As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 14, 2015May   , 2021

Registration No. 333-                 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM S-1

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

QUEST PATENT RESEARCH CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware 6794 11-2873662

(State or jurisdiction of


incorporation or organization)

 

(Primary Standard Industrial


Classification Code Number)

 (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

 

411 Theodore Fremd Ave. Suite 206S

Rye, NY 10580-1411

(888) 743-7577

(Address and telephone number of principal executive offices)

 

COPIES TO:

Asher S. Levitsky P.C.

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP

1345 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 1100

New York, New York 10105-0302

Telephone: (212) 370-1300(646) 895-7152

Fax: (646) 895-7182895-7238

E-mail: alevitsky@egsllp.com

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

 

APPROXIMATE DATE OF PROPOSED SALE TO PUBLIC:

As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomes effective.

 

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of each class of securities

to be registered

 

Amount to

be

Registered

 

Proposed

Maximum

Offering

Price Per

Security (1)

  

Proposed

Maximum

Aggregate

Offering

Price (1)

  

Amount of Registration

Fee

 
Common Stock, par value $0.00003 per share 100,000,000 shares $0.00445  $445,000  $44.82 

Title of each class of securities to be registered Amount to
be
Registered
 Proposed
Maximum
Offering
Price Per
Security (1)
  Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering
Price (1)
  Amount of Registration
Fee
 
Common Stock, par value $0.00003 per share 100,000,000 shares $0.0157  $1,570,000  $171.29 

 

 

(1)

Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, based on the average of the last reported bidhigh and askedlow prices on December 11, 2015.

May 10, 2021.

 

The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until this registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a) may determine.

 

 

 

 

 

The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS, SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED DECEMBER 14, 2015MAY            , 2021

 

100,000,000 Shares

 

Quest Product Research Corporation

 

OTC PinkOTCQB trading symbol: QPRC

 

This prospectus relates to the public offering of an aggregate of 100,000,000 shares of common stock which may be sold from time to time by the selling stockholderstockholders named in this prospectus.

 

We will not receive any proceeds from the sale by the selling stockholderstockholders of their shares of common stock. We will pay the cost of the preparation of this prospectus, which is estimated at $22,500.$25,000.

 

On December    May [●], 2015,2021, the last reported sales price for our common stock on the OTC Pink,OTCQB, as reported by OTC Markets, was $0.0032$[●] per share, which represented the last reported closing price on December   , 2015, which was the most recent date on which trading in our common stock was reported.share.

 

Investing in shares of our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should purchase our common stock only if you can afford to lose your entire investment. See “Risk Factors,” which begins on page 4.

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined whether this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

The selling stockholder hasstockholders have not engaged any underwriter in connection with the sale of itstheir shares of common stock. The selling stockholderstockholders may sell shares of common stock in the public market based on the market price at the time of sale or at negotiated prices or in transactions that are not in the public market. The selling stockholder may also sell their shares in transaction that are not in the public market in the manner set forth under “Plan of Distribution.”

 

The date of this Prospectus is _____________, 2016.2021

 

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 Page
Prospectus Summary1
Risk Factors4
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements1415
Use of Proceeds1417
Selling StockholderStockholders1517
Plan of Distribution1519
Market for Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters1720
Business1721
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations2640
Directors and Executive Officers3349
Executive Compensation3450
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions3753
Principal Stockholders3752
Description of Capital Stock3854
Legal Matters4056
Experts4056
Additional Information4157
Index to Consolidated Financial StatementsF-1

 

You may only rely on the information contained in this prospectus or that we have referred you to. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. This prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities other than the common stock offered by this prospectus. This prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any common stock in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. Neither the delivery of this prospectus nor any sale made in connection with this prospectus shall, under any circumstances, create any implication that there has been no change in our affairs since the date of this prospectus or that the information contained by reference to this prospectus is correct as of any time after its date.

 

Until _____________, 2016,, 2021, all dealers that effect transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to the dealers' obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as underwriters and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions.

 

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

 

This summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all the information you should consider before investing in the securities. However, you should read the entire prospectus carefully, including the “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and our consolidated financial statements, including the notes thereto, appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

Our Business

 

We are an intellectual property asset management company. Our principal operations include the development, acquisition, licensing and enforcement of intellectual property rights that are either owned or controlled by us or one of our wholly ownedwholly-owned subsidiaries. We currently own, control or manage eighttwelve intellectual property portfolios, which principally consist of patent rights. WeOur twelve intellectual property portfolios include the portfolios which we acquired threefrom Intellectual Ventures Assets 16, LLC (“Intellectual Ventures”) and seven of these portfolios in October 2015.its affiliates. As part of our intellectual property asset management activities and in the ordinary course of our business, it has been necessary for us or the intellectual property owner who we represent to initiate, and it is likely to continue to be necessary to initiate, patent infringement lawsuits and engage in patent infringement litigation. We anticipate that our primary source of revenue will come from the grant of licenses to use our intellectual property, including licenses granted as part of the settlement of patent infringement lawsuits. To date, we have not generated any significant revenues from our intellectual property rights.

 

We seek to generate revenue from threetwo sources:

 

Patent licensing fees relating to our intellectual property portfolio, which includes fees from the licensing of our intellectual property, primarily from litigation relating to enforcement of our intellectual property rights.

Management fees, which we receive for managing structured licensing programs, including litigation, related to our intellectual property rights.rights, and

 

Licensed packaging sales, which relate to the sale of licensed products.products, which have not constituted a significant source of revenue and was not a source of revenue in 2020.

We previously received management fees for managing litigation related to our intellectual property rights. We do not currently receive these fees; we do not have any agreements that provide for such payments and we cannot assure you that we will generate revenue from such fees in the future. Our agreement with QFL does not provide for any payment to us of management fees.

 

Intellectual property monetization includes the generation of revenue and proceeds from the licensing of patents, patented technologies and other intellectual property rights. Patent litigation is often a necessary element of intellectual property monetization where a patent owner, or a representative of the patent owner, seeks to protect its patent rights against the unlicensed manufacture, sale, and use of the owner’s patent rights or products which incorporate the owner’s patent rights. In general, we seek to monetize the bundle of rights granted by the patents through structured licensing and when necessary enforcement of those rights through litigation, although to date all of our patent license revenues have resulted from litigation.

 

We intend to develop our business by acquiring intellectual property rights, either in the form of ownership of or an exclusive license to the underlying intellectual property. Our goal is to enter into agreements with inventors of innovative technologies for which there may be a significant market for products which use or incorporate the intellectual property. We seek to purchase all of, or interests in, intellectual property in exchange for cash, securities of our company, the formation ofor a joint venture or separate subsidiary in which the owner has an equity interest, and/or interests in the monetization of those assets. Our revenue from this aspect of our business can be generated through licensing and, when necessary, litigation efforts as well as intellectual property management fees.which is typically the case, litigation. We engage in due diligence and a principled risk underwriting process to evaluate the merits and potential value of any acquisition, partnership or joint venture. We seek to structure the terms of our acquisitions partnerships and joint ventures in a manner that will achieve the highest risk-adjusted returns possible.

We employ a due diligence process before completingpossible, in the context of our financial condition. In connection with the acquisition of an intellectual property interest. We beginportfolios, we have granted the party providing the financing an interest in any recovery we have with an investment thesis supporting the potential transaction and then proceedrespect to test the thesis through an examination of the critical drivers of the value of the underlying intellectual property asset. Such an examination focuses on areas such as title and inventorship issues, the quality of the drafting and prosecution of the intellectual property assets, legal risks inherent inpurchased with the financing, and we expect that we will have to continue to grant such interests until and unless we have generated sufficient cash from licensing programs generally, the applicability of the invention to the relevant marketplace and other issues such as the effects of venue and other procedural issues. However, our financial position may affect our ability to conduct due diligence with respect to intellectual property rights.

It is frequently necessary to commence litigation in order to obtain a recovery for past infringement of, or to license the use of, our intellectual property rights. Intellectualto enable us to acquire additional intellectual property litigation is very expensive,portfolios without outside financing. However, we cannot assure you that we will ever generate sufficient revenues to enable us to purchase additional intellectual property without third-party financing.

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Recent Agreements with no certaintyQPRC Finance LLC (“QFL”) and Intelligent Partners, LLC (“Intelligent Partners”)

On February 22, 2021, we entered into a series of any recovery. Toagreements with QFL and Intelligent Partners. Pursuant to the extent possibleQFL agreements, QFL agreed to make available to us a financing facility of: (a) up to $25,000,000 for the acquisition of mutually agreed patent rights that we seekintend to engage counsel on a contingent fee or partial contingent fee basis, which would significantly reduce our litigation cost, but which would reduce the value of the recoverymonetize; (b) up to us. We do not have the resources$2,000,000 for operating expenses; and (iii) $1,750,000 to fund the cost of litigation. To the extent that we cannot fund litigation ourselves, we may enter into an agreement with a third party, which may be the patent owner or the former patent owner who transferred the patent rights to us, or an independent third party. In these cases, if a third party funds the costcash payment portion of the litigation, the funding source would be entitled to participate in the recovery. Becauserestructure of our financial position,obligations to Intelligent Partners. In return we currently anticipate that we will require third party funding if wetransferred to QFL a right to receive a portion of net proceeds generated from the monetization of those patents. These agreements are described in “Business – Summary of Agreements for QFL.” Pursuant to pursue litigation, when necessary,the agreements with Intelligent Partners, as the holder of the notes initially issued to protect our intellectual property rights.

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Recent Acquisition of Intellectual Property and Related Financing

On October 22, 2015, we acquired three patent portfolios from Intellectual Ventures Assets 16, LLC, which we assigned to three newly-formed subsidiaries. The purchase price for these portfolios was $3,000,000, of which $1,000,000 was paid at the closing and the remaining $2,000,000 is payable in two annual installments of $1,000,000 one and two years following the closing.

We financed the purchase price of these patent portfolios through an agreement with United Wireless Holdings, Inc. (“United Wireless isWireless”) and transferred to Intelligent Partners, the selling stockholder. Contemporaneously with our closing with Intellectual Ventures, we completed our financing with United Wireless. Pursuant to our agreement with United Wireless, at the closing United Wireless purchased 50,000,000 shares of common stock from us for $250,000 and lent us $1,250,000, of which $1,000,000 was used to make the initial payment of the purchase price due to Intellectual Ventures and the balance was used for working capital and to pay the closing costs. United Wireless also agreed to make additional loans of up to $3,000,000, of which $2,000,000 is for the sole purpose of paying the second and third installments of the purchase price to Intellectual Ventures. We may borrow the remaining $1,000,000 in eight quarterly installments of $125,000, commencing September 30, 2016. We are to use the proceeds of these loans for working capital. We also granted United Wireless a right to purchase up to an additional 50,000,000 shares of common stock and we granted United Wireless right to receive 15% of the net monetization proceeds received from (i) the patents we acquired from Intellectual Ventures and (ii) the patents in our mobile data and financial data intellectual property portfolios.

The promissory notes that we issueinitially issued to United Wireless bear interest at 10% per annumwere terminated and mature on September 30, 2020. Interest accrues through September 30, 2018, with accrued interest being added to principal on each of September 30, 2016, 2017and 2018. Subsequent to September 30, 2018, we are to pay interest quarterly, with the first interest payment being due on December 31, 2018.

Theour obligations were restructured. These agreements related to our financing with United Wireless are described under “Business – Summary of Agreements with United Wireless.Intelligent Partners.

 

Organization

 

We were incorporated in Delaware on July 17, 1987 under the name Phase Out of America. On September 21, 1997, we changed our name to Quest Products Corporation, and, on June 6, 2007, we changed our name to Quest Patent Research Corporation. We have been engaged in the intellectual property monetization business since 2008. Our executive principal office is located at 411 Theodore Fremd Ave., Suite 206S, Rye, New York 10580-1411, telephone (888) 743-7577. Our website iswww.qprc.com. www.qprc.com. Information contained on or derived from our website or any other website does not constitute a part of this prospectus.

 

References to “we,” “us,” “our” and word of like import refer to Quest Patent Research Corporation and one or more of its subsidiaries unless the context specifically states or implies otherwise.

 

Issuance of Securities to Selling Stockholder

 

The 100,000,000 shares of common stock offered by the selling stockholder pursuant to this prospectus represent the 50,000,000 shares of common stock that we issued at the closing and the 50,000,000 shares of common stock that are issuable upon exercise of the purchase option that we granted to United Wireless. Pursuant to the terms of the purchase option, United Wireless has the right to purchase 16,666,667 shares at an exercise price of $0.01 per share during the period from September 30, 2016 through September 30, 2020, an additional 16,666,667 shares at an exercise price of $0.03 per share during the period from September 30, 2017 through September 30, 2020, and an additional 16,666,666 shares at an exercise price of $0.05 per share during the period from September 30, 2018 through September 30, 2020. See “Business – Agreements with United Wireless.”represent:

 

50,000,000 shares of common stock that are issuable upon exercise of a warrant that was issued to QPRC Finance LLC (“QFL”) in connection with a financing pursuant to a prepaid forward purchase agreement and related agreements that we entered into with QFL on February 22, 2021 as described in “Business – Summary of Agreements for QFL.”

50,000,000 outstanding shares of common stock that were issued to United Wireless Holdings, Inc. (“United Wireless”) pursuant to a securities purchase agreement (the “United Wireless Agreement”) dated October 22, 2015 and related transaction documents, which shares were subsequently transferred by United Wireless to Andrew Fitton (35,000,000 shares) and Michael R. Carper (15,000,000 shares). See “Business – Summary of Agreements with Intelligent Partners.”

The Offering

 

Common Stock Offered:The selling stockholder are offering 100,000,000 shares of common stock, of which 50,000,000 shares are owned by two of the selling stockholderstockholders and 50,000,000 shares are issuable upon exercise of a purchase optionwarrant held by the third the selling stockholder.  See “Selling Stockholders.”
Outstanding Shares of Common Stock:

313,038,334

533,334,630 shares*

Use of Proceeds:

We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares by the selling stockholder.

 

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*

Not including (a) 70,000,000200,000,000 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding warrants or options, or (b) 50,000,00096,246,246 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the purchase option held by one of the selling stockholder.stockholders.

 

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SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

The following information as of December 31, 20142020 and 20132019 and for years in then ended have been derived from our audited financial statements which appear elsewhere in this prospectus. The information at September 30, 2015 and for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014 has been derived from our unaudited financing statements which appear elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

Summary Statement of Operations Information:

 Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 Year Ended
December 31,
  Year Ended December 31, 
 2015 2014 2014 2013  2020 2019 
Revenues $315,856  $591,123  $940,647  $74,555  $5,488,088  $4,143,169 
Gross profit  198,089   403,004   571,604   52,489 
Operating expenses  6,206,791   4,612,585 
Loss from operations  (203,019)  (220,281)  (140,936)  (849,349)  (718,703)  (469,416)
Net loss attributable to common stockholders  (186,572)  (236,996)  (161,525)  (871,161)  (1,312,511)  (1,308,776)
Loss per share (basic and diluted) $(0.00) $(0.00) $(0.00) $(0.00) $(0.00) $(0.00)
Weighted average shares of common stock outstanding  261,389,982   233,038,334   233,038,334   233,038,334   383,038,334   383,038,334 

 

Balance Sheet Information:

 December 31, 
 September 30, 2015 December 31, 2014  2020 2019 
Current assets $39,861  $115,852  $1,286,682  $2,404,753 
Working capital deficiency  (477,414)  (354,331)  (8,210,038)  (7,140,635)
Accumulated deficit  (14,284,068)  (14,097,496)  (21,281,179)  (19,968,668)
Stockholders’ deficit  (477,414)  (354,331)  (6,841,678)  (5,849.156)

 

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RISK FACTORS

An investment in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks described below together with all of the other information included in this prospectus before making an investment decision with regard to our securities. The statements contained in this prospectus include forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in or implied by forward-looking statements. The risks set forth below are not the only risks facing us. Additional risks and uncertainties may exist that could also adversely affect our business, prospects or operations. If any of the following risks actually occurs, our business, financial condition or results of operations could be harmed. In that case, the trading price of our common stock could decline, and you may lose all or a significant part of your investment.

 

Risks Relating to our Financial Conditions and Operations

 

We have a history of losses and are continuing to incur losses. During the period from 2008, when we changed our business to become an intellectual property management company, through 2014,December 31, 2020, we generated a cumulative loss of more than $14,300,000approximately $21.3 million on cumulative revenues of less than $3,000,000,$21.3 million, and our losses are continuing. We did not generate any revenue during the fourth quarter of 2020. Our total assets were approximately $40,000$3.5 million at September 30, 2015.December 31, 2020, of which approximately $2.2 million represented the book value of patents we acquired from Intellectual Ventures and its affiliates. At September 30, 2015,December 31, 2020, we had a working capital deficiency of approximately $477,000. We had negative$8.2 million. Our working capital from our operations at September 30, 3015 and at December 31, 2014 and 2013, and our continuing losses are generating an increase in our negative working capital.deficiency reflected a loan payable to Intelligent Partners of approximately $4.7 million, which loan payable has been terminated as part of the restructure agreement with Intelligent Partners. We cannot give assurance that we can or will ever operate profitably.

 

We did not generate any revenue during the fourth quarter of 2020. During the fourth quarter of 2020, we did not generate any revenue. Because we were in default under our loans to Intelligent Partners (as successor to United Wireless), with Intelligent Partners having the ability to declare a default on our notes in the principal amount of $4,672,810, with the possibility of our seeking protection under the Bankruptcy Act, we ceased our monetization activities, since no counsel would represent us on a contingent basis in view of the default and possible bankruptcy, and devoted our efforts in negotiating the agreements with QFL and Intelligent Partners.

Our independent auditors have included a going concern qualification in their report on our financial statements for the year ended December 31, 20142020. Because of our history of losses, deficiency in stockholders’ equity, working capital deficiency and the uncertainty of generating revenues in the future, our independent auditors have included a going concern qualification in their report on our financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014, and we anticipate that they will include such a qualification in their report on our financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2015.2020.

 

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We require significant funding in order to develop our business. Our business requires substantial funding to evaluate and acquire intellectual property rights and to develop and implement programs to monetize our intellectual property rights, including the prosecution of any litigation necessary to enable us to monetize our intellectual property rights. Our failure to develop and implement these programs could both jeopardize our relationships under our existing agreements and could inhibit our ability to generate new business, either through the acquisition of intellectual property rights or through exclusive management agreements. We cannot be profitable unless we are able to obtain the funding necessary to develop our business.business, including litigation to monetize our intellectual property. Although we have an agreement with QFL which provides a funding line to acquire and monetize intellectual property rights, QFL must approve any intellectual property we acquire and, if QFL does not fund an intellectual property acquisition, we may not be able to acquire and monetize the intellectual property. We cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain necessary funding or to develop our business.

 

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Unless weThe terms of our agreements with QFL and Intelligent Partners may make it difficult for us to generate significant revenuecash flow from our intellectual properties,operations. Although we have an agreement with QFL pursuant to which QFL agreed to make available to us a financing facility of (i) up to $25,000,000 for the acquisition of mutually agreed patent rights that the Company intends to monetize; (ii) up to $2,000,000 for operating expenses from which the Company may, be unableat its discretion, draw up to $200,000 per calendar quarter; and (iii) $1,750,000 to fund the cash payment portion of the restructure of our obligations to Intelligent Partners, which was paid directly to Intelligent Partners. Pursuant to the QFL agreement, QFL receive all proceeds payable to us from the monetization of those patents which have been financed by QFL until QFL has received its negotiated rate of return, then we and QFL share equally in the proceeds from monetization until QFL has received its investment return and thereafter we receive all of the net proceeds. Pursuant to our restructure agreement with Intelligent Partners, we have an obligation to pay total monetization proceeds obligations (“TMPO”) totaling $2,805,000. Under our amended monetization proceeds agreements with Intelligent Partners, we pay Intelligent Partners 60% of the notes we incurred in connection with our recentnet monetization proceeds from associated intellectual property purchase. In October 2015,portfolios. Further, until we borrowed $1,250,000 from United Wireless in order to provide us with the funds to make the initial $1,000,000 payment on accounthave paid Intellectual Partners a total of $2,805,000 under all of the monetization proceeds agreements, for net proceeds between $0 and $1,000,000 we are to pay Intelligent Partners 10% of the net proceeds realized from new assets acquired by us, provided, that, if, in any calendar quarter, our net proceeds realized exceed $1,000,000, Intelligent Partner’s entitlement for that quarter shall increase to 30% on the portion of net proceeds in excess of $1,000,000 but less than $3,000,000, purchase priceand if in the same calendar quarter, net proceeds exceed $3,000,000, Intelligent Partner’s entitlement for that quarter shall increase to 50% on the portion of net proceeds in excess of $3,000,000. These payments come from our share of the proceeds after QFL has recovered it negotiated rate of return. In these agreements, the monetization proceeds is determined after payment of contingent legal fees and certain other expenses, including payments due by us to the party that sold us the intellectual property rights. We cannot assure you that, as a result of these provisions, that we will generate any meaningful cash flow from the intellectual property we acquired from Intellectual Ventures. United Wireless agreed to advance us an additional $2,000,000 to make the remaining payments due to Intellectual Ventures as well as an additional $1,000,000 for working capital. The notes are due September 30, 2020. Unless we generate revenue either from our existing intellectual property portfolio, including the patent rights we acquired from Intellectual Ventures, or from any new intellectual property portfolios which we may acquire in the future,acquire. If we do not expect to have the funds necessary to pay principal and interest on the notes. If we are not able to make payment when due,generate sufficient cash flow from our monetization activities, we may not be able to fund our operations or continue in businessbusiness.

Our failure to make required payments to sellers of two of our patent portfolios may result in a default under the agreements. Pursuant to our subsidiaries’ agreements with IV 34/37, with respect to the CTX portfolio, and IV 113/108 with respect to the M-RED portfolio, respectively, our subsidiaries are to pay to the sellers 50% of net recoveries, as defined, from the respective portfolios which we purchased from them, IV 34/37 and IV 113/108. These agreements provided that if the cumulative distributions did not equal or exceed specified amounts, the subsidiaries would pay the difference. As of the date of this prospectus, the cumulative unpaid distributions were $600,000 to IV 34/37 and approximately $260,000 to IV 113/108. In April 2021, the parties entered into a non-binding letter of intent pursuant to which IV 34/37 and IV 113/108 would not take any action with respect to the delinquent payment while the parties negotiated an amended payment schedule. We can give no assurance that we will be able to negotiate an amended payment schedule or that IF 34/38 or IV 113/108 will not take action to enforce its remedies under the patent purchase agreement, A default under these agreements could result in a default under our agreements with QFL, and, even if it does not declare a default, QFL may be reluctant to finance our intellectual property acquisition if we are in default under any of our patent acquisition agreements with Intellectual Venture affiliates. Further, it may be necessary for usCXT or M-RED to seek protection under the Bankruptcy Act. We cannot assure you thatAct if we will beare not able to generateenter into modification agreements with the revenue necessary to pay United Wireless.Intellectual Ventures affiliates

 

BecauseOur business may be impaired by the effects of the COVID-91 pandemic and the effects of the response to the pandemic. Although we do not manufacture or sell products, the COVID-19 pandemic and the work shutdown imposed in the United States and other countries to limit the spread of the virus can have a negative impact on our business. Our revenue is generated almost exclusively from license fees generated from litigation seeking damages for infringement of our lack of funds, we may not be able to conduct adequate due diligence on any new intellectual property rights. The work shutdown has affected the court system and, with courts operating on a reduced schedule. As a result, patent infringement actions are likely to be lower priority items in allocation of court resources, with the effect that deadlines are likely to be postponed which wedelays may seekgive defendants an incentive to acquire. We currently have nominal current assetsdelay negotiations or offer a lower amount than they might otherwise accept. In addition, the effect of the COVID-19 and are operating atthe public response may adversely affect the financial condition and prospects of defendants and potential defendants, which would make it less likely that they would be willing to settle our claim.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the response to limit the spread of the infection may affect the financial condition of financing sources and the willingness of potential financing sources to provide funding for our litigation. In addition, these factors may affect a loss. In orderlaw firms’ ability and willingness to evaluateprovide us with legal services on a contingent or partial contingent and may result in the impairment or discontinuation of business of or the filing of a petition under the Bankruptcy Act by or against any defendant or potential defendant.

Further, to the extent that holders of intellectual property rights which we may seek to acquire, we need to conduct due diligence on the intellectual property and underlying technology. To the extent that we are unable to perform the necessary due diligence, we will not be able to value any asset which we acquire, which may impairsee these factors impacting our ability to generate revenue from thetheir intellectual property, rights. If any conditions occur, such as defects in the ownership of thethey may be reluctant to sell intellectual property infringementto us on intellectual property rights of others, the existence of better technologyterms which does not require our intellectual property, or other conditions that affect the value of the patents or marketability of the underlying intellectual property rights, we may not be ableare acceptable to monetize the patents and we may be subject to liability to a third party who has rights in the intellectual propertyus.

 

Any funding we obtain may result in significant dilution to our stockholders. Because of our financial position, our continuing losses and our negative working capital from operations, we do not expect that we will be able to obtain any debt financing for our operations. Our stock price has generally been trading at a price which is less than $0.01 per share for more than the past two years. As a result, it will be very difficult for us to raise funds in the equity markets. However, in the event that we are able to raise funds in the equity market, the sale of shares would result in significant dilution to the present stockholders, and even a modest equity investment could result in the issuance of a very significant number of shares.

If we breach certain obligations under our agreement with United Wireless, including our failure to adopt an amendment to our certificate of incorporation to increase our authorized common stock, we may lose the ownership of the subsidiaries that own intellectual property, and the notes will become convertible at prices which are unfavorable to us. Under our agreement with United Wireless, United Wireless is required to make the second and third $1,000,000 payments to Intellectual Ventures, even if we are not in compliance with our obligations under our agreements with United Wireless. In the event that certain events of default, which are called Conversion Eligible Events of Default have occurred and are continuing on the date a $1,000,000 payment is due to Intellectual Ventures, United Wireless shall make the payment, and immediately upon the United’s payment to Intellectual Ventures, we shall be deemed to have assigned, transferred and conveyed to United Wireless and/or its nominee title to and ownership of the stock of the subsidiaries that hold title to the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and our obligations on the notes, to the extent that the notes relate to the payment of the purchase price of the patents from Intellectual Venture, terminate. In addition, any outstanding notes become convertible into common stock at a conversion price equal to 90% of the closing sale price of our common stock on the trading day immediately preceding the date the United Wireless gives notice of conversion. One of the Conversion Eligible Events of Default is our failure to increase our authorized common stock from 390,000,000 shares to 1,250,000,000 shares within 135 days of the October 22, 2015 closing date. We cannot assure you that we will be able to prevent a Conversion Eligible Event of Default.

Our failure to increase our authorized common stock as required by the securities purchase agreement with United Wireless would also trigger default provisions under the notes. In addition to the transfer of the stock in our subsidiaries to United Wireless and the triggering of the conversion right under the notes, our failure to increase our authorized commons stock to 1,250,000,000 shares would be a default under the note, which would give United Wireless the right to demand redemption of the note at 110% of the principal amount. We do not have the funds to make sure payment. Further, if United Wireless would seek to convert the notes, we do not have sufficient shares of commons stock available for issuance on such conversion, which would also be a default and result in payment of damages. As a result, if we fail to increase our authorized common stock as required by our agreement with United Wireless, we may not be able to continue in business and we may have to seek protection under the Bankruptcy Act.

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We are dependent upon our chief executive officer. We are dependent upon Jon Scahill, our chief executive officer and president and sole full-time employee, for all aspects of our business including locating, evaluating and negotiating forand performing due diligence with respect to intellectual property rights from the owners, managing our intellectual property portfolios, engaging in licensing activities and monetizing the rights through licensing and managing and monitoring any litigation with respect to our intellectual property as well as defending any actions by potential licensees seeking a declaratory judgment that they do not infringe. The loss of Mr. Scahill would materially impair our ability to conduct our business. Although we have an employment agreement with Mr. Scahill, the employment agreement does not insureensure that Mr. Scahill will remain with us.

 

Any equity funding we obtain may result in significant dilution to our stockholders. Because of our financial position, our continuing losses and our negative working capital from operations, we do not expect that we will be able to obtain any debt financing for our operations. Our stock price has generally been trading at a price which is less than $0.01 per share for more than the past two years, and, because our stock price fell below $0.01 per share, our stock is traded on the OTC Pink Market. As a result, it will be very difficult for us to raise funds in the equity markets. However, in the event that we are able to raise funds in the equity market, the sale of shares would result in significant dilution to the present stockholders, and even a modest equity investment could result in the issuance of a very significant number of shares.

Risks Relating to Monetizing our Intellectual Property Rights

 

We may not be able to monetize our intellectual property portfolios. Although our business plan is to generate revenue from our intellectual property portfolios, we have not been successful in generating any significant revenue from our portfolios and we have not generated any revenues from twoseveral of our intellectual property portfolios. We cannot assure you that we will be able to generate any significant revenue from our existing portfolios or that we will be able to acquire new intellectual property rights that will generate significant revenue.

 

If we are not successful in monetizing our portfolios, we may not be able to continue in business. Although we have ownership of some of our intellectual property, we also license the rights pursuant to agreements with the owners of the intellectual property. If we are not successful in generating revenue for those parties who have an interest in the results of our efforts, those parties may seek to renegotiate the terms of our agreements with them, which could both impair our ability to generate revenue from our intellectual property and make it more difficult for us to obtain rights to new intellectual property rights. If we continue to be unable to generate revenue from our existing intellectual property portfolios and any new portfolios we may acquire, we may be unable to continue in business.

 

If we are not successful in patent litigation, the defendants may seek to have the court award attorneys’ fees to them against us which could result in the bankruptcy of the plaintiff subsidiary and may result in a default under our agreement QFL. The United States patent laws provide that “the court in exceptional cases may award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party.” Although the patents are owned by our subsidiaries and any judgment would be awarded against the subsidiaries, the subsidiaries have no assets other than the patent rights. Our funding sources for our patent litigation do not provide for the funding source to pay any judgment against us. Thus, if any defendants obtain a judgment against one of our subsidiaries, they may seek to enforce their judgment against the patents owned by the subsidiary or seek to put the subsidiary into bankruptcy and acquire the patents in the bankruptcy proceeding. As a result, it is possible that an adverse verdict in a petition for legal fees could result in the loss of the patents owned by the subsidiary and a default under our agreement with QFL.

Our inability to acquire intellectual property portfolios will impair our ability to generate revenue and develop our business. We do not have the personnel to develop patentable technology by ourselves. Thus, we need to depend on acquiring rights to intellectual property and intellectual property portfolios from third parties. In acquiring intellectual property rights, there are delays in (i) identifying the intellectual property which we may want to acquire, (ii) negotiating an agreement with the owner or holder of the intellectual property rights, and (iii) generating revenue from those intellectual property rights which we acquire. During these periods, we will continue to incur expenses with no assurance that we will generate revenue. We currently hold intellectual property portfolios from which we have not generated any revenue to date, and we cannot assure you that we will generate revenue from our existing intellectual property portfolios or any additional intellectual properties which we may acquire.

 

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We may be unable to enforce our intellectual property rights unless we obtain third party funding. Because of the expense of litigation and our lack of working capital, we may be unable to enforce our intellectual property rights unless we obtain the agreement of a third party to provide funding in support of our litigation. We cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain third partyQFL or any other funding source provide us the any necessary funding, and the failure to obtain such funding may impair our ability to monetize our intellectual property portfolio.portfolio or continue in business.

 

Because we need to rely on third-party funding sources to provide us with funds to enforce our intellectual property rights we are dependent upon the perception ofby potential funding sources of the value of our intellectual property. Because we do not have funds to pursue litigation to enforce our intellectual property rights, we are dependent upon the valuation which potential funding sources, which currently is QFL, give to our intellectual property.property or any intellectual property we may acquire. In determining whether to provide funding for intellectual property litigation, the funding sources need to make an evaluation of the strength of our patents, the likelihood of success, the nature of the potential defendants and a determination as to whether there is a sufficient potential recovery to justify a significant investment in intellectual property litigation. Typically, such funding sources receive a percentage of the net recovery after litigation expenses, and seek to generate a sufficient return on investment to justify the investment. Under our agreement with QFL, QFL is allocated all of the net proceeds (after allowable expenses) until it has received a negotiated return. Unless thatQFL or any other funding source believes that it will generate a sufficient return on investment, it will not fund litigation. WeIf QFL does not fund our acquisition or monetization of intellectual property we propose to acquire, we cannot assure you that we will be able to negotiate funding agreements with third party funding sources on terms reasonably acceptable to us, if at all. Because of our financial condition, we may only be able to obtain funding on terms which are less favorable to us than we would otherwise be able to obtain.

 

Even ifAlthough we enter intohave a funding agreements with QFL, there is no assurance that we will generate revenue from the funded litigation. Although the funding source makes its evaluation as to the likelihood of success, patent litigation is very uncertain, and we cannot assure you that, just because we obtain litigation funding, that we will be successful or that any recovery we may obtain will be significant.

 

Because of the terms of a funding agreementQFL and our agreement with United Wireless, we allocate to third parties a significant portion of any recovery we may obtain. Typically, an agreement with a litigation funding source provides that the funding party received a negotiated percentage of the recovery after legal expenses. In addition, we have a monetization proceeds agreement with United Wireless pursuant to which United Wireless has the right to receive 15% of the net monetization proceeds received from the patents we acquired from Intellectual Ventures and our mobile data and financial data intellectual property portfolios. As a result, the amount we recover from any successful litigation, after the costs of the litigation, represents only a fraction of the net recovery.

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Because we granted United WirelessIntelligent Partners hold a security interest in almost all of our intellectual property and the proceeds from our intellectual property, we may not be able to raise funds through a debt financing. Pursuant to our agreements with United Wireless,QFL and Intelligent Partners, we granted United Wirelessthem a security interest in the stock of our subsidiaries that hold the intellectual property acquired from Intellectual Ventures and in the proceeds from the monetization of the intellectual property acquired from Intellectual Ventures and our mobile data and financial data portfolios. The inability to grant a security interest in these assets to a new lender would materially impair our ability to obtain debt financing for our operations, and may also impair our ability to obtain financing to acquire additional intellectual property rights.

 

Because of our financial condition and our failure to havehaving generated revenuesa loss from operations in 2019 and 2020 from our existing portfolios, we may not be able to obtain intellectual property rights to the most advanced technologies. In order to generate meaningful revenues from intellectual property rights, we need to be able to identify, negotiate rights to and offer technologies for which there is a developing market. Because of our financial condition and the terms under which we obtain financing for our lack of the generation of any significant revenue from our existing intellectual property portfolios,litigation, we may be unable to negotiate rights to technology for which there which will be a strong developing market, or, if we are able to negotiate agreements for such intellectual property, the terms of our purchase or license may not be favorable to us. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that we will be able to acquire intellectual property rights to the technology for which there is a strong market demand.

 

Potential acquisitions may present risks, and we may be unable to achieve the financial or other goals intended at the time of any potential acquisition. Our ability to grow depends, in large part, on our ability to acquire interests in intellectual property, including patented technologies, patent portfolios, or companies holding such patented technologies and patent portfolios. Accordingly, we intend to engage in acquisitions to expand our intellectual property portfolios and we intend to continue to explore such acquisitions. Such acquisitions are subject to numerous risks, including the following:

 

 our failure to have sufficient funding to enable us to make the acquisition;acquisition, together with the terms on which such funding is available, if at all;

 our failure to have sufficient personal to satisfy the seller that we have the personnel to monetize the assets we propose to acquire;

 dilution to our stockholders to the extent that we use equity in connection with any acquisition;

 our inability to enter into a definitive agreement with respect to any potential acquisition, or if we are able to enter into such agreement, our inability to consummate the potential acquisition;

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 difficulty integrating the operations, technology and personnel of the acquired entity;

 our inability to achieve the anticipated financial and other benefits of the specific acquisition;

 difficulty in maintaining controls, procedures and policies during the transition and monetization process;

 diversion of our management’s attention from other business concerns, especially considering that we have only one full-time employee/officer;officer who is responsible for performing due diligence, negotiating agreements, negotiating funding and implementing a monetization program; and

 our failure, in our due diligence process, to identify significant issues, including issues with respect to patented technologies and intellectual property portfolios, and other legal and financial contingencies.

 

If we are unable to manage these risks and other risks effectively as part of any acquisition, our business could be adversely affected.

 

Our acquisition of intellectual property rights may be time consuming, complex and costly, which could adversely affect our operating results. Acquisitions of patent or other intellectual property assets, which are and will be critical to the development of our business, are often time consuming, complex and costly to consummate. We may utilize many different transaction structures in our acquisitions and the terms of such acquisition agreements tend to be heavily negotiated. As a result, we expect to incur significant operating expenses and may be required to raise capital during the negotiations even if the acquisition is ultimately not consummated. Even if we are able to acquire particular intellectual property assets, there is no guarantee that we will generate sufficient revenue related to those intellectual property assets to offset the acquisition costs. We may also identify intellectual property assets that cost more than we are prepared to spend with our own capital resources. We may incur significant costs to organize and negotiate a structured acquisition that does not ultimately result in an acquisition of any intellectual property assets or, if consummated, proves to be unprofitable for us. These higher costs could adversely affect our operating results.

 

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If we acquire technologies that are in the early stages of market development, we may be unable to monetize the rights we acquire. We may acquire patents, technologies and other intellectual property rights that are in the early stages of adoption in the commercial, industrial and consumer markets. Demand for some of these technologies will likely be untested and may be subject to fluctuation based upon the rate at which companies may adopt our intellectual property in their products and services. As a result, there can be no assurance as to whether technologies we acquire or develop will have value that we can monetize. It may also be necessary for us to develop additional intellectual property and file new patent applications as the underlying commercial market evolves, as a result of which we may incur substantial costs with no assurance that we will ever be able to monetize our intellectual property.

 

Our intellectual property monetization cycle is lengthy and costly and our marketing, legal and sales efforts may be unsuccessful. We expect to incur significant marketing, legal and sales expenses prior to entering into monetization events that generate revenue for us. We will also spend considerable resources educating potential licensees on the benefits of entering into an agreement with us that may include a non-exclusive license for future use of our intellectual property rights. Thus, we may incur significant losses in any particular period before any associated revenue stream begins. If our efforts to convince potential licensees of the benefits of a settlement arrangement are unsuccessful, we may need to continue with the litigation process or other enforcement action to protect our intellectual property rights and to realize revenue from those rights. We may also need to litigate to enforce the terms of existing agreements, protect our trade secrets, or determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Enforcement proceedings are typically protracted and complex. The costs are typically substantial, and the outcomes are unpredictable. Enforcement actions will divert our managerial, technical, legal and financial resources from business operations.

 

We may not be successful in obtaining judgments in our favor. We have commenced litigation seeking to monetize our intellectual property portfolios and it maywill be necessary for us to commence ligation in the future. All litigation is uncertain, and a number of the actions we commenced have been dismissed by the trial court. We cannot assure you that any litigation will be decided in our favor or that, if damages are awarded or a license is negotiated, that we will generate any significant revenue from the litigation.litigation or that any recovery may be allocated to counsel and third party funding source which may result in little if any revenue to us.

 

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Our financial condition may cause both intellectual property rights owners and potential licensees to believe that we do not have the financial resources to commence and prosecute litigation for infringement. Because of our financial condition, both intellectual property rights owners and potential licensees may believe that we do not have the ability to commence and prosecute sustained and expensive litigation to protect our intellection rights with the effect that (i) intellectual property rights owners may be reluctant to grant us rights to their intellectual property and (ii) potential licensees may be less inclined to pay for license rights from us.us or settle any litigation we may commence on terms which generate any meaningful monetization.

 

Any patents which may be issued to us pursuant to patent applications which we filed or may file may fail to give us necessary protection. We cannot be certain that patents will be issued as a result of any pending or future patent applications, or that any of our patents, once issued, will provide us with adequate protection from competing products. For example, issued patents may be circumvented or challenged, declared invalid or unenforceable, or narrowed in scope. In addition, since publication of discoveries in scientific or patent literature often lags behind actual discoveries, we cannot be certain that we will be the first to make additional new inventions or to file patent applications covering those inventions. It is also possible that others may have or may obtain issued patents that could prevent us from commercializing our products or require us to obtain licenses requiring the payment of significant fees or royalties in order to enable us to conduct our business. As to those patents that we may acquire, our continued rights will depend on meeting any obligations to the seller and we may be unable to do so. Our failure to obtain or maintain intellectual property rights for our inventions would lead to the loss of our investments in such activities, which would have a material adverse effect on us.

 

The provisions of Federal Declaratory Judgment Act may affect our ability to monetize our intellectual property. Under the Federal Declaratory Judgment Act, it is possible for a party who we consider to be infringing upon our intellectual property to commence an action against us seeking a declaratory judgment that such party is not infringing upon our intellectual property rights. In such a case, the plaintiff could choose the court in which to bring the action and we would be the defendant in the action. Common claims for declaratory judgment in patent cases are claims of non-infringement, patent invalidity and unenforceability. Although the commencement of an action requires a claim or controversy, a court may find a letter from us to the alleged infringer seeking a royalty for the use of our intellectual property rights to form the basis of a controversy. In such a case, the plaintiff, rather than we, would choose the court in which to bring the action and the timing of the action. In addition, when we commence an action as plaintiff, we may be able to enter into a contingent fee arrangement with counsel, it is possible that counsel may be less willing to accept such an arrangement if we are the defendant. Further, we would not have the opportunity of choosing against which party to bring the action. An adverse decision in a declaratory judgment action could significantly impair our ability to monetize the intellectual property rights which are the subject of the litigation. We have been a defendant in one declaratory judgment action, which resulted in a settlement. We cannot assure you that potential infringers will not be able to use the Declaratory Judgment Act to reduce our ability to monetize the patents that are the subject of the action.

 

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A 2014 Supreme Court decision could significantly impair business method and software patents. In June 2014, the United States Supreme Court, inAlice v. CLS Bank, struck down patents covering a computer-implemented scheme for mitigating “settlement risk” by using a third party intermediary, holding the patent claims to be ineligible as being drawn to a patent-ineligible abstract idea. The courts have been dealing for many years over what business methods are patentable. We cannot predict the extent to which the decision inAlice as well as prior Supreme Court decisions dealing with patents, will be interpreted by courts. To the extent that the Supreme Court decision inAlice gives businesses reason to believe that business model and software patents are not enforceable, it may become more difficult for us to monetize patents which are held to be within the ambit of the patents before the Supreme Court inAlice and for us to obtain counsel willing to represent us on a contingency basis. As a result, the decision inAlicecould materially impair our ability to obtain patent rights and monetize those which we do obtain.

 

Legislation, regulations or rules related to obtaining patents or enforcing patents could significantly increase our operating costs and decrease our revenue. We may apply for patents and may spend a significant amount of resources to enforce those patents. If legislation, regulations or rules are implemented either by Congress, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or the courts that impact the patent application process, the patent enforcement process or the rights of patent holders, these changes could negatively affect our expenses and revenue. For example, new rules regarding the burden of proof in patent enforcement actions could significantly both increase the cost of our enforcement actions and make it more difficult to sign licenses without litigation, changes in standards or limitations on liability for patent infringement could negatively impact our revenue derived from such enforcement actions, and any rules requiring that the losing party pay legal fees of the prevailing party could also significantly increase the cost of our enforcement actions. United States patent laws were recently amended with the enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, or the America Invents Act, which took effect on March 16, 2013. The America Invents Act includes a number of significant changes to U.S. patent law. In general, the legislation attempts to address issues surrounding the enforceability of patents and the increase in patent litigation by, among other things, establishing new procedures for patent litigation. For example, the America Invents Act changes the way that parties may be joined in patent infringement actions, increasing the likelihood that such actions will need to be brought against individual parties allegedly infringing by their respective individual actions or activities. The America Invents Act and its implementation increases the uncertainties and costs surrounding the enforcement of our patented technologies, which could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial condition. In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice has conducted reviews of the patent system to evaluate the impact of patent assertion entities on industries in which those patents relate. It is possible that the findings and recommendations of the Department of Justice could impact the ability to effectively license and enforce standards-essential patents and could increase the uncertainties and costs surrounding the enforcement of any such patented technologies.

 

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Proposed legislation may affect our ability to conduct our business. There are presently pending or proposed a number of laws which, if enacted, may affect the ability of companies such as us to generate revenue from our intellectual property rights. Typically, these proposed laws cover legal actions brought by companies which do not manufacture products or supply services but seek to collect licensing fees based on their intellectual property rights and, if they are not able to enter into a license, to commence litigation. Although a number of such bills have been proposed in Congress, we do not know which, if any, bills will be enacted into law or what the provisions will be and, therefore, we cannot predict the effect, if any, that such laws, if passed by Congress and signed by the president, would provide. However, we cannot assure you that legislation will not be enacted which would impair our ability to operate by making it more difficult for us to commence litigation against a potential licensee or infringer. To the extent that an alleged infringer believes that we will not prevail in litigation, it would be more difficult to negotiate a license agreement without litigation.

