−Removed: Before deciding to purchase, hold or
−Removed: sell our common stock, you should carefully consider the risks described below in addition to the other information contained in
−Removed: this Annual Report on Form 10-K and in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, including subsequent
−Removed: reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K.
−Removed: The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face.
−Removed: Additional risks and
−Removed: uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also affect our business.
−Removed: If any of these known
−Removed: or unknown risks or uncertainties actually occurs with material adverse effects on Polar Power, our business, financial condition,
−Removed: results of operations and/or liquidity could be seriously harmed.
−Removed: In that event, the market price for our common stock will likely
−Removed: decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment.
−Removed: Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
−Removed: The recent outbreak of COVID-19 will likely have a significant
−Removed: negative impact on our business, sales, results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: The global outbreak of COVID-19 has
−Removed: led to severe disruptions in general economic activities, as businesses and federal, state, and local governments take
−Removed: increasingly broad actions to mitigate this public health crisis.
−Removed: We have experienced significant disruption to our business,
−Removed: both in terms of disruption of our operations and the adverse effect on overall economic conditions.
−Removed: We have closed our
−Removed: manufacturing facilities since the beginning of the California “stay at home”
−Removed: order was implemented by the
−Removed: governor of California.
−Removed: The ultimate scope and duration of this closure is not known at this time.
−Removed: We have also furloughed 79
−Removed: employees in the U.S.
−Removed: and the remaining 42 employees continue to support essential business operations.
−Removed: These conditions will significantly negatively impact all aspects of our business.
−Removed: Our business is also dependent on the
−Removed: continued health and productivity of our employees, including our manufacturing employees, sales staff and corporate
−Removed: management team.
−Removed: Individually and collectively, the consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak could have a material adverse
−Removed: effect on our business, sales, results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: Additionally, our liquidity could be negatively
−Removed: impacted if these conditions continue for a significant period of time and we may be required to pursue additional sources of financing
−Removed: to obtain working capital, maintain appropriate inventory levels, and meet our financial obligations.
−Removed: Currently capital and credit
−Removed: markets have been disrupted by the crisis and our ability to obtain any required financing is not guaranteed and largely dependent
−Removed: upon evolving market conditions and other factors.
−Removed: Depending on the continued impact of the crisis, further actions may be required
−Removed: to improve our cash position and capital structure.
−Removed: The extent to which the COVID-19 outbreak
−Removed: ultimately impacts our business, sales, results of operations and financial condition will depend on future developments, which
−Removed: are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including, but not limited to, the duration and spread of the outbreak, its severity,
−Removed: the actions to contain the virus or treat its impact, and how quickly and to what extent normal economic and operating conditions
−Removed: Even after the COVID-19 outbreak has subsided, we may continue to experience significant impacts to our business as
−Removed: a result of its global economic impact, including any economic downturn or recession that has occurred or may occur in the future.
−Removed: Our independent registered public accounting firm’s
−Removed: reports for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 have raised substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a
−Removed: “going concern.”
−Removed: Our independent registered public accounting
−Removed: firm indicated in its report on our audited consolidated financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2019 and
−Removed: 2018 that there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: A “going concern”
−Removed: opinion indicates
−Removed: that the financial statements have been prepared assuming we will continue as a going concern and do not include any adjustments
−Removed: to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets, or the amounts and classification of
−Removed: liabilities that may result if we do not continue as a going concern.
−Removed: Therefore, you should not rely on our consolidated balance
−Removed: sheet as an indication of the amount of proceeds that would be available to satisfy claims of creditors, and potentially be available
−Removed: for distribution to stockholders, in the event of liquidation.
−Removed: The presence of the going concern note to our financial statements
−Removed: may have an adverse impact on the relationships we are developing and plan to develop with third parties as we continue the commercialization
−Removed: of our products and could make it challenging and difficult for us to raise additional financing, all of which could have a material
−Removed: adverse impact on our business and prospects and result in a significant or complete loss of your investment.
−Removed: In addition, we estimate that the current
−Removed: funds on hand will be sufficient to continue operations through approximately September 30, 2020.
−Removed: Our continuation as a going concern
−Removed: is dependent upon our ability to obtain necessary debt or equity financing to continue operations until sales increase and we begin
−Removed: generating positive cash flow.
−Removed: No assurance can be given that any future financing will be available or, if available, that it
−Removed: will be on terms that are satisfactory to us.
−Removed: Even if we are able to obtain additional financing, such financing may contain undue
−Removed: restrictions on our operations, in the case of debt financing or cause substantial dilution for our stockholders, in the case of
−Removed: equity financing.
−Removed: We continue to review operations in order to identify additional strategies designed to generate cash flow, improve
−Removed: our financial position, and enable the timely discharge of our obligations.
−Removed: If we are unable to identify sources of additional
−Removed: cash flow in the short term, we may be required to further reduce or limit operations.
−Removed: We are dependent on, and derive substantially all of our
−Removed: revenue from, sales of our DC base power systems to three customers within the U.S.
+Added: deciding to purchase, hold or sell our common stock, you should carefully consider the risks described below in addition to the
+Added: other information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
+Added: or the SEC, including subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K.
+Added: The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones
+Added: Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also affect our
+Added: If any of these known or unknown risks or uncertainties actually occurs with material adverse effects on Polar Power,
+Added: our business, financial condition, results of operations and/or liquidity could be seriously harmed.
+Added: In that event, the market
+Added: price for our common stock will likely decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment.
+Added: Related to Our Business and Industry
+Added: COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing governmental responses have materially negatively impacted, and could further materially adversely
+Added: affect, our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
+Added: COVID-19 pandemic has had a widespread and detrimental effect on the global economy as a result of the continued increase in the
+Added: number of cases, particularly in the United States, and actions by public health and governmental authorities, businesses, other
+Added: organizations and individuals to address the outbreak, including travel bans and restrictions, quarantines, shelter in place,
+Added: stay at home or total lock-down orders and business limitations and shutdowns.
+Added: The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing governmental
+Added: responses have materially negatively impacted, and could further materially adversely affect, our business, financial condition,
+Added: results of operations and cash flows.
+Added: The ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and results of operations remains
+Added: unknown and will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, including
+Added: the duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, repeat or cyclical outbreaks and any additional preventative and protective
+Added: actions that governments, or we or our customers, may direct, which may result in an extended period of continued business disruption
+Added: and reduced operations.
+Added: For instance, some areas of the United States are experiencing new surges in COVID-19 cases, which has,
+Added: in some cases, led to the closure of recently re-opened businesses and further postponed opening other businesses.
+Added: Any resulting
+Added: financial impact cannot be reasonably estimated at this time, but we expect it will continue to have a material impact on our
+Added: business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: repercussions of the COVID-19 global pandemic has had and is likely to continue to have, a material and substantial adverse impact
+Added: on our results of operations, including a decrease in our sales and delays in sourcing of raw materials from suppliers which,
+Added: in turn, has raised liquidity concerns.
+Added: Our business is directly dependent upon, and correlates closely with, the marketing levels
+Added: and ongoing business activities of our existing customers and suppliers.
+Added: In the event of a continued widespread economic downturn
+Added: caused by COVID-19, we will likely experience a further reduction in current projects, longer sales and collection cycles, deferral
+Added: or delay of purchase commitments for our DC power systems, a reduction in our manufacturing productivity, higher than normal inventory
+Added: levels, delay in receipt of raw materials, a reduction in the availability of qualified labor and increased price competition,
+Added: all of which could substantially adversely affect our net revenues and our ability to remain a going concern.
+Added: response to uncertainties associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made certain modifications to our business, including
+Added: modifications to employee work locations, cancellation of certain marketing events and the implementation of a cost reduction
+Added: program to reduce overhead.
+Added: During portions of 2020 we also implemented limited remote work policies for many employees, and the
+Added: resources available to such employees may not enable them to maintain the same level of productivity and efficiency.
+Added: Our increased
+Added: reliance on remote access to our information systems also increases our exposures to potential cybersecurity breaches.
+Added: provide any assurance that these actions, or any other mitigating actions we may take, will help mitigate the impact of the COVID-19
+Added: pandemic on us.
+Added: we cannot provide any assurance that our assumptions used to estimate our liquidity requirements will remain accurate due to the
+Added: unprecedented nature of the disruption to our operations and the unpredictability of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
+Added: As a consequence,
+Added: our estimates of the duration of the pandemic and the severity of the impact on our future earnings and cash flows could change
+Added: and have a material impact on our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: In the event of a sustained market deterioration
+Added: and continued declines in net sales, we may need additional liquidity.
+Added: We cannot provide any assurance that we will be able to
+Added: obtain additional sources of financing or liquidity on acceptable terms, or at all.
+Added: ultimate duration and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows
+Added: is dependent on future developments, the duration of the pandemic, including repeat or cyclical outbreaks, additional “waves”
+Added: or the spread of “variant”
+Added: viruses and the related length of its impact on the global economy, which are uncertain
+Added: and cannot be predicted at this time due to the daily evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global responses to curb its
+Added: Furthermore, the extent to which our mitigation efforts are successful, if at all, is not presently ascertainable.
+Added: we expect that our results of operations, including revenues, in future periods will continue to be adversely impacted by the
+Added: COVID-19 pandemic and its negative effects on global economic conditions, which include a global recession, and that, as a result
+Added: of such effects, we may continue to be adversely affected even after the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided.
+Added: continue to face inventory risk and may be required to write-off additional inventory in the future.
+Added: value inventories at the lower of cost or net realizable value.
+Added: If the estimated net realizable value is determined to be less
+Added: than the recorded cost of the inventory, a provision is made to reduce the carrying amount of the inventory item to the lower
+Added: net realizable value determination.
+Added: Determination of the net realizable value may be complex, and therefore, requires management
+Added: to make assumptions and to apply a high degree of judgment.
+Added: In order for management to make the appropriate determination of net
+Added: realizable value, the following items are commonly considered:
+Added: inventory turnover statistics, inventory quantities on hand in
+Added: our facilities, unfilled customer order quantities, forecasted consumer demand, current prices, competitive pricing, seasonality
+Added: factors, consumer trends and performance of similar products or accessories.
+Added: Subsequent changes in facts or circumstances do not
+Added: result in the reversal of previously recorded write-downs.
+Added: example, we built substantial inventory of our products in anticipation of customer demands in 2020.
+Added: Due to a temporary slowdown
+Added: in construction of telecommunications towers in the U.S., we recorded lower than expected demand and sales of our products to
+Added: telecommunications customers, which resulted in a $3,400 inventory write-down to reduce the remaining inventory of our
+Added: products to its estimated net realizable value of $9,094 as of December 31, 2020.
+Added: our estimates regarding net realizable value are inaccurate, including our estimates regarding our inventory, or changes in customer
+Added: demand for our products in an unforeseen manner, we may experience additional write-downs of our inventory.
+Added: Although we have not
+Added: completed the preparation of our financial statements for the quarter ended March 31, 2021, we are in the process of undergoing
+Added: an evaluation of the net realizability of our assets, including the recoverability of our recorded inventory amounts.
+Added: completion of our analysis, there could be further adjustments to the carrying value of certain of our recorded assets, which
+Added: adjustments could be material.
+Added: have incurred significant losses in the past and we may incur losses in the future, which may hamper our operations and impede
+Added: us from expanding our business.
+Added: have incurred significant losses in the past.
+Added: For the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, we incurred consolidated net losses
+Added: of approximately $10.8 million and $4.0 million, respectively.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2020, we incurred a gross loss
+Added: of approximately $5.6 million.
+Added: We may incur net and gross losses in the future.
+Added: We expect to rely on cash on hand, cash, if any,
+Added: generated from our operations, borrowing availability under our line of credit and proceeds from our future financing activities,
+Added: if any, to fund all of the cash requirements of our business.
+Added: Additional losses may hamper our operations and impede us from expanding
+Added: our business.
+Added: are dependent on, and derive substantially all of our revenue from, sales of our DC base power systems to three customers within
telecommunications market.
−Removed: Our efforts to expand
−Removed: our customer base, our product portfolio or markets within which we operate may not succeed and may reduce our revenue growth rate.
−Removed: We derive substantially all our
−Removed: revenues from sales of our DC base power systems to three customers within the telecommunications market, AT&T, Verizon
−Removed: Wireless, and T-Mobile.
−Removed: Any factor adversely affecting sales of these power systems to these customers or to other customers
−Removed: within this market, including market acceptance, product competition, performance and reliability, reputation, price
−Removed: competition and economic and market conditions, could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
−Removed: during the fourth quarter of 2019, and extending into the first quarter of 2020, our U.S.
−Removed: Tier-1 telecommunications customers
−Removed: postponed orders and shipments to the latter part of 2020 which resulted in an 87% decline in net revenues during the fourth
−Removed: quarter of 2019 as compared to the third quarter of 2019.
−Removed: In addition, any unfavorable change in our
−Removed: business relationship with our Tier-1 telecommunications wireless carrier customers, or delays in customer implementation and deployment
−Removed: of our products, could have a material adverse effect on our results of operation and financial condition.
−Removed: Our plan to invest in
−Removed: the development of higher capacity DC hybrid solar systems to address data centers and other applications within the telecommunications
−Removed: market may not result in an anticipated growth in sales and may reduce our revenue growth rate.
−Removed: Many of our DC power systems involve long design
−Removed: and sales cycles, which could have an adverse impact on our results of operations and financial performance.
−Removed: The design and sales cycle for our DC power
−Removed: systems, from initial contact with our potential customer to the shipments of our product, may be lengthy.
−Removed: Customers generally
−Removed: consider a wide range of factors before making a purchase decision.
−Removed: Prior to purchasing our products, our customers often require
−Removed: a significant technical review, tests and evaluations over long periods of time, assessments of competitive products and approval
−Removed: at a number of management levels within their organization.
−Removed: During the time our customers are evaluating our products, we may incur
−Removed: substantial sales and service, engineering and research and development expenses to customize our products to meet customer’s
−Removed: application needs.
−Removed: We may also expend significant management efforts, increase manufacturing capacity, order long-lead-time components
−Removed: or purchase significant amounts of components and other inventory prior to receiving an order.
−Removed: Even after this evaluation process,
−Removed: a potential customer may not purchase our products.
−Removed: The product development time before a customer
−Removed: agrees to purchase our DC power systems can be considerable.
−Removed: Our process for developing an integrated solution may require use
−Removed: of significant engineering resources, including design, prototyping, modeling, testing and application engineering.
−Removed: of this cycle is influenced by many factors, including the difficulty of the technical specification and complexity of the design
−Removed: and the customer’s procurement processes.
−Removed: A significant period may elapse between our investment of time and resources in
−Removed: designing and developing a product for a customer and receipt of revenue from sales of that product .
