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Proceeds Investment Agreement Obligation

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2020

Proceeds Investment Agreement Obligation

Proceeds Investment Agreement Obligation

NOTE 4. PROCEEDS INVESTMENT AGREEMENT OBLIGATION

The proceeds investment agreement obligations are comprised of the following:

	September 30, 2020		December 31, 2019
Proceeds investment agreement, at fair value	$	—	$	6,500,000
Less: Current portion		—		—

Proceeds investment agreement, at fair value - Long-term	$	—	$	6,500,000

On July 31, 2018, the Company entered into a Proceeds Investment Agreement (the “PIA”) with Brickell Key Investments LP (“BKI”), pursuant to which BKI funded an aggregate of $500,000 (the “First Tranche”) to be used (i) to fund the Company’s litigation proceedings relating to the infringement of certain patent assets listed in the PIA and (ii) to repay the Company’s existing debt obligations and for certain working capital purposes set forth in the PIA. Pursuant to the PIA, BKI was granted an option to provide the Company with an additional $9.5 million, at BKI’s sole discretion (the “Second Tranche”). On August 21, 2018, BKI exercised its option on the Second Tranche for $9.5 million which completed the $10.0 million funding.

Pursuant to the PIA and in consideration for the $10.0 million in funding, the Company agreed to assign to BKI (i) 100% of all gross, pre-tax monetary recoveries paid by any defendant(s) to the Company or its affiliates agreed to in a settlement or awarded in judgment in connection with the patent assets, plus any interest paid in connection therewith by such defendant(s) (the “Patent Assets Proceeds”), up to the minimum return (as defined in the PIA) and (ii) if BKI has not received its minimum return by the earlier of a liquidity event (as defined in the PIA) and July 31, 2020, then the Company agreed to assign to BKI 100% of the Patent Asset Proceeds until BKI has received an amount equal to the minimum return on $4.0 million.

Pursuant to the PIA, the Company granted BKI (i) a senior security interest in the Patent Assets, the claims (as defined in the PIA) and the Patent Assets Proceeds until such time as the minimum return is paid, in which case, the security interest on the patent assets, the claims and the Patent Assets Proceeds will be released, and (ii) a senior security interest in all other assets of the Company until such time as the minimum return is paid on $4.0 million, in which case, the security interest on such other assets will be released.

The security interest is enforceable by BKI if the Company is in default under the PIA which would occur if (i) the Company fails, after five (5) days’ written notice, to pay any due amount payable to BKI under the PIA, (ii) the Company fails to comply with any provision of the PIA or any other agreement or document contemplated under the PIA Agreement, (iii) the Company becomes insolvent or insolvency proceedings are commenced (and not subsequently discharged) with respect to the Company, (iv) the Company’s creditors commence actions against the Company (which are not subsequently discharged) that affect material assets of the Company, (v) the Company, without BKI’s consent, incurs indebtedness other than immaterial ordinary course indebtedness up to $500,000, (vi) the Company fails, within five (5) business days following the closing of the second tranche, to fully satisfy its obligations to certain holders of the Company’s senior secured convertible promissory notes listed in the PIA and fails to obtain unconditional releases from such holders as to the Company’s obligations to such holders and the security interests in the Company held by such holders or (vii) there is an uncured non-compliance of the Company’s obligations or misrepresentations by the Company under the PIA.

Under the PIA, the Company issued BKI a warrant to purchase up to 465,712 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “PIA Warrant”), at an exercise price of $2.60 per share provided that the holder of the PIA Warrant will be prohibited from exercising the PIA Warrant if, as a result of such exercise, such holder, together with its affiliates, would own more than 4.99% of the total number of shares of the Company’s common stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such exercise. However, such holder may increase or decrease such percentage to any other percentage not in excess of 9.99%, provided that any increase in such percentage shall not be effective until 61 days after such notice to the Company. The PIA Warrant is exercisable for five years from the date of issuance and is exercisable on a cashless exercise basis if there is no effective registration statement. No contractual registration rights were given.

The Company elected to account for the PIA on the fair value basis. Therefore, the Company determined the fair value of the PIA and PIA Warrants which yielded estimated fair values of the PIA including their embedded derivatives and the detachable PIA Warrants as follows:

Proceeds investment agreement	$	9,067,513
Common stock purchase warrants		932,487

Gross cash proceeds	$	10,000,000

The Company utilized a probability weighted present value of expected patent asset proceeds for the litigation involving both Axon Enterprises, Inc. (“Axon,” formerly known as Taser International, Inc.) and WatchGuard (see Note 9 – “Commitments and Contingencies”) which involved estimates of the amount and timing of the expected patent asset proceeds from the alleged patent infringement. The fair value of the PIA is updated for actual and estimated activity affecting the probability weighted present value of expected patent asset proceeds at each reporting date with the change charged/credited to operations. Following is a range of certain estimates and assumptions utilized as of December 31, 2019 to probability weighted present value of expected patent asset proceeds for the litigation involving both Axon and WatchGuard:

	December 31, 2019
Discount rate		3.0% -16.6	%
Expected term to patent asset proceeds payment		0.58 years - 4 years
Probability of success		5.9% -38.5	%
Estimated minimum return payable to BKI		$ 21 million
Negotiation discount		43.3	%

In May 2019, the Company settled its patent infringement litigation with WatchGuard whereby it received a lump-sum payment of $6.0 million as further described in Note 9 – “Commitments and Contingencies”. In accordance with the terms of the PIA, the Company remitted the $6.0 million as a principal payment toward its minimum return payment obligations under the PIA.

On July 20, 2020, the Company and BKI executed a Termination Agreement and Mutual Release (the “Termination Agreement”). Under the terms of the Termination Agreement the parties agreed to terminate the PIA and to release each other from any further liability under the PIA obligation.

Under the terms of the Termination Agreement, upon payment of $1,250,000 by the Company to BKI both parties agreed to terminate the PIA and to release each other from any further liability thereunder. Such $1,250,000 payment was made on July 22, 2020. In addition to the $1,250,000 payment, the Company further agreed to pay BKI the following: (a) a contingent payment in the amount of $2,750,000 following the closing of an asset purchase, membership interest purchase, or similar transaction between the Company and a specified third-party (the “Purchase Transaction”) and (b) any and all future proceeds received from Watchguard and its successors and assigns by the Company for WatchGuard’s use of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,781,292 and 9,253,452. For clarity, the Company and BKI further agreed that the payment of the contingent payment would only be due and payable upon the closing of the specified Purchase Transaction and the relevant contingent payment portion of the Termination Agreement, and any obligations stemming therefrom, would automatically terminate if the specified Purchase Transaction is abandoned prior to its closing, including its failure to close within three years from the date of the Termination Agreement.

The parties abandoned the Purchase Transaction during the quarter ended September 30, 2020 and therefore, the contingent payment obligation automatically terminated as the specified Purchase Transaction was abandoned prior to its closing. Furthermore, the Company does not anticipate any future recoveries from Watchguard and its successors and assigns relative to WatchGuard’s use of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,781,292 and 9,253,452. As a result, the PIA obligation was extinguished upon the payment of the $1,250,000 required under the Termination Agreement.

The following represents activity in the PIA during the nine months ended September 30, 2020:

Beginning balance as of December 31, 2019	$	6,500,000
Repayment of obligation		(1,250,000	)
Change in the fair value during the period		(5,250,000	)
Ending balance as of September 30, 2020	$	—