Note 20 – Contingencies

On April 23, 2015, a complaint was filed by the Company in federal district court (District of New Jersey) against ChubeWorkx Guernsey Limited (“ChubeWorkx”) for breach of contract (the “Breach of Contract Claim”) for failure of timely interest payments by ChubeWorkx under a promissory note (the “Chube Note”) entered into by the Company and ChubeWorkx in December 2014. As part of this action, the Company also filed a preliminary injunction which sought to bar ChubeWorkx from disposing of the Company’s common stock owned by ChubeWorkx for which the Company retained a right of sale in the event of a default by ChubeWorkx under the Chube Note. A consent decree has been finalized and entered by the court to resolve the issues of the preliminary injunction which requires ChubeWorkx to escrow a certain of number of shares of the Company’s common stock currently held by ChubeWorkx until the Breach of Contract Claim has been fully adjudicated. The Breach of Contract Claim is currently in the discovery phase and while the parties have communicated in good faith to resolve this dispute all discussions to date have not yielded any results. This case was closed by the court pursuant to an order entered on December 22, 2015 as requested by Akers in light of near final settlement discussions with Chubeworks regarding the settlement and release of all claims between the parties. The settlement discussions were terminated on March 24, 2016 after substantial good faith efforts by the Company to bring this dispute to a resolution. Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure the Company will seek to reopen the case under Fed. R. Civ P. 60(b)(1) and prosecute this case with full vigor to retrieve the monies owed to the Company.

On August 21, 2015, Chubeworkx filed a lawsuit against the Company in The High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division Commercial Court, Royal Courts of Justice, United Kingdom, alleging a breach of contract under the exclusive license agreement entered into by Chubeworkx with Company in June 2012 and damages resulting from said alleged breach. The lawsuit is in the preliminary stage and was suspended by mutual agreement of the parties pursuant to ongoing global settlement discussions which were focused on settling all outstanding claims between the parties. The settlement discussions were terminated on March 24, 2016. As a result, the Company will now proceed to defend this suit with extreme vigor to minimize or eliminate any damages to the Company.

The Company and ChubeWorkx are actively discussing a global settlement for all existing claims and pending law suits. As a reasonable estimate of any loss from this case cannot be made, no accrual for losses was made as of December 31, 2015.