debt of $0.1approximately $0.6 million, partially offset byreduced change in value of derivatives and lower revenue of $0.1approximately $0.3 million The financial information presented does not include any expenses for PointR operations forduring the three months ended September 30, 2019.March 31, 2021.

Revenue

We did not record services revenue during the three months ended March 31, 2021 as compared to $0.3 million during the same period ended March 31, 2020. No service has been provided during the three months ended March 2021. The services revenue was recorded from services provided to GMP during the period ended March 31, 2020 in connection with the development of OT-101 for COVID-19, and included reimbursement of costs incurred of approximately $41,000.

 

Research and Development Expenses

 

Research and development (“R&D”) expenses increased by approximately $0.6$1.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 compared to the same period in 2019.2020. The higher R&D cost was primarily due to by higher amortizationpersonnel overhead costs of intangibles and depreciation on R&D Equipment of $0.2 million$200,000 and higher personnel costsexpenses related to clinical trials of $0.4approximately $1.0 million. The financial information presented does not include any R&D activity for PointR for the period ended September 30, 2019.

 

As a result of our mergers with Oncotelic, Inc. and PointR, we expect to increase research and development activities, including the initiation of new clinical trials including those for COVID-19, and therefore believe that research and development expenses will increase for the remainder of 20202021 compared to research and development expenses in 2019,2020, subject to our continuing ability to secure sufficient funding to continue planned operations.

 

General and Administrative Expenses

 

General and administrative (“G&A”) expenses increaseddecreased by approximately $0.1$2.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2019,March 31, 2020, primarily due to increasesthe decrease of approximately $0.1$2.1 million due to increase in personnel costs.

As a resultstock compensation expense incurred in connection with issuance of our mergers with Oncotelic and PointR, we expect G&A expenses to increase for the remainder of 2020 in order to support our anticipated additional business development, fundraising, investor relations and administrative activities, subject to our continuing ability to secure sufficient funding to continue planned operations.

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Loss on Conversion of Debt

Duringnew warrants during the three months ended September 30, 2020, we recorded a loss on conversion of debt by Peak One of approximately $88 thousand related to the difference in fair value to the price at which the debt was converted. No similar loss was recorded during the same period in 2019.

Change in Value of DerivativesMarch 2020.

During the three months ended September 30, 2020, we recorded a gain of approximately $50 thousand upon a change in value upon conversion of the debt to liabilities as a derivative as well as new debt converting to liabilities on the convertible notes issued to Peak One, TFK, our CEO and a bridge investor. No similar charge was recorded during the same period in 2019.

Interest Expense, Net

During the three months ended September 30, 2020, we recorded $0.3 million of interest expense, primarily on the convertible notes issued to Peak One, TFK, our CEO and a bridge investor, as well as the Fall 2019 Notes. This included normal and accelerated amortization of debt discounts and interest recorded on the Fall 2019 Notes. We recorded interest expense of $60 thousand during the same period of 2019 on the same notes.

Comparison of the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020 to the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019

A comparison of the Company’s operating results for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, is as follows.

  2020  2019  Variance 
Revenue $1,740,855  $-  $1,740,855 
             
Operating expenses:            
Research and development  1,730,337   1,109,050   621,287 
General and administrative  4,263,265   1,958,731   2,304,534 
Total operating expense  5,993,602   3,076,781   2,925,281 
Income (loss) from operations  (4,252,747)  (3,076,781)  (1,184,906)
Loss on conversion of debt  (254,884)  -   (254,884)
Change in the value of derivatives on debt  60,504   -   60,504 
Interest expense, net  (1,615,233)  (88,518)  (1,526,715)
Net income (loss) $(6,062,360) $(3,156,299) $(2,906,061)

Nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019:

We recorded a net loss of approximately $6.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, compared to a net loss of approximately $3.2 million for the same period in 2019. The increased loss of approximately $2.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 as compared to the same period of 2019 was primarily due to approximately $2.9 million of higher operational expenses related to Mateon, $1.5 million primarily related to interest expense, including amortization of normal and accelerated debt costs related to the debt raised by the company in the second and third quarters of 2019 and a loss of $0.3 million of loss on non-cash conversion of debt; partially offset by the recording revenue of approximately $1.7 million and recording a non-cash loss on conversion of value of derivatives of $0.1 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The financial information presented does not include any expenses for PointR operations for the period ended September 30, 2019.

Revenue

We recorded services revenue of $1.7 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 as compared to no revenues during the same period ended in 2019. The services revenue of $1.2 million was recorded from services provided to GMP during the period ended September 30, 2020 in connection with the development of OT-101 for COVID-19 and included reimbursement of costs incurred of approximately $41 thousand. We also recorded $0.5 million of revenues from ATB upon the successful completion of the in-vivo efficacy studies based on the ATB Agreement.

