Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

PATENTS

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PATENTS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements  
NOTE C - PATENTS

The Company's intangible assets at March 31, 2018 include patents with estimated remaining economic useful lives ranging from 2.2 to 15.75.  For all periods presented, all of the Company's patents were subject to amortization.  The gross carrying amounts and accumulated amortization related to acquired intangible assets as of March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017 were as follows:

 

    March 31, 2018     December 31, 2017  
Gross carrying amount – patents   $ 7,598,000     $ 7,571,000  
Accumulated amortization – patents     (5,472,000 )     (5,402,000 )
Patents, net   $ 2,126,000     $ 2,169,000  

  

Amortization expense for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and March 31, 2017 was $70,000 and $50,000, respectively.  Future amortization of intangible assets, net is as follows:

 

  

Twelve Months Ended March 31,

 
            2019   $ 276,000  
            2020     272,000  
            2021     272,000  
            2022     272,000  
            2023 and thereafter     1,034,000  
                             Total   $ 2,126,000  
         

  

The Company's Remote Power Patent expires in March 2020. The expiration dates of the patents within the Company's Mirror Worlds Patent Portfolio range from April 2018 to February 2020 (eight of the patents in the Mirror Worlds Patent Portfolio have expired).  The expiration dates of the patents within the Cox Patent Portfolio range from September 2021 to November 2023.  The expiration dates of patents within the Company's M2M/IoT Patent Portfolio range from January 2034 to May 2034 and the expiration date of the QoS Patents is June 2019.