Intangible assets |
| |
Year ended December 31, 2024 | |
| |
Computer software | | |
Intellectual property rights (Note 1) | | |
Total | |
January 1 | |
| | |
| | |
| |
Cost | |
$ | 555,562 | | |
$ | 6,000,000 | | |
$ | 6,555,562 | |
Accumulated amortization | |
| (136,050 | ) | |
| (550,000 | ) | |
| (686,050 | ) |
| |
$ | 419,512 | | |
$ | 5,450,000 | | |
$ | 5,869,512 | |
| |
| | | |
| | | |
| | |
At January 1 | |
$ | 419,512 | | |
$ | 5,450,000 | | |
$ | 5,869,512 | |
Additions | |
| 42,838 | | |
| - | | |
| 42,838 | |
Adjustment (Note 1) | |
| - | | |
| (2,150,000 | ) | |
| (2,150,000 | ) |
Amortization expenses | |
| (285,701 | ) | |
| (535,500 | ) | |
| (821,201 | ) |
Net exchange differences | |
| (9,488 | ) | |
| - | | |
| (9,488 | ) |
At December 31 | |
$ | 167,161 | | |
$ | 2,764,500 | | |
$ | 2,931,661 | |
| |
| | | |
| | | |
| | |
December 31 | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | |
Cost | |
$ | 582,461 | | |
$ | 3,850,000 | | |
$ | 4,432,461 | |
Accumulated amortization | |
| (415,300 | ) | |
| (1,085,500 | ) | |
| (1,500,800 | ) |
| |
$ | 167,161 | | |
$ | 2,764,500 | | |
$ | 2,931,661 | |
| |
Year ended December 31, 2023 | |
| |
Computer software | | |
Intellectual property rights (Note 1) | | |
Total | |
January 1 | |
| | |
| | |
| |
Cost | |
$ | 2,403,406 | | |
$ | - | | |
$ | 2,403,406 | |
Accumulated amortization | |
| (2,347,064 | ) | |
| - | | |
| (2,347,064 | ) |
| |
$ | 56,342 | | |
$ | - | | |
$ | 56,342 | |
| |
| | | |
| | | |
| | |
At January 1 | |
$ | 56,342 | | |
$ | - | | |
$ | 56,342 | |
Additions-acquired separately | |
| 538,446 | | |
| 6,000,000 | | |
| 6,538,446 | |
Amortization expenses | |
| (176,031 | ) | |
| (550,000 | ) | |
| (726,031 | ) |
Net exchange differences | |
| 755 | | |
| - | | |
| 755 | |
At December 31 | |
$ | 419,512 | | |
$ | 5,450,000 | | |
$ | 5,869,512 | |
| |
| | | |
| | | |
| | |
December 31 | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | |
Cost | |
$ | 555,562 | | |
$ | 6,000,000 | | |
$ | 6,555,562 | |
Accumulated amortization | |
| (136,050 | ) | |
| (550,000 | ) | |
| (686,050 | ) |
| |
$ | 419,512 | | |
$ | 5,450,000 | | |
$ | 5,869,512 | |
Note 1: | On January 10, 2023 (the “Agreement Date”), the Group entered into an intellectual property purchase agreement effective on January 16, 2023 (the “Effective Time”) with SeeQuestor Limited (“SeeQuestor”), a company providing video analytics technology incorporated and registered in England and Wales. |
The Group acquired all and/or any intellectual
property rights, including but not limited to patents and trademarks, owned, used or held for use by and/or on behalf of SeeQuestor, including
without limitations, such rights as relate to SeeQuestor’s products. The purchase price for the intellectual property rights consists
of fixed consideration amounting to $6,000,000 and contingent payment through issuance of the Company’s shares of an amount equal
to $3,000,000 which is conditional to certain financial performance through intellectual property rights from Agreement Date up to and
including December 31, 2023. The contingent payment, if any, would have been made through the issuance of the Company’s shares as
share-based payment. As the contingency was not met, no share-based payment was made.
The Group has made payments of $600,000
and $2,400,000 on Agreement Date and Effective Time, respectively, and payment of a further $3,000,000 had not been paid as of December
31, 2023. In October 2024, the Group entered into a settlement agreement with SeeQuestor, which reduced the outstanding obligation to
$850,000. Consequently, the Group reversed payable for $2,150,000 with an offset to the cost of the intangible asset. Payment of $850,000
was made in October 2024.
Details of amortization on intangible assets are
as follows:
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Year ended December 31, 2024 | | |
Year ended December 31, 2023 | | |
Year ended December 31, 2022 | |
Selling and marketing expenses | |
$ | 356 | | |
$ | 5,131 | | |
$ | 425,720 | |
General and administrative expenses | |
| 264,111 | | |
| 152,925 | | |
| 22,914 | |
Research and development expenses | |
| 556,734 | | |
| 567,975 | | |
| 1,238,984 | |
| |
$ | 821,201 | | |
$ | 726,031 | | |
$ | 1,687,618 | |
|