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Research and Development Expenses

R&D expenses marginally increased by approximately $0.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. The increase in costs was primarily due to increase in personnel costs of $0.5 million and $0.1 million of legal and professional costs. The increase in personnel costs is to support the current ongoing clinical trials for OT-101 and Artemisinin for the COVID-19 pandemic as well as inclusion of personnel from PointR post the merger.

As a result of our mergers with Oncotelic and PointR, we expect to increase research and development activities, including the initiation of new clinical trials including those for COVID-19, and therefore believe that research and development expenses will increase for the remainder of 2020 compared to research and development expenses in 2019, subject to our continuing ability to secure sufficient funding to continue planned operations.

General and Administrative Expenses

G&A expenses increased by approximately $2.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2019, primarily due to an increase of approximately $1.8 million of non-cash stock based compensation expense, higher personnel costs of $0.4 million and $0.1 million due to increase in legal, professional and other operational expenses.

 

As a result of our mergers with Oncotelic and PointR, we expect G&A expenses to increase for the remainder of 2020 in order to support our anticipated additional business development, fundraising, investor relations and administrative activities, subject to our continuing ability to secure sufficient funding to continue planned operations.

 

Loss on Conversion of Debt

 

During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2020,March 31, 2021, we recorded a loss on conversion of debt by Peak One and TFK of approximately $0.3 million$28,000 related to the difference in fair value to the price at which the debt was converted. No similarconverted, compared to a loss was recordedof $0.1 million during the same period in 2019.2020.

 

Change in Value of Derivatives

 

During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2020,March 31, 2021, we recorded a gain of approximately $60 thousand upon a$0.5 million change in value upon conversion of the debt to liabilities as a derivative as well as new debt converting to liabilities on the convertible notes issued to Peak One, TFK, our CEO and a bridge investor. No similar charge wasinvestor (collectively, the “Convertible Notes”). The Company recorded $0.7 million change during the same period in 2019.2020. The Convertible Notes became convertible 180 days after issuance, and as such Peak One, TFK, the CEO and the bridge investor had the ability to convert that debt into equity at: (i) the variable conversion price of 65% of the Company’s lowest traded price after the first 180 days, or (ii) at the lower of $0.10 per share or 55% of the Company’s traded stock price under certain circumstances. This gave rise to a derivative feature within the debt instrument which resulted in the recording of a derivative liability and change in value of the derivative.

 

Interest Expense, Net

 

During the nine months ended September 30, 2020, weWe recorded $1.6 million of interest expense, on the convertible notes issued to Peak One, TFK, our CEO and a bridge investor, as well as the Fall 2019 Notes. This included normalincluding amortization of debt discounts, recordingcosts, of initial fair value of conversion ofapproximately $0.5 million for the notesthree months ended March 31, 2021 in connection with debt raised from Peak One, TFKconvertible notes and the bridge investor and the acceleration of amortization of debt discounts upon conversion of the Peak One and TFK Notes. We recorded approximately $88,000 of interest expense duringJH Darbie Financing, as compared to $1.1 million for the same period of 2020, in connection with debt raised from convertible notes during 2019. For more information on debt raised from convertible notes and the JH Darbie Financing, see Note 5 and Note 6 of the Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements of this Quarterly Report.

 

Liquidity, Financial Condition and Capital Resources ($s in ‘000’s)

 

 

September 30, 2020

(Unaudited)

  December 31, 2019   March 31, 2021  December 31, 2020 
Cash $1,362  $82  $831  $474 
Working capital  (8,253)  (6,510)  (12,071)  (10,567)
Stockholders’ Equity  14,885   16,902   10,892   12,481 

 

The Company has experienced net losses every year since inception and as of September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 had an accumulated deficit of approximately $18.2$24.4 million. As of September 30, 2020,March 31, 2021, the Company had approximately $1.4$0.8 million in cash, and current liabilities of approximately $8.8$13.0 million. Of the approximately $13.0 million of whichin current liabilities, approximately $1.3$2 million are net assumed liabilities of Mateon as partwas debt for conducting clinical trials for OT-101 from GMP, and $2.6 million related to contingent liability to issue Common Stock of the merger. WhileCompany to PointR shareholders upon achievement of certain milestones (see Note 1 of the Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements of this Quarterly Report). The Company expectsdoes not expect to generate any meaningful revenue from services and or licensing milestonesproduct sales in the near future the Companyand expects to incur significant additional operating losses over the next several years, primarily as a result of the Company’s plans to continue clinical trials for its investigational drugs, including for COVID-19.drugs. The Company’s limited capital resources, history of recurring losses and uncertainties as to whether the Company’s operations will become profitable raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements contained in this report do not include any adjustments related to the recoverability of assets or classifications of liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.

