−Removed: An investment in our common stock involves a high
−Removed: degree of risk.
+Added: An investment in our common stock involves a
+Added: high degree of risk.
Before deciding to purchase, hold, or sell our common stock, you should consider carefully the risks described below
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If any of these
−Removed: known or unknown risks or uncertainties actually occur, our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows could
−Removed: be seriously harmed.
+Added: known or unknown risks or uncertainties actually occur, our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows could be
+Added: seriously harmed.
This could cause the trading price of our common stock to decline, resulting in a loss of all or part of your investment.
−Removed: Related to Our Business
+Added: Risks Related to Our Business
We have had a history of losses and may require additional capital
to fund our operations, which may not be available to us on commercially attractive terms or at all.
−Removed: have experienced substantial net losses in each fiscal period since our inception.
−Removed: These net losses have resulted from a lack of substantial
−Removed: revenues and the significant costs incurred in the development and commercial acceptance of our technologies.
−Removed: Our ability to continue
−Removed: as a going concern is dependent on our ability to implement our business plan.
−Removed: If our operations do not become cash flow positive, we
−Removed: may be forced to seek sources of capital to continue operations.
−Removed: No assurances can be given that we will be successful in obtaining such
−Removed: additional financing on reasonable terms, or at all.
−Removed: If adequate funds are not available when needed on acceptable terms, or at all,
−Removed: we may be unable to adequately fund our business plan, which could have a negative effect on our business, results of operations, and
−Removed: financial condition.
−Removed: We may, in the short and long-term, seek to raise capital through
−Removed: the issuance of equity securities or through other financing sources.
−Removed: To the extent that we raise additional funds by issuing equity securities,
−Removed: our stockholders may experience significant dilution.
−Removed: Any debt financing, if available, may include financial and other covenants that
−Removed: could restrict our use of the proceeds from such financing or impose other business and financial restrictions on us.
−Removed: In addition, we
−Removed: may consider alternative approaches such as licensing, joint venture, or partnership arrangements to provide long term capital.
−Removed: are dependent on a limited number of customers.
+Added: We have experienced substantial net losses in each
+Added: fiscal period since our inception.
+Added: These net losses have resulted from a lack of substantial revenues and the significant costs incurred
+Added: in the development and commercial acceptance of our technologies.
+Added: Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on our ability
+Added: to implement our business plan.
+Added: If our operations do not become cash flow positive, we may be forced to seek sources of capital to continue
+Added: No assurances can be given that we will be successful in obtaining such additional financing on reasonable terms, or at all.
+Added: If adequate funds are not available when needed on acceptable terms, or at all, we may be unable to adequately fund our business plan,
+Added: which could have a negative effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
+Added: We may, in the short and long-term, seek to raise
+Added: capital through the issuance of equity securities or through other financing sources.
+Added: To the extent that we raise additional funds by
+Added: issuing equity securities, our stockholders may experience significant dilution.
+Added: Any debt financing, if available, may include financial
+Added: and other covenants that could restrict our use of the proceeds from such financing or impose other business and financial restrictions
+Added: In addition, we may consider alternative approaches such as licensing, joint venture, or partnership arrangements to provide long-term
+Added: We are dependent on a limited number of customers.
Our license revenues for the year ended December
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We generated NRE revenues from five customers for the year ended December
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2021, three customers represented approximately 63% of our consolidated net revenues.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2022, four customers represented approximately 68% of our consolidated net revenues.
customer concentration may change significantly from period-to-period depending on a customer’s product cycle and changes in our
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effect on our business, financial condition, and future revenue stream.
−Removed: rely on the ability of our customers to design, manufacture and sell their products that incorporate our touch technology.
−Removed: We have historically generated revenue through
−Removed: technology licensing agreements with companies that design, manufacture, and sell their own products incorporating our touch technology.
−Removed: The majority of our license fees earned in 2021 and 2020 were from customer shipments of printer products and automotive infotainment
−Removed: Although we have broadened our business model to selling sensors in addition to licensing our technology, we expect to continue
−Removed: to rely on licensing revenue from current and new customers whose products are still in the development cycle.
−Removed: If our customers are not
−Removed: able to design, manufacture and sell their products, or are delayed in producing and selling their products, our revenues, profitability,
−Removed: and liquidity, as well as our brand image, may be adversely affected.
−Removed: length of a customer’s product development and release cycle depends on many factors outside of our control and any delays could
−Removed: cause us to incur significant expenses without offsetting revenues, or revenues that vary significantly from quarter to quarter.
−Removed: development and release cycle for customer products is lengthy and unpredictable.
−Removed: Our customers often undertake significant evaluation
−Removed: and design in the qualification of our products, which contributes to a lengthy product release cycle.
−Removed: The typical product development
−Removed: and release cycle is 18 to 36 months.
−Removed: The development and release cycle may be longer in some cases, particularly for automotive vehicle
−Removed: There is no assurance that a customer will adopt our technology after the evaluation or design phase.
−Removed: The lengthy and variable
−Removed: development and release cycle for products may also have a negative impact on the timing of our revenues, causing our revenues and results
−Removed: of operations to vary significantly from quarter to quarter.
−Removed: and our license customers rely upon component suppliers to manufacture and sell products containing our technology and limited availability
−Removed: of components, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, may adversely affect our and our customers’ businesses.
+Added: We rely on the ability of our customers to design, manufacture
+Added: and sell their products that incorporate our touch technology.