−Removed: The length of this process, combined with unanticipated delays in the development cycles and the effects of COVID-19 on our ability
−Removed: to demonstrate our products to current and potential customers could materially affect our results of operations and financial
−Removed: We do not have long-term commitments for significant revenues
−Removed: with most of our customers and may be unable to retain existing customers, attract new customers or replace departing customers
−Removed: with new customers that can provide comparable revenues and profit margins.
−Removed: Because we generally do not obtain firm,
−Removed: long-term volume purchase commitments from our customers, most of our sales are derived from individual purchase orders.
−Removed: dependent upon securing new purchase orders in the future in order to sustain and grow our revenues.
−Removed: Accordingly, there is no assurance
−Removed: that our revenues and business will grow in the future.
−Removed: Our failure to maintain and expand our customer relationships could materially
−Removed: and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
−Removed: The high concentration of our sales within
−Removed: the telecommunications market could result in a significant reduction in sales and negatively affect our results of operations
−Removed: if demand for our DC power systems declines within this market.
−Removed: We expect to be predominately focused on
−Removed: the manufacturing, marketing and sales of DC power systems to telecommunications companies for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: unable to shift our business focus away from these activities.
−Removed: Accordingly, the emergence of new competing DC power products or
−Removed: lower-cost alternative technologies may reduce the demand for our products.
−Removed: A downturn in the demand for our DC power systems within
−Removed: the telecommunications market would likely materially and adversely affect our sales and results of operations.
−Removed: The markets within which we compete are highly competitive.
−Removed: Many of our competitors have greater financial and other resources than we do and one or more of these competitors could use their
−Removed: greater financial and other resources to gain market share at our expense.
−Removed: If our business continues to develop as
−Removed: expected, we anticipate that we will continue to grow in the near future.
−Removed: If, due to capital constraints or otherwise, we are unable
−Removed: to fulfill our existing backlog in a timely manner and/or procure and timely fulfill our anticipated future backlog, our customers
−Removed: and potential customers may decide to use competing DC power systems or continue the use of AC power systems.
−Removed: If we are unable
−Removed: to fulfill the growing demand for products and services in a timely manner, our customers and potential customers may choose to
−Removed: purchase products from our competitors.
−Removed: Some of our larger competitors may be willing to reduce prices and accept lower margins
−Removed: in order to compete with us.
−Removed: In addition, we could face new competition from large international or domestic companies with established
−Removed: industrial brands and distribution networks that enter our end markets.
−Removed: Demand for our products may also be affected by our ability
−Removed: to respond to changes in design and functionality, to respond to downward pricing pressure, and to provide shorter lead times for
−Removed: our products than our competitors.
−Removed: If we are unable to respond successfully to these competitive pressures, we could lose market
−Removed: share, which could have an adverse impact on our results.
−Removed: We cannot assure that we will be able to compete successfully in our
−Removed: markets or compete effectively against current and new competitors as our industry continues to evolve.
−Removed: Rapid technological changes may prevent us from remaining
−Removed: current with our technological resources and maintaining competitive product and service offerings.
−Removed: The markets in which we and our customers
−Removed: operate are characterized by rapid technological change, especially within the telecommunications market.
−Removed: Significant technological
−Removed: changes could render our existing and potential new products, services and technology obsolete.
−Removed: Our future success will depend,
−Removed: in large part, upon our ability to:
−Removed: effectively identify and develop leading energy efficient technologies;
−Removed: continue to develop our technical expertise;
−Removed: enhance our current products and services with new, improved and competitive technology;
−Removed: respond to technological changes in a cost-effective and timely manner.
−Removed: If we are unable to successfully respond
−Removed: to technological change or if we do not respond to it in a cost-effective and timely manner, then our business will be materially
−Removed: and adversely affected.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that we will be successful in responding to changing technology.
−Removed: In addition, technologies
−Removed: developed by others may render our products, services and technology uncompetitive or obsolete.
−Removed: Even if we do successfully respond
−Removed: to technological advances, the integration of new technology may require substantial time and expense, and we cannot assure you
−Removed: that we will succeed in adapting our products, services and technology in a timely and cost-effective manner.
−Removed: If we are unable to continue to develop
−Removed: new and enhanced products and services that achieve market acceptance in a timely manner, our competitive position and operating
−Removed: results could be harmed.
−Removed: Our future success will depend on our ability
−Removed: to continue to develop new and enhanced DC power systems and related products and services that achieve market acceptance in a
−Removed: timely and cost-effective manner.
−Removed: The markets in which we and our customers operate are characterized by frequent introductions
−Removed: of new and enhanced products and services, evolving industry standards and regulatory requirements, government incentives and changes
−Removed: in customer needs.
−Removed: The successful development and market acceptance of our products and services, including our new LPG / propane
−Removed: and natural gas line of generators and solar hybrid power systems, depends on a number of factors, including:
−Removed: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global markets;
−Removed: the changing requirements and preferences of the potential customers in our markets;
−Removed: the accurate prediction of market requirements, including regulatory issues;
−Removed: the timely completion and introduction of new products and services to avoid obsolescence;
−Removed: the quality, price and performance of new products and services;
−Removed: the availability, quality, price and performance of competing products and services;
−Removed: our customer service and support capabilities and responsiveness;
−Removed: the successful development of our relationships with existing and potential customers;
−Removed: changes in industry standards.
−Removed: We may experience financial or technical
−Removed: difficulties or limitations that could prevent us from introducing new or enhanced products or services.
−Removed: Furthermore, any of these
−Removed: new or enhanced products and services could contain problems that are discovered after they are introduced.
−Removed: We may need to significantly
−Removed: modify the design of these products and services to correct problems.
−Removed: Rapidly changing industry standards and customer preferences
−Removed: and requirements may impede market acceptance of our products and services.
−Removed: Development and enhancement of our products
−Removed: and services will require significant additional investment and could strain our management, financial and operational resources.
−Removed: The lack of market acceptance of our products or services or our inability to generate sufficient revenues from this development
−Removed: or enhancement to offset their development costs could have a material adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: In addition, we may experience
−Removed: delays or other problems in releasing new products and services and enhancements, and any such delays or problems may cause customers
−Removed: to forego purchases of our products and services and to purchase those of our competitors.
−Removed: We cannot provide assurance that products
−Removed: and services that we have recently developed or that we develop in the future will achieve market acceptance.
−Removed: If our new products
−Removed: and services fail to achieve market acceptance, or if we fail to develop new or enhanced products and services s that achieve market
−Removed: acceptance, our growth prospects, operating results and competitive position could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Natural disasters and other events beyond our control
−Removed: could materially adversely affect us.
−Removed: Natural disasters or other catastrophic
−Removed: events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, may cause damage or disruption to our operations, international commerce and the global
−Removed: economy, and thus could have a strong negative effect on us.
−Removed: Our business operations are subject to interruption by natural disasters,
−Removed: fire, power shortages, pandemics and other events beyond our control.
−Removed: Although we maintain crisis management and disaster response
−Removed: plans, such events could make it difficult or impossible for us to deliver our services to our customers and could decrease demand
−Removed: for our services.
−Removed: We are dependent on relationships
−Removed: with our key material suppliers, and the partial or complete loss of one of these key suppliers, or the failure to find replacement
−Removed: suppliers or manufacturers in a timely manner, could adversely affect our business.
−Removed: We have established relationships with third
−Removed: party engine suppliers and other key suppliers from which we source components for our power systems.
−Removed: We purchase standard configurations
−Removed: of engines for our DC power systems and are substantially dependent on timely supply from our three key engine suppliers, Yanmar
−Removed: Engines Company, Kubota Corporation, and Perkins Company.
−Removed: Purchases from Yanmar, Kubota, and Perkins represented approximately
−Removed: 39%, 3%, and 10% of our total cost of sales for 2019 respectively, and represented approximately 14%, 2%, and 4% of our total cost
−Removed: of sales for 2018, respectively.
−Removed: In the fourth quarter of 2019, we received our certificate of conformity from the U.S.
−Removed: Environmental
−Removed: Protection Agency, or EPA, on small spark-ignition Toyota engines which will be used in our new LPG / propane generators.
−Removed: Toyota engine will replace most of our Kubota applications and serve as our primary engine in our new LPG products launched in
−Removed: We do not have any long-term contracts or commitments with any of these suppliers.
−Removed: If any of these engine suppliers were
−Removed: to fail to provide emissions certified engines in a timely manner or fail to supply engines that meet our quality, quantity or
−Removed: cost requirements, or were to discontinue manufacturing any engines we source from them or discontinue providing any of these engines
−Removed: to us, or the supply chain is interrupted or delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic or unprecedented event, and we were unable
−Removed: to obtain substitute sources in a timely manner or on terms acceptable to us, our ability to manufacture our products could be
−Removed: materially adversely affected.
−Removed: Price increases in some of the key components in our DC
−Removed: power systems could materially and adversely affect our operating results and cash flows.
−Removed: The prices of some of the key components
−Removed: of our DC power systems are subject to fluctuation due to market forces beyond our control, including changes in the costs of raw
−Removed: materials incorporated into these components.
−Removed: Such price increases occur from time to time due to spot shortages of commodities,
−Removed: increases in labor costs or longer-term shortages due to market forces.
−Removed: In particular, the prices of engines can fluctuate frequently
−Removed: and often significantly.
−Removed: We do not have any long-term contracts or commitments with our three key engine suppliers.
−Removed: increases in the prices of raw materials used in components which we source from our suppliers may result in increased prices charged
−Removed: by our suppliers.
−Removed: If we incur price increases from our suppliers for key components in our DC power systems, our production costs
−Removed: will increase.
−Removed: Given competitive market conditions, we may not be able to pass all or any of those cost increases on to our customers
−Removed: in the form of higher sales prices.
−Removed: To the extent our competitors do not suffer comparable component cost increases, we may have
−Removed: even greater difficulty passing along price increases and our competitive position may be harmed.
−Removed: As a result, increases in costs
−Removed: of key components may adversely affect our margins and otherwise adversely affect our operating results and cash flows.
−Removed: A portion of our key components are sourced
−Removed: in foreign countries, exposing us to additional risks that may not exist in the U.S.
−Removed: A portion of our key components, such as
−Removed: engines, magnets and cooling systems, are purchased from suppliers located overseas, primarily in Asia.
−Removed: Our international sourcing
−Removed: subjects us to a number of potential risks in addition to the risks associated with third-party sourcing generally.
−Removed: inflation or changes in political and economic conditions;
−Removed: unstable regulatory environments;
−Removed: changes in import and export duties;
−Removed: currency rate fluctuations;
−Removed: trade restrictions;
−Removed: labor unrest;
−Removed: logistical and communications challenges;
−Removed: other restraints and burdensome taxes.
−Removed: These factors may have an adverse effect
−Removed: on our ability to source our purchased components overseas.
+Added: Our efforts to expand our customer base, our product portfolio or markets within which we
+Added: operate may not succeed and may reduce our revenue growth rate.
+Added: derive substantially all our revenues from sales of our DC base power systems to three customers within the telecommunications
+Added: market, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless.
+Added: The volume of sales to anyone of them may vary significantly from year to year.
+Added: Any factor adversely affecting sales of these power systems to these customers or to other customers within this market, including
+Added: market acceptance, product competition, performance and reliability, reputation, price competition and economic and market conditions,
+Added: could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
+Added: For example, during the 2020, our U.S.
+Added: Tier-1 telecommunications
+Added: customers postponed orders and shipments due to factors that we believe were related to both the shift in the allocation capital
+Added: budgets from backup power solutions to 5G programs and the impact of COVID-19, which resulted in a 64% decline in net revenues
+Added: Tier-1 telecommunications customers during 2020 as compared to 2019.
+Added: addition, any unfavorable change in our business relationship with our Tier-1 telecommunications wireless carrier customers, or
+Added: delays in customer implementation and deployment of our products, could have a material adverse effect on our results of operation
+Added: and financial condition.
+Added: Our plans to invest in the development of electric vehicle chargers, residential and commercial power
+Added: products and higher capacity DC hybrid solar systems may not result in an anticipated growth in sales and may reduce our revenue
+Added: of our DC power systems involve long design and sales cycles, which could have an adverse impact on our results of operations
+Added: and financial performance.
+Added: design and sales cycle for our DC power systems, from initial contact with our potential customer to the shipments of our product,
+Added: may be lengthy.
+Added: Customers generally consider a wide range of factors before making a purchase decision.
+Added: Prior to purchasing our
+Added: products, our customers often require a significant technical review, tests and evaluations over long periods of time, assessments
+Added: of competitive products and approval at a number of management levels within their organization.
+Added: During the time our customers
+Added: are evaluating our products, we may incur substantial sales and service, engineering and research and development expenses to
+Added: customize our products to meet customer’s application needs.
+Added: We may also expend significant management efforts, increase
+Added: manufacturing capacity, order long-lead-time components or purchase significant amounts of components and other inventory prior
+Added: to receiving an order.
+Added: Even after this evaluation process, a potential customer may not purchase our products.
+Added: product development time before a customer agrees to purchase our DC power systems can be considerable.
+Added: Our process for developing
+Added: an integrated solution may require use of significant engineering resources, including design, prototyping, modeling, testing
+Added: and application engineering.
+Added: The length of this cycle is influenced by many factors, including the difficulty of the technical
+Added: specification and complexity of the design and the customer’s procurement processes.
+Added: A significant period may elapse between
+Added: our investment of time and resources in designing and developing a product for a customer and receipt of revenue from sales of
+Added: that product .
+Added: The length of this process, combined with unanticipated delays in the
+Added: development cycles and the effects of COVID-19 on our ability to demonstrate our products to current and potential customers could
+Added: materially affect our results of operations and financial conditions.
+Added: do not have long-term commitments for significant revenues with most of our customers and may be unable to retain existing customers,
+Added: attract new customers or replace departing customers with new customers that can provide comparable revenues and profit margins.
+Added: we generally do not obtain firm, long-term volume purchase commitments from our customers, most of our sales are derived from
+Added: individual purchase orders.
+Added: We remain dependent upon securing new purchase orders in the future in order to sustain and grow our
+Added: Accordingly, there is no assurance that our revenues and business will grow in the future.
+Added: Our failure to maintain and
+Added: expand our customer relationships could materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
+Added: high concentration of our sales within the telecommunications market could result in a significant reduction in sales and negatively
+Added: affect our results of operations if demand for our DC power systems declines within this market.
+Added: expect to be predominately focused on the manufacturing, marketing and sales of DC power systems to telecommunications companies
+Added: for the foreseeable future.
+Added: We may be unable to shift our business focus away from these activities.
+Added: Accordingly, the emergence
+Added: of new competing DC power products or lower-cost alternative technologies may reduce the demand for our products.
+Added: A downturn in
+Added: the demand for our DC power systems within the telecommunications market would likely materially and adversely affect our sales
+Added: and results of operations.
+Added: markets within which we compete are highly competitive.
+Added: Many of our competitors have greater financial and other resources than
+Added: we do and one or more of these competitors could use their greater financial and other resources to gain market share at our expense.