 

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The principal source of the Company’s working capital deficit to date has been the saleissuance of equity securitiesconvertible notes, a substantial part of which has been provided by officers and raising debt.certain insiders. The Company will need to raise additional capital in order to fund its operations and continue development of product candidates. The Company is evaluating the options to further the development of Oncotelic’sthe Company’s lead product candidate, OT-101 for both cancer and COVID-19, Artemisinin for COVID-19, developing AI technologies to support the COVID-19 therapies; in addition to evaluating the development pathway of its product candidates; OXi4503 and/or CA4P. Since April 2019, the Company has raised $4,269,800, net of cash discounts of $450,200, through the JH Darbie Financing, sale of convertible debentures and notes.

 

The Company anticipates raising substantial additional capital through the sale of equity securities and/or debt, but no other financing arrangements are in place at this time.

 

If the Company is unable to access additional funds when needed, it may not be able to continue the development of these investigational drugs and the Company could be required to delay, scale back or eliminate some or all of its development programs and operations. Any additional equity financing, if available, would be dilutive to the current stockholders and may not be available on favorable terms. Additional debt financing, if available, may involve restrictive covenants and could also be dilutive. The Company’s ability to access capital is not assured and, if access is not achieved on a timely basis, would materially harm the Company’s financial condition, the value of its Common Stock and its business prospects.

 

Cash Flows

 

 Nine months ended
September 30,
  Three month ended March 31, 
 2020  2019  2021 2020 
Net cash used in operating activities $(1,344,317) $(1,336,295) $(1,251,500) $31,473 
Net cash provided by investing activities  -   182,883   -   - 
Net cash provided by financing activities  2,624,541   1,162,120   1,608,200   70,000 
Increase in cash $1,280,224  $13,708 
Increase (decrease) in cash $356,700  $101,473 

 

Operating Activities

 

Net cash generated used in operating activities was approximately $1.3 million for the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2021. This was due to the net loss of approximately $3.1 million, primarily offset by non-cash amortization of debt discounts and deferred financing costs of $0.4 million, non-cash loss on conversion of debt and change in fair value of derivatives of $0.5 million and changes in operating assets and liabilities of approximately $0.9 million.

Net cash generated from operating activities was approximately $31 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2020. This was due to the net loss of approximately $6.1$4.7 million, which was partially offset by non-cash charges of approximately $4.0$4.2 million, non-cash loss on conversion of debt and change in value of derivatives of approximately $0.3$0.1 million and changes in operating assets and liabilities of approximately $0.5$0.4 million.

Net cash used in operating activities was $1.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, due to the net loss of approximately $3.2 million offset by non-cash charges of approximately $0.5 million, non-cash issuance of common shares in satisfaction of accounts payable of approximately $0.4 million and changes in operating assets and liabilities of approximately $1.0 million.

Investing Activities

Net cash generated from investing activities was $0 for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 as compared to $0.2 million for the same period of 2019. Cash generated during the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was due to the cash acquired from the Oncotelic Merger.

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Financing Activities

 

NetFor the three months ended March 31, 2021, net cash generated fromprovided by financing activities was $2.6$1.6 million, duringdue to a receipt of cash from the nineJH Darbie Financing of $1.6 million and a short-term loan from a related party of $0.1 million, offset by repayments of debt of approximately $0.1 million. For more information regarding the JH Darbie Financing and the related party loan, see Note 5 and Note 7, respectively, of the Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements of this Quarterly Report.

For the three months ended September 30, 2020 as compared to $1.2 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2019.

During the nine months ended September 30,March 31, 2020, net cash provided by financing activities was primarily from $2.3 million of cash generated from the JH Darbie Financing, net of amortized costs, $250,000 under the PPP administered by the SBA to support small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and $70,000, from receipt of a short term loancash from the Company’s CEO.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2019, net cash provided by financing activities was primarily from $0.9 million from notes payable, $0.1 million from a note payable from a related party and $83,000 from the sale of Oncotelic Common Stock.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

We have no off-balance sheet arrangements.

 

Effects of Inflation

 

We do not believe that inflation has had a material impact on our business, revenues or operating results during the periods presented.

 

Critical Accounting Policies and EstimatesContractual Obligations

 

ThereOur current drug development programs are based on a series of compounds called combretastatins, which we have been no changesexclusively licensed from Arizona State University, or ASU. If our current drug candidates are approved, we will be required to our critical accounting policies and significant judgments and estimates from our Financial Results incorporated with our Annual Reportpay low to mid-single-digit royalties on form 10-K filedfuture net sales of products associated with the SEC on May 14, 2020 other than those that have been included in Note 2 to this quarterly report on form 10Q.ASU patent rights until these patent rights expire.

