Item 1. Legal Proceedings
Item
1. Legal Proceedings
Co-Diagnostics,
Inc. v. Pantheon International Advisors Ltd. (Third Judicial District Court, Salt Lake County, State of Utah, Civil No. 210902609, filed
on May 14, 2021).
The
Company filed a complaint against Pantheon International Advisors (“Pantheon”) asking the court to declare that the Company
has no ongoing contractual business relationship with Pantheon, no monies owing, nor does Pantheon have any interest, right, title or
claim to any stock issued by the Company or ownership of any kind in the Company. Pantheon was served with a 30-Day Summons on September
9, 2021 to which it failed to respond, and a default judgement against Pantheon International Advisors was entered by the Court on November
28, 2021. The time to appeal from the judgment or seek to vacate the judgment has passed.
After
learning that the Company had initiated suit in Utah, and after learning of Company’s intent to serve it with process of that suit,
on May 24, 2021, Pantheon filed a claim against the Company in the Royal Courts of Justice Group, Queens Bench Division, Claim No. QB-21-002245,
stating that the Company owes Pantheon $2,860,809.79 for alleged breach of contract for failing to make payments purportedly due under
a contract allegedly entered into on October 18, 2018. The Company is being represented locally in the UK by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
LLP in that matter. On March 4, 2022, the Company filed a jurisdictional challenge to the UK suit, alleging that there was no 2018 agreement,
and that the Company is not subject to jurisdiction in the UK. The oral argument and presentation of evidence on solely the jurisdictional
claim took place on November 9, 2022, with the court taking the matter of jurisdiction over the Company under advisement. The court has
now ruled on the Company’s jurisdictional challenge and denied the motion to dismiss the lawsuit. The Company intends to vigorously
defend against the UK claims and will seek to the full extent possible to enforce its rights under the Declaratory Judgment already obtained
in Utah but there can be no assurances as to the outcome.
There
have been no other developments to the legal proceedings previously disclosed under Part I. Item 3 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
Item
1A. Risk Factors.
Not
required under Regulation S-K for “smaller reporting companies.”
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