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maintain disclosure controls and procedures, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our President and Chief Executive Officer and our
−Removed: Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure
−Removed: controls and procedures pursuant to Rule 13a-15 and 15d-15 of the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Based upon that evaluation, our President and
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and
−Removed: procedures were effective as of the end of fiscal year 2020.
−Removed: Management’s
+Added: supervision and with the participation of our management, including our President and Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Operating
+Added: Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures
+Added: pursuant to Rule 13a-15 and 15d-15 of the Exchange Act.
+Added: Based upon that evaluation, our President and Chief Executive Officer and our
+Added: Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end
+Added: of fiscal year 2021.
Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
−Removed: management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as such term is
−Removed: defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Our management, including the principal executive officer and principal
−Removed: financial officer, does not expect that our internal controls over financial reporting will prevent all errors and all fraud.
−Removed: A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, cannot provide full assurance that the objectives of the control system
−Removed: are met, and no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any,
−Removed: within a company have been detected.
−Removed: Our internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurance
−Removed: regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of consolidated financial statements for external purposes
−Removed: in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
−Removed: the supervision and with the participation of our management, including the principal executive officer and principal financial
−Removed: officer, we conducted an evaluation as to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of October 31,
−Removed: In making this assessment, our management used the criteria for effective internal control set forth by the Committee of
−Removed: Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in the 2013 Internal Control –
−Removed: Integrated Framework .
−Removed: this assessment, our management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of October 31, 2020.
−Removed: Annual Report on Form 10-K does not include an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm regarding
−Removed: internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: Management’s report was not subject to attestation by the Company’s independent
−Removed: registered public accounting firm pursuant to a permanent exemption of the Commission that permits the Company to provide only
−Removed: management’s report in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
−Removed: Accordingly, our management’s assessment of the effectiveness
−Removed: of our internal control over financial reporting as of October 31, 2020 has not been audited by our auditors, Haskell & White
+Added: management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as such term is defined
+Added: in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act.
+Added: Our management, including the principal executive officer and principal financial
+Added: officer, does not expect that our internal controls over financial reporting will prevent all errors and all fraud.
+Added: A control system,
+Added: no matter how well designed and operated, cannot provide full assurance that the objectives of the control system are met, and no evaluation
+Added: of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within a company have been detected.
+Added: Our internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting
+Added: and the preparation of consolidated financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
+Added: the supervision and with the participation of our management, including the principal executive officer and principal financial officer,
+Added: we conducted an evaluation as to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of October 31, 2021.
+Added: this assessment, our management used the criteria for effective internal control set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
+Added: of the Treadway Commission in the 2013 Internal Control – Integrated Framework .
+Added: Based on this assessment, our management
+Added: concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of October 31, 2021.
+Added: Annual Report on Form 10-K does not include an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal
+Added: control over financial reporting.
+Added: Management’s report was not subject to attestation by the Company’s independent registered
+Added: public accounting firm pursuant to a permanent exemption of the Commission that permits the Company to provide only management’s
+Added: report in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: Accordingly, our management’s assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control
+Added: over financial reporting as of October 31, 2021 has not been audited by our auditors, Haskell & White LLP.
in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
−Removed: were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020 that has materially
−Removed: affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021 that has materially affected,
+Added: or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Other Information.
−Removed: January 7, 2021, the Board of Directors of the Company confirmed its intention to hold the Company’s 2021 Annual
−Removed: Meeting of Shareholders (the “2021 Annual Meeting”) on Friday, May 21, 2021.
−Removed: The time and location of the 2021 Annual
−Removed: Meeting, and the matters to be considered, will be as set forth in the Company’s definitive proxy statement for the 2021
−Removed: Annual Meeting to be filed in due course with the SEC.
−Removed: the date of the 2021 Annual Meeting has been changed by more than 30 days from the anniversary date of the Company’s last
−Removed: annual meeting of shareholders, the Company is informing shareholders of this change and the updated deadline for shareholders
−Removed: to submit nominations for director or proposals for consideration at the 2021 Annual Meeting in accordance with the rules and
−Removed: regulations of the SEC and the Company’s By-laws.
−Removed: Accordingly, shareholders wishing to nominate a candidate for director
−Removed: or to propose other business at the 2021 Annual Meeting must ensure proper notice is received by the Company at its offices no
−Removed: later than March 17, 2021.
−Removed: The notice must include all of the information required by the Company’s By-laws.
−Removed: Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.
−Removed: Directors and Executive Officers
−Removed: following table sets forth certain information with respect to all of our directors and executive officers:
−Removed: with the Company and Principal Occupation
−Removed: and/or Executive Officer Since
−Removed: of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: Titterton, Jr.
−Removed: Independent Director
−Removed: Arnold Baskies
−Removed: Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
−Removed: believe that our Board represents a desirable mix of backgrounds, skills, and experiences.
−Removed: The principal occupation and business
−Removed: experience during the last five years for our executive officers and directors and some of the specific experiences, qualifications,
−Removed: attributes or skills that led to the conclusion that each person should serve as one of our directors in light of our business
−Removed: and structure is as follows:
−Removed: Kumar, Ph.D., 56, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer.
−Removed: Kumar has served as our President
−Removed: and Chief Executive Officer since July 2017, as a director of the Company since November 2012 and as Chairman of the Board since
−Removed: From June 2015 until August 2016, he served as Vice Chairman of the Board.
−Removed: Kumar served as a strategic advisor
−Removed: to the Company from September 2012 until July 2017.
−Removed: He has been Executive Chairman of the board of directors of Anixa Diagnostics
−Removed: Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company since June 2015.
−Removed: Upon his appointment as Executive Chairman of Anixa Diagnostics,
−Removed: Kumar resigned from his position as the CEO of Geo Fossil Fuels LLC, an energy company, which he had held since December 2010.
−Removed: From September 2001 to June 2010, he was President and CEO of CombiMatrix Corporation, a NASDAQ listed biotechnology company and
−Removed: also served as director from September 2000 to June 2012.
−Removed: He was Vice President of Life Sciences of Acacia Research Corporation,
−Removed: a publicly traded investment company, from July 2000 to August 2007 and also served as a director from January 2003 to August
−Removed: Kumar has served as Chairman of the board of directors of Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a publicly-held solar energy
−Removed: company, since June 2007.
−Removed: He served as a director of Aeolus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company, from
−Removed: June 2004 to June 2018.
−Removed: Kumar is Chairman of Actym Therapeutics, a private biotechnology company.
−Removed: Kumar has served on
−Removed: the board of the American Cancer Society since 2016.
−Removed: Kumar holds an A.B.
−Removed: in Chemistry from Occidental College.
−Removed: After graduate
−Removed: studies at Stanford University and Caltech, he received his Ph.D.
−Removed: from Caltech and completed his post-doctoral training at Harvard
−Removed: He has experience in technology driven startups, both at the board of directors and operating levels, in a broad variety
−Removed: of areas including finance, acquisitions, research and development, and marketing, and, as described above, has served as a director
−Removed: and/or officer of various publicly traded companies.
−Removed: Titterton, Jr., 76, Director.
−Removed: Titterton has served as a director since July 2017, and as Lead Independent Director
−Removed: since July 2018.
−Removed: He previously served as a director of the Company from August 2010 through August 2016, as the Chairman of the
−Removed: Board from July 2012 through August 2016, and interim Chief Executive Officer from August 2012 until September 2012.
−Removed: on the board of directors of ParkerVision, Inc., a publicly traded wireless technology company, from September 2018 to April 2019.
−Removed: His background is in high technology with an emphasis on health care and he was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NYMED,
−Removed: Inc., a diversified health services company, from 1989 until October 2018.
−Removed: Titterton founded MedE America, Inc.
−Removed: was Chief Executive Officer of Management and Planning Services, Inc.
−Removed: from 1978 to 1986.
−Removed: Titterton also served as one of our
−Removed: Directors from July 1999 to January 2003.
−Removed: He holds an MBA from the State University of New York at Albany, and a B.A.
−Removed: Cornell University.
−Removed: Titterton has been involved with our Company as a director or investor for over twenty years.
−Removed: also has substantial experience with advising on the strategic development of technology companies and over forty years of experience
−Removed: in various aspects of the technology industry.
−Removed: Baskies, MD, FACS, 71, Director.
−Removed: Baskies has served on our Board since September 2018.
−Removed: He previously served as a director
−Removed: of the Company from August 2016 until September 2017.
−Removed: Baskies is a surgical oncologist affiliated with Virtua Health Systems
−Removed: in southern New Jersey, where he specializes in surgical oncology and general surgery, and is Clinical Professor of Surgery at
−Removed: Rowan School of Medicine.
−Removed: He trained at Boston University Medical Center and the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute
−Removed: where his early research involved immunotherapy.
−Removed: He has extensive experience in all facets of general surgical and surgical oncologic
−Removed: problems, with special interests in the treatment of breast cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, thyroid cancer, melanoma, and parathyroid
−Removed: disease, and is a co-investigator in several national studies dealing with breast cancer prevention.
−Removed: Baskies has served as
−Removed: a director of Baudax Bio, Inc., a publicly-held biotechnology company, since August 2020.
−Removed: He served as chairman of the New Jersey
−Removed: Governor’s Task Force on Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment of Cancer, having created and chaired the cancer control
−Removed: plan for the state from 2000-2016, and is a member of numerous societies, including the Society of Surgical Oncology, the American
−Removed: Society of Breast Surgeons, and the American College of Surgeons.
−Removed: Baskies has been involved with the American Cancer Society
−Removed: for 40 years.
−Removed: He was awarded the Society’s Silver Chalice Award in 1998 and the Society’s St.
−Removed: George National Award
−Removed: He has held leadership positions at many levels of the organization, including service as the first board scientific
−Removed: officer for the American Cancer Society Board of Directors in 2015, and was the chief medical officer and Chairman of the Board
−Removed: of Directors of the former Eastern Division of the American Cancer Society.
−Removed: In 2017, he served as the Chairman of the National
−Removed: Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society.
−Removed: He helped develop the current guidelines for breast cancer screening and colon
−Removed: cancer screening which are used on a daily basis in the United States and internationally.
−Removed: He chairs the Global Cancer Control
−Removed: Advisory Council for the society and the St.
−Removed: Baldrick’s Foundation/ACS Alliance.
−Removed: He has helped set the standards for cancer
−Removed: care accreditation through his involvement with the Commission on Cancer.
−Removed: He received a medical degree from Boston University
−Removed: School of Medicine in 1975 and a bachelor of arts degree from Boston University College of Liberal Arts in 1971.
−Removed: Cavalier, 51, Director .
−Removed: Cavalier has served on our Board since September 2018.
−Removed: He is a seasoned executive and investor
−Removed: with over 20 years of experience in the biotechnology sector.
−Removed: He is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Mab & Stoke,
−Removed: Inc., a direct-to-consumer health and wellness company.
−Removed: He was the Chairman, from 2004 to 2018, and Chief Financial Officer, from
−Removed: 2013 to 2018, of Aeolus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company where in 2011 he was instrumental in winning and managing
−Removed: a $118 million advanced research and development contract from the U.S.
−Removed: Prior to Aeolus, Mr.
−Removed: Cavalier was the founder,
−Removed: portfolio manager and Chief Operating Officer of Xmark Opportunity Partners, a biotechnology investment firm.
−Removed: Xmark was an activist
−Removed: fund, focused on creating positive change at the board and management level for portfolio companies.
−Removed: He began his biotech investment
−Removed: career at Brown Simpson Asset Management, where he co-managed the life sciences investment group.
−Removed: Cavalier previously worked
−Removed: for Tiger Real Estate, a private investment fund sponsored by Tiger Management Corporation.
−Removed: He began his career in the Investment
−Removed: Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co.
−Removed: working on debt and equity offerings for public and private real estate companies.
−Removed: Cavalier currently serves as the Chairman of the New York Advisory Board for Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit focused
−Removed: on policy, program and capital solutions for affordable housing.
−Removed: He received his B.A.
−Removed: from Yale University and his M.Phil.
−Removed: Oxford University.
−Removed: Gottschalk, 60, Director.
−Removed: Gottschalk has served on our Board since October 2019.
−Removed: She is an experienced marketer with
−Removed: over 30 years of developing products for the consumer marketplace.
−Removed: She has been the CEO of The Garr Group, Inc.
−Removed: since 1997, a
−Removed: diverse entertainment and new product development company that she founded that sells entertainment and general merchandise to
−Removed: the mass, specialty and on-line market.
−Removed: Gottschalk co-founded IdeationUSA, LLC in 2017, a product development company focused
−Removed: on bringing innovative electronics to the consumer market.
−Removed: IdeationUSA identifies “white space”
−Removed: opportunities in the
−Removed: marketplace and defines and develops products that uniquely touch consumers lives.
−Removed: Ideation is equally focused on brick and mortar,
−Removed: on-line and emerging distribution channels.
−Removed: Previously, she was Marketing Director of Zany Brainy, a children’s educational
−Removed: toy store that she launched.
−Removed: Since 1997, Ms.
−Removed: Gottschalk’s companies have produced over 150 million CD’s/DVD’s
−Removed: to the US retail market, developed a proprietary Android tablet called “RealPad, by AARP”
−Removed: with Intel and has created
−Removed: private label brands across the home and craft market.
−Removed: She is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration
−Removed: and serves on the board of several philanthropic organizations.
−Removed: Monahan, Ph.D., 74, Director.
−Removed: Monahan has served on our Board since August 2016.
−Removed: He is an experienced executive and
−Removed: has served on a number of biotechnology company boards over the years.
−Removed: He is currently a director of Synthetic Biologics, Inc.,
−Removed: a publicly traded biotechnology company, and from 2010 through 2015 he was the Senior Executive Vice President of Research &
−Removed: Development at Synthetic Biologics, Inc.
−Removed: He is also a director of Heat Biologics, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company,
−Removed: a position that he has held since 2011.
−Removed: In 1992 he founded Avigen, Inc., a biotechnology company that pioneered the development
−Removed: of gene medicines based on adeno-associated virus vectors, now an industry standard.
−Removed: Over a 12-year period as its Chief Executive
−Removed: Monahan took Avigen public through an initial public offering raising over $235 million and led the company through
−Removed: several IND applications.
−Removed: Prior to Avigen, Dr.
−Removed: Monahan served as Vice President - Research and Development at Somatix Therapy
−Removed: Corp., and Director of Molecular & Cell Biology at Triton Biosciences, Inc.
−Removed: He was also previously Research Group Chief, Department
−Removed: of Molecular Genetics at Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc., and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology at New York University.
−Removed: Monahan earned a Ph.D.
−Removed: in Biochemistry from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, and a B.S.
−Removed: in Science from University College,
−Removed: Dublin, Ireland.
−Removed: Monahan has over 50 publications in scientific literature and has made hundreds of presentations and public
−Removed: TV appearances, to scientific groups, investors and the general public over the years.
−Removed: Catelani, 54, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer.
−Removed: Catelani has served as our Chief Operating Officer
−Removed: since July 2017 and as Chief Financial Officer since November 2016.
−Removed: Catelani is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of
−Removed: experience in finance and operations.
−Removed: From October 2012 to July 2017, he served as a contract Chief Financial Officer to a number
−Removed: of established privately held businesses in the biotechnology field.
−Removed: In July 2006, he co-founded Tacere Therapeutics, Inc., a
−Removed: privately held biotechnology company, and served as its Chairman, President and Chief Financial Officer until its sale in October
−Removed: While at Tacere, Mr.
−Removed: Catelani was instrumental in establishing and managing a $150 million drug development collaboration
−Removed: with Pfizer, Inc.
−Removed: Prior to Tacere, he served on the Board of Directors and was the Chief Financial Officer of Benitec Biopharma
−Removed: Limited, an Australian Stock Exchange-listed biotechnology company.
−Removed: Prior to Benitec, Mr.
−Removed: Catelani served as Vice President and
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer at Axon Instruments, Inc., a U.S.
−Removed: corporation publicly traded on the Australian Stock Exchange that was
−Removed: a leading designer and manufacturer of instrumentation and software systems for biotechnology and diagnostics research.
−Removed: he served as the Vice President of Finance for Media Arts Group, Inc., an NYSE-listed company.
−Removed: Catelani has also worked with
−Removed: several early stage start-up companies in a variety of industries, including biotechnology, cleantech and retail, in both advisory
−Removed: and management roles.
−Removed: Catelani began his professional career at Ernst & Young and is a CPA (Inactive).
−Removed: He holds a B.S.
−Removed: degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Accountancy, from Sacramento State University and an MBA from the University
−Removed: of California, Davis.
−Removed: our current directors and executive officers, Drs.
−Removed: Kumar, Baskies and Monahan and Messrs.
−Removed: Titterton and Cavalier have served as
−Removed: a director of another public company within the past five years.
−Removed: Significant Employees
−Removed: have no significant employees other than our executive management team.
−Removed: Relationships
−Removed: are no family relationships between or among the directors, executive officers or persons nominated or chosen by the Company to
−Removed: become directors or executive officers.
−Removed: of Certain Legal Proceedings
−Removed: the best of our knowledge, during the past ten years, none of the following occurred with respect to a present or former director
−Removed: or executive officer of the Company:
−Removed: (1) any bankruptcy petition filed by or against any business of which such person was a general
−Removed: partner or executive officer either at the time of the bankruptcy or within two years prior to that time;
−Removed: (2) any conviction in
−Removed: a criminal proceeding or being subject to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses);
−Removed: (3) being subject to any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent
−Removed: jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting his or her involvement in any type
−Removed: of business, securities or banking activities;
−Removed: (4) being found by a court of competent jurisdiction (in a civil action), the Commission
−Removed: or the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law, and the judgment
−Removed: has not been reversed, suspended or vacated;
−Removed: (5) being subject of, or a party to, any Federal or State judicial or administrative
−Removed: order, judgment, decree or finding relating to an alleged violation of the federal or state securities, commodities, banking or
−Removed: insurance laws or regulations or any settlement thereof or involvement in mail or wire fraud in connection with any business entity
−Removed: not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated and (6) being subject of, or a party to, any disciplinary sanctions or orders
−Removed: imposed by a stock, commodities or derivatives exchange or other self-regulatory organization.
−Removed: 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
−Removed: 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our directors, executive officers and ten percent stockholders to file initial reports of ownership
−Removed: and reports of changes in ownership of our common stock with the Commission.
−Removed: Directors, executive officers and ten percent stockholders
−Removed: are also required to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms that they file.
−Removed: Based upon a review of these filings, we
−Removed: believe that all required Section 16(a) reports were made on a timely basis during fiscal year 2020.
−Removed: have adopted a formal code of ethics that applies to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting
−Removed: officer or controller or persons performing similar functions.
−Removed: We will provide a copy of our code of ethics to any person without
−Removed: charge, upon request.