+Added: our business continues to develop as expected, we anticipate that we will grow our revenues in the near future.
+Added: If, due to capital
+Added: constraints or otherwise, we are unable to fulfill our existing backlog in a timely manner and/or procure and timely fulfill our
+Added: anticipated future backlog, our customers and potential customers may decide to use competing DC power systems or continue the
+Added: use of AC power systems.
+Added: If we are unable to fulfill the demand for products and services in a timely manner, our customers and
+Added: potential customers may choose to purchase products from our competitors.
+Added: Some of our larger competitors may be willing to reduce
+Added: prices and accept lower margins in order to compete with us.
+Added: In addition, we could face new competition from large international
+Added: or domestic companies with established industrial brands and distribution networks that enter our end markets.
+Added: Demand for our
+Added: products may also be affected by our ability to respond to changes in design and functionality, to respond to downward pricing
+Added: pressure, and to provide shorter lead times for our products than our competitors.
+Added: If we are unable to respond successfully to
+Added: these competitive pressures, we could lose market share, which could have an adverse impact on our results.
+Added: We cannot assure that
+Added: we will be able to compete successfully in our markets or compete effectively against current and new competitors as our industry
+Added: continues to evolve.
+Added: technological changes may prevent us from remaining current with our technological resources and maintaining competitive product
+Added: and service offerings.
+Added: markets in which we and our customers operate are characterized by rapid technological change, especially within the telecommunications
+Added: Significant technological changes could render our existing and potential new products, services and technology obsolete.
+Added: Our future success will depend, in large part, upon our ability to:
+Added: identify and develop leading energy efficient technologies;
+Added: to develop our technical expertise;
+Added: our current products and services with new, improved and competitive technology;
+Added: to technological changes in a cost-effective and timely manner.
+Added: we are unable to successfully respond to technological change or if we do not respond to it in a cost-effective and timely manner,
+Added: then our business will be materially and adversely affected.
+Added: We cannot assure you that we will be successful in responding to
+Added: changing technology.
+Added: In addition, technologies developed by others may render our products, services and technology uncompetitive
+Added: Even if we do successfully respond to technological advances, the integration of new technology may require substantial
+Added: time and expense, and we cannot assure you that we will succeed in adapting our products, services and technology in a timely
+Added: and cost-effective manner.
+Added: we are unable to continue to develop new and enhanced products and services that achieve market acceptance in a timely manner,
+Added: our competitive position and operating results could be harmed.
+Added: future success will depend on our ability to continue to develop new and enhanced DC power systems and related products and services
+Added: that achieve market acceptance in a timely and cost-effective manner.
+Added: The markets in which we and our customers operate are characterized
+Added: by frequent introductions of new and enhanced products and services, evolving industry standards and regulatory requirements,
+Added: government incentives and changes in customer needs.
+Added: The successful development and market acceptance of our products and services,
+Added: including our new LPG / natural gas line of generators and solar hybrid power systems, depends on a number of factors, including:
+Added: impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global markets;
+Added: changing requirements and preferences of the potential customers in our markets;
+Added: accurate prediction of market requirements, including regulatory issues;
+Added: timely completion and introduction of new products and services to avoid obsolescence;
+Added: quality, price and performance of new products and services;
+Added: availability, quality, price and performance of competing products and services;
+Added: customer service and support capabilities and responsiveness;
+Added: successful development of our relationships with existing and potential customers;
+Added: in industry standards.
+Added: may experience financial or technical difficulties or limitations that could prevent us from introducing new or enhanced products
+Added: Furthermore, any of these new or enhanced products and services could contain problems that are discovered after
+Added: they are introduced.
+Added: We may need to significantly modify the design of these products and services to correct problems.
+Added: changing industry standards and customer preferences and requirements may impede market acceptance of our products and services.
+Added: and enhancement of our products and services will require significant additional investment and could strain our management, financial
+Added: and operational resources.
+Added: The lack of market acceptance of our products or services or our inability to generate sufficient revenues
+Added: from this development or enhancement to offset their development costs could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: addition, we may experience delays or other problems in releasing new products and services and enhancements, and any such delays
+Added: or problems may cause customers to forego purchases of our products and services and to purchase those of our competitors.
+Added: cannot provide assurance that products and services that we have recently developed or that we develop in the future will achieve
+Added: market acceptance.
+Added: If our new products and services fail to achieve market acceptance, or if we fail to develop new or enhanced
+Added: products and services s that achieve market acceptance, our growth prospects, operating results and competitive position could
+Added: be adversely affected.
+Added: disasters and other events beyond our control could materially adversely affect us.
+Added: disasters or other catastrophic events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, may cause damage or disruption to our operations, international
+Added: commerce and the global economy, and thus could have a strong negative effect on us.
+Added: Our business operations are subject to interruption
+Added: by natural disasters, fire, power shortages, pandemics and other events beyond our control.
+Added: Although we maintain crisis management
+Added: and disaster response plans, such events could make it difficult or impossible for us to deliver our services to our customers
+Added: and could decrease demand for our services.
+Added: are dependent on relationships with our key material suppliers, and the partial or complete loss of one of these key suppliers,
+Added: or the failure to find replacement suppliers or manufacturers in a timely manner, could adversely affect our business.
+Added: have established relationships with third party engine suppliers and other key suppliers from which we source components for our
+Added: power systems.
+Added: We purchase standard configurations of engines for our DC power systems and are substantially dependent on timely
+Added: supply from our key engine suppliers, Yanmar Engines Company, and Toyota Corporation.
+Added: Engines from Yanmar and Toyota represented
+Added: approximately 66%, and 18% of our total engines sold as a component of our DC power systems during 2020, respectively, and represented
+Added: approximately 70%, 0% of our total engines sold as components of our DC power systems during 2019, respectively.
+Added: We also use engines
+Added: from Isuzu, Perkins, Kubota and, to a lesser extent, Volvo Penta.
+Added: In December 2019, we received our certificate of conformity
+Added: from the EPA with respect to our small spark-ignition Toyota engines which will be used in our new LPG / natural gas generators.
+Added: The new Toyota engine serves as our primary engine in our new LPG products which were launched in 2020.
+Added: We do not have any long-term
+Added: contracts or commitments with any of these suppliers.
+Added: If any of these engine suppliers were to fail to provide emissions certified
+Added: engines in a timely manner or fail to supply engines that meet our quality, quantity or cost requirements, or were to discontinue
+Added: manufacturing any engines we source from them or discontinue providing any of these engines to us, or the supply chain is interrupted
+Added: or delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic or unprecedented event, and we were unable to obtain substitute sources in a timely
+Added: manner or on terms acceptable to us, our ability to manufacture our products could be materially adversely affected.
+Added: increases in some of the key components in our DC power systems could materially and adversely affect our operating results and
+Added: prices of some of the key components of our DC power systems are subject to fluctuation due to market forces beyond our control,
+Added: including changes in the costs of raw materials incorporated into these components.
+Added: Such price increases occur from time to time
+Added: due to spot shortages of commodities, increases in labor costs or longer-term shortages due to market forces.
+Added: In particular, the
+Added: prices of engines can fluctuate frequently and often significantly.
+Added: We do not have any long-term contracts or commitments with
+Added: our two key engine suppliers.
+Added: Substantial increases in the prices of raw materials used in components which we source from our
+Added: suppliers may result in increased prices charged by our suppliers.
+Added: If we incur price increases from our suppliers for key components
+Added: in our DC power systems, our production costs will increase.
+Added: Given competitive market conditions, we may not be able to pass all
+Added: or any of those cost increases on to our customers in the form of higher sales prices.
+Added: To the extent our competitors do not suffer
+Added: comparable component cost increases, we may have even greater difficulty passing along price increases and our competitive position
+Added: may be harmed.
+Added: As a result, increases in costs of key components may adversely affect our margins and otherwise adversely affect
+Added: our operating results and cash flows.
+Added: portion of our key components are sourced in foreign countries, exposing us to additional risks that may not exist in the U.S.
+Added: portion of our key components, such as engines, magnets and cooling systems, are purchased from suppliers located overseas, primarily
+Added: Our international sourcing subjects us to a number of potential risks in addition to the risks associated with third-party
+Added: sourcing generally.
+Added: These risks include:
+Added: or changes in political and economic conditions;
+Added: regulatory environments;
+Added: in import and export duties;
+Added: rate fluctuations;
+Added: restrictions;
+Added: and communications challenges;
+Added: restraints and burdensome taxes.
+Added: factors may have an adverse effect on our ability to source our purchased components overseas.
In particular, if the U.S.
−Removed: dollar were to depreciate significantly
−Removed: against the currencies in which we purchase raw materials from foreign suppliers, our cost of goods sold could increase materially,
−Removed: which would adversely affect our results of operations.
−Removed: The unavailability or shortage, or increase in the cost,
−Removed: of raw materials and components could have an adverse effect on our sales and profitability.
−Removed: Our operations require raw materials, such
−Removed: as aluminum, copper and permanent magnets.
−Removed: Commodities such as aluminum and copper are known to have significant price volatility
−Removed: based on global economic conditions including the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: An increase in global economic outlook may result in significant
−Removed: price increases in the cost of our raw materials.
−Removed: In addition, we use Neodymium permanent magnets in our alternators, for which
−Removed: there are a limited number of global suppliers that can meet our standards.
−Removed: Increase in manufacturing of electric vehicles worldwide
−Removed: can have an adverse effect on the cost or supply of these magnets.
−Removed: At our current production volumes, we are unable to secure large
−Removed: quantities of these commodities at fixed prices;
−Removed: however, we do have multiple sources of supply for our raw materials to meet our
−Removed: near term forecasted needs.
−Removed: Various factors could reduce the availability of raw materials and components and shortages may occur
−Removed: from time to time in the future.
−Removed: An increase in lead times for the supply of raw materials due to a global increase in demand for
−Removed: commodities outlined may significantly increase material costs of our products.
−Removed: If production was interrupted due to unavailability
−Removed: or shortage of raw materials and we were not able to find alternate third-party suppliers or re-engineer our products to accommodate
−Removed: different components or materials, we could experience disruptions in manufacturing and operations including product shortages,
−Removed: higher freight costs and re-engineering costs.
−Removed: If our supply of raw materials or components is disrupted or our lead times extended,
−Removed: our business, results of operations or financial condition could be materially adversely affected.
−Removed: We manufacture and assemble a majority of our
−Removed: products at two facilities.
−Removed: Any prolonged disruption in the operations of this facility would result in a decline in our sales
+Added: were to depreciate significantly against the currencies in which we purchase raw materials from foreign suppliers, our cost of
+Added: goods sold could increase materially, which would adversely affect our results of operations.
+Added: unavailability or shortage, or increase in the cost, of raw materials and components could have an adverse effect on our sales
and profitability.
−Removed: We manufacture and assemble our DC power
−Removed: systems at our facilities located in Gardena, California.
−Removed: Any prolonged disruption in the operations of our manufacturing and assembly
−Removed: facilities, whether due to the COVID-19 pandemic, equipment or information technology infrastructure failure, labor difficulties,
−Removed: destruction of or damage to this facility as a result of an earthquake, fire, flood, other catastrophes, and other operational
−Removed: problems would result in a decline in our sales and profitability.
−Removed: In the event of a business interruption at our facilities, we
−Removed: may be unable to shift manufacturing and assembly capabilities to alternate locations, accept materials from suppliers or meet
−Removed: customer shipment needs, among other severe consequences.
−Removed: Such an event could have a material and adverse impact on our financial
−Removed: condition and results of our operations.
−Removed: Our business operations are subject to substantial government
−Removed: Our business operations are subject to certain
−Removed: federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations.
−Removed: For example, our products, services and technologies are subject to regulations
−Removed: relating to building codes, public safety, electrical connections, security protocols, and local and state licensing requirements.
−Removed: The regulations to which we are subject may change, additional regulations may be imposed, or existing regulations may be applied
−Removed: in a manner that creates special requirements for the implementation and operation of our products or services that may significantly
−Removed: impact or even eliminate some of our revenues or markets.
−Removed: In addition, we may incur material costs or liabilities in complying
−Removed: with any such regulations.
−Removed: Furthermore, some of our customers must comply with numerous laws and regulations, which may affect
−Removed: their willingness and ability to purchase our products, services and technologies.
−Removed: Additionally, we are subject to laws, regulations
−Removed: and other governmental actions instituted in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
−Removed: The modification of existing laws and regulations
−Removed: or interpretations thereof or the adoption of future laws and regulations could adversely affect our business, cause us to modify
−Removed: or alter our methods of operations and increase our costs and the price of our products, services and technology.
−Removed: we cannot provide any assurance that we will be able, for financial or other reasons, to comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
−Removed: If we fail to comply with these laws and regulations, we could become subject to substantial penalties or restrictions that could
−Removed: materially and adversely affect our business.
−Removed: Certain of our products are used in critical communications
−Removed: networks which may subject us to significant liability claims.
−Removed: Because certain of our products for
−Removed: customers in the telecommunications industry are used in critical communications networks, we may be subject to significant liability
−Removed: claims if our products do not work properly.
−Removed: We warrant to our customers that our products will operate in accordance with our
−Removed: product specifications.
−Removed: If our products fail to conform to these specifications, our customers could require us to remedy the failure
−Removed: or could assert claims for damages.
−Removed: The provisions in our agreements with customers that are intended to limit our exposure to
−Removed: liability claims may not preclude all potential claims.
−Removed: In addition, any insurance policies we have may not adequately limit our
−Removed: exposure with respect to such claims.
−Removed: Liability claims could require us to spend significant time and money in litigation or to
−Removed: pay significant damages.
−Removed: Any such claims, whether or not successful, would be costly and time-consuming to defend, and could divert
−Removed: management’s attention and seriously damage our reputation and our business.
−Removed: We could be adversely affected by our failure
−Removed: to comply with the laws applicable to our foreign activities, including the U.S.
−Removed: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other similar
−Removed: worldwide anti-bribery laws.
−Removed: Foreign Corrupt Practices
−Removed: Act, or the FCPA, and similar anti-bribery laws in other jurisdictions prohibit U.S.-based companies and their intermediaries from
−Removed: making improper payments to non-U.S.
+Added: operations require raw materials, such as aluminum, copper and permanent magnets.
+Added: Commodities such as aluminum and copper are
+Added: known to have significant price volatility based on global economic conditions.
+Added: An increase in global economic outlook may result
+Added: in significant price increases in the cost of our raw materials.
+Added: In addition, we use Neodymium permanent magnets in our alternators,
+Added: for which there are a limited number of global suppliers that can meet our standards.
+Added: Increase in manufacturing of electric vehicles
+Added: worldwide can have an adverse effect on the cost or supply of these magnets.