 

The unpredictability of our revenues may harm our financial condition. Our revenues from licensing have typically been lump sum payments entered into at the time of the license, which may be in connection with the settlement of litigation, and not from licenses that pay an ongoing royalty. Due to the nature of the licensing business and uncertainties regarding the amount and timing of the receipt of license and other fees from potential infringers, stemming primarily from uncertainties regarding the outcome of enforcement actions, rates of adoption of our patented technologies, the growth rates of potential licensees and certain other factors, our revenues, if any, may vary significantly from quarter to quarter, which could make our business difficult to manage, adversely affect our business and operating results, cause our quarterly results to fall below market expectations and adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

 

Our success depends in part upon our ability to retain the qualified legal counsel to represent us in patent enforcement litigation. The success of our licensing business may depend upon our ability to retain the qualified legal counsel to prosecute patent infringement litigation. As our patent enforcement actions increase, it will become more difficult to find the preferred choice for legal counsel to handle all of our cases because many of these firms may have a conflict of interest that prevents their representation of us or because they are not willing to represent us on a contingent or partial contingent fee basis.

 

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Our reliance on representations, warranties and opinions of third parties may expose us to certain material liabilities. From time to time, we rely upon the representations and warranties of third parties, including persons claiming ownership of intellectual property rights, and opinions of purported experts. In certain instances, we may not have the opportunity to independently investigate and verify the facts upon which such representations, warranties and opinions are made. By relying on these representation, warranties and opinions, we may be exposed to liability in connection with the licensing and enforcement of intellectual property and intellectual property rights which could have a material adverse effect on our operating results and financial condition.

 

In connection with patent enforcement actions, counterclaims may be brought against us and a court may rule against us in counterclaims which may expose us and our operating subsidiaries to material liabilities. In connection with patent enforcement actions, it is possible that a defendant may file counterclaims against us or a court may rule that we have violated statutory authority, regulatory authority, federal rules, local court rules, or governing standards relating to the substantive or procedural aspects of such enforcement actions. In such event, a court may issue monetary sanctions against us or our operating subsidiaries or award attorney’s fees and/or expenses to the counterclaiming defendant, which could be material, and if we or our operating subsidiaries are required to pay such monetary sanctions, attorneys’ fees and/or expenses, such payment could materially harm our operating results, our financial position and our ability to continue in business.

 

Trial judges and juries may find it difficult to understand complex patent enforcement litigation, and as a result, we may need to appeal adverse decisions by lower courts in order to successfully enforce our patents. It is difficult to predict the outcome of patent enforcement litigation at the trial level. It is often difficult for juries and trial judges to understand complex, patented technologies, and, as a result, there is a higher rate of successful appeals in patent enforcement litigation than more standard business litigation. Regardless of whether we prevail in the trial court, appeals are expensive and time consuming, resulting in increased costs and delayed revenue, and attorneys may be less likely to represent us in an appeal on a contingency basis especially if we are seeking to appeal an adverse decision. Although we may diligently pursue enforcement litigation, we cannot predict the decisions made by juries and trial courts.

 

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More patent applications are filed each year resulting in longer delays in getting patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We hold a number of pending patents and may file or acquire rights to additional patent applications. We have identified a trend of increasing patent applications each year, which we believe is resulting in longer delays in obtaining approval of pending patent applications. The application delays could cause delays in recognizing revenue, if any, from these patents and could cause us to miss opportunities to license patents before other competing technologies are developed or introduced into the market.

 

U.S. Federal courts are becoming more crowded, and, as a result, patent enforcement litigation is taking longer. Patent enforcement actions are almost exclusively prosecuted in federal district courts. In May 2017, the United States Supreme Court, in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods Groups Brands, held that a corporate defendant may be sued either in its state of incorporation, or where it has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business. To the extent that the Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland concentrates patent litigation in districts within states popular for business incorporation, such as the Federal District Court for the District of Delaware, such courts may become increasingly crowded. Federal trial courts that hear patent enforcement actions also hear criminal and other civil cases. Criminal cases always take priority over patent enforcement actions. As a result, it is difficult to predict the length of time it will take to complete anany enforcement action. Moreover, we believe there is a trend in increasing numbers of civil lawsuits and criminal proceedings, and, as a result, we believe that the risk of delays in patent enforcement actions will have a significant effect on our business in the future unless this trend changes.

 

Any reductions in the funding of the United States Patent and Trademark Office could have an adverse impact on the cost of processing pending patent applications and the value of those pending patent applications. Our primary assets are our patent portfolios, including pending patent applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The value of our patent portfolios is dependent upon the issuance of patents in a timely manner, and any reductions in the funding of the United States Patent and Trademark Office could negatively impact the value of our assets. Further, reductions in funding from Congress could result in higher patent application filing and maintenance fees charged by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, causing an unexpected increase in our expenses.

 

The rapid development of technology may impair our ability to monetize intellectual property that we own. In order for us to generate revenue from our intellectual property, we need to offer intellectual property that is used in the manufacture or development of products. Rapid technological developments have reduced the market for products using less advanced technology. To the extent that technology develops in a manner in which our intellectual property is not a necessary element or to the extent that others design around our intellectual property, our ability to license our intellectual property portfolios or successfully prosecute litigation will be impaired. We cannot assure you that we will have rights to intellectual property for most advanced technology or that there will be a market for products which require our technology.

 

The intellectual property management business is highly competitive. A large number of other companies seek to obtain rights to new intellectual property and to market existing intellectual property. Most of these companies have significantly both greater resources that we have and industry contacts which place them in a better position to generate new business. Further, our financial position, our lack of executive personnel and our inability to generate revenue from our portfolio can be used against us by our competitors. We cannot assure you that we will be successful in obtaining intellectual property rights to new developing technologies.

 

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As intellectual property enforcement litigation becomes more prevalent, it may become more difficult for us to voluntarily license our intellectual property.We believe that the more prevalent intellectual property enforcement actions become, the more difficult it will be for us to voluntarily license our intellectual property rights. As a result, we may need to increase the number of our intellectual property enforcement actions to cause infringing companies to license the intellectual property or pay damages for lost royalties.

 

Weak global economic conditions may cause potential licensees to delay entering into licensing agreements, which could prolong our litigation and adversely affect our financial condition and operating results. Our business depends significantly on strong economic conditions that would encourage potential licensees to enter into license agreements for our intellectual property rights. The United States and world economies have recently experienced weak economic conditions. Uncertainty about global economic conditions poses a risk as businesses may postpone spending in response to tighter credit, negative financial news and declines in income or asset values. This response could have a material adverse effect on the willingness of parties infringing on our assets to enter into settlements or other revenue generating agreements voluntarily.

 

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If we are unable to adequately protect our intellectual property, we may not be able to compete effectively. Our ability to compete depends in part upon the strength of the intellectual property and intellectual property rights that we own or may hereafter acquire in our technologies, brands and content and our ability to protect such intellectual property rights. We rely on a combination of patent and intellectual property laws and agreements to establish and protect our patent, intellectual property and other proprietary rights. The efforts we take to protect our patents, intellectual property and other proprietary rights may not be sufficient or effective at stopping unauthorized use of our patents, intellectual property and other proprietary rights. In addition, effective trademark, patent, copyright and trade secret protection may not be available or cost-effective in every country in which we have rights. There may be instances where we are not able to protect or utilize our patent and other intellectual property in a manner that maximizes competitive advantage. If we are unable to protect our patent assets and intellectual property and other proprietary rights from unauthorized use, the value of those assets may be reduced, which could negatively impact our business. Our inability to obtain appropriate protections for our intellectual property may also allow competitors to enter our markets and produce or sell the same or similar products as those covered by our intellectual property rights. In addition, protecting our intellectual property and intellectual property rights is expensive and diverts our critical and limited managerial resources. If any of the foregoing were to occur, or if we are otherwise unable to protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights, our business and financial results could be impaired. If it becomes necessary for us to commence legal proceedings to enforce our intellectual property rights, the proceedings could be burdensome and expensive. In addition, our intellectual property rights could be at risk if we are unsuccessful in, or cannot afford to pursue, those proceedings. We also rely on trade secrets and contract law to protect some of our intellectual property rights. We will enter into confidentiality and invention agreements with our employees and consultants. Nevertheless, these agreements may not be honored and they may not effectively protect our right to our un-patented trade secrets and know-how. Moreover, others may independently develop substantially equivalent proprietary information and techniques or otherwise gain access to our trade secrets and know-how.

 

Risks Concerning our Common Stock

 

If we do not increase our authorized common stock, the notes we issued to United Wireless will become convertible at a conversion price equal to 90% of the market price of the stock on the date the holder of the notes gives notice of conversion. The notes that we issued to United Wireless are not presently convertible, and they become convertible upon certain events of default, including our failure to increase our authorized common stock to 1,250,000,000 shares. If the notes become convertible, the holders of the notes can convert the notes in part from time to time at 90% of the market price at the time of conversion. The ability, or the potential ability, of the holder to convert the notes into common stock at a price which is less than the market price on the date of conversion could result in significant downward pressure on the price of our common stock. If the notes become convertible, the possible additional dilution resulting from the issuance of shares of common stock on conversion of the notes, together with the below market conversion price, could result in continued downward pressure on our stock price until the notes are paid in full. Further, even if we increase our authorized common stock to 1,250,000,000 shares, the possibility that the notes may become convertible in the future could also have a negative impact on the market price of our common stock.

If the notes issued to United Wireless become convertible, we may not have sufficient authorized common stock to enable us to fulfill our obligation to issue common stock on conversion of the notes. Because there is no fixed conversion price, it is possible that, even if our stockholders approve an amendment to our certificate of incorporation to increase our authorized common stock to 1,250,000 shares, we cannot assure you that we will continue to have sufficient shares of authorized common stock to permit conversion. Although we have an obligation to increase our authorized common stock further in the event that 1,250,000,000 authorized shares are not sufficient, we cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain stockholder approval of such an increase. The failure to be able to deliver common stock on conversion would be a further default under the notes and could result in our obligation to pay damages to the note holders.

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There is a limited market for our common stock, which may make it difficult for you to sell your stock. Our common stock trades on the OTC Pink marketplaceOTCQB market under the symbol “QPRC.” The OTC Pink market is not a national securities exchange and does not provide the benefits to stockholders which a national exchange provides. Furthermore, according to the OTC Markets website, the OTC Pink “is for all types of companies that are there by reasons of default, distress or design, which is why they are further segmented based on the level of information that they provide.” There is a limited trading market for our common stock and there are frequently days on which there is no trading in our common stock. Our common stock has frequently traded for less than $0.01 for almost all trading days since prior to January 1, 2013.$0.01. Accordingly, there can be no assurance as to the liquidity of any markets that may develop for our common stock, the ability of holders of our common stock to sell our common stock, or the prices at which holders may be able to sell our common stock. Further, because of the thin float, the reported bid and asked prices may have little relationship to the price you would pay if you wanted to buy shares or the price you would receive if you wanted to sell shares.  One of the standards for continued eligibility on the OTCQB is that the stock must maintain a minimum closing bid price of $0.01 per share on at least one of the prior thirty consecutive calendar days. Our common stock was recently delisted from the OTCQB for failure to meet the minimum stock price requirement. We cannot assure you that we will continue to be eligible for trading on the OTCQB.

 

Because our common stock is a penny stock, you may have difficulty selling our common stock in the secondary trading market. Our common stock fits the definition of a penny stock and therefore is subject to the rules adopted by the SEC regulating broker-dealer practices in connection with transactions in penny stocks. The SEC rules may have the effect of reducing trading activity in our common stock making it more difficult for investors to purchase and sell their shares. The SEC’s rules require a broker or dealer proposing to effect a transaction in a penny stock to deliver the customer a risk disclosure document that provides certain information prescribed by the SEC, including, but not limited to, the nature and level of risks in the penny stock market. The broker or dealer must also disclose the aggregate amount of any compensation received or receivable by him in connection with such transaction prior to consummating the transaction. In addition, the SEC’s rules also require a broker or dealer to make a special written determination that the penny stock is a suitable investment for the purchaser and receive the purchaser’s written agreement to the transaction before completion of the transaction. The existence of the SEC’s rules may result in a lower trading volume of our common stock and lower trading prices. Further, some broker-dealers will not process transactions in penny stocks. Many brokers do not trade in penny stocks and stock that are not listed on a stock exchange.

 

Our lack of internal controls over financial reporting may affect the market for and price of our common stock. Our disclosure controls and our internal controls over financial reporting are not effective. Since we became engaged in the intellectual property management business in 2008, we have not had the financial resources or personnel to develop or implement systems that would provide us with the necessary information on a timely basis so as to be able to implement financial controls. Our continued poor financial condition together with the fact that we have one full time employee, who is both our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, makes it difficult for us to implement a system of internal controls over financial reporting, and we cannot assure you that we will be able to develop and implement the necessary controls. The absence of internal controls over financial reporting may inhibit investors from purchasing our shares and may make it more difficult for us to raise debt or equity financing.

 

Our lack of a full-time chief financial officer could affect our ability to develop financial controls, which could affect the market price for our common stock. We do not have a full-time chief financial officer. At present, our chief executive officer, who does not have an accounting background, is also acting as our chief financial officer. We do not anticipate that we will be able to hire a qualified chief financial officer untilunless our financial condition has improvedimproves significantly. The lack of an experienced chief financial officer, together with our lack of internal controls, may impair our ability to raise money through a debt or equity financing, the market for our common stock and our ability to enter into agreements with owners of intellectual property rights.

 

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Our stock price may be volatile and your investment in our common stock could suffer a decline in value. As of November 30, 2015,the date of this prospectus, there has only been limited trading activity in our common stock. There can be no assurance that any significant market will ever develop in our common stock in the future.stock. Because of the low public float and the absence of any significant trading volume, the reported prices may not reflect the price at which you would be able to sell shares if you want to sell any shares you own or buy shares if you wish to buy share. Further, stocks with a low public float may be more subject to manipulation than a stock that has a significant public float. The price may fluctuate significantly in response to a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control. These factors include, but are not limited to, the following, in addition to the risks described above and general market and economic conditions:

 

 our low stock price, which may result in a modest dollar purchase or sale of our common stock having a disproportionately large effect on the stock price;

 the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response to the pandemic on the market both generally and on penny stock;

 the market’s perception as to our ability to generate positive cash flow or earnings from our intellectual property portfolios;

 changes in our or securities analysts’ estimate of our financial performance;

 

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 our ability or perceived ability to obtain necessary financing for operations and for the monetization of our intellectual property rights;

 the market’s perception of the effects of legislation or court decisions on our business;

 the market’s perception that a defendant may obtain a judgement against a subsidiary and foreclose on the intellectual property of the subsidiary, which may result in a default under our agreement with United Wireless;

 the effects or perceived effects of the potential convertibility of convertible notes issued by us;

 the results or anticipated results of litigation by or against us;

 the anticipated or actual results of our operations;

 events or conditions relating to the enforcement of intellectual property rights generally;

 changes in market valuations of other intellectual property marketing companies;

 any discrepancy between anticipated or projected results and actual results of our operations;

 the market’s perception or our ability to continue to make our filings with the SEC in a timely manner;

 actions by third parties to either sell or purchase stock in quantities which would have a significant effect on our stock price; and

 other matters not within our control.

 

Legislation, court decisions and other factors affecting enforcement of intellectual property rights may affect the price of our stock. Court rulings in intellectual property enforcement actions and new legislation or proposed legislation are often difficult to understand, even when favorable or neutral to the value of our intellectual property rights and our overall business. Investors and market analysts may react without a full understanding of these matters, causing fluctuations in our stock prices that may not accurately reflect the impact of court rulings, legislation, proposed legislation or other developments on our business operations and assets.

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Raising funds by issuing equity or convertible debt securities could dilute the value of the common stock and impose restrictions on our working capital. If we were to raise additional capital by issuing equity securities, either alone or in connection with a non-equity financing, the value of the then outstanding common stock could decline. If the additional equity securities were issued at a per share price less than the per share value of the outstanding shares, which is customary in the private placement of equity securities, the holders of the outstanding shares would suffer a dilution in value with the issuance of such additional shares. Because of the low price of our stock and our working capital deficiency, the dilution to our stockholders could be significant. We may have difficulty in raising funds through the sale of debt securities because of both our financial position, the lack of any collateral on which a lender may place a value, and the absence of any history of significant monetizing of our intellectual property rights. If we are able to raise funds from the sale of debt securities, the lenders may impose restrictions on our operations and may impair our working capital as we service any such debt obligations.

 

Our failure to have filed reports with the SEC may impair the market for and the value of our common stock and may result in liability to us. We did not file reports with the SEC from 2003 until December 2014. We filed our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 on December 15, 2014 and2014; our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 on April 10, 2014.2015; and our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014 on August 18, 2015. Our failure to have made such filings may affect both the market for our common stock and the value of our common stock as well as the willingness of investors to purchase our stock. Further, because we did not have current information concerning our business and operations available, we have potential liability resulting from our failure to have been current in our SEC filings, and the SEC has broad power to take action against us for our failure to have been in compliance with the reporting requirement of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the SEC permits an issuer to file an omnibus 10-K covering the periods for which filings were not made, the SEC is not foreclosed from seeking enforcement action for our filing delinquencies. Any such action could have a material adverse effect upon us and the market for and price of our common stock. 

 

If our stockholders approve our amended and restated certificate of incorporation,Because we will have a classified board of directors, whichit may make itbe more difficult for a third party to obtain control of us. Our boardAs a result of directors has approved, subject to stockholderthe approval anby our stockholders of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, which, among other changes from our present certificateboard of incorporation, provides fordirectors is a classified board, which means that at each annual meeting, the stockholder will vote for only one-third of the board. A classified board of directors may make it more difficult for a third party of gain control of us which may affect the opportunity of our stockholders to receive any potential benefit which could be available from any.a third party seeking to obtain control over us. 

 

We do not intend to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. We have not paid any cash dividends on our common stock and do not intend to pay cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.

 

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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This prospectus contains “forward-looking statements,” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, all of which are subject to risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “expects,” “plans,” “will,” “forecasts,” “projects,” “intends,” “estimates,” and other words of similar meaning. You can identify them by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. These statements are likely to address our growth strategy, financial results and product and development programs. You must carefully consider any such statements and should understand that many factors could cause actual results to differ from our forward-looking statements. These factors may include inaccurate assumptions and a broad variety of other risks and uncertainties, including some that are known and some that are not. No forward looking statement can be guaranteed and actual future results may vary materially.

 

These risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, include, and are not limited to:

 

 Our ability to generate revenue from our intellectual property rights, including our ability to license our intellectual property rights and our ability to be successful in any litigation which we may commence in order to seek to monetize our intellectual property rights;

 Our ability or perceived ability to obtain necessary financing for operations and for the monetization of our intellectual property rights;

 Our ability to negotiate a revised payment schedule with Intellectual Ventures affiliates with respect to delinquent payments due under patent purchase agreements, failing which two of our subsidiaries may have to seek protection under the Bankruptcy Act if the sellers seek to exercise their remedies under the patent purchase agreements;

Our ability remain current with respect to our obligations under patent purchase agreements, the failure of which could result in a default under our agreement with QFL or, even if there is no default, may affect the willingness of QFL to make advances to us under the funding agreement;

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on our ability to generate revenue from our intellectual property; including reduced court schedules which give a lower priority to legal action such as those we file and the ability or willingness of defendants to reach a settlement on our claims, and impairment in the financial condition or bankruptcy of defendants and potential defendants in action which we commenced or may commence;

 Our ability to generate sufficient proceeds from our intellectual property rights to enable us to pay the promissory notes we issued in connectionrealize any cash flow after payments to our funding sources, including Quest Finance LLC (“QFL”) under our financing agreement with QFL, Intelligent Partners, LLC (“Intelligent Partners”) under our purchase of patent rights in October 2015;restructure agreement, and payments due to counsel;

 Our ability to obtain litigation funding to enable us to seek to protect ouridentify intellectual property rights, particularly our recently-acquiredwhich QFL is willing to fund and to find other funding sources if QFL is not willing to fund the acquisition of the intellectual property rights, through litigation when necessary;property;

 Our ability or perceived ability to obtain necessary financing for operations;

 Our ability to identify and negotiate purchase terms of intellectual property that QFL is willing to fund the litigation pursuant to our agreements with QFL;

Our ability to identify and acquire intellectual property rights for innovative technologies for which there is a significant potential market;
Ourmarket, including our ability to recoup any investment which we may makenegotiate to acquire or generate revenue from intellectual property rights;obtain such rights in view of the economic effects COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting business closures;
Our ability to identify new intellectual property and obtain rights to that property;

 The effect of legislation and court decisions onany adverse decision in any action one of our subsidiaries may commence, including the ability to generate revenue from patent and other intellectual property rights;award of legal fees in favor of a defendant, which may result in the bankruptcy of the subsidiary;
Our ability to obtain the funding that we require in order to acquire intellectual property and otherwise develop our business;
Our ability to reduce the cost of litigation through contingent fees with counsel or to obtain third-party financing to enable us to enforce our intellectual property rights through litigation or otherwise;

 The developmenteffects on our business, financial conditions and ownership of a market forproprietary rights in the event of any default under our common stock; andagreements with QFL or Intelligent Partners;

 Our abilityThe market’s perception of the possible sale by QFL or Intellectual Partners of the shares of common stock which we are required to retainregister;

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Any damages we may be required to pay in the event that we do not timely register share common stock to be sold by Intellectual Partners of shares we issued to Intellectual Partners or by QFL upon exercise of warrants we issued to QFL; and

Other matters not within our key executive officers and identify, hire and retain additional key employees.control.

 

In addition, factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in this prospectus, and in particular, the risks discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.Operations, as well as those discussed in other documents we file with the SEC. We undertake no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements, except as required by law. Given these risks and uncertainties, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.

 

Information regarding market and industry statistics contained in this prospectus is included based on information available to us that we believe is accurate. It is generally based on industry and other publications that are not produced for purposes of securities offerings or economic analysis. We have not reviewed or included data from all sources. Forecasts and other forward-looking information obtained from these sources are subject to the same qualifications and the additional uncertainties accompanying any estimates of future market size, revenue and market acceptance of products and services. We do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement. As a result, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.

 

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USE OF PROCEEDS

 

We will not receive any proceeds from the sale by the selling stockholder of their common stock.

 

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SELLING STOCKHOLDERSTOCKHOLDERS

 

The following table sets forth the namenames of the selling stockholder,stockholders, the number of shares of common stock owned beneficially by the selling stockholderstockholders as of November 30, 2015,May 13, 2021, and the number of shares of our common stock that may be offered by the selling stockholderstockholders pursuant to this prospectus. The table and the other information contained under the captions “Selling Stockholder”Stockholders” and “Plan of Distribution” has been prepared based upon information furnished to us by or on behalf of the selling stockholder.stockholders. The following table sets forth, as to the selling stockholder,stockholders, the number of shares beneficially owned, the number of shareshares being sold, the number of shares beneficially owned upon completion of the offering and the percentage beneficial ownership upon completion of the offering.

 

       After Sale of Shares in Offering       After Sale of Shares in Offering 
Name Shares Beneficially Owned Shares Being Sold Shares Beneficially Owned Percent of Outstanding  Shares Beneficially Owned  Shares Being Sold  Shares Beneficially Owned  Percent of Outstanding 
United Wireless Holdings, Inc.1    100,000,0001   100,000,0001  0   0%
QPRC Finance LLC1  96,246,246   50,000,000   46,246,246   4.99%
Andrew C. Fitton2  117,407,407   35,000,000   82,407,407   14.13%
Michael Carper3  78,888,889   15,000,000   63,888,889   10.95%

 

1The shares beneficially owned by QPRC Finance LLC (“QFL”) represent shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of a warrant to purchase 96,246,245 share of common stock, which is subject to increase as provided in the warrant.  The holder of warrant, together with the affiliates of the holder, cannot exercise the warrant to the extent that the number of shares owned by the holder and its affiliates, after giving effect to the issuance upon exercise do not exceed 4.99% of the outstanding common stock.  As of the date of this prospectus, based upon 533,334,630 shares of common stock outstanding, QFL will not be able to exercise the warrant for more than 28,011,154 shares of common stock.  QFL may exercise the warrant for more than that number of shares to the extent that we issue additional shares of common stock or QFL sells shares issued upon such exercise.

1The board of directors of United Wireless, consisting of Andrew C. Fiton and Michael Carper, has the sole right to vote and dispose of the shares owned by United Wireless. The number of shares reflected as owned by United Wireless represents 50,000,000 shares presently owned by United Wireless and 50,000,000 shares issuable pursuant to the purchase option, which becomes exercisable in installments commencing September 30, 2016.

2Represents 67,405,407 shares owned by Mr. Fitton and 50,000,000 shares of common stock issuable pursuant to an option grant held by Intelligent Partners at an exercise price of $0.0054 per share.  Mr. Fitton and Mr. Carper, as the members of Intelligent Partners have the right to vote and dispose of shares owned by Intelligent Partners.

3Represents 28,888,889 shares owned by Mr. Carper and 50,000,000 shares of common stock issuable pursuant to an option grant held by Intelligent Partners, at an exercise price of $0.0054 per share. Mr. Fitton and Mr. Carper, as the members of Intelligent Partners have the right to vote and dispose of shares owned by Intelligent Partners.

 

The selling stockholder doesstockholders do not have, and within the past three years hashave not had, any position, office or material relationship with us or with any of our predecessors or affiliates except as described below.

 

Issuances of Shares to Selling StockholderStockholders

Issuance of Warrant to QFL

On February 22, 2021, we entered into a series of agreements, all dated February 19, 2021,with QFL, including a Prepaid Forward Purchase Agreement pursuant to which QFL agreed to make available to us a financing facility of: (i) up to $25,000,000 for the acquisition of mutually agreed patent rights that the Company intends to monetize; (ii) up to $2,000,000 for operating expenses; and (iii) $1,750,000 to fund the cash payment portion of the restructure of the Company’s obligations to Intelligent Partners LLC (“Intelligent Partners”). These agreements are described under “Business – Agreements with QPRC Finance LLC.” In connection with these agreements, we granted QFL ten-year warrants to purchase a total of up to 96,246,246 shares of our common stock, with an exercise price of $0.0054 per share which may be exercised from February 19, 2021 through February 18, 2031 on a cash or cashless basis. Exercisability of the Warrant is limited if, upon exercise, the holder would beneficially own more than 4.99% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of our common stock, except that by written notice to us, the holder may change the Maximum Percentage to any other percentage not in excess of 9.99% provided any such change will not be effective until the 61st day following notice to us. The warrant also contains certain minimum ownership percentage anti-dilution rights pursuant to which the aggregate number of shares of common stock purchasable upon the initial exercise of the warrant shall not be less than 10% of the aggregate number of outstanding shares of our capital stock (determined on a fully diluted basis).

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Pursuant to the QFL Board Observation Rights Agreement, until the later of the date on which QFL or its affiliates (i) have received the entirety of their Investment Return (as defined in Purchase Agreement), and (ii) no longer hold any Securities, we granted QFL the right, exercisable at any time during the Observation Period, to appoint a representative to attend meetings (including, without limitation, telephonic or other electronic meetings) of our board of directors and any committee thereof, including executive sessions, in an observer capacity.

Issuance of shares to Andrew Fitton and Michael Carper

 

Pursuant to thea securities purchase agreement dated October 22, 2015, between United Wireless and us:

Weus and certain of our subsidiaries, we sold 50,000,000 shares of common stock to United Wireless forat $0.005 per share, or an aggregate of $250,000.

We granted The shares were issued in connection a financing to provide us with funds to purchase intellectual property rights, and United Wireless an optionsubsequently made additional advances to us for the purchase a total of 50,000,000 shares of common stock, with exercise prices of $0.01 per share as to 16,666,667 shares, which may be exercised from September 30, 2016 throughintellectual property rights. At September 30, 2020, $0.03 per share as to 16,666,667 shares, which may be exercised from September 30, 2017 through September 30, 2020, and $0.05 per share as to 16,666,666 shares, which may be exercised from September 30, 2018 through September 30, 2020.

We issued to United Wireless our 10% promissory note due September 30, 2020notes in the principal amount of $1,250,000, for which we received $1,250,000, of which $1,000,000 was paid to Intellectual Ventures as the initial $1,000,000 payment of the purchase price of the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures.

$4,672,810 were outstanding. United Wireless agreedassigned the shares to make loansMr. Fitton (35,000,000 shares) and Mr. Carper (15,000,000 shares) and assigned the promissory notes to us for paymentIntelligent Partners, LLC, which is an affiliate of the secondUnited Wireless and third $1,000,000 paymentsis owned by Mr. Fitton and Mr. Carper. The notes became due to Intellectual Venturesby their terms on September 30, 20162020, and 2017, regardlesswe did not make any payment on account of whetherprincipal of and interest on the notes at that date. As a result, Intelligent Partners had the right to declare a default under the notes, and, if Intelligent Partners had taken such action, it would have been necessary for us to seek protection under the Bankruptcy Act. Subsequent to September 30, 2020, we areengaged in compliancenegotiations with Intelligent Partners in parallel with our negotiations with QFL, with a view to restructuring our obligations under the securities purchase agreement or the other agreements with United Wireless. United Wireless hasagreements, including the right to make such payments directly to Intellectual Ventures.

United Wireless agreed to make working capital loans to us, subject to our meeting standard closing conditions, in the aggregate amount of $1,000,000 in eight quarterly loans of $125,000, commencing September 30, 2016.

We entered into a monetization proceeds agreement pursuant to which United wireless received the right to receive 15% of the net monetization proceeds received from (i) the patents acquired by us from Intellectual Ventures and (ii) the patents in our mobile data and financial data intellectual property portfolios.

Our obligations under our agreements with United Wireless, including ournotes, so that we no longer had any obligations under the notes or the securities purchase agreement. These negotiations resulted in a Restructure Agreement dated February 22, 2021 pursuant to which we paid Intelligent Partners $1,750,000 from the proceeds from our agreements with QFL. The Restructure Agreement and the related agreements are described under “Business- Restructure Agreement with Intelligent Partners. Pursuant to the Restructure Agreement, Intelligent Partners assigned $250,000 of the note to Mr. Fitton and Mr. Carper, who converted the note into 46,296,296 shares of common stock, of which 32,407,407 shares were issued to Mr. Fitton and 13,888,889 shares issued to Mr. Carper, and we granted to Intellectual Partners an option, expiring at September 30, 2025, to purchase 50,000,000 shares at $0.0054 per share. Pursuant to the Intelligent Partners Board Observation Rights Agreement, we granted Intelligent Partners the right until we have made payments pursuant to restructure agreement and the monetization proceeds agreement, are secured byagreements totaling $2,805,000 to appoint a pledgerepresentative to attend meetings of the stockboard of the three subsidiaries that hold the intellectual property acquired from Intellectual Venturesdirectors and by the proceeds from the intellectual property represented by (i) the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and (ii) the intellectual propertyany committee thereof, including executive sessions, in the mobile data and financial data portfolios.an observer capacity.

 

Our agreements with United Wireless are described in greater detail under “Business – Agreements with United Wireless.”

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

 

The selling stockholderstockholders and any of itstheir pledgees, donees, assignees and successors-in-interest may, from time to time, sell any or all of their shares of common stock on any stock exchange, market or trading facility on which the shares are traded or in private transactions or by gift. These salesThe shares offered by this prospectus may be madesold by the selling stockholders at fixed or negotiatedmarket prices that may or may not be related to the market priceprevailing at the time. Subject to the foregoing, thetime of sale or at negotiated prices. The selling stockholderstockholders may use any one or more of the following methods when selling or otherwise transferring shares:

 

 ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker-dealer solicits purchasers;

 block trades in which a broker-dealer will attempt to sell the shares as agent but may purchase a position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction;

 

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 sales to a broker-dealer as principal and the resale by the broker-dealer of the shares for its account;

 an exchange distribution in accordance with the rules of the applicable exchange if we are listed on an exchange at the time of sale;

 privately negotiated transactions, including gifts;

 covering short sales made after the date of this prospectus;

 pursuant to an arrangement or agreement with a broker-dealer to sell a specified number of such shares at a stipulated price per share;

 a combination of any such methods of sale; and

 any other method of sale permitted pursuant to applicable law.

 

To the extent permitted under Rule 144, the selling stockholderstockholders may also sell the shares owned by itthem pursuant to Rule 144.144 rather than pursuant to this prospectus.

 

Broker-dealers engaged by the selling stockholderstockholders may arrange for other brokers dealersbroker-dealers to participate in sales. Broker-dealers may receive commissions or discounts from the selling stockholderstockholders (or, if any broker-dealer acts as agent for the purchaser of shares, from the purchaser) in amounts to be negotiated. The selling stockholder doesstockholders do not expect these commissions and discounts to exceed what is customary in the types of transactions involved. TheNone of the selling stockholderstockholders is not an affiliate of any broker-dealer.

 

The selling stockholderstockholders may from time to time pledge or grant a security interest in some or all of the shares owned by itthem and, if the selling stockholder defaultsstockholders default in the performance of the secured obligations, the pledgees or secured parties may offer and sell the shares of common stock from time to time under this prospectus, or under an amendment to this prospectus under Rule 424(b)(3) or other applicable provision of the Securities Act of 1933 amending the list of selling stockholderstockholders to include the pledgee, transferee or other successors in interest as selling stockholder under this prospectus.

 

In connection with the sale of our common stock or interests therein, the selling stockholderstockholders may enter into hedging transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions which may in turn engage in short sales of our common stock in the course of hedging the positions they assume. The selling stockholderstockholders may, after the date of this prospectus, also sell shares of our common stock short and deliver these securities to close out their short positions, or loanlend or pledge their common stock to broker-dealers that in turn may sell these securities. The selling stockholderstockholders may also enter into option or other transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions or the creation of one or more derivative securities which require the delivery to such broker-dealer or other financial institution of shares offered by this prospectus, which shares such broker-dealer or other financial institution may resell pursuant to this prospectus (as supplemented or amended to reflect such transaction).

 

The selling stockholderstockholders also may transfer the shares of common stock in other circumstances, in which case the transferees, pledgees or other successors in interest will be the selling beneficial owners for purposes of this prospectus.

 

The selling stockholderstockholders and any broker-dealers or agents that are involved in selling the shares may be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of the Securities Act in connection with such sales. In such event, they will be subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act, any commissions received by such broker-dealers or agents and any profit on the resale of the shares purchased by them may be deemed to be underwriting commissions or discounts under the Securities Act, and federal securities laws, including Regulation M, may restrict the timing of purchases and sales of our common stock by the selling stockholderstockholders and any other persons who are involved in the distribution of the shares of common stock pursuant to this prospectus. The selling stockholder hasstockholders have informed us that it doesthey do not have any agreement or understanding, directly or indirectly, with any person to distribute the common stock.

 

We may be required to amend or supplement this prospectus in the event that (a) a selling stockholder transfers securities under conditions which require the purchaser or transferee to be named in the prospectus as a selling stockholder, in which case we will be required to amend or supplement this prospectus to name the selling stockholder, or (b) any one or more selling stockholderstockholders sells stock to an underwriter, in which case we will be required to amend or supplement this prospectus to name the underwriter and the method of sale.

 

We are paying all fees and expenses incident to the registration of the shares. We have agreed to indemnify the selling stockholderstockholders against certain losses, claims, damages and liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.

 

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MARKET FOR COMMON STOCK AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

 

Our common stock trades on the OTC Pink marketOTCQB Market under the symbol QPRC.  The following table sets forth the range of quarterly high and low closing prices of our common stock as reported during 2013, 2014 and 2015, through November 30, 2015, based on information on the OTC Markets website. These pricesAny over-the-counter market quotations reflect inter-dealer quotations, do not includeprices, without retail markups, markdownsmark-up, mark-down or commissionscommission and domay not necessarily reflectrepresent actual transactions.

 

  2013  2014  2015 
  High  Low  High  Low  High  Low 
First quarter $0.0025  $0.0010  $0.0047  $0.0010  $0.0047  $0.0020 
Second quarter  0.0023   0.0009   0.0205   0.0023   0.0045   0.0022 
Third quarter  0.0097   0.0011   0.0064   0.0028   0.0046   0.0024 
Fourth quarter*  0.0035   0.0010   0.0075   0.0010   0.0068   0.0023 

*The information for the fourth quarter of 2015 is through November 30, 2015.

Stockholders of Record

 

As of November 24, 2015,April 13, 2021, we had 457426 stockholders of record of our common stock.

 

Transfer Agent

 

The transfer agent for the common stock is Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, 17 Battery Place,One State Street, 30th floor, New York, NY 10004, telephone (212) 509-4000.New York 10004-1561 is the transfer agent for our common stock.

 

Dividend PolicyDividends

 

We have not paid any cash dividends to date and we do not anticipate or contemplate paying dividends in the nearforeseeable future. It is the present intention of management to utilize all available funds for the development of our business.

 

BUSINESSSecurities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Agreements

 

The following table gives information concerning common stock that may be issued upon the exercise of options granted to certain officers, directors and consultants under their respective individual compensation agreements with us as of December 31, 2020.

Equity Compensation Agreements Information
Plan categoryNumber of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights
(#)
Weighted- average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights
($)
Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans (excluding securities reflected in column (a)
(#)
As of December 31, 2020
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders         —$         —
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders (1)$80,000,000
Total$80,000,000

A summary of the status of our equity grants and changes is set forth below:

(1)On November 10, 2017, the board of directors adopted the 2017 Equity Incentive Plan pursuant to which we can issue up to 150,000,000 shares of common stock pursuant to non-qualified stock options, restricted stock grants and other equity-based incentives. At December 31, 2020, 80,000,000 shares are available under the plan.

No warrants or options were granted or exercised in 2020. 

On February 19, 2021, the board of directors amended the 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) increasing the shares the Company can issue under the plan to 500,000,000 shares of common stock pursuant to non-qualified stock options, restricted stock grants and other equity-based incentives, and the amendment to the Plan became effective upon the closing of the agreements with QFL, which was February 22, 2021. In connection with the increase in the shares of common stock issuable pursuant to the plan, the board;

granted restricted stock grants for 10,000,000 share, which vested immediately, to each of three consultants pursuant to agreements with the consultants;

granted restricted stock grants for a total of 69,000,000 shares to our directors, Jon C. Scahill (49,000,000 shares), Timothy J. Scahill (10,000,000 shares) and Dr. William R. Carroll (10,000,000 shares) as compensation for services rendered;

granted a restricted stock grant to Ryan T. Logue for 5,000,000 shares upon his acceptance of his appointment as a director;

granted ten-year non-qualified stock options to purchase 30,000,000 shares to each of three consultants pursuant to agreements with the consultants, the options to vest as provided in their agreements;

granted a ten-year non-qualified stock option to purchase 60,000,000 shares to Jon C. Scahill, which vest in installments as described under “Management -- 2017 Equity Incentive Plan.”

Recent sales of unregistered securities.

We did not sell any unregistered securities during since the beginning of the year ended December 31, 2020 other than issuances that were reported in our SEC filings.

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BUSINESS

Overview

 

We are an intellectual property asset management company. Our principal operations include the development, acquisition, licensing and enforcement of intellectual property rights that are either owned or controlled by us or one of our wholly ownedwholly-owned subsidiaries. We currently own, control or manage eighttwelve intellectual property portfolios, which principally consist of patent rights. Our eighttwelve intellectual property portfolios include the three portfolios which we acquired in October 2015 from Intellectual Ventures.Ventures Assets 16, LLC (“Intellectual Ventures”) and seven of its affiliates. As part of our intellectual property asset management activities and in the ordinary course of our business, it has been necessary for us or the intellectual property owner who we represent to initiate, and it is likely to continue to be necessary to initiate, patent infringement lawsuits and engage in patent infringement litigation. We anticipate that our primary source of revenue will come from the grant of licenses to use our intellectual property, primarilyincluding licenses granted as part of the settlement of patent infringement lawsuits. 

We also generate revenue from two sources:

Patent licensing fees relating to our intellectual property portfolio, which includes fees from the licensing of our intellectual property, primarily from litigation relating to enforcement of our intellectual property rights.

Licensed packaging sales, which relate to the sale of licensed products, which have not constituted a significant source of revenue and was not a source of revenue in 2020.

We previously received management fees fromfor managing litigation related to our intellectual property portfolios.rights. We do not currently receive these fees; we do not have any agreements that provide for such payments and we cannot assure you that we will generate revenue from such fees in the future. Our agreement with QFL does not provide for any payment to us of management fees.

 

Intellectual property monetization includes the generation of revenue and proceeds from the licensing of patents, patented technologies and other intellectual property rights. Patent litigation is often a necessary element of intellectual property monetization where a patent owner, or a representative of the patent owner, seeks to protect its patent rights against the unlicensed manufacture, sale, and use of the owner’s patent rights or products which incorporate the owner’s patent rights. In general, we seek to monetize the bundle of rights granted by the patents through structured licensing and when necessary enforcement of those rights through litigation, although to date all of our patent license revenues have resulted from the settlement of litigation.

 

We intend to develop our business by acquiring intellectual property rights, either in the form of ownership of or an exclusive license to the underlying intellectual property. Our goal is to enter into agreements with inventors or owners of innovative technologies for which we believe there may be a significant market for products which use or incorporate the intellectual property. We seek to purchase all of, or interests in, intellectual property in exchange for cash, securities of our company, the formation or a joint venture or separate subsidiary in which the owner has an equity interest, and/or interests in the monetization of those assets. Our revenue from this aspect of our business can be generated through licensing and, when necessary, litigation efforts as well as intellectual property management fees.which is typically the case, litigation. We engage in due diligence and a principled risk underwriting process to evaluate the merits and potential value of any acquisition, partnership or joint venture. We seek to structure the terms of our acquisitions in a manner that will achieve the highest risk-adjusted returns possible, in the context of our financial condition. In connection with the acquisition of intellectual property portfolios, we have granted the party providing the financing an interest in any recovery we have with respect to the intellectual property purchased with the financing, and we expect that we will have to continue to grant such interests until and unless we have generated sufficient cash from licensing our intellectual property to enable us to acquire additional intellectual property portfolios without outside financing. However, we cannot assure you that we will ever generate sufficient revenues to enable us to purchase additional intellectual property without third-party financing.

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We employ a due diligence process before completing the acquisition of an intellectual property interest. We begin with an investment thesis supporting the potential transaction and then proceed to test the thesis through an examination of the critical drivers of the value of the underlying intellectual property asset. Such an examination focuses on areas such as title and inventorship issues, the quality of the drafting and prosecution of the intellectual property assets, legal risks inherent in licensing programs generally, the applicability of the invention to the relevant marketplace and other issues such as the effects of venue and other procedural issues. However, our financial position may affect our ability to conduct adequate due diligence with respect to intellectual property rights. This due diligence effort is conducted by our chief executive officer.

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It is frequently necessary to commence litigation in order to obtain a recovery for past infringement of, or to license the use of, our intellectual property rights. Intellectual property litigation is very expensive, with no certainty of any recovery. To the extent possible we seek to engage counsel on a contingent fee or partial contingent fee basis, which significantly reduces our litigation cost, but which would reducealso reduces the value of the recovery to us. We do not have the resources to enable us to fund the cost of litigation. To the extent that we cannot fund litigation ourselves, we may enter into an agreement with a third party, which may be the patent owner or the former patent owner who transferred the patent rights to us, or an independent third party. In view of our limited cash and our working capital deficiency, we are not able to institute any monetization program that may require litigation unless we engage counsel on a fully-contingentfully contingent basis or we obtain funding from third party funding sources. In these cases, either counsel ismay be afforded a greater participation in the recovery orand the third party that funds the cost of the litigation would be entitled to participate in theany recovery.

 

Recent Developments

Set forth below is a discussion of recent agreements which we entered into with QFL to provide us with a financing facility, funds to make a payment due to Intellectual Partners and for working capital and an agreement with Intellectual Partners to restructure our loan agreement and related agreements. The agreement with Intellectual Partners restated our agreements with United Wireless Holdings, Inc. (“United Wireless”) which had been assigned to Intellectual Partners, an affiliate of United Wireless. The descriptions below and elsewhere in this prospectus relating to our agreements with QFL and Intelligent Partners are summaries only and are qualified in their entirety by reference to those agreements which are filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

Agreements with QPRC Finance LLC

On February 22, 2021, we entered into a series of agreements, all dated February 19, 2021,with QFL, including a prepaid forward purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), a security agreement (the “Security Agreement”), a subsidiary security agreement (the “Subsidiary Security Agreement”), a subsidiary guaranty (the “Subsidiary Guarantee”), a warrant issue agreement (the “Warrant Issue Agreement”), a registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) and a board observation rights agreement (the “Board Observation Rights Agreement” together with the Security Agreement, the Subsidiary Guaranty, the Subsidiary Security Agreement, Warrant Issuance Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement and the Purchase Agreement, the “Investment Documents”) pursuant to which, at the closing held contemporaneously with the execution of the agreements:

(i)Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, QFL agreed to make available to us a financing facility of: (a) up to $25,000,000 for the acquisition of mutually agreed patent rights that we intend to monetize; (b) up to $2,000,000 for operating expenses; and (iii) $1,750,000 to fund the cash payment portion of the restructure of our obligations to Intelligent Partners. In return we transferred to QFL a right to receive a portion of net proceeds generated from the monetization of those patents. The terms of the Purchase Agreement are described under “Purchase Agreement.”

(ii)We used $1,750,000 of proceeds from the QFL financing as the cash payment portion of the restructure of our obligations to Intelligent Partners as transferee of United Wireless Holdings, Inc. (“United Wireless”) pursuant to a restructure agreement (the “Restructure Agreement”) between us and the Company and Intelligent Partners executed contemporaneously with the closing of the Investment Documents. The payment was made directly from QFL to Intelligent Partners. The terms of the Restructure Agreement are described under “Restructure Agreement.” We also requested and received in March 2021 $400,000 for working capital.

(iii)Pursuant to the Security Agreement, our obligations under the Purchase Agreement with QFL are secured by: (a) the proceeds (as defined in the Purchase Agreement); (b) the patents (as defined in the Purchase Agreement; (c) all general intangibles now or hereafter arising from or related to the foregoing (a) and (b); and (d) proceeds (including, without limitation, cash proceeds and insurance proceeds) and products of the foregoing (a)-(c).

