Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

PATENTS

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PATENTS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements  
NOTE C - PATENTS

The Company's intangible assets at March 31, 2017 include patents with estimated remaining economic useful lives ranging from 3.5 to 4.5 years.  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, 2017 and December 31, 2016 are as follows:

 

   

March 31,

2017

   

December 31,

2016

 
Gross carrying amount – patents   $ 6,427,000     $ 6,427,000  
Accumulated amortization – patents     (5,246,000 )     (5,196,000 )
Patents, net   $ 1,181,000     $ 1,231,000  

 

Amortization expense for the three months ended March 31, 2017 and March 31, 2016 was $50,000 and $414,000, respectively.  Future amortization of current intangible assets, net is as follows:

 

  

Twelve Months Ended March 31,

 
            2018   $ 200,000  
            2019   $ 193,000  
            2020   $ 193,000  
            2021   $ 193,000  
            2022 and thereafter   $ 402,000  
                             Total   $ 1,181,000  
         

 

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 August 2017 to February 2020 (six of the patents in the Mirror Worlds Patent Portfolio expired as of September 30, 2016).  The expiration dates of the patents within the Cox Patent Portfolio range from September 2021 to November 2023 and the expiration date of the QoS Patents is June 2019.