+Added: We have historically generated revenue through technology
+Added: licensing agreements with companies that design, manufacture, and sell their own products incorporating our touch technology.
+Added: of our license fees earned in 2022 and 2021 were from customer shipments of printer products and automotive infotainment systems.
+Added: we have broadened our business model to selling sensors in addition to licensing our technology, we expect to continue to rely on licensing
+Added: revenue from current and new customers whose products are still in the development cycle.
+Added: If our customers are not able to design, manufacture
+Added: and sell their products, or are delayed in producing and selling their products, our revenues, profitability, and liquidity, as well as
+Added: our brand image, may be adversely affected.
+Added: The length of a customer’s product development and release
+Added: cycle depends on many factors outside of our control and any delays could cause us to incur significant expenses without offsetting revenues,
+Added: or revenues that vary significantly from quarter to quarter.
+Added: The development and release cycle for customer products is lengthy
+Added: and unpredictable.
+Added: Our customers often undertake significant evaluation and design in the qualification of our products, which contributes
+Added: to a lengthy product release cycle.
+Added: The typical product development and release cycle is 18 to 36 months.
+Added: The development and release
+Added: cycle may be longer in some cases, particularly for automotive vehicle products.
+Added: There is no assurance that a customer will adopt our
+Added: technology after the evaluation or design phase, in which case we would not be entitled to any revenues from the customer moving forward.
+Added: The lengthy and variable development and release cycle for products may also have a negative impact on the timing of our revenues, causing
+Added: our revenues and results of operations to vary significantly from quarter to quarter.
+Added: We and our license customers rely upon component suppliers to
+Added: manufacture and sell products containing our technology and limited availability of components, including as a result of the COVID-19
+Added: pandemic, may adversely affect our and our customers’ businesses.
Under our licensing model, OEMs, ODMs and Tier 1
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or more of our customers and our supply chain may be disrupted.
−Removed: Our dependence on third parties to supply core
−Removed: components that incorporate our patented technology exposes us to a number of risks including the risk that these suppliers will not
−Removed: be able to obtain an adequate supply of raw materials or components, the risk that these suppliers will not be able to meet our customer
−Removed: requirements, and the risk that these suppliers will be able to remain in business or adjust to market conditions.
−Removed: If we and our customers
−Removed: are unable to obtain ASICs that incorporate our patented technology, we may not be able to meet demand, which could have a material adverse
−Removed: effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
−Removed: COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in extended shutdown of businesses all over the world causing general delays in the supply of components.
−Removed: We have not suffered of supply shortage, but it is possible that the shortage of supply has caused delays and/or increased cost of components
−Removed: and thereby harm to our customers’ ability to manufacture and sell products on a cost-effective basis.
−Removed: can be difficult for us to verify royalty amounts owed to us under licensing agreements, and this may cause us to lose potential revenue.
+Added: Our dependence on third parties to supply core components that incorporate
+Added: our patented technology exposes us to a number of risks including the risk that these suppliers will not be able to obtain an adequate
+Added: supply of raw materials or components, the risk that these suppliers will not be able to meet our customer requirements, and the risk
+Added: that these suppliers will not be able to remain in business or adjust to market conditions.
+Added: If we and our customers are unable to obtain
+Added: ASICs that incorporate our patented technology, we may not be able to meet demand, which could have a material adverse effect on our business,
+Added: financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
+Added: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in extended shutdown of businesses
+Added: all over the world causing general delays in the supply of components.
+Added: We have not suffered from a supply shortage, but it is possible
+Added: that the component shortage has caused delays and/or increased cost of components impacting our customers’ ability to manufacture
+Added: and sell products on a cost-effective basis.
+Added: It can be difficult for us to verify royalty amounts owed to
+Added: us under licensing agreements, and this may cause us to lose potential revenue.
Our license agreements typically require our licensees
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and subject to dispute.
−Removed: From time to time, we audit certain of our licensees to verify independently the accuracy of the information
−Removed: contained in their royalty reports in an effort to decrease the likelihood that we will not receive the royalty revenues to which we
−Removed: are entitled under the terms of our license agreements, but we can give no assurances that these audits will be effective.
−Removed: have limited experience in manufacturing products and our entry into the hardware market may not be successful.
−Removed: business model has historically focused on licensing touch technology.
−Removed: In October 2017, we began to manufacture and sell sensor
−Removed: touch components.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that our hardware manufacturing and sales will result in market acceptance or meaningful
−Removed: The commercial success of our sensor modules will depend on customer response and our management’s execution.
−Removed: commercial success of our sensor modules is subject to numerous risks, including:
−Removed: the quality and reliability of product components that
−Removed: we source from third-party suppliers and incorporate in our sensor modules;
−Removed: our ability to secure product components in a timely
−Removed: manner, in sufficient quantities or on commercially reasonable terms;
−Removed: our ability to increase production capacity or volumes
−Removed: to meet demand;
−Removed: our ability to identify and qualify alternative suppliers
−Removed: for product components in a timely manner;
−Removed: our ability to establish and maintain effective sales
−Removed: addition, if demand for our products increases, we will have to invest additional resources to purchase product components, hire and
−Removed: train employees and enhance our manufacturing processes.
−Removed: If we fail to increase our production capacity efficiently, our sales may not
−Removed: increase in line with our expectations and our operating margins could fluctuate or decline.
