| NOTE 4 - INTANGIBLE ASSETS |
NOTE 4 – INTANGIBLE ASSETS
Intangible assets of the Company, including adjustments for currency translation adjustments, consisted of the following:
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September 30, 2015
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December 31, 2014
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Intangible Assets
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$
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58,684,865
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$
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49,914,360
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Accumulated Amortization & Impairment
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(14,931,648)
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(6,550,528)
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Intangible assets, net
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$
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43,753,217
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$
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43,363,832
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Intangible assets are comprised of patents with estimated useful lives between approximately 1 to 15 years. Once placed in service, the Company will amortize the costs of intangible assets over their estimated useful lives on a straight-line basis. Costs incurred to acquire patents, including legal costs, are also capitalized as long-lived assets and amortized on a straight-line basis with the associated patent. Amortization of patents is included in operating expenses as reflected in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. As of September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014, management concluded that there was no impairment to the intangible assets.
Patent amortization expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015 was $2,884,269 and $8,511,730, respectively and patent amortization expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014 was $1,480,311 and $2,872,638, respectively, net of foreign currency translation adjustments. Gross future amortization of intangible assets, not incorporating foreign currency translation adjustments, is as follows:
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2015
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$
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2,641,611
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2016
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10,431,758
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2017
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8,026,466
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2018
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6,380,723
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2019
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5,470,671
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2020 and thereafter
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10,801,988
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Total
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$
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43,753,217
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The Company made the following patent purchases:
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In April 2013, the Company through its subsidiary, Relay IP, Inc. acquired a US patent for $350,000;
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In April 2013, the Company acquired 10 US patents, 27 foreign patents and 1 patent pending from CyberFone Systems valued at $1,135,512;
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In June 2013, in connection with the closing of a licensing agreement with Siemens Technology, we acquired a patent portfolio from that company valued at $1,000,000;
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In September 2013, the Company acquired 14 US patents for a total purchase price of $1,100,000;
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In November 2013, the Company acquired four patents for 150,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, which the Company valued at $718,500 based on the fair market value of the stock issued;
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In December 2013, the Company acquired certain patents from Delphi Technologies, Inc. for $1,700,000 pursuant to a Patent Purchase Agreement entered into on October 31, 2013 and Amended on December 16, 2013;
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In December 2013, in connection with a licensing agreement with Zhone, the Company acquired a portfolio of patents from Zhone;
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In December 2013, in connection with a settlement and license agreement, we agreed to settle and release another defendant for past and future use of our patents, whereby the defendant agreed to assign and transfer 2 U.S. patents and rights to the Company;
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In May 2014, we acquired ownership rights of Dynamic Advances, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, IP Liquidity Ventures, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Sarif Biomedical, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, all of which hold patent portfolios or contract rights to the revenue generated from the patent portfolios;
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In June 2014, we acquired Selene Communication Technologies, LLC, which holds multiple patents in the search and network intrusion field;
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In August 2014, we acquired patents from Clouding IP LLC, with such patents related to network and data management technology;
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In September 2014, we acquired TLI Communications, which owns a single patent in the telecommunication field;
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In October 2014, we acquired three patent portfolios from MedTech Development, which owns medical technology patents;
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In April 2015, we acquired forty-three international patents from Bridgestone Americas Tire Operation LLC, with such patents related to tire pressure monitoring sensors and systems.
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As of September 30, 2015, the Company’s patent portfolios consist of 369 U.S. and foreign patents and contract rights to ten patents. In the aggregate, the earliest date for expiration of a patent in the Company’s patent portfolio is past (the patent is expired, but patent rules allow for six year look-back for royalties), the median expiration date for patents in the Company’s portfolio is June 17, 2017, and the latest expiration date for a patent in any of the Company’s patent portfolios is July 29, 2029. A summary of the Company’s patent portfolios is as follows:
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Subsidiary
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Number of
Patents
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Earliest
Expiration
Date
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Median
Expiration
Date
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Latest
Expiration
Date
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Subject Matter
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Bismarck IP Inc.
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17
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09/15/15
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09/15/16
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01/22/18
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Communication and PBX equipment
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Clouding Corp.
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60
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Expired
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10/05/21
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03/29/29
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Network and data management
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CRFD Research, Inc.
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5
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09/17/21
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08/11/22
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08/19/23
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Web page content translator and device-to-device transfer system
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Cyberfone Systems, LLC
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35
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Expired
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01/31/17
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06/07/20
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Telephony and data transactions
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Dynamic Advances, LLC
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4
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Expired
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10/02/17
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03/06/23
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Natural language interface
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E2E Processing, Inc.
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4
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04/27/20
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11/17/23
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07/18/24
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Manufacturing schedules using adaptive learning
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Hybrid Sequence IP, Inc.
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2
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11/14/15
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09/09/16
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07/17/17
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Asynchronous communications
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IP Liquidity Ventures, LLC
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49
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Expired
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04/09/17
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07/26/20
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Pharmaceuticals / tire pressure systems
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Loopback Technologies, Inc.
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10
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Expired
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09/25/17
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08/27/22
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Automotive
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Medtech Group Acquisition Corp.
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137
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Expired
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06/01/18
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07/29/29
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Medical technology
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Relay IP, Inc.
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1
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Expired
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Expired
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Expired
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Multicasting
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Sampo IP, LLC
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3
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03/13/18
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03/13/18
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11/16/23
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Centrifugal communications
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Sarif Biomedical LLC
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5
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Expired
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Expired
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Expired
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Microsurgery equipment
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Selene Communication Technologies, LLC
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3
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05/05/18
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11/23/20
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11/28/21
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Communications
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Signal IP, Inc.
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7
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Expired
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12/01/15
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08/06/22
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Automotive
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TLI Communications, LLC
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6
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06/17/17
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06/17/17
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06/17/17
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Telecommunications
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Vantage Point Technology, Inc.
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31
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Expired
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12/21/16
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03/09/18
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Computer networking and operations
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