−Removed: For a copy of our code of ethics write to Secretary, Anixa Biosciences, Inc., 3150 Almaden Expressway, Suite
−Removed: 250, San Jose, California 95118.
−Removed: A current copy of our code of ethics is also available on our website at http://ir.anixa.com/governance-docs.
−Removed: July 9, 2015, the Board established a nominating and corporate governance committee (the “Nominating Committee”).
−Removed: The Nominating Committee has a charter which will be reviewed on an annual basis by members of the committee and will be at all
−Removed: times composed of exclusively independent directors.
−Removed: The principal duties and responsibilities of the Nominating Committee are
−Removed: to identify qualified individuals to become board members, recommend to the Board individuals to be designated as nominees for
−Removed: election as directors at the annual meetings of stockholders, and develop and recommend to the Board the Company’s corporate
−Removed: governance guidelines.
−Removed: In selecting directors, the Nominating Committee will consider candidates that possess qualifications and
−Removed: expertise that will enhance the composition of the Board, including the considerations set forth below.
−Removed: The considerations set
−Removed: forth below are not meant as minimum qualifications, but rather as guidelines in weighing all of a candidate’s qualifications
−Removed: and expertise.
−Removed: should be individuals of personal integrity and ethical character.
−Removed: should have background, achievements, and experience that will enhance our Board.
−Removed: This may come from experience in areas important
−Removed: to our business, substantial accomplishments or prior or current associations with institutions noted for their excellence.
−Removed: should have demonstrated leadership ability, the intelligence and ability to make independent analytical inquiries and the
−Removed: ability to exercise sound business judgment.
−Removed: should be free from conflicts that would impair their ability to discharge the fiduciary duties owed as a director to Anixa
−Removed: and its stockholders, and we will consider directors’
−Removed: independence from our management and stockholders.
−Removed: should have, and be prepared to devote, adequate time and energy to the Board and its committees to ensure the diligent performance
−Removed: of their duties, including by attending meetings of the Board and its committees.
−Removed: consideration will be given to the Board’s overall balance of diversity of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences,
−Removed: as well as age, gender and ethnicity.
−Removed: Consideration
−Removed: will also be given to relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
−Removed: are of the view that the continuing service of qualified incumbents promotes stability and continuity in the board room, contributing
−Removed: to the Board’s ability to work as a collective body, while giving us the benefit of the familiarity and insight into our
−Removed: affairs that our directors accumulate during their tenure.
−Removed: Accordingly, the process of the Nominating Committee for identifying
−Removed: nominees for directors will reflect our practice of generally re-nominating incumbent directors who continue to satisfy the Board’s
−Removed: criteria for membership on the Board, whom the Nominating Committee believes continue to make important contributions and who
−Removed: consent to continue their service on the Board.
−Removed: If the Nominating Committee determines that an incumbent director consenting to
−Removed: re-nomination continues to be qualified and has satisfactorily performed his or her duties as director during the preceding term,
−Removed: and that there exist no reasons, including considerations relating to the composition and functional needs of the Board as a whole,
−Removed: why in the Nominating Committee’s view the incumbent should not be re-nominated, the Nominating Committee will, absent special
−Removed: circumstances, generally propose the incumbent director for re-election.
−Removed: Although we do not have a formal policy regarding the
−Removed: consideration of diversity in identifying and evaluating potential director candidates, the Nominating Committee will take into
−Removed: account the personal characteristics (gender, ethnicity and age), skills and experience, qualifications and background of current
−Removed: and prospective directors’
−Removed: diversity as one factor in identifying and evaluating potential director candidates, so that
−Removed: the Board, as a whole, will possess what the nominating and corporate governance committee believes are appropriate skills, talent,
−Removed: expertise and backgrounds necessary to oversee our Company’s business.
−Removed: the incumbent directors are not nominated for re-election or if there is otherwise a vacancy on the Board, the Nominating Committee
−Removed: may solicit recommendations for nominees from persons that the Nominating Committee believes are likely to be familiar with qualified
−Removed: candidates, including from members of the Board and management.
−Removed: While the Nominating Committee may also engage a professional
−Removed: search firm to assist in identifying qualified candidates, the Nominating Committee did not engage any third party to identify
−Removed: or evaluate or assist in identifying or evaluating the Director Nominees.
−Removed: We do not have a policy with regard to the consideration
−Removed: of director candidates recommended by stockholders.
−Removed: Due to the size of our Company and Board, the Nominating Committee does not
−Removed: believe that such a policy is necessary.
−Removed: on its level of familiarity with the candidates, the Nominating Committee may choose to interview certain candidates that it believes
−Removed: may possess qualifications and expertise required for membership on the Board.
−Removed: It may also gather such other information it deems
−Removed: appropriate to develop a well-rounded view of the candidate.
−Removed: Based on reports from those interviews or from Board members with
−Removed: personal knowledge and experience with a candidate, and on all other available information and relevant considerations, the Nominating
−Removed: Committee will select and nominate candidates who, in its view, are most suited for membership on the Board.
−Removed: members of the nominating committee are Dr.
−Removed: Arnold Baskies (Chairman), Dr.
−Removed: John Monahan and Lewis H.
−Removed: Titterton, Jr.
−Removed: Committee and Audit Committee Financial Expert
−Removed: July 9, 2015, the Board established a separately-designated standing audit committee (the “Audit Committee”) established
−Removed: in accordance with Section 3(a)(58)(A) of the Exchange Act, and Nasdaq Listing Rules.
−Removed: The Audit Committee has a charter which
−Removed: will be reviewed on an annual basis by members of the committee and will be at all times composed of exclusively independent directors
−Removed: who are “financially literate,”
−Removed: meaning they are able to read and understand fundamental financial statements, including
−Removed: the Company’s balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement.
−Removed: In addition, the committee will have at least one
−Removed: member who qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert”
−Removed: as defined in rules and regulations of the SEC.
−Removed: principal duties and responsibilities of the Company’s Audit Committee are to appoint the Company’s independent auditors,
−Removed: oversee the quality and integrity of the Company’s financial reporting and the audit of the Company’s financial statements
−Removed: by its independent auditors and in fulfilling its obligations, the Company’s Audit Committee will review with the Company’s
−Removed: management and independent auditors the scope and result of the annual audit, the auditors’
−Removed: independence and the Company’s
−Removed: accounting policies.
−Removed: Audit Committee will be required to report regularly to the Board to discuss any issues that arise with respect to the quality
−Removed: or integrity of the Company’s financial statements, its compliance with legal or regulatory requirements and the performance
−Removed: and independence of the Company’s independent auditors.
−Removed: members of the Audit Committee are David Cavalier (Chairman), Lewis H.
−Removed: Titterton, Jr.
−Removed: John Monahan.
−Removed: Our Board has determined
−Removed: Cavalier qualifies as an Audit Committee financial expert as defined by SEC rules, based on his education, experience
−Removed: and background.
−Removed: Please see Mr.
−Removed: Cavalier’s biographical information above for a description of his relevant experience.
−Removed: Compensation.
−Removed: following table sets forth certain information for the fiscal years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019, with respect to compensation
−Removed: awarded to, earned by or paid to our Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Operating Officer
−Removed: and Chief Financial Officer (the “Named Executive Officers”).
−Removed: No other executive officer received total compensation
−Removed: in excess of $100,000 during fiscal year 2020.
−Removed: SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE
−Removed: Principal Position
−Removed: Option Awards
−Removed: All Other Compensation
−Removed: Total Compensation
−Removed: Chairman of the Board,
−Removed: President and Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
−Removed: amounts have been calculated in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 718.
−Removed: A discussion of
−Removed: assumptions used in valuation of option awards may be found in Note 2 to our Consolidated Financial Statements for fiscal
−Removed: year ended October 31, 2020, included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
−Removed: These amounts reflect our accounting expense
−Removed: for these stock options and restricted stock awards and do not correspond to the actual value that may be recognized by our
−Removed: Named Executive Officers.
−Removed: amounts reflect the sum of the incremental cost to us of all perquisites and personal benefits, which consisted of compensation
−Removed: for use of a home office and reimbursement of medical insurance benefits for Dr.
−Removed: Agreement with Dr.
−Removed: September 19, 2012, the Company entered into a Consulting Agreement with Dr.
−Removed: Amit Kumar (the “Kumar Agreement”) pursuant
−Removed: Kumar agreed to provide business consulting services for an initial annual consulting fee of $120,000.
−Removed: Kumar was appointed Vice Chairman of the Company and Executive Chairman of Anixa Diagnostics.
−Removed: As a result of this appointment,
−Removed: Kumar’s annual cash compensation was increased to $300,000 by the Board.
−Removed: On August 23, 2016, Dr.
−Removed: Kumar was appointed
−Removed: Executive Chairman of the Company, and on July 6, 2017, Dr.
−Removed: Kumar was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
−Removed: As of the beginning of each subsequent calendar year, Dr.
−Removed: Kumar’s salary has been reviewed and adjusted by the Board’s
−Removed: Compensation Committee.
−Removed: On January 1, 2021, Dr.
−Removed: Kumar’s annual salary was $582,085.
−Removed: Kumar’s services are terminated by the Company or he terminates his services for any reason or no reason, the Company
−Removed: shall be obligated to pay to Dr.
−Removed: Kumar only any earned compensation and/or bonus due under the Kumar Agreement and any earned
−Removed: and unused paid time off and any unpaid reasonable and necessary expenses, due to him through the date of termination.
−Removed: payments shall be made in a lump sum immediately following termination.
−Removed: Stock Option Awards
−Removed: following table sets forth certain information with respect to unexercised stock options held by the Named Executive Officers
−Removed: outstanding on October 31, 2020:
−Removed: OUTSTANDING OPTION AWARDS
−Removed: Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#)
−Removed: Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#)
−Removed: Un-Exercisable
−Removed: Option Exercise Price
−Removed: Option Expiration Date
−Removed: Time-based Option Awards
−Removed: Performance-based Option Awards
−Removed: 1,000,000 (4)
−Removed: vest and become exercisable in 36 consecutive monthly installments, beginning May 31, 2018 and continuing through April 30,
−Removed: vest and become exercisable in 36 consecutive monthly installments, beginning December 31, 2019 and continuing through November
−Removed: vest and become exercisable in one installment of 50,000 on July 6, 2018 and the remainder in twelve consecutive quarterly
−Removed: installments, beginning October 31, 2018 and continuing through July 31, 2021.
−Removed: shall vest as follows:
−Removed: (i) 500,000 shares vest if during any 20 trading day period on or before May 31, 2021, the average
−Removed: closing stock price of the Company’s Common Stock is at least $5.00, (ii) 500,000 shares vest if during any 20 trading
−Removed: day period on or before May 31, 2021, the average closing stock price of the Company’s Common Stock is at least $7.00,
−Removed: and (iii) 500,000 shares vest if during any 20 trading day period on or before May 31, 2021, the average closing stock price
−Removed: of the Company’s Common Stock is at least $8.00.
−Removed: Option Grants
−Removed: following table summarizes stock option grants during fiscal year 2020.
−Removed: GRANTS OF OPTION AWARDS
−Removed: Number of Securities Underlying Options
−Removed: Exercise Price of Option Awards
−Removed: Grant Date Fair Value
−Removed: amounts have been calculated in accordance with ASC 718.
−Removed: A discussion of assumptions used in valuation of option awards may
−Removed: be found in Note 2 to our Consolidated Financial Statements for fiscal year ended October 31, 2020, included elsewhere in
−Removed: this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
−Removed: These amounts reflect our accounting expense for these stock options and restricted stock
−Removed: awards and do not correspond to the actual value that may be recognized by our Named Executive Officers.
−Removed: Option Exercises
−Removed: the year ended October 31, 2020, no stock options were exercised by Named Executive Officers.
−Removed: May 8, 2018, a restricted stock award of 1,500,000 shares of common stock was granted under our 2018 Share Incentive Plan to Dr.
−Removed: The restricted stock award vests in its entirety if during any 20 trading day period on or before May 31, 2021, the average
−Removed: closing stock price of the Company’s Common Stock is at least $11.00.
−Removed: The grant date fair value of this restricted stock
−Removed: award was $4,814,265.
−Removed: Payments upon Termination or Change in Control
−Removed: time-based and performance-based options granted Dr.
−Removed: Kumar on May 8, 2018 provide for the vesting of the unvested portion of his
−Removed: options to be accelerated and such accelerated options to become immediately exercisable upon a change in control as defined below.
−Removed: The intrinsic value of options granted on May 8, 2018 would be $-0-, which was calculated by multiplying (a) 1,100,000 options
−Removed: (being the number of options granted to him on May 8, 2018 that would be accelerated) by (b) an amount equal to the excess of
−Removed: (x) our closing share price on October 31, 2020 of $2.06 and (y) the options’
−Removed: exercise price of $3.70 per share.
−Removed: Kumar on December 12, 2019 provide for the vesting of the unvested portion of his options to be accelerated and such
−Removed: accelerated options to become immediately exercisable upon a change in control as defined below.
−Removed: The intrinsic value of options
−Removed: granted on December 12, 2019 would be $-0-, which was calculated by multiplying (a) 361,111 options (being the number of options
−Removed: granted to him on December 12, 2019 that would be accelerated) by (b) an amount equal to the excess of (x) our closing share price
−Removed: on October 31, 2020 of $2.06 and (y) the options’
−Removed: exercise price of $3.84 per share.
−Removed: Catelani on July 6, 2017 provide for the vesting of the unvested portion of his options to be accelerated and such
−Removed: accelerated options to become immediately exercisable if Mr.
−Removed: Catelani is terminated without cause or upon a change in control
−Removed: as defined below.
−Removed: The intrinsic value of options granted on July 6, 2017 would be $41,250, which was calculated by multiplying
−Removed: (a) 37,500 options (being the number of options granted to him on July 6, 2017 that would be accelerated) by (b) an amount equal
−Removed: to the excess of (x) our closing share price on October 31, 2019 of $2.06 and (y) the options’
−Removed: exercise price of $0.96 per
−Removed: Catelani on May 8, 2018 provide for the vesting of the unvested portion of his options to be accelerated and such
−Removed: accelerated options to become immediately exercisable upon a change in control as defined below.
−Removed: The intrinsic value of options
−Removed: granted on May 8, 2018 would be $-0-, which was calculated by multiplying (a) 83,333 options (being the number of options granted
−Removed: to him on May 8, 2018 that would be accelerated) by (b) an amount equal to the excess of (x) our closing share price on October
−Removed: 31, 2020 of $2.06 and (y) the options’
−Removed: exercise price of $3.70 per share.
−Removed: Catelani on December 12, 2019 provide for the vesting of the unvested portion of his options to be accelerated and
−Removed: such accelerated options to become immediately exercisable upon a change in control as defined below.
−Removed: The intrinsic value of options
−Removed: granted on December 12, 2019 would be $-0-, which was calculated by multiplying (a) 69,411 options (being the number of options
−Removed: granted to him on December 12, 2019 that would be accelerated) by (b) an amount equal to the excess of (x) our closing share price
−Removed: on October 31, 2020 of $2.06 and (y) the options’
−Removed: exercise price of $3.84 per share.
−Removed: our 2010 Share Incentive Plan and our 2018 Share Incentive Plan, “change in control”
−Removed: in Ownership:
−Removed: A change in ownership of the Company occurs on the date that any one person, or more than one person acting
−Removed: as a group, acquires ownership of stock of the Company that, together with stock held by such person or group, constitutes
−Removed: more than 50% of the total fair market value or total voting power of the stock of the Company, excluding the acquisition
−Removed: of additional stock by a person or more than one person acting as a group who is considered to own more than 50% of the total
−Removed: fair market value or total voting power of the stock of the Company.
−Removed: in Effective Control:
−Removed: A change in effective control of the Company occurs on the date that either:
−Removed: one person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires (or has acquired during the 12-month period ending on the
−Removed: date of the most recent acquisition by such person or persons) ownership of stock of the Company possessing 30% or more of
−Removed: the total voting power of the stock of the Company;
−Removed: majority of the members of the Board is replaced during any 12-month period by directors whose appointment or election is
−Removed: not endorsed by a majority of the members of the Board before the date of the appointment or election;
−Removed: provided, that this
−Removed: paragraph will apply only to the Company if no other corporation is a majority shareholder.
−Removed: in Ownership of Substantial Assets:
−Removed: A change in the ownership of a substantial portion of the Company’s assets occurs
−Removed: on the date that any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires (or has acquired during the 12-month
−Removed: period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by such person or persons) assets from the Company that have a total
−Removed: gross fair market value equal to or more than 40% of the total gross fair market value of the assets of the Company immediately
−Removed: before such acquisition or acquisitions.
−Removed: For this purpose, “gross fair market value”
−Removed: means the value of the assets
−Removed: of the Company, or the value of the assets being disposed of, determined without regard to any liabilities associated with
−Removed: is the intent that this definition be construed consistent with the definition of “Change of Control”
−Removed: as defined under
−Removed: Code Section 409A and the applicable treasury regulations, as amended from time to time.
−Removed: August 13, 2020, after a review of non-employee director compensation at comparable companies, the Board approved cash and equity
−Removed: compensation of directors.
−Removed: Each non-employee director shall receive cash compensation of $50,000 paid in four quarterly installments,
−Removed: and the grant of a 10 year nonqualified stock option to purchase 30,000 shares of common stock exercisable at $2.68, such option
−Removed: vesting monthly over a one year period.
−Removed: Our employee director, Dr.
−Removed: Amit Kumar, did not receive any additional compensation for
−Removed: services provided as a director during fiscal year 2020.
−Removed: 2010 Share Incentive Plan provides that on January 1 st of each year, each non-employee director (a “Director
−Removed: Participant”) of the Company at that time shall automatically be granted a 10 year nonqualified stock option to purchase
−Removed: 12,000 shares of common stock (or 16,000 in the case of the Chairman of the Board to the extent he qualifies as a Director Participant),
−Removed: with an exercise price equal to the closing price on the date of grant, that will vest in four equal quarterly installments in
−Removed: the year of grant (the “Annual Grant”).
−Removed: Effective January 1, 2018 through the expiration of the 2010 Share Incentive
−Removed: Plan, each Director Participant waived their right to receive the Annual Grant.
−Removed: following table sets forth compensation of Lewis H.
−Removed: Titterton, Jr., Dr.
−Removed: Arnold Baskies, David Cavalier, Emily Gottschalk and Dr.
−Removed: John Monahan, our non-employee directors, for fiscal year 2020:
−Removed: DIRECTORS’
−Removed: Option Awards
−Removed: Titterton, Jr.
−Removed: Arnold Baskies
−Removed: David Cavalier
−Removed: Emily Gottschalk
−Removed: amounts have been calculated in accordance with ASC 718.