+Added: At our current production volumes, we are unable
+Added: to secure large quantities of these commodities at fixed prices;
+Added: however, we do have multiple sources of supply for our raw materials
+Added: to meet our near term forecasted needs.
+Added: Various factors could reduce the availability of raw materials and components and shortages
+Added: may occur from time to time in the future.
+Added: An increase in lead times for the supply of raw materials due to a global increase
+Added: in demand for commodities outlined may significantly increase material costs of our products.
+Added: If production was interrupted due
+Added: to unavailability or shortage of raw materials and we were not able to find alternate third-party suppliers or re-engineer our
+Added: products to accommodate different components or materials, we could experience disruptions in manufacturing and operations including
+Added: product shortages, higher freight costs and re-engineering costs.
+Added: If our supply of raw materials or components is disrupted or
+Added: our lead times extended, our business, results of operations or financial condition could be materially adversely affected.
+Added: manufacture and assemble a majority of our products at two facilities.
+Added: Any prolonged disruption in the operations of these facilities
+Added: would result in a decline in our sales and profitability.
+Added: manufacture and assemble our DC power systems at our two production facilities located in Gardena, California.
+Added: Any prolonged disruption
+Added: in the operations of our manufacturing and assembly facilities, whether due to the COVID-19 pandemic, equipment or information
+Added: technology infrastructure failure, labor difficulties, destruction of or damage to one or both of these facilities as a result
+Added: of an earthquake, fire, flood, other catastrophes, and other operational problems would result in a decline in our sales and profitability.
+Added: In the event of a business interruption at our facilities, we may be unable to shift manufacturing and assembly capabilities to
+Added: alternate locations, accept materials from suppliers or meet customer shipment needs, among other severe consequences.
+Added: event could have a material and adverse impact on our financial condition and results of our operations.
+Added: business operations are subject to substantial government regulation.
+Added: business operations are subject to certain federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations.
+Added: For example, our products,
+Added: services and technologies are subject to regulations relating to building codes, public safety, electrical connections, security
+Added: protocols, and local and state licensing requirements.
+Added: The regulations to which we are subject may change, additional regulations
+Added: may be imposed, or existing regulations may be applied in a manner that creates special requirements for the implementation and
+Added: operation of our products or services that may significantly impact or even eliminate some of our revenues or markets.
+Added: we may incur material costs or liabilities in complying with any such regulations.
+Added: Furthermore, some of our customers must comply
+Added: with numerous laws and regulations, which may affect their willingness and ability to purchase our products, services and technologies.
+Added: Additionally, we are subject to laws, regulations and other governmental actions instituted in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
+Added: modification of existing laws and regulations or interpretations thereof or the adoption of future laws and regulations could
+Added: adversely affect our business, cause us to modify or alter our methods of operations and increase our costs and the price of our
+Added: products, services and technology.
+Added: In addition, we cannot provide any assurance that we will be able, for financial or other reasons,
+Added: to comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
+Added: If we fail to comply with these laws and regulations, we could become subject
+Added: to substantial penalties or restrictions that could materially and adversely affect our business.
+Added: of our products are used in critical communications networks which may subject us to significant liability claims.
+Added: certain of our products for customers in the telecommunications industry are used in critical communications networks, we may
+Added: be subject to significant liability claims if our products do not work properly.
+Added: We warrant to our customers that our products
+Added: will operate in accordance with our product specifications.
+Added: If our products fail to conform to these specifications, our customers
+Added: could require us to remedy the failure or could assert claims for damages.
+Added: The provisions in our agreements with customers that
+Added: are intended to limit our exposure to liability claims may not preclude all potential claims.
+Added: In addition, any insurance policies
+Added: we have may not adequately limit our exposure with respect to such claims.
+Added: Liability claims could require us to spend significant
+Added: time and money in litigation or to pay significant damages.
+Added: Any such claims, whether or not successful, would be costly and time-consuming
+Added: to defend, and could divert management’s attention and seriously damage our reputation and our business.
+Added: could be adversely affected by our failure to comply with the laws applicable to our foreign activities, including the U.S.
+Added: Corrupt Practices Act and other similar worldwide anti-bribery laws.
+Added: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or the FCPA, and similar anti-bribery laws in other jurisdictions prohibit U.S.-based companies
+Added: and their intermediaries from making improper payments to non-U.S.
officials for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business.
−Removed: We may pursue opportunities
−Removed: in certain parts of the world that experience government corruption, and in certain circumstances, compliance with anti-bribery
−Removed: laws may conflict with local customs and practices.
−Removed: Our policies mandate compliance with all applicable anti-bribery laws.
−Removed: we require our partners, subcontractors, agents and others who work for us or on our behalf to comply with the FCPA and other anti-bribery
−Removed: Although we have policies and procedures, and have conducted training, designed to ensure that we, our employees, our agents
−Removed: and others who work with us in foreign countries comply with the FCPA and other anti-bribery laws, there is no assurance that such
−Removed: policies, procedures or training will protect us against liability under the FCPA or other laws for actions taken by our agents,
−Removed: employees and intermediaries.
−Removed: If we are found to be liable for FCPA violations (either due to our own acts or inadvertence, or
−Removed: due to the acts or inadvertence of others), we could suffer from severe criminal or civil penalties or other sanctions, which could
−Removed: have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, results of operations or cash flows.
−Removed: In addition, detecting, investigating
−Removed: and resolving actual or alleged FCPA violations is expensive and could consume significant time and attention of our senior management.
−Removed: We are exposed to risks related to our international sales,
−Removed: and the failure to manage these risks could harm our business.
−Removed: If we fail to expand our business into international markets, our
−Removed: revenues and results of operations may be adversely affected .
−Removed: In addition to our sales to customers
−Removed: within the U.S., we may become increasingly dependent on sales to customers outside the U.S.
−Removed: as we pursue expanding our business
−Removed: with customers worldwide.
−Removed: Although in 2019 and 2018, our sales to international customers accounted for only 1% and 6%, respectively,
−Removed: of total revenue, we continue to expect that a significant portion of our future revenues will be from international sales to customers
−Removed: in less developed or developing countries.
−Removed: As a result, the occurrence of any international, political, economic, or geographic
−Removed: event could result in a significant decline in revenue.
−Removed: There are significant risks associated with conducting operations internationally,
−Removed: requiring significant financial commitments to support such operations.
−Removed: These operations present a number of challenges including
−Removed: oversight of daily operating practices in each location, handling employee benefits and employee behavior.
−Removed: In addition, compliance
−Removed: with complex foreign and U.S.
−Removed: laws and regulations that apply to our international operations increases our cost of doing business
−Removed: in international jurisdictions.
−Removed: These numerous and sometimes conflicting laws and regulations include internal control and disclosure
−Removed: rules, data privacy and filtering requirements, anti-corruption laws, such as the FCPA, and other local laws prohibiting corrupt
−Removed: payments to governmental officials, and anti-competition regulations, among others.
−Removed: Violations of these laws and regulations
−Removed: could result in fines and penalties, criminal sanctions against us, our officers, or our employees, prohibitions on the conduct
−Removed: of our business and on our ability to offer our products and services in one or more countries, and could also materially affect
−Removed: our brand, our international expansion efforts, our ability to attract and retain employees, our business, and our operating results.
−Removed: Although we have implemented policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance with these laws and regulations, there can be
−Removed: no assurance that our employees, contractors, or agents will not violate our policies.
+Added: We may pursue opportunities in certain parts of the world that experience government corruption, and in certain circumstances,
+Added: compliance with anti-bribery laws may conflict with local customs and practices.
+Added: Our policies mandate compliance with all applicable
+Added: anti-bribery laws.
+Added: Further, we require our partners, subcontractors, agents and others who work for us or on our behalf to comply
+Added: with the FCPA and other anti-bribery laws.
+Added: Although we have policies and procedures, and have conducted training, designed to
+Added: ensure that we, our employees, our agents and others who work with us in foreign countries comply with the FCPA and other anti-bribery
+Added: laws, there is no assurance that such policies, procedures or training will protect us against liability under the FCPA or other
+Added: laws for actions taken by our agents, employees and intermediaries.
+Added: If we are found to be liable for FCPA violations (either due
+Added: to our own acts or inadvertence, or due to the acts or inadvertence of others), we could suffer from severe criminal or civil
+Added: penalties or other sanctions, which could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, results of operations or
+Added: In addition, detecting, investigating and resolving actual or alleged FCPA violations is expensive and could consume
+Added: significant time and attention of our senior management.
+Added: are exposed to risks related to our international sales, and the failure to manage these risks could harm our business.
+Added: fail to expand our business into international markets, our revenues and results of operations may be adversely affected .
+Added: addition to our sales to customers within the U.S., we may become increasingly dependent on sales to customers outside the U.S.
+Added: as we pursue expanding our business with customers worldwide.
+Added: In 2020 and 2019, our sales to international customers accounted
+Added: for 17% and 1%, respectively, of total revenue.
+Added: We continue to expect that a significant portion of our future revenues will be
+Added: from international sales to customers in less developed or developing countries.
+Added: As a result, the occurrence of any international,
+Added: political, economic, or geographic event could result in a significant decline in revenue.
+Added: There are significant risks associated
+Added: with conducting operations internationally, requiring significant financial commitments to support such operations.
+Added: These operations
+Added: present a number of challenges including oversight of daily operating practices in each location, handling employee benefits and
+Added: employee behavior.
+Added: In addition, compliance with complex foreign and U.S.
+Added: laws and regulations that apply to our international
+Added: operations increases our cost of doing business in international jurisdictions.
+Added: These numerous and sometimes conflicting laws
+Added: and regulations include internal control and disclosure rules, data privacy and filtering requirements, anti-corruption laws,
+Added: such as the FCPA, and other local laws prohibiting corrupt payments to governmental officials, and anti-competition regulations,
+Added: among others.
+Added: of these laws and regulations could result in fines and penalties, criminal sanctions against us, our officers, or our employees,
+Added: prohibitions on the conduct of our business and on our ability to offer our products and services in one or more countries, and
+Added: could also materially affect our brand, our international expansion efforts, our ability to attract and retain employees, our
+Added: business, and our operating results.
+Added: Although we have implemented policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance with these
+Added: laws and regulations, there can be no assurance that our employees, contractors, or agents will not violate our policies.
of the risks and challenges of conducting business internationally include:
−Removed: ● the impact of COVID-19 on the global markets and the power generation market within the international telecommunications markets;
−Removed: requirements or preferences for domestic products or solutions, which could reduce demand for our products;
−Removed: unexpected changes in regulatory requirements;
−Removed: imposition of tariffs and other barriers and restrictions;
−Removed: restrictions on the import or export of critical technology;
−Removed: management communication and integration problems resulting from cultural and geographic dispersion;
−Removed: the burden of complying with a variety of laws and regulations in various countries;
−Removed: difficulties in enforcing contracts;
−Removed: the uncertainty of protection for intellectual property rights in some countries;
−Removed: application of the income tax laws and regulations of multiple jurisdictions, including relatively low-rate and relatively high-rate jurisdictions, to our sales and other transactions, which results in additional complexity and uncertainty;
−Removed: tariffs and trade barriers, export regulations and other regulatory
−Removed: and contractual limitations on our ability to sell products;
−Removed: greater risk of a failure of foreign employees to comply with both U.S.
−Removed: and foreign laws, including export and antitrust regulations, the FCPA and any trade regulations ensuring fair trade practices;
−Removed: heightened risk of unfair or corrupt business practices in certain geographies and of improper or fraudulent sales arrangements that may impact financial results and result in restatements of, or irregularities in, financial statements;
−Removed: potentially adverse tax consequences, including multiple and possibly overlapping tax structures;
−Removed: general economic and geopolitical conditions, including war and acts of terrorism;
−Removed: lack of the availability of qualified third-party financing;
−Removed: currency exchange controls.
−Removed: While these factors and the impacts of these
−Removed: factors are difficult to predict, any one or more of them could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results
−Removed: of operations in the future.
−Removed: Failures or security breaches of our networks or information
−Removed: technology systems could have an adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: We rely heavily on information
−Removed: technology, or IT, both in our products and services for customers and in our IT systems.
−Removed: Further, we collect and store sensitive
−Removed: information in our data centers and on our networks.
−Removed: Government agencies and security experts have warned about growing risks of
−Removed: hackers, cyber-criminals, malicious insiders and other actors targeting confidential information and all types of IT systems.
−Removed: actors may engage in fraudulent activities, theft of confidential or proprietary information and sabotage.
−Removed: Our IT systems and our confidential information
−Removed: may be vulnerable to damage or intrusion from a variety of attacks including computer viruses, worms or other malicious software
−Removed: These attacks pose a risk to the security of the products, systems and networks of our customers, suppliers and third-party
−Removed: service providers, as well to the confidentiality of our information and the integrity and availability of our data.
−Removed: While we attempt
−Removed: to mitigate these risks through controls, due diligence, training, surveillance and other measures, we remain vulnerable to information
−Removed: security threats.
−Removed: Despite the precautions we take, an intrusion
−Removed: or infection of our systems could result in the disruption of our business, loss of proprietary or confidential information, or
−Removed: injuries to people or property.
−Removed: Similarly, an attack on our IT systems could result in theft or disclosure of trade secrets or
−Removed: other intellectual property or a breach of confidential customer or employee information.
−Removed: Any such events could have an adverse
−Removed: impact on sales, harm our reputation and cause us to incur legal liability and increased costs to address such events and related
−Removed: security concerns.
−Removed: As the threats evolve and become more potent, we may incur additional costs to secure the products that we sell,
−Removed: as well as our data and infrastructure of networks and devices.
−Removed: Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property
−Removed: If we fail to adequately protect our intellectual property
−Removed: rights, we could lose important proprietary technology, which could materially and adversely affect our business.
−Removed: Our success and ability to compete depends,
−Removed: in substantial part, upon our ability to develop and protect our proprietary technology and intellectual property rights to distinguish
−Removed: our products, services and technology from those of our competitors.
−Removed: The unauthorized use of our intellectual property rights and
−Removed: proprietary technology by others could materially harm our business.
−Removed: Historically, we have relied primarily on
−Removed: a combination of trademark, copyright and trade secret laws, along with non-competition and confidentiality agreements, contractual
−Removed: provisions, licensing arrangements and proprietary software and manufacturing processes, to establish and protect our intellectual
−Removed: property rights.
−Removed: Although we hold several unregistered copyrights in our business, we believe that the success of our business
−Removed: depends more upon our proprietary technology, information, processes and know-how than on patents or trademark registrations.
−Removed: addition, much of our proprietary information and technology may not be patentable;
−Removed: if we decided to apply for patents and/or trademarks
−Removed: in the future, we might not be successful in obtaining any such future patents or in registering any marks.
−Removed: Despite our efforts to protect our intellectual
−Removed: property rights, existing laws afford only limited protection, and our actions may be inadequate to protect our rights or to prevent
−Removed: others from claiming violations of their proprietary rights.