(iv)Pursuant to the Subsidiary Guaranty, eight of our subsidiaries – Quest Licensing Corporation (“QLC”), Quest NetTech Corporation (“NetTech”), Mariner IC Inc. (“Mariner”), Semcon IP Inc. (“Semcon”), IC Kinetics Inc. (“IC”), CXT Systems Inc. (“CXT”), M-Red Inc. (“MRED”), and Audio Messaging Inc.(“AMI”), collectively, the “Subsidiary Guarantors”) guaranteed our obligations to QFL under the Purchase Agreement.

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(v)Pursuant to the Subsidiary Security Agreement, the Subsidiary Guarantors grant QFL a security interest in the proceeds from the future monetization of their respective patent portfolios.

(vi)Pursuant to the Warrant Issue Agreement, we granted QFL ten-year warrants to purchase a total of up to 96,246,246 shares of our common stock, with an exercise price of $0.0054 per share which may be exercised from February 19, 2021 through February 18, 2031on a cash or cashless basis. Exercisability of the Warrant is limited if, upon exercise, the holder would beneficially own more than 4.99% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of our common stock, except that by written notice to us, the holder may change the Maximum Percentage to any other percentage not in excess of 9.99% provided any such change will not be effective until the 61st day following notice to us. The Warrant also contains certain minimum ownership percentage antidilution rights pursuant to which the aggregate number of shares of common stock purchasable upon the initial exercise of the Warrant shall not be less than 10% of the aggregate number of outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company (determined on a fully diluted basis). A portion of any gain from sale of the shares, net of taxes and costs of exercise, realized prior to the completion of all monetization activities shall be credited against the total return due to QFL pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.

(vii)We agreed to take all commercially reasonable steps necessary to regain compliance with the OTCQB eligibility standards as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 12 months from the closing date.

(viii)We granted QFL certain registration rights with respect to the 96,246,246 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant.

(ix)Commencing six months from the closing date, if the shares owned by QFL cannot be sold pursuant to a registration statement and cannot be sold pursuant to Rule 144 without the Company being in compliance with the current public information requirements of Rule 144, if the Company is not in compliance with the current public information requirements, the Company is required to pay damages to QFL.

(x)Pursuant to the Board Observation Rights Agreement, until the later of the date on which QFL or its affiliates (i) have received the entirety of their Investment Return (as defined in Purchase Agreement), and (ii) no longer hold any Securities (the “Observation Period”), we granted QFL the right, exercisable at any time during the Observation Period, to appoint a representative to attend meetings (including, without limitation, telephonic or other electronic meetings) of the Board or any committee thereof, including executive sessions, in an observer capacity.

Purchase Agreement

Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, QFL agreed to make available to us a financing facility of: (i) up to $25,000,000 for the acquisition of mutually agreed patent rights that we intend to monetize; (ii) up to $2,000,000 for operating expenses from which we may, at our discretion, draw up to $200,000 per calendar quarter; and (iii) $1,750,000 to fund the cash payment portion of the restructure of our obligations to Intelligent Partners. In return we transferred to QFL the right to receive a portion of net proceeds generated from the monetization of those patents. After QFL has a negotiated rate of return, we and QFL shall share net proceeds equally until QFL shall have achieved its Investment Return (as defined therein). Thereafter, we shall retain 100% of all net proceeds. Except in an Event of Default, as defined therein, all payments by the Company to QFL pursuant to the Purchase Agreement are non-recourse and shall be paid only if and after net proceeds from monetization of the patent rights owned or acquire by the Company are received, or to be received.

Events of Default include any breach of the Investment Documents, including non-payment, material misrepresentation, security interest compromise, criminal indictment or felony conviction of one or our officers or directors, our current chief executive no longer serving as our chief executive or as a director, the occurrence of any Event of Default under the Restructure Agreement with Intelligent Partners, as defined therein, and our insolvency. In addition to all rights and remedies available under law and the Investment Documents, upon and Event of Default, QFL may: (i) declare the Investment Return immediately due and payable, (ii) except in the event of our insolvency, declare an amount equal to the aggregate amount of the capital provided pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, plus a late charge, immediately due and payable, or (iii) cease making capital available to us.

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Under the agreement, QFL may terminate capital advances other than in an Event of Default by giving written notice to us in which case QFL’s interest in Net Proceeds shall be an amount equal to the greater of (i) the capital advanced to the Company plus interest at the prime rate, on the one hand, and (ii) Net Proceeds received by the QFL prior to the date of such termination.

Grant of Security Interests

Pursuant to the Security Agreement and Subsidiary Security Agreement, payment of the obligations of the Company under the Purchase Agreement with QFL are secured by (i) the Proceeds (as defined in the Purchase Agreement); (ii) the Patents; (iii) all General Intangibles now or hereafter arising from or related to the foregoing; (iv) Proceeds (including, without limitation, Cash Proceeds and insurance proceeds) and products of the foregoing and (v) the proceeds realized by the relative patent portfolios of the Subsidiary Guarantors. The security interest in proceeds from the CXT and M-Red patents granted to QFL is junior to the security interest held by the respective affiliates of Intellectual Ventures granted to secure the obligations of CXT and MRED pursuant to their applicable patent purchase agreements.

Registration Rights Agreement

Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, we agreed to file a registration statement with the SEC covering 50,000,000 of the 96,246,246 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrant. We are required to file the registration statement by the second business day following the earlier of (x) the date on which the Company is next required to file its financial statements on Form 10-K or Form 10-Q under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and (y) the date on which the Company actually files its financial statements on Form 10-K or Form 10-Q under the Exchange Act, in each case without regard to any extension pursuant to Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act (the “Initial Filing Deadline”); provided, that, if our common stock is not quoted on an existing trading market for the purpose of conducting an at the market offering under Rule 415 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Initial Filing Deadline shall be no earlier than the second business day following the date on which the QFL provides the Company with written information as to the fixed price at which it plans to offer and sell the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) pursuant to the registration statement. We are also required to file additional Registration Statements (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) on the date 60 days after the date that we receive written notice from any Investor (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) that 60% of the Registrable Securities held by all Investors registered under the immediately preceding registration statement have been sold. The Registration Rights Agreement provides for us to pay damages in the event that we do not meet the required deadlines.

Intercreditor Agreement

In connection with the agreements with QFL and the agreements with Intelligent Partners described below, we and our Subsidiaries entered into an intercreditor agreement with QFL and Intelligent Partners which sets forth the priority of QFL in the collateral under the Investment Documents.

Agreements with Intelligent Partners

Securities Purchase Agreement and Related Agreements with United Wireless

We, together with certain of our subsidiaries, and United Wireless, entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement dated October 22, 2015 (the “SPA”) and related Transaction Documents, as defined therein, pursuant to which the Company sold 50,000,000 shares (the “Shares”) of our common stock, par value $0.00003 per share (the “Common Stock”) at $0.05 per share, or an aggregate of $250,000; we issued our 10% secured convertible promissory notes due September 30, 2020 to United, and granted United an option (the “2015 Purchase Option”) to purchase up to an additional 50,000,000 shares of Common Stock in three tranches at the prices as set forth therein. The 2015 Purchase Option expired unexercised on September 30, 2020. The Shares are currently owned by Andrew C. Fitton (“Fitton”) and Michael Carper (“Carper”) and United Wireless subsequently transferred its note and assigned all of its remaining rights under the agreements to Intelligent Partners, which is an affiliate of United Wireless and is owned by Fitton and Carper. Our agreements with United Wireless, also included various monetization proceeds agreements, which we refer to as MPAs, pursuant to which we granted to Intelligent Partners, as the assignee of United Wireless, rights to the monetization proceeds from revenue generated from certain of our intellectual property, a security agreement and a registration rights agreement.

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At September 30, 2020, promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of $4,672,810 were outstanding. The notes became due by their terms on September 30, 2020, and we did not make any payment on account of principal of and interest on the notes. As a result, Intelligent Partners had the right to declare a default under the Notes, and, if Intelligent Partners had taken such action, it would have been necessary for us to seek protection under the Bankruptcy Act. Subsequent to September 30, 2020, we engaged in negotiations with Intelligent Partners in parallel with our negotiations with QFL, with a view to restructuring our obligations under the United Wireless agreements, including the Notes, so that we no longer had any obligations under the Notes or the SPA. These negotiations resulted in the Restructure Agreement, described below, which provided for the payment to Intelligent Partners of $1,750,000 from the proceeds from our agreements with QFL. We also made interest payments totaling $117,780 between September 30, 2020 and February 22, 2021, the date we signed the Restructure Agreement with Intelligent Partners. One of QFL’s requirements to provide us with a funding facility was the restructure of our obligations to Intelligent Partners so that we no longer had any debt obligations to Intelligent Partners. Neither QFL nor any other financing source, would provide us with funding while Intelligent Partners had a right to call a default under our notes to Intelligent Partners. As part of the restructure of our agreements with Intelligent Partners, we amended the existing MPAs and granted Intelligent Partners certain rights in the monetization proceeds from any new intellectual property we acquire, as describe below. Under these MPAs, Intelligent Partners participates in the monetization proceeds we receive with respect to new patents after QFL has received its negotiated rate of return.

On or prior to the date of the Restructure Agreement, Intelligent Partners transferred to Fitton and Carper $250,000 of the Notes (the “Transferred Note”), thereby reducing the principal amount of the Notes held by Intelligent Partners to $4,422,810.

On February 22, 2021, we and Intelligent Partners agreed to extinguish the Note and Transferred Note, and terminate or amend and restate the SPA and Transaction Documents, pursuant to a series of agreements including: a Restructure Agreement (the “Restructure Agreement”), a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Stock Purchase Agreement”), an Option Grant (the “Option Grant”), an Amended and Restated Pledge Agreement (the “Pledge Agreement”), an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), a Board Observation Agreement (the “Board Observation Agreement”), a MPA-NA Security Interest Agreement (the “MPA-NA Security Interest Agreement”), an Amended and Restated Patent Proceeds Security Agreement (the “Patent Proceeds Security Agreement”, an Amended and Restated MPA-CP (the “MPA-CP”), an Amended and Restated MPA-CXT (the “MPA-CXT”), a MPA-MR (the “MPA-MR”), a MPA-AMI (the “MPA-AMI,” and together with the MPA-CP, MPA-CXT and MPA-MR, each a Restructure MPA and together the Restructure MPAs) and a MPA-NA (the “MPA-NA”).

(i)Pursuant to the Restructure Agreement, we paid Intelligent Partners $1,750,000 at closing, which we received from QFL and which QFL paid directly to Intelligent Partners, and recognized a further non-interest bearing total monetization proceeds obligation (the “TMPO”) of $2,805,000, which shall, from and after the Restructure Date, be reduced on a dollar for dollar basis by (a) payments to Intelligent Partners pursuant to the restructure agreement, the Restructure MPAs and the MPA-NA and (b) any election by the Intelligent Partners to pay the Exercise Price of the Restructure Option, in whole or part, by means of a reduction in the then outstanding TMPO. Further details regarding the TMPO are provided under “TMPO”;

(ii)Pursuant to the Stock Purchase Agreement, we issued to Fitton and Carper, as holders of the Transferred Note, a total of 46,296,296 shares of our restricted common stock at a purchase price of $0.0054 per share, which purchase price was paid by the conversion and in full satisfaction of the Transferred Note (the “Conversion Shares”).

(iii)Pursuant to the Option Grant, we granted Intelligent Partners an option to purchase a total of 50,000,000 shares of common stock, with an exercise price of $0.0054 per share which vests immediately and may be exercised through February 9, 2026.

(iv)Pursuant to the restructured monetization proceeds agreement, Intelligent Partners has a right to receive 60% of the net monetization proceeds from the patents currently owned by the Subsidiary Guarantors. The agreement has no termination provisions, so Intelligent Partners will be entitled to its percentage interest as long as revenue can be generated from the intellectual property covered by the agreement.

(v)Pursuant to the Subsidiary Security Agreement, our obligations under our agreements with Intelligent Partners, including its obligations under the Restructure Agreement and the Restructure MPAs are secured by a security interest in the net proceeds realized from the future monetization of the patents currently owned by the eight subsidiaries named above.

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(vi)Pursuant to the MPA-NA-Security Interest Agreement, our obligations under the MPA-NA are secured by a security interest in net proceeds realized from the future monetization of new patents acquired until the TMPO is satisfied, provided Intelligent Partners’ secured interest shall be limited to its entitlement in Net Proceeds under the MPA-NA. After satisfaction of the TMPO the security interest in proceeds from new assets shall terminate.

(vii)We granted Intelligent Partners, Andrew Fitton and Michael Carper certain registration rights with respect to (i) the 50,000,000 Shares currently owned by Fitton and Carper; (ii) the 46,296,296 Conversion Shares being issued to Fitton and Carper, and (iii) the 50,000,000 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Restructure Option;

(viii)Commencing six months from the closing date, if the shares owned by Intelligent Partners cannot be sold pursuant to a registration statement and cannot be sold pursuant to Rule 144 without the Company being in compliance with the current public information requirements of Rule 144, if the Company is not in compliance with the current public information requirements, the Company is required to pay damages to Intelligent Partners.

(ix)Pursuant to the Board Observation Rights Agreement, until the Total Monetization Proceeds Obligation has been satisfied (the “Observation Period”), we granted Intelligent Partners the option and right, exercisable at any time during the Observation Period, to appoint a representative to attend meetings of the Board or any committee thereof, including executive sessions, in an observer capacity.

Events of Default include (i) a Change of Control of the Company (ii) any uncured default on payment due to Intelligent Partners in an amount totaling in excess of $275,000, which is not the subject of a Dispute or other formal dispute resolution proceeding initiated in good faith pursuant to this Agreement or other Restructure Documents (iii) the filing of a voluntary petition for relief under the United States Bankruptcy Code by Company or any of its material subsidiaries, (iv) the filing of an involuntary petition for relief under the United States Bankruptcy Code against the Company, which is not stayed or dismissed within sixty (60) days of such filing, except for an involuntary petition for relief filed solely by Intelligent Partners, or any Affiliate or member of Intelligent Partners, or (v) acceleration of an obligation in excess of $1 million dollars to another provider of financing following a final determination by arbitration or other judicial proceeding that such obligation is due and owing.

Registration Rights Agreement

Pursuant to a registration rights agreement, we granted Intelligent Partners, Andrew Fitton and Michael Carper certain registration rights with respect to (i) the 50,000,000 Shares currently owned by Fitton and Carper; (ii) the 46,296,296 Conversion Shares issued to Fitton and Carper, and (iii) the 50,000,000 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Restructure Option. We agreed to file a registration statement with the SEC covering up to a maximum of 50,000,000 of the Shares, Conversion Shares and Options Shares. We are required to file the registration statement by the earlier of the 2nd Business Day following the date on which we (x) are next required to file our financial statements on Form 10-K or Form 10-Q under the Exchange Act, and (y) actually files its financial statements on Form 10-K or Form 10-Q under the Exchange Act, in each case without regard to any extension pursuant to Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act. We are required to have the registration statement declared effective by the SEC within 120 days of the closing if the registration statement is not subject to a full review by the SEC and 180 days if the registration statement is subject to a full review. The registration rights agreements provides for us to pay damages in the event that we do not meet the required deadlines.

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on our Business

Although we do not manufacture or sell products, the COVID-19 pandemic and the work shutdown imposed in the United States and other countries to limit the spread of the virus can have a negative impact on our business. Our revenue is generated almost exclusively from license fees generated from litigation seeking damages for infringement of our intellectual property rights. The work shutdown has affected the court system, with courts operating on a reduced schedule. As a result, patent infringement actions are likely to be lower priority items in allocation of court resources, with the effect that deadlines are likely to be postponed which delays may give defendants an incentive to delay negotiations or offer a lower amount than they might otherwise accept. In addition, the effect of the COVID-19 and the public response may adversely affect the financial condition and prospects of defendants and potential defendants, which would make it less likely that they would be willing to settle our claim or which may result in a defendant or potential defendant reducing or discontinuing its operations or taking advantage of the Bankruptcy Act.

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the response to limit the spread of the infection may affect the financial condition of financing sources and the willingness of potential financing sources to provide funding for our litigation. In addition, these factors may affect a law firms’ ability and willingness to provide us with legal services on a contingent or partial contingent.

Further, to the extent that holders of intellectual property rights see these factors impacting our ability to generate revenue from their intellectual property, they may be reluctant to sell intellectual property to us on terms which are acceptable to us, if at all.

Purchase of Intellectual Property from Intellectual Ventures Entities

 

On October 22, 2015, pursuant to an agreement with an effective date of July 8, 2015, as amended, between us and Intellectual Ventures, we purchased three groups of patents from Intellectual Ventures for a purchase price of $3,000,000, of which $1,000,000 was paid at the closingin three annual installments of $1,000,000 from the proceeds of the $1,250,000 loanour loans from United Wireless and the balance is due in two installments of $1,000,000 due one and two years from the closing. We acquired the intellectual property at the closing, and we granted Intellectual Ventures a security interest in the patents transferred to us as security for the payment of the balance of the purchase price. The security interest of Intellectual Ventures is senior to the security interest of United Wireless in the proceeds derived from such patents.Wireless. The patent portfolios which we acquired from Intellectual Ventures are the anchor structure portfolio, the power management/bus control portfolio and the diode on chip portfolio, which are described under “Business – Our Intellectual Property Portfolios.”

 

On January 26, 2018, Photonic Imaging Solutions Inc. (“PIS”), a wholly-owned subsidiary, entered into an agreement with Intellectual Ventures Assets 64 LLC (“IV 64”) pursuant to which PIS advanced $10,000 to IV 64 at closing and IV 64 assigned to PIS all right, title, and interest in a portfolio of eleven United States patents and sixteen foreign patents (the “CMOS Portfolio”). Under the agreement, PIS will distribute to IV 64 70% of the first $1,500,000 of revenue, as defined in the agreement, 30% of the next $1,500,000 of revenue and 50% of revenue over $3,000,000; with the $10,000 advance being treated as an advance against the first distributions of net proceeds payable to IV 64. PIS’ obligations under the monetization proceeds agreement are secured by a security interest in the proceeds (from litigation or otherwise) from the portfolio. The patent portfolio which we acquired from IV 64 is the CMOS portfolio which is described under “Business – Our Intellectual Property Portfolios.”

On July 28, 2017, CXT, a wholly-owned subsidiary, entered into an agreement with Intellectual Ventures Assets 34 LLC and Intellectual Ventures Assets 37 LLC (“IV 34/37”) pursuant to which CTX paid IV 34/37 $25,000 and IV34/37 transferred to CXT all right, title and interest in a portfolio of thirteen United States patents (the “CXT Portfolio”). Under the agreement, CXT will distribute 50% of net proceeds, as defined, to IV 34/37, as long as we generate revenue from the CXT Portfolio. The $25,000 payment to IV 34/37 was made from a loan from United Wireless and was paid directly by United Wireless to IV 34/37. The agreement with IV 34/37, as amended on January 26, 2018, provides that if, on December 31, 2018, December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2020, cumulative distributions to IV 34/37 total less than $100,000, $375,000 and $975,000, respectively, CXT shall pay the difference between such cumulative amounts and the amount paid to IV 34/37 within ten days after the applicable date. The $25,000 advance is treated as an advance against distributions of net proceeds payable to IV 34/37. The useful lives of the patents, at the date of acquisition, was 5-6 years. Neither we nor any affiliate of CXT has guaranteed the minimum payments. As of December 31, 2020, cumulative distributions did not total $975,000 and CXT did not pay the difference to IV 34/37 within ten days. Non-payment which is not cured within 30 days after written notice from IV 34/37 would constitute an Acceleration Event under the agreement, following which, in addition to any other remedies available under the agreement, all outstanding minimum cumulative distributions would become due and payable within thirty days. As of the date of filing, no such written notice of non-payment has been given by IV 34/37. CXT’s obligations under the agreement with IV 34/37 are secured by a security interest in the proceeds (from litigation or otherwise) from the CXT Portfolio. The patent portfolio which we acquired from IV 34/37 is the CXT portfolio which is described under “Business – Our Intellectual Property Portfolios.”

On January 26, 2018, CXT entered into an agreement with Intellectual Ventures Assets 62 LLC and Intellectual Ventures Assets 71 LLC “(IV 62/71”) pursuant to which CXT advanced IV 62/71 $10,000 at closing and IV 62/71 assigned to CXT all right, title, and interest in a portfolio of sixteen United States patents and three pending applications. Under the agreement, CXT will distribute 50% of net proceeds, as defined, to IV 62/71, as long as we generate net proceeds from this portfolio. The initial $10,000 advance is treated as an advance toward our future distributions of net proceeds payable to IV 62/71. CXT’s obligations under the agreement are secured by a security interest in the proceeds (from litigation or otherwise) from the CXT Portfolio. In March 2021, we made a payment to IV 62/71 in the amount of $64,238. We agreed to modify the monetization proceeds agreement between CXT and United Wireless to include the patents acquired from IV 62/71. The monetization proceeds amendment was further amended by the MPA-CXT Agreement in connection with the restructure of our agreements with Intelligent Partners.

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On March 15, 2019, M-RED Inc. (“M-RED”), a wholly-owned subsidiary, entered into an agreement with Intellectual Ventures Assets 113 LLC and Intellectual Ventures Assets 108 LLC (“IV 113/108”) pursuant to which M-RED paid IV 113/108 $75,000 and IV 113/108 transferred to M-RED all right, title and interest in a portfolio of sixty United States patents and eight foreign patents (the “M-RED Portfolio”). Under the agreement, M-RED will distribute 50% of net proceeds, as defined, to IV 113/108, as long as we generate revenue from the M-RED Portfolio. The agreement with IV 113/108 provides that if, on September 30, 2020, September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2022, cumulative distributions to IV 113/108 total less than $450,000, $975,000 and $1,575,000, respectively, M-RED shall pay the difference between such cumulative amounts and the amount paid to IV 113/108 within ten days after the applicable date. The $75,000 advance is treated as an advance against the first distributions of net proceeds payable to IV 113/108. On September 30, 2020 cumulative distributions to IV 113/108 totaled less than $450,000 and M-RED did not pay the difference to IV 113/108 within ten days. In March 2021, M-RED paid IV 113/108 $114,952 in cumulative distributions Non-payment which is not cured within 30 days after written notice from IV 113/108 would constitute an Acceleration Event under the agreement, following which, in addition to any other remedies available under the agreement, all outstanding minimum cumulative distributions would become due and payable within thirty days. As of the date of filing, no such written notice of non-payment has been given by IV 113/108. The useful lives of the patents, at the date of acquisition, was approximately nine years. Neither we nor any affiliate of M-RED has guaranteed the minimum payments. M-RED’s obligations under the agreement with IV 113/108 are secured by a security interest in the proceeds (from litigation or otherwise) from the M-RED Portfolio. The patent portfolio which we acquired from IV 113/108 is the M-RED portfolio which is described under “Business – Our Intellectual Property Portfolios.” Pursuant to the MPA-MR, Intelligent Partners is entitled to receive 60% of the net proceeds as defined in the agreement.

A default under the agreements with the Intellectual Ventures affiliates could result in a default under our agreements with QFL, and, even if it does not declare a default, QFL may be reluctant to finance our intellectual property acquisition if we are in default under any of our patent acquisition agreements with Intellectual Venture affiliates. Further, it may be necessary for any defaulting subsidiary to seek protection under the Bankruptcy Act if we are not able to enter into modification agreements with the Intellectual Ventures affiliates.

Our Organization

 

We were incorporated in Delaware on July 17, 1987 under the name Phase Out of America. On September 21, 1997, we changed our name to Quest Products Corporation, and, on June 6, 2007, we changed our name to Quest Patent Research Corporation. We have been engaged in the intellectual property monetization business since 2008. Our executive principal office is located at 411 Theodore Fremd Ave., Suite 206S, Rye, New York 10580-1411, telephone (888) 743-7577. Our website iswww.qprc.com. www.qprc.com. Information contained on or derived from our website or any other website does not constitute a part of this prospectus.

 

Our Intellectual Property Portfolios

 

Mobile Data

 

The real-time mobile data portfolio relates to the automatic update of information delivered to a mobile device without the need for a manual refreshing. The portfolio is comprised of U.S. Patent No. 7,194,468 “Apparatus and Method for Supplying Information” and all related patents, patent applications, and all continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, extensions, renewals, reissues and re-examinations relating to all inventions thereof (the “Mobile Data Portfolio”). We initially entered into an agreement with the patent owner, Worldlink Information Technology Systems Limited, whereby

Through December 31, 2020, we received the exclusive license to license and enforce the Mobile Data Portfolio. Under the agreement we received a monthly management fee and a percentage of licensing revenues. Subsequently Worldlink transferred its remaining interest in the Mobile Data Portfolio to Allied Standard Limited. In October 2012, we entered into an agreement with Allied pursuant to which Allied transferred its entire right title and interest in the Mobile Data Portfolio to Quest Licensing Corporation, which was at the time, a wholly-owned subsidiary. Under the agreement, Allied was entitled todid not receive a 50% interest in Quest Licensing. Quest Licensing’s only intellectual property is the Mobile Data Portfolio. Our agreement with Allied provides that we and Allied will each receive 50% of the net licensing revenues, as defined by the agreement. In June 2013, we entered into an agreement with The Betting Service Limited, an entity controlled by a former director of Worldlink. Pursuant to the agreement, we granted The Betting Service an interest in licensingany proceeds from the Mobile Data Portfolio in return for The Betting Service’s assistance in developing certain Mobile Data Portfolio assets. In April 2014, we entered into a further agreement with Allied whereby Allied relinquished certain rights under the October 2012 agreement, including its entitlement to a 50% interest in Quest Licensing, in exchange for our commitment to fund a structured licensing program for the Mobile Data Portfolio.

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Through December 31, 2014, we did not generate any licensing revenues from the Mobile Data Portfolio.

In March 2014, we entered into a funding agreement whereby a third party agreed to provide funds to us to enable us to implement a structured licensing program, including litigation if necessary, for the Mobile Data Portfolio and engaged counsel on a partial contingency basis in connection with a proposed patent infringement action relating to the Mobile Data Portfolio. Under the funding agreement, the third party receives an interest in the proceeds from the program, and we have no other obligation to the third party.

In April and June 2014, as part of a structured licensing program, Quest Licensing Corporation brought patent infringement suits in the U.S. District for the District of Delaware against Bloomberg LP et. al., FactSet Research Systems Inc., Interactive Data Corporation, SunGard Data Systems Inc. and The Charles Schwab Corporation et. al. These cases have been consolidated for trial. A hearing, known as a Markman hearing, in which the judge examines the evidence from the parties on the appropriate meanings of relevant key words in the claim, is scheduled for February 8, 2016, and trial has been scheduled for January 9, 2017, although it is possible that either or both of these dates may be postponed. During 2014 and the first nine months of 2015, in connection with this litigation, the third party provided funds of approximately $664,000 which was paid to litigation counsel and other third parties. In addition, the funding source paid us management fees of approximately $413,000 in 2014 and approximately $177,000 during the first nine months of 2015 in connection with this litigation.

Online Marketing, Sweepstakes, Promotions & Rewards (Von Kohorn Portfolio)

The portfolio consists of nine United States Patents that include patent claims related to, among other areas, online couponing, print-at-home boarding passes and tickets, online sweepstakes; including the promotion by television networks of online sweepstakes (the “Von Kohorn Portfolio”). In December 2009, we entered into an agreement with Intertech Holdings, LLC pursuant to which our wholly-owned subsidiary, Quest NetTech Corporation, acquired by assignment all right, title, and interest in the Von Kohorn Portfolio. Under the agreement, we will receive 20% of adjusted gross recoveries, as defined. In August 2013, we and Intertech Holdings amended the December 2009 agreement to provide that Intertech Holdings will receive 33% of the adjusted gross recoveries and Quest NetTech will receive 67% of adjusted gross recoveries.

In September 2011, Quest NetTech brought a patent infringement action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against Valassis Communications, Inc. et al. There were several other defendants in this action, and they settled the action during 2012 and 2013. With respect to each defendant in the action, the parties entered into a mutually agreeable resolution of all claims.

In September and October 2013, Quest NetTech brought several patent infringement actions against various entities in the U.S. District for the Eastern District of Texas. These actions were settled.

In July 2014, Quest NetTech brought several patent infringement suits against various entities in the U.S. District for the Eastern District of Texas. These actions were settled.

In February 2015, Quest NetTech brought several patent infringement suits against various entities in the U.S. District for the Eastern District of Texas. These actions were settled in November 2015, and we anticipate that we will receive the settlement payments by the end of December 2015.

Through December 31, 2012, we generated license fees of approximately $467,500 from the Von Kohorn Portfolio. We generated license fees of approximately $45,000 and $505,000 for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2015 we generated license fees of approximately $80,000.

 

Flexible Packaging - Turtle PakTM

 

In March 2008, we entered into an agreement with Emerging Technologies Trust whereby our majority-owned subsidiary, Quest Packaging Solutions Corporation, acquired the exclusive license to make, use, sell, offer for sale or sublicense the intellectual property of Emerging Technologies Trust (the “Turtle Pak™ Portfolio”). The Turtle Pak portfolio relates to a cost effective, high-protection packaging system recommended for fragile items weighing less than ten pounds. The intellectual property consists of two U.S. patents, U.S. Patent No. RE36,412 and U.S. Patent No.6,490,844, and the Turtle PakTM trademark. Turtle Pak™ brand packaging is suited for such uses as electrical and electronic components, medical, dental, and diagnostic equipment, instrumentation products, and control components. Turtle Pak™ brand packaging materials are 100% curbside recyclable.

 

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As the exclusive licensee and manager of the manufacture and sale of licensed product, we coordinate the manufacture and sale of licensed products to end users; we contract for the manufacture and assembly of the product components, and we coordinate order receipt, fulfillment and invoicing. Revenues from the TurtlePakTM product sales were approximately $253,500 through December 31, 2012$0 and approximately $29,500 and $23,000$25,000 for the years ended December 31, 20132020 and 2014,2019, respectively. In the first nine months of 2015, we generated approximately $29,000 from sales of this product. We continue to generate modest revenue from this product.

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Universal Financial Data System

 

The invention describes a universal financial data system which allows its holder to use the device to access one or more accounts stored in the memory of the device as a cash payment substitute as well as to keep track of financial and transaction records and data, such as transaction receipts, in a highly portable package, such as a cellular device (the “Financial Data Portfolio”). The inventive universal data system is capable of supporting multiple accounts of various types, including but not limited to credit card accounts, checking/debit accounts, and loyalty accounts. Our wholly-owned subsidiary, Wynn Technologies Inc., acquired US Patent No. 5,859,419, from the owner, Sol Wynn. In January 2001, we filed a reissue application for the patent, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued patent RE38,137. This reissued patent, which contains 35 separate claims, replaces the original patent, which had seven claims. In February 2011, we entered into a new agreement with Sol Li (formerly Sol Wynn), pursuant to which we issued to Mr. Li a 35% interest in Wynn Technologies and warrants to purchase up to 5,000,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.001 per share, whichshare. These warrants expired unexercised in September 2015.unexercised. We also agreed that Mr. Li would receive 40% of the net licensing revenues generated by Wynn Technologies with respect to this patent, which is the only patent owned by Wynn Technologies. On December 17, 2018, Wynn Technologies, Inc. granted an exclusive license to the Financial Data Portfolio, including the right to enforce, to our wholly owned subsidiary, Quest NetTech. Under the agreement, Quest NetTech receives 100% of the net proceeds, as defined by the agreement. On April 11, 2019 Quest NetTech Corporation merged with Wynn Technologies, Inc. with Quest NetTech Corporation being the surviving entity with Mr. Li having a 35% interest. On April 12, 2019, Quest NetTech brought a patent infringement suit in the U.S. District for the Eastern District of Texas against Apple, Inc. The case was dismissed in May 2020.

 

In August 2010, we entered into a five-year consulting agreement with Alex W. Hart pursuant to which he agreed to serve as a special consultant to us onOur revenue for the development and commercialization of the Data System Patent. Pursuant to this agreement, we issued Mr. Hart an option to purchase 5,000,000 shares common stock at a price of $0.001 per share, throughyear ended December 31, 2015. We did not generate any2020 includes revenue from the Financial Data Portfolio during the nine months ended September 30, 2015.Portfolio. 

 

Rich Media

 

The rich media portfolio is directed to methods, systems, and processes that permit typical Internet users to design rich-media production content (i.e., rich-media applications), such as websites. The portfolio consists of U.S. Patent No. 7,000,180, “Methods, Systems, and Processes for the Design and Creation of Rich Media Applications via the Internet” and all related patents, patent applications, corresponding foreign patents and foreign patent applications and foreign counterparts, and all continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, extensions, renewals, reissues and re-examinations relating to all inventions thereof (the “Rich Media Portfolio”). In July 2008, we entered into a consulting and licensing program management agreement with Balthaser Online, Inc., the patent owner, pursuant to which we performed services related to the establishment and management of a licensing program to evaluate and analyze the relevant market and to obtain licenses for the Rich Media Portfolio in exchange for management fees as well as an irrevocable entitlement to a distribution of 15% of all proceeds generated by the Rich Media Portfolio for the remaining life of the portfolio regardless of whether those proceeds are derived from litigation, settlement, licensing or otherwise. Our 15% distribution right is subject to reduction to 7.5% in the event that we refuse or are unable to perform the services detailed in the agreement.

 

Through September 30, 2015,December 31, 2020, we did not generate any licensing revenue from the rich media patents.

 

Anchor Structure Portfolio

This portfolio, which we acquired from Intellectual Ventures in October 2015 and transferred to a newly formed subsidiary, Mariner IC Inc., consists of two United States patents which relate to technology for incorporating metal structures in the corners and edges of semiconductor dies to prevent cracking from stresses.

In March 2016, we entered into a funding agreement whereby a third party agreed to provide funds to us to enable us to implement a structured licensing program, including litigation if necessary, for the Anchor Structure Portfolio and engaged counsel on a partial contingency basis in connection with a proposed patent infringement action relating to the Anchor Structure Portfolio. Under the funding agreement, the third party receives an interest in the proceeds from the program, and we have no other obligation to the third party.

In March 2018, Mariner IC brought patent infringement suits in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Acer Inc., Schneider Electric, Sharp Corporation, AsusTek Computer Inc., and Bose Corporation. In April 2018, the actions against Acer Inc., Schneider Electric and Bose Corporation were dismissed. In April 2018, Mariner IC brought patent infringement actions in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against TiVo Corporation and Huawei Device Co., Ltd et.al. In August 2018, the action against Huawei Device Co., Ltd et. al. was voluntarily dismissed. In September 2018, Mariner IC brought a patent infringement action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Huawei Device Co., Ltd et. al. All suits were settled and dismissed in 2019 and our revenue for the year ended December 31, 2019 includes revenue from these settlements. We did not generate license fees from the Anchor Structure Portfolio in 2020. 

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Power Management/Bus Control Portfolio

This portfolio, which is the second portfolio which we acquired from Intellectual Ventures and transferred to a newly-formed subsidiary, Semcon IP Inc., consists of four United States patents that cover fundamental technology for adjusting the processor clock and voltage to save power based on the operating characteristics of the processor and one United States patent that relates to coordinating direct bus communications between subsystems in an assigned channel.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTSIn March 2016, we entered into a funding agreement whereby a third party agreed to provide funds to us to enable us to implement a structured licensing program, including litigation if necessary, for the Power Management/Bus Control Portfolio and engaged counsel on a partial contingency basis in connection with a proposed patent infringement action relating to the Power Management/Bus Control. Under the funding agreement, the third party receives an interest in the proceeds from the program, and we have no other obligation to the third party.

Pursuant to the terms of the funding agreement and the partial contingency agreement with counsel, we do not have any liability or obligations with respect to the costs associated with prosecuting the actions, and we do not receive any payments for any assistance which we may provide in connection with the litigation. Both the funding source and counsel will participate in any recovery in these lawsuits.

Following the execution of the funding agreement and partial contingency agreement with counsel, in April 2016, Semcon IP Inc. brought patent infringement suits in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Huawei Technologies, MediaTek Inc., STMicroelectronics Inc., Texas Instruments Incorporated and ZTE Corporation. As of December 31, 2018, these actions had been settled and dismissed.

In May 2018, Semcon brought patent infringement actions in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Amazon.com, Inc., AsusTeK Computer Inc., TCT Mobile International Limited et. al., Kyocera Corporation, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, SE, Shenzhen OnePlus Science & Technology Co., Ltd., and Michael Kors Holdings Ltd.

The Michael Kors, Kyocera and Amazon actions were settled in 2019, and our revenue for the year ended December 31, 2019 includes revenue from these settlements. The AsusTeK Computer Inc., TCT Mobile International Limited et. al., LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, SE, and Shenzhen OnePlus Science & Technology Co., Ltd., actions were settled in 2020 and our revenue for the year ended December 31, 2020 includes revenue from these settlements.

 

Diode on Chip Portfolio

This portfolio, which is the third portfolio which we acquired from Intellectual Ventures and transferred to a newly-formed subsidiary, IC Kinetics Inc., consists of twothree United States patents and twoone pending continuation applicationsapplication which cover technology relating to on-chip temperature measurement for semiconductors. As of December 31, 2020, we did not generate any revenue from this portfolio.

CXT Portfolio

This portfolio consists of thirty United States patents and three pending continuation applications which cover technology relating to systems and methods of operating an accessible information database which provides for inventory evaluation, filtering according to preferences, alternative product recommendations, and access to a database of consumer feedback/evaluation.

In April 2018 CXT brought patent infringement suits in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Academy Ltd., The Container Store Group, Inc. and Pier 1 Imports, Inc. In May 2018 CXT brought patent infringement suits in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Conn’s, Inc., Fossil Group, Inc., JC Penney Company, Inc., Stage Stores, Inc. and Tailored Brands, Inc. In May 2019, CXT brought patent infringement actions in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc., Hallmark.com, LLC, Retail Concepts, Inc. and CC Filson Co. In August 2019, CXT brought patent infringement suits in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Neiman Marcus Group Ltd., General Nutrition Corporation and Steve Madden, Ltd.

In March 2021 CXT brought patent infringement suits in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Advanced Auto Parts, Inc., Costco Wholesale Corporation, The Sherwin-Williams Company, V.F. Corporation and IKEA North America Services, LLC.

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The actions against The Container Store, Pier 1 Imports and Stage Stores were settled in 2019 and revenue for the year ended December 31, 2019 included revenue from these settlements.

The actions against Conn’s, Inc., Academy Ltd., Fossil Group, Inc., JC Penney Company, Inc., Tailored Brands, Inc., Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc., Hallmark, CC Filson, General Nutrition, Steve Madden, Ltd. and Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. were resolved in 2020 and revenue for the year ended December 31, 2020 includes revenue from any related settlements.

CMOS Portfolio

This portfolio consists of eleven United States patents and sixteen foreign patents which cover technology relating to digital image sensor technology systems and methods which PIS acquired on January 26, 2018.

In April 2018 PIS brought patent infringement actions in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against Lenovo Group Ltd., AsusTek Computer Inc., Lorex Technology Inc., and NETGEAR, Inc. As of December 31, 2019, all actions had been settled and revenue for the year ended December 31, 2019 incudes revenue from these settlements. We did not generate revenue from the CMOS Portfolio in 2020.

M-RED Portfolio

This portfolio consists of sixty United States patents and eight foreign patents which cover technology relating to processor and power management which M-RED acquired on March 15, 2019.

On April 29, 2019, M-Red brought patent infringement suits in the U.S. District for the Eastern District of Texas against MediaTek Inc. and Acer Inc. On July 16, 2019, M-Red Inc. brought patent infringement suits in the U.S. District for the Eastern District of Texas against Panasonic Corporation. As of December 31, 2020, all actions were settled and dismissed and revenue for the year ended December 31, 2020 incudes revenue from settlements. We did not generate revenue from the M-RED Portfolio in 2019. 

In March 2021, M-Red brought patent infringement suits in the U.S. District for the Eastern District of Texas against Nintendo CO., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Xiaomi Corporation et. al.

Audio Messaging Portfolio

This portfolio consists of five issued United States patents and one pending application which generally relate to systems and methods for associating an audio clip with an object which our wholly-owned subsidiary, Audio Messaging Inc. (“AMI”), acquired in May of 2020.

Peregrin Portfolio

Acquired in February 2021, this portfolio consists of eight issued United States patents which generally relate to systems and methods for processing inbound and outbound communications, for example, determining the location of a caller and routing the inbound communication to an entity in the caller’s location.

 

Competition

 

We encounter and expect to continue to encounter competition in the areas of intellectual property acquisitions for the sake of licensure from both private and publicly traded companies that engage in intellectual property monetization activities. Such competitors and potential competitors include companies seeking to acquire the same intellectual property assets and intellectual property rights that we may seek to acquire. Entities such as Acacia Research Corporation, Document Security Systems, Inc., Intellectual Ventures, Wi-LAN,Quarterhill Inc., Conversant IP,Intellectual Property Management Inc., VirnetX Holding Corporation, Marathon Patent Group, Inc., Network-1 Security Solutions, Round Rock Research LLC, IPvalue ManagementInterdigital, Inc., VringoIPValue Management Inc., Pendrell Corporation , Finjan Holdings, Inc., Inventergy Global, Inc., Netlist Inc., Parkervision Inc., Spherix Incorporated, United Wireless,, Walker Innovation, Inc., Daedalus Group LLC and others derive all or a substantial portion of their revenue from patentintellectual property monetization activities, and we expect more entities to enter the market. Most of our competitors have longer operating histories and significantly greater financial resources and personnel than we have.

 

We also compete with venture capital firms, strategic corporate buyers and various industry leaders for intellectual property and technology acquisitions and licensing opportunities. Many of these competitors have more financial and human resources than our company. In seeking to obtain intellectual property assets or intellectual property rights, we seek to both demonstrate our understanding of the intellectual property that we are seeking to acquire or license and our ability to monetize their intellectual property rights. Our weak cash position and history of losses, together with our low stock price, may impair our ability to negotiate successfully with the intellectual property owners.

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Other companies may develop competing technologies that offer better or less expensive alternatives to intellectual property rights that we may acquire and/or out-license. Many potential competitors may have significantly greater resources than we do. The development of technological advances or entirely different approaches could render certain of the technologies owned or controlled by our operating subsidiaries obsolete and/or uneconomical.

 

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Intellectual Property Rights

 

We have eighttwelve intellectual property portfolios: mobile data, financial data, rich media, Von Kohorn,mobile data, Turtle Pak, anchor structure, power management/bus control, and diode on chip.chip, rich media, CXT, CMOS, M-RED, Audio Messaging and Peregrin. The following table sets forth information concerning our patents and other intellectual property. Each patent or other intellectual property right listed in the table below that has been granted is publicly accessible on the Internet website of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office atwww.uspto.gov. In the table below, the anchor structure portfolio is referred to as Mariner, the power management/bus control portfolio is referred to as Semcon andSemcom, the diode on chip portfolio is referred to as IC.IC and the Audio Messaging is referred to as AMI.