 

New and Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

Any new and recently adopted accounting pronouncements are more fully described in Note 2We also have an exclusive license from Bristol-Myers Squibb, or BMS, for certain patent rights to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in this Quarterly Report.particular combretastatins, including CA4P. If CA4P is approved, we will be required to pay low-single-digit royalties on future net sales of products associated with the BMS patent rights until these patent rights expire.

 

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

 

AsOur cash is maintained in U.S. dollar accounts. We have adopted a smaller reporting company,policy for the cash that we hold, and also for any cash equivalents and investments that we may hold, the primary objective of which is to preserve principal, while also maintaining liquidity to meet our operating needs and maximize yields to the extent possible. Although our investments can be subject to credit risk, we follow procedures to limit the amount of credit exposure in any single issue, issuer or type of investment. Our investments are not requiredalso subject to provideinterest rate risk and would be likely to decrease in value if market interest rates increase. However, due to the information required by this Item.generally conservative nature of our investments and relatively short duration, we believe that interest rate risk is mitigated.

Although we may from time to time manufacture drugs and conduct preclinical or clinical trials outside of the United States, we believe our exposure to foreign currency risk to be immaterial.

 

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

 

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. In designing disclosure controls and procedures, our management necessarily was required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible disclosure controls and procedures. The design of any disclosure controls and procedures also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions. Any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance of achieving the desired control objectives.

 

As required by Rule 13a-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and our Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) conducted an evaluation as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act. Based on that evaluation, our CEO and our CFO each concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are not effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act, (i) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms and (ii) is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our CEO and our CFO, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

 

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Material Weaknesses in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

Management conducted an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 based on the framework established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this assessment, management has determined that the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2020March 31, 2021 was not effective as a result of certain material weaknesses.

 

A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

 

The ineffectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting was due to the following material weaknesses which are observed in many small companies with a small number of accounting and financial reporting staff:

 

Lack of formal policies and procedures;
Lack of a functioning audit committee and independent directors on the Company’s board of directors to oversee financial reporting responsibilities;
Inadequate or lack of segregation of duties;
Lack of dedicated resources and experienced personnel to design and implement internal control procedures to support financial reporting objectives;
Lack of qualified accounting personnel to prepare and report financial information in accordance with GAAP; and
Lack of risk assessment procedures on internal controls to detect financial reporting risks on a timely manner.

 

Management’s Plan to Remediate the Material Weaknesses

 

Management has been implementing and continues to implement measures designed to ensure that control deficiencies contributing to the material weakness are remediated, such that these controls are designed, implemented, and operating effectively. The remediation actions planned include:

 

Continue to search for, evaluate and recruit qualified independent outside directors;
Hire qualified accounting personnel to prepare and report financial information in accordance with GAAP;
Identify gaps in our skills base and the expertise of our staff required to meet the financial reporting requirements of a public company; and
Continue to develop policies and procedures on internal control over financial reporting and monitor the effectiveness of operations on existing controls and procedures.
Hire personnel internally or consultants to assist in developing policies and procedures on internal control over financial reporting and monitor the effectiveness of operations on existing controls and procedures.

 

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2020,March 31, 2021, we continued to execute upon our planned remediation actions which are all intended to strengthen our overall control environment. We added two new directorsare evaluating hiring an external firm to help us with the remediation efforts. We have made progress in our Boardplanned remediation efforts and we expect the Company to complete its planned execution of Directors and re-established our Audit Committee. Duringinternal controls over financial reporting during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, and as a result of the Merger, we have consolidated all accounting functions to the Company headquarters and all record keeping has been migrated into the same accounting software. We have recruited a third party firm to assist us in the evaluation of our financial reporting capabilities as well as advise on complex accounting matters, including revenue recognition under ASC 606, goodwill impairment, fair value measurements etc. We are also in discussions with another third party to assist us in strengthening our internal control processes and evaluation processes.2021.

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We are committed to maintaining a strong internal control environment and believe that these remediation efforts will represent significant improvements in our control environment. Our management will continue to monitor and evaluate the relevance of our risk-based approach and the effectiveness of our internal controls and procedures over financial reporting on an ongoing basis and is committed to taking further action and implementing additional enhancements or improvements, as necessary and as funds allow.

 

PART II – OTHER INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

 

None.

 

Item 1A. Risk Factors

 

In addition to the risk factorsfactor described below, for information about the risks and uncertainties related to our business, please see the risk factors described in our annual reportAnnual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019.2020 filed on April 15, 2021. The risks described below and in our Form 10-K are not the only risks facing our Company. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial also may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and/or operating results.

