COMMITMENTS AND CONTIGENCIES | 10. COMMITMENTS AND CONTIGENCIES Legal Proceedings On July 27, 2018, the Company commenced an action in the Circuit Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit in and for Orange County, Florida, against Advanced Health Brands, Inc., Raymond Kalmar, Paul Murphy, Michelle Polly-Murphy, Laura Fillman and John Baker, together with a Motion for Temporary Injunction Without Notice and a Motion for Prejudgment Writ of Replevin arising from the Company’s decision to seek to rescind for misrepresentation the agreement by which the Company acquired advanced Health Brands, Inc. for 1,250,000 shares of common stock valued at $2,500,000 and seek return of the shares. On August 2, 2018, the court entered a Temporary Injunction Without Notice and an Order to Show Cause against the defendants. Defendants Kalmar, Murphy, Polly-Murphy, and Baker filed a Motion to Dismiss the Company’s Verified Complaint, Motion to Dissolve Temporary Injunction Without Notice and Response to Order to Show Cause, and Motion to Compel Arbitration. On January 4, 2019, the court dismissed the Company’s complaint with prejudice, and directed the defendants to assign the Company within 30 days, the six patents never duly transferred to the Company. On February 1, 2019, the Company appealed the court’s order. Pursuant to a settlement agreement with one of the defendants, that defendant returned the 50,000 shares which had been issued to her, and the shares were cancelled as of January 31, 2019. On June 7, 2019, the individual defendants (other than the defendant whom the Company has a settlement agreement), filed a motion for sanctions and civil contempt against us, which generally claimed that we failed to comply with the Court’s January 4, 2019, order by refusing to issue the Ruling 144 letters that would allow the defendants to transfer their shares of common stock. On October 29, 2019, the Court denied the Defendants motion. On March 20, 2020, the Florida district court of appeal reversed the lower court ruling in the Florida state court action that dismissed our complaint, with prejudice, and gave us leave to file an amended complaint. On July 7, 2020, Defendants filed Notice for Trial, requesting the court to set a trial date. The Company and defendants have served their first set of interrogatories on each other and have filed answers and responses to each other’s first set of interrogatories. On August 22, 2018, four of the defendants in the Florida action described in the previous paragraph filed a complaint against the Company in the Franklin County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas seeking a declaratory judgment permitting them to sell the shares of common stock they received pursuant to the acquisition agreement. The parties have agreed to a stay pending the outcome of the Florida litigation. On April 29, 2019, the Company filed a securities fraud action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Raymond Kalmar, Paul Murphy, Michelle Polly-Murphy, Advanced Health Brands and TD Therapeutic, Inc. In the complaint the Company alleges that in 2017, the defendants fraudulently and deceitfully obtained 1,250,000 shares of common stock by orchestrating a months-long scheme to defraud the Company. The Company is seeking the return of the shares of common stock and monetary damages resulting from the defendants’ fraudulent conduct. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss the complaint on August 23, 2019, and on September 13, 2019, the Company filed its response. On July 20, 2020, the Court denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint, and the parties have recently commenced the discovery phase of the litigation. The Court has scheduled a trial date in November 2021. Employment Agreements The Company entered into a three-year employment agreement with Gareth Sheridan, our CEO, effective April 25, 2019. The agreement also provides that the executive will continue as a director. The agreement provides for an initial term, commencing on the effective date of the agreement and ending on January 31, 2024, and continuing on a year-to-year basis thereafter unless terminated by either party on not less than 30 days’ notice given prior to the expiration of the initial term or any one-year extension. For his services to the Company during the term of the agreement, Mr. Sheridan receives an annual salary $42,000 per annum, commencing on the effective date of the agreement and increasing to $170,000 per annum in the month in which the Company shall have received not less than $2,500,000 from one or more public or private financings of the Company’s equity securities subsequent to the date of the agreement. During the year ended January 31, 2021, the salary was increased to $60,000 per annum. Rambam Agreement On December 9, 2020, the Company entered into a License Agreement (the “License Agreement”) with Rambam Med-Tech Ltd. (“Rambam”), Haifa, Israel, to develop the RAMBAM Closed System Transfer Device (“CTSD”) and such other products as the parties agree to develop/commercialize. The Company will license from Rambam the full technology, IP, and title to CTSD in the field, with an