−Removed: A discussion of assumptions used in valuation of option awards may
−Removed: be found in Note 2 to our Consolidated Financial Statements for fiscal year ended October 31, 2020, included elsewhere in
−Removed: this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
−Removed: These amounts reflect our accounting expense for these stock options and do not correspond
−Removed: to the actual value that may be recognized by our directors.
−Removed: October 31, 2020, Mr.
−Removed: Titterton, Dr.
−Removed: Cavalier, Ms.
−Removed: Gosttschalk and Dr.
−Removed: Monahan held unexercised stock options
−Removed: to purchase 685,000, 158,000, 120,000, 75,000 and 188,000 shares respectively, of our common stock.
−Removed: Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners
−Removed: and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.
−Removed: following table sets forth certain information with respect to our common stock beneficially owned as of January 7, 2021
−Removed: (or exercisable within 60 days of such date) by (a) each person who is known by our management to be the beneficial owner of more
−Removed: than 5% of our outstanding common stock, (b) each of our directors and executive officers, and (c) all directors and executive
−Removed: officers as a group:
−Removed: Name and Address of Beneficial Owner
−Removed: Amount and Nature of Beneficial Ownership
−Removed: (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
−Removed: Percent of Class
−Removed: Directors and Officers of the Company
−Removed: 3150 Almaden Expressway, Suite 250
−Removed: San Jose, CA 95118
−Removed: Titterton, Jr.
−Removed: 3150 Almaden Expressway, Suite 250
−Removed: San Jose, CA 95118
−Removed: 3150 Almaden Expressway, Suite 250
−Removed: San Jose, CA 95118
−Removed: 3150 Almaden Expressway, Suite 250
−Removed: San Jose, CA 95118
−Removed: Arnold Baskies
−Removed: 3150 Almaden Expressway, Suite 250
−Removed: San Jose, CA 95118
−Removed: David Cavalier
−Removed: 3150 Almaden Expressway, Suite 250
−Removed: San Jose, CA 95118
−Removed: Emily Gottschalk
−Removed: 3150 Almaden Expressway, Suite 250
−Removed: San Jose, CA 95118
−Removed: All Directors and Executive Officers as a Group (7 persons)
−Removed: Less than 1%.
−Removed: beneficial owner of a security includes any person who directly or indirectly has or shares voting power and/or investment
−Removed: power with respect to such security or has the right to obtain such voting power and/or investment power within sixty (60)
−Removed: Except as otherwise noted, each designated beneficial owner in this Annual Report on Form 10-K has sole voting power
−Removed: and investment power with respect to the shares of common stock beneficially owned by such person.
−Removed: 240,000 shares, 474,000 shares, 225,000 shares, 113,000 shares, 83,000 shares, 45,000 shares and 1,180,000 shares which Dr.
−Removed: Amit Kumar, Lewis H.
−Removed: Titterton, Jr., Michael J.
−Removed: Catelani, Dr.
−Removed: John Monahan, Dr.
−Removed: Arnold Baskies, David Cavalier and all directors
−Removed: and executive officers as a group, respectively, have the right to acquire within 60 days upon exercise of options granted
−Removed: pursuant to the 2010 Share Incentive Plan.
−Removed: 1,366,667 shares, 62,500 shares, 522,222 shares, 62,500 shares, 62,500 shares, 62,500 shares, 62,500 shares and 2,201,389
−Removed: shares which Dr.
−Removed: Amit Kumar, Lewis H.
−Removed: Titterton, Jr., Michael J.
−Removed: Catelani, Dr.
−Removed: John Monahan, Dr.
−Removed: Arnold Baskies, David Cavalier,
−Removed: Emily Gottschalk and all directors and executive officers as a group, respectively, have the right to acquire within 60 days
−Removed: upon exercise of options granted pursuant to the 2018 Share Incentive Plan.
−Removed: 640,000 shares, 86,000 shares and 726,000 shares which Dr.
−Removed: Amit Kumar, Lewis H.
−Removed: Titterton, Jr.
−Removed: and all directors and executive
−Removed: officers as a group, respectively, have the right to acquire within 60 days pursuant to option agreements with the Company.
−Removed: 1,500,000 restricted shares of common stock awarded to Dr.
−Removed: Amit Kumar pursuant to the 2018 Share Incentive Plan for which
−Removed: Kumar has voting rights but that vest only if during any twenty (20) trading day period on or before May 31, 2021 in which
−Removed: Kumar is employed by Anixa, the average closing stock price of the Company’s common stock is at least $11.00.
−Removed: on 26,076,819 shares of common stock outstanding as of January 7, 2020.
−Removed: are not aware of any arrangement that might result in a change in control of the Company in the future.
−Removed: Compensation Plan Information
−Removed: following is information as of October 31, 2020 about shares of our common stock that may be issued upon the exercise of options,
−Removed: warrants and rights under all equity compensation plans in effect as of that date, including our our 2010 Share Incentive Plan
−Removed: and our 2018 Share Incentive Plan.
−Removed: See Note 4 to our Consolidated Financial Statements for more information on these plans.
−Removed: Plan category
−Removed: Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights
−Removed: Weighted average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights
−Removed: Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans (excluding securities reflected in column (a))
−Removed: Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders (1)
−Removed: Equity compensation plans approved by security holders (2)
−Removed: July 14, 2010 the Board adopted the 2010 Share Incentive Plan.
−Removed: Officers, key employees and non-employee directors of, and
−Removed: consultants to, the Company or any of its subsidiaries and affiliates are eligible to participate in the 2010 Share Incentive
−Removed: The 2010 Share Incentive Plan provides for the grant of stock options, stock appreciation rights, stock awards, and
−Removed: performance awards and stock units (the “2010 Benefits”).
−Removed: The maximum number of shares of common stock available
−Removed: for issuance under the 2010 Share Incentive Plan was initially 600,000 shares.
−Removed: On July 6, 2011 and August 29, 2012, the 2010
−Removed: Share Incentive Plan was amended by our Board to increase the maximum number of shares of common stock that may be granted
−Removed: to 1,080,000 and 1,200,000 shares, respectively.
−Removed: On November 8, 2013, the Board approved an amendment to provide that effective
−Removed: and following November 8, 2013, the maximum aggregate number of shares available for issuance will be 800,000 shares.
−Removed: Additionally,
−Removed: commencing on the first business day in 2014 and on the first business day of each calendar year thereafter, the maximum aggregate
−Removed: number of shares available for issuance shall be replenished such that, as of such first business day, the maximum aggregate
−Removed: number of shares available for issuance shall be 800,000 shares.
−Removed: Current and future non-employee directors are automatically
−Removed: granted a 10 year nonqualified stock option to purchase 12,000 shares of Common Stock (or 16,000 in the case of the Chairman
−Removed: of the Board) on January 1st of each year that will vest in four equal quarterly installments.
−Removed: The 2010 Share Incentive Plan
−Removed: was administered by the Stock Option Committee through August 2012, from August 2012 through November 2012, by the Executive
−Removed: Committee of the Board of Directors, from November 2012 through July 2015, by the Board of Directors and since July 2015,
−Removed: by the Compensation Committee, which determines the option price, term and provisions of the 2010 Benefits.
−Removed: The 2010 Share
−Removed: Incentive Plan terminated with respect to additional grants on July 14, 2020.
−Removed: 2018 Share Incentive Plan was adopted by the Board on January 25, 2018 and approved by our shareholders on March 29, 2018.
−Removed: Officers, key employees and non-employee directors of, and consultants to, the Company or any of its subsidiaries and affiliates
−Removed: are eligible to participate in the 2018 Share Incentive Plan.
−Removed: The 2018 Share Incentive Plan provides for the grant of incentive
−Removed: stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, stock awards, performance awards and stock units (the
−Removed: “2018 Benefits”).
−Removed: The maximum number of shares of common stock available for issuance under the 2018 Share Incentive
−Removed: Plan was initially 5,000,000 shares.
−Removed: Additionally, commencing on the first business day in January 2019 and on the first business
−Removed: day of each calendar year thereafter, the maximum aggregate number of shares available for issuance shall be replenished such
−Removed: that, as of such first business day, the maximum aggregate number of shares available for issuance shall be 2,000,000 shares.
−Removed: The 2018 Share Incentive Plan is administered by the Compensation Committee, which determines the option price, term and provisions
−Removed: of the 2018 Benefits.
−Removed: The 2018 Share Incentive Plan terminates with respect to additional grants on March 28, 2028.
−Removed: may amend, suspend or terminate the 2018 Share Incentive Plan at any time, subject in certain respects to obtaining shareholder
−Removed: Certain Relationships and Related Transactions,
−Removed: and Director Independence.
−Removed: with Related Persons
−Removed: from compensation arrangements with executive officers described above, there are no other transactions entered into by the Company
−Removed: with related persons.
−Removed: Person Transaction Approval Policy
−Removed: we have no written policy regarding approval of transactions between us and a related person, our Board, as matter of appropriate
−Removed: corporate governance, reviews and approves all such transactions, to the extent required by applicable rules and regulations.
−Removed: Generally, management would present to the Board for approval at the next regularly scheduled Board meeting any related person
−Removed: transactions proposed to be entered into by us.
−Removed: The Board may approve the transaction if it is deemed to be in the best interests
−Removed: of our stockholders and the Company.
−Removed: Board oversees the activities of our management in the handling of the business and affairs of our company.
−Removed: Our common stock trades
−Removed: on the NASDAQ Capital Market and we are subject to listing requirements which include the requirement that our Board be comprised
−Removed: of a majority of “independent”
−Removed: Titterton, Jr., Dr.
−Removed: Arnold Baskies, David Cavalier, Emily Gottschalk
−Removed: John Monahan currently meet the definition of “independent”
−Removed: as defined by the SEC.
−Removed: Amit Kumar is an employee
−Removed: of the Company and as such does not qualify as an “independent”
−Removed: The Board of Directors has separately designated
−Removed: audit, nominating and compensation committees.
−Removed: Accounting Fees and Services.
−Removed: following table describes fees for professional audit services rendered and billed by Haskell & White LLP, our present independent
−Removed: registered public accounting firm and principal accountant, for the audit of our consolidated financial statements and for other
−Removed: services during fiscal years 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: Audit Fees (1)
−Removed: Audit Related Fees (2)
−Removed: All Other Fees (4)
−Removed: fees for fiscal years 2020 and 2019 represent fees billed for services rendered by Haskell & White LLP for the audit of
−Removed: our consolidated financial statements and review of our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
−Removed: related fees for fiscal years 2020 and 2019 represent fees billed for services rendered by Haskell & White LLP in connection
−Removed: with our Registration Statements filed during fiscal years 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: Fees for fiscal years 2020 and 2019 represent fees billed for services rendered by Haskell & White LLP for the preparation
−Removed: of Federal and State income tax returns.
−Removed: other fees for fiscal years 2020 and 2019 represent fees billed for services rendered by Haskell & White LLP in connection
−Removed: with the preparation of comfort letters and research of various tax subjects.
−Removed: For Board of Directors Pre-Approval of Audit and Permissible Non-Audit Services of Independent Auditor
−Removed: Board is ultimately responsible for reviewing and approving, in advance, any audit and any permissible non-audit engagement or
−Removed: relationship between us and our independent registered public accounting firm.
−Removed: On July 9, 2015, the Board established an Audit
−Removed: Committee which was authorized to assume these responsibilities.
−Removed: Haskell & White LLP’s engagement to conduct all
−Removed: audit and permissible non-audit related activities incurred during fiscal years 2020 and 2019 were approved by our audit committee
−Removed: in accordance with these procedures.
+Added: is made to that certain consulting agreement, dated September 19, 2012, between the Company and Dr.
+Added: The consulting agreement,
+Added: which has been inoperative since June 2015, was formally terminated on December 30, 2021.
+Added: The termination of this consulting agreement
+Added: has no impact on Dr.
+Added: Kumar’s employment with the Company as Dr.
+Added: Kumar remains the Chief Executive Officer and President of the
+Added: Company on an at-will basis.
+Added: Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.
+Added: information required by this Item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for
+Added: March 10, 2022 which such Proxy Statement will be filed with the SEC within 120 days of October 31, 2021, and will be incorporated into
+Added: this Annual Report on Form 10-K by reference.
+Added: Executive Compensation.
+Added: information required by this Item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for
+Added: March 10, 2022 which such Proxy Statement will be filed with the SEC within 120 days of October 31, 2021, and will be incorporated into
+Added: this Annual Report on Form 10-K by reference.
+Added: Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.
+Added: information required by this Item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for
+Added: March 10, 2022 which such Proxy Statement will be filed with the SEC within 120 days of October 31, 2021, and will be incorporated into
+Added: this Annual Report on Form 10-K by reference.
+Added: Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.
+Added: information required by this Item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for
+Added: March 10, 2022 which such Proxy Statement will be filed with the SEC within 120 days of October 31, 2021, and will be incorporated into
+Added: this Annual Report on Form 10-K by reference.
+Added: Principal Accounting Fees and Services.
+Added: information required by this Item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for
+Added: March 10, 2022 which such Proxy Statement will be filed with the SEC within 120 days of October 31, 2021, and will be incorporated into
+Added: this Annual Report on Form 10-K by reference.
Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules.
Financial Statement Schedules
−Removed: accompanying “Index to Consolidated Financial Statements.”
+Added: accompanying “Index to Consolidated Financial Statements.”
Certificate of Incorporation, as amended.
16 unchanged sentences
(Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.8 to our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019.)
−Removed: Form of Warrant issued to Adaptive Capital LLC.
−Removed: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to our Form 10-K, dated December 7, 2016.).
−Removed: Form of Warrant issued to Acorn Management Partners LLC.
+Added: Amendment to the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company.
+Added: (Incorporated by reference to our Form 8-K, dated April 2, 2021.)
+Added: Form of Underwriter Warrants.
+Added: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to our Form 8-K, dated March 24, 2021.)
+Added: of Warrant issued to Acorn Management Partners LLC.
(Filed herewith.)
+Added: of the Company’s Securities Registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act (Incorporated by reference to the description
+Added: of our common stock contained in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 31, 2014.)
2010 Share Incentive Plan.
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(Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.13 to our Form S-8 dated October 1, 2018.)
−Removed: Consulting Agreement, dated as of September 19, 2012, between the Company and Amit Kumar.
−Removed: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.37 to our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2012.) (Portions of this exhibit have been redacted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.
−Removed: The redacted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.)
License Agreement, dated November 13, 2017, between Certainty Therapeutics, Inc.
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The redacted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.)
−Removed: Collaboration Agreement, dated November 17, 2017, between Certainty Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc.
−Removed: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.15 to our Form 10-K, dated January 9, 2018.) (Portions of this exhibit have been redacted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.
−Removed: The redacted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.)
−Removed: Amendment 1 to the Collaboration Agreement between Certainty Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc.
−Removed: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2019.)
−Removed: Amendment 2 to the Collaboration Agreement between Certainty Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: Amendment to License Agreement between Certainty Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: and The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.
+Added: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2021.) (Certain information has been redacted in the marked portions of the exhibit.)
+Added: Amended and Restated Collaboration Agreement, dated November 1, 2021, between Certainty Therapeutics, Inc.
Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc.
−Removed: (Filed herewith.) (Certain information has been redacted in the marked portions of the exhibit.)
+Added: (Filed herewith.)
Exclusive License Agreement, dated July 8, 2019, between the Company and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
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(Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2020.) (Certain information has been redacted in the marked portions of the exhibit.)
−Removed: Amendement to Collaboration Agreement between the Company and OntoChem GmbH.
−Removed: (Filed herewith.)
+Added: Amendment to Collaboration Agreement between the Company and OntoChem GmbH.
+Added: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to our Form 10-K, for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2020.)
+Added: Assignment Agreement dated May 1, 2021, between the Company, OntoChem GmbH and MolGenie GmbH.
+Added: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2021.)
+Added: Amendment 2 to the Collaboration Agreement between the Company and MolGenie GmbH.
+Added: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2021.) (Certain information has been redacted in the marked portions of the exhibit.)
Exclusive License Agreement, dated October 20, 2020, between the Company and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
−Removed: (Filed herewith.) (Certain information has been redacted in the marked portions of the exhibit.)
−Removed: At Market Issuance Sales Agreement, dated June 21, 2019, between the Company and B.
−Removed: Riley FBR, Inc.
−Removed: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to our Registration Statement of Form S-3 filed June 11, 2019.)
−Removed: Code of Conduct (Filed herewith.)
+Added: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to our Form 10-K, for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2020.) (Certain information has been redacted in the marked portions of the exhibit.)
+Added: Joint Development and Option Agreement, dated January 26, 2021, between the Company and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
+Added: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2021.) (Certain information has been redacted in the marked portions of the exhibit.)
+Added: Code of Conduct (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 14 to our Form 10-K, for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2020.)
Subsidiaries of Anixa Biosciences, Inc.
−Removed: (Filed herewith.)
+Added: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 21 to our Form 10-K, for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2020.)
Consent of Haskell & White LLP.
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of Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated January 4, 2022.
+Added: (Filed herewith.)
Certification
of Chief Financial Officer, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated January 4, 2022.
−Removed: of Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to Section 1350 of Title 18 of the United States Code, dated January 7, 2021.
(Filed herewith.)
+Added: of Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to Section 1350 of Title 18 of the United States Code, dated January 4, 2022.
of Chief Financial Officer, pursuant to Section 1350 of Title 18 of the United States Code, dated January 4, 2022.
−Removed: (Filed herewith.)
Form 10-K Summary.
−Removed: The Company has elected
−Removed: not to include a summary pursuant to this Item 16.
−Removed: to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report
−Removed: to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
+Added: Company has elected not to include a summary pursuant to this Item 16.
+Added: to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed
+Added: on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Biosciences, Inc.
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Executive Officer
−Removed: to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf
−Removed: of the registrant and in the capacities and on the date indicated.
−Removed: /s/ Amit Kumar
+Added: to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the
+Added: registrant and in the capacities and on the date indicated.
of the Board, President and
Executive Officer
−Removed: January 7, 2021
−Removed: (Principal Executive Officer)
+Added: Executive Officer)
Operating Officer and
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Arnold Baskies
−Removed: David Cavalier
Emily Gottschalk
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AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OCTOBER 31, 2021
+Added: of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
+Added: Balance Sheets as of October 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Statements of Operations for the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Statements of Equity for the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020
to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: OCTOBER 31, 2020
−Removed: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
−Removed: Consolidated Balance Sheets as of October 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Equity for the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: information required by schedules called for under Regulation S-X is either not applicable or is included in the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements or notes thereto.
+Added: information required by schedules called for under Regulation S-X is either not applicable or is included in the consolidated financial
+Added: statements or notes thereto.
OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
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have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Anixa Biosciences, Inc.