−Removed: we fail to develop and introduce new technology successfully, and in a cost-effective and timely manner, we will not be able to compete
−Removed: effectively and our ability to generate revenues will suffer .
+Added: From time to time, we audit certain of our licensees to verify independently the accuracy of the information contained
+Added: in their royalty reports in an effort to decrease the likelihood that we will not receive the royalty revenues to which we are entitled
+Added: under the terms of our license agreements, but we can give no assurances that these audits will be effective.
+Added: We have limited experience in manufacturing products and our
+Added: entry into the hardware market may not be successful.
+Added: Our business model has historically focused on licensing
+Added: touch technology.
+Added: In October 2017, we began to manufacture and sell sensor touch components.
+Added: There can be no assurance that our hardware
+Added: manufacturing and sales will result in market acceptance or meaningful revenues.
+Added: The commercial success of our sensor modules will depend
+Added: on customer response and our management’s execution.
+Added: The commercial success of our sensor modules is subject to numerous risks,
+Added: the quality and reliability of product components that we source from third-party suppliers and incorporate in our sensor modules;
+Added: our ability to secure product components in a timely manner, in sufficient quantities or on commercially reasonable terms;
+Added: our ability to increase production capacity or volumes to meet demand;
+Added: our ability to identify and qualify alternative suppliers for product components in a timely manner;
+Added: our ability to establish and maintain effective sales channels.
+Added: In addition, if demand for our products increases,
+Added: we will have to invest additional resources to purchase product components, hire and train employees and enhance our manufacturing processes.
+Added: If we fail to increase our production capacity efficiently, our sales may not increase in line with our expectations and our operating
+Added: margins could fluctuate or decline.
+Added: If we fail to develop and introduce new technology successfully,
+Added: and in a cost-effective and timely manner, we will not be able to compete effectively and our ability to generate revenues will suffer .
We operate in a highly competitive, rapidly evolving
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of new technology is very difficult and requires high levels of innovation and competence.
−Removed: The development process is typically also
−Removed: very lengthy and costly.
−Removed: If we fail to anticipate our end users’ needs or technological trends accurately or if we are unable to
−Removed: complete development in a cost effective and timely fashion, we will be unable to introduce new technology into the market or successfully
−Removed: compete with other providers.
−Removed: As we introduce new or enhanced technology or integrate new technology into new or existing customer products,
−Removed: we face risks including, among other things, disruption in customers’ ordering patterns, inability to deliver new technology to
−Removed: meet customers’ demand, possible product and technology defects, and potentially unfamiliar sales and support environments.
+Added: The development process is typically also very
+Added: lengthy and costly.
+Added: If we fail to anticipate our end users’ needs or technological trends accurately or if we are unable to complete
+Added: development in a cost effective and timely fashion, we will be unable to introduce new technology into the market or successfully compete
+Added: with other providers.
+Added: As we introduce new or enhanced technology or integrate new technology into new or existing customer products, we
+Added: face risks including, among other things, disruption in customers’ ordering patterns, inability to deliver new technology to meet
+Added: customers’ demand, possible product and technology defects, and potentially unfamiliar sales and support environments.
announcements or leaks of new products, features, or technologies may exacerbate some of these risks.
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results of operations, and financial condition.
−Removed: operating results may fluctuate significantly as a result of a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control.
+Added: Our operating results may fluctuate significantly as a result
+Added: of a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control.
As a result of the unpredictability of our customer
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We may be unable to adjust spending in a timely manner to compensate for any unexpected revenue shortfall.
−Removed: Accordingly, any significant shortfall in revenues relative to our planned expenditures would have an immediate adverse effect on our
−Removed: business, results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: addition, the following factors, among others, may negatively affect and cause fluctuations in our operating results:
−Removed: the announcement or introduction
−Removed: of new products or technologies by our competitors;
−Removed: our ability to upgrade
−Removed: and develop our infrastructure to accommodate growth;
−Removed: our ability to attract
−Removed: and retain key personnel in a timely and cost-effective manner;
+Added: any significant shortfall in revenues relative to our planned expenditures would have an immediate adverse effect on our business, results
+Added: of operations and financial condition.
+Added: In addition, the following factors, among others,
+Added: may negatively affect and cause fluctuations in our operating results:
+Added: the announcement or introduction of new products or technologies by our competitors;
+Added: our ability to upgrade and develop our infrastructure to accommodate growth;
+Added: our ability to attract and retain key personnel in a timely and cost-effective manner;
technical difficulties;
−Removed: the amount and timing of operating costs and capital
−Removed: expenditures relating to the expansion of our business, operations, and infrastructure;
−Removed: economic conditions specific to the industries and
−Removed: segments where we are active, for instance printers, automotive, elevators, and interactive kiosks;
−Removed: general economic conditions including as a result of
−Removed: the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic or future pandemics or epidemics, or geopolitical conflicts such as the rising conflict between Russia
−Removed: as a strategic response to changes in the competitive environment, we may from time to time make certain pricing, service, or marketing
−Removed: decisions that could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
−Removed: Due to the foregoing
−Removed: factors, our revenues and operating results are and will remain difficult to forecast.
−Removed: must enhance our sales and technology development organizations.
−Removed: If we are unable to identify, hire, or retain qualified sales, marketing,
−Removed: and technical personnel, our ability to achieve future revenue may be adversely affected.