  

Segment Type Number Title File Date Issue / Publication
Date
 Expiration

Financial

Data

 US Patent RE38,137 Programmable Multiple Company Credit Card Systemmultiple company credit card system 01/1/11/2001 06/6/10/2003 09/9/28/2015

Mobile

Data

 US Patent 7,194,468 Apparatus and Methodmethod for Supplying Informationsupplying information 02/09/20014/13/2000 03/3/20/2007 02/09/20214/13/2020
Mobile Data US Patent9,288,605Apparatus and method for supplying information11/12/20093/15/20164/13/2020

Mobile

Data

US Patent9,913,068Apparatus and method for supplying information3/15/20133/6/20187/20/2021
Mobile Data US Application 12/617,373(1)15/877,820 Apparatus and Methodmethod for Supplying Informationsupplying information 11/12/20091/23/2018 05/20/20105/31/2018 N/A

Mobile

Data

US Application13/832,012Apparatus and Method for Supplying Information03/15/201309/05/2013N/A
Von KohornUS Patent5,227,874Method for measuring the effectiveness of stimuli on decisions of shoppers10/15/199107/13/199307/13/2010
Von KohornUS Patent5,283,734System and method of communication with authenticated wagering participation09/19/199102/01/199409/19/2011
Von KohornUS Patent5,368,129Retail facility with couponing07/23/199211/29/199407/23/2012
Von KohornUS Patent5,508,731Generation of enlarged participatory broadcast audience02/25/199304/16/199604/16/2013
Von KohornUS Patent5,697,844System and method for generating and redeeming tokens10/25/199007/07/199207/17/2009
Turtle PakUS PatentRE36,412Article Packaging Kit, System, and Method06/18/199611/30/199906/24/2013
Turtle Pak US Patent 6,490,844 Film Wrap Packaging Apparatuswrap packaging apparatus and Methodmethod 06/6/21/2001 12/10/2002 07/7/10/2021
Turtle Pak US Trademark 74709827 Turtle Pakpak - design plus words, letters, and/or numbers 08/01/8/1/1995 06/04/6/4/1996 N/A
Mariner US Patent 5,650,666 Method and apparatus for preventing cracks in semiconductor die 11/22/1995 7/22/1997 11/22/2015
Mariner US Patent 5,846,874 Method and apparatus for preventing cracks in semiconductor die 2/28/1997 12/8/1998 11/22/2015
Semcon US Patent 7,100,061 Adaptive power control 1/18/2000 8/29/2006 1/18/2020
Semcon US Patent 7,596,708 Adaptive power control 4/25/2006 9/29/2009 1/18/2020
Semcon US Patent 8,566,627 Adaptive power control 7/14/2009 10/22/2013 1/18/2020
Semcon US Patent 8,806,247 Adaptive power control 12/21/2012 8/12/2014 1/18/2020
Semcon PCT Application PCT/US2001/001684 Adaptive power control 1/16/2001 7/26/2001 N/A
Semcon Reexam Certificate 7,100,061C1 Adaptive power control 6/13/2007 8/4/2009 N/A
Semcon US Patent 5,978,876 System and method for controlling communications between subsystems 4/14/1997 11/2/1999 4/14/2017
IC US Patent 7,118,273 System for on-chip temperature measurement in integrated circuits 4/10/2003 10/10/2006 4/10/2023
IC US Patent 7,108,420 System for on-chip temperature measurement in integrated circuits 10/7/2004 9/19/2006 4/10/2023
IC US ApplicationPatent 13/243,976(2)9,222,843 System for on-chip temperature measurement in integrated circuits 9/23/2011 1/19/201212/29/2015 N/A4/10/2023
IC US Application 11/524,52616/537,200 System for on-chip temperature measurement in integrated circuits 8/9/19/20062019 N/A11/28/2019 N/A

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ICSegment US ApplicationType 10/824,702Number System for on-chip temperature measurement in integrated circuitsTitle 4/14/2004File Date N/AIssue / Publication
Date
 N/AExpiration
Rich Media Patent Proceeds Interest 7,000,180 Methods, Systems, And Processes For The Design And Creation Of Rich Media Applications Via The Internetsystems, and processes for the design and creation of rich media applications via the internet 02/09/2001 02/14/2006 10/16/2023
Rich MediaCXT US Application Proceeds InterestPatent 13/3149777,103,568 Methods, Systems, And Processes For The Design And Creation Of Rich Media Applications Via The InternetOnline product exchange system2/23/20049/5/20068/8/2015
CXTUS Patent7,933,806Online product exchange system with price-sorted matching products9/11/20064/26/20118/8/2015
CXTUS Patent8,024,226Product exchange system11/6/20064/26/20118/8/2015
CXTUS Patent5,983,220Supporting intuitive decision in complex multi-attributive domains using fuzzy, hierarchial expert models11/14/199611/9/199911/14/2016
CXTUS Patent6,463,431Database evaluation system supporting intuitive decision in complex multi-attributive domains using fuzzy, hierarchial expert models6/25/199910/8/200211/14/2016
CXTUS Patent5,940,807Automated and independently accessible inventory information exchange system5/28/19978/17/19995/23/17
CXTUS Patent6,081,789Automated and independently accessible inventory information exchange system1/8/19996/27/20005/23/17
CXTUS Patent6,601,043Automated and independently accessible inventory information exchange system6/26/20007/29/20035/23/17
CXTUS Patent6,011,537System for delivering and simultaneously displaying primary and secondary information, and for displaying only the secondary information during interstitial space1/27/19981/4/20001/27/2018
CXTUS Patent7,133,835Online exchange market system with a buyer auction and a seller auction10/30/199511/7/20065/27/2018
CXTUS Patent6,412,012System, method, and article of manufacture for making a compatibility aware recommendation to a user 12/08/201123/1998 04/6/25/200212/23/2018
CXTUS Patent6,493,703System and method for implementing intelligent online community message board5/11/199912/10/20025/11/2019
CXTUS Patent6,571,234System and method for managing online message board5/11/19995/27/20035/11/2019
CXTUS Patent6,721,748Online content provider system and method5/13/20024/13/20045/11/2019
CXTUS Patent6,778,982Online content provider system and method2/20/20038/17/20045/11/2019
CXTUS Patent6,804,675Online content provider system and method3/17/200310/12/20045/11/2019
CXTUS Patent7,159,011System and method for managing an online messaging board8/16/20041/2/20075/11/2019
CXTUS Patent7,162,471Content query system and method8/16/20041/9/20075/11/2019
CXTUS PatentRE43,835Online content tabulating system and method2/22/200711/27/2012 N/A5/11/2019
CXT US PatentRE45,661Online content tabulating system and method11/20/20129/1/20155/11/2019
CXTUS Patent7,065,494Electronic customer service and rating system and method6/25/19996/20/20066/25/2019
CXTUS Patent7,340,411System and method for generating, capturing, and managing customer lead information over a computer network10/20/20033/4/20088/2/2021
CXTUS Patent8,260,806Storage, management and distribution of consumer information6/29/20079/4/201210/17/2021
CXTUS Patent7,487,130Consumer-controlled limited and constrained access to a centrally stored information account1/6/20062/3/200911/7/2021
CXTUS Patent7,016,877Consumer-controlled limited and constrained access to a centrally stored information account11/7/20013/21/20062/22/2023
CXTUS Patent7,257,581Storage, management and distribution of consumer information8/6/20018/14/20076/2/2023

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SegmentTypeNumberTitleFile DateIssue / Publication
Date
Expiration
CXTUS Patent7,467,141Branding and revenue sharing models for facilitating storage, management and distribution of consumer information8/20/200112/16/20088/11/2023
CXTUS Patent7,016,875Single sign-on for access to a central data repository10/9/20013/21/20068/19/2023
CXTUS Patent8,566,248Initiation of an information transaction over a network via a wireless device11/20/200110/22/20136/17/2026
CXTUS Patent9,928,508Single sign-on for access to a central data repository1/6/20063/27/185/22/2027
CMOSUS Patent6,624,404CMOS image sensor having enhanced photosensitivity and method for fabricating the same11/26/20019/23/200312/30/2019
CMOSKorean PatentKR10-0303774Method for fabricating cmos image sensor12/30/19987/13/200112/30/2018
CMOSUS Patent6,348,361CMOS image sensor having enhanced photosensitivity and method for fabricating the same12/30/19992/19/200212/30/2019
CMOSUS Patent6,184,055CMOS image sensor with equivalent potential diode and method for fabricating the same2/26/19992/6/20012/26/2019
CMOSChinese PatentCNZL99105588.8Complementary mos image sensor and making method thereof2/28/199910/13/20042/27/2019
CMOSChinese PatentCNZL200310104488.4Image sensing device and its manufacturing method2/28/19993/26/20082/27/2019
CMOSGerman PatentDE19908457.2Photodiode used in cmos image sensing device2/26/199911/28/20132/26/2019
CMOSFrench PatentFR2775541Photodiode for use in a cmos image sensor and method for fabricating the same3/1/19998/2/20023/1/2019
CMOSFrench PatentFR2779870Photodiodes for image sensors3/1/19995/13/20053/1/2019
CMOSUnited Kingdom PatentGB2334817Photodiode for use in a cmos image sensor and method for fabricating the same3/1/19997/1/20033/1/2019
CMOSUnited Kingdom PatentGB2383900CMOS image sensor and method for fabricating the same3/1/19998/20/20033/1/2019
CMOSJapanese PatentJP4390896CMOS image sensor and manufacture thereof3/1/199910/16/20093/1/2019
CMOSKorean PatentKR10-0278285CMOS image sensor and manufacturing method thereof2/24/199910/18/20002/24/2019
CMOSTaiwanese PatentTWI141677CMOS image sensor with equivalent potential diode3/22/199910/1/20013/21/2019
CMOSUS Patent6,180,969CMOS image sensor with equivalent potential diode2/26/19991/30/20012/26/2019
CMOSUS Patent6,563,187CMOS image sensor integrated together with memory device6/29/19995/13/20036/29/2019
CMOSUS Patent6,949,388CMOS image sensor integrated together with memory device5/12/20039/27/200511/9/2019
CMOSKorean PatentKR10-0464955CMOS image sensor integrated with memory device6/29/199812/24/20046/29/2018
CMOSUS Patent6,627,929Solid state ccd image sensor having a light shielding layer6/13/20019/30/200310/13/2018

  

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(1)SegmentOn November 21, 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a Notice of Allowance on this application.TypeNumberTitleFile DateIssue / Publication
Date
Expiration
(2)CMOSOn August 20, 2015,Korean PatentKR10-0263473Solid state image device and fabrication method thereof2/16/19985/17/20002/16/2018
CMOSUS Patent6,300,157Solid state image sensor and method for fabricating the United Statessame10/13/199810/9/200110/13/2018
CMOSUS Patent7,113,203Method and Trademark Office issuedsystem for single-chip camera5/7/20029/26/20065/13/2022
CMOSUS Patent6,706,550Photodiode having a Noticeplurality of Allowance on this application.PN junctions and image sensor having the same10/16/20023/16/20042/26/2019
CMOSJapanese PatentJP4139931Pinned photodiode of image sensor, and its manufacture6/28/19996/20/20086/28/2019
CMOSKorean PatentKR10-0275123Pinned photodiode of image sensor and manufacturing method thereof6/29/19989/19/20006/29/2018
CMOSTaiwanese PatentTWI133257Photodiode having a plurality of PN junctions and image sensor having the same6/30/19995/28/20016/29/2019
CMOSUS Patent6,489,643Photodiode having a plurality of PN junctions and image sensor having the same6/28/199912/3/20026/28/2019
M-REDUS Patent6,853,259Ring oscillator dynamic adjustments for auto calibration8/15/20012/8/20058/15/2021
M-REDUS Patent7,068,557Ring oscillator dynamic adjustments for auto calibration1/25/20056/27/20068/15/2021
M-REDUS Patent7,209,401Ring oscillator dynamic adjustments for auto calibration5/2/20064/24/20078/15/2021
M-REDUS Patent6,221,682Method and apparatus for evaluating a known good die using both wire bond and flip-chip interconnects5/28/19994/24/20015/28/2019
M-REDUS PatentRE43,607Method and apparatus for evaluating a known good die using both wire bond and flip-chip interconnects5/31/20078/28/201212/31/2019
M-REDUS Patent6,177,843Oscillator circuit controlled by programmable logic5/26/19991/23/20015/26/2019
M-REDUS Patent6,628,171Method, architecture and circuit for controlling and/or operating an oscillator1/23/20019/30/20035/26/2019
M-REDUS Patent6,831,690Electrical sensing apparatus and method utilizing an array of transducer elements12/7/199912/14/200412/7/2019
M-REDUS Patent7,511,754Electrical sensing apparatus and method utilizing an array of transducer elements10/26/20043/31/20092/7/2022
M-REDUS Patent6,498,399Low dielectric-constant dielectric for etchstop in dual damascene backend of integrated circuits9/8/199912/24/20029/8/2019
M-REDUS Patent6,744,311Switching amplifier with voltage-multiplying output stage4/23/20026/1/20044/23/2022
M-REDUS Patent6,646,465Programmable Logic Device Including Bi-Directional Shift Register2/7/200211/11/20032/7/2022
M-REDUS Patent6,721,310Multiport non-blocking high capacity atm and packet switch11/2/20014/13/200411/2/2021
M-REDUS Patent6,456,183Inductor for Integrated Circuit2/24/20009/24/20022/24/2020
M-REDUS Patent6,838,970Inductor for Integrated Circuit7/26/20021/4/20059/30/2020
M-REDUS Patent6,459,135Monolithic Integrated Circuit Incorporating An Inductive Component And Process For Fabricating Such An Integrated Circuit3/15/200010/1/20023/15/2020
M-REDUS Patent6,388,322Article comprising a mechanically compliant bump1/17/20015/14/20021/17/2021
M-REDUS Patent6,458,411Method of making a mechanically compliant bump10/5/200110/1/20021/17/2021
M-REDUS Patent6,506,648Method of fabricating a high power RF field effect transistor with reduced hot electron injection and resulting structure9/2/19981/14/20036/27/2019

 

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Agreements with United Wireless

Summary

On October 22, 2015, we entered into a series of agreements with United Wireless:

Pursuant to a securities purchase agreement between us and five of our subsidiaries (Quest Licensing Corporation, Wynn Technologies, Inc., Mariner IC Inc., Semcon IP Inc., and IC Kinetics Inc.), we issued to United Wireless our 10% promissory note in the principal amount of $1,250,000 due September 30, 2020, for which we received $1,250,000. The terms of the notes are described under “Promissory Notes.”

Pursuant to the securities purchase agreement, we sold to United Wireless 50,000,000 shares of common stock for $250,000, or $0.005 per share.

Pursuant to the securities purchase agreement, we granted United Wireless an option to purchase a total of 50,000,000 shares, with exercise prices of $0.01 per share as to 16,666,667 shares, which may be exercised from September 30, 2016 through September 30, 2020, $0.03 per share as to 16,666,667 shares, which may be exercised from September 30, 2017 through September 30, 2020, and $0.05 per share as to 16,666,666 shares, which may be exercised from September 30, 2018 through September 30, 2020.

We used $1,000,000 of the proceeds we received from United Wireless as the first payment of a $3,000,000 purchase price for the patents we acquired from Intellectual Ventures contemporaneously with our closing with United Wireless.

United Wireless agreed to make loans to us for payment of the second and third $1,000,000 payments due to Intellectual Ventures on September 30, 2016 and 2017, regardless of whether we are in compliance with our obligations under the securities purchase agreement or our other agreements with United Wireless. United Wireless has the right to make such payments directly to Intellectual Ventures, and United Wireless made the initial $1,000,000 payment directly to Intellectual Ventures.

United Wireless agreed to make working capital loans to us, subject to our meeting standard closing conditions, in the aggregate amount of $1,000,000 in eight quarterly loans of $125,000, commencing September 30, 2016.

In the event that certain events of default, which are called Conversion Eligible Events of Default, shall have occurred and are continuing on the date a $1,000,000 payment is due to Intellectual Ventures, United Wireless shall have the obligation to make the payment, and immediately upon the United Wireless’ payment to Intellectual Ventures, we shall be deemed to have assigned, transferred and conveyed to United Wireless and/or its nominee full, absolute and unconditional title to and ownership of the stock of three subsidiaries that hold the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures, and our obligations on the notes, to the extent that the notes relate to the payment of the purchase price of the patents from Intellectual Venture, terminate, and United Wireless will have no further obligation to make working capital loans to us.

We entered into a monetization proceeds agreement pursuant to which United Wireless received the right to receive 15% of the net monetization proceeds received from (a) the patents acquired by us from Intellectual Ventures and (b) the patents in our mobile data and financial data intellectual property portfolios.

Our obligations under our agreements with United Wireless, including our obligations under the notes and the monetization proceeds agreement, are secured by a pledge of the stock of the three subsidiaries that hold the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and by the proceeds from the intellectual property represented by (i) the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and (ii) the intellectual property in the mobile data and financial data portfolios.

Five of our subsidiaries, Quest Licensing, Wynn, Mariner, Semcon, and IC, guaranteed our obligations to United Wireless.

We granted United Wireless certain registration rights with respect to (i) the 50,000,000 shares of common stock purchased by United Wireless at the closing, (ii) the 50,000,000 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the purchase options, and (iii) in the event that the notes become convertible, to the extent that the note holders request, the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the notes.

We agreed that, within 135 days from the closing date (i.e., by March 2, 2016), we would increase our authorized common stock from 390,000,000 shares to 1,250,000,000 shares, and, in the event that, in the future, the number of authorized shares of common stock is not sufficient to enable the full conversion of the notes, we will have 135 days to increase the common stock (or effect a reverse split or a combination of an increase in the authorized common stock and a reverse split) so that there will be sufficient shares of common stock available for full conversion of the notes. United Wireless agreed to vote its shares or give its consent in connection with any such increase in authorized common stock.

SegmentTypeNumberTitleFile DateIssue / Publication
Date
Expiration
M-REDUS Patent6,735,422Calibrated DC compensation system for a wireless communication device configured in a zero intermediate frequency architecture10/2/20005/11/200410/2/2020
M-REDUS Patent6,674,998System and method for detecting and correcting phase error between differential signals12/21/20001/6/200410/2/2020
M-REDUS Patent6,891,440Quadrature oscillator with phase error correction12/21/20001/6/20048/8/2022
M-REDUS Patent6,763,228Precision automatic gain control circuit12/21/20017/13/200410/3/2021
M-REDUS Patent6,748,200Automatic gain control system and method for a ZIF architecture4/4/20036/8/200410/2/2020
M-REDUS PatentRE42,799Packet acquisition and channel tracking for a wireless communication device configured in a zero intermediate frequency architecture6/27/200810/4/20111/22/2023
M-REDUS Patent6,560,448DC compensation system for a wireless communication device configured in a zero intermediate frequency architecture10/2/20005/6/20038/29/2021
M-REDUS Patent6,448,910Method and apparatus for convolution encoding and viterbi decoding of data that utilize a configurable processor to configure a plurality of re-configurable processing elements3/26/20019/10/20023/26/2021
M-REDUS Patent7,127,588Apparatus and method for an improved performance VLIW processor12/5/200010/24/20063/17/2022
M-REDUS Patent6,757,752Micro Controller Development System1/14/20026/29/20041/14/2022
M-REDUS Patent6,509,646Apparatus For Reducing An Electrical Noise Inside A Ball Grid Array Package5/22/20001/21/20035/22/2020
M-REDUS Patent6,365,970Bond Pad Structure And Its Method Of Fabricating12/10/19994/2/200212/10/2019
M-REDUS Patent6,912,601Method of programming PLDs using a wireless link6/28/20006/28/20055/11/2022
M-REDUS Patent6,496,054Control signal generator for an overvoltage-tolerant interface circuit on a low voltage process5/9/200112/17/20025/9/2021
M-REDUS Patent6,194,279Fabrication method for gate spacer6/28/19992/27/20016/28/2019
M-REDUS Patent6,281,554Electrostatic discharge protection circuit3/20/20008/28/20013/20/2020
M-REDUS Patent6,657,263MOS transistors having dual gates and self-aligned interconnect contact windows6/28/200112/2/20033/24/2020
M-REDUS Patent6,461,908Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device4/10/200110/8/20024/10/2021
M-REDUS Patent6,737,995Clock and data recovery with a feedback loop to adjust the slice level of an input sampling circuit4/10/20025/18/20044/18/2022
M-REDUS Patent6,747,522Digitally controlled crystal oscillator with integrated coarse and fine control5/3/20026/8/20045/17/2022
M-REDUS Patent6,275,116Method, circuit and/or architecture to improve the frequency range of a voltage controlled oscillator6/8/19998/14/20016/8/2019
M-REDUS Patent6,608,763Stacking system and method9/15/20008/19/20035/24/2021
M-REDUS Patent6,404,043Panel stacking of BGA devices to form three-dimensional modules6/21/20006/11/20026/21/2020
M-REDUS Patent6,472,735Three-dimensional memory stacking using anisotropic epoxy interconnections4/5/200110/29/20026/27/2020
M-REDUS Patent6,544,815Panel stacking of BGA devices to form three-dimensional modules8/6/20014/8/20036/21/2020
M-REDUS Patent6,566,746Panel stacking of BGA devices to form three-dimensional modules12/14/20015/20/20036/21/2020
M-REDUS Patent6,878,571Panel stacking of BGA devices to form three-dimensional modules12/11/20024/12/20054/30/2021

 

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We agreed with United Wireless that, as long as United Wireless’ stockholdings exceed 10%, United Wireless has the right to designate one member of the board of directors and at such time and for as long as United Wireless’ stockholdings exceed 24.9%, United Wireless may nominate a second director to the board. Unless a Conversion Eligible Event of Default shall have occurred, United Wireless agreed not to seek to elect a majority of the board for a period of at least three years from the closing date. We agreed that the size of the board would not exceed five.

SegmentTypeNumberTitleFile DateIssue / Publication
Date
Expiration
M-REDUS Patent6,627,984Chip stack with differing chip package types7/24/20019/30/20037/24/2021
M-REDUS Patent6,908,792Chip stack with differing chip package types10/3/20026/21/20052/21/2022
M-REDUS Patent6,205,524Multimedia arbiter and method using fixed round-robin slots for real-time agents and a timed priority slot for non-real-time agents9/16/19983/20/20019/16/2018
M-REDUS Patent6,157,978Multimedia round-robin arbitration with phantom slots for super-priority real-time agent1/6/199912/5/20009/16/2018
M-REDUS Patent6,117,750Process for obtaining a layer of single-crystal germanium or silicon on a substrate of single-crystal silicon or germanium, respectively12/21/19989/12/200012/21/2018
M-REDUS Patent6,429,098Process for obtaining a layer of single-crystal germanium or silicon on a substrate of single-crystal silicon or germanium, respectively, and multilayer products obtained9/11/20008/6/200212/21/2018
M-REDUS Patent6,134,176Disabling a defective element in an integrated circuit device having redundant elements11/24/199810/17/200011/24/2018
M-REDUS Patent6,366,998Reconfigurable functional units for implementing a hybrid vliw-simd programming model10/14/19984/2/200210/14/2018
M-REDUS Patent6,401,217Method For Error Recognition In A Processor System7/22/19986/4/20027/22/2018
M-REDUS Patent6,169,028Method for fabricating metal interconnected structure1/26/19991/2/20011/26/2019
M-REDUS Patent6,190,981Method for fabricating metal oxide semiconductor2/3/19992/20/20012/3/2019
M-REDUS Patent6,130,823Stackable ball grid array module and method2/1/199910/10/20002/1/2019
M-REDUS Patent6,208,004Semiconductor device with high-temperature-stable gate electrode for sub-micron applications and fabrication thereof8/19/19983/27/20018/19/2018
M-REDUS Patent6,479,362Semiconductor device with high-temperature-stable gate electrode for sub-micron applications and fabrication thereof2/14/200111/12/20028/19/2018
M-REDKorean PatentKR10-0796825Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device4/3/20016/24/20094/3/2021
M-REDBritish PatentGB0930382Process for obtaining a layer of single crystal germanium or silicon on single crystal silicon or germanium substrate respectively, and multilayer products thus obtained12/9/19988/21/200212/9/2018
M-REDItalian PatentIT0930382Process for obtaining a layer of single crystal germanium or silicon on single crystal silicon or germanium substrate respectively, and multilayer products thus obtained12/9/19988/21/200212/9/2018
M-REDKorean PatentKR10-0633947Method of fabricating a high power rf field effect transistor with reduced hot electron injection and resulting structure8/17/199910/4/20068/17/2019
M-REDFrench PatentFR2791470Monolithic Integrated Circuit Comprising An Inductor And A Method Of Fabricating The Same3/23/19996/1/20013/23/2019
M-REDFrench PatentFR2790328Inductive Component, Integrated Transformer, In Particular For A Radio Frequency Circuit, And Associated Integrated Circuit With Such Inductive Component Or Integrated Transformer2/26/19994/20/20012/26/2019

 

Commencing six months from the closing date, if the shares owned by United Wireless cannot be sold pursuant to a registration statement and cannot be sold pursuant to Rule 144 without our being in compliance with the current public information requirements of Rule 144, if we are not in compliance with the current public information requirements, we are required to pay damages to United Wireless.

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The securities purchase agreement, the note issued at the closing, the monetization proceeds agreement, the patent proceeds security agreement, the pledge and security agreement and the registration rights agreement are exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. The description of these agreements are summaries only and are qualified in their entireties by the agreements filed as exhibits.

Required Increase in Authorized Common Stock

As described above, our agreements with United Wireless require us to increase our authorized common stock to 1,250,000,000 shares within 135 days from the October 22, 2015 closing. Our failure to increase our authorized common stock could materially impair our ability to continue in business.

Our failure to increase our authorized common stock could materially and adversely impair about ability to conduct our business and continue in operation for the following reasons:

 

SegmentWe would transferTypeNumberTitleFile DateIssue / Publication
Date
Expiration*
M-REDJapanese PatentJP4846167Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device4/3/200110/21/20114/3/2021
M-REDJapanese PatentJP5051939Electric sensor device, method for generating electric signal from array of converter element12/5/20008/3/201212/5/2020
AMIUS Patent8,280,014System and method for associating audio clips with objects11/29/200610/02/201211/08/2030
AMIUS Patent9,088,667System and method for associating audio clips with objects09/06/201207/21/201506/30/2027
AMIUS Patent10,033,876System and method for associating audio clips with objects06/02/201507/24/201811/29/2026
AMIUS Patent10,348,909System and method for associating audio clips with objects06/18/201807/09/201911/29/2026
AMIUS Patent10,938,995System and method for associating audio clips with objects05/23/201903/02/202111/29/2026
AMIUS Patent Application17/162,354System and method for associating audio clips with objects01/29/2021n/an/a
PeregrinUS Patent7,761,371Analyzing a credit counseling agency07/19/200707/20/201010/19/2020
PeregrinUS Patent7,827,097System for transferring an inbound communication to United Wireless the stockone of our three subsidiaries which hold the patent rights that we acquired from Intellectual Ventures. Thus, we would no longer have any interest in the patents that we acquired from Intellectual Ventures.a plurality of credit-counseling agencies10/19/200011/02/201010/23/2024
PeregrinUS Patent7,860,785Communication system to automatically refer an inbound communication07/19/200712/28/201010/19/2020
PeregrinUS Patent8,209,257System for transferring an inbound communication to one of a plurality of credit-counseling agencies11/01/201006/26/201211/27/2020
PeregrinUS Patent8,725,630Method of processing a phone call06/25/201205/13/201410/19/2020
PeregrinUS Patent9,948,771Using an interactive voice response apparatus05/12/201404/17/201812/23/2022
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*We would be in default under the notes, which would give United Wireless the rightSubject to force us to redeem the notes then outstanding at 110% of the principal amount. At present, we do not have the funds to make such payments.

The then outstanding notes would become convertible at 90% of the market price at the date of conversion. However, we do not have sufficient shares of common stock to enable us to deliver shares of common stock issuable upon such conversion, which is a breach of contract for which United Wireless could seek to collect damages.any terminal disclaimer or patent term extension

 

Thus, as a result of the default provisions in the note, if we fail to increase our authorized common stock to 1,250,000,000 shares, we may be unable to continue in business and it may be necessary for us to seek protection under the Bankruptcy Act.

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Promissory Notes

The promissory notes bear interest at 10% per annum and mature on September 30, 2020. Interest accrues through September 30, 2018, with accrued interest being added to principal on each of September 30, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Subsequent to September 30, 2018, we are to pay interest quarterly, with the first interest payment being due on December 31, 2018. We have the right to prepay the notes in whole at any time and in part from time to time. Although the notes have no conversion rights, if a Conversion Eligible Event of Default occurs, the notes becomes convertible at a conversion price equal to 90% of the closing sale price of our common stock on the principal market on which the common stock is trading on the trading day immediately preceding the date the holder gives notice of conversion. We do not presently have sufficient common stock available for issuance in the event the notes become convertible. Although we have agreed to increase our authorized common stock to 1,250,000,000 shares not later than 135 days after the October 22, 2015 closing date, and our board of directors have approved a restatement of our certificate of incorporation that increases our authorized common stock to 1,250,000,000, and we have scheduled a meeting of stockholders to approve the restated certificate of incorporation, we cannot give any assurance that even if the authorized common stock is increased to 1,250,000,000 shares, such number of shares would be sufficient to permit conversion of the notes in full if a Conversion Eligible Event of Default should occur. We are required to have reserved from its authorized and unissued common stock 130% of the number of shares of common stock as shall be necessary for issuance upon conversion of the notes.

Conversion Eligible Events of Default include the breach of selected representations and warranties and covenants contained in the securities purchase agreement and the note. Although the observance of these covenants is within our control, one of the provisions which would trigger a Conversion Eligible Event of Default is our failure to increase our authorized common stock within 135 days of the closing date.

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The occurrence of a Conversion Eligible Event of Default would not only make the notes convertible but, if it exists on the date a $1,000,000 payment is due to Intellectual Ventures, it would permit United Wireless to take title to the stock of the three subsidiaries which own the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures.

The holders of the notes also have the right to demand redemption of the notes at 110% of the principal amount of the note in the event of a change of control.

Monetization Proceeds Agreement

Pursuant to the monetization proceeds agreement, United Wireless has a right to receive 15% of the net monetization proceeds from (i) the patents acquired by us from Intellectual Ventures and (ii) the patents in our mobile data and financial data intellectual property portfolios. The agreement has no termination provisions, so United Wireless will be entitled to its percentage interest as long as revenue can be generated from the intellectual property covered by the agreement.

Net monetization proceeds represent the amount by which any consideration received from the patents, including royalty payments and amounts received as a result of litigation relating to the patents exceeds monetization expenses, including legal fees, and certain other expenses, but not operating expenses not relating to the monetization activities, including patent litigation. The percentage payable with respect to monetization proceeds from the mobile data and financial data intellectual property (but not the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures) is reduced in the event that United breaches its agreement to make working capital loans pursuant to the securities purchase agreement.

Grant of Security Interest

Payment of the notes and our obligations under the monetization proceeds agreement as well as the other obligations under the agreements with United Wireless is secured by a security interest in all proceeds (from litigation or otherwise) from the (i) the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and (ii) the intellectual property in the mobile data and financial data portfolios, and a pledge of the stock of the three subsidiaries which hold the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures. The security interest in the proceeds from the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures is junior to the security interest held by Intellectual Ventures in the patents and proceeds thereof which were acquired by us from Intellectual Ventures as security for the payment of the $2,000,000 balance of the purchase price of the patents. The security interest in proceeds from the patents relating to the Company’s mobile data portfolio is junior to the security interest held by Longford Capital Fund I, LP, which is providing litigation funding relating to this portfolio.

Registration Rights Agreement

Pursuant to a registration rights agreement, we agreed to file a registration statement with the SEC covering the 50,000,000 shares of common stock issued to United at the closing and the 50,000,000 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the purchase option. We are required to file the registration statement within 60 days of the October 22, 2015 closing, which is December 21, 2015, and have the registration statement declared effective by the SEC within 120 days of the closing if the registration statement is not subject to a full review by the SEC and 180 days if the registration statement is subject to a full review. We are is also required to file a registration statement covering the shares issuable upon conversion of the notes upon request by the note holders. The notes do not become convertible until and unless there is a Conversion Eligible Event of Default. The registration rights agreements provides for us to pay damages in the event that we do not meet the required deadlines. The registration statement of which this prospectus is a part was filed pursuant to the registration rights agreement.

 

Research and Development

 

Research and development expense are incurred by us in connection with the evaluation of patents. We did not incur research and development expenses during 20132020 or 2014 or the nine months ended September 30, 2015.2019.

 

Consulting Contracts

On February 22, 2021, we entered into advisory service agreement with three consultants – William Gates, Crystal Nicolson and Jeff Toler pursuant to which they will provide services to us in connection with the development of our business. The agreements have a term of ten years and may be terminated by us for cause or upon the death or disability of the consultants.

Pursuant to the agreements with Mr. Gates and Ms. Nicolson, the compensation payable to each of them consists of a restricted stock grant of 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock which immediately vests in full and a ten-year option to purchase a total of 30,000,000 shares of Common Stock, which become exercisable cumulatively as follows:

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10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.05/share becoming exercisable on the date on which the Common Stock is listed for trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market or the New York Stock Exchange.

Pursuant to the agreement with Mr. Toler, the compensation payable to him consists of a restricted stock grant of 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock which immediately vests in full and a ten-year option to purchase 30,000,000 shares of Common Stock, which becomes exercisable cumulatively as follows:

10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.01 per share upon the first anniversary of the agreement;

10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.03 per share upon the second anniversary of the agreement; and

10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.05 per share upon the third anniversary of the agreement.

 

Employees

 

As of November 30, 2015,May 17, 2021, we have no employees other than our two officers, only one of whom, Mr. Jon Scahill, our chief executive officer and president, is full time. Our employees are not represented by a labor union, and we consider our employee relations to be good.

 

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS FINANCIAL CONDITION

AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this report. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. See “Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.” Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors discussed in “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this report.

Overview

 

Our principal operations include the development, acquisition, licensing and enforcement of intellectual property rights that are either owned or controlled by us or one of our wholly owned subsidiaries. We currently own, control or manage eightten intellectual property portfolios, including three patent portfolios which we acquired in October 2015 from Intellectual Ventures Assets 16 LLC, which principally consist of patent rights. As part of our intellectual property asset management activities and in the ordinary course of our business, it has been necessary for either us or the intellectual property owner who we represent to initiate, and it is likely to continue to be necessary to initiate, patent infringement lawsuits and engage in patent infringement litigation. To date, we have not generated any significant revenues from our intellectual property rights.

 

We seek to generate revenue from threetwo sources:

 

Patent licensing fees relating to our intellectual property portfolio, which includes fees from the licensing of our intellectual property, primarily from litigation relating to enforcement of our intellectual property rights.

Patent licensing fees relating to our intellectual property portfolio, which includes fees from the licensing of our intellectual property, primarily from litigation relating to enforcement of our intellectual property rights.

Licensed packaging sales, which relate to the sale of licensed products, although we did not generate any revenue from licensed packaging sales in the year ended December 31, 2020.

 

ManagementWe previously received management fees which we receive for managing structured licensing programs, including litigation related to our intellectual property rights. We do not currently receive these fees, we do not have any agreements that provide for such payments and we may not generate revenue from such fees in the future.

 

LicensedTo a significantly lesser extent, we generate revenue from sale of packaging materials based on our TurtlePakTM technology. We did not generate any revenue from our TurtlePakTM in the year ended December 31, 2020. Our gross profit from sales which relate toreflects the cost of contract manufacturing and labor. We did not generate any revenue from the TurtlePakTM Portfolio other than from the sale of licensed products.products using our technology.

 

Because of the nature of our business transactions to date, we recognize revenues from licensing upon execution of a license agreement following settlement of litigation and not over the life of the patent. Thus, we would recognize revenue when we enter into the agreement pursuant to which we are to receive the license fee or settlement payment. Although we intend to seek to develop portfolios of intellectual property rights that provide us for a continuing stream of revenue, to date we have not been successful in doing so, and we cannot give you any assurance that we will be able to generate any significant revenue from licenses that provide a continuing stream of revenue. Thus, to the extent that we continue to generate cash from single payment licenses, our revenues can, and are likely to, vary significantly from quarter to quarter and year to year. Our gross profit from license fees reflects any royalties which we pay in connection with our license.

 

Fees generated in connectionOur agreements with the management of litigation are paid to us by the third-partyour funding source in support of the litigation seeking to enforce our intellectual property rights. Our agreement with the funding source providessources have typically provided that the funding source payspay the litigation costs and provides that the funding source receivesreceive a percentage of the recovery, thus reducing our recovery in connection with any settlement of the litigation. AsTo the extent that our counsel represents us on a result, in connection with litigation fundedcontingent fee basis, our recovery would also be reduced by the third party, we would, ifpercentage of the litigation is successful, receive fees both for managingsettlement payable to counsel. From September 2015 until December 2020, under our agreements with Intelligent Partners, as the litigationassignee of United Wireless, and fromunder the terms of our agreements to purchase certain intellectual property portfolios, a licenseportion of our recovery may be payable to Intelligent Partners or the seller of the intellectual property rights. All of these payments, which will be net of that portion of the recovery payable to the funding source. However, in negotiating with funding sources for future monetization programs, we may not receive any fees for managing litigation. In such cases, the funding source would only make payments to the law firm representing us, and the terms of our engagement of counsel would have to be satisfactory to the funding source. Our gross profit from management fees reflects payments to third party support services providers which we pay in connection with management of the licensing program.

To a lesser extent, we generate revenue from sale of packaging materials based on our TurtlePakTM technology. Our gross profit from sales reflects theare reflected as cost of contract manufacturing and labor. We did not generate any revenue fromrevenues, significantly reduce the TurtlePakTMPortfolio other than from the sale of products using our technology.net payment to us.

 

On October 22, 2015, we, acquired three patent portfolios from Intellectual Ventures, which we assigned to three newly-formed subsidiaries.

We made the initial payment due to Intellectual Venturestogether with the proceedscertain of the sale of securities to United Wireless. Pursuant to our agreements with United Wireless:

We sold tosubsidiaries, and United Wireless, 50,000,000 shares of common stock for $250,000.

We borrowed $1,250,000 from United Wireless, forentered into a securities purchase agreement and related agreements, pursuant to which, among other actions, we issued our 10% secured convertible promissory notes due September 30, 2020. Of this amount, $1,000,000 was paid directly2020 to Intellectual Ventures asUnited Wireless. The rights of United Wireless under the initial installmentsecurities purchase agreement and the related notes were assigned to Intelligent Partners. The proceeds of the notes were used to purchase pricecertain of our intellectual portfolios. At September 30, 2020, promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of $4,672,810 were outstanding. The notes became due by their terms on September 30, 2020, and we did not have the resources to make, and we did not make, payments due on September 30, 2020. As a result of the patentspossibility that Intelligent Partners could declare a default under the securities purchase agreement and the note, which would likely to result in our seeking protection under the Bankruptcy Act, we purchased from Intellectual Ventures,were not able to obtain any litigation financing and $250,000no litigation counsel would represent us on a contingency fee basis. Accordingly, we did not generate any revenue during the fourth quarter of 2020, and we devoted our efforts to negotiating a funding agreement with QFL and a restructure of our agreement with Intelligent Partners, which was for working capital, including costs of the financing.required by QFL as a condition to entering into a funding agreement with us.

 

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Agreements for QFL and Intelligent Partners

On February 22, 2021, we entered into a funding agreement with QFL and a restructure agreement with Intelligent Partners.

Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement with QFL, QFL agreed to make available to us a financing facility of: (a) up to $25,000,000 for the acquisition of mutually agreed patent rights that we intend to monetize; (b) up to $2,000,000 for operating expenses; and (iii) $1,750,000 to fund the cash payment portion of the restructure of our obligations to Intelligent Partners. In return we transferred to QFL a right to receive a portion of net proceeds generated from the monetization of those patents. We used $1,750,000 of proceeds from the QFL financing as the cash payment portion of the restructure of our obligations to Intelligent Partners. Our obligations to QFL are secured by the proceeds from the patents acquired with their funding, the patents and all general intangibles now or hereafter arising from or related to the foregoing and the proceeds and products of the foregoing. We also granted United Wireless an optionQFL a ten-year warrant to purchase a total of 50,000,000up to 96,246,246 shares of common stock.

We entered into a monetization proceeds agreement pursuant to which we gave United Wireless a 15% interest in the net monetization proceeds, as defined in the agreement, generated from both the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and our financial data and mobile data portfolios, which continues as long as we receive revenue, whether from litigation or otherwise, from these patents.

We granted United Wireless a security interest in the proceeds of the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and our financial data and mobile data portfolios and a pledge of the stock of the three subsidiaries that own the patents we acquired from Intellectual Ventures.

In the event that certain events of default, which are called Conversion Eligible Events of Default, have occurred and are continuing on the date a $1,000,000 payment is due to Intellectual Ventures, United Wireless shall have the obligation to make the payment to Intellectual Ventures, and immediately upon the United Wireless’ payment to Intellectual Ventures, we shall be deemed to have assigned to United Wireless or its designee ownership of the stock of the three subsidiaries that hold the patents we acquired from Intellectual Ventures, and our obligations on the notes, to the extent that the notes relate to the payment of the purchase price of the patents from Intellectual Ventures, terminate. Also, if a Conversion Eligible Event of Default occurs, the outstanding notes become convertible at a conversion price equal to 90% of the closing sale price of our common stock, with an exercise price of $0.0054 per share which may be exercised from February 19, 2021 through February 18, 2031 on the principal marketa cash or cashless basis, subject to certain limitations on exercisability. The warrant also contains certain minimum ownership percentage antidilution rights pursuant to which the common stock is trading on the trading day immediately preceding the date the holder gives noticeaggregate number of conversion. We do not presently have sufficient shares of common stock for issuancepurchasable upon conversionthe initial exercise of the notes.

Warrant shall not be less than 10% of the aggregate number of outstanding shares of our capital stock (determined on a fully diluted basis). A portion of any gain from sale of the shares, net of taxes and costs of exercise, realized prior to the completion of all monetization activities shall be credited against the total return due to QFL pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. We also agreed to increase our authorized common stocktake all commercially reasonable steps necessary to 1,250,000,000 shares within 135 days ofregain compliance with the October 22, 2015OTCQB eligibility standards as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 12 months from the closing date, and to increase the authorized common stock (either by an increase in authorized common stock, reverse split of a combination of an increase in authorized common stock and a reverse split) so that we continue to have sufficient shares of common stock for full conversion of the notes. The failure to do so is a Conversion Eligible Event of Default.

We granted United Wireless certainQFL registration rights with respect to the shares issued at the closing, the sharescommon stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants. We also granted QFL certain board observation rights. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the all of the net proceeds from the monetization of the intellectual property acquired with funds from QFL are paid directly to QFL. After QFL has received a negotiated rate of return, we and QFL share net proceeds equally until QFL achieves its investment return, as defined in the agreement. Thereafter, we retain 100% of all net proceeds. Except in an Event of Default, as defined therein, all payments by us to QFL pursuant to the Purchase Agreement are non-recourse and shall be paid only if and after net proceeds from monetization of the patent rights owned or acquire by us are received, or to be received.

Contemporaneously with the execution of the agreement with QFL, we entered into a restructure agreement with Intelligent Partners to eliminate any obligations we had with respect to the outstanding notes and the securities purchase optionagreement. As part of the restructure of our agreements with Intelligent Partners, we amended the existing MPAs and if requestedgranted Intelligent Partners certain rights in the monetization proceeds from any new intellectual property we acquire. Under these MPAs, Intelligent Partners receives a 60% interest in the proceeds from our intellectual property owned by the note holders,eight Subsidiary Guarantors. Intelligent Partners also participates in the common stock issuable upon conversionmonetization proceeds from new intellectual property that we acquire until the total payments under all the monetization participation agreements equal $2,805,000, as follows: for net proceeds between $0 and $1,000,000, Intelligent Partners receives 10% of the notenet proceeds realized from new patents, except that if, in any calendar quarter, net proceeds realized by us exceed $1,000,000, Intelligent Partners’ entitlement for that quarter only shall increase to 30% on the notes become convertible.portion of net proceeds in excess of $1,000,000 but less than $3,000,000. If in the same calendar quarter, net proceeds exceed $3,000,000, Intelligent Partners’ entitlement for that quarter only shall increase to 50% on the portion of net proceeds in excess of $3,000,000. The payments with respect to the new patents terminate once total payments to Intelligent Partners under all monetization participation agreements reach $2,805,000. The payments to Intellectual Partners with respect new patents are payable from the proceeds which are allocated to us under the QFL agreements, which start after QFL has received a negotiated rate of return.

 

As long as United Wireless’ stockholdings exceed 10%, United Wireless hasInventor Royalties, Contingent Litigation Funding Fees and Contingent Legal Expenses

In connection with the investment in certain patents and patent rights, certain of our operating subsidiaries executed agreements which grant to the former owners of the respective patents or patent rights, the right to designate one memberreceive inventor royalties based on future net revenues (as defined in the respective agreements) generated as a result of licensing and otherwise enforcing the respective patents or patent portfolios.

Our operating subsidiaries may engage third party funding sources to provide funding for patent licensing and enforcement. The agreements with the third party funding sources may provide that the funding source receives a portion of any negotiated fees, settlements or judgments. In certain instances, these third party funding sources are entitled to receive a significant percentage of any proceeds realized until the third party funder has recouped agreed upon amounts based on formulas set forth in the underlying funding agreement, which may reduce or delay and proceeds due to us.

Our operating subsidiaries may retain the services of law firms in connection with their licensing and enforcement activities. These law firms may be retained on a contingent fee basis whereby the law firms are paid by the funding source on a scaled percentage of any negotiated fees, settlements or judgments awarded based on how and when the fees, settlements or judgments are obtained. Depending on the amount of any recovery, it is possible that all the proceeds from a specific settlement may be paid to the funding source and legal counsel.

The economic terms of the boardinventor agreements, funding agreements and contingent legal fee arrangements associated with the patent portfolios owned or controlled by our operating subsidiaries, if any, including royalty rates, proceeds sharing rates, contingent fee rates and other terms, vary across the patent portfolios owned or controlled by the operating subsidiaries. Inventor royalties, payments to non-controlling interests, payments to third party funding providers and contingent legal fees expenses fluctuate period to period, based on the amount of directorsrevenues recognized each period, the terms and at such timeconditions of revenue agreements executed each period and for as long as United Wireless’ stockholdings exceed 24.9%, United Wirelessthe mix of specific patent portfolios with varying economic terms and obligations generating revenues each period. Inventor royalties, payments to third party funding sources and contingent legal fees expenses will continue to fluctuate and may nominate a second directorcontinue to the board. Unless a Conversion Eligible Event of Default shall have occurred, United Wireless agreed notvary significantly period to seek to elect a majority of the board for a period, of at least three years from the closing date. We agreed that the size of the board would not exceed five.based primarily on these factors.

 

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In December 2018, we entered into a funding for the acquisition of the patents from Intellectual Ventures, United did notagreement whereby a third party agreed to provide any funds to us to enable us to monetize these patents, either through litigation or otherwise. In ordersupport our structured licensing programs for us to generate any value from these patents, it will be necessary for us to engage counsel on a fully-contingent fee basis or obtainthe CMOS and M-RED portfolios. Under the funding from aagreement, the third party financingreceives an interest in the proceeds from the programs, and we have no other obligation to the third party. As of December 31, 2020, the third party funding source that wouldadvanced $150,000 for costs and expenses, and has no further obligation to provide usadditional funds. Under the necessary funds to monetizeterms of the patents, primarily through litigation. Since patent litigation is uncertain, very expensive and typically takes many years before a settlement is reached (assuming a settlement can be negotiated) or a final judgment is obtained, the prospective counsel or financing source will have to evaluate the patent portfolios and the potential recovery to determine whether the to agree to represent us or make the investment, as the case may be. Unless we are able to successfully negotiate a retention agreement with counsel and/or a funding agreement, withthe third party funder is entitled to a financing source, it is not likely that we will generate any revenuepriority return of funds advanced from the patents we acquired from Intellectual Ventures. Further, we cannot assure you as to the success ofnet proceeds recovered.