−Removed: (the “Company”)
−Removed: as of October 31, 2020 and 2019, and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders’
−Removed: cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended October 31, 2020, and the related notes (collectively, the “consolidated
−Removed: financial statements”).
−Removed: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects,
−Removed: the consolidated financial position of the Company as of October 31, 2020 and 2019, and the consolidated results of its operations
−Removed: and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended October 31, 2020, in conformity with accounting principles generally
−Removed: accepted in the United States.
−Removed: consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of
−Removed: the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements
−Removed: based on our audits.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)
−Removed: (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: federal securities
−Removed: laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: (the “Company”) as of October 31, 2021
+Added: and 2020, and the related consolidated statements of operations, equity, and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended
+Added: October 31, 2021, and the related notes (collectively, the “consolidated financial statements”).
+Added: In our opinion, the consolidated
+Added: financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company as of October 31, 2021
+Added: and 2020, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the two year period ended October
+Added: 31, 2021, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion
+Added: on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audits.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public
+Added: Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company
+Added: in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities Exchange Commission and
conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits
−Removed: to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether
−Removed: due to error or fraud.
−Removed: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over
−Removed: financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting
−Removed: but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain
+Added: reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing
+Added: an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
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due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
−Removed: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis,
−Removed: evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating
−Removed: the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of
−Removed: the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence
+Added: supporting the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles
+Added: used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
−Removed: Haskell & White LLP
−Removed: have served as the Company’s auditor since 2013.
−Removed: January 7, 2021
+Added: Audit Matters
+Added: critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that
+Added: was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that:
+Added: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material
+Added: to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments.
+Added: The communication
+Added: of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are
+Added: not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or
+Added: disclosures to which it relates.
+Added: OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM (continued)
+Added: Value of Stock Options – Refer to Note 5 to the Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Audit Matter Description:
+Added: Company uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to estimate the fair value of its time-based stock options.
+Added: The Black-Scholes option-pricing
+Added: model involves the use of significant estimates, including the following:
+Added: dividend yield;
+Added: interest rate;
+Added: share price volatility;
+Added: life of the award.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: the Company uses the Monte-Carlo simulation option-pricing model to estimate the fair value of its market condition stock options.
+Added: Monte Carlo simulation option-pricing model calculates multiple potential outcomes for an award and establishes a fair value based on
+Added: the most likely outcome.
+Added: Key assumptions for the Monte-Carlo simulation option-pricing model include:
+Added: interest rate;
+Added: share price volatility;
+Added: the significant estimates involved in estimating the fair value of stock options, the related audit effort in evaluating management’s
+Added: estimates in determining the inputs to fair value stock option models was extensive and required a high degree of auditor judgment.
+Added: the Critical Audit Matter was Addressed in the Audit:
+Added: obtained an understanding over management’s process to estimate the fair value of stock options, including how each of the estimates
+Added: required are developed to utilize the Black-Scholes and Monte-Carlo simulation option-pricing models.
+Added: We applied the following audit
+Added: procedures related to testing management’s estimates utilized in the option-pricing models:
+Added: performed a look-back at the Company’s previously issued dividends, noting there were
+Added: We inquired with management who informed us that no future dividends were currently
+Added: compared the Company’s risk-free interest rate used to the comparable United States
+Added: treasury yield for a term comparable to the stock options’ expected term.
+Added: recalculated the Company’s historical share price volatility for a term comparable
+Added: to the stock options’ expected term.
+Added: recalculated the expected term of stock options granted to employees and non-employee directors
+Added: using the simplified method, whereby, the expected term equals the average of the vesting
+Added: term and the original contractual term of the option.
+Added: performed inquiries with the independent third-party valuation specialist assisting the Company
+Added: with the Monte-Carlo simulation to ensure the inputs used in the calculation, the fair value
+Added: of the awards, and the expected vesting periods, were reasonable.
+Added: have served as the Company’s auditor since 2013
BIOSCIENCES, INC.
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and cash equivalents
−Removed: Short–term
−Removed: investments in certificates of deposit
expenses and other current assets
current assets
−Removed: and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation of $-0- and $95,015, respectively
lease right-of-use asset
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current liabilities
+Added: lease liability, non-current
and contingencies (Note 7)
−Removed: Shareholders’
−Removed: stock, par value $100 per share;
−Removed: 19,860 shares authorized;
−Removed: no shares issued or outstanding
−Removed: A convertible preferred stock, par value $100 per share;
+Added: Shareholders’
+Added: stock, par value $ 100 per
+Added: 19,860 shares
+Added: issued or outstanding
+Added: A convertible preferred stock, par value $ 100
shares authorized;
−Removed: no shares issued or outstanding
−Removed: stock, par value $.01 per share;
−Removed: 100,000,000 and 48,000,000
−Removed: shares authorized, respectively;
+Added: shares issued or outstanding
+Added: stock, par value $ .01 per
+Added: 100,000,000 shares
30,050,894 and
−Removed: shares issued and outstanding, respectively
+Added: 24,248,695 shares
+Added: issued and outstanding, respectively
paid-in capital
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( 191,835,618 )
−Removed: shareholders’
+Added: shareholders’ equity
Noncontrolling
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royalties, contingent legal fees, litigation and licensing expenses
−Removed: and development expenses (including non-cash share based
−Removed: compensation expenses of $1,484,545 and $2,825,630, respectively)
−Removed: and administrative expenses (including non-cash share based
−Removed: compensation expenses of $2,652,915 and $2,888,115,
+Added: and development expenses (including non-cash share based compensation expenses of $ 4,165,668
+Added: and $ 1,484,545 ,
respectively)
−Removed: in carrying amount of patent assets (Note 2)
+Added: and administrative expenses (including non-cash share based compensation expenses of $ 3,892,410
+Added: and $ 2,652,915 ,
+Added: respectively)
operating costs and expenses
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( 13,135,692 )
−Removed: on disposal of property and equipment
( 9,978,202 )
+Added: (loss) on disposal of property and equipment
( 13,127,923 )
+Added: ( 10,092,363 )
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest
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THE YEARS ENDED OCTOBER 31, 2021 AND 2020
+Added: Shareholders’
October 31, 2019
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$ ( 181,817,263 )
+Added: $ ( 422,975 )
option compensation to employees and directors
−Removed: options and warrants issued to consultants
+Added: restricted stock award to employee
+Added: restricted stock award to employee, shares
+Added: options issued to consultants
stock issued upon exercise of stock options
−Removed: stock award compensation to employee pursuant to stock incentive plan
stock issued pursuant to employee stock purchase plan
−Removed: stock issued in at-the-market offering
−Removed: derivative complaint settlement
+Added: stock issued in a public offering, net of offering expenses of $2,208,150
+Added: stock issued in a public offering, net of offering expenses of $2,208,150, shares
+Added: stock issued in an at-the-market offering, net of offering expenses of $ 362,918
+Added: received on sale of common stock held by ZQX Advisors, LLC
( 10,018,355 )
( 10,018,355 )
+Added: ( 10,092,363 )
October 31, 2020
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$ ( 191,835,618 )
+Added: $ ( 496,983 )
option compensation to employees and directors
−Removed: options issued to consultants
+Added: restricted stock award to employee
+Added: ( 1,500,000 )
+Added: options and warrants issued to consultants
stock issued upon exercise of stock options
stock issued pursuant to employee stock purchase plan
−Removed: stock issued in at-the-market offering
+Added: stock issued in a public offering, net of offering expenses of $ 2,208,150
+Added: stock issued in an at-the-market offering, net of offering expenses of $ 340,775
+Added: received on sale of common stock held by
+Added: received on sale of common stock held by ZQX Advisors, LLC
( 12,954,400 )
( 12,954,400 )
+Added: ( 13,127,923 )
October 31, 2021
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$ ( 204,790,018 )
+Added: $ ( 670,506 )
accompanying notes are an integral part of these statements.
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STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
−Removed: For the years ended October 31,
−Removed: Cash flows from operating activities:
−Removed: Reconciliation of net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
+Added: the years ended October 31,
+Added: flows from operating activities:
+Added: Reconciliation
+Added: of net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
$ ( 13,127,923 )
$ ( 10,092,363 )
−Removed: Stock option compensation to employees and directors
−Removed: Stock options and warrants issued to consultants
−Removed: Restricted stock award compensation to employee pursuant to stock incentive plan
−Removed: Amortization of patents
−Removed: Depreciation of property and equipment
+Added: option compensation to employees and directors
+Added: options and warrants issued to consultants
+Added: of property and equipment
loss on disposal of property and equipment
−Removed: Amortization of operating lease right-of-use asset
−Removed: Impairment in carrying amount of patent assets
−Removed: Change in operating assets and liabilities:
−Removed: Prepaid expenses and other current assets
−Removed: Accounts payable
−Removed: Accrued expenses
−Removed: Operating lease liability
−Removed: Net cash used in operating activities
−Removed: Cash flows from investing activities:
−Removed: Disbursements to acquire short-term investments in certificates of deposit
−Removed: Proceeds from maturities of short-term investments in certificates of deposit
−Removed: Purchase of property and equipment
−Removed: Net cash used in investing activities
−Removed: Cash flows from financing activities:
−Removed: Proceeds from sale of common stock in at-the-market offering
−Removed: Proceeds from sale of common stock pursuant to employee stock purchase plan
−Removed: Proceeds from settlement of shareholder derivative complaint
−Removed: Proceeds from exercise of stock options and warrants
−Removed: Net cash provided by financing activities
−Removed: Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents at end of year
−Removed: Supplemental cash flow information:
−Removed: Cash proceeds from interest income
+Added: of operating lease right-of-use asset
+Added: in operating assets and liabilities:
+Added: expenses and other current assets
+Added: lease liability
+Added: cash used in operating activities
+Added: ( 4,936,881 )
+Added: ( 6,175,671 )
+Added: flows from investing activities:
+Added: Disbursements
+Added: to acquire short-term investments
+Added: ( 16,498,895 )
+Added: ( 5,010,000 )
+Added: from maturities of short-term investments
+Added: from sale of equipment
+Added: received on sale of common stock by ZQX Advisors, LLC
+Added: of property and equipment
+Added: cash used in investing activities
+Added: ( 3,917,675 )
+Added: flows from financing activities:
+Added: from sale of common stock in a public offering, net of expenses
+Added: from sale of common stock in an at-the-market offering, net of expenses
+Added: from sale of common stock pursuant to employee stock purchase plan
+Added: from exercise of stock options
+Added: cash provided by financing activities
+Added: increase in cash and cash equivalents
+Added: and cash equivalents at beginning of year
+Added: and cash equivalents at end of year
+Added: cash flow information:
+Added: proceeds from interest income
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing activity:
−Removed: Disposal of fully depreciated property and equipment
−Removed: Supplemental disclosure of non-cash financing activity:
−Removed: Note receivable issued for settlement of shareholder derivative complaint
+Added: Operating lease
+Added: right-of-use asset
+Added: $ ( 259,479 )
+Added: disclosure of non-cash financing activities:
+Added: lease liability
+Added: value of warrants issued in connection with public offering
accompanying notes are an integral part of these statements.
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TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: BUSINESS AND FUNDING
−Removed: used herein, “we,”
−Removed: “us,”
−Removed: “our,”
−Removed: the “Company”
−Removed: or “Anixa”
−Removed: Biosciences, Inc.
+Added: used herein, “we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company” or “Anixa” means Anixa Biosciences,
and its consolidated subsidiaries.
−Removed: Our primary operations involve developing therapies and vaccines that are
−Removed: focused on critical unmet needs in oncology and infectious disease.
−Removed: Our therapeutics programs include the development of a chimeric
−Removed: endocrine receptor T-cell technology, a novel form of CAR-T technology, initially focused on treating ovarian cancer, and the
−Removed: discovery and ultimately development of anti-viral drug candidates for the treatment of COVID-19 focused on inhibiting certain
−Removed: viral protein functions of the virus.
−Removed: Our vaccine programs include the development of a vaccine against triple negative breast
−Removed: cancer (“TNBC”), the most lethal form of breast cancer, and a vaccine against ovarian cancer.
−Removed: subsidiary, Certainty Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: (“Certainty”), is developing immuno-therapy drugs against cancer.
−Removed: holds an exclusive worldwide, royalty-bearing license to use certain intellectual property owned or controlled by The Wistar Institute
−Removed: (“Wistar”) relating to Wistar’s CAR-T technology.
−Removed: We have initially focused on the development of a treatment
−Removed: for ovarian cancer, but we may also pursue applications of the technology for the development of treatments for additional solid
−Removed: The license agreement requires Certainty to make certain cash and equity payments to Wistar.
−Removed: With respect to Certainty’s
−Removed: equity obligations to Wistar, Certainty issued to Wistar shares of its common stock equal to five percent (5%) of the common stock
−Removed: of Certainty.
−Removed: Certainty, in collaboration with the H.
−Removed: Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc.
−Removed: (“Moffitt”),
−Removed: is advancing toward human clinical testing its CAR-T technology for treating ovarian cancer.
−Removed: April 2020, in collaboration with OntoChem GmbH (“OntoChem”), we commenced a project to discover and ultimately develop
−Removed: anti-viral drug candidates against COVID-19.
−Removed: Through this collaboration, we utilized advanced computational methods, machine learning,
−Removed: and molecular modeling techniques to perform in silico screening of over 1.2 billion compounds in chemical libraries (including
−Removed: publicly available compounds and OntoChem’s proprietary libraries) to evaluate if any of these compounds could disrupt one
−Removed: of two key enzymes of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19.
−Removed: We are working with researchers at OntoChem and
−Removed: other collaboration partners to advance the compounds discovered through this screening process toward human clinical testing.
−Removed: hold an exclusive worldwide, royalty-bearing license to use certain intellectual property owned or controlled by The Cleveland
−Removed: Clinic Foundation (“Cleveland Clinic”) relating to certain breast cancer vaccine technology developed at Cleveland
−Removed: We are working in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic to develop a method to vaccinate women against contracting breast
−Removed: cancer, focused specifically on TNBC.
−Removed: A specific protein, alpha-lactalbumin, has been identified that is only present during lactation
−Removed: in healthy women, but reappears in many forms of breast cancer, especially TNBC.
−Removed: Studies have shown that vaccinating against this
−Removed: protein prevents breast cancer in mice.
−Removed: We are working with researchers and clinicians at Cleveland Clinic to prepare for treatment
−Removed: of patients in a Phase 1a clinical trial.
−Removed: November 2020, we executed a license agreement with Cleveland Clinic pursuant to which the Company was granted an exclusive worldwide,
−Removed: royalty-bearing license to use certain intellectual property owned or controlled by Cleveland Clinic relating to certain ovarian
−Removed: cancer vaccine technology.
−Removed: This technology pertains to the use of vaccines for the treatment or prevention of ovarian cancers
−Removed: which express the extracellular domain of anti-Mullerian hormone receptor II (“AMHR2-ED”).
−Removed: In healthy tissue, this
−Removed: protein regulates growth and development of egg-containing follicles in the ovary.
−Removed: While expression of AMHR2-ED naturally and
−Removed: markedly declines after menopause, AMHR2-ED is expressed at high levels in the ovaries of postmenopausal women with ovarian cancer.
−Removed: Researchers at Cleveland Clinic believe that a vaccination targeting AMHR2-ED could prevent the occurrence of ovarian cancer.
+Added: Anixa Biosciences, Inc., incorporated on November 5, 1982 under the laws of the State of Delaware,
+Added: is a biotechnology company developing therapies and vaccines that are focused on critical unmet needs in oncology and infectious disease.
+Added: Our therapeutics programs include the development of a chimeric endocrine receptor T-cell therapy, a novel form of chimeric antigen receptor
+Added: T-cell (“CAR-T”) technology, initially focused on treating ovarian cancer which we are developing through a subsidiary, Certainty
+Added: Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: (“Certainty”), and discovery and ultimately development of anti-viral drug candidates for the treatment
+Added: of COVID-19 focused on inhibiting certain protein functions of the virus.
+Added: Our vaccine programs include the development of a preventative
+Added: vaccine against triple negative breast cancer (“TNBC”), the most lethal form of breast cancer, as well as other forms of
+Added: breast cancer, and a preventative vaccine against ovarian cancer.
+Added: September 2017 we formed Certainty to develop immuno-therapy drugs against cancer.
+Added: Certainty holds an exclusive worldwide, royalty-bearing
+Added: license to use certain intellectual property owned or controlled by The Wistar Institute (“Wistar”) relating to Wistar’s
+Added: CAR-T technology.
+Added: The license agreement requires Certainty to make certain cash and equity payments to Wistar upon achievement of specific
+Added: development milestones.
+Added: With respect to Certainty’s equity obligations to Wistar, Certainty issued to Wistar shares of its common
+Added: stock equal to five percent ( 5 %)
+Added: of the common stock of Certainty.
+Added: In addition, in November 2017, we entered into a collaboration with the H.
+Added: Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
+Added: and Research Institute, Inc.
+Added: (“Moffitt”) to advance our CAR-T therapy toward human clinical trials.
+Added: April 2020, we entered into a collaboration with OntoChem GmbH (“OntoChem”), which subsequently assigned its rights and obligations
+Added: under the collaboration to MolGenie GmbH (“MolGenie”), a company spun-out from OntoChem focused on drug discovery and development,
+Added: to discover and develop anti-viral drug candidates against COVID-19.
+Added: In July 2019, we entered into an exclusive worldwide, royalty-bearing
+Added: license to use certain intellectual property owned or controlled by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (“Cleveland Clinic”)
+Added: relating to certain breast cancer vaccine technology developed at Cleveland Clinic, and we are working in collaboration with Cleveland
+Added: Clinic to develop a method to vaccinate women against contracting breast cancer, focused specifically on TNBC.
+Added: Further, in October 2020,
+Added: we executed a license agreement with Cleveland Clinic pursuant to which we were granted an exclusive worldwide, royalty-bearing license
+Added: to use certain intellectual property owned or controlled by Cleveland Clinic relating to certain ovarian cancer vaccine technology.
+Added: July 2020, we suspended operations of our subsidiary, Anixa Diagnostics Corporation, and the development of the Cchek™ artificial
+Added: intelligence driven platform of non-invasive blood tests for the early detection of cancer.
+Added: the next several quarters, we expect the development of our breast and ovarian cancer vaccines, our COVID-19 therapeutic program and
+Added: Certainty’s CAR-T technology to be the primary focus of the Company.
+Added: As part of our legacy operations, the Company remains engaged
+Added: in limited patent licensing activities regarding the Cchek™ liquid biopsy platform, as well as in the area of encrypted audio/video
+Added: conference calling.
+Added: We do not expect these activities to be a significant part of the Company’s ongoing operations, nor do we expect
+Added: these activities to require material financial resources or attention of senior management.
