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Collaboration Agreement
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Collaboration Agreement  
Collaboration Agreement

Note 5. Collaboration Agreement

 

On January 16, 2015, the Company entered into a Co-Venture Agreement (“Agreement”) with Modern Round, LLC (“Modern Round”), a related party. Modern Round is in the business of developing and operating a combined dining and entertainment concept centered on an indoor shooting experience. The Agreement provides Modern Round access to certain software and related technology relating to firearm simulation training. The Company received 1,365,789 units, representing a 5% ownership interest in Modern Round on the date of the Agreement. The Company recorded the investment at the estimated fair value of the units received which were valued at $0.10 per unit based on Modern Round’s other membership unit sales. The Modern Round equity securities are accounted for as a cost method investment as the Company does not have the ability to exercise significant influence over Modern Round.

 

The Company received 1,365,789 units, representing a 5% ownership interest in Modern Round on the date of the Co-Venture Agreement. The Company recorded the investment at the estimated fair value of the units and which were valued at $0.10 per unit based on Modern Round’s other membership unit sales. The Co-Venture Agreement also provides the Company with conditional warrants to purchase an additional 5% of Modern Round as of the date of that agreement, at an exercise price of $0.25.

 

On April 14, 2015, Modern Round issued the Company an option to purchase 125,000 units of Modern Round. The option fully vested and became exercisable on the date of grant at an exercise price equal to $0.50 per unit and terminates on the tenth anniversary of the date of grant, if not earlier pursuant to the terms of the option.

 

On December 31, 2015, Modern Round merged with a subsidiary of MREC pursuant to a Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) and each unit of Modern Round issued and outstanding as of the effective time of the merger automatically converted into the right to receive approximately 1.2277 shares of MREC common stock. As a result of the Merger Agreement, the Company held 1,676,748 shares of MREC common stock, options to purchase 153,459 shares of MREC common stock at an exercise price of $0.41 per share, and conditional warrants to purchase 1,676,747 shares of MREC common stock at an exercise price of $0.20 per share.

 

On October 25, 2016, the Company exercised the warrant and purchased 1,676,747 shares of stock for $335,349 resulting in the Company’s aggregate holdings of MREC increasing to 3,353,495 common shares representing approximately 8.9% of the issued and outstanding common shares of MREC.

 

As part of this Co-Venture Agreement, the Company granted 459,691 conditional warrants to affiliates of MREC, a related party, to purchase 5% of the Company’s capital stock on a fully diluted basis as of the date of the Agreement. The conditional warrants are exercisable commencing at the earlier of the first anniversary of MREC opening its first range facility utilizing VirTra Technology or after MREC opening its first range facility utilizing VirTra Technology and the payment of all required US/Canada Minimum Royalty Payments during the first 12 month period has been made to VirTra. MREC subsequently opened its first location on June 1, 2016.

 

The Company also granted 459,691 of additional conditional warrants to affiliates of MREC to purchase another 5% of the Company’s capital stock on a fully diluted basis as of the Agreement date. These conditional warrants are exercisable any time subsequent to MREC’s payment of $2.0 million in cumulative license fees (royalty). Cumulative license fees (royalty) earned and paid to the Company amounted to $289,947 and $90,047 as of December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively. Both conditional warrant issuances are for a period of five years with an exercise price of $2.72.

 

These conditional warrants were considered contingent consideration for the equity investment as they did not meet the definition of a derivative under ASC 815. Thus, the contingent consideration was not included in the cost of the equity investment until the contingency was resolved and the warrant became exercisable.

 

On June 1, 2017, the warrants related to the opening of the facility vested and became exercisable at an exercise price equal to $2.72 per unit and terminate on the fifth anniversary of the date of vesting, if not earlier pursuant to the terms of the option. On June 1, 2017, these warrants were recorded at the Black-Scholes Merton fair value using annual volatility of 91.5%, an annual risk free rate of 1.76%, expected term of five years and a fair value of $4.28 a share for a fair value of $1,516,246, which was recorded as an additional investment in MREC.