In connection with any litigation relatingseeking to the patents.

Because of the possibility thatenforce our failure to increase our authorized common stock as required by our agreements with United Wireless would result in the transfer to United of the stock of the subsidiaries that hold the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures,intellectual property rights, it is possible that prospective counsel a defendant may request and/or a potential funding sourcecourt may rule that an operating subsidiary has violated statutory authority, regulatory authority, federal rules, local court rules, or governing standards relating to the substantive or procedural aspects of such enforcement actions. In such event, a court may issue monetary sanctions against us or its operating subsidiaries or award attorney’s fees and/or expenses to a defendant(s), which could be material, and if required to be paid by us or its operating subsidiaries, could materially harm our operating results and financial position. Since the operating subsidiaries do not even beginhave any assets other than the patents, and the Company does not have any available financial resources to evaluatepay any judgment which a defendant may obtain against a subsidiary, such a judgement may result in the Intellectual Ventures patents until it is satisfied that we have increased or will be able to increase our authorized common stock as required.

Becausebankruptcy of the terms of our agreements with United Wireless, includingsubsidiary and/or the possibility that the notes may become convertible at a discount from market, it is very difficult for us to raise any funds in the equity or debt market. Our only potential source funds would be from funding sources who would finance litigation for one or more of our patent portfolios. Such funding sources would typically pay our litigation counsel and would only receive any funds if we are successful in the litigation, in which event the funding source would receive its compensation for providing the funding based on the a percentageloss of the recovery, as defined inpatents, which are the particular agreement.subsidiaries’ only assets. 

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At present, we are pursuing litigation with respect to our mobile datathe CXT portfolio and MRED portfolio. The actions are described under “Business – Our Intellectual Property Portfolios.” We cannot estimate when or whether we will receive any revenue from this litigation.

Ifthese litigations, or whether, in the event we are unable to monetizedo not prevail, the defendant will not obtain an award of legal fees against our patents, we cannot assure you that we will be able to pay the notes to United Wireless,plaintiff subsidiary which could result in the bankruptcy of the subsidiary and a default under our inability to continue in businessagreements with QFL and could result in our bankruptcy.Intelligent Partners.

 

Restricted Stock Grants and Options

In February 2021, we issued restricted stock grants to consultants (30,000,000 shares) and to our officers and directors (74,000,000 shares) all of which vested immediately. The value of the shares will be reflected as non-cash compensation in the first quarter of 2021. Also in February 2021, we granted restricted stock options to consultants (90,000,000 shares) and to our chief executive officer (60,000,000 shares). With respect to two of the consultants and the chief executive officer the options become cumulatively exercisable as follows: 1/3rd at an exercise price of $0.01 per share, becoming exercisable upon the commencement of trading of the Common Stock on the OTCQB; 1/3rd at an exercise price of $0.03 per share becoming exercisable on the first day on which we file with the SEC a Form 10-K or Form 10-Q with stockholders’ equity of at least $5,000,000; and 1/3rd at an exercise price of $0.05 per share on the date on which the Common Stock is listed for trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market or the New York Stock Exchange. We will incur non-cash compensation with respect to the value of the options, based of Black-Scholes valuation, as the options become exercisable.

Results of Operations

 

Nine months ended September 30, 2015Years Ended December 31, 2020 and 20142019

 

The following table shows the componentsrevenue and cost of revenue and gross profit from our threetwo categories of revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014:

  Nine months ended September 30, 
  2015  2014 
Revenues:            
Licensed sales $28,552   9.0% $18,924   3.2%
Patent services fees  110,000   34.8%  265,000   44.8%
Management fees  177,304   56.1%  307,199   52.0%
Total  315,856   100.0%  591,123   100.0%
                 
Gross profit:                
Licensed sales  17,487   8.8%  10,622   2.6%
Patent service fees  52,372   26.4%  121,268   30.1%
Management fees  128,230   64.7%  271,114   67.3%
Total  198,089   100.0%  403,004   100.0%

The following table shows the gross margin for the three components of revenue.

  

Nine months ended

September 30,

 
  2015  2014 
Gross margin      
Licensed sales  61.2%  56.1%
Patent service fees  47.6%  45.8%
Management fees  72.3%  88.3%
Total  62.7%  68.2%

Revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 were approximately $316,000, a decrease of approximately $275,000, or 47%, from the comparable period of 2014, which was approximately $591,000. Gross profit for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 was approximately $198,000, a decrease of approximately $205,000, or 51%, compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2014. The decrease in both revenue and gross profit for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 was primarily due to (i) a decrease in patent service fees of approximately $155,000 from the comparative periods of 2014 and (ii) a decrease in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015 in management service fees of approximately $ $130,000 from the comparative periods of 2014. Management fees included a lump sum up front payment of $200,000 in the first half of 2014. Since we do not have any long term license agreements, we have no continuing source of revenue, and our revenue generally reflects the net proceeds from royalty payments, which have generally resulted from litigation.

Our gross margin decreased to 62.7% for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 as compared with 68.2% for the comparable period of 2014. The decline in gross margin reflects our receipt of lump sum payments related to management fees we received during the first six months of 2014 which had a much lower related cost of revenue. Our gross profit, particularly in parent service fees and management fees, which account for our principal sources of revenues, is not sufficient to cover our operating expenses. Unless we are able to generate significant revenues from our intellectual property portfolios, we will not be able to generate sufficient gross profit to cover our operating expenses, principally executive compensation.

Operating expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 decreased by approximately $222,000, or 36%, compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2014. Our principal operating expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014 was executive compensation, which was approximately $252,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and approximately $527,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2014. Executive compensation for the nine months ended September 30, 2014 reflects compensation to three officers, two of whom resigned during the fourth quarter of 2014. During 2015, executive compensation reflects compensation to our chief executive officer. Executive compensation for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 includes stock-based compensation of $63,000 in the first quarter of 2015. We did not incur stock-based compensation expense in 2014.

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Other income for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 included $32,182, reflecting the gain on the settlement of an account payable for less than the amount previously accrued. Other income also included interest expense of $12,225 for the nine months ended September 30, 2015, and $16,312 for the nine months ended September 30, 2014.

As a result of the foregoing, we sustained a net loss attributable to common shareholders of approximately $187,000, or $0.00 per share (basic and diluted), for the nine months ended September 30, 2015, compared to net loss of approximately $237,000, or $0.00 per share (basic and diluted), for the nine months ended September 30, 2014.

Yearsyears ended December 31, 20142020 and 20132019:

 

  Year ended December 31, 
  2014  2013 
Revenues:            
Licensed sales $22,732   2.4% $29,555   39.6%
Patent services fees  505,000   53.7%  45,000   60.4%
Management fees  412,915   43.9%  --   -- 
Total  940,647   100.0%  74,555   100.0%
                 
Gross profit:                
Licensed sales  12,659   2.2%  19,106   36.4%
Patent service fees  226,997   39.7%  33,383   63.6%
Management fees  331,948   58.1%  --   -- 
Total  571,604   100.0%  52,489   100.0%

The following table shows the gross margin for the three components of revenue.

  Year ended December 31, 
  2014  2013 
Gross margin      
Licensed sales  55.7%  64.6%
Patent service fees  44.9%  74.2%
Management fees  80.4%  -- 
Total  60.8%  70.4%
  Year ended December 31, 
  2020  2019 
Revenues:            
Patent licensing fees $5,488,088   100.9% $4,117,895   99.4%
Licensed packaging sales  -   0.0%  25,274   0.6%
Total  5,488,088   100.0%  4,143,169   100.0%
                 
Cost of revenues:                
Cost of sales  -   0.0%  4,520   0.1%
Litigation and licensing expenses  4,692,969   100.0%  3,383,948   99.8%
Management support services  -   0.0%  2,093   0.1%
Total  4,692,969   100.0%  3,390,561   100.0%

 

Revenues for the year ended December 31, 20142020 were $5,488,088, as compared with $4,143,169 in 2019, an increase of $1,344,919, or approximately $940,000,32.5%. The increase in 2020 principally reflects an increase in patent licensing fees of $1,370,193, or 33.3%. Our licensing fees reflect the settlement of litigation for infringement of our patent rights. These fees are one-time fees, with the result that there is no continuity of revenues from period to period, and any revenue we generate in future periods will be solely dependent upon the results of pending and future litigation. We cannot assure you that we will generate any revenue from patent licensing fees in the future. The patent licensing fees for 2020 resulted from licensing and settlements of Power Management/Bus Control Portfolio, the CXT Portfolio, the MRED Portfolio and the Financial Data Portfolio. The patent licensing fees of $4,117,895 in 2019 resulted from the licensing and settlements of Power Management/Bus Control Portfolio, the CXT Portfolio, the Anchor Structure Portfolio and the CMOS Portfolio litigations. Our revenue, at least in the near future if not longer, may be affected by factors relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. See “Business – Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on our Business.”

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Cost of revenues was approximately $4,693,000 for 2020 as compared with approximately $75,000 in 2013. The increase reflects (i) management fees of approximately $413,000 reflecting payments we received from the third party in connection with the mobile data portfolio litigation, which commenced in 2014, and (ii) license fees of approximately $505,000 resulting from settlements of Von Kohorn portfolio litigation, as compared with approximately $45,000 in 2013. When we settle litigation, we have received one-time license fees. The license fee portion of our flow of revenue is dependent upon the timing of our entering into license agreements, including agreements resulting from the settlement of litigation, which can be sporadic, and we cannot predict from one year to the next what revenue, if any, we will recognize from license fees. Almost all of our license fee revenue to date has resulted from licenses granted in settlement of litigation. The management fees are based on the terms of the funding agreement and any license fees that we recognize as a result of the litigation are totally dependent upon the timing and success of the litigation and we cannot assure you that either our management fees will continue or that we will derive any revenue from license fees from the mobile data portfolio litigation. Because our agreement with the funding source$3,391,000 for the mobile data portfolio litigation provides that the funding source pays the cost of litigation, our funding source will receive a percentage of any recovery.2019. Our cost of revenue includes expenses which we incurred in connection with the mobile data portfolioour pending litigations and fees we pay to litigation funding sources, legal counsel, prior owners and any royalties we paypursuant to monetization proceeds agreements in connection with license fees.

Our gross profit was approximately $571,000 for 2014 and approximately $52,000 for 2013. Cost of revenues was approximate $369,000revenue for 2014 as compared2020 includes approximately $4,693,000 of litigation and licensing fees paid to litigation funding sources and legal counsel in connection with approximately $22,000 for 2013.the Power Management/Bus Control, the CXT Portfolio, the MRED Portfolio and the Financial Data Portfolio licensing programs. Cost of revenues for 20142019 includes approximately $278,000$3,384,000 of royalties payablelitigation and licensing fees paid to litigation funding sources and legal counsel in connection with the Von KohornPower Management/Bus Control, the CXT Portfolio, the Anchor Structure Portfolio and the CMOS Portfolio licenses, approximately $81,000$2,000 for management support services in connection with management of the Mobile Data Portfolio, litigation, and approximately $10,000$5,000 relating to TurtlePakTM. CostWe did not have any sales or cost of revenues for 2013 includes approximately $12,000 of royalties payable in connection with the Von Kohorn licenses, and approximately $10,000sales relating to TurtlePakTM.for 2020.

 

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OperatingSelling, general, and administrative expenses for the 2014 decreased2020 increased by approximately $190,000,$292,000, or 21%approximately 24%, from approximately $902,000$1,222,000 in 20132019 to approximately $712,000$1,514,000 in 2014.2020. Our principal operatingselling, general and administrative expense for 20142020 and 20132019 was amortization expense of approximately $648,000 and approximately $529,000 for 2020 and 2019, respectively, related to amortization of the patent assets acquired from Intellectual Ventures in October 2015, IV 34/37 in July 2017, and IV 62/71 in January 2018 and IV 113/108. Selling, general and administrative expenses also reflect executive compensation, which was approximately $589,500$300,000 for 20142020 and approximately $771,000 for $2013. Executive compensation included $21,000 of stock-based compensation in 2013. We did not incur stock-based compensation in 2014. Compensation for 2014 includes compensation for Mr. Scahill for the entire year, in the amount of $252,000, and compensation for Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Reichlin through the date of their separation in October 2014, in the aggregate amount of $337,500. Executive compensation for 2013 includes compensation to Mr. Scahill, Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Reichlin for the entire year. All of executive compensation for 2014 and 2013 (except for stock-based compensation) was accrued and not paid. Pursuant to a restated employment agreement with Mr. Scahill, Mr. Scahill waived his compensation which had accrued prior to January 1, 2014. Pursuant to separation agreements with Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Reichlin, they waived all accrued compensation and other obligations which we had to them. On October 10, 2014, Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Reichlin entered into separation agreements with us pursuant to which they waived all compensation and other obligations from us through October 10, 2014. See “Management – Executive Compensation.” As a result, accrued compensation obligations of $337,500 for 2014 and $650,000 for 2013 were cancelled. Because Mr. Scahill, Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Reichlin are related parties, the cancelled obligations are treated as additional paid-in capital.2019.

 

Other expense includesconsists primarily of interest expense of approximately $20,000$804,000 in 20142020 as compared with approximately $22,000$808,000 in 2013.2019. In 2020, we recognized a $275,000 gain on derivative liability as compared with $55,000 loss on derivative liability in 2019. Other income in 2020 reflects miscellaneous income of $1,000. Other expense in 2019 reflect a $28,000 gain on forgiveness of debt. As a result of the termination of our obligations under the United Wireless notes, commencing in 2021, we no longer have a derivative liability. See Note 4 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. 

We had an income tax expense of approximately $65,000 for 2020 as compared with approximately $5,000 in 2019. The income tax expense results primarily from foreign taxes paid with respect to certain of our settlement agreements.

 

As a result of the foregoing we had a net loss attributable to common stockholders of approximately $161,000,$1,313,000, or $0.001$0.00 per share (basic and diluted) for 20142020 compared to net loss of approximately $871,000,$1,309,000, or $0.003$0.00 per share (basic and diluted), for 2013.2019.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

At September 30, 2015,December 31, 2020, we had current assets of approximately $40,000,$1,287,000, current liabilities of approximately $517,000,$9,497,000. Our current liabilities at December 31, 2020 include approximately $4,673,000 payable to Intelligent Partners, which was due and payable on September 30, 2020 and subsequently restructured, and loans payable of $147,000 and accrued interest of approximately $285,000 due to former directors and minority stockholders. As of December 31, 2020, we have an accumulated deficit of approximately $21,281,000 and a negative working capital deficiency of approximately $477,000. Other than our agreement with United Wireless, pursuant to which we can borrow up to $1,000,000 for working capital in eight quarterly installments of $125,000 commencing September 30, 2016, we have no other credit facilities.$8,210,000. Other than salary under theto our chief executive officer’s employment agreement,officer, we do not contemplate any other material obligationsoperating expense in the near future.future other than normal general and administrative expenses, including expenses relating to our status as a public company filing reports with the SEC. Because our agreements with our litigation funding sources do not require us to make any payments relating to the litigation, we do not incur expenses with respect to litigation covered by the funding sources.

As a result of our restructure of our agreement with Intelligent Partners, the outstanding notes to Intelligent Partners were cancelled and replaced with agreements that provide for payments if we receive proceeds from our intellectual property as described above under “Agreements for QFL and Intelligent Partners.” If the note payable to Intelligent Partners were excluded from current liabilities, we would have a pro forma working capital deficiency of approximately $3,500,000.

For 2020, we used approximately $246,000 in operations. Our cash flow used in operations for 2020 reflected our loss of approximately $1,300,000, and the amount used in operations increased primarily by a decrease in accounts payable and accrued expenses of approximately $471,000, and the gain on derivative liability of $275,000 offset by a decrease in accounts receivable of approximately $750,000, depreciation and amortization of approximately $648,000, amortization of debt discount of approximately $435,000 and bad debt expense of $66,000.

For 2019, we had cash flow from operations $746,523 in our operations, reflecting our loss of $1,310,295, which was offset principally by depreciation and amortization of our intellectual property rights of $529,486, amortization of debt discount on the loan from United Wireless of $349,691, an increase in accounts receivable of $1,850,375, an increase in account payable and accrued liabilities consist of loans$954,806,and decreased by the $55,000 loss on derivative liability, and increased by a gain on forgiveness of debt of $27,628 and accrued but unpaid interest of $8,700.

Cash flow from financing activities for 2020 reflected the proceeds of an SBA loan of approximately $172,000, the payment of the purchase price of patents of approximately $194,000 and proceeds from the sale of future revenues of approximately $95,000 offset by payment made on the sale of future revenues of approximately $20,000. Under the agreement with the litigation funder, the third party lender receives an interest in the proceeds.

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Cash flow from financing activities in 2019 included repayments to the third party in the amount of approximately $130,000, the payment of the purchase price of patents of approximately $156,000 and the payment of $16,000 of a loan from a third party.

In 2020 and 2019, cash flow from investing activities included $95,000 and $75,000, respectively for the purchase of patents from third partiesparties.

In 2020 we did not have non-cash investing and financing activities. In 2019, non-cash investing and financing activities consisted of approximately $163,000 and accrued interestan account payable of $1,238,219 representing the $1,500,000 payment due to loan holdersIntellectual Ventures, net of approximately $229,000.$75,000 advanced at closing and imputed interest of $336,781.

We cannot assure you that we will be successful in generating future revenues, in obtaining additional debt or equity financing or that such additional debt or equity financing will be available on terms acceptable to us, if at all, or that we will be able to obtain any third party funding in connection with any of our intellectual property portfolios.

 

Historically, our only source of financing was loans from officers and directors. We believe that our financial condition, our history of losses and negative cash flow from operations, and our low stock price make it difficult for us to raise funds in the debt or equity markets. We haveIn October 2015, we entered into agreementsan agreement with funding sourcesUnited Wireless, pursuant to enablewhich provided us with funds to commence legal actions in connection with our effortspurchase intellectual property.

We cannot predict the success of any pending or future litigation seeking to monetizeenforce our intellectual property rights. Pursuant to these agreements, the funding source will participate in any recovery.

 

SignificantIn February 2021, we signed a funding agreement with QFL, as described in “Business – Agreements with QFL.”

As noted below, there is a substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. 

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

The discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based upon our financial statements that have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities. On an on-going basis, we evaluate our estimates including the allowance for doubtful accounts, the salability and recoverability of our products, income taxes and contingencies. We base our estimates on historical experience and on other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form our basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

 

Management believes the following critical accounting policies affect the significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of the financial statements.

Principles of Consolidation

 

The condensedOur consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with US GAAP and present the financial statements of us and our wholly-owned subsidiary. In the preparation of our consolidated financial statements, intercompany transactions and balances are eliminated.

 

Use of Estimates and Assumptions

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

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Revenue Recognition

We adopted ASC Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers as of January 1, 2018 using the modified retrospective transition method. The core principle of the revenue recognition standard is that a company should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The following five steps are applied to achieve that core principle:

Step 1: Identify the contract with the customer

Step 2: Identify the performance obligations in the contract

Step 3: Determine the transaction price

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Step 4: Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract

Step 5: Recognize revenue when the company satisfies a performance obligation

A performance obligation is a promise in a contract to transfer a distinct good or service to the customer and is the unit of account in ASC 606. In order to identify the performance obligations in a contract with a customer, a company must assess the promised goods or services in the contract and identify each promised good or service that is distinct. A performance obligation meets ASC 606’s definition of a “distinct” good or service (or bundle of goods or services) if both of the following criteria are met:

The customer can benefit from the good or service either on its own or together with other resources that are readily available to the customer (i.e., the good or service is capable of being distinct).

The entity’s promise to transfer the good or service to the customer is separately identifiable from other promises in the contract (i.e., the promise to transfer the good or service is distinct within the context of the contract).

If a good or service is not distinct, the good or service is combined with other promised goods or services until a bundle of goods or services is identified that is distinct. 

The transaction price is the amount of consideration to which an entity expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring promised goods or services to a customer. The consideration promised in a contract with a customer may include fixed amounts, variable amounts, or both. When determining the transaction price, an entity must consider the effects of all of the following:

Variable consideration

Constraining estimates of variable consideration

The existence of a significant financing component in the contract

Noncash consideration

Consideration payable to a customer

Variable consideration is included in the transaction price only to the extent that it is probable that a significant reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is subsequently resolved.

The transaction price is allocated to each performance obligation on a relative standalone selling price basis.

The transaction price allocated to each performance obligation is recognized when (i) persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, (ii) all obligations have been substantially performed pursuant to the terms of the arrangement, (iii) amounts are fixedthat performance obligation is satisfied, at a point in time or determinable, and (iv) the collectability of amounts is reasonable assured.

License Service Feesover time as appropriate. 

 

In general, we are required to make certain judgments and estimates in connection with the accounting for revenue arrangementscontracts with customers. Such areas may include identifying performance obligations in the contract, estimating the timing of satisfaction of performance obligations, determining whether a promise of consideration, whether a license to intellectual property or an entitlement to payment of a percentage of net proceeds, is distinct from other promised goods or services, evaluating whether consideration transfers to a customer at a point in time or over time, allocating the transaction price to separate performance obligations, determining whether contracts contain a significant financing component, and estimating revenues recognized at a point in time for licensed sales. 

Patent Licensing Fees

Revenue is recognized upon transfer of control of promised bundled intellectual property rights and other contractual performance obligations to licensees in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to receive in exchange for those intellectual property rights. Revenue contracts that provide promises to grant “the right” to use intellectual property rights as they exist at the point in time at which the intellectual property rights are granted, are accounted for as performance obligations satisfied at a point in time and revenue is recognized at the point in time that the applicable performance obligations are satisfied and all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.

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For the periods presented, revenue contracts executed by the Company primarily provided for the payment of contractually determined, one-time, paid-up license fees in consideration for the grant of certain intellectual property rights for patented technologies owned or controlled by us.the Company’s operating subsidiaries. Intellectual property rights granted included the following, as applicable: (i) the grant of a non-exclusive, retroactive and future license to manufacture and/or sell products covered by patented technologies, (ii) a covenant-not-to-sue, (iii) the release of the licensee from certain claims, and (iv) the dismissal of any pending litigation. The intellectual property rights granted may bewere perpetual in nature, extending until the legal expiration date of the related patents, or can bepatents. The individual intellectual property rights are not accounted for as separate performance obligations, as (a) the nature of the promise, within the context of the contract, is to transfer combined items to which the promised intellectual property rights are inputs and (b) the Company’s promise to transfer each individual intellectual property right described above to the customer is not separately identifiable from other promises to transfer intellectual property rights in the contract.

Since the promised intellectual property rights are not individually distinct, the Company combined each individual IP right in the contract into a bundle of IP rights that is distinct, and accounted for all of the intellectual property rights promised in the contract as a single performance obligation. The intellectual property rights granted for a defined, relatively short periodwere “functional IP rights” that have significant standalone functionality. The Company’s subsequent activities do not substantively change that functionality and do not significantly affect the utility of time, withthe IP to which the licensee possessing the right to renew the agreement at the end of each contractual term for an additional minimum upfront payment. Pursuant to the terms of these agreements, wehas rights. The Company’s subsidiaries have no further obligation with respect to the grant of the non-exclusive retroactive and future licenses, covenants-not-to-sue, releases, and other deliverables,intellectual property rights, including no express or implied obligation on our part to maintain or upgrade the technology, or provide future support or services. Generally, the agreementsThe contracts provide for the grant (i.e. transfer of control) of the licenses, covenants-not-to-sue, releases, and other significant deliverables upon execution of the agreement, or upon receiptcontract. Licensees legally obtain control of the minimum upfront payment for term agreement renewals.intellectual property rights upon execution of the contract. As such, the earnings process is complete and revenue is recognized upon the execution of the agreement,contract, when collectability is reasonably assured, or upon receipt of the minimum upfront fee for the term agreement renewals,probable and when all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.

Certain of our revenue arrangements provide for future royalties or additional required payments based on future licensee activities. Additional royalties are recognized in revenue upon resolution of the related contingency provided that all revenue recognition criteria, as described above, have been met. Amounts of additional royalties due under these license agreements, if any, cannot be reasonably estimated by management. Amounts related to revenue arrangements that do not meet the revenue recognition criteria described above are deferred until the revenue recognition criteria are met.

We assess the collectability of fees receivable based on a number of factors, including past transaction history and credit-worthiness of licensees. If it is determined that collection is not reasonably assured, the fee is recognized when collectability becomes reasonably assured, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria have been met, which is Revenue contracts generally upon receipt of cash.

Management Fees

In general, revenue arrangements provide for the payment of contractually determined fees and expenses in consideration for the management of structured licensing programs concerning intellectual property owned or controlled by us. The fee arrangement may continue for a set portion or all of the duration of the structure licensing program. Generally, the agreements provide for payment of the management feecontractual amounts within 730-90 days of execution of the due datecontract. Contractual payments made by licensees are generally non-refundable. We do not have any significant payment terms, as payment is received shortly after goods are delivered or services are provided, therefore there is no significant financing component or consideration payable to the customer in these transactions.

Licensed Sales

The balance of our revenue in 2019, from licensed sales, was not significant but included sales-based revenue contracts pursuant to purchase orders. There was no sales-based revenue in 2020. There is only one distinct performance obligation in each purchase order, transfer of the promised good to the customer, and the customer can benefit from the good together with other resources readily available to the customer. For licensed sales, the transaction price is allocated to the performance obligation on our invoice. As such,a relative standalone selling price basis per the earnings processpurchase order, and the Company includes in the transaction price some or all of an amount of estimated variable consideration to the extent that it is complete andprobable that a significant reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is subsequently resolved. Estimates are generally based on historical levels of activity, if available. Notwithstanding, revenue is recognized uponfor a licensed sale when the executionperformance obligation has been satisfied – transfer of the agreement, when collectability is reasonably assured, or upon receiptgood to the customer. The purchase order generally provides for payment of contractual amounts within 30 days of transfer of the invoiced amount, and when all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.goods to the customer, therefore there is no significant financing component or consideration payable to the customer in these transactions. 

 

We assess the collectabilityCost of fees receivable based on a number of factors, including past transaction history and credit-worthiness of licensees. If it is determined that collection is not reasonably assured, the fee is recognized when collectability becomes reasonably assured, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria have been met, which is generally upon receipt of cash.Revenues

 

Licensed Packaging SalesCost of revenues include the costs and expenses incurred in connection with our patent licensing and enforcement activities, including inventor royalties paid to original patent owners, contingent litigation funding fees, contingent legal fees paid to external patent counsel, other patent-related legal expenses paid to external patent counsel, licensing and enforcement related research, consulting and other expenses paid to third-parties and the amortization of patent-related investment costs. These costs are included under the caption “Cost of revenues” in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. No such fees are recognized as a cost of revenue to the extent that we have no obligation with respect to fees prior to a settlement or license.

 

Our packaging operation customers are end users. Revenue, less reserves for returns, is recognized upon shipment to the customer.Inventor Royalties, Contingent Litigation Funding Fees and Contingent Legal Expenses.

 

Inventor royalties are expensed in the consolidated statements of operations in the period that the related revenues are recognized. Contingent litigation funding and legal fees are expensed in the consolidated statements of operations in the period that the related revenues are recognized. In instances where there are no recoveries from potential infringers, no contingent litigation funding fees are due.

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Accounts Receivable

Accounts receivable, which generally relate to licensed sales, are presented on the balance sheet net of estimated uncollectible amounts. The Company records an allowance for estimated uncollectible accounts in an amount approximating anticipated losses. Individual uncollectible accounts are written off against the allowance when collection of the TurtlePakTM packaging system and management fees, areindividual accounts appears doubtful. We recorded at the invoiced amount. Occasionally, installment payments will be incorporated into the terms of our licensing agreements and are recorded according to the payment schedule detailed in the licensing agreement.

Anyan allowance for doubtful accounts is our best estimate of the amount$66,000 and $0 as of probable losses to us from existing accounts receivable. No allowance for doubtful accounts was recorded for the years ended December 31, 20142020 and 2013.December 31, 2019, respectively.

 

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Intangible Assets

Intangible assets consist of patents which are amortized using the straight-line method over their estimated useful lives or statutory lives whichever is shorter and are reviewed for impairment upon any triggering event that may give rise to the assets ultimate recoverability as prescribed under the guidance related to impairment of long-lived assets. Costs incurred to acquire patents, including legal costs, are also capitalized as long-lived assets and amortized on a straight-line basis with the associated patent. 

 

Patents include the cost of patents or patent rights (collectively “patents”) acquired from third-parties or acquired in connection with business combinations. Patent acquisition costs are amortized utilizing the straight-line method over their remaining economic useful lives, ranging from one to ten years. Certain patent application and prosecution costs incurred to secure additional patent claims, that based on management’s estimates are deemed to be recoverable, are capitalized and amortized over the remaining estimated economic useful life of the related patent portfolio. 

Impairment of long-lived assets

Long-lived assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable through the estimated undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use and eventual disposition of the assets. Whenever any such impairment exists, an impairment loss will be recognized for the amount by which the carrying value exceeds the fair value. No impairment was recorded for the either the year ended December 31, 2020 or of the year ended December 31, 2019.

 

Derivative Financial Instruments

Management evaluates the embedded conversion feature within its convertible debt instruments under ASC 815-15 and ASC 815-40 to determine if the conversion feature meets the definition of a liability and, if so, whether to bifurcate the conversion feature and account for it as a separate derivative liability. For derivative financial instruments that are accounted for as liabilities, the derivative instrument is initially recorded at its fair value and is then re-valued at each reporting date, with changes in the fair value reported in the statements of operations. For stock-based derivative financial instruments, management uses a Black Scholes model, in accordance with ASC 815-15 “Derivative and Hedging” to value the derivative instruments at inception and on subsequent valuation dates. The classification of derivative instruments, including whether such instruments should be recorded as liabilities or as equity, is evaluated at the end of each reporting period. Derivative instrument liabilities are classified in the balance sheet as current or non-current based on whether net-cash settlement of the derivative instrument could be required within 12 months after the balance sheet date.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

 

We adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures”, for assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis. ASC 820 establishes a common definition for fair value to be applied to existing US GAAP that require the use of fair value measurements which establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosure about such fair value measurements.

 

ASC 820 defines fair value as 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. Additionally, ASC 820 requires the use of valuation techniques that maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. These inputs are prioritized below:

 

 Level 1:Observable inputs such as quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities
   
 Level 2:Observable market-based inputs or unobservable inputs that are corroborated by market data
   
 Level 3:Unobservable inputs for which there is little or no market data, which require the use of the reporting entity’s own assumptions.

 

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In addition, FASB ASC 825-10-25 “Fair Value Option” was effective for January 1, 2008. ASC 825-10-25 expands opportunities to use fair value measurements in financial reporting and permits entities to choose to measure many financial instruments and certain other items at fair value.

Income Tax

We record revenues on a gross basis, before deduction for income taxes. We incurred income tax expenses of approximately $65,000 and $5,000 for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

Stock-based Compensation

 

We account for share-based awards issuedstock-based compensation pursuant to ASC 718, “Compensation — Stock Compensation,” which prescribes accounting and reporting standards for all stock-based payment transactions in which employee services, and, since January1, 2019, non-employee services, are acquired. Transactions include incurring liabilities, or issuing or offering to issue shares, options and other equity instruments such as employee stock ownership plans and stock appreciation rights. Stock-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, are recognized as compensation expense in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 718, “Compensation-Stock Compensation”. Accordingly, employee share-based payment compensation is measured at the grant date,financial statements based on their fair values. That expense is recognized over the fair value ofperiod during which an employee is required to provide services in exchange for the award, and is recognizedknown as an expense over the requisite service period , which is normally(usually the vesting period. Share-based compensationperiod).

Leases

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases” (Topic 842), to directors is treatedprovide a new comprehensive model for lease accounting under this guidance, lessees and lessors should apply a “right-of-use” model in accounting for all leases (including subleases) and eliminate the same mannerconcept of operating leases and off-balance-sheet leases. Recognition, measurement and presentation of expenses will depend on classification as share-based compensationa finance or operating lease. Similar modifications have been made to employees, regardlesslessor accounting in-line with revenue recognition guidance.

We adopted Topic 842 as of whetherJanuary 1, 2019 using the directors are also employees. We account for share-based compensation to persons other than employees in accordancemodified retrospective transition method with FASB ASC 505-50. Equity instruments issued to other than employees are valued at the earlier of a commitment date or upon completion of the services, basedno impact on the fair valueconsolidated financial position or results of the equity instruments and is recognized as expense over the service period. We estimate the fair value of share-based payments using the Black Scholes option-pricing model for common stock options and warrants and the closing price of our common stock for common share issuances.operations.

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Management does not anticipatebelieve that thethere are any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements will materially impact ourstandards which, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s financial condition.statements.

 

Going Concern

 

We have an accumulated deficit of $14,284,068approximately $21.3 million and negative working capital of $477,414approximately $8.2 million as of September 30, 2015.December 31, 2020. Because of our continuing losses, our working capital deficiency, the uncertainty of future revenue, the possible effect of a judgement against one or more of our subsidiaries for legal fees; our low stock price and the absence of a trading market in our common stock, our ability to raise funds in equity market or from lenders is severely impaired. These conditions raise substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going concern. Although we may seek to raise funds and to obtain third party funding for litigation to enforce its intellectual property rights, the availability of such funds in uncertain, and our use of the funds from funding sources relating to the monetization of our intellectual property may not be available for working capital purposes. Our financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 

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Off-balance Sheet Arrangements

 

We have not entered into any other financial guarantees or other commitments to guarantee the payment obligations of any third parties. We have not entered into any derivative contracts that are indexed to our shares and classified as stockholder’s equity or that are not reflected in our consolidated financial statements. Furthermore, we do not have any retained or contingent interest in assets transferred to an unconsolidated entity that serves as credit, liquidity or market risk support to such entity.no off-balance sheet arrangements. 

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MANAGEMENT

 

MANAGEMENT

Executive Officers and Directors

 

Our directors and executiveThe following table presents information with respect to our officers, are:directors:

 

Name Age Position(s)
Jon C. Scahill 3944 Chief executive officer, president, acting chief financial officer, secretary and director
Timothy J. Scahill 4853 Chief technology officer and director
Dr. William Ryall Carroll 45Director
Ryan T. Logue40 Director

 

Each director servesPrior to January 2016, our directors were elected to serve for a term of one year until our next annual meeting of the stockholders or unless he resigns earlier. TheOn January 22, 2016, following approval by the stockholders, we amended and restated our certificate of incorporation. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides for a classified board of directors. Our classified board of directors elects officers, who servehas three classes of directors – Class I directors, Class II directors and Class III directors. The Class I director has a term of which expired in 2020, the Class II director has a term which expired in 2018, and the Class III director has a term which expired in 2019. Directors are elected for a term of three years. Since we did not have an annual meeting of stockholders in 2018, 2019 and 2020, the Class I, Class II and Class III directors continue in office until the next meeting of stockholders, at the discretion of the board of directors.which all directors will be elected.

 

Jon C. Scahill, a Class I director, has been president and chief executive officer since January 2014 and a director since 2007. He was appointed secretary in April 2014. He also served as president and chief operating officer from May 2007 to December 2013. From December 2006 to May 2007, Mr. Scahill was founder and managing director of the Urban-Rigney Group, LLC, a private consultancy specializing in new business/new venture development, operations optimization, and strategic analysis. Prior to launching his consultancy business, Mr. Scahill held numerous positions in sales and marketing, technical management, and product development in the consumer products/flexible packaging arena. Mr. Scahill holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester, an MBA in finance, strategy and operations from Rochester'sRochester’s Simon Graduate School of Business and a JD from Pace Law School. Mr. Scahill is admitted to practice in New York, Florida and Florida,the District of Columbia, and he is a registered patent attorney admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

 

Timothy J. Scahill, a Class II director, has a director since October 2014 and our chief technology officer since 2007. Mr. Scahill is also currently a managing partner of Managed Services Team LLC, an IT services provider. Prior to Managed Services Team, he was president of Layer 8 Group, Inc. from August 2005 to December 2012, at which time Layer 8 merged with Structured Technologies Inc. to form Managed Services Team LLC. In his roles he has taken the responsibility for business strategy, acquisition, execution, as well as financial management. His entrepreneurial acumen and proven record of successful management with sole discretionary responsibility, demonstrate the scope of his capability and his value to delivering results. He serves on the boards of the Upstate New York Technology Council, is an investor in Greater Rochester Enterprise, Pariemus Rochester and also serves on the Corporate Advisory Board for Habitat for Humanity. He is a member of Greater Rochester Enterprise and CEO Roundtable Chair.

 

Dr. William Ryall Carroll, a Class III director, has been a director since October 2014. Dr. Carroll has been associate professor and chairman of the marketing department at St. John’s University College of Business since July 2014. From September 2008 until June 2014, Dr. Carroll was an assistant professor in the marketing department of St. John’s University College of Business. Dr. Carroll is founder, chief executive officer and owner of Raiserve Inc., a web-based platform for monetizing non-profit programmatic work in the area of service formed in October 2014. Dr. Carroll’s research focuses on consumer behavior and behavioral decision theory. Dr. Carroll'sCarroll’s work has been published in top academic journals including the Journal of Advertising, Marketing Letters, as well in books such as Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing Communications. In addition to his research Dr. Carroll has taught Marketing at the executive, graduate and undergraduate level across in the United States, Europe and Asia. Prior to pursuing his academic career, Dr. Carroll held various marketing positions at NOP Worldwide Marketing Research Company and Ralston Purina Company. Dr. Carroll earned his BA in Economics from the University of Rochester, his MS in Marketing Research from the University of Texas in Arlington, and his PhD from City University of New York – Baruch College.

 

Ryan T. Logue, a Class I director, is an investment advisory representative Lincoln Investment, a position he has held since 2019. Prior to joining Lincoln Investment, he spent 16 years with Morgan Stanley in the private wealth management department. Mr. Logue has spent the majority of his career focused on investing in both public and private opportunities department. Mr. Logue graduated with a BA from Colgate University and an MBA from Columbia University and has previously served on the board of the Columbia Alumni Association of Fairfield County.

Timothy J. Scahill and Jon C. Scahill are first cousins.

 

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Our directors are appointed for a one-year term to hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders or until removed from office in accordance with our bylaws.Director Independence

 

Our board of directors has approved, subject to stockholder approval, an amendment and restatement of our certificate of incorporation which, among other amendments, provides for a classified board. If the amended and restated certificate of incorporation is approved by our stockholders, our classified board of directors will have three classes of directors – Class I directors, Class II directors and Class III directors. The Class I director will initially have a term of one year, until the 2017 annual meeting; the Class II director will initially have a term of two years, until the 2018 annual meeting, and the Class III director will initially have a term of three years, until the 2019 annual meeting, in each case until his successor is elected and qualified. Thereafter, each director will be elected for a term of three years, and in each annual meeting, we will only vote for the election of that class of directors whose term expires at that annual meeting. See “Description of Capital Stock – Proposed Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.”

If the amended and restated certificate of incorporation is approved by our stockholders and if our current directors are reelected, Jon C. Scahill will be a Class I director, Timothy J. Scahill will be a Class II director and Dr. William Ryall Carroll will be a Class III director.

Director Independence

We believe that Dr. Carroll is anand Mr. Logue are “independent” directordirectors based on the definition of independence in the listing standards of the NYSE.

 

Code of Ethics

 

We have not yet adopted a code of ethics that applies to our principal executive officers, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions, since we have been focusing our efforts on developing our business. We expect to adopt a code as we develop our business.

 

Committees of the Board of Directors

 

We do not have any committees of our board of directors.

 

Compliance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, requires executive officers and directors of issuers whose securities are registered pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act and persons who own more than 10% of a registered class of our equity securities to file with the SEC initial statements of beneficial ownership, reports of changes in ownership and annual reports concerning their ownership of the our common stock and other equity securities, on Form 3, 4 and 5 respectively. Because our common stock is not registered pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act, our officers, directors and 10% stockholders are not required to make such filings.

Executive CompensationEXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

 

The following summary compensation table sets forth information concerning compensation for services rendered in all capacities during the years ended December 31, 20142020 and 2013,2019, earned by or paid to our executive officers.

 

Summary Compensation Table

Name and Principal Position Year Salary  Bonus
Awards
  Stock
Awards
  Options/ Warrant
Awards (1)
  Non-Equity Plan
Compensation
  Nonqualified
Deferred Earnings
  All Other
Compensation
  Total 
    ($)  ($)  ($)  ($)  ($)  ($)  ($)  ($) 
Jon Scahill, 2020 $300,000            -            -            -            -            -   57,000(1) $357,000 
CEO and President 2019  300,000   -   -   -   -   -   -   300,000 

Name

and

Principal

Position

(1)
YearSalary

Bonus

Awards

Stock

Awards

Options/

Warrant Awards (1)

Non-Equity

Plan

Compensation

Nonqualified

Deferred

Earnings

All

Other

Compensation

Total
($)($)($)($)($)($)($)($)

Burton Goldstein1,

Chairman and Secretary

2014

2013

150,000

200,000

------

150,000

200,000

Herbert Reichlin1,

CEO, CFO, Treasurer

2014

2013

187,500

250,000

-----

187,500

250,000

Jon Scahill2,

COO and President

2014

2013

252,000

300,000

--21,000---

252,000

321,000

Represents the payments made by the Company under the SEP IRA adopted in March 2020

 

1Pursuant to separation agreements dated October 14, 2014, Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Reichlin each waived all accrued salary. See “Management – Employment and Separation Agreements.”
2Pursuantto an amended and restated employment agreement dated November 30, 2014, Mr. Scahill waived accrued compensation through December 31, 2013. See “Management – Employment and Separation Agreements.”

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Employment and Separation Agreements

 

On March 1, 2008, we entered into an employment agreement with Jon C. Scahill, pursuant to which we employed Mr. Scahill as our president and chief operating officer for a period of ten years, subject to renewal, for an annual salary of $300,000. Pursuant to the agreement, we issued Mr. Scahill ten-year warrants to purchase 15,000,000 shares common stock at an exercise price of $0.004 per share, which vested upon execution of the employment agreement, and agreed to issue to Mr. Scahill on the third anniversary of the date of execution of his employment agreement, seven-year warrants to purchase 30,000,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.004 per share, which we issued in 2011 and which vested on issuance, and we agreed to issue to Mr. Scahill on the fifth anniversary of the execution of his employment agreement, five-year warrants to purchase 15,000,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.004 per share, which we issued in 2013, and which vested on issuance.

On October 30, 2014, we entered into a restated employment agreement with Mr. Jon Scahill, which was superseded by a restated employment agreement dated as of November 30, 2014. Pursuant to the restated employment agreement, whichdated November 30, 2014, we agreed to employ Mr.Jon C. Scahill as president and chief executive officer for a term of three years, commencing January 1, 2014, and continuing on a year-to-year basis unless terminated by either party on not less than 90 days’ notice prior to the expiration of the initial term or any one-year extension. The agreement provides for an annual salary of $252,000, which may be increased, but not decreased, by the board or the compensation committee. In March 2016, the board of directors increased Mr. Scahill’s annual salary to $300,000, effective January 1, 2016. Mr. Scahill is entitled to a bonus if we meet or exceed performance criteria established by the compensation committee. In August 2016, the board of directors approved annual bonus compensation to Mr. Scahill equal to 30% of the amount by which our consolidated income before income taxes exceeds $500,000, but, if we are subject to the limitation on deductibility of executive compensation pursuant to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, the bonus cannot exceed the amount which would be deductible pursuant to Section 162(m). Mr. Scahill is also eligible to participate in any executive incentive plans which we may adopt. Pursuant to the agreement, we issued to Mr. Scahill warrants to purchase 60,000,000 shares, representing the warrants that had been previously covered in his prior employment agreement but which had never been issued, and we issued to Mr. Scahill a restricted stock grant for 30,000,000 shares which vested on January 15, 2015. Prior to the vesting of the shares, Mr. Scahill held the rights of a stockholder with respect to these shares, including the right to vote, subject to forfeiture in the event that the shares did not vest. In the event that we terminate Mr. Scahill’s employment other than for cause or as a result of his death or disability, we will pay him severance equal to his salary for the balance of the term and, if he received a bonus for the previous year, an amount equal to that bonus, as well as continuation of his insurance benefits. Mr. Scahill also waived accrued compensation of $1,167,705, representing his accrued salary for periods prior to January 1, 2014. The restated employment agreement also includes mutual general releases between Mr. Scahill and us. In March 2020, the Company adopted a SEP IRA plan for its employees. Mr. Scahill is our only employee covered by the plan.

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Pension Benefits

 

OnIn March 1, 2008,2020, we entered into an employment agreement with Burton Goldstein,adopted a SEP IRA plan for our employees pursuant to which we employeddeposit into a SEP IRA account of each of our participating employees a percentage of the employee’s compensation, subject to statutory limitations on the amount of the contribution all as set forth in the IRS Form 5305-SEP presented to and reviewed by the directors of this Corporation. For the year ending December 31, 2020 the percentage was set at 19%. Mr. Goldstein asScahill is our chairman and secretary for a periodonly employee covered by the plan.

