Does anybody see any violations here?
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Apr 09, 2010 01:24PM
10QSB Oct 24, 2005
CREATION OF CONSOLIDATED VENTURE/LICENSE AGREEMENT
PATRIOT SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Concurrently with forming the JV LLC, the Company entered into a license
agreement with a third party pursuant to which it received $10,000,000, which
amount was recorded as license revenue during the quarter ended August 31, 2005.
In connection with entering into the license agreement and forming the JV LLC,
the Company incurred various cash and non-cash expenses. Direct, incremental
cash costs incurred with the transactions included $170,000 paid to a committee
of the Company's board of directors for their efforts in consummating the
transactions, approximately $1,328,000 paid to certain of the Company's warrant
holders to obtain their approval of the agreement, and $960,000 paid to the
former co-inventor of the technology.
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SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS
(5) BOARD.—The term ‘‘Board’’ means the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board established under section 101.
TITLE I—PUBLIC COMPANY
ACCOUNTING OVERSIGHT BOARD
SEC. 101. ESTABLISHMENT; ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.
((1) COMPOSITION.—The Board shall have 5 members, appointed
from among prominent individuals of integrity and reputation
who have a demonstrated commitment to the interests
of investors and the public, and an understanding of the responsibilities
for and nature of the financial disclosures required
of issuers under the securities laws and the obligations
of accountants with respect to the preparation and issuance of
audit reports with respect to such disclosures.
(2) LIMITATION.—Two members, and only 2 members, of the
Board shall be or have been certified public accountants pursuant
to the laws of 1 or more States, provided that, if 1 of those
2 members is the chairperson, he or she may not have been a
practicing certified public accountant for at least 5 years prior
to his or her appointment to the Board.
(3) FULL-TIME INDEPENDENT SERVICE.—Each member of the
Board shall serve on a full-time basis, and may not, concurrent
with service on the Board, be employed by any other person or
engage in any other professional or business activity. No member
of the Board may share in any of the profits of, or receive
payments from, a public accounting firm (or any other person,
as determined by rule of the Commission), other than fixed continuing
payments, subject to such conditions as the Commission
may impose, under standard arrangements for the retirement of
members of public accounting firms.
(4) APPOINTMENT OF BOARD MEMBERS.—
(A) INITIAL BOARD.—Not later than 90 days after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Commission, after consultation
with the Chairman of the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury,
shall appoint the chairperson and other initial members
of the Board, and shall designate a term of service for
each.
(B) VACANCIES.—A vacancy on the Board shall not affect
the powers of the Board, but shall be filled in the same
manner as provided for appointments under this section.
(5) TERM OF SERVICE.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term of service of each Board
member shall be 5 years, and until a successor is appointed,
except that—
(i) the terms of office of the initial Board members
(other than the chairperson) shall expire in annual increments,
1 on each of the first 4 anniversaries of the
initial date of appointment; and
(ii) any Board member appointed to fill a vacancy
occurring before the expiration of the term for which
the predecessor was appointed shall be appointed only
for the remainder of that term.
(B) TERM LIMITATION.—No person may serve as a
member of the Board, or as chairperson of the Board, for
more than 2 terms, whether or not such terms of service are
consecutivee)
SEC. 406. CODE OF ETHICS FOR SENIOR FINANCIAL OFFICERS.
(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘code of ethics’’ means
such standards as are reasonably necessary to promote—
(1) honest and ethical conduct, including the ethical handling
of actual or apparent conflicts of interest between personal
and professional relationships;