−Removed: continually monitor and enhance the effectiveness and breadth of our sales efforts in order to increase market awareness and sales of
−Removed: our technology, especially as we expand into new market areas.
−Removed: Competition for qualified sales personnel is intense, and we may not be
−Removed: able to hire the kind and number of sales personnel we are targeting.
−Removed: Likewise, our efforts to improve and refine our technology require
−Removed: skilled engineers and programmers.
−Removed: Competition for professionals capable of expanding our research and development efforts is intense
−Removed: due to the limited number of people available with the necessary technical skills.
−Removed: If we are unable to identify, hire, or retain qualified
−Removed: sales, marketing, and technical personnel, our ability to achieve future revenue may be adversely affected.
−Removed: may make acquisitions and strategic investments that are dilutive to existing stockholders, result in unanticipated accounting charges
−Removed: or otherwise adversely affect our results of operations.
+Added: the amount and timing of operating costs and capital expenditures relating to the expansion of our business, operations, and infrastructure;
+Added: economic conditions specific to the industries and segments where we are active, for instance printers, automotive, elevators, and interactive kiosks;
+Added: general economic conditions including as a result of the ongoing COVID-19
+Added: pandemic or future pandemics or epidemics, or geopolitical conflicts such as the ongoing war in Ukraine.
+Added: Further, as a strategic response to changes in the
+Added: competitive environment, we may from time to time make certain pricing, service, or marketing decisions that could have a material and
+Added: adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
+Added: Due to the foregoing factors, our revenues and operating
+Added: results are and will remain difficult to forecast.
+Added: We must enhance our sales and technology development organizations.
+Added: If we are unable to identify, hire, or retain qualified sales, marketing, and technical personnel, our ability to achieve future revenue
+Added: may be adversely affected.
+Added: We continually monitor and enhance the effectiveness
+Added: and breadth of our sales efforts in order to increase market awareness and sales of our technology, especially as we expand into new market
+Added: Competition for qualified sales personnel is intense, and we may not be able to hire the kind and number of sales personnel we
+Added: are targeting.
+Added: Likewise, our efforts to improve and refine our technology require skilled engineers and programmers.
+Added: Competition for professionals
+Added: capable of expanding our research and development efforts is intense due to the limited number of people available with the necessary
+Added: technical skills.
+Added: If we are unable to identify, hire, or retain qualified sales, marketing, and technical personnel, our ability to achieve
+Added: future revenue may be adversely affected.
+Added: We may make acquisitions and strategic investments that are dilutive
+Added: to existing stockholders, result in unanticipated accounting charges or otherwise adversely affect our results of operations.
We may decide to grow our business through business
−Removed: combinations or other acquisitions of businesses, products or technologies that allow us to complement our existing touch technology
−Removed: offerings, expand our market coverage, increase our workforce, or enhance our technological capabilities.
−Removed: If we make any future acquisitions,
−Removed: we could issue stock that would dilute our stockholders’ percentage ownership, or we may incur substantial debt, reduce our cash
−Removed: reserves and/or assume contingent liabilities.
−Removed: Further, acquisitions and strategic investments may result in material charges, adverse
−Removed: tax consequences, substantial depreciation, deferred compensation charges, in-process research and development charges, and the amortization
−Removed: of amounts related to deferred compensation and identifiable purchased intangible assets or impairment of goodwill.
−Removed: Any of these could
−Removed: negatively impact our results of operations.
−Removed: are dependent on the services of our key personnel.
−Removed: are highly dependent on our senior management team, including Dr.
−Removed: Urban Forssell, our Chief Executive Officer, and Fredrik Nihlén,
−Removed: our Chief Financial Officer.
−Removed: Changes in our senior management team or the unplanned loss of the services of either member of our senior
−Removed: management team could have a material adverse effect on our operations and future prospects.
−Removed: we are unable to obtain and maintain patent or other intellectual property protection for any products we develop or for our technologies,
−Removed: or if the scope of the patents and other intellectual property protection obtained is not sufficiently broad, our competitors could develop
−Removed: and commercialize products and technologies similar or identical to ours, and our ability to successfully commercialize any products
−Removed: we may develop, and our technologies, may be harmed.
−Removed: success depends in large part on our proprietary technology and other intellectual property rights.
−Removed: We rely on a combination of patents,
−Removed: copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, confidentiality provisions, and licensing arrangements to establish and protect our proprietary
−Removed: Our intellectual property, particularly our patents, may not provide us with a significant competitive advantage.
−Removed: to protect or to enforce our intellectual property rights successfully, our competitive position could suffer, which could harm our results
−Removed: of operations.
−Removed: Our pending patent applications for registration may not be allowed, or others may challenge the validity or scope of
−Removed: Even if our patent registrations are issued and maintained, these patents may not be of adequate scope or benefit to us
−Removed: or may be held invalid and unenforceable against third parties.
−Removed: We may need to expend significant resources to secure and protect our
−Removed: intellectual property.
−Removed: The loss of intellectual property rights may adversely impact our ability to generate revenues and expand our
−Removed: may not be successful in our strategic efforts around patent monetization.
−Removed: Our success depends in part on our ability to effectively utilize
−Removed: our intellectual property.
−Removed: From time to time, we explore opportunities to monetize our patents.
−Removed: On May 6, 2019, we assigned a portfolio
−Removed: of certain patents to Aequitas Technologies LLC to license or otherwise monetize those patents.
−Removed: In the future we may enter into additional
−Removed: alternative patent monetization strategies, including the sale of patents.
