Quarterly report [Sections 13 or 15(d)]

Patent Assignment and Royalty Agreement

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Patent Assignment and Royalty Agreement
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Patent Assignment And Royalty Agreement  
Patent Assignment and Royalty Agreement

Note 9—Patent Assignment and Royalty Agreement

 

In November 2016, the Company entered into an agreement with the holders of certain intellectual property relating to the Company’s current product candidate. Under the terms of the agreement, the counterparty assigned its rights and interest in certain patents to the Company in exchange for future royalty payments based on a fixed percentage of future revenues, as defined. The agreement is effective until the later of (1) the date of expiration of the assigned patents or (2) the date of expiration of the last strategic partnership or licensing agreement including the assigned patents. No revenue has been received subject to this agreement for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.

 

On September 2, 2025, the Company entered into a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (the “MIPA”) whereas, the Company agreed to acquire 100% of the membership interests of LPU Holdings LLC from the Sellers, and entered into certain other related agreements, including (i) a Support Agreement, (ii) a Registration Rights Agreement, and (iii) a License Agreement, by and between LPU and LightSolver Ltd. (the “License Agreement”, and, collectively, with the MIPA, the “Acquisition”). The Acquisition closed on September 4, 2025 (the “Acquisition Closing Date”).

 

The Acquisition was accounted for as an asset acquisition pursuant to ASC 805-50 as all of the fair value was concentrated in a single intangible asset, the Exclusive License.

 

As consideration for the Membership Interests, the Company delivered to the Sellers 747,362 shares of Series I Convertible Preferred Stock, subject to certain conversion limitations as set forth in the Certificate of Designations of the Series I Convertible Preferred Stock (see Note 5).

 

The Acquisition price consisted of total upfront consideration comprised of $1.75 million in cash and 747,362 shares of the Company’s Series I Preferred Stock with a fair value of $2.70 million. In addition, the Company incurred approximately $0.26 million of acquisition costs, which are capitalized in an asset acquisition and included in the total consideration transferred.

 

Additionally, after the closing of the Acquisition, the Company is required to pay additional contingent consideration under both the MIPA and the License Agreement (the “Contingent Consideration”) upon the achievement of various specified milestones, including completion of an offering of the Company’s Common Stock or Common Stock equivalents (“Equity Offering”), which Contingent Consideration including certain specified cash payments, cash payments calculated based on any Equity Offering proceeds, shares of Common Stock that would result in the Sellers collectively beneficially owning specified percentage of the Company and warrants to purchase Common Stock. The Contingent Consideration was determined to be comprised of liabilities which meet the definition of a derivative under ASC 815, and was thus required to be recognized at its fair value at closing, with such fair value included as a component of the cost of the asset acquisition. The liability will then be remeasured each reporting period with changes in fair value recognized in earnings. As of the Acquisition Closing Date, the Company estimated the fair value of $9,380,000 using a probability-weighted discounted cash flow approach.

 

The following table presents the total purchase consideration and the allocation of the purchase consideration for the Acquisition as of September 2, 2025:

 

Acquisition Consideration (cash)   $ 1,750,000  
Fair value of Series I Preferred Stock (747,362 shares)     2,697,977  
Transaction Costs     259,022  
Total Preliminary Consideration Transferred     4,706,999  
         
Contingent Consideration     9,380,000  
         
Purchase Price   $ 14,086,999  

 

The total purchase price was allocated in its entirety to the exclusive license under the License Agreement. The agreement has no specified term and will only be terminated upon mutual agreement between the Company and Lightsolver, material breach of contract by either party, insolvency of either party, certain other failures to perform under the terms of the agreement, or at the Company’s convenience. As of the Acquisition date, the Company believes that the probability of termination under any of the above conditions is remote; the Company intends to hold the Exclusive License into perpetuity thus does not foresee a limit on the asset’s useful life as of the Acquisition Date. Management thus concludes that the Exclusive License is an indefinite-lived asset and will perform an annual assessment for impairment and will reassess whether events and circumstances indicate that the life of the asset is no longer indefinite each reporting period.