−Removed: Unauthorized third parties may attempt to copy, reverse engineer or
−Removed: otherwise obtain, use or exploit aspects of our products and services, develop similar technology independently, or otherwise obtain
−Removed: and use information that we regard as proprietary.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that our competitors will not independently develop technology
−Removed: similar or superior to our technology or design around our intellectual property.
−Removed: In addition, the laws of some foreign countries
−Removed: may not protect our proprietary rights as fully or in the same manner as the laws of the U.S.
−Removed: We may need to resort to litigation
−Removed: to enforce our intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, and to determine the validity and scope of other companies’
+Added: impact of COVID-19 on the global markets and the power generation market within the international telecommunications markets;
+Added: or preferences for domestic products or solutions, which could reduce demand for our products;
+Added: changes in regulatory requirements;
+Added: of tariffs and other barriers and restrictions;
+Added: on the import or export of critical technology;
+Added: communication and integration problems resulting from cultural and geographic dispersion;
+Added: burden of complying with a variety of laws and regulations in various countries;
+Added: in enforcing contracts;
+Added: uncertainty of protection for intellectual property rights in some countries;
+Added: of the income tax laws and regulations of multiple jurisdictions, including relatively low-rate and relatively high-rate jurisdictions,
+Added: to our sales and other transactions, which results in additional complexity and uncertainty;
+Added: and trade barriers, export regulations and other regulatory and contractual limitations on our ability to sell products;
+Added: risk of a failure of foreign employees to comply with both U.S.
+Added: and foreign laws, including export and antitrust regulations,
+Added: the FCPA and any trade regulations ensuring fair trade practices;
+Added: risk of unfair or corrupt business practices in certain geographies and of improper or fraudulent sales arrangements that
+Added: may impact financial results and result in restatements of, or irregularities in, financial statements;
+Added: adverse tax consequences, including multiple and possibly overlapping tax structures;
+Added: economic and geopolitical conditions, including war and acts of terrorism;
+Added: of the availability of qualified third-party financing;
+Added: exchange controls.
+Added: these factors and the impacts of these factors are difficult to predict, any one or more of them could adversely affect our business,
+Added: financial condition and results of operations in the future.
+Added: through security vulnerabilities could lead to disruption of business, reduced revenue, increased costs, liability claims, or
+Added: harm to our reputation or competitive position.
+Added: vulnerabilities may arise from our hardware, software, employees, contractors or policies we have deployed, which may result in
+Added: external parties gaining access to our networks, data centers, cloud data centers, corporate computers, manufacturing systems,
+Added: and/or access to accounts we have at our suppliers, vendors, and customers.
+Added: External parties may gain access to our data or our
+Added: customers’
+Added: data, or attack the networks causing denial of service or attempt to hold our data or systems in ransom.
+Added: vulnerability could be caused by inadequate account security practices such as failure to timely remove employee access when terminated.
+Added: To mitigate these security issues, we have implemented measures throughout our organization, including firewalls, backups, encryption,
+Added: employee information technology policies and user account policies.
+Added: However, there can be no assurance these measures will be
+Added: sufficient to avoid cyberattacks.
+Added: If any of these types of security breaches were to occur and we were unable to protect sensitive
+Added: data, our relationships with our business partners and customers could be materially damaged, our reputation could be materially
+Added: harmed, and we could be exposed to a risk of litigation and possible significant liability.
+Added: if we fail to adequately maintain our information technology infrastructure, we may have outages and data loss.
+Added: Excessive outages
+Added: may affect our ability to timely and efficiently deliver products to customers or develop new products.
+Added: Such disruptions and data
+Added: loss may adversely impact our ability to fulfill orders and interrupt other processes.
+Added: Delayed sales or lost customers resulting
+Added: from these disruptions could adversely affect our financial results, stock price and reputation.
+Added: State of California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, or CCPA, effective on January 1, 2020.
+Added: Our and our business
+Added: partners’
+Added: or contractors’
+Added: failure to fully comply with the CCPA and other laws could lead to significant fines and
+Added: require onerous corrective action.
+Added: In addition, data security breaches experienced by us or our business partners or contractors
+Added: could result in the loss of trade secrets or other intellectual property, public disclosure of sensitive commercial data, and
+Added: the exposure of personally identifiable information (including sensitive personal information) of our employees, customers, suppliers,
+Added: contractors and others.
+Added: use or disclosure of, or access to, any personal information maintained by us or on our behalf, whether through breach of our
+Added: systems, breach of the systems of our suppliers or vendors by an unauthorized party, or through employee or contractor error,
+Added: theft or misuse, or otherwise, could harm our business.
+Added: If any such unauthorized use or disclosure of, or access to, such personal
+Added: information was to occur, our operations could be seriously disrupted, and we could be subject to demands, claims and litigation
+Added: by private parties, and investigations, related actions, and penalties by regulatory authorities.
+Added: In addition, we could incur
+Added: significant costs in notifying affected persons and entities and otherwise complying with the multitude of foreign, federal, state
+Added: and local laws and regulations relating to the unauthorized access to, or use or disclosure of, personal information.
+Added: any perceived or actual unauthorized access to, or use or disclosure of, such information could harm our reputation, substantially
+Added: impair our ability to attract and retain customers and have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results
+Added: of operations.
+Added: Related to Our Intellectual Property
+Added: we fail to adequately protect our intellectual property rights, we could lose important proprietary technology, which could materially
+Added: and adversely affect our business.
+Added: success and ability to compete depends, in substantial part, upon our ability to develop and protect our proprietary technology
+Added: and intellectual property rights to distinguish our products, services and technology from those of our competitors.
+Added: The unauthorized
+Added: use of our intellectual property rights and proprietary technology by others could materially harm our business.
+Added: Historically,
+Added: we have relied primarily on a combination of trademark, copyright and trade secret laws, along with non-competition and confidentiality
+Added: agreements, contractual provisions, licensing arrangements and proprietary software and manufacturing processes, to establish
+Added: and protect our intellectual property rights.
+Added: Although we hold several unregistered copyrights in our business, we believe that
+Added: the success of our business depends more upon our proprietary technology, information, processes and know-how than on patents
+Added: or trademark registrations.
+Added: In addition, much of our proprietary information and technology may not be patentable;
+Added: if we decided
+Added: to apply for patents and/or trademarks in the future, we might not be successful in obtaining any such future patents or in registering
+Added: our efforts to protect our intellectual property rights, existing laws afford only limited protection, and our actions may be
+Added: inadequate to protect our rights or to prevent others from claiming violations of their proprietary rights.
+Added: Unauthorized third
+Added: parties may attempt to copy, reverse engineer or otherwise obtain, use or exploit aspects of our products and services, develop
+Added: similar technology independently, or otherwise obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary.
+Added: We cannot assure you
+Added: that our competitors will not independently develop technology similar or superior to our technology or design around our intellectual
+Added: In addition, the laws of some foreign countries may not protect our proprietary rights as fully or in the same manner
+Added: as the laws of the U.S.
+Added: may need to resort to litigation to enforce our intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, and to determine the
+Added: validity and scope of other companies’
proprietary rights in the future.
−Removed: However, litigation could result in significant costs and in the diversion of management and
−Removed: financial resources.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that any such litigation will be successful or that we will prevail over counterclaims
−Removed: Our failure to protect any of our important intellectual property rights or any litigation that we resort to in order
−Removed: to enforce those rights could materially and adversely affect our business.
−Removed: If we face claims of intellectual property infringement
−Removed: by third parties, we could encounter expensive litigation, be liable for significant damages or incur restrictions on our ability
−Removed: to sell our products and services.
−Removed: Although we are not aware of any present
−Removed: infringement of our products, services or technology on the intellectual property rights of others, we cannot be certain that our
−Removed: products, services and technologies do not or in the future will not infringe on the valid intellectual property rights held by
−Removed: third parties.
−Removed: In addition, we cannot assure you that third parties will not claim that we have infringed their intellectual property
−Removed: In recent years, there has been a significant
−Removed: amount of litigation in the U.S.
−Removed: involving patents and other intellectual property rights.
−Removed: In the future, we may be a party to
−Removed: litigation as a result of an alleged infringement of others’
+Added: However, litigation could result in significant
+Added: costs and in the diversion of management and financial resources.
+Added: We cannot assure you that any such litigation will be successful
+Added: or that we will prevail over counterclaims against us.
+Added: Our failure to protect any of our important intellectual property rights
+Added: or any litigation that we resort to in order to enforce those rights could materially and adversely affect our business.
+Added: we face claims of intellectual property infringement by third parties, we could encounter expensive litigation, be liable for
+Added: significant damages or incur restrictions on our ability to sell our products and services.
+Added: we are not aware of any present infringement of our products, services or technology on the intellectual property rights of others,
+Added: we cannot be certain that our products, services and technologies do not or in the future will not infringe on the valid intellectual
+Added: property rights held by third parties.
+Added: In addition, we cannot assure you that third parties will not claim that we have infringed
+Added: their intellectual property rights.
+Added: recent years, there has been a significant amount of litigation in the U.S.
+Added: involving patents and other intellectual property
+Added: In the future, we may be a party to litigation as a result of an alleged infringement of others’
intellectual property.
−Removed: Successful infringement claims against
−Removed: us could result in substantial monetary liability, require us to enter into royalty or licensing arrangements, or otherwise materially
−Removed: disrupt the conduct of our business.
−Removed: In addition, even if we prevail on these claims, this litigation could be time-consuming and
−Removed: expensive to defend or settle, and could result in the diversion of our time and attention and of operational resources, which
−Removed: could materially and adversely affect our business.
−Removed: Any potential intellectual property litigation also could force us to do one
−Removed: or more of the following:
−Removed: stop selling, incorporating or using our products and services that use the infringed intellectual property;
−Removed: obtain from the owner of the infringed intellectual property right a license to sell or use the relevant technology, which license may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, or at all;
−Removed: redesign the products and services that use the technology.
−Removed: If we are forced to take any
−Removed: of these actions, our business may be seriously harmed.
−Removed: Although we carry general liability insurance, our insurance may not cover
−Removed: potential claims of this type or may not be adequate to indemnify us for all liability that may be imposed.
−Removed: Risks Related to Our Common Stock
−Removed: Our operating results can fluctuate significantly from
−Removed: period to period, which makes our operating results difficult to predict and can cause our operating results in any particular
−Removed: period to be less than comparable periods and expectations from time to time.
−Removed: Our operating results have fluctuated significantly
−Removed: from quarter-to-quarter, period-to-period and year-to-year during our operating history and are likely to continue to fluctuate
−Removed: in the future due to a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control.
−Removed: Certain factors that may affect our operating
−Removed: results include, without limitation, those set forth under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
−Removed: and Results of Operations —Critical Accounting Policies”
−Removed: in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
−Removed: Because we have little or no control over
−Removed: many of these factors, our operating results are difficult to predict.
−Removed: Any adverse change in any of these factors could negatively
−Removed: affect our business and results of operations.
−Removed: Our revenues, net income (loss) and other
−Removed: operating results are heavily dependent upon the size and timing of customer orders and projects, and the timing of the completion
−Removed: of those projects.
−Removed: The timing of our receipt of large individual orders, and of project completion, is difficult for us to predict.
−Removed: Because our operating expenses are based on anticipated revenues over the mid- and long-term and because a high percentage of our
−Removed: operating expenses are relatively fixed, a shortfall or delay in recognizing revenues can cause our operating results to vary significantly
−Removed: from quarter-to-quarter and can result in significant operating losses or declines in profit margins in any particular quarter.
−Removed: If our revenues fall below our expectations in any particular quarter, we may not be able, or it may not be prudent for us, to
−Removed: reduce our expenses rapidly in response to the revenue shortfall, which can result in us suffering significant operating losses
−Removed: or declines in profit margins in that quarter.
−Removed: Due to these factors and the other risks
−Removed: discussed in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, you should not rely on quarter-to-quarter, period-to-period or year-to-year comparisons
−Removed: of our results of operations as an indication of our future performance.
−Removed: Quarterly, period and annual comparisons of our operating
−Removed: results are not necessarily meaningful or indicative of future performance.
−Removed: As a result, it is likely that, from time to time,
−Removed: our results of operations or our revenue backlog could fall below historical levels or the expectations of public market analysts
−Removed: and investors, which could cause the trading price of our common stock to decline significantly.
−Removed: Our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer owns
−Removed: a majority of our common stock and will exercise significant influence over matters requiring stockholder approval, regardless
−Removed: of the wishes of other stockholders.
−Removed: Our Chairman, President, Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer and Secretary, Arthur D.
−Removed: Sams, beneficially owns approximately 55% of our outstanding shares of common stock.
−Removed: therefore has significant influence over management and significant control over matters requiring stockholder approval, including
−Removed: the annual election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or our assets,
−Removed: for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: This concentrated control will limit stockholders’
−Removed: ability to influence corporate matters and,
−Removed: as a result, we may take actions that our stockholders do not view as beneficial.
−Removed: As a result, the market price of our common stock
−Removed: could be adversely affected.
−Removed: We are a “controlled company”
−Removed: within the meaning
−Removed: of the Nasdaq Listing Rules.
−Removed: Although we do not currently intend to rely on the exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements
−Removed: afforded to a “controlled company”
−Removed: under Nasdaq Listing Rules, we could potentially seek to rely on such exemptions
−Removed: in the future.
−Removed: Our Chairman, President, Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer and Secretary, Arthur D.
−Removed: Sams, controls a majority of our common stock.
−Removed: As a result, we are a “controlled company”
−Removed: within the meaning of the Nasdaq Listing Rules.
−Removed: Under these rules, a company of which more than 50% of the voting power for the
−Removed: election of directors is held by an individual, a group or another company is a “controlled company”
−Removed: and may elect
−Removed: not to comply with certain Nasdaq corporate governance requirements, including, without limitation (i) the requirement that a majority
−Removed: of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (ii) the requirement that the compensation of our officers be determined
−Removed: or recommended to our board of directors by a compensation committee that is comprised solely of independent directors, and (iii)
−Removed: the requirement that director nominees be selected or recommended to the board of directors by a majority of independent directors
−Removed: or a nominating committee comprised solely of independent directors.
−Removed: We do not currently intend to rely on those exemptions afforded
−Removed: to a “controlled company.”
−Removed: Nonetheless, in the future, we could potentially seek to rely on certain of those exemptions
−Removed: afforded to a “controlled company,”
−Removed: and in such case, you would not have the same protections afforded to stockholders
−Removed: of companies that are subject to all of the Nasdaq corporate governance requirements.
−Removed: The price of our shares of common stock is volatile, and
−Removed: you could lose all or part of your investment.
−Removed: The trading price of our shares of common
−Removed: stock is volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to various factors, some of which are beyond our control,
−Removed: including limited trading volume.