Initial license fee of $50,000 and running royalties on net sales. The $50,000 license fee was paid by a third party at the direction of the Company in February 2021, at which time the agreement became effective. The Company had entered into a prior agreement, dated November 13, 2020, with BPM Inno Ltd., Kiryat, Israel (“BPM”), that, in consideration of BPM’s introduction of Rambam to the Company, provided for BPM to have the rights as the exclusive of agent of the Company with Rambam and any other parties similarly introduced by BPM, and for a commission payable to BPM by the Company of 4.5% of revenues received by the Company resulting from the introduction of Rambam (and any other companies as to which the exclusive agency of BPM was in effect), and for BPM’s payment of a royalty to Rambam. If the Company fails to commercialize the medical products subject to the License Agreement with Rambam within 36 months, under the November 13, 2020 agreement, BPM and the Company would share 50/50 in the revenues generated from sales of the licensed products from Rambam. This agreement further provides that it will be effective for a period of 10 years, with either party having the right to terminate on notice given 30 days prior to the desired termination, and also provided for certain territorial distribution rights of BPM as are set forth in the March 10, 2021 Distribution Agreement between the Company and BPM. BPM Distribution and Stock Purchase Agreements (a) On March 10, 2021, the Company finalized the Distribution Agreement with BPM, providing for distribution of the medical products developed and produced under the License Agreement. Under the Distribution Agreement, BPM has the right to distribute the medical products in Israel and has a right of first refusal in relation to all other countries/states, other than United States, Korea, China, Vietnam, Canada and Ecuador, which are termed excluded countries. (b) The Company and BPM entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (“SPA”), dated December 7, 2020, providing for the purchase by BPM of 81,396 shares of common stock at a price of $8.60 per share, or $700,000. In December 2020, the Company received an initial payment of $60,000 under the SPA, which is included in Stockholders’ Equity in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of January 31, 2021. On February 25, 2021, in connection with the Company’s License Agreement with Rambam, pursuant to the SPA, the Company issued 81,395 shares of common stock to BPM and received the balance of the proceeds of $700,000 to be applied to product development expenses under the License Agreement. | 12. COMMITMENTS AND CONTIGENCIES Legal Proceedings On July 27, 2018, the Company commenced an action in the Circuit Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit in and for Orange County, Florida, against Advanced Health Brands, Inc., Raymond Kalmar, Paul Murphy, Michelle Polly-Murphy, Laura Fillman and John Baker, together with a Motion for Temporary Injunction Without Notice and a Motion for Prejudgment Writ of Replevin arising from the Company’s decision to seek to rescind for misrepresentation the agreement by which the Company acquired advanced Health Brands, Inc. for 1,250,000 shares of common stock valued at $2,500,000 and seek return of the shares. On August 2, 2018, the court entered a Temporary Injunction Without Notice and an Order to Show Cause against the defendants. Defendants Kalmar, Murphy, Polly-Murphy, and Baker filed a Motion to Dismiss the Company’s Verified Complaint, Motion to Dissolve Temporary Injunction Without Notice and Response to Order to Show Cause, and Motion to Compel Arbitration. On January 4, 2019, the court dismissed the Company’s complaint with prejudice, and directed the defendants to assign the Company within 30 days, the six patents never duly transferred to the Company. On February 1, 2019, the Company appealed the court’s order. Pursuant to a settlement agreement with one of the defendants, that defendant returned the 50,000 shares which had been issued to her, and the shares were cancelled as of January 31, 2019. On June 7, 2019, the individual defendants (other than the defendant whom the Company has a settlement agreement), filed a motion for sanctions and civil contempt against us, which generally claimed that we failed to comply with the Court’s January 4, 2019 order by refusing to issue the Ruling 144 letters that would allow the defendants to transfer their shares of common stock. On October 29, 2019, the Court denied the Defendants motion. On March 20, 2020, the Florida district court of appeal reversed the lower court ruling in the Florida state court action that dismissed our complaint, with prejudice, and gave us leave to file an amended complaint. On July 7, 2020, Defendants filed Notice for Trial, requesting the court to set a trial date. The Company and defendants have served their first set of interrogatories on each other and have filed answers and responses to each other’s first set of interrogatories. On August 22, 2018, four of the defendants in the Florida action described in the previous paragraph filed a complaint against the Company in the Franklin