2017 Equity Incentive Plan

On November 10, 2017, the board of seven years, at an annual salary of $200,000. Pursuantdirectors adopted the 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) pursuant to the employment agreement, we issued Mr. Goldstein seven-year warrants to purchase an aggregate of 5,000,000which 150,000,000 shares of common stock at an exercise pricemay be issued. In February 2021, the board amended the Plan to increase the number of $0.004 per share. The warrants vested uponshares subject to the dateplan to 500,000,000. Set forth below is a summary of the executionplan, as amended, but this summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the employment agreement. On October 10, 2014, we entered intoplan, a separation agreement and mutual general release with Mr. Goldstein whereby Mr. Goldstein forgave all loans, accrued interest, accrued salary and accrued benefits and released us from any claim to any compensation and benefits, accrued or otherwise, under any agreement or purported agreement, including the employment agreement dated March 1, 2008. Mr. Goldstein’s employment terminated on June 20, 2014, and he resignedcopy of which is included as a director on August 27, 2014. We agreed that Mr. Goldstein would retain the warrants granted under the employment agreement dated March 1, 2008 and that we would pay Mr. Goldstein 3.25% of our net revenues, provided that our net revenues exceed $1,500,000, upan exhibit to the aggregate amountregistration statement of $250,000 with payments in any year not to exceed $125,000. which this prospectus is a part.

The total accrued compensationplan provides for the grant of non-qualified options, stock grants and other obligations waived by Mr. Goldstein was $1,343,543.equity-based incentives to employees, including officers, directors and consultants.

 

On March 1, 2008, we entered into an employment agreement with Herbert Reichlin, pursuant to which we employed Mr. Reichlin as our chief executive officer, chief financial officer and treasurer for a periodFebruary 19, 2021, the board of ten years for an annual salary of $250,000. Pursuant to the employment agreement, we issued Mr. Reichlin ten-year warrants to purchase 5,000,000 shares of common stock at $0.004 per share. The warrants vested upon the date of the execution of the employment agreement. In June 2014, Mr. Reichlin’s employment with us was terminated on June 20, 2014, and he resigned as a director on October 10, 2014. On October 10, 2014, we entered into a separation agreement and mutual general release with Mr. Reichlin whereby Mr. Reichlin forgave all loans, accrued interest, accrued salary, accrued benefits and released us from any claim to any compensation and benefits, accrued or otherwise, under any agreement or purported agreement, including the employment agreement dated March 1, 2008, at any time between Mr. Reichlin and us. Mr. Reichlin resigned as a director and agreed not seek re-election for a period of 36 months. We agreed that Mr. Reichlin would retain the warrants granted under the employment agreement dated March 1, 2008 and that we would pay Mr. Reichlin 3.25% of our net revenues, provided that our net revenues exceed $1,500,000, up to the aggregate amount of $700,000 with payments in any year not to exceed $300,000. The total accrued compensation and other obligations waived by Mr. Reichlin was $1,667,350.directors:

 

Pension Benefits

We currently have no plans that provide for payments or other benefits at, following, or in connection with retirement of our officers.

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 granted restricted stock grants for a total of 69,000,000 shares, which vested immediately upon grant, to our directors, Jon C. Scahill (49,000,000 shares), Timothy J. Scahill (10,000,000 shares) and Dr. William R. Carroll (10,000,000 shares) as compensation for services rendered;

granted a restricted stock grant to Ryan T. Logue for 5,000,000 shares upon his acceptance of his appointment as a director;

granted non-qualified ten-year stock options to purchase 30,000,000 shares to each of three consultants pursuant to agreements with the consultants, the options to vest as provided in their agreements.

granted a non-qualified ten-year stock option to purchase 60,000,000 shares to Jon C. Scahill, which vest in installments as described under “Executive Compensation – 2017 Long-Term Incentive Plan.”

The options granted to two of the consultants, William Gates and Crystal Nicolson, become exercisable as follows:

10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.01 per share becoming exercisable upon the commencement of trading of the Common Stock on the OTCQB.

10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.03 per share, becoming exercisable on the first day on which the Company files with the SEC a Form 10-K or Form 10-Q which stockholders’ equity of at least $5,000,000, and

10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.05/share becoming exercisable on the date on which the Common Stock is listed for trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market or the New York Stock Exchange.

The options granted the third consultant, Jeff Toler, become exercisable as follows:

10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.01 per share upon the first anniversary of the agreement.

10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.03 per share upon the second anniversary of the agreement; and

10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.05 per share upon the third anniversary of the agreement.

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The options granted to Jon C. Scahill become exercisable as follows:

20,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.01 per share becoming exercisable upon the commencement of trading of the Common Stock on the OTCQB.

20,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.03 per share, becoming exercisable on the first day on which the Company files with the SEC a Form 10-K or Form 10-Q which stockholders’ equity of at least $5,000,000, and

20,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.05/share becoming exercisable on the date on which the Common Stock is listed for trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market or the New York Stock Exchange.

Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End

 

The following table sets forth information as to theThere were no outstanding equity awards granted to and held by the officers namedas of December 31, 2020.

Directors’ Compensation

We do not have any agreements or formal plan for compensating our directors for their service in their capacity as directors, although our board has, and may in the future, award stock grants or options to purchase shares of common stock to our directors. 

The following table provides information concerning the compensation of each member of our board of directors whose compensation is not included in the Summary Compensation Table for his services as of December 31, 2014.a director for 2020.

 

 Option awards Stock awards
Name 

Number of securities underlying unexercised options

(#) exercisable

  

Number of securities

underlying

unexercised

options

(#) unexercisable

  

Equity

incentive

plan awards: Number of

securities

underlying unexercised unearned options

(#)

  

Option

exercise price

($)

  

Option expiration

date

 

Number of shares or units of stock that have not vested

(#)

  

Market value of shares of units of stock that have not vested

($)

  

Equity

incentive

plan awards: Number of unearned shares, units or other rights that have not vested

(#)

  

Equity

incentive

plan awards: Market or payout value of unearned shares, units or other rights that have not vested

($)

                          
Burton
Goldstein
  5,000,000(1)          0.004  March 1, 2015              
                                 

Herbert

Reichlin

  5,000,000(2)          0.004  March 1, 2018              
                                 

Jon

Scahill

  

15,000,000

30,000,000

15,000,000

(3)

(4)

(5)

          0.004  March 1, 2018              

(1)NameOn March 1, 2008, we issued to Mr. Goldstein seven-year warrants to purchase 5,000,000 shares of common stock at $0.004 per share pursuant to his employment agreement. The warrants vested upon issuance. The warrants expired unexercised on March 1, 2015.Fees Earned
or Paid in
Cash
Stock
Awards
Total
(2)Timothy J. ScahillOn March 1, 2008, we issued to Mr. Reichlin ten-year warrants to purchase 5,000,000 shares of common stock at $0.004 per share. The warrants vested on issuance.$-$-$-
(3)Dr. William Ryall CarrollOn March 1, 2008, we issued to Mr. Scahill ten-year warrants to purchase 15,000,000 shares of common stock at $0.004 per share. The warrants vested on issuance.
(4)On March 1, 2011, we issued to Mr. Scahill seven-year warrants to purchase 30,000,000 shares of common stock at $0.004 per share. The warrants vested on issuance.
(5)On March 1, 2013, we issued to Mr. Scahill five-year warrants to purchase 15,000,000 shares of common stock at $0.004 per share. The warrants vested on issuance.---

 

The warrants described above with respect to Mr. Scahill had not been issued at the time of his restated employment agreement. Pursuant to that agreement, we issued Mr. Scahill a warrant to purchase 60,000,000 shares on October 30, 2014.

Directors’ Compensation

No director not named in the Summary Compensation Table received any compensation during 2014.

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PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS

 

The following table provides information as to shares of common stock beneficially owned as of November 30, 2015,May 12, 2021, by:

 

 Each director;
   
 Each current officer named in the summary compensation table;
   
 Each person owning of record or known by us, based on information provided to us by the persons named below, at least 5% of our common stock; and
   
 All directors and officers as a group

 

For purposes of the following table, “beneficial ownership” means the sole or shared power to vote, or to direct the voting of, a security, or sole or shared investment power with respect to a security, or any combination thereof, and the right to acquire such power (for example, through the exercise of warrants granted by us) within 60 days of November 30, 2015.May 12, 2021.

 

Name and Address(1) of Beneficial Owner 

Amount and Nature of

Beneficial Ownership

  % of Class 
       
Jon C. Scahill (2)  91,000,000   24.4%
United Wireless Holdings, Inc.
301 Congress Avenue; Suite 1274
Austin, TX 78701
  50,000,000   16.0%
Tomas Arce
3463 State Street
Suite 327
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
  25,700,000   8.2%
Herbert Reichlin (3)
19 Fortune Lane
Jericho, New York 11573
  16,316,000   5.1%
Dr. William Ryall Carroll  484,633   * 
Timothy J. Scahill  5,000   * 
All officers and directors as a group (three individuals)  91,489,633   24.5%

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Name and Address (1) of Beneficial Owner Amount and
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership
  

% of

Class

 
Jon C. Scahill  140,000,000   26.2%
Andrew C. Fitton (2)
300 Bowie St., Apt. 2803
Austin, TX 78703
  117,407,407   22.0%
Intelligent Partners, LLC (3)
300 Bowie St., Apt. 2803
Austin, TX 78703
  50,000,000   8.6%
Michael R. Carper (4)
13218 Tamayo Drive
Austin, TX 78729
  78,888,889   14.8%
Tomas Arce
3463 State Street
Suite 327
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
  26,699,627   5.0%
Dr. William Ryall Carroll  15,484,633   2.9%
Timothy J. Scahill  15,105,000   2.8%
Ryan T. Logue  5,000,000      *
All officers and directors as a group (four individuals)  176,087,257   33.0%

 

* less than 1%.

 

(1)The address of Mr. Jon C. Scahill, Dr. William Ryall Carroll, and Mr. Timothy J. Scahill and Ryan T. Logue is c/o Quest Patent Research Corporation, 411 Theodore Fremd Ave., Suite 206S, Rye, New York 10580-1411.
(2)TheRepresents (a) 67,407,407 shares beneficially owned by Mr. Jon Scahill represent (a) 31,000,000 shares of common stock owned by him,Fitton and (b) 60,000,00050,000,000 shares issuable upon exercise of an option held by Intelligent Partners.
(3)Represents 50,000,000 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of a warrant at an exercise priceoptions held by Intelligent Partners. Andrew C. Fitton and Michael R. Carper, as the members of $0.004 per share through March 1, 2018.Intelligent Partners, have the right to vote and dispose of the shares owned by Intelligent Partners.
(3)(4)TheRepresents (a) 28,888,889 shares beneficiallyof common stock owned by Mr. Reichlin include 5,000,000Carper and (b) 50,000,000 shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants.an option held by Intelligent Partners.

 

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

Related Transactions

As a result of the September 2015 sale to United Wireless of 50,000,000 shares of common stock, representing 13.0% of our common stock and its right to name a director, United Wireless is a related party as of December 31, 2020. United Wireless had no relationship with us prior to the closing of the securities purchase agreement and related agreements in October 2015. United Wireless transferred its shares to its principals, Andrew C. Fitton and Michael R. Carper, it transferred its option, the notes and its remaining rights under the agreements to Intelligent Partners LLC, of which Mr. Fitton and Mr. Carper are the members.

Reference is made to the discussion of our agreements with Intelligent Partners, Mr. Fitton and Mr. Carper under “Business – Agreements with Intellectual Partners.”

 

Managed Services Team LLC, an entity for which by Timothy Scahill, our chief technology officer and a director, is a managing partner, provides information technology services to us. We are obligated to pay for these services at usual and customary rates. In 2014, theThe cost of these services for 2020 and 2019 was approximately $1,750.$464 and $464, respectively.

 

During 2003,We contracted with a law firm more than 10 percent owned, but not controlled, by the father-in-law of the chief executive officer. The firm is engaged on a contingent fee basis and serves as escrow agent in connection with monetization of our intellectual property rights on matters in which the firm is serving as counsel to us. In connection with the engagement, we borrowed $79,490 from then officersrecorded patent service costs of approximately $909,000 and directors, who are now unrelated third parties.$0 for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The loans were payable on demandamount recorded in 2020 includes approximately $407,000 in accrued expenses and provided foroutstanding as of December 31, 2020. In prior periods, we engaged a firm at which the father-in-law of the chief executive was formerly a partner. Because his interest at 10% per annum. During 2014, all loan holders ceased to be related parties as a result of employee separation agreements and director resignations. As a result, loans in the principal amount of approximately $54,490 were cancelled pursuant toprior firm was less than 10%, the prior firm was not considered a separation agreement and loansrelated party in the principal amount $25,000 was reclassified as loans payable to third parties upon resignation of the lender from the board. At December 31, 2014 and September 30, 2015, there are no loans payable to related parties.prior periods.

 

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DESCRIPTION OFCAPITAL STOCK

 

Our authorized capital stock consists of 390,000,00010,000,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.00003 per share, and 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.00003 per share. Holders of our common stock are entitled to equal voting rights, consisting of one vote per share on all matters submitted to a stockholder vote. Holders of common stock do not have cumulative voting rights. Therefore, holders of a majority of the shares of common stock voting for the election of directors can elect all of the directors. The presence, in person or by proxy duly authorized, of the holders of one-third of the outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote are necessary to constitute a quorum at any meeting of our stockholders. A vote by the holders of a majority of our outstanding shares is required to effectuate certain fundamental corporate changes such as liquidation, merger or an amendment to our articles of incorporation. In the event of liquidation, dissolution or winding up of our company, either voluntarily or involuntarily, each outstanding share of the common stock is entitled to share equally in our assets.

 

Holders of our common stock have no pre-emptive rights, no conversion rights and there are no redemption provisions applicable to our common stock. They are entitled to receive dividends when and as declared by our board of directors, out of funds legally available therefore. We have not paid cash dividends in the past and do not expect to pay any within the foreseeable future.

 

Preferred Stock

 

Our articles of incorporation give our board of directors the power to issue shares of preferred stock in one or more series without stockholder approval. Our board of directors has the discretion to determine the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions, including voting rights, dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption privileges and liquidation preferences, of each series of preferred stock. The purpose of authorizing our board of directors to issue preferred stock and determine its rights and preferences is to eliminate delays associated with a stockholder vote on specific issuances. The issuance of preferred stock, while providing desirable flexibility in connection with possible acquisitions and other corporate purposes, could have the effect of making it more difficult for a third party to acquire, or could discourage a third party from acquiring, a majority of our outstanding voting stock. The rights granted to the holders of a series of preferred stock could restrict payment of dividends on the common stock, dilute the voting power of the common stock, impair the liquidation rights of the holders of the common stock and delay or prevent a change in control without further action by stockholders. We have no present plans to issue any shares of preferred stock, and our agreements with United Wireless prohibit us from issuing preferred stock without its consent.

 

Proposed Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation

 

On November 25, 2015, our board of directors approved, subject to stockholder approval, an amended and restated certificate of incorporation, and the amended and restated certificate of incorporation is being submitted to our stockholders for their approval. The following are the principal changes to our certificate of incorporation.

Increase in Authorized Common Stock

Our authorized common stock would be increased form 390,000,000 shares to 1,250,000,000 shares. As of November 30, 2015, we had 313,038,334 shares of common stock outstanding, and we had 50,000,000 shares that are issuable upon exercise by United Wireless of its purchase option, and 70,000,000 shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding options and warrants, of which warrants to purchase 60,000,000 shares are held by Mr. Jon Scahill, our president and chief executive officer. The total number of outstanding shares plus the shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of outstanding options and warrants is 433,038,334, which is more than the 390,000,000 authorized shares of common stock. Since we do not presently have sufficient shares of common stock to enable us to issue all shares which have been authorized for issuance pursuant to existing agreement, Mr. Jon C. Scahill, our chief executive officer, has advised us that he will not seek to exercise his warrant to the extent that the number of shares issuable upon such exercise would exceed the amount by which the authorized common stock exceeds the total of the outstanding shares of common stock plus the shares of common stock issuable upon outstanding options and warrants, including the purchase option held by United Wireless, until our authorized common stock is increased to 1,250,000,000 shares. See “Business – Agreements with United Wireless.”

Classified Board of Directors

At present all directors are elected for a term of one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. The amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides for a classified board, with directors being elected for a term of three years. Our classified board of directors will have three classes of directors – Class I directors, Class II directors and Class III directors. The Class I director will initially have a term of one year, until the 2017 annual meeting, the Class II director will initially have a term of two years, until the 2018 annual meeting, and the Class III director will initially have a term of three years, until the 2019 annual meeting, in each case until his successor is elected and qualified. Thereafter, each director will have a term of three years, and in each annual meeting, we will only vote for the election of those directors whose term expires at that annual meeting.

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Indemnification

The amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that we shall indemnify our officers and directors and others whom we are permitted to indemnify to the maximum extent permitted by Delaware law. Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law gives a corporation broad power to indemnify directors, officers and other persons. Our by-laws include a provision which provides that we will indemnify our officers and directors to the maximum extent permitted by law, and have authorization provisions which conform with the provisions of Section 145.

Other Provisions

The amended and restated certificate of incorporation expands upon the terms that can be included in a certificate of designation for a class or series of preferred stock that may be created by the board. The expanded language uses express language to include rights that were implied in our present certificate of incorporation. The note that we issued to United Wireless prohibits us from issuing preferred stock or other equity securities with a preference over the common stock as to dividend or on liquidation while the notes are outstanding without the prior written consent of the holders of the notes.

 

The present certificate of incorporation provides that no director shall be personally liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty subject to certain exceptions as provided in the Delaware General Corporation Law. The amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that if the General Corporation Law is amended to authorize further elimination or limitation of the liability of directors, these additional provisions shall apply to our directors.

 

The amended and restated certificate of incorporation includes a provision where, in connection with a compromise or arrangement between us and any class of creditors or stockholders, if a majority in number and three-fourth in value of the creditors or stockholders or class of creditors or stockholders, as the case may be, approve a compromise or arrangement which is sanctioned by the court, it is binding on all of the creditors or class of creditors or stockholders or class of stockholders.

 

Delaware Law Provisions Relating to Business Combinations with Related Persons

 

We are subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law statute. Section 203 prohibits a publicly-held Delaware corporation from engaging in a “business combination” with an “interested stockholder” for a period of three years after the person became an interested stockholder, unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner. A “business combination” includes mergers, asset sales and other transactions resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder. Subject to certain exceptions, an “interested stockholder” is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns, or within the prior three years did own, 15% or more of the corporation’s voting stock.

 

SEC Policy on Indemnification for Securities Act liabilities

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

 

Penny-Stock Rules

 

The SEC has adopted regulations which generally define a “penny stock” to be any equity security that has a market price (as defined) of less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions, and is not listed on the a registered stock exchange or the Nasdaq Stock Market (although the $5.00 per share requirement may apply to Nasdaq listed securities) or has net tangible assets in excess of $2,000,000, if the issuer has been in continuous operation for at least three years, or $5,000,000, if the issuer has been in continuous operation for less than three years, or has average revenue of at least $6,000,000 for the last three years.

 

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As a result, our common stock may be subject to rules that impose additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers who sell such securities to persons other than established customers and accredited investors (generally those with assets in excess of $1,000,000 or annual income exceeding $200,000, or $300,000 together with their spouse). For transactions covered by these rules, the broker-dealer must make a special suitability determination for the purchase of such securities and have received the purchaser’s written consent to the transaction prior to the purchase. Additionally, for any transaction involving a penny stock, unless exempt, the rules require the delivery, prior to the transaction, of a risk disclosure document mandated by the SEC relating to the penny stock market. The broker-dealer must also disclose the commission payable to both the broker-dealer and the registered representative, current quotations for the securities and, if the broker-dealer is the sole market maker, the broker-dealer must disclose this fact and the broker-dealer’s presumed control over the market. Finally, monthly statements must be sent disclosing recent price information for the penny stock held in the account and information on the limited market in penny stocks. Consequently, the “penny stock” rules may restrict the ability of broker-dealers to sell our securities and may affect your ability to sell our securities in the secondary market and the price at which you can sell our common stock.

 

According to the SEC, the market for penny stocks has suffered in recent years from patterns of fraud and abuse. Such patterns include:

 

ControlofControl of the market for the security by one or a few broker-dealers that are often related to the promoter or issuer;

 

ManipulationofManipulation of prices through prearranged matching of purchases and sales and false and misleading press releases;

 

Boiler-room”Boiler room” practices involving high pressure sales tactics and unrealistic price projections by inexperienced sales persons;

 

ExcessiveandExcessive and undisclosed bid-ask differentials and markups by selling broker-dealers; and

 

The wholesale dumping of the same securities by promoters and broker-dealers after prices have been manipulated to a desired level, along with the inevitable collapse of those prices with consequent losses to investors.

The wholesale dumping of the same securities by promoters and broker-dealers after prices have been manipulated to a desired level, along with the inevitable collapse of those prices with consequent losses to investors.

 

Purchasers of penny stocks may have certain legal remedies available to them in the event the obligations of the broker-dealer from whom the penny stock was purchased violates or fails to comply with the above obligations or in the event that other state or federal securities laws are violated in connection with the purchase and sale of such securities. Such rights include the right to rescind the purchase of such securities and recover the purchase price paid for them.

 

SinceIf our stock is a “penny stock” we do not have the safe harbor protection under federal securities laws with respect to forward-looking statements.

statement.

 

Transfer Agent

 

The transfer agent for the common stock is Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, 17 Battery Place,One State St., 30th Fl., New York, NY 10004, telephone (212) 509-4000.

 

LEGAL MATTERS

 

The validity of the common stock offered hereby will be passed upon for us by Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, New York, New York.

 

EXPERTS

 

Our consolidated financial statements included in this prospectus as of December 31, 20142020 and 20132019 and for the years then ended have been included in reliance on the reports of MaloneBailey, LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

 

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

 

We have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the common stock offered by this prospectus.  This prospectus does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement and the exhibits to the registration statement.  For further information with respect to our company and our common stock offered hereby, reference is made to the registration statement and the exhibits filed as part of the registration statement.  We file periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including annual reports which include our audited financial statements and quarterly reports although we are not currently required to make such filings pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act.  We also plan to include our SEC filings on our website. The registration statement, including exhibits thereto, and all of our periodic reports may be inspected without charge at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s principal office in Washington, DC, and copies of all or any part thereof may be obtained from the Public Reference Section of the Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549.  You may obtain additional information regarding the operation of the Public Reference Section by calling the Securities and Exchange Commission at 1-800-SEC-0330.  The Securities and Exchange Commission also maintains a website which provides online access to reports, registration statements and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the Securities and Exchange Commission at the address:http://www.sec.gov.www.sec.gov.

 

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INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTSQUEST PATENT RESEARCH CORPORATION

DECEMBER 31, 2020

 

Index to Consolidated Financial Statements

 Page
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting FirmF-2
Consolidated balance sheets atBalance Sheets as of December 31, 20142020 and 20132019F-3
Consolidated statementsStatements of operationsOperations for the years ended December 31, 20142020 and 20132019F-4
Consolidated statementsStatements of changesChanges in stockholders’ equity (deficit)Stockholders’ Deficit for the years ended December 31, 20142020 and 20132019F-5
Consolidated statementsStatements of cash flowsCash Flows for the years ended December 31, 20142020 and 20132019F-6
Notes to consolidated financial statementsConsolidated Financial StatementsF-7 - F-13
Consolidated balance sheets at September 30, 2015 (unaudited) and December 31,2014F-14
Unaudited consolidated statements of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014F-15
Unaudited consolidated statements of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014F-16
Notes to unaudited consolidated financial statementsF-17 - F-22F-7

 

F-1

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

To the Stockholders and Board of Directors

of Quest Patent Research Corporation

Rye, New York

Opinion on the Financial Statements

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Quest Patent Research Corporation and its subsidiaries (a Delaware Corporation) and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) as of December 31, 20142020 and 2013,2019, and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in stockholders’ deficit, and cash flows for each of the years then ended. These financial statements areended, and the responsibility ofrelated notes (collectively referred to as the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)“financial statements”). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Quest Patent Research Corporation, Inc. and its subsidiariesthe Company as of December 31, 20142020 and 2013,2019, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Going Concern Matter

 

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, the Company has incurredsuffered recurring losses from operations and has a series of net losses resulting in negative working capital as of December 31, 2014. These conditions raisedeficiency that raises substantial doubt as to the Company'sabout its ability to continue as a going concern. Management's plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 2. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

Impairment of Intangible Assets

Description of the Matter

As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, the Company’s intangible assets consist of patents which are amortized using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives and are reviewed for impairment upon any triggering event that may give rise to the assets ultimate recoverability. We identified the impairment assessment of the intangible assets as a critical audit matter due to its materiality to the financial statements and the significant estimates involved, the audit of which required a high degree of auditor judgment.

How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit

We tested the Company’s determination of the carrying value of the intangible assets by comparing the year-end balances to the undiscounted future cash flows and evaluated the reasonableness of the inputs of the future cash flows to verifiable data.

/s/ MaloneBailey, LLP

www.malonebailey.com

We have served as the Company's auditor since 2013.

Houston, Texas

August 18, 2015April 15, 2021


Quest Patent Research Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Balance Sheets

 

F-2

Quest Patent Research Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Balance Sheets

 December 31,  December 31, 
 2014  2013  2020 2019 
ASSETSASSETS      
Current assets          
Cash and cash equivalents $91,690  $159  $247,862 $537,198 
Investment in unconsolidated subsidiary  -   10,516 
Accounts receivable  22,500   4,218 
Accounts receivable - affiliates  -   5,295 
Other Current Assets  1,662   - 
Accounts receivable, net 1,032,886 1,850,375 
Other current assets  5,934  17,180 
Total current assets  115,852   20,188  1,286,682 2,404,753 
Patents, net of accumulated amortization of $2,266,158 and $1,617,762, respectively  2,200,959  2,754,354 
             
Total assets $115,852  $20,188  $3,487,641 $5,159,107 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICITLIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT      
Current liabilities             
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $90,869  $75,407  $2,892,025 $3,362,932 
Accrued officers’ compensation  -   3,815,103 
Loans payable – Officers/Directors  -   79,490 
Loans payable – third party  163,000   138,000  147,000 147,000 
Accrued interest  216,314   261,331 
Purchase price of patents, current portion 1,500,000 569,386 
Loan payable – related party, net of unamortized discount and debt issuance costs of $0 and $189,705, respectively 4,672,810 4,483,105 
Accrued interest – loans payable related party - 117,780 
Accrued interest - loans payable third party 284,885 270,185 
Derivative liability  -  595,000 
Total current liabilities  470,183   4,369,331  9,496,720 9,545,388 
        
Non-current liabilities     
Contingent funding liabilities - 20,378 
Loan payable - SBA 174,392 - 
Purchase price of patents, net of unamortized discount of $131,793 and $282,503, respectively  658,207  1,442,497 
Total liabilities  470,183   4,369,331   10,329,319  11,008,263 
Stockholders' Deficit        
Preferred Stock – Par Value $.00003 – authorized 10,000,000 Shares – no shares issued and outstanding        
Common stock, par value $.00003; authorized 390,000,000 shares; shares issued and outstanding 233,038,334, for the years ended 2014 and 2013, respectively  6,991   6,991 
Stockholders’ deficit     
Preferred stock, par value $0.00003 per share – authorized 10,000,000 shares – no shares issued and outstanding     
Common stock, par value $0.00003 per share; authorized 10,000,000,000 at December 31, 2020 and 2019; shares issued and outstanding 383,038,334 at December 31, 2020 and 2019 11,491 11,491 
Additional paid-in capital  13,734,259   9,572,279  14,427,782 14,107,782 
Accumulated deficit  (14,097,496)  (13,931,134)  (21,281,179)  (19,968,668)
Total Quest Patent Research Corporation deficit  (356,246)  (4,351,864)
        
Non-controlling interest in subsidiaries  1,915   2,721 
        
Total Quest Patent Research Corporation stockholders’ deficit  (6,841,906)  (5,849,395)
Non-controlling interest in subsidiary  228  239 
Total stockholders’ deficit  (354,331)  (4,349,143)  (6,841,678)  (5,849,156)
        
Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit $115,852  $20,188  $3,487,641 $5,159,107 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 

F-3

Quest Patent Research Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Operations

 

 Year Ended
December 31,
  Year Ended
December 31,
 
 2014  2013  2020 2019 
Revenues          
Licensed Sales $22,732  $29,555 
Patent licensing fees  505,000   45,000  $5,488,088  $4,117,895 
Management fees  412,915   - 
  940,647   74,555 
Cost of goods sold:        
Cost of sales  10,073   10,449 
Royalties  278,003   11,617 
Management support services  80,967   - 
  369,043   22,066 
Gross profit  571,604   52,489 
Licensed packaging sales  -   25,274 
          5,488,088   4,143,169 
Operating expenses                
Cost of revenues:        
Cost of sales  -   4,520 
Litigation and licensing expenses  4,692,969   3,383,948 
Management support services  -   2,093 
Selling, general and administrative expenses  712,540   901,838   1,513,822   1,222,024 
        
Total operating expenses  712,540   901,838   6,206,791   4,612,585 
                
Loss from operations  (140,936)  (849,349)
Income (loss) from operations  (718,703)  (469,416)
                
Other expense                
Income tax  (1,008)  - 
Gain (loss) on derivative liability  275,000   (55,000)
Gain on forgiveness of debt  -   27,628 
Other income  1,000   - 
Interest expense  (20,387)  (21,750)  (804,456)  (808,273)
Total other expense  (21,395)  (21,750)  (528,456)  (835,645)
                
Net loss before income tax  (1,247,159)  (1,305,061)
        
Income tax  (65,363)  (5,234)
        
Net loss�� (162,331)  (871,099)  (1,312,522)  (1,310,295)
Net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest in subsidiaries  806   (62)
Net income attributable to non-controlling interest in subsidiary  11   1,519 
Net Loss Attributable to Quest Patent Research Corporation $(161,525) $(871,161) $(1,312,511) $(1,308,776)
        
Earnings (loss) per share Basic and Diluted $(0.001) $(0.003)
        
Net loss per share – Basic and Diluted $(0.00) $(0.00)
Weighted average shares outstanding – Basic and Diluted  233,038,334   233,038,334   383,038,334   383,038,334 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 

F-4

Quest Patent Research Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders'Stockholders’ Deficit

 

  Common Stock  Additional Paid-in     Non-controlling Interest in  Total Stockholders' 
  Shares  Amount  Capital  Deficit  Subsidiaries  Deficit 
Balances as of December 31, 2012  233,038,334  $6,991  $9,551,279  $(13,064,810) $2,659  $(3,503,881)
                         
Deconsolidation of subsidiary  -   -   -   4,837   -   4,837 
                         
Compensation expense relating to warrants/options  -   -   21,000   -   -   21,000 
                         
Net loss  -   -   -   (871,161)  62   (871,099)
                         
Balances as of December 31, 2013  233,038,334  $6,991  $9,572,279  $(13,931,134) $2,721  $(4,349,143)
                         
Consolidation of subsidiary  -   -   (10,516)  (4,837)  -   (15,353)
                         
Settlement of accrued salaries and expense to officers and directors  -   -   4,172,496   -   -   4,172,496 
                         
Net Loss  -   -   -   (161,525)  (806)  (162,331)
                         
Balances as of December 31, 2014  233,038,334  $6,991  $13,734,259  $(14,097,496) $1,915  $(354,331)
  Common Stock  Additional
Paid-in
     Non-controlling
Interest in
  Total
Stockholders’
 
  Shares  Amount  Capital  Deficit  Subsidiaries  Deficit 
Balances as of December 31, 2018  383,038,334   11,491   14,107,782   (18,659,892)  1,758   (4,538,861)
Net loss  -   -   -   (1,308,776)  (1,519)  (1,310,295)
Balances as of December 31, 2019  383,038,334   11,491   14,107,782   (19,968,668)  239   (5,849,156)
Resolution of derivative liability          320,000           

320,000 

 
Net loss  -   -   -   (1,312,511)  (11)  (1,312,522)
                         
Balances as of December 31, 2020  383,038,334  $11,491  $14,427,782  $(21,281,179) $228  $(6,841,678)

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 

F-5

Quest Patent Research Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

 

  Year Ended
December 31,
 
  2014  2013 
       
Cash flows from operating activities:      
Net loss $(161,525) $(871,161)
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:        
Consolidation of subsidiary  (4,837)  4,837 
Earnings Attributable to Non-Controlling Interest  (806)  62 
Share-based compensation  -   21,000 
         
Changes in operating assets and liabilities        
Accrued expense – related party  237,500   - 
Accounts receivable  (18,282)  1,598 
Accounts receivable - affiliates  5,295   (5,295)
Other current assets  (1,662)    
Accounts payable and accrued expenses  35,848   97,157 
         
Net cash from (used) in operating activities  91,531   (7,904)
         
Cash flows from investing activities:        
Cash sent to fund unconsolidated subsidiary  -   (10,516)
Net cash used in investing activities  -   (10,516)
         
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents  91,531   (18,420)
         
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year  159   18,579 
         
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year $91,690  $159 
         
Non Cash Financing Activities        
Accrued salary capital contribution  4,172,496   - 
Reclassification of loan payable from Loans payable - Officer/Directors to Loans payable – third party  25,000     
Reconsolidation of subsidiary  10,516     
Cash paid for taxes  1,008     

  Year Ended
December 31,
 
  2020  2019 
Cash flows from operating activities:        
Net loss  (1,312,522) $(1,310,295)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:        
Amortization of debt discount  435,415   349,691 
Loss/(gain) on derivative liability  (275,000)  55,000 
Loss/(gain) on forgiveness of debt  -   (27,628)
Depreciation and amortization  648,395   529,486 
Bad debt expense  66,000   - 
         
Changes in operating assets and liabilities        
Accounts receivable  751,489   (1,850,375)
Accrued interest – loans payable related party  (117,780)  (25,000)
Accrued interest – loans payable third party  17,360   16,300 
Other current assets  11,246   (14,837)
Accounts payable and accrued expenses  (470,907)  3,024,181 
         
Net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities  (246,304)  746,523 
         
Cash flows from investing activities:        
Purchase of patents  (95,000)  (75,000)
Net cash used in investing activities  (95,000)  (75,000)
         
Cash flows from financing activities:        
Proceeds from SBA loans  171,732   - 
Repayment of purchase price of patents  (194,386)  (155,614)
Loan payable – third party  -   (16,000)
Proceeds from sale of future revenues  95,000    
Repayment from sale of future revenues  (20,378)  (129,622)
Net cash from/(used in) financing activities  51,968   (301,236)
         
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents  (289,336)  370,287 
         
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year  537,198   166,911 
         
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year $247,862  $537,198 
         
Non Cash Investing and Financing Activities        
Accounts payable for patent purchase, net of imputed interest of $336,781 $-  $1,238,219 
Resolution of derivative liability  320,000   - 
Accrued interest added to principal  2,660   - 
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information        
Cash paid during the year for:        
Income taxes, including foreign taxing authorities withheld taxes of $60,255 and $5,000 during the years ended December 31, 2020, and 2019 respectively. $65,363  $5,234 
Interest  472,121   467,280 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 

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Quest Patent Research Corporation and Subsidiaries

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

 

NOTE 1 – DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

 

The Company is a Delaware corporation, incorporated on July 17, 1987 and has been engaged in the intellectual property monetization business since 2008.

 

As used herein, the “Company”, “we”, “us” or “our” refers to Quest Patent Research Corporation and its wholly and majority-owned and controlled operating subsidiaries unless the context indicates otherwise. All intellectual property acquisition, development, licensing and enforcement activities are conducted by the Company’s wholly and majority-owned and controlled operating subsidiaries.

 

NOTE 2 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

Principles of consolidation and financial statement presentation

 

The consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) and present the consolidated financial statements of the Company and its wholly owned and majority owned subsidiaries as of December 31, 2014.2020 and 2019. 

 

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts and operations of:

 

Quest Patent Research Corporation (“The Company”)

Quest Licensing Corporation (NY) (1)(wholly owned)

Quest Licensing Corporation (DE) (wholly owned)

Quest Packaging Solutions Corporation (90% owned)

Quest Nettech Corporation (65% owned)

Semcon IP, Inc. (wholly owned)

Mariner IC, Inc. (wholly owned)

IC Kinetics, Inc. (wholly owned)

CXT Systems, Inc. (wholly owned)

Photonic Imaging Solutions Inc. (wholly owned)

M-RED Inc. (wholly owned)

Audio Messaging Inc. (wholly owned)

Peregrin Licensing LLC (wholly owned)

 

(1)Quest Licensing Corporation (NY), a New York corporation, was a wholly owned subsidiary of

Prior to April 2019, the Company through October 31, 2012 when 50% of its issued and outstanding shares were transferred to Allied Standard Limited.  The Company reconsolidated Quest Licensing Corporation (NY) on April 1, 2014 when Allied Standard relinquished its entitlement to a 50% interest in Quest Licensing Corporation (NY), in exchange for the Company’s commitment to fund a structured licensing program for the Mobile Data Portfolio (see NOTE 1). Between October 31, 2012 and April 1, 2014, the Company did not include Quest Licensing Corporation (NY) in its consolidated financial statements since there were significant contingencies related to the control of Quest Licensing Corporation.  

The operations of Wynn Technologies, Inc. arewere not included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements as there arewere significant contingencies related to its control of Wynn Technologies, Inc. The sole asset of Wynn Technologies, Inc. iswas US Patent No. RE38,137E. Wynn Technologies, Inc. cannotcould not transfer, assign, sell, hypothecate or otherwise encumber US Patent No. RE38,173ERE38,137E without the express written consent of Sol Li, owner of 35% of Wynn Technologies, Inc., unless, as of the date of such transfer, assignment, sale, hypothecation or other encumbrance, Mr. Li hashad received a total of at least $250,000.

US Patent No. RE38,137E expired on September 28, 2015. The Company accountsaccounted for its 65% interest in Wynn Technologies, Inc. under the equity method whereby the investment accounts arewere increased for contributions by the Company plus its 60% share of income pursuant to the contractual agreement which provideprovides that Sol Li, retainsowner of 35% of Wynn Technologies, Inc. retained 40% of the income, and reduced for distributions and its 60% share of loseslosses incurred, respectively, with the restriction whereby the account balances cannot go below zero.

On April 11, 2019, Quest NetTech Corporation merged with Wynn Technologies, Inc. with Quest NetTech Corporation being the surviving entity. Pursuant to the merger agreement, we issued to Mr. Li a 35% interest in Quest NetTech Corporation. Significant intercompany transaction and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.

 


Use of Estimates

 

In preparing financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. 

 

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Cash and Cash Equivalents

 

The Company considers all highly liquid investments with original maturity dates of three months or less when purchased, to be cash equivalents.

 

Accounts Receivable

 

Accounts receivable, which generally relate to licensed sales, are presented on the balance sheet net of estimated uncollectible amounts. The Company records an allowance for estimated uncollectible accounts in an amount approximating anticipated losses. Individual uncollectible accounts are written off against the allowance when collection of the individual accounts appears doubtful. The Company recorded at the invoiced amount. Anyan allowance for doubtful accounts is the Company’s best estimate of the amount of probable losses to the Company’s existing accounts receivable. No allowance for doubtful accounts was recorded for the year ended$66,000 and $0 at December 31, 2014.2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.

 

Intangible Assets

 

Intangible assets consist of patents which are amortized using the straight-line method over their estimated useful lives or statutory lives whichever is shorter and are reviewed for impairment upon any triggering event that may give rise to the assets ultimate recoverability as prescribed under the guidance related to impairment of long-lived assets. Costs incurred to acquire patents, including legal costs, are also capitalized as long-lived assets and amortized on a straight-line basis with the associated patent.

 

Patents include the cost of patents or patent rights (hereinafter, collectively “patents”) acquired from third-parties or acquired in connection with business combinations. Patent acquisition costs are amortized utilizing the straight-line method over their remaining economic useful lives, ranging from one to ten years. Certain patent application and prosecution costs incurred to secure additional patent claims, that based on management’s estimates are deemed to be recoverable, are capitalized and amortized over the remaining estimated economic useful life of the related patent portfolio.

Impairment of long-lived assets

 

Long-lived assets, including intangible assets with a finite life, are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable through the estimated undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use and eventual disposition of the assets. Whenever any such impairment exists, an impairment loss will be recognized for the amount by which the carrying value exceeds the fair value.

 

Derivative Financial Instruments

The Company evaluates the embedded conversion feature within its convertible debt instruments under ASC 815-15 and ASC 815-40 to determine if the conversion feature meets the definition of a liability and, if so, whether to bifurcate the conversion feature and account for it as a separate derivative liability. For derivative financial instruments that are accounted for as liabilities, the derivative instrument is initially recorded at its fair value and is then re-valued at each reporting date, with changes in the fair value reported in the statements of operations. For stock-based derivative financial instruments, the Company uses a Black Scholes model, in accordance with ASC 815-15 “Derivative and Hedging” to value the derivative instruments at inception and on subsequent valuation dates. The classification of derivative instruments, including whether such instruments should be recorded as liabilities or as equity, is evaluated at the end of each reporting period. Derivative instrument liabilities are classified in the balance sheet as current or non-current based on whether net-cash settlement of the derivative instrument could be required within 12 months after the balance sheet date.


Fair value of financial instruments

 

Fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. A fair value hierarchy is used which requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. See Note 4 for information about derivative liabilities. 

 

The fair value hierarchy based on the three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value are as follows:

 

Level 1 – Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

 

Level 2 – Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

 

Level 3 – Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are financial instruments whose values are determined using pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies, or similar techniques, as well as instruments for which the determination of fair value requires significant judgment or estimation.

 

The carrying value reflected in the consolidated balance sheets for cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued expenses and short-term borrowings approximate fair value due to the short-term nature of these items. The carrying value of long-term debt approximates fair value since the related rates of interest approximate current market rates.

 

Revenue Recognition

The Company adopted ASC Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers as of January 1, 2018 using the modified retrospective transition method. The core principle of the new revenue standard is that a company should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The following five steps are applied to achieve that core principle:

Step 1: Identify the contract with the customer

Step 2: Identify the performance obligations in the contract

Step 3: Determine the transaction price

Step 4: Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract

Step 5: Recognize revenue when the company satisfies a performance obligation

A performance obligation is a promise in a contract to transfer a distinct good or service to the customer, and is the unit of account in ASC 606. In order to identify the performance obligations in a contract with a customer, a company must assess the promised goods or services in the contract and identify each promised good or service that is distinct. A performance obligation meets ASC 606’s definition of a “distinct” good or service (or bundle of goods or services) if both of the following criteria are met:

The customer can benefit from the good or service either on its own or together with other resources that are readily available to the customer (i.e., the good or service is capable of being distinct).

The entity’s promise to transfer the good or service to the customer is separately identifiable from other promises in the contract (i.e., the promise to transfer the good or service is distinct within the context of the contract).

If a good or service is not distinct, the good or service is combined with other promised goods or services until a bundle of goods or services is identified that is distinct.


The transaction price is the amount of consideration to which an entity expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring promised goods or services to a customer. The consideration promised in a contract with a customer may include fixed amounts, variable amounts, or both. When determining the transaction price, an entity must consider the effects of all of the following:

Variable consideration
Constraining estimates of variable consideration
The existence of a significant financing component in the contract
Noncash consideration
Consideration payable to a customer

Variable consideration is included in the transaction price only to the extent that it is probable that a significant reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is subsequently resolved.

The transaction price is allocated to each performance obligation on a relative standalone selling price basis.

The transaction price allocated to each performance obligation is recognized when that performance obligation is satisfied, at a point in time or over time as appropriate.

In general, the Company is required to make certain judgments and estimates in connection with the accounting for revenue contracts with customers. Such areas may include identifying performance obligations in the contract, estimating the timing of satisfaction of performance obligations, determining whether a promise of consideration, whether a license to intellectual property or an entitlement to payment of a percentage of net proceeds, is distinct from other promised goods or services, evaluating whether consideration transfers to a customer at a point in time or over time, allocating the transaction price to separate performance obligations, determining whether contracts contain a significant financing component, and estimating revenues recognized at a point in time for licensed sales.

Patent Licensing Fees

 

Revenue is recognized when (i) persuasive evidenceupon transfer of control of promised bundled intellectual property rights and other contractual performance obligations to licensees in an arrangement exists, (ii)amount that reflects the consideration we expect to receive in exchange for those intellectual property rights. Revenue contracts that provide promises to grant “the right” to use intellectual property rights as they exist at the point in time at which the intellectual property rights are granted, are accounted for as performance obligations satisfied at a point in time and revenue is recognized at the point in time that the applicable performance obligations are satisfied and all obligationsother revenue recognition criteria have been substantially performed pursuantmet.

For the periods presented, revenue contracts executed by the Company primarily provided for the payment of contractually determined, one-time, paid-up license fees in consideration for the grant of certain intellectual property rights for patented technologies owned or controlled by the Company’s operating subsidiaries. Intellectual property rights granted included the following, as applicable: (i) the grant of a non-exclusive, retroactive and future license to manufacture and/or sell products covered by patented technologies, (ii) a covenant-not-to-sue, (iii) the termsrelease of the arrangement, (iii) amounts are fixed or determinablelicensee from certain claims, and (iv) the collectabilitydismissal of amountsany pending litigation. The intellectual property rights granted were perpetual in nature, extending until the legal expiration date of the related patents. The individual intellectual property rights are not accounted for as separate performance obligations, as (i) the nature of the promise, within the context of the contract, is reasonable assured.

License Service Feesto transfer combined items to which the promised intellectual property rights are inputs and (ii) the Company’s promise to transfer each individual intellectual property right described above to the customer is not separately identifiable from other promises to transfer intellectual property rights in the contract.

