Note 5 - Intangible Assets, Net

IBM Patents

On July 23, 2021, the Company entered into a Patent Assignment Agreement with International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”) to acquire an ownership interest in assigned patents. As consideration for the patents, the Company paid $264,000 (including legal fees of approximately $38,000).

Intellectual Property

On January 31, 2016, the Company, entered into an IP agreement with HP to acquire a research license to determine the feasibility of incorporating HP’s electro-kinetic display technology in the Company’s products. Under the terms of the agreement, the license is to be used for research purposes only, has a purchase price of $200,000 for the technology and a two-year closing date. On April 12, 2016 the Company and HP entered into the first amendment to the agreement, which reduced the purchase price of the technology to $175,000. The sales agreement entered into with HP concurrently with the first amendment to the agreement allocated $25,000 of the $200,000 purchase price to acquire equipment to be used in the research. On May 1, 2017, the Company and HP entered into the second amendment to the agreement which increased the purchase price for the technology to $375,000 and extended the closing date to January 31, 2020. On March 10, 2019, the Company and HP entered into the third amendment to the agreement, which extended the closing date to January 31, 2021, enumerated certain intellectual property owned by HP that is not subject to the exclusive license granted to the Company and revised the schedule of fees payable by the Company to HP. Under the terms of the fourth amendment with HP (see details below), $75,000 will be included in the purchase price for the option to purchase assignable patents, which was paid on February 9, 2021.

Under the guidance of ASC 350, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other Intangibles, the Company recorded the research license at the cost to acquire the license. The Company has paid $375,000 for the transfer of the technology. The research license will be amortized over a 10-year useful life.

HP Patents

On February 4, 2021, the Company entered into the fourth amendment to the IP agreement with HP. Under the terms of the amendment, the parties agreed to amend the list of patent and patent applications, which includes two additional patents that are assignable to the Company by HP. The Company exercised the option to purchase the assignable patents and paid HP $1.55 million dollars on February 9, 2021. Upon assignment of the patents, the Company will pay HP a royalty fee based on the cumulative gross revenue received by the Company from the patents as follows:

Under the terms of the amendment, HP waived any interest that would have been accrued on the open payable of $75,000 which was due from the Company related to the license agreement dated January 31, 2016.

Intangible assets, net, consists of the following (in thousands):

The following table represents the total estimated amortization of intangible assets for the five succeeding years and thereafter as of September 30, 2022 (in thousands):

For the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, amortization expense was approximately $55,000 and $51,000, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, amortization expense was approximately $168,000 and $128,000, respectively.