Commitments and Contingencies |
3 Months Ended |
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Mar. 31, 2025 | |
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] | |
Commitments and Contingencies |
NOTE 8 — Commitments and Contingencies
Purchase Commitments — The aggregate amount of noncancelable purchase orders as of March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, was approximately $17,057 and $15,753, respectively, and were related to the purchase of inventory and components for the Company’s devices, and certification services.
Royalty payments — The Company is required to pay per unit royalties to wireless essential patent holders and other providers of integrated technologies on mobile devices delivered, which, in aggregate, amount to less than 5% of net revenues associated with each unit and expire between 2025 and 2033. Royalty expense for the three months ended March 31, 2025, and 2024 was $233 and $230, respectively. Royalty expense is included in Cost of Revenues. The Company may be required to pay additional royalties to additional patent holders and technology providers on future products.
General litigation — The Company is involved in various legal proceedings arising in the normal course of business. The Company does not believe that the ultimate resolution of these other matters will have a material adverse effect on its consolidated financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
AJP and Orbic Litigation
On April 24, 2025, AJP Holding Company, LLC (“AJP”) on behalf of itself and Orbic North America, LLC (“Orbic”), filed a complaint in the Delaware Court of Chancery against the Company and directors Mike Mulica, James Cassano, Peter Liu, and Jack Steenstra (the “Complaint”). The Complaint alleges that the individual defendants breached their fiduciary duties and seeks, among other relief, a declaration to that effect and an injunction prohibiting enforcement of certain provisions of the Company’s amended and restated bylaws (the “Bylaws”) in connection with the purported notice of nomination (the “Notice”) of proposing a competing slate of directors for election at the Company’s 2025 annual meeting, as more fully described in the Complaint.
The Notice was submitted on the evening of Thursday, March 20, 2025—fewer than two business days before the nomination deadline of Saturday, March 22, 2025—and was determined to be deficient for failing to include all information required under the Bylaws.
AJP beneficially owns approximately 21.5% of the Company’s outstanding common stock. Its sole manager, Jeffrey Wang, is a director of the Company. Orbic, which is a competitor of the Company and an affiliate of Reliance Communications, LLC (“Reliance”), exercises full voting control over AJP’s shares pursuant to an irrevocable proxy agreement. The Company and Reliance are currently involved in litigation in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Case No. 24-CV-4433), in which each party has asserted claims against the other arising out of allegations by Reliance regarding purported intellectual property violations by the Company, which the Company disputes. On March 18, 2025, Orbic, AJP, and certain affiliates filed a Schedule 13D announcing the formation of a group under Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Orbic and AJP also filed a motion for expedited proceedings with their complaint. The Delaware Court of Chancery granted the motion for expedited proceedings on May 2, 2025.
The results of any future litigation cannot be predicted with certainty and, regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on us because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management time and resources and other factors.
Indemnification — Under the terms of its agreements with wireless carriers and other partners, the Company has agreed to provide indemnification for intellectual property infringement claims related to the Company’s products sold by them to their end customers. From time to time, the Company receives notices from these wireless carriers and other partners of a claim for infringement of intellectual property rights potentially related to their products. These infringement claims have been settled, dismissed, have not been further pursued by the customers, or are pending further action by the Company.
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