 


Generally,Since the agreementspromised intellectual property rights are not individually distinct, the Company combined each individual IP right in the contract into a bundle of IP rights that is distinct, and accounted for all of the intellectual property rights promised in the contract as a single performance obligation. The intellectual property rights granted were “functional IP rights” that have significant standalone functionality. The Company’s subsequent activities do not substantively change that functionality and do not significantly affect the utility of the IP to which the licensee has rights. The Company’s subsidiaries have no further obligation with respect to the grant of intellectual property rights, including no express or implied obligation to maintain or upgrade the technology, or provide future support or services. The contracts provide for the grant (i.e. transfer of control) of the licenses, covenants-not-to-sue, releases, and other significant deliverables upon execution of the agreement, or upon receiptcontract. Licensees legally obtain control of the minimum upfront payment for term agreement renewals.intellectual property rights upon execution of the contract. As such, the earnings process is complete and revenue is recognized upon the execution of the agreement,contract, when collectability is reasonably assured, or upon receipt of the minimum upfront fee for the term agreement renewals,probable and when all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.

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Certain of the Company’s revenue arrangements provide for future royalties or additional required payments based on future licensee activities. Additional royalties are recognized in revenue upon resolution of the related contingency provided that all revenue recognition criteria, as described above, have been met. Amounts of additional royalties due under these license agreements, if any, cannot be reasonably estimated by management.

Amounts related to revenue arrangements that do not meet the revenue recognition criteria described above are deferred until the revenue recognition criteria are met.

The Company assesses the collectability of fees receivable based on a number of factors, including past transaction history and credit-worthiness of licensees. If it is determined that collection is not reasonably assured, the fee is recognized when collectability becomes reasonably assured, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria have been met, which is Revenue contracts generally upon receipt of cash.

Management Fees

Generally, the agreements provide for payment of the management feecontractual amounts within 730-90 days of execution of the due datecontract. Contractual payments made by licensees are generally non-refundable. We do not have any significant payment terms, as payment is received shortly after goods are delivered or services are provided, therefore there is no significant financing component or consideration payable to the customer in these transactions. 

Licensed Sales

The balance of our revenue, from licensed sales, is not significant but includes sales-based revenue contracts pursuant to purchase orders. There is only one distinct performance obligation in each purchase order, transfer of the promised good to the customer, and the customer can benefit from the good together with other resources readily available to the customer. For licensed sales, the transaction price is allocated to the performance obligation on a relative standalone selling price basis per the invoice. As such,purchase order, and the earnings processCompany includes in the transaction price some or all of an amount of estimated variable consideration to the extent that it is complete andprobable that a significant reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is subsequently resolved. Estimates are generally based on historical levels of activity, if available. Notwithstanding, revenue is recognized uponfor a licensed sale when the executionperformance obligation has been satisfied – transfer of the agreement, when collectability is reasonably assured, or upon receiptgood to the customer. The purchase order generally provides for payment of contractual amounts within 30 days of transfer of the invoiced amount, and when all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.goods to the customer, therefore there is no significant financing component or consideration payable to the customer in these transactions. 

 

The Company assesses the collectabilityCost of fees receivable based on a number of factors, including past transaction history and credit-worthiness of licensees. If it is determined that collection is not reasonably assured, the fee is recognized when collectability becomes reasonably assured, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria have been met, which is generally upon receipt of cash.Revenues

 

Cost of revenues include the costs and expenses incurred in connection with our patent licensing and enforcement activities, including inventor royalties paid to original patent owners, contingent litigation funding fees, contingent legal fees paid to external patent counsel, other patent-related legal expenses paid to external patent counsel, licensing and enforcement related research, consulting and other expenses paid to third-parties and the amortization of patent-related investment costs. These costs are included under the caption “Cost of revenues” in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. No such fees are recognized as cost of revenue to the extent that the Company has no obligation with respect to such fees prior to a settlement or license.

Licensed Packaging SalesInventor Royalties, Litigation Funding Fees and Contingent Legal Expenses.

In connection with the investment in certain patents and patent rights, certain of the Company’s operating subsidiaries may execute related agreements which grant to the inventors and/or former owners of the respective patents or patent rights, the right to receive a percentage of future net revenues (as defined in the respective agreements) generated as a result of licensing and otherwise enforcing the respective patents or patent portfolios.

 

The Company’s packaging operation customersoperating subsidiaries may retain the services of law firms that specialize in patent licensing and enforcement and patent law in connection with their licensing and enforcement activities. These law firms may be retained on a contingent fee basis whereby such law firms are end users. Shipment termspaid a percentage of any negotiated fees, settlements or judgments awarded.


The Company’s operating subsidiaries may engage with funding sources that specialize in providing financing for patent licensing and enforcement. These litigation finance firms may be engaged on a non-recourse basis whereby such litigation finance firms are generally FOB shipping point. Revenues from packaging sales, less reservespaid a percentage of any negotiated fees, settlements or judgments awarded in exchange for returns, are recognized upon shipment toproviding funding for legal fees and out of pocket expenses incurred as a result of the customer.licensing and enforcement activities.

 

The economic terms of the inventor agreements, operating agreements, contingent legal fee arrangements and litigation financing agreements associated with the patent portfolios owned or controlled by the Company’s operating subsidiaries, if any, including royalty rates, contingent fee rates and other terms, vary across the patent portfolios owned or controlled by such operating subsidiaries. Inventor/former owner royalties, payments to non-controlling interests, contingent legal fees expenses and litigation finance expenses fluctuate period to period, based on the amount of revenues recognized each period, the terms and conditions of revenue agreements executed each period and the mix of specific patent portfolios with varying economic terms and obligations generating revenues each period. Inventor/former owner royalties, contingent legal fees expenses and litigation finance expenses will continue to fluctuate and may continue to vary significantly period to period, based primarily on these factors. 

Research and development

 

Research and development costs are expensed as incurred. We did not incur any research and development costs in the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.

 

Income Taxes

 

Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the expected future income tax consequences of events that have been included in the consolidated financial statements or income tax returns. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are determined based on differences between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities using tax rates in effect for the years in which the differences are expected to reverse.

 

In evaluating the ultimate realization of deferred income tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that the deferred income tax assets will be realized. Management establishes a valuation allowance if it is more likely than not that all or a portion of the deferred income tax assets will not be utilized. The ultimate realization of deferred income tax assets is dependent on the generation of future taxable income, which must occur prior to the expiration of the net operating loss carryforwards.

 

The Company also follows the guidance related to accounting for income tax uncertainties effective November 1, 2007.uncertainties. In accounting for uncertainty in income taxes, the Company recognizes the financial statement benefit of a tax position only after determining that the relevant tax authority would more likely than not sustain the position following an audit. For tax positions meeting the more likely than not threshold, the amount recognized in the consolidated financial statements is the largest benefit that has a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement with the relevant tax authority. No liability for unrecognized tax benefits was recorded as of December 31, 20142020 and in the interim periods.

Share-based compensation2019. 

 

The Company accountsrecords revenues on a gross basis, before deduction for share-based awards issuedincome taxes. The Company incurred income tax expenses of approximately $65,000 and $5,000 for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

Stock-based compensation

The Company recognizes stock-based compensation pursuant to ASC 718, “Compensation — Stock Compensation,” which prescribes accounting and reporting standards for all stock-based payment transactions in which employee services, and, since January 1, 2019, non-employee services, are acquired. Transactions include incurring liabilities, or issuing or offering to issue shares, options and other equity instruments such as employee stock ownership plans and stock appreciation rights. Stock-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, are recognized as compensation expense in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 718, “Compensation-Stock Compensation”. Accordingly, employee share-based payment compensation is measured at the grant date,financial statements based on their fair values. That expense is recognized over the fair value ofperiod during which an employee or non-employee is required to provide services in exchange for the award, and is recognizedknown as an expense over the requisite service period , which is normally(usually the vesting period. Share-based compensation to directors is treated in the same manner as share-based compensation to employees, regardless of whether the directors are also employees. The Company accounts for share-based compensation to persons other than employees in accordance with FASB ASC 505-50. Equity instruments issued to other than employees are valued at the earlier of a commitment date or upon completion of the services, based on the fair value of the equity instruments and is recognized as expense over the service period. The Company estimates the fair value of share-based payments using the Black Scholes option-pricing model for common stock options and warrants and the closing price of the Company’s common stock for common share issuances.period).

 

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Earnings (loss) per share

 

Basic earnings per share is calculated by dividing net income available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of shares of the Company’s common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share reflects the potential dilution that could occur if our share-based awards and convertible securities were exercised or converted into common stock. The dilutive effect of our share-based awards is computed using the treasury stock method, which assumes all share-based awards are exercised and the hypothetical proceeds from exercise are used to purchase common stock at the average market price during the period. The incremental shares (difference between shares assumed to be issued versus purchased), to the extent they would have been dilutive, are included in the denominator of the diluted earnings per share calculation. Because the Company incurred losses in all periodperiods covered by the financial statements and would be anti-dilutive, the diluted earnings per sharesshare is the same as the basic earnings per share.

 

Leases

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases” (Topic 842), to provide a new comprehensive model for lease accounting under this guidance, lessees and lessors should apply a “right-of-use” model in accounting for all leases (including subleases) and eliminate the concept of operating leases and off-balance-sheet leases. Recognition, measurement and presentation of expenses will depend on classification as a finance or operating lease. Similar modifications have been made to lessor accounting in-line with revenue recognition guidance.

The Company adopted Topic 842 as of January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective transition method with no impact on the consolidated financial position or results of operations.

Concentration of credit risk

 

The Company maintains its cash in bank deposit accounts, which at times, may exceed federally insured limits. The Company has not experienced any such losses in these accounts.

 

Segment reporting

 

The Company reports each material operating segment in accordance with ASC 280, “Segment Reporting”.Reporting.” Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise about which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. The Company’s chief operating decision maker is the chief executive officer. The Company operates in two operational segments; intellectual property licensing and licensed packaging sales. Licensed packaging sales segment is not reported separately as revenue constitutes less than 10% of the combined revenue of all segments, reported profit is less than the combined profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss, and assets are less than 10% of the combined assets of all operating segments. Certain corporate expenses are not allocated to segments.

 

Recently adopted accounting standardsRecent Accounting Pronouncements 

 

Management does not anticipatebelieve that thethere are any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements will materially impactstandards which, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s financial condition.statements. 

 

Going Concern

 

During the period from 2008, when the Company changed its business to become an intellectual property management company, through 2014,2020, the Company generated a cumulative loss of approximately $14,100,000.$21.3 million. The Company’s total current assets were approximately $116,000$1.3 million at December 31, 2014.2020. At December 31, 2014,2020, the Company had a working capital deficiency of approximately $354,000, and it had negative working capital at December 31, 2014 and 2013.$8.2 million. The Company requires funding for its operations. Because of the Company’s continuing losses, the working capital deficiency, the uncertainty of future revenue, the Company’s low stock price and the absence of a trading market in its common stock, the ability of the Company to raise funds in equity market or from lenders is severely impaired, and there exists substantial doubt about the ability of the Company may not be able to continue as a going concern. Although the Company may seek to raise funds and to obtain third party funding for litigation to enforce its intellectual property rights, the availability of such funds in uncertain. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 


NOTE 3 – WARRANTSSHORT TERM DEBT AND STOCK OPTIONS

Warrants

During March 2013, pursuant to the president’s employment agreement (see Note 7), the Company issued the president warrants to purchases 15,000,000 shares of common stock. The warrants vested immediately, have an exercise price of $0.004 and expire on March 1, 2018.LONG-TERM LIABILITIES

 

The Company valuedfollowing table shows the warrantsCompany’s debt at $21,000 using the Black-Scholes pricing model. Variables usedDecember 31, 2020 and 2019.

  December 31,  December 31, 
  2020  2019 
Short-term debt:        
Loans payable – third party  $147,000  $147,000 
Purchase price of patents – current portion  1,500,000   569,386 
Net short-term debt  1,647,000   716,386 
         
Loan payable – related party        
Gross  4,672,810   4,672,810 
Accrued Interest  -   117,780 
Unamortized discount  -   (189,705)
Net loans payable – related party $4,672,810  $4,600,885 
Long-term liabilities:        
Loans payable - SBA        
Gross $170,832   - 
Accrued Interest  3,560   - 
Net loans payable SBA  174,392   - 
Purchase price of patents        
Gross  790,000   1,725,000 
Unamortized discount  (131,793)  (282,503)
Net purchase price of patents – long-term $658,207  $1,442,497 
Contingent funding liabilities:        
Gross  -   20,378 
Net contingent funding liabilities $-  $20,378 

Short-term debt

The loan payable – third party are demand loans made to former officers and directors, now unrelated third parties, and shareholders in the valuation include (1) discount rateamount of 0.77%; (2) warrant life$147,000. During the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 the Company paid $0 and $16,000, respectively, against the loans. The loans are payable on demand plus accrued interest at 10% per annum. 

The loan payable – related party at December 31, 2020 represents the principal amount of 5 years; (3) expected volatilitythe Company’s 10% note to Intelligent Partners, as transferee of 548%the notes issued to United Wireless Holdings, Inc. (“United Wireless”), in the principal amount of $4,672,810 pursuant to a securities purchase agreement (“SPA”) dated October 22, 2015. The note payable to Intelligent Partners, as transferee of United Wireless, has been classified as a current liability as of December 31, 2020. 

Interest on all notes issued pursuant to the securities purchase agreement, accrued through September 30, 2018, with accrued interest being added to principal on September 30, 2016, 2017 and (4) zero expected dividends.2018. Accordingly, the accrued interest is included in loans payable, related party. Since September 30, 2018, the Company has been required to pay interest quarterly. During the year ended December 31, 2020 the Company paid approximately $468,560 in interest on the notes.

At September 30, 2020, the notes in the aggregate principal amount of $4,672,810 were outstanding. The notes became due by their terms on September 30, 2020, and the Company did not make any payment on account of principal of and interest on the notes.


Pursuant to the securities purchase agreement and the related agreements that were executed contemporaneously with the securities purchase agreement:

The Company granted United Wireless an option to purchase 50,000,000 shares of common stock at varying exercise prices. The option expired unexercised on September 30, 2020. See Note 5.

The Company agreed to pay United Wireless 15% of the net monetization proceeds from the patents acquired in October 2015 and the intellectual property in the Company’s mobile data and financial data portfolios. The allocation of proceeds resulted in a discount from the note payable of $188,023. In addition, the Company recognized a discount associated with the 15% interest in net monetization proceeds of $450,000. These discounts and debt issuance costs of $60,958, total $698,981, were amortized and charged to interest expense over the life of the notes using the effective interest rate method. As of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, $698,981 and $509,276 of the discount and debt issuance cost have been amortized, respectively.

Subsequent to December 31, 2020, the Company entered into a restructure agreement with Intelligent Partners. See Note 11-Subsequent Events for a summary of the restructured agreement with Intelligent Partners. 

Long term liabilities

The loans payable-SBA at December 31, 2020 represents:

An unsecured loan from JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in the aggregate amount of $20,832, pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”) under Division A, Title I of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, which was enacted March 27, 2020. The loan, which was taken down on April 23, 2020, matures on April 23, 2022 and bears interest at a rate of 0.98% per annum, with interest payable monthly commencing on November 23, 2020. The loan may be prepaid by the Company at any time prior to maturity with no prepayment penalties. Funds from the loan may only be used for payroll costs, costs used to continue group health care benefits, mortgage payments, rent, utilities, and interest on other debt obligations incurred before February 15, 2020. The Company has used the entire loan amount for qualifying expenses. Under the terms of the PPP, certain amounts of the loan may be forgiven if they are used for qualifying expenses as described in the CARES Act.

A secured Economic Injury Disaster Loan from the U.S. Small Business Association (“SBA”) in the aggregate amount of $150,000, pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Small Business Act as part of the COVID-19 relief effort. The Company’s obligations on the loan are set forth in the Company’s note dated May 14, 2020 which matures on May 14, 2050 and bears interest at a rate of 3.75% per annum, payable monthly commencing on May 14, 2021. The Note may be prepaid by the Company at any time prior to maturity with no prepayment penalties. Funds from the Loan may be used solely as working capital to alleviate economic injury caused by disaster occurring in the month of January 31, 2020 and continuing thereafter and to pay Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) lien filing fees and a third-party UCC handling charge of $100 which were deducted from the loan amount stated above. In addition to the loan, as part of the COVID-19 relief effort, the Company obtained an Emergency EIDL Grant from the SBA in the amount of $1,000. The Company is not required to repay the grant.

The purchase price of patents at December 31, 2020 represents the non-current portion of minimum payments due under the agreements between:

 

 F-10CXT Systems, Inc. (“CXT”), a wholly owned subsidiary, and Intellectual Ventures Assets 34, LLC and Intellectual Ventures 37, LLC (“IV 34/37”) pursuant to which at closing CXT acquired by assignment all right, title, and interest in a portfolio of thirteen United States patents (the “CXT Portfolio”). Under the agreement, CXT will distribute 50% of net recoveries, as defined, to IV 34/37. CXT advanced $25,000 to IV 34/37 at closing, and agreed, pursuant to an amendment dated January 26, 2018, that in the event that, on December 31, 2018, December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2020, cumulative distributions to IV 34/37 total less than $100,000, $375,000 and $975,000, respectively, CXT shall pay the difference necessary to achieve the applicable minimum payment amount within ten days after the applicable date; with any advances being credited toward future distributions to IV 34/36. As of December 31, 2020, $600,000 of the minimum future cumulative distributions were presented as short-term debt based on payment due date. As of December 31, 2020, cumulative distributions did not total $975,000 and CXT did not pay the difference to IV 34/37 within ten days. Non-payment which is not cured within 30 days after written notice from IV 34/37 would constitute an Acceleration Event under the agreement, following which, in addition to any other remedies available under the agreement, all outstanding minimum cumulative distributions would become due and payable within thirty days. As of the date of filing, no such written notice of non-payment has been given by IV 34/37. No affiliate of CXT has guaranteed the minimum payments. CXT’s obligations under the agreement are secured by a security interest in the proceeds (from litigation or otherwise) from the CXT Portfolio. During the year ended December 31, 2020, CXT paid approximately $194,000 under the agreement.


 M-RED Inc. (“M-RED”), a wholly-owned subsidiary, and Intellectual Ventures Assets 113 LLC and Intellectual Ventures Assets 108 LLC (“IV 113/108”) pursuant to which at closing M-RED paid IV 113/108 $75,000 and IV 113/108 transferred to M-RED all right, title and interest in a portfolio of sixty United States patents and eight foreign patents (the “M-RED Portfolio”). Under the agreement, M-RED will distribute 50% of net proceeds, as defined, to IV 113/108, as long as we generate revenue from the M-RED Portfolio. The agreement with IV 113/108 provides that if, on September 30, 2020, September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2022, cumulative distributions to IV 113/108 total less than $450,000, $975,000 and $1,575,000, respectively, M-RED shall pay the difference between such cumulative amounts and the amount paid to IV 113/108 within ten days after the applicable date; with any advances being credited toward future distributions to IV 113/108. On September 30, 2020 cumulative distributions to IV 113/108 totaled less than $450,000 and M-RED did not pay the difference to IV 113/108 within ten days. Non-payment which is not cured within 30 days after written notice from IV 113/108 would constitute an Acceleration Event under the agreement, following which, in addition to any other remedies available under the agreement, all outstanding minimum cumulative distributions would become due and payable within thirty days. As of the date of filing, no such written notice of non-payment has been given by IV 113/108. As of December 31, 2020, $600,000 and $900,000 of the minimum future cumulative distributions were presented as long-term and short-term debt, respectively, based on payment due dates. No affiliate of M-RED has guaranteed the minimum payments. M-RED’s obligations under the agreement with IV 113/108 are secured by a security interest in the proceeds (from litigation or otherwise) from the M-RED Portfolio.
The non-current portion of our obligations under the unsecured non-recourse funding agreement with a third-party funder entered into in May 2020 whereby the third-party agreed to provide acquisition funding in the amount of $95,000 for the Company’s acquisition of the audio messaging portfolio. Under the funding agreement, the third party funder is entitled to a priority return of funds advanced from net proceeds. as defined, recovered until the funder has received $190,000. The Company has no other obligation to the third party and has no liability to the funder in the event that the Company does not generate net proceeds. Pursuant to ASC 470, the company recorded this monetization obligation as debt and the difference between the purchase price and total obligation as a discount to the debt and fully expensed to interest during the period.

The balance of the purchase price of the patents is reflected as follows:

  2020  2019 
Current Liabilities:      
Purchase price of patents, current portion  1,500,000  $569,386 
Unamortized discount  -   - 
Non-current liabilities:        
Purchase price of patents, long term  790,000  $1,725,000 
Unamortized discount  (131,793)  (282,503)
Total current and non-current  2,158,207   2,011,883 
Effective interest rate of Amortized over 2 years  9.4-14.5%  9.6-12.5%

Because the non-current minimum payment obligations are due over the next three years, the Company imputed interest of 10% which was recorded as a discount to the liabilities and amortized through the maturity date. Amortization recorded to interest expense amounted to $245,710 and $159,450 for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

 

During March 2010,In December 2018, the Company grantedentered into a funding agreement whereby a third party agreed to its then chairmanprovide funds in the amount of $150,000, in support of the structured licensing programs of PIS and M-RED. Under the funding agreement, the third party receives an interest in the proceeds from the programs, and we have no other obligation to the third party. 

Our relationship with the above investors meets the criteria in ASC 470-10-25 - Sales of Future Revenues or Various Other Measures of Income (“ASC 470”), which relates to cash received from an investor in exchange for a specified percentage or amount of revenue or other measure of income of a particular product line, business segment, trademark, patent, or contractual right for a defined period. Under this guidance, we recognized the fair value of our contingent obligation to the investor, as of the acquisition date, as long-term debt in our consolidated balance sheets. This initial fair value measurement is based on the perspective of a market participant and includes significant unobservable inputs which are classified as Level 3 inputs within the fair value hierarchy and are discussed further within Note 2. Our repayment obligations are contingent upon future patent licensing fee revenues generated from the licensing programs.

Under ASC 470, amounts recorded as debt shall be amortized under the interest method. The Company made an accounting policy election to utilize the prospective method when there is a change in the estimated future cash flows, whereby a new effective interest rate is determined based on the revised estimate of remaining cash flows. The new rate is the discount rate that equates the present value of the revised estimate of remaining cash flows with the carrying amount of the debt, and it will be used to recognize interest expense for the remaining periods. Under this method, the effective interest rate is not constant, and any change in expected cash flows is recognized prospectively as an adjustment to the effective yield. During periods ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, we paid the third party providing funds in support of the PIS and M-RED structured licensing programs approximately $130,000 and $20,000, respectively, under the funding agreement, satisfying the long-term debt balance in full. For the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company recognized amortization of $95,000.


NOTE 4 – DERIVATIVE LIABILITIES

Because there is not a fixed conversion price, remaining compliant with the reserve requirement under the notes held by Intelligent Partners as transferee of United Wireless, is outside of the control of the Company. As a result of this, the Company has a potential inability to have sufficient available authorized common shares to settle certain outstanding instruments beginning with the date that the reserve requirement went into effect on January 22, 2016. There is no limit on the number of shares issuable under the note, and absent an increase in the stock price or an increase in authorized shares, there are potentially not enough authorized shares to satisfy the exercise of the Company’s options, thus these options qualify as derivative liabilities under ASC Topic 815. On January 22, 2016, the Company reclassified all non-employee warrants and options as derivative liabilities and revalued them at their fair values at each balance sheet date. Any change in fair value was recorded as non-operating, non-cash income or expense for each reporting period at each balance sheet date. The option expired unexercised on September 30, 2020. Consequently, the derivative liability as of the date the options expired was credited to purchase 5,000,000 shares at a price of $0.004 per share, through March 1, 2015. The warrants expired unexercised.additional paid in capital.

 

As of December 31, 2014, there2020, and December 31, 2019, the aggregate fair value of the outstanding derivative liability was no unamortized warrant expense.approximately $0 and $595,000, respectively.

The Company estimated the fair value of the derivative liability using the Black-Scholes option pricing model using the following key assumptions during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019:

  Year Ended 
  December 31, 
  2020 (1)  2019 
Volatility  261  207-426%
Risk-free interest rate  0.20  0.24%
Expected dividends  -   %
Expected term  -   0.75-4.70 

(1)Inputs as of valuation on expiration date of September 30, 2020

The following schedule summarizes the valuation of financial instruments that are remeasured on a recurring basis at fair value in the balance sheets as of December 31, 2020 and 2019:

  Fair Value Measurements as of 
  December 31, 2020  December 31, 2019 
  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3 
Assets                  
None $-  -  -  -  -  - 
Total assets  -   -   -   -   -   - 
Liabilities                        
Conversion option derivative liability  -   -   -   -   -   595,000 
Total liabilities $        -  $        -  $         -  $        -  $        -  $595,000 

The following table sets forth a reconciliation of changes in the fair value of derivative liabilities classified as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy:

  Significant Unobservable Inputs
(Level 3)
as of
December 31,
2020
 
Balance - December 31, 2018 $540,000 
Change in fair value  55,000 
Balance – December 31, 2019  595,000 
Change in fair value  (275,000)
Resolution of derivative liability  (320,000)
Balance - December 31, 2020 $- 


NOTE 5 – STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

A summary of the status of the Company's stock warrants and changes is set forth below: 

  Number of
Warrants (#)
  Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price ($)
  Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life (Years)
 
Balance - December 31, 2012  60,000,000   0.0038   4.8 
Granted  15,000,000   0.004   5.0 
Cancelled  -   -   - 
Expired  -   -   - 
Exercised  -   -   - 
Balance - December 31, 2013  75,000,000   0.0038   3.9 
Granted  -   -   - 
Cancelled  -   -   - 
Expired  -   -   - 
Exercised  -   -   - 
Balance - December 31, 2014  75,000,000   0.0038   2.9 
             
Warrants exercisable at end of year  75,000,000   -   - 
Weighted average fair value of warrants granted during period  -   -   - 

Stock Options

As of December 31, 2014, there was no unamortized option expense.

A summary of the status of the Company'sCompany’s stock options and changes is set forth below:

 

 Number of Options (#)  Weighted Average Exercise
Price ($)
  Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)  Number of
Options
(#)
  

Weighted
Average

Exercise
Price
($)

  Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life
(Years)
 
Balance - December 31, 2012  10,000,000   0.00175   1.5 
Balance - December 31, 2018  50,000,000   0.03   1.75 
Granted  -   -   -   -   -   - 
Cancelled  -   -   -   -   -   - 
Expired  5,000,000   0.0025   0.25   -   -   - 
Exercised  -   -   -   -   -   - 
Balance - December 31, 2013  5,000,000   0.001   1.75 
Balance - December 31, 2019  50,000,000   0.03   0.75 
Granted  -   -   -   -   -   - 
Cancelled  -   -   -   -   -   - 
Expired  -   -   -   50,000,000   -   - 
Exercised  -   -   -   -   -   - 
Balance - December 31, 2014  5,000,000   0.001   0.75 
Balance - December 31, 2020  -   -   - 
            
Options exercisable at end of year  -   -   - 

 


No warrants or options were exercised in 2014.NOTE 6 – INTANGIBLE ASSETS

 

Intangible assets include patents purchased and are recorded at their acquisition cost. Intangible assets consisted of the following:

        Weighted
average
amortization
 
  December 31,  period 
  2020  2019  (years) 
Patents $5,690,000  $5,595,000   6.5 
Less: net monetization obligations  (509,811)  (509,811)    
Imputed interest  (713,073)  (713,073)    
Subtotal  4,467,116   4,372,116     
Less: accumulated amortization  (2,266,157)  (1,617,762)    
Net value of intangible assets $2,200,959  $2,754,354   

4.45

 

Intangible assets are comprised of patents with estimated useful lives. The intangible assets at December 31, 2020 represent:

 F-11patents acquired in October 2015 for a purchase price of $3,000,000, the useful lives of the patents, at the date of purchase, was 6-10 years;

patents acquired in July 2017 pursuant to an obligation to pay 50% of net revenues to IV 34/37 (see Note 3); the useful lives of the patents, at the date of acquisition, was 5-6 years;

patents (which were fully depreciated at the date of acquisition) acquired in January 2018 pursuant to an agreement with to Intellectual Ventures Assets 62 LLC and Intellectual Ventures Assets 71 LLC “(IV 62/71”), pursuant to which CXT has an obligation to distribute 50% of net revenues to IV 62/71;

patents (which were fully depreciated at the date of acquisition) acquired in January 2018 by Photonic Imaging Solutions Inc. (“PIS”) from Intellectual Ventures Assets 64 LLC (“IV 64”) pursuant to which PIS is to pay IV 64 (a) 70% of the first $1,500,000 of net revenue, (b) 30% of the next $1,500,000 of net revenue and (c) 50% of net revenue in excess of $3,000,000;

patents acquired in March 2019 pursuant to an obligation to pay 50% of net revenues to IV 113/108 (see Note 3); the useful lives of the patents, at the date of acquisition, was approximately 9 years.
 
patents (which were fully depreciated at the date of acquisition) acquired in May 2020 for a purchase price of $95,000 pursuant to an agreement with Texas Technology Ventures 2, LLP (“TTV”), pursuant to which of the Company retains the first $230,000 of net proceeds, as defined in the agreement, after which the company has an obligation to distribute 50% of net proceeds to TTV.

The Company amortizes the costs of patents over their estimated useful lives on a straight-line basis. Costs incurred to acquire the patents, including legal costs, are also capitalized and amortized on a straight-line basis over the life of the associated patent. Amortization of patents is included as a selling, general and administrative expense as reflected in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

The Company assesses intangible assets for any impairment to the carrying values. As of December 31, 2020, management concluded that there was no impairment to the acquired assets.

 

Amortization expense for patents comprised $648,395 and $529,486 for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Future amortization of patents is as follows:

Year ended December 31,    
2021  $549,345 
2022   495,742 
2023   323,071 
2024   306,776 
2025 and thereafter   526,025 
Total  $2,200,959 

The Company granted IV 34/37 a security interest in the patents transferred to the Company as security for the payment of the balance of the purchase price. The security interest of IV 34/37 is senior to the security interest of United Wireless in the proceeds derived from such patents.


NOTE 47 – NON-CONTROLLING INTEREST

 

The following table reconciles equity attributable to the non-controlling interest related to Quest Packaging Solutions Corporation.

 

 December 31,  December 31, 
 2014  2013  2020  2019 
Balance, beginning of year $2,721  $2,659  $239  $1,758 
Net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest $(806) $62  $(11) $(1,519)
Balance, end of year $1,915  $2,721  $228  $239 

 

NOTE 58 – INCOME TAXES

 

The Company uses the liability method, where deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial and income tax reporting purposes. As of December 31, 2014,2020, the Company has generated approximately $3,641,710$8,355,942 of net operating loss (“NOL”) carry forwards which will begin to expire in the years 2019 through 2034.2024. Internal Revenue Code section 382 (“Section 382”) restricts the use of these net operating losses in future periods if the Company has a “substantial change in ownership” as defined by Section 382. The Company has had significant equity transactions in both the current and prior periods. Due to this equity activity and the restrictions resulting under Section 382, mosta portion of the Company’s NOLs may not be available to offset future taxable income. TheTherefore, the Company has fully reserved the deferred tax asset resulting from the net operating loss carry forwards.

 

Deferred tax asset consisted primarily of the following:

 

 December 31,  December 31, 
 2014  2013  2020  2019 
Net operating loss carry forward $1,456,684  $3,027,200  $2,172,545  $1,960,978 
Bad debt reserves  17,160     
Intangible assets  515,104   331,704 
Valuation allowance $(1,456,684) $(3,027,200) $(2,704,809) $(2,292,682)
Balance, end of year $-  $-  $-  $- 

 

Tax expense consisted primarily of the following:

  December 31, 
  2020  2019 
Federal $-  $- 
State  5,108   234 
Foreign  60,255   5,000 
Deferred  -   - 
Total $65,363  $5,234 

The Company’s tax expense does not reflect the statutory rate since the Company’s deferred tax asset is fully offset by a valuation allowance. The statute of limitations is open for the tax years ending December 31, 2017 and thereafter.

The Company’s foreign tax expense reflects the tax withheld by the foreign jurisdiction on royalty income received by the Company and not exempt under the United States tax treaty, if any, with the respective foreign jurisdiction. In 2020, the Company was subject to foreign source withholding tax of 20.4% in Japan. In 2019, the Company was subject to foreign source withholding tax of 10% in the People’s Republic of China.


NOTE 69 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

The Company has at various times entered into transactions with related parties, including officers, directors and major shareholders, wherein these parties have provided services, advanced or loaned money, or both, to the Company needed to support its daily operations. The Company discloses all related party transactions.

 

See Notes 3 and 6 in connection with transactions with United Wireless. During 2003,periods ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company received loans from then officersincurred interest expense on the Company’s 10% notes issued to United Wireless and directors, now unrelated third parties, inheld by Intelligent Partners, an affiliate of United Wireless and a related party, pursuant to the securities purchase agreement dated October 22, 2015. The interest expense was approximately $351,000 and $467,000 for the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. On each of September 30, 2017 and 2018, accrued interest was added to the principal amount of $79,490. The loans are payable on demand plus accruedthe note. Subsequent to September 30, 2018, the Company is to pay interest at 10% per annum. During 2014, all loan holders ceased to be related parties as a result of employee separation agreements and director resignations. As a result, approximately $54,490 in principal on the loans was cancelled pursuant to a separation agreement and $25,000 in principal was reclassified as loans payable to third parties upon resignation of the loan holder from the board.quarterly.

 

See Notes 7Note 10 with respect to the employment agreement with the Company’s president and separation agreements with officers and directors and the cancellation of debt to officers and directors.chief executive officer.

 

During 2014,2020, the Company contracted with an entity owned by the chief technology officer for the provision of information technology services to the Company. In 2014, theThe cost of these services was approximately $1,750.$464 and $464 for the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. 

 

NOTE 7 – COMMITMENTSDuring 2020, the Company contracted with a law firm more than 10 percent owned, but not controlled, by the father-in-law of the chief executive officer. The firm is engaged on a contingent fee basis and serves as escrow agent in connection with monetization of the Company’s patents in matters where the firm is serving as counsel to the Company. In connection with the engagement, the Company recorded patent service costs of approximately $909,000 and $0 for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 respectively The amount recorded in 2020 includes approximately $407,000 in accrued expenses and outstanding as of December 31, 2020. The accrued liability is recorded in “accounts payable and accrued liabilities.” In prior periods, the Company engaged a firm at which the father-in-law of the chief executive was formerly a partner. Because his interest in the prior firm was less than 10%, the prior firm was not considered a related party in prior periods.

 

On March 1, 2008, the Company entered into an employment agreement with its then chairman, pursuant to which the Company employed the chairman for a period of seven years, at an annual salary of $200,000. Pursuant to the employment agreement, the Company issued the chairman seven-year warrants to purchase an aggregate of 5,000,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.004 per share. The warrants vested upon the date of the execution of the employment agreement.NOTE 10 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

F-12

Employment Agreements

 

On October 10, 2014, the Company entered intoPursuant to a separation agreement and mutual general release with its former chairmen whereby the former chairman forgave all loans, accrued interest, accrued salary, accrued benefits and released us from any claim to any compensation and benefits, accrued or otherwise, under any agreement or purported agreement, including hisrestated employment agreement, dated March 1, 2008. The Company agreed thatNovember 30, 2014, with the former chairman would retain the warrants granted under the employment agreement dated March 1, 2008 and that the Company would pay the former chairman 3.25% of our net revenues, provided net revenues of the Company exceed $1,500,000, up to the aggregate amount of $250,000 with payments in any year not to exceed $125,000. All amounts owed to the former chairman under this agreement will be recorded as expense in the period in which they are earned. The total accrued compensation and other obligations waived by the former chairman was approximately $1,342,606. The warrants granted under the employment agreement dated March 1, 2008 expired unexercised on March 1, 2015.

On March 1, 2008, the Company entered into an employment agreement with its then chief executive officer, who was also chief financial officer and treasurer, for a period of ten years for an annual salary of $250,000. The chief executive officer is eligible for an annual bonus of 10% of the Company’s consolidated income before taxes. Pursuant to the employment agreement, the Company issued him ten-year warrants to purchase 5,000,000 shares of common stock at $0.004 per share. The warrants vested upon the date of the execution of the employment agreement. The agreement provides that the Company will provide the chief executive officer with a full-size vehicle when it is financially able to do so, and a laptop computer and phone. The agreement also includes a severance provision whereby, if the Company terminates chief executive officer’s employment other than for cause, the Company is to pay the chairman severance compensation equal to three times his average annual compensation for the five years prior to termination and reimbursement of his COBRA expenses.

On October 10, 2014, the Company entered into a separation agreement and mutual general release with its former chief executive officer, who was chief financial officer and treasurer, whereby the former chief executive officer forgave all loans, accrued interest, accrued salary, accrued benefits and released the Company from any claim to any compensation and benefits, accrued or otherwise, under any agreement or purported agreement, including the employment agreement dated March 1, 2008, at any time between the former chief executive officer and the Company. The Company agreed that the former chief executive officer would retain the warrants granted under the employment agreement dated March 1, 2008 and that the Company would pay the former chief executive officer 3.25% of the Company’s net revenues, provided that its net revenues exceed $1,500,000, up to the aggregate amount of $700,000 with payments in any year not to exceed $300,000. All amounts owed to the former CEO under this agreement will be recorded as expense in the period in which they are earned. The total accrued compensation and other obligations waived by the former chief executive officer was approximately $1,662,185. 

On March 1, 2008, the Company entered into an employment agreement with our current president and chief executive officer, who, at the time of the agreement, was its president and chief operating officer, for a period of ten years, subject to renewal, for an annual salary of $300,000. He is eligible for an annual bonus of 15% of consolidated income before taxes, as well as a contingent bonus of 20% of net income before taxes on the occurrence of certain events related to the Company’s assets, as established in the agreement. Pursuant to the agreement, the Company issued the president ten-year warrants to purchase 15,000,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.004 per share, which vested upon execution of the employment agreement, and agreed to issue to the president on the third anniversary of the date of execution of his employment agreement, seven-year warrants to purchase 30,000,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.004 per share, which the Company issued in 2011 and which vested on issuance, and the Company agreed to issue to the president on the fifth anniversary of the execution of his employment agreement, five-year warrants to purchase 15,000,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.004 per share, which the Company issued in 2013 and which vested on issuance. The agreement provides that the Company will provide the president with a full-size vehicle when it is financially able to do so, and a laptop computer and phone. The agreement also includes a severance provision whereby, if the Company terminates the president’s employment other than for cause, the Company is to pay severance compensation equal to three times his average annual compensation for the three years prior to termination and reimbursement of his COBRA expenses. 

On October 30, 2014, the Company entered into a restated employment agreement with its president and chief executive officer (who was formerly its president and chief operating officer), which was superseded by a restated employment agreement dated as of November 30, 2014. Pursuant to the restated employment agreement, the Company agreed to employ him as president and chief executive officer for a term of three years, commencing January 1, 2014, and continuing on a year-to-year basis unless terminated by either party on not less than 90 days’ notice prior to the expiration of the initial term or any one-year extension. The agreement provides for an initial annual salary of $252,000, which may be increased, but not decreased, by the board or the compensation committee. In March 2016, the Company’s board of directors increased the chief executive officer’s annual salary to $300,000, effective January 1, 2016. The chief executive officer is entitled to a bonus if the Company meetswe meet or exceedsexceed performance criteria established by the compensation committee. In August 2016, the Company’s board of directors approved annual bonus compensation equal to 30% of the amount by which our consolidated income before income taxes exceeds $500,000, but, if the Company is subject to the limitation on deductibility of executive compensation pursuant to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, the bonus cannot exceed the amount which would be deductible pursuant to Section 162(m). The chief executive officer is also eligible to participate in any executive incentive plans which the Company may adopt. The Company also agreed to issue

Pension Benefits

Pursuant to the SEP IRA plan adopted by the Company in March 2020 the Company deposited into a SEP IRA account of each of its participating employees a percentage of the employee’s compensation, subject to statutory limitations on the amount of the contribution all as set forth in the IRS Form 5305-SEP. For the year ending December 31, 2020 the percentage was set at 19%. The Company’s president and chief executive officer warrants to purchase 60,000,000 shares, representingis the warrants that had been previously coveredonly participant and $57,000 was deposited his SEP IRA account.

Inventor Royalties, Contingent Litigation Funding Fees and Contingent Legal Expenses

In connection with the investment in his prior employment agreement butcertain patents and patent rights, certain of the Company’s operating subsidiaries executed agreements which had never been issued, and the Company issuedgrant to the chief executive officer a restricted stock grant for 30,000,000 shares which vested on January 15, 2015. Asformer owners of the 60,000,000 warrants were previously expensed when vested and still outstanding according to the old terms, this new issuance was deemed to have been a modification and any incremental expense in value will be expensed on the date of modification. The chief executive officer held therespective patents or patent rights, of a stockholder with respect to these shares, including the right to vote, subject to forfeiturereceive inventor royalties based on future net revenues (as defined in the event that the shares did not vest. In the event that the Company terminates the chief executive officer’s employment other than for cause orrespective agreements) generated as a result of his deathlicensing and otherwise enforcing the respective patents or disability,patent portfolios. 

The Company’s operating subsidiaries may engage third party funding sources to provide funding for patent licensing and enforcement. The agreements with the Company will pay him severance equalthird party funding sources may provide that the funding source receive a portion of any negotiated fees, settlements or judgments. In certain instances, these third party funding sources are entitled to his salary forreceive a significant percentage of any proceeds realized until the balance ofthird party funder has recouped agreed upon amounts based on formulas set forth in the termunderlying funding agreement, which may reduce or delay and if he received a bonus for the previous year, an amount equalproceeds due to that bonus, as well as continuation of his insurance benefits. The chief executive officer also waived accrued compensation of $1,167,705, representing his accrued salary for periods prior to January 1, 2014. The restated agreement also includes mutual releases between the chief executive officer and the Company.

 

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The Company’s operating subsidiaries may retain the services of law firms in connection with their licensing and enforcement activities. These law firms may be retained on a contingent fee basis whereby the law firms are paid on a scaled percentage of any negotiated fees, settlements or judgments awarded based on how and when the fees, settlements or judgments are obtained.

 

QUEST PATENT RESEARCH CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

  September 30,
2015
  December 31,
2014
 
  (Unaudited)    
ASSETS      
       
Current assets:      
Cash and cash equivalents $9,734  $91,690 
Accounts receivable  29,281   22,500 
Other current assets  846   1,662 
Total current assets  39,861   115,852 
         
Total Assets $39,861  $115,852 
         
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT        
Liabilities        
Current liabilities:        
Accounts payable and accrued expenses  125,736   90,869 
Loans payable – third party  163,000   163,000 
Accrued interest – related party  228,539   216,314 
Total current liabilities  517,275   470,183 
         
Total Liabilities  517,275   470,183 
         
Stockholders' Deficit:        
Preferred stock - par value $.00003 - authorized 10,000,000 shares - no shares issued and outstanding  -   - 
Common stock, par value $.00003; authorized 390,000,000 shares; shares issued and outstanding 263,038,334 and 233,038,334, at September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively  7,891   6,991 
Additional paid-in capital  13,796,359   13,734,259 
Accumulated deficit  (14,284,068)  (14,097,496)
Total Quest Patent Research Corporation deficit  (479,818)  (356,246)
         
Non-controlling interest in subsidiary  2,404   1,915 
         
Total stockholders' deficit  (477,414)  (354,331)
         
Total liabilities and stockholders' deficit $39,861  $115,852 

See accompanying notesDepending on the amount of any recovery, it is possible that all the proceeds from a specific settlement may be paid to unaudited consolidated financial statements. 

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QUEST PATENT RESEARCH CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

  FOR THE
NINE MONTHS ENDED
SEPTEMBER 30,
 
  2015  2014 
       
Revenues      
Licensed sales $28,552   18,924 
Patent service fees  110,000   265,000 
Management fees  177,304   307,199 
Total revenue  315,856   591,123 
         
Cost of revenues        
Cost of sales  11,065   8,302 
Patent service fees  57,628   143,732 
Management fees  49,074   36,085 
Total cost of revenues  117,767   188,119 
         
Gross profit  198,089   403,004 
         
Operating expenses        
Selling, general and administrative expenses  401,108   623,285 
         
Total operating expenses  401,108   623,285 
         
Loss from operations  (203,019)  (220,281)
         
Other expenses        
Other income  32,182   - 
Interest expense  (12,225)  (16,312)
Net loss before income tax  (183,062)  (236,593)
Income tax (expense) benefit  (3,021)  (1,008)
Net loss before allocation of income to controlling interest in subsidiaries  (186,083)  (237,601)
         
Net (income) loss attributable to non-controlling interest in subsidiaries  (489)  605 
Net loss attributable to common stockholders $(186,572) $(236,996)
         
Loss per share (basic and diluted) $(0.00) $(0.00)
         
Weighted Average Shares Outstanding – (basic and diluted)  261,389,982   233,038,334 

See accompanying notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements. 

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QUEST PATENT RESEARCH CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

  FOR THE
NINE MONTHS ENDED
SEPTEMBER 30,
 
  2015  2014 
       
Cash flows from operating activities:      
Net loss $(186,083) $(237,601)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:        
Reconsolidation of subsidiary  -   (4,836)
Gain on settlement of accounts payable  (32,182)  - 
Share based compensation  63,000   - 
         
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:        
Accounts receivable  (6,781)  4,218 
Accounts receivable – related party  -   5,295 
Accrued expense – related party  -   237,500 
Other current assets  816   - 
Accounts payable and accrued expenses  79,274   42,292 
         
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities  (81,956)  46,868 
         
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents  (81,956)  46,868 
         
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period  91,690   159 
         
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period $9,734  $47,027 
         
NON-CASH TRANSACTIONS:        
Reconsolidation of affiliate $-  $10,516 

See accompanying notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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QUEST PATENT RESEARCH CORPORATION

NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

NOTE 1 – DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATIONthe funding source and legal counsel.

