Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Intellectual Property

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Intellectual Property
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021
Intellectual Property  
Note 6 - Intellectual Property

On January 15, 2009, the Company entered into an “Exclusive Patent and Know-How License Agreement Including Transfer of Ownership” with the Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation, a non-profit entity (“EERCF”). Under the terms of the Agreement, the Company has been granted an exclusive license by EERCF for the technology to develop, make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, lease, and import the technology in any coal-fired combustion systems (power plant) worldwide and to develop and perform the technology in any coal-fired power plant in the world.

 

On April 24, 2017, the Company closed on the acquisition of all patent rights from EERCF including all patents and patents pending, domestic and foreign, relating to the foregoing technology. A total of 42 domestic and foreign patents and patent applications were included in the acquisition. In accordance with the terms of the License Agreement, the patent rights were acquired for the purchase price of (i) $2,500,000 in cash, and (ii) 925,000 shares of common stock of which 628,998 shares were issued to EERCF and 296,002 were issued to the inventors who had been designated by EERCF. The shares issued were valued at $518,000 ($0.56 per share), representing the value as of the closing date.

   

License and patent costs capitalized as of March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 are as follows:

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2021

 

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patents

 

$ 3,068,995

 

 

$ 3,068,995

 

Less: Accumulated amortization

 

 

(801,349 )

 

 

(750,199 )

Intellectual property, net

 

$ 2,267,646

 

 

$ 2,318,796

 

 

Amortization expense for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 was $51,150 and $50,300, respectively. Estimated annual amortization for each of the next five years is $204,600.