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13. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements  
NOTE 13. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

The Company has evaluated subsequent events through the date the financial statements were issued and up to the time of filing of the financial statements with the SEC.

 

In July of 2017, we settled our litigation with Astro Pak Corporation (“Astro Pak”) relating to our patents and intellectual property rights. Astro Pak has agreed that we are the sole owner of ionized hydrogen peroxide decontamination and sterilization technology, patents, and products, which we market under the brands Binary Ionization Technology® (BIT™) and SteraMist™. We sued Astro Pak and its wholly owned subsidiary SixLog Corporation (“SixLog”) in California federal court for infringing our United States Patent Nos. 6,969,487 and 7,008,592 and violating our intellectual property rights by, among other things, indicating that our technology and patents were proprietary to SixLog and marketing our patented equipment with SixLog labels. Astro Pak and SixLog agreed to cease this conduct and pay us a cash settlement. Astro Pak also agreed to assign its iHP mark to us, complementing our existing trademark and trade name protection. Finally, Astro Pak and SixLog agreed to remove from the web or take steps to remove any assertions or suggestions that they own or developed ionized hydrogen peroxide technology or patents, or that they provide any ionized hydrogen peroxide products or services.

 

At our 2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, our shareholders elected Mr. Ronald E. Ainsworth to our board of directors, to serve as a Class I director. The term of his service as director commenced on July 7, 2017 and will expire at our 2018 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, unless Mr. Ainsworth sooner resigns or is removed. The agreement between the Company and Mr. Ainsworth provides for an annual fee in the amount of $30,000 paid on a quarterly basis and the grant of 50,000 shares of our common stock. Mr. Ainsworth is a principal in 41 North International, LLC (See Note 10).

 

In August 2017, 975,000 warrants were exercised which resulted in gross proceeds of $48,750.