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BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND NATURE OF BUSINESS

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BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND NATURE OF BUSINESS
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015
Notes to Financial Statements  
NOTE A - BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND NATURE OF BUSINESS

[1] BASIS OF PRESENTATION

 

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements are unaudited, but, in the opinion of the management of Network-1 Technologies, Inc. (the "Company"), contain all adjustments consisting only of normal recurring items which the Company considers necessary for the fair presentation of the Company's financial position as of September 30, 2015, and the results of its operations and comprehensive income (loss) for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2015 and September 30, 2014 and its cash flows for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2015 and September 30, 2014.  The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included herein have been prepared in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP) for interim financial information and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Regulation S-X. Accordingly, certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in the consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP may have been omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations, although management believes that the disclosures are adequate to make the information presented not misleading. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014 included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 5, 2015. The results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015 are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations to be expected for the full year.  The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Mirror Worlds Technologies, LLC.

 

[2] BUSINESS:

 

The Company is engaged in the development, licensing and protection of its intellectual property assets.  The Company presently owns twenty-four (24) patents including (i) the remote power patent (the “Remote Power Patent”) covering the delivery of power over Ethernet (PoE) cables for the purpose of remotely powering network devices, such as wireless access ports, IP phones and network based cameras; (ii) the Mirror Worlds patent portfolio (the “Mirror World Patent Portfolio”) relating to foundational technologies that enable unified search and indexing, displaying and archiving of documents in a computer system; (iii) the Cox patent portfolio (the “Cox Patent Portfolio”) relating to enabling technology for identifying media content on the Internet and taking further action to be performed based on such identification; and (iv) patents covering systems and methods for the transmission of audio, video and data over computer and telephony networks in order to achieve high quality of service (QoS) (the “QoS Patents”).  The Company has been actively engaged in licensing its Remote Power Patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,218,930).  The Company has entered into nineteen (19) license agreements with respect to its Remote Power Patent.  The Company’s current strategy includes continuing to pursue licensing opportunities for its Remote Power Patent and its efforts to monetize two patent portfolios (the Cox Patent Portfolio and the Mirror Worlds Patent Portfolio) acquired by the Company in 2013 – (see Note J[2]).  The Company’s acquisition strategy is to focus on acquiring high quality patents which management believes have the potential to generate significant licensing opportunities as the Company has achieved with respect to its Remote Power Patent.  The Company’s Remote Power Patent has generated licensing revenue in excess of $81,000,000 from May 2007 through September 30, 2015.  The Company continually reviews opportunities to acquire or license additional intellectual property.  In addition, the Company may enter into strategic relationships with third parties to develop, commercialize, license or otherwise monetize their intellectual property.  The Company has been dependent upon royalty revenue from license of its Remote Power Patent to fund its operations.