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Note G - Resalable Software Licenses Rights
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements  
Research, Development, and Computer Software Disclosure [Text Block]
NOTE
G
—RESALABLE SOFTWARE LICENSES RIGHTS
 
On
November 11, 2015,
the Company entered into a license agreement for the rights to all software and documentation regarding the technology currently known as or offered under the FingerQ name. The license agreement grants the Company the exclusive right to reproduce, create derivative works and distribute copies of the FingerQ software and documentation, create new FingerQ related products, and grant sub-licenses of the licensed technology to end users. The license rights have been granted to the Company in perpetuity, with a stated number of end-user resale sub-licenses allowed under the contract for a total of
$12,000,000.
The cost of sub-license rights expected to be amortized in the following
12
months is
$1,125,000
and is classified as current, with remainder as non-current.
 
The Company has determined the software license rights to be a finite lived intangible asset, and estimated that the software license rights shall be economically used over a
10
year period, with a weighting towards the beginning years of that time-frame. The license rights were acquired during the
fourth
quarter of
2015,
but the usage of such rights in the Company’s products was
not
generally available until
January 2017.
Accordingly, amortization began in the
first
quarter of
2017.
 
Through
2018,
the remaining license rights were amortized over the greater of the following amounts:
1
) an estimate of the economic use of such license rights,
2
) the amount calculated by the straight line method over
ten
years or
3
) the actual cost basis of sales usage of such rights. The Company believes categorizing the amortization expense under Cost of Sales more closely reflects the nature of the license right arrangement and the use of the technology. A total of
$2,640,000
and
$1,556,687
was expensed during the
twelve
month periods ended
December 31, 2018
and
2017,
respectively.  The
2018
expense was recorded based on the economic use model.  Since the license purchase, a cumulative amount of
$4,198,596
has been expensed, with a carrying balance of
$7,801,404
as of
December 31, 2018.
Based on current sales, the Company believes that the economic use was front-end focused as the majority of the expected up-take of the FingerQ technology was predicted to occur during the
first
4
-
5
years of the
10
-year life cycle of the product. Based on current sales trends, the company now believes future transactions will be more evenly dispersed over the remaining life cycle of the product, indicating that the straight-line methodology, or greater of actual sales, will more closely align the expense with the remaining useful life of the product. The change in amortization will be effective beginning on
January 1, 2019
based on the net remaining software license rights balance.
 
On
December 31, 2015,
the Company purchased
third
-party software licenses in the amount of
$180,000
 in anticipation of a large pending deployment that has yet to materialize. The Company is amortizing the total cost over the same methodology described above with the greatest of the
three
approaches being the actual sales through
2018.
A total of
$18,198
(net of credits of
$14,400
) and
$35,916
was expensed during the
twelve
month periods ended
December 31, 2018
and
2017,
respectively. Since the license purchase, the actual per unit cost (actual usage) of such license rights in the cumulative amount of
$65,794
net of credits has been expensed, with a carrying balance of
$114,206
as of
December 31, 2018. 
The Company has classified the balance as non-current until a larger deployment occurs. Software license rights is comprised of the following as of:
 
 
 
201
8
 
 
201
7
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Current software license rights
 
$
1,125,000
 
 
$
2,640,000
 
Non-current software license rights
 
 
6,790,610
 
 
 
7,933,808
 
Total software license rights
 
$
7,915,610
 
 
$
10,573,808
 
  
During the year ended
December 31, 2018,
there were
no
events or changes in circumstances that indicated the carrying amount of the software license rights
may
not
be recoverable from their undiscounted cash flows. Consequently, we did
not
perform an impairment test. The Company did
not
record an impairment loss related to the software license rights during the years ended
December 31, 2018
and
2017.
 
Estimated minimum amortization expense based on straight line amortization of the software license rights for each of the next
five
years and thereafter approximates the following:
 
Years ending December 31
       
2019
   
1,125,000
*
2020
   
1,114,500
 
2021
   
1,114,500
 
2022
   
1,114,500
 
2023
   
1,114,500
 
Thereafter
   
2,332,610
 
 
* - Includes increase vs. straight line due to expected deployment of
second
tranche of licenses from
fourth
quarter
2018
order.