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Commitments and Contingencies

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Commitments and Contingencies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Notes to Financial Statements  
NOTE 11 - Commitments and Contingencies

Earn-Out Contingency

 

The Company has an earn-out commitment associated with the acquisition of Boomtext from Digimark, LLC.  An earn-out payment (payable 20 months after closing of the transaction) of a number of shares of common stock of the Company equal to (a) 1.5, multiplied by the Company’s net revenue from acquired customers and customer prospects for the twelve-month period beginning six months after the closing date, divided by (b) the average of the volume-weighted average trading prices of the Company’s common stock for the 25 trading days immediately preceding the earn-out payment (subject to a collar of $1.49 and $2.01 per share).  As of September 30, 2012, and December 31, 2011, the estimated dollar value of the earn-out payable is $2,739,399, and $2,658,238, respectively.  As of September 30, 2012 this was recorded as a current liability and was recorded as a non-current liability as of December 31, 2011 on the accompanying consolidated balance sheet.

 

Litigation

 

On September 23, 2012, the Company initiated litigation against a former client (the “Defendant”) for failure to pay the Company’s invoices for services rendered under its Master License and Services Agreement.  The complaint was filed in Superior Court of California, San Diego County.  The litigation seeks to recover $67,795 in services and interest penalties.  As of November 9, 2012 the Company is in negotiation with the Defendant's counsel to settle the debt.

 

Operating Lease

 

On February 28, 2012, the Company signed an amendment to its existing lease for the facility in Chandler, Arizona to expand by adding 2,519 square feet in an adjacent suite.  The amended lease agreement remains in force through December 2015.

  

The minimum lease payments required over the next five years is shown below as of September 30, 2012.

 

Minimum Lease Payments  
       
2012   $ 32,550  
2013     138,678  
2014     143,492  
2015     148,281  
2016     -  
    $ 463,001  

 

Lease Exit Obligation

 

The Company had a lease agreement for its office facilities in San Diego, California through September 2012.    Upon signing a lease agreement for the facility in Chandler, the Company determined it no longer needed the San Diego facility.  The property was vacated in November 2011 and returned to the owner.  As of September 30, 2012, the Company has a Lease Exit Obligation totaling $65,993 for the period December 2011 through September 2012, made up of, $38,088 in remaining rent obligation, $27,905 in remaining deferred rent.  The Company expects no further charges in relation to this lease exit obligation, aside from actual common area maintenance charges reconciled against the estimate.

 

Rent expense for both the San Diego, California, and Chandler, Arizona facilities was $135,827 for the nine months ended September 30, 2012, and $59,771 for the nine months ended September 30, 2011.