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−Removed: July 2, 2020, we implemented a strategic realignment of our business and redirected resources to exclusively focus on the development
−Removed: of therapeutics and vaccines.
−Removed: Accordingly, we suspended operations of our subsidiary, Anixa Diagnostics Corporation, and the development
−Removed: of the Cchek™
−Removed: artificial intelligence driven platform of non-invasive blood tests for the early detection of cancer.
−Removed: the next several quarters, we expect the development of our breast and ovarian cancer vaccines, our COVID-19 therapeutic discovery
−Removed: program and Certainty’s CAR-T technology to be the primary focus of the Company.
−Removed: As part of our legacy operations, the Company
−Removed: remains engaged in limited patent licensing activities regarding the Cchek™
−Removed: liquid biopsy platform, as well as in the area
−Removed: of encrypted audio/video conference calling.
−Removed: We do not expect these activities to be a significant part of the Company’s
−Removed: ongoing operations nor do we expect these activities to require material financial resources or attention of senior management.
−Removed: the past several years, our revenue was derived from technology licensing and the sale of patented technologies, including revenue
−Removed: from the settlement of litigation.
−Removed: We have not generated any revenue to date from our therapeutics or vaccine programs.
−Removed: while we pursue our therapeutics and vaccine programs, we may also make investments in and form new companies to develop additional
−Removed: emerging technologies.
−Removed: We do not expect to begin generating revenue with respect to any of our current therapy or vaccine programs
−Removed: in the near term.
−Removed: We hope to achieve a profitable outcome by eventually licensing our technologies to large pharmaceutical companies
−Removed: that have the resources and infrastructure in place to manufacture, market and sell our technologies as therapeutics or vaccines.
−Removed: The eventual licensing of any of our technologies may take several years, and may depend on positive results from human clinical
−Removed: on currently available information as of January 7, 2021, we believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents, short-term
−Removed: investments and expected cash flows will be sufficient to fund our activities for the next twelve months.
−Removed: We have implemented
−Removed: a business model that conserves funds by collaborating with third parties to develop our technologies.
−Removed: However, our projections
−Removed: of future cash needs and cash flows may differ from actual results.
−Removed: If current cash on hand, cash equivalents, short term investments
−Removed: and cash that may be generated from our business operations are insufficient to continue to operate our business, or if we elect
−Removed: to invest in or acquire a company or companies or new technology or technologies that are synergistic with or complementary to
−Removed: our technologies, we may be required to obtain more working capital.
+Added: the 2021 fiscal year as well as the past several years, our revenue, if any, was derived from technology licensing and the sale of patented
+Added: technologies, including revenue from the settlement of litigation.
+Added: We have not generated any revenue to date from our therapeutics or
+Added: vaccine programs.
+Added: In addition, while we pursue our therapeutics and vaccine programs, we may also make investments in and form new companies
+Added: to develop additional emerging technologies.
+Added: We do not expect to begin generating revenue with respect to any of our current therapy
+Added: or vaccine programs in the near term.
+Added: We hope to achieve a profitable outcome by eventually licensing our technologies to large pharmaceutical
+Added: companies that have the resources and infrastructure in place to manufacture, market and sell our technologies as therapeutics or vaccines.
+Added: The eventual licensing of any of our technologies may take several years, if it is to occur at all, and may depend on positive results
+Added: from human clinical trials.
+Added: and Management’s Plans
+Added: on currently available information as of January 4, 2022, we believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents, short-term investments
+Added: and expected cash flows will be sufficient to fund our activities for at least the next twelve months.
+Added: We have implemented a business
+Added: model that conserves funds by collaborating with third parties to develop our technologies.
+Added: However, our projections of future cash needs
+Added: and cash flows may differ from actual results.
+Added: If current cash on hand, cash equivalents, short-term investments and cash that may be
+Added: generated from our business operations are insufficient to continue to operate our business, or if we elect to invest in or acquire a
+Added: company or companies or new technology or technologies that are synergistic with or complementary to our technologies, we may be required
+Added: to obtain more working capital.
During fiscal year 2021, we raised approximately $ 20,292,000 ,
−Removed: net of expenses, through at-the-market equity offerings of 3,854,305 shares of common stock.
−Removed: This included approximately $427,000,
−Removed: net of expenses, through the sale of 112,238 shares of common stock in an at-the market equity offering which expired in November
−Removed: 2019 and approximately $8,839,000, net of expenses, through the sale of 3,742,067 shares of common stock in an at-the-market equity
−Removed: offering under which we may issue up to $50 million of common stock.
−Removed: Under our current at-the-market equity program which is currently
−Removed: effective and may remain available for us to use in the future, we may sell an additional approximately $40,811,000 of common
−Removed: We may seek to obtain working capital during our fiscal year 2021 or thereafter through sales of our equity securities
−Removed: or through bank credit facilities or public or private debt from various financial institutions where possible.
−Removed: We cannot be certain
−Removed: that additional funding will be available on acceptable terms, or at all.
−Removed: If we do identify sources for additional funding, the
−Removed: sale of additional equity securities or convertible debt could result in dilution to our stockholders.
+Added: net of expenses, through a public offering in which we sold an aggregate of 4,285,715
+Added: shares of common stock and approximately $ 10,834,000 ,
+Added: net of expenses, through an at-the-market equity program in which we sold an aggregate of 2,806,410
+Added: shares of common stock.
+Added: Our at-the-market equity
+Added: program was terminated on June 16, 2021.
+Added: We may seek to obtain working capital during our fiscal year 2022 or thereafter through sales
+Added: of our equity securities or through bank credit facilities or public or private debt from various financial institutions where possible.
+Added: We cannot be certain that additional funding will be available on acceptable terms, or at all.
+Added: If we do identify sources for additional
+Added: funding, the sale of additional equity securities or convertible debt will result in dilution to our stockholders.
We can give no assurance
−Removed: that we will generate sufficient cash flows in the future to satisfy our liquidity requirements or sustain future operations,
−Removed: or that other sources of funding, such as sales of equity or debt, would be available or would be approved by our security holders,
−Removed: if needed, on favorable terms or at all.
−Removed: If we fail to obtain additional working capital as and when needed, such failure could
−Removed: have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: Furthermore, such lack of funds
−Removed: may inhibit our ability to respond to competitive pressures or unanticipated capital needs, or may force us to reduce operating
−Removed: expenses, which would significantly harm the business and development of operations.
−Removed: BIOSCIENCES, INC.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
+Added: that we will generate sufficient cash flows in the future to satisfy our liquidity requirements or sustain future operations, or that
+Added: other sources of funding, such as sales of equity or debt, would be available or would be approved by our security holders, if needed,
+Added: on favorable terms or at all.
+Added: If we fail to obtain additional working capital as and when needed, such failure could have a material
+Added: adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: Furthermore, such lack of funds may inhibit our ability
+Added: to respond to competitive pressures or unanticipated capital needs, or may force us to reduce operating expenses, which would significantly
+Added: harm the business and development of operations.
+Added: OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
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and its wholly and majority owned subsidiaries.
−Removed: All intercompany transactions have been eliminated.
+Added: intercompany transactions have been eliminated.
Noncontrolling
Noncontrolling
−Removed: interest represents Wistar’s equity ownership in Certainty and is presented as a component of equity.
−Removed: The following table
−Removed: sets forth the changes in noncontrolling interest for the two years ended October 31, 2020:
−Removed: Balance October 31, 2018
−Removed: Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest
−Removed: Balance October 31, 2019
−Removed: Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest
−Removed: Balance October 31, 2020
−Removed: fiscal 2016 our revenue has been derived solely from technology licensing and the sale of patented technologies.
−Removed: Revenue is recognized
−Removed: upon transfer of control of intellectual property rights and satisfaction of other contractual performance obligations to licensees
−Removed: in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to receive.
−Removed: November 1, 2018 we adopted Accounting Standards Update 2014-09 (“ASU 2014-09”), “Revenue from Contracts with
−Removed: Customers”
−Removed: using the modified retrospective method.
−Removed: Upon adoption of ASU 2014-09 we are required to make certain judgments
−Removed: and estimates in connection with the accounting for revenue.
−Removed: Such areas may include determining the existence of a contract and
−Removed: identifying each party’s rights and obligations to transfer goods and services, identifying the performance obligations
−Removed: in the contract, determining the transaction price and allocating the transaction price to separate performance obligations, estimating
−Removed: the timing of satisfaction of performance obligations, determining whether a promise to grant a license is distinct from other
−Removed: promised goods or services and evaluating whether a license transfers to a customer at a point in time or over time.
−Removed: revenue arrangements provide for the payment of contractually determined, one-time, paid-up license fees in settlement of litigation
−Removed: and in consideration for the grant of certain intellectual property rights for patented technologies owned or controlled by the
+Added: interest represents Wistar’s equity ownership in Certainty and is presented as a component of equity.
+Added: The following table sets
+Added: forth the changes in noncontrolling interest for the two years ended October 31, 2021:
+Added: OF CHANGES IN NONCONTROLLING INTEREST
+Added: October 31, 2019
+Added: $ ( 422,975 )
+Added: loss attributable to noncontrolling interest
+Added: October 31, 2020
+Added: loss attributable to noncontrolling interest
+Added: October 31, 2021
+Added: $ ( 670,506 )
+Added: BIOSCIENCES, INC.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: revenue has been derived solely from technology licensing and the sale of patented technologies.
+Added: Revenue is recognized upon transfer
+Added: of control of intellectual property rights and satisfaction of other contractual performance obligations to licensees in an amount that
+Added: reflects the consideration we expect to receive.
+Added: revenue recognition policy requires us to make certain judgments and estimates in connection with the accounting for revenue.
+Added: may include determining the existence of a contract and identifying each party’s rights and obligations to transfer goods and services,
+Added: identifying the performance obligations in the contract, determining the transaction price and allocating the transaction price to separate
+Added: performance obligations, estimating the timing of satisfaction of performance obligations, determining whether a promise to grant a license
+Added: is distinct from other promised goods or services and evaluating whether a license transfers to a customer at a point in time or over
+Added: revenue arrangements generally provide for the payment, within 30 days of execution of the agreement, of contractually determined, one-time,
+Added: paid-up license fees in settlement of litigation and in consideration for the grant of certain intellectual property rights for patented
+Added: technologies owned or controlled by the Company.
These arrangements typically include some combination of the following:
−Removed: (i) the grant of a non-exclusive, retroactive
−Removed: and future license to manufacture and/or sell products covered by patented technologies owned or controlled by the Company, (ii)
−Removed: a covenant-not-to-sue, (iii) the release of the licensee from certain claims, and (iv) the dismissal of any pending litigation.
−Removed: In such instances, the intellectual property rights granted have been perpetual in nature, extending until the expiration of the
−Removed: related patents.
+Added: (i) the grant
+Added: of a non-exclusive, retroactive and future license to manufacture and/or sell products covered by patented technologies owned or controlled
+Added: by the Company, (ii) a covenant-not-to-sue, (iii) the release of the licensee from certain claims, and (iv) the dismissal of any pending
+Added: In such instances, the intellectual property rights granted have been perpetual in nature, extending until the expiration
+Added: of the related patents.
Pursuant to the terms of these agreements, we have no further obligations with respect to the granted intellectual
property rights, including no obligation to maintain or upgrade the technology, or provide future support or services.
−Removed: obtained control of the intellectual property rights they have acquired upon execution of the agreement.
−Removed: Accordingly, the performance
−Removed: obligations from these agreements were satisfied and 100% of the revenue was recognized upon the execution of the agreements.
+Added: Licensees obtained
+Added: control of the intellectual property rights they have acquired upon execution of the agreement.
+Added: Accordingly, the performance obligations
+Added: from these agreements were satisfied and 100% of the revenue was recognized upon the execution of the agreements.
+Added: of revenues include the costs and expenses incurred in connection with our patent licensing and enforcement activities, including inventor
+Added: royalties paid to original patent owners, contingent legal fees paid to external counsel, other patent-related legal expenses paid to
+Added: external counsel, licensing and enforcement related research and consulting and other expenses paid to third-parties.
+Added: These costs are
+Added: included under the caption “Operating costs and expenses” in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: and Development Expenses
+Added: and development expenses, consisting primarily of employee compensation, payments to third parties for research and development activities
+Added: and other direct costs associated with developing immuno-therapy drugs against cancer, developing anti-viral drug candidates for COVID-19,
+Added: developing our breast cancer vaccine, developing our ovarian cancer vaccine, and developing a platform for non-invasive blood tests for
+Added: early cancer detection (such development having been suspended in fiscal year 2020), are expensed in the consolidated financial statements
+Added: in the year incurred.
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−Removed: of revenues include the costs and expenses incurred in connection with our patent licensing and enforcement activities, including
−Removed: inventor royalties paid to original patent owners, contingent legal fees paid to external counsel, other patent-related legal
−Removed: expenses paid to external counsel, licensing and enforcement related research, consulting and other expenses paid to third-parties
−Removed: and the amortization of patent-related investment costs.
−Removed: These costs are included under the caption “Operating costs and
−Removed: expenses”
−Removed: in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: and Development Expenses
−Removed: and development expenses, consisting primarily of employee compensation, payments to third parties for research and development
−Removed: activities and other direct costs associated with developing a platform for non-invasive blood tests for early detection of cancer,
−Removed: developing immuno-therapy drugs against cancer, development of our breast cancer vaccine, development of our ovarian cancer vaccine
−Removed: and development of anti-viral drug candidates for COVID-19, are expensed in the consolidated financial statements in the year
Value Measurements
−Removed: Standards Codification (“ASC”) 820 “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures”
−Removed: (“ASC 820”) defines
−Removed: fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value under U.S.
−Removed: generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and expands
−Removed: disclosures about fair value measurements.
−Removed: In accordance with ASC 820, we have categorized our financial assets and liabilities,
−Removed: based on the priority of the inputs to the valuation technique, into a three-level fair value hierarchy as set forth below.
−Removed: the inputs used to measure the financial instruments fall within different levels of the hierarchy, the categorization is based
−Removed: on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement of the instrument.
+Added: Standards Codification (“ASC”) 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (“ASC 820”), defines fair value,
+Added: establishes a framework for measuring fair value under U.S.
+Added: generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and expands disclosures
+Added: about fair value measurements.
+Added: In accordance with ASC 820, we have categorized our financial assets and liabilities, based on the priority
+Added: of the inputs to the valuation technique, into a three-level fair value hierarchy as set forth below.
+Added: If the inputs used to measure the
+Added: financial instruments fall within different levels of the hierarchy, the categorization is based on the lowest level input that is significant
+Added: to the fair value measurement of the instrument.
assets and liabilities recorded in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets are categorized based on the inputs to the valuation
techniques as follows:
−Removed: Financial instruments whose values are based on unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in an active
−Removed: market which we have the ability to access at the measurement date.
−Removed: Financial instruments whose values are based on quoted market prices in markets where trading occurs infrequently or
−Removed: whose values are based on quoted prices of instruments with similar attributes in active markets.
+Added: 1 – Financial instruments whose values are based on unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in an active market
+Added: which we have the ability to access at the measurement date.
+Added: 2 – Financial instruments whose values are based on quoted market prices in markets where trading occurs infrequently or whose
+Added: values are based on quoted prices of instruments with similar attributes in active markets.
3 – Financial instruments whose values are based on prices or valuation techniques that require inputs that are both unobservable
and significant to the overall fair value measurement.
−Removed: These inputs reflect management’s own assumptions about the assumptions
+Added: These inputs reflect management’s own assumptions about the assumptions
a market participant would use in pricing the instrument.
+Added: following table presents the hierarchy for our financial assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of October 31, 2021:
+Added: OF HIERARCHY OF FINANCIAL ASSETS
+Added: market funds:
+Added: and cash equivalents
+Added: term investments
+Added: and cash equivalents
+Added: treasury bills:
+Added: term investments
+Added: financial assets
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following table presents the hierarchy for our financial assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of October 31, 2020:
−Removed: Money market funds:
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Certificates of deposit:
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Short term investments
−Removed: Total financial assets
−Removed: following table presents the hierarchy for our financial assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of October 31,
−Removed: Money market funds:
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Certificates of deposit:
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Short term investments
−Removed: Total financial assets
−Removed: non-financial assets that are measured on a non-recurring basis include our property and equipment which are measured using fair
−Removed: value techniques whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate a condition of impairment exists.
+Added: market funds:
+Added: and cash equivalents
+Added: and cash equivalents
+Added: term investments
+Added: financial assets
+Added: non-financial assets that are measured on a non-recurring basis are property and equipment and other assets which are measured using
+Added: fair value techniques whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate a condition of impairment exists.
The estimated fair value
−Removed: of accounts receivable, prepaid expenses, accounts payable and accrued expenses approximates their individual carrying amounts
−Removed: due to the short-term nature of these measurements.
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents are stated at carrying value which approximates
+Added: of prepaid expenses and other current assets, accounts payable and accrued expenses approximates their individual carrying amounts due
+Added: to the short-term nature of these measurements.
+Added: Cash and cash equivalents are stated at carrying value which approximates fair value.
and Cash Equivalents
equivalents consists of highly liquid, short-term investments with original maturities of three months or less when purchased.
−Removed: October 31, 2020 and 2019, we had certificates of deposit with maturities greater than 90 days and less than 12 months when acquired
−Removed: of $2,640,000 and $2,350,000, respectively, that were classified as short-term investments and reported at fair value.
−Removed: only identifiable intangible assets are patents and patent rights.
−Removed: We capitalize patent and patent rights acquisition costs and
−Removed: amortize the cost over the estimated economic useful life.
−Removed: No patent acquisition costs were capitalized during the years ended
−Removed: October 31, 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: We recorded patent amortization expense of $-0- and approximately $419,000, respectively, during the
−Removed: years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: evaluating the carrying amount of capitalized patents at January 31, 2019, we determined that a write-down of the carrying amount
−Removed: of approximately $419,000, to a carrying value of approximately $168,000, should be recorded as of January 31, 2019.
−Removed: The write-down
−Removed: was based on estimated undiscounted future cash flows of the capitalized patents compared to the carrying value.
−Removed: BIOSCIENCES, INC.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: estimates of future cash flows was based on our most recent assessment of the market for potential licensees, as well as the status
−Removed: of ongoing negotiations with potential licensees.
−Removed: While we may be able to generate future cash flows from this patent portfolio,
−Removed: as of October 31, 2020 and 2019, we could not reasonably determine an estimate of any such future cash flows.
−Removed: The carrying value
−Removed: of capitalized patents is $-0- as of October 31, 2020 and 2019.
