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Commitments and Contingencies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2017
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Commitments and Contingencies

Note 9 - Commitments and Contingencies

 

On June 25, 2015, Company consultant Hank Leibowitz assigned to the Company a patent he obtained for a system and method for using high temperature sources in Rankine cycle power systems. The Company has agreed to pay Mr. Leibowitz a 2% royalty for any and all revenues of products and/or project sales by the Company based on the subject patent.

 

The Company’s license agreement with VDF FutureCeuticals, Inc., which has generated all of the Company’s revenues since 2012, will terminate in March 2018, when the underlying patents expire.

 

On June 1, 2016, the Company entered into a ten-year License Agreement with Helidyne LLC to utilize the Helidyne intellectual property in manufacturing and to sell Helidyne expanders. As part of the licensing agreement the Company committed to purchase two 50 kW expanders, at a price of $25,000 each, on or before the sixth month anniversary of the agreement. The $50,000 was payable in two monthly installments of $25,000 beginning October 2016. As of June 30, 2017, the Company had made payments totaling $38,750, towards the purchase of the expanders, all of which is included in prepaid expense and other current assets in the consolidated balance sheets. Due to Helidyne’s failure to perform under the agreement, the Company has not made any further payments to Helidyne and does not intend to do so unless and until Helidyne performs as required. Helidyne has not objected to the Company’s position, and it is uncertain whether or not Helidyne will ever be able to perform.

 

The Company agreed to pay Helidyne LLC a royalty of 3% of sales, subject to a minimum annual royalty of $50,000 beginning on the earlier of commercialization of the product or three years from the effective date of the agreement.