Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

OTHER INVESTMENTS, AT COST

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OTHER INVESTMENTS, AT COST
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Notes to Financial Statements  
OTHER INVESTMENTS, AT COST

In May 2013, as part of the acquisition of the Mirror Worlds Patent Portfolio (see Note H[2]), the Company acquired from Mirror Worlds, LLC 250,000 shares of common stock of Lifestreams Technologies Corporation (“Lifestreams”), a company engaged in the development of next generation applications and methodologies designed to organize and display digital data.  In July 2013, the Company made an additional investment of $50,000 in Lifestreams as part of a financing and received 123,456 shares of Series A preferred stock and, as part of an amended license agreement between the Company’s subsidiary and Lifestreams, the Company received a warrant to purchase 1,305,000 shares of common stock of Lifestreams.  The warrant was valued at $70,000 based on the Black-Scholes option model and recorded as non-cash royalty income for the year ended December 31, 2013.  In March 2014, the Company made an additional investment of $95,000 in Lifestreams in the form of a convertible secured note as part of the first tranche of an aggregate investment of $380,200 of convertible secured notes.  In May 2014, August 2014 and December 2014, the Company made additional investments of $95,000 each as part of the second, third and fourth tranche of the investment.  The convertible secured notes are due March 31, 2015 and shall automatically convert into shares of preferred stock upon a Lifestreams “qualified” equity financing (at least $3.0 million).  Since the Company owns less than 20% of the outstanding equity of Lifestreams at December 31, 2014 and does not have significant influence or control, the Company’s investment in Lifestreams is recorded at cost. It was not practicable to determine the fair value of the Company’s investment in Lifestreams as it has no readily determinable market value.

  

At December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, the Company’s investment in Lifestreams, which is included in “Other investments” on the consolidated balance sheets, consists of the following:

 

          2014     2013  
   

Number of

 Shares

   

Carrying

 Value

   

Carrying

 Value

 
                         
Common Stock     250,000     $ 76,000     $ 76,000  
                         
Series A Preferred Stock     123,456       50,000       50,000  
                         
Warrants     1,305,000       70,000       70,000  
                         
Convertible Secured Notes            380,000        
                         
            $  576,000       196,000