+Added: October 31, 2021 and 2020, we had certificates of deposit and United States treasury bills with maturities greater than 90 days and less
+Added: than 12 months when acquired of $ 6,599,595
+Added: and $ 2,640,000 ,
+Added: respectively, that were classified as short-term investments and reported at fair value.
and equipment
−Removed: capitalized computers and test equipment used in our cancer diagnostics and therapeutics programs and charged depreciation on
−Removed: a straight-line basis over 60 months.
−Removed: Equipment purchases during the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019 were approximately
−Removed: $16,000 and $175,000, respectively.
−Removed: We recorded depreciation expense of approximately $38,000 and 48,000, respectively, during
−Removed: the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: As a result of the suspension of operations of our subsidiary, Anixa Diagnostics Corporation,
−Removed: as discussed in Note 1, we recorded a loss on disposal of property and equipment of approximately $148,000 during the year ended
−Removed: October 31, 2020.
−Removed: recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities for the estimated future tax effects of events that have been recognized in our
−Removed: financial statements or tax returns.
−Removed: Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the difference
−Removed: between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect in the years in which
−Removed: the differences are expected to reverse.
−Removed: A valuation allowance is established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to
−Removed: the amount expected to be realized.
+Added: a result of the suspension of operations of our subsidiary, Anixa Diagnostics Corporation, as discussed in Note 1, we recorded a gain
+Added: of approximately $ 5,000
+Added: during the year ended October 31, 2021 and a loss of approximately
+Added: $ 148,000 during
+Added: the year ended October 31, 2020, on disposal of property and equipment
+Added: recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities for the estimated future tax effects of events that have been recognized in our financial
+Added: statements or tax returns.
+Added: Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the difference between the
+Added: financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect in the years in which the differences are
+Added: expected to reverse.
+Added: A valuation allowance is established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be
maintain stock equity incentive plans under which we may grant non-qualified stock options, incentive stock options, stock appreciation
rights, stock awards, performance awards and stock units to employees, non-employee directors and consultants.
−Removed: Option Compensation Expense
−Removed: account for stock options granted to employees and directors using the accounting guidance in ASC 718 “Stock Compensation”
−Removed: (“ASC 718”).
−Removed: In accordance with ASC 718, we estimate the fair value of service-based options on the date of grant,
−Removed: using the Black-Scholes pricing model.
−Removed: We recognize compensation expense for stock option awards over the requisite or implied
−Removed: service period of the grant.
−Removed: We recorded stock-based compensation expense, related to service-based stock options granted to employees
−Removed: and directors, of approximately $3,923,000 and $3,185,000, during the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: in stock-based compensation cost for service-based options granted to employees and directors during the years ended October 31,
−Removed: 2020 and 2019 was approximately $3,011,000 and $3,166,000, respectively, related to the amortization of compensation cost for
−Removed: stock options granted in prior periods but not yet vested.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2020, there was unrecognized compensation cost related
−Removed: to non-vested service-based stock options granted to employees and directors of approximately $2,605,000, which will be recognized
−Removed: over a weighted-average period of 1.5 years.
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−Removed: stock options granted to employees that vest based on market conditions, such as the trading price of the Company’s common
−Removed: stock exceeding certain price targets, we use a Monte Carlo Simulation in estimating the fair value at grant date and recognize
−Removed: compensation cost over the implied service period (median time to vest).
−Removed: On May 8, 2018, we issued market condition options to
−Removed: purchase 1,500,000 shares of common stock, to our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, vesting at target trading prices
−Removed: of $5.00 to $8.00 per share before May 31, 2021, with implied service periods of three to seven months.
−Removed: The assumptions used in
−Removed: the Monte Carlo Simulation were stock price on date of grant and exercise price of $3.70, contract term of 10 years, expected
−Removed: volatility of 119.6% and risk-free interest rate of 2.97%.
−Removed: We recorded stock-based compensation expense related to market condition
−Removed: stock options granted to employees of $-0- and approximately $376,000 during the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively,
−Removed: which included $-0- and approximately $376,000, respectively, of expense related to the amortization of compensation cost for
−Removed: stock options granted in prior periods but not yet vested.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2020, there was no unrecognized compensation cost
−Removed: related to market condition stock options.
−Removed: November 1, 2018 we adopted Accounting Standards Update 2018-07 (“ASU 2018-07”) for stock options granted to consultants.
−Removed: Upon adoption of ASU 2018-07 we estimated the fair value of unvested service-based and performance-based stock options at the
−Removed: date of adoption, using the Black-Scholes pricing model.
−Removed: Subsequent to adoption of ASU 2018-07, future grants to consultants are
−Removed: measured at the grant date, based on the fair value of the award using the Black-Scholes pricing model, consistent with our policy
−Removed: for grants to employees and directors.
−Removed: In prior periods, in accordance with U.S.
−Removed: GAAP, we estimated the fair value of service-based
−Removed: and performance-based stock options granted to consultants at each reporting period using the Black-Scholes pricing model.
−Removed: recognize the fair value of stock options granted to consultants as consulting expense over the requisite or implied service period
−Removed: of the grant.
−Removed: recorded consulting expense, related to service based and performance-based stock options granted to consultants, during the years
−Removed: ended October 31, 2020 and 2019 of approximately $215,000 and $113,000, respectively.
−Removed: Included in stock-based consulting expense
−Removed: for the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019 was approximately $123,000 and $99,000, respectively, related to compensation cost
−Removed: for stock options granted in prior periods but not yet vested.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2020, there was unrecognized consulting expense
−Removed: related to non-vested stock options granted to consultants, related to service-based options of approximately $340,000, which
−Removed: will be recognized over a weighted-average period of --1.9 years.
−Removed: Value Determination
−Removed: use the Black-Scholes pricing model in estimating the fair value of stock options granted to employees, directors and consultants
−Removed: which vest over a specific period of time.
−Removed: The stock options we granted during each of the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: consisted of awards with 5-year and 10-year terms that vest over 12 to 36 months.
+Added: Option Compensation Expense
+Added: account for stock options granted to employees, directors and consultants using the accounting guidance in ASC 718, Stock Compensation
+Added: We estimate the fair value of service-based stock options on the date of grant, using the Black-Scholes pricing
+Added: model, and recognize compensation expense over the requisite service period of the grant.
+Added: recorded stock-based compensation expense, related to service-based stock options granted to employees and directors, of approximately
+Added: and $ 3,923,000 ,
+Added: during the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
+Added: Included in stock-based compensation cost for service-based options granted
+Added: to employees and directors during the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020 was approximately $ 1,841,000
+Added: and $ 3,011,000 ,
+Added: respectively, related to the amortization of compensation cost for stock options granted in prior periods but not yet vested.
+Added: As of October
+Added: 31, 2021, there was unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested service-based stock options granted to employees and directors
+Added: of approximately $ 5,490,000 ,
+Added: which will be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.2
+Added: stock options that vest based on market conditions, such as the trading price of the Company’s common stock exceeding certain price
+Added: targets, we use a Monte Carlo Simulation in estimating the fair value at grant date and recognize compensation expense over the implied
+Added: service period (median time to vest).
+Added: On May 8, 2018, we issued market condition stock options to purchase 1,500,000
+Added: shares of common stock, to our Chairman, President
+Added: and Chief Executive Officer, vesting at target trading prices of $ 5.00
+Added: per share before May
+Added: 31, 2021 , with implied service periods of three
+Added: The assumptions used in the Monte Carlo
+Added: Simulation for the May 18, 2018 grant were stock price on date of grant and exercise price of $ 3.70 ,
+Added: contract term of 10
+Added: years, expected volatility of 119.6 %
+Added: and risk-free interest rate of 2.97 %.
+Added: In October 2018, the first tranche of 500,000
+Added: shares of market condition options became exercisable
+Added: upon achieving an average closing price above $ 5.00
+Added: per share for twenty
+Added: consecutive trading days.
+Added: The remaining tranches
+Added: did not vest as of May 31, 2021 and expired.
+Added: June 1, 2021, our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer were awarded
+Added: market condition stock options for 2,000,000
+Added: shares and 100,000
+Added: shares of common stock, respectively, that vest
+Added: in four equal installments upon the Company’s share price achieving targets ranging from $ 5.00
+Added: per share, with implied service periods of three
+Added: to fifteen months.
+Added: The assumptions used in the Monte Carlo Simulation for the June 1, 2021 grants were stock price on date of grant and
+Added: exercise price of $ 4.02 ,
+Added: contract term of 10
+Added: years, expected volatility of 75 %
+Added: and risk-free interest rate of 1.62 %.
+Added: As of October 31, 2021, 500,000
+Added: shares and 25,000
+Added: shares granted to our Chairman, President and
+Added: Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, respectively, have vested.
+Added: recorded stock-based compensation expense related to market condition stock options granted to employees of approximately $ 3,972,000
+Added: during the year ended October 31, 2021, which
+Added: amount did not include any expense related to the amortization of compensation cost for stock options granted in prior periods.
+Added: not record any compensation expense related to market condition stock options during the year ended October 31, 2020.
+Added: As of October 31,
+Added: 2021, there was unrecognized compensation cost related to market condition stock options granted to employees of approximately $ 2,537,000 ,
+Added: which will be recognized over a weighted-average period of 0.62
+Added: recorded consulting expense, related to service-based stock options granted to consultants, during the years ended October 31, 2021 and
+Added: 2020 of approximately $ 460,000
+Added: and $ 215,000 ,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: Included in stock-based consulting expense for the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020 was approximately $ 103,000
+Added: and $ 123,000 ,
+Added: respectively, related to compensation cost for stock options granted in prior periods but not yet vested.
+Added: As of October 31, 2021, there
+Added: was unrecognized consulting expense related to non-vested service-based stock options granted to consultants of approximately $ 900,000 ,
+Added: which will be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.1
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−Removed: following weighted average assumptions were used in estimating the fair value of stock options granted during the years ended
−Removed: October 31, 2020 and 2019:
−Removed: Ended October 31,
−Removed: Weighted average fair value at grant date
−Removed: Valuation assumptions:
−Removed: Expected life (years)
−Removed: Expected volatility
−Removed: Risk-free interest rate
−Removed: Expected dividend yield
+Added: Value Determination
+Added: use the Black-Scholes pricing model in estimating the fair value of stock options granted to employees, directors and consultants which
+Added: vest over a specific period of time.
+Added: The stock options we granted during each of the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020 consisted
+Added: of awards with 5 -year
+Added: terms that vest over 12
+Added: following weighted average assumptions were used in estimating the fair value of stock options granted during the years ended October
+Added: 31, 2021 and 2020:
+Added: OF WEIGHTED AVERAGE ASSUMPTIONS USED IN ESTIMATING FAIR VALUE OF STOCK OPTIONS
+Added: the Year Ended October 31,
+Added: average fair value at grant date
+Added: interest rate
+Added: dividend yield
expected term of stock options represents the weighted average period the stock options are expected to remain outstanding.
−Removed: employees and directors, we use the simplified method, which is a weighted average of the vesting term and contractual term, to
−Removed: determine expected term.
−Removed: The simplified method was adopted since we do not believe that historical experience is representative
−Removed: of future performance because of the impact of the changes in our operations and the change in terms from historical options which
−Removed: vested immediately to terms including vesting periods of up to three years.
−Removed: For consultants we use the contract term for expected
−Removed: Under the Black-Scholes pricing model, we estimated the expected volatility of our shares of common stock based upon the
−Removed: historical volatility of our share price over a period of time equal to the expected term of the options.
−Removed: We estimated the risk-free
−Removed: interest rate based on the implied yield available on the applicable grant date of a U.S.
−Removed: Treasury note with a term equal to the
−Removed: expected term of the underlying grants.
−Removed: We made the dividend yield assumption based on our history of not paying dividends and
−Removed: our expectation not to pay dividends in the future.
+Added: For employees
+Added: and directors, we use the simplified method, which is a weighted average of the vesting term and contractual term, to determine expected
+Added: The simplified method was adopted since we do not believe that historical experience is representative of future performance because
+Added: of the impact of the changes in our operations.
+Added: For consultants we use the contract term for expected term.
+Added: Under the Black-Scholes pricing
+Added: model, we estimated the expected volatility of our shares of common stock based upon the historical volatility of our share price over
+Added: a period of time equal to the expected term of the options.
+Added: We estimated the risk-free interest rate based on the implied yield available
+Added: on the applicable grant date of a U.S.
+Added: Treasury note with a term equal to the expected term of the underlying grants.
+Added: We made the dividend
+Added: yield assumption based on our history of not paying dividends and our expectation not to pay dividends in the future.
ASC 718, the amount of stock-based compensation expense recognized is based on the portion of the awards that are ultimately expected
−Removed: Accordingly, if deemed necessary, we reduce the fair value of the stock option awards for expected forfeitures, which
−Removed: are forfeitures of the unvested portion of surrendered options.
−Removed: Based on our historical experience and future expectations, we
−Removed: have not reduced the amount of stock-based compensation expenses for anticipated forfeitures.
−Removed: will reconsider use of the Black-Scholes pricing model if additional information becomes available in the future that indicates
−Removed: another model would be more appropriate.
−Removed: If factors change and we employ different assumptions in the application of ASC 718 in
−Removed: future periods, the compensation expense that we record under ASC 718 may differ significantly from what we have recorded in the
−Removed: current period.
+Added: Accordingly, if deemed necessary, we reduce the fair value of the stock option awards for expected forfeitures, which are forfeitures
+Added: of the unvested portion of surrendered options.
+Added: Based on our historical experience and future expectations, we have not reduced the amount
+Added: of stock-based compensation expenses for anticipated forfeitures.
+Added: will reconsider use of the Black-Scholes pricing model if additional information becomes available in the future that indicates another
+Added: model would be more appropriate.
+Added: If factors change and we employ different assumptions in the application of ASC 718 in future periods,
+Added: the compensation expense that we record under ASC 718 may differ significantly from what we have recorded in the current period.
+Added: BIOSCIENCES, INC.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Award Compensation Expense
−Removed: account for stock awards granted to employees and directors in accordance with ASC 718.
−Removed: On May 8, 2018, a restricted stock award
−Removed: of 1,500,000 shares of common stock was granted to our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.
−Removed: The restricted stock award
−Removed: vests in its entirety upon achievement of a target trading price of $11.00 per share of the Company’s common stock before
−Removed: May 31, 2021.
−Removed: For restricted stock awards vesting upon achievement of a price target of our common stock we use a Monte Carlo
−Removed: Simulation in estimating the fair value at grant date and recognize compensation cost over the implied service period (median
+Added: account for stock awards granted to employees, directors and consultants in accordance with ASC 718.
+Added: On May 8, 2018, a restricted stock
+Added: award of 1,500,000
+Added: shares of common stock was granted to our Chairman,
+Added: President and Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: The restricted stock award was to vest in its entirety upon achievement of a target trading price
+Added: per share of the Company’s common stock
+Added: The restricted stock award did not
+Added: vest as of May 31, 2021 and expired.
+Added: For restricted stock awards vesting upon achievement of a price target of our common stock we use
+Added: a Monte Carlo Simulation in estimating the fair value at grant date and recognize compensation cost over the implied service period (median
time to vest).
−Removed: The assumptions used in the Monte Carlo Simulation were stock price on date of grant of $3.70, contract term of
−Removed: 3.06 years, expected volatility of 128.8% and risk-free interest rate of 2.66%.
−Removed: During the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: we recorded compensation expense related to the restricted stock award of $-0- and approximately $1,954,000, respectively.
+Added: The assumptions used in the Monte Carlo Simulation were stock price on date of grant of $ 3.70 ,
+Added: contract term of 3.06
+Added: years, expected volatility of 128.8 %
+Added: and risk-free interest rate of 2.66 %.
+Added: We did not record any compensation expense related to the restricted stock award during the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020.
did not issue any stock awards during the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2020, there was no unrecognized
−Removed: compensation cost related to the restricted stock awards.
+Added: As of October 31, 2021, there was no unrecognized compensation
+Added: cost related to the restricted stock awards.
+Added: warrants granted to consultants for services rendered we estimate the fair value using the Black-Scholes pricing model on the date of
+Added: During the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020 we recorded consulting expense, based on the fair value, of approximately $ 96,000
+Added: respectively, for warrants granted to consultants.
+Added: Loss Per Share of Common Stock
+Added: accordance with ASC 260, Earnings Per Share, basic net loss per common share (“Basic EPS”) is computed by dividing net loss
+Added: by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding.
+Added: Diluted net loss per common share (“Diluted EPS”) is computed
+Added: by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of common shares and dilutive common share equivalents and convertible securities
+Added: then outstanding.
+Added: Diluted EPS for all years presented is the same as Basic EPS, as the inclusion of the effect of common share equivalents
+Added: then outstanding would be anti-dilutive.
+Added: For this reason, excluded from the calculation of Diluted EPS for the years ended October 31,
+Added: 2021 and 2020 were options to purchase 10,770,626
+Added: shares and 7,952,195
+Added: shares, respectively, and warrants to purchase
+Added: shares and 560,000
+Added: shares, respectively.
+Added: preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires
+Added: management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent
+Added: assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting
+Added: Estimates and assumptions are used for, but not limited to, determining stock-based compensation, asset impairment evaluations,
+Added: tax assets and liabilities, license fee revenue, the allowance for doubtful accounts, depreciation lives and other contingencies.
+Added: results could differ from those estimates.
+Added: of Recently Issued Pronouncements
+Added: January 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2020-01 (“ASU 2020-01”) Investments-Equity Securities (Topic 321),
+Added: Investments-Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic 323), and Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815).
+Added: The amendments in ASU 2020-01 clarify
+Added: certain interactions between the guidance to account for certain equity securities under Topic 321, the guidance to account for investments
+Added: under the equity method of accounting in Topic 323, and the guidance in Topic 815, which could change how an entity accounts for an equity
+Added: security under the measurement alternative or a forward contract or purchased option to purchase securities that, upon settlement of
+Added: the forward contract or exercise of the purchased option, would be accounted for under the equity method of accounting or the fair value
+Added: option in accordance with Topic 825, Financial Instruments.
+Added: These amendments improve current GAAP by reducing diversity in practice and
+Added: increasing comparability of the accounting for these interactions.
+Added: The amendments in this update are effective for fiscal years beginning
+Added: after December 15, 2020, and interim periods within those fiscal years.
+Added: The adoption of this standard will not have a material impact
+Added: on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
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−Removed: warrants granted to consultants for services rendered we estimate the fair value using the Black-Scholes pricing model on the
−Removed: date of grant.
−Removed: During the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019 we recorded consulting expense, based on the fair value, of $-0-
−Removed: and approximately $85,000, respectively, for warrants granted to consultants.
−Removed: Loss Per Share of Common Stock
−Removed: accordance with ASC 260, “Earnings Per Share”, basic net loss per common share (“Basic EPS”) is computed
−Removed: by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding.
−Removed: Diluted net loss per common share (“Diluted
−Removed: EPS”) is computed by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of common shares and dilutive common share equivalents
−Removed: and convertible securities then outstanding.
