NOTE I – LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

[1]    On December 24, 2024, the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, HFT Solutions, LLC, initiated patent litigations against Citadel Securities, LLC (“Citadel”) and Jump Trading, LLC in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois for infringement of certain patents within our HFT Patent Portfolio. The HFT Patent Portfolio relates to, among other things, certain advanced technologies relating to high frequency trading, which inventions specifically address technological problems associated with speed and latency and provide critical latency gains in trading systems where the difference between success and failure may be measured in nanoseconds. On April 7, 2025, Citadel filed a motion to dismiss under 35 U.S.C. 101, asserting that the asserted patents are directed to patent ineligible subject matter.

[2]    On April 4, 2014 and December 3, 2014, the Company initiated litigation against Google Inc. (“Google”) and YouTube, LLC (“YouTube”) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for infringement of several of its patents within its Cox Patent Portfolio acquired from Dr. Cox which relate to the identification of media content on the Internet. The lawsuit alleges that Google and YouTube have infringed and continue to infringe certain of the Company’s patents by making, using, selling and offering to sell unlicensed systems and related products and services,

which include YouTube’s Content ID system. The litigations against Google and YouTube were subject to court ordered stays which were in effect from July 2, 2015 until January 2, 2019 as a result of proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the appeals of PTAB Final Written Decisions to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Pursuant to a Joint Stipulation and Order Regarding Lifting of Stays, entered on January 2, 2019, the parties agreed, among other things, that the stays with respect to the litigations were lifted. In January 2019, the two litigations against Google and YouTube were consolidated. Discovery has been completed and the parties have each submitted summary judgment motions. On April 24, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a judgment dismissing the Company’s patent infringement claims finding that the asserted claims of two of the patents are invalid for indefiniteness and granting summary judgment that the asserted claims of another asserted patent are not infringed by Google’s accused system. The Court’s ruling disposes of all of the Company’s claims in the case. On May 14, 2024, the Company filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the appeal is pending.

[3]    In October and November 2022, the Company initiated nine separate litigations against ten defendants for infringement of its Remote Power Patent seeking monetary damages based upon reasonable royalties. The defendants in the litigations were Arista Networks, Inc., Honeywell International Inc., Ubiquiti Inc., TP- Link USA Corporation, Hikvision USA, Inc., Panasonic Holdings Corporation and Panasonic Corporation of North America, Antaira Technologies, LLC, and Dahua Technology USA.

During 2023 and 2024, the Company entered into settlement agreements for an aggregate of $2,701,000 with all of the defendants in the above referenced litigations except for Ubiquiti Inc. On January 14, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware granted Ubiquiti’s partial motion for summary judgment on indirect infringement. On February 13, 2025, the Court granted the parties’ joint motion to dismiss the case.

During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company received a conditional payment of $150,000 from a defendant as the terms of the conditional payment had been satisfied and recorded as revenue in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company did not enter into settlement agreements with respect to the above referenced litigation involving its Remote Power Patent.