Commitments and Contingencies

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2020

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

NOTE 4:- COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

a. Cyren Ltd., which was incorporated in Israel, partially financed its research and development expenditures under programs sponsored by the Israel Innovation Authority (“IIA”) for the support of certain research and development activities conducted in Israel.

In connection with specific research and development, the Company received $3,699 of participation payments from the IIA through June 30, 2020, but no grants since 2018. In return for the IIA’s participation in this program, the Company is committed to pay royalties at a rate of 3.5% of the program’s developed product sales, up to 100% of the amount of grants received plus interest at annual LIBOR rate. The Company’s total commitment for royalties payable with respect to future sales, based on IIA participations received, net of royalties paid or accrued, totaled $2,667 and $2,765 as of June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019 respectively. For the three months ended, June 30, 2020 and 2019, $69 and $84, respectively, were recorded as cost of revenues with respect to royalties due to the IIA. For the six months ended, June 30, 2020 and 2019, $110 and $136, respectively, were recorded as cost of revenues with respect to royalties due to the IIA.

b. Litigation:

i.  Between 2014 and 2015 the Company entered into arbitral proceedings with the former shareholders of eleven regarding an escrow account and the earn-out consideration related to the purchase agreement of former eleven. With respect to these claims, on March 9, 2017, the arbitrational panel provided their ruling in which it accepted the claims submitted by the former eleven shareholders with respect to the escrow amount and the 2013 earn-out liability. The arbitrational panel also ruled that Cyren pay legal expenses and interest on the claimed amounts, which were reflected in the year ending December 31, 2016 on the Company’s balance sheet and in the consolidated statements of operations under adjustment to earn-out consideration. The escrow account has been released to the former shareholders. The arbitrational award related to the 2013 earn-out consideration was declared enforceable by the applicable courts in Germany. Accordingly, on May 30, 2018, the Company paid the portion of the earn-out consideration in the amount of $604 that was declared enforceable by the German district court. The Company did not pay the remainder of the earn-out consideration, including accrued legal and interest, which appear on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2018, and filed an appeal to the German Federal Supreme Court challenging the enforceability of the remaining amounts. In February 2019, the parties signed a settlement agreement to resolve all pending claims, and on February 28, 2019 the Company paid $2,680 to settle the earn-out consideration in full. The total amount paid to resolve all claims was $256 less than the accrued liability, which generated “other income” as previously reflected in the consolidated statements of operations for the period ending December 31, 2019.

ii. On June 28, 2017 a vendor filed a Statement of Claim in the Tel Aviv District Court (the “SOC”). According to the vendor’s SOC, the Company entered into an agreement with the vendor for receipt of services, based on a database developed by the vendor. In September 2015, the Company terminated the agreement with the vendor, effective as of December 31, 2015. The vendor claimed that the Company had continued to make use of the vendor’s database post termination thus breaching the agreement, infringing on the vendor’s rights and commercial secrets, and being unjustly enriched. The vendor claimed damages of approximately $3,150 and injunctive relief ordering the Company and/or its customers to delete any remaining data and to cease from utilizing such data. The Company denied all claims and filed a Statement of Defense on November 15, 2017. Pretrial was scheduled for May 15, 2018. In accordance with the court’s recommendation from November 28, 2017, the parties agreed to examine a non-binding mediation process and appointed a mediator. The parties agreed to conduct a third-party audit of the Company’s databases in the scope of the mediation. In September 2018 and January 2019, the same vendor filed a lawsuit against two of the Company’s customers in the United States. The vendor alleged that the clients misappropriated the vendor’s trade secrets and sought injunctive relief and monetary damages in an amount to be determined. Both customers contended that the allegations related to the services they receive from the Company, and the Company agreed to indemnify both clients against these claims. On September 30, 2019, the court dismissed one of the lawsuits in its entirety for lack of personal jurisdiction and, in the second lawsuit, dismissed part of the claims with prejudice but granted the vendor the right to amend its other claims. On October 31, 2019, the vendor filed an amended complaint. In December 2019, the Company reached a settlement with the vendor and the Company agreed to pay $750; $375 in December 2019 and the remaining portion in January 2020. As of June 30, 2020, the Company has paid all amounts due under this settlement.