The risks arising with respect to the historic Oncotelic business and operations may be different from what we anticipate, which could lead to significant, unexpected costs and liabilities and could materially and adversely affect our business going forward.

It is possible that we may not have fully anticipated the extent of the risks associated with the Merger. After the Merger, Oncotelic’s historic business was combined with Mateon and prior to the Merger, Oncotelic had a significant operating history. As a consequence, we may be subject to claims, demands for payment, regulatory issues, costs and liabilities that were not and are not currently expected or anticipated. The risks involved with taking over a business with a significant operating history and the costs and liabilities associated with these risks may be greater than we anticipate. We may not be able to contain or control the costs or liabilities associated with Oncotelic’s historic business, which could materially and adversely affect our business, liquidity, capital resources or results of operation.

Our historical results of operation may not fully reflect the underlying performance of our business and period-to-period comparisons of our operating results may not be meaningful.

For accounting purposes, the Merger between Mateon and Oncotelic is treated as a “reverse merger” under U.S. GAAP and Oncotelic is considered the accounting acquirer. Oncotelic’s historical results of operations will replace the Mateon’s historical results of operations for all periods prior to the Merger and, for all periods following the Merger, the Company’s financial statements will reflect the results of operations of the combined Company. Accordingly, the financial statements for the Company included in this Quarterly Report for periods prior to the Merger are not the same as the Company’s prior reported filings with the SEC, which were derived from the operations of Mateon. As a result, period-to-period comparisons of our operating results may not be meaningful. The results of any one quarter should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance.

  

Our business may suffer from the severity or longevity of the COVID-19 Global Outbreak.

 

The COVID-19 is currently impacting countries, communities, supply chains and markets, as well as the global financial markets. To date, COVID-19 has not had a material impact on the Company, other than as set forth above. However, the Company cannot predict whether COVID- 19COVID-19 will have a material impact on our financial condition and results of operations due to understaffing, disruptions in government spending, among other factors. In addition, at this time we cannot predict the impact of COVID-19 on our ability to obtain financing necessary for the Company to fund its working capital requirements. In most respects, it is too early in the COVID-19 pandemic to be able to quantify or qualify the longer-term ramifications on our business, our customers and/or our potential investors.

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Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use Of Proceeds

 

DuringIn January 2021, the three months ended March 31, 2020, weCompany issued 2,012,145657,000 shares of ourits Common Stock to Peak One for $150,000 uponTFK in connection with the partial conversion of their debt of $400,000. Also, duringconvertible notes payable. For more information regarding the three months ended June 30, 2020, weconvertible note issued 569,800to TFK, see Note 5 to the Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Quarterly Report.

In March 2021, the Company converted 278,188 shares of ourthe Company’s Series A Preferred Stock into 278,187,847 shares of its Common Stock pursuant to Peak One for $50,000 upon the full conversionterms of their debt of $200,000 under the first tranche of their debt. In addition, duringMerger Agreement and PointR Merger Agreement. For more information regarding the three months ended September 30, 2020, we issued 1,000,000 shares of our Common StockMerger Agreement and the PointR Merger Agreement, see Note 1 to Peak One for $100,000 upon the partial conversion of their debt of $200,000 under the second tranche of their debt. After the conversion, the remaining debt owed to Peak One, as of September 30, 2020 is $100,000.Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Quarterly Report).

During the three months ended March 31, 2020, we issued 1,950,000 shares of our Common Stock to TFK for $133,430 upon the partial conversion of their debt of $200,000. After the conversion, the remaining debt owed to TFK, as of March 31, 2020 is $66,570.

 

Item 3. Defaults upon Senior Securities

 

None.

 

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

 

Not Applicable.

 

Item 5. Other Information

 

None.

ITEM 6. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

 

In reviewing the agreements included as exhibits to this Quarterly Report, please remember that they are included to provide you with information regarding their terms and are not intended to provide any other factual or disclosure information about the Company or the other parties to the agreements. The agreements may contain representations and warranties by each of the parties to the applicable agreement. These representations and warranties have been made solely for the benefit of the parties to the applicable agreement and:

 

 should not in all instances be treated as categorical statements of fact, but rather as a way of allocating the risk to one of the parties if those statements prove to be inaccurate;
   
 have been qualified by disclosures that were made to the other party in connection with the negotiation of the applicable agreement, which disclosures are not necessarily reflected in the agreement;
   
 may apply standards of materiality in a way that is different from what may be viewed as material to you or other investors; and
   
 were made only as of the date of the applicable agreement or such other date or dates as may be specified in the agreement and are subject to more recent developments.

