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Commitments
3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
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Commitments

Note 8. Commitments

 

The Company routinely enters into license agreements for the use of intellectual properties and technologies. These agreements generally provide for license fee payments when the agreements are signed and minimum commitments, which are cancellable in certain circumstances. On March 10, 2020, the Company and a licensor amended the terms under a patent cross license agreement dated February 28, 2017, which required the Company to pay an upfront per unit license fee on games (slot machines) placed in service after the agreement date and for a period of five years, and settled on the amount due upon audit conducted by the licensor for the period March 1, 2017 through September 30, 2019. Upon the payment of the $158,250 audit settlement amount, the Company was released from all claims under the agreement. The amendment removed the upfront per unit license fee and replaced it with a quarterly un-recoupable fee of $45,000 payable within fifteen days after the end of each calendar quarter and removed all audit provisions. The amendment terminates after five years from October 1, 2019, or September 30, 2024. The $66,000 difference between the $203,250 combined amount paid by the Company for the audit settlement and the quarterly license fee, and the $269,250 balance in the estimated liability for the license fee, was reversed in March 2020 and is included as a reduction to the operating expenses in the consolidated Statements of Operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. On October 13, 2020, the agreement was further amended allowing the Company to defer the payment of the quarterly fees according to the deferred payment schedule as delineated in the agreement, extended the termination of the agreement to December 31, 2024, increased the final four quarterly payments to $50,000 and extended the final four quarterly payments beyond the termination date to 2025. As described in Note 4, license fees under the agreement had originally been added to the cost of slot machines built for sale or lease through May 31, 2020, then subsequently expensed on a straight-line basis over the remaining term. License fees included as operating expenses in the consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 were $110,250 and $51,000, respectively.