 

The Company is a Delaware corporation, incorporated on July 17, 1987economic terms of the inventor agreements, funding agreements and has been engaged incontingent legal fee arrangements associated with the intellectual property monetization business since 2008. Its principal operations include the development, acquisition, licensing and enforcement of intellectual property rights that are eitherpatent portfolios owned or controlled by the Company.Company’s operating subsidiaries, if any, including royalty rates, proceeds sharing rates, contingent fee rates and other terms, vary across the patent portfolios owned or controlled by the operating subsidiaries. Inventor royalties, payments to noncontrolling interests, payments to third party funding providers and contingent legal fees expenses fluctuate period to period, based on the amount of revenues recognized each period, the terms and conditions of revenue agreements executed each period and the mix of specific patent portfolios with varying economic terms and obligations generating revenues each period. Inventor royalties, payments to third party funding sources and contingent legal fees expenses will continue to fluctuate and may continue to vary significantly period to period, based primarily on these factors. 

 

As used herein, the “Company” refers to Quest Patent Research CorporationEnforcement and its wholly and majority-owned and controlled operating subsidiaries unless the context indicates otherwise. All intellectual property acquisition, development, licensing and enforcement activities are conducted by the Company’s wholly and majority-owned and controlled operating subsidiaries.Other Litigation

 

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP” or “US GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, these interim financial statements do not include all of the information and notes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. All adjustments (consisting of normal recurring items) necessary to present fairly the Company's consolidated financial position have been included. These interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014. Certain prior-period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current-period presentation. Operating results for the interim periods presented herein are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for any other interim period or for the entire year.

NOTE 2 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Principles of consolidation and financial statement presentation

The Company consolidates entities when it has the ability to control the operating and financial decisions and policies of the entity. The determination of the Company’s abilityoperating subsidiaries are engaged in litigation to control or exert significant influence over an entity involves the use of judgment. The Company applies the equity method of accounting where it can exert significant influence over, but does not control the policiesenforce their patents and decisions of an entity. The Company uses the cost method of accounting wherepatent rights. In connection with these patent enforcement actions, it is unablepossible that a defendant may request and/or a court may rule that an operating subsidiary has violated statutory authority, regulatory authority, federal rules, local court rules, or governing standards relating to exert significant influence over the entity.

The consolidated financial statements includesubstantive or procedural aspects of such enforcement actions. In such event, a court may issue monetary sanctions against the accountsCompany or its operating subsidiaries or award attorney’s fees and/or expenses to a defendant(s), which could be material, and operations of:

Quest Patent Research Corporation

Quest Licensing Corporation, a New York corporation (1)

Quest Licensing Corporation, a Delaware corporation (wholly-owned)

Quest Packaging Solutions Corporation (90% owned)

Quest Nettech Corporation (wholly owned)

(1)Quest Licensing Corporation, a New York corporation, was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company through October 31, 2012 when 50% of its issued and outstanding shares were transferred to Allied Standard Limited. The Company reconsolidated Quest Licensing Corporation on April 1, 2014 when Allied Standard relinquished its entitlement to a 50% interest in Quest Licensing Corporation, in exchange for the Company’s commitment to fund a structured licensing program for the Mobile Data Portfolio. Between October 31, 2012 and April 1, 2014, the Company did not include Quest Licensing Corporation in its consolidated financial statements since there were significant contingencies related to the control of Quest Licensing Corporation. At September 30, 2015, Quest Licensing Corporation, a New York corporation, was inactive.

The operations of Wynn Technologies Inc. are not included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements as there are significant contingencies relatedif required to its control of Wynn Technologies Inc.

The Company accounts for its 65% interest in Wynn Technologies, Inc. under the equity method whereby the investment accounts are increased for contributionsbe paid by the Company plusor its 60% share of income pursuantoperating subsidiaries, could materially harm the Company’s operating results and financial position. Since the operating subsidiaries do not have any assets other than the patents, and the Company does not have any available financial resources to pay any judgment which a defendant may obtain against a subsidiary, such a judgement may result in the contractual agreement which provide that Sol Li retains 40%bankruptcy of the income, and reduced for distributions and its 60% sharesubsidiary and/or the loss of losses incurred, respectively, with the restriction wherebypatents, which are the account balances cannot go below zero.subsidiaries’ only assets.

 

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NOTE 11 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

Significant intercompany transaction and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.

UseSummary of Estimates

In preparing financial statements in conformityAgreements with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. 

Stock-based CompensationQPRC Finance LLC (“QFL”)

The Company accounts for share-based awards issued to employees in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 718, “Compensation-Stock Compensation.” Accordingly, employee share-based payment compensation is measured at the grant date, based on the fair value of the award, and is recognized as an expense over the requisite service period, which is normally the vesting period. Share-based compensation to directors is treated in the same manner as share-based compensation to employees, regardless of whether the directors are also employees. The Company accounts for share-based compensation to persons other than employees in accordance with FASB ASC 505-50. Equity instruments issued to other than employees are valued at the earlier of a commitment date or upon completion of the services, based on the fair value of the equity instruments and is recognized as expense over the service period. The Company estimates the fair value of share-based payments using the Black Scholes option-pricing model for common stock options and warrants and the closing price of the Company’s common stock for common stock issuances.

Recently adopted accounting standards

Management does not anticipate that the recently issued but not yet effective accounting pronouncements will materially impact the Company’s financial condition.

Going Concern

As shown in the accompanying financial statements, the Company has an accumulated deficit of $14,284,068 and negative working capital of $477,414 as of September 30, 2015. Because of the Company’s continuing losses, the working capital deficiency, the uncertainty of future revenue, the Company’s low stock price and the absence of a trading market in its common stock, the ability of the Company to raise funds in equity market or from lenders is severely impaired. These conditions raise substantial doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Although the Company may seek to raise funds and to obtain third party funding for litigation to enforce its intellectual property rights, the availability of such funds is uncertain. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

NOTE 3 – STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Common Stock

Pursuant to the Company’s restated employment agreement with its chief executive officer, on October 30, 2014, the Company issued 30,000,000 shares of common stock to its chief executive officer. Pursuant to the agreement, the chief executive officer’s rights to the stock vested on January 15, 2015; provided that if he is not employed by the Company at such date other than as a result of his death or disability, his rights to the shares shall be forfeited, although the chief executive officer had the right to vote the shares immediately upon issuance. These shares are treated as outstanding from January 15, 2015, the vesting date. The value of the shares, $63,000, is reflected as stock-related compensation during the nine months ended September 30, 2015.

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Warrants

A summary of the status of the Company’s stock warrants and changes is set forth below:

  Number of Warrants
(#)
  Weighted Average Exercise
Price ($)
  Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years) 
Balance - December 31, 2014  75,000,000   0.0038   2.9 
Granted  -   -   - 
Cancelled  -   -   - 
Expired  10,000,000   -   - 
Exercised  -   -   - 
Balance - September 30, 2015  65,000,000   0.004   2.5 

Stock Options

A summary of the status of the Company's stock options and changes is set forth below:

  Number of Options
(#)
  Weighted Average Exercise
Price ($)
  Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years) 
Balance - December 31, 2014  5,000,000   0.001   0.8 
Granted  -   -   - 
Exercised  -   -   - 
Expired  -   -   - 
Cancelled      -   - 
Balance - September 30, 2015  5,000,000   0.001   0.3 

No warrants or options were exercised during the period.

NOTE 4 – NON-CONTROLLING INTEREST

The following table reconciles equity attributable to the non-controlling interest related to Quest Packaging Solutions Corporation.

Balance as of December 31, 2014 $1,915 
Net income attributable to non-controlling interest $489 
Balance as of September 30, 2015 $2,404 

NOTE 5 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

On OctoberFebruary 22, 2015, (i) the Company2021, we entered into and consummated the transactions contemplated by a series of agreements, all dated February 19, 2021,with United Wireless Holdings, Inc. (“United”QFL, a non-affiliated party, including a prepaid forward purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), a security agreement (the “Security Agreement”), a subsidiary security agreement (the “Subsidiary Security Agreement”), a subsidiary guaranty (the “Subsidiary Guarantee”), a warrant issue agreement (the “Warrant Issue Agreement”), a registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) and a board observation rights agreement (the “Board Observation Rights Agreement” together with the Security Agreement, the Subsidiary Guaranty, the Subsidiary Security Agreement, Warrant Issuance Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement and the Purchase Agreement, the “Investment Documents”) pursuant to which, at the closing held contemporaneously with the execution of the agreements on October 22, 2015, and (ii) the Company used a portion of the proceeds to acquire, assign to three newly formed subsidiaries – Mariner IC, Semcon IP, and IC Kinetics, and to pay the initial installment of the purchase price of nine United States patents, three United States patent applications and a reexamination certificate from Intellectual Ventures Assets 16 LLC (“Intellectual Ventures”), as follows:agreements:

 

 (i)Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, QFL agreed to make available to us a securities purchase agreement betweenfinancing facility of: (a) up to $25,000,000 for the Companyacquisition of mutually agreed patent rights that we intend to monetize; (b) up to $2,000,000 for operating expenses; and five(iii) $1,750,000 to fund the cash payment portion of its subsidiaries (Quest Licensing Corporation, Wynn Technologies, Inc., Mariner IC Inc., Semcon IP Inc., and IC Kinetics Inc.), the Company issuedrestructure of our obligations to United its 10% promissory note inIntelligent Partners. In return we transferred to QFL a right to receive a portion of net proceeds generated from the principal amountmonetization of $1,250,000 due September 30, 2020, for which the Company received $1,250,000.those patents. The terms of the NotePurchase Agreement are described under “Promissory Notes.“Purchase Agreement.

 

 (ii)PursuantWe used $1,750,000 of proceeds from the QFL financing as the cash payment portion of the restructure of our obligations to the securities purchaseIntelligent Partners pursuant to a restructure agreement (the “Restructure Agreement”) between the Company soldand Intelligent Partners executed contemporaneously with the closing of the Investment Documents. The payment was made directly from QFL to United 50,000,000 sharesIntelligent Partners. The terms of its common stock for $250,000, or $0.005 per share.the Restructure Agreement are described under “Restructure Agreement.”

 

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 (iii)Pursuant to the securities purchase agreement,Security Agreement, our obligations under the Company granted United an optionPurchase Agreement with QFL are secured by: (a) the proceeds (as defined in the Purchase Agreement); (b) the patents (as defined in the Purchase Agreement; (c) all general intangibles now or hereafter arising from or related to purchase a totalthe foregoing (a) and (b); and (d) proceeds (including, without limitation, cash proceeds and insurance proceeds) and products of 50,000,000 shares of common stock, with exercise prices of $0.01 per share as to 16,666,667 shares, which may be exercised from September 30, 2016 through September 30, 2020, $0.03 per share as to 16,666,667 shares, which may be exercised from September 30, 2017 through September 30, 2020, and $0.05 per share as to 16,666,666 shares, which may be exercised from September 30, 2018 through September 30, 2020.the foregoing (a)-(c).

 

 (iv)The Company used $1,000,000Pursuant to the Subsidiary Guaranty, eight of the proceeds it received from United as the first payment of a $3,000,000 purchase price for an intellectual property portfolio which it purchased from Intellectual Ventures pursuant to a patent sale agreement (the “IV Agreement”our subsidiaries – Quest Licensing Corporation (“QLC”), as amended, betweenQuest NetTech Corporation (“NetTech”), Mariner IC Inc. (“Mariner”), Semcon IP Inc. (“Semcon”), IC Kinetics Inc. (“IC”), CXT Systems Inc. (“CXT”), M-Red Inc. (“MRED”), and Audio Messaging Inc.(“AMI”), collectively, the Company and Intellectual Ventures. The IV Agreement is described“Subsidiary Guarantors”) guaranteed our obligations to QFL under “Agreement with Intellectual Ventures.”the Purchase Agreement.

 

 (v)United agreed to make loansPursuant to the Company for paymentSubsidiary Security Agreement, the Subsidiary Guarantors grant QFL a security interest in the proceeds from the future monetization of the second and third $1,000,000 payments due to Intellectual Ventures on September 30, 2016 and 2017 pursuant to the IV Agreement, regardless of whether the Company is in compliance with its obligations under the securities purchase agreement or the other agreements with United. United has the right to make such payments directly to Intellectual Ventures.their respective patent portfolios.

 

 (vi)United agreed to make working capital loansPursuant to the Warrant Issue Agreement, we granted QFL ten-year warrants to purchase a total of up to 96,246,246 shares of our common stock, with an exercise price of $0.0054 per share which may be exercised from February 19, 2021 through February 18, 2031on a cash or cashless basis. Exercisability of the warrant is limited if, upon exercise, the holder would beneficially own more than 4.99% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of our common stock, except that by written notice to us, the holder may change the Maximum Percentage to any other percentage not in excess of 9.99% provided any such change will not be effective until the 61st day following notice to us. The warrant also contains certain minimum ownership percentage antidilution rights pursuant to which the aggregate number of shares of common stock purchasable upon the initial exercise of the warrant shall not be less than 10% of the aggregate number of outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company subject(determined on a fully diluted basis). A portion of any gain from sale of the shares, net of taxes and costs of exercise, realized prior to the Company’s meeting standard closing conditions, incompletion of all monetization activities shall be credited against the aggregate amount of $1,000,000 in eight quarterly loans of $125,000, commencing September 30, 2016.total return due to QFL pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.

 

 (vii)InWe agreed to take all commercially reasonable steps necessary to regain compliance with the OTCQB eligibility standards as soon as practicable, but in no event that certain events of default, which are called Conversion Eligible Events of Default, have occurred and are continuing onlater than 12 months from the date a $1,000,000 payment is due to Intellectual Ventures, United shall have the obligation to make the payment, and immediately upon the United’s payment to Intellectual Ventures, the Company shall be deemed to have assigned, transferred and conveyed to United and/or its nominee full, absolute and unconditional title to and ownership of the stock of Mariner, Semcon and IC, which are the subsidiaries that hold title to the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures, and the Company’s obligation on the notes, to the extent that the notes relate to the payment of the purchase price of the patents from Intellectual Venture, terminate, and United will have no further obligation to make working capital loans to the Company.closing date.

 

 (viii)The Company and the subsidiaries named above entered into a monetization proceeds agreement pursuant to which United received the right to receive 15% of the net monetization proceeds received from (i) the patents acquired by the Company from Intellectual Ventures and (ii) the patents in the Company’s mobile data and financial data intellectual property portfolios;

(ix)The Company’s obligations under its agreements with United, including its obligations under the notes and the monetization proceeds agreement, are secured by a pledge of the stock of Mariner, Semcon and IC and by the proceeds from the intellectual property represented by (i) the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and (ii) the intellectual property in the mobile data and financial data portfolios.

(x)Five of the Company’s subsidiaries, Quest Licensing, Wynn, Mariner, Semcon, and IC, guaranteed the Company’s obligations to United.

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(xi)The CompanyWe granted UnitedQFL certain registration rights with respect to (i) the 50,000,000 shares of common stock purchased by United at the closing, (ii) the 50,000,00096,246,246 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the purchase options, and (iii) in the event that the notes become convertible, to the extent that the note holders request, the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the notes.warrant.

 

 (xii)The Company agreed that, within 135 days from the closing date (i.e., by March 2, 2016), the Company would increase its authorized common stock from 390,000,000 shares to 1,250,000,000 shares, and, in the event that, in the future, the number of authorized shares of common stock is not sufficient to enable the full conversion of the notes, the Company will have 135 days to increase the common stock (or effect a reverse split or a combination of an increase in the authorized common stock and a reverse split) so that there will be sufficient shares of common stock available for full conversion of the notes. United agreed to vote its shares or give its consent in connection with any such increase in authorized common stock.

(xiii)The Company has agreed with United that, as long as United’s stockholding in the Company exceed 10%, United has the right to designate one member of the board of directors and at such time and for as long as United’s stockholdings exceed 24.9%, United may nominate a second director to the board. Unless a Conversion Eligible Event of Default shall have occurred, United agreed not to seek to elect a majority of the board for a period of at least three years from the closing date. The Company agreed that the size of the board would not exceed five.

(xiv)(ix)Commencing six months from the closing date, if the shares owned by UnitedQFL cannot be sold pursuant to a registration statement and cannot be sold pursuant to Rule 144 without the Company being in compliance with the current public information requirements of Rule 144, if the Company is not in compliance with the current public information requirements, the Company is required to pay damages to United.QFL.

 

(x)Pursuant to the Board Observation Rights Agreement, until the later of the date on which QFL or its affiliates (i) have received the entirety of their Investment Return (as defined in Purchase Agreement), and (ii) no longer hold any Securities (the “Observation Period”), we granted QFL the right, exercisable at any time during the Observation Period, to appoint a representative to attend meetings (including, without limitation, telephonic or other electronic meetings) of the Board or any committee thereof, including executive sessions, in an observer capacity.


Promissory NotesSummary of Agreements with Intelligent Partners

 

TheSecurities Purchase Agreement and Related Agreements with United Wireless

We, together with certain of our subsidiaries, and United Wireless, entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement dated October 22, 2015 (the “SPA”) and related Transaction Documents, as defined therein, pursuant to which the Company sold 50,000,000 shares (the “Shares”) of our common stock, par value $0.00003 per share (the “Common Stock”) at $0.05 per share, or an aggregate of $250,000; we issued our 10% secured convertible promissory notes bear interestdue September 30, 2020 to United, and granted United an option (the “2015 Purchase Option”) to purchase up to an additional 50,000,000 shares of Common Stock in three tranches at 10% per annum and maturethe prices as set forth therein. The 2015 Purchase Option expired unexercised on September 30, 2020. Interest accrues throughThe Shares are currently owned by Andrew C. Fitton (“Fitton”) and Michael Carper (“Carper”) and United Wireless subsequently transferred its note and assigned all of its remaining rights under the agreements to Intelligent Partners, which is an affiliate of United Wireless and is owned by Fitton and Carper. Our agreements with United Wireless, also included various monetization proceeds agreements, which we refer to as MPAs, pursuant to which we granted to Intelligent Partners, as the assignee of United Wireless, rights to the monetization proceeds from revenue generated from certain of our intellectual property, a security agreement and a registration rights agreement.

The notes became due by their terms on September 30, 2017, with accrued2020, and we did not make any payment on account of principal of and interest being added to principal on each of September 30, 2016, 2017and 2018.the notes. Subsequent to September 30, 2018,2020, we engaged in negotiations with Intelligent Partners in parallel with our negotiations with QFL, with a view to restructuring our obligations under the Company is to pay interest quarterly, with the first interest payment being due on December 31, 2018. The Company has the right to prepayUnited Wireless agreements, including the notes, in whole atso that we no longer had any time and in part from time to time. Althoughobligations under the notes have no conversion rights, if a Conversion Eligible Eventor the SPA. These negotiations resulted in the Restructure Agreement, described below, which provided for the payment to Intelligent Partners of Default occurs,$1,750,000 from the notes becomes convertible at a conversion price equal to 90%proceeds from our agreements with QFL. As part of the closing sale pricerestructure of our agreements with Intelligent Partners, we amended the existing MPAs and granted Intelligent Partners certain rights in the monetization proceeds from any new intellectual property we acquire, as describe below. Under these MPAs, Intelligent Partners participates in the monetization proceeds we receive with respect to new patents after QFL has received its negotiated rate of return.

On or prior to the date of the Company’s common stock on the principal market on which the common stock is trading on the trading day immediately preceding the date the holder gives notice of conversion. The Company does not presently have sufficient common stock available for issuance in the event the notes become convertible. Although the Company has agreedRestructure Agreement, Intelligent Partners transferred to increase its authorized common stock to 1,250,000,000 shares not later than 135 days after the October 22, 2015 closing date, the Company cannot give any assurance that even if the authorized common stock is increased to 1,250,000,000 shares, that such number of shares would be sufficient to permit conversionFitton and Carper $250,000 of the notes in full if a Conversion Eligible Event of Default should occur. The Company is required to have reserved from its authorized and unissued common stock 130% of the number of shares of common stock as shall be necessary for issuance upon conversion of the notes.

Conversion Eligible Events of Default include the breach of selected representations and warranties and covenants contained in the securities purchase agreement and the note. Although the observance of these covenants is within the control of the Company, one of the provisions which would trigger a Conversion Eligible Event of Default is the failure of the Company to increase its authorized common stock within 135 days of the closing date.

The occurrence of a Conversion Eligible Event of Default would not only make the notes convertible but, if it exists on the date a $1,000,000 payment is due to Intellectual Ventures, it would permit United to take title to the stock of the three subsidiaries which own the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures.

The holders of the notes also have the right to demand redemption of the notes at 110% of(the “Transferred Note”), thereby reducing the principal amount of the notenotes held by Intelligent Partners to $4,422,810.

On February 22, 2021, we and Intelligent Partners agreed to extinguish the notes and Transferred Note, and terminate or amend and restate the SPA and Transaction Documents, pursuant to a series of agreements including: a Restructure Agreement (the “Restructure Agreement”), a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Stock Purchase Agreement”), an Option Grant (the “Option Grant”), an Amended and Restated Pledge Agreement (the “Pledge Agreement”), an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), a Board Observation Agreement (the “Board Observation Agreement”), a MPA-NA Security Interest Agreement (the “MPA-NA Security Interest Agreement”), an Amended and Restated Patent Proceeds Security Agreement (the “Patent Proceeds Security Agreement”, an Amended and Restated MPA-CP (the “MPA-CP”), an Amended and Restated MPA-CXT (the “MPA-CXT”), a MPA-MR (the “MPA-MR”), a MPA-AMI (the “MPA-AMI,” and together with the MPA-CP, MPA-CXT and MPA-MR, each a Restructure MPA and together the Restructure MPAs) and a MPA-NA (the “MPA-NA”).

(i)Pursuant to the Restructure Agreement, we paid Intelligent Partners $1,750,000 at closing, which we received from QFL and which QFL paid directly to Intelligent Partners, and recognized a further non-interest bearing total monetization proceeds obligation (the “TMPO”) of $2,805,000, which shall, from and after the Restructure Date, be reduced on a dollar for dollar basis by (a) payments to Intelligent Partners pursuant to the restructure agreement, the Restructure MPAs and the MPA-NA and (b) any election by the Intelligent Partners to pay the Exercise Price of the Restructure Option, in whole or part, by means of a reduction in the then outstanding TMPO. Further details regarding the TMPO are provided under “TMPO”;


(ii)Pursuant to the Stock Purchase Agreement, we issued to Fitton and Carper, as holders of the Transferred Note, a total of 46,296,296 shares of our restricted common stock at a purchase price of $0.0054 per share, which purchase price was paid by the conversion and in full satisfaction of the Transferred Note (the “Conversion Shares”).

(iii)Pursuant to the Option Grant, we granted Intelligent Partners an option to purchase a total of 50,000,000 shares of common stock, with an exercise price of $0.0054 per share which vests immediately and may be exercised through September 30, 2025.

(iv)Pursuant to the restructured monetization proceeds agreement, Intelligent Partners has a right to receive 60% of the net monetization proceeds from the patents currently owned by the Subsidiary Guarantors. The agreement has no termination provisions, so Intelligent Partners will be entitled to its percentage interest as long as revenue can be generated from the intellectual property covered by the agreement.

(v)Pursuant to the MPA-NA, until the TMPO has been paid in full, IPLLC is entitled to receive 10% of the net proceeds realized from new assets acquired by the Company. If, in any calendar quarter, net proceeds realized exceed $1,000,000, IPLLC’s entitlement for that quarter only shall increase to 30% on the portion of net proceeds in excess of $1,000,000 but less than $3,000,000. If in the same calendar quarter, net proceeds exceed $3,000,000, IPLLC’s entitlement for that quarter only shall increase to 50% on the portion of net proceeds in excess of $3,000,000. After satisfaction of the TMPO, the MPA-NA and IPLLC’s interest in new asset proceeds shall terminate.
(vi)Pursuant to the Subsidiary Security Agreement, our obligations under our agreements with Intelligent Partners, including its obligations under the Restructure Agreement and the Restructure MPAs are secured by a security interest in the net proceeds realized from the future monetization of the patents currently owned by the eight subsidiaries named above.

(vii)Pursuant to the MPA-NA-Security Interest Agreement, our obligations under the MPA-NA are secured by a security interest in net proceeds realized from the future monetization of new patents acquired until the TMPO is satisfied, provided Intelligent Partners’ secured interest shall be limited to its entitlement in Net Proceeds under the MPA-NA. After satisfaction of the TMPO the security interest in proceeds from new assets shall terminate.

(viii)We granted Intelligent Partners, Andrew Fitton and Michael Carper certain registration rights with respect to (i) the 50,000,000 Shares currently owned by Fitton and Carper; (ii) the 46,296,296 Conversion Shares being issued to Fitton and Carper, and (iii) the 50,000,000 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Restructure Option;

(ix)Commencing six months from the closing date, if the shares owned by Intelligent Partners cannot be sold pursuant to a registration statement and cannot be sold pursuant to Rule 144 without the Company being in compliance with the current public information requirements of Rule 144, if the Company is not in compliance with the current public information requirements, the Company is required to pay damages to Intelligent Partners.

(x)Pursuant to the Board Observation Rights Agreement, until the Total Monetization Proceeds Obligation has been satisfied (the “Observation Period”), we granted Intelligent Partners the option and right, exercisable at any time during the Observation Period, to appoint a representative to attend meetings of the Board or any committee thereof, including executive sessions, in an observer capacity. Intelligent Partners has no right to appoint a director to the board.

Events of Default include (i) a Change of Control of the Company (ii) any uncured default on payment due to Intelligent Partners in an amount totaling in excess of $275,000, which is not the eventsubject of a changeDispute or other formal dispute resolution proceeding initiated in good faith pursuant to this Agreement or other Restructure Documents (iii) the filing of controla voluntary petition for relief under the United States Bankruptcy Code by Company or any of its material subsidiaries, (iv) the filing of an involuntary petition for relief under the United States Bankruptcy Code against the Company, which is not stayed or dismissed within sixty (60) days of such filing, except for an involuntary petition for relief filed solely by Intelligent Partners, or any Affiliate or member of Intelligent Partners, or (v) acceleration of an obligation in excess of $1 million dollars to another provider of financing following a final determination by arbitration or other judicial proceeding that such obligation is due and owing.


Consulting Agreements

On February 22, 2021, the Company entered into advisory service agreement with three consultants – William Gates, Crystal Nicolson and Jeff Toler pursuant to which they will provide services to the Company in connection with the development of the Company.

Monetization Proceeds AgreementCompany’s business. The agreements have a term of ten years and may be terminated by the Company for cause or upon the death or disability of the consultants.

 

Pursuant to the monetization proceeds agreement, United hasagreements with Mr. Gates and Ms. Nicolson, the compensation payable to each of them consists of a rightrestricted stock grant of 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock which immediately vests in full and a ten-year option to receive 15%purchase a total of the net monetization proceeds from (i) the patents acquired by the Company from Intellectual Ventures and (ii) the patents in the Company’s mobile data and financial data intellectual property portfolios. The agreement has no termination provisions, so United will be entitled to its percentage interest30,000,000 shares of Common Stock, which become exercisable cumulatively as long as revenue can be generated from the intellectual property covered by the agreement.follows:

 

F-21a.10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.01 per share becoming exercisable upon the commencement of trading of the Common Stock on the OTCQB.

 

Net monetization proceeds represent the amount by which any consideration received from the patents, including royalty payments and amounts received as a result of litigation relating to the patents exceeds monetization expenses, including legal fees, and certain other expenses, but not operating expenses not relating to the monetization activities, including patent litigation. The percentage payable with respect to monetization proceeds from the mobile data and financial data intellectual property (but not the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures) is reduced in the event that United breaches its agreement to make working capital loans pursuant to the securities purchase agreement.

b.10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.03 per share, becoming exercisable on the first day on which the Company files with the SEC a Form 10-K or Form 10-Q which stockholders’ equity of at least $5,000,000, and

 

Grant of Security Interest

Payment of the notes and the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ obligations under the monetization proceeds agreement as well as the other obligations under the agreements with United is secured by a security interest in all proceeds (from litigation or otherwise) from the (i) the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and (ii) the intellectual property in the mobile data and financial data portfolios, and a pledge of the stock of the three subsidiaries which hold the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures. The security interest in the proceeds from the patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures is junior to the security interest held by Intellectual Ventures in the patents and proceeds thereof which were acquired by the Company from Intellectual Ventures as security for the payment of the $2,000,000 balance of the purchase price of the patents. The security interest in proceeds from the patents relating to the Company’s mobile data portfolio is junior to the security interest held by Longford Capital Fund I, LP, which is providing litigation funding relating to this portfolio.

Agreement with Intellectual Ventures

c.10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.05/share becoming exercisable on the date on which the Common Stock is listed for trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market or the New York Stock Exchange.

 

Pursuant to the IV Agreement,agreement with Mr. Toler, the Company agreedcompensation payable to acquire the patent rights describedhim consists of a restricted stock grant of 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock which immediately vests in Item 2.01. The agreement required the Companyfull and a ten-year option to provide Intellectual Ventures with a funding commitment reasonably satisfactory to Intellectual Ventures.purchase 30,000,000 shares of Common Stock, which becomes exercisable cumulatively as follows:

 

a.10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.01 per share upon the first anniversary of the agreement.

The agreement provides for a purchase

b.10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.03 per share upon the second anniversary of the agreement; and

c.10,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.05 per share upon the third anniversary of the agreement.

Compensatory Arrangements of $3,000,000, of which $1,000,000 was paid on the closing of financing with United and the remaining $2,000,000 in installments due 30 days after the first and second anniversaries of the closing. The Company’s obligation to make the payments are secured by a security interest in the patents transferred and proceeds thereof which is senior to the lien of United in the proceeds from these patents.Certain Officers

 

Pursuant to the IV Agreement, the Company acquired three groups of patents from Intellectual Ventures for a purchase price of $3,000,000. The patents were acquired by the Company and transferred to three newly formed subsidiaries — Mariner, Semcon, and IC. 

 F-22(i)amended the 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) increasing the shares the Company can issue under the plan to 500,000,000 shares of common stock pursuant to non-qualified stock options, restricted stock grants and other equity-based incentives, the amendment to the Plan and the grants of awards pursuant to the Plan, as described in Items 1.01 and 5.02, to be effective upon the closing of the agreements with QFL.

 (ii)Granted restricted stock grants for services rendered and vesting in full upon grant, to:

 

a.Jon C. Scahill – 49,000,000 shares

b.Timothy J. Scahill – 10,000,000 shares

c.Dr. William R. Carroll - 10,000,000 shares

(iii)Granted Jon Scahill a ten-year option (the “Option”) to purchase 60,000,000 shares of Common Stock which become exercisable cumulatively as follows:

a.20,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.01 per share becoming exercisable upon the commencement of trading of the Common Stock on the OTCQB.

b.20,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.03 per share, becoming exercisable on the first day on which the Company files with the SEC a Form 10-K or Form 10-Q which stockholders’ equity of at least $5,000,000, and

c.20,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.05/share becoming exercisable on the date on which the Common Stock is listed for trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market or the New York Stock Exchange

(iv)Appointed Ryan T. Logue to the board of directors and granted Mr. Logue a restricted stock grant of 5,000,000 shares of common stock which vests upon his acceptance of his appointment as a director.

Patent Portfolio Acquisition

On February 26, 2021, the Company entered into an agreement with Peter K. Trzyna (“PKT”) pursuant to which PKT assigned to the Company all right, title, and interest in a portfolio of eight United States patents (the “Peregrin Portfolio”). Under the agreement, the Company paid PKT $350,000 at closing and agreed that upon the realization of gross proceeds the Company shall make a second installment payment or payments in the aggregate amount of $93,900, which shall be due and payable to PKT from time to time as gross proceeds are realized, paid to PKT with reimbursement to third parties of costs incurred in realizing gross proceeds. Thereafter, PKT is entitled to a percentage of gross proceeds realized, if any. The Company requested and received a capital advance in the amount of the $350,000 initial installment payment from the facility with QFL.


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INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

ITEM 13. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION. (1)

 

 Amount 
Nature of Expense:    Amount 
SEC Registration Fee $44.82  $171.29 
Accounting fees and expenses $1,500.00   3,000.00 
Legal fees and expenses 20,000.00   15,000.00 
Printing  400.00  2,000.00 
Miscellaneous  555.18  4,828.71 
Total $22,500.00  $25,000.00 

 

(1)All expenses, except the SEC registration fee, are estimated.

 

ITEM 14. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

 

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law gives us broad authority to indemnify our officers and directors. under certain prescribed circumstances and subject to certain limitations against certain costs and expenses, including attorney’s fees actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, to which a person is a party by reason of being a director or officer if it is determined that such person acted in accordance with the applicable standard of conduct set forth in such statutory provisions. Our by-laws have broad indemnification provisions for our board of directors, consistent with Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, we have been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.

 

ITEM 15. RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES

 

(a) Pursuant toOn February 22, 2021, in connection with the Company’s restated employmentprepaid forward purchase agreement with Jon C. Scahill, its chief executive officer, on October 30, 2014,QFL, the Company granted QFL ten-year warrants to purchase a total of up to 96,246,246 as described in “Business – Agreements with QFL.”

(b) On February 22, 2021, in connection with a restructure agreement with Intellectual Partners, the Company (i) issued 30,000,000a total of 46,296,296 shares of common stock to Mr. Scahill. Pursuant toAndrew C. Fitton and Michael Carper at a purchase price of $0.0054 per share in exchange for the agreement, Mr. Scahill’s rights tocancellation of a promissory note in the stock vested on January 15, 2015; provided that if he is not employed by the Company at such date other than as a resultprincipal amount of his death or disability, his rights to the shares shall be forfeited, although the chief executive officer had the right to vote the shares immediately upon issuance. These shares vested on January 15, 2015. The value of the shares, $63,000, is reflected as stock-related compensation during the nine months ended September 30, 2015. The issuance of the shares is exempt from registration pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act as a transaction not involving a public offering.

(b)          On April 22, 2015, pursuant to a securities purchase agreement among the Company, certain of its subsidiaries,$250,000, and United Wireless Holdings, Inc., we issued to United Wireless:

(i) 50,000,000 shares of common stock for $250,000.

(ii) Angranted Intellectual Partners an option to purchase 50,000,000 shares of common stock withat an exercise pricesprice of $0.01$0.0054 per share, all as to 16,666,667 shares, which may be exercised from September 30, 2016 through September 30, 2020, $0.03 per share as to 16,666,667 shares, which may be exercised from September 30, 2017 through September 30, 2020, and $0.05 per share as to 16,666,666 shares, which may be exercised from September 30, 2018 through September 30, 2020.described in “Business – Agreements with Intellectual Partners.”

(iii) A promissory note in the principal amount of $1,250,000, which becomes convertible upon the occurrence of certain events of defaults.

In addition, United Wireless agreed to make additional loans(c) Pursuant to the 2017 Equity Incentive Plan, amended, the Company inissued to William Gates, Crystal Nicolson and Jeff Toler a total of 30,000,000 shares of Common Stock as restricted stock grants and granted them options to purchase a total of 90,000,000 shares of common stock, pursuant to consulting contracts, as described under “Executive Compensation -- 2017 Equity Incentive Plan.

(d) Pursuant to the aggregate amount2017 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, the Company issued to its directors, Jon C. Scahill, Timothy J. Scahill, Dr. William R. Carroll and Ryan T. Logue restricted stock grants for a total of $3,000,000, at the times74,000,000 shares of Common Stock and under the conditionsgranted to Jon C. Scahill an option to purchase 60,000,000 shares, as set forth in the securities purchase agreement.“Executive Compensation -- 2017 Equity Incentive Plan.”

 

The issuance of the securities to United Wirelessdescribed above was exempt from registration pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) as a transaction not involving a public offering. No underwriter or broker was involved in the issuance of the securities to United Wireless.securities.

 

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ITEM 16. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

 

Exhibit

Number

 No.
 Description
3.1 Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company1Company.(5)
3.2 Bylaws of the Company1Company. (3)
5.1 Opinion of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP*  LLP (11)
10.1 Restated Employment Agreement dated as of November 30, 2014 between the issuer and between the Company and Jon C. Scahill.1 (1)
10.2 Separation Agreement and Mutual General Release dated October 10, 2014 between the Company and Burton Goldstein.1
10.3Separation Agreement and Mutual General Release dated October 10, 2014 between the Company and Herbert Reichlin.1
10.4Restricted Stock Grant dated October 30, 2014 between the Company and Jon C. Scahill.1 (1)
10.510.3 License Agreement dated March 26, 2008 between the Company and Emerging Technologies Trust.1 (1)
10.610.4 Licensing Services Agreement dated July10,July 10, 2008 between the Company and Balthaser Online, Inc.1 (1)
10.710.5 Patent Purchase Agreement dated December 21, 2009 between Company and Intertech Holdings, LLC.1 (1)
10.810.6 Consulting Agreement dated August 11, 2010 between the Company and Alex W. Hart.1(1)
10.910.7 Agreement dated February 8, 2011 between the Company and Sol Li.1 (1)
10.1010.8 Agreement dated June 26, 2013 between the Company and The Betting Service Ltd. and Neil Riches.1(1)
10.1110.9 Funding Agreement dated March 13, 2014 between the Company and Longford Capital Fund I, LP, (subject to order granting confidential treatment).1treatment (1))#
10.1210.10 Agreement dated April 1, 2014 between the Company and Allied Standard Limited.1 (1)
10.1310.11 Form of warrant issued to Messrs. Goldsteinformer officers and Reichlin.1directors.(1)
10.1410.12 Form of warrant issued to Mr. Jon C. Scahill.1 (1)
10.13Indemnification agreement, dated December 8, 2014 between the Company and Jon C. Scahill. (4)
10.14Indemnification agreement, dated December 8, 2014 between the Company and Timothy J. Scahill. (4)
10.15 Form of indemnification agreement.1

10.16

Securities Purchase Agreement,Indemnification agreement, dated as of October 22, 2015 among the Company, Quest Licensing Corporation, Wynn Technologies, Inc., Mariner IC Inc., Semcon IP Inc., IC Kinetics Inc. and United Wireless Holdings, Inc.2
10.17Promissory note due September 30, 2020 issued by the Company in the principal amount of $1,250,000.2
10.18Monetization Proceeds Agreement, dated as of October 22, 2015 among the Company, Quest Licensing Corporation, Wynn Technologies, Inc., Mariner IC Inc., Semcon IP Inc., IC Kinetics Inc. and United Wireless Holdings, Inc.2

10.19

Patent Proceeds Security Agreement, dated as of October 22, 2015 among the Company, Quest Licensing Corporation, Wynn Technologies, Inc., Mariner IC Inc., Semcon IP Inc., IC Kinetics Inc. and United Wireless Holdings, Inc.2
10.20Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of October 22, 2015December 8, 2014 between the Company and United Wireless Holdings, Inc.2Dr. William Ryall Carroll. (4)
10.2110.16 Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of October 22, 2016 between the Company and United Wireless Holdings, Inc.2
10.22Patent Sale Agreement, effective July 8, 2015 between Intellectual Ventures Assets 16 LLC and the Company.2(2)
10.172017 Equity Incentive Plan(6)
10.18Purchase Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among the Company and QPRC Finance LLC (7)
10.19Ex. A to Purchase Agreement – Security Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among the Company and QPRC Finance LLC. (7)†
10.20Ex. B to Purchase Agreement – Subsidiary Continuing Guaranty Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among Quest Licensing Corporation, Mariner IC Inc., Semcon IP Inc., IC Kinetics Inc., Quest NetTech Corporation, CXT Systems, Inc., M-Red Inc., Audio Messaging Inc. and QPRC Finance LLC. (7)
10.21Ex. C to Purchase Agreement – Subsidiary Patent Proceeds Security Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among the Company, Quest Licensing Corporation, Mariner IC Inc., Semcon IP Inc., IC Kinetics Inc., Quest NetTech Corporation, CXT Systems, Inc., M-Red Inc., Audio Messaging Inc. and QPRC Finance LLC. (7)
10.22Ex. D to Purchase Agreement – Warrant Issuance Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among the Company and QPRC Finance LLC. (7)
10.23Ex. E to Purchase Agreement – Board Observation Rights Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among the Company and QPRC Finance LLC. (7)
10.24Registration Rights Agreement – dated February 19, 2021 among the Company and QPRC Finance LLC. (7)
10.25Form of Warrant – dated February 19, 2021 among the Company and QPRC Finance LLC (7)
10.26Restructure Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among the Company, Quest Licensing Corporation, Mariner IC Inc., Semcon IP Inc., IC Kinetics Inc., Quest NetTech Corporation, CXT Systems, Inc., M-Red Inc., Audio Messaging Inc. Intelligent Partners LLC, Andrew Fitton and Michael Carper. (7)
10.27Ex. A to Restructure Agreement - Stock Purchase Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among the Company, Intelligent Partners LLC, Andrew Fitton and Michael Carper. (7)
10.28Ex. B to Restructure Agreement - Option Grant dated February 19, 2021 among the Company and Intelligent Partners LLC. (7)
10.29Ex. C to Restructure Agreement - Amended and Restated Pledge Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among the Company and Intelligent Partners LLC. (7)

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10.24Ex. D to Restructure Agreement - Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among the Company, Intelligent Partners LLC, Andrew Fitton and Michael Carper. (7)
10.30Ex. E to Restructure Agreement - Board Observation Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among the Company and Intelligent Partners LLC. (7)
10.31Ex. F to Restructure Agreement - Amended and Restated MPA-CP dated February 19, 2021 among the Company, Quest Licensing Corporation, Mariner IC Inc., Semcon IP Inc., IC Kinetics Inc., Quest NetTech Corporation and Intelligent Partners LLC. (7)
10.32Ex. G to Restructure Agreement - Amended and Restated MPA-CXT dated February 19, 2021 among CXT Systems, Inc. and Intelligent Partners LLC. (7)
10.33Ex. H to Restructure Agreement - Monetization Proceeds Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among M-RED Inc. and Intelligent Partners LLC. (7)
10.34Ex. I to Restructure Agreement - Monetization Proceeds Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among Audio Messaging Inc. and Intelligent Partners LLC. (7)
10.35Ex. J to Restructure Agreement - Amended and Restated 2015 Patent Proceeds Security Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among the Company, Quest Licensing Corporation, Mariner IC Inc., Semcon IP Inc., IC Kinetics Inc., Quest NetTech Corporation, CXT Systems, Inc., M-Red Inc., Audio Messaging Inc. and Intelligent Partners LLC. (7)
10.36Ex. K to Restructure Agreement - MPA-NA dated February 19, 2021 among the Company and Intelligent Partners LLC. (7)
10.37Ex. L to Restructure Agreement - MPA-NA Security Interest Agreement dated February 19, 2021 among the Company and Intelligent Partners LLC. (7)
10.38Form of Consulting Agreement (10)
10.39Form of Restricted Stock Agreement(10)
10.40Form of Option Agreement (10)
23.1 Consent of independent registered public accounting firm3Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
23.2 Consent of counsel (included in Exhibit 5.1).MaloneBailey, LLP (8)
24.1Power of Attorney (9)

 

(1)1Filed as an exhibitIncorporated by reference to the Company’s report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012, which was filed withby the SECCompany on December 15, 2014 and incorporated herein by reference.2014.
2(2)Filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 8-K, which was filed with the SEC on October 28, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference.
(3)Filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 10-K, for the year ended December 31, 2013, which was filed with the SEC on April 10, 2015.
(4)Filed as exhibit to Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1, which was filed with the SEC on February 3, 2016, and incorporated herein by reference.
(5)Filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 8-K, which was filed with the SEC on January 26, 2016 and incorporated herein by reference.
(6)Incorporated by reference to the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, which was filed by the Company on April 2, 2018.
(7)Filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 8-K, which was filed with the SEC on February 24, 2021 and incorporated herein by reference.
(8)Filed herewith.
(9)*Filed herewith on signature page.
(10)Incorporated by reference to the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, which was filed by the Company on April 15, 2021.
(11)To be filed by amendment.

#II-2Certain portions of this exhibit are omitted pursuant to an order granting confidential treatment. The omitted information has been filed separately with the SEC.
Certain confidential information has been deleted from this Exhibit.

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ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS.

 

We hereby undertake:

(a)(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement.

(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, to any purchaser,each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) and (h) of this chapter shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement:

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(b) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than director, officer or controlling person in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by the Company is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized in Rye, New York this 1417th day of December, 2015.

May, 2021.

 

 QUEST PATENT RESEARCH CORPORATION
   
 By:/s/ Jon C. Scahill
  Jon C. Scahill,
Chief Executive Officer

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS that each individual whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Jon C. Scahill acting singly, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign (1) any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and (2) any registration statement or post-effective amendment thereto to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other regulatory authority, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or his or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done or by virtue hereof.

  

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature Title Date
     
/s/ Jon C. ScahillChief Executive Officer,Director, chief executive officer, acting chief financial officer and presidentDecember 14, 2015May 17, 2021
Jon C. ScahillChief Financial Officer(principal executive, financial and Directoraccounting officer)
     
/s/ Timothy J. Scahill Director December 14, 2015May 17, 2021
Timothy J. Scahill    
     
/s/ Dr. William Ryall Carroll Director December 14, 2015May 17, 2021
Dr. William Ryall Carroll    
/s/ Ryan T. LogueDirectorMay 17, 2021
Ryan T. Logue

 

 

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