 

The Co-Venture Agreement grants MREC an exclusive non-transferrable license to use the Company’s technology solely for use at locations to operate the Concept, as defined in the Agreement. The license would become non-exclusive to the extent the first U.S. location is not opened within 24 months of the effective date and at least one location is opened outside the U.S. and Canada within five years of the Agreement date, the respective milestone dates. Through the termination of the Agreement, MREC will pay the Company a high single digit royalty on Gross Revenue, as defined and subject to certain minimum royalties commencing with the first twelve month period subsequent to the respective milestone date. The Company recognized $289,947 and $90,047 for license fees (royalties) for the year ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively. See Note 6 for a discussion of royalties earned.

 

On July 28, 2017, the Company received Notices of Exercise for all 459,691 warrants currently exercisable (the “Tranche 1 Warrants”) from all the MREC affiliate holders electing to purchase warrants pursuant to the terms of the net exercise provision set forth in the Warrant Agreement. Mr. Saltz, (a member of our Board of Directors who is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Modern Round Entertainment Company, as well as, a majority stockholder of MREC) held 398,122 of the Tranche 1 Warrants prior to the assignment of the warrants to MREC on August 11, 2017. Under the net exercise provision, in lieu of exercising the warrant for cash, the holder may elect to receive shares equal to the value of the warrant (or the portion thereof being exercised) by surrender of the warrant and the Company issuing to holder the number of computed shares. Using the July 28, 2017 OTCQX closing price at $4.36 as fair value and the $2.72 warrant exercise price, upon conversion the 459,691 warrants entitled the holders to receive 172,912 shares of the Company’s common stock without payment of any additional consideration pursuant to the net exercise terms of the Tranche 1 Warrants that are currently exercisable.

 

Effective August 16, 2017, the Company and the MREC affiliate holders entered into an agreement (the “Warrant Buyout Agreement”) whereby the Company acknowledged that the affiliates of MREC had assigned the Tranche 1 Warrants to MREC and the Company agreed to repurchase them at a price of $3.924 per share of common stock issuable by the Company pursuant to the net exercise terms of the Warrants for a total of $678,505.

 

In addition, the Company agreed to repurchase from MREC an additional 459,691 warrants held by MREC that are not currently exercisable (the “Tranche 2 Warrants”). Mr. Saltz held 364,122 of the Tranche 2 Warrants prior to their assignment to MREC on August 11, 2017. The Warrant Buyout Agreement amended the Tranche 2 Warrants to provide for the immediate exercise on a net exercise basis of 24,208 shares of the Company’s common stock. The purchase price for the Tranche 2 Warrants of a total of $94,990 is based on a price of $3.924 per share of common stock issuable on a net exercise basis based on 24,208 shares of the Company’s common stock. The aggregate purchase price of the Tranche 1 Warrants and the Tranche 2 Warrants was $773,495.

 

MREC agreed that proceeds of the warrant redemption, net of applicable taxes, would be used to fund the development of a second stand-alone Modern Round location. In addition, MREC agreed that, after giving effect to their payment to us of $161,573 towards the $280,000 minimum royalty due covering the first 12-month royalty period, the balance due to us in order to maintain exclusivity was $118,427.

 

In addition, on August 16, 2017, the Company entered into an amendment to the Co-Venture Agreement to permit MREC to sublicense the VirTra Technology to third party operators of stand-alone location-based entertainment companies. MREC agreed to pay the Company royalties for any such sublicenses in an amount equal to 10% of the revenue paid to MREC in cases where MREC pays for the cost of the equipment for such location or 14% of the revenue paid to MREC in cases where it does not pay for the cost of the equipment.

 

During the fourth quarter of 2017, the Company reviewed its Investment in MREC and determined that an impairment loss was appropriate. The Company incurred an impairment loss of $613,241 to write-down its investment to its estimated fair value.