Legal Proceedings
−Removed: to Note 15 - Subsequent Events, included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q, for a description of pending material legal proceedings.
−Removed: commenced an action against BioLife in December of 2017 for Breach of Contract.
−Removed: The amount of damages we are seeking in this matter have
−Removed: yet to be determined.
−Removed: Damages are not covered by insurance.
−Removed: BioLife, the defendant, has filed its Answer, Affirmative Defenses and a
−Removed: Counterclaim in the amount of $96,676 representing the invoices withheld after BioLife indicated that they were not intending to fulfill
+Added: Please see Part I, Item 3.
+Added: Legal Proceedings in
+Added: our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: Additionally, we
+Added: commenced an action against BioLife in December of 2017 for Breach of Contract in the Court of Common Pleas.
+Added: The amount of damages sought
+Added: include the lost profits from the alleged breach or the amount we paid and expended in reliance on BioLife’s fulfillment of the
+Added: None of the claimed damages are covered by insurance.
+Added: Defendant BioLife has filed its Answer, Affirmative Defenses and a Counterclaim
+Added: in the amount of $96,676 representing the Invoices unpaid after BioLife notified the Company that they were not intending to fulfill
the balance of the contract.
−Removed: We have denied the allegations of the counterclaim.
−Removed: We have conducted two mediation sessions, but have been
−Removed: unable to resolve the matter.
−Removed: The parties are currently engaged in discovery, which we believe will lead to a trial date in the later
−Removed: part of 2022.
−Removed: The scheduled dates for these events to transpire were extended several times as they were dependent on the safe and full
−Removed: reopening of the Courts.
−Removed: Although it cannot be reasonably determined at this time, we believe the likelihood of an unfavorable outcome
−Removed: on the defendant’s counterclaim is remote.
−Removed: July 8, 2022, we received a notice from Jonathan Jorgl (the “Jorgl Notice”), an AIM stockholder who first purchased 1,000
−Removed: AIM shares on June 27, 2022, seeking to nominate a control slate of two individuals for election to the three-member AIM Board of Directors
−Removed: (the “Board”) at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
−Removed: The Board unanimously determined the Jorgl Notice to be invalid
−Removed: due to numerous deficiencies, including failure to comply with the Company’s bylaws.
−Removed: The rejection of the Jorgl Notice was announced
−Removed: on July 18, 2022.
−Removed: on July 18, 2022, we filed a complaint in the U.S.
−Removed: District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Ocala Division, against
−Removed: individuals we believe failed to register as a group pursuant to U.S.
−Removed: securities laws and committed other unlawful actions in the
−Removed: context of their attempt to effectuate a takeover of the Company’s Board.
−Removed: On October 11, 2022, the court dismissed the
−Removed: complaint without prejudice.
−Removed: Permission to file an amended complaint was granted and an amended complaint was filed.
−Removed: August 12, 2022, a hearing was held in the Delaware Court of Chancery concerning a motion for a temporary restraining order sought by
−Removed: Jorgl to require the AIM Board of Directors to accept his director nominations and include his nominees on a universal proxy card for
−Removed: the upcoming Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
−Removed: The court denied the motion several days later and scheduled a hearing on Jorgl’s
−Removed: motion for a preliminary injunction to be held on October 5, 2022.
−Removed: Extensive discovery was conducted in advance of the hearing, which
−Removed: was then held as scheduled.
−Removed: On October 5, 2022,
−Removed: the Delaware Court of Chancery held a hearing regarding a motion to require the AIM Board of Directors to accept the Jorgl Group’s
−Removed: director nominations and include the group’s nominees on a universal proxy card for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
−Removed: October 28, 2022, the court denied Jorgl’s motion.
−Removed: The Jorgl Group announced on November 2, 2022, that it did not intend to appeal
−Removed: the decision.
−Removed: October 28, 2022, the Delaware Court of Chancery denied Jorgl’s motion.
−Removed: The Jorgl Group announced on November 2, 2022, that it
−Removed: did not intend to appeal the decision.
+Added: The Company denies the allegations of the counterclaim, which we believe will now lead to a trial date in
+Added: the later part of 2023.
+Added: The Court recently issued an Order and Decision on pending cross Motions for Summary Judgment.
+Added: As per the Opinion,
+Added: the Court Denied AIM’s Motion for Summary Judgment, essentially ruling that the Defendant’s asserted breach of the Contract
+Added: is an issue of fact to be disputed at trial because BioLife might prove that its termination of the contract was unavoidable as a result
+Added: of the loss of blood suppliers.
+Added: The Court granted the Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment on the grounds that AIM cannot show
+Added: that its loss of profits for sale of Alfernon was caused by Biolife’s alleged breach.
+Added: The Court further ruled that AIM properly
+Added: pled the alternative damage theory of reliance damages.
+Added: The Court’s Order is inconsistent with the Opinion, in that it appears
+Added: to grant the Defendant’s Motion as to all claims, while the Opinion preserves the reliance damage theory.
+Added: The Company intends to
+Added: seek reconsideration of the Opinion prior to an as-yet-unscheduled trial, and, if unsuccessful, the matters will be reviewed on appeal.
+Added: The matter will proceed to trial at some future date which has not been scheduled.
+Added: The outstanding amounts do not fall within the materiality
+Added: threshold of the Company.
+Added: On April 20, 2023, in the action in the Delaware Court of Chancery, entitled
+Added: Jonathan Thomas Jorgl vs.
+Added: AIM Immuno Tech Inc, Thomas K.
+Added: Equels, William Mitchell and Stewart Appelrouth, Jonathan Jorgl filed a Motion
+Added: to Dismiss his Complaint as moot.
+Added: While we and the director defendants do not oppose dismissal of Jorgl’s claims, we have
+Added: requested that the Court retain jurisdiction so that we can file a motion seeking reimbursement of our legal fees and expenses from Jorgl.
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