−Removed: Diluted EPS for all years presented is the same as Basic EPS, as the inclusion of
−Removed: the effect of common share equivalents then outstanding would be anti-dilutive.
−Removed: For this reason, excluded from the calculation
−Removed: of Diluted EPS for the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019 were options to purchase 7,952,195 and 7,632,068 shares, respectively,
−Removed: and warrants to purchase 560,000 shares and 525,000 shares, respectively.
−Removed: preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America
−Removed: requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure
−Removed: of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses
−Removed: during the reporting period.
−Removed: Estimates and assumptions are used for, but not limited to, determining stock-based compensation,
−Removed: asset impairment evaluations, tax assets and liabilities, license fee revenue, the allowance for doubtful accounts, depreciation
−Removed: lives and other contingencies.
−Removed: Actual results could differ from those estimates.
−Removed: of Recently Issued Pronouncements
−Removed: February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update 2016-02 (“ASU 2016-02”)
−Removed: Accounting Standards Codification Topic 842, Leases (“ASC 842”), which supersedes Topic 840, Leases, and which requires
−Removed: lessees to recognize most leases on the balance sheet.
−Removed: The new lease standard does not substantially change lessor accounting.
−Removed: For public companies, the standard was effective for the first interim reporting period within annual periods beginning after
−Removed: December 15, 2018, although early adoption was permitted.
−Removed: Lessees and lessors were required to apply the new standard at the beginning
−Removed: of the earliest period presented in the financial statements in which they first apply the new guidance.
−Removed: In July 2018, FASB issued
−Removed: ASU 2018-11, Leases, which provides an additional transition option for an entity to apply the provisions of ASC 842 by recognizing
−Removed: a cumulative effect adjustment at the effective date of adoption without adjusting the prior comparative periods presented.
−Removed: requirements of this standard include a significant increase in required disclosures.
−Removed: The Company adopted ASU 2016-02 on November
−Removed: The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: See Note 5 regarding
−Removed: the accounting and disclosures related to our office lease.
+Added: August 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2020-06 (“ASU 2020-06”), Accounting for Convertible Instruments
+Added: and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity.
+Added: The amendments in ASU 2020-06 include guidance on convertible instruments and the derivative
+Added: scope exception for contracts in an entity’s own equity and simplifies the accounting for convertible instruments which include
+Added: beneficial conversion features or cash conversion features by removing certain separation models in Subtopic 470-20.
+Added: Additionally, ASU
+Added: 2020-06 will require entities to use the “if-converted” method when calculating diluted earnings per share for convertible
+Added: The amendments in this update are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, including interim periods
+Added: within those fiscal years.
+Added: We do not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements
+Added: and related disclosures.
+Added: May 2021, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2021-04 (“ASU No.
+Added: 2021-04”), Issuer’s Accounting for Certain
+Added: Modifications or Exchanges of Freestanding Equity-Classified Written Call Options.
+Added: The guidance in ASU 2021-04 requires the issuer to
+Added: treat a modification of an equity-classified written call option (the “option”) that does not cause the option to become
+Added: liability-classified as an exchange of the original option for a new option.
+Added: This guidance applies whether the modification is structured
+Added: as an amendment to the terms and conditions of the option or as termination of the original option and issuance of a new option.
+Added: amendments in this update are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, including interim periods within those fiscal
+Added: We do not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements and related
+Added: October 2021, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2021-08 (“ASU No.
+Added: 2021-08”), Business Combinations (Topic 805):
+Added: Accounting for Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities from Contracts with Customers, to require that an acquirer recognize and measure
+Added: contract assets and contract liabilities acquired in a business combination in accordance with Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with
+Added: At the acquisition date, an acquirer should account for the related revenue contracts in accordance with Topic 606 as if it
+Added: had originated the contracts.
+Added: The amendments in this update should be applied prospectively and are effective for fiscal years beginning
+Added: after December 15, 2022, including interim periods within those fiscal years.
+Added: We do not expect the adoption of this standard to have
+Added: a material impact on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Concentration
of Credit Risks
−Removed: instruments that potentially subject us to concentrations of credit risk are cash equivalents, short-term investments and accounts
+Added: instruments that potentially subject us to concentrations of credit risk are cash equivalents, short-term investments and accounts receivable.
Cash equivalents are primarily highly rated money market funds.
−Removed: Short-term investments are certificates of deposit
−Removed: within federally insured limits.
+Added: Short-term investments are certificates of deposit within federally insured
+Added: limits as well as U.S.
+Added: treasury bills.
Where applicable, management reviews our accounts receivable and other receivables for potential
doubtful accounts and maintains an allowance for estimated uncollectible amounts.
−Removed: Our policy is to write-off uncollectable amounts
−Removed: at the time it is determined that collection will not occur.
−Removed: One licensee accounted for 100% of revenues from patent licensing
−Removed: activities during fiscal year 2019.
+Added: Our policy is to write-off uncollectable amounts at
+Added: the time it is determined that collection will not occur.
+Added: One licensee accounted for 100% of revenues from patent licensing activities
+Added: during fiscal year 2021.
+Added: March 25, 2021, the Company completed a public offering in which we sold an aggregate of 4,285,715
+Added: shares of its common stock, which represented
+Added: of the Company’s outstanding shares at the time of the offering, at a public offering price of $ 5.25
+Added: The Company realized net proceeds
+Added: of approximately $ 20,292,000
+Added: from the public offering, after deducting underwriting
+Added: discounts and deal expenses.
+Added: In connection with the public offering, the Company issued to certain designees of the underwriter, as compensation,
+Added: warrants expiring on March
+Added: 22, 2026 , to purchase 300,000
+Added: shares of common stock exercisable for $ 6.5625
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−Removed: ACCRUED EXPENSES
liabilities consist of the following as of:
−Removed: Payroll and related expenses
−Removed: Accrued royalty and contingent legal fees
−Removed: Accrued collaborative research and license expense
−Removed: Accrued other
−Removed: SHAREHOLDERS’
−Removed: the year ended October 31, 2020, we had three stock option plans:
+Added: OF ACCRUED EXPENSES
+Added: and related expenses
+Added: royalty and contingent legal fees
+Added: collaborative research and license expense
+Added: SHAREHOLDERS’
+Added: the year ended October 31, 2021, we had two stock option plans:
the Anixa Biosciences, Inc.
−Removed: 2003 Share Incentive Plan (the “2003
−Removed: Share Plan”), the Anixa Biosciences, Inc.
−Removed: 2010 Share Incentive Plan (the “2010 Share Plan”) and the Anixa Biosciences,
−Removed: 2018 Share Incentive Plan (the “2018 Share Plan”) which were adopted by our Board of Directors on April 21, 2003,
−Removed: July 14, 2010 and January 25, 2018, respectively.
+Added: 2010 Share Incentive Plan (the “2010
+Added: Share Plan”) and the Anixa Biosciences, Inc.
+Added: 2018 Share Incentive Plan (the “2018 Share Plan”) which were adopted by
+Added: our Board of Directors on July 14, 2010 and January 25, 2018, respectively.
The 2018 Share Plan was approved by our shareholders on March
−Removed: the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019, stock options to purchase 51,100 and 47,600 shares of common stock, respectively, were
−Removed: exercised with aggregate proceeds of approximately $122,000 and $122,000, respectively.
−Removed: 2003 Share Plan provided for the grant of nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, stock awards, performance awards
−Removed: and stock units to employees, directors and consultants.
−Removed: The exercise price with respect to all of the options granted under the
−Removed: 2003 Share Plan since its inception was equal to the fair market value of the underlying common stock at the grant date.
−Removed: In accordance
−Removed: with the provisions of the 2003 Share Plan, the plan terminated with respect to the grant of future options on April 21, 2013.
−Removed: Information regarding the 2003 Share Plan for the two years ended October 31, 2020 is as follows:
+Added: Further, we had an additional stock option plan, the Anixa Biosciences, Inc.
+Added: 2003 Share Incentive Plan (the “2003 Share
+Added: Plan”), under which all outstanding options expired during the year ended October 31, 2020.
+Added: the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020, stock options to purchase 207,697
+Added: shares, net of 60,691
+Added: shares withheld on cashless exercises, and 51,100
+Added: shares of common stock, respectively, were exercised
+Added: with aggregate proceeds of approximately $ 434,000
+Added: and $ 122,000 ,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: 2003 Share Plan provided for the grant of nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, stock awards, performance awards and
+Added: stock units to employees, directors and consultants.
+Added: The exercise price with respect to all of the options granted under the 2003 Share
+Added: Plan since its inception was equal to the fair market value of the underlying common stock at the grant date.
+Added: In accordance with the
+Added: provisions of the 2003 Share Plan, the plan terminated with respect to the grant of future options on April 21, 2013.
+Added: Information regarding
+Added: the 2003 Share Plan for the year ended October 31, 2020 is as follows:
+Added: OF OPTION ACTIVITY
Average Exercise
Price Per Share
−Removed: Options Outstanding at October 31, 2018
−Removed: Options Outstanding at October 31, 2019
−Removed: Forfeited/Expired
−Removed: Options Outstanding and Exercisable at October 31, 2020
+Added: Outstanding at October 31, 2019
+Added: Outstanding and Exercisable at October 31, 2020
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−Removed: 2010 Share Plan provides for the grant of nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, stock awards, performance awards
−Removed: and stock units to employees, directors and consultants.
−Removed: On the first business day of each calendar year the maximum aggregate
−Removed: number of shares available for future issuance is replenished such that 800,000 shares are available.
+Added: 2010 Share Plan provides for the grant of nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, stock awards, performance awards and
+Added: stock units to employees, directors and consultants.
+Added: On the first business day of each calendar year the aggregate number of shares available
+Added: for future issuance is replenished such that 800,000
+Added: shares are available.
The exercise price with
−Removed: respect to all of the options granted under the 2010 Share Plan was equal to the fair market value of the underlying common stock
−Removed: at the grant date.
−Removed: In accordance with the provisions of the 2010 Share Plan, the plan terminated with respect to the grant of
−Removed: future options on July 14, 2020.
+Added: respect to all of the options granted under the 2010 Share Plan was equal to the fair market value of the underlying common stock at
+Added: the grant date.
+Added: In accordance with the provisions of the 2010 Share Plan, the plan terminated with respect to the grant of future options
+Added: on July 14, 2020.
Information regarding the 2010 Share Plan for the two years ended October 31, 2021 is as follows:
+Added: OF OPTION ACTIVITY
Average Exercise
Price Per Share
−Removed: Aggregate Intrinsic
−Removed: Options Outstanding at October 31, 2018
−Removed: Options Outstanding at October 31, 2019
−Removed: Forfeited/Expired
−Removed: Options Outstanding at October 31, 2020
−Removed: Options Exercisable at October 31, 2020
+Added: Intrinsic Value
+Added: Outstanding at October 31, 2019
+Added: Outstanding at October 31, 2020
+Added: Outstanding and Exercisable at October 31, 2021
following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding under the 2010 Share Plan as of October 31, 2021:
−Removed: Options Outstanding
−Removed: Options Exercisable
+Added: OF OUTSTANDING AND EXERCISABLE
Exercise Prices
Contractual Life
−Removed: Exercise Price
−Removed: Contractual Life
−Removed: Exercise Price
+Added: 2018 Share Plan provides for the grant of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, stock awards,
+Added: performance awards and stock units to employees, directors and consultants.
+Added: On the first business day of each calendar year the maximum
+Added: aggregate number of shares available for future issuance is replenished such that 2,000,000
+Added: shares are available.
+Added: The exercise price with
+Added: respect to all of the options granted under the 2018 Share Plan was equal to the fair market value of the underlying common stock at
+Added: the grant date.
+Added: As of October 31, 2021, the 2018 Share Plan had 1,147,937
+Added: shares available for future grants.
+Added: regarding the 2018 Share Plan for the two years ended October 31, 2021 is as follows:
+Added: OF OPTION ACTIVITY
+Added: Average Exercise
+Added: Price Per Share
+Added: Outstanding at October 31, 2019
+Added: Outstanding at October 31, 2020
+Added: ( 1,392,781 )
+Added: Outstanding at October 31, 2021
+Added: Exercisable at October 31, 2021
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−Removed: 2018 Share Plan provides for the grant of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, stock
−Removed: awards, performance awards and stock units to employees, directors and consultants.
−Removed: On the first business day of each calendar
−Removed: year the maximum aggregate number of shares available for future issuance is replenished such that 2,000,000 shares are available.
−Removed: The exercise price with respect to all of the options granted under the 2018 Share Plan was equal to the fair market value of
−Removed: the underlying common stock at the grant date.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2020, the 2018 Share Plan had 2,388,339 shares available for
−Removed: future grants.
−Removed: Information regarding the 2018 Share Plan for the two years ended October 31, 2020 is as follows:
−Removed: Average Exercise
−Removed: Price Per Share
−Removed: Aggregate Intrinsic Value
−Removed: Options Outstanding at October 31, 2018
−Removed: Forfeited/Expired
−Removed: Options Outstanding at October 31, 2019
−Removed: Forfeited/Expired
−Removed: Options Outstanding at October 31, 2020
−Removed: Options Exercisable at October 31, 2020
following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding under the 2018 Share Plan as of October 31, 2021:
−Removed: Options Outstanding
−Removed: Options Exercisable
+Added: OF OUTSTANDING AND EXERCISABLE
+Added: Exercise Prices
Contractual Life
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Exercise Price
−Removed: addition to options granted under the 2003 Share Plan, the 2010 Share Plan and the 2018 Share Plan, during the years ended October
−Removed: 31, 2012 and 2013, the Board of Directors approved the grant of stock options to certain employees and directors (the “Non-Plan
−Removed: Options”).
+Added: addition to options granted under stock option plans, during the years ended October 31, 2012 and 2013, the Board of Directors approved
+Added: the grant of stock options to certain employees and directors (the “Non-Plan Options”).
regarding the Non-Plan Options for the two years ended October 31, 2021 is as follows:
+Added: OF OPTION ACTIVITY
Average Exercise
Price Per Share
−Removed: Options Outstanding at October 31, 2018
−Removed: Options Outstanding and Exercisable at October 31, 2019 and 2020
−Removed: BIOSCIENCES, INC.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: Outstanding at October 31, 2019 and 2020
+Added: Outstanding and Exercisable at October 31, 2021
following table summarizes information about outstanding and exercisable Non-Plan Options as of October 31, 2021:
+Added: OF OUTSTANDING AND EXERCISABLE
Exercise Prices
−Removed: Weighted Average
Contractual Life
−Removed: Stock Options
−Removed: August 21, 2019, the Company entered into a settlement agreement in connection with a putative shareholder derivative complaint
−Removed: filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware on November 5, 2018.
−Removed: Pursuant to the settlement agreement the Company
−Removed: agreed, among other things, to reprice certain stock options that were repriced on September 6, 2017 to $0.67 to the option price
−Removed: immediately prior to that repricing.
−Removed: Accordingly, 4,000 stock options in the 2003 Share Plan with exercise prices of $2.58, 878,400
−Removed: stock options in the 2010 Share Plan with exercise prices ranging from $0.96 to $5.30 and 1,046,000 Non-Plan Options with exercise
−Removed: prices of $2.58, were re-priced to the option price immediately prior to the September 6, 2017 repricing.
−Removed: In addition, certain
−Removed: individual defendants in the derivative complaint who had exercised stock options that were re-priced in the 2017 re-pricing and
−Removed: sold the underlying shares paid approximately $45,000 to the Company representing a portion of the amount received for those shares.
+Added: BIOSCIENCES, INC.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Stock Purchase Plan
Company maintains the Anixa Biosciences, Inc.
−Removed: Employee Stock Purchase Plan which permits eligible employees to purchase shares
−Removed: at not less than 85% of the market value of the Company’s common stock on the offering date or the purchase date of the
−Removed: applicable offering period, whichever is lower.
−Removed: The plan was adopted by our Board of Directors on August 13, 2018 and approved
−Removed: by our shareholders on September 27, 2018.
−Removed: During the years ended October 31, 2020 and 2019, employees purchased 11,536 and 11,650
−Removed: shares, respectively, with aggregate proceeds of approximately $18,000 and $39,000, respectively.
+Added: Employee Stock Purchase Plan which permits eligible employees to purchase shares at not
+Added: less than 85 %
+Added: of the market value of the Company’s common stock on the offering date or the purchase date of the applicable offering period,
+Added: whichever is lower.
+Added: The plan was adopted by our Board of Directors on August 13, 2018 and approved by our shareholders on September 27,
+Added: During the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020, employees purchased 2,377
+Added: shares, respectively, with aggregate proceeds
+Added: of approximately $ 6,000
+Added: and $ 18,000 ,
+Added: respectively.
Stock Purchase Warrants
−Removed: the year ended October 31, 2019 we issued a warrant, expiring on November 1, 2023, to purchase 25,000 shares of common stock at
−Removed: $4.04 per share, vesting over 12 months, to a consultant for investor relations services.
−Removed: On November 1, 2019 the warrant was
−Removed: exchanged for a stock option with the same terms as the warrant.
−Removed: We recorded consulting expense of approximately $85,000 during
−Removed: the year ended October 31, 2019, based on the fair value of the warrant recognized on a straight-line basis over the vesting period.
−Removed: October 30, 2020 we issued a warrant, expiring on October 30, 2025, to purchase 60,000 shares of common stock at $2.06 per share,
−Removed: vesting over five months, to a consultant for investor relations services.
−Removed: regarding the Company’s warrants for the two years ended October 31, 2020 is as follows:
+Added: November 1, 2019 an outstanding warrant, expiring on November 1, 2023, to purchase 25,000
+Added: shares of common stock at $ 4.04
+Added: per share, was exchanged for a stock option with
+Added: the same terms as the warrant.
+Added: October 30, 2020 we issued a warrant, expiring on October
+Added: 30, 2025 , to purchase 60,000
+Added: shares of common stock at $ 2.06
+Added: per share, vesting over five
+Added: months , to a consultant for investor relations
+Added: We recorded consulting expense of approximately $ 96,000
+Added: during the year ended October 31, 2021, based
+Added: on the fair value of the warrant recognized on a straight-line basis over the vesting period.
+Added: discussed in Note 3, in connection with the March 25, 2021 public offering, we issued to certain designees of the underwriter, as compensation,
+Added: warrants to purchase 300,000
+Added: shares of common stock at $ 6.5625
+Added: per share, expiring on March
+Added: regarding the Company’s warrants for the two years ended October 31, 2021 is as follows:
+Added: OF WARRANTS ACTIVITY
Average Exercise
−Removed: Warrants Outstanding at October 31, 2018
−Removed: Warrants Outstanding at October 31, 2019
−Removed: Warrants Outstanding at October 31, 2020
−Removed: Warrants Exercisable at October 31, 2020
+Added: Price Per Share
+Added: Intrinsic Value
+Added: Outstanding at October 31, 2019
+Added: Outstanding at October 31, 2020
+Added: Outstanding and Exercisable at October 31, 2021
BIOSCIENCES, INC.