 

Accordingly, these representations and warranties may not describe the actual state of affairs as of the date they were made or at any other time. Additional information about the Company may be found elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and the Company’s other public filings, which are available without charge through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

 

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The following exhibits are included as part of this Quarterly Report:Report. A more complete list of previously filed Exhibits can be found with our Annual Report on Form 10K filed with the SEC on April 15, 2021:

 

    Incorporated by Reference 
Exhibit
Number
 Description Form Filing
Date
 Exhibit
Number
 Filed Herewith
           
2.1 Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 17, 2019, by and among the Company, Oncotelic and Oncotelic Acquisition Corporation. 8-K 4/18/2019 2.1  
           
2.2 Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 17, 2019, by and among the Company, Oncotelic and Oncotelic Acquisition Corporation. 8-K 4/25/2019 2.1  
           
2.3 Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 17, 2019, by and among the Company, PointR and Paris Acquisition Corporation. 8-K 8/21/2019 2.1  
           
2.4 Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 17, 2019, by and among the Company, PointR Data, Inc. and Paris Acquisition Corp. 8-K 11/12/2019 2.1  
           
2.5 Amendment No. 1 to Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 1, 2019, by and among the Company, PointR Data, Inc. and Paris Acquisition Corp. 8-K 11/12/2019 2.2  
           
3.1 Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant. 8-K 6/17/2016 3.2  
           
3.2 Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant, as amended by Certificates of Amendment dated June 22, 1995, November 15, 1996, July 14, 2005, June 2, 2009, February 8, 2010, August 5, 2010, February 22, 2011, May 29, 2012, December 27, 2012, July 17, 2013, June 16, 2016 and June 20, 2018. 10-Q 8/14/2018 3.1  
           
3.3 Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock of the Company. 8-K 4/25/2019 3.1  
           
3.4 Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock of the Company. 8-K 11/12/2019 3.1  
           
4.1 Form of Series A/B Common Stock Purchase Warrant. 8-K 4/11/2013 4.1  
           
4.2 Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant. 8-K 9/20/2013 4.1  
           
4.3 Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant. S-1/A 1/31/2014 4.9  
           
4.4 Form of Placement Agent Purchase Warrant. S-1/A 1/31/2014 4.8  
           
4.5 Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant. 8-K 2/14/2014 4.1  
           
4.6 Form of Placement Agent Purchase Warrant. 8-K 2/14/2014 4.2  
           

4.7

 

Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant.

 

8-K

 

5/23/2014

 

4.1

  
           
4.8 Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant. 8-K 3/20/2015 4.1  
           
4.9 Specimen Common Stock Certificate. * 10-Q 8/2/2016 4.1  

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4.10 Form of Series A Warrant to purchase Common Stock. 8-K 4/16/2018 4.1  
           
4.11 Form of Series B Warrant to purchase Common Stock 8-K 4/16/2018 4.2  
           
4.12 Form of Placement Agent Purchase Warrant. S-1 6/13/2018 4.12  
           
4.13 Form of Debenture, issued by the Company to PeakOne. 8-K 4/18/2019 4.1  
           
4.14 Form of Debenture, issued by the Company to the Bridge Investors. 8-K 4/18/2019 4.2  
           
4.15 Form of Debenture, issued by the Company to Peak One Opportunity Fund, L.P. and TFK Investments, LLC Ex. 4.1 Form of Debenture, issued by the Company to the Bridge Investors. 8-K 4/25/2019 4.2  
           
4.16 Form of Debenture, issued by the Company to Peak One Opportunity Fund, L.P. and TFK Investments, LLC. 8-K 6/20/2019 4.1  
           
4.17 Convertible Promissory Note between Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. and PointR Data Inc. dated July 22, 2019. 8-K 7/24/2019 4.1  
           
4.18 Form of Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 23, 2019, by and among the Company and the investors identified therein. 8-K 11/25/2019 4.1  
           
10.1 Technology Development Agreement, dated as of May 27, 1997, between the Registrant and the Arizona Board of Regents, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University. 10-K 4/15/1998 10.9  
           
10.2 Research Collaboration and License Agreement, dated as of December 15, 1999, between OXiGENE Europe AB and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. * 8-K 12/28/1999 99.1  
           
10.3 Amendment and Confirmation of License Agreement No. 206-01.LIC, dated as of June 10, 2002, between the Registrant and the Arizona Board of Regents, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University. 10-Q 8/14/2002 10.29  
           
10.4 Termination Agreement by and between OXiGENE Europe AB and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company dated as of February 15, 2002. 10-Q 8/14/2002 10.14  
           
10.5 License Agreement No. 206-01.LIC by and between the Arizona Board of Regents, acting on behalf of and for Arizona State University, and OXiGENE Europe AB, dated August 2, 1999. 10-K/A 8/12/2003 10.27  
           
10.6 Research and License Agreement between the Registrant and Baylor University, dated June 1, 1999. 10-K/A 8/12/2003 10.28  
           
