6. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

12 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2019

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

NOTE 6 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Leases

We lease approximately 13,500 square feet of space in Lancaster, California. The original lease had a five-year term with two, three-year options to extend. The initial five-year term expired in February 2011, and we extended the lease to February 2, 2014. In June 2013, the lease was amended to extend the term to February 2, 2017. The amended lease also provides for an annual base rent increase of 3% per year and two, two-year options to extend. In May 2016 the Company exercised the two, two-year options extending the term of the lease through February 2, 2021 at a fixed rate of $25,000 per month. The new extension agreement allowed the Company with 90 days’ notice to opt out of the remaining lease in the last two years of the term upon payment of a recapture payment equal to the 3% base payment increase that would have been due under the original agreement.

Our Buffalo subsidiary leases approximately 12,623 square feet of space in Buffalo, New York. The initial five-year term expired in October 2018 and was renewed for a three year option to extending it to October 2021. The new base rent is $16,147 per month.

In September 2017 DILIsym service signed a 3-year lease for approximately 1,900 rentable square feet of space in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The initial three-year term expires in October 2020. The initial base rent is $3,975 per month with an annual 3% adjustment. Prior to this lease DILIsym was on a month-to-month rental.

Rent expense, including common area maintenance fees for the years ended August 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 was $584,000, $567,000 and $509,600, respectively.

Future minimum lease payments under non-cancelable operating leases with remaining terms of one year or more at August 31, 2019 were as follows:

Years Ending August 31,
2020		566,000
2021		327,000
2022		49,000
	$	942,000

Employment Agreements

In the normal course of business the Company has entered into employment agreements with certain of its key management personnel that may require compensation payments upon termination.

License Agreement

The Company has a royalty agreement with Dassault Systèmes Americas Corp. for access to their Metabolite Database for developing our Metabolite Module within ADMET Predictor™. The module was renamed the Metabolism Module when we released ADMET Predictor version 6 on April 19, 2012. Under this agreement, we pay a royalty of 25% of revenue derived from the sale of the Metabolism/Metabolite module. Under this agreement for the year ended August 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 we incurred royalty expense of $195,828, $175,740 and $139,551, respectively.

Dassault Systèmes has indicated they are no longer making access to this data base available for purchase, the Company is in the process of making arrangements to replace the database.

Litigation

We are not a party to any legal proceedings and are not aware of any pending legal proceedings of any kind.