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−Removed: lease approximately 2,000 square feet of office space at 3150 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, California (our principal executive
−Removed: offices) from an unrelated party pursuant to an operating lease that expires September 30, 2021.
+Added: following table summarizes information about the Company’s outstanding and exercisable warrants as of October 31 , 2021:
+Added: OF OUTSTANDING AND EXERCISABLE
+Added: Exercise Prices
+Added: Contractual Life
+Added: Advisors, LLC
+Added: Advisors, LLC (“ZQX”) was an inactive joint venture in which we held a 19.5 %
+Added: interest, and which was dissolved during fiscal year 2021.
+Added: The only assets of ZQX were shares of our common stock which were sold during
+Added: fiscal year 2021, for which we received proceeds of approximately $ 6,000 .
+Added: lease approximately 2,000
+Added: square feet of office space at 3150 Almaden Expressway,
+Added: San Jose, California (our principal executive offices) from an unrelated party pursuant to an operating lease that was set to expire
+Added: Effective August 17, 2021, the lease
+Added: was amended to extend the expiration date to September
+Added: 30, 2024 , with an option to extend the lease
+Added: an additional two
Our base rent is approximately $ 5,000
−Removed: $5,000 per month and the lease provides for annual increases of approximately 3% and an escalation clause for increases in certain
−Removed: operating costs.
−Removed: Under an operating lease that expired on May 31, 2019 we also leased approximately 3,000 square feet of office
−Removed: space at 12100 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California (our former executive offices) from an unrelated party.
−Removed: 1, 2018, we had subleased these facilities.
−Removed: Rent expense was approximately $64,000 and $60,000, respectively, for the years ended
−Removed: October 31, 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: November 1, 2019, the Company adopted ASC 842, which increases transparency and comparability by recognizing a lessee’s
−Removed: rights and obligations resulting from leases by recording them on the balance sheet as lease assets and lease liabilities.
−Removed: new guidance requires the recognition of the right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and related operating lease liabilities on
−Removed: the balance sheet.
+Added: per month and the lease provides for annual increases
+Added: of approximately 3 %
+Added: and an escalation clause for increases in certain operating costs.
+Added: The amendment to the lease resulted in a right-of-use asset and lease
+Added: liability of approximately $ 260,000
+Added: with a discount rate of 10 %.
+Added: Rent expense was approximately $ 64,000
+Added: and $ 64,000 ,
+Added: respectively, for the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020.
+Added: November 1, 2019, the Company adopted ASC 842, which increases transparency and comparability by recognizing a lessee’s rights
+Added: and obligations resulting from leases by recording them on the balance sheet as lease assets and lease liabilities.
+Added: The new guidance
+Added: requires the recognition of the right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and related operating lease liabilities on the balance sheet.
The Company adopted the new guidance using the modified retrospective approach on November 1, 2019.
−Removed: the consolidated balance sheet as of October 31, 2019 was not restated and is not comparative.
−Removed: adoption of ASC 842 resulted in the recognition of ROU assets of $106,221, and lease liabilities for operating leases of $106,299
−Removed: on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of November 1, 2019.
−Removed: The difference between the ROU assets and the operating
−Removed: lease liability represents the difference between the lease cost and the amount of rent paid in October 2019.
−Removed: Company elected the package of practical expedients permitted within the standard, which allow an entity to forgo reassessing
−Removed: (i) whether a contract contains a lease, (ii) classification of leases, and (iii) whether capitalized costs associated with a
−Removed: lease meet the definition of initial direct costs.
−Removed: Also, the Company elected the expedient allowing an entity to use hindsight
−Removed: to determine the lease term and impairment of ROU assets and the expedient to allow the Company to not have to separate lease
−Removed: and non-lease components.
−Removed: The Company has also elected the short-term lease accounting policy under which Anixa would not recognize
−Removed: a lease liability or ROU asset for any lease that at the commencement date has a lease term of twelve months or less and does
−Removed: not include a purchase option that Anixa is more than reasonably certain to exercise.
+Added: The Company elected the package of
+Added: practical expedients permitted within the standard, which allow an entity to forgo reassessing (i) whether a contract contains a lease,
+Added: (ii) classification of leases, and (iii) whether capitalized costs associated with a lease meet the definition of initial direct costs.
+Added: Also, the Company elected the expedient allowing an entity to use hindsight to determine the lease term and impairment of ROU assets
+Added: and the expedient to allow the Company to not have to separate lease and non-lease components.
+Added: The Company has also elected the short-term
+Added: lease accounting policy under which Anixa would not recognize a lease liability or ROU asset for any lease that at the commencement date
+Added: has a lease term of twelve months or less and does not include a purchase option that Anixa is more than reasonably certain to exercise.
operating leases, the lease liability is initially and subsequently measured at the present value of the unpaid lease payments.
−Removed: The remaining 11-month lease term as of October 31, 2020 for the Company’s lease includes the noncancelable period of the
−Removed: The lease does not contain a Company option to extend the lease or an option to extend the lease controlled by the lessor.
+Added: The remaining
+Added: lease term as of October 31, 2021 for the Company’s lease includes the noncancelable period of the lease and the additional two-year
+Added: option period that the Company expects to exercise.
All ROU assets are reviewed for impairment.
−Removed: sheet information related to the Company’s lease is presented below:
−Removed: Balance Sheet
−Removed: Operating Lease:
−Removed: Right-of-use asset
−Removed: lease right- of-use asset
−Removed: Right-of-use liability,
−Removed: Operating lease liability
−Removed: Right-of-use liability,
−Removed: Not presented
BIOSCIENCES, INC.
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+Added: sheet information related to the Company’s lease is presented below:
+Added: OF OPERATING LEASE
+Added: lease right- of-use asset
+Added: liability, current
+Added: lease liability
+Added: liability, long-term
+Added: lease liability, non-current
of October 31, 2021, the annual minimum lease payments of our operating lease liability were as follows:
−Removed: Operating Leases
−Removed: Fiscal year 2021 future minimum payments, undiscounted
+Added: OF MINIMUM LEASE PAYMENTS
+Added: Years Ending October 31,
+Added: future minimum lease payments, undiscounted
Imputed interest
−Removed: Present value of future minimum lease payments
−Removed: COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
+Added: value of future minimum lease payments
+Added: AND CONTINGENCIES
than lawsuits we bring to enforce our patent rights, we are not involved in any litigation or other legal proceedings and management
−Removed: is not aware of any pending litigation or legal proceeding against us that would have a material adverse effect upon our results
−Removed: of operations or financial condition.
+Added: is not aware of any pending litigation or legal proceeding against us that would have a material adverse effect upon our results of operations
+Added: or financial condition.
Collaborative
Research and License Commitments
−Removed: of October 31, 2020, our commitments under the collaborative and license agreements with Moffitt, Wistar, Cleveland Clinic and
−Removed: OntoChem for the year ending October 31, 2021 were approximately $188,000.
+Added: of October 31, 2021, our commitments under the collaborative and license agreements with Moffitt, Wistar, Cleveland Clinic and MolGenie
+Added: for the year ending October 31, 2022 were approximately $ 345,000 .
+Added: of Coronavirus Pandemic
+Added: ongoing global outbreak of COVID-19 has resulted in significant governmental measures being implemented to control the spread of the
+Added: virus and while the Company cannot predict their scope or the severity of the outbreak, these developments and measures could materially
+Added: and adversely affect the Company’s business, the operations of the Company’s collaboration partners, and the Company’s
+Added: results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: The Company is closely monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all aspects of
+Added: its business and has taken steps to minimize its impact on the Company’s business.
+Added: Although COVID-19 has not had a material adverse
+Added: impact on the Company’s operations and its clinical and preclinical programs, the extent to which COVID-19 ultimately impacts the
+Added: Company’s business, results of operations or financial condition will depend on future developments which are highly uncertain
+Added: and cannot be predicted with confidence, such as the duration of the outbreak, the occurrence of new mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus,
+Added: new information that may emerge concerning the severity of COVID-19 or the effectiveness of actions taken to contain the pandemic or
+Added: mitigate its impact, among others.
+Added: Certain of the Company’s collaboration partners have experienced shutdowns or other business
+Added: As a result, the Company’s ability to conduct its business in the manner and on the timelines presently planned could
+Added: be materially or negatively affected, which could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s business, results of operations
+Added: and financial condition.
+Added: BIOSCIENCES, INC.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
tax provision (benefit) consists of the following:
−Removed: Year Ended October 31,
−Removed: Adjustment to valuation allowance related to net deferred tax assets
−Removed: tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of the deferred tax asset, net, at October 31, 2020
−Removed: and 2019, are as follows:
−Removed: Long-term deferred tax assets:
−Removed: Federal and state NOL and tax credit carryforwards
−Removed: Deferred compensation
+Added: OF INCOME TAX PROVISION (BENEFIT)
+Added: Ended October 31,
+Added: to valuation allowance related to net deferred tax assets
+Added: tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of the deferred tax asset, net, at October 31, 2021 and 2020,
+Added: are as follows:
+Added: OF DEFERRED TAX ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
+Added: deferred tax assets:
+Added: and state NOL and tax credit carryforwards
valuation allowance
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( 28,756,000 )
−Removed: Deferred tax asset, net
+Added: tax asset, net
+Added: of October 31, 2021, we had tax net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards of approximately $ 82,393,000
+Added: and $ 1,597,000 ,
+Added: respectively, available within statutory limits (expiring at various dates between 2022 and 2041), to offset any future regular Federal
+Added: corporate taxable income and taxes payable.
+Added: If the tax benefits relating to deductions of option holders’ income are ultimately
+Added: realized, those benefits will be credited directly to additional paid-in capital.
+Added: Certain changes in stock ownership can result in a
+Added: limitation on the amount of net operating loss and tax credit carryovers that can be utilized each year.
+Added: As of October 31, 2021, management
+Added: has not determined the extent of any such limitations, if any.
+Added: had California tax net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $ 32,714,000
+Added: as of October 31, 2021, available within statutory
+Added: limits (expiring at various dates between 2022 and 2041), to offset future corporate taxable income and taxes payable, if any, under
+Added: certain computations of such taxes.
BIOSCIENCES, INC.
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−Removed: of October 31, 2020, we had tax net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards of approximately $81,316,000 and $1,545,000, respectively,
−Removed: available within statutory limits (expiring at various dates between 2021 and 2040), to offset any future regular Federal corporate
−Removed: taxable income and taxes payable.
−Removed: If the tax benefits relating to deductions of option holders’
−Removed: income are ultimately realized,
−Removed: those benefits will be credited directly to additional paid-in capital.
−Removed: Certain changes in stock ownership can result in a limitation
−Removed: on the amount of net operating loss and tax credit carryovers that can be utilized each year.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2020, management
−Removed: has not determined the extent of any such limitations, if any.
−Removed: had California tax net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $26,671,000 as of October 31, 2020, available within statutory
−Removed: limits (expiring at various dates between 2021 and 2040), to offset future corporate taxable income and taxes payable, if any,
−Removed: under certain computations of such taxes.
have provided a valuation allowance against our deferred tax asset due to our current and historical pre-tax losses and the uncertainty
regarding their realizability.
−Removed: The primary differences from the Federal statutory rate of 21% and the effective rate of 0% is
−Removed: attributable to expiring net operating losses and a change in the valuation allowance.
+Added: The primary differences from the Federal statutory rate of 21 %
+Added: and the effective rate of 0 %
+Added: is attributable to expiring net operating losses and a change in the valuation allowance.
The following is a reconciliation of income
taxes at the Federal statutory tax rate to income tax expense (benefit):
−Removed: Year Ended October 31,
−Removed: Income tax benefit at U.S.
+Added: OF RECONCILIATION OF INCOME TAXES
+Added: Ended October 31,
+Added: tax benefit at U.S.
Federal statutory income tax rate
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$ ( 2,119,000 )
−Removed: State income taxes
−Removed: Permanent differences
−Removed: Expiring net operating losses, credits and other
−Removed: Change in valuation allowance
−Removed: Income tax provision
+Added: net operating losses, credits and other
+Added: in valuation allowance
+Added: tax provision
the two fiscal years ended October 31, 2021, we incurred no Federal and no State income taxes.
−Removed: We have no unrecognized tax benefits
−Removed: as of October 31, 2020 and 2019 and we account for interest and penalties related to income tax matters in general and administrative
−Removed: Tax years to which our net operating losses relate remain open to examination by Federal and California authorities
−Removed: to the extent which the net operating losses have yet to be utilized.
+Added: unrecognized tax benefits as of October 31, 2021
+Added: and 2020 and we account for interest and penalties related to income tax matters in general and administrative expenses.
+Added: which our net operating losses relate remain open to examination by Federal and California authorities to the extent which the net operating
+Added: losses have yet to be utilized.
+Added: follow the accounting guidance of ASC 280, Segment Reporting (“ASC 280”).
+Added: Reportable operating segments are determined based
+Added: on the management approach.
+Added: The management approach, as defined by ASC 280, is based on the way that the chief operating decision-maker
+Added: organizes the segments within an enterprise for making operating decisions and assessing performance.
+Added: While our results of operations
+Added: are primarily reviewed on a consolidated basis, the chief operating decision-maker manages the enterprise in five
+Added: reportable segments, each with different operating
+Added: and potential revenue generating characteristics:
+Added: (i) CAR-T Therapeutics, (ii) Cancer Vaccines, (iii) Anti-Viral Therapeutics, (iv) our
+Added: legacy Cancer Diagnostics activities and (v) our legacy Patent Licensing activities.
+Added: The following represents selected financial information
+Added: for our segments for the years ended October 31, 2021 and 2020:
BIOSCIENCES, INC.
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−Removed: SEGMENT INFORMATION
−Removed: follow the accounting guidance of ASC 280 “Segment Reporting”
−Removed: (“ASC 280”).
−Removed: Reportable operating segments
−Removed: are determined based on the management approach.
−Removed: The management approach, as defined by ASC 280, is based on the way that the
−Removed: chief operating decision-maker organizes the segments within an enterprise for making operating decisions and assessing performance.
−Removed: While our results of operations are primarily reviewed on a consolidated basis, the chief operating decision-maker manages the
−Removed: enterprise in five reportable segments, each with different operating and potential revenue generating characteristics:
−Removed: Therapeutics, (ii) Cancer Vaccines, (iii) Anti-Viral Therapeutics, (iv) Cancer Diagnostics and (v) our legacy Patent Licensing
−Removed: The following represents selected financial information for our segments for the years ended October 31, 2020 and
−Removed: Year Ended October 31,
−Removed: CAR-T Therapeutics
+Added: OF SEGMENT INFORMATION
+Added: Ended October 31,
+Added: income/(loss):
$ ( 5,672,622 )
$ ( 2,241,443 )
−Removed: Cancer Vaccines
−Removed: Anti-Viral Therapeutics
−Removed: Cancer Diagnostics
−Removed: Patent Licensing
( 4,558,811 )
( 2,927,979 )
−Removed: Total operating costs and expenses
−Removed: Less non-cash share-based compensation
−Removed: Operating costs and expenses excluding non-cash share-based compensation
−Removed: Operating costs and expenses excluding non-cash share based compensation:
−Removed: CAR-T Therapeutics
−Removed: Cancer Vaccines
−Removed: Anti-Viral Therapeutics
−Removed: Cancer Diagnostics
−Removed: Patent Licensing
−Removed: Total assets:
−Removed: CAR-T Therapeutics
−Removed: Cancer Vaccines
−Removed: Anti-Viral Therapeutics
−Removed: Cancer Diagnostics
−Removed: Patent Licensing
+Added: ( 1,168,969 )
+Added: ( 5,836,594 )
+Added: $ ( 13,127,923 )
+Added: $ ( 10,092,363 )
+Added: operating costs and expenses
+Added: non-cash share-based compensation
+Added: ( 8,058,078 )
+Added: ( 4,137,460 )
+Added: costs and expenses excluding non-cash share-based compensation
+Added: costs and expenses excluding non-cash share based compensation:
costs and expenses excluding non-cash share-based compensation is the measurement the chief operating decision-maker uses in managing
the enterprise.
−Removed: Company’s consolidated revenue of $250,000, inventor royalties, contingent legal fees, litigation and licensing expense
−Removed: of $166,250, amortization of patents of $418,750 and impairment in carrying amount of patent assets of $418,750 for the year ended
−Removed: October 31, 2019 were solely related to our patent licensing segment.
−Removed: All our revenue is generated domestically (United States)
−Removed: based on the country in which the licensee is located.
−Removed: BIOSCIENCES, INC.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
−Removed: March 10, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
−Removed: The virus and actions taken to mitigate
−Removed: its spread have had and are expected to continue to have a broad adverse impact on the economies and financial markets of many
−Removed: countries, including the geographical areas in which the Company operates and conducts its business and which the Company’s
−Removed: partners operate and conduct their business.
−Removed: We are currently following the recommendations of local health authorities to minimize
−Removed: exposure risk for our team members and visitors.
−Removed: However, the scale and scope of this pandemic is unknown and the duration of
−Removed: the business disruption and related financial impact cannot be reasonably estimated at this time.
−Removed: While we have implemented specific
−Removed: business continuity plans to reduce the potential impact of COVID-19, there is no guarantee that our continuity plans will be
−Removed: have already experienced certain disruptions to our business such as temporary closure of our offices and similar disruptions
−Removed: have occurred for our partners.
−Removed: Specifically, the outbreak has caused shutdowns of the laboratories and other service providers
−Removed: that we rely on to develop our programs, and those laboratories and service providers that have been operating or that have begun
−Removed: operating recently have been doing so with more limited capacity due to social distancing requirements.
−Removed: As a result, our progress
−Removed: has been slowed and there is no assurance that we will be able to meet our previously announced timelines regarding the advancement
−Removed: of our programs.
−Removed: extent to which COVID-19 or any other health epidemic may impact our results will depend on future developments, which are highly
−Removed: uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of COVID-19 and the actions
−Removed: to contain COVID-19 or treat its impact, among others.
−Removed: Accordingly, COVID-19 could have a material adverse effect on our business,
−Removed: results of operations, financial condition and prospects.
+Added: Company’s consolidated revenue of $ 512,500
+Added: and inventor royalties, contingent legal fees, litigation and
+Added: licensing expense of $ 385,002 ,
+Added: for the year ended October 31, 2021 were solely related to our patent licensing segment.
+Added: All our revenue is generated domestically (United
+Added: States) based on the country in which the licensee is located.
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