−Removed: In addition to the factors discussed in the “Risk Factors”
−Removed: section and elsewhere
−Removed: in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, these factors include, without limitation:
−Removed: competition from existing technologies and products or new technologies and products that may emerge;
−Removed: the loss of significant customers, including AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless;
−Removed: actual or anticipated variations in our quarterly operating results;
−Removed: failure to meet the estimates and projections of the investment community or that we may otherwise provide to the public;
−Removed: our cash position;
−Removed: announcement or expectation of additional financing efforts;
−Removed: issuances of debt or equity securities;
−Removed: our inability to successfully enter new markets or develop additional products;
−Removed: actual or anticipated fluctuations in our competitors’
+Added: Successful infringement claims against us could result in substantial monetary liability, require us to enter into royalty or
+Added: licensing arrangements, or otherwise materially disrupt the conduct of our business.
+Added: In addition, even if we prevail on these
+Added: claims, this litigation could be time-consuming and expensive to defend or settle, and could result in the diversion of our time
+Added: and attention and of operational resources, which could materially and adversely affect our business.
+Added: Any potential intellectual
+Added: property litigation also could force us to do one or more of the following:
+Added: selling, incorporating or using our products and services that use the infringed intellectual property;
+Added: from the owner of the infringed intellectual property right a license to sell or use the relevant technology, which license
+Added: may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, or at all;
+Added: the products and services that use the technology.
+Added: we are forced to take any of these actions, our business may be seriously harmed.
+Added: Although we carry general liability insurance,
+Added: our insurance may not cover potential claims of this type or may not be adequate to indemnify us for all liability that may be
+Added: Related to Our Common Stock
+Added: operating results can fluctuate significantly from period to period, which makes our operating results difficult to predict and
+Added: can cause our operating results in any particular period to be less than comparable periods and expectations from time to time.
+Added: operating results have fluctuated significantly from quarter-to-quarter, period-to-period and year-to-year during our operating
+Added: history and are likely to continue to fluctuate in the future due to a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control.
+Added: Certain factors that may affect our operating results include, without limitation, those set forth under “Management’s
+Added: Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations —Critical Accounting Policies”
+Added: in this Annual
+Added: Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: we have little or no control over many of these factors, our operating results are difficult to predict.
+Added: Any adverse change in
+Added: any of these factors could negatively affect our business and results of operations.
+Added: revenues, net income (loss) and other operating results are heavily dependent upon the size and timing of customer orders and
+Added: projects, and the timing of the completion of those projects.
+Added: The timing of our receipt of large individual orders, and of project
+Added: completion, is difficult for us to predict.
+Added: Because our operating expenses are based on anticipated revenues over the mid- and
+Added: long-term and because a high percentage of our operating expenses are relatively fixed, a shortfall or delay in recognizing revenues
+Added: can cause our operating results to vary significantly from quarter-to-quarter and can result in significant operating losses or
+Added: declines in profit margins in any particular quarter.
+Added: If our revenues fall below our expectations in any particular quarter, we
+Added: may not be able, or it may not be prudent for us, to reduce our expenses rapidly in response to the revenue shortfall, which can
+Added: result in us suffering significant operating losses or declines in profit margins in that quarter.
+Added: to these factors and the other risks discussed in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, you should not rely on quarter-to-quarter,
+Added: period-to-period or year-to-year comparisons of our results of operations as an indication of our future performance.
+Added: period and annual comparisons of our operating results are not necessarily meaningful or indicative of future performance.
+Added: a result, it is likely that, from time to time, our results of operations or our revenue backlog could fall below historical levels
+Added: or the expectations of public market analysts and investors, which could cause the trading price of our common stock to decline
+Added: significantly.
+Added: Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer owns a significant amount of our common stock and will exercise significant influence
+Added: over matters requiring stockholder approval, regardless of the wishes of other stockholders.
+Added: Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary, Arthur D.
+Added: Sams, beneficially owns approximately 44% of our outstanding
+Added: shares of common stock.
+Added: Sams therefore has significant influence over management and significant control over matters requiring
+Added: stockholder approval, including the annual election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other
+Added: sale of our company or our assets, for the foreseeable future.
+Added: This concentrated control may limit stockholders’
+Added: to influence corporate matters and, as a result, we may take actions that our stockholders do not view as beneficial.
+Added: the market price of our common stock could be adversely affected.
+Added: price of our shares of common stock is volatile, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
+Added: trading price of our shares of common stock is volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to various factors,
+Added: some of which are beyond our control, including limited trading volume.
+Added: In addition to the factors discussed in the “Risk
+Added: Factors”
+Added: section and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, these factors include, without limitation:
+Added: from existing technologies and products or new technologies and products that may emerge;
+Added: loss of significant customers, including AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless;
+Added: or anticipated variations in our quarterly operating results;
+Added: to meet the estimates and projections of the investment community or that we may otherwise provide to the public;
+Added: cash position;
+Added: or expectation of additional financing efforts;
+Added: of debt or equity securities;
+Added: inability to successfully enter new markets or develop additional products;
+Added: or anticipated fluctuations in our competitors’
operating results or changes in their respective growth rates;
−Removed: sales of our shares of common stock by us, or our stockholders in the future;
−Removed: trading volume of our shares of common stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market;
−Removed: market conditions in our industry;
−Removed: overall performance of the equity markets and general political and economic conditions;
−Removed: introduction of new products or services by us or our competitors;
−Removed: additions or departures of key management, scientific or other personnel;
−Removed: publication of research reports about us or our industry or positive or negative recommendations or withdrawal of research coverage by securities or industry analysts;
−Removed: changes in the market valuation of similar companies;
−Removed: disputes or other developments related to intellectual property and other proprietary rights;
−Removed: changes in accounting practices;
−Removed: significant lawsuits, including stockholder litigation;
−Removed: other events or factors, many of which are beyond our control.
−Removed: Furthermore, the public equity markets have
−Removed: experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect the market prices of equity securities
−Removed: of many companies.
−Removed: These fluctuations often have been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies.
−Removed: These broad market and industry fluctuations, as well as general economic, political and market conditions such as recessions,
−Removed: interest rate changes or international currency fluctuations, may negatively impact the market price of our shares of common stock.
−Removed: A decline in the price of our common
−Removed: stock could affect our ability to raise further working capital, which could adversely impact our ability to continue operations.
−Removed: A prolonged decline
−Removed: in the price of our common stock could result in a reduction in the liquidity of our common stock and a reduction in our ability
−Removed: to raise capital.
−Removed: We may attempt to acquire a significant portion of the funds we need in order to conduct our planned operations
−Removed: through the sale of equity securities;
−Removed: thus, a decline in the price of our common stock could be detrimental to our liquidity and
−Removed: our operations because the decline may adversely affect investors’
+Added: of our shares of common stock by us, or our stockholders in the future;
+Added: volume of our shares of common stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market;
+Added: conditions in our industry;
+Added: performance of the equity markets and general political and economic conditions;
+Added: of new products or services by us or our competitors;
+Added: or departures of key management, scientific or other personnel;
+Added: of research reports about us or our industry or positive or negative recommendations or withdrawal of research coverage by
+Added: securities or industry analysts;
+Added: in the market valuation of similar companies;
+Added: or other developments related to intellectual property and other proprietary rights;
+Added: in accounting practices;
+Added: lawsuits, including stockholder litigation;
+Added: events or factors, many of which are beyond our control.
+Added: the public equity markets have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect the
+Added: market prices of equity securities of many companies.
+Added: These fluctuations often have been unrelated or disproportionate to the
+Added: operating performance of those companies.
+Added: These broad market and industry fluctuations, as well as general economic, political
+Added: and market conditions such as recessions, interest rate changes or international currency fluctuations, may negatively impact
+Added: the market price of our shares of common stock.
+Added: decline in the price of our common stock could affect our ability to raise further working capital, which could adversely impact
+Added: our ability to continue operations.
+Added: prolonged decline in the price of our common stock could result in a reduction in the liquidity of our common stock and a reduction
+Added: in our ability to raise capital.
+Added: We may attempt to acquire a significant portion of the funds we need in order to conduct our
+Added: planned operations through the sale of equity securities;
+Added: thus, a decline in the price of our common stock could be detrimental
+Added: to our liquidity and our operations because the decline may adversely affect investors’
desire to invest in our securities.
−Removed: If we are unable to
−Removed: raise the funds we require for all of our planned operations, we may be forced to reallocate funds from other planned uses and
−Removed: may suffer a significant negative effect on our business plan and operations, including our ability to develop new products or
−Removed: services and continue our current operations.
−Removed: As a result, our business may suffer, and we may be forced to reduce or discontinue
−Removed: We also might not be able to meet our financial obligations if we cannot raise enough funds through the sale of our
−Removed: common stock and we may be forced to reduce or discontinue operations.
−Removed: Currently, our common stock is categorized
−Removed: as “penny stock,”
−Removed: which may make it more difficult for investors to sell their shares of common stock due to suitability
−Removed: requirements.
−Removed: Currently, our common
−Removed: stock is categorized as “penny stock.”
−Removed: The SEC adopted Rule 15g-9, which generally defines “penny stock”
−Removed: to be any equity security that has a market price (as defined) less than $5.00 per share or an exercise price of less than $5.00
−Removed: per share, subject to certain exceptions.
−Removed: This designation imposes additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers who
−Removed: sell to persons other than established customers and “accredited investors”.
−Removed: The term “accredited investor”
−Removed: refers generally to institutions with assets in excess of $5,000,000 or individuals with a net worth in excess of $1,000,000 or
−Removed: annual income exceeding $200,000, or $300,000 jointly with his or her spouse.
−Removed: The penny stock rules require a broker-dealer buying
−Removed: our securities, prior to a transaction in a penny stock not otherwise exempt from the rules, to deliver a standardized risk disclosure
−Removed: document in a form prepared by the SEC that provides information about penny stocks and the nature and level of risks in the penny
−Removed: stock market.
−Removed: The broker-dealer also must provide the customer with current bid and offer quotations for the penny stock, the compensation
−Removed: of the broker-dealer and its salesperson in the transaction and monthly account statements showing the market value of each penny
−Removed: stock held in the customer’s account.
−Removed: The bid and offer quotations, and the broker-dealer and salesperson compensation information,
−Removed: must be given to the customer orally or in writing prior to effecting the transaction and must be given to the customer in writing
−Removed: before or with the customer’s confirmation.
−Removed: In addition, the penny stock rules require that, prior to a transaction in a
−Removed: penny stock not otherwise exempt from these rules, the broker-dealer must make a special written determination that the penny stock
−Removed: is a suitable investment for the purchaser and receive the purchaser’s written agreement to the transaction.
−Removed: These disclosure
−Removed: requirements may have the effect of reducing the level of trading activity in the secondary market for the stock that is subject
−Removed: to these penny stock rules.
−Removed: Consequently, these penny stock rules may affect the ability and/or willingness of broker-dealers to
−Removed: trade our securities, either directly or on behalf of their clients, may discourage potential investor’s from purchasing
−Removed: our securities, or may adversely affect the ability of our stockholders to sell their shares.
−Removed: The Financial Industry Regulatory
−Removed: Authority, Inc., or FINRA, has adopted sales practice requirements that historically may have limited a stockholder’s ability
−Removed: to buy and sell our common stock, which could depress the price of our common stock.
−Removed: In addition to the “penny stock”
−Removed: rules described above, FINRA has adopted rules that require that, in recommending an investment to a customer, a broker-dealer
−Removed: must have reasonable grounds for believing that the investment is suitable for that customer.
−Removed: Prior to recommending speculative
−Removed: low-priced securities to their non-institutional customers, broker-dealers must make reasonable efforts to obtain information about
−Removed: the customer’s financial status, tax status, investment objectives, and other information.
−Removed: Under interpretations of these
−Removed: rules, FINRA believes that there is a high probability that speculative low-priced securities will not be suitable for at least
−Removed: some customers.
−Removed: Thus, the FINRA requirements historically has made it more difficult for broker-dealers to recommend that their
−Removed: customers buy our common stock, which could limit your ability to buy and sell our common stock, have an adverse effect on the
−Removed: market for our shares, and thereby depress our price per share of common stock.
−Removed: We do not anticipate paying cash dividends, and accordingly,
−Removed: stockholders must rely on stock appreciation for any return on their investment.
−Removed: We have never declared or paid cash dividends
−Removed: on our capital stock.
−Removed: We intend to retain a significant portion of our future earnings, if any, to finance the operations, development
−Removed: and growth of our business.
−Removed: Any future determination to declare dividends will be made at the discretion of our board of directors,
−Removed: subject to applicable laws, and will depend on number of factors, including our financial condition, results of operations, capital
−Removed: requirements, contractual restrictions, general business conditions and other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant.
−Removed: As a result, only appreciation of the price of our common stock, which may never occur, will provide a return to stockholders.
−Removed: If securities or industry analysts do not publish research
−Removed: or reports, or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research or reports about our business, our share price and trading volume could
−Removed: The trading market for our shares of common
−Removed: stock depends, in part, on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business.
−Removed: not have any control over these analysts.
−Removed: If no securities or industry analysts undertake coverage of our company, the trading
−Removed: price for our shares of common stock may be negatively impacted.
−Removed: If we obtain securities or industry analyst coverage and if one
−Removed: or more of the analysts who covers us downgrades our shares of common stock, changes their opinion of our shares or publishes inaccurate
−Removed: or unfavorable research about our business, our share price would likely decline.
−Removed: If one or more of these analysts ceases coverage
−Removed: of us or fails to publish reports on us regularly, demand for our shares of common stock could decrease and we could lose visibility
−Removed: in the financial markets, which could cause our share price and trading volume to decline.
−Removed: We are not subject to the provisions of Section 203 of
−Removed: the Delaware General Corporation Law, which could negatively affect your investment.
−Removed: We elected in our certificate of incorporation
−Removed: to not be subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or Section 203.
−Removed: In general, Section
−Removed: 203 prohibits a publicly held Delaware corporation from engaging in a “business combination”
−Removed: with an “interested
−Removed: stockholder”
−Removed: for a period of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder,
−Removed: unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner.
−Removed: A “business combination”
−Removed: includes a merger, asset
−Removed: sale or other transaction resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder.
+Added: If we are unable to raise the funds we require for all of our planned operations, we may be forced to reallocate funds from other
+Added: planned uses and may suffer a significant negative effect on our business plan and operations, including our ability to develop
+Added: new products or services and continue our current operations.
+Added: As a result, our business may suffer, and we may be forced to reduce
+Added: or discontinue operations.
+Added: We also might not be able to meet our financial obligations if we cannot raise enough funds through
+Added: the sale of our common stock and we may be forced to reduce or discontinue operations.
+Added: do not anticipate paying cash dividends, and accordingly, stockholders must rely on stock appreciation for any return on their
+Added: have never declared or paid cash dividends on our capital stock.
+Added: We intend to retain a significant portion of our future earnings,
+Added: if any, to finance the operations, development and growth of our business.
