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STOCK BASED COMPENSATION

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Share-based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]

NOTE 10 – STOCK BASED COMPENSATION

During 2007, the Board of Directors of the Company adopted the 2007 Employee Stock Plan (“2007 Plan”) that was approved by the shareholders. Under the Plan, the Company is authorized to grant options to purchase up to 10,000,000 shares of common stock to directors, officers, employees and consultants who provide services to the Company. The Plan is intended to permit stock options granted to employees under the 2007 Plan to qualify as incentive stock options under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Incentive Stock Options”). All options granted under the 2007 Plan, which are not intended to qualify as Incentive Stock Options are deemed to be non-qualified options (“Non-Statutory Stock Options”). Effective June 24, 2016, the 2007 Plan was terminated. As of September 30, 2019, options to purchase 4,450,000 shares of common stock have been issued and are outstanding.

During 2016, the Board of Directors of the Company adopted the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan (“2016 Plan”) that was approved by the shareholders at the 2016 annual meeting of shareholders on May 20, 2016. Under the 2016 Plan, the Company is authorized to grant awards of incentive and non-qualified stock options and restricted stock to purchase up to 3,000,000 shares of common stock to employees, directors and consultants. Effective May 16, 2019, the number of shares of the Company’s common stock available for issuance under the 2016 Plan was increased from 3,000,000 to 8,000,000 shares. As of September 30, 2019, options to purchase 3,178,750 shares of common stock have been issued and are outstanding and 4,821,250 shares of common stock remain available for grants under the 2016 Plan.

Both plans are administered by the Board of Directors or its compensation committee which determines the persons to whom awards will be granted, the number of awards to be granted, and the specific terms of each grant. Subject to the provisions regarding Ten Percent Shareholders, the exercise price per share of each option cannot be less than 100% of the fair market value of a share of common stock on the date of grant. Options granted under the 2016 Plan are generally exercisable for a period of 10 years from the date of grant and may vest on the grant date, another specified date or over a period of time.

The Company uses the Black-Scholes option pricing model to calculate the grant-date fair value of an award, with the following assumptions for 2019: no dividend yield in all years, expected volatility, based on the Company’s historical volatility, 60% to 80.5%, risk-free interest rate between 1.47% to 2.71% and expected option life of 5.0 to 10 years. The expected life is based on the estimated average of the life of options using the “simplified” method, as prescribed in FASB ASC 718, due to insufficient historical exercise activity during recent years.

As of September 30, 2019, there was $484,626 of unrecognized compensation expense related to non-vested market-based share awards that is expected to be recognized through September 30, 2021.

Share-based compensation was recognized as follows:


	For the Nine		For the Nine
	Months Ending		Months Ending
	September 30, 2019		September 30, 2018

2007 Employee Stock Option Plan	$	—	$	15,149
2016 Equity Incentive Plan		500,591		323,927
Warrants		57,005		62,731

Total share-based compensation	$	557,596	$	401,807

The following tables summarize all stock option and warrant activity of the Company during the nine months ended September 30, 2019:


	Non-Qualified Stock Options and Warrants Outstanding and Exercisable

	Number of			Exercise	Weighted Average
	Shares			Price	Exercise Price

Outstanding, December 31, 2018		18,964,867		$0.57 - $1.69	$	0.91

Granted		1,122,500		$0.64 - $1.05	$	0.83
Expired		(3,838,600	)	$0.95 - $1.25	$	1.13
Forfeited		(151,250	)	$0.77 - $1.50	$	0.91

Outstanding, September 30, 2019		16,097,517		$0.57 - $1.69	$	0.85

Exercisable, September 30, 2019		15,190,336		$0.57 - $1.69	$	0.85

The aggregate intrinsic value of options and warrants outstanding and exercisable as of September 30, 2019 was $117,075. The aggregate intrinsic value is calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the underlying options and warrants and the closing stock price of $0.687 for the Company’s common stock on September 30, 2019. No options or warrants were exercised during the nine and three month period ending September 30, 2019. During the nine month period ending September 30, 2018, 100,000 warrants were exercised for proceeds of $61,500. During the nine month period ending September 30, 2018, 100,000 options were exercised for proceeds of $100,000. During the three month period ending September 30, 2018, 100,000 options were exercised for proceeds of $100,000.


Non-Qualified Stock Options and Warrants Outstanding
	Number Outstanding	Weighted Average	Weighted Average
Range of	Currently Exercisable	Remaining	Exercise Price of Options and
Exercise Prices	at September 30, 2019	Contractual Life	Warrants Currently Exercisable

$0.57 - $1.69	15,190,336	3.92 Years	$0.85