10.7 Agreement to Amend Research and License Agreement between the Registrant and Baylor University, dated April 23, 2002. 10-K/A 8/12/2003 10.29  

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10.8 Addendum to Research and License Agreement between the Registrant and Baylor University, dated April 14, 2003. 10-K/A 8/12/2003 10.30  
           
10.9 Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement under Mateon’s 2005 Stock Plan. + 10-K 3/14/2006 10.29  
           
10.10 Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement under Mateon’s 2005 Stock Plan. + 10-K 3/14/2006 10.30  
           
10.11 Form of Restricted Stock Agreement under Mateon’s 2005 Stock Plan. + 10-K 3/14/2006 10.31  
           
10.12 Lease between Broadway 701 Gateway Fee LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company, as Landlord, and the Registrant, as Tenant, dated October 10, 2008. 10-K 3/30/2009 10.59  
           
10.13 Form of Indemnification Agreement. + 10-Q 8/13/2012 10.2  
           
10.14 Third Amendment to Lease, dated as of April 1, 2013, by and between the Registrant and DWF III Gateway, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. 10-Q 5/9/2013 10.1  
           
10.15 Fourth Amendment to Lease, dated April 28, 2014, by and between the Registrant and DWF III Gateway, LLC. 10-Q 5/8/2014 10.1  
           
10.16 Employment Agreement by and between the Registrant and William D. Schwieterman, dated as of May 12, 2015. + 10-Q 8/6/2015 10.1  
           
10.17 Employment Agreement by and between the Registrant and Matthew M. Loar, dated as of July 20, 2015. + 10-Q 8/6/2015 10.2  
           
10.18 Form of Option Agreement under Mateon’s 2015 Equity Incentive Plan. + 10-Q 8/6/2015 10.6  
           
10.19 Amendment No. 1 to Employment Agreement by and between William D. Schwieterman, dated as of July 31, 2015. + 10-Q 8/6/2015 10.7  
           
10.20 Second Amended and Restated Employment Agreement by and between the Registrant and David J. Chaplin, effective as of January 1, 2017. + 8-K 10/28/2016 10.1  
           
10.21 Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. Amended and Restated Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy, effective October 25, 2016. + 8-K 10/28/2016 10.2  
           
10.22 Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. 2017 Equity Incentive Plan. + 8-K 1/13/2017 10.1  
           
10.23 Form of Option Agreement under Mateon’s 2017 Equity Incentive Plan. + 8-K 1/13/2017 10.2  
           
10.24 Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. 2005 Stock Plan (as amended and restated on January 12, 2017). + 8-K 1/13/2017 10.3  
           
10.25 Amendment No. 2 to Employment Agreement by and between the Registrant and William D. Schwieterman, dated as of October 2, 2017. + 10-Q 11/14/2017 10.1  
           
10.26 Amendment No. 1 to Employment Agreement by and between the Registrant and Matthew M. Loar, dated as of October 2, 2017. + 10-Q 11/14/2017 10.2  
           
10.27 Amendment No. 1 to Second Amended and Restated Employment Agreement by and between the Registrant and David J. Chaplin, dated as of October 2, 2017. + 10-Q 11/14/2017 10.3  

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10.28 Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended and restated on May 7, 2018). + Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A 05/07/2018 Appendix A  
           
10.29 Form of Subscription Agreement for private placement transaction entered into on April 12, 2018. 8-K 4/16/2018 10.1  
           
10.30 Form of Registration Rights Agreement for private placement transaction entered into on April 12, 2018. 8-K 4/16/2018 10.2  
           
10.31 Engagement Letter, dated February 7, 2018, by and between the Registrant and Divine Capital Markets LLC. 8-K 4/16/2018 10.3  
           
10.32 Separation and Release Agreement, dated April 17, 2019 by and between the Company and William D. Schwieterman, M.D. 8-K 4/18/2019 10.1  
           
10.33 Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 17, 2019, by and among the Company and Peak One 8-K 4/18/2019 10.2  
           
10.34 Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 17, 2019, by and among the Company and the Bridge Investors. 8-K 4/18/2019 10.3  
           
10.35 Contingent Value Rights Agreement, dated April 17, 2019, by and among the Company, Oncotelic and American Stock Transfer and Trust Company LLC 8-K 4/25/2019 10.1  
           
10.36 Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 17, 2019, by and among the Company and Peak One Opportunity Fund, L.P. and TFK Investments, LLC. 8-K 4/25/2019 10.2  
           
10.37 Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 17, 2019, by and among the Company and the Bridge Investors 8-K 4/25/2019 10.3  
           
10.38 Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 17, 2019, by and among the Company and Peak One Opportunity Fund, L.P. and TFK Investments, LLC. 8-K 6/20/2019 10.1  
           