+Added: Any future determination to declare dividends will
+Added: be made at the discretion of our board of directors, subject to applicable laws, and will depend on number of factors, including
+Added: our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements, contractual restrictions, general business conditions and
+Added: other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant.
+Added: As a result, only appreciation of the price of our common stock,
+Added: which may never occur, will provide a return to stockholders.
+Added: securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports, or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research or reports about
+Added: our business, our share price and trading volume could decline.
+Added: trading market for our shares of common stock depends, in part, on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts
+Added: publish about us or our business.
+Added: We do not have any control over these analysts.
+Added: If no securities or industry analysts undertake
+Added: coverage of our company, the trading price for our shares of common stock may be negatively impacted.
+Added: If we obtain securities
+Added: or industry analyst coverage and if one or more of the analysts who covers us downgrades our shares of common stock, changes their
+Added: opinion of our shares or publishes inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, our share price would likely decline.
+Added: If one or more of these analysts ceases coverage of us or fails to publish reports on us regularly, demand for our shares of common
+Added: stock could decrease and we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause our share price and trading volume
+Added: are not subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which could negatively affect your investment.
+Added: elected in our certificate of incorporation to not be subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation
+Added: Law, or Section 203.
+Added: In general, Section 203 prohibits a publicly held Delaware corporation from engaging in a “business
+Added: combination”
+Added: with an “interested stockholder”
+Added: for a period of three years after the date of the transaction
+Added: in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner.
+Added: A “business
+Added: combination”
+Added: includes a merger, asset sale or other transaction resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder.
An “interested stockholder”
−Removed: is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns (or, in certain cases, within three years prior, did own) 15% or
−Removed: more of the corporation’s voting stock.
−Removed: Our decision not to be subject to Section 203 will allow, for example, Arthur D.
−Removed: Sams, our Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary (who beneficially owns approximately 55% of our common
−Removed: stock) to transfer shares in excess of 15% of our voting stock to a third-party free of the restrictions imposed by Section 203.
−Removed: This may make us more vulnerable to takeovers that are completed without the approval of our board of directors and/or without
−Removed: giving us the ability to prohibit or delay such takeovers as effectively.
−Removed: Some provisions of our charter documents and Delaware
−Removed: law may have anti-takeover effects that could discourage an acquisition of us by others, even if an acquisition would be beneficial
−Removed: to our stockholders, and may prevent attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management.
−Removed: Provisions in our certificate of incorporation
−Removed: and bylaws, as well as provisions of Delaware law, could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire us or increase the
−Removed: cost of acquiring us, even if doing so would benefit our stockholders.
+Added: is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns (or, in certain cases,
+Added: within three years prior, did own) 15% or more of the corporation’s voting stock.
+Added: Our decision not to be subject to Section
+Added: 203 will allow, for example, Arthur D.
+Added: Sams, our Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary (who beneficially
+Added: owns approximately 44% of our common stock) to transfer shares in excess of 15% of our voting stock to a third-party free of the
+Added: restrictions imposed by Section 203.
+Added: This may make us more vulnerable to takeovers that are completed without the approval of
+Added: our board of directors and/or without giving us the ability to prohibit or delay such takeovers as effectively.
+Added: provisions of our charter documents and Delaware law may have anti-takeover effects that could discourage an acquisition of us
+Added: by others, even if an acquisition would be beneficial to our stockholders, and may prevent attempts by our stockholders to replace
+Added: or remove our current management.
+Added: in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws, as well as provisions of Delaware law, could make it more difficult for a third
+Added: party to acquire us or increase the cost of acquiring us, even if doing so would benefit our stockholders.
These provisions include:
−Removed: a requirement that special meetings of stockholders be called only by the board of directors, the president or the chief executive officer;
−Removed: advance notice requirements for stockholder proposals and nominations for election to our board of directors;
−Removed: the authority of the board of directors to issue preferred stock on terms determined by the board of directors without stockholder approval and which preferred stock may include rights superior to the rights of the holders of common stock.
−Removed: These anti-takeover provisions and other
−Removed: provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws could make it more difficult for stockholders or potential acquirors
−Removed: to obtain control of our board of directors or initiate actions that are opposed by the then-current board of directors and could
−Removed: also delay or impede a merger, tender offer or proxy contest involving our Company.
−Removed: These provisions could also discourage proxy
−Removed: contests and make it more difficult for you and other stockholders to elect directors of your choosing or cause us to take other
−Removed: corporate actions you desire.
−Removed: Any delay or prevention of a change of control transaction or changes in our board of directors could
−Removed: cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
−Removed: Our certificate of incorporation designates the Court
−Removed: of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated
−Removed: by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’
−Removed: ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us
−Removed: or our directors, officers or other employees.
−Removed: Our certificate of incorporation provides
−Removed: that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall
−Removed: be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (ii) any action asserting a
−Removed: claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers or other employees to us or our stockholders, (iii)
−Removed: any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law, our certificate of incorporation
−Removed: or our bylaws, or (iv) any action asserting a claim against us governed by the internal affairs doctrine.
−Removed: Any person or entity
−Removed: purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to
−Removed: the provisions of certificate of incorporation described above.
−Removed: This choice of forum provision may limit a stockholder’s
−Removed: ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees,
−Removed: which may discourage such lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and other employees.
−Removed: Alternatively, if a court were to
−Removed: find these provisions of our certificate of incorporation inapplicable to, or unenforceable in respect of, one or more of the specified
−Removed: types of actions or proceedings, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such matters in other jurisdictions, which
−Removed: could adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations.
−Removed: We are an “emerging growth company,”
−Removed: cannot be certain if the reduced reporting requirements applicable to emerging growth companies will make our shares of common
−Removed: stock less attractive to investors.
−Removed: We are an “emerging growth company,”
+Added: requirement that special meetings of stockholders be called only by the board of directors, the president or the chief executive
+Added: notice requirements for stockholder proposals and nominations for election to our board of directors;
+Added: authority of the board of directors to issue preferred stock on terms determined by the board of directors without stockholder
+Added: approval and which preferred stock may include rights superior to the rights of the holders of common stock.
+Added: anti-takeover provisions and other provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws could make it more difficult for
+Added: stockholders or potential acquirors to obtain control of our board of directors or initiate actions that are opposed by the then-current
+Added: board of directors and could also delay or impede a merger, tender offer or proxy contest involving our Company.
+Added: These provisions
+Added: could also discourage proxy contests and make it more difficult for you and other stockholders to elect directors of your choosing
+Added: or cause us to take other corporate actions you desire.
+Added: Any delay or prevention of a change of control transaction or changes
+Added: in our board of directors could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
+Added: certificate of incorporation designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive forum for certain
+Added: types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’
+Added: to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees.
+Added: certificate of incorporation provides that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of
+Added: Chancery of the State of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on
+Added: our behalf, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers or other employees
+Added: to us or our stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation
+Added: Law, our certificate of incorporation or our bylaws, or (iv) any action asserting a claim against us governed by the internal
+Added: affairs doctrine.
+Added: the avoidance of doubt, the exclusive forum provision described above does not apply to any claims arising under the Securities
+Added: Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act.
+Added: 27 of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created
+Added: by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder, and Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction
+Added: for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules
+Added: and regulations thereunder.
+Added: choice of forum provision in our bylaws may limit our stockholders’
+Added: ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that they
+Added: find favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers, employees or agents, which may discourage such lawsuits against
+Added: us and our directors, officers, employees and agents even though an action, if successful, might benefit our stockholders.
+Added: applicable courts may also reach different judgments or results than would other courts, including courts where a stockholder
+Added: considering an action may be located or would otherwise choose to bring the action, and such judgments or results may be more
+Added: favorable to us than to our stockholders.
+Added: With respect to the provision making the Delaware Court of Chancery the sole and exclusive
+Added: forum for certain types of actions, stockholders who do bring a claim in the Delaware Court of Chancery could face additional
+Added: litigation costs in pursuing any such claim, particularly if they do not reside in or near Delaware.
+Added: Finally, if a court were
+Added: to find this provision of our bylaws inapplicable to, or unenforceable in respect of, one or more of the specified types of actions
+Added: or proceedings, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such matters in other jurisdictions, which could have
+Added: a material adverse effect on us.
+Added: are an “emerging growth company,”
+Added: and we cannot be certain if the reduced reporting requirements applicable to emerging
+Added: growth companies will make our shares of common stock less attractive to investors.
+Added: are an “emerging growth company,”
as defined in the JOBS Act.
−Removed: For as long as we continue to be an emerging growth company, we may take advantage of exemptions from
−Removed: various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies, including
−Removed: not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the
−Removed: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in this report, our periodic reports and proxy
−Removed: statements and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder
−Removed: approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.
−Removed: We could be an emerging growth company for up to five years,
−Removed: although circumstances could cause us to lose that status earlier, including if the market value of our shares of common stock
−Removed: held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of any June 30 before that time or if we have total annual gross revenue of $1.07
−Removed: billion or more during any fiscal year before that time, in which cases we would no longer be an emerging growth company as of
−Removed: the following December 31, or if we issue more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt during any three-year period before that
−Removed: time, in which case we would no longer be an emerging growth company immediately.
−Removed: We cannot predict if investors will find our
−Removed: shares of common stock less attractive because we may rely on these exemptions.
−Removed: If some investors find our shares of common stock
−Removed: less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our shares of common stock and our share price may be
−Removed: more volatile.
−Removed: Under the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies
−Removed: also can delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies.
−Removed: irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this exemption from new or revised accounting standards and, therefore, will be subject
−Removed: to the same new or revised accounting standards as other public companies that are not emerging growth companies.
−Removed: If we fail to maintain an effective system of internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results or prevent fraud.
−Removed: stockholders could lose confidence in our financial and other public reporting, which would harm our business and the trading price
−Removed: of our common stock.
−Removed: Effective internal controls over
−Removed: financial reporting are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and, together with adequate disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures, are designed to prevent fraud.
−Removed: Any failure to implement required new or improved controls, or difficulties encountered
−Removed: in their implementation could cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations.
−Removed: In addition, any testing by us conducted in connection
−Removed: with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or any subsequent testing by our independent registered public accounting firm,
−Removed: may reveal deficiencies in our internal controls over financial reporting that are deemed to be material weaknesses or that may
−Removed: require prospective or retroactive changes to our financial statements or identify other areas for further attention or improvement.
−Removed: Inferior internal controls could also cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information, which could have
−Removed: a negative effect on the trading price of our common stock.
−Removed: We are required to disclose changes
−Removed: made in our internal controls and procedures on a quarterly basis and our management is required to assess the effectiveness of
−Removed: these controls annually.
+Added: For as long as we continue to be an emerging growth
+Added: company, we may take advantage of exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies
+Added: that are not emerging growth companies, including not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section
+Added: 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation
+Added: in this report, our periodic reports and proxy statements and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory
+Added: vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.
+Added: an emerging growth company until December 31, 2021, although circumstances could cause us to lose that status earlier.
+Added: predict if investors will find our shares of common stock less attractive because we may rely on these exemptions.
+Added: If some investors
+Added: find our shares of common stock less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our shares of common
+Added: stock and our share price may be more volatile.
+Added: the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies also can delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards
+Added: apply to private companies.
+Added: We have irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this exemption from new or revised accounting
+Added: standards and, therefore, are subject to the same new or revised accounting standards as other public companies that are not emerging
+Added: growth companies.
+Added: we fail to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting, we may not be able to accurately report
+Added: our financial results or prevent fraud.
+Added: As a result, stockholders could lose confidence in our financial and other public reporting,
+Added: which would harm our business and the trading price of our common stock.
+Added: internal controls over financial reporting are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and, together with adequate
+Added: disclosure controls and procedures, are designed to prevent fraud.
+Added: Any failure to implement required new or improved controls,
+Added: or difficulties encountered in their implementation could cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations.
+Added: In addition, any
+Added: testing by us conducted in connection with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or any subsequent testing by our independent
+Added: registered public accounting firm, may reveal deficiencies in our internal controls over financial reporting that are deemed to
+Added: be material weaknesses or that may require prospective or retroactive changes to our financial statements or identify other areas
+Added: for further attention or improvement.
+Added: Inferior internal controls could also cause investors to lose confidence in our reported
+Added: financial information, which could have a negative effect on the trading price of our common stock.
+Added: are required to disclose changes made in our internal controls and procedures on a quarterly basis and our management is required
+Added: to assess the effectiveness of these controls annually.
However, for as long as we are an “emerging growth company”
−Removed: under the JOBS Act, our independent
−Removed: registered public accounting firm will not be required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting
−Removed: pursuant to Section 404.
+Added: under the JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm will not be required to attest to the effectiveness of our
+Added: internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404.
We could be an “emerging growth company”
−Removed: for up to five years.
−Removed: An independent assessment
−Removed: of the effectiveness of our internal controls could detect problems that our management’s assessment might not.
−Removed: material weaknesses in our internal controls could lead to financial statement restatements and require us to incur the expense
−Removed: of remediation.
−Removed: We incur significant costs as a result of operating as
−Removed: a public company and our management expects to devote substantial time to public company compliance programs.
−Removed: As a public company, we incur
−Removed: significant legal, accounting and other expenses due to our compliance with regulations and disclosure obligations applicable to
−Removed: us, including compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as well as rules implemented by the SEC and Nasdaq.
−Removed: The SEC and other regulators
−Removed: have continued to adopt new rules and regulations and make additional changes to existing regulations that require our compliance.
−Removed: In July 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, or the Dodd-Frank Act, was enacted.
−Removed: There are significant
−Removed: corporate governance and executive compensation related provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act that have required the SEC to adopt additional
−Removed: rules and regulations in these areas.
−Removed: Stockholder activism, the current political environment, and the current high level of government
−Removed: intervention and regulatory reform may lead to substantial new regulations and disclosure obligations, which may lead to additional
−Removed: compliance costs and impact, in ways we cannot currently anticipate, the manner in which we operate our business.
−Removed: Our management
−Removed: and other personnel devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance programs and monitoring of public company reporting
−Removed: obligations and, as a result of the new corporate governance and executive compensation related rules, regulations, and guidelines
−Removed: prompted by the Dodd-Frank Act and further regulations and disclosure obligations expected in the future, we will likely need to
−Removed: devote additional time and costs to comply with such compliance programs and rules.
−Removed: These rules and regulations cause us to incur
−Removed: significant legal and financial compliance costs and make some activities more time-consuming and costly.
−Removed: To comply with the requirements
−Removed: of being a public company, we may need to undertake various activities, including implementing new internal controls and procedures
−Removed: and hiring new accounting or internal audit staff.
−Removed: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that we maintain effective disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures and internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: We are continuing to develop and refine our disclosure controls and
−Removed: other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file with the
−Removed: SEC is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and that information
−Removed: required to be disclosed in reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the Exchange Act, is accumulated and communicated
−Removed: to our principal executive and financial officers.
