LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
−Removed: time to time, we are subject to ordinary routine litigation incidental to our normal business operations.
−Removed: We are not currently a party
−Removed: to, and our property is not subject to, any material legal proceedings, except as set forth below.
+Added: From time to time, we
+Added: are subject to ordinary routine litigation incidental to our normal business operations.
+Added: We are not currently a party to, and our property
+Added: is not subject to, any material legal proceedings, except as set forth below .
On October 28, 2019,
−Removed: our subsidiary, Genexosome, entered into and closed a Stock Purchase Agreement with Beijing Jieteng (Genexosome) Biotech Co., Ltd., a
−Removed: corporation incorporated in the People’s Republic of China on August 7, 2015 (“Beijing Genexosome”) which was dissolved
−Removed: in June 2022, and Yu Zhou, MD, PhD, the sole shareholder of Beijing Genexosome, pursuant to which Genexosome acquired all of the issued
−Removed: and outstanding securities of Beijing Genexosome in consideration of a cash payment in the amount of $450,000, of which $100,000 is still
−Removed: Further, on October 25, 2017, Genexosome entered into and closed an Asset Purchase Agreement with Dr.
−Removed: Zhou, pursuant to which the
−Removed: Company acquired all assets, including all intellectual property and exosome separation systems, held by Dr.
−Removed: Zhou pertaining to the business
−Removed: of researching, developing and commercializing exosome technologies.
−Removed: In consideration of the assets, Genexosome paid Dr.
−Removed: Zhou $876,087
−Removed: in cash, transferred 3,333 shares of our common stock to Dr.
−Removed: Zhou and issued Dr.
−Removed: Zhou 400 shares of common stock of Genexosome.
−Removed: was terminated as Co-CEO of Genexosome on August 14, 2019.
−Removed: Further, on October 28, 2019, Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s
−Removed: Hospital (“Research Institute”) filed a Complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Eastern
−Removed: Division against Dr.
−Removed: Zhou, Li Chen, the Company and Genexosome with various claims against the Company and Genexosome including misappropriation
−Removed: of trade secrets in violation of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 and violation of Ohio Uniform Trade Secrets Act.
−Removed: The Company, Genexosome
−Removed: and the Research Institute entered into a settlement agreement dated June 7, 2022 (the “Settlement Agreement”), whereby the
−Removed: Company agreed to pay the Research Institute $450,000 on each of the sixty-day, one year and two-year anniversaries of the Settlement
−Removed: In addition, the Company agreed to pay the Research Institute 30% of the Company’s initial pre-tax profit of $3,333,333, 20%
−Removed: of the Company’s second pre-tax profit of $3,333,333 and 10% of the Company’s third pre-tax profit of $3,333,333.
−Removed: provided a mutual release as well.
+Added: Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital (“Research Institute”) filed a Complaint in the United States District
+Added: Court for the Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division against Dr.
+Added: Zhou, Li Chen, the Company and Genexosome with various claims against
+Added: the Company and Genexosome including misappropriation of trade secrets in violation of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 and violation
+Added: of Ohio Uniform Trade Secrets Act.
+Added: The Company, Genexosome and the Research Institute entered into a settlement agreement dated June 7,
+Added: 2022 (the “Settlement Date”), whereby the Company agreed to pay the Research Institute $450,000 on each of the sixty-day,
+Added: one year and two-year anniversaries of the Settlement Date.
+Added: In addition, the Company agreed to pay the Research Institute 30% of the Company’s
+Added: initial pre-tax profit of $3,333,333, 20% of the Company’s second pre-tax profit of $3,333,333 and 10% of the Company’s third
+Added: pre-tax profit of $3,333,333.
+Added: The parties provided a mutual release as well.
+Added: On or about July 22,
+Added: 2025, the Company filed a lawsuit in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware against Laboratory Services MSO, LLC and certain affiliates.
+Added: The Company has asserted a variety of claims, including breach of contract, arising out of its prior transactions with the defendants,
+Added: including the Redemption and Abandonment Agreement, dated as of February 26, 2025.
+Added: The time for the defendants to respond to the Complaint
+Added: has not yet expired.
+Added: The parties have agreed to a settlement in principle and the Company expects the lawsuit to be dismissed.
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