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(Operator Instructions) The first question comes from Suji Desilva from Roth Capital.
Suji Desilva - Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst
Just a housekeeping question, Brian. For the service revenue cost, is that something we should consider, something that cost of goods sold against revenue that impacts the gross margin number, or is that below the line? That wasn’t clear whether that cost was going to continue and grow, or whether it’s a kind of aone-time cost.
Brian J. Sereda - Energous Corporation - Senior VP & CFO
Yes, last question - your last part first. It’s aone-time cost. That project will conclude in June. It was a unique project, working together with Dialog, which is considered a related party. We don’t control the intellectual property, so the presentation, as shown on the income statement, is - reflects that. So, it’s not an ongoing cost, and it’s certainly not a third-party cost. It’s simply just moving cost out of R&D and segregating it. So, again, second quarter, we should conclude that project and probably be the last we’ll see of that.
Suji Desilva - Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst
Understood. Okay, and then, going onto - moving on to the products, now that you’re kind of breaking out kind ofat-a-distance, kind of contact, and then kind of close, I guess, I’d like to know, maybe Stephen, if these three products require separate regulatory body kind of processes, or whether they covered together in single efforts across countries. That kind of color would help as a starting point.
Stephen R. Rizzone - Energous Corporation - President, CEO & Director
So, I just want to be clear, when we talk about the announcements today, we’re talking about the Watt - excuse me, the PowerHub developer kit, which is a subset of the FCC certification. So, it’s the same technology, so it is one essential product, if you will.
We have contact, and we have the short-distance technology, and then we have the longer-distance beamforming technology. Any of - excuse me - any product that emerges from these developments will have to go through its own regulatory certification process in order to be - or, I should say, before it can be sold to the public. So, every product has to go through a certification process.
These are three separate, though, global regulatory efforts. But the idea -
Suji Desilva - Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst
Okay.
Stephen R. Rizzone - Energous Corporation - President, CEO & Director
- sorry, go ahead.
Suji Desilva- Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst
No, that was what I was looking for, and if you had anything to add, that’d be great.
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