+Added: December 31, 2021.
+Added: An independent assessment of the effectiveness of our internal controls could detect problems that our management’s
+Added: assessment might not.
+Added: Undetected material weaknesses in our internal controls could lead to financial statement restatements and
+Added: require us to incur the expense of remediation.
+Added: incur significant costs as a result of operating as a public company and our management expects to devote substantial time to
+Added: public company compliance programs.
+Added: a public company, we incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses due to our compliance with regulations and disclosure
+Added: obligations applicable to us, including compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as well as rules implemented by the SEC and Nasdaq.
+Added: The SEC and other regulators have continued to adopt new rules and regulations and make additional changes to existing regulations
+Added: that require our compliance.
+Added: In July 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, or the Dodd-Frank Act,
+Added: There are significant corporate governance and executive compensation related provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act that
+Added: have required the SEC to adopt additional rules and regulations in these areas.
+Added: Stockholder activism, the current political environment,
+Added: and the current high level of government intervention and regulatory reform may lead to substantial new regulations and disclosure
+Added: obligations, which may lead to additional compliance costs and impact, in ways we cannot currently anticipate, the manner in which
+Added: we operate our business.
+Added: Our management and other personnel devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance programs and
+Added: monitoring of public company reporting obligations and, as a result of the new corporate governance and executive compensation
+Added: related rules, regulations, and guidelines prompted by the Dodd-Frank Act and further regulations and disclosure obligations expected
+Added: in the future, we will likely need to devote additional time and costs to comply with such compliance programs and rules.
+Added: rules and regulations cause us to incur significant legal and financial compliance costs and make some activities more time-consuming
+Added: comply with the requirements of being a public company, we may need to undertake various activities, including implementing new
+Added: internal controls and procedures and hiring new accounting or internal audit staff.
+Added: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that we maintain
+Added: effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: We are continuing to develop and refine
+Added: our disclosure controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the
+Added: reports that we file with the SEC is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules
+Added: and forms, and that information required to be disclosed in reports under the Exchange Act, is accumulated and communicated to
+Added: our principal executive and financial officers.
Our current controls and any new controls that we develop may become inadequate
and weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting may be discovered in the future.
−Removed: Any failure to develop or maintain
−Removed: effective controls could adversely affect the results of periodic management evaluations and annual independent registered public
−Removed: accounting firm attestation reports regarding the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting which we may be
−Removed: required to include in our periodic reports we will file with the SEC under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, harm our operating
−Removed: results, cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, or result in a restatement of our prior period financial statements.
−Removed: In the event that we are not able to demonstrate compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, that our internal control over financial
−Removed: reporting is perceived as inadequate or that we are unable to produce timely or accurate financial statements, investors may lose
−Removed: confidence in our operating results and the price of our common stock could decline.
−Removed: In addition, if we are unable to continue
−Removed: to meet these requirements, we may not be able to remain listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market.
−Removed: We are not currently required
−Removed: to comply with the SEC rules that implement Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and are therefore not yet required to make a
−Removed: formal assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting for that purpose.
−Removed: However, we are required
−Removed: to comply with certain of these rules, which require management to certify financial and other information in our quarterly and
−Removed: annual reports and provide an annual management report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting commencing
−Removed: with our next annual report.
−Removed: This assessment will need to include the disclosure of any material weaknesses in our internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting identified by our management or our independent registered public accounting firm.
−Removed: We are just beginning
−Removed: the costly and challenging process of compiling the system and processing documentation needed to comply with such requirements.
−Removed: We may not be able to complete our evaluation, testing and any required remediation in a timely fashion.
−Removed: During the evaluation
−Removed: and testing process, if we identify one or more material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, we will be
−Removed: unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective.
−Removed: Raising additional capital, including through future sales
−Removed: and issuances of our common stock, the exercise of warrants or the exercise of rights to purchase common stock pursuant to our
−Removed: equity incentive plan could result in additional dilution of the percentage ownership of our stockholders, could cause our share
−Removed: price to fall and could restrict our operations.
−Removed: We expect that significant additional
−Removed: capital will be needed in the future to continue our planned operations, including any potential acquisitions, purchasing of capital
−Removed: equipment, hiring new personnel, and continuing activities as an operating public company.
−Removed: To the extent we seek additional capital
−Removed: through a combination of public and private equity offerings and debt financings, our stockholders may experience substantial dilution.
−Removed: To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, the ownership interest
−Removed: of our existing stockholders may be diluted, and the terms may include liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect the
−Removed: rights of our stockholders.
−Removed: Debt and receivables financings may be coupled with an equity component, such as warrants to purchase
−Removed: shares of our common stock, which could also result in dilution of our existing stockholders’
−Removed: The incurrence of
−Removed: indebtedness would result in increased fixed payment obligations and could also result in certain restrictive covenants, such as
−Removed: limitations on our ability to incur additional debt and other operating restrictions that could adversely impact our ability to
−Removed: conduct our business.
−Removed: A failure to obtain adequate funds may cause us to curtail certain operational activities, including sales
−Removed: and marketing, in order to reduce costs and sustain the business, and would have a material adverse effect on our business and
−Removed: financial condition.
−Removed: Under our 2016 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan,
−Removed: as amended, or 2016 Plan, we may grant equity awards covering up to 1,754,385 shares of our common stock.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019,
−Removed: we had granted options to purchase an aggregate of 360,000 shares of common stock under the 2016 Plan.
−Removed: We have registered 1,754,385
−Removed: shares of common stock available for issuance under our 2016 Plan.
−Removed: Sales of shares issued upon exercise of options or granted under
−Removed: our 2016 Plan may result in material dilution to our existing stockholders, which could cause our share price to fall.
−Removed: Our issuance of shares of preferred stock could adversely
−Removed: affect the market value of our common stock, dilute the voting power of common stockholders and delay or prevent a change of control.
−Removed: Our board of directors has the
−Removed: authority to cause us to issue, without any further vote or action by the stockholders, up to 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock
−Removed: in one or more series, to designate the number of shares constituting any series, and to fix the rights, preferences, privileges
−Removed: and restrictions thereof, including dividend rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption, redemption price or prices
−Removed: and liquidation preferences of such series.
−Removed: The issuance of shares of preferred
−Removed: stock with dividend or conversion rights, liquidation preferences or other economic terms favorable to the holders of preferred
−Removed: stock could adversely affect the market price for our common stock by making an investment in the common stock less attractive.
−Removed: For example, investors in the common stock may not wish to purchase common stock at a price above the conversion price of a series
−Removed: of convertible preferred stock because the holders of the preferred stock would effectively be entitled to purchase common stock
−Removed: at the lower conversion price causing economic dilution to the holders of common stock.
−Removed: Further, the issuance of shares
−Removed: of preferred stock with voting rights may adversely affect the voting power of the holders of our other classes of voting stock
−Removed: either by diluting the voting power of our other classes of voting stock if they vote together as a single class, or by giving
−Removed: the holders of any such preferred stock the right to block an action on which they have a separate class vote even if the action
−Removed: were approved by the holders of our other classes of voting stock.
−Removed: The issuance of shares of preferred stock may also have the
−Removed: effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of our company without further action by the stockholders, even
−Removed: where stockholders are offered a premium for their shares.
−Removed: Claims for indemnification by our directors and officers
−Removed: may reduce our available funds to satisfy successful third-party claims against us and may reduce the amount of money available
−Removed: Our certificate of incorporation
−Removed: and bylaws provide that we will indemnify our directors and officers, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware
−Removed: In addition, as permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, our bylaws and the indemnification agreements
−Removed: that we have entered into with our directors and officers provide that:
−Removed: We will indemnify our directors and officers for serving
−Removed: us in those capacities or for serving other business enterprises at our request, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.
−Removed: Delaware law provides that a corporation may indemnify such person if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person
−Removed: reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the registrant and, with respect to any criminal proceeding,
−Removed: had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful.
−Removed: We may, in our discretion, indemnify employees and agents in those circumstances where indemnification is permitted by applicable law.
−Removed: We are required to advance expenses, as incurred, to our directors and officers in connection with defending a proceeding, except that such directors or officers shall undertake to repay such advances if it is ultimately determined that such person is not entitled to indemnification.
−Removed: We will not be obligated pursuant to our bylaws to indemnify a person with respect to proceedings initiated by that person against us or our other indemnitees, except with respect to proceedings authorized by our board of directors or brought to enforce a right to indemnification.
−Removed: The rights conferred in our bylaws are not exclusive, and we are authorized to enter into indemnification agreements with our directors, officers, employees and agents and to obtain insurance to indemnify such persons.
−Removed: We may not retroactively amend our bylaw provisions to reduce our indemnification obligations to directors, officers, employees and agents.
−Removed: To the extent that a claim for
−Removed: indemnification is brought by any of our directors or officers, it would reduce the amount of funds available for use in our business.
−Removed: Our ability to attract and retain qualified members of
−Removed: our board of directors may be impacted due to new state laws, including recently enacted gender quotas.
−Removed: In September 2018, California enacted SB
−Removed: 826 requiring public companies headquartered in California to maintain minimum female representation on their boards of directors
−Removed: by the end of 2019, at least one woman on its board, by the end of 2020, public company boards with five members will
−Removed: be required to have at least two female directors, and public company boards with six or more members will be required to have
−Removed: at least three female directors.
−Removed: Failure to achieve designated minimum levels in a timely manner exposes such companies to costly
−Removed: financial penalties and reputational harm.
−Removed: Although we currently comply with the requirements of SB 826, we cannot assure that
−Removed: we can recruit, attract and/or retain qualified members of the board and meet gender quotas as a result of the California law
−Removed: (should is not be repealed before the compliance deadlines), which may cause certain investors to divert their holdings in our
−Removed: stock and expose us to penalties and/or reputational harm.
−Removed: Unresolved Staff Comments.
+Added: failure to develop or maintain effective controls could adversely affect the results of periodic management evaluations and annual
+Added: independent registered public accounting firm attestation reports regarding the effectiveness of our internal control over financial
+Added: reporting which we may be required to include in our periodic reports we will file with the SEC under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
+Added: Act, harm our operating results, cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, or result in a restatement of our prior period
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: In the event that we are not able to demonstrate compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, that our internal
+Added: control over financial reporting is perceived as inadequate or that we are unable to produce timely or accurate financial statements,
+Added: investors may lose confidence in our operating results and the price of our common stock could decline.
+Added: In addition, if we are
+Added: unable to continue to meet these requirements, we may not be able to remain listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market.
+Added: are not currently required to comply with the SEC rules that implement Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and are therefore
+Added: not yet required to make a formal assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting for that purpose.
+Added: However, we are required to comply with certain of these rules, which require management to certify financial and other information
+Added: in our quarterly and annual reports and provide an annual management report on the effectiveness of our internal control over
+Added: financial reporting commencing with our next annual report.
+Added: This assessment will need to include the disclosure of any material
+Added: weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting identified by our management or our independent registered public
+Added: accounting firm.
+Added: We are just beginning the costly and challenging process of compiling the system and processing documentation
+Added: needed to comply with such requirements.
+Added: We may not be able to complete our evaluation, testing and any required remediation in
+Added: a timely fashion.
+Added: During the evaluation and testing process, if we identify one or more material weaknesses in our internal control
+Added: over financial reporting, we will be unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective.
+Added: additional capital, including through future sales and issuances of our common stock, the exercise of warrants or the exercise
+Added: of rights to purchase common stock pursuant to our equity incentive plan could result in additional dilution of the percentage
+Added: ownership of our stockholders, could cause our share price to fall and could restrict our operations.
+Added: expect that significant additional capital will be needed in the future to continue our planned operations, including any potential
+Added: acquisitions, purchasing of capital equipment, hiring new personnel, and continuing activities as an operating public company.
+Added: To the extent we seek additional capital through a combination of public and private equity offerings and debt financings, our
+Added: stockholders may experience substantial dilution.
+Added: To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity or
+Added: convertible debt securities, the ownership interest of our existing stockholders may be diluted, and the terms may include liquidation
+Added: or other preferences that adversely affect the rights of our stockholders.
+Added: Debt and receivables financings may be coupled with
+Added: an equity component, such as warrants to purchase shares of our common stock, which could also result in dilution of our existing
+Added: stockholders’
+Added: The incurrence of indebtedness would result in increased fixed payment obligations and could also
+Added: result in certain restrictive covenants, such as limitations on our ability to incur additional debt and other operating restrictions
+Added: that could adversely impact our ability to conduct our business.
+Added: A failure to obtain adequate funds may cause us to curtail certain
+Added: operational activities, including sales and marketing, in order to reduce costs and sustain the business, and would have a material
+Added: adverse effect on our business and financial condition.
+Added: our 2016 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan, as amended, or 2016 Plan, we may grant equity awards covering up to 1,754,385 shares of
+Added: our common stock.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, we had granted options to purchase an aggregate of 140,000 shares of common stock under
+Added: the 2016 Plan.
+Added: We have registered 1,754,385 shares of common stock available for issuance under our 2016 Plan.
+Added: Sales of shares
+Added: issued upon exercise of options or granted under our 2016 Plan may result in material dilution to our existing stockholders, which
+Added: could cause our share price to fall.
+Added: issuance of shares of preferred stock could adversely affect the market value of our common stock, dilute the voting power of
+Added: common stockholders and delay or prevent a change of control.
+Added: board of directors has the authority to cause us to issue, without any further vote or action by the stockholders, up to 5,000,000
+Added: shares of preferred stock in one or more series, to designate the number of shares constituting any series, and to fix the rights,
+Added: preferences, privileges and restrictions thereof, including dividend rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption, redemption
+Added: price or prices and liquidation preferences of such series.
+Added: issuance of shares of preferred stock with dividend or conversion rights, liquidation preferences or other economic terms favorable
+Added: to the holders of preferred stock could adversely affect the market price for our common stock by making an investment in the
+Added: common stock less attractive.
+Added: For example, investors in the common stock may not wish to purchase common stock at a price above
+Added: the conversion price of a series of convertible preferred stock because the holders of the preferred stock would effectively be
+Added: entitled to purchase common stock at the lower conversion price causing economic dilution to the holders of common stock.
+Added: the issuance of shares of preferred stock with voting rights may adversely affect the voting power of the holders of our other
+Added: classes of voting stock either by diluting the voting power of our other classes of voting stock if they vote together as a single
+Added: class, or by giving the holders of any such preferred stock the right to block an action on which they have a separate class vote
+Added: even if the action were approved by the holders of our other classes of voting stock.
+Added: The issuance of shares of preferred stock
+Added: may also have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of our company without further action by the
+Added: stockholders, even where stockholders are offered a premium for their shares.
+Added: Staff Comments.
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