County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas seeking a declaratory judgment permitting them to sell the shares of common stock they received pursuant to the acquisition agreement. The parties have agreed to a stay pending the outcome of the Florida litigation. On April 29, 2019, the Company filed a securities fraud action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Raymond Kalmar, Paul Murphy, Michelle Polly-Murphy, Advanced Health Brands and TD Therapeutic, Inc. In the complaint the Company alleges that in 2017, the defendants fraudulently and deceitfully obtained 1,250,000 shares of common stock by orchestrating a months-long scheme to defraud the Company. The Company is seeking the return of the shares of common stock and monetary damages resulting from the defendants’ fraudulent conduct. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss the complaint on August 23, 2019, and on September 13, 2019 the Company filed its response. On July 20, 2020, the Court denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint, and the parties have recently commenced the discovery phase of the litigation. No trial date has been scheduled by the Court. Employment Agreements The Company entered into a three-year employment agreement with Gareth Sheridan, our CEO, effective April 25, 2019. The agreement also provides that the executive will continue as a director. The agreement provides for an initial term, commencing on the effective date of the agreement and ending on January 31, 2024., and continuing on a year-to-year basis thereafter unless terminated by either party on not less than 30 days’ notice given prior to the expiration of the initial term or any one-year extension. For his services to the Company during the term of the agreement, Mr. Sheridan receives an annual salary $42,000 per annum, commencing on the effective date of the agreement and increasing to $170,000 per annum in the month in which the Company shall have received not less than $2,500,000 from one or more public or private financings of the Company’s equity securities subsequent to the date of the agreement. During the year ended January 31, 2021, the salary was increased to $60,000 per anum. Rambam Agreement On December 9, 2020, the Company entered into a License Agreement (the “License Agreement”) with Rambam Med-Tech Ltd. (“Rambam”), Haifa, Israel, to develop the RAMBAM Closed System Transfer Device (“CTSD”) and such other products as the parties agree to develop/commercialize. The Company will license from Rambam the full technology, IP, and title to CTSD in the field, with an Initial license fee of $50,000 and running royalties on net sales. The $50,000 license fee was paid in February 2021, at which time the agreement became effective. The Company had entered into a prior agreement, dated November 13, 2020, with BPM Inno Ltd., Kiryat, Israel (“BPM”), that, in consideration of BPM’s introduction of Rambam to the Company, provided for BPM to have the rights as the exclusive of agent of the Company with Rambam and any other parties similarly introduced by BPM, and for a commission payable to BPM by the Company of 4.5% of revenues received by the Company resulting from the introduction of Rambam (and any other companies as to which the exclusive agency of BPM was in effect), and for BPM’s payment of a royalty to Rambam. If the Company fails to commercialize the medical products subject to the License Agreement with Rambam within 36 months, under the November 13, 2020 agreement, BPM and the Company would share 50/50 in the revenues generated from sales of the licensed products from Rambam. This agreement further provides that it will be effective for a period of 10 years, with either party having the right to terminate on notice given 30 days prior to the desired termination, and also provided for certain territorial distribution rights of BPM as are set forth in the March 10, 2021 Distribution Agreement between the Company and BPM. BPM Distribution and Stock Purchase Agreements (a) On March 10, 2021, the Company finalized the Distribution Agreement with BPM, providing for distribution of the medical products developed and produced under the License Agreement. Under the Distribution Agreement, BPM has the right to distribute the medical products in Israel and has a right of first refusal in relation to all other countries/states, other than United States, Korea, China, Vietnam, Canada and Ecuador, which are termed excluded countries. (b) The Company and BPM entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (“SPA”), dated December 7, 2020, providing for the purchase by BPM of 81,396 shares of common stock at a price of $8.60 per share, or $700,000. In December 2020, the Company received an initial payment of $60,000 under the SPA, which is included in Stockholders’ Equity in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of January 31, 2021. On February 25, 2021, in connection with the Company’s License Agreement with Rambam, pursuant to the SPA, the Company issued 81,395 shares of common stock to BPM and received the balance of the proceeds of $700,000 to be applied to product development expenses under the License Agreement. |