−Removed: Our patent monetization strategies may negatively impact our
−Removed: financial condition, revenues, and results of operations.
−Removed: No assurance can be given that we will enter into agreements related to our
−Removed: patent portfolio or that we will be successful in any strategic efforts around patent monetization.
−Removed: third parties infringe upon our intellectual property, we may expend significant resources enforcing our rights or suffer competitive
−Removed: laws, contractual provisions and remedies afford only limited protection for our intellectual property.
−Removed: We may be required to spend significant
−Removed: resources to monitor and police our intellectual property rights.
−Removed: Effective policing of the unauthorized use of our technology or intellectual
−Removed: property is difficult and litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights.
+Added: combinations or other acquisitions of businesses, products or technologies that allow us to complement our existing touch technology offerings,
+Added: expand our market coverage, increase our workforce, or enhance our technological capabilities.
+Added: If we make any future acquisitions, we
+Added: could issue stock that would dilute our stockholders’ percentage ownership, or we may incur substantial debt, reduce our cash reserves
+Added: and/or assume contingent liabilities.
+Added: Further, acquisitions and strategic investments may result in material charges, adverse tax consequences,
+Added: substantial depreciation, deferred compensation charges, in-process research and development charges, and the amortization of amounts
+Added: related to deferred compensation and identifiable purchased intangible assets or impairment of goodwill.
+Added: Any of these could negatively
+Added: impact our results of operations.
+Added: We are dependent on the services of our key personnel.
+Added: We are highly dependent on our senior management
+Added: team, including Dr.
+Added: Urban Forssell, our Chief Executive Officer, and Fredrik Nihlén, our Chief Financial Officer.
+Added: Changes in our
+Added: senior management team or the unplanned loss of the services of either member of our senior management team could have a material adverse
+Added: effect on our operations and future prospects.
+Added: If we are unable to obtain and maintain patent or other intellectual
+Added: property protection for any products we develop or for our technologies, or if the scope of the patents and other intellectual property
+Added: protection obtained is not sufficiently broad, our competitors could develop and commercialize products and technologies similar or identical
+Added: to ours, and our ability to successfully commercialize any products we may develop, and our technologies, may be harmed.
+Added: Our success depends in large part on our proprietary
+Added: technology and other intellectual property rights.
+Added: We rely on a combination of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, confidentiality
+Added: provisions, and licensing arrangements to establish and protect our proprietary rights.
+Added: Our intellectual property, particularly our patents,
+Added: may not provide us with a significant competitive advantage.
+Added: If we fail to protect or to enforce our intellectual property rights successfully,
+Added: our competitive position could suffer, which could harm our results of operations.
+Added: Our pending patent applications for registration may
+Added: not be allowed, or others may challenge the validity or scope of our patents.
+Added: Even if our patent registrations are issued and maintained,
+Added: these patents may not be of adequate scope or benefit to us or may be held invalid and unenforceable against third parties.
+Added: to expend significant resources to secure and protect our intellectual property.
+Added: The loss of intellectual property rights may adversely
+Added: impact our ability to generate revenues and expand our business.
+Added: We may not be successful in our strategic efforts around patent
+Added: monetization.
+Added: Our success depends in part on our ability to effectively utilize our
intellectual property.
−Removed: litigation is not only expensive, but time-consuming, regardless of the merits of any claim, and could divert attention of our management
−Removed: from operating the business.
−Removed: Intellectual property lawsuits are subject to inherent uncertainties due to, among other things, the complexity
−Removed: of the technical issues involved, and we cannot assure you that we will be successful in asserting our intellectual property rights.
−Removed: Attempts may be made to copy or reverse engineer aspects of our technology or to obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary.
−Removed: We may not be able to detect infringement and may lose competitive position in the market as a result.
−Removed: In addition, competitors may design
−Removed: around our technology or develop competing technologies.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that we will be able to protect our proprietary rights
−Removed: against unauthorized third party copying or use.
−Removed: The unauthorized use of our technology or of our proprietary information by competitors
−Removed: could have an adverse effect on our ability to sell our technology.
−Removed: laws of certain foreign countries may not provide sufficient protection of our intellectual property rights to the same extent as the
−Removed: laws of the United States, which may make it more difficult for us to protect our intellectual property.
−Removed: part of our business strategy, we target customers and relationships with suppliers and OEMs in countries with large populations and
−Removed: propensities for adopting new technologies.
−Removed: However, many of these countries do not address misappropriation of intellectual property
−Removed: nor deter others from developing similar, competing technologies or intellectual property.
−Removed: Effective protection of patents, copyrights,
−Removed: trademarks, trade secrets and other intellectual property may be unavailable or limited in some foreign countries.
−Removed: In particular, the
−Removed: laws of some foreign countries in which we do business may not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws
−Removed: of the United States.
−Removed: As a result, we may not be able to effectively prevent competitors in these regions from infringing our intellectual
−Removed: property rights, which could reduce our competitive advantage and ability to compete in those regions and negatively impact our business.
−Removed: have an international presence in countries and must manage currency risks.
+Added: Our policy is to always try to protect our innovations using patents.
+Added: Our patent portfolio is an important prerequisite
+Added: for our licensing business and also protects our investments in product development.
+Added: From time to time, we also explore opportunities
+Added: to monetize our patents per se.