10.39 Amendment to Securities Purchase Agreement dated as of June 12, 2019 by and between the Company and Peak One Opportunity Fund, L.P. 8-K 6/20/2019 10.2  
           
10.40 Separation Agreement dated as of July 1, 2019 by and between the Company and Matthew M. Loar Ex. 8-K 7/5/2019 10.1  
           
10.41 Note Purchase Agreement between Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. and PointR Data Inc. dated July 22, 2019. 8-K 7/24/2019 10.1  
           
10.42 Employment Agreement dated August 23, 2019 between the Company and Dr. Vuong Trieu. 8-K 8/29/2019 10.1  

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10.43 Employment Agreement dated August 23, 2019 between the Company and Dr. Fatih Uckun. 8-K/A 11/25/2019 10.2  
           
10.44 Employment Agreement dated August 23, 2019 between the Company and Dr. Chulho Park. 8-K 8/29/2019 10.3  
           
10.45 Employment Agreement dated August 23, 2019 between the Company and Mr. Amit Shah. 8-K 8/29/2019 10.4  
           
10.46 Investigational Product Supply and Use Authorization Agreement for OT-101 U.S. Expanded Access (IPSUA) dated September 5, 2019, between WideTrial and Oncotelic. 8-K 9/10/2019 10.1  
           
10.47 Agreement for Delivery and Licensed Use of Data Generated from OT-101 U.S. Expanded Access (Data License 1) dated September 5, 2019 between WideTrial and Oncotelic. 8-K 9/10/2019 10.2  
           
10.48 Agreement for Delivery and Licensed Use of WideTrial Bonus Dataset (Data License 2 Agreement) dated September 5, 2019 between WideTrial and Oncotelic. 8-K 9/10/2019 10.3  
           
10.49 Form of Convertible Promissory Note, issued by the Company under the Note Purchase Agreement dated as of November 23, 2019. 8-K 11/25/2019 10.1  
           
10.50 Research and Services Agreement. 8-K 3/23/2020 10.1  
           
10.51 Supplement Research and Services Agreement. 8-K 3/23/2020 10.2  
           
10.52 Paycheck Protection Program Promissory Note dated April 21, 2020 between Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. and Silicon Valley Bank. 8-K 4/27/2020 10.1  
           
10.53 Form of Series A Warrant to purchase Common Stock. 10Q  06/12/2020 10.1 

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10.54 Agreement between Oncotelic Inc, Autotelic Inc. and Autotelic BIO. 8-K 6/16/2020 10.1  
  Incorporated by Reference 
10.55 Consulting Agreement by Between the Company and Artius, dated March 9, 2020 8-K/A 6/22/2020 10.1 
Exhibit
Number
 Description Form Filing Date Exhibit Number Filed Herewith
  
10.56 Consulting Agreement by Between the Company and Dr. Maida, dated May 5, 2020 8-K/A 6/22/2020 10.2 
10.1 Amendment to the Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan S-8 4/19/2021 10.1  
  
10.57 

Loan, Secured Convertible Note Purchase, and Security Agreement between the Company and Golden Mountain Partners, LLC dated June 27, 2020

 x
10.2 

Equity Purchase Agreement by and between Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc., and Peak One Opportunity Fund, L.P., dated May 3, 2021

 8-K 5/7/2021 10.2 
  
10.58 

Secured Convertible Promissory Note between the Company and Golden Mountain Partners, LLC dated June 27, 2020

 x
 
10.59 License, Development and Commercialization Agreement between Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. and Windlas Biotech Private Limited dated November 10, 2020 x
 
14.1 Corporate Code of Conduct and Ethics. 10-K 3/30/2015 14.1 
10.3 Registration Rights Agreement, by and between Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc., and Peak One Opportunity Fund, L.P., dated May 3, 2020 S-8 5/7/2021 10.1 
  
31.1 Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a).       x Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a). x
  
31.2 Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a). x Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a). x
  
32.1 Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. x Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. x
  
101.1 Interactive Data Files for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017 x Interactive Data Files for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017 x
  
101.INS XBRL Instance Document x XBRL Instance Document x
  
101.SCH XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema x XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema x
  
101.CAL XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase x XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase x
  
101.DEF XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase x XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase x
  
101.LAB XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase x XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase x
  
101.PRE XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase x XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase x

 

*Confidential treatment has been granted for portions of this Exhibit. Redacted portions filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  
+Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

MATEON THERAPEUTICS,ONCOTELIC THERPAEUTICS INC.

 

By:/s/ Vuong Trieu 
 Vuong Trieu, Ph.D. 
 Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer) 
Date:November 16, 2020May 24, 2021

By:/s/ Amit Shah 
 Amit Shah 
 

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 
Date:November 16, 2020May 24, 2021 

 

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