+Added: As an example of this, on May 6, 2019, we assigned a portfolio of patents to Aequitas Technologies LLC
+Added: to license or otherwise monetize those patents.
+Added: In the future we may enter into additional alternative patent monetization strategies,
+Added: including the sale of patents.
+Added: Our patent monetization strategies may negatively impact our financial condition, revenues, and results
+Added: of operations.
+Added: No assurance can be given that we will enter into agreements related to our patent portfolio or that we will be successful
+Added: in any strategic efforts around patent monetization.
+Added: If third parties infringe upon our intellectual property, we
+Added: may expend significant resources enforcing our rights or suffer competitive injury.
+Added: Existing laws, contractual provisions and remedies
+Added: afford only limited protection for our intellectual property.
+Added: We may be required to spend significant resources to monitor and police
+Added: our intellectual property rights.
+Added: Effective policing of the unauthorized use of our technology or intellectual property is difficult and
+Added: litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights.
+Added: Intellectual property litigation is not only expensive,
+Added: but time-consuming, regardless of the merits of any claim, and could divert attention of our management from operating the business.
+Added: property lawsuits are subject to inherent uncertainties due to, among other things, the complexity of the technical issues involved, and
+Added: we cannot assure you that we will be successful in asserting our intellectual property rights.
+Added: Attempts may be made to copy or reverse
+Added: engineer aspects of our technology or to obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary.
+Added: We may not be able to detect infringement
+Added: and may lose competitive position in the market as a result.
+Added: In addition, competitors may design around our technology or develop competing
+Added: technologies.
+Added: We cannot assure you that we will be able to protect our proprietary rights against unauthorized third party copying or
+Added: The unauthorized use of our technology or of our proprietary information by competitors could have an adverse effect on our ability
+Added: to sell our technology.
+Added: The laws of certain foreign countries may not provide sufficient
+Added: protection of our intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States, which may make it more difficult for
+Added: us to protect our intellectual property.
+Added: As part of our business strategy, we target customers
+Added: and relationships with suppliers and OEMs in countries with large populations and propensities for adopting new technologies.
+Added: many of these countries do not address misappropriation of intellectual property nor deter others from developing similar, competing technologies
+Added: or intellectual property.
+Added: Effective protection of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and other intellectual property may be
+Added: unavailable or limited in some foreign countries.
+Added: In particular, the laws of some foreign countries in which we do business may not protect
+Added: our intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States.
+Added: As a result, we may not be able to effectively prevent
+Added: competitors in these regions from infringing our intellectual property rights, which could reduce our competitive advantage and ability
+Added: to compete in those regions and negatively impact our business.
+Added: We have an international presence in countries and must manage
+Added: currency risks.
A significant portion of our business is conducted
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a portion of our currency exposure in the future as we deem appropriate.
−Removed: breaches and other disruptions to our information technology infrastructure could interfere with our operations, compromise confidential
−Removed: information, and expose us to liability which could materially adversely impact our business and reputation.
−Removed: the normal course of business, we rely on information technology networks and systems to process, transmit, and store electronic information,
−Removed: and to manage or support a variety of business processes and activities.
−Removed: Additionally, we collect and store certain data, including proprietary
−Removed: business information and customer and employee data, and may have access to confidential or personal information in certain of our businesses
−Removed: that is subject to privacy and security laws, regulations, and customer-imposed controls.
−Removed: Despite our cybersecurity measures, our information
−Removed: technology networks and infrastructure may be vulnerable to damage, disruptions, or shutdowns due to attack by hackers or breaches, employee
−Removed: error or malfeasance, power outages, computer viruses, telecommunication or utility failures, systems failures, natural disasters, or
−Removed: other catastrophic events.
−Removed: Any such events could result in legal claims or proceedings, liability or penalties under privacy laws, disruption
−Removed: in operations, and damage to our reputation, which could materially adversely affect our business.
−Removed: parties that maintain our confidential and proprietary information could experience a cybersecurity incident.
−Removed: rely on third parties to provide or maintain some of our information technology and related services.
−Removed: We do not exercise direct control
−Removed: over these systems.
−Removed: Despite the implementation of security measures at third party locations, these services are also vulnerable to security
−Removed: breaches or other disruptions.
−Removed: Despite assurances from third parties to protect this information and, where we believe appropriate, our
−Removed: monitoring of the protections employed by these third parties, there is a risk that the confidentiality of the data held by these third
−Removed: parties on our behalf may be compromised and expose us to liability for any security breach or disruption.
−Removed: we are unable to detect material weaknesses in our internal control, our financial reporting and our business may be adversely affected.
−Removed: 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires us to evaluate the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting as
−Removed: of the end of each fiscal year, and to include a management report assessing the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial
−Removed: reporting in our annual report on Form 10-K for that fiscal year.
−Removed: A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide
−Removed: only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met.
−Removed: Further, the design of a control system
−Removed: must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs.
−Removed: of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues
−Removed: and instances of fraud involving a company have been, or will be, detected.
−Removed: The design of any system of controls is based in part on
−Removed: certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and we cannot assure you that any design will succeed in achieving its stated
−Removed: goals under all potential future conditions.
−Removed: Over time, controls may become ineffective because of changes in conditions or deterioration
−Removed: in the degree of compliance with policies or procedures.
−Removed: Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements
−Removed: due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that we or our independent registered public accounting firm
−Removed: will not identify a material weakness in our internal controls in the future.
−Removed: A material weakness in our internal controls over financial
−Removed: reporting would require management and our independent registered public accounting firm to consider our internal controls as ineffective.
−Removed: If our internal controls over financial reporting are not considered effective, we may experience a loss of public confidence, which
−Removed: could have an adverse effect on our business and on the market price of our common stock.
−Removed: Related to Owning Our Stock
−Removed: sales of our common stock by us or our insiders could adversely affect the trading price of our common stock and dilute your investment.
−Removed: long-term success is dependent on us obtaining sufficient capital to fund our operations, develop our touch technology and bring our
−Removed: technology to the worldwide market in order to generate sufficient sales volume to be profitable.
−Removed: We may sell securities in the public
−Removed: or private equity markets if and when conditions are favorable, even if we do not have an immediate need for additional capital at that
−Removed: We may also issue additional common stock in future financing transactions or as incentive compensation for our executive management
−Removed: and other key personnel, consultants and advisors.
−Removed: substantial amounts of common stock by us or by our insiders or large stockholders, or the perception that such sales could occur, could
−Removed: adversely affect the prevailing market price of our common stock and our ability to raise capital.
−Removed: Issuing equity securities would also
−Removed: be dilutive to the equity interests represented by our then-outstanding shares of common stock.
−Removed: The market price for our common stock
−Removed: could decrease as the market takes into account the dilutive effect of any of these issuances.
−Removed: Furthermore, we may enter into financing
−Removed: transactions at prices that represent a substantial discount to the market price of our common stock.
−Removed: A negative reaction by investors
−Removed: and securities analysts to any discounted sale of our equity securities could result in a decline in the trading price of our common
−Removed: We currently have fewer than 300 stockholders
−Removed: of record and, therefore, are eligible to terminate the registration of our common stock under the Exchange Act and cease being a U.S.
−Removed: public company with reporting obligations.
−Removed: Section 12(g)(4) of the Exchange Act allows for the
−Removed: registration of any class of securities to be terminated after a company files a certification with the SEC that the number of holders
−Removed: of record of such class of security is fewer than 300 persons.
−Removed: As of February 24, 2022, there were 50 stockholders of record
−Removed: of our common stock.
−Removed: This does not include the number of shareholders that hold shares in “street name” through banks, brokers
−Removed: and other financial institutions Accordingly, we are eligible to deregister our common stock and suspend our reporting obligations
−Removed: under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: If we were to terminate our registration and suspend our reporting obligations under the Exchange Act, we would
−Removed: no longer be required to comply with U.S.
−Removed: public company disclosure requirements under the Exchange Act, including, but not limited to,
−Removed: annual and quarterly report filings, proxy statement filings and filings by insiders to disclose the acquisition and disposition of our
−Removed: Our stock price has been volatile, and your investment
−Removed: in our common stock could suffer a decline in value.
+Added: Security breaches and other disruptions to our information technology
+Added: infrastructure could interfere with our operations, compromise confidential information, and expose us to liability which could materially
+Added: adversely impact our business and reputation.
+Added: In the normal course of business, we rely on information
+Added: technology networks and systems to process, transmit, and store electronic information, and to manage or support a variety of business
+Added: processes and activities.
+Added: Additionally, we collect and store certain data, including proprietary business information and customer and
+Added: employee data, and may have access to confidential or personal information in certain of our businesses that is subject to privacy and
+Added: security laws, regulations, and customer-imposed controls.
+Added: Despite our cybersecurity measures, our information technology networks and
+Added: infrastructure may be vulnerable to damage, disruptions, or shutdowns due to attack by hackers or breaches, employee error or malfeasance,
+Added: power outages, computer viruses, telecommunication or utility failures, systems failures, natural disasters, or other catastrophic events.
+Added: Any such events could result in legal claims or proceedings, liability or penalties under privacy laws, disruption in operations, and
+Added: damage to our reputation, which could materially adversely affect our business.
+Added: Third parties that maintain our confidential and proprietary
+Added: information could experience a cybersecurity incident.
+Added: We rely on third parties to provide or maintain
+Added: some of our information technology and related services.
+Added: We do not exercise direct control over these systems.
+Added: Despite the implementation
+Added: of security measures at third party locations, these services are also vulnerable to security breaches or other disruptions.
+Added: Despite assurances
+Added: from third parties to protect this information and, where we believe appropriate, our monitoring of the protections employed by these
+Added: third parties, there is a risk that the confidentiality of the data held by these third parties on our behalf may be compromised and expose
+Added: us to liability for any security breach or disruption.
+Added: If we are unable to detect material weaknesses in our internal
+Added: control, our financial reporting and our business may be adversely affected.
+Added: Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires
+Added: us to evaluate the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting as of the end of each fiscal year, and to include a
+Added: management report assessing the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting in our annual report on Form 10-K for
+Added: that fiscal year.
+Added: A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that
+Added: the control system’s objectives will be met.
+Added: Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource
+Added: constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs.
+Added: Because of the inherent limitations in all control
+Added: systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud involving a company have
+Added: been, or will be, detected.
+Added: The design of any system of controls is based in part on certain assumptions about the likelihood of future
+Added: events, and we cannot assure you that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
+Added: time, controls may become ineffective because of changes in conditions or deterioration in the degree of compliance with policies or procedures.
+Added: Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.
+Added: We cannot assure you that we or our independent registered public accounting firm will not identify a material weakness in our internal
+Added: controls in the future.
+Added: A material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting would require management and our independent
+Added: registered public accounting firm to consider our internal controls as ineffective.
+Added: If our internal controls over financial reporting
+Added: are not considered effective, we may experience a loss of public confidence, which could have an adverse effect on our business and on
+Added: the market price of our common stock.
+Added: Risks Related to Owning Our Stock
+Added: Future sales of our common stock by us or our insiders could
+Added: adversely affect the trading price of our common stock and dilute your investment.
+Added: Our long-term success is dependent on us obtaining
+Added: sufficient capital to fund our operations, develop our touch technology and bring our technology to the worldwide market in order to generate
+Added: sufficient sales volume to be profitable.
+Added: We may sell securities in the public or private equity markets if and when conditions are favorable,
+Added: even if we do not have an immediate need for additional capital at that time.
+Added: We may also issue additional common stock in future financing
+Added: transactions or as incentive compensation for our executive management and other key personnel, consultants and advisors.
+Added: Sales of substantial amounts of common stock by
+Added: us or by our insiders or large stockholders, or the perception that such sales could occur, could adversely affect the prevailing market
+Added: price of our common stock and our ability to raise capital.
+Added: Issuing equity securities would also be dilutive to the equity interests represented
+Added: by our then-outstanding shares of common stock.
+Added: The market price for our common stock could decrease as the market takes into account
+Added: the dilutive effect of any of these issuances.
+Added: Furthermore, we may enter into financing transactions at prices that represent a substantial
+Added: discount to the market price of our common stock.
+Added: A negative reaction by investors and securities analysts to any discounted sale of our
+Added: equity securities could result in a decline in the trading price of our common stock.
+Added: We currently have fewer than 300 stockholders of record
+Added: and, therefore, are eligible to terminate the registration of our common stock under the Exchange Act and cease being a U.S.
+Added: public company
+Added: with reporting obligations.
+Added: Section 12(g)(4) of the Exchange Act allows for the registration of
+Added: any class of securities to be terminated after a company files a certification with the SEC that the number of holders of record of such
+Added: class of security is fewer than 300 persons.
+Added: As of February 9, 2023, there were 37 stockholders of record of our common stock.
+Added: This does not include the number of shareholders that hold shares in “street name” through banks, brokers and other financial
+Added: institutions.
+Added: Accordingly, we are eligible to deregister our common stock and suspend our reporting obligations under the Exchange
+Added: If we were to terminate our registration and suspend our reporting obligations under the Exchange Act, we would no longer be required
+Added: to comply with U.S.
+Added: public company disclosure requirements under the Exchange Act, including, but not limited to, annual and quarterly
+Added: report filings, proxy statement filings and filings by insiders to disclose the acquisition and disposition of our securities.
+Added: Our stock price has been volatile, and your investment in our
+Added: common stock could suffer a decline in value.
There has been significant volatility in the market
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performance or prospects, and other factors.
−Removed: Some factors that may have a significant effect on
−Removed: our common stock market price include:
+Added: Some factors that may have a significant effect
+Added: on our common stock market price include:
actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results or future prospects;
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developments regarding our patents or proprietary rights or those of our competitors;
+Added: the public’s reaction to news concerning Aequitas Technologies LLC’s
+Added: patent litigations against Apple and Samsung;
our inability to raise additional capital as needed;
concern as to the efficacy of our technology;
−Removed: changes in financial markets or general economic conditions, including
−Removed: as a result of war, terrorism, pandemics or other catastrophes;
+Added: changes in financial markets or general economic conditions, including as a result of war, terrorism, pandemics or other catastrophes;
sales of common stock by us or members of our management team;
changes in stock market analyst recommendations or earnings estimates regarding our common stock, other comparable companies, or our industry generally.
−Removed: A limited number of stockholders, including directors,
−Removed: hold a significant number of shares of our outstanding common stock.
+Added: A limited number of stockholders, including directors, hold a
+Added: significant number of shares of our outstanding common stock.
Our two largest stockholders, who both are members
−Removed: of our Board of Directors, hold approximately one-third of the shares of our outstanding voting stock.
+Added: of our Board of Directors, hold approximately one-fourth of the shares of our outstanding voting stock.
This concentration of ownership
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may also have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in our management or our voting control.
−Removed: Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws and
−Removed: the Delaware General Corporation Law contain provisions that could delay or prevent a change in control.
−Removed: Our Board of Directors has the authority to issue up
−Removed: to 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock and to determine the price, rights, preferences and privileges of those shares without any further
+Added: Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws and the Delaware
+Added: General Corporation Law contain provisions that could delay or prevent a change in control.
+Added: Our Board of Directors has the authority to issue
+Added: up to 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock and to determine the price, rights, preferences and privileges of those shares without any further
vote or action by the stockholders.
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Delaware General Corporation Law, an anti-takeover law.
−Removed: If securities analysts do
−Removed: not publish research or if securities analysts or other third parties publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about us, the price of
−Removed: our common stock could decline.
−Removed: The trading market for our common stock may rely in
−Removed: part on the research and reports that securities analysts and other third parties choose to publish about us.
+Added: If securities analysts do not publish research or if securities
+Added: analysts or other third parties publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about us, the price of our common stock could decline.
+Added: The trading market for our common stock may rely
+Added: in part on the research and reports that securities analysts